Word origins

• SuffixaufnahmeThe phenomenon where a genitive noun agrees grammatically with its head noun.
• SulserA surname from German.
• supernaculumAccording to the rules of an old drinking game in which the drinker upturned the empty cup and had to drink more if the remaining droplets spilled beyond the edge of his fingernail.
• suppletionThe supplying of something lacking.
• sussreserveUnfermented grape juice, especially when added to wine to sweeten it.
• SwackhamerA surname from German.
• SwaggertyA surname from German.
• swalletA sinkhole; a shakehole.
• SwanderA surname from German.
• swan songA final performance or accomplishment, especially one before retirement.
• SwaringenA surname from German.
• SwatzellA surname from German.
• SwaugerA surname from German.
• swazzleA device to change the voice to make it more raspy, used in Punch and Judy performances
• SwickardA surname from German.
• swinehoundSynonym of pig dog (“dog bred to hunt wild or feral pigs”).
• swine's featherA musket rest with a spike on it, usable as a spear-like weapon.
• SwongerA surname from German.
• sympatho-sympathetic nervous system
• syndesisSynonym of arthrodesis, the artificial fusion of a joint between two or more bones.
• syntonicHaving one's personality in harmony or synergy with one's milieu.
• SypoltA surname from German.
• systematologyThe science or study of systematizing
• SzeklerSzékely (a member of a subgroup of the Hungarian people living mostly in the Székely Land).
• SzuchA surname from German.
• tafelspitzAn Austrian dish of beef boiled in broth with root vegetables and spices.
• tagwerkA unit of land area, the amount that could be ploughed in one day.
• takt timeOn a production line, the average production time per unit that is necessary to meet customer demand.
• TammenA surname from German.
• tänzelcoreA genre of rave music related to keller synth and gabber
• TanzhausA late Middle Ages Jewish European dancehall
• tanztheaterA form of German expressionist dance.
• TatgeA surname from German.
• TatzelA surname from German.
• TatzelwurmA worm-like cryptid reported to live in the Alps.
• TeafordA surname from German.
• TegetmeierA surname from German.
• teilzoneThe stratigraphic range of the rock unit between the first and last appearance datum of a particular taxon in a local area, a subset of the global biozone for that taxon.
• teleophobiaReluctance or refusal to ascribe purpose to natural phenomena.
• tescheniteAny of a group of rocks containing essential pyroxene, olivine, and analcime.
• Teutonic KnightA member of the Order of the Teutonic Knights.
• Teutonic KnightsA German religious order founded in the late 12th century and known for conquering the Baltic Prussians and bringing Prussia under German control; the order exists today as a charitable organisation.
• Teutonic OrderSynonym of Teutonic Knights.
• thetanullwertThe restriction θₘ(τ) = θₘ(τ,0) of a theta function θₘ(τ,z) with rational characteristic m to z = 0.
• thing-in-itselfA thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.
• thobeAn ankle-length robe with long sleeves, worn by some Arab men and traditionally by Palestinian women.
• tholeiiteAn igneous basaltic rock, formed from magma rich in magnesium and iron.
• thornstoneA deposit of calcium compounds in the process of graduating brine.
• thought collectiveSociological framework conditions in which scientific statements are tailored as language games to become intersubjectively and collectively relevant and conceptualized as facts.
• thought experimentAn attempt to solve a problem using the power of human imagination.
• thoughtseedA metaphor for the very beginning of a concept, belief, or intention that has the potential to grow, develop, and eventually influence future reality.
• ThroneberryA surname from German.
• through-composedOf a song, composed so that each stanza may have different music, rather than the same being repeated for all of them.
• thrownnessThe Heideggerian concept of individual human existence as a case of being thrown arbitrarily into the world.
• throw the baby out with the bathwaterTo discard, inadvertently or through overzealousness, something valuable or essential ("the baby") in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted or undesirable ("the bathwater").
• ThummaA surname.
• thunderboxA chamber pot enclosed in a box; a portable commode.
• ThüringenSynonym of Thuringia.
• TiemeyerA surname from German.
• TillichianOf or relating to Paul Tillich (1886–1965), German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and influential Lutheran Protestant theologian.
• tilliteGlacial till cemented into a solid rock.
• TimerioA number-based international auxiliary language created by the Berlin architect Tiemer and presented in 1921, in which, every concept is assigned by a number.
• ToebeA surname from German.
• ToerpeA surname from German.
• toi, toi, toiA superstitious expression of encouragement prior to a performance.
• toll geneAny of a class of genes that encode members of the toll-like receptor class of proteins, involved in the immune system.
• tone poemA piece of symphonic music which, like a poem, has a narrative or descriptive theme.
• tonsteinA hard, compact, kaolinite-rich claystone formed by the diagenetic alteration of volcanic ash, usually occurring as thin, laterally persistent layers interbedded with coal seams.
• torballA sport for the blind and visually impaired, played by two teams of three players with a ball with bells inside.
• TornowA surname from German.
• total warWarfare where all of a country's available resources, military as well as civilian, are employed.
• TotherowA surname from German.
• TotzkeA surname from German [in turn transferred from the nickname].
• tracheidA tracheid cell.
• traffic light coalitionA German political coalition consisting of the Social Democratic Party, the Free Democratic Party, and the Greens.
• TrageserA surname from German.
• transphenomenalOf or pertaining to a process, nature, or realm which cannot be directly experienced using such human faculties as conceptualization or perception by means of the five senses.
• TrauschA surname from German.
• TrayerA surname from German.
• TrefzA surname from German.
• TremlA surname from German.
• TrenkampA surname from German.
• treppeThe gradual increase in muscular contraction following rapidly repeated stimulation.
• tribal historyPhylogeny.
• tricesimationA one-thirtieth tax introduced in the Duchy of Württemberg in 1691.
• TriesenbergA municipality of Liechtenstein.
• trip to JerusalemSynonym of musical chairs (“game”).
• triskelesA symbol consisting of three spirals, or three bent human legs.
• troctoliteA rare type of ultramafic intrusive rock, consisting primarily of olivine and calcic plagioclase
• troglobiteAn animal that normally lives entirely in the dark parts of caves, often with no functioning eyes or no pigmentation.
• tropophyteAny plant that lives in an environment in which heavy rainfall alternates with periods of drought
• TrosclairA surname from German.
• TroutnerA surname from German.
• trubThe layer of sediment that appears at the bottom of the fermenter after yeast has completed the bulk of the fermentation.
• TrugredeOratory designed to mislead its audience; a speech of deception
• TübingenA town and rural district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the Neckar, with a famous university; once capital of Würtemberg-Hohenzollern
• TullarA surname from German.
• Turnip WinterThe winter of 1916 to 1917, a period of profound civilian hardship in Germany during World War I, due to the Allied blockade, the German focus on supplying the military, and a poor harvest.
• turnvereinA gymnastic or athletic club, originally those promoting German culture. They originated in the 19th century and spread from Germany to the USA, where a small number still exist, at least in name.
• tuscheA black liquid used in lithography for drawing and painting and in etching and the silk-screen process as a resist.