rhotic
adjective /ˈrəʊtɪk/
/ˈrəʊtɪk/
(phonetics)- (of an accent) pronouncing the /r/ after a vowel in words like car, early, etc. General American and Scottish accents are rhotic.Topics Languagec2Word Origin1960s: from Greek rhot-, stem of rho (see rho) + -ic.