inaugural (n.)
- abecedarian
- aboriginal
- address
- allocution
- antecedent
- anterior
- avant-garde
- beginning
- budding
- celebration
- ceremonial
- ceremony
- chief
- commencement
- convocation
- debate
- declamation
- diatribe
- eulogy
- exercise
- exercises
- exhortation
- filibuster
- first
- formal
- formality
- formative
- function
- fundamental
- graduation
- harangue
- inauguration
- inchoative
- induction
- infant
- initial
- initiation
- initiative
- installation
- invective
- investiture
- jeremiad
- leading
- liturgy
- mummery
- natal
- observance
- office
- oration
- original
- performance
- peroration
- philippic
- pitch
- precedent
- preliminary
- primary
- prime
- primitive
- prior
- propaedeutic
- reading
- recital
- recitation
- rite
- ritual
- salutatory
- say
- screed
- service
- solemnity
- solemnization
- speech
- talk
- tirade
- ur
- valediction
- valedictory
inaugural (adj.)
- abecedarian
- aboriginal
- advanced
- antecedent
- antenatal
- anterior
- autochthonous
- avant-garde
- beginning
- budding
- ceremonial
- chief
- creative
- elemental
- elementary
- embryonic
- exploratory
- fetal
- first
- foremost
- forensic
- formal
- formative
- fundamental
- inceptive
- inchoate
- inchoative
- incipient
- infantile
- initial
- initiative
- initiatory
- introductory
- inventive
- leading
- nascent
- natal
- original
- parturient
- performance
- postnatal
- precedent
- preceding
- precursory
- prefatory
- pregnant
- preliminary
- prenatal
- preparatory
- prevenient
- primal
- primary
- prime
- primeval
- primitive
- prior
- procreative
- propaedeutic
- rite
- ritual
- rudimentary
- say
- service
- ur
- valedictory