Index of English words, starting with "tu"

(1) - Tubby (a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.

(1) - Tube (v. t.) To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
(2) - Tube (n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
(3) - Tube (n.) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.
(4) - Tube (n.) A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.
(5) - Tube (n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
(6) - Tube (n.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
(7) - Tube (n.) A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
(8) - Tube (n.) A telescope.
(9) - Tube (n.) A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.