girl or lady
wife
Gal
Nice describes a gorgeous young lady. It begins with the letter n.
Oscar
Film
scum
film mile mild
It is called a "letter manipulation" or a "word transformation."
Drawings of the EyeLook at this diagram. There is no other word for the flim of an eye. It is just called the film.
A silent letter in a word is called a "mute letter" or a "silent consonant." These are letters in a word that are not pronounced when speaking the word, but are still included when writing it.
The first letter of a word is the initial.