2-Letter Words Starting with T

Fit for future service

Having potential to be taught

Like good obedience school candidates

Drivetrain item in front-wheel-drive car

Transmission/differential unit in FWD car

Convert, as energy

Safest run (anagram)

Do some UN work, perhaps

Exchange words (wordplay)

Ten altars (anagram)

Turn into gold, maybe (wordplay)

Change the nature of (something)

Change menu - tart's off

Happen it's a printer's error!

If partner is not straight, come out!

Happen to find terrapins at sea

Cause to swap places

Rants over the position for a change

7 down (anagram)

Restaurants having scruffy attire? Rot!

Can be handled

OK for practising on

Like diabetes

""Dishes and other household utensils made of wood, as by pioneers in North America [from treen + ware 1 ]""

Mycose; so called because sometimes obtained from trehala. trehala.

Latticework for vines.

Worm turning to red meat

Worm made otter sick

Sort of parasite damaging to red meat

""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

""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

Trochlea

English word

Not at all shady

Responsible about one's obligations - brutal set (anagram)

Steadfast

Adjective meaning resembling

Sound of tongue, say, getting salt

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

Small short-billed sandpiper

Acts single embracing tense bird

Bird changes vocal expression

Source of sour cream (wordplay)

Get around to being El Bat, perhaps

Go and propose - get a revolver!

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

""Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis. Listera and of Liparis.""

Bold or italic, for example

Bold or italic, e.g

Create striking sentences (wordplay)

Use keyboard, well worn, to conceal unknown seat

Use keys for 40, not for seat in church liturgy

Prepared a business letter

TYRANNIS an illegal regime

Play the dictator

Govern despotically

Rule oppressively

Service station (wordplay)

Tent for Ark in Exodus

Salt Lake City sight

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

""Pl. tarantulas or tarantulae (-l ) Any of various large, hairy, chiefly tropical spiders of the family Theraphosidae, capable of inflicting a painful but not seriously poisonous bite.""

Water bear is slow to hear order

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

TARGET to make a goal of

Try reading this!

Rat whose makeup is TEAL (wordplay)

Young rat (wordplay)

The ridge of gum behind the upper front teeth.

Home-study vehicle

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

Capable of being tempered.

Paint new church for one of 7,28

One of the "cardinal virtues."

Frances E. Willard's field of activity.

Ready for letting

Potentially ending in island, returning after limited period

Sea bird's roofing material (wordplay)

Sea bird's roofing material?

Form a mosaic - sell estate (anagram)

Decorate with mosaic tiles

Form into a mosaic pattern

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

""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.

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.""

It's 'ruined by the abrader' (wordplay)

Well-worn bed, rather a mess!

Characters of the Bard are hackneyed

Adjective meaning resembling

Middlesex money

Four times what's left (wordplay)

Secret hero turns 60

Theology turning prophet's heart, five times a dozen

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

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

Pl. trabeculae (-l ) A small supporting beam or bar.

His home is mobile

Outlandish or barbarous

Foreigner

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

G.I. sent elsewhere

One assigned to a new role or position

One shifted to a new post

Damaged car in tense passing situation

Impermanent quality

Ephemerality

Taking an object

Kind of verb.

Passing over crossing initially is very easy

Metamorphose.

TRANSUDE to pass through a membrane

VALUE to estimate the worth of

Extending across (the long axis)

Extending across something

Spoilt star with nerves getting cross

Development of a mutter is a shock

Distress I must rate possible when harbouring first sign of ailment

Distress

Emotionally scar

Shock

Scar

Sumptuous... with an international cast!

Globetrotter's presentation

Tourist's report

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

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

Bully's forte.

Aggressive defiance

Aggression

""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.""

The act of becoming tumid; the state of being swollen; intumescence; -- applied especially to the state of swelling of the vascular tissue in the male and female sex organs when they have been stimulated to readiness for sexual intercourse.

Adjective meaning resembling

Irregularity in flows

Disorderly or confused state

Disorder in flow

How to make a belt catch a rod tightener

... to help you wipe away old paint

Oil in paints

Oil used in varnishes

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.""

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

Someone not a fan of modern technology

One shunning new gadgets

One "scared of invisible waves!"

Work from home, in a way

How cold or hot it is outside

Measure of warmth

Degree of heat

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

Same as Thallogen. Thallogen.

A magician; a wonder worker.

""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.

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.""

Urban inhabitants

City dwellers

Postpone travelling round with the Parisian urbanites

Archery expert

Transversely barred

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

""Any of various enzymes that catalyze the transfer of a chemical group, such as a phosphate or amine, from one molecule to another.""

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.""

LOCATE to find or pinpoint

Crossing the sea

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

Wild partygoers hiding in piece of furniture that can be covered

Notables are becoming disloyal

Disloyal to one's country

Treacherous time all right

TREASURE to value highly

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

""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

Adjective meaning resembling

""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.""

TUBERCULA

""Body, Human ()""

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.""

Pretentious computer jargon

Incomprehensible jargon - bleach ten bob (anagram)

Computer jargon

TECHNOLOGIZE

All well stop send money stop

"All well stop send money stop"

""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.""

Shilly-shally

Act evasively with royal donors in the gallery

Abandon principles as generous person in a street looking dodgy

Hormone created from TONERS (wordplay)

Male sex hormone

One tester's to experiment with hormone

""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.""

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.""