Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
- daleth
- the 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- generation gap
- a difference between the views of young people and their parents
- Athapaskan language
- a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)
- cantus firmus
- a pre-existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition; originally drawn from plainchant, but later drawn from other sources
- Doctor of Humane Letters
- an honorary degree in letters
- transition
- a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
- call
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- shaft
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- Koasati
- the Muskhogean language spoken by the Koasati
- octal notation
- any mathematical notation that uses 8 different characters (usually the digits 0 to 7)
- bill of lading
- a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery
- choral ode
- ode sung by the chorus in classical Greek drama
- Y
- the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet
- Ido
- an artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto
- spondee
- a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
- Mikir-Meithei
- Kamarupan languages spoken in the states of Manipur and Assam in northeastern India
- bookplate
- a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted
- bust-up
- a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship)
- apostrophe
- the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
- table d'hote
- a menu offering a complete meal with limited choices at a fixed price
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