conversation - the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.

pious platitude, cant - insincere talk about religion or morals

dialog, dialogue, duologue - a conversation between two persons

heart-to-heart - an intimate talk in private; "he took me aside for a little heart-to-heart"

shmooze - (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk

shop talk - talk about your business that only others in the same business can understand

idle words, jazz, nothingness, wind - empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"

chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak, cackle - noisy talk

speaking - capable of or involving speech or speaking; "human beings--the speaking animals"; "a speaking part in the play"