butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.

Phonetics . the act, process, or an instance of making or becoming short.

Linguistics .

the act or process of dropping one or more syllables from a word or phrase to form a shorter word with the same meaning, as in forming piano from pianoforte or phone from telephone.

clipped form.

noun

abbreviation , abridgment , contraction , curtailment , lard , oleo , reduction , retrenchment , suet