| CONTUBERNAL | • contubernal adj. (Rare) Living in close proximity (as though sharing a tent); intimate, familiar. • contubernal adj. (Historical) Of a relationship between a male and female slave: sexual in nature and somewhat similar… • CONTUBERNAL adj. living or messing together; intimate, also CONTUBERNYAL. |
| PROTUBERANT | • protuberant adj. Swelling or bulging outward. • PROTUBERANT adj. thrusting out from a surrounding or adjacent surface often as a rounded mass. |
| PROTUBERATE | • protuberate v. (Intransitive) To bulge outward, producing a rounded protuberance. • protuberate v. (Transitive, rare) To cause to bulge outward. • PROTUBERATE v. to bulge out. |
| TUBECTOMIES | • tubectomies n. Plural of tubectomy. • TUBECTOMY n. the surgical cutting or removal of the Fallopian tubes. |
| TUBERACEOUS | • tuberaceous adj. Belonging to family Tuberaceae of mycorrhizal fungi. • TUBERACEOUS adj. belonging to the Tuberaceae, edible fungi including truffles. |
| TUBERCULARS | • tuberculars n. Plural of tubercular. • TUBERCULAR n. someone affected with tubercles. |
| TUBERCULATE | • tuberculate adj. Having tubercles. • tuberculate adj. Tubercular. • TUBERCULATE adj. bearing tubercles, knobbly projections or excrescences, also TUBERCULATED. |
| TUBERCULINS | • tuberculins n. Plural of tuberculin. • TUBERCULIN n. a fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium. |
| TUBERCULISE | • tuberculise v. Alternative form of tuberculize. • TUBERCULISE v. to infect with tuberculosis, also TUBERCULIZE. |
| TUBERCULIZE | • tuberculize v. (Transitive) To infect with tuberculosis. • tuberculize v. (Intransitive) To undergo the changes, such as softening, that are characteristic of a tubercle. • TUBERCULIZE v. to infect with tuberculosis, also TUBERCULISE. |
| TUBERCULOID | • tuberculoid adj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a tubercule. • tuberculoid adj. Of or pertaining to tuberculosis. • TUBERCULOID adj. resembling tuberculosis esp. in the presence of tubercles. |
| TUBERCULOMA | • tuberculoma n. (Medicine) A lesion associated with tuberculosis. • TUBERCULOMA n. a slow-growing, circumscribed tuberculous lesion. |
| TUBERCULOSE | • tuberculose adj. Tubercular. • TUBERCULOSE adj. tuberculous, also TUBERCULOSED, TUBERCULOUS. |
| TUBERCULOUS | • tuberculous adj. Tubercular; having or relating to tuberculosis. • TUBERCULOUS adj. relating to tubercles, also TUBERCULOSE, TUBERCULOSED. |