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Si :: Si () A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century..

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

Stammer :: Stammer (v. i.) To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.

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..

Monotone :: Monotone (n.) The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch..

Hendecasyllable :: Hendecasyllable (n.) A metrical line of eleven syllables.

Articulate :: Articulate (a.) Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words..

Elide :: Elide (v. t.) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision..

Amphibrach :: Amphibrach (n.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic..

Roulade :: Roulade (n.) A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios..

Syllabe :: Syllabary (n.) A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters..

Elison :: Elison (n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together..

Syllable :: Syllable (n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only

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

Syllabication :: Syllabicate (v. t.) To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

Trochee :: Trochee (n.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus..

Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.

Y :: Y () Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 145, 178-9, 272..

Cacophony :: Cacophony (n.) An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables..

Syllabification :: Syllabication (n.) The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., /275..

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