Portuguese to English Dictionary (Dicionário Português-Inglês)

Dieresis

A diacritical mark (two dots ¨) placed over a vowel to indicate that it is pronounced in a separate syllable rather than as part of a diphthong.

Integument

A natural outer covering or investment, such as skin, hair, scales, feathers, or a cuticle of an organism.

Prevaricate

To speak or act in an evasive way; to quibble or stray from the truth.

Pulk

A small, low-slung, boat-shaped sledge used in Scandinavia and polar regions for transporting goods, equipment, or children over snow.

Ruw

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

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.

Ter

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

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.

Theriomorphism

The attribution of animal forms or characteristics to a god or deity, commonly found in polytheistic religions.