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multilettered

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English

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Etymology

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From multi- +‎ lettered.

Adjective

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multilettered (comparative more multilettered, superlative most multilettered)

  1. Having many letters (characters of an alphabet).
    • 1978, Matthew John Caldwell Hodgart, James Joyce: a student's guide, page 133:
      The reader soon begins to recognise these patterns, like the recurrent multilettered thunder-word, representing the thunderclap which terrified the savage cavemen into religious belief and started off the cycle of civilisation.