Index of English words, starting with "te"

(1) - Tenuis (n.) One of the three surd mutes /, /, /; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, /, /, /, and their aspirates, /, /, /. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.

(1) - Tenuity (n.) Refinement; delicacy.
(2) - Tenuity (n.) Poverty; indigence.
(3) - Tenuity (n.) Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
(4) - Tenuity (n.) The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.

(1) - Tenuous (a.) Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
(2) - Tenuous (a.) Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
(3) - Tenuous (a.) Thin; slender; small; minute.