Words Starting TE & Ending N

• a material used to coat cooking utensils and in industrial applications where sticking is to be avoided

• A covering or integument, usually referring to a thin layer or membrane in an organism.

• An integument such as the inner membrane of the coat of a seed.

• A covering such as the thin layer of bone in the roof of the middle ear of mammals.

• In insects such as winged cockroaches and locusts, the tegmina are the stiff, membranous fore wings; in many species they are not primarily used for flight, but serve as protective covering for the delicate hind wings, which are the main organs of flight. Note that the more heavily armoured fore-wings of most beetles are called elytra, not tegmina.

• a figure of a man used as a supporting column

• one of the bottle-shaped pins used in bowling

• (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense

• the physical condition of being stretched or strained

• a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)

• (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body

• feelings of hostility that are not manifest

• the action of stretching something tight

• a piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential