Word Meanings - PREFORMATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.

Related words: (words related to PREFORMATIVE)

• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• FORMATIVE
  Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative. (more info) 1. Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• LETTER
  One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• BEGINNING
  1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven
• LETTERLESS
  1. Not having a letter. 2. Illiterate. E. Waterhouse.
• LETTERWOOD
  The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum , found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for
• LETTERING
  1. The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting. 2. The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign.
• BEGINNER
  One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. A sermon of a new beginner. Swift.
• LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE
• LETTERED
  1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered" Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• AFFORMATIVE
  An affix.
• PREFORMATIVE
  A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.
• SEA LETTER
  The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
• UNDERLETTER
  A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.
• BLACK-LETTER
  1. Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book. 2. Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date. Kemble, a black-letter man! J. Boaden. 3. Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar
• INFORMATIVE
  Having power to inform, animate, or vivify. Dr. H. More.
• BLOODLETTER
  One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
• NIGHT LETTER; NIGHT LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE
• NEWS-LETTER
  A circular letter, written or printed for the purpose of disseminating news. This was the name given to the earliest English newspapers.