tsade ['(t)sä-də, -dē] -n

(variant of sadhe)

  1. the 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

tsar ['zär, '(t)sär] -n

(variant of czar)

  1. emperor
  2. the ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution
  3. one having great power or authority
    • a banking czar

TSE -abbr

  1. transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

tset·se fly ['(t)set-sē-, 'tet-, '(t)sēt-, 'tēt-] -n

  1. any of several dipteran flies (genus Glossina) that occur in Africa south of the Sahara and include vectors of human and animal trypanosomes called also tsetse

TSgt -abbr

  1. technical sergeant

TSH -abbr

  1. thyroid-stimulating hormone

Tshi·lu·ba [chi-'lü-bə] -n

  1. a Bantu language used as a lingua franca in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Tshirt ['tē-,shərt] -n, adj

  1. a collarless short-sleeved or sleeveless usu. cotton undershirt
  2. an outer shirt of similar design

Tsim·shi·an ['chim-shē-ən, '(t)si-] -n

  1. a member of a group of American Indian peoples of west central British Columbia and southern Alaska
  2. the family of closely related languages spoken by the Tsimshian peoples

tsk [a dental click; often read as 'tisk] -interj

  1. used to express disapproval

tsktsk ['tisk-,tisk] -vt

  1. to express disapproval of by or as if by uttering tsk
  2. to tsk-tsk someone or something

tsp -abbr

  1. teaspoon; teaspoonful

TSP -abbr

  1. trisodium phosphate

TSS -abbr

  1. toxic shock syndrome

tsu·na·mi [(t)su̇-'nä-mē] -n, adj

  1. a great sea wave produced esp. by submarine earth movement or volcanic eruption : tidal wave

tsu·ris ['tsü-ris, 'tsu̇r-is] -n

  1. trouble, distress

tsu·tsu·ga·mu·shi disease [,(t)süt-sə-gə-'mü-shē-, ,tüt-] -n

  1. scrub typhus

Tswa·na ['(t)swä-nə] -n

  1. a member of a Bantu-speaking people of Botswana and the Republic of South Africa
  2. the language of the Tswana people