what is the term for a word that is formed from the first letters of other words?
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You might mean an ACRONYM:\n\nAn acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as RADAR for RAdio Detecting And Ranging or SCUBA for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.\n\nOr you could mean an ACROSTIC:\n\nAn acrostic is an arrangement of words or lines in which a series of initial, final, or other corresponding letters, when taken together, stand in a set order to form a word and a phrase. \n\nHere is an example for ELIZABETH in an Edgar Allan Poe poem titled simply An Acrostic:\n\nE lizabeth it is in vain you say \n"L ove not" — thou sayest it in so sweet a way: \nI n vain those words from thee or L.E.L. \nZ antippe's talents had enforced so well: \nA h! if that language from thy heart arise, \nB reath it less gently forth — and veil thine eyes. \nE ndymion, recollect, when Luna tried \nT o cure his love — was cured of all beside — \nH is follie — pride — and passion — for he died. \n\nOr you might mean MNEMONIC:\n\nA mnemonic can be a similar memory device for remembering a series of words, such as ROYGBIV for the colors of the rainbow (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet).
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This is called an anagram.
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"other"\nAny word --> Any other word
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bcos that is the starting of a second word
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Swoon, Swear, Sweepstakes, Sweden, swampland, swandive, swashbuckler, swaddle, swing, swivel, swoop,swordfish, sword. \n\nOk, you know how when you type too many words with the same letters, they begin to look incorrect? I am experiencing that now. My reality has been altered. I have to quit now. This was very fun!
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Foot: take the first letter of the second word, the first letter of the first word, the second letter of the first word and the last letter of the second word.
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Brilliant Question !\n\nI don't know but the word comes from the first two letters of Greek - alpha and beta
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none of the above.  Self-evident is the closest, but that isn't really a compound word, it's a hyphenated word.
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Begins with "O". Ends with "M". Lots of other letters in between.
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...\n\nGREY\nCARE\nHARE\nHEAR\nONES\nLIED\nRARE\nTEAR\nZONE\nCORE\nROCK\nLONE\nSOAR\nHECK\nEATS\nTEAS\nHERS\nGRRS\nKONS\nTECH\nRECK\nRUIN\nDIAL\nCORK\nYEAR\nRAYS\nTONS\nNOTS\nTENS\nNETS\nLETS\nCARS\nCATS\nREAL\n\nenough?\n\n(Tip: After finding a word, you just switch around the letters to get more words\nAnother Tip: Add "s" to three letter words)
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A group of letters added to the end of a word to form a new word. For example: when ful is added to the word help, a new word is formed: helpful.\n--------------------\nGoogle is easy to use when searching for definitions, for example to find the def. of suffix go to google and type this:\ndefine:suffix\n-- Cool huh?
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Hymm\nRhythm\nMyth\nSylph and Syzygy\nAlthough these words contain the so called semivowel Y and none of the true vowels.
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ox\nnucleic\nrib\ndry\ndried\naid\naide\nrun\nran\nlice\nlid\nlied\nlobe\nrode\nride\nnor\nnod\nbond\nbone\nbore\nbored\nrice
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well she says it's a trick question....but I did a lil digging and if you want to be technical about it there is more then one word spelled in alphabetical order....\n\nThe longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. The seven-letter addeems (from the archaic verb addeem, meaning to award), alloquy (an archaic or literary word for an address), beefily (in a beefy manner), billowy (like a wave or surge), dikkops (a South African bird) and gimmors (plural of gimmor, an old-fashioned word for a mechanical contrivance) are also close.\n\n\n\nas for the trick part... I don't get it! LOL
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The first word.  In this case One.
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The answer really depends on what qualifies as a "word." \nFor example, chemical names can be thousands of letters long. If you wrote out the name of a DNA molecule, it would be over 1,000,000,000 letters. But are these really words? It seems even dictionaries can't agree. "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-volcanoconiosis" is the longest word in non-technical English dictionaries, but according to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is a fictitious word created just to claim the title of longest. \nOne of the longest place names is 92 letters, the name of a hill in New Zealand that is typically called just "Taumata." And for those with a sense of humor, "smiles" is considered the longest word because there is a "mile" between the first and last letters.
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It is called a Anagram. Here is a few words.\nAe\nAlee\nAleph\nLap\nLeach\nLeap\nEel\nEuchre\nCreel\nCreep\nCrepe\nHale\nHarp\nHaul\nParcel\nPan\nParch