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Antispast :: Antispast (n.) A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#)..

Diastole :: Diastole (n.) A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.

Implosion :: Implosion (n.) A sudden compression of the air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, //159, 189); also, a similar compression made by an upward thrust of the larynx without any accompanying explosive action, as in the peculiar sound of b, d, and g, heard in Southern Germany..

Accent :: Accent (n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others..

Paeon :: Paeon (n.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable..

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

Spondulics :: Spondee (n.) A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges..

Syllabize :: Syllabist (n.) One who forms or divides words into syllables, or is skilled in doing this..

Long :: Long (n.) A long sound, syllable, or vowel..

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..

Polysyllabical :: Polysyllabical (a.) Pertaining to a polysyllable; containing, or characterized by, polysyllables; consisting of more than three syllables..

Epitrite :: Epitrite (n.) A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.

Sexisyllabic :: Sexisyllabic (a.) Having six syllables.

Paragoge :: Paragoge (n.) The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without..

Heterographic :: Heterographic (a.) Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic..

Circumflex :: Circumflex (n.) A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.

Alexandrine :: Alexandrine (n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.

Aphetic :: Aphetic (a.) Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form..

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

Slur :: Slur (n.) A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato..

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