| allophone | (noun) (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme | - |
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| cellphone | (noun) a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | Synonyms: cell, cellular phone, cellular telephone, mobile phone |
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| chordophone | (noun) a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers | - |
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| diaphone | (noun) a foghorn that makes a signal consisting of two tones | - |
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| dishonesty | (noun) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | Synonyms: knavery |
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| (noun) the quality of being dishonest | - |
| earphone | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earpiece, headphone, phone |
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| ecphonesis | (noun) an exclamatory rhetorical device | Synonyms: exclamation |
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| entryphone | (noun) An intercom system which enables someone, without opening the door, to converse with the person who has rung the doorbell. | - |
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| epiphonema | (noun) a sentence that is an exclamation, a general or striking comment, or a succinct summary of what has previously been said. | - |
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| gramophone | (noun) an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically | Synonyms: acoustic gramophone |
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| headphone | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earphone, earpiece, phone |
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| heckelphone | (noun) an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe | Synonyms: basset oboe |
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| homophone | (noun) two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear) | - |
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| hone | (noun) a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors | - |
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| (noun) a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc. | - |
| honestness | (noun) the quality of being honest | Synonyms: honesty |
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| honesty | (noun) the quality of being honest | Synonyms: honestness |
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| (noun) southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration | Synonyms: Lunaria annua, money plant, satin flower, satinpod, silver dollar |
| honey | (noun) a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees | - |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| honeybee | (noun) social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces | Synonyms: Apis mellifera |
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| honeybells | (noun) African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs | Synonyms: Hermannia verticillata, honey bell, Mahernia verticillata |
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| honeycomb | (noun) a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees | - |
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| (noun) a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae | - |
| honeycreeper | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | - |
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| (noun) small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands | Synonyms: Hawaiian honeycreeper |
| honeydew | (noun) a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap. | - |
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| (noun) the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh | Synonyms: honeydew melon |
| honeyflower | (noun) Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously | Synonyms: honey-flower, Protea mellifera |
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| (noun) erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar | Synonyms: honey-flower, Lambertia formosa, mountain devil |
| honeymoon | (noun) a holiday taken by a newly married couple | - |
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| (noun) the early (usually calm and harmonious) period of a relationship; business or political | - |
| honeymooner | (noun) someone recently married | Synonyms: newlywed |
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| honeypot | (noun) South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes | Synonyms: king protea, Protea cynaroides |
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| honeysucker | (noun) Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar | Synonyms: honey eater |
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| honeysuckle | (noun) shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera | - |
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| (noun) columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers | Synonyms: Aquilegia canadensis, meeting house |
| (noun) shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers | Synonyms: Australian honeysuckle, Banksia integrifolia, coast banksia |
| hydromorphone | (noun) a narcotic analgesic (trade name Dilaudid) used to treat moderate to severe pain | Synonyms: Dilaudid, hydromorphone hydrochloride |
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| interphone | (noun) a telephonic intercommunication system linking different rooms in a building or ship etc | - |
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| isophone | (noun) linguistics, an isogloss marking off an area in which a particular feature of pronunciation is found. | - |
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| lagerphone | (noun) an Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground | - |
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| marathoner | (noun) someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) | Synonyms: long-distance runner, marathon runner, road runner |
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| megaphone | (noun) a cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice | - |
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| membranophone | (noun) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end | Synonyms: drum, tympan |
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| microphone | (noun) device for converting sound waves into electrical energy | Synonyms: mic, mike |
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| morphophoneme | (noun) (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme | - |
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| morphophonemics | (noun) the study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language | - |
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| phone | (noun) electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds | Synonyms: telephone, telephone set |
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| (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earphone, earpiece, headphone |
| (noun) (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | Synonyms: sound, speech sound |
| phonebook | (noun) a directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers | Synonyms: phone book, telephone book, telephone directory |
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| phoneme | (noun) (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language | - |
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| phonemics | (noun) the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes | Synonyms: phonology |
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| phoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, telephoner |
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| phonetician | (noun) a specialist in phonetics | - |
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| phonetics | (noun) the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis | - |
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| phoney | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phony, pretender |
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| pistonphone | (noun) an acoustical calibrator (sound source) that uses a closed coupling volume to generate a precise sound pressure for the calibration of measurement microphones. | - |
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| polyphone | (noun) a letter that has two or more pronunciations | Synonyms: polyphonic letter |
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| psychoneurosis | (noun) a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction | Synonyms: neurosis, neuroticism |
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| psychoneurotic | (noun) a person suffering from neurosis | Synonyms: mental case, neurotic |
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| pythoness | (noun) a witch with powers of divination | - |
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| radiophone | (noun) a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables | Synonyms: radiotelephone, wireless telephone |
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| radiotelephone | (noun) a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables | Synonyms: radiophone, wireless telephone |
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| (noun) telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelephony, wireless telephone |
| saxophone | (noun) a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore | Synonyms: sax |
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| smartphone | (noun) a mobile phone with more advanced computing capability and connectivity than basic feature phones | Synonyms: smart phone |
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| sousaphone | (noun) the lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: bass horn, tuba |
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| speakerphone | (noun) a telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker; can be used without picking up a handset; several people can participate in a call at the same time | - |
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| telephone | (noun) electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds | Synonyms: phone, telephone set |
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| (noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephony |
| telephoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, phoner |
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| vibraphone | (noun) a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | Synonyms: vibes, vibraharp |
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| xylophone | (noun) a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets | Synonyms: marimba |
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