tarrying (en)

(verb) to delay or be tardy in acting or doing / (verb) to linger in expectation; wait / (verb) to abide or stay in or at a place

tax dumping (en)

aka tax competition (the practice of attracting international business by undercutting other countries' tax rates)

teleological (en)

the philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent intrinsic purpose, directive principle, or goal, irrespective of human use or opinion

telluric (en)

(adjective) of or relating to the earth; terrestrial / (adjective) being or relating to a usually natural electric current flowing near the earth's surface

telos (en)

(noun) an ultimate end (from Greek)

temblor (en)

(noun) earthquake / (verb) to shake involuntarily (as with fear or cold); shiver / (verb) to move, sound, pass, or come to pass as if shaken or tremulous / (verb) to be affected with great fear or anxiety

temerity (en)

(noun) unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition; rashness recklessness / (noun) a rash or reckless act

temporal fix (en)

one way of addressing overaccumulation in capitalism: put it into long-term investments that will improve productivity in the future

tendentious (en)

(adjective) marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view; biased

tenebrous (en)

(adjective) shut off from the light; dark murky / (adjective) hard to understand; obscure / (adjective) causing gloom

tenements (en)

a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments

tergiversation (en)

(noun) evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut statement; equivocation / (noun) desertion of a cause, position, party, or faith

tessitura (en)

(noun) the general range of a melody or voice part / (noun) the part of the register in which most of the tones of a melody or voice part lie

testeria (en)

(rare) Behavior exhibiting excessive irritability, aggression, or unreasonableness (from testes, coined as a feminist response to the use of hysteria)

Teutonic (en)

(noun) germanic

Thanatos (en)

(Greek mythology) the personification of death

thaumaturgy (en)

(noun) the performance of miracles / (noun) magic

the economy (en)

the area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents in a given geographical location

the Matthew principle (en)

aka the Matthew effect of accumulated advantage, from the Gospel of Matthew: "For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away"

the state (en)

according to Max Weber: the human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence within a given territory

theodicy (en)

(noun) defense of God's goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil

theophanies (en)

(noun) a visible manifestation of a deity

theosophical (en)

(noun) teaching about God and the world based on mystical insight / (noun) the teachings of a modern movement originating in the United States in 1875 and following chiefly Buddhist and Brahmanic theories especially of pantheistic evolution and reincarnation

There is no alternative (en)

a slogan refering to globalization popularised by Margaret Thatcher; means that the market economy is the only system that works, and that debate about this is over

Thermidorian (en)

a French political group active during the French Revolution, which launched a coup d'état against the leaders of the Jacobin Club in 1794