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Word Unit: tephro- (Greek: ash-gray; volcanic material such as ash, dust, cinders, etc.).

Word Unit: tera- [TE ruh] (Greek: "monster, marvel"; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements).

Word Unit: terato-, terata-, terat-, tera- (Greek > Latin: marvel, omen, monster; malformation).

Word Unit: terce-, ter- + (Latin: third, thrice).

Word Unit: terg- + (Latin: to rub, polish, wipe).

Related "rub, rubbing; wear away; wipe" word families: frica-, frict-; tribo-; -tripsy; trit-.

Word Unit: term-, termin- (Latin: end, last, final, boundary).

Word Unit: termit- (Latin: Termes, a worm that eats wood, woodworm; literally, "the boring worm").

Word Unit: terr-, terra-, -ter + (Latin: earth, dry land, land).

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)": agra-; agrest-; agri-; agro-; argill-; choro-; chthon-; epeiro-; geo-; glob-; lut-; myso-; pedo-; pel-; rhyp-; soil-; sord-.

Word Unit: terri- (Latin: frightful; literally, causing terror).

Word Unit: territo-, territ- (Latin: district, domain).

English words derived from this Latin element are located in the terr-, -ter unit.

Word Unit: terti-, tern-, ter- + (Latin: third; three each; three times).

Word Unit: tessara-, tessera- + (Greek > Latin: four; cube; password).

Word Unit: testa-, test- + (Latin: shell, pot; skull).

Word Unit: testi-, test- + (Latin: a witness, one who stands by; testicle, one of the two oval male gonads supported in the scrotum by its tissues and suspended by the spermatic cord).

Word Unit: testud- + (Latin: tortoise, turtle; from earthern vessel).

Word Unit: tetan-, tetano-, tetani- (Greek: tension, especially a convulsive tension; muscle spasm or tetanus, an infectious disease characterized by muscle spasms).

Word Unit: tetart-, tetarto- + (Greek: one fourth).

Word Unit: tetra-, tetr- (Greek: four; a number used as a prefix).

Word Unit: text-, tex- + (Latin: to weave, woven; to structure, to make).

Word Unit: thalam-, thalamo- + (Greek > Latin: inner room, bedchamber; so called by Galen because chambers at the base of the brain were thought to supply animal spirits to the optic nerves; thalamus, the middle part of the diencephalon (the area in the center of the brain just above the brain stem that includes the thalamus and hypothalamus) which relays sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex of the brain).

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