Words and phrases whose definition contains sound:  (807 results)
abuzz, air wave, alarm, alert, asdic, background, baffle, bass drum, bellow, birdcall, birdsong, bluepoint, blue point, boom out, brasslike, brassy, brattle, bridgeport, brilliant, buzzer, buzzing, cackel, cackle, carry, cassette, clanging, clanking, clapper, clatter, clear up, clever, clinking, color, colour, crackle, crackling, creaking, creaky, cymbal, dampen, deaden, dead air, deaf-aid, deathwatch, digraph, diphthong, dreamless, dripping, droning, drubbing, drumbeat, drum roll, eardrum, ear hole, echo, footfall, footstep, fullness, gargle, gobble, good sense, grating, gravel, grimm's law, grinding, groaning, ground noise, growling, guggle, gumption, gurgle, healthy, hi-fi, hiccough, hiccup, hissing, holla, holler, hollo, hollow, honker, horse sense, hurtle, husky, jangle, jarring, jingle, judgement, judgment, kazoo, knocking, laughter, lip sync, lip synch, listen, loudness, macron, marching, mellow, meow, mixing, moaning, mono, muffle, murmur, mutter, needle, noiseless, organ, pealing, phonics, picture, platter, playback, popgun, popping, press stud, prudent, pure tone, quaver, quiet, racket, rain stick, rasping, raspy, rayleigh disk, reason, reasoned, record, rending, report, resound, rhonchus, richness, ringing, ring out, ripping, roaring, rolling, ruckle, rustle, sabin, saneness, screaky, screechy, secure, seeker, shofar, shophar, shrillness, silence, silent, siren, sizzle, skipjack, slating, slaughter, snoring, snorter, softness, sonant, sonar, sonic, soundboard, sounding, soundless, soundman, soundproof, soundtrack, sound film, sound law, sound out, sound wave, sourdine, speech sound, splitting, splutter, sputter, squeaker, squeaking, squeaky, squealing, stertor, stirrup, stock-still, stridence, stridor, tapping, thrashing, throbbing, thumping, ticking, ticktack, ticktock, tictac, timber, timbre, tinkle, tinkly, tinny, tocktact, tocsin, tone down, tootle, trample, trampling, trouncing, tuneful, tuneless, tweeter, tyndall, umlaut, unsound, uprise, vibrate, vocal, voiced sound, volume, vowel, wheezing, wheezy, whipping, whirring, whistle, whistler, whistling, whizbang, whizzbang, wholesome, wind harp, word form, zanuck
acoustics, affricate, alarm bell, alarum, amphoric, amplify, angelus, apocope, assonant, asthmatic, audio, aurally, babbling, background noise, bellowing, bell ringing, bombilate, bombinate, bugle call, caterwaul, clangorous, clapperboard, clattering, clattery, clavichord, click beetle, click open, cochlea, common sense, conduction, conductive, consonant, consonate, counterpoint, crepitate, cuckoo clock, debacle, decibel, deflective, descriptor, diaphragm, diffuser, diffusor, dissonance, dorbeetle, double reed, ear trumpet, echoic, elision, euphonous, germanic, gramophone, gran casa, gravelly, grumbling, harmonic, harmonics, harmony, hearing aid, heart murmur, hollering, holloa, impromptu, infection, insulant, j. r. firth, john tyndall, judicious, listening, machmeter, mach number, mellowness, miaou, miaow, microphone, mother wit, murmuring, muttering, myringa, new london, noiselessly, noisily, offhanded, palatal, phonation, phonemics, phone system, phonogram, pipe organ, plangency, projection, propagate, quality, quietly, quietness, rataplan, raucously, recording, reflected, reflection, reflective, reflexion, refraction, refractive, regulate, resonance, resonate, rub-a-dub, rumbling, safe and sound, sanity, scat singing, sciaenid, seattle, sensible, sibilant, sibilate, silencer, singultus, sizzling, soft-footed, soft pedal, somnolent, sonic boom, sonogram, soughingly, sounding board, soundlessly, soundlessness, sound effect, sound judgement, sound judgment, sound pressure, sound ranging, sound spectrum, sound system, speaking tube, speech spectrum, standing wave, steam whistle, stereo, stertorous, stridency, subsonic, susurrant, susurrus, syllabic, symphonic, symphonise, symphonize, synchronise, synchronize, syncopate, tacoma, talking book, telephone, tenable, thunderer, tinkling, torpedo, transcription, transonic, tsimshian, two-channel, tympanum, ultrasound, unclouded, undamaged, unsounded, untuneful, vibraharp, vibrancy, vibraphone, vibrator, vowellike, vowel sound, walloping, warning bell, well-founded, well-grounded, well-informed, wheeziness, whispering, wobbling, world wide web

Commonly used words are shown in bold. Rare words are dimmed.
Click on a word above to view its definition.
Organize by: [One big list]   Letters Show rare words: [Yes]   No Show phrases:  [Yes]   No