lipreader

Someone who is able to determine a person's speech by observing the motion of their lips.

Noun

  1. Someone who is able to determine a person's speech by observing the motion of their lips.
  2. A person who lipreads, or encourages others to do so.
    • Where is Bubba? Where's our leader? Where's our favorite lipreader? - 2008, Tom Paxton, “George W. Told the Nation”, in Farewell to the Thief!:

Origin

From lip + reader.

Forms

lipreaders lip-reader

Related

lipread lipreading