Word Meanings - SUPRAGLOTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated above the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx above the true vocal cords.

Related words: (words related to SUPRAGLOTIC)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• VOCALIST
  A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• SITUATE; SITUATED
  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• VOCALLY
  1. In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound. 2. In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally.
• VOCALIZATION
  1. The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized. 2. The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.
• GLOTTIS
  The opening from the pharynx into the larynx or into the trachea. See Larynx.
• VOCALITY
  1. The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters. 2. The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• VOCALIZE
  1. To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to. It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone, another thing to vocalize that breath. Holder. 2. To practice singing on the vowel sounds.
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• APPLIEDLY
  By application.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• UNEQUIVOCAL
  Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain; as, unequivocal evidence; unequivocal words. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ly, adv. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ness, n.
• PROGLOTTIS
  One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.
• MULTIVOCAL
  Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." Coleridge. -- n.