(n.) A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning\.

allophone alveolar antonym apico-alveolar apico-dental articulation aspiration assimilation bilabial cacuminal cerebral check consonant continuant dental diphthong dissimilation epenthetic vowel explosive expression free form glide glottal glottalization guttural homograph homonym homophone labial labialization labiodental labiovelar laryngeal lateral lexeme lingual linguistic act linguistic form liquid locution logos manner of articulation metonym minimum free form modification monophthong monosyllable morphophoneme mute nasal occlusive palatal parasitic vowel parol parole peak pharyngeal pharyngealization phonation phone phoneme plosive polysyllable prothetic vowel retroflex segmental phoneme semivowel sequence of phonemes sonant sonority speaking speech act speech sound stop string surd syllabic nucleus syllabic peak syllable synonym term the spoken word tongue transition sound triphthong usage utterance utterance string velar verbalism verbum vocalic vocoid voice voiced sound voiceless sound voicing vowel word word of mouth