Word Meanings - DIPHTHONGIZATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of changing into a diphthong. H. Sweet.

Related words: (words related to DIPHTHONGIZATION)

• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• DIPHTHONGATION
  See DIPHTHONGIZATION
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• DIPHTHONGALIZE
  To make into a diphthong; to pronounce as a diphthong.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• SWEETEN
  Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
• SWEETNESS
  The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
• DIPHTHONGIC
  Of the nature of diphthong; diphthongal. H. Sweet.
• SWEETWORT
  Any plant of a sweet taste.
• CHANGE
  1. To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7. 2. To alter by
• SWEETWEED
  A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
• SWEETHEARTING
  Making love. "To play at sweethearting." W. Black.
• SWEET-SOP
  A kind of custard apple . See under Custard.
• SWEETWATER
  A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; -- also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine.
• CHANGEABLE
  1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. 2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. Syn. -- Mutable; alterable;
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• COUNTERCHANGED
  Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
• COUNTERCHANGE
  1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
• INTERCHANGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.
• ARCHANGELIC
  Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel. Milton.