Besides its most common meaning as the first letter of any word or name, an initial is a letter at the beginning of a written work, a chapter or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text and often decorative.
Initial may also refer to: Initial (linguistics), part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology Rentokil Initial, a British business services group Initial Records, an American record label Initial (album), the debut album by the band Person L Initial, a British film and television production company owned by Banijay UK Productions
See also
Acronym, the initial letters of the elements of a multipart organisational name Given name#Initials, the first letter of a person's given name or middle name or both. Initialism, an unpronounceable acronym Theory of Deadly Initials