Index of English words, starting with "te"

(1) - Terebrate (v. t.) To perforate; to bore; to pierce.

(1) - Teredo (n.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.

(1) - Terete (a.) Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.

(1) - Tergal (a.) Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.

(1) - Tergiversate (v. i.) To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.