Search Result for "occlusive":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;
- Example: "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
[syn: stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. tending to occlude;
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "occlusive": accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, choking, close, consonant, consonantal, constrictive, continuant, contrary, counterproductive, crosswise, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hindering, hindersome, in the way, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting, interruptive, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, repressive, restrictive, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, stifling, stopped, strangling, stressed, strong, suppressive, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, troublesome, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide
