Word origins

• thanatopsisContemplation of death.
• ThargeliaOne of the chief Athenian festivals in honour of the Delian Apollo and Artemis, held on their birthdays, the 6th and 7th of the month Thargelion (about May 24 and 25).
• ThaumasA sea god, son of Pontus and Gaia
• thaumasiteA hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing calcium, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and sulfur.
• thaumasmusThe presentation of something as a marvel rather than in a neutrally descriptive way.
• thaumato-Miracle; wonder; marvel.
• thaumatropeAn optical toy made of a card with an image on each side; when twirled, the images appear to combine.
• thaumaturgyThe working of miracles, wonderworking; magic, witchcraft, wizardry.
• TheadoreA male given name.
• thealogyThe study of or reflection upon the or a goddess, or the feminine divine, e.g. from a feminist viewpoint.
• theanthropicPartaking of, or combining, both divinity and humanity.
• theanthropismA state of being God and man.
• theanthroposChrist regarded as having both a divine and human nature.
• theanthroposophyBeliefs of or pertaining to theanthropism.
• thearchThe ruler of a thearchy, a monarch of gods
• thearchyA government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.
• theatrocracyGovernment by an assembly of citizens in Ancient Greece.
• thebaineA poisonous alkaloid, paramorphine, obtained from opium; not used in medicine.
• thecodontHaving the teeth enclosed in sockets in the alveoli of the jaws.
• TheiaA Titan, the sister-wife of Hyperion.
• thel-Nipple.
• thelionThe tip or peak of a nipple.
• thelitisInflammation of the nipple or teat.
• theliumA nipple or papilla.
• thelycumThe female genital structure of some shrimp
• thelytokyA form of parthenogenesis in which females are produced from unfertilized eggs.
• thematiseTo convert (a sentence or a part of it) into a theme.
• Themistothe third and last wife of Athamas
• then-The palm of the hand or sole of the foot.
• thenarThe palm of the hand or sole of the foot.
• theocrasyInteraction, admixture, and conflation of divine principles.
• theolepsyPossession by a deity; divine inspiration.
• theologA student of theology.
• theomachyA fight against the gods, as the mythological battle of the giants against the gods.
• theomorphismThe bestowal of divine attributes on humanity.
• theophoricContaining the name of a deity.
• theophoryThe property of bearing the name of a deity.
• theopneustInspired or possessed by a god.
• TheoricaIn Athens in Ancient Greece, a fund of money expended on festivals, sacrifices, public entertainments, and largesse given to the people.
• theotechnyThe scheme of divine intervention; the art of introducing deities into poetry.
• theotokionA hymn to Mary, the Theotokos, read or chanted during the Divine Services of the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.
• theoxeniaHospitality towards a god who visits as a guest.
• therianOf or pertaining to the taxonomic subclass Theria.
• theriatricsThe science of medicine involving animals such as veterinary medicine or the treatment of animal bites.
• therio-wild animal.
• -thermused to name types of animal having a specified form of body temperature mechanism
• thermantidoteAn antidote to heat, especially a rotating fan attached to a window.
• -thermicRelating to heat or temperatures.
• thermifugineAn artificial alkaloid resembling thalline, used as an antipyretic.
• thermo-Thermal: of, being, or pertaining to heat or temperature.
• thermochromyThe property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.
• thermoticOf or relating to heat; produced by heat.
• theroidBestial, resembling an animal.
• therontThe stage where a tomite elongates (swims away) after being released from the cyst.
• therophyteAny plant which survives unfavourable seasons in the form of seeds only
• thesaurismosisThe accumulation of a substance in a cell or organ in abnormally large amounts.
• thesaurosisA lung storage disease thought to be caused by inhalation of hair spray.
• ThesmophoriaAn Ancient Greek festival in honour of Demeter and Persephone, and involving the sacrifice of pigs.
• thesmotheteA junior archon in Ancient Greece.
• the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they mustThe weak cannot resist the decisions of the strong; power, not morality, decides the outcome of any dispute.
• thetesThe lowest social class of citizens in ancient Athens.
• -theticPlaced, positioned, or located in a manner or place (indicated by the first element).
• theticalLaid down; absolute or positive, like a law or constituting the truth.
• thiasusA group of singers and dancers assembled to celebrate the festival of one of the gods.
• thief in the nightSomething stealthy or that occurs without warning.
• thigh-showerIn ancient Greece, a woman wearing a peplos with a split up the side, thus revealing the upper leg.
• thinolitea pseudomorph of ikaite, found in Quaternary lake basins of Nevada.
• thio-containing sulfur, especially a compound in which oxygen has been replaced by this element
• thion hudorlime sulfur.
• thionineAn artificial red or violet dyestuff consisting of a complex sulfur derivative of certain aromatic diamines.
• thnetopsychismThe doctrine that when the body dies, the intangible soul and/or spirit also goes to sleep or in other words the person's consciousness ceases until the resurrection, and that the soul and/or spirit must be awoken and both are to be called back to life at the Day of Judgement. This was first recorded as taught by the Thnētopsȳchītæ, a third century sect of Christianity in Arabia, and is based on 1 Timothy 6:16, an epistolary doxology addressed to the God who alone has immortality.
• thooidOf or relating to an obsolete group of carnivores, including wolves and dogs.
• thraniteOne of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme. They were usually the best rowers.
• thremmatologyThe field of breeding or propagating plants and animals.
• threneticRelating to a threne
• threnodeA dirge or funeral song.
• threnosSynonym of threnody.
• threpsologyThe study of nutrition.
• threpticOf or pertaining to nutrition.
• thriambusA hymn to Dionysus, sung in processions in his honour.
• thrombo-thrombus
• thurisFrankincense obtained from conifers such as the Norway spruce, or long-leaved pine.
• -thymiaForms nouns referring to states of mind.
• thymosThat area of the soul where feelings of pride, indignation, shame etc are located.
• thyrohyalOne of the lower segments in the hyoid arch, often consolidated with the body of the hyoid bone and forming one of its great horns, as in humans.
• -ticForms adjectives from nouns ending with -sis, -o, or -a
• tichorrhineHaving a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose.
• TisiphoneOne of the Erinyes/Dirae (Furies, the goddesses of vengeance), and a companion of Nemesis/Invidia.
• TitanomachyAny fight between two great forces.
• titanotheriumSynonym of brontotheriid.
• TitarevA transliteration of the Russian surname Титарёв (Titarjóv).
• tmemaA segment or section.
• TmolusA king of Lydia and husband to Omphale.
• toco-Relating to childbirth.
• tocogeneticPertaining to the evolutionary process in which the higher terms are generated by the lower through creative synthesis.
• tocologyThe branch of medicine that deals with childbirth.
• TokharSynonym of Tocharian (“any member of the Tochari, a people who inhabited Bactria”)
• tokogeneticOf or concerning the relationships between individuals in a species.
• -tomeAn instrument for cutting.
• tomo-sections; cutting