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- touchline ban — an official prohibition of a manager or coach from being present on or near the field during a match
- townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
- trans-saharan — a desert in N Africa, extending from the Atlantic to the Nile valley. About 3,500,000 sq. mi. (9,065,000 sq. km).
- transisthmian — across an isthmus (a narrow strip of body tissue)
- treaty indian — a status Indian who is a member of a group that has signed a treaty with the federal government.
- tripolitanian — of or relating to Tripolitania (now part of Libya) or its inhabitants
- tseng kuo-fan — 1811–72, Chinese general and statesman.
- tsinling shan — a mountain range in central China: highest peak over 12,000 feet (3660 meters).
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
- underclassman — a freshman or sophomore in a secondary school or college.
- upperclassman — a junior or senior in a secondary school or college.
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- vice-chairman — a member of a committee, board, group, etc., designated as immediately subordinate to a chairman and serving as such in the latter's absence; a person who acts for and assists a chairman.
- virginia plan — a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.
- virtual human — a computer-generated moving image of a human being, used esp in films as an extra in large crowd scenes
- washingtonian — living in or coming from Washington, D.C., or the state of Washington.
- water boatman — any of numerous aquatic insects of the family Corixidae, having paddlelike hind legs.
- water leguaan — a large amphibious monitor lizard, Varanus niloticus, which can grow up to 2 or 3 m
- weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
- west pakistan — a former province of British Pakistan, separated from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by N India: declared independence as Republic of Pakistan 1956.
- western ocean — the North Atlantic Ocean.
- white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
- white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
- white van man — a male van driver, often of a white van, whose driving is selfish and aggressive
- wild huntsman — the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.
- woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
- wooden indian — a carved wooden statue of a standing American Indian, formerly found before many cigar stores as an advertisement.
- wordsworthian — William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
- zarathustrian — Zoroaster.