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Acrophony
noun · 78% connection
naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter
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Aphthong
noun · 78% connection
A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound.
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Aspirate
noun · 78% connection
A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an…
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Billion
noun · 78% connection
According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a m…
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Character
noun · 78% connection
Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a…
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Consonant
noun · 78% connection
An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alpha…
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Crop
noun · 78% connection
That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially,…
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Cyclorama
noun · 78% connection
A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature.…
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Exhaustion
noun · 78% connection
An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.
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Fluxion
noun · 78% connection
A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their…
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Glossic
noun · 78% connection
A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound…
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Grammalogue
noun · 78% connection
Literally, a letter word; a word represented by a logogram; as, it, represented by |, that is, t. pitman.
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Gyve
verb · 78% connection
To fetter; to shackle; to chain. H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with t…
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Heart
noun · 78% connection
The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the…
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Heterography
noun · 78% connection
That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthograph…
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Hieroglyphic
adjective · 78% connection
A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the pictu…
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Homographic
adjective · 78% connection
Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; -- said of certain methods of spelling words.
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Homophone
noun · 78% connection
A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rit…
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