introduction (n.)

• access
• acquaintance
• act
• admission
• afterpiece
• aside
• back
• bibliography
• bit
• breakthrough
• catchword
• chaser
• cloture
• coinage
• colophon
• contents
• curtain
• debate
• debut
• dedication
• deliberation
• descant
• discovery
• divertimento
• division
• elements
• embarkation
• embarkment
• entrance
• entree
• entry
• epilogue
• episode
• errata
• exode
• exodus
• exordium
• filibuster
• filing
• finale
• floating
• flotation
• flyleaf
• folio
• foreword
• frontispiece
• graft
• grafting
• head
• hornbook
• impaction
• implantation
• import
• importation
• importing
• imprint
• inauguration
• income
• incoming
• index
• induction
• infiltration
• infix
• infusion
• ingress
• initiation
• injection
• innovation
• inoculation
• input
• inscription
• insert
• insertion
• insinuation
• installation
• installment
• intake
• intercalation
• interjection
• interlude
• intermezzo
• intermission
• interpenetration
• interpolation
• intromission
• intrusion
• invention
• knockdown
• launching
• leaf
• leakage
• leap
• logrolling
• makeup
• neologism
• novelty
• number
• opener
• overture
• page
• parenthesis
• penetration
• percolation
• perfusion
• postulate
• preamble
• preface
• prefix
• preliminary
• prelude
• premise
• presentation
• presupposition
• primer
• prolegomenon
• prolepsis
• prologue
• propaedeutic
• reading
• reception
• recto
• remark
• routine
• rudiments
• scene
• seepage
• shtick
• signature
• sketch
• skit
• striptease
• subtitle
• tabling
• tail
• tessellation
• text
• title
• turn
• unveiling
• vamp
• verse
• verso
• voluntary
• vote
• writing