"abbreviated words" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to words that have been shortened in order to save time or space. For example, "PC" is an abbreviation of the words "personal computer".
Even when dialect is done brilliantly well, grammatical tics and abbreviated words can make it tricky to parse.
"Be With Me" looks askance at cyber styles of instant communication, with abbreviated words and phrases, in which a relationship can be erased by pressing "delete".
As a result, nicknames have been reduced from descriptive tools to a type of shorthand, much like the abbreviated words and uncapitalized letters used in e-mail.
Examples of abbreviated words that are sometimes given apostrophes include 'flu (short for influenza), Hallowe'en (All Hallows Evening), and Jo'burg (Johannesburg).
In Western plainchant, abbreviated words were used to indicate duration (for example, c = cito or celeriter = "short" value) and direction of melodic movement (l = levare, and s = sursum = "upward").
For many adults, the abbreviated words of 20-somethings are impossible to decipher.
The abbreviated word in stanza four, line five, is presumably "Godhead", the sacred source of "Virtue".
"It became obvious that each character in the Voynich manuscript represented an abbreviated word and not a letter".
Do not put a period at the end of a headline unless it is being used for an abbreviated word.
Period characters that follow non-abbreviated words and act as sentence delimiters.
There are now thousands of abbreviated English words used by Japanese that without explanation usually cannot be understood by English speakers.
