oral

adjective

• 1spoken rather than written; verbal:they had reached an oral agreement
• relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth: oral literature a society with an oral tradition
• (of a society) not having reached the stage of literacy.

• 2relating to the mouth:oral hygiene
• done or taken by the mouth:oral contraceptives
• Phonetics (of a speech sound) pronounced by the voice resonating in the mouth, as the vowels in English. Compare with nasal (sense 2 of the adjective).
• Psychoanalysis (in Freudian theory) relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development in which the mouth is the main source of pleasure and the centre of experience.

noun

• a spoken examination or test:a French oral