tropical year
— Noun
– English
~ the time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes
two-year-old
— Adjective
– English
~ two years of age
two-year
— Adjective
– English
~ having a life cycle lasting two seasons; "a biennial life cycle"; "parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals"
third-year
— Adjective
– English
~ used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student"
three-year-old
— Adjective
– English
~ three years of age
Thirty Years' War
— Noun
– English
~ a series of conflicts (1618-1648) between Protestants and Catholics starting in Germany and spreading until France and Denmark and Sweden were opposing the Holy Roman Empire and Spain
top fermenting yeast
— Noun
– English
~ brewer's yeast used in top fermentation of ale
tomato yellows
— Noun
– English
~ a disease of tomato plants
thank you
— Noun
– English
~ a conversational expression of gratitude
Thomas Young
— Noun
– English
~ British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
third battle of Ypres
— Noun
– English
~ battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
Tai Yuan
— Noun
– English
~ a branch of the Tai languages
Tappan Zee Bridge
— Noun
– English
~ a cantilever bridge across the Hudson River
transit zone
— Noun
– English
~ a six million square mile area that includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific Ocean; includes the principal routes used by drug smugglers
tidal zone
— Noun
– English
~ an area subject to tidal action
time zone
— Noun
– English
~ any of the 24 regions of the globe (loosely divided by longitude) throughout which the same standard time is used
Torrid Zone
— Noun
– English
~ the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate