Hieroglyphic is a 12 letter word which starts with the letter H and ends with the letter C for which we found 3 definitions.
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(a.) A sacred character; a character in picture writing as of the ancient Egyptians Mexicans etc. Specifically in the plural the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three or as some say four classes of characters: first the hieroglyphic proper or figurative in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second the ideographic consisting of symbols representing ideas not sounds as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third the phonetic consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word or as letters of the alphabet having a certain sound as a hawk represented the vowel a. |
(a.) Any character or figure which has or is supposed to have a hidden or mysterious significance; hence any unintelligible or illegible character or mark. |
(a.) Alt. of Hieroglyphical |
The word hieroglyphic is a 12 letter word that has 5 syllable 's . The syllable division for hieroglyphic is: hi-er-o-glyph-ic