adjective. Obstructing or closing natural openings or passages of the body.

noun. An obstruent medicine or agent.

noun. A sound, such as a stop, fricative, or affricate, that is produced with complete blockage or at least partial constriction of the airflow through the nose or mouth.

Obstructive; impeding.

noun. Anything that obstructs; especially, anything that blocks up the natural passages of the body.

adjective. Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering.

noun. Anything that obstructs or closes a passage; esp., that which obstructs natural passages in the body.

noun. a consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; the generic term of plosive, fricative and affricate

noun. a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth

"If I'm correct about terminal obstruent devoicing continuing in the region, then they never did speak Old High German as we usually think of it note that terminal obstruent devoicing is one of the criteria for distinguishing MHG from OHG."

consonant  

affricate  affricate consonant  affricative  continuant  continuant consonant  

hindering