Fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods.

Roget 596: compend, compendium; abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo [Lat.], analysis, pandect^†, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note; excerpt; synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus.    album; scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book; extracts, excerpta^†, cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing; spicilegium^†, flowers, anthology, collectanea^†, analecta^†; compilation.    recapitulation, resume, review.    abbreviation, abbreviature^†; contraction; shortening etc. 201; compression etc. 195.    ... show more

Roget 201: shortness etc. adj.; brevity; littleness etc. 193; a span.    shortening etc. v.; abbreviation, abbreviature^†; abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation^†; reduction etc. (contraction) 195; epitome etc. (compendium) 596.    elision, ellipsis; conciseness etc. (in style) 572.    abridger, epitomist^†, epitomizer^†.    ... show more

Act of decreasing in length.

Dutch: verkorting
Polish: skrót, skrócenie