Word Meanings - DIPHTHONGIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel. "The diphthongized long vowels." H. Sweet.

Related words: (words related to DIPHTHONGIZE)

• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• DIPHTHONGATION
  See DIPHTHONGIZATION
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• DIPHTHONGALIZE
  To make into a diphthong; to pronounce as a diphthong.
• VOWELIZE
  To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• SWEETEN
  Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
• SWEETNESS
  The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
• DIPHTHONGIC
  Of the nature of diphthong; diphthongal. H. Sweet.
• SWEETWORT
  Any plant of a sweet taste.
• VOWEL
  A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in
• SIMPLE
  simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one to each, single. Cg. Single, a., 1. Single; not complex; not infolded
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• COUNTERCHANGED
  Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
• COUNTERCHANGE
  1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
• INTERCHANGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.