Pertaining to the teeth. In grammar, formed or pronounced by the teeth, with the aid of the tongue; as, D and T are dental letters.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. An articulation or letter formed by placing the end of the tongue against the upper teeth, or against the gum that covers the root of the upper teeth, as D, T, and Th.
1. Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.
2. Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dental letters.
3. An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth.
The quality of being formed by the aid of the teeth.
Letter Roget’s Thesaurus §561
N. letter, character, hieroglyphic, type, capitals, digraph, trigraph, ideogram, ideograph, majuscule, minuscule, majuscule, minuscule, alphabet, abc, abecedary, christcross-row, consonant, vowel, diphthong, triphthong, mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural, syllable, monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable, affix, suffix, spelling, orthograph, phonography, phonetic spelling, anagrammatism, metagrammatism, cipher, monogram, anagram, doubleacrostic
V. spell
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