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Phthongometer :: Phthongometer (n.) An instrument for measuring vocal sounds.

Tonic :: Tonic (n.) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

Lasso :: Lasso (n.) A rope or long thong of leather with, a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle, etc..

Oe :: Oe () a diphthong, employed in the Latin language, and thence in the English language, as the representative of the Greek diphthong oi. In many words in common use, e alone stands instead of /. Classicists prefer to write the diphthong oe separate in Latin words..

Lime :: Lime (n.) A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.

Diphthongation :: Diphthongation (n.) See Diphthongization.

Quirt :: Quirt (n.) A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.

Diphthong :: Diphthong (v. t.) To form or pronounce as a diphthong; diphthongize.

Glide :: Glide (n.) A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element)

Leather :: Leather (v. t.) To beat, as with a thong of leather..

Ae :: Ae () A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. ai. The Anglo-Saxon short ae was generally replaced by a, the long / by e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E..

Litter :: Litter (n.) Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter..

Monophthong :: Monophthong (n.) A combination of two written vowels pronounced as one; a digraph.

Diphthongal :: Diphthongal (a.) Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.

Lanier :: Lanier (n.) A thong of leather; a whip lash.

Vocal :: Vocal (n.) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal..

Phthongal :: Phthongal (n.) A vocalized element or letter.

Whiplash :: Whiplash (n.) The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted..

Ream :: Ream (v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments..

Crasis :: Crasis (n.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as, cogo for coago..

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