pangram

pangram
pangrammatic /pan'greuh mat"ik, pang'-/, adj.
/pan"greuhm, -gram, pang"-/, n.
a sentence, verse, etc., that includes all the letters of the alphabet.
[1930-35; PAN- + -GRAM1]

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