Tooth Synonyms

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Synonyms for Tooth

fang
One of the long, pointed teeth with which meat-eating animals seize and tear their prey; canine tooth
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tusk
Any tooth or projection suggestive of a tusk
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saber-tooth
A dental process
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tush
A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
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artificial tooth
A dental process
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false tooth
A dental process
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grinder
A person who grinds; specif., one whose work is sharpening tools, etc.
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wisdom
Wisdom is the ability to know what is true or right, common sense or the collection of one's knowledge.
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ivory
A substance resembling ivory.
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snag
A rough, sharp, or jagged protuberance, as:
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edontate process
A dental process
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calcerous process
A dental process
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bony appendage
A dental process
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point
Lace worked by the needle.
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stub
A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
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projection
A system of intersecting lines, such as the grid of a map, on which part or all of the globe or another spherical surface is represented as a plane surface.
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dentate
Edged with toothlike projections; toothed. Used of leaves, such as those of birches.
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dentiform
Tooth-shaped
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(little tooth) denticle
A toothlike or tooth-shaped object
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bicuspid
Any of eight adult teeth with two-pointed crowns; premolar tooth
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canine
A sharp-pointed tooth on either side of the upper jaw and lower jaw, between the incisors and the bicuspids, having a long single root; a cuspid or (in the upper jaw) eyetooth
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cog
Any of a series of teeth on the rim of a wheel, for transmitting or receiving motion by fitting between the teeth of another wheel; gear tooth
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cuspid
A tooth with a single cusp; a canine.
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dent
The definition of a dent is a small indentation in a surface made by being hit, or a tooth like projection.
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dentation
Formation of teeth; toothed form.
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denticle
(Medicine) A pulp stone
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dentile
(Zoology) A small tooth, like that of a saw.
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eyetooth
A canine tooth of the upper jaw.
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incisor
A tooth adapted for cutting or gnawing, located at the front of the mouth along the apex of the dental arch.
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laniary
(Anatomy) A canine tooth.
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molar
Any of the teeth located toward the back of the jaws, having broad crowns for grinding food. Adult humans have 12 molars.
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serration
A series or set of teeth or notches.
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tine
(Obsolete) Trouble; distress; teen.
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premolar
A premolar tooth
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Words Related to Tooth

gear
A toothed wheel, disk, etc. designed to mesh with another or with the thread of a worm
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peg
The definition of a peg is a small, cylinder shaped piece used to fasten two things together or to plug a hole.
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root
Such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage.
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dentition
The type, number and arrangement of the normal teeth of an organism or of the actual teeth of an individual
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teeth
Appetite or taste for something specified: now only in sweet tooth
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jaw
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bone
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hair
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nail
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skin
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toenail
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nose
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beak
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throat
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skull
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cheek
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nipple
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ear
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testicle
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Synonym Study

  • Fang refers either to one of the long, sharp teeth with which meat-eating animals tear their prey or to the long, hollow tooth through which poisonous snakes inject their venom
  • Tusk refers to a long, pointed, enlarged tooth projecting outside the mouth in certain animals, as the elephant, wild boar, and walrus, and used for digging or as a weapon
  • Tooth is the general, inclusive word for the hard, bonelike structures in the jaws of most vertebrates used for biting and chewing
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Tooth Sentence Examples

  • Being outdoors all day has worked up a sweet tooth for me.

  • Finally, we have the family Rhinocerotidae, which includes the existing representatives of the group. In this family the dentition has undergone considerable reduction, and may be represented inclusive of all the variations, by the formula i a or a m a The first upper incisor, whenpresent, has an 430r2; PP antero-posteriorly elongated crown, but the second is small; when fully developed, the lower canine is a large forwardly directed tusk-like tooth with sharp cutting-edges, and biting against the first upper incisor.

  • Under the Florida treaty of 1819-21 a portion of the Red river was to be the northern boundary of Texas east of the tooth meridian, but as there are two branches of%the river meeting east of the meridian the enclosed territory (Greer county) was in dispute.

  • On the completion of each revolution of this toothed wheel (which, if the number of its teeth be 100, will comprise loo revolutions of the movable plate), a projecting pin fixed to it catches a tooth of another toothed wheel and turns it round, and with it a corresponding index which thus records the number of turns of the first toothed wheel.

  • For this purpose a resistance, say, of one ohm is placed in series with the lamp and a resistance of 100,000 ohms placed across the terminals of the lamp; the latter resistance is divided into two parts, one consisting of loon ohms and the other of 99,000 ohms. The potentiometer enables us to measure therefore the current through the lamp by measuring the drop in volts down a resistance in series with it and the potential difference of the terminals of the lamp by measuring the drop in volts down the tooth part of the high resistance of 100,000 ohms connected across the terminals of the lamp.

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