glottal
/ˈɡlɒt(ə)l
/adjective
Of or produced by the glottis: the unmistakable glottal accent of my home town...
- Modern phoneticians would more precisely categorize such consonants into velar, uvular, pharyngeal, and glottal articulations.
- Many have strangely unresonant, throat-blocked, or glottal voices and use ‘up-talk,’ the tendency to end all sentences in a rising, questioning inflection.’
- But one thing holds him back: the facial tics, glottal sounds, and uncontrollable gestures of Tourette's Syndrome.
Rhymes
- Quadi
- quadmire
- quadplex
- quadra
- quadrable
- quadracycle
- quadragenarian
- quadragene
- Quadragesima
- quadragesimal
- Quadragesima Sunday
- quadral
- quadraminium
- quadrangle
- quadrangled
- quadrangular
- quadrangularly
- quadrangulate
- Quadrans Muralis
- quadrant
- quadrantal
- quadrantally
- quadrantanopia
- quadrantanopsia
- quadrant cell