Index of English words, starting with "te"

(1) - Tessellated (a.) Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf.
(2) - Tessellated (a.) Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement.
(3) - Tessellated (imp. & p. p.) of Tessellate

(1) - Tessellation (n.) The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.

(1) - Tessera (n.) A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes.

(1) - Test (n.) Alt. of Testa
(2) - Test (v. i.) To make a testament, or will.
(3) - Test (n.) A witness.
(4) - Test (v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
(5) - Test (v. t.) To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
(6) - Test (v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
(7) - Test (n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
(8) - Test (n.) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
(9) - Test (n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
(10) - Test (n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
(11) - Test (n.) Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
(12) - Test (n.) Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
(13) - Test (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.