Word origins

• tasisExtending the sound of an utterance for the pleasure of saying or hearing it.
• tauonAn unstable elementary particle which is a type of lepton, having a mass almost twice that of a proton, a negative charge, and a spin of ½; it decays into hadrons (usually pions) or other leptons, and neutrinos.
• taurocholicDesignating a type of acid having properties of taurine and bile.
• tauroctonyA depiction (typically in relief or sculpture) of Mithras killing a bull; associated with the practice of Mithraism (as a cult) in the Roman Empire.
• taurokathapsiaBull-leaping, as depicted in Bronze Age art, especially from Minoan Crete.
• tauromachyBullfighting
• tauto-repetition; sameness
• tautochroneA curve, such that a weighted body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it begins to fall.
• taxaspideanHaving the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; said of certain birds.
• taxiarchAn Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army.
• taxo-Order, arrangement.
• taxologytaxonomy
• TaygeteOne of the Pleiades (daughters of Atlas and Pleione).
• TaygetosA mountain range in the prefectures of Laconia, Messenia and Arcadia on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece.
• techno-Relating to technology.
• tecno-Child.
• tectologyA Haeckelian division of morphology; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual.
• teichoicOf or pertaining to the teichoic acids or their derivatives
• teichuronicRelating to a teichuronic acid or its derivatives
• teinoscopeAn instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished
• teixobactinAn antibiotic discovered in a screen of uncultured bacteria (Eleftheria terrae) grown in situ in soil, thought to be unlikely to lead to the development of resistance in pathogens.
• tele-over a distance
• TeleboasSon of Pterelaus; ancestor of the Teleboae or Teleboans.
• telegnosisKnowledge of events outside of normal sensory perception.
• teleio-Fully grown; adult.
• teleioticComplete, perfect.
• teleo-end; goal; purpose
• telephilonA plant used in Ancient Greece in divinatory rituals regarding matters of love or sex.
• TelephusThe son of Heracles and Auge; he was adopted by Teuthras, the king of Mysia, in Asia Minor, whom he succeeded as king, and was both wounded and later healed by Achilles.
• telesemeA system of apparatus for electric signals providing for automatic transmission of a number of predetermined signals or calls, as in connection with hotel annunciators.
• telesterionA building used to celebrate sacred rites in Ancient Greece.
• telestialOf or pertaining to the lowest degree of glory.
• telesticOf or pertaining to religious mysteries.
• telestichAn acrostic whose message is spelled out in the final letters of each line.
• teleutosporeThe thick-celled resting spore of the rusts (order Pucciniales).
• teleutostaticHaving a fixed accent on the ending
• telishPunish (an innocent person) for the sake of deterrence; subject (a person) to telishment.
• telishmentThe act or institution of punishing the innocent for the sake of providing deterrence.
• telmaticRelating to stagnant water, typically a marsh, swamp, fen or bog; freshwater
• telmatologyThe study of marshes or swamps.
• telmophagousFeeding from a pool of blood caused by tissue laceration.
• telo-end
• telocoelA cavity in the telencephalon of an embryo.
• telokinAn abundant protein found in smooth muscle, identical to the C-terminus of myosin light-chain kinase.
• telomeran extremely small polymer - one whose degree of polymerization is between 2 and 5
• telotrocha posterior tuft of cilia in a trochophore larva
• telotrochalHaving both a preoral and a posterior band of cilia; applied to the larvae of certain annelids.
• telpherAn electric-run cable car used for transportation, along overhead wires.
• templonA barrier between the nave and the altar in a Byzantine church.
• -teneRibbon-like structure; Used to form words relating the structure of chromosomes in meiosis
• teno-tendon
• tephro-ash
• tera-In the International System of Units and other metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10¹² (short scale trillion or long scale billion).
• teraticalwonderful; ominous; prodigious
• terato-Pertaining to birth defects and similar abnormalities.
• terotechnologyThe engineering and technology related to the design and maintenance of industrial plant machinery.
• TerpanderAn Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a Greek poet and citharede of Antissa in Lesbos who lived about the first half of the 7th century BC.
• terpineolAny of several isomeric monoterpenoid alcohols found in the essential oil of pine and other trees
• tessara-four
• tetartemorionA silver coin minted in Ancient Greece, valued at 1/4 of an obolus.
• tetartohedralisometric and tetragonal, but having one fourth of the number of planes required for complete symmetry
• tetra-Four.
• tetra-ameliaA particular congenital disorder, whose main symptom is the lack of legs, arms, and hands.
• tetracolonA stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines.
• tetracos-Prevocalic form of tetracosa- (“twenty-four”).
• tetracosa-twenty-four
• tetractysA triangular figure consisting of ten points arranged in four rows, representing the fourth triangular number and having mystical significance to the Pythagoreans.
• tetracycleAny organic compound, containing four rings, related to tetracycline
• tetradactylHaving four digits on a limb.
• tetradelphousHaving its stamens fused together at least partly by the filaments so that they form four separate groups, some of which may contain a single stamen.
• tetradicOf or relating to a tetrad.
• tetragonSynonym of quadrilateral (“a polygon with four sides”).
• tetrakaideka-fourteen
• tetrakionionA type of tetrapylon in which the central crossing is not roofed, and the four corner-markers exist as four separate structures, not connected overhead.
• tetrakis-Synonym of tetra- used for multiplication with a second numerical prefix.
• tetrakis legomenonA word occurring only four times in a given corpus.
• tetramorphA symbolic arrangement of four differing elements, or the combination of four disparate elements in one unit.
• tetraplaA text presented in four parallel versions, especially (historical) the version of the Bible presented in such a fashion by Origen.
• tetraplegicA quadriplegic.
• tetrapodyA set of four metrical feet.
• tetrapylonA Roman-style cubic structure with a gate on each of its four sides.
• tetrasemicEquivalent to four short syllables, consisting of four moras as a dactyl, anapest, or spondee.
• tetraskelionA figure consisting of four limbs, radiating from the center; especially a fylfot or swastika.
• tetrastoonA four-sided colonnade, typically enclosing a courtyard
• tetrasyllableA word comprising four syllables.
• tettixA cicada, especially in Greece.
• TeucerThe son of King Telamon and Hesione, who fought in the Trojan War and was renowned for his skill in archery.
• teuthisA small squid.
• teuthivorousFeeding on cephalopods.
• teuthologyThe branch of malacology dealing with cephalopods.
• thalamegosA state barge fitted with cabins, on the Nile
• thalasso-sea
• thalassocracyA state whose power derives from its naval or commercial supremacy on the seas.
• ThalestrisThe queen of the Amazons, said to have brought 300 women to Alexander the Great, hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he.
• ThalloOne of the Horae, and the goddess and personification of the season of Spring; she is the protector of new growth.
• ThamyrisA Thracian singer who challenged the Nine Muses to a competition and lost.
• thanato-Death.
• thanatognomonicForeshadowing death.
• thanatologyThe scientific study of death and the practices associated with it, including the study of the needs of the terminally ill and their families.
• thanatopicProne to thanatopsis; morbid.