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tunnusluku
Acronym of personal identification number.
tunnusmerkillinen
Serving as, or relating to a symbol, emblem or illustration of a type.
tunnusmerkki
A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior.
tunnusomainen
Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
tunnussana
(military, security) A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.
tunnussävel
(music, broadcasting) A song which accompanies a television or radio program, usually as an intro or outro.
tunnustaa
(transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.
tunnustaja
One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
tunnustaminen
The act of acknowledging
tunnustautua
(transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity. [from 16th c.]
tunnustelemalla havaittava
(medicine) That can be detected by palpation.
tunnustella
(intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
tunnusteltava
(medicine) That can be detected by palpation.
tunnustelu
(often in plural) An approach or proposal made to initiate communication, establish a relationship etc. [from 15th c.]
tunnustettu
Generally accepted, recognized or admitted.
tunnustus
The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
tunnustuskunta
(countable, religion) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a subdivision of a religion.
tunnustuspalkinto
A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.
tuntea
(intransitive) To search by sense of touch.
tuntea empatiaa
(intransitive) to feel empathy for another person
tuntea mielipahaa
(transitive) To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
tuntea myötätuntoa
(intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
tuntea vahingoniloa
To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.
tunteellinen
Relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions.
tunteen palo
Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
tunteenpurkaus
A sudden, often violent expression of emotion or activity.
tunteeseen perustuva
Determined by strong emotion rather than purely logical reasoning.
tunteeton
(figurative) Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
tunteettomasti
In a manner that shows no emotion.
tunteettomuus
The condition of being insensitive
tunteilla
To display or express (emotions, mental states, etc.) openly, particularly while acting, and especially in an excessive manner. [from early 20th c.]
tunteisiin vetoaminen
(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.
tunteisiin vetoava
Appealing to or arousing emotion.
tunteita herättävä
Appealing to the emotions.
tunteita kuohuttava
Appealing to the emotions.
tuntematon
An unknown quantity or unknown value.
tuntemattomana
Without revealing one's identity.
tuntemus
The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.
tunteva
Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.
tunti
(geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.
tuntija
A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste.
tuntipalkka
A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
tuntoaisti
The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
tuntoelin
A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.
tuntolevy
(by extension, informal) The identification tag worn around the neck by military personnel.
tuntomerkit
(legal) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, lawsuit or other proceeding, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance
tuntomerkki
Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
tuntosarvet
(figurative) The faculty of intuitive astuteness.
tuntosarvi
An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
tuntu
A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
tuntua
(transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
tuntuma
A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
tunturi
(archaic, _, outside, _, Northern England, Scotland) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.
tuntuvasti
Significantly; to a degree worth considering.
tuo
(demonstrative) The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
tuoda
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
tuoda (maahan)
(transitive) To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
tuoda esiin
(transitive) To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize. [from 1865]
tuoda hankaluutta
To bother; to discomfort.
tuoda ilmi
(transitive) To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.
tuoda jäälle
(transitive, ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
tuoda julki
(transitive) To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.
tuoda keskusteluun
To bring up as a subject for debate.
tuoda maihin
(transitive) To bring to land.
tuoda markkinoille
(transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
tuoda mieleen
(transitive) To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another).
tuoda mukanaan
(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
tuohi
(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
tuohia
To strip the bark from; to peel.
tuohikanootti
A birch-bark canoe.
tuohtunut
Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.
tuoja
A person or a thing which brings something.
tuokio
(colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. [from 1780.]
tuokkonen
(UK, Irish, Commonwealth) A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries.
tuoksahdus
An odour (usually unpleasant) carried briefly through the air.
tuoksahtava
Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
tuoksu
A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.
tuoksua
(intransitive, copulative) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
tuoksukki
A plant of the genus Ambrosia. These weeds are particularly noted for producing pollen that triggers hay fever.
tuoksumatara
An aromatic perennial plant, formerly used as a strewing herb, Galium odoratum (formerly Asperula odorata), with small white flowers.
tuoksuva
Soothing or fragrant.
tuoli
An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
tuolinistuin
The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
tuolla
In that place; there (at some distance).
tuolta
(formal) From there, from that place or from that time.
Tuomainen
A common surname originating as a patronymic.
Tuomala
A common surname originating as a patronymic.
tuomari
(US, law) The chief judge of a court of chancery (that is, one exercising equity jurisdiction).
Tuomarien kirja
(book of the bible) The seventh book of the Old Testament, and a book of the Hebrew Tanakh.
tuomarikunta
The collective body of judges, justices, etc.
tuomarin asema
The office or authority of a judge; jurisdiction. [from 16th c.]
tuomarineuvosto
A group of judges in a competition.
tuomarinpöytä
(law) The seat where the judges sit in court.
tuomaristo
(law, figuratively) The people who decide on the verdict, collectively; the judiciary.
tuomarit
(law, figuratively) The people who decide on the verdict, collectively; the judiciary.
tuomaroida
To act as a referee.
Tuomas
An Apostle, best remembered for doubting the resurrection of Jesus.
tuomio
A judgment or sentence.
tuomioistuin
The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
tuomiokirkko
The principal church serving as the office (and some as place of residence) of an archdiocese's/a diocese's archbishop/bishop which is symbolized by an episcopal throne known as the cathedra.
tuomion lukeminen
(legal) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
tuomiopäivä
A huge disaster; a cataclysmic event; destruction or ruin of large scope and scale. [from 19th c.]
tuomiovalta
Judges collectively; a court or group of courts; the judiciary. [from 16th c.]
tuomita
(transitive) To decide, rule on, or settle as a judge.
tuomita (kadotukseen)
To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
tuomita syylliseksi
(transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
tuomitseminen
A condemnation.
tuomitseva
Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
tuomittava
Deserving of condemnation.
tuomittu
(legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
Tuomo
A en given name of biblical origin, popular since the 13th century.
tuonela
Hell.
tuoni
The locale of the spirit world or afterlife, whether deemed to be situated below the world of the living or not.
tuonne
From one position or location to another, horizontally or approximately so, or along a route visualised as "across".
tuonpuoleinen
A conscious existence after death; a supernatural life that follows one's natural life, in some worldviews.
tuonti
(uncountable) The practice of importing.
tuopillinen
(countable) A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.
tuoppi
(countable) A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.
tuore
Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.
tuoremehu
(countable) A beverage made of juice.
tuoretuote
(in the plural) Food that does not keep for long.
tuossa
(location) In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).
tuosta vain
On the spur of the moment.
tuota
Used in hesitant speech, or to express uncertainty.
tuotannollinen
Used in manufacturing.
tuotanto
All the creative or academic works produced by someone.
tuotantoerä
A production quantity (such as in a factory).
tuotantokausi
(North America, Australia, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.
tuotantokyky
The maximum that can be produced.
tuotantolaitos
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. [from 17th c.]
tuotantotunneli
(mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
tuote
Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.
tuotekehittäjä
A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.
tuotekehitys
(uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
tuotelinja
A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself. [from early 19th c.]
tuotemerkki
The symbolic identity, represented by a name and/or a logo, which indicates a certain product or service to the public.
tuotos
(by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
tuottaa
To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
tuottaa häpeää
(transitive) To disgrace, or bring shame upon.
tuottaa kuonaa
(transitive, Ireland, slang) To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
tuottaa pettymys
(transitive) To sadden or displease (someone) by underperforming, or by not delivering something promised or hoped for.
tuottaa vaivaa
To bother; to discomfort.
tuottaja
(ecology) Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.
tuottamaton
Not productive; useless; fruitless.
tuottaminen
(geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
tuottamus
(legal) Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart.
tuottava
Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
tuottavuus
The state of being productive.
tuotteet
(uncountable) Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
tuotteliaisuus
The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient.

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