alphabet

alphabet of economic science

deaf-and-dumb alphabet (=manual alphabet)

Letters of the alphabet represent sounds.

teaching a child the alphabet;

The last letter of the alphabet is Z.

a board with the alphabet on it; used with a planchette to spell out supernatural messages.

Anybody who compiles a dictionary has to know his alphabet backwards.

The Anglo-Saxon Futhorc was replaced by the Latin alphabet from about the 7th century onwards, although the two continued in parallel for some time.

"dactylology :The use of the fingers and hands to communicate and convey ideas, as in the manual alphabet used by hearing-impaired and speech-impaired people."