tatterdemalion |
a person wearing torn, ragged clothes. |
tatting |
lace made by knotting and looping a strand of heavy gauge cotton or linen thread on a small hand shuttle, often used as trimming. [2 definitions] |
tattle |
to reveal secrets of or disclose information about another person, usu. out of malice; inform against another. [3 definitions] |
tattle on |
to betray (someone) by disclosing misbehavior, secrets, or the like to another; tell on. |
tattler |
one who tattles; telltale. [2 definitions] |
tattletale |
a person who informs against or reveal secrets of another, esp. among children; telltale. |
tattoo1 |
an indelible picture, pattern, or other marking made on the skin by puncturing it and inserting pigments. [2 definitions] |
tattoo2 |
a signal sounded on a drum or bugle to summon military personnel to their quarters at night. [2 definitions] |
tatty |
shabby or cheap; crude. |
tau |
the name of the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. |
taught |
past tense and past participle of teach. |
taunt |
to reproach, deride, or challenge in scornful, insulting language; jeer at. [2 definitions] |
tau particle |
a positively or negatively charged lepton whose mass is roughly 3,500 times greater than that of an electron, and that decays fairly quickly. |
taupe |
a dark brownish gray color. |
Taurus |
a winter zodiacal constellation located between Aries and Gemini and near Orion, and containing the bright star Aldebaran, the Crab Nebula, and two star clusters, the Pleiades and the Hyades; Bull. [3 definitions] |
taut |
tightly drawn, pulled, or stretched; not slack. [3 definitions] |
tauten |
to make or become taut. |
tauto- |
same. |
tautog |
a black, edible fish common to the Atlantic coast of North America. |
tautology |
unnecessary repetition of the same idea in different words; redundancy. [2 definitions] |
tautonym |
in zoology, a scientific name in which the genus name and the species name are the same. |