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- diphthong
collapse - a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another related words >
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilation,
- bilabial,
- cacuminal,
- cerebral,
- check,
- consonant,
- continuant,
- dental,
- dissimilation,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- glide,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- manner of articulation,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- nasal,
- occlusive,
- palatal,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- plosive,
- prothetic vowel,
- retroflex,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- surd,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel
- phoneme
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- (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language related words >
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilation,
- bilabial,
- cacuminal,
- cerebral,
- check,
- consonant,
- continuant,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilation,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- glide,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- manner of articulation,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- nasal,
- occlusive,
- palatal,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- phone,
- plosive,
- prothetic vowel,
- retroflex,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- surd,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel
- macrobiotic
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- of or relating to the theory or practice of macrobiotics; "macrobiotic diet" related words >
- abiding,
- age-long,
- aged,
- ancient,
- antique,
- chronic,
- constant,
- continuing,
- diuturnal,
- durable,
- enduring,
- evergreen,
- hardy,
- immutable,
- intransient,
- inveterate,
- lasting,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- remaining,
- sempervirent,
- stable,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- tough,
- unfading,
- vital
- abiding,
- age-long,
- aged,
- ancient,
- antique,
- chronic,
- constant,
- continuing,
- diuturnal,
- durable,
- enduring,
- evergreen,
- hardy,
- immutable,
- inveterate,
- lasting,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- macrobiotic,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- remaining,
- sempervirent,
- stable,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- tough,
- unfading,
- vital
- abiding,
- age-long,
- aged,
- ancient,
- antique,
- chronic,
- constant,
- continuing,
- diuturnal,
- durable,
- enduring,
- evergreen,
- hardy,
- immutable,
- intransient,
- inveterate,
- lasting,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- macrobiotic,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- remaining,
- sempervirent,
- stable,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- tough,
- unfading,
- vital
- abiding,
- age-long,
- aged,
- ancient,
- antique,
- chronic,
- constant,
- continuing,
- diuturnal,
- durable,
- enduring,
- evergreen,
- hardy,
- immutable,
- intransient,
- inveterate,
- lasting,
- lifelong,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- macrobiotic,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- old,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- remaining,
- sempervirent,
- stable,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- tough,
- unfading,
- vital
- dragged out,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- drawn-out,
- elongated,
- extended,
- interminable,
- languishing,
- lasting,
- lingering,
- long,
- long-continuing,
- long-drawn,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-pending,
- long-winded,
- marathon,
- overlong,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- spun out,
- spun-out,
- straggling,
- strained,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- stretched-out,
- strung out,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- drawn-out,
- elongated,
- extended,
- interminable,
- languishing,
- lasting,
- lengthened,
- lingering,
- long,
- long-continuing,
- long-drawn,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-pending,
- long-winded,
- marathon,
- overlong,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- spun out,
- spun-out,
- straggling,
- strained,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- stretched-out,
- strung out,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilation,
- bassness,
- bilabial,
- cacuminal,
- cerebral,
- check,
- consonant,
- continuant,
- crescendo,
- deepness,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilation,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- fullness,
- glide,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- hollowness,
- intensity,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- loudishness,
- loudness,
- lowness,
- manner of articulation,
- mellowness,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- nasal,
- occlusive,
- palatal,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- plangency,
- plosive,
- prothetic vowel,
- resonance,
- retroflex,
- richness,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- sonant,
- sonorousness,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- surd,
- surge,
- surge of sound,
- swell,
- swelling,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- velar,
- vibrancy,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- volume,
- vowel
- prolonged
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- (of illness) developing slowly or of long duration related words >
- dragged out,
- dragging,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- drawn-out,
- elongated,
- extended,
- interminable,
- languishing,
- lasting,
- lengthened,
- lengthy,
- lingering,
- long,
- long-continuing,
- long-drawn,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-pending,
- long-winded,
- longsome,
- marathon,
- overlong,
- prolongated,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- spun out,
- spun-out,
- straggling,
- strained,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- stretched-out,
- strung out,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight
- dragged out,
- dragging,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- elongated,
- extended,
- interminable,
- languishing,
- lasting,
- lengthened,
- lengthy,
- lingering,
- long,
- long-continuing,
- long-drawn,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-pending,
- long-winded,
- longsome,
- marathon,
- overlong,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- spun out,
- spun-out,
- straggling,
- strained,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- stretched-out,
- strung out,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight
- de longue haleine,
- dragged out,
- dragging,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- drawn-out,
- elongated,
- endless,
- everlasting,
- extended,
- filled out,
- interminable,
- languishing,
- lasting,
- lengthened,
- lengthy,
- lingering,
- long,
- long-continuing,
- long-drawn,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-pending,
- long-spun,
- long-winded,
- longiloquent,
- longsome,
- marathon,
- never-ending,
- overlong,
- padded,
- prolix,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- pulled,
- spun out,
- spun-out,
- straggling,
- strained,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- stretched-out,
- strung out,
- talkative,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight,
- unrelenting,
- verbose,
- windy,
- wordy
- far cry
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- a disappointing disparity; "it was a far cry from what he had expected"
- distance estimated in terms of the audibility of a cry; "it's a far cry from here" related words >
- aphelion,
- apogee,
- contrariety,
- contrast,
- departure,
- deviation,
- difference,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disconformity,
- discongruity,
- discordance,
- discrepancy,
- discreteness,
- disparity,
- dissent,
- dissimilarity,
- dissonance,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversity,
- far piece,
- giant step,
- good ways,
- great distance,
- heterogeneity,
- inaccordance,
- incompatibility,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- inequality,
- inharmoniousness,
- inharmony,
- irreconcilability,
- long chalk,
- long haul,
- long range,
- long road,
- long run,
- long step,
- long way,
- mixture,
- nonconformity,
- odds,
- opposition,
- otherness,
- separateness,
- tidy step,
- unconformity,
- unlikeness,
- unorthodoxy,
- variance,
- variation,
- variegation,
- variety
- bombastic,
- de longue haleine,
- diffuse,
- endless,
- extended,
- filled out,
- flatulent,
- garrulous,
- glib,
- highfalutin,
- inflated,
- lengthy,
- long,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-spun,
- long-winded,
- longiloquent,
- loquacious,
- padded,
- prolix,
- protracted,
- redundant,
- rhetorical,
- spun-out,
- talkative,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unrelenting,
- verbose,
- voluble,
- windy
- a mile long,
- boring,
- colossal,
- de longue haleine,
- dragging,
- drawn-out,
- dull,
- elongate,
- elongated,
- endless,
- extended,
- extensive,
- far-flung,
- far-reaching,
- fargoing,
- filled out,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- garrulous,
- giant,
- gigantic,
- interminable,
- lank,
- lanky,
- leggy,
- long,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-legged,
- long-spun,
- long-winded,
- longiloquent,
- longish,
- longsome,
- loquacious,
- no end of,
- overlong,
- padded,
- prolix,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- rangy,
- sesquipedal,
- sesquipedalian,
- spun-out,
- statuesque,
- talkative,
- tall,
- tedious,
- unrelenting,
- verbose,
- windy,
- without end,
- wordy
- abiding,
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- age-long,
- aged,
- ancient,
- antique,
- chronic,
- constant,
- continuing,
- conventional,
- customary,
- diuturnal,
- durable,
- enduring,
- established,
- evergreen,
- fixed,
- folk,
- hallowed,
- handed down,
- hardy,
- heroic,
- hoary,
- immemorial,
- immutable,
- intransient,
- inveterate,
- lasting,
- legendary,
- long-established,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- macrobiotic,
- mythological,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- of the folk,
- oral,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- prescriptive,
- received,
- recognized,
- remaining,
- rooted,
- sempervirent,
- stable,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- time-honored,
- tough,
- traditional,
- tried and true,
- true-blue,
- understood,
- unfading,
- unwritten,
- venerable,
- vital,
- worshipful
- vocable
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- a word that is spoken aloud related words >
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- antonym,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilation,
- bilabial,
- cacuminal,
- cerebral,
- check,
- consonant,
- continuant,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilation,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- expression,
- free form,
- glide,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- homograph,
- homonym,
- homophone,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lexeme,
- lingual,
- linguistic act,
- linguistic form,
- liquid,
- locution,
- logos,
- manner of articulation,
- metonym,
- minimum free form,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monosyllable,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- nasal,
- occlusive,
- palatal,
- parasitic vowel,
- parol,
- parole,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- phonation,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- plosive,
- polysyllable,
- prothetic vowel,
- retroflex,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- sequence of phonemes,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speaking,
- speech act,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- string,
- surd,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- synonym,
- term,
- the spoken word,
- tongue,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- usage,
- utterance,
- utterance string,
- velar,
- verbalism,
- verbum,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- word,
- word of mouth
- abiding,
- aboveground,
- age-long,
- aged,
- alive,
- alive and kicking,
- among the living,
- ancient,
- animate,
- animated,
- antique,
- breathing,
- capable of life,
- chronic,
- conscious,
- constant,
- continuing,
- diuturnal,
- durable,
- endowed with life,
- enduring,
- enlivened,
- evergreen,
- existent,
- hardy,
- immutable,
- in the flesh,
- inspirited,
- instinct with life,
- intransient,
- inveterate,
- lasting,
- lifelong,
- live,
- living,
- long-lasting,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- macrobiotic,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- old,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- quick,
- remaining,
- sempervirent,
- stable,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- tenacious of life,
- tough,
- unfading,
- very much alive,
- viable,
- vital,
- vivified,
- zoetic
- deltoid,
- dragged out,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- drawn-out,
- elongated,
- extended,
- fan-shape,
- fan-shaped,
- fanlike,
- fanned,
- fanning,
- flabelliform,
- flared,
- flaring,
- interminable,
- languishing,
- lasting,
- lengthened,
- lingering,
- long,
- long-continuing,
- long-drawn,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-pending,
- long-winded,
- marathon,
- open,
- outspread,
- outstretched,
- overlong,
- patulous,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- splay,
- splayed,
- splaying,
- spraddled,
- spraddling,
- sprangled,
- sprangling,
- sprawling,
- sprawly,
- spread,
- spreading,
- spun out,
- spun-out,
- straggling,
- strained,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- strung out,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight,
- unfolded,
- wide-open,
- widespread
- abiding,
- age-long,
- aged,
- ageless,
- ancient,
- antique,
- ceaseless,
- chronic,
- coeternal,
- constant,
- continual,
- continuing,
- continuous,
- dateless,
- diuturnal,
- durable,
- endless,
- enduring,
- eternal,
- eterne,
- ever-being,
- ever-durable,
- ever-during,
- evergreen,
- everlasting,
- everliving,
- hardy,
- illimitable,
- immemorial,
- immutable,
- incessant,
- indestructible,
- infinite,
- interminable,
- intransient,
- inveterate,
- lasting,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- macrobiotic,
- never-ceasing,
- never-ending,
- nonstop,
- nonterminating,
- nonterminous,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- olamic,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- remaining,
- sempervirent,
- sempiternal,
- stable,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- timeless,
- tough,
- unceasing,
- unending,
- unfading,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unremitting,
- vital,
- without end
- chronic
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- being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering; "chronic indigestion"; "a chronic shortage of funds"; "a chronic invalid" related words >
- abiding,
- accepted,
- accustomed,
- age-long,
- aged,
- ancient,
- antique,
- confirmed,
- constant,
- continuing,
- customary,
- deep-dyed,
- deep-fixed,
- deep-rooted,
- deep-seated,
- deep-set,
- deep-settled,
- diuturnal,
- durable,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- enduring,
- established,
- evergreen,
- fast,
- fixed,
- habitual,
- habituated,
- hardened,
- hardy,
- immutable,
- implanted,
- incorrigible,
- inculcated,
- infixed,
- ingrained,
- instilled,
- intransient,
- inveterate,
- irreversible,
- lasting,
- lingering,
- long-established,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- macrobiotic,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- remaining,
- rooted,
- routine,
- sempervirent,
- set,
- settled,
- settled in habit,
- stable,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- thorough,
- tough,
- unfading,
- vital,
- wonted
- palatal
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- a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast')
- produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')
- relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index"; "the palatine tonsils" related words >
- accented,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilated,
- assimilation,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- check,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilated,
- dissimilation,
- dorsal,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- high,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- low,
- manner of articulation,
- mid,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monophthongal,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatalized,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- pharyngealized,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plosive,
- posttonic,
- prothetic vowel,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- soft,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
- bilabial
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- a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/
- of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips; "bilabial fricatives" related words >
- accented,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilated,
- assimilation,
- back,
- barytone,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- check,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilated,
- dissimilation,
- dorsal,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- high,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- low,
- manner of articulation,
- mid,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monophthongal,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- pharyngealized,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plosive,
- posttonic,
- prothetic vowel,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- soft,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
- pharyngeal
collapse
- of or relating to the throat; "pharyngeal fricatives" related words >
- accented,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilated,
- assimilation,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- check,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilated,
- dissimilation,
- dorsal,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- high,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- low,
- manner of articulation,
- mid,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monophthongal,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngealization,
- pharyngealized,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plosive,
- posttonic,
- prothetic vowel,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- soft,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
- glottal
collapse
- of or relating to or produced by the glottis; "glottal stops" related words >
- accented,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilated,
- assimilation,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- check,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilated,
- dissimilation,
- dorsal,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- high,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- low,
- manner of articulation,
- mid,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monophthongal,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- pharyngealized,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plosive,
- posttonic,
- prothetic vowel,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- soft,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
- vowel
collapse
- a speech sound made with the vocal tract open
- a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel related words >
- accented,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilated,
- assimilation,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- check,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilated,
- dissimilation,
- dorsal,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- high,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- low,
- manner of articulation,
- mid,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monophthongal,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- pharyngealized,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plosive,
- posttonic,
- prothetic vowel,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- soft,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocal,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
- labial
collapse
- relating to or near the female labium
- of or relating to the lips of the mouth; "labial stops" related words >
- accented,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilated,
- assimilation,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- check,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilated,
- dissimilation,
- dorsal,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- high,
- intonated,
- labialization,
- labiate,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- lipped,
- liquid,
- low,
- manner of articulation,
- mid,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monophthongal,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- pharyngealized,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plosive,
- posttonic,
- prothetic vowel,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- soft,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
- all jaw,
- blah,
- broken-record,
- candid,
- chatty,
- communicative,
- conversational,
- de longue haleine,
- drawn-out,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effusive,
- endless,
- everlasting,
- expansive,
- extended,
- filled out,
- flip,
- fluent,
- frank,
- gabby,
- garrulous,
- gassy,
- glib,
- gossipy,
- gregarious,
- gushy,
- harping,
- humdrum,
- interminable,
- invariable,
- jog-trot,
- languishing,
- lasting,
- lengthened,
- lengthy,
- lingering,
- long,
- long-continuing,
- long-drawn,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-pending,
- long-spun,
- longiloquent,
- loquacious,
- marathon,
- monotonous,
- multiloquent,
- multiloquious,
- newsy,
- overlong,
- overtalkative,
- padded,
- prolix,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- singsong,
- smooth,
- sociable,
- spun-out,
- stretched-out,
- talkative,
- talky,
- tedious,
- treadmill,
- uneventful,
- unrelenting,
- unvarying,
- verbose,
- voluble,
- windy,
- wordy
- sonant
collapse
- a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords related words >
- accented,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulate,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilated,
- assimilation,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- check,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilated,
- dissimilation,
- dorsal,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- high,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- low,
- manner of articulation,
- mid,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monophthongal,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oral,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- pharyngealized,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plosive,
- posttonic,
- prothetic vowel,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- soft,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- spoken,
- stop,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- viva,
- vocable,
- vocal,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
- phone
collapse
- (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language related words >
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- amplitude,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilation,
- auditory effect,
- auditory phenomenon,
- bilabial,
- buzz,
- cacuminal,
- call,
- call box,
- call up,
- cerebral,
- check,
- coin telephone,
- consonant,
- continuant,
- dental,
- desk telephone,
- dial,
- dial telephone,
- diphthong,
- dissimilation,
- earphone,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- extension,
- give a ring,
- glide,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- hang up,
- headphone,
- hold the phone,
- hydrophone,
- idiophone,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- listen in,
- loudness,
- make a call,
- manner of articulation,
- microphone,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- morphophoneme,
- mouthpiece,
- mute,
- nasal,
- noise,
- occlusive,
- optophone,
- palatal,
- parasitic vowel,
- pay station,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- phoneme,
- plosive,
- prothetic vowel,
- public telephone,
- push-button telephone,
- radiophone,
- radiotelephone,
- receiver,
- retroflex,
- ring,
- ring off,
- ring up,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- sonance,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- sound,
- sound intensity level,
- sound propagation,
- sound wave,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- surd,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- telephone,
- telephone booth,
- telephone engineering,
- telephone extension,
- telephone mechanics,
- telephone receiver,
- telephonics,
- telephony,
- transition sound,
- transmitter,
- triphthong,
- ultrasound,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- wall telephone
- long time
collapse
- a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years" related words >
- abiding
collapse
- unceasing; "an abiding belief"; "imperishable truths" related words >
- age-long,
- aged,
- ancient,
- antique,
- changeless,
- chronic,
- commorant,
- constant,
- continuing,
- continuous,
- diuturnal,
- durable,
- dwelling,
- enduring,
- evergreen,
- firm,
- fixed,
- frozen,
- hardy,
- immobile,
- immutable,
- in residence,
- indefatigable,
- intact,
- intransient,
- inveterate,
- inviolate,
- lasting,
- living,
- living in,
- lodging,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- macrobiotic,
- never-failing,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- quiescent,
- remaining,
- resident,
- residentiary,
- residing,
- rigid,
- sempervirent,
- solid,
- stable,
- static,
- stationary,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- sticking,
- sustained,
- torpid,
- tough,
- unaltered,
- unceasing,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- unchecked,
- undestroyed,
- undying,
- unfading,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unremitting,
- unshifting,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- vital,
- wholehearted
- time immemorial
collapse
- the distant past beyond memory related words >
- ancient history,
- ancient times,
- ancientness,
- and night,
- antiquity,
- day after day,
- distance of time,
- distant past,
- enduringly,
- for an age,
- for life,
- for long,
- hour after hour,
- interminably,
- long,
- long ago,
- long since,
- month after month,
- morning,
- noon,
- persistently,
- protractedly,
- remote age,
- since time began,
- the livelong day,
- till doomsday,
- undyingly,
- unendingly,
- year after year
- abiding,
- age-long,
- aged,
- amaranthine,
- ancient,
- antique,
- changeless,
- chronic,
- colorfast,
- constant,
- continuing,
- deathless,
- deep-dyed,
- diuturnal,
- double-dyed,
- durable,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- embalmed,
- enduring,
- ever-fresh,
- evergreen,
- everlasting,
- fadeless,
- fast,
- firm,
- fixed,
- frozen,
- hardy,
- immobile,
- immortal,
- immutable,
- imperishable,
- incorruptible,
- indelible,
- ingrain,
- ingrained,
- intact,
- intransient,
- inveterate,
- inviolate,
- lasting,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- macrobiotic,
- never-dying,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- quiescent,
- remaining,
- rigid,
- sempervirent,
- solid,
- stable,
- static,
- stationary,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- sustained,
- torpid,
- tough,
- unaltered,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- unchecked,
- undestroyed,
- undying,
- unfailing,
- unshifting,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- vital
- aeons ago,
- ages ago,
- anciently,
- and night,
- away back,
- day after day,
- early,
- enduringly,
- ever since,
- for an age,
- for life,
- for long,
- from away back,
- from time immemorial,
- hour after hour,
- in ancient times,
- in olden times,
- in times past,
- interminably,
- long,
- long ago,
- month after month,
- morning,
- noon,
- of old,
- of yore,
- persistently,
- protractedly,
- since,
- since long ago,
- since time began,
- some time ago,
- some time back,
- the livelong day,
- till doomsday,
- time immemorial,
- undyingly,
- unendingly,
- until now,
- year after year,
- years ago
- aeons ago,
- after,
- after all,
- after that,
- afterwards,
- ages ago,
- ago,
- as,
- as long as,
- as things go,
- back,
- back when,
- backward,
- because,
- behind,
- being,
- being as how,
- below,
- cause,
- considering,
- ever since,
- ex post facto,
- following,
- for,
- forasmuch as,
- from away back,
- from time immemorial,
- gone by,
- in that,
- in the aftermath,
- in the sequel,
- inasmuch as,
- insofar as,
- insomuch as,
- into the past,
- later,
- long since,
- next,
- parce que,
- reminiscently,
- retroactively,
- retrospectively,
- seeing,
- seeing as how,
- seeing that,
- since long ago,
- since time began,
- subsequent to,
- subsequently,
- then,
- thereafter,
- thereon,
- thereupon,
- therewith,
- until now,
- whereas
- eon
collapse
- (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
- an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons ago"
- the longest division of geological time related words >
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