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Adjective: suprasegmental  ,soo-pru-seg'men-t(u)l
  1. (linguistics) pertaining to a feature of speech that extends over more than a single speech sound
    "A few languages have no suprasegmental phonemes"

See also: united

Encyclopedia: Suprasegmental