| bespeak | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, call for, quest, request |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: betoken, indicate, point, signal |
| doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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| doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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| loudspeaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| misspeak | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: mispronounce |
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| newspeak | (noun) deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public | - |
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| nonspeaking | (adjective) not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines | Synonyms: walk-on |
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| peak | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, eyeshade, visor, vizor |
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| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, crown, summit, tip, top |
| (noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: acme, apex, vertex |
| (noun) the most extreme possible amount or value | Synonyms: extremum |
| (noun) a V shape | Synonyms: point, tip |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, prime |
| (verb) to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity | Synonyms: top out |
| peaked | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| (adjective) having or rising to a peak | - |
| peaky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: spiky |
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| speak | (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) exchange thoughts; talk with | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) use language | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) give a speech to | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) make a characteristic or natural sound | - |
| speakable | (adjective) capable of being uttered in words or sentences | Synonyms: utterable |
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| speakeasy | (noun) (during prohibition) an illegal barroom | - |
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| speaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer |
| 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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| speakership | (noun) the position of Speaker | - |
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| speaking | (adjective) capable of or involving speech or speaking | - |
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| (adjective) capable of speech | Synonyms: speech-endowed |
| (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speechmaking |
| (noun) the utterance of intelligible speech | Synonyms: speech production |
| unspeakable | (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible |
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| (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, untellable, unutterable |
| (adjective) too sacred to be uttered | Synonyms: ineffable, unnameable, unutterable |
| unspeakably | (adverb) to an inexpressible degree | Synonyms: indescribably, ineffably, inexpressibly, unutterably |
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