Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

speech rhythm

the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements

 

news leak

unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information

 

Doric dialect

the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Doris

 

funk

an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar

 

Vedanga

Vedic texts from the fifth and fourth centuries BC dealing with phonetics and ritual injunctions and linguistics and grammar and etymology and lexicography and prosody and astronomy and astrology

 

countersign

a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed

 

pony express

express mail carried by relays of riders on horseback; especially between Missouri and California around 1860

 

declaratory sentence

a sentence (in the indicative mood) that makes a declaration

 

middle name

a name between your first name and your surname

 

agenda

a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)

 

Sundanese

the Indonesian language spoken on West Java

 

biweekly

a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year)

 

amphigory

nonsensical writing (usually verse)

 

electroretinogram

a graphical recording of the electrical activity of the retina that results when light is flashed into the eye

 

flick

a short stroke

 

gesture

the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

 

bluegrass

a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars

 

snarl

an angry vicious expression

 

command line

commands that a user types in order to run an application

 

Gheg dialect

the dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia