Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Vocable

Vocable , noun

[Latin vocabulum an appellation, designation, name, from vocare to call, from vox, vocis, a voice, a word: compare French vocable. See Voice.]

A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning.
Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. — Carlyle