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fricativenoun(phonetics) Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.
softnounA soft drink.
sibilantnoun(phonetics) A consonant having a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.
fricative consonantnouna continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
voicelessLacking a voice, without vocal sound.
spirulanounAny mollusk of the cephalopod genus Spirula, of which Spirula spirula is the only extant species.
spirationnoun(archaic) The act of breathing.
spiracularnounOf, pertaining to, of having spiracles
frenchnoun(chiefly uncountable) The language of France, shared by the neighboring countries Belgium, Monaco, and Switzerland and by former French colonies around the world.
spiralsnoun(geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
aspiratesnoun(linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
spirillanounany flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form
francsnounAny of several units of currency, some of which are multi-national (West African CFA Franc (XOF), Central African CFA Franc (XAF), the Swiss franc (CHF)) while others are national currencies.
parisiansnounA native, citizen and/or inhabitant of Paris, France
frenchmennoun
spiralenoun
sulphuretnounObsolete spelling of sulfuret. [(obsolete, chemistry) A sulfide.]
cevennesnoun
phonemesnoun(phonology) An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.
frenchnessnounThe quality or characteristic of being French.

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