screech

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A high-pitched, strident cry.
• noun A sound suggestive of this cry.
• intransitive verb To utter in a screech or high-pitched voice.
• intransitive verb To cry out in a high-pitched, strident voice.
• intransitive verb To make a sound suggestive of a screech.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To cry out with a sharp, shrill voice; scream harshly or stridently; shriek.
• Synonyms See scream, n.
• To utter (a screech).
• noun A sharp, shrill cry; a harsh scream.
• noun Any sharp, shrill noise: as, the screech of a railway-whistle.
• noun In ornithology, the mistlethrush, Turdus viscivorus.
• noun Synonyms Shriek, etc. See scream.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.
• noun A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
• noun (Zoöl.) the fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain.
• noun (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] the European goatsucker; -- so called from its note.
• noun (Zoöl.) The European barn owl. The name is applied also to other species.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
• noun A loud harsh sound resembling a human cry.
• noun Newfoundlander, uncountable Newfoundland rum.
• noun A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
• verb To make such a sound.
• verb intransitive, figuratively to travel very fast, as if making the sounds of brakes being released

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb utter a harsh abrupt scream
• verb make a high-pitched, screeching noise
• noun a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry
• noun sharp piercing cry