Lipogram

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lipogram \Lip"o*gram\ (l[i^]p"[-o]*gr[a^]m; 277), n. [Gr.
     lei`pein, lipei^n, to leave, omit + -gram.]
     A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or
     letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A
     in the first book, no B in the second, and so on.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lipogram
       n : a text that excludes a particular letter or particular
           letters of the alphabet