metaphone
/ˈmɛtəfəʊn/Phonetics
noun
Either of two or more phonemes which are in free variation in particular words or in particular circumstances. Also: (in H. E. Palmer's terminology) a phoneme comprising more than one sound (disused ).
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Harold Edward Palmer (1877–1949), linguist and teacher of languages. From meta- + phone.
- rough passage
- rough plate
- rough pâté
- rough ray
- rough rendering
- rough rice
- rough-ride
- rough-rider
- Rough Rider
- rough-riding
- rough-scaled lizard
- rough scruff
- rough scuff
- rough seal
- rough service
- roughshod
- rough shoot
- rough-shooting
- rough skin
- rough-skinned
- rough-skinned plum
- rough sleeper
- rough sleeping
- rough someone up
- rough spin