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- English Word Phoenix Definition A genus of palms including the date tree.
- English Word Pholad Definition Any species of Pholas.
- English Word Pholadean Definition Pholad.
- English Word Pholades Definition of Pholas
- English Word Pholas Definition Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadidae. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks.
- English Word Phonal Definition Of or relating to the voice; as, phonal structure.
- English Word Phonascetics Definition Treatment for restoring or improving the voice.
- English Word Phonation Definition The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.
- English Word Phonautograph Definition An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate.
- English Word Phoneidoscope Definition An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.
- English Word Phonetic Definition Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.
- English Word Phonetic Definition Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation.
- English Word Phonetically Definition In a phonetic manner.
- English Word Phonetician Definition One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.
- English Word Phonetics Definition The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.
- English Word Phonetics Definition The art of representing vocal sounds by signs and written characters.
- English Word Phonetism Definition The science which treats of vocal sounds.
- English Word Phonetist Definition One versed in phonetics; a phonologist.
- English Word Phonetist Definition One who advocates a phonetic spelling.
- English Word Phonetization Definition The act, art, or process of representing sounds by phonetic signs.