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[]
- at first
- beginner
- beginning
- capital
- entrance
- extreme
- first of
- first sign of
- front
- head
- heading
- head off
- initial
- initially
- introduction
- lead
- leader
- opener
- opening
- origin
- primarily
- prow
- start
- starter
- top
Last letter[]
- at last
- back
- bottom
- close to
- conclusion to
- end
- ending
- extreme
- final
- finale
- finally
- finish
- last
- lastly
- tail
- ultimately
Both first and last letters[]
- banks
- borders
- case
- case of
- casing
- edges
- extremely
- fringe
- outsiders
- sides
- wrappers
Middle one or two letters[]
- at heart
- central
- centre
- core
- middle
- nucleus
- stuffing
All middle letters[]
- centre
- central
- innards
- insiders
- peeled
- skinned
- stuffing
Alternate letters[]
- alternately
- at odds
- evenly
- oddly
- regularly