Crossword-Solution: LABIAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Labial | a. | Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins. |
| Labial | a. | Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe. |
| Labial | a. | Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w. |
| Labial | a. | Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as / (f/d), / (/ld), etc., and as eu and u in French, and o, u in German. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 11, 178. |
| Labial | a. | Of or pertaining to the labium; as, the labial palpi of insects. See Labium. |
| Labial | n. | A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w. |
| Labial | n. | An organ pipe that is furnished with lips; a flue pipe. |
| Labial | n. | One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “LABIAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| SOUND requiring partial or complete closure of lips | 1 answer |
| SOUND for vowels required in which lips are rounded | 1 answer |
| PHONETIC sound requiring partial or complete closure of lips | 1 answer |
| PHONETIC sound for vowels required in which lips are rounded | 1 answer |
| Of the lips | 1 answer |
| Like the "m" or "p" sound, linguistically | 1 answer |
| Consonant such as "m." | 1 answer |
| LIPLIKE part | 1 answer |
| liplike | 2 answers |
| LIP sound | 2 answers |
| Type of consonant. | 3 answers |
| PHONETIC sound | 4 answers |
| vowel sound | 5 answers |
| "-- of the tongue" | 5 answers |
| BLOODHOUND LIPS | 10 answers |
| BLUBBER LIPS | 10 answers |
| CAUSING THE LIPS TO PUCKE | 10 answers |
| A BALM APPLIED TO THE LIPS | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LABIAL (5)
You may follow the adventures of a letter through any passage that has particularly pleased you; find it, perhaps, denied a while, to tantalise the ear; find it fired again at you in a whole broadside; or find it pass into congenerous sounds, one liquid or labial melting away into another.
Elephantiasis or other pathologic hypertrophy of the labial tissues can produce revolting deformity, such as is seen in Figure 100, representing an individual who was exhibited several years ago in Philadelphia.
Merensky says that in Basutoland the elder women begin to practice labial manipulation on their female children shortly after infancy, and Adams has found this custom to prevail in Dahomey; he says that the King's seraglio includes 3000 members, the elect of his female subjects, all of whom have labia up to the standard of recognized length.
Some give their performance with little labial movement, but close inspection of the ordinary performer of this class shows visible movements of his lips.
The labial melody with which the Typee girls carry on an ordinary conversation, giving a musical prolongation to the final syllable of every sentence, and chirping out some of the words with a liquid, bird-like accent, was singularly pleasing.
Quotes with LABIAL (1)
There are so many of you, and you are still just the way I thought I'd grow up, with all that was enviably grown-up about you: the lace tops with modesty inserts, and the spangles as if for nights out, the stiff hair, the cardigans grown over with a fungus of secondary sexual characteristics--bristling with embroidery and drooping with labial frills.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1955–2006).