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Initial D by Syllables

demonstrate

destination

disadvantage

discriminate

deteriorate

disagreeable

disciplinary

dissatisfaction

disorganization

disorientation

disqualification

Medial D by Syllables

cheddar cheese

cheerleaders

Father's Day

Mother's Day

North Dakota

riding safety

scuba diver

scuba diving

South Dakota

Final D by Syllables

brotherhood

chicken feed

Chinese food

fishing rod

gingerbread

neighborhood

teacher's aide

tossed salad

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Initial D Phrases and Sentences

hugging dad

ballroom dance

dentist visit

racing dive

doctor office

dust and clean

broken doorbell

warm doughnuts

The dad loves his son.

They loved to ballroom dance.

What day is your next appointment?

I went to the dentist for a check-up.

The teacher put the apple on her desk.

We need to dig the hole deeper than that.

Each gumball costs one dime.

In swimming, you dive to start the race.

The doctor will prescribe some back pills.

My dog is a German Shepherd and Black Lab mix.

Her doll had red hair and freckles.

She is cleaning the dust off.

We knocked on the door three times.

He was in such a hurry that he only rang the doorbell.

I want to have 2 doughnuts for breakfast.

The dove was quietly cooing in the tree.

He had to step down three stairs.

He saw a duck at the petting zoo.

Medial D Phrases and Sentences

birthday cake

dead end road

bad headache

tall ladder

pretty lady

chocolate pudding

reading well

riding fast

wall shadow

speeding car

country of Sweden

Thursday night

Tuesday night

wedding gift

Wednesday afternoon

She turns 18 on her birthday next Friday.

Having a cold makes my body sore.

We came to a dead end because we didn't follow the map.

I have a bad headache.

She is hiding behind the tree.

Use the ladder to reach the fruit.

The lady is beautiful.

I've never tasted chocolate pudding.

They like reading together.

She liked riding her horse.

I see my shadow.

The police chased the speeding car.

The spider waited for flies in the web.

Next summer we're taking a trip to Sweden.

The party is on Thursday night.

The movie is on Tuesday night.

The wedding ceremony was beautiful.

We are having lunch on Wednesday afternoon.

Final D Phrases and Sentences

look afraid

wheat bread

grocery bag of food

read quietly

ride safely

healthy salad

I was afraid after I saw the chair move by itself.

My bed has really soft sheets.

I need two loaves of bread at the store.

I brought home lots of food.

His hand reached for the sky.

She is a cute kid.

His trumpet was really loud.

She is mad at her friend.

She is walking in the mud.

The road went through the countryside.

She loved to read about princesses.

Red is my favorite color.

He went on a motorcycle ride.

She is so sad she is crying.

We ordered a salad for lunch.

The desert is full of sand.

Use the wood to make a fire.

D Reading Paragraphs

No more sugar.

Dad was sad to go to his dentist appointment on Tuesday.

He loved to eat pudding and doughnuts. The sugar is bad for his teeth. He was sad because Tuesday was his birthday and we were having a party with all his favorite food.

After going to the dentist, dad sat down at his desk to do some reading. "I guess I will cut down how many doughnuts I eat," he said.

Dangerous Driver

We were riding down the road in our car when suddenly another car went speeding past us.

My friend Dave was driving and he got mad. His face turned red and he said, "That is really dangerous!"

The road came to a dead end and the car turned around. Dave waved his hand to stop the car. He rolled down his window and said, "Your speeding is dangerous to you and me. Please don't do it!"

The man in the other car apologized and said he would slow down in the future.

Best Pets Ever

My sister Dana has a dog named Daisy. I have a duck named Doug. They both do silly things. Daisy likes to dive into the swimming pool. Doug likes to dance to loud music. We like to take them both riding in our red wagon. They are the best pets a kid could have. 

This list of functional words was professionally selected to be the most useful for a child or adult who has difficulty with producing the "D" sound.

We encourage you to use this list when practicing at home.

Doing home practice will help your child make much faster progress toward correct production.

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Every day that your child goes without practice  it becomes more and more difficult  to correct an "D" error because he/she continues to say it incorrectly. 

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Synonyms starting with D | Collins English Thesaurus

• dab ... dampish
• dampness ... daunting
• dauntless ... deadlock
• deadlocked ... debauch
• debauched ... deceptiveness
• decide ... decomposition
• deconstruct ... defamatory
• defame ... define
• defined ... deject
• dejected ... deluge
• deluged ... demoralized
• demoralizing ... departure
• depend ... depreciate
• depreciation ... descend
• descend on something or someone ... desist
• desistance ... desuetude
• desultorily ... dethrone
• dethronement ... devoid
• devoirs ... diamond
• diaper ... diffidently
• diffract ... dimension
• diminish ... directorial
• directorship ... disapprove
• disapproving ... disciplined
• disclaim ... discountenanced
• discourage ... disembogue
• disembowel ... disgusting
• disgustingly ... disjoining
• disjoint ... disowned
• disowning ... disproof
• disproportion ... dissent from something
• dissenter ... distill
• distillate ... disunity
• disuse ... divorced
• divot ... dodge
• dodger ... domicile
• domiciliary ... dork
• dormancy ... dovelike
• dovetail ... draft
• drag ... drawn-out
• dread ... drinks
• drip ... drug addict
• drugged ... dulling
• dullness ... duties
• dutiful ... dyspeptic

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• dab dab synonyms
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• dabble dabble synonyms
• dabbling duck
• dab hand dab hand synonyms
• Dąbrowa Górnicza
• dacarbazine
• dachshund dachshund synonyms
• D/A converter
• dacryorrhea
• dactinomycin
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• dactylic dactylic synonyms
• dactylogram dactylogram synonyms
• dactylography
• dactylology dactylology synonyms
• dactylomegaly
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• dad dad synonyms
• Dad and Dave
• dad-blasted
• daddy daddy synonyms
• daddy-longlegs
• daddy track
• Dadra and Nagar Haveli
• daedal daedal synonyms
• daemon daemon synonyms
• daemonology
• daffadowndilly
• daffodil daffodil synonyms
• daffy daffy synonyms
• daft daft synonyms
• Dafydd ap Gruffudd
• Dafydd ap Gwilym
• Dagestan Republic
• dagger dagger synonyms
• daggerboard
• daggers drawn, at
• daguerreotype
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• dahlia dahlia synonyms
• Dáil Éireann
• dailies dailies synonyms
• daily daily synonyms
• daily-breader
• daily double
• daily dozen daily dozen synonyms
• daimyo bond
• daintily daintily synonyms
• dainty dainty synonyms
• dairy dairy synonyms
• dairy breed
• dairy cattle
• dairy factory
• dairy farm dairy farm synonyms
• dais dais synonyms
• daisy daisy synonyms
• daisy chain
• daisy-cutter
• daisy fleabane
• daisy wheel
• dak bungalow
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• dale dale synonyms
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• daltonism daltonism synonyms
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• dam dam synonyms
• damage damage synonyms
• damage control damage control synonyms
• damaged goods
• damages damages synonyms
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• Daman and Diu
• Damascus steel
• damask damask synonyms
• damask rose
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• damn damn synonyms
• damnable damnable synonyms
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• damned if I do, damned if I don't
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• damn straight
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• damn with faint praise
• Damocles, sword of
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• damson cheese

236 Positive Words That Start with D

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Nice, Kind, and Positive Words That Start with the Letter D —

• Decisiveness
• Deliberately
• Deliciousness
• Delightfully
• Delightfulness
• Demonstrative
• Dependability
• Deservingly
• Deservingness
• Determinate
• Determination
• Dexterously
• Disciplined
• Distinction
• Distinctive
• Distinguish
• Distinguished
• Distinguishing
• Diversified
• Down To Earth
• Dumbfounded
• Dumbfounding
• Dynamically

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A few positive words that start with the letter D that can be used to describe someone include: Daring, Dashing, Dazzling, Delightful, Deserving, Devoted, Doting, and Dynamic.

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A few loving words that start with the letter D include: Devotion, Doting, Dreamy, and Darling.

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Some catchy words that start with the letter D include: Dapper, Dashing, Dazzling, Delight, Delightful, Deserving, Devoted, Doting, and Dynamic.

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• Adjectives That Start With D

by Larissa | Aug 22, 2020 | Adjectives Starting With Consonants

Delicious, delightful and delicate are some of the diversified adjectives that start with D that you will find in this list.

As you will see in the collection below, there are quite a lot of adjectives beginning with D that are somewhat negative.

But never fear, for there are also still a decent number of d words to describe someone or something positively, so that you can come up with plenty of compliments.

It is not always easy to find the right words whether we are writing a card, a story, playing a game or just having a conversation. No matter the situation, if you are looking for some good adjectives starting with D, you will find them right here.

This list includes:

• A selection of all adjectives that start with D
• Adjectives that start with D to describe a person
• Positive adjectives that start with D

Adjectives Starting With D

• decentralized
• defenseless
• degenerative
• deliberative
• deliverable
• demonstrative
• descriptive
• destructive
• detrimental
• devastating
• dilapidated
• diminishing
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• disadvantaged
• disadvantageous
• disaffected
• disagreeable
• disappearing
• disappointed
• disappointing
• disapproving
• discernable
• disciplined
• disconnected
• discontented
• discouraged
• discouraging
• discourteous
• discredited
• discriminating
• discriminatory
• discussable
• disenchanted
• disgraceful
• disgruntled
• disheartened
• disheartening
• dishonorable
• disillusioned
• disinclined
• disingenuous
• disinterested
• dislikeable
• disobedient
• disorganized
• disparaging
• dispassionate
• dispensable
• displeasing
• disproportionate
• disputatious
• disreputable
• disrespectful
• dissatisfied
• dissolvable
• distasteful
• distinctive
• distinguished
• distracting
• distressing
• distrustful
• diversified
• documentary
• domineering
• down-and-out
• downhearted
• downloadable
• duplicitous
• dysfunctional

Adjectives That Start With D To Describe A Person

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We hope you have enjoyed looking through this list of adjectives that begin with D and that you were able to find the words you were looking for.

The letter D, as you can see, is common in descriptive words that start with D, but not necessarily so for positive adjectives that start with D to describe a person or other noun.

Nevertheless, D adjectives can be very useful when you are trying to come up with a more colorful way of speaking and communicating.

Some of these words that start with D to describe someone can really spice up your speech and maybe even make someone blush a little bit. Please share these describing words that start with D and enjoy!

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Words Starting with D

• dacarbazine
• dachiardite
• dachiardites
• Dacrymycetaceae
• Dacrymycetales
• dacryocystitis
• dacryocystotomy
• dacryolithiases
• dacryolithiasis
• dacryostenoses
• dacryostenosis
• dactinomycin
• dactyliomancies
• dactyliomancy
• dactyliotheca
• dactyliothecae
• dactyliothecas
• dactylognathite
• dactylogram
• dactylograms
• dactylograph
• dactylographer
• dactylographic
• dactylographies
• dactylographs
• dactylography
• dactylologies
• dactylology
• Dactylometra
• Dactylopius
• dactylopodite
• dactylopodites
• dactylopore
• dactylopores
• Dactylopsila
• Dactylopteridae
• dactyloscopic
• dactyloscopies
• dactyloscopist
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• dactylosternal
• dactylostyle
• dactylostyles
• dactylotome
• dactylotomes
• dactylozooid
• dactylozooids
• daemonology
• daffadillies
• daffadowndilly
• daffodillies
• daffodowndilly
• daftberries
• daggerboard
• daggerboards
• daggerbushes
• daguerreotype
• daguerreotyped
• daguerreotyper
• daguerreotypers
• daguerreotypes
• daguerreotypies
• daguerreotyping
• daguerreotypist
• daguerreotypy
• dahabeeyahs
• dailinesses
• daintifying
• daintinesses
• daisybushes
• damageabilities
• damageability
• damasceners
• damascening
• damaskeened
• damaskeening
• damkjernite
• damkjernites

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Biden’s upcoming graduation speech roils Morehouse College, a center of Black politics and culture

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in support of changing the Senate filibuster rules that have stalled voting rights legislation, at Atlanta University Center Consortium, on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, Jan. 11, 2022, in Atlanta. Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war when he speaks at Morehouse College’s commencement. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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A large group of faith leaders organized by the Atlanta Multifaith Coalition for Palestine address the media during a press conference at Emory on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. They’re demanding Biden not to speak at Morehouse commencement unless he calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

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ATLANTA (AP) — When he gives the commencement address at Morehouse College, President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war at a center of Black politics and culture.

Morehouse is located in Atlanta, the largest city in the swing state of Georgia, which Biden flipped from then-President Donald Trump four years ago. Biden’s speech Sunday will come as the Democrat tries to make inroads with a key and symbolic constituency — young Black men — and repair the diverse coalition that elected him to the White House.

The announcement of the speech last month triggered peaceful protests and calls for the university administration to cancel over Biden’s handling of the war between Israel and Hamas. Some students at Morehouse and other historically Black campuses in Atlanta say they vociferously oppose Biden and the decision to have him speak, mirroring the tension Biden faces in many communities of color and with young voters nationally .

Morehouse President David Thomas said in an interview that the emotions around the speech made it all the more important that Biden speak.

“In many ways, these are the moments Morehouse was born for,” he said. “We need someplace in this country that can hold the tensions that threaten to divide us. If Morehouse can’t hold those tensions, then no place can.”

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The speech comes at a critical moment for Biden in his general election rematch against Trump, a Republican. Biden is lagging in support among both Black voters and people under 30, groups that were key to his narrow 2020 victories in several battleground states, including Georgia.

Fifty-five percent of Black adults approved of the way Biden is handling his job as president, according to an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll in March, a figure far below earlier in his presidency. Overall, 32% of 18- to 29-year-olds approved in the same poll.

“This is a global catastrophe in Gaza, and Joe Biden coming to pander for our votes is political blackface,” said Morehouse sophomore Anwar Karim, who urged Thomas and school trustees to rescind Biden’s invitation.

Recent scenes on American campuses reflect objections among many young voters about Israel’s assaults in Gaza. Biden has backed Israel since Hamas militants killed more than 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds of hostages on Oct. 7. That includes weapons shipments to the longstanding U.S. ally, even as Biden advocates for a cease-fire, criticizes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tactics and the death toll in Gaza surpasses 35,000 people, many of them women and children.

Many younger Black people have identified with the Palestinian cause and have at times drawn parallels between Israeli rule of the Palestinian territories and South Africa’s now-defunct apartheid system and abolished Jim Crow laws in the U.S. Israel rejects claims that its system of laws for Palestinians constitutes apartheid.

“I think that the president will do himself good if he does not duck that, especially when you think about the audience that he will be speaking to directly and to the nation,” Thomas said.

Sunday’s speech will culminate a four-day span during which Biden will concentrate on reaching Black communities. On Thursday, Biden met privately with plaintiffs from the Brown v. Board of Education case that barred legal segregation of America’s public schools. The following day, Biden will address an NAACP gathering commemorating the 70th anniversary of the landmark decision.

Former U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, a longtime Biden ally who helped broker his speech at Morehouse, said he understood students’ concerns but emphasized that Biden has pressured Netanyahu and supports a two-state solution for the Israelis and Palestinians. Trump, meanwhile, has effectively abandoned that long-held U.S. position and said Israel should “finish the problem” in Gaza.

“That’s nowhere in the conversation,” Richmond said.

The debate over Biden’s speech at Morehouse reflected a fundamental tension of historically Black colleges and universities, which are both dedicated to social justice and Black advancement and run by administrators who are committed to keeping order.

“We look like a very conservative institution” sometimes, Thomas said. “On one hand, the institution has to be the stable object where we are today in the world.”

But, he added, the university’s long-term purpose is to “support our students in going out to create a better world.”

Blowback started even before Thomas publicly announced Biden was coming. Faculty sent executives a letter of concern, prompting an online town hall. Alumni gathered several hundred signatures to urge that Thomas rescind Biden’s invitation. The petition called the invitation antithetical to the pacifism Martin Luther King Jr., a Morehouse alumnus, expressed when opposing the Vietnam War.

Some students note that leaders of Morehouse and other HBCUs did not always support King and other Civil Rights activists who are venerated today. Morehouse, for instance, expelled the actor Samuel L. Jackson in 1969 after he and other students held Morehouse trustees, including King’s father, in a campus building as part of demanding curriculum changes and the appointment of more Black trustees.

Students organized two recent protests across the Atlanta University Center (AUC), a consortium of historically Black institutions in Atlanta that includes Morehouse. Chants included “Joe Biden, f— off!” and “Biden, Biden, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide,” along with expletives directed at Thomas.

“Our institution is supporting genocide, and we turn a blind eye,” said Nyla Broddie, a student at Spelman College, which is part of the AUC. Brodie argued Biden’s Israel policy should be viewed in the broader context of U.S. foreign policy and domestic police violence against Black Americans.

Thomas said he “feels very positive about graduation” and that “not one” Morehouse senior — there are about 500 at the all-male private school — has opted out of participating. “That’s not to say that the sentiments about what’s going on in Gaza don’t resonate with people in our community,” Thomas said.

Thomas met privately with students as did several trustees. The Morehouse alumni association hosted a student town hall, featuring at least one veteran of the Atlanta Student Movement, a Civil Rights-era organization.

But there was a consistent message: Uninviting the president of the United States was not an option. When students raised questions about endowment investments in Israel and U.S. defense contractors, they said they were told the relevant amounts are negligible, a few hundred thousand dollars in mutual funds.

“I think folks are excited” about Biden coming, said Democratic Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor at King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Warnock said Biden is in “a great position” to talk about student debt relief , increased federal support for HBCUs and other achievements.

HBCUs have not seen crackdowns from law enforcement like those at Columbia University in New York City and the University of California, Los Angeles. However, Morehouse and the AUC have seen peaceful demonstrations, petitions and private meetings among campus stakeholders. Xavier University, a historically Black university in Louisiana, withdrew its commencement invitation for U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield , citing a desire among students “to enjoy a commencement ceremony free of disruptions.”

Whether Morehouse graduates or other students protest Biden or disrupt the ceremony remains to be seen. Student protest leaders say they are unaware of any plans to demonstrate inside during the commencement.

Thomas, Morehouse’s president, promised that forms of protest at commencement that “do not disrupt ceremonies” will not result in sanctions for any students.

But he also vowed to end the program early if disruptions grow.

“We will not — on Morehouse’s campus — create a national media moment,” he said, “where our inability to manage these tensions leads to people being taken out of a Morehouse ceremony in zip ties by law enforcement.”

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verb as in talk

Strongest matches

chat , communicate , convey , declare , deliver , express , go , say , shout , tell , utter , voice , whisper

Strong matches

allege , articulate , assert , aver , blab , chew , converse , descant , discourse , drawl , enunciate , expatiate , gab , gas , jaw , modulate , mouth , mumble , murmur , mutter , perorate , pronounce , rap , sound , spiel , spill , state , verbalize , vocalize , yak , yammer

Weak matches

break silence , lip , make known , make public , open one's mouth , pop off , put into words , speak one's piece , yakety-yak

verb as in address; give a lecture

argue , plead , talk

declaim , descant , discourse , harangue , orate , pitch , recite , sermonize , spiel , spout , stump

get across , hold forth , prelect

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Example sentences.

Other researchers decoded speech from the brain signals of a paralyzed man who is unable to speak.

Every time she talks to a caller the connection feels real, even if it’s with someone she’ll never speak to again.

Over the years, I’ve spoken with some helmet companies that are wary of adding a rotational-energy standard to the test, because there are disagreements over methodology.

While Somali and Oromo may not be among the most-spoken languages in the state – or even the county – there are many residents who speak those languages in San Diego, home to the largest populations of those groups in the state.

“I was confused,” says the doctor, who requested anonymity because his employer will not allow him to speak to the media.

So we do demand justice and we do speak up and make demands.

Or has the see and hear and speak-no-evil stance of the Republican House persuaded him that he is in the clear?

“We met the smuggler in the train station; he came to speak with us about the services he provided,” Yazbek says.

He disagrees, though, and says it is the duty of every person—men, especially—to speak up on this issue.

They were born in 51 countries and speak 59 foreign languages, but they seemed bound by a single purpose and resolve.

“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.

Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

Since this is a law of vibration, it is unscientific to speak of giving an overtone, for all tones contain overtones.

When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.

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Words related to speak are not direct synonyms, but are associated with the word speak . Browse related words to learn more about word associations.

verb as in express opinion publicly

• communicate
• disseminate
• make public

verb as in say clearly, coherently

verb as in indicate

verb as in converse

• confabulate

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On this page you'll find 125 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to speak, such as: chat, communicate, convey, declare, deliver, and express.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Synonyms for Speech

Synonyms starting with letter m.

• manner of speaking diction
• mother tongue talk, language
• mention comment, utterance
• manifestation
• mumbo jumbo
• mode of expression
• monologuise
• monologuize
• malevolence
• magnification