Phrase Hound found 29 phrases and 2 compound words that contain vowels. The most common are listed below. Open vowels in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 29
- cardinal vowelsplural of cardinal vowel: a vowel sound produced when the tongue is in an extreme position, either front or back, high or low.
- lax vowelsplural of lax vowel: A vowel produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.
- long vowelsplural of long vowel: A vowel which is normally pronounced somewhat longer than other vowels (usually around 1½ to 2½ times the length of a short vowel); represented in the IPA by the addition of a colon-like symbol (ː, triangular colon) …
- nasal vowelsplural of nasal vowel: A vowel that is produced with a lowering of the velum so that air escapes both through nose as well as the mouth.
- oral vowelsplural of oral vowel: A vowel that is produced without nasalization.
- reduced vowelsplural of reduced vowel: a vowel that occurs only, or at least disproportionately often, in unstressed syllables in a given language; usually one that is intermediate in both height and frontness/backness
- rounded vowelsplural of rounded vowel: A vowel that is pronounced with the lips drawn together and forming a circular opening.
- short vowelsplural of short vowel: In languages that distinguish vowel length, a vowel which is normally pronounced shorter than a long vowel.
- tense vowelsplural of tense vowel: A vowel produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
- R-colored vowelsplural of R-colored vowel: A vowel modified so that the frequency of its third formant is lowered.
- unrounded vowelsplural of unrounded vowel: A vowel that is pronounced with the lips relaxed.
- back vowelsplural of back vowel: Any vowel sound produced in the back of the mouth, such as /uː/ in rule or /əʊ/ in pole.
- dark vowelsplural of dark vowel: Any vowel sound produced in the back of the mouth, such as /uː/ in rule or /əʊ/ in pole.
- echo vowelsplural of echo vowel: A paragogic vowel that is a repetition of the final vowel of a word
- front vowelsplural of front vowel: Any vowel sound produced in the front of the mouth. Examples: "a" in “man” and "e" in “gel”
- gliding vowelsplural of gliding vowel: A diphthong.
- happy vowelsplural of happy vowel: A vowel in spoken English that falls between /iː/ and /ɪ/ and may be represented by /i/.
- inherent vowelsplural of inherent vowel: In an abugida, the vowel sound (often a schwa in Brahmic scripts) appended by default to a consonant symbol lacking a vowel diacritic.
- linking vowelsplural of linking vowel: The epenthesis (insertion) of a vowel.
- natural vowelsplural of natural vowel: schwa
- neutral vowelsplural of neutral vowel: schwa
- prop vowelsplural of prop vowel: A vowel added at the end of a word in certain languages, often resulting from a sound change where vowels at the ends of words were deleted.
- thematic vowelsplural of thematic vowel: A vowel appended to the end of a root (with which it constitutes a stem), before the ending.
- half-long vowelsplural of half-long vowel: In languages that distinguish vowel length, a vowel whose length is between a short vowel and a long vowel.
- R-coloured vowelsplural of R-coloured vowel: A vowel modified so that the frequency of its third formant is lowered.
Compound words 2
- nonvowelsplural of nonvowel: A sound or letter that is not a vowel.
- semivowelsplural of semivowel: A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel.