561. Letter. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties

Division (II) Communication of Ideas

Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas

2. Conventional Means

1. Language generally

561. Letter.


NOUN:	LETTER; character; hieroglyphic (writing) [See Writing]; type (printing) [See Printing]; capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram; ideograph; majuscule, majusculœ [L.]; minuscule, minusculœ [L.]; alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row or crisscross-row [obs. or dial. Eng.]. consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong; mute, surd, sonant, liquid, labial, palatal, cerebral, dental, guttural; guna, vriddhi [Skr. gram.]. SYLLABLE; monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable; affix, prefix, suffix. SPELLING, orthography; phonography, phonetic spelling, phonetics; anagrammatism, metagrammatism. CIPHER, monogram, anagram; acrostic, double acrostic.

VERB:	spell, orthographize [rare]; gunate; transliterate. CIPHER, decipher; code, decode; make -, construct- acrostics; design monograms; play anagrams; use -, invent- ciphers.

ADJECTIVE:	LITERAL; alphabetical, abecedarian; syllabic; majuscular, minuscular; uncial (writing) [See Writing]. PHONETIC, voiced, tonic, sonant; voiceless, surd; mute, labial, palatal, cerebral, dental, guttural, liquid.