Word Meanings - LABIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe. Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w. Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as oo , o , etc., and as eu and u in French, and ö, ü in German. See Guide

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Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe. Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w. Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as oo , o , etc., and as eu and u in French, and ö, ü in German. See Guide to Pronunciation, (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.

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• FURNISHMENT
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• MODIFICATION
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• ORGANICALNESS
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• ARTICULATOR
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• ORGANOLOGY
  1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology
• ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
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• ORGANOGRAPHIST
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• ORGANOGRAPHY
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• VOWELIZE
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• GERMANIZATION
  The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
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• ORGANOPHYLY
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• PROPENE
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• INORGANICAL
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