consonant.noun,.plural.consonants
a consonant is a sound such as 'p', 'f', 'n' or 't' and other letters in the English language which you pronounce by stopping the air flowing freely through your mouth; a speech sound produced by a partial or complete obstruction of the air stream by any of various constrictions of the speech organs; a letter or character representing such a speech sound; compare vowel

definite article.noun
a member of the class of determiners that restrict or particularize a noun; in English, the word 'the' is the definite article

indefinite article.noun
an article, such as English 'a' or 'an', that does not fix the identity of the noun modified

diphthong.noun,.plural.diphthongs
Linguistics:.a complex speech sound or glide that begins with one vowel and gradually changes to another vowel within the same syllable, as (oi) in boil or in fine; a diphthong is a vowel in which the speaker's tongue changes position while it is being pronounced, so that the vowel sounds like a combination of two other vowels. The vowel sound in 'tail' is a diphthong
diphthongal.adjective

interjection
a sudden, short utterance; an ejaculation; a part of speech usually expressing emotion and capable of standing alone, such as Ugh! or Wow! and ending with the exclamation mark  ! 
interjectional.adjective
interjectionally.adverb

morpheme.noun
Linguistics:.a meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word, such as man or a word element, such as 'ed' in walked, that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts
morphemically.adverb
morphemic.adjective

phonetic.adjective
relating to the sounds of human speech and using special signs, often different from ordinary letters, to represent the sounds of speech (a phonetic alphabet; phonetic symbols); in linguistics, of.or.relating to phonetics; representing the sounds of speech with a set of distinct.symbols, each designating a single sound (phonetic spelling, such as 'ray dee oh' for 'radio'); of, relating to, or being features of pronunciation that are not phonemically distinctive in a language, as aspiration of consonants or vowel length in English
phonetical.adjective
phonetically.adverb
phonetics.noun
used with a singular.verb; the branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description and representation by written symbols; the system of sounds of a particular language
phoneme.noun,.plural.phonemes
in linguistics, the smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning, as the 'm' of mat and the 'b' of bat in English
phonemic.adjective
in linguistics, of or relating to phonemes; of or relating to phonemics; serving to distinguish phonemes or distinctive features
phonemically.adverb
phonemics.noun
used with a sing. verb; in linguistics, the study and establishment of the phonemes of a language
phonemicist.noun,.plural.phonemicists

syllabic.adjective
Linguistics:.of, relating to or consisting of a syllable or syllables; designating a consonant that forms a syllable without a vowel, such as the (i) in the word riddle; pronounced with every syllable distinct; of or being a form of verse based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities
syllabic.noun
Linguistics:.a syllabic sound
syllabically.adverb

syllabary.noun,.plural.syllabaries
a list of syllables; a list or set of written characters for a language, each character representing a syllable; example

syllable.noun,.plural.syllables
Linguistics: a unit of spoken language consisting of a single uninterrupted sound formed by a vowel, diphthong or syllabic consonant alone or by any of these sounds preceded, followed or surrounded by one or more consonants; one or more letters or phonetic symbols written or printed to approximate a spoken syllable; a syllable is a part of a word that contains a single vowel sound and that is pronounced as a unit, for example 'book' has one syllable and 'reading' has two syllables, 'read' 'ing'
oma has two, 'o' and 'ma'
syllable, syllabled, syllabling, syllables.transitive verbs
Linguistics:.to pronounce in syllables

vowel.noun,.plural.vowels
a letter, such as.a, e, i, o, u.and sometimes.y.in the English alphabet represents a vowel; a vowel in a word is usually pronounced with the mouth open, allowing the air to flow through it; vowels are speech sounds created by the relatively free passage of breath through the larynx and oral cavity, usually forming the most prominent and central sound of a syllable: compare consonant