acupuncture

1. 1.

   treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin

   Synonymsstylostixis

   Broadertreatment

   China

Other forms of acupuncture

plural

acupunctures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acupuncture

What does acupuncture mean?

acupuncture means "treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin".

How many syllables are in acupuncture?

acupuncture has 4 syllables: ac-u-punc-ture. The stress falls on "ac". In IPA it is /ˈækjuˌpʌŋktʃɚ/.

What is another word for acupuncture?

Close synonyms include stylostixis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acupuncture a common word?

acupuncture is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with acupuncture?

1 word rhymes with acupuncture. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.