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

thetic (en)

(adjective) constituting or beginning with a poetic thesis

Thoreauvian (en)

refering to Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American writer and philosopher, or his writings; his best known book is "Walden," which praised nature, simplicity, and the importance of living an authentic, deliberate life

thrall (en)

(noun) a servant slave; bondman / (noun) serf / (noun) a person in moral or mental servitude / (noun) a state of servitude or submission / (noun) a state of complete absorption / (verb) enthrall enslave

threnodic (en)

(relating to) a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.

thymotic (en)

related to the thymos: that area of the soul where feelings of pride, indignation, shame etc are located (in Platonic philosophy)

titivate (en)

(verb) to make smart or spruce / (verb) smarten spruce

Tobin tax (en)

a proposed tax on international financial transactions, especially speculative currency exchange transactions; suggested by Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Laureate economist James Tobin

tocsin (en)

an alarm bell or signal (from Old French)

Tomás de Torquemada (en)

a Castilian Dominican friar, and the first Grand Inquisitor in Spain's movement to homogenize religious practices with those of the Catholic Church in the late 15th century, otherwise known as "The Spanish Inquisition

topoi (grk)

(noun, from Greek) plural of topos; used in the context of classical Greek rhetoric to mean "topic"