v
(intransitive, linguistics, of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel.
v
(transitive) To turn a phrase into an acronym.
v
(transitive) To convert into adipocere.
v
(transitive) To produce (a plosive) as an affricate.
n
Alternative form of affrication [(phonetics, uncountable, of a consonant) Becoming an affricate sound.]
v
(linguistics, intransitive) To become affricative.
v
(transitive) To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration.
v
(orthography) To reduce extended Latin text to characters of the ASCII character set.
v
(linguistics, phonetics) To change into or pronounce with the accompaniment of a sibilant sound or sounds.
v
To form a mental representation of what something sounds like.
v
To model acoustic phenomena in a virtual environment; to engage in auralization.
v
(intransitive) To perform ballads.
v
(transitive) To compose rhymes about; celebrate in rhyme; make poetry about someone.
v
(transitive, music) To adapt to sound like blues.
n
The act or process of distillation into a blurb or sound bite.
v
(transitive) To make cacophonous.
v
(linguistics, obsolete) To make (a consonant) retroflex.
v
(transitive) To prepare for a chorus.
v
(phonetics) To become, or cause to become, (more) consonantal.
n
Synonym of data wrangling
v
(phonetics, intransitive) To undergo deaffrication.
v
(transitive, phonetics) To change the pronunciation of a consonant so that it is no longer aspirated.
v
(transitive, phonology) To change the pronunciation of, so that it is no longer glottal.
v
(intransitive, phonetics, phonology) To become a non-labial sound.
v
(transitive, phonetics) To make (a speech sound) dental.
v
(phonetics) Of Middle Chinese initial consonants /p/, /pʰ/, /b/, and /m/: to develop into /f/, /fʰ/, /v/, and /ʋ/ (or further into /f/, /w/, etc).
v
(phonetics, transitive) To modify (a sound) so that it is no longer palatal or phonetically palatalized.
v
Alternative spelling of diphthongize [(transitive, phonetics) To change to a diphthong, as by inserting or removing a vowel.]
v
(transitive, phonetics) To change to a diphthong, as by inserting or removing a vowel.
v
(transitive, sometimes humorous) To remove the vowels from, for example, for the purpose of expurgating offensive words.
v
(linguistics, transitive) To split or convert (a monosyllable) into two syllables.
v
(transitive, dated) To remove unwanted noise from (an audio recording) by means of Dolby Laboratories technology.
v
(rare) To transpose due to, or as if due to, dyslexia; to switch the order of (letters) in a way characteristic of dyslexia.
v
(rare) To create onomatopoeic words or vocalizations (i.e. words which are imitative of the sounds of they represent).
v
(intransitive) To compose an elegy.
v
(transitive) To fill with sound.
v
(transitive) To modify by epenthesis.
v
(linguistics, transitive, intransitive) To find or provide the etymology for a word.
v
(transitive) To make euphonic.
v
To make, or to become fricative
n
(phonetics) The process of making or becoming fricative or a fricative.
v
(linguistics) To make fricative.
adj
(phonetics) Having undergone fricatization.
n
Alternative spelling of glottalization [(phonology) The act or process of constricting or closing the glottis during the production of a speech sound that normally does not involve such constriction.]
v
Alternative spelling of glottalize [(phonology) To apply glottalization while articulating another sound.]
v
(phonology) To apply glottalization while articulating another sound.
n
Synonym of grammaticalization
n
Synonym of grammaticalization
v
To pronounce in a guttural manner
v
(transitive) To make (a sound) in the throat; to gutturalize.
v
(Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize.
v
(intransitive, music) To play or sing in harmony.
n
The act or process of hypertextualizing.
v
(transitive) to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a hyphen on the end of the line.
v
(rare) Synonym of hyphenate
n
Synonym of informatization
v
(transitive) To expose to, or treat with, ultrasound.
v
(transitive) To flood an area or an object with carefully-controlled sound waves, typically as a part of sonar or ultrasound imaging
v
(transitive, phonetics) To make (a speech sound) interdental.
v
(linguistics) To perform iotation.
adj
(linguistics) Subjected to iotation.
v
(linguistics) To precede a spoken vowel sound with a "y" sound, as the u in "pure" and "cute".
adj
(linguistics) Of a spoken vowel sound, preceded with the i sound.
n
The use of italics: italicization.
v
(typography) To put into italics.
n
Alternative spelling of labialization [(phonology) A secondary articulatory feature of usually consonants that involves the contraction or rounding of the lips (labia) during pronunciation.]
v
(transitive) To round, make (a sound, notably a consonant) labial.
v
(phonetics) To become, or cause to become, labiovelar.
v
(phonetics) To articulate as a laryngeal sound, to produce (a sound) through or with action of the larynx.
v
(linguistics) To convert an inflected form of a lexeme to a lemma.
v
(phonetics, phonology, transitive) To cause (a consonant) to undergo lenition.
v
(linguistics) To make lingual.
v
To make literate; to introduce or increase the incidence of reading and writing.
v
Alternative form of lyricize [(transitive) To make lyrical; to treat in a poetically sentimental or emotional manner.]
v
(transitive) To provide lyrics for (an existing melody).
n
(phonology) Synonym of mazurzenie
v
(intransitive) To compose or play melodies.
v
(phonology, intransitive) To undergo metaphony.
n
(UK) Alternative form of miscapitalization [(rare) Incorrect capitalization; the or an act of miscapitalizing.]
v
(transitive) To develop a mnemonic for.
v
Alternative spelling of monologize [(intransitive) To deliver a monologue.]
v
Alternative spelling of monophthongize [(transitive, linguistics) To change to a monophthong (as by removing a vowel).]
v
(transitive, linguistics) To change to a monophthong (as by removing a vowel).
v
To become, or cause (a word or part of a word) to become, a morpheme.
v
To set (a text etc) to music.
n
Alternative spelling of nasalization [(phonetics, uncountable) the articulation of a vowel or continuant consonant in such a way that air flows through the nose at the same time as it flows through the mouth]
v
To make a nasal sound when speaking.
n
(chiefly US) The act or an act of oralizing; the act or an act of turning something written into something oral.
v
Alternative form of orthogonalize [(transitive) To make orthogonal.]
v
To spell correctly or according to usage.
v
Alternative spelling of palatalize [(phonetics, transitive) To pronounce a sound with the tongue against the palate of the mouth when that sound normally would not be so pronounced.]
v
(phonetics, intransitive, unaccusative, of a sound) To be pronounced with the tongue against the palate.
n
Synonym of perspectivation
v
(phonology) to constrict the pharynx while articulating another sound.
v
(transitive) To use the voice to make (specific sounds).
v
Alternative form of phonemicize [(transitive, linguistics) To represent as a phoneme or series of phonemes.]
v
(intransitive, linguistics) To become phonemic as opposed to allophonic.
v
(transitive) To spell by phonetic script.
v
(transitive) To represent by phonetic signs.
v
(biology) To move towards an attractive sound
v
(phonetics) To shift to a phonemic status by developing a phonetic feature.
v
(intransitive) To write or speak in the manner of a poet.
v
(intransitive) To compose poetry.
v
(transitive, phonology) To precede (a sound) by glottalization.
v
(phonology, transitive) To convert to, or render as, a prenasal.
v
Alternative spelling of Pythagorize [To speculate in the manner of Pythagoras.]
v
(linguistics) To modify a word's phonological form in accordance with a reanalysis.
n
(grammar) The process of reciprocalizing.
n
(grammar) The process of reflexivizing.
n
(phonology) Synonym of transphonologization
n
The process or result of resyllabifying.
v
(intransitive) To perform a rhapsody.
v
(phonology) To change a consonant to an 'R' sound under certain circumstances.
v
(transitive) To put into a rhythm; to make rhythmic.
v
(transitive) To write in the form of a rubric.
n
(US) Alternative form of satemisation [(UK, Indo-European studies) the sound change by which palatovelars became fricatives and affricates in satem languages]
v
(obsolete, nonce word) To write scholia.
v
(Indo-European studies) To undergo this process.
n
(grammar) The process of sigmating; addition of a sigma.
v
To process by subjecting to sound waves.
v
(intransitive) To compose sonnets.
v
(of a consonant) To increase in sonority; to become more sonorous.
v
(informatics, transitive) To index using the phonetic Soundex algorithm.
v
(transitive, music, art) To localize sounds in physical space.
v
(phonetics) To change (a consonant) to a spirant sound.
v
(transitive) To convert (a signal or recording) to stereo.
n
(grammar) The act or process of subjectivizing; the process of change by which words develop a subjective in place of or alongside an objective sense.
v
(rare) Synonym of syllabify
v
(nonstandard, rare) syllabize
v
To divide a word into syllables; to syllabicate; to syllabize.
n
Synonym of syllabification
v
(transitive) To syllabify.
v
(intransitive) To agree; to be in harmony.
v
(transitive, linguistics, phonology) to omit a vocalic or consonantal sound or a syllable from a word; to use syncope
n
The action, or the result of synonymizing (especially of taxa).
n
The act or process of, or an instance of, syntacticizing.
v
(transitive, often philosophy) To situate in time.
n
The act or process of textualizing; rendering as text.
v
(linguistics) To insert a thematic vowel.
v
(music) To make (a tone) temporarily become tonic.
n
(grammar) Conversion to a transitive form.
v
(linguistics) To undergo transphonologization.
v
(transitive, rare) To convert to a triphthong.
v
(linguistics, transitive) To modify (a word) so that an umlaut is required in it.
n
Synonym of deinitialization
v
(linguistics) To cause, or to undergo univerbation
v
(transitive, phonetics) To make uvular.
v
Alternative form of velarize [(phonology) To raise the back of the tongue toward the velum while articulating another consonant, such as the l of English pool.]
n
(phonology) The act or process of velarizing.
v
(phonology) To replace a (usually more front) consonant with a velar.
v
(linguistics) To turn a consonant into a vowel.
v
(transitive) To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.
v
(often derogatory) To speak in an increasingly verbose manner, as if constructing poetry.
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