initial
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
initial/ɪˈnɪʃl/
▶adjective existing or occurring at the beginning. ▶noun the first letter of a name or word. ▶verb (initials, initialling, initialled; US initials, initialing, initialed) mark or sign with one's initials as a sign of approval or endorsement.
– derivatives
initially adverb.
initially adverb.
– origin C16: from L. initialis, from initium ‘beginning’.
'initial' also found in these Oxford entries:
acronym
- adjuvant
- aitchbone
- Algol
- amortize
- amosite
- an
- apheresis
- approach
- billion
- booster
- capital sum
- Celtic
- CE mark
- clean
- cusp
- cut
- develop
- down payment
- eyas
- first fruits
- generate
- germ
- historiated
- honeymoon
- hyperplasia
- illuminate
- inceptive
- initialism
- IPO
- ITA
- jackanapes
- letter
- liminal
- mutation
- N
- nitinol
- opening
- parlay
- pass
- payback
- pee
- Phi Beta Kappa
- phonaesthesia
- pi
- pig Latin
- prime mover
- profit
- proper noun
