tripus
A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, prevaricator.
A vessel (usually a pot or cauldron) resting on three legs, often given as an ornament, a prize, or as an offering at a shrine to a god or oracle; often specifically, that such vessel upon which the priestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine to Apollo at Delphi; tripod.
The hindmost Weberian ossicle of the Weberian apparatus, touching the anterior wall of the swimbladder and connected by a dense, elongate ligament to the intercalarium.

trireme
A galley with three banks of oars, one above the other, used mainly as a warship.

triremes
plural of trireme

trisector
A line or curve that trisects something.

trisectors
plural of trisector

triticin
A carbohydrate isomeric with dextrin.

tritoon
A type of boat with three parallel pontoons.

tritoons
plural of tritoon

triumvirships
plural of triumvirship

tro
A type of spike fiddle made from traditionally used in Cambodia and played vertically.

trolley
A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
A streetcar or light train.
A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
Clipping of flatbed trolley.
A hand truck.
A soapbox car.
A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.
A handcar.

trolleybus
Alternative form of trolley bus.

trolleybuses
plural of trolleybus

trolleybusses
plural of trolleybus

trolleys
plural of trolley

trollies
plural of trolley
plural of trolly

trollixanthin
A carotenoid present in Trollius europaeus.

trolly
Alternative form of trolley.

trooplift
Transport of troops.

trooplifts
plural of trooplift

troopship
A ship used to transport military troops.

troopships
plural of troopship

trotro
Alternative form of tro tro (“minibus operated as a shared taxi”).

trotros
plural of trotro

trougher
A greedy person.
(chiefly British) A careerist politician, especially one representing the Scottish National Party.
Alternative spelling of troffer.

troughers
plural of trougher

truckage
the carrying of goods by truck
a charge for this
exchange; bartering; truck

truckages
plural of truckage

truckline
A company that uses trucks to transport goods.

trucklines
plural of truckline

truckonaut
One of the Cubans who adapted a truck to act as a boat and used it to sail to the USA.

truckonauts
plural of truckonaut

truggies
plural of truggy

truggy
A racing vehicle that combines the closed cab of a truck with the suspension of a buggy.

trunci
plural of truncus

truncus
The thorax of an insect.
The trunk (torso) of the human body or other animal body.
An arterial trunk, such as the truncus arteriosus.
A curve in the Cartesian plane consisting of all points (x,y) satisfying an equation of the form f(x)=a/(x+b)²+c where a, b, and c are given constants.

trundle
Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”).
A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things.
A small wheel or roller.
A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.
A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).

trundlebed
Alternative form of trundle bed.

trundlebeds
plural of trundlebed

trunker
A driver who transports goods between depots.

trunkers
plural of trunker

trunkings
plural of trunking

trunklid
The lid of the trunk of a car.

trunklids
plural of trunklid

trunkline
Any road under the jurisdiction of the Michigan Department of Transportation.

trunklines
plural of trunkline

trusteeship
Office or function of a trustee.
The administrative control of a territory granted to a country by the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations.

trusteeships
plural of trusteeship

tryptique
Alternative form of triptyque.

tryptiques
plural of tryptique

trywork
A furnace on a ship used to heat try pots; the entire apparatus of furnace, blocks and tackles, and try pots.

tryworks
Synonym of trywork.

ts
plural of t

tsarship
The rank of a tsar; czarship.

tsarships
plural of tsarship

tschaike
A type of ship once used on the Danube.

tschaikes
plural of tschaike

tses
plural of tse

tsetse
Any fly of the genus Glossina, native to Africa, that feeds on human and animal blood; known primarily as a carrier of parasitic trypanosomes.

tsetses
plural of tsetse

tsetze
Alternative spelling of tsetse.

tsotsi
A hoodlum or street thug, especially one from the townships; a township skollie.

tsotsis
plural of tsotsi

tsotsitaal
Any of a variety of mixed languages spoken mainly in the townships of South Africa.

tsotsitaals
plural of tsotsitaal

tss
A hissing sound.

tsunami
A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption; often a series of waves (a wave train).
A large and generally unstoppable surge.

tsunamis
plural of tsunami

tubbings
plural of tubbing

tuchunships
plural of tuchunship

tucka
Alternative form of tanka (“historical Central and South Asian currency”).

tuckas
plural of tucka

tufan
Obsolete spelling of typhoon.

tufans
plural of tufan

tuffon
Obsolete form of typhoon.

tuffons
plural of tuffon

tuffoon
Obsolete form of typhoon.

tuffoons
plural of tuffoon

tufon
Obsolete form of typhoon.

tufons
plural of tufon

tugboat
A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.
A Social Security Disability Insurance payment; monthly tugboat

tugboaters
plural of tugboater

tugboatmen
plural of tugboatman

tugboats
plural of tugboat

tugman
Synonym of tugboatman.

tugmen
plural of tugman

tuition
The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)
A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a private school, boarding school, university, or college).
Care, guardianship.

tuitions
plural of tuition

tumblehome
The inward curve of the topsides of some ship hulls; the term was also used for rolling stock on railways in Britain.

tumblehomes
plural of tumblehome

tumtum
One whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.

tumtums
plural of tumtum

turanose
A reducing disaccharide organic compound that can be used as a carbon source by bacteria and fungi.

turbocar
A motor car powered by a gas turbine.

turbocars
plural of turbocar

turbofan
A turbojet engine having a (usually ducted) fan that drives a stream of air that partly bypasses the turbojet portion; in high-bypass-ratio types, most of the thrust comes from the bypass portion rather than the turbojet portion, and this can be thought of in simplistic terms as that the turbojet portion drives the fan and the fan propels the aircraft.
An aircraft with such engines.

turbofans
plural of turbofan

turbolift
An elevator on a spacecraft.

turbolifts
plural of turbolift

turboprop
A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.
An aircraft that uses a turboprop engine.

turboprops
plural of turboprop

turboramjet
An aircraft engine that is a hybrid of a ramjet and turbofan.

turboramjets
plural of turboramjet

turbosail
A ship that uses rotating vertical cylinders instead of sails

turbosails
plural of turbosail

turbotrain
A train powered by a gas turbine

turbotrains
plural of turbotrain