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occlusive

English

  1. 🔊 tending to occlude
  2. 🔊 a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
    “his stop consonants are too aspirated”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 oclusivo occlusive

Similar words

stop consonant stop plosive consonant plosive speech sound plosive accented alveolar apical apico-alveolar apico-dental articulated assimilated back barytone bilabial broad cacuminal central cerebral checked choking close consonant consonantal