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Definition: SYNALEPHA |
SYNALEPHANoun1. A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. |
Etymology: Synalepha \Syn`a*le"pha\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Latin expression synaloepha, Greek, from to melt together; sy`n with to besmear.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: SYNALEPHA |
| English words defined with "SYNALEPHA": Synaloepha. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "SYNALEPHA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Turkish | iki kelimeyi birleşik okuma (synaloepha). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SYNALEPHA": synalephas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SYNALEPHA" (pronounced 'Syn`a*le"pha'): Amorpha, Anthropomorpha, Bdellomorpha, Myomorpha, nympha, Ophiomorpha, Pentalpha, Pythonomorpha, Sciuromorpha, Scolecomorpha. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-l-n-p-s-y" | |
-2 letters: analyse, hyaenas, phaseal, phenyls, saphena, shapely. | |
-3 letters: alephs, alphas, apneal, apneas, hansel, hyaena, hyenas, nyalas, paeans, paesan, panels, phenyl, phylae, planes, plashy, playas, salpae, sanely, shaley, shapen. | |
-4 letters: alane, alans, aleph, alpha, anlas, ansae, apnea, ashen, aspen, asyla, ayahs, elans, ephas, hales, hansa, hanse, haply, heals, heaps, helps, hyena, hylas, hypes, lanes, lapse. | |
-5 letters: aahs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-h-l-n-p-s-y" | |
+1 letter: synalephas, synaloepha. | |
+2 letters: anaphylaxes, phalanstery, synaloephas. | |
+4 letters: psychoanalyze. | |
+5 letters: apocryphalness, naphthylamines, nasopharyngeal, phenylalanines, psychoanalyses, psychoanalyzed, psychoanalyzes. | |
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