Word Finder - letters

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A symbol in an alphabet.

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There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet.

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A written or printed communication, generally longer and more formal than a note.

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I wrote a letter to my sister about my life.

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The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (often contrasted with the spirit).

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(plural) Literature.

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Benjamin Franklin was multiskilled – a scientist, politician and a man of letters.

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A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet.

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A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm, US paper sizes rounded to the nearest 5 mm).

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A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.

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A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.

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To print, inscribe, or paint letters on something.

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(scholastic) To earn a varsity letter (award).

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One who lets, or lets out.

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a blood-letter

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One who retards or hinders.

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Literature (school subject).

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Rickert was the first woman (and second individual) to be awarded a Ph.D. in English letters and philology with that academic honor at the University of Chicago.

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The liberal arts, humanities, learning (broad accumulated cultural knowledge).

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Though architecture in ancient Rome was not generally considered to belong to the artes liberales, Vitruvius easily qualified as a man of letters because of his wide learning.

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An identifying initial of the academic institution that is awarded to a member of a varsity team. It is made from structured cloth, and intended to be sewn to a piece of clothing such as a varsity sweater or varsity jacket.

I have letters from Josh Mulligan—letters he wrote my mom.

The small letters are all made in the grooves, while the long ones extend above and below them.

I was telling Mrs. Edith about these here letters and how the two ladies from Boston will be coming to Bird Song.

To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life--I wrote this some years ago--that were worth the postage.

The top was clean except for accessories and a few letters standing upright in a sorter.

Bunches of the letters hadn't even been opened yet.

I even read the letters.

Teacher is writing letters to her friends.

On returning from the review, Kutuzov took the Austrian general into his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of the advanced army.

Both Deans agreed the letters were polite but of zero historical interest and strangely unloving.

How many different numbers and letters are there?

Nicholas took the two letters, one of which was from his mother and the other from Sonya.

I haven't found any new replacement letters, but I've eliminated a lot of possibilities.

He kept writing all one summer—ten or twelve letters.

It's hard to judge a guy by teenage love letters.

She stared at the blood-colored letters as the snow buried them.

The letters, eleven in all, were not from Ouray, but to a Ouray minister's wife, from her sister, a Boston matron.

Oh, he just follows the code and transcribes the letters.

Several letters between 1643 and 1649 are addressed to the princess Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of the ejected elector palatine, who lived at The Hague, where her mother maintained the semblance of a royal court.

Dean reread the eleven letters he had only glanced at earlier.

Four letters mentioned Rev. Martin and the wonderful work he and Annie were doing with 'the poor mistaken souls.'

All the letters were dated between November of 1898 and January of 1900.

Just think, great-grand-nieces of the woman who wrote these here letters to Ouray a hundred years ago.

Dean picked up one of the letters, glanced at it, and put it down.

She picked up the letters.

Donnie had paid no attention to their conversation but having tired of his puzzle, picked up the notebook of letters and numbers and began to study it, turning the binder page by page.

Do you think Annie was practicing her letters and numbers?

The letters written from Boston are answering correspondence Annie presumably wrote to her sister.

He compared the letters in the book to those on the hems of the garments.

It seems to me when you practice letters, you print uppercase letters first, don't you?

You don't write a jejune collection of hodgepodge letters and numbers like these.

The trouble with that theory is here we have letters and numbers.

The newspaper cryptograms are limited to replacement letters.

The two ladies had joined Fred in the parlor where he was showing them the letters they had purchased from him, sight unseen.

Claire Quincy had donned reading glasses and was scrutinizing the letters as Fred O'Connor followed his notes and explained the information on Annie Quincy he had gathered at the library.

We never discussed anything but the letters and the clothing.

I don't mean to be disrespectful, ma'am, but when we spoke on the telephone, I offered you the letters and the clothing.

Cynthia took up a pencil and paper again and began listing the different letters but almost as soon as they'd begun, they were interrupted by a soft knock on the door.

Donnie shook his head "no" and began listing the letters as Cynthia had suggested the night before.

Fred suggested that one of the letters might be in error so the group continued to look at the puzzle on the basis Cynthia had first suggested.

As much and as often as Annie wrote, the letters and numbers must have almost become a second language to her.

By the tone of the letters Rachael wrote to her, the family appeared somewhat estranged from one another.

I messed up a couple of letters and have to go back and change them.

The tone of Rachael's letters is most unnatural.

I'm trying to teach one of the Roma girls her letters as she knows nothing of reading or writing.

It was the first words spoken to him by the sharp-tongued woman since the prior Tuesday evening when she'd first purchased the letters.

A woman, dreaming of her pending marriage, scratched in tiny letters with her diamond, 'So in love, says everyone,' on the pane of her bedroom window.

My letters are so small none will ever see my missive, but there it will remain and give me strength for what I am now resigned I must do.

I'm not writing any letters to the Vatican proposing Jerome Shipton for sainthood.

Imaging of the mountain flashed off and was replaced by a screen full of colors and letters Brady didn't understand.