elide /ē- or i-līdˈ/

1. To cut off (esp a syllable in verse)
2. To suppress or abridge
3. To rebut (archaic)

elision /i-lizhˈən/ noun

1. The suppression of a vowel or syllable
2. An omission

• drill bit
• drill bits
• drill down
• drilled
• driller
• drillers
• drill-harrow
• drill-harrows
• drillhole
• drillholes
• drill-husbandry
• drilling
• drilling lathe
• drilling lathes
• drilling machine
• drilling machines
• stoked
• stokehold
• stokeholds
• stokehole
• stokeholes
• stoker
• stokers
• stokes
• Stokes' law