alphabetic character - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"spelling - forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage alphabet - a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language ascender - a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters descender - a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters digraph - two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe') initial - the first letter of a word (especially a person's name); "he refused to put the initials FRS after his name" A - the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet B - the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet C - the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet D - the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet E - the 5th letter of the Roman alphabet F - the 6th letter of the Roman alphabet G - the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet H - the 8th letter of the Roman alphabet I - the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet J - the 10th letter of the Roman alphabet K - the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet L - the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet M - the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet N - the 14th letter of the Roman alphabet O - the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet P - the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet Q - the 17th letter of the Roman alphabet R - the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet S - the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet T - the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet U - the 21st letter of the Roman alphabet V - the 22nd letter of the Roman alphabet double-u, W - the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet X - the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet Y - the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet ezed, izzard, zed, zee, Z - the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard" alpha - the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet beta - the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet gamma - the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet delta - the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet epsilon - the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet zeta - the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet eta - the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet theta - the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet iota - the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet kappa - the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet lambda - the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet mu - the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet nu - the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet xi - the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet omicron - the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet pi - the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet rho - the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet sigma - the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet tau - the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet upsilon - the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet phi - the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet khi, chi - the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet psi - the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet omega - the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet aleph - the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet beth - the 2nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet gimel - the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet daleth - the 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet he - the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet |