name for the sea that anciently lay between Eurasia and Africa-Arabia, coined 1893 by German geologist Eduard Suess, from Tethys, name of a Greek sea goddess, sister and consort of Oceanus.
tetchy
tete
tete-a-tete
tether
tetherball
Tethys
Teton
tetra-
tetracycline
tetrad
tetragrammaton