Search for crossword answers and clues
Having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
Answer for the clue "Having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound ", 10 letters:
shrillness
Word definitions for shrillness in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound [syn: stridence , stridency ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shrillness is a word used to describe the quality of sounds that have a high-pitched, strident, raucous, screeching or harsh character, such as those produced by a trumpet or piccolo , but it can also be used to describe a widely recognised and puzzling ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrillness \Shrill"ness\, n. The quality or state of being shrill.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The property of being shrill. 2 (context countable English) The result or product of being shrill.
Usage examples of shrillness.
I had come to settle one feud, not involve myself in another, but even while these lightning thoughts flickered in my mind, I had whipped out my skean and I was surprised at the shrillness of my own voice.
His every sentence was echoed by the herald so that even those at the far reaches of the crowd could hear, but Firekeeper was close enough to hear the old voice projecting with strength despite the shrillness of age.
The sounds were a squeaking shrillness that changed from day to day as Trixia and the other Focused linguists determined where in the acoustic spectrum the sense of Spider talk was hidden, and devised convenient representations, both auditory and visual, for its study.
All the girls were shuffled in and out of the Chorus of Corinthian Women and the Chorus of Trojan Women as if Corinthian and Trojan women possessed an interchangable shrillness.
The bosun's mate brought the cat out of its red baize bag: nine hearty strokes, nine appalling falsetto screams of a shrillness and a volume enough to mark the day as quite uncommon, and to gratify that part of the ship's company which took pleasure in bull-baiting, bear-baiting, prize fighting, pillories, and executions - perhaps nine-tenths of those present.
No sound, but a rasping shrillness that skidded on one's nerves, a something in the air that set one's teeth on edge.
One fist lifted strengthlessly, and a dying shrillness was in the dust: "Curse you, curse you, MIKILLATI, curse you for a stupid fool, leaving me here to be slain—no, no, no—"