Definition that contains hard palate
- soft (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')
- palatine either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits
- obturator a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)
- cleft palate a congenital fissure of the hard palate
- retroflex pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate
- palatalised produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')
- palatal produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')
- palatine bone either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits
- palatalized produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')
- cacuminal pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate