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Noun: unrounded vowel
  1. A vowel sound in which the lips are slack or drawn back.
    "Strangely, Japanese too shows lenition of dental plosives neighbouring back vowels ie. specifically, the high back unrounded vowel u."

Type of: vowel, vowel sound

Encyclopedia: Unrounded vowel

Nearest

unripened
unrivaled
unrivalled
unrobe
unroll
unromantic
unromantically
unroofed
unrouged
unrounded
unrounded vowel
unruffled
unruliness
unruly
unsaddle
unsaddled
unsafe
unsafely
unsaid
unsalable
unsalaried