WordNet
n. the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters" [syn: letter, alphabetic character]
Usage examples of "letter of the alphabet".
Each room is marked by a letter of the alphabet, and all together they make up some text that we must discover!
The buildings were constructed from huge square bricks, each embossed with a letter of the alphabet.
Before the day of the spelling-bee she believed that, if Miss Cramp didn't go beyond the first letter of the alphabet, she would be fairly well grounded in the words as they came in rotation.
Homan that produces a cryptogram in which every letter of the alphabet occurs as often as every other.
Assuming each of those sixteen represents one and only one letter of the alphabet, this message has (Lawrence reckons in his head) 111136315345735680000 possible meanings.
There could be a translation key that said the first symbol stood for the tenth letter of the alphabet, and the second stood for the fifteenth.
What is needed is that each letter of the alphabet shall have a perfectly definite sound, and that this sound shall never be changed or modified without the addition of an accent, or other visible sign, to indicate precisely and exactly the nature of the modification.
When you have managed that, then begin with the first letter of the alphabet, Al-Ka, and continue writing the alphabet in order, over and over, once more on all available squares, until you arrive at the last square on the board.
Every time I encountered a biomorph that resembled, however slightly, a letter of the alphabet, I bred and bred to enhance the resemblance.