Crossword-Solution: VELAR 5 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Velar a. Of or pertaining to a velum; esp. (Anat.) of or pertaining
to the soft palate.
Velar a. Having the place of articulation on the soft palate;
guttural; as, the velar consonants, such as k and hard q.

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Word Anagrams
VELAR anagram LAVER, LEVAR, LRVAE, RAVEL, REVAL

We have 26 clues for the answer “VELAR”

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Like some consonants, to a linguist 1 answer
VEIL (pert. to) 1 answer
Soft-palate sound 1 answer
SOUND pronounced with back of tongue near soft palate (pert. to/phonet.) 1 answer
Relating to a veil 1 answer
Related to the soft palate 1 answer
Pertaining to the soft palate 1 answer
Palatal. 1 answer
PRONOUNCED with back of tongue near soft palate (phonet. of sound) 1 answer
One of the "k" sounds 1 answer
Of the soft palate 1 answer
Of the palate 1 answer
Of part of the palate. 1 answer
Like some consonants, in phonetics 1 answer
Like some consonant sounds 1 answer
Guttural, phonetically 1 answer
Concerning the soft palate 1 answer
A "k" sound 1 answer
COMBINING FORMS PALATE 10 answers
A SMALL PENDANT FLESHY LOBE AT THE BACK OF THE SOFT PALATE 10 answers
A CONSONANT PRODUCED WITH THE BACK OF THE TONGUE TOUCHING OR NEAR THE SOFT PALATE 10 answers
ACRES OF GUTTURAL FROGS 10 answers
ARTICULATION, category of 16 answers
PHONETIC category 16 answers
Guttural 22 answers
Speech sound 33 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VELAR (5)

The foot now protrudes below the mouth, and the post-oral hemisphere of the trochosphere grows more rapidly then the anterior or velar area.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 Various 2011
Within the velar area the eyes and the cephalic tentacles commence to rise up, and on the surface of the post-oral region is formed a cap-like shell and an encircling ridge, which gradually increases in prominence and becomes the freely depending mantle-skirt.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 Various 2011
The outline of the velar area becomes strongly emarginated and can be traced through the more mature embryos to the cephalic lobes or labial processes of the adult _Limnaeus_ (fig.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 Various 2011
Three views of _Limnaeus stagnalis_, in order to show the persistence of the larval velar area v, as the circum-oral lobes of the adult.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 Various 2011
Farther up, within the velar area, the rudiments of the cerebral nerve-ganglion ng are seen separating from the ectoderm.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 Various 2011

Quotes with VELAR (1)

I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made privy to one of the most arcane of their utterings. The time was ripe for that major epiphany, my initiation into the sacred knowledge — or should I say gnosis? — of that all-important, quintessentially Brutish slang term, the word that endless hours of scholastic education by renowned mentors, plus years of scrupulous scrutiny into scrofulous texts, had d…
Spiros Doikas No Sex Please, We're Brutish!: The Exploits of a Greek Student in Britain
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 35 times in crossword archives (1942–2015).