1. Of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as 'f', 's', 'z', or 'th' in both 'thin' and 'then')
   - fricative, sibilant, spirant, strident

1. Consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract
   - continuant consonant

Derived forms: continuants

See also: continuance, soft

Type of: obstruent

Encyclopedia: Continuant

• scale fern
• scale insect
• scale leaf
• scale moss
• scale of C major
• scale of measurement
• scale up
• scale value
• scale wax
• scaled
• scaleless
• scalelike
• scalene
• scalene muscle
• scalene triangle
• scalenus
• scalenus syndrome
• scaler
• scaley
• scalic
• scaliness
• scaling
• scaling ladder
• scallion
• scallop