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Termination :: Termination (n.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.

Metathesis :: Metathesis (n.) Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager..

Amphimacer :: Amphimacer (n.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast/tas..

Mi :: Mi (n.) A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system..

Dissyllabify :: Dissyllabify (v. t.) To form into two syllables.

Articulated :: Articulated (a.) Produced, as a letter, syllable, or word, by the organs of speech; pronounced..

Apocopate :: Apocopate (v. t.) To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word..

Quadrisyllable :: Quadrisyllable (n.) A word consisting of four syllables.

Synedral :: Synecphonesis (n.) A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.

Reduplication :: Reduplication (n.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci..

Syncope :: Syncope (n.) An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every..

Dissyllabize :: Dissyllabize (v. t.) To form into two syllables; to dissyllabify.

Compare :: Compare (v. t.) To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing - er and -est to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing more and most, or less and least, to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful..

Hendecasyllabic :: Hendecasyllabic (a.) Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.

Enunciate :: Enunciate (v. i.) To utter words or syllables articulately.

Metaplasm :: Metaplasm (n.) A change in the letters or syllables of a word.

Caesura :: Caesura (n.) A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accent rests, or which is used as a foot..

Synneuroses :: Synizesis (n.) A contraction of two syllables into one; synecphonesis.

Charade :: Charade (n.) A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations..

Solfeggio :: Solfeggio (n.) The system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables..

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