Words and phrases whose definition contains words: (514 results)
4 letters:
aper, boom, bull, case, coin, crap, echo, emit, hale, head, kind, last, line, lost, mark, mime, mute, quad, roar, root, scat, shot, song, stab, stem, tell, text, tone, word
aper, boom, bull, case, coin, crap, echo, emit, hale, head, kind, last, line, lost, mark, mime, mute, quad, roar, root, scat, shot, song, stab, stem, tell, text, tone, word
5 letters:
alter, blank, dirty, ditty, dunce, gloss, harsh, idiom, jaded, lexis, mouth, ology, point, rebus, shema, slang, space, state, tonal, tonic, utter, vouch, windy, wordy
alter, blank, dirty, ditty, dunce, gloss, harsh, idiom, jaded, lexis, mouth, ology, point, rebus, shema, slang, space, state, tonal, tonic, utter, vouch, windy, wordy
6 letters:
alexia, answer, bitter, coiner, direct, echoic, ending, etymon, fusion, hummer, hyphen, id est, intend, ireful, jumble, latino, length, markup, masora, parrot, pencil, phrase, piracy, pirate, praise, prefix, prompt, purist, quaint, remind, render, report, resist, reword, rhythm, salute, smudgy, speech, sponge, string, suffix, syntax, urgent, verbal, wasted, zeugma
alexia, answer, bitter, coiner, direct, echoic, ending, etymon, fusion, hummer, hyphen, id est, intend, ireful, jumble, latino, length, markup, masora, parrot, pencil, phrase, piracy, pirate, praise, prefix, prompt, purist, quaint, remind, render, report, resist, reword, rhythm, salute, smudgy, speech, sponge, string, suffix, syntax, urgent, verbal, wasted, zeugma
7 letters:
account, antonym, at ease, autocue, boswell, briefly, comment, concise, concord, copycat, cursive, defined, diction, dissent, elision, falsify, get out, homonym, hurtful, justify, let out, lexical, lexicon, mimesis, misused, portray, profane, protest, punning, rhyming, set off, shortly, shouted, similar, slander, slurred, smeared, smudged, speller, sputter, strange, swallow, synonym, tedious, telling, that is, thunder, tushery, uttered, verbose, wording, writing, yiddish
account, antonym, at ease, autocue, boswell, briefly, comment, concise, concord, copycat, cursive, defined, diction, dissent, elision, falsify, get out, homonym, hurtful, justify, let out, lexical, lexicon, mimesis, misused, portray, profane, protest, punning, rhyming, set off, shortly, shouted, similar, slander, slurred, smeared, smudged, speller, sputter, strange, swallow, synonym, tedious, telling, that is, thunder, tushery, uttered, verbose, wording, writing, yiddish
8 letters:
abstract, acrostic, adoption, anagrams, analysis, analytic, annotate, antonymy, apprisal, approval, assonant, backward, bonehead, citation, come out, contrary, converse, deletion, describe, dyslexic, eclipsis, ellipsis, emulator, geminate, horrible, imitator, in brief, in short, language, libretto, logomach, longhand, lunkhead, lyricist, monosemy, monotone, numerate, numskull, obsolete, omission, opposite, orthoepy, phrasing, pleonasm, prompter, rephrase, reproach, scrabble, sentence, smirched, songster, spelling, splutter, surtitle, synonymy, syntagma, unspoken, verbatim, verbiage, wordbook, wordless, wordplay
abstract, acrostic, adoption, anagrams, analysis, analytic, annotate, antonymy, apprisal, approval, assonant, backward, bonehead, citation, come out, contrary, converse, deletion, describe, dyslexic, eclipsis, ellipsis, emulator, geminate, horrible, imitator, in brief, in short, language, libretto, logomach, longhand, lunkhead, lyricist, monosemy, monotone, numerate, numskull, obsolete, omission, opposite, orthoepy, phrasing, pleonasm, prompter, rephrase, reproach, scrabble, sentence, smirched, songster, spelling, splutter, surtitle, synonymy, syntagma, unspoken, verbatim, verbiage, wordbook, wordless, wordplay
9 letters:
accidence, adverbial, agnus dei, ambiguous, assonance, auricular, blockhead, borrowing, caressive, collocate, concisely, concision, crossword, described, dies irae, dumb show, dyslectic, echolalia, emphasize, esperanto, etymology, expressed, flashcard, formulate, heteronym, homograph, homophone, homophony, hypallage, hyphenate, imitative, inflected, interpret, inversion, justified, lettering, let loose, macaronic, neologist, nonverbal, pantomime, pithiness, pronounce, proximate, redundant, reflexion, sardinian, speakable, subtilize, syllabify, syllepsis, synthetic, throwaway, translate, utterable, verbosity, word game, word play
accidence, adverbial, agnus dei, ambiguous, assonance, auricular, blockhead, borrowing, caressive, collocate, concisely, concision, crossword, described, dies irae, dumb show, dyslectic, echolalia, emphasize, esperanto, etymology, expressed, flashcard, formulate, heteronym, homograph, homophone, homophony, hypallage, hyphenate, imitative, inflected, interpret, inversion, justified, lettering, let loose, macaronic, neologist, nonverbal, pantomime, pithiness, pronounce, proximate, redundant, reflexion, sardinian, speakable, subtilize, syllabify, syllepsis, synthetic, throwaway, translate, utterable, verbosity, word game, word play
10 letters:
acceptance, accidental, acting out, anastrophe, antithesis, antonymous, articulate, associable, concluding, confusable, connective, consonance, derivation, dictionary, dunderhead, expression, figurative, flash card, form class, hammerhead, hyphenated, iatrogenic, irish bull, lead sheet, librettist, lip reader, loggerhead, metathesis, millennium, morphology, muttonhead, nominative, nonliteral, obnubilate, outpouring, paraphrase, paregmenon, parisology, pasigraphy, plagiarism, plagiarist, pleonastic, polysemous, quaintness, reflection, res gestae, set phrase, songwriter, spatchcock, spoonerism, supertitle, synonymity, synonymous, tautologic, tongueless, verbalized, verbolatry, vocabulary, word class, word order
acceptance, accidental, acting out, anastrophe, antithesis, antonymous, articulate, associable, concluding, confusable, connective, consonance, derivation, dictionary, dunderhead, expression, figurative, flash card, form class, hammerhead, hyphenated, iatrogenic, irish bull, lead sheet, librettist, lip reader, loggerhead, metathesis, millennium, morphology, muttonhead, nominative, nonliteral, obnubilate, outpouring, paraphrase, paregmenon, parisology, pasigraphy, plagiarism, plagiarist, pleonastic, polysemous, quaintness, reflection, res gestae, set phrase, songwriter, spatchcock, spoonerism, supertitle, synonymity, synonymous, tautologic, tongueless, verbalized, verbolatry, vocabulary, word class, word order
11 letters:
anadiplosis, appellation, appellative, articulated, articulator, catachresis, collocation, conciseness, concordance, conjunction, conjunctive, conjuration, contraction, contrastive, coreference, de-escalate, description, designation, epanalepsis, etymologize, golden rule, homophonous, hyphenation, incantation, indefinable, inscription, interlingua, interpolate, knucklehead, lingeringly, logomachist, long-winded, morphologic, nathan hale, nonsensical, paronomasia, phraseology, punctuation, spin doctor, superfluous, sympathetic, telegraphic, terminology, undefinable, unfortunate, uninflected, verboseness, vowel rhyme, well-chosen, word square, word string
anadiplosis, appellation, appellative, articulated, articulator, catachresis, collocation, conciseness, concordance, conjunction, conjunctive, conjuration, contraction, contrastive, coreference, de-escalate, description, designation, epanalepsis, etymologize, golden rule, homophonous, hyphenation, incantation, indefinable, inscription, interlingua, interpolate, knucklehead, lingeringly, logomachist, long-winded, morphologic, nathan hale, nonsensical, paronomasia, phraseology, punctuation, spin doctor, superfluous, sympathetic, telegraphic, terminology, undefinable, unfortunate, uninflected, verboseness, vowel rhyme, well-chosen, word square, word string
12 letters:
actor's line, all together, alphabetical, ballad maker, construction, denomination, good speller, heartrending, inarticulate, inauspicious, incompatible, incompletely, misconstrual, nomenclature, notification, onomatopoeia, onomatopoeic, periphrastic, polysyllabic, poor speller, rebelliously, redefinition, scat singing, succinctness, tautological, unarticulate, uncharitable, unconsidered, well-meaning, word-perfect, word-worship
actor's line, all together, alphabetical, ballad maker, construction, denomination, good speller, heartrending, inarticulate, inauspicious, incompatible, incompletely, misconstrual, nomenclature, notification, onomatopoeia, onomatopoeic, periphrastic, polysyllabic, poor speller, rebelliously, redefinition, scat singing, succinctness, tautological, unarticulate, uncharitable, unconsidered, well-meaning, word-perfect, word-worship
13 letters:
agglutination, agglutinative, characterized, complementary, contradictory, gesticulating, grammatolatry, line of verse, manifestation, morphological, onomatopoetic, opposite word, oregon jargon, phrasal idiom, polysynthetic, reduplication, rhyming slang, speech rhythm, spell-checker, substitutable, syllabication, unarticulated, unmentionable, verbalization, word for word
agglutination, agglutinative, characterized, complementary, contradictory, gesticulating, grammatolatry, line of verse, manifestation, morphological, onomatopoetic, opposite word, oregon jargon, phrasal idiom, polysynthetic, reduplication, rhyming slang, speech rhythm, spell-checker, substitutable, syllabication, unarticulated, unmentionable, verbalization, word for word
14 letters:
case agreement, chinook jargon, combining form, fluent aphasia, infelicitously, internal rhyme, in other words, letter-perfect, line of poetry, mental lexicon, naturalization, onomatopoeical, part of speech, plagiarisation, plagiarization, sesquipedalian, sesquipedality, synonymousness, textual matter, visual aphasia, word blindness, word structure
case agreement, chinook jargon, combining form, fluent aphasia, infelicitously, internal rhyme, in other words, letter-perfect, line of poetry, mental lexicon, naturalization, onomatopoeical, part of speech, plagiarisation, plagiarization, sesquipedalian, sesquipedality, synonymousness, textual matter, visual aphasia, word blindness, word structure
15 letters:
choice of words, consonant rhyme, create verbally, equivalent word, literary pirate, misconstruction, morphologically, sensory aphasia, sound structure, string of words, syllabification
choice of words, consonant rhyme, create verbally, equivalent word, literary pirate, misconstruction, morphologically, sensory aphasia, sound structure, string of words, syllabification
16 letters:
crossword puzzle, direct discourse, direct quotation, four-letter word, free association, gender agreement, grammatical case, lexical database, number agreement, phrase structure, punctuation mark, spelling checker, theater prompter, words per minute
crossword puzzle, direct discourse, direct quotation, four-letter word, free association, gender agreement, grammatical case, lexical database, number agreement, phrase structure, punctuation mark, spelling checker, theater prompter, words per minute
18 letters:
impressive aphasia, sentence structure, syllable structure, syntactic category, verbal description, wernicke's aphasia
impressive aphasia, sentence structure, syllable structure, syntactic category, verbal description, wernicke's aphasia
19 letters:
compound morphology
compound morphology
28 letters:
four-letter anglo-saxon word
four-letter anglo-saxon word
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