Obstruent

What do we mean by obstruent?

Obstructing or closing natural openings or passages of the body. adjective

An obstruent medicine or agent. noun

A sound, such as a stop, fricative, or affricate, that is produced with complete blockage or at least partial constriction of the airflow through the nose or mouth. noun

Obstructive; impeding.

Anything that obstructs; especially, anything that blocks up the natural passages of the body. noun

Anything that obstructs or closes a passage; esp., that which obstructs natural passages in the body. noun

Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering. adjective

A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; the generic term of plosive, fricative and affricate noun

A consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth noun

A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative or affricate.

Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.

Words that are spelled similarly to obstruent:
obstruent, obstruct, obsequent, obstruents, deobstruent.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word obstruent:
geminate, voiceless, fricative, velar, consonants, glottal, phoneme, palatal, consonant, nasal, resonant, syllables, vowel, phonetic, syllable, voiced, verbs, preceding, pronounced, cluster, realized, stops, pairs, occur, sounds, contrast, languages, word, occurs, stop, words, sound, ending, speech, followed, except, appear, low, language, usually, example, standard, chinese, case, middle, before, thus.

Adjectives that are often used to describe obstruent:
voiceless, final, initial, coronal, first, single, dental, nasal, second, unvoiced, oral, palatal, intervocalic, labial, medial, homorganic, adjacent, geminate, corresponding, glottalized, rightmost, tense, heavy, nonsibilant, lax, postvocalic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective obstruent:
clusters, system, cluster, devoicing, consonants, stops, class, production, voicing, codas, sequences, series, stop, deletion, consonant, medicines, geminates, strings, phonemes, lenition, pattern, pairs, inventory, rule, coda, position, initials, sequence, distinction, assimilation, interval, harmony, status, stem, continuants, geminate, suffix, quality, constriction, onsets, articulation.

Words that sound like obstruent:
obstruent, abstergent, obstruct, abstrude, abstinent, observant, abstruse, absorbent, abatement, absorbant, abstained, abutment, obtrusion, abstrusity, abetment, substant, aperient, substituent, abstruseness, astrand, obtrusions, a student, abortient, upstreet.