Words that start with T

Tis forTabby

Tabby is a pattern made up of stripes, spots and swirls that is usually seen on cats. It helps them to camouflage so they can sneak up on their prey.

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A table is a large, flat piece of furniture with long legs. You usually sit around a table on chairs and eat dinner. Small tables are often put near sofas so people can put their coffee cups on them. Most tables are made out of wood, with either wood or metal legs. Tables can be round or square.

Tis forTable tennis

Sports

Table tennis, also called ping pong, is a game where two or four people holding paddles bounce a light, hollow ball across a table with a net in the middle of it. The idea is to only bounce the ball once on each side of the net, and if you miss the ball and can't hit it back, your opponent gets a point.

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Tis forTablecloth

List of table setting items

A tablecloth is a piece of fabric or plastic that you put over your table. Tablecloths can be either for protection or just for decoration.

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Tis forTablet

Medical

Tablets, also called pills or capsules depending on their shape, are small objects that you swallow.
Tablets usually have something like medicine in them that makes you better. People most often take pills to stop a headache, or to stop them being sick.

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Tis forTaco

Food

Tacos are a Mexican dish made from a wheat or corn tortilla wrapped around a filling. The fillings are usually spiced ground beef, lettuce, tomato, onion and cheese. Some kinds of taco have a hard shell rather than a soft one.

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Tis forTadpole

Amphibians, Babies

Tadpoles are the larval stage of frogs, and spend their lives in water. They hatch from eggs, and gradually change into frogs. Tadpoles cannot breathe outside of water, they have gills like fish.

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Tis forTag

A tag is a small piece of paper or cloth attached to something else. Tags usually have information about the thing they are attached to.

The tag in the picture is a price tag.

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Tis forTahini

Food

Tahini is a paste made from ground up sesame seeds. It is a major ingredient in hummus.

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Tis forTail

Body parts

Most animals have tails - people and apes don't. A tail is just an extension of the animal's backbone. Animals use their tails to communicate - dogs wag their tails when they are happy, cats wave their tails when they are angry and put their tails straight up to say "hello".
Animals like cows and horses use their tails to swat flies away. The kangaroo has a big, heavy tail that it uses to balance itself when it hops.

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Tis forTalc

Gems & minerals

Talc is the softest stone there is. It can be ground up and turned into talcum powder. The chemical composition of talc is hydrated magnesium silicate. Talc is typically found as a translucent grey-green stone.

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Tis forTalk

Verbs, Types of communication

Talking is making words with your mouth and tongue. When babies are born they cannot talk, and they gradually learn how to talk in the first few years of their life.

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Tis forTall

Adjectives, Sizes

Something is tall if the top of it is much higher up than the top of similar things. The person wearing the scarf on the left of the picture is taller than the other person in the picture. Giraffes and basketball players are tall.

The opposite of tall is short.

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Tis forTalon

Body parts

A talon is a claw, particularly on a bird of prey such as a hawk or eagle.

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Tis forTamarind

Plants, Food

Tamarind is a tropical tree that grows fruit in pods. Tamarinds are used as an ingredient in a number of sauces, chutneys and in numerous other dishes.

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Tis forTambourine

Musical words

A tambourine is a percussion instrument. It is usually round or a half-circle, with pairs of small metal jingles called zils around the edge. It usually has a drum surface too.
You can play the tambourine by just shaking it to make it jingle, by hitting it against your leg, by tapping it with your hand or many other ways.

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Tis forTame

Adjectives, Verbs

An animal is tame if it is not afraid of people, and is friendly to them. Tame animals generally won't try to hurt people or run away.
The opposite of tame is wild, and a similar word to tame is domesticated.

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Tis forTan

Colors

Tan is a shade of reddish-brown.

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Tis forTangerine

Citrus fruit

Tangerines are a very sweet citrus fruit closely related to the mandarin. They are easy to peel and break into segments.

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Tis forTangle

Verbs

You tangle long, thin things together when you twist and entwine them around each other in a chaotic manner. Things that are tangled together are hard to get apart.

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