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retroflex (167 synonym found)

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accented

allophone

alveolar

apical

apico-alveolar

apico-dental

arch

articulated

articulation

assimilated

assimilation

barytone

bend back

bilabial

bow

broad

cacuminal

central

cerebral

check

checked

close

cock

consonant

consonantal

continuant

crook

curl

curve

decurve

deflect

dental

diphthong

dissimilated

dissimilation

dome

dorsal

embow

epenthetic vowel

explosive

fall astern

fall behind

flex

front

get behind

glide

glossal

glottal

glottalization

go backwards

go behind

guttural

hard

heavy

high

hook

hump

hunch

incurvate

incurve

inflect

intonated

jerk back

labial

labialization

labiodental

labiovelar

lapse

laryngeal

lateral

lax

light

lingual

liquid

loop

lose ground

low

manner of articulation

mid

modification

monophthong

monophthongal

morphophoneme

mute

muted

narrow

nasal

nasalized

occlusive

open

oxytone

palatal

palatalized

parasitic vowel

pharyngeal

pharyngealization

pharyngealized

phone

phoneme

phonemic

phonetic

phonic

pitch

pitched

plosive

posttonic

prothetic vowel

pull back

recede

recidivate

recurve

reflect

reflex

regress

relapse

retrocede

retrograde

retrogress

return

revert

round

rounded

sag

segmental phoneme

semivowel

slip back

soft

sonant

sonority

speech sound

stop

stopped

stressed

strong

surd

swag

sweep

syllabic

syllabic nucleus

syllabic peak

syllable

thick

throaty

tonal

tonic

transition sound

triphthong

turn

twangy

unaccented

unrounded

unstressed

vault

velar

vocable

vocalic

vocoid

voice

voiced

voiced sound

voiceless

voiceless sound

voicing

vowel

vowellike

wide

wind

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Definition of retroflex:

(adj) : Bent backwards; of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue is raised

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Definition of retroflex:

(adj) : Bent backwards; of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue is raised

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