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  • English Word Tetrarch Definition Four.
  • English Word Tetrarchate Definition A tetrarchy.
  • English Word Tetrarchical Definition Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy.
  • English Word Tetrarchies Definition of Tetrarchy
  • English Word Tetrarchy Definition The district under a Roman tetrarch; the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch; a tetrarchate.
  • English Word Tetraschistic Definition Characterized by division into four parts.
  • English Word Tetrasepalous Definition Having four sepals.
  • English Word Tetraspaston Definition A machine in which four pulleys act together.
  • English Word Tetraspermous Definition Having four seeds.
  • English Word Tetraspore Definition A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds.
  • English Word Tetrastich Definition A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines.
  • English Word Tetrastyle Definition Having four columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or colonnade.
  • English Word Tetrastyle Definition A tetrastyle building.
  • English Word Tetrasyllabic Definition Alt. of Tetrasyllabical
  • English Word Tetrasyllabical Definition Consisting of, or having, four syllables; quadrisyllabic.
  • English Word Tetrathecal Definition Having four loculaments, or thecae.
  • English Word Tetrathionate Definition A salt of tetrathionic acid.
  • English Word Tetrathionic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, a thionic derivative, H/S/O/, of sulphuric acid, obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid.
  • English Word Tetratomic Definition Consisting of four atoms; having four atoms in the molecule, as phosphorus and arsenic.
  • English Word Tetratomic Definition Having a valence of four; quadrivalent; tetravalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having four hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic.
  • English Word Tetravalence Definition The quality or state of being tetravalent; quadrivalence.
  • English Word Tetravalent Definition Having a valence of four; tetratomic; quadrivalent.
  • English Word Tetraxile Definition Having four branches diverging at right angles; -- said of certain spicules of sponges.
  • English Word Tetrazo- Definition A combining form (also used adjectively), designating any one of a series of double derivatives of the azo and diazo compounds containing four atoms of nitrogen.
  • English Word Tetrazone Definition Any one of a certain series of basic compounds containing a chain of four nitrogen atoms; for example, ethyl tetrazone, (C2H5)2N.N2.N(C2H5)2, a colorless liquid having an odor of leeks.
  • English Word Tetric Definition Alt. of Tetrical
  • English Word Tetrical Definition Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged.
  • English Word Tetricity Definition Crabbedness; perverseness.
  • English Word Tetricous Definition Tetric.
  • English Word Tetrinic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex ketonic acid, C5H6O3, obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- so called because once supposed to contain a peculiar radical of four carbon atoms. Called also acetyl-acrylic acid.