Index of English words, starting with "tu"

(1) - Tulipomania (n.) A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips; -- a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage.

(1) - Tulle (n.) A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for veils, etc.
(2) - Tulle (n.) In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses.

(1) - Tullibee (n.) A whitefish (Coregonus tullibee) found in the Great Lakes of North America; -- called also mongrel whitefish.

(1) - Tumble (n.) Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
(2) - Tumble (v. t.) To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
(3) - Tumble (v. t.) To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.
(4) - Tumble (v. i.) To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
(5) - Tumble (v. i.) To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
(6) - Tumble (v. i.) To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.