ticking |
a strong, closely woven, usu. twill fabric of cotton or linen, used in casings for mattresses and pillows. |
tickle |
to touch, stroke, or poke (someone or part of someone's body) so as to produce a tingling or itching sensation or spasmodic laughter or movement. [6 definitions] |
tickled pink |
delighted or very pleased. |
tickler |
a person or thing that tickles. [2 definitions] |
ticklish |
sensitive to tickling. [3 definitions] |
tick-tack-toe |
a game for two players, one marking X's and the other marking O's in turn on a grid of nine squares until one succeeds in filling three squares with the same mark in a row down, across, or on a diagonal. |
ticktock |
the ticking sound of a mechanical clock, metronome, or the like. [2 definitions] |
ticky-tacky |
(informal) poorly made or unimaginative in design; cheap; shoddy. [2 definitions] |
tidal |
of, pertaining to, having, or caused by tides. [2 definitions] |
tidal pool |
a body of seawater that remains as a rocky pool on the shore when a tide recedes; tide pool. |
tidal wave |
an unusual rise or incursion of the sea, caused by an underwater quake, a hurricane, or the like; tsunami. [2 definitions] |
tidbit |
an appetizing or choice bit, as of food, gossip, or news. |
tiddlywinks |
(used with a sing. verb) a table game in which the players press large plastic disks against the rims of small ones in order to flick the latter into a cup. |
tide |
the periodic change, occurring about every twelve hours, in the height of the surface of oceans and nearby bodies of water, or a specific instance of this change. Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. [6 definitions] |
tideland |
coastal land commonly covered and uncovered by tides. |
tideless |
combined form of tide. |
tidemark |
the mark or line left by debris deposited by a receding tide. [2 definitions] |
tide over |
to support through some temporary difficulty, usu. a shortage of money. |
tide pool |
a body of seawater that remains as a rocky pool on the shore when a tide recedes; tidal pool. |
tiderip |
a rip current caused by conflicting tides, or by a tidal current flowing over a rough seabed. |
tidewater |
water brought up or affected by the tide. [2 definitions] |