Tenseness is the pronunciation of a vowel with less centralization (i.e. either more fronting or more backing), longer duration, and narrower mouth width (with the tongue being perhaps more raised) compared with another vowel.
The tense vowels are longer than lax vowels for example, /i:/ in we (wi: ) is longer than the /ɪ/ in (‘bɪg).
Some of those examples include this vowels i, e, o, u, ɔ, and ɑ.
Law : /lɔ/
Spa: /spɑ/
Bay: /beɪ/
Bee: /bi/
Ray: /reɪ/
Too: /tu/
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