A former U.K. silver coin; a U.K. bronze decimal coin worth two pennies.

the collective trade name for a type of plastic food-storage container with a translucent bottom and a close-fitting lid designed to seal the container tightly. It is in common use in the late 20th century and early 21st century in the U. S. It comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, suitable for storing a variety of items. Also used attributively.

a social gathering at which the host (or more typically hostess) entertains the guests, and provides them with an opportunity to order Tupperware. This was used as an effective sales strategy by the Tupperware manufacturer, and provided income to the host(ess) from commissions on sales.

A kind of warm cap winter wear, made from a knit bag with closed tapered ends by pushing one end within the other, thus making a conical cap of double thickness.

The urus.

A red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of turacou; whence the name. It contains nearly six per cent of copper.

Any one of several species of large brightly crested birds of the genus Turacus, native of Africa. They eat plantain and are remarkable for the peculiar green and red pigments found in their feathers.

A green pigment found in the feathers of the turacou. See Turacin.

One of the Turanians.

An extensive division of mankind including the Mongols and allied races of Asia, together with the Malays and Polynesians. A group of races or tribes inhabiting Asia and closely related to the Mongols.

The hare kangaroo.

A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by many Muslims of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.

A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.

A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus (Helvella esculenta syn. Gyromitra esculenta.).

A turban.

Wearing a turban.

A turban.

A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug.

An extensive group of worms which have the body covered externally with vibrating cilia. It includes the Rhabdoc/la and Dendroc/la. Formerly, the nemerteans were also included in this group.

One of the Turbellaria. Also used adjectively.

See Turpeth.

Not clear; having suspended matter that scatters light passing through; having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.

Turbidness.

In a turbid manner; with muddiness or confusion.

The quality or state of being turbid; muddiness; foulness.

A whirl; a vortex.

Of or pertaining to peat, or turf; of the nature of peat, or turf; peaty; turfy.

A turbinal bone or cartilage.

To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.

Whirling in the manner of a top.

The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.

A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.

A petrified shell resembling a member of the genus Turbo.

Like or pertaining to Turbo or the family Turbinidae.

A fossil turbo.

See Turpeth.

Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.

Sontaining or using a turbine; -- a combining form; as, turbojet.

An electric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven.

A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke. Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California. The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda. The trigger fish.

The quality or state of being turbulent; a disturbed state; tumult; disorder; agitation.

Turbulence.

Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.

In a turbulent manner.

A mode of speech peculiar to the Turks; a Turkish idiom or expression; also, in general, a Turkish mode or custom. Same as Turkism.

A member of a tribe of Turanians inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea.

A division of singing birds including the thrushes and allied kinds.

A genus of singing birds including the true thrushes.

A large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, at the table.

As much as a tureen can hold; enough to fill a tureen.

To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, or the border of a terrace.

Made of turf; covered with turf.

Quality or state of being turfy.

The act or process of providing or covering with turf.

A votary of the turf, or race course; hence, sometimes, a blackleg.

Destitute of turf.

A turfite; a votary of the turf, or race course.

Abounding with turf; made of, or covered with, turf.

Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors.

The act of swelling, or the state of being swollen, or turgescent.

Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.

The quality or state of being turgid.

Turgid.

A shoot or sprout from the ground.

The golden oriole.

Same as Turio.

Producing shoots, as asparagus.

A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey.

A knot of turbanlike form worked on a rope with a piece of small line.

Turkish.

Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.

An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The original form, owing to the positions assumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive. Similar dances are the bunny hug and grizzly bear, so called in allusion to the movements and the positions assumed by the partners in dancing.

Turkish.

Turkish.

Turquois.

Of or pertaining to Turkey or the Turks. The language spoken by Turks, esp. that of the people of Turkey.

A Turkish idiom or expression; also, in general, a Turkish mode or custom. Same as Turcism.

A turtle.

One of a body of native Algerian tirailleurs in the French army, dressed as a Turk.

A member of any race of the Turko-Iranian type.

Turquoise.

Same as Turcoman.

One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc.

A troop; a company.

See Tourmaline.

Of or pertaining to turmeric; resembling, or obtained from, turmeric; specif., designating an acid obtained by the oxidation of turmerol.

Turmeric oil, a brownish yellow, oily substance extracted from turmeric by ligroin.

To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.

A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc. A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp.

The act of coming forth; a leaving of houses, shops, etc.; esp., a quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike; -- opposed to lockout.

A disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy. See Gid.

A turnspit.

One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate; a defector to the enemy.

An act of refusing or of being refused; as, to get a turndown in an application for a job, a grant, etc.

See Turnip.

A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises.

A variety of monazite.

The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.

Tourney.

A building used as a school of gymnastics.

A division of birds including Turnix and allied genera, resembling quails in appearance but differing from them anatomically.

The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a flexure; a meander.

The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation.

The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.

Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.

Any one of numerous species of birds belonging to Turnix or Hemipodius and allied genera of the family Turnicidae. These birds resemble quails and partridges in general appearance and in some of their habits, but differ in important anatomical characteristics. The hind toe is usually lacking. They are found in Asia, Africa, Southern Europe, the East Indian Islands, and esp. in Australia and adjacent islands, where they are called quails (see Quail, n., 3.). See Turnicimorphae.

A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder.

Of or pertaining to a building, complex device, system, or industrial installation which is sold by a contractor only after it is ready for immediate occupation or use; fully functional and ready for use; -- used of complex systems of a type which often require preparation or installation by the user before being capable of functioning as intended; as, a turnkey ethylene production plant; a turnkey apartment building.

Admitting of being turned over; made to be turned over; as, a turnover collar, etc.

To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; to throw into a rounded form, as the path of a road.

A turntable.

A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun. The sunflower. A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia). The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora tinctoria.

One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office.

A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.

Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake.

A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.

A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio glaucus syn. Jasoniades glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail. See Illust. under Swallowtail.