amphibrach

amphibrach has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic.
• n.. a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember')