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Teaberry
- noun - creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil
- spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
Teaseler
- - One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth.
Teetered
- verb - move unsteadily, with a rocking motion
Teguexin
- - A large South American lizard (Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin.
Temperas
- noun - pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk
Tempered
- verb -
- adjust the pitch (of pianos)
- adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element; "criticism tempered with kindly sympathy"
- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling; "temper glass"
- made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism"
- restrain
Temperer
- - One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
Tempests
- noun - (literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island"
- a violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot"
Tendency
- noun - a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect; "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink"
- a general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market"
- an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict"
- an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"