| tisane | n. | herbal tea; [archaic] medicinal drink | ||
| titivate | v. | to spruce or smarten up (also tittivate) | ||
| titrate | v. | to determine quantity of a substance in a solution by adding reagent of known quantity until measurable reaction completes | ||
| tittuppy | adj. | unsteady, with an exaggeratedly prancing manner | ||
| titubate | v. | to stagger, to reel, to stumble | ||
| Tityre-tu | n. | member of criminal youth gang first seen in 1620s | ||
| tizzwozz | n. | nervous state of excitement | slang | |
| to corpse | v. | (British theatre) to laugh unintentionally while performing a dramatic scene | slang | |
| toast-and-water | n. | water in which toast has been soaked, thought to be cooling and refreshing (also seen as toast-water) | ||
| Toby | n. | jug or mug formed in likeness of fat old man wearing a tricorn hat | ||
| toco | n. | punishment, penalty | slang | |
| tocology | n. | study of childbirth | ||
| toerag | n. | worthless or despicable person; vagrant | colloquial | |
| toll | v. | to lure, to attract, to decoy | ||
| tombola | n. | raffle or lottery at which winning tickets are drawn from a rotating drum; such a drum | ||
| tomelet | n. | small tome | ||
| tomnoddy | n. | fool, dunce; puffin | ||
| tonga | n. | light two-wheeled horse cart used for passenger transportation | ||
| tonitruate | v. | to thunder | ||
| tonneau | n. | rear compartment of an automobile, esp. in earlier models | ||
| tope | n. | Buddhist memorial mound, stupa | ||
| topee | n. | lightweight Indian hat made from pith of the sola plant, pith helmet | ||
| toper | n. | heavy or excessive drinker | ||
| toponymic | adj. | of or related to the study of place names | ||
| toponymy | n. | study of place names | ||
| toque | n. | small cap or bonnet; small brimless hat or hat with narrow brim, worn by women; [Canadian] knitted cap, often with pom-pom on the crown | ||
| torpid | adj. | dormant, unmoving; sluggish, inactive; lacking vigor, apathetic | ||
| tortuous | adj. | twisty | ||
| torturous | adj. | excruciating | ||
| tosh | n. | nonsense, rubbish | ||
| totipotent | adj. | capable of becoming anything (said of cells able to become any type of cell in an embryo) | biology | |
| tow | n. | shorter fibers of flax separated from the longer more useful strands | ||
| toxophilite | n. | a lover or devotee of archery | ||
| tractable | adj. | easily led or managed; malleable | ||
| traduce | v. | to speak of someone in a malicious and false way, to slander; to transmit (from one person or generation to another) | ||
| traducianism | n. | doctrine that the soul is generated from the parents at the moment of conception | ||
| trainband | n. | civilian militia company of London and other areas, during Stuart rule and after | ||
| trammel | v. | to constrain, to hinder; to entangle, to snare | ||
| translucid | adj. | transparent, translucent; permitting the passage of light without allowing perfect vision of objects behind | ||
| Transoxania | n. | region beyond the Oxus River, northeast of the historical Persian province of Khorasan | ||
| transpicuous | adj. | transparent, easily understood | ||
| transpontine | adj. | of or related to (something on) the farther side of a bridge; of or related to the area south of the Thames river in London; of or related to sensational plays of the 19th Century presented in the area south of the River Thames | ||
| transude | v. | to ooze through | ||
| trapezium | n. | irregular quadrilateral, four-sided plane rectilinear figure not a parallelogram | ||
| trebuchet | n. | medieval siege engine using a sling at the end of a counter-weighted arm to hurl projectiles at an enemy’s position | ||
| treen | adj. | made wholly of wood | ||
| trenail | n. | hardwood pin used to fasten together timbers (also treenail) | ||
| trenchant | adj. | incisive, cutting, biting | ||
| trews | n. | close-fitting trousers, often of tartan pattern | ||
| tribadism | n. | lesbianism |
