Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| allocution | a formal speech or address, esp one that exhorts. |
| articulate | speaking clearly (verb) to give clear and effective utterance to |
| articulately | (Adv.) ARTICULATE, speaking clearly. |
| assert | to state positively. |
| assertedly | (Adv.) ASSERTED, by assertion. |
| assever | (Arch.) to declare solemnly. |
| asseverate | to state positively, emphatically. |
| asseveratingly | (Adv.) ASSEVERATING. |
| aver | to declare positively. |
| averment | the act of averring, or that which is averred. |
| babble | to talk idly or excessively. |
| babblement | babble. |
| babbly | babbling. |
| babel | a confused sound of voices. |
| babeldom | a confused sound of voices. |
| babelish | sounding confused. |
| babelism | a state of confused sound. |
| backchat | impertinence, repartee; (verb) to engage in repartee. |
| backtalk | an impudent reply. |
| backword | a withdrawal of a promise; a retort. |
| balbutient | stammering. |
| bally | a euphemism for bloody; (noun) a noisy uproar. |
| banzai | (Japanese) a warlike shout. |
| barrack | a building or group of buildings used to accommodate military personnel; (verb) to shout at derisively or sarcastically. |
| bass | of a voice, deep (noun) the lowest part in music; (verb) to utter in a deep tone |
| basser | someone who plays the bass guitar. |
| bassly | (Adv.) BASS, of a voice, deep. |
| bawdy | risque (noun) bawdy talk |
| bawl | to shout or cry very loudly. |
| bawler | one who bawls. |
| beclamor | to beset with noise. |
| beclamour | to make a clamour. |
| bedumb | to render speechless. |
| begroan | to groan at. |
| belch | to expel gas through the mouth. |
| bellock | to shout. |
| bemoan | to lament. |
| bemoaner | one who bemoans. |
| bemouth | (Arch.) to mouth about. |
| bemurmur | to murmur at. |
| beshout | to shout at. |
| besigh | (Arch.) to sigh at. |
| bewail | to lament. |
| bewailingly | (Adv.) BEWAILING. |
| blah | pretentious nonsense; (verb) to talk stupidly or insipidly (adj.) dull, insipid |
| blart | to shout loudly and harshly. |
| blate | (Scots) timidly awkward, bashful (verb) to babble |
| bletheration | blethering. |
| blub | to cry. |
| blubber | the fat of whales and other sea animals (verb) to cry |
| blubberer | one who blubbers. |
| blurt | to speak abruptly. |
| blurter | one who blurts. |
| bobbery | (Obs.) a noisy row. |
| boff | a hearty laugh; (verb) to hit, strike. |
| boffo | a hearty laugh. |
| boffola | a hearty laugh. |
| booh | expressing disapproval; (noun) such a sound; (verb) to boo. |
| boohoo | to cry. |
| brabblement | (Arch.) a squabbling. |
| brannigan | a drinking spree; a noisy altercation or quarrel. |
| brouhaha | (Fr.) a fuss, clamour. |
| bruhaha | (Fr.) a fuss, clamour. |
| bruilzie | (Scots) a broil, a noisy disturbance. |
| bruit | (Fr.) something rumoured widely; (verb) to report or spread rumour. |
| bum | wrong, dud (noun) a tramp or sponger; (verb) to cadge |
| bur | a continual humming sound; a prickly fruit (verb) to speak with a bur |
| burble | a murmur (verb) to murmur; to talk incoherently |
| burbly | given to burbling. |
| burp | a belch; (verb) to belch. |
| cachinnate | to laugh loudly or immoderately. |
| cachinnation | loud or hysterical laughter. |
| cachinnatory | like loud laughter. |
| callithump | a noisy, boisterous parade. |
| callithumpian | relating to the sounds of a callithump, a noisy, boisterous parade. |
| canorousness | the state of being canorous. |
| carfuffle | (Scots) a commotion; (verb) to make a commotion. |
| carryon | a fuss, a commotion. |
| catcall | a shrill whistle expressing impatience or disapproval at a theatre, public meeting, etc; (verb) to make the sound of a catcall. |
| chant | to sing. |
| chantingly | (Adv.) CHANTING. |
| chellup | (Dial.) noise. |
| chitter | to shiver or (of the teeth) to chatter. |
| chortle | a chuckle; (verb) to chuckle with glee. |
| chortler | one who chortles. |
| chounter | to mutter, grumble. |
| chuckle | a quiet laugh; (verb) to laugh quietly. |
| chuckler | one who chuckles. |
| chucklesome | full of chuckles. |
| chucklingly | (Adv.) CHUCKLING. |
| chunner | to mutter, grumble. |
| chunter | to mutter, grumble. |
| clamant | calling aloud or earnestly. |
| clamantly | (Adv.) CLAMANT, calling aloud or earnestly. |
| clame | (Spenser) a call, shout. |
| clamor | a loud continuous outcry; uproar; (verb) to make an uproar. |
| clamorer | one who makes a clamor. |
| clamorous | loud, full of clamour. |
| clamorously | (Adv.) CLAMOROUS, loud, full of clamour. |
| clamour | a loud continuous outcry; uproar; (verb) to make a loud continuous outcry. |
| clamourer | one who makes a clamour. |
| clangor | (US) a loud ringing noise or clang; (verb) to make a loud ringing noise or clang. |
| clangorous | full of clangour. |
| clangorously | (Adv.) CLANGOROUS, full of clangour. |
| clangour | a loud ringing noise or clang; (verb) to make a loud ringing noise or clang. |
| collocutory | of the nature of conversation or dialogue. |
| collogue | to converse confidentially; to conspire with. |
| colloque | (Fr.) to hold a colloquy. |
| colloquial | of or relating to conversation. |
| colloquially | (Adv.) COLLOQUIAL, of or relating to conversation. |
| colloquise | to converse. |
| colloquist | a speaker in a colloquy or dialogue. |
| colloquium | (Lat.) a conference, a seminar. |
| colloquize | to converse. |
| colloquy | speaking together; mutual discourse; (verb) to hold a colloquy. |
| commotion | a violent motion or moving. |
| commotional | relating to commotion. |
| commune | a group of people living together; (verb) to converse or talk together. |
| conclamation | a shout of many voices together. |
| confabulate | to chat; to invent past experiences. |
| confabulatory | relating to confabulation. |
| constate | to assert. |
| conversation | communication by talking. |
| conversational | relating to conversation. |
| converse | reversed, opposite (verb) to speak together |
| conversely | (Adv.) CONVERSE, reversed, opposite. |
| converser | one who engages in conversation. |
| convo | (Aust. coll.) a conversation. |
| cough | to expel air from the lungs noisily (noun) the act or the sound of coughing. |
| cougher | one that coughs. |
| crepitus | (Lat.) a fart. |
| croak | a low hoarse sound (verb) to utter a low, hoarse sound |
| croodle | (Scots) to murmur, coo. |
| croon | to sing softly. |
| crosstalk | rapid or witty talk. |
| cry | a sound of pain , grief etc.; (verb) to utter a sound of pain or grief. |
| cryingly | (Adv.) CRYING, lamenting. |
| cuffuffle | a commotion. |
| curfuffle | (Scots) a commotion; (verb) to make a commotion. |
| debate | to argue about. |
| debater | one that debates. |
| debatingly | (Adv.) DEBATING. |
| decantate | (Obs.) to chant or say repeatedly. |
| declaration | the act of declaring. |
| deen | (Spenser) din. |
| deeve | (Scots) to deafen, worry with noise. |
| dehort | to dissuade. |
| dialog | a conversation between two or more people; (verb) to take part in a dialog. |
| dialoger | one who makes things into dialogues. |
| dialogic | relating to dialogue. |
| dialogise | to discourse in dialogue. |
| dialogist | a speaker in a dialogue. |
| dialogistic | relating to dialog. |
| dialogistical | relating to dialog. |
| dialogize | to discourse in dialogue. |
| dialogue | a conversation between two or more people; (verb) to engage in a dialogue. |
| dict | (Obs.) to dictate. |
| dictum | (Lat.) a saying. |
| din | a loud continued jarring noise; (verb) to make a loud noise. |
| dinful | full of din. |
| dirdam | (Scots) an uproar. |
| dirdum | (Scots) an uproar. |
| discept | to dispute, debate. |
| discoursal | relating to discourse. |
| discourse | to talk or converse. |
| discursion | desultory talk. |
| discuss | to talk over or write about. |
| discussant | one who takes part in a formal symposium. |
| discusser | one who discusses. |
| discussion | consideration of a question in open and usually informal debate. |
| dissert | to speak or write at length on a subject. |
| dissertate | to discourse. |
| dixi | (Lat.) I have spoken. |
| dixit | (Lat.) an utterance or statement (quoted as) already made. |
| drant | (Dial.) to drawl, drone. |
| draunt | (Dial.) a droning tone; (verb) to drawl, to drone. |
| dudder | confusion, noise; (verb) to tremble, shudder. |
| durdum | (Scots) an uproar; a scolding; blame. |
| echoist | a person who repeats an echo. |
| effable | (Arch.) utterable; that that can be uttered or spoken. |
| elocute | to declaim. |
| elocution | the art of effective speaking. |
| elocutionary | relating to elocution. |
| elocutory | pertaining to elocution. |
| emeute | (Fr.) a popular rising or uproar. |
| emparl | (Spenser) to hold discourse, to parley. |
| emparlaunce | (Spenser) parleying, conference. |
| enounce | to enunciate; to proclaim. |
| enunciable | capable of being enunciated or expressed. |
| enunciate | to pronounce. |
| enunciative | containing enunciation or utterance. |
| enunciatively | (Adv.) ENUNCIATIVE. |
| enunciator | one who enunciates. |
| eruct | to belch. |
| eructate | to belch out; to emit lava. |
| exclaim | to cry out suddenly. |
| exposit | to expound. |
| express | explicit, clearly stated (verb) to set forth in words |
| expresser | one who expresses. |
| fart | an act of breaking wind; (verb) to break wind. |
| fillip | a stimulus, a boost; (verb) to snap the fingers. |
| fleer | to laugh in a derisive manner, to sneer. |
| fleeringly | (Adv.) FLEERING. |
| forespeak | to speak against. |
| forspeak | to speak against. |
| fracas | (Fr.) a rumpus, a to-do. |
| fremescence | growling or muttering. |
| fremescent | growling or muttering. |
| fremitus | (Lat.) a vibration; a rumbling. |
| galravage | (Scots) a noisy frolic; (verb) to behave riotously. |
| galravitch | (Scots) a noisy frolic; (verb) to behave riotously. |
| garboil | (Obs.) a confused disordered state, turmoil. |
| gargarise | (Obs.) to gargle. |
| gargarism | (Obs.) a gargle. |
| gargarize | (Obs.) to gargle. |
| gargle | to rinse the mouth or throat. |
| gargler | one who garglers. |
| gasp | a sharp noisy intake of breath (verb) to breathe convulsively |
| gaspiness | the state of being gaspy. |
| gaspingly | (Adv.) GASPING, breathless. |
| gaspy | gasping. |
| gaucherie | (Fr.) an awkward or socially unacceptable remark. |
| gefuffle | a commotion; (verb) to make a commotion. |
| gibber | to utter senseless or inarticulate sounds. |
| giggle | a foolish laugh (verb) to laugh in a silly manner |
| giggler | one who giggles. |
| giggling | the act of giggling. |
| gigglingly | (Adv.) GIGGLING. |
| giggly | given to giggling. |
| gillravage | (Scots) a noisy frolic; (verb) to behave riotously. |
| gillravitch | (Scots) a noisy frolic; (verb) to behave riotously. |
| gilravage | (Scots) a noisy frolic; (verb) to behave riotously. |
| gilravitch | (Scots) a noisy frolic; (verb) to behave riotously. |
| glutch | to gulp or swallow. |
| gnash | to grind the teeth together. |
| golias | (Tennyson) to play Golias, that is, to behave riotously. |
| gollar | (Scots) a loud inarticulate gurgling sound; (verb) to make this sound. |
| goller | (Scots) a loud inarticulate gurgling sound; (verb) to make this sound. |
| gollop | to gulp greedily or hastily. |
| golloper | one who gollops. |
| goster | to laugh uncontrollably. |
| gowl | (Scots) to cry or howl. |
| groan | to utter a low, mournful sound. |
| groaner | one who groans. |
| groaningly | (Adv.) GROANING. |
| groin | to grunt, groan. |
| grone | (Obs.) a groan; (verb) to groan. |
| gruff | hoarse, guttural (verb) to utter in a gruff voice |
| gruffily | (Adv.) GRUFFY, gruff. |
| gruffish | somewhat gruff. |
| gruffly | (Adv.) GRUFF, hoarse, guttural. |
| gruffness | the state of being gruff. |
| gruffy | gruff. |
| gruntle | (Dial.) to grunt. |
| grutten | (PaP.) GREET, to cry. |
| guffaw | a loud laugh; (verb) to laugh loudly. |
| gulp | a rapid swallow (verb) to swallow rapidly |
| gulper | one who gulps. |
| gulpingly | (Adv.) GULPING, swallowing air. |
| gulpy | marked by gulping. |
| gurgly | making bubbling sounds. |
| handclap | a sound made by striking the hands together. |
| harangue | a loud aggressive speech addressed to a crowd; (verb) to address (a person or crowd) in an angry, vehement, or forcefully persuasive way. |
| haranguer | one who harangues. |
| harrumph | to make a noise as of clearing the throat. |
| harumph | to make a noise as of clearing the throat. |
| hery | (Spenser) to praise, regard as holy. |
| hiccough | the involuntary contraction of the diaphragm while the glottis is spasmodically closed; (verb) to produce a hiccup. |
| hiccup | the involuntary contraction of the diaphragm while the glottis is spasmodically closed; (verb) to produce a hiccup |
| hiccupy | given to hiccuping > HICCUPIER, HICCUPIEST. |
| hish | a hissing sound; (verb) to hiss. |
| hisser | one who hisses. |
| hoast | (Dial.) a cough; (verb) to cough. |
| holler | a yell to attract attention etc; (verb) to call out or yell to attract attention. |
| hollo | a yell to attract attention etc (verb) to call out or yell to attract attention |
| horselaugh | a loud, boisterous laugh. |
| hoten | (PaP.) HIGHT, to command or call. |
| howl | a loud prolonged cry; (verb) to cry like a dog or wolf. |
| hubbub | a confused sound of many voices. |
| hubbuboo | a confused sound of many voices. |
| huff | a fit of anger (verb) to breathe heavily |
| huffer | one who huffs. |
| hullaballoo | a confused noise; an uproar. |
| hullabaloo | a confused noise; an uproar. |
| hummer | one who, or that which, hums. |
| hurly | noise; confusion. |
| hushedly | (Adv.) HUSHED, in a hushed manner. |
| imparl | to hold discourse; to parley. |
| imparlance | parleying, conference. |
| inaugural | relating to, or done at, an inauguration; (noun) an inaugural address or lecture. |
| incant | to utter ritually. |
| indite | (Arch.) to compose. |
| interject | to interpose, throw between. |
| interjectory | relating to interjection. |
| interlocutor | one who takes part in dialogue or conversation. |
| intonation | something that is intoned. |
| intonational | relating to intonation. |
| intonator | one who intonates. |
| intone | to speak in a singing voice. |
| intoner | one who intones. |
| intoningly | (Adv.) INTONING. |
| jabber | to talk rapidly. |
| jabberer | one that jabbers. |
| jabberingly | (Adv.) JABBERING. |
| jaw | a mouth-structure for biting or chewing; (verb) to chatter at length. |
| jibber | to utter senseless or inarticulate sounds. |
| kafuffle | a fuss, a commotion. |
| katzenjammer | (Ger.) a hangover. |
| keen | sharp (verb) to lament esp over a corpse |
| keener | a professional mourner. |
| keenly | (Adv.) KEEN, sharp. |
| kefuffle | (Scots) a commotion; (verb) to make a commotion. |
| kerfuffle | (Scots) a commotion; (verb) to make a commotion. |
| keynote | the fundamental note or tonic; any central principle or controlling thought; (verb) to give the keynote, to set the central theme of a meeting in an opening address. |
| keynoter | (US) one who sets a keynote. |
| kurfuffle | a commotion; (verb) to make a commotion. |
| lachrymose | shedding tears. |
| lachrymosely | (Adv.) LACHRYMOSE, shedding tears. |
| lachrymosity | the state of being lachrymose, tearful. |
| lamentable | deserving or expressing sorrow. |
| lamentably | (Adv.) LAMENTABLE, deserving or expressing sorrow. |
| lauch | (Scots) a laugh; (verb) to laugh. |
| laugh | to express emotion, typically mirth, by a series of inarticulate sounds (noun) an act of laughing |
| laughable | ridiculous. |
| laughably | (Adv.) LAUGHABLE, ridiculous. |
| laugher | one who laughs. |
| laughful | full of laughter. |
| laughingly | (Adv.) LAUGHING. |
| laughter | the act or sound of one that laughs. |
| laughy | inclined to laugh. |
| leuchen | (PaP.) LAUCH, to laugh. |
| leughen | (PaP.) LAUCH, to laugh. |
| locutionary | of or relating to an utterance. |
| maffick | to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing. |
| mafficker | one who mafficks, celebrates with boisterous rejoicing. |
| mang | (Arch.) to speak or talk. |
| maunder | to grumble, mutter, ramble. |
| maunderer | one who maunders. |
| meane | (Scots) to lament, moan. |
| mein | (Scots) to lament, moan. |
| mene | (Scots) to lament, moan. |
| mensh | (Coll.) to mention. |
| mirth | spirited gaiety. |
| moan | a low, mournful sound; (verb) to utter a moan. |
| moaner | one who moans. |
| moanful | full of moaning; expressing sorrow. |
| moanfully | (Adv.) MOANFUL, full of moaning. |
| moaningly | (Adv.) MOANING, making a moaning sound. |
| monologic | relating to a monologue. |
| monological | relating to a monologue. |
| monologise | to engage in a monolog. |
| monologist | one who soliloquizes; esp one who monopolizes conversation in company. |
| monologuise | to engage in a monolog. |
| monologuize | to engage in a monolog. |
| monology | the habit of offering soliloquies or monologues. |
| monotone | a single, unvaried tone or utterance; (verb) to recite, speak, or sing in a monotone. |
| moot | debatable (verb) to debate |
| mouther | one who mouths; an affected speaker. |
| mumble | unclear speech (verb) to speak unclearly |
| mumblement | (Carlyle) mumbling speech. |
| mumbler | one who mumbles. |
| mumblingly | (Adv.) MUMBLING. |
| mumbly | given to mumbling. |
| mump | to mumble, mutter. |
| murmur | a low, indistinct sound; (verb) to speak unclearly. |
| murmurer | one that murmurs. |
| murmuringly | (Adv.) MURMURING. |
| murmurous | full of murmurs. |
| murmurously | (Adv.) MURMUROUS, full of murmurs. |
| mussitate | (Obs.) to mutter. |
| mussitation | muttering to oneself soundlessly; murmuring. |
| mutter | an indistinct utterance; (verb) to speak unclearly. |
| mutterer | one who mutters. |
| mutteringly | (Adv.) MUTTERING. |
| narrate | to tell a story. |
| neese | (Scots) to sneeze. |
| neeze | (Scots) to sneeze. |
| noiseful | loud; clamorous. |
| noisily | (Adv.) NOISY, making loud sounds. |
| noisiness | the state of being noisy. |
| noisy | making loud sounds. |
| nuncupate | to utter as a vow. |
| obstreperous | noisy, unruly. |
| obstreperously | (Adv.) OBSTREPEROUS, noisy, unruly. |
| oracle | a medium or agency of divine revelation; (verb) to utter as an oracle. |
| orate | to speak formally. |
| oration | a formal speech. |
| orotund | marked by fullness and clarity of sound; pompous. |
| orotundly | (Adv.) orotund. |
| outbawl | to surpass in bawling. |
| outcry | a loud cry; (verb) to surpass in crying. |
| outdebate | to surpass in debating. |
| outsay | to say something out loud. |
| outscream | to surpass at screaming. |
| outshout | to surpass in shouting. |
| outsing | to surpass in singing. |
| outsnore | to surpass in snoring. |
| outspeak | to exceed in speaking. |
| outspokenly | (Adv.) OUTSPOKEN, frank. |
| outstate | to surpass in stating. |
| outsung | (PaP.) OUTSING, to surpass in singing. |
| outtalk | to surpass in talking. |
| outweep | to exceed in weeping. |
| outyell | to surpass in yelling. |
| overtalk | to talk to excess. |
| pandaemonium | riotous uproar. |
| pandemoniac | pertaining to pandemonium, general tumult. |
| pandemoniacal | pertaining to pandemonium, general tumult. |
| pandemonian | a noisy and disorderly person. |
| pandemonic | pertaining to pandemonium, general tumult. |
| pandemonium | riotous uproar. |
| pant | a quick gasping breath; (verb) to breathe quickly and with difficulty. |
| pantingly | (Adv.) PANTING, breathing hard. |
| paraffle | (Scots) a pretentious display, a fuss. |
| parafle | (Scots) a pretentious display, a fuss. |
| parle | (Arch.) to talk; to parley. |
| parley | a talk, a discussion; (verb) to hold talks with. |
| parleyer | one who parleys. |
| parleyvoo | (Sl.) to speak French. |
| patter | to talk glibly or rapidly. |
| patterer | one who patters. |
| pech | (Scots) to pant. |
| pegh | (Scots) to pant. |
| peptalk | a talk meant to inspire; (verb) to give a peptalk to. |
| perorate | to speak grandiosely or grandiloquently. |
| phonate | to speak or sing. |
| phraser | one who phrases. |
| piffle | nonsense; (verb) to talk in a feeble or futile way. |
| piffler | one who piffles. |
| plaint | lamentation, complaint. |
| poep | (Afrikaans) a fart; a despicable person; (verb) to break wind. |
| pontificate | to speak in a pompous and dogmatic manner. |
| pontification | the act of pontificating, speaking in a pompous and dogmatic manner. |
| pontificator | one who pontificates, speaks in a pompous and dogmatic manner. |
| pother | a commotion or fuss (verb) to make a pother |
| pothery | confused, in turmoil > POTHERIER, POTHERIEST. |
| prattlement | prattle. |
| prelect | to lecture. |
| prolation | an utterance; the time-ratio of a semibreve to a minim. |
| prolocution | an introductory speech or saying. |
| pronouncement | a statement. |
| pudder | a commotion or fuss; (verb) to make a tumult or bustle. |
| puffing | the act or sound of puffing. |
| quethe | (Obs.) to quote. |
| quote | to repeat the words of. |
| quoter | one who quotes. |
| quoth | 1st and 3rd pers sing, past, of the otherwise obsolete verb QUETHE, said (followed by its subject). |
| rabblement | a tumultuous crowd of low people, a rabble. |
| racket | a commotion (verb) to make a racket |
| racketer | one who makes, or engages in, a racket. |
| racketry | collective racket, uproar. |
| rackety | noisy. |
| raird | (Scots) an uproar. |
| rale | (Fr.) a rattling sound from a diseased lung. |
| rant | empty speechifying, bombast; (verb) to speak in a loud or vehement manner. |
| rantingly | (Adv.) RANTING, hectoring. |
| rawmaish | (Irish) foolish or dissolute talk. |
| razmataz | a to-do, a hullabaloo. |
| razzamatazz | a to-do, hullabaloo. |
| razzmatazz | a to-do, a hullabaloo. |
| rediscuss | to discuss again. |
| reird | (Scots) an uproar. |
| rellish | a musical ornament; (verb, Shakesp.) to warble. |
| remarker | one who remarks. |
| remurmur | to murmur again; to utter back, or reply, in murmurs. |
| rephrase | to phrase again. |
| rephrasing | the act of phrasing again. |
| resay | to say again. |
| respeak | (Shakesp.) to echo. |
| restate | to state again. |
| reutter | to utter again. |
| rhonchus | (Lat.) a whistling or snoring sound heard when the air channels are partially obstructed. |
| rhoncus | a rattling or whistling respiratory sound resembling snoring, caused by secretions in the trachea or bronchi. |
| riotous | characterized by rioting. |
| riotously | (Adv.) RIOTOUS, characterized by rioting. |
| roar | a loud deep sound (verb) to utter a loud, deep sound |
| roaringly | (Adv.) ROARING, proceeding with very great acitivty or success. |
| romage | (Shakesp.) tumult. |
| roop | (Scots) a hoarse sound (verb) to make a hoarse sound |
| routous | (Arch.) like a rout, tumultuous, disorderly. |
| routously | (Adv.) ROUTOUS, like a rout, tumultuous. |
| rowdedow | hubbub; uproar. |
| rowdydow | hubbub; uproar; (verb) to make a hullabaloo. |
| ruckle | (Scots) a rattle in the throat, a gurgle; (verb) to rattle in the throat. |
| ruckus | a disturbance. |
| ruction | a noisy fight; disturbance, uproar. |
| rumpus | an uproar, a disturbance. |
| sab | (Short for) a saboteur; (verb) to act as a saboteur; (Scots) to sob. |
| saidest | (Arch.) 2nd pers. pt. sing. of say. |
| saidst | (Arch.) 2nd pers. pt. sing. of say. |
| saine | (Spenser) 3rd pers. pl. of say. |
| saist | (Spenser) 2nd pers. sing. of say. |
| say | to utter in words, speak ) SEZ, (obs.) SAYST, (obs.) SAYEST, (obs.) SAITH, (obs.) SAYNE, SAYING, SAID, SED, (obs.) SAIDST, (obs.) SAIDEST; to assay |
| sayable | something that can be said > SAYABLES. |
| sayer | one that says. |
| sayest | (Arch.) 2nd pers. sing. of say. |
| sayne | (Spenser) 3rd pers. pl. of say. |
| sayst | (Arch.) 2nd pers. sing. of say. |
| scream | to utter a prolonged, piercing cry. |
| screamingly | (Adv.) SCREAMING. |
| screech | a harsh shrill cry (verb) to utter a harsh, shrill cry |
| screechy | emitting a screeching noise. |
| screed | a long passage, spoken or written; (verb) to tear; to make a shrill sound. |
| screich | (Scots) a screech; (verb) to screech, shriek. |
| screigh | (Scots) a screech; (verb) to screech, shriek. |
| scriech | (Scots) a screech; (verb) to screech, shriek. |
| scrike | a shriek; (verb) to shriek. |
| sed | (Milton) said. |
| sez | (Coll.) says. |
| shindy | a commotion, uproar. |
| shout | a loud cry (verb) to utter loudly |
| shouter | one who shouts. |
| shoutingly | (Adv.) SHOUTING. |
| shouty | given to shouting. |
| shreek | (Shakesp.) a shriek; (verb) to shriek. |
| shreik | (Milton) a shriek; (verb) to shriek. |
| shriech | (Spenser) a shriek; (verb) to shriek. |
| shriek | a shrill cry (verb) to utter a shrill cry |
| shrieker | one who shrieks. |
| shriekingly | (Adv.) SHRIEKING. |
| shrieky | shrill. |
| shright | (Spenser) a shriek. |
| shritch | (Dial.) a shriek; (verb) to shriek. |
| shush | to hush. |
| shusher | one who shushes. |
| sibilant | hissing (noun) a hissing sound |
| sibilantly | (Adv.) SIBILANT, hissing. |
| sibilator | one who sibilates, hisses. |
| sibilous | having a hissing sound. |
| siffle | to whistle, hiss. |
| sigh | a deep, audible breath; (verb) to let out a sigh. |
| sigher | one who sighs. |
| sighful | full of sighs. |
| sighing | making a sound like a sigh. |
| sighingly | (Adv.) SIGHING, making a sound like a sigh. |
| sighless | without a sigh. |
| sighlike | like a sigh. |
| singult | (Arch.) a sob. |
| skelloch | (Scots) to yell. |
| skreegh | (Scots) a screech; (verb) to screech, shriek. |
| skreigh | (Scots) a screech; (verb) to screech, shriek. |
| skriech | (Scots) a screech; (verb) to screech, shriek. |
| skriegh | (Scots) a screech; (verb) to screech, shriek. |
| skrike | (Dial.) a shriek; (verb) to shriek. |
| slurper | one who slurps. |
| smatter | a smattering; (verb) to talk superficially. |
| smattering | a little knowledge of something. |
| smatteringly | (Adv.) SMATTERING. |
| snarler | one who snarls. |
| sneeze | a sudden, involuntary expiration of breath (verb) to make a sudden, involuntary expiration of breath |
| sneezer | one who sneezes. |
| sneezy | given to sneezing. |
| snicker | a smothered laugh (verb) to give a half-suppressed or smothered laugh |
| snickerer | one who snickers. |
| sniffle | a slight cold (verb) to sniff repeatedly |
| snigger | a sly laugh; (verb) to laugh in a sly way. |
| sniggerer | one who sniggers. |
| sniggeringly | (Adv.) SNIGGERING. |
| snirt | (Scots) a smothered laugh, a snicker; (verb) to snigger. |
| snirtle | (Scots) to snicker. |
| snivel | mucus in the nose, a sniffle; (verb) to make a snuffling sound indicative of crying |
| snivelling snivelling | the act of making a snivel. |
| snivelly | given to snivelling > SNIVELLIER, SNIVELLIEST. |
| snively | given to snivelling > SNIVELIER, SNIVELIEST. |
| snore | a noisy breathing in sleep; (verb) to breathe loudly while sleeping. |
| snorer | one who snores. |
| snort | a noisy exhalation through the nose; (verb) to exhale noisily through the nostrils |
| snorter | one that snorts. |
| snortingly | (Adv.) SNORTING. |
| snot | mucus; (verb) to blow the nose |
| snotter | to snivel. |
| snuffle | a snuffling sound; (verb) to sniffle |
| snuffler | a person who snuffles. |
| snuffly | characterized by snuffling. |
| sob | a convulsive catch of the breath; (verb) to cry uncontrollably, taking intermittent breaths. |
| sobber | one who sobs. |
| sobbingly | (Adv.) SOBBING, making a sobbing noise. |
| sobful | full of sobs, tear-jerking. |
| soliloquise | to talk reflectively to oneself. |
| soliloquiser | one who soliloquises. |
| soliloquist | one who soliloquizes. |
| soliloquize | to talk reflectively to oneself. |
| soliloquizer | one who soliloquises. |
| sowf | (Scots) to whistle or hum softly. |
| sowff | (Scots) to whistle or hum softly. |
| sowth | (Scots) to whistle or hum softly. |
| speak | to utter words. |
| speakable | capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken. |
| speaker | one that speaks. |
| speaking | a speech or discourse. |
| speakingly | (Adv.) SPEAKING. |
| speakout | the act of speaking out. |
| speech | human utterance in language; (verb) to harangue. |
| speechcraft | the art of making speeches. |
| speechful | full of speech or words; loquacious. |
| speechifier | one who speechifies. |
| speechify | to make long speeches. |
| speechless | unable to speak. |
| speechlessly | (Adv.) SPEECHLESS, unable to speak. |
| speechmaking | the making of speeches. |
| spiel | a plausible story or line of talk; (verb) to talk glibly. |
| splutter | a rapid inarticulate speech (verb) to speak rapidly and confusedly |
| splutterer | one who splutters. |
| splutteringly | (Adv.) SPLUTTERING. |
| spluttery | given to spluttering. |
| spoken | (PaP.) SPEAK, to utter words. |
| spruik | (Aust. sl.) of a showman, etc., to harangue people in public. |
| sputter | an instance of spitting (verb) to spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking |
| sputterer | one who sputters. |
| sputteringly | (Adv.) SPUTTERING. |
| squaller | a person, esp a child, given to squalling. |
| squawky | of a voice, loud and harsh; hoarsely squeaky. |
| stammer | a speech impediment; (verb) to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses. |
| stammerer | one who stammers. |
| stammeringly | (Adv.) STAMMERING. |
| stashie | (Scots) fuss, ado, disturbance. |
| statement | something said formally; (verb) to take a statement. |
| steery | (Scott) a commotion ) busy or bustling |
| sternutation | the act of sneezing. |
| stertor | (Lat.) a heavy snoring sound, as that accompanying breathing in a deeply unconscious person. |
| stertorous | with a snoring sound. |
| stertorously | (Adv.) STERTOROUS, with a snoring sound. |
| steven | (Dial.) a voice; an outcry. |
| stishie | (Scots) fuss, ado, disturbance. |
| stooshie | (Scots) fuss, ado. |
| stoushie | (Scots) fuss, ado. |
| stramash | (Scots) to make a racket. |
| strepent | (Lat.) noisy. |
| strepitation | a clamour. |
| stushie | (Scots) fuss, ado, disturbance. |
| stutter | a kind of speech impediment; (verb) to speak with spasmodic repetition. |
| stutterer | one who stutters. |
| stutteringly | (Adv.) STUTTERING. |
| subjoinder | an additional remark. |
| subtone | a low or subdued tone. |
| sugh | to sigh, hum, as of the wind. |
| suspiration | the act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath. |
| suspire | to sigh. |
| susurrant | whispering. |
| susurrate | to whisper. |
| susurration | whispering, murmuring, or rustling. |
| susurrous | full of whispering sounds. |
| susurrus | (Lat.) a whispering or rustling sound. |
| talk | conversation (verb) to communicate by speaking |
| talkability | the quality of being talkable, easy to converse with. |
| talkable | easy to converse with. |
| talker | one who talks. |
| tchick | a sound made by clicking the tongue against the roof of the mouth. |
| tink | to make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle. |
| tirrivee | (Scots) a tantrum, a commotion. |
| tirrivie | (Scots) a tantrum, a commotion. |
| titter | a restrained, nervous laugh; (verb) to utter a nervous laugh. |
| titterer | one that titters. |
| tittering | laughing nervously (noun) the act of tittering |
| titteringly | (Adv.) TITTERING. |
| tittle | a dot; the smallest part; (verb) to talk, whisper. |
| trialogue | a discourse or colloquy by three persons. |
| tumult | an uproar; (verb, arch.) to make a tumult. |
| tumultuate | (Arch.) to make a tumult. |
| tutoyer | (Fr.) to address familiarly. |
| twank | a short twang; (verb) to make a short twang > TWANKED, TWANKING. |
| ululant | howling; wailing. |
| ululate | to lament loudly and shrilly. |
| unmoaned | not moaned. |
| unshoot | (Shakesp.) to revoke the shouting of by a contrary shout. |
| unshout | to recall what is done by shouting. |
| unspeak | (Shakesp.) to retract. |
| unspoken | (PaP.) UNSPEAK, to retract. |
| uproar | a tumult, a commotion; (verb, Shakesp.) to throw into uproar or confusion. |
| upspeak | to begin to speak. |
| utter | complete (verb) to give audible expression to |
| utterable | capable of being uttered. |
| utterance | the act of uttering. |
| utterer | one who utters. |
| vagitus | (Lat.) a newborn baby's cry or wail. |
| verbigeration | the obsessive repetition of stereotyped phrases. |
| vocal | uttered by the voice (noun) a sound uttered by the voice |
| vocalism | the exercise of the vocal organs. |
| vocally | (Adv.) VOCAL, uttered by the voice. |
| vociferate | to cry out with a loud voice; to bawl. |
| vociferator | one who vociferates. |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry. |
| vociferously | (Adv.) VOCIFEROUS, marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry. |
| vocular | vocal. |
| voice | to express or utter. |
| voiceful | having a voice; vocal. |
| wail | to utter a long, mournful cry. |
| wailer | one who wails. |
| wailingly | (Adv.) WAILING, making a wailing sound. |
| warbly | voiced in a trilling or quavering manner. |
| wawa | (Am. Ind.) to speak. |
| weep | to express sorrow by shedding tears WEEPY. |
| weeper | one who weeps. |
| weepiness | the state of being weepy. |
| weepingly | (Adv.) WEEPING, tearful. |
| whaisle | (Scots) to wheeze. |
| whaizle | (Scots) to wheeze. |
| wheep | (Scots) to give a prolonged whistle. |
| wheeple | (Scots) to cry like a curlew; to whistle feebly. |
| wheeze | a hissing breath (verb) to breathe with a hissing sound |
| wheezer | one who wheezes. |
| wheezily | (Adv.) WHEEZY, given to wheezing. |
| wheeziness | the state of being wheezy. |
| wheezingly | (Adv.) WHEEZING. |
| wheezle | (Scots) to wheeze. |
| wheezy | given to wheezing. |
| whew | an interjection expressing wonder, relief or dismay; (verb) to say whew. |
| whimper | to cry with plaintive, broken sounds. |
| whimperingly | (Adv.) WHIMPERING. |
| whiney | given to whining. |
| whiny | given to whining. |
| whisper | a low hissing sound or voice (verb) to speak softly |
| whisperer | one who whispers. |
| whisperingly | (Adv.) WHISPERING. |
| whispery | like a whisper. |
| whiss | to hiss or whistle. |
| whistle | to make a shrill, clear musical sound. |
| whistler | someone or something that whistles. |
| whistlingly | (Adv.) WHISTLING. |
| whitter | to talk or mutter peevishly or ineffectually. |
| whoobub | (Obs.) a confused sound of many voices. |
| whoop | to give a loud cry of triumph etc. |
| whoopla | a noisy commotion. |
| witter | to talk or mutter peevishly or ineffectually. |
| yabber | (Aborig.) talk, conversation; (verb) to talk. |
| yaup | to yelp or bark. |
| yauper | one who yaups, yelps or barks. |
| yawl | to howl. |
| yawp | to cry hoarsely or harshly. |
| yawper | one who yawps, cries hoarsely. |
| yell | to cry out loudly. |
| yeller | one who yells. |
| yelloch | (Scots) to yell. |
| yesk | (Scots) to hiccup or belch. |
| yex | to hiccup or belch. |
| yock | to laugh. |
| yok | to laugh. |
| yorp | (Dial.) to shout. |