TIGHTWAD

TIGHTWAD: 
■ noun 
A miserly person. 

eg.Jill called Jack a tightwad because he never picked up the check.

TALISMAN

TALISMAN: 
■ noun
A trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease.

eg.He had a talisman, the use of which he would not divulge, saying the stone could speak for itself.

TORTUOUS

TORTUOUS: 
■Adj. 
Marked by repeated turns and bends; Not straightforward. 

eg.In a tortuous journey across to Lesotho, he reaches the final crossing, the river gorge which forms the frontier. 

TACIT

TACIT:

■Adj. 

Implied by or inferred from actions or statements;Not spoken.

eg.Management has given its tacit approval to the plan.

TAINT

TAINT:

■ noun

The state of being contaminated.

■ Verb
To contaminate the reputation;To become or cause to become rotten;To make morally impure.


 eg.The cork industry have done a huge amount of work to find the causes of cork taint.

TILLER

TILLER:

■ noun
1.A horizontal bar fitted to the head of a boat's rudder post and used for steering.

2.One that tills land.
3.Shoot, especially one that sprouts from the base of a grass.


eg. Firstly, you can have a tiller installed in the place of the wheel.

TRAPPINGS

TRAPPINGS :

■ noun

Articles of dress or adornment, especially accessories.

Also,Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse

 eg.The trappings of upper-class life are off-putting and sterile.

TYCOON

TYCOON: 

■ noun

 A wealthy and powerful businessperson or industrialist; a magnate.Used formerly as a title for a Japanese shogun.

eg.The real estate tycoon was never seen without his expensive car.

TUMULT

TUMULT:

 ■ noun
A disorderly commotion or disturbance
A tempestuous uprising; a riot. Agitation of the mind or emotions.

eg.The men in the siege engine leaped out into the city, and a great tumult arose in the city.

TURBID

TURBID:

■ Adj.

Having sediment or foreign particles stirred up or suspended; muddy.

eg.In the UK, waters are often turbid and so obtaining a broad scale photograph is almost impossible.

TUXEDO

 TUXEDO:

■ noun

A man's dress jacket, usually black with satin or grosgrain lapels, worn for formal or semi formal occasions.

eg. The high school student wore a tuxedo to the prom.

 

TUNDRA

TUNDRA:

 ■ noun
A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation such as lichens, mosses, and stunted shrubs.

eg.Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath.

TYRO

TYRO: 

■ noun 

A beginner in learning something.Someone new to a field or activity.

eg. He was a sensitive, fine soul alert to the pleasures of being green, a tyro, an amateur, unwilling to close his mind before it had been tempted.

TREK

TREK:

■ noun  

A journey especially an organized migration by a group of settlers.Any long and difficult trip.

■ Verb   

Journey on foot, especially in the mountains.

eg. They trekked towards the North Pole with sleds and skis.

TRANSMUTE

TRANSMUTE:

 ■ Verb

To change from one form, nature, substance, or state into another; transform.

eg.Alchemists tried to transmute lead into gold.

TARANTULA

TARANTULA: 

 ■ noun

Large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites.

 eg.In the wild, pink Chilean tarantulas kill prey such as toads, frogs and mice painlessly. 

TACTILE

TACTILE:

 ■Adj. 

Perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible;
Of, relating to, or proceeding from the sense of touch.

eg.Like Tantrix, it was invented in New Zealand and uses wonderfully tactile Bakelite tiles.

TOGA

TOGA:
 ■ noun A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.

eg.The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

TUREEN

TUREEN:
■ noun 
Large deep serving dish with a cover; for serving soups and stews. 

eg.The America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.