| -phone |
sound. [2 definitions] |
| phone1 |
a telephone. [4 definitions] |
| phone2 |
a discrete speech sound. |
| phone booth |
a small enclosed structure containing a public telephone. |
| phone box |
(chiefly British) a small enclosed structure containing a public telephone; phone booth. |
| phoneme |
in linguistics, any of the minimal units of sound that are part of the sound system of any language. |
| phonemic |
of or relating to phonemes or phonemics. [2 definitions] |
| phonemics |
(used with a sing. verb) the scholarly study of phonemes. |
| phone number |
a short form of telephone number. |
| phonetic |
of or relating to phonetics. [3 definitions] |
| phonetic alphabet |
an alphabet that contains a character for each distinguishable speech sound. |
| phonetics |
(used with a sing. verb) the study of the production, perception, transcription, and classification of speech sounds. |
| phoney |
variant of phony. |
| phonic |
of or relating to speech sounds. |
| phonics |
(used with a sing. verb) a method of teaching spelling, pronunciation, and reading that uses a phonetic rendering of the standard spelling system. [2 definitions] |
| phono- |
voice; sound. |
| phonogram |
a sign or symbol in a phonetic writing system such as shorthand, that represents a word, phrase, syllable, or speech sound. |
| phonograph |
a machine that reproduces sound that has been recorded on a grooved disk; record player. |
| phonography |
the practice of transcribing speech sounds into symbols; phonetic spelling, writing, or transcription. [2 definitions] |
| phonolite |
a fine-grained volcanic rock that rings when it is struck. |
| phonology |
the study of speech sounds and their analysis in phonetics and phonemics. |