vocable

Sometimes he merely alters a letter or two; sometimes he twists off the head or the tail of the unfortunate vocable altogether.

Suppose I have an idea to which I give utterance by the vocable 'skrkl,' claiming at the same time that it is true.

There was a vocable that occasioned me some perplexity—indeed a haze envelopes it still.

A very little would have induced him to fill that empty vocable with a name.

The same vocable is preserved to our day in the name borne by one of the provinces of Persia, Khouzistan.