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Lipreading

To determine what a person is saying by watching how their lips move.

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verb
  1. 1

    To determine what a person is saying by watching how their lips move.

noun
  1. 1

    The act of reading lips.

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speechreadingnounLipreading.
lip languagenoun(dated) Language produced by clearly moving the lips so that it can be lipread.
lip-smackingnoun(informal) Tasty; appetizing.
lip-syncingnounThe act of lip-syncing.
labrasnoun(anatomy) Any of several lip-like projections.
lingnounCommon heather (Calluna vulgaris)
lippiesnoun(colloquial) Lips.
lispnounThe act or a habit of lisping.
lip servicenoun(idiomatic) Promising but empty talk; words without action or intention.
eavesdroppingnounListening secretly to the private conversations of others.
lip flapnoun(film) A failure in audio-video synchronization, so that an actor's lips move but no sound is heard.
hot lipsnounAn attractive or sexy person.
labiodentalnoun(phonetics) A speech sound articulated with the lower lip and upper teeth.
raudingnoun(linguistics) The combination of reading and auding.
lipsmacknounA smack (noise) of the lips.
labiumnoun(anatomy, usually in the plural) A liplike structure; especially one of the vulva's two pairs of folds of skin on either side.
lipletnounA small lip.
overlipnoun(now uncommon) The upper lip.
lithpnoun(humorous or childish) Pronunciation spelling of lisp, representing lisped English. [The act or a habit of lisping.]
labializationnoun(phonology) A secondary articulatory feature of usually consonants that involves the contraction or rounding of the lips (labia) during pronunciation.

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