phonic

phonic
    adj 1: pertaining to the phonic method of teaching reading
    2: relating to speech
    3: of or relating to speech sounds; "phonetic transcription"
       [syn: {phonetic}, {phonic}]
    

Phonic \Phon"ic\ (f[o^]n"[i^]k; 277), a. [Gr. fwnh` sound: cf.
   F. phonique.]
   Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.
   --Tyndall.
   [1913 Webster]
    

106 Moby Thesaurus words for "phonic":
      accented, acoustic, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
      articulated, assimilated, audible, audile, audio, auditory, aural,
      auricular, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central,
      cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant,
      dental, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal,
      guttural, hard, hearing, heavy, high, hypersonic, intonated,
      labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual,
      liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized,
      occlusive, open, otic, otological, otopathic, otoscopic, oxytone,
      palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic,
      phonetic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel,
      soft, sonant, sonic, stopped, stressed, strong, subsonic,
      supersonic, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic,
      transonic, transsonic, twangy, ultrasonic, unaccented, unrounded,
      unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel,
      vowellike, weak, wide