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spirant
noun
(spi-rant)
a consonant (such as \f\, \s\, \sh\) uttered with friction of the breath against some part of the oral passage : fricative
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fricative
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fricative consonant
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sibilant
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soft
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bilabial
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voiceless
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affricative
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affrication
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approximant
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velar
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sonorant
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nonsonant
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rhotacize
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sibilate
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rhotacism
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obstruent
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labial consonant
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stop consonant
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sound law
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assibilation
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labiovelar
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intervocalic
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consonant
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labialization
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devoice
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ecthlipsis
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plosive
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equisonant
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glottal stop
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wharl
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iotacism
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vowelize
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rhotic
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vowel
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absonant
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auslaut
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syllabicity
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metaplasm
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labiodental
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anlaut
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labialism
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anaptyxis
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sonant
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devocalize
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diaphonic
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psellism
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psilosis
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paragoge
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lambdacism
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palatalize
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glottal
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lenition
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phoneme
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assonate
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minimal pair
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vowelless
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velarize
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synaeresis
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synizesis
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semivowel
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guttural
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palatal
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synecphonesis
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triphthong
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labionasal
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vocoid
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spiritus asper
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vocule
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syllabize
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nasalization
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orthoepy
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synalepha
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archiphoneme
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palilalia
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metaphony
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morphophoneme
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pectoriloquy
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subtonic
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haplology
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eclipsis
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toneme
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spiritus lenis
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retroflection
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syllable
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continuant
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grave accent
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pronunciation
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paronym
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geminate
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raucity
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quadrisyllable
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epenthesis
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sonorific
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feminine rhyme
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amphimacer
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phonetist
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allophone
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syllabism
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apocope
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spirant
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