Phrase Hound found 33 phrases and 20 compound words that contain chords. The most common are listed below. Open chords in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 33
- Guitar chords
- major chordsplural of major chord: Any musical chord which has the tones a major third (as opposed to a minor third) and a perfect fifth above its root, i.e. the notes of a major triad, but possibly containing other intervals, such as a seventh or …
- minor chordsplural of minor chord: Any musical chord which has a minor third, as opposed to a major third, above its root, especially a minor triad.
- power chordsplural of power chord: A chord or combination of notes used in rock music and typically selected to sound good at high volume and high levels of distortion. Power chords make extensive use of intervals such as open fourths and fifths.
- seventh chordsplural of seventh chord: a chord that contains four notes that make three thirds
- vocal chordsEggcorn of vocal cords.
- slash chordsplural of slash chord: A chord which has a bass note that is not the root note.
- barre chordsplural of barre chord: A guitar chord played by pressing down multiple strings on the fretboard with the same finger.
- major seventh chordsplural of major seventh chord: a chord with the bass note and its major third, perfect fifth, and major seventh above it
- minor seventh chordsplural of minor seventh chord: a chord with the bass note, the minor third, perfect fifth, and the minor seventh above it
- half-diminished seventh chordsplural of half-diminished seventh chord: a chord with the bass note and the minor third, diminished fifth, and minor seventh above it, often denoted with 𝆩.
- bell chordsplural of bell chord: A chord played as a sequence of single notes on multiple instruments (of the same or different kinds), sustained so that the chord can be heard.
- broken chordsplural of broken chord: A chord whose notes are played in sequential descending or ascending order
- common chordsplural of common chord: major triad (name for)
- cowboy chordsplural of cowboy chord: An open chord, i.e. one played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
- cycle chordsplural of cycle chord: A chord of a graph cycle, one of whose endpoints is not a vertex.
- ninth chordsplural of ninth chord: A chord with five notes that are thirds apart.
- perfect chordsplural of perfect chord: A concord or union of sounds of three or more simultaneous notes according to the rules of harmony.
- spinal chordsplural of spinal chord: A thick, whitish cord of nerve tissue which is a major part of the vertebrate central nervous system. It extends from the brain stem down through the spine, with nerves branching off to various parts of the body.
- accidental chordsplural of accidental chord: A chord containing one or more tones foreign to its proper harmony.
- scare chordsplural of scare chord: A strong dissonant chord, usually on a string instrument, intended to emphasize a startling moment.
- sus chordsplural of sus chord: Clipped compound of suspended chord.
- chop chordsplural of chop chord: A clipped backbeat; a muted chord that marks the off-beats or upbeats.
- Tristan chordsplural of Tristan chord: A chord in musical composition consisting originally of the notes F, B, D♯ and G♯ which can be translated more generally in intervalic terms as: augmented fourth, augmented sixth and augmented ninth above a root …
- dominant seventh chordsplural of dominant seventh chord: a chord with the bass note and the major third, perfect fifth, and the minor seventh above it
Compound words 20
- acrochordsplural of acrochord: Any snake of the genus Acrochordus
- counterchordsplural of counterchord: A counter-dominant chord.
- decachordsplural of decachord: An Ancient Greek musical instrument with ten strings, resembling the harp.
- glasschordsplural of glasschord: A crystallophone similar to a celesta that uses glass bars in place of metal ones.
- hypochordsplural of hypochord: A structure ventral to the notochord
- manichordsplural of manichord: A clavichord.
- monochordsplural of monochord: A musical instrument for experimenting with the mathematical relations of musical sounds, consisting of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which can be moved, and which stand upon a graduated …
- neurochordsplural of neurochord: A cord-like organ composed of elastic fibres, situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids such as the earthworm.
- notochordsplural of notochord: A flexible rodlike structure that forms the main support of the body in the lowest chordates; a primitive spine.
- Novachordsplural of Novachord: An early electronic polyphonic synthesizer.