Words Starting with "T"

A traditional fish trap made of woven bamboo, used in the Jambi region.

A tree with tough and strong wood, excellent for construction; a species of meranti (Shorea collina).

To press or apply pressure on something with one's hand or body part; to push.

Force that presses or pushes, either physically (as in blood pressure or air pressure) or psychologically/socially (as in pressure or coercion).

The stress that occurs on the final syllable of a word in pronunciation.

The magnitude of hydrostatic pressure within the aorta blood vessel.

The pressure generated by the impact of a projectile or bomb explosion on a target.

The pressure exerted by blood against the walls of blood vessels as a result of heartbeats.

An abnormal condition in which blood pressure is at an excessively high level; hypertension.

Diastolic pressure is the blood pressure in the arteries when the heart ventricles are at rest, normally around 80 mmHg in adults.

Dynamic stress is stress on a speech sound produced with greater energy, resulting in increased loudness, often called stress accent.

Phonemic stress is stress placed on a syllable within a word such that a change in its position alters the word's meaning or grammatical category.

Hydrostatic pressure is the pressure exerted by a fluid at rest on the walls of its container due to the weight of the fluid.

Intravascular pressure is the hydrostatic pressure within blood vessels exerted by the blood on the vessel walls.

Tissue pressure: hydrostatic pressure within body tissue, typically measured in physiological or pathological contexts.

Sentence stress: the emphasis or accent placed on the most important word in a sentence to highlight its meaning.

Word stress: the prominent emphasis on a syllable when a word is uttered in isolation, outside of a sentence context.

Primary stress: the strongest emphasis in a four-level stress system, as in the pronunciation of compound words.

Critical pressure: the pressure at the critical point of a substance, where liquid and vapor phases become indistinguishable.

Changes or conditions in the environment that affect a particular organism, potentially triggering adaptive responses or biological stress.

An emotional state of a person under pressure from various factors that may lead to mental disorders, often manifested in behavior or psychological symptoms.

Changes in stress patterns that differentiate phrases from compounds in English, related to morphophonemic rules.

Total pressure at a point in a fluid, equal to the sum of gauge pressure and local atmospheric pressure.

Prominence of a particular part of speech due to pitch difference from surrounding segments, functioning to distinguish meaning or emphasize.

Difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure felt as a pulse beat.

Stress arising from population exceeding land carrying capacity, often leading to migration.

Pressure measured in muscles in a relaxed state with a specific lung volume.

Region of low atmospheric pressure relative to surroundings, often associated with stormy weather.

Stress (accent) that falls on the initial syllable of a word.

Blood pressure in the arteries when the heart ventricles contract and pump blood out; in normal adults approximately 120 mmHg.