Consonants is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONSONANTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• CONSONANT, any speech sound other than a vowel
• a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable.
• a letter representing a consonant.
ADJECTIVE:
• denoting or relating to a consonant
• in agreement or harmony with
• making a harmonious interval or chord
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• being in agreement or harmony; free from elements making for discord

Words related to CONSONANTS

consonant11

Words that contain CONSONANTS

semiconsonants18

How to use CONSONANTS in a sentence

• We then by the same means marked the distinction between vowels and consonants with a tune that was longer and rather more difficult.
• But I follow Wallis, Brightland, Johnson, Walker, Murray, Worcester, and others, in considering both of them sometimes vowels and sometimes consonants.
• On the contrary, the other consonants are seldom doubled, except when they come under Rule 3d.
• The sounds, moreover, were not distinguishable as consonants and vowels in the ordinary sense, and to this day remain for him beyond all reach of possible reproduction.
• All the consonants were made distinctly, by placing her hand before his mouth.
• This system, carried out completely, would have raised the forms of consonants to sixty, a multiplication that was feared as inconvenient.
• The Tepehuane language is not melodious, being full of consonants, and hard like the people themselves.
• You have no broad vowels and large consonants to fill your mouth as when you say Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson.
• FURTHER THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATION OF VOWELS AND CONSONANTS.
• The relation of vowels and consonants to singing and speaking.
• Consonants, like vowels, have their own mouth positions.
• The shape of the resonance-chambers varies in the formation of vowels and consonants, which may be classified accordingly, or according to their pitch.
• Muscular efforts for the production of consonants should be neat, decisive, sharp, rather than held ones, which tend to spoil the word as a whole.
• All the vowels represent from two to seven sounds each, and some of the consonants interchange with each other.
• We have already seen that final consonants may be doubled under certain circumstances when a syllable is added.
• Equal freedom in the delivery of vowels and consonants.
• Vowels and consonants, then, constitute the elements of speech.
• Consonants are produced by partial or complete closing of the channel by interference of the lips, tongue, teeth and soft palate.
• They have learned how to produce vowels with a free throat but not consonants.
• It will be well to remember in this connection that consonants are not to be sung.
• If the student attempts to sing the consonants, that is, to prolong them he is sure to make his throat rigid and the pure singing tone at once disappears.
• A correct rhyme should have precisely the same vowel sounds and the final consonants should be the same, but the initial consonant should be different.
• He drew his chin into the up-turned collar of his overcoat and waited, an absurdly patient figure, until the hail of consonants had subsided into a rain of tears.
• One would not have missed these games of genius with syllables and consonants for worlds.
• Phonetic law as illustrated in the history of certain English and German vowels and consonants.
• The consonants are held together in different forms by characteristic vowels that vary according to the idea that it is desired to express.
• The length of initial vowels depends upon the value of the initial consonants which they precede.
• Still there might be other radical consonants in the same word.
• Having studied the formula as given, classify the consonants in three columns, under the headings of 1st, 2d, and 3d points or places of articulation.
• Yet some scholars prefer to employ i and u in the function of consonants as well as vowels.
• The Double Consonants, x and z, being compound sounds, do not admit of classification in the above table.
• The consonants were pronounced as in English words derived from Latin.

Similar words containing NSONANT without suffix s and without prefix co

consonant11 consonantal13 consonantly16 inconsonant13 consonantally18 inconsonantly18 semiconsonant17 preconsonantal18 semiconsonants18 triconsonantal16 triconsonantic18 postconsonantal19

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