dissyllable

Dissyllable nouns in er, as cnker, btter, have the accent on the former syllable.

It will thus be seen that many of Chaucers lines end with a dissyllable, instead of a single syllable.

The practice which Shelley follows in this line of making 'heaven' a dissyllable is very frequent with him.

Philarchus, I remember, taxes Balzac for placing twenty monosyllables in file without one dissyllable betwixt them.

The same soft word, which Thomasine made a dissyllable, and Boodles sang as an anthem, followed.