2-Letter Words Starting with T

Tachinid

Silence

Revoltingly sickens at sleaze

Shabby, still-wet, condition

What pink plastic flamingos may signify

Tackling

Taconite

Schemer's play opening in strange antic

Mourinho is a special one

I can act it out for schemer

TAENIAS taenia

TAENIAS taenia

Shadows (wordplay)

Spinal column bases

Ends of vertebral columns

Bail out - air outside initially stresses vertebra's extremities

Minor batsman kind to harbour trouble

Relative of a cellar dweller.

Last-place finisher

Making some alterations, say

Work on Savile Row.

Work that could get sewer functioning

One of aircraft's flying surfaces

End of a flyer tells a clear story

Articulated story without embellishment as part of craft

Spirals out of control

Alpinists' deadly falls

Dramatic descents

Helpful air currents

Help from behind

Flatulence (wordplay)

Unspoiled Hardy heroine is not a novice at heart

Takedown

Talapoin

The Seal of Solomon and others

They work like a charm

Charms or amulets

Long-winded debate.

TV phenomenon.

Woman in part hooked in prolonged discussion

TALKIE a moving picture with synchronized sound

Tallage

Tallow

Tamandua

Large tropical seed pods

Thank you, Mother, for the skins of the fruit

Their fruit is used in Worcestershire sauce

Drug that inhibits effect of oestrogen

Fiddling with the ball, illegally

Meddler's activity

Tinkering with the ball, illegally

Tampon

Tangence

Free rein with Agent Orange (wordplay)

Fork bit eating bad blood orange

Fruit or song

Material things

Material assets.

Material assets

Cut short old car's MOT perhaps, as exterior in most messy state

Tankship

Places for skin treatment

They convert hides to leather

Skin-treatment is their business

A salt of tantalic acid.

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

Tantalum

Time's against jockeys making gallops

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

Relatives of rulers

Markings on a theater stage

Measuring implements

The study of the conditions and processes by which organisms become fossilized.

""A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protraced dancing to appropriate music.""

Big, hairy spider

Hairy creepy-crawly

Spider is natural at spinning

Forte of the 10-o'clock scholar

Ten o'clock scholar's sin.

It's all of late

Objecting (wordplay)

Focusing in on

Aiming for

Tariff

Tarlatan

Tarletan

Expletive in sailor country (wordplay)

Gosh darn it!

Mild imprecation, rustic style.

Stained hat rinsed carelessly

Having lost lustre

Water I discarded is contaminated

Dims the glory.

Sailor the woman caught in wickedness upsettingly taints

Discolors

Sailor-boy wearing waterproof

Sailor chap wearing waterproof

Headgear Jack has me wearing

Bearnaise sauce spices

The act or time of tarrying; delay; lateness.

Putting forth inflorescences.

Adding pendent ornamentation

Up to Saturday the sale was still hanging

Attractive quality in food

Good quality

Good flavor

Becoming ragged.

Quality of someone's Sunday worst (wordplay)

Writing "MOM", say

Doing some needlework

Parlor activity

Removing the slack

Tautonym

TAUTONYM a taxonomic name in which the specific name repeats the generic

They are not barred at Lord's

Do they prop up the bar at Lord's (wordplay)

Pub owners

The quality or state of being tawny.

Taxation

Relating to classification

Of classes

One that pays taxes or is subject to taxation.

Learn from them and it turns to pains

China gets lost in doctrine

Doctrine of suffering adopted by tens, half-heartedly

Developer's purchases

Home wreckers' actions

Mark on a Dear John letter, perhaps

Visible sign of grief.

Sign of a crying jag

Teasel

Drink alone. - That's not to be taken seriously!

Drink by oneself, making fun of others (wordplay)

Baker's measures

Table setting items

Parts of many place settings

Teazel

Catch with line perhaps, being skilful

Kind of knockout

Concerned with applied sciences

Way of carrying our a task

Method from Quince - the new kind

Way of doing something

Science that adds art to utility.

Processes in the earth's crust

Structural geology

The structural behavior of an element of the earth's crust.

TEEMING teem

Perhaps it led a nineteen

Their ways baffle grown-ups

Romeo and Juliet, for two

Most itty-bitty

Most itsy-bitsy

Hardest to make out

Teentsy

Tipsy-turvy (wordplay)

About to collapse, perhaps

On a seesaw

Teething

""Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds. as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds.""

European agents' corporation follows time scale

Tegument

Telamon

Looking good on the tube, say

Suitable for box cameras (wordplay)

Made for the screen

English word

Call out (wordplay)

This may make someone callus, perhaps

Goddess of gabbing (wordplay)

Sound transmission science

Process of sound transmission wrapped in polythene

System in which one calls plastic polythene

Sunday drives (wordplay)

Events with Jerry Lewis

They can go on for days

Telfer

In a relatively convincing manner

Doing office work includes cover for editor and moderating

Firm surprised by debts (wordplay)

Persistent in holding on

Hanging on to X with a C, X with us

Surgeon's hook

Surgical hook for picking up blood vessels

Tenaille

Sharecroppers' agreements, for example

Cat seen in various residences

Leaseholds

Tenant

Tendance

Tendence

Tenderer

Rested ten in organisation? Most kind!

Easiest to chew

Like blue-ribbon-winning steak

Putting in bid to handle English band

Making an offer to get dinner

Offering to finish Ireland in here

Pound meat, maybe

Pound a steak, perhaps

Treat meat (wordplay)

Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.

Deep affection Fr.

""TENDRIL a coiling, threadlike, climbing organ of a plant""

""(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) (sometimes capital) a school, style, or method of painting, adopted chiefly by 17th-century Spanish and Neapolitan painters, esp Caravaggio, characterized by large areas of dark colours, usually relieved with a shaft of light tenebrist  ""

""(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) (sometimes capital) a school, style, or method of painting, adopted chiefly by 17th-century Spanish and Neapolitan painters, esp Caravaggio, characterized by large areas of dark colours, usually relieved with a shaft of light tenebrist  ""

Dark and gloomy

Caravaggiesque brute? (Nose out of joint)

Gloomy

EMENT x X for the living (wordplay)

Blocks of flats (US)

Problem of the Housing Authority.

Players of middle-range instruments

Tenorite

Tenpence

Tight-head showing nerves

Reason to take Valium

Reason to take Xanax

""The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles. as, the tensility of the muscles.""

Pertaining to tautness

Under strain, nurse is interrupted by awful noise

TENSION to make strained

Tensity

Highly-armed irregular lent cadet

Having arms, like a squid.

Like a medusa

Underwater arms (wordplay)

Spots for suckers (wordplay)

Arms of a sort.

Drunk at event? It is uncertain

Attentive in hesitant manner

Not fully worked out

Tenter

Tenuity

In a weak manner

Slightly devious tone two universities initially misconstrued beforehand

Flimsily

Like some college appointments

Teosinte

Tepefy

Old bath water quality

Mild warmth of speed isn't dissipated

Lukewarm quality

""An agent, such as a virus, a drug, or radiation, that causes malformation of an embryo or fetus.""

Terebene

Tree that yields turpentine.

Tree in Bath, possibly not a Mediterranean tree

Teredo

Mrs. Rip van Winkle, for one.

Garment at odds with shrewish woman

Scolding bad-tempered woman

Ends of meandering tramlines

Currently, they're at the end

Where tramlines turn around

Stop boring pest holding one back

Spell with natural sounding finish

Get rid of pest with sodium injection

Ternary

TERNATE arranged in groups of three

TERPENE a chemical compound

""Any of three isomeric alcohols, C 10 H 17 OH, occurring naturally in the essential oils of certain plants and used as solvents in perfumes, soaps, and medicine.""

Terpinol

High-rise specs, perhaps

Building up to a speed at last

Small freshwater turtles

Maryland's team.

University of Maryland athletes

Coolidge is famous for it

Short quality

Abrupt brevity

Triple, in chemistry

Provider of a dead giveaway (wordplay)

'All hygienes have their -s' (V Nabokov)

Hutchinson's will (wordplay)

Cross capital, say, to give evidence

Blair, say, holding new Times evidence

I'm running into ill-humored statements

Splenetic trait

Sour qualilty

Short fuse

Affected muscles with diseased spasms

Tetanise

Tetanize

Tetanize

Tetanus

Cowboy's activity, sometimes

Being tied to the engaged signal at last

Putting a limit on the movement of stock

Figures on targets getting shot

Figures one needs brew of strong tea

Argos tent redesigned: each one has four sides

TEUTONIZE

Texture

""The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood; also, the seignioralty of a thane.""

What are in grates, perhaps

Receiving no appreciation

Nothing from this in grate

Roofing with straw or reeds

Thebaine

Having the teeth inserted in sockets in the alveoli of the jaws.

Of or relating to theogony.

""A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually as an incarnation.""

""Into that or this, or into that place.""

Theremin

To that (formal)

Work out route, then get to it

To that, formally

Immediately getting mobile phone? True!

Immediately used phone? True!

Then that's it

Electrically charged particles.

Electrically charged particles emitted by very hot material

Actors I caught in "The Bridges"

Stage performers

They work in Spanish and Latin production

Thiamine

Thiazine

Set etched with ink irregularly

Got ill with a lisp having got fat

Dick, he got another ten to make him a big stiff

Cornstarch, for example

Such as cornflour in cooking

Flour, for example.

Mass from front to back

Dimension through an object

Dimesion from front to back

Disease to keep off one part of the body

Disease to keep off one body part

Longest of its kind in the human body

Thinclad

Thindown

THING an inanimate object

Spare toothless so-and-so

The whatsit was watery and sticky

Teh whatsit is sticky but not stiff

Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable.

THINK to formulate in the mind

Thinking

Thionate

Thionine

""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.""

Thiophen

How a rumor may be heard

(Of information) indirectly

Not direct at all, as gossip

Thirst

Numerically, Rugby League sides

Baker's dozens enter this sack

They're never used on Paris houses.

Tholepin

A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back. Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.

Spiny shrub

Prickly undergrowth

May the 'Thunderer' note 'ow quiet it is!

Out of tune, this tenor most sharp

Most difficult, as a problem

Most troublesome or prickly