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Clank :: Clank (v. i.) To sound with a clank.

Continuant :: Continuant (a.) Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound..

Attune :: Attune (v. t.) To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp..

Accent :: Accent (n.) A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents..

Insaniate :: Insaniate (v. t.) To render unsound; to make mad.

Consonant :: Consonant (n.) An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound..

Creak :: Creak (v. i.) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak..

Gutturalize :: Gutturalize (v. t.) To speak gutturally; to give a guttural sound to.

Reverberation :: Reverberation (n.) The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace..

Click :: Click (n.) A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward..

Sing :: Sing (v. i.) To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice..

Singingly :: Singingly (adv.) With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone.

Acoustics :: Acoustics (n.) The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws..

Hiccough :: Hiccough (n.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough..

Incorrupt :: Incorrupt (a.) Not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; above the influence of bribes; upright; honest.

Sing :: Sing (v. i.) To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do..

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ..

Moan :: Moan (v. i.) A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan..

Distinguish :: Distinguish (v. t.) To recognize or discern by marks, signs, or characteristic quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things with which it might be confounded; as, to distinguish the sound of a drum..

Chink :: Chink (n.) A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence..

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