| triviality |
the quality or condition of being unimportant or insignificant. [2 definitions] |
| trivialize |
to regard or treat as unimportant; reduce to mere triviality. |
| trivium |
in medieval universities, the lower section of the seven liberal arts, comprising rhetoric, grammar, and logic. (Cf. quadrivium.) |
| triweekly |
three times per week. [5 definitions] |
| -trix |
a girl or woman who does or is associated with (something specified). |
| trochanter |
in anatomy, either of two knoblike structures located at the upper end of the femur in humans and most other mammals that serve as muscle attachment points. [2 definitions] |
| troche |
a small, usu. circular lozenge containing medicine mixed with sugar or other fillers; pastille. |
| trochee |
in poetry, a metrical unit consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable. |
| trod |
a past tense and past participle of tread. |
| trodden |
a past participle of tread. |
| troglodyte |
a prehistoric person who lived in caves; cave dweller. [2 definitions] |
| trogon |
any of various brightly colored, fruit-eating tropical birds, such as the quetzal. |
| troika |
any association or group of three; triumvirate. [2 definitions] |
| Troilus |
in The Iliad, a Trojan warrior, who also appears as the lover of a Trojan woman in medieval romances and Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare. |
| Trojan |
of or pertaining to Troy or its inhabitants. [3 definitions] |
| Trojan horse |
in Greek mythology, a huge wooden horse by means of which the Greeks besieging Troy cunningly gained entrance to and overran the city, ending the Trojan War. [2 definitions] |
| Trojan War |
in Greek mythology and The Iliad, the ten-year siege of Troy by the Greeks, caused by the abduction of Helen, the wife of a Greek king, by Paris, a Trojan prince. |
| troll1 |
to trail (a fishing line or lure) behind a slowly moving boat. [4 definitions] |
| troll2 |
in Scandinavian folklore, an ugly manlike creature that lived in a cave or under a bridge. |
| trolley |
a vehicle, esp. a streetcar, propelled electrically along a track or overhead wires. [7 definitions] |
| trolley bus |
an electric passenger bus that travels on tires and draws its power from overhead wires by means of trolleys; trackless trolley. |