acrophony

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acrophony - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Acrophony \A*croph"o*ny\, n. [Gr. 'a`kros extreme + ? sound.]
     The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent
     phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.
     [1913 Webster]

acrophony - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  acrophony
      n 1: naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose
           initial sound is the sound represented by that letter