Logogram
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

ART
The creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"

MAP
A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)

PUN
A humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"

4 letters

KANA

PLAN
Scale drawing of a structure; "the plans for City Hall were on file"

RUNE
Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages; "each rune had its own magical significance"

TYPE
A small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper; "he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up"

5 letters

CHART
Make a chart of; "chart the territory"

DRAMA
The quality of being arresting or highly emotional

OGHAM

SCORE
A seduction culminating in sexual intercourse; "calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang"

TOKEN
Something of sentimental value

TOTEM
Emblem consisting of an object such as an animal or plant; serves as the symbol of a family or clan (especially among American Indians)

WEDGE
A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

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CIPHER
A message written in a secret code

EMBLEM
Special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.

LETTER
A written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor"

SCHEMA
A schematic or preliminary plan

SCRIPT
A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance

SYMBOL
Something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible; "the eagle is a symbol of the United States"

ACROST

7 letters

ANAGRAM
A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

DIAGRAM
A drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts

DRAWING
The act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

IMAGERY
The ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"

IMAGING
(medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body

LIMNING
A drawing of the outlines of forms or objects

PUNNING
A humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"

RADICAL
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"

WRITING
The activity of putting something in written form; "she did the thinking while he did the writing"

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ACROSTIC
Verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message

ALLEGORY
An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

ALPHABET
The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"

HIRAGANA

IDEOGRAM
A graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it; "Chinese characters are ideograms"

KATAKANA

LOGOGRAM
A single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese"

LOGOTYPE
A company emblem or device

LOVEKNOT
A stylized or decorative knot used as an emblem of love

METAGRAM

NOTATION
The activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters

PHONETIC
Of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds; "phonetic analysis"

PRINTING
Text handwritten in the style of printed matter

WORDPLAY
A humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"

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AMPHIBOLY
An ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes

ARROWHEAD
The pointed head or striking tip of an arrow

BLUEPRINT
Photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.

CALEMBOUR

CHARACTER
(genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes

CUNEIFORM
An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia

DEPICTION
Representation by drawing or painting etc

EQUIVOQUE

ICONOLOGY
The branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms)

IDEOGRAPH
A graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it; "Chinese characters are ideograms"

JEUDEMOTS

LOGOGRIPH

MISSAYING

PICTOGRAM

PORTRAYAL
Acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture

RENDERING
The act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance; "her rendition of Milton's verse was extraordinarily moving"

RENDITION
The act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance; "her rendition of Milton's verse was extraordinarily moving"

SHORTHAND
A method of writing rapidly

SYLLABARY
A writing system whose characters represent syllables

SYMBOLISM
A system of symbols and symbolic representations

SYMBOLOGY
The study or the use of symbols and symbolism

TABLATURE
A musical notation indicating the fingering to be used

TOTEMPOLE
A tribal emblem consisting of a pillar carved and painted with totemic figures; erected by Indian tribes of the northwest Pacific coast

LOGOGRAPH
A single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese"

10 letters

CHARACTERY

CORRUPTION
Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"

DEPICTMENT

FIGURATION
Decorating with a design

HIEROGLYPH
Writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)

PALINDROME
A word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward

PICTOGRAPH
A graphic character used in picture writing

PROJECTION
The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

SPOONERISM
Transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words

WORDLETTER

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DELINEATION
Representation by drawing or painting etc

GRAMMALOGUE

ICONOGRAPHY
The images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject; "religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of a despot"

MALAPROPISM
The unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar

PARONOMASIA
A humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"

PLAYONWORDS

PORTRAITURE
The activity of making portraits

PRESENTMENT
A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view; "the presentation of new data"; "he gave the customer a demonstration"

REALIZATION
Something that is made real or concrete; "the victory was the realization of a whole year's work"

AMPHIBOLISM

12 letters

ABUSEOFTERMS

CHARACTERING

CHOREOGRAPHY
A show involving artistic dancing

EQUIVOCALITY

HIEROGLYPHIC
Writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)

ILLUSTRATION
A visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand

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AMPHIBOLOGISM

DANCENOTATION

DEMONSTRATION
A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view; "the presentation of new data"; "he gave the customer a demonstration"

DETERMINATIVE
A determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"

HIEROGLYPHICS

PICTURIZATION