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The answer INITIAL has 262 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of initial in various dictionaries:
noun - the first letter of a word (especially a person's name)
verb - mark with one's initials
adj - occurring at the beginning
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| Approve, in a way |
| O.K., in a way |
| Opening |
| Okay, in a way |
| Sign off on |
| Part of J.F.K.? |
| Primary |
| O.K., maybe |
| Hanky embroidery |
| Monogram part |
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| occurring at the beginning |
| existing or occurring at the beginning. |
| mark with one's initials |
| the first letter of a word (especially a person's name) |
| mark or sign (a document) with one's initials in order to authorize or validate it. |
| the first letter of a name or word, typically a person's given name or a word forming part of a phrase. |
| Designating the first letter or letters of a word. |
| Of, relating to, or occurring at the beginning first: took the initial step toward peace. |
| To mark or sign with initials, especially for purposes of authorization or approval. |
| A large, often highly decorated letter set at the beginning of a chapter, verse, or paragraph. |
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In a written or published work, an initial or drop cap is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is derived from the Latin initialis, which means standing at the beginning. An initial is often several lines in height and in older books or manuscripts, sometimes ornately decorated. * In illuminated manuscripts, initials with images inside them, such as those illustrated here, are known as historiated initials. They were an invention of the Insular art of the British Isles in the eighth century. Initials containing, typically, plant-form spirals with small figures of animals or humans that do not represent a specific person or scene are known as "inhabited" initials. Certain important initials, such as the Beatus initial or "B" of Beatus vir... at the opening of Psalm 1 at the start of a vulgate Latin psalter, could occupy a whole page of a manuscript. * These specific initials, in an illuminated manuscript, also w |