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Another word for consonant

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consonant

n.

Linguistic terms referring to consonant sounds include: voiceless, voiced; labial, bilabial, labiodental, apical, dental, alveolar, retroflex, frontal, alveopalatal, prepalatal, dorsal, palatal, velar, uvular, glottal, pharyngeal, interdental, labiovelar; stop, fricative, spirant, lenis, resonant, sibilant; aspirated, unaspirated, affricated, glottalized, preaspirated, prenasalized, implosive, plosive, nasal; click, glide, continuant, trill, flap.
In spelling, English consonants are: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z;

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adjective

In keeping with one's needs or expectations:
accordant, agreeable, compatible, conformable, congenial, congruous, consistent, correspondent, corresponding, harmonious. See agree
Characterized by harmony of sound:
harmonic, harmonious, musical, symphonic, symphonious. See beautiful, sounds

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That they were employed in divination is consonant with the facts already noted.
K is still in use as an ordinary consonant, and not limited to a symbol for abbreviations as in the classical period.
It will be seen that they contain three vowel and six consonant elements, and these formed the foundation for her first real lesson in speaking.
Consonant Changes.
Through the influence of Samuel Wilberforce, he was offered the post of sub-almoner to Queen Victoria, always recognized as a stepping-stone to the episcopal bench, and his refusal of it was honourably consonant with all else in his career as an Anglican dignitary, in which he united pastoral diligence with an asceticism that was then quite exceptional.

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