To form into an acronym.

The enthusiastic creation and use of acronyms.

(humorous) The excessive use of acronyms.

Pertaining to the use of acronyms.

The formation of words from the initial components of words in a phrase

A kind of word puzzle, the solution of which forms an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often form the name of its author.

Alternative form of acrostic [A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.]

Obsolete spelling of acrostic [A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.]

Obsolete spelling of acrostic [A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.]

An acronym whose etymonic origin is incidental to the discussion at hand, and thus not worth mentioning or explaining in the context (or perhaps even worth remembering at all, for most speakers). Thus the word stands on its own with identity as a full-fledged word and not solely an acronym despite acronymic etymology, and (in the strongest cases, including laser, radar, sonar, lidar, and scuba) usually takes lowercased styling (because to capitalize it would represent undue emphasis on its etymonic origin). Relatedly, unlike with many other acronyms, spelling it out within a sentence is usually counterproductive to clarity and style.

(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.

a list of words, or groups of words, ordered according to the number of each letter in the word; used for solving crosswords and similar puzzles

The creation or formation of anagrams.

Transformation of a word into its anagram.

Obsolete spelling of anagram [(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.]

A person who makes or finds anagrams.

A kind of anagram.

(among cryptic crossword enthusiasts) Part of a cryptic crossword clue indicating that the letters of another word or phrase in the clue should be anagrammed.

A mnemonic used for recalling lists of words, particularly in Scrabble, consisting of a "stem" of base letters and an accompanying phrase, each of whose letters can combine with the stem to form an anagram of a word.

Written with an apostrophe.

Archaic spelling of apostrophe. [(orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.]

(rare) An anagram whose meaning is relevant to that of the original text that was anagrammed.

(typography, rare) An asterism (⁂) or similar symbol which replaces the name of the author in a literary work.

To create a backronym.

The back-formation of a phrase to fit an acronym.

Alternative spelling of backronym. [To create a backronym.]

(cognitive linguistics) A hypothetical program in the brain, responsible for the construction of a language from words (and thus explaining the structural similarities of unrelated creoles).

(Scrabble) A word which is an anagram of another but for the substitution of a single letter.

(linguistics) A program or algorithm that breaks down natural language into certain grammatical components.

(specifically, linguistics) Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.

(computing, linguistics) A branch of linguistics that studies large samples (corpora) of real-world text, usually with the aid of computer software.

A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo.

N-gram, a subsequence.

(linguistics) A writing system where written symbols correspond to speech.

The quantitative research of words and text.

The subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic.

A system for transliterating Greek into the Latin alphabet, either phonetically (for example, transliterating Νίκη as Niki) or orthographically (for example, transliterating Νίκη as Nikh).

A readability metric for English writing, estimating how many years of formal education a person needs in order to understand the text on the first reading. It is based on the average sentence length and the proportion of words of three or more syllables.

(uncountable) Spelling in which a particular letter represents more than one possible sound.

(linguistics, computing) A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents; thus, in character encoding terms, a character with an identical or near-identical glyph, or the glyph itself.

An ideogram.

A unit of imagery, analogous to a logogen, but applicable to non-verbal systems.

(linguistics) A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is itself pronounced letter by letter.

Abbreviation of language. [(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.]

(sequence) In lexicographical order.

(literature) A word or writing that does not use a particular symbol or symbols.

(linguistics) An item that is memorized as part of a list, as opposed to being generated by a rule.

A kind of word puzzle: a logogriph.

A symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of an institution or other entity, usually referred to as a logo.

(rare) An acronym having a letter that stands for another acronym.

A system that translates mathematical expressions (on a website for example) into spoken English for the benefit of blind people

A word game in which one word has to be transformed into another by substituting one letter at a time.

metascience research

A human language which is living or recently extinct.

(transitive) To mark something with a monogram.

A composite symbol made up of other symbols.

A constructed script; a synthetic system of writing.

A cabalistic method of deriving a phrase from a word, using the letters of the word as initial letters of words in the sentence.

Of or pertaining to notation.

(linguistics) An existing acronym which has been redefined as a nonacronymous name, severing its link to its previous meaning.

The conversion of a word (or other string of characters) into a palindrome

a notation used in transcripts to indicate that the transcriber does not know the spelling, usually of a name, and has spelled it as it was pronounced (Initialism of phonetically.)

An acronym in which a word (often the first) of the phrase represented by the acronym is the acronym itself.

A technique for drawing diagrams of syntactic structure, based on a subject and a verbal predicate, with modifiers written on slanted lines leading off from the words they modify.

(writing, rhetoric) Specifically, the technique of having a setup in advance, a reminder to keep it fresh in the audience's memory, and then a payoff.

A symbol used solely for meaning, as when logographic Chinese symbols are used to represent the meaning of native Japanese words.

(corpus linguistics, computing) A collection of tags.

The transmission of ideas from one mind to another, as through the use of language.

Of or pertaining to textuality.

(linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.

A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.

Of or relating to an urtext.

(education) A method of teaching literacy that emphasises the recognition of words in an everyday context; often contrasted with phonics.

The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes

A type of acrostic, consisting of a set of words written out in a square grid, such that the same words can be read both horizontally and vertically.

A written collection of all words derived from a particular source, or sharing some other characteristic.

(obsolete) The memorization of written texts.