Word origins

• transfreteTo cross a channel or narrow sea.
• trappourA horse's caparison.
• traunchOne of a series of allotments (of funds for a certain purpose).
• travailousCausing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome.
• treasure houseA treasury.
• treasuressA female treasurer.
• treddleThe dung of sheep or hares.
• treenailA wooden peg or pin used as a fastener.
• treewrightA worker of wood, carpenter, joiner.
• trendleA wheel, spindle, or other thing that rotates in a similar way, such as a trundle.
• tressureA narrow border near the edge of a shield or banner.
• trindleA wheel, especially of a wheelbarrow.
• trinkA kind of fishing net that is attached to a post or anchor; set net.
• trippetA cam, wiper, or projecting piece which strikes another piece repeatedly.
• trippinglyIn a tripping manner, or while tripping
• tristfulSad, melancholic.
• trithinga riding (one of three ancient divisions of a county in England)
• trothfulFaithful, loyal, trustworthy.
• trothlessUntrustworthy, treacherous.
• troublyTroubling; troublesome.
• trousebrushwood
• trowableCredible; believable.
• TroyishOf, like, or pertaining to Troy; Trojan.
• truefulloyal, faithful
• truefullyloyally, faithfully, with devotion
• true loveFeelings of love that are adhered to faithfully, or the faithful manifestation of such feelings.
• trustilyIn a trusty manner.
• trustinessThe quality or state of being trusty.
• trustinglyIn a trusting manner.
• truthlessLacking truth, untruthful.
• tuilleAn armor plate hanging down from the breastplate or fauld to cover the thigh, either below or as part of a tasse. (Possibly ahistorical, see etymology.)
• tunfulEnough to fill a tun or cask.
• tunhoofground-ivy (Glechoma hederacea)
• turbaryPeatland from which peat or turf may be cut for fuel; (countable) a piece of such land; a peat bog.
• turbulateTo turn (a laminar flow) into a turbulent flow.
• turn outTo end up; to result.
• turntEnergetic, happy, or excited, especially as a result of alcohol or drugs.
• turtle doveAny of several (species of) birds, called by this traditional name, mainly in the genus Streptopelia, of the family Columbidae (doves and pigeons, which also included the extinct passenger pigeon, dodo, and solitaire).
• tuskedFurnished with tusks; having tusks.
• tuskyHaving tusks, especially prominent tusks.
• twanetwain
• TwentymanA surname.
• twenty-threeThe cardinal number immediately following twenty-two and preceding twenty-four; 23.
• twi-two
• twibillA two-edged tool used in gate-type hurdle-making for cutting out mortises, with a flat chisel and a mortise chisel or hook, similar to the much larger French carpenter's tool, the besaiguë (or bisaiguë).
• twifoldTwofold.
• twightTo twitch; to cause to twitch; to touch.
• twindleA twin or twinling.
• twinklerOne who, or that which, twinkles or winks.
• twinlingA twin.
• twireTo glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry.
• twisselDouble; twofold.
• twistleA boundary stream.
• twitchelA narrow alleyway between houses; a ginnel.
• twofoldlyIn a twofold manner
• two-footedHaving two legs or feet.
• two-hand swordA sword with a handle or grip that is intended to be grasped with both hands.
• two-tonguedHaving two tongues; double-tongued.
• -tyA nonproductive suffix indicating single-digit integer multiples of ten.
• tyebbletable
• TymanA surname.
• tyrantessA female tyrant.
• ubertyFertile growth, abundance, fruitfulness; copiousness, plenty.
• uglilyIn an ugly manner.
• ugsomeUgly; horrible; disgusting; offensive, loathsome, repellent.
• um-Prefix meaning around, about.
• umbecastTo cast about; make a circuit; travel around (a place).
• umbeclapTo embrace; enclose.
• umbegoTo go around.
• umbegripTo seize hold of.
• umbelapTo enshroud, to envelop; to surround.
• umbesetTo block, obstruct; act detrimentally toward.
• umbethinkTo recall to mind; remember; recollect.
• umbraidTo upbraid.
• umbrelAn umbrere; the visor of a helmet
• umbrereIn medieval armour, a visor, or projection like the peak of a cap, to which a fixed or movable faceguard was sometimes attached.
• umcastTo bind or wrap around.
• umstridAstride; astraddle.
• umwhileErstwhile; late; former.
• un-not
• unabidingNot abiding; impermanent.
• unablingThe act or process of rendering unable; disabling
• unablyIn an unable way; without skill or ability.
• unaccordancelack of accordance
• unaccordantNot accordant.
• unacheTo relieve from pain; soothe
• unadvancedNot advanced.
• unadvisedNot having received advice.
• unagreeableDisagreeable; unpleasant.
• unalikeOf an unlike kind; different
• unaptNot apt, inappropriate, unsuited.
• unassayedNot assayed.
• unassoiledNot assoiled.
• unassuredNot assured.
• unattainedNot attained.
• unattendanceLack of attendance
• unattiredNot attired; unclothed.
• unbalefulNot baleful, harmless, innocent.
• unbarTo unlock or unbolt a door that had been locked or bolted with a bar.
• unbeardedNot having a beard, beardless.