Occlusive

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  occlusive
       adj : tending to occlude
       n : a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some
           point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are
           too aspirated" [syn: {stop consonant}, {stop}, {plosive
           consonant}, {plosive speech sound}, {plosive}] [ant: {continuant


           consonant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "occlusive":
     accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
     articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad,
     cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, choking, close, consonant,
     consonantal, constrictive, continuant, contrary, counterproductive,
     crosswise, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide,
     glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hindering,
     hindersome, in the way, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting,
     interruptive, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral,
     lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted,
     narrow, nasal, nasalized, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent,
     open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
     phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, repressive,
     restrictive, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, stifling,
     stopped, strangling, stressed, strong, suppressive, surd, syllabic,
     tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, troublesome, twangy,
     unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced,
     voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide