Portuguese to English Dictionary (Dicionário Português-Inglês)

Ruw

A specialized or regional term found in specific cultural and linguistic registers, often associated with traditional nomenclature or localized terminology.

Squassation

The act of shaking or being shaken violently.

Strokesm

An artistic or theoretical movement emphasizing the primacy of individual brush strokes or linear marks in visual creation.

Taciturnity

The state or quality of being reserved, uncommunicative, or habitually silent in speech.

Taxane

A member of a class of diterpenes originally derived from plants of the genus Taxus, widely used as antineoplastic agents in cancer chemotherapy.

Taxidermize

To prepare, stuff, and mount the skins of animals with lifelike effect.

Temps levé

A classical ballet step in which a dancer springs upward from one foot and lands on the same foot, with the other foot held in a specific position such as cou-de-pied.

Ter

Three times; used chiefly in medical prescriptions and musical notation to indicate that an action should be performed thrice.

Terpenoid

A large and diverse class of naturally occurring organic chemicals similar to terpenes, derived from five-carbon isoprene units, but containing oxygen heteroatoms or undergoing structural rearrangements.

Tessella

A small block of stone, tile, glass, or other material used in the construction of a mosaic.

Tessellated

Covered with a pattern of small squares or blocks resembling a mosaic.

Theocrat

A person who advocates or participates in the rule of a state by religious leaders.