Tennis court A tennis court is where a game of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net standing across the center.
	Tenor In music, a tenor is a male singer with a high vocal range. As an adjective, the term also describes the generally equivalent tonal register, as in the tenor clef or the tenor saxophone. Origin of the term The name "tenor" comes from the Latin word tenere, which means "to hold".
	Tenor drum A tenor drum is a low-pitched cylindrical drum, but slightly higher pitched than a bass drum. In a symphony orchestra's percussion section, a tenor drum is a low-pitched variant of the snare drum, although sometimes without snares and played with softer sticks. Under various names, the drum has been used by composers since the mid-19th century.
	Tenrecidae Tenrecidae is a family of mammals found on Madagascar and parts of western Africa. Tenrecs are widely diverse, resembling hedgehogs, shrews, opossums, mouse and even otters. They can occupy several environments including aquatic, arboreal, terrestrial and fossorial.
	Tensile strength Tensile strength measures the force required to pull something such as rope, wire, or a structural beam to the point where it breaks. Specifically, the tensile strength of a material is the maximum amount of tensile stress that it can be subjected to before failure. The definition of failure can vary according to material type and design methodology.
	Tent A tent is a shelter, consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over or attached to a frame of poles and/or ropes. Some tent styles are free-standing, while others are attached to the ground using guy ropes tied to stakes. Tents were first used as portable homes by nomadic peoples, but today, their main application is for recreational camping.
	Tent caterpillar Tent caterpillars are moderately sized caterpillars in the genus Malacosoma in the moth family Lasiocampidae. Species occur in North America, Mexico, and Eurasia. Twenty-six species have been described, six of which occur in North America. Some species are considered to have subspecies as well.
	Tent stitch Tent stitch is a small, diagonal embroidery stitch that crosses over the intersection of one horizontal and one vertical thread of needlepoint canvas forming a slanted stitch at a 45 degree angle. It is also known as Petit point and Needlepoint stitch and is one of the most basic and versatile stitches used in Needlepoint and other Canvas work embroidery.
	Tentacle Tentacles can refer to the elongated flexible organs that are present in some animals, especially invertebrates, and sometimes to the hairs of the leaves of some insectivorous plants. Usually, they are used for feeding, feeling and grasping. Anatomically, they work like other muscular hydrostats.
	Tentaculata Tentaculata is a class of comb jelly. A common feature in this class is to have two feathery tentacles, which can be retracted into specialised sheaths. In some species, the primary tentacles are reduced and they have smaller, secondary tentacles. The group includes the small, oval sea gooseberry, found on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
	Tenthredinidae The Tenthredinidae is the largest family of sawflies, with well over 6000 species worldwide. Larvae are typically herbivores, with occasional exceptions that are leaf miners, stem borers, or gall makers. The family has no easily-seen diagnostic features, though the combination of 5-9 antennal flagellomeres plus a clear separation of the first abdomen tergum from the metapleuron can reliably separate them.
	Tenzing Norgay Tenzing Norgay 1914 – 9 May 1986), often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer. He and Sir Edmund Hillary were the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953.
	Tepal In a general sense, a tepal is an element of the perianth of a flower, such as a petal or sepal. The perianth comprises the outer, sterile whorls of a flower. The term tepal is usually used when all segments of a perianth are of similar shape and color. This happens in the family Magnoliaceae and a number of other primitive flowering plants such as the Amborellaceae and Calycanthaceae.
	Tequila Tequila is a distilled alcoholic beverage made primarily in the area surrounding Tequila, Jalisco, a town in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, 65 km from Guadalajara, Jalisco. It is made from the blue agave tequilana weber plant , part of lily family, which is native to Mexico.
	Téra T?ra is a town in the Tillab?ri Region, Tera Department of Niger. It is situated 175 km north-west of the capital Niamey, close to the border with Burkina Faso. it is mainly inhabited by Sonhgai, Fulani, Gourmantche and Buzu ethnic groups. The majority of the population are farmers.
	Terazosin Terazosin is an alpha blocker used for treatment of symptoms of prostate enlargement. It also acts to lower the blood pressure, so is a drug of choice for men with hypertension and prostate enlargement. It works by blocking the action of adrenaline on smooth muscle of the urinary bladder and the blood vessel walls.
	Terbinafine Terbinafine hydrochloride is a synthetic allylamine antifungal. It is highly lipophilic in nature and tends to accumulate in skin, nails, and fatty tissues.
	Terence Rattigan Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan was one of England's most important 20th century dramatists. He was born in London, England of Irish Protestant extraction and educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Oxford, and his work to some extent reflects this privileged and intellectual background.
	Teriyaki Teriyaki is a Japanese cooking sauce for fish or meat which has been cut or sliced and broiling or grilled in a sweet soy sauce marinade. The word derives from the word teri, which refers to a shine or luster given by the sauce, and yaki, which refers to the cooking method.
	Termite Termites, sometimes known as white ants, are a group of eusocial insects usually classified at the taxonomic rank of Order , Isoptera. Termites feed on dead plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter or soil, and about 10% of the 4,000 odd species are economically important as pests that can cause serious structural damage to buildings, crops or plantation forests.
	Tern Terns are seabirds in the family Sternidae, previously considered a subfamily of the gull family Laridae. They form a lineage with the gulls and skimmers which in turn is related to skuas and auks. Terns have a worldwide distribution. Most terns were formerly treated as belonging into one large genus Sterna, with the other genera being small, but analysis of DNA sequences supports the splitting of Sterna into several smaller genera.
	Ternate Ternate is an island and town in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia, located off the west coast of the larger island of Halmahera. In the precolonial era, Ternate was the dominant political and economic power over most of the "Spice Islands" of Maluku. Today, Ternate is the largest town in the province of North Maluku.
	Terpene Terpenes are a large and varied class of hydrocarbons, produced primarily by a wide variety of plants, particularly conifers, though also by some insects such as swallowtail butterflies, which emit terpenes from their osmeterium. They are the major components of resin, and of turpentine produced from resin.
	Terpsichore In Greek mythology, Terpsichore was one of the nine Muses, ruling over dance and the dramatic Greek chorus. She lends her name to the word "terpsichorean" which means "of or relating to dance". She is usually depicted sitting down, holding a lyre, accompanying with her music to the dancers' choirs.
	Terra cotta Terra cotta is a waterproof ceramic. Its uses include vessels, water & waste water pipes and surface embellishment in building construction. The term is also used to refer to items made out of this material and to its natural, brownish orange color.
	Terraced house In architecture and city planning, a terrace(d), row house, or townhouse is a style of housing in use since the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls. The first and last of these houses is called an end terrace.
	Terrapene Terrapene is a genus of box turtles found in the eastern half of the United States and Mexico.
	Terrapene ornata Terrapene ornata is a species of North American box turtle sometimes referred to as the western box turtle or ornate box turtle.
	Terrestrial planet A terrestrial planet or telluric planet is a planet that is primarily composed of silicate Rock s. The term is derived from the Latin word for Earth, "Terra", so an alternate definition would be that these are planets which are, in some notable fashion, "Earth-like".
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	Terrier The terrier is a group of dog dog breed initially bred for hunting and killing vermin. While usually small, these dogs are brave and tough, and have a lively, energetic, and almost hyperactive personality. Most terrier breeds were developed in the British Isles. They were used to hunt fox, otter, badger, and rat both over and under the ground.
	Terrine A terrine is an earthenware cooking dish with a tightly fitting lid. By extension, the term also refers to food prepared in a terrine, mainly brawn and pts. Also a variant spelling of tureen, a large deep and usually rounded dish with a cover, used for serving soups and stews.
	Territorial waters Territorial waters, or a territorial sea, is a belt of coastal waters extending at most twelve nautical miles from the shore of a littoral state that is regarded as the sovereign territory of the state, except that foreign ships are allowed innocent passage through it.
	Terrorism Terrorism is the systematic use, or threatened use, of violence to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect Politics, Religion or Ideology change. Acts of terrorism are not intended to merely victimize or eliminate those who are killed, injured or taken hostage but rather to intimidate and influence the societies to which they belong.
	Terrycloth Also terry or towelling in British and frot or frott in many other languages. Terrycloth is a fabric with loops that can absorb large amounts of water. It can be manufactured by weaving or knitting, with weaving on a dobby loom the predominant commercial method, having two beams of longitudinal warp through which the filler or weft is fired laterally.
	Tés T?s is a village in Veszpr?m (county), Hungary. Category:Cities, towns and villages in Veszpr?m county hu:T?s nl:T?s sk:T?s
	Tesla coil A Tesla coil is a category of disruptive discharge transformer coils, named after their inventor, Nikola Tesla. Tesla coils are composed of coupled Electrical resonances. Nikola Tesla actually experimented with a large variety of coils and configurations, so it is difficult to describe a specific mode of construction that will meet the wants of those who ask about "Tesla" coils.
	Tessellation A tessellation or tiling of the plane is a collection of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps. One may also speak of tessellations of parts of the plane or of other surfaces. Generalizations to higher dimensions are also possible. The tessellation is perhaps most well-known today for its use in the art of M.C. Escher.
	Tessera A tessera is an individual tile in a mosaic, usually formed in the shape of a cube. In antiquity, mosaics were formed from naturally colored pebbles, but by 3rd century BC purpose-made tesserae were being used. Marble or limestone was cut into small cubes that were arranged into the required design.
	Test pilot Test pilots work on developing, evaluating and proving experimental aircraft. *Albert Scott Crossfield, Yeager's direct rival and the first pilot known to have reached Mach number 2 *John Cunningham, test-piloted the world's first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet
	Test tube A test tube, also known as a culture tube, is a piece of laboratory glassware composed of a finger-like length of glass tubing, open at the top, with a rounded U-shaped bottom. Often, the top features a flared lip.
	Tested Tested is a live album by punk rock band Bad Religion that was recorded live in United States, Canada, Germany, Estonia, Denmark, Italy and Austria in 1996 and released in 1997. The unique thing about his album is the way that it was recorded.
	Testicle The testicles, or testes , are the male gonads in animals. Male mammals have two testicles, which are often contained within an extension of the abdomen called the scrotum. In land mammals, with the exception of the elephant the testes are located outside of the body, as they are suspended by the spermatic cord and within the scrotum.
	Testicular cancer Testicular cancer is a type of cancer that develops in the testicles, a part of the male reproductive system. In the United States, about 8,000 to 9,000 diagnoses of testicular cancer are made each year. Over his lifetime, a man's chance of getting testicular cancer is roughly 1 in 250.
	Testimonial In promotion and advertising, a testimonial or endorsement consists of a written or spoken statement, sometimes from a public figure, sometimes from a private citizen, extolling the virtue of some product. The term "testimonial" most commonly applies to the sales pitches attributed to ordinary citizens, whereas "endorsement" usually applies to pitches by celebrity.
	Testosterone Testosterone is a steroid hormone from the androgen group. Testosterone is primarily secreted in the testis of males and the ovaries of females although small amounts are secreted by the adrenal gland. It is the principal male sex hormone and an anabolic steroid.
	Tét T?t is a town in Gyor-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary. Category:Cities, towns and villages in Hungary Category:Cities, towns and villages in Gyor-Moson-Sopron county Category:Palindromic place names eo:T?t it:T?t hu:T?t nl:T?t pl:T?t sk:T?t
	Tetherball Tetherball is a game for two opposing players. The equipment consists of a 10 ft, stationary metal pole, from which is hung a ball from a rope, or tether. The two players stand on opposite sides of the pole. Each player tries to hit the ball one way; one clockwise and counterclockwise, and one clockwise and counterclockwise.
	Tetra A tetra is any of a number of species of small South American freshwater fish belonging to the family Characidae and to its former subfamily Alestiidae. The characidae are distingushed from other fishes by the presence of a small adipose fin between the dorsal and caudal fins.
	Tetrachloroethylene Tetrachloroethylene Cl2C=CCl2 is a manufactured chemical compound that is widely used for the dry cleaning of fabrics and for metal-degreasing. It is also used to make other chemicals and is used in some consumer products. Other names for tetrachloroethylene include perchloroethylene, perc, PCE, and tetrachloroethene.
	Tetraclinis Tetraclinis is a distinct genus of evergreen Pinophyta tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, containing only one species, Tetraclinis articulata, also known as Sandarac. It is native to northwestern Africa in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, with two small outlying populations on Malta, and near Cartagena, Spain in southeast Spain.
	Tetrafluoroethylene Tetrafluoroethylene, also known as tetrafluoroethene or perfluoroethylene, is a chemical compound composed of only carbon and fluorine with the molecular formula C2F4. It is used primarily in the industrial preparation of polymers.
	Tetragonia Tetragonia is a genus of 50-60 species of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae, native to temperate and subtropical regions of the Southern Hemisphere, in New Zealand, Australia, southern Africa and South America. Common names include New Zealand Spinach, Kokihi, Warrigal Greens, Sea Spinach, Botany Bay Spinach, Duneweed, and Cook's Cabbage.
	Tetragrammaton The Tetragrammaton is the usual reference to the Hebrew language name for God, which is spelled : or . It is the distinctive personal name of the God of Israelite.
	Tetrahedron A tetrahedron is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, three of which meet at each vertex. A regular tetrahedron is one in which the four triangles are regular, or "equilateral," and is one of the Platonic solids. Like all convex set polyhedra, a tetrahedron can be folded from a single sheet of paper.
	Tetrahydrocannabinol Tetrahydrocannabinol, also known as THC, ?9-THC, ?9-tetrahydrocannabinol , ?-tetrahydrocannabinol , or dronabinol, is the main psychoactive substance found in the Cannabis plant. It was isolated by Raphael Mechoulam and Yechiel Gaoni from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel in 1964.
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	Tetrapod Tetrapods are vertebrate animals having four foot, legs or leglike appendages. Since amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs and mammals are all tetrapods, and even birds and snakes are tetrapods by descent, the term is only really useful in describing the earliest tetrapods, which radiated from the Sarcopterygii, or "lobe-finned" fishes, into air-breathing "amphibians" in the Devonian period.
	Tetri Tetri is a fractional monetary unit in the country of Georgia. It was put into circulation in 1995. The name tetri was adopted from the term describing golden, silver or copper coins known in ancient and medieval Georgia. 100 tetri = 1 Georgian lari.
	Tetris Tetris is widely known as one of the most popular computer puzzle game of all time . It was invented by Alexey Pazhitnov in 1985, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, during the days of the Soviet Union.
	Tetrodotoxin colspan="2" align=center bgcolor="#cccccc" | Tetrodotoxin |- |Formula || C11H17N3O8 |- |LD5050 || 5.0 - 8.0 g/kg |- |Molecular mass || 319.28 u |- | colspan=2 align=center | |} Tetrodotoxin is a potent neurotoxin, which blocks action potentials in nerves by binding to the pores of the voltage-gated ion channel in neuron cell membrane.
	Tettigoniidae The family Tettigoniidae contains the more than 6,800 species known in American English as katydids and in British English as bush-crickets. It is part of the suborder Ensifera and the only family in the superfamily Tettigonoidea. They are also known as long-horned grasshoppers, although they are more closely related to Cricket_s than to grasshoppers.
	Teucrium Teucrium is a genus of perennial plants, of the family Lamiaceae. These species are herbs, shrubs or subshrubs. They are native to the Mediterranean region. Common names for this genus include germanders. Teucrium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the Coleophora case-bearers C.
	Teutons This entry is about the Teutonic people, not to be confused with the Teutonic Knights. The Teutons or Teutones were mentioned as a Germanic tribe in early historical writings by Greece and Roman Empire authors such as Strabo and Marcus Velleius Paterculus.
	Tewkesbury Tewkesbury is a historic town in Gloucestershire, England. It stands at the confluence of the River Severn and the River Avon, Warwickshire, and also minor tributaries the Swilgate and Carrant Brook. It gives its name to the Tewkesbury. The name Tewkesbury comes from the name of a Saxon who founded a hermitage there in the seventh century, Theoc, and in the Saxon tongue was called Theocsbury.
	Texarkana Texarkana is a divided city in the southern United States with a combined population of 61,230, as of 2000 United States Census. The name "Texarkana" is a portmanteau, as the city is named for its occupancy of two U.S. states, Texas and Arkansas, as well as its reasonable proximity to Louisiana.
	Texas Texas is a U.S. state in both the Southern United States and Western United States region of the United States of America. The state name derives from a word in the Caddoan languages of the Hasinai: tysha, tecas, or tejas ; meaning "those who are friends," "friends," or "allies".
	Texas horned lizard The Texas horned lizard is one of 14 North America species of spikey-bodied reptile called horned lizard. The Texas species ranges from Colorado and Kansas to northern Mexico, and from southeastern Arizona to Louisiana and Arkansas.
	Texas Tortoise The Texas Tortoise, is one of four species of tortoise that are native to North America. Its range begins in southern Texas and extends southward into the Mexico states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas. The epithet berlandieri is in honor of the Belgian naturalist Jean Louis Berlandier, who worked for the Mexican government on one of the first biological surveys of Texas. As such, some sources refer to it as Berlandier's Tortoise.
	Text editor A text editor is software application used for editing plain text. It is distinguished from a word processor in that it does not manage document formatting or other features commonly used in desktop publishing. Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code.