Inclination to put butter on starter of pancakes (4)
I believe the answer is:
ramp
'inclination' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'butter on starter of pancakes' is the wordplay.
'butter' becomes 'ram' (I've seen this before).
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'starter of' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'pancakes' is 'p'.
'ram'+'p'='RAMP'
'to put' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
(Other definitions for ramp that I've seen before include "what could be criminal offence" , "Sloping surface connecting two levels" , "Small ridge across a road - slow down" , "Something that's not on the level" , "cheat" .)