Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| bang | a loud, explosive noise; (verb) to make a bang. |
| beep | the sound made by the horn of a car, etc; (verb) to make this sound. |
| beeper | a device that emits a beep. |
| blam | the sound of a gunshot; (verb) to make a sound like a gunshot. |
| blare | to sound loudly. |
| bleep | to give out a short high sound or radio signal. |
| bleeper | a device that bleeps. |
| bloop | a howling noise on a soundtrack; (verb) to make such a noise. |
| boing | the sound of a bouncing impact; (verb) to make a bouncing sound. |
| boink | the sound of a bouncing impact; (verb) to make a bouncing sound. |
| bong | to make a deep ringing sound. |
| boom | a hollow sound or roar (verb) to make a hollow sound |
| boomingly | (Adv.) BOOMING, making a hollow sound. |
| boomy | hollow-sounding. |
| brool | (Dutch) a deep murmur. |
| buller | a turbulence in water; (verb) to seethe, gurgle. |
| bummle | to bumble. |
| bump | a dull heavy blow; a lump or swelling; (verb) to make a heavy or loud noise; to knock dully. |
| buzz | a noise like that of insects' wings (verb) to make a buzz |
| buzzingly | (Adv.) BUZZING, busy, vibrant. |
| buzzy | having a buzzing quality. |
| cacophonic | of or like a cacophony. |
| cacophonical | of or like a cacophony. |
| cacophonious | relating to a cacophony. |
| cacophony | the harsh joining of sounds. |
| chime | a sequence of bell-like notes sounded as by a clock; (verb) to ring harmoniously. |
| ching | a high-pitched ringing sound. |
| chink | a cleft, a narrow opening (verb) to make a chinking sound |
| chipper | a device that makes chips; (verb) to twitter, chatter. |
| chug | to move with a dull explosive noise, as a locomotive. |
| chunk | a thick piece of anything (verb) to make a dull explosive sound |
| clack | a sharp sound as of boards struck together, a metal object striking stone or wood, etc; (verb) to make such a sound. |
| clacker | that which clacks; esp the clapper of a mill. |
| clang | to ring loudly. |
| clank | a sharp metallic sound (verb) to make a sharp, metallic sound |
| clanking | the sound of a clank. |
| clankingly | (Adv.) CLANKING. |
| clanky | making a clanking sound. |
| clap | the noise made by the sudden striking together of two things, esp the hands; (verb) to bring the hands together smartly. |
| clapper | a thing that claps, eg the tongue of a bell; (verb) to make a noise like a clapper. |
| clatter | a rattling noise (verb) to move with a rattling noise |
| clatterer | one who clatters. |
| clatteringly | (Adv.) CLATTERING. |
| clattery | making a clatter. |
| click | a short sharp sound; (verb) to make a short, sharp sound. |
| clicket | the latch of a gate or door; (verb) to make a clicking sound. |
| clink | a soft, sharp, ringing sound; (verb) to make a ringing sound. |
| clitter | to make a shrill rattling noise. |
| clonk | a dull thumping sound; (verb) to make a dull thumping sound. |
| clonky | making a dull thumping sound. |
| cloop | the sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle. |
| clop | the sound of a horse's hoof-tread against a hard surface; (verb) to make a clopping sound. |
| clunk | a dull metallic noise (verb) to make a dull metallic noise |
| crackle | a snapping sound (verb) to make a succession of snapping sounds |
| crackly | making a crackling noise. |
| creak | a sharp grating or squeaking sound (verb) to squeak |
| creakily | (Adv.) CREAKY, given to creaking. |
| creakiness | the state of being creaky. |
| creakingly | (Adv.) CREAKING. |
| creaky | given to creaking. |
| crepitant | having or making a crackling sound. |
| crepitate | to crackle; to snap. |
| crepitation | a soft crackling sound. |
| crepitative | crackling. |
| crump | crisp, friable (noun) the sound of an exploding bomb; (verb) to make an explosive sound |
| crunch | the act or sound of crunching (verb) to chew with a crackling sound |
| curmurring | (Scots) a rumbling or flatulent sound. |
| dong | a deep sound like that of a large bell; (verb) to make this sound. |
| droner | one who drones. |
| echo | a reflected sound (verb) to reflect sound |
| echoer | one who echoes. |
| echoey | full of echos. |
| echoic | resembling an echo. |
| echoically | (Adv.) ECHOIC, like an echo. |
| echoise | to make echoic. |
| echoize | to make echoic. |
| echoless | without echo or response. |
| fanfarade | (Fr.) a fanfare. |
| fanfare | a flourish of trumpets or bugles; (verb) to celebrate with a fanfare. |
| fissle | (Scots) to rustle. |
| fiz | a sputtering sound (verb) to make a hissing or sputtering sound |
| fizz | a sputtering sound (verb) to make a hissing or sputtering sound |
| fizzle | to hiss or sputter, to go out with a sputtering sound. |
| flaff | (Scots) to flap, to pant. |
| foghorn | a horn sounded in a fog to give warning. |
| footfall | the sound of a footstep. |
| fragor | (Obs.) a crash. |
| friz | to fry with a sizzling noise. |
| frizz | a tight curl (verb) to fry with a sizzling noise |
| gingle | (Obs.) a jingling sound. |
| glug | to make a gurgling sound. |
| graunch | to make a grinding noise, as of a mechanism. |
| guggle | to gurgle. |
| gurgle | to flow in an irregular noisy current (noun) a gurgling sound. |
| homotony | the state of having the same tenor or tone. |
| honk | to make a sound like a horn, or as of wild geese. |
| hooter | one that hoots. |
| intonate | to thunder. |
| jangle | a dissonant clanging (verb) to make a harsh, metallic sound |
| jangly | making a jangling sound. |
| jingle | a succession of clinking, tinkling sounds (verb) to make a tinkling sound |
| jingler | one who, or that which, jingles. |
| jingly | jingling. |
| jow | a stroke of a bell; (verb) to ring, toll a bell. |
| kaboom | the sound of a large explosion. |
| kapow | a sudden sharp sound. |
| kathump | a loud thudding sound. |
| kerblooey | the sound of an explosion. |
| kerplunk | to fall or drop with a heavy sound. |
| knell | to ring a bell. |
| megaphone | a device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume; (verb) to magnify sound. |
| megaphonic | relating to a megaphone. |
| megaphonically | (Adv.) MEGAPHONIC, relating to a megaphone. |
| noyes | (Spenser) noise. |
| oompah | a conventional representation of the sound made by a large brass musical instrument; (verb) to make such a sound. |
| outecho | to surpass in echoing. |
| outring | to ring louder than. |
| parp | to sound a car horn; to toot. |
| peal | a ring of bells; (verb) to ring out. |
| pele | (Hist.) a palisaded enclosure. |
| phut | a sound like a bullet's; (verb) to make such a sound. |
| ping | a brief, high-pitched sound; (verb) to produce a brief, high-pitched sound. |
| plangency | resonance. |
| plangent | having a loud, reverberating sound; having an expressive esp plaintive quality. |
| plangently | (Adv.) PLANGENT, having a loud, reverberating sound. |
| plap | a flatter sound than a plop; (verb) to make such a sound. |
| plinky | of a high pitched sound from a stringed instrument when plucked. |
| plop | the sound of a small object falling vertically into water; (verb) to drop or fall heavily. |
| plunky | sounding like a plucked banjo string. |
| pop | a mild explosive sound; a genre of popular music (verb) to make a pop |
| popply | making a poppling sound. |
| quonk | any accidental noise made too close to a microphone; (verb) to make an accidental noise made too close to a microphone. |
| rang | a row of long lots along a road. |
| rataplan | the iterative sound of beating eg of a drum; (verb) to make this sound. |
| ratatat | the sound of a knock eg on a door. |
| rattle | a series of short sharp sound (verb) to make a quick succession of short, sharp sounds |
| rattly | given to rattling. |
| raucity | harshness of sound; rough utterance. |
| realtone | a ringtone that closely resembles an original sound record. |
| reboant | reverberant, bellowing. |
| reboation | being reboant, reverberation. |
| reecho | to echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon. |
| reediness | the quality of being reedy. |
| resound | to make a loud, long, or echoing sound. |
| resounding | thorough, decisive. |
| resoundingly | (Adv.) RESOUNDING. |
| reverb | (Shakesp.) to echo. |
| reverberate | to continue in or as if in a series of echoes, to resound. |
| ring | to form a ring (a circular band) around to give forth a clear, resonant sound ) RONG. |
| ringingly | (Adv.) RINGING, making a ringing sound. |
| rumble | a deep thunderous sound (verb) to make a deep, thunderous sound |
| rumbling | a deep, thunderous sound. |
| rumblingly | (Adv.) RUMBLING. |
| rumbly | rumbling. |
| rustle | a succession of slight, soft sounds; (verb) to make a rustling sound. |
| rustlingly | (Adv.) RUSTLING. |
| screak | a screech, a creak (verb) to creak, as a door or wheel |
| screaky | creaky. |
| scroop | to make a scraping noise. |
| shrill | high-pitched (verb) to make a shrill sound |
| shrillness | the state of being shrill. |
| siren | a device that produces a penetrating warning sound. |
| sizzle | a hissing sound, as of frying food; (verb) to burn or fry with a hissing sound. |
| sizzlingly | (Adv.) SIZZLING. |
| slurpy | like a slurp. |
| snap | a sharp cracking sound (verb) to make a sharp cracking sound |
| sonically | (Adv.) SONIC, of or pertaining to sound or sound waves, esp within the audible range. |
| sough | to sigh, hum, as of the wind. |
| sowne | (Spenser) sound. |
| splat | to strike a surface with a slapping sound. |
| squeak | a sharp, high-pitched sound (verb) to make a sharp, high-pitched sound |
| squeakery | an assemblage of things that squeak. |
| squeakingly | (Adv.) SQUEAKING. |
| squeal | a shrill cry; (verb) to utter a sharp, shrill cry. |
| squelch | a gurgling and sucking sound as of walking in wet mud (verb) to make this sound |
| squelchy | sounding like a squelch. |
| subecho | an inferior echo. |
| swoosh | a noise resembling a rush of air; (verb) to make this noise. |
| tang | a ringing sound; a hint of flavour (verb) to ring; to twang |
| tentiginous | morbidly lascivious. |
| thud | a dull heavy sound; (verb) to make a dull, heavy sound. |
| thuddingly | (Adv.) THUDDING. |
| thunderclap | a clap of thunder. |
| thunderer | a thing that makes a noise like thunder; spec. a bullroarer. |
| thunderous | sounding like thunder. |
| thundrous | sounding like thunder. |
| thunk | a sudden muffled sound; (verb) to make a sudden, muffled sound. |
| tick | the sound of a watch, clock, etc; (verb) to make a sound like a clock. |
| ticktack | to make a sound like a clock. |
| ticktock | to make a sound like a clock. |
| tictac | to make a sound like a clock. |
| tictoc | to make a sound like a clock. |
| ting | to make the sound of a bell. |
| tinkle | a sharp metallic sound (verb) to make slight, sharp, metallic sounds |
| tinkling | the sound made by something that tinkles. |
| tinklingly | (Adv.) TINKLING. |
| tinkly | making a tinkling sound. |
| tintinnabulant | ringing, like a bell. |
| tintinnabular | ringing, like a bell. |
| tintinnabulary | ringing, like a bell. |
| tintinnabulate | to ring; to tinkle. |
| tock | the sound made by a clock or watch, like a tick but deeper and more resonant; (verb) of a clock, to make such a sound. |
| tocsin | an alarm bell or a warning signal. |
| toll | the slow, measured sound of a bell; (verb) to sound, as a large bell does, esp with slow, measured strokes. |
| tonal | relating to tone. |
| tonally | (Adv.) TONAL, relating to tone. |
| tonant | thundering. |
| toot | to sound a horn or whistle in short blasts. |
| toppy | of audio reproduction, dominated by high-frequency sounds. |
| twang | a sharp, vibrating sound (verb) to make a sharp, vibrating sound |
| twangingly | (Adv.) TWANGING. |
| twangle | to twang. |
| twanglingly | (Adv.) TWANGLING. |
| twangy | able to be twanged. |
| unvocal | not vocal. |
| upthunder | to send up a noise like thunder. |
| uptrilled | (Coleridge) trilled high. |
| varoom | a noise imitative of speed; (verb) to make a varoom noise. |
| vroom | a noise imitative of an engine; (verb) to make a vroom noise. |
| whine | a plaintive, high-pitched sound (verb) to utter a plaintive, high-pitched sound |
| whininess | the state of being whiny. |
| whiningly | (Adv.) WHINING, complaining. |
| whipcrack | the crack of a whip. |
| whir | to make a continuous rapid buzzing or softly clicking sound. |
| whirr | a rapid buzzing or softly clicking sound (verb) to make continuous rapid buzzing or softly clicking sound |
| whiz | a person remarkably talented or skilful at something (verb) to fly through the air with or as if with a whistling noise |
| whizz | a person remarkably talented or skilful at something (verb) to fly through the air with or as if with a whistling noise |
| whizzing | the act of whizzing. |
| whizzingly | (Adv.) WHIZZING. |
| whoomp | a sudden loud sound. |
| whoomph | a sudden loud sound. |
| yammerer | one who yammers. |
| zizzle | to sizzle. |