Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sibilant

Sibilant , adjective

[Latin sibilans, -antis, present participle of sibilare to hiss: compare French sibilant.]

Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.
A sibiliant letter.