Array of linked lists

Hey everyone, im doing an project for uni, and i have to make a dictionary, which is an array of linked list, where each element of the array is a linked list which stores all the words starting with a certain letter of the alphabet.
the words for the dictionary are ment to be read in from a dictionary and then sorted in the array of linked lists. im still new at programming and cant understand how to make an array with each element consisting of a linked list. any help would be great! thx!