lettering

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: let=ter=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

lettering, n. 

•  The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting.  [1913 Webster]
•  The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lettering, n.
1 the process of inscribing letters.
2 letters inscribed.

THESAURUS

lettering

Italian hand, Spencerian writing, block letter, bold hand, book hand, chancery hand, copperplate hand, coup de plume, cryptography, cursive, cursive hand, engrossment, epigraph, initialing, ink spilling, inkslinging, inscription, law hand, longhand, macrography, majuscule script, micrography, minuscule script, pen, pen-and-ink, pencil driving, printing, round hand, scrivenery, scrivening, secret writing, text hand, transcription, transliteration, typewriting, typing, uncial, writing