Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 25

Tetragynian (a.) Alt. of Tetragynous

Tetragynous (a.) Belonging to the order Tetragynia; having four styles.

Tetrahedral (a.) Having, or composed of, four sides.

Tetrahedral (a.) Having the form of the regular tetrahedron.

Tetrahedral (a.) Pertaining or related to a tetrahedron, or to the system of hemihedral forms to which the tetrahedron belongs.

Tetrahedrally (adv.) In a tetrahedral manner.

Tetrahedrite (n.) A sulphide of antimony and copper, with small quantities of other metals. It is a very common ore of copper, and some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver. Called also gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase.

Tetrahedron (n.) A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles.

Tetrahexahedral (a.) Pertaining to a tetrahexahedron.

Tetrahexahedron (n.) A solid in the isometric system, bounded by twenty-four equal triangular faces, four corresponding to each face of the cube.

Tetrakishexahedron (n.) A tetrahexahedron.

Tetrakosane (n.) A hydrocarbon, C24H50, resembling paraffin, and like it belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule.

Tetralogy (n.) A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival.

Tetramera (n. pl.) A division of Coleoptera having, apparently, only four tarsal joints, one joint being rudimentary.

Tetramerous (a.) Having the parts arranged in sets of four; as, a tetramerous flower.

Tetramerous (a.) Having four joints in each of the tarsi; -- said of certain insects.

Tetrameter (n.) A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.

Tetramethylene (n.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H8, analogous to trimethylene, and regarded as the base of well-known series or derivatives.

Tetramethylene (n.) Sometimes, an isomeric radical used to designate certain compounds which are really related to butylene.

Tetramorph (n.) The union of the four attributes of the Evangelists in one figure, which is represented as winged, and standing on winged fiery wheels, the wings being covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)

Tetrandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having four stamens.

Tetrandrian (a.) Alt. of Tetrandrous

Tetrandrous (a.) Belonging to the class Tetrandria.

Tetraonid (n.) A bird belonging to the tribe of which the genus Tetrao is the type, as the grouse, partridge, quail, and the like. Used also adjectively.

Tetrapetalous (a.) Containing four distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla.

Tetrapharmacom (n.) Alt. of Tetrapharmacum

Tetrapharmacum (n.) A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment.

Tetraphenol (n.) Furfuran.

Tetraphyllous (a.) Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets.

Tetrapla (sing.) A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or four columns.

Tetraneumona (n. pl.) A division of Arachnida including those spiders which have four lungs, or pulmonary sacs. It includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the trapdoor spiders. See Mygale.

Tetrapnuemonian (n.) One of the Tetrapneumona.

Tetrapod (n.) An insect characterized by having but four perfect legs, as certain of the butterflies.

Tetrapody (n.) A set of four feet; a measure or distance of four feet.

Tetrapteran (n.) An insect having four wings.

Tetrapterous (a.) Having four wings.

Tetraptote (n.) A noun that has four cases only.

Tetrarch (a.) A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.

Tetrarch (a.) Four.

Tetrarchate (n.) A tetrarchy.

Tetrarchical (a.) Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy.

Tetrarchies (pl. ) of Tetrarchy

Tetrarchy (n.) The district under a Roman tetrarch; the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch; a tetrarchate.

Tetraschistic (a.) Characterized by division into four parts.

Tetrasepalous (a.) Having four sepals.

Tetraspaston (n.) A machine in which four pulleys act together.

Tetraspermous (a.) Having four seeds.

Tetraspore (n.) A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds.

Tetrastich (n.) A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines.

Tetrastyle (a.) Having four columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or colonnade.

Tetrastyle (n.) A tetrastyle building.

Tetrasyllabic (a.) Alt. of Tetrasyllabical

Tetrasyllabical (a.) Consisting of, or having, four syllables; quadrisyllabic.

Terrasyllable (n.) A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.

Tetrathecal (a.) Having four loculaments, or thecae.

Tetrathionate (n.) A salt of tetrathionic acid.

Tetrathionic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a thionic derivative, H/S/O/, of sulphuric acid, obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid.

Tetratomic (a.) Consisting of four atoms; having four atoms in the molecule, as phosphorus and arsenic.

Tetratomic (a.) Having a valence of four; quadrivalent; tetravalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having four hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic.

Tetravalence (n.) The quality or state of being tetravalent; quadrivalence.

Tetravalent (a.) Having a valence of four; tetratomic; quadrivalent.

Tetraxile (a.) Having four branches diverging at right angles; -- said of certain spicules of sponges.

Tetrazo- (a.) A combining form (also used adjectively), designating any one of a series of double derivatives of the azo and diazo compounds containing four atoms of nitrogen.

Tetrazone (n.) Any one of a certain series of basic compounds containing a chain of four nitrogen atoms; for example, ethyl tetrazone, (C2H5)2N.N2.N(C2H5)2, a colorless liquid having an odor of leeks.

Tetric (a.) Alt. of Tetrical

Tetrical (a.) Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged.

Tetricity (n.) Crabbedness; perverseness.

Tetricous (a.) Tetric.

Tetrinic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex ketonic acid, C5H6O3, obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- so called because once supposed to contain a peculiar radical of four carbon atoms. Called also acetyl-acrylic acid.

Tetrodon (n.) Any one of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth.

Tetrodont (a.) Of or pertaining to the tetrodons.

Tetrodont (n.) A tetrodon.

Tetrol (n.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H4, analogous to benzene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

Tetrolic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C3H3.CO2H, of the acetylene series, homologous with propiolic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Tetroxide (n.) An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide, OsO/.

Tetryl (n.) Butyl; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

Tetrylene (n.) Butylene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

Tetter (n.) A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes.

Tettered (imp. & p. p.) of Tetter

Tettering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tetter

Tetter (v. t.) To affect with tetter.

Tetterous (a.) Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.

Tetter-totter (n.) A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also titter-totter, and titter-cum-totter.

Tetterwort (n.) A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.

Tettigonian (n.) Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.

Tettish (a.) Captious; testy.

Tettix (n.) The cicada.

Tettix (n.) A genus of small grasshoppers.

Tetty (a.) Testy; irritable.

Teufit (n.) The lapwing; -- called also teuchit.

Teuk (n.) The redshank.

Teutons (pl. ) of Teuton

Teutones (pl. ) of Teuton

Teuton (n.) One of an ancient German tribe; later, a name applied to any member of the Germanic race in Europe; now used to designate a German, Dutchman, Scandinavian, etc., in distinction from a Celt or one of a Latin race.

Teuton (n.) A member of the Teutonic branch of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family.

Teutonic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Teutons, esp. the ancient Teutons; Germanic.

Teutonic (a.) Of or pertaining to any of the Teutonic languages, or the peoples who speak these languages.

Teutonic (n.) The language of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic languages, collectively.

Teutonicism (n.) A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism.

Tewed (imp. & p. p.) of Tew

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