2-Letter Words Starting with T

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

A treponema.

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

Dress fabric

Having three lobes.

Bitter oil (anagram)

Arthropod in many fossils

Bitter oil roused ancient creature

Trochlea

Adjective meaning resembling

Small short-billed sandpiper

Acts single embracing tense bird

Bird changes vocal expression

A lover of cheese.

Quite sour sort of colour

Quite sour, off colour

Greenish-blue gem

Prepared a business letter

Instrument, one a bit rum when played

Dancer's hand drum.

Instrument playing at number 10

Home-study vehicle

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

""A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds.""

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.

Apparatus producing electric energy.

Radiant energy measurer

The anger when cleaner breaks this piece of apparatus

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

Four times what's left (wordplay)

Secret hero turns 60

Theology turning prophet's heart, five times a dozen

Not narrow-minded

Tending to allow

Adjective meaning resembling

Sock in the mouth (wordplay)

Sock in the mouth?

Aim, for example

Handle granite (wordplay)

Clown provides assayer's equipment

Feel Oliver (wordplay)

One of October's birthstones

Stone obtained from granite

An October birthstone

Outlandish or barbarous

Foreigner

Bouncer at the Leisure Club (wordplay)

Useful accessory for spring (wordplay)

Tumbler's apparatus, perhaps

Sumptuous... with an international cast!

Globetrotter's presentation

Tourist's report

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

Diminutive form

Like poison ivy

Like Girl Scouts emblem

One who used to go clubbing (wordplay)

Cave dweller to try lodge for a change

Cave dweller

Left back to dwell on the ball? It's up in the air

Atmospheric boundary near which the jet stream blows

Deodorant in a shell (wordplay)

Animal twofer (wordplay)

Reptilian pacifist (wordplay)

""A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.""

""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.""

Gadget lover

Someone not a fan of modern technology

One shunning new gadgets

One "scared of invisible waves!"

Work from home, in a way

TEMPORAL a bone of the skull

Drug that caused severe abnormalities

Drug which caused birth defects

Drug that caused malformation

Same as Thallogen. Thallogen.

""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.""

Up to that time; before then; correlative with heretofore. heretofore.

""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.""

""An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer. differential thermometer.""

Same as Sulphocyanate. Sulphocyanate.

THIOSULFATE

See platelet .

""Any of several compounds, originally derived from prostaglandin precursors in platelets, that stimulate aggregation of platelets and constriction of blood vessels.""

Noughts and crosses (US style)

Pencil and paper game.

Uneventful indoor pastime.

""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.""

Urban inhabitants

City dwellers

Postpone travelling round with the Parisian urbanites

Archery expert

LOCATE to find or pinpoint

Notables are becoming disloyal

Disloyal to one's country

Treacherous time all right

""The small, free-swimming, ciliated aquatic larva of various invertebrates, including certain mollusks and annelids.""

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

TROPICAL pertaining to the tropics

Lowest part of atmosphere

The volume of air closest the earth

Region of earth's atmosphere

Not to be trusted, maybe

To me to be without money is vexatious

Refractory book about currency units

""Any of various parasitic flagellate protozoans of the genus Trypanosoma, transmitted to the vertebrate bloodstream, lymph, and spinal fluid by certain insects and often causing diseases such as sleeping sickness and nagana.""

""An essential amino acid, C 11 H 12 N 2 O 2 , formed from proteins during digestion by the action of proteolytic enzymes. It is necessary for normal growth and development and is the precursor of several substances, including serotonin and niacin.""

Pretentious computer jargon

Incomprehensible jargon - bleach ten bob (anagram)

Computer jargon

TECHNOLOGIZE

""The thickcelled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore. Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore.""

Hormone created from TONERS (wordplay)

Male sex hormone

One tester's to experiment with hormone

English word

""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.""

A thermoelectric couple.

English word

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

""The outermost shell of the atmosphere, between the mesosphere and outer space, where temperatures increase steadily with altitude.""

""Capable of being heated to or somewhat above 55\'f8 C. without loss of special properties; -- said of proteins, immune substances, etc.""

""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.""

Complete a toll road (wordplay)

Complete a toll road?

Complete meal for the road

THROTTLE to {strangle=v}

""A thunderbolt, formerly believed to be a stone.""

THYMECTOMIZE

English word

English word

In biological taxonomy, an alternative to "vascular plant"

Exchanges personnel (wordplay)

Exchanges personnel?

Late rep posed naughtily as one of us (wordplay)

Beyond the mountains.

PONTINE pertaining to bridges

Able to be interchanged

Able to exchange places

English word

(Bot.) Having three leaflets.

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

An alkaloid that is the active component of curare.

""An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression.""

A chemical compound containing four chlorine atoms per molecule.

English word

""A white compound, C 10 H 7 N 3 S, used medically as an antifungal agent and as an anthelmintic.""

""A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of Chaise. Illust. of Chaise.""

See thromboplastin .

From other end Turks produced blast of lightning

Capable of being transformed or changed.

Transistor

""TRANSISTOR a component used in electronic devices consisting of three regions of at least two types of a semiconducting material, such as doped silicon, connected to each other and to three electrodes in a conducting path so as to modify the current or voltage in an electronic circuit.""

Such as may be moved

""A synthetic glucocorticoid, C 21 H 27 FO 6 , used as an anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of allergic and respiratory disorders.""

English word

NUCLEOTIDE a phosphate ester of a nucleoside; one of the monomeric components of DNA or RNA.DNA or RNA.

Meeting linked up electronically

Discussion among people whose positions may be very far apart

To enlarge by extension of territory.

THERMOFORM

THERMOREGULATE

""TRADITIONAL Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures. as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.""

""Having power, or a tendency, to transform.""

English word

A chemical compound containing three halogen atoms substituted for the three hydrogen atoms normally present in a methane molecule. It can occur in chlorinated water as a result of reaction between organic materials in the water and chlorine added as a disinfectant.

A large-scale corporate system.

Noun (-ence)

TOTALITARIAN

English word

TNT in full

Something to level with

Cause of some blowups