Words that start with T

Tree kangaroos are very distant relatives of the kangaroo. They have adapted to life in trees, eating leaves, fruit and bark. Tree kangaroos are endangered, and are only found in the rainforests in mountainous areas of far north-eastern Australia, New Guinea and some islands in the same area.

To trek is to travel somewhere, but slowly and with difficulty. The man in the picture is trekking through some mountains.

A trench is a long, narrow hole. Trenches are often dug to lay electrical cabling or water pipes.
'Trench' can also be used as a verb, as in "we need to trench from the street to the house".

A triangle is a shape with three sides. The triangle in the picture is orange.

A trick might be something special you can do, that entertains other people. The dolphins in the picture are performing tricks.
A trick is also a sneaky way of doing something, by making people think you are doing one thing when in fact you are doing something else. For example, you might trick someone into giving you something by telling them a lie.

Trifle is a dessert made from layers of fruit, jello, custard and sponge cake, often topped with cream.

To tidy up or remove the excess from something, particularly around the edges, for example trimming a hedge.

Tripe is the stomach of a cow or other ruminant animal. Tripe is a type of offal.

A troll is an ugly mythical creature that lives in a cave or under a bridge.

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. It is made from a long tube of brass looped around, and like all brass instruments is played by buzzing your lips into the mouthpiece. Trombones have a slide that you work with one arm. Pulling it out makes the length of brass tubing longer, and changes the note that the trombone plays.