Collins American English Dictionary: American Words Starting With “T”
- -'t ... tablemount
- tablespoon ... tactful
- tactic ... Tahoe
- tahr ... take
- take (or leave) the field ... take issue
- take it ... take the place of
- take the pledge ... taler
- tales ... tallboy
- Talleyrand ... Tampa
- tampala ... tank up
- tanka ... tape
- tape deck ... target
- target date ... Tartary
- Tartini ... tau
- tau cross ... taximeter
- -taxis ... teacher
- teachers college ... technical
- technical foul ... teethe
- teething ring ... telemarketing
- telemeter ... tell someone's fortune
- tell-all ... template
- temple ... tendon
- tendresse ... tension
- tensity ... Terceira
- tercel ... terpineol
- Terpsichore ... TESL
- tesla ... tête-bêche
- teth ... Teutoburg Forest
- Teuton ... thallium
- thallophyte ... the (Great) Pyramids
- the (great) unwashed ... the book
- the boot ... the dead
- the deceased ... the Flemish
- the flicks ... the Incarnation
- the Infinite (Being) ... the most
- the mother of all ... the powers that be
- the Precambrian ... the States
- the sticks ... the wrong side of the tracks
- the Yard ... Theodora
- Theodore ... theretofore
- thereunder ... thermophile
- thermopile ... Thibet
- thick ... think up
- thinkable ... third person
- third rail ... thoracic
- thoracic duct ... thrash
- thrash out ... threshing machine
- threshold ... throw a monkey wrench into
- throw away ... thumb piano
- thumb through ... Thyestes
- thylacine ... tick trefoil
- tick-tack-toe ... tieback
- tiebreaker ... Tiki
- 'til ... time discount
- time draft ... timpani
- Timur ... Tintagel Head
- tintinnabulary ... Tirol
- Tirso de Molina ... Titoism
- titrate ... to end
- to excess ... to-do
- to-ing and fro-ing ... toe-to-toe
- toea ... Tokyo
- tola ... tomatillo
- tomato ... tong
- tonga ... tooth fairy
- tooth powder ... tophus
- topiary ... Torino
- torment ... tortile
- tortilla ... totipotent
- Tottenham ... Touré
- Tourette's syndrome ... town clerk
- town crier ... tracery
- trache- ... trade journal
- trade name ... trailer
- trailer park ... transalpine
- transaminase ... transgression
- tranship ... transpersonal
- transpicuous ... trash
- trash talk ... treat
- treatise ... trench fever
- trench foot ... triangle
- triangular ... trichloroacetic acid
- trichloroethylene ... trier
- trierarch ... trillion
- trillionth ... tripartite
- tripartition ... trisoctahedron
- trisodium ... trochal
- trochanter ... trophic
- trophied ... troubleshooter
- troublesome ... true fruit
- true ribs ... trust account
- trust company ... tsimmes
- Tsinan ... tuberculous
- tuberose ... Tula
- tularemia ... tungsten
- tungsten lamp ... turbulence
- turbulent ... turn
- turn (or put) one's hand to ... turnstone
- turntable ... Tuxtla
- tuyère ... Twickenham
- twiddle ... two-by-four
- two-cycle ... Tyne
- Tyne and Wear ... tyrant
- tyrant flycatcher ... Tzupo
