Plangent

plangent
    adj 1: loud and resounding; "plangent bells"; "the plangent
           minority"
    

Plangent \Plan"gent\, a. [L. plangens, -entis, fr. plangere to
   beat. See {Plaint}.]
   Beating; dashing, as a wave. [R.] "The plangent wave." --H.
   Taylor.
   [1913 Webster] Plani
    

75 Moby Thesaurus words for "plangent":
      Jeremianic, aggrieved, anguished, booming, careworn, complaining,
      consonant, deafening, doleful, dolorous, dumb with grief,
      ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking,
      faultfinding, forte, fortissimo, fretful, full, grief-stricken,
      griefful, grieved, grievous, howling, in grief, lamentable,
      lamentive, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, lugubrious, mellow,
      moanful, mournful, orotund, pealing, peevish, petulant, piercing,
      plaintive, plunged in grief, puling, pulsing, querulous, resonant,
      resonating, resounding, rich, ringing, rolling, rotund, round,
      rueful, sonorous, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, stentoraphonic,
      stentorian, stentorious, tearful, throbbing, thunderous,
      tonitruant, tonitruous, ululant, vibrant, vibrating, wailful,
      whimpering, whining, whiny, window-rattling, woeful