Name Report For First Name TEREUS:

TEREUS

First name TEREUS's origin is Greek. TEREUS means "myth name (king of thrace)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with TEREUS below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of tereus.(Brown names are of the same origin (Greek) with TEREUS and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with TEREUS - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming TEREUS

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES TEREUS AS A WHOLE:

 

NAMES RHYMING WITH TEREUS (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (ereus) - Names That Ends with ereus:

nereus

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (reus) - Names That Ends with reus:

atreus briareus obiareus tyndareus

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (eus) - Names That Ends with eus:

enygeus caeneus thaddeus batholomeus lorineus aconteus aegeus alcyoneus aloeus alpheus ancaeus androgeus antaeus aristaeus capaneus celeus cepheus coeus corineus epopeus erechtheus eubuleus eumaeus eurystheus hyrieus idomeneus lynceus menoeceus neleus odysseus oeneus orpheus peleus peneus pentheus pittheus prometheus proteus salmoneus theseus toxeus tydeus zeus asayleus inteus zacchaeus typhoeus phineus perseus clamedeus

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (us) - Names That Ends with us:

el-nefous cestus iasius lotus negus maccus dabbous dassous fanous abdul-quddus boulus butrus yunus dryhus bagdemagus brademagus isdernus peredurus britomartus luxovious nemausus ondrus argus ambrosius basilius bonifacius cecilius clementius egidius eugenius eustatius theodorus darius horus aldous brutus cassibellaunus guiderius ferragus marsilius senapus brus marcus seorus alemannus

NAMES RHYMING WITH TEREUS (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (tereu) - Names That Begins with tereu:

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (tere) - Names That Begins with tere:

terell teremun terence terentia teresa terese teresina teresita

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ter) - Names That Begins with ter:

terceira terciero teri teriana teriann terika terilynn teris terpsichore terra terrall terran terrance terrel terrell terrelle terrence terri terrie terrill terrin terris terriss terron terry terryn terrys teru teryl teryn teryysone terza

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (te) - Names That Begins with te:

tea teadora teagan teaghue teague teal tealia teamhair teanna teaonia tearlach tearle tearley tearly teca tecla ted tedd teddi teddie teddy tedman tedmond tedmun tedmund tedra tedric tedrick teegan teela teetonka teferi tefnut tegan tegene tegid tehuti tehya teicuih teigan teige teijo teiljo teimhnean teiran teirney teirtu teisha teithi teka tekle telamon telegonus telemachus telen telephus telfer telfor telford telfour

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TEREUS:

First Names which starts with 'te' and ends with 'us':

First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 's':

t'iis takis tallis talus tamas tamnais tanis tannis tantalus tas tavis tess tethys teuthras tevis tewodros thaddius thais thamyris thanasis thanatos thanos thaumas themis theoclymenus theodosios theoris thermuthis thersites thetis thomas thomkins thurs thyestes tigris tiresias tiridates titos titus tityus tobias togquos tohias tomas torrans travers travis treves trevls triptolemus trophonius troyes tuomas turannos tyeis tyrus

English Words Rhyming TEREUS

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TEREUS AS A WHOLE:



ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TEREUS (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (ereus) - English Words That Ends with ereus:


cereusnoun (n.) A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.


Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (reus) - English Words That Ends with reus:


choreusnoun (n.) Alt. of Choree


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eus) - English Words That Ends with eus:


aculeusnoun (n.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.
 noun (n.) A sting.

alveusnoun (n.) The channel of a river.

anconeusnoun (n.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

archeusnoun (n.) The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.

caduceusnoun (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.

cepheusnoun (n.) A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia.

clypeusnoun (n.) The frontal plate of the head of an insect.

coccosteusnoun (n.) An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.

coleusnoun (n.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.

corypheusnoun (n.) The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest.

glutaeusnoun (n.) The great muscle of the buttock in man and most mammals, and the corresponding muscle in many lower animals.

gluteusnoun (n.) Same as Glut/us.

ileusnoun (n.) A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, / iliac, passion.

malleusnoun (n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.
 noun (n.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.
 noun (n.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.

morpheusnoun (n.) The god of dreams.

nucleusnoun (n.) A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.
 noun (n.) The body or the head of a comet.
 noun (n.) An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.
 noun (n.) A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats.
 noun (n.) A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division.
 noun (n.) The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell.
 noun (n.) The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum.
 noun (n.) A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks.

orpheusnoun (n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.

paranucleusnoun (n.) Some as Nucleolus.

perseusnoun (n.) A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.
 noun (n.) A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula.

pileusnoun (n.) A kind of skull cap of felt.
 noun (n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.
 noun (n.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.

pluteusnoun (n.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.

prometheusnoun (n.) The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.

pronucleusnoun (n.) One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

proteusnoun (n.) A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles.
 noun (n.) A genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes are small and the legs are weak.
 noun (n.) A changeable protozoan; an amoeba.

reflueusadjective (a.) Refluent.

scarabaeusnoun (n.) Same as Scarab.
 noun (n.) A conventionalized representation of a beetle, with its legs held closely at its sides, carved in natural or made in baked clay, and commonly having an inscription on the flat underside.

trinucleusnoun (n.) A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head.

uraeusnoun (n.) A serpent, or serpent's head and neck, represented on the front of the headdresses of divinities and sovereigns as an emblem of supreme power.

zeusnoun (n.) The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TEREUS (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (tereu) - Words That Begins with tereu:



Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (tere) - Words That Begins with tere:


terebatenoun (n.) A salt of terebic acid.

terebenenoun (n.) A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances.

terebenthenenoun (n.) Oil of turpentine. See Turpentine.

terebicadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, terbenthene (oil of turpentine); specifically, designating an acid, C7H10O4, obtained by the oxidation of terbenthene with nitric acid, as a white crystalline substance.

terebilenicadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid, C7H8O4, obtained as a white crystalline substance by a modified oxidation of terebic acid.

terebinthnoun (n.) The turpentine tree.

terebinthicadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to turpentine; resembling turpentine; terbinthine; as, terbinthic qualities.

terebinthinateadjective (a.) Impregnating with the qualities of turpentine; terbinthine.

terebinthineadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities.

terebranoun (n.) A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.
 noun (n.) The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.

terebrantadjective (a.) Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies.

terebrantianoun (n. pl.) A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.

terebratingadjective (a.) Boring; perforating; -- applied to molluskas which form holes in rocks, wood, etc.
 adjective (a.) Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia.

terebrationnoun (n.) The act of terebrating, or boring.

terebratulanoun (n.) A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell.

terebratulidnoun (n.) Any species of Terebratula or allied genera. Used also adjectively.

terebratuliformadjective (a.) Having the general form of a terebratula shell.

teredinenoun (n.) A borer; the teredo.

teredonoun (n.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.

terephthalatenoun (n.) A salt of terephthalic acid.

terephthalicadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the aromatic series, metameric with phthalic acid, and obtained, as a tasteless white crystalline powder, by the oxidation of oil of turpentine; -- called also paraphthalic acid. Cf. Phthalic.

teretadjective (a.) Round; terete.

tereteadjective (a.) Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.

teretialadjective (a.) Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes.

teretousadjective (a.) Terete.

tereknoun (n.) A sandpiper (Terekia cinerea) of the Old World, breeding in the far north of eastern Europe and Asia and migrating to South Africa and Australia. It frequents rivers.


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ter) - Words That Begins with ter:


teraconicadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the distillation of terebic acid, and homologous with citraconic acid.

teracrylicadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic series, obtained by the distillation of terpenylic acid, as an only substance having a peculiar cheesy odor.

teraphnoun (n.) See Teraphim.

teraphimnoun (n. pl.) Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers.

terapinnoun (n.) See Terrapin.

teraticaladjective (a.) Wonderful; ominous; prodigious.

teratogenynoun (n.) The formation of monsters.

teratoidadjective (a.) Resembling a monster; abnormal; of a pathological growth, exceedingly complex or highly organized.

teratologicaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to teratology; as, teratological changes.

teratologynoun (n.) That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals.
 noun (n.) Affectation of sublimity; bombast.

teratomanoun (n.) A tumor, sometimes found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle.

terbicadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, terbium; also, designating certain of its compounds.

terbiumnoun (n.) A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium earth. Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150.

tercenoun (n.) See Tierce.

tercelnoun (n.) See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel.

terceletnoun (n.) A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet.

tercellenenoun (n.) A small male hawk.

tercentenarynoun (n.) The three hundredth anniversary of any event; also, a celebration of such an anniversary.
 adjective (a.) Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years.

tercetnoun (n.) A triplet.
 noun (n.) A triplet; a group of three lines.

tercinenoun (n.) A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.

tergaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.

tergantadjective (a.) Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant.

tergeminaladjective (a.) Alt. of Tergeminate

tergeminateadjective (a.) Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.

tergeminousadjective (a.) Threefold; thrice-paired.

tergiferousadjective (a.) Carrying or bearing upon the back.

tergitenoun (n.) The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

tergiversationnoun (n.) The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.
 noun (n.) Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change.

tergiversatornoun (n.) One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.

tergumnoun (n.) The back of an animal.
 noun (n.) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal.
 noun (n.) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.

terinnoun (n.) A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also tarin.

termnoun (n.) That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
 noun (n.) The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life.
 noun (n.) In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms.
 noun (n.) A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
 noun (n.) A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration
 noun (n.) The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years.
 noun (n.) A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation.
 noun (n.) The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes.
 noun (n.) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
 noun (n.) A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term.
 noun (n.) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3.
 noun (n.) A member of a compound quantity; as, a or b in a + b; ab or cd in ab - cd.
 noun (n.) The menses.
 noun (n.) Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions.
 noun (n.) In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents.
 noun (n.) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
 noun (n.) To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate.

termingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Term

termanoun (n.) The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain.

termagancynoun (n.) The quality or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper.

termagantnoun (n.) An imaginary being supposed by the Christians to be a Mohammedan deity or false god. He is represented in the ancient moralities, farces, and puppet shows as extremely vociferous and tumultous.
 noun (n.) A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person; -- formerly applied to both sexes, now only to women.
 adjective (a.) Tumultuous; turbulent; boisterous; furious; quarrelsome; scolding.

termatariumnoun (n.) Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants.

termatarynoun (n.) Same as Termatarium.

termernoun (n.) One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practice tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like.
 noun (n.) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.

termesnoun (n.) A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or termites. See Termite.

terminableadjective (a.) Capable of being terminated or bounded; limitable.

terminalnoun (n.) Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge.
 noun (n.) Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike.
 noun (n.) That which terminates or ends; termination; extremity.
 noun (n.) Either of the ends of the conducting circuit of an electrical apparatus, as an inductorium, dynamo, or electric motor, usually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole.
 noun (n.) The end of a line of railroad, with the switches, stations, sheds, and other appliances pertaining thereto.
 noun (n.) Any station for the delivery or receipt of freight lying too far from the main line to be served by mere sidings.
 noun (n.) A rate charged on all freight, independent of the distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses; a terminal charge.
 noun (n.) A town lying at the end of a railroad; -- more properly called a terminus.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to a railroad terminal; connected with the receipt or delivery of freight; as, terminal charges.

terminalianoun (n. pl.) A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.

terminantnoun (n.) Termination; ending.

terminatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Terminate

terminationnoun (n.) The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.
 noun (n.) That which ends or bounds; limit in space or extent; bound; end; as, the termination of a line.
 noun (n.) End in time or existence; as, the termination of the year, or of life; the termination of happiness.
 noun (n.) End; conclusion; result.
 noun (n.) Last purpose of design.
 noun (n.) A word; a term.
 noun (n.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.

terminationaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.

terminativeadjective (a.) Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive.

terminatornoun (n.) One who, or that which, terminates.
 noun (n.) The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon.

terminatoryadjective (a.) Terminative.

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English Words which starts with 'te' and ends with 'us':

tediousadjective (a.) Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.

teleosaurusnoun (n.) A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.

tellurousadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or containing, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with telluric compounds; as, tellurous acid, which is analogous to sulphurous acid.

telotrochousadjective (a.) Having both a preoral and a posterior band of cilla; -- applied to the larvae of certain annelids.

temerariousadjective (a.) Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless.

temerousadjective (a.) Temerarious.

tempestuousadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.

temporaneousadjective (a.) Temporarity.

temptatiousadjective (a.) Tempting.

tenaciousadjective (a.) Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
 adjective (a.) Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
 adjective (a.) Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.
 adjective (a.) Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.
 adjective (a.) Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
 adjective (a.) Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.

tendinousadjective (a.) Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.
 adjective (a.) Full of tendons; sinewy; as, nervous and tendinous parts of the body.

tendonousadjective (a.) Tendinous.

tenebrificousadjective (a.) Tenebrific.

tenebriousadjective (a.) Tenebrous.

tenebrousadjective (a.) Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.

tenesmusnoun (n.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.

tentaculiferousadjective (a.) Producing or bearing tentacles.

tentiginousadjective (a.) Stiff; stretched; strained.
 adjective (a.) Lustful, or pertaining to lust.

tenuifoliousadjective (a.) Having thin or narrow leaves.

tenuiousadjective (a.) Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense.

tenuousadjective (a.) Thin; slender; small; minute.
 adjective (a.) Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
 adjective (a.) Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.

terminusnoun (n.) Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
 noun (n.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.
 noun (n.) Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.
 noun (n.) Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.

terraqueousadjective (a.) Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous globe.

terreousadjective (a.) Consisting of earth; earthy; as, terreous substances; terreous particles.

terrestriousadjective (a.) Terrestrial.

terrigenousadjective (a.) Earthborn; produced by the earth.

tersanctusnoun (n.) An ancient ascription of praise (containing the word "Holy" -- in its Latin form, "Sanctus" -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion.

testaceousadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to shells; consisted of a hard shell, or having a hard shell.
 adjective (a.) Having a dull red brick color or a brownish yellow color.

testudinariousadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a tortoise shell.

testudineousadjective (a.) Resembling the shell of a tortoise.

tetanusnoun (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.
 noun (n.) That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks.

tetrachotomousadjective (a.) Having a division by fours; separated into four parts or series, or into series of fours.

tetracoccousadjective (a.) Having four cocci, or carpels.

tetradactylousadjective (a.) Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand.

tetradynamousadjective (a.) Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.

tetragynousadjective (a.) Belonging to the order Tetragynia; having four styles.

tetramerousadjective (a.) Having the parts arranged in sets of four; as, a tetramerous flower.
 adjective (a.) Having four joints in each of the tarsi; -- said of certain insects.

tetrandrousadjective (a.) Belonging to the class Tetrandria.

tetrapetalousadjective (a.) Containing four distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla.

tetraphyllousadjective (a.) Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets.

tetrapterousadjective (a.) Having four wings.

tetrasepalousadjective (a.) Having four sepals.

tetraspermousadjective (a.) Having four seeds.

tetricousadjective (a.) Tetric.

tetterousadjective (a.) Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.