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▸ adjective: (pharmacology) Done or taken by the mouth.
▸ adjective: (phonetics, of a speech sound) Pronounced by the voice resonating in the mouth, as the vowels in English.
▸ adjective: (psychoanalysis, in Freudian theory) Relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development during which libidinal gratification is derived from intake (as of food), by sucking, and later by biting.
▸ adjective: Of, relating to, or characterized by personality traits of passive dependency and aggressiveness.
▸ adjective: (relational) Spoken rather than written.
▸ adjective: Relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth.
▸ adjective: Using speech or the lips especially in teaching the deaf.
▸ adjective: (sociolinguistics, of a society) Not having reached the stage of literacy.
▸ noun: (countable) A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
▸ noun: (countable, usually in the plural) A physical examination of the mouth.
▸ noun: A male given name from Latin of American usage
▸ noun: A city in Kazakhstan
▸ noun: (uncountable, informal) Ellipsis of oral sex. [Stimulation of another person's genitals or anus using the mouth.]
▸ noun: (bodybuilding, countable) Ellipsis of oral steroid..
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buccal,
cheek,
spoken,
viva voce,
unwritten,
Oral exam,
oral examination,
verbal,
intraoral,
vaginal,
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