Index of English words, starting with "te"

(1) - Telltale (n.) The tattler. See Tattler.
(2) - Telltale (n.) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.
(3) - Telltale (n.) A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.
(4) - Telltale (n.) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
(5) - Telltale (n.) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.
(6) - Telltale (n.) One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.
(7) - Telltale (a.) Telling tales; babbling.

(1) - Tellurian (n.) An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons.
(2) - Tellurian (n.) A dweller on the earth.
(3) - Tellurian (a.) Of or pertaining to the earth.

(1) - Telluric (a.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric acid.
(2) - Telluric (a.) Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.

(1) - Telluride (n.) A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.

(1) - Tellurite (n.) Oxide of tellurium. It occurs sparingly in tufts of white or yellowish crystals.
(2) - Tellurite (n.) A salt of tellurous acid.