dental, adj.
1 of the teeth; of or relating to dentistry.
2 Phonet. (of a consonant) produced with the tongue-tip against the upper front teeth (as th) or the ridge of the teeth (as n, s, t).

Idiom

dental floss a thread of floss silk etc. used to clean between the teeth. dental mechanic a person who makes and repairs artificial teeth. dental surgeon a dentist.

Derivative

dentalize v.tr. (also -ise).

Etymology

LL dentalis f. L dens dentis tooth

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THESAURUS

dental

accented, allopathic, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bicuspid, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, chiropodic, chiropractic, clinical, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dentiform, dentoid, dissimilated, dorsal, exodontic, fanged, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, homeopathic, hydropathic, iatric, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, medical, mid, molar, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, naturopathic, neurological, obstetric, occlusive, odontoid, open, orthodontic, orthopedic, osteopathic, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pediatric, periodontic, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, prosthodontic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, snaggle-toothed, snaggled, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, surgical, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, toothed, toothlike, toothy, tusked, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

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dental

Letter

N letter, character, hieroglyphic, type, capitals, digraph, trigraph, ideogram, ideograph, majuscule, minuscule, majuscule, minuscule, alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row, consonant, vowel, diphthong, triphthong, mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural, syllable, monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable, affix, suffix, spelling, orthograph, phonography, phonetic spelling, anagrammatism, metagrammatism, cipher, monogram, anagram, doubleacrostic, literal, alphabetical, abecedarian, syllabic, majuscular, minuscular, uncial.

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