List of onomatopoeias

Human vocal sounds

• Achoo, Atishoo
• Babbling
• Cough
• Gargle
• Gibberish
• Hiccup
• Hum
• Chomp
• Susurration
• Ululation
• Whisper

• Words for people named after sounds

• Barbarian, a person perceived to be uncivilized; derived from a Greek word imitating babbling
• Flibbertigibbet, a flighty or talkative person; derived from a meaningless representation of chattering
• Mleccha, ancient Indian word for a foreigner; derived from a word for indistinct speech

  Sounds made by devices or other objects

• Awooga, or
• Bang, the sound of an explosion or a gunshot
• Boom, the sound of an explosion
• Beep, a high-pitched signal
• Beep, beep, 1929 word for a car horn
• , sound of metal on metal
• Clatter
• , sound of glass on glass
• Ding dong, the sound of a ringing bell
• Fizz, sound of effervescence
• Flutter, sound of rapid motion, e.g. aeroelastic flutter
• Honk, sound of a car horn; also used for the call of a goose
• Kaboom, the sound of an explosion
• Oom-pah, the rhythmical sound of a deep brass instrument in a band
• Ping
• Plop
• Pop
• Rumble
• Sizzle
• Slosh
• Splash, sound of water upon disturbance
• Squish
• Swish
• Thump
• Tick tick tick, sound of a timer
• Tick tock, sound of a clock
• Toot
• Vroom, sound of an engine revving up
• Whirr
• Whoosh, sound of the wind
• Zap, sound of an electrostatic discharge
• , sound of melting plastic

  Things named after sounds

• Choo Choo, childish word for a train, after the sound of a steam locomotive's whistle.
• Flip-flops
• Tuk-tuk, word for auto rickshaw in parts of Asia and Africa

  Animal and bird names

• Aye-aye
• Bobolink
• Bobwhite
• Chachalaca
• Chickadee
• Chiffchaff
• Chuck-will's-widow
• Cuckoo
• Curlew
• Dickcissel
• Dik-dik
• Dodo
• Hoopoe
• Kea
• Killdeer
• Mopoke, morepork or boobook owl
• Pobblebonk
• Poorwill
• Weero
• Willet
• Eastern whip-poor-will
• Mexican whip-poor-will
• Zyzzyx, a genus of sand wasp

  Animal and bird noises

• Bark, sound of a dog
• Bleat, sound of a sheep
• Buzz, sound of bees or insects flying
• Chirp, bird call
• Chirp, sound made by rubbing together feet or other body parts, e.g. by a cricket or a cicada
• Growling, low, guttural vocalization produced by predatory animals
• Hiss, sound made by a snake
• Hoot, call of an owl
• Meow, cry of a cat
• Moo, sound of a cow
• Purr, a tonal buzzing sound made by all members of the cat family
• Quack, call of a duck
• Ribbit, sound of some Pacific tree frogs or bullfrogs
• Roar, deep, bellowing outburst made by various animals
• Screech, high-pitched strident or piercing sound, as made by a screech owl

  Music groups or terms

• Bebop, a style of jazz
• Ratatat, a New York City experimental electronic rock duo
• Wah-wah, the sound of altering the resonance of musical notes to extend expressiveness
• Doof doof, Australian slang term describes electronic music heard at raves
• Wham! Wham! was a 1980s English musical duo formed by members George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley
• Djent, a style of progressive metal named after the sound of a palm-muted guitar
• Kecak, part of a musical drama, is named after monkey chatter, and "chak" is also the sound of a struck bar percussion instrument as in a gamelan
• Oom-pah, brass instruments

  Works and characters named after sounds

• "Boum !", a song
• Cock a doodle doo, a nursery rhyme about a cockerel
• Kachi-kachi Yama, a Japanese folktale, named for the crackling of a fire
• Snap, Crackle and Pop, advertising mascots for branded cereal
• Clank, from the famous video game series "Ratchet & Clank"
• Rattle and Hum, an album by the Irish band U2
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a car in film of the same name named for the unusual noise of its engine

  Sounds in fiction

• Bamf, the sound Nightcrawler makes when teleporting
• Snikt, the sound of Wolverine's claws being extended
• Thwip, the sound that Spider-Man's web shooters make
• Vworp, the sound the TARDIS makes when it materializes