Word Meanings - TONGUE-TIE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the frænum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums. Dunglison.

Related words: (words related to TONGUE-TIE)

• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• IMPEDE
  To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops. Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will. Logfellow.
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• TONGUED
  Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.
• TONGUE-TIED
  1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• IMPEDIMENT
  That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect. Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. Shak. Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance. Syn. -- Hindrance; obstruction;
• TONGUE-PAD
  A great talker.
• MOTION
  An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position;
• TONGUE-SHAPED
  Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
• IMPEDITE
  Hindered; obstructed. Jer. Taylor.
• IMPEDIMENTAL
  Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive. Things so impediental to success. G. H. Lewes.
• IMPEDITIVE
  Causing hindrance; impeding. "Cumbersome, and impeditive of motion." Bp. Hall.
• TONGUEFISH
  A flounder native of the southern coast of the United States.
• IMPEDIMENTA
  Things which impede or hinder progress; incumbrances; baggage; specif. ,
• BECAUSE
  1. By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. Milton. 2. In order that; that. And the multitude rebuked them because they should hold their peace. Matt. xx. 31. Because of, by reason of, on account of. Because of these
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• LONG-TONGUE
  The wryneck.
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• TRUMPET-TONGUED
  Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
• TWO-TONGUED
  Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.
• INADHESION
  Want of adhesion.