Noun

• S: (n) aphaeresis, apheresis ((linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until')
• domain category
• S: (n) linguistics (the scientific study of language)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) omission, deletion (any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases)
• S: (n) linguistic process (a process involved in human language)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) agglutination (the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining)
• S: (n) assimilation (a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound)
• S: (n) derivation ((descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation) "`singer' from `sing' or `undo' from `do' are examples of derivations"
• S: (n) dissimilation (a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other) "the Old French MARBRE became the English MARBLE by dissimilation"
• S: (n) drift (a process of linguistic change over a period of time)
• S: (n) fusion (the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words)
• S: (n) infection ((phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound)
• S: (n) lexicalization, lexicalisation (the process of making a word to express a concept)
• S: (n) metathesis (a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence)
• S: (n) omission, deletion (any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases)
• S: (n) syneresis, synaeresis (the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong)
• domain category
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) human process (a process in which human beings are involved)
• S: (n) process, physical process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states) "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
• S: (n) physical entity (an entity that has physical existence)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) apheresis, pheresis (a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion)