Words starting with t

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

tack means: sew together loosely, with large stitches

tack means: fasten with tacks

tack means: create by putting components or members together

tack means: turn into the wind

tack hammer means: a light hammer that is used to drive tacks

tack on means: fix to; attach

tack together means: create by putting components or members together

tacker means: a hand-held machine for driving staples home

tacker means: a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches

tacker means: a worker who fastens things by tacking them (as with tacks or by spotwelding)

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amphibious means: operating or living on land and in water

amphibious means: relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia

antofagasta means: a port city on the Pacific in northern Chile

cd means: a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser

cd means: a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest

cd means: the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin

cd means: a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores

cd means: being one hundred more than three hundred

chalkboard means: sheet of slate; for writing with chalk

common knowledge means: anything generally known to everyone

coumarouna odorata means: tall tropical South American tree having pulpy egg-shaped pods of fragrant black almond-shaped seeds used for flavoring

detonator means: a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive

encircled means: confined on all sides

four-lane means: having two lanes for traffic in each direction

galactosemia means: a genetic disease (autosomal recessive) in which an enzyme needed to metabolize galactose is deficient or absent; typically develops shortly after birth

genus dipus means: type genus of the Dipodidae; typical jerboas having three toes on each hind foot

geta means: footwear usually with wooden soles

gracie allen means: United States comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, George Burns (1906-1964)

hierarchal means: classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers

horned rattlesnake means: small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve