5 Letter Words That Start With TE

terse

Adjective : (by extension) Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point.

Adjective : (by extension) Of manner or speech: abruptly or brusquely short; curt.

Adjective : (obsolete) Burnished, polished; fine, smooth; neat, spruce.

tepid

Adjective : Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.

Adjective : Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness; lukewarm.

tenet

Noun : An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

tense

Noun : (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.

Noun : (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.

Noun : (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.

tease

Verb : (transitive) To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).

Verb : (transitive) To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.

Verb : (transitive) To backcomb.

tenor

Noun : (music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.

Noun : A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.

Noun : (archaic, music) A musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies.

tempo

Noun : A frequency or rate.

Noun : (chess) A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another.

Noun : (bridge) The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side.

tempt

Verb : (transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.

Verb : (transitive) To attract; to allure.

Verb : (transitive) To provoke something; to court.

testy

Adjective : Easily annoyed, irritable.

Adjective : Marked by impatience or ill humor.

telic

Adjective : Tending or directed towards a goal or specific end.

Adjective : (grammar) That expresses an end or purpose.

Adjective : (linguistics) That expresses the perfective aspect.

telos

Noun : The aim, purpose, or end goal.

terra

Noun : A continent or large landmass, e.g. Arabia Terra or Aphrodite Terra.

Noun : A Lunar highland or mountainous region with a relatively high albedo, e.g. Terra Nivium.

Noun : (Roman mythology) The Roman earth goddess, equivalent in the interpretatio graeca to Gaea.

teddy

Noun : (by extension) Any stuffed toy.

Noun : A type of all-in-one women's undergarment.

Noun : A diminutive of the male given names Edward or Theodore, or of their diminutives Ted and Tedd.

teary

Adjective : Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry.

Adjective : Of eyes, filled with tears.

tengu

Noun : (Japanese mythology, Shinto, mythology) A mythical Japanese creature, typically birdlike and having a long nose.

terve

tears

Noun : Viscous streaks left on the inside of the glass when certain wines are swirled around before tasting.

terce

Noun : (historical) The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).

Noun : (chiefly Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) The service appointed for this hour.

Noun : (Scots law) A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.

tetty

Adjective : (obsolete) testy; irritable

Noun : (archaic) A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.

Noun : Pronunciation spelling of tatty (“potato”). [(Scotland, Northern England, Geordie) A potato.]

tenon

Noun : A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame.

Verb : (transitive) To make into a tenon.

Verb : (transitive) To fit with tenons.

teach

Verb : (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.

Verb : (intransitive, stative) To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.

Verb : (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).

teeny

Adjective : (informal) Very small; tiny.

techy

Adjective : (informal) Technical, of or related to technology.

Adjective : (obsolete) Alternative spelling of tetchy. [(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Synonym of touchy: easily annoyed or irritated, peevish, testy, irascible; also (figurative) extremely sensitive, difficult to manage, use, or work.]

tepor

Noun : (archaic) Lukewarmness, tepidness, moderate warmth.

terne

Adjective : Colourless, drab, dull.

Noun : (also attributively) An alloy coating made of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin), often with some antimony, used to cover iron or steel.

Noun : Synonym of terneplate (“thin iron or steel sheeting coated with this alloy”)

teare

Noun : A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Noun : Obsolete spelling of tear. [A hole or break caused by tearing.]

Verb : Obsolete spelling of tear. [(transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.]

teeth

Noun : (informal) The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect.

Verb : Dated spelling of teethe (“to grow teeth”).

tenth

Adjective : The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.

Adjective : Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.

Noun : The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.

texas

Noun : A state in the south-central region of the United States. Capital: Austin. Largest city: Houston.

Noun : Several places in the United States:

Noun : A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.

tenno

Noun : The emperor of Japan as head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family.

Noun : Alternative form of tenno [The emperor of Japan as head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family.]

tenue

Noun : bearing, carriage, deportment

Noun : mode of dress

tetra

Noun : Any of numerous species of small freshwater fish of the South American family Characidae and West African family Alestidae, popular in home aquariums.

telex

Noun : A network of teletypes.

Noun : A teletype message sent through such a network.

Noun : A teletype device connected to such a network.

terms

Noun : In legal terminology, Terms can have different meanings, depending on the specific context.

teres

Noun : (anatomy) A terete muscle.

teats

Noun : (anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted.

Noun : Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle.

Noun : An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.

texel

Noun : (computer graphics) An image representing the smallest unit of a texture that may be repeated to tile a region of the display.

Noun : An island in the Netherlands, an island of North Holland.

Noun : A domestic sheep of a heavily-muscled breed originally from the island of Texel.

teide

Noun : A dormant volcano on Tenerife; the highest mountain in Spain.

tewed

Adjective : (obsolete, dialect) fatigued; worn from labour or hardship

texts

Noun : A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.

Noun : A book, tome or other set of writings.

Noun : (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.

tenga

Noun : (historical) The currency of Bukhara before 1920, divided into 10 falus.

teara

tetch

Verb : (regional) Pronunciation spelling of touch. [Primarily physical senses.]

Noun : Pronunciation spelling of touch. [An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.]

teuch

Adjective : (Scotland) Alternative form of teugh [(Northumbria, Scotland) tough, stubborn]

teota

tesla

Noun : In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity. Symbol: T

Noun : A surname from Serbo-Croatian.

Noun : Inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla (1856–1943).

terry

Noun : A type of coarse cotton fabric covered in many small raised loops that is used to make towels, bathrobes and some types of nappy/diaper.

Noun : (Commonwealth, dated) Any makeshift cloth nappy folded from a large piece of absorbent fabric and held in place by a nappy pin or nappy fastener; a flat nappy.

Noun : (euphemistic) A terrorist

testa

Noun : (botany) A seed coat.

Noun : (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test.

Noun : A surname from Italian.

teens

Noun : The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.

Noun : The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.

Noun : The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.

telco

Noun : (informal) A telecommunications company, a telecom.

telly

Noun : (colloquial) Television.

Noun : (colloquial) A television set.

Noun : (colloquial) Telegraph.

tenia

Noun : Alternative spelling of taenia [(historical) A ribbon worn in the hair in ancient Greece.]

teams

Noun : groups of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal.

tempe

Noun : A city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.

Noun : A suburb in Inner West council area, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Noun : The Vale of Tempe; (by extension) a beautiful valley; any delightful rural spot.

teton

Noun : A member of the largest group of Sioux peoples.

Noun : The language of this people.

Noun : A small city in Fremont County, Idaho.

tessa

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Teresa, from Ancient Greek.

Noun : (British, finance, historical) Acronym of Tax-exempt special savings account.

teiid

Adjective : Of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards.

Noun : Any lizard in the family Teiidae.

tempi

Noun : a municipality in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece.

tendu

Noun : (ballet) A move in which the leg and foot stretch to point in a particular direction, but the foot does not leave the floor.

Noun : Diospyros melanoxylon, a tree in the family Ebenaceae, native to parts of South Asia, whose leaves are used as beedi-wrappers.

temse

Verb : (obsolete or dialectal) To sift.

Noun : (UK, obsolete or dialectal) A sieve.

teind

Noun : (Scotland) A tithe.

Verb : (Scotland, transitive) To tithe.

tedge

Noun : The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured.

tenne

Noun : a monetary unit of Turkmenistan [n TENNESI] / an orange-brown colo

tetel

Noun : A large African antelope (Alcelaphus buselaphus tora) with widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.

tegan

Noun : A female given name from Welsh.

Noun : A male given name from Irish. Alternative form of Teagan.

Noun : A surname.

tefra

teman

Noun : Teman, was the name of an Edomite clan and of its eponym, according to the Hebrew Bible,Book of Genesis and an ancient biblical town of Arabia Petraea.

teske

Noun : A surname.

temme

Noun : A surname.

tekke

Noun : In Turkey, a dervish or Sufi lodge or place of worship; alternative form of takya.

telar

Adjective : Relating to a tela, a web or membrane.

tehan

Noun : A surname from Irish.

teige

tekel

Noun : Tekel A.Ş. (Turkish, literally single-hand or monopoly and generally capitalised as TEKEL) was a Turkish tobacco and alcoholic beverages company.

tenma

Noun : Tenma, known as ASTRO-B before launch, was a Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite, developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science.

Noun : Tenma a Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite launched in 1983.

Noun : Tiburtius Vinodh Rubin, better known professionally as Tenma, is an Indian music producer, singer, composer, bass guitarist, and festival director.

tenna

Noun : A river in Marche

teade

Noun : (obsolete) Misspelling of tede (“torch”). [(obsolete) A torch; a flambeau.]

teart

Adjective : (agriculture and soil science, of pasture soils) Tending toward scouring (diarrheal illness) in grazing livestock, being high in molybdenum content and neutral to alkaline in pH.

terts

tekes

tente

tetsu

Noun : (written: 哲, 徹, 鉄 or テツ in katakana) a masculine Japanese given name.

Noun : a modern Japanese restaurant conceived by Michelin-starred chef Masa Takayama, Tetsu served a Robatayaki-based menu with an emphasis upon grilled fare.

teasy

Adjective : Inclined to tease; teasing.

Adjective : (colloquial, UK, Cornwall) Irritable or angry.

tedra

teece

tekka

Noun : A miso condiment made from stir-fried, boiled and powdered root vegetables.

tenen

tetan

teder

tekle

Noun : A surname.

teama

teata

teeks

Noun : Te Karehana Gardiner-Toi (born 26 October 1993), known by his mononym Teeks, is a Māori soul singer from New Zealand.

teema

teers

Verb : (transitive) To stir, as a calico-printer's sieve.

tegas

Noun : (historical) Synonym of ferrado, a traditional Galician unit of dry measure, mass, and land area

teiji

teipt

tekan

Verb : (Singapore, colloquial, slang) To bully or treat harshly, to punish (especially in military contexts).

tetam

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