mute

Refraining from producing speech or vocal sound.

Unable to speak.

Unable to vocalize, as certain animals.

Expressed without speech; unspoken.

Declining to enter a plea to a criminal charge.

Not pronounced; silent, as the e in the word house.

Pronounced with a temporary stoppage of breath, as the sounds (p) and (b); plosive; stopped.

One who is incapable of speech.