Stridor

(n.) A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise.

Thesaurus Entries

acuteness, arguteness, atonalism, atonality, cacophony, clinker, creakiness, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, flatness, highness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, off note, pipingness, reediness, screechiness, sharpness, shrillness, sour note, sourness, stridence, stridency, stridulousness, tunelessness, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, untunefulness, wolf