Index of English words, starting with "te"

(1) - Tertian (n.) A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
(2) - Tertian (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
(3) - Tertian (a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.

(1) - Tertiary (n.) One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
(2) - Tertiary (n.) The Tertiary era, period, or formation.
(3) - Tertiary (n.) A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third.
(4) - Tertiary (a.) Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills.
(5) - Tertiary (a.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
(6) - Tertiary (a.) Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
(7) - Tertiary (a.) Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word.

(1) - Tessellate (a.) Tessellated.
(2) - Tessellate (v. t.) To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.