occlusive

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
occlusive
    adj 1: tending to occlude
    n 1: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some
         point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are
         too aspirated" [syn: {stop consonant}, {stop}, {occlusive},
         {plosive consonant}, {plosive speech sound}, {plosive}]
         [ant: {continuant}, {continuant consonant}]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "occlusive":
      accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
      articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad,
      cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, choking, close, consonant,
      consonantal, constrictive, continuant, contrary, counterproductive,
      crosswise, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide,
      glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hindering,
      hindersome, in the way, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting,
      interruptive, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral,
      lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted,
      narrow, nasal, nasalized, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent,
      open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
      phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, repressive,
      restrictive, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, stifling,
      stopped, strangling, stressed, strong, suppressive, surd, syllabic,
      tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, troublesome, twangy,
      unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced,
      voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

    

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