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Suffix :: Suffix (n.) A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix..

Hyoid :: Hyoid (a.) Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [/]..

Literatim :: Literatim (adv.) Letter for letter.

C :: C () The C clef, a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C..

Pall :: Pall (n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y..

Spell :: Spell (v. i.) To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing..

Miniate :: Miniate (v. t.) To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript..

Printing :: Printing (n.) The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints..

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..

Telestich :: Telestich (n.) A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic..

Alphabet :: Alphabet (n.) The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

H :: H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, /, as in shall, thing, /ine (for zh see /274); also, to modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh, as in ch

Kyriological :: Kyriological (a.) Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic..

Ranger :: Ranger (n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc..

Letterwood :: Letterwood (n.) The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum (B. Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks..

Palatal :: Palatal (n.) A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y..

Epenthesis :: Epenthesis (n.) The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in nimble from AS. n/mol..

P :: P () the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phoenician, its probable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most closely related to b, f, and v; as hobble, hopple; father, paternal; recipient, receive. See B, F, and M..

Reduplicate :: Reduplicate (v. t.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3..

Uncial :: Uncial (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain style of letters used in ancient manuscripts, esp. in Greek and Latin manuscripts. The letters are somewhat rounded, and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination. These letters were used as early as the 1st century b. c., and were seldom used after the 10th century a. d., being superseded by the cursive style..

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