tend-, tendo-, ten-, teno-, tenot-, tenonto-, tens-, tent-, -tend, -tension, -tent, -tense, -tensive, -tentious

(Greek > Latin: to move in a certain direction; to stretch, to hold out; tension; as well as tendon, sinew)

tentaculocyst, tentaculocysts

1. One of the vesicular or cystic tentacles of a hydrozoan, representing a reduced and modified tentacle.
2. Modified tentacles that act as auditory organs and often have eye-spots on them.
3. Combined visual and auditory organs in the form of modified tentacles.

tentaculoid

A tentaculiform process in some diatoms.

tentaculum (s), tentacula (pl)

A feeler or tentacle, as when someone feels or perceives by the senses; especially, by touch.

The political characteristic of the early Greeks, and of the early Romans, too, is that out of the tentacula of a monarchy they developed the organs of a republic.

—Oxford English Dictionary

tentage

tentative

tentatively

tenter

tenterhook

One of the hooks that holds cloth on a tenter.

thermotensile

Pertaining to cohesive power as affected by temperature.

thermotension

Tension or strain applied to material at a specified temperature to increase or test its tensile power.

untended

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tend-, tendo-, ten-, teno-, tenot-, tenonto-, tens-, tent-, -tend, -tension, -tent, -tense, -tensive, -tentious

(Greek > Latin: to move in a certain direction; to stretch, to hold out; tension; as well as tendon, sinew)

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