graphic abbreviation
Linguistics and Palaeography
noun
A written abbreviation of a word intended to be read as the full word, as distinguished from one which is pronounced as it is spelled.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Henry Sweet (1845–1912), phonetician and comparative philologist.
- threescore
- three-sided
- Three Sisters
- threesome
- three-star
- Three Stooges
- three strikes
- three-way
- three-wheeler
- Three Wise Men
- thremmatology
- threnodial
- threnodic
- threnodist
- threnody
- threonine
- thresh
- thresher
- thresher shark
- threshing floor
- threshing machine
- threshing sled
- threshing sledge
- threshold
- threw