Word
fricative, adj.
of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
<adj.all>
continuant
fricative
sibilant
spirant
strident
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
continuance
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
sibilant
sibilate
sibilate
sibilate
semantic pointers
similar to
soft