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La :: La (n.) A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.

Terrasyllable :: Terrasyllable (n.) A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.

Sexisyllable :: Sexisyllable (n.) A word of six syllables.

Syncopation :: Syncopation (n.) The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.

Syllabist :: Syllabism (n.) The expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words..

Choriambus :: Choriambus (n.) A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united..

Fa :: Fa (n.) A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.

Number :: Number (n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural..

Oxytone :: Oxytone (a.) Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable..

Baritone :: Baritone (n.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood..

Gallyambic :: Gallyambic (a.) Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse..

Quaternion :: Quaternion (n.) A word of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.

Ionic :: Ionic (n.) A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic..

Hypermeter :: Hypermeter (n.) A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.

Heterographic :: Heterographic (a.) Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic..

Quadri-syllabical :: Quadri-syllabical () Having four syllables; of or pertaining to quadrisyllables; as, a quadrisyllabic word..

Suffixion :: Suffix (v. t.) To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append..

Spondulics :: Spondee (n.) A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges..

Systole :: Systole (n.) The shortening of the long syllable.

Alexandrine :: Alexandrine (n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.

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