rounded vowel
labial
vocalic
umlaut
labial consonant
labiodental
labiodental consonant
enclitic
mid-central
osthya
series
close-mid
semi-voiced
diphthong
dental
labialise
dental consonant
labialize
alveolar
round
lingual
alveolar consonant
guttural consonant
oral vowel
open-mid
pharyngeal consonant
vṛddhi
central vowel
epiglottal
guttural
pharyngeal
open
resonant
rounding
nonround
blade
phonoarticulatory
nucleus
unrounded vowel
phonics
interdental
prephonetic
heterorganic
vocoid
raise
vowel point
front
back
emphatic
closed syllable
palatal
nasalization
equisonant
euphony
singleton
semivowel
tense vowel
feminine
retroflex
vowelish
front vowel
anaptyxis
glide
vowel harmony
open vowel
contoid
long
low vowel
initial
masculine
final
coronal
vocalize
palatalise
advanced tongue root
consonantic
velar consonant
lenis
velar
palatalize
vocalise
vowelise
ablauting
systole
vowelize
homorganic
vowelly
inrounding
labial stop
postdental
supradental
stave
vocalic
enclitic
mid-central
close-mid
semi-voiced
open-mid
open
nonround
phonoarticulatory
interdental
prephonetic
heterorganic
front
back
equisonant
feminine
vowelish
masculine
consonantic
labial
vowelly
round
pharyngeal
rounded vowel
labial
umlaut
labial consonant
labiodental
labiodental consonant
osthya
series
diphthong
dental
dental consonant
alveolar
lingual
alveolar consonant
guttural consonant
oral vowel
pharyngeal consonant
vṛddhi
central vowel
epiglottal
guttural
pharyngeal
resonant
rounding
blade
nucleus
unrounded vowel
phonics
vocoid
vowel point
emphatic
closed syllable
palatal
nasalization
euphony
singleton
semivowel
tense vowel
retroflex
front vowel
anaptyxis
glide
vowel harmony
open vowel
contoid
long
low vowel
initial
final
coronal
advanced tongue root
velar consonant
lenis
velar
ablauting
systole
homorganic
inrounding
labial stop
postdental
supradental
stave
labialise
labialize
round
raise
vocalize
palatalise
palatalize
retroflex
vocalise
vowelise
vowelize
noun
- A vowel so assimilated.
- The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic lūsiz > Old English lȳs(i) > Modern English lice).
- The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel
- An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.
- A diaeresis.
verb
noun
noun
- A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.
- A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals
- A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
- An unranked taxon.
- A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
- The sequence of partial sums ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿa_i of a given sequence aᵢ.
- A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
- A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.
verb
- pronounce with rounded lips
- wind around; move along a circular course
- make round
- attack in speech or writing
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
- express as a round number
- become round, plump, or shapely
adv
adj
adj
noun
- a charge of ammunition for a single shot
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order)
- the activity of playing 18 holes of golf
- the usual activities in your day
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- the course along which communications spread
- a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic)
- a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- an outburst of applause
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- any circular or rotating mechanism
adj
- Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
- Not fulfilled.
- Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
- Having a free variable.
- Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot.
- Public
- Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow.
- With open access, of open science, or both.
- Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
- Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
- In current use; mapped to part of memory.
- Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
- Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
- Able to have something pass through or along it.
- not covered, showing what is inside
- To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
- Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated.
- To be in a position allowing fluid to flow.
- Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
- Able to be accessed (physically).
- That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
- Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended.
- Receptive.
- Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
- Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement.
- Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
- Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
- Whose first and last vertices are different.
noun
- Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
- Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
- The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message.
- A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing.
- A sports event in which anybody can compete.
verb
- To move to a position allowing fluid to flow.
- To bring up, broach.
- To make accessible to customers or clients.
- To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
- To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
- To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- To become open.
- To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
- To enter upon, begin.
- To turn on; to switch on.
- To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
- To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
- To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers.
- To start (a campaign).
- To begin conducting business.
- To reveal one's hand.
- To load into memory for viewing or editing.
noun
- The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
- A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
- The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
- A homosexual, usually male.
- An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down interrogation mark.
- The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
- One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
- The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
- A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
- A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
- The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
- A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
- The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
- The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- Thin plate, foil.
- The principal rafters of a roof.
- A blade server.
- An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
- A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
- Synonym of knifeblade
- The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
- A sword or knife.
verb
noun
- The central part of a syllable, most commonly a vowel.
- A large membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells which contains genetic material.
- The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled.
- An initial part or version that will receive additions.
- The massive, positively charged central part of an atom, made up of protons and neutrons.
- A ganglion, cluster of many neuronal bodies where synapsing occurs.
verb
- To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- To create, increase or develop.
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- To open, initiate.
- To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To collect or amass.
- To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- To promote.
- To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To bring up; to grow.
- To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To exponentiate, to involute.
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
noun
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calender month or year after the current one).
- Located at or near the front.
noun
- An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- A seafront or coastal promenade.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- The beginning.
- A field of activity.
- The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- The most conspicuous part.
- That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- The direction of the enemy.
- The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
verb
- To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- To appear before.
- To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
- To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- To face, be opposite to.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
postp
noun
adj
- Characterized by emphasis; forceful.
- Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to.
- Stated with conviction.
- pharyngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, other Northwest Semitic languages, and Berber languages
- Referring to the above consonants as well as /ħ/ and /ʕ/ (these being seen as emphatic equivalents of /h/ and /ʔ/).
- ejective consonants in Ge'ez, Amharic, other Ethiopic Semitic languages, Chadic and Cushitic languages
noun
- A single consonant, as opposed to a geminated consonant.
- A single object, especially one of a group.
- A playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
- A person without a romantic partner.
- A hand containing only one card of a certain suit.
- A set with exactly one element.
- A child or animal that is born singly, not as a twin or other multiple birth.
- A person without a dissociative identity.
- A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.
adj
- Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
- Being inflected in agreement with a feminine noun.
- Belonging to females; typically used by females.
- Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
- Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
- Being of the feminine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
- Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
noun
noun
- A consonant pronounced with the underside of the tongue approaching or touching the palate.
- A consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
- Any of the aforementioned consonants.
- A consonant pronounced with the blade of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
adj
- Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
- Of any of the aforementioned pronunciations.
- Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue is raised and bent backwards, so that the underside of the tongue approaches or touches the palate.
- Of pronunciation in which the blade of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
- Bent or curved backwards.
noun
- A long vowel.
- An entity with a long position in an asset.
- A long-term investment.
- A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- A long syllable.
adj
- Not short; tall.
- Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring or tedious or tiring.
- Having great duration.
- Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location, as weapons fire or landing aircraft.
- Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Landing beyond the baseline, and therefore deemed to be out.
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below).
verb
adv
adj
- Having the vowel harmony of a back vowel.
- Being of the masculine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
- Being inflected in agreement with a masculine noun.
- Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
- Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
- Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
- Belonging to males; typically used by males.
noun
noun
- The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
- The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
- A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
- A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.
- The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.
adj
verb
verb
noun
adj
- produced by the same or homologous organs
- Of consonants: having the same place of articulation. For example, labial m, b, p, alveolar n, d, t, velar ŋ, g, k. Indic alphabets such as Devanagari, as well as the Korean hangul alphabet, are rationally arranged so that homorganic consonants are grouped together.
noun
- The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
- A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
- One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
- The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
- A staff or walking stick.
- A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
verb
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