Tonsillitis Tonsillitis is an inflammation of the tonsils in the mouth and will often, but not necessarily, cause a sore throat and fever. Symptoms may include pain in the tonsil area and inability to swallow and/or painful swallowing, white spots may also appear on the tonsils.
	Tonsure Tonsure is the practice of some Christianity churches and Hindu temples of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem. There were three forms of tonsure known in the seventh and eighth centuries: (1) The Oriental, which claimed the authority of Paul of Tarsus and consisted of shaving the whole head.
	Tony Blair Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, known as Tony Blair, is the outgoing Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency of Sedgefield in North East England.
	Tool A tool or device is a piece of equipment that provides a mechanical advantage in accomplishing a physical task. The most basic tools are simple machines. For example, a crowbar simply functions as a lever. The further out from the pivot point, the more force is transmitted along the lever.
	Toolbox A toolbox, also known as a tool chest, varies with the craft of the owner. The purpose of the toolbox is to organize, carry, and protect the owner's tools of trade.
	Toona Toona is a genus of five or six species of trees in the mahogany family Meliaceae, native from eastern China south to India, southeast Asia and northern Australia. *Toona australis - Australian Redcedar *Toona calantas - Kalantas or Philippine Mahogany
	Tooth Teeth are structures found in the jaws of many vertebrates. The primary function of teeth is to tear and chew food, and in some animals, particularly carnivores, for fighting and, or defense. The roots of the teeth are covered by gingivas. The protective tooth enamel covers the teeth and helps prevent #Caries.
	Tooth and Nail Tooth and Nail is a 1984 album by heavy metal music band Dokken. The album has sold over a million copies in United States and overall, 3 million copies worldwide. The album reached #49 on the Billboard 200 United States album chart. This album is often called a breakthrough album for Dokken as it was the first of the platinum trio of studio releases and the live album Beast from the East.
	Tooth enamel Tooth enamel is the hardest and most highly mineralized substance of the body , and with dentin, cementum, and Pulp is one of the four major tissues which make up the tooth. It is the normally visible dental tissue of a tooth and must be supported by underlying dentin.
	Tooth fungus Tooth fungi are a relatively small polyphyly group of fungi whose mushroom bears its spores on a hymenium - a layer of "mother cell" - that grow on the outside of tooth-like spines, or "teeth". These spines can either grow in branches from the side of the host or on the underside of the cap.
	Toothbrush The toothbrush is an instrument used to hygiene tooth, consisting of a small brush on a handle. Toothpaste, often containing fluoride, is commonly added to a toothbrush to aid in cleaning. Toothbrushes are offered with varying textures of bristles, and come in many different sizes and forms.
	Toothed whale The toothed whales form a suborder of the cetaceans. As the name suggests, the suborder is characterized by having teeth. Toothed whales are active hunters, feeding on fish, squid, and in some cases marine mammals.
	Toothpaste Toothpaste is a paste or gel used to clean and improve the aesthetic appearance and health of teeth. It is almost always used in conjunction with a toothbrush. Toothpaste use can promote good oral hygiene: it can aid in the removal of dental plaque and food from the teeth, it can aid in the elimination and/or masking of halitosis, and it can deliver active ingredients such as fluoride to prevent tooth and gum disease.
	Toothpick A toothpick is a piece of wood or other substance such as plastic used to remove debris from the teeth, usually after a meal. A toothpick usually has one or two sharp ends to insert between teeth.
	Toothwort Toothwort is a small genus of five to seven species of flowering plants, native to temperate Europe and Asia. They are parasites on the roots of other plants, and are completely lacking chlorophyll. They are usually placed in the family Orobanchaceae, but some recent evidence suggests they should be transferred to the Scrophulariaceae.
	Top A top, or spinning top, is a children's toy that can be spun on an axis, balancing on a point. The top is one of the oldest recognizable toys found on archaeology sites. Besides toys, tops have also historically been used for gambling and prophecy. Some role-playing gamers still use tops to augment dice in generating randomized results.
	Top Banana Top Banana was a zany platform computer game with strange parallax scrolling which was important because without it, the foreground would not have stood out from the background. The heroine, KT, made her way through psychedelic platforms, throwing hearts to disable enemies. It was produced by Hex/Psycore for the Acorn Archimedes in 1991, ported to the Amiga in 1992.
	Top hat A top hat or top-hat is a kind of tall, flat-crowned, broad-brimmed hat worn by men throughout the 1800s and early 1900s but which are now usually only worn with morning dress or evening dress. The first top hat was made by John Hetherington in 1797, however, the hats only became popular in the 1820s.
	Topaz Topaz is a mineral, a Silicate minerals of aluminium and fluorine with the chemical formula Al2SiO42. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic system and its crystals are mostly prismatic terminated by pyramidal and other faces, the basal pinacoid often being present.
	Topi The Topi, or Tsessebe, as it is called in Southern Africa, is a Savanna and floodplain antelope found in Sudan, Chad, Kenya, Tanzania, and Southern Africa. Topi stand over a metre tall at the shoulder and weigh 85 to 165 kilograms. Their coats are a rusty red colour with black legs, chest and a black strip running from forehead to the tip of the nose.
	Topiary Topiary is the art of creating sculptures in the medium of clipped shrubs and sub-shrubs. The word derives from the Latin word for an ornamental landscape gardener, topiarius, creater of topia or "places", a Greek word that Romans applied also to fictive indoor landscapes executed in fresco.
	Topic Topic can refer to: * A subject of discussion, see On-topic * In linguistics, the Topic is the part of a proposition that is being talked about. * Topics, a work by Aristotle * An XML topic * Topic, a brand of milk chocolate confectionery bar with hazelnuts in soft nougat and smooth caramel
	Topmast The mast of traditional sailing ships were not single spars, but were constructed of separate sections or masts, each with its own rigging. The topmast is one of these. The topmast is semi-permanently attached to the upper front of the lower mast, at the top. Its shrouds run to the edges of the top, rather than to the sides of the hull, though long shrouds leading well aft to the hull, more in the manner of backstays, are sometimes seen.
	Topography Topography is a general term in geography, derived from the Greek language "topos" and "graphein", and refers to the lie of the Landform, or various other characteristics of Physical geography in a region; this is usually expressed in terms of the elevation, slope, and orientation of terrain features.
	Topology Topology is a branch of mathematics concerned with spatial properties preserved under bicontinuous deformation ; these are the topological invariants. When the discipline was first properly founded, in the early years of the 20th century, it was still called geometria situs and analysis situs .
	Toponymy Toponymy is the taxonomy study of toponyms, their origins and their meanings. The word is derived from the Greek language t?p?? topos, place, and o??a onoma, name. It is itself a branch of onomastics, the study of names of all kinds. A toponym is a name of a locality, region, or some other part of Earth's surface or an artificial feature.
	Topsail A topsail is a sail set above another sail; on square-rigged vessels further sails may be set above topsails.
	Topside Topside is a variation on sole based tricks done in the sport of Aggressive Inline Skating. When a normal sole based trick is done in Aggressive Skating the sole plates of the skate are resting/grinding on top of the object. So if viewed from the end on, the skater would appear like they were standing on the object, with the feet positioned vertically.
	Toque A toque is a type of hat with a narrow brim or no brim at all. They were popular from the 13th to the 16th century in Europe, especially France.
	Torah Torah is a Hebrew language word meaning "teaching," "instruction," or "law". It is the central and most important document of Judaism revered by Jews through the ages. It is written in Hebrew, the oldest Jewish language. It is also called the Law of Moses .
	Torch Originally, a torch was a portable source of fire used as a source of light, usually a rod-shaped piece of wood with a rag soaked in pitch or some other flammable material wrapped around one end. Torches were often supported in sconces by brackets high up on walls, to throw light over corridors in stone structures such as castles or crypts.
	Torch Song Torch Song was a United Kingdom synthpop and dance band of the early 1980s consisting of William Orbit, Laurie Mayer and Grant Gilbert. The band were signed to IRS Records and at one point featured Orbit with vocalist Peta Nikolich, as Mayer decided to concentrate on songwriting within the project.
	Tormentor Tormentor is a Hungary black metal band which was formed in 1987. The band split-up in 1991 but became active again in 1999.
	Tornado A tornado is a violently rotating column of air which is in contact with both a cumulonimbus cloud cloud base and the surface of the earth. Tornadoes can come in many shapes, but are typically in the form of a visible condensation funnel, with the narrow end touching the earth.
	Toroid A toroid is a doughnut-shaped object whose surface is a torus. Its annular shape is generated by revolving a circle around an axis external to the circle. A coil of insulated wire in a doughnut or pretzel shape is an example of a toroidal object. These are used as inductors in electrical network such as low frequency transmitters and receivers because they possess higher inductance and carry greater current than similarly constructed solenoids.
	Toronto Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario.
	Torpedinidae The family Torpedinidae contains 23 species of electric rays or torpedoes, flat chondrichthyes that produce electricity as a defense and feeding mechanism. They are slow-moving bottom-dwellers. The largest species is the Atlantic torpedo, Torpedo nobiliana, which can grow to a weight of 90 kilograms and deliver a 220-volt electric shock.
	Torpedo A modern torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled projectile that operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. Torpedoes are weapons that may be launched from submarines, surface ships, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, unmanned naval mines and naval fortresses.
	Torpedo boat A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast navy ship designed to launch torpedoes at larger surface ships. They were created to counter battleships and other large, slow and heavily armed ships by speed and agility.
	Torpedo tube A torpedo tube is a device for launching torpedo in a horizontal direction. There are two main types of torpedo tube: *Those designed to operate below water level, as fitted to submarines. *Deck-mounted torpedo launchers as used on surface ships. Some authorities prefer to reserve the term torpedo tube for submarine type torpedo tubes, referring to deck-mounted units as torpedo launchers, but the more general use has long been widespread among both lay people and arms manufacturers.
	Torpids Torpids is one of two bumps race held at Oxford University yearly, the other being Eights Week. Over 130 men's and women's crews race for their colleges in 6 men's divisions and 5 women's divisions; almost 1200 participants in total. The racing takes place on the Isis_(river) usually in the 7th week of Hilary term from Wednesday to Saturday.
	Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso was an Italy poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata , in which he describes the imaginary combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem .
	Torque In physics, torque can informally be thought of as "rotational force". The SI units for Torque are newton metres although centinewton meters , foot-pounds force , inch pounds and inch ounces are also frequently used expressions of torque. The symbol for torque is tau, the Greek alphabet tau.
	Torque wrench A torque wrench is a wrench used to precisely set the torque of a fastening such as a Nut or Screw#Bolt. It is usually in the form of a socket wrench with special internal mechanisms. A torque wrench is used where the tightness of screws and bolts is crucial. It allows the operator to measure the torque applied to the bolt so it can be matched to the specifications.
	Torreón Torren is a city in the Mexico States of Mexico of Coahuila. In 2003 it had an estimated population of 517,000 people, reaching 915,000 in the Laguna Metropolitan Area, considering Gmez Palacio and Lerdo in the state of Durango.
	Torres Strait The Torres Strait is a body of water which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea. It is approximately 150 kilometre wide at its narrowest extent. To the south is Cape York Peninsula, the northernmost continental extremity of the Australian state of Queensland.
	Torrey Pine The Torrey Pine, also called "Del Mar Pine" and "Soledad Pine", is a broad, open-crowned pine growing to 8-15 m tall, with 20-35 cm long leaves in groups of five. The cones are stout and heavy, typically 8-15 cm long and broad, and contain large, hard-shelled, but edible, pine nuts.
	Torreya Torreya is a genus of Pinophyta comprising of five or six species, treated in either the Cephalotaxaceae, or in the Taxaceae when that family is considered in a broad sense. Four are native to eastern Asia, the other two native to North America. They are small to medium sized evergreen trees reaching 5-20 m, rarely 25 m, tall.
	Torreya californica Torreya californica is species of Pinophyta endemic to California, occurring in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. It is an evergreen tree growing to 15-25 m tall, with a trunk diameter of 0.5-1 m; the crown is conical in overall shape, with whorled branches.
	Torreya taxifolia Torreya taxifolia, commonly known as the Florida Torreya, or popularly and unofficially as the "Stinking Cedar", is a rare and endangered species found in the southeastern United States. It is the biological type of the genus Torreya, the species and genus being named after the botanist John Torrey.
	Torrid Torrid is a chain store owned by Hot Topic. According to the company, their goal is to provide fashionable clothes for plus-size women and teenage girls. Torrid currently stocks sizes 12 to 26 and advertises that their clothing is not mass-produced and that they stock "hard to find" items.
	Torso Torso is an anatomical term for the greater part of the human body without the head and limbs. It is also referred to as the trunk. The torso includes the chest, back, and abdomen.
	Tortellini Tortellini is a ring-shaped pasta; they are typically stuffed with a mix of meat and parmesan cheese, although other stuffings are popular in the Po Valley. Originally from the Italy region of Emilia, they are usually served in broth, with cream, or with a rag or similar sauce.
	Tortilla The Spanish language term tortilla can be used to mean several different dishes, depending on the area. In Mexico and Mesoamerica terms, a tortilla is a kind of leavening bread, generally made from maize and with the introduction of wheat by the Europe, also with wheat flour.
	Tortilla chip A tortilla chip is a snack food made from corn tortillas, which are cut into wedges and then fried. Corn tortillas are made of maize, vegetable oil, salt and water. Although invented in Los Angeles in the late 1940's, tortilla chips are considered to be a form of Mexican food, called totopos in Spanish.
	Tortricidae The Tortricidae or tortrix moths are a family of the Lepidoptera. The typical resting porture is with the wings folded back producing a rather rounded profile. It is a large family with over 6,000 species described. Many of these are economically important pests, including: *Summer fruit tortrix moth (Adoxophyes orana)
	Torture Torture is any act by which severe pain, whether physical or Psychology, is intentionally inflicted on a person as a means of intimidation, deterrence, revenge, punishment, sadism, or information gathering. It can be used as an interrogation tactic to extract confessions.
	Torus Geometry In geometry, a torus is a doughnut-shaped surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three dimensional space about an axis coplanar with the circle, which does not touch the circle. Examples of tori include the surfaces of doughnuts and inner tubes.
	Tory The term Tory applied to the Tory Party, the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party . To this day it is often used as a shortened form for conservatisms. Its usage also applied to the pre-1965 Scottish Unionist Party which operated independently of, although in association with, the Conservative Party in England and Wales.
	Toss bombing Toss bombing is a method of bombing where the attacking aircraft pulls upwards and releases its bomb load, giving the bomb additional forward velocity. Although this might seem the direct opposite to Dive_bomber, where the plane pitches downwards to aim at its target, toss bombing is often performed with a short dive before the bomber raises its nose and releases its bomb.
	Totem A totem is any natural or supernatural being or animal which watches over or assists a group of people, such as a family, clan or tribe. Totems support larger groups than the individual person. In kinship and descent, if the apical ancestor of a clan is nonhuman, it is called a totem.
	Totem pole Totem Poles are monumental sculptures carved from great trees, typically Western Redcedar, by a number of Indigenous peoples of the Americas cultures along the Pacific northwest coast of North America. The word "totem" is derived from the Algonkian word Dodem, roughly translating into "a spiritual non-human or animal guide."
	Toucan Toucans are near passerine birds from the neotropics. They are brightly marked and have enormous colourful bills and inhabit Tropical America. The family includes six genera and about 40 species. Toucans range in size from 18 to 63 cm . Their body is short and thick and the tail is rounded.
	Touch typing Touch typing is typing using the sense of touch rather than sight to find the keys. Touch typing usually places the eight fingers in a horizontal row along the middle of the keyboard and has them reach for other keys. Most computer keyboards have a raised dot on either the F/J keys or the D/K keys so that touch-typists can feel them when their fingertips are over the correct home row.
	Touchdown A touchdown is the primary method of scoring in American football and Canadian football, in which the ball carrier causes the football to break the plane of the end zone, or an eligible receiver catches a forward pass in the end zone, thus earning 6 points for his team. The scoring team is also awarded the opportunity for an extra point or a two-point conversion.
	Touched Touched is the first novel by Scott Campbell; it was published in 1996. Touched is a story about the child sexual abuse of Robbie, a twelve-year-old boy and raises issues about the motivation and behaviour of pedophilia. The book uses multiple narratives, each of the four sections being narrated by a key person in the story - the boy's mother, the boy himself, the man who child sexual abuse the boy, and the wife of the child molester.
	Touchscreen Touchscreens, touch screens, touch panels or touchscreen panels are display overlays which have the abiliy to display and receive information on the same screen. The effect of such overlays allows a display to be used as an input device, removing the keyboard and/or the mouse as the primary input device for interacting with the display's content.
	Toulon Toulon is a city in southern France and a large military harbor on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Cte-d'Azur rgion in France, Toulon is the prfecture of the Var dpartement in France, in the former provinces of France of Provence.
	Toulouse Toulouse is a commune of France in southwest France on the banks of the Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. With close to 1.1 million inhabitants in 2006, the Toulouse metropolitan area is the second largest in southern France and one of the fastest growing in Europe.
	Toupee A toupee is a hairpiece worn by men to cover partial baldness.