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4-letter words starting with t

  • tapu — sacred; forbidden
  • tara — a village in the NE Republic of Ireland, NW of Dublin: home of the ancient Irish kings (Hill of Tara)
  • tare — the act of tearing.
  • tarn — a department in S France. 2232 sq. mi. (5780 sq. km). Capital: Albi.
  • taro — a stemless plant, Colocasia esculenta, of the arum family, cultivated in tropical regions, in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, for the edible tuber.
  • tarp — tarpaulin.
  • tart — sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
  • tase — (sometimes initial capital letter) to electrically stun (a living target) using a Taser or similar stun gun: She tased her stalker when he tried to force her into his car.
  • task — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
  • tasm — Turbo Assembler. MS-DOS assembler from Borland.
  • tass — a news-gathering agency of the former Soviet Union: merged with an alternative news service to form Itar-Tass (Russian Information Telegraph Agency).
  • tate — Sir Henry, 1819–99, English merchant and philanthropist: founder of an art gallery (Tate Gallery) in London, England.
  • tath — the dung of grazing animals, used as manure to fertilize land
  • tati — Jacques (ʒak), real name Jacques Tatischeff. 1908–82, French film director, pantomimist, and comic actor, creator of the character Monsieur Hulot
  • tatp — triacetone triperoxide: a highly unstable explosive, used esp by suicide bombers
  • tatt — tired all the time: a term used to describe a set of symptoms often related to doctors by patients
  • taut — tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
  • tava — an Indian frying pan or griddle used for cooking chapattis
  • tavr — Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
  • tavs — the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
  • tawa — a tall timber tree, Beilschmiedia tawa, of New Zealand, having edible purple berries
  • taws — a whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.
  • taxa — plural of taxon.
  • taxi — a taxicab.
  • tbil — Tiny Basic Interpreter Language
  • tbs. — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
  • tbtf — too big to fail: used of financial organizations deemed too important to the economy of a country to be allowed to go bankrupt
  • tcas — traffic collision avoidance system: a safety system in aircraft that is designed to prevent mid-air collisions
  • tcdd — a general name for a family of chlorinated hydrocarbons, C 12 H 4 Cl 4 O 2 , typically used to refer to one isomer, TCDD, a by-product of pesticide manufacture: a toxic compound that is carcinogenic and teratogenic in certain animals.
  • tceu — Toronto Civic Employees Union
  • tcgs — Twente Compiler Generator System
  • tclx — Extended Tcl
  • tcol — CMU. Tree-based intermediate representation produced by the PQCC compiler generator. "An Overview of the Production Quality Compiler- Compiler Projects", B.W. Leverett et al, IEEE Computer 13(8): 38-49 (Aug 1980). (See LG).
  • tdel — thick film dielectric electroluminescence
  • tdfl — Dataflow language. "TDFL: A Task-Level Dataflow Language", P. Suhler et al, J Parallel Dist Comp 9(2):103-115 (Jun 1990).
  • tdlu — Tanduay Distillery Labor Union
  • teac — Tertiary Education Advisory Committee
  • teak — a large East Indian tree, Tectona grandis, of the verbena family, yielding a hard, durable, resinous, yellowish-brown wood used for shipbuilding, making furniture, etc.
  • teal — any of several species of small dabbling ducks, of worldwide distribution, usually traveling in tight flocks and frequenting ponds and marshes.
  • team — a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest: a football team.
  • tear — the act of tearing.
  • teas — the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
  • teat — the protuberance on the breast or udder in female mammals, except the monotremes, through which the milk ducts discharge; nipple or mammilla.
  • tech — technical: The engineers sat together exchanging tech talk.
  • teco — (editor, text)   /tee'koh/ (Originally an acronym for "[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector"; later, "Text Editor and COrrector"]) A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody. With all the dialects included, TECO may have been the most prolific editor in use before Emacs, to which it was directly ancestral. The first Emacs editor was written in TECO. It was noted for its powerful programming-language-like features and its unspeakably hairy syntax (see write-only language). TECO programs are said to resemble line noise. Every string of characters is a valid TECO program (though probably not a useful one); one common game used to be predict what the TECO commands corresponding to human names did. As an example of TECO's obscurity, here is a TECO program that takes a list of names such as: Loser, J. Random Quux, The Great Dick, Moby sorts them alphabetically according to surname, and then puts the surname last, removing the comma, to produce the following: Moby Dick J. Random Loser The Great Quux The program is [1 J^P$L$$ J <.-Z; .,(S,$ -D .)FX1 @F^B $K :L I $ G1 L>$$ (where ^B means "Control-B" (ASCII 0000010) and $ is actually an alt or escape (ASCII 0011011) character). In fact, this very program was used to produce the second, sorted list from the first list. The first hack at it had a bug: GLS (the author) had accidentally omitted the "@" in front of "F^B", which as anyone can see is clearly the Wrong Thing. It worked fine the second time. There is no space to describe all the features of TECO, but "^P" means "sort" and "J<.-Z; ... L>" is an idiomatic series of commands for "do once for every line". By 1991, Emacs had replaced TECO in hacker's affections but descendants of an early (and somewhat lobotomised) version adopted by DEC can still be found lurking on VMS and a couple of crufty PDP-11 operating systems, and ports of the more advanced MIT versions remain the focus of some antiquarian interest. See also retrocomputing.
  • teed — Golf. Also called teeing ground. the starting place, usually a hard mound of earth, at the beginning of play for each hole. a small wooden, plastic, metal, or rubber peg from which the ball is driven, as in teeing off.
  • teek — well; in good health
  • teel — til.
  • teem — to abound or swarm; be prolific or fertile (usually followed by with).
  • teen — a teenager.
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