Associations to the word «Fingerspelling»

Wiktionary

FINGERSPELLING, noun. The practice of representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands to spell out words.
FINGERSPELLING, noun. Any system for representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands.
FINGERSPELLING, noun. A representation of the spelling of a word using just the hands.

Dictionary definition

FINGERSPELLING, noun. An alphabet of manual signs.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne