frontispiece (n.)

• anteriority
• breakthrough
• display
• exordium
• facade
• face
• facet
• facia
• fore
• forefront
• foreground
• forehand
• foreland
• forepart
• forequarter
• foreword
• front
• frontage
• frontal
• frontier
• head
• heading
• innovation
• introduction
• lap
• leap
• obverse
• overture
• postulate
• preamble
• preface
• prefix
• preliminary
• prelude
• premise
• presupposition
• priority
• prolegomenon
• prolepsis
• prologue
• proscenium
• verse
• voluntary