British English to American English: Letter T
Tabour Tabor
Tailback Traffic jam/back-up
Takeaway Takeout
Take exercise Do exercise
Tantalise Tantalize
Tap Faucet or tap
Tap (outdoors) Spigot
Tarmac ™ Asphalt
Tea towel Dish towel/rag
Tea trolley Tea cart
Teat Nipple on baby bottle
Telegraph pole Telephone pole
Telephone box Telephone booth
Telephone socket Telephone Jack
Temp = temporary worker hired in through an agency
Tenement = rented room/apt Tenement = low-quality apartment building
Tenner = a 10 denomination banknote
Tennis shoes Sneakers
Term/trimester Semester
Terrace house Row house
Terraces (sports ground) Bleachers (sports ground)
Terrorise Terrorize
Theatre Theater
Theatregoer Theatergoer
Theorise Theorize
Third-party insurance Liability insurance
Threesome Three-way
Thrive, Thrived, Thrived Thrive, Throve, Thriven
Through Thru (road signs)
Tick n. Check mark n.
Tick v. (a box) Check v. (a box)
Ticket tout Scalper
Tights Pantyhose
Till Cash drawer
Timber Lumber
Timber yard/merchants Lumber yard
Time-table Schedule
Tin Can
Tingeing Tinging
Tip Dump
Tipper lorry Dump trunk
Titbit Tidbit
To Let For Rent
Toll motorway Turnpike
Toffee apple Candy apple
Tomato sauce Ketchup
Ton = 2,240lb = 1016.96kg -
Tonne = 1000kg ton/metric ton
Torch Flashlight
Tot Infant
Totalled Totaled
Totalling Totaling
Toxaemia Toxemia
Toy-Boy =
Trade union Labor union
Train guard Train conductor
Traffic lights Stop lights/stop signals
Transport Transportation
Transport costs Transportation costs
Tranquillise Tranquilize
Tranquillising Tranquilizing
Tram Streetcar, trolley
Tramline
Trapezium Trapezoid
Traumatise Traumatize
Travelled Traveled
Traveller Traveler
Travelling Traveling
Treacle Molasses
Treble Triple
Trebling Tripling
Tredecillion BE n+78 zeros Tredecillion AE n+42 zeros
Tremor Tremor
Trillion BE 10pwr18 Trillion 10pwr12
Trivialise Trivialize
Truncheon Nightstick /billyclub (infml)
Trolley (shopping) Cart (shopping)
Trousers Pants
Truncheon Night stick
Tsar Czar
Tuckshop =
Tumour Tumor
Tunnelled Tuneled
Tunnelling Tunneling
turnover = revenue turnover = staff leaving
Turn-ups (trousers) Cuffs (pants)
Twingeing Twinging
Tyrannise Tyrannize
Tyre Tire
24-hour clock Military time
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