phonetics

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pho=net=ics

CIDE DICTIONARY

phonetics, n. 

•  The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.  [1913 Webster]
•  The art of representing vocal sounds by signs and written characters.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

phonetics, n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.)
1 vocal sounds and their classification.
2 the study of these.

Derivative

phonetician n.

THESAURUS

phonetics

ablaut, acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonetics, audiometer, auriscope, auriscopy, betacism, bowwow theory, cacography, comparative linguistics, derivation, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, dingdong theory, etymology, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, gradation, grammar, graphemics, historical linguistics, language study, lexicology, lexicostatistics, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morphology, morphophonemics, mutation, orthoepy, orthography, otography, otolaryngology, otology, otoneurology, otopathy, otoplasty, otoscope, otoscopy, paleography, philology, phonetic spelling, phonography, phonology, psycholinguistics, rhotacism, semantics, sociolinguistics, sound shift, spelldown, spelling, spelling bee, spelling match, spelling reform, structuralism, syntactics, transformational linguistics, umlaut

ROGET THESAURUS

phonetics

Sound

N sound, noise, strain, accent, twang, intonation, tone, cadence, sonorousness, audibility, resonance, voice, aspirate, ideophone, rough breathing, acoustics, phonics, phonetics, phonology, phonography, diacoustics, diaphonics, phonetism, sounding, soniferous, sonorous, sonorific, resonant, audible, distinct, stertorous, phonetic, phonic, phonocamptic, a thousand trills and quivering sounds, forensis strepitus.