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Polysyllable

A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables.

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Sesquipedalian 76% connected

Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words.

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Word 76% connected

The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice…

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Anagram noun · 86% connection

a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

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Antonym noun · 86% connection

a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to hi…

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Back-formation noun · 86% connection

a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it

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Catchword noun · 86% connection

a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page

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Charade noun · 86% connection

a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades

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Classifier noun · 86% connection

a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted i…

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Cognate noun · 86% connection

a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language

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Coinage noun · 86% connection

a newly invented word or phrase

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Contraction noun · 86% connection

a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "‘won't’ is a contraction of ‘will not’"; "‘o'clock’ is a c…

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Deictic noun · 86% connection

a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the com…

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Derivative noun · 86% connection

(linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "‘electricity’ is a derivative of ‘electric’"

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Diminutive noun · 86% connection

a word that is formed with a suffix (such as ‘-let’ or ‘-kin’) to indicate smallness

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Dissyllable noun · 86% connection

a word having two syllables

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form noun · 86% connection

the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected form…

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Head noun · 86% connection

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

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Head word noun · 86% connection

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

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Heteronym noun · 86% connection

two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation; "the word ‘bow’ is an example of a heteronym"

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Homonym noun · 86% connection

two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings

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Anapest noun · 78% connection

A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of…

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Articulate adjective · 78% connection

Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds…

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Caterpillar noun · 78% connection

The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the s…

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Choriambus noun · 78% connection

A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or troch…

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Dispondee noun · 78% connection

A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.

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Epitrite noun · 78% connection

A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.

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Foot noun · 78% connection

A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or l…

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Four-in-hand adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-…

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Hieroglyphic adjective · 78% connection

A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the pictu…

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Hyphen noun · 78% connection

A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carr…

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Imparisyllabic adjective · 78% connection

Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the…

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Ionic noun · 78% connection

A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called th…

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Key noun · 78% connection

A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three,…

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