4-letter words starting with te
- 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.
- teer — to plaster or cover with (clay, earth, etc)
- tees — 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.
- teff — a grass, Eragrostis tef, native to northern Africa, where it is cultivated for its edible seeds.
- tefl — TEFL is the teaching of English to people whose first language is not English, especially people from a country where English is not spoken. TEFL is an abbreviation for 'teaching English as a foreign language'.
- tegg — Animal Husbandry. a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn. the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- tegu — a large lizard of the genus Tupinambis, native to South America
- teil — Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- tejo — Tagus.
- tel- — tele-
- tel. — Tel. is a written abbreviation for telephone number.
- tela — a seaport in N Honduras.
- tele — television.
- tell — to give an account or narrative of; narrate; relate (a story, tale, etc.): to tell the story of Lincoln's childhood.
- tema — a port in SE Ghana on the Atlantic: oil-refining. Pop: 160 000 (2005 est)
- temp — temporary (def 2).
- ten- — teno-
- tena — Koyukon.
- tend — to attend by action, care, etc. (usually followed by to).
- tene — Archaeology. designating the period or culture of the late Iron Age typified by the structural remains, swords, tools, utensils, etc., found at La Tène. Compare Hallstattan.
- tens — a cardinal number, nine plus one.
- tent — a probe.
- tepa — a tree native to South America
- tepe — (in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- tepp — a colorless to amber, hygroscopic, poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5) 4 P 2 O 7 , used as an insecticide and as a rodenticide.
- ter- — three, third, or three times
- term — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
- tern — a set of three.
- tesl — TESL is the teaching of English to people who live in an English-speaking country, but whose first language is not English. TESL is an abbreviation for 'teaching English as a second language'.
- tess — a female given name, form of Theresa.
- test — Zoology. the hard, protective shell or covering of certain invertebrates, as echinoderms or tunicates.
- tete — a city in W Mozambique, on the Zambezi River.
- teth — the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- tets — the Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- teut — Teuton
- tewa — a member of a cluster of pueblo-dwelling North American Indian peoples of New Mexico and Arizona.
- text — the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, newspaper, etc., as distinguished from notes, appendixes, headings, illustrations, etc.
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