2-Letter Words Starting with T

Cretin or model with old hat

Three-cornered hat

Eccentric rector in old hat

First set of wheels, maybe

Big wheel, for one

Tot's vehicle

Compound with three oxygen atoms

Compound containing O3

Having three phases

Aircraft making journey by road!

The Sopwith Snark, for one

Three-winged aircraft

A mineral

Plane-fuel additive

Alarm trigger of a sort

Trigger on a trap

* Booby trap component

""A figure with three branches radiating from a centre, also TRISKELE""

""A figure with three branches radiating from a centre, also TRISCELE""

Concerning NY, NJ, and CT, say

Like the New York metropolitan area

Around a geographical meeting point

Adjective for a shell.

Animal or seed with three regulating devices

I leave the unimportant and I've a shell in three parts

A mineral

Device using a series of fishhooks

Angler's device

Many-hooked fishing tool

Like a tube

A freshwater fish

A strap for supporting a load on the back

Marine invertebrate

Marine animal responsible for garment getting devoured

Layered

Like turf

Toll road (hist.)

Part of a pay-as-you-go plan (wordplay)

Make dive the American way

Like a tusk

Like a twig

A chemical compound

Amino acid found in ripe cheese

Stringed instrument feature

'Dog gets bit' - final news item

Epilogue in story reportedly by King (wordplay)

One of aircraft's flying surfaces

End of a flyer tells a clear story

Articulated story without embellishment as part of craft

English word

Chatty chess champion, a girl about 4

Gossipy story about king at four

Being chatty makes Kate vital

Free rein with Agent Orange (wordplay)

Fork bit eating bad blood orange

Fruit or song

Dancing is a talent or tease

Tease at least in a different way

Tease and entice

Heavy iron-black mineral

Cause frustrating torment

Dangle a carrot

Taunt by raising expectations

""A transparent variety of zoisite, used as a gem.""

The act or time of tarrying; delay; lateness.

Way of carrying our a task

Method from Quince - the new kind

Way of doing something

Film-fest town

Colorado town with an elemental name

Film fest town and ski resort

Put off rate increase

Time to get bigger stall

Procrastinate when it's time to get up

Avoid giving decision to gain time

Stall for time

Gathered up treasure, including ring, in stall

Pound meat, maybe

Pound a steak, perhaps

Treat meat (wordplay)

Drunk at event? It is uncertain

Attentive in hesitant manner

Not fully worked out

Stop boring pest holding one back

Spell with natural sounding finish

Get rid of pest with sodium injection

Frighten or menace like roisterer

That's a frightful thing to do to anyone

Inaccuracy is included in note for bully

Intimidate to the max

Completely disrupt, as a hellion might a pre-k classroom

""An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide, OsO. as, osmium tetroxide, OsO.""

TEUTONIZE

TEXTURE to make by weaving

Disease to keep off one part of the body

Disease to keep off one body part

Longest of its kind in the human body

Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable.

""A sulphur hydrocarbon, C4H4S, analogous to furfuran and benzene, and acting as the base of a large number of substances which closely resemble the corresponding aromatic derivatives. C4H4S, analogous to furfuran and benzene, and acting as the base of a large number of substances which closely resemble the corresponding aromatic derivatives.""

English word

Spiny.

""A colorless crystalline amino acid, C 4 H 9 NO 3 , that is obtained from the hydrolysis of protein and is an essential component of human nutrition.""

Tasmanian wolf; lean, itchy (anagram)

Tasmanian tiger

September 7, 1936

""A nucleoside, C 10 H 14 N 2 O 5 , composed of thymine and deoxyribose.""

""An iodine-containing hormone, C 15 H 11 I 4 NO 4 , produced by the thyroid gland, that increases the rate of cell metabolism and regulates growth and that is made synthetically for treatment of thyroid disorders.""

Adjective meaning resembling

Acrobat's walkway, maybe

Line up at the circus

Clint tracks a serial killer

English word

"Man of the Year" for one (wordplay)

Man of the Year for one (wordplay)

Joe Klein essay (wordplay)

Geologist's tool

Restraint to consume liquor for period

Duration allowed for events

Travel guide (wordplay)

Commuter's guide

Reference work of a sort

Arouse mildly (with images)

Shake it a little to create excitement

Thrill seeing one work in gallery

It reflected on five in gallery to smarten up

Swallows' child heard against mischief-maker; prepare yourself!

""Any one of three metameric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline, and called respectively orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance. orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.""

Adjective meaning resembling

Rugby/soccer pitch marking

Move family's boundary marker

Badly cut hole in side of playing area

Adjective meaning resembling

Spot for some bettors

Sick about cutting deal so close to the finishing-line (wordplay)

Hiker's shoulder (wordplay)

Like some ski-area condos

Like some mountain condos

Fit for future service

Having potential to be taught

Like good obedience school candidates

Happen it's a printer's error!

If partner is not straight, come out!

Happen to find terrapins at sea

Restaurants having scruffy attire? Rot!

Latticework for vines.

""A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.""

Laurie got around to three-way conversation

Jerome protagonists talked it over in this

Hearing nothing, guest loses way as the result of a crossed line, perhaps

""TRIBE a group of people with common ancestry, language and culture""

The state or office of a tribune; tribuneship.

Trichina

Dress fabric

Having three lobes.

Bitter oil (anagram)

Arthropod in many fossils

Bitter oil roused ancient creature

Cereal hybrid of wheat and rye

Cereal grass that is a cross between wheat and rye

Make ground, perhaps, with a turret around it

English word

Adjective meaning resembling

A sedimentary deposit formed by a turbidity current.

To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.

Fans' rotating mechanism (wordplay)

Pivoting gate, to football grounds say

Entrance sight, maybe

A lover of cheese.

Depraved or wicked behaviour

In France you put ride off - for depravity!

Inherent villainy

Quite sour sort of colour

Quite sour, off colour

Greenish-blue gem

Create striking sentences (wordplay)

Use keyboard, well worn, to conceal unknown seat

Use keys for 40, not for seat in church liturgy

TYRANNIS an illegal regime

Play the dictator

Govern despotically

Rule oppressively

Instrument, one a bit rum when played

Dancer's hand drum.

Instrument playing at number 10

Tense liar added ridiculous nonsense

Little white lie

Nonsense from sailor, a cheat

Water bear is slow to hear order

Word meaning "slow-paced" that sounds like a D in punctuality (wordplay)

The ridge of gum behind the upper front teeth.

""A thick-walled, usually blackish resting spore of some rusts and smuts, from which the basidium arises. Also called teleutospore .""

Potentially ending in island, returning after limited period

""A crystalline compound, C 15 H 24 N 2 O 2 , related to procaine and used as a local anesthetic.""

Surveyor's instrument

Surveying instrument

Instrument locating diamonds in the limestone

THEOLOG a student of theology

To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology.

THERMAL a rising mass of warm air

Apparatus producing electric energy.

Radiant energy measurer

The anger when cleaner breaks this piece of apparatus

English word

""A highly radioactive blackish, greenish, or yellow mineral, ThO 2 , isomorphous with uraninite.""

Adjective meaning resembling

THWART to prevent or hinder

""(Earth Sciences / Minerals) a grey mineral consisting of mercury selenide. Formula: HgSe [named after J. C. W. F. Tiemann (1848-99), German scientist]""

Mountain demarcation (italicized)

High point of East Germany's trees?

Tree-growth limit

TITRATE to measure the strength of a solution

Not narrow-minded

Tending to allow

Adjective meaning resembling

One of October's birthstones

Stone obtained from granite

An October birthstone

His home is mobile

Bouncer at the Leisure Club (wordplay)

Useful accessory for spring (wordplay)

Tumbler's apparatus, perhaps

""A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state.""

Rent as new, holding key as duplicate

... RBS certain to produce a copy

Copy into another form

Damaged car in tense passing situation

Impermanent quality

Ephemerality

Taking an object

Kind of verb.

Passing over crossing initially is very easy

Development of a mutter is a shock

Distress I must rate possible when harbouring first sign of ailment

Distress

Emotionally scar

Shock

Scar

Limestone used in Roman Colosseum.

Chemical sedimentary rock

White or pale stone used in building

ACETATE a salt of acetic acid

Ironman competitor

Magazine that reviews shoes, saddles and swimwear

""To render trichinous; to affect with trichin\'91; chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork. as, trichinized pork.""

""The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds.""

Diminutive form

Like poison ivy

Like Girl Scouts emblem

FURCATE to divide into branches

In three sections

Describing the agreement about Germany.

Like the French motto

Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.

The Third Form (wordplay)

State of having three identical copies

Bureaucrat's paper

RADIATE to emit rays

""SULFIDE a sulfur compound, also SULFID, SULPHID, SULPHIDE""

Readily pulverized

Make unimportant

Reduce in importance as one repeatedly interrupts travels, perhaps

TRIVIAL insignificant

""A crystalline substance, C 10 H 12 N 2 , that is formed in plant and animal tissues from tryptophan and is an intermediate in various metabolic processes.""

Adjective meaning resembling

... to help you wipe away old paint

Oil in paints

Oil used in varnishes

""A polypeptide antibiotic, produced by the soil microorganism Bacillus brevis, that is a major constituent of tyrothricin.""

""A copper-containing enzyme of plant and animal tissues that catalyzes the production of melanin and other pigments from tyrosine by oxidation, as in the blackening of a peeled or sliced potato exposed to air.""

Cooking late, I'll get a food from Italy

Pasta in ribbons

Form of pasta

TARNISH to dull the lustre of

A petty falsehood; a fib.

Gadget lover

TEMPORAL a bone of the skull

Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive.

Drug that caused severe abnormalities

Drug which caused birth defects

Drug that caused malformation

""An alkaloidal ureide, C7H8N4O2, homologous with and resembling caffeine, produced artificially, and also extracted from cacao and chocolate (from Theobroma Cacao) as a bitter white crystalline substance; called also dimethyl xanthine. C7H8N4O2, homologous with and resembling caffeine, produced artificially, and also extracted from cacao and chocolate (from Theobroma Cacao) as a bitter white crystalline substance; called also dimethyl xanthine.""

""A layer in a large body of water, such as a lake, that sharply separates regions differing in temperature, so that the temperature gradient across the layer is abrupt.""

""Requiring high temperatures for normal development, as certain bacteria.""

Same as Sulphocyanate. Sulphocyanate.

THIOSULFATE

Noughts and crosses (US style)

Pencil and paper game.

Uneventful indoor pastime.

Pleasantly exciting.

""A white powder, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, that lowers the level of sugar in the blood and is used in the treatment of diabetes.""

Archery expert

Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable.

Actress exploded inside in teen hit

Judith Anderson.

Serious actress

TRAILER to transport by a vehicle drawn by another

Give a shot, perhaps

Quiet down.

Calm.

On far side of a European mountain group.

Ultramontane

Make (something) more spiritual

Wholly alter

Change into something more beautiful or spiritual

FINITE something that has as end or limit

""Tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense. as, a translative sense.""

Crossing the sea

To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through.

Use a method of surveying (an area)

Survey, in a way

Measure using trigonometry

""A word consisting of three syllables only; as, avenger. as, avenger.""

Group of three in power

Group of three rulers

Caesar's coalition

""A protozoan, especially of the class Sporozoa, in the active stage of its life cycle.""

TROPICAL pertaining to the tropics

Adjective meaning resembling

The killing of a cruel ruler

Murder of despot

Justified assassination of an oppressive leader

""TECHNICAL Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical. as, the words of an indictment must be technical.""

TECHNOLOGIZE

Shilly-shally

Act evasively with royal donors in the gallery

Abandon principles as generous person in a street looking dodgy

""A yellow crystalline compound, C 22 H 24 N 2 O 8 , synthesized or derived from certain microorganisms of the genus Streptomyces and used as a broad-spectrum antibiotic.""

""A sulphide of antimony and copper, with small quantities of other metals. It is a very common ore of copper, and some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver. Called also gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase. gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase.""

""A colorless crystalline alkaloid, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , derived from tea leaves or made synthetically, used in medicine especially as a bronchial dilator.""

English word

""Subject to destruction, decomposition, or great change by moderate heating. Used especially of biochemical substances.""

""A white or yellow powder, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , a derivative of phenothiazine, that is administered orally in the treatment of various psychotic conditions, anxiety, depression, and certain childhood behavioral disorders.""

THYMECTOMIZE

English word

English word

""To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.""

Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze transamination. Also called aminotransferase .

Capable of being transfused; transferable by transfusion.

What the scientists tell us is unimaginative

""Capable of being transmitted; derived, or handed down, from one to another.""

PONTINE pertaining to bridges

Cross-dresser

Artists' event - see that wild crossdresser

English word

(Bot.) Having three leaflets.

A glyceride formed by the replacement of three hydrogen atoms in glycerin by acid radicals.