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Lipreading
To determine what a person is saying by watching how their lips move.
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verb
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To determine what a person is saying by watching how their lips move.
noun
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The act of reading lips.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| speechreadingnoun | Lipreading. |
| lip languagenoun | (dated) Language produced by clearly moving the lips so that it can be lipread. |
| lip-smackingnoun | (informal) Tasty; appetizing. |
| lip-syncingnoun | The act of lip-syncing. |
| labrasnoun | (anatomy) Any of several lip-like projections. |
| lingnoun | Common heather (Calluna vulgaris) |
| lippiesnoun | (colloquial) Lips. |
| lispnoun | The act or a habit of lisping. |
| lip servicenoun | (idiomatic) Promising but empty talk; words without action or intention. |
| eavesdroppingnoun | Listening 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 lipsnoun | An 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. |
| lipsmacknoun | A 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. |
| lipletnoun | A 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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