List of letter selection indicators

This is an incomplete list of letter selection indicators. Most of these are either used possessively, postpositively or in two-word compounds, though some setters permit the use of a one-word word-indicator compound such as "horntail" for "n" (the last letter of "horn").

Note that selecting both the first and last letters is equivalent to deleting all of the middle letters; such deletion indicators can be found over at the deletion indicators list. =        First letter         =

=        Last letter         =
 * at first
 * beginner
 * beginning
 * capital
 * entrance
 * extreme
 * first of
 * first sign of
 * front
 * head
 * heading
 * initial
 * initially
 * introduction
 * lead
 * leader
 * opener
 * opening
 * origin
 * primarily
 * prow
 * start
 * starter
 * top

=       Both first and last letters         =
 * at last
 * back
 * bottom
 * close to
 * conclusion to
 * end
 * ending
 * extreme
 * final
 * finale
 * finally
 * finish
 * last
 * lastly
 * tail
 * ultimately

=        Middle one or two letters         =
 * banks
 * borders
 * case
 * case of
 * casing
 * edges
 * extremely
 * fringe
 * outsiders
 * sides

=  All middle letters   =
 * at heart
 * central
 * centre
 * middle
 * nucleus
 * stuffing

=  Alternate letters   =
 * centre
 * central
 * innards
 * insiders
 * stuffing


 * alternately
 * evenly
 * oddly
 * regularly