This page gathers the 2,094 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Publishing”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 1 of 21: from “-con” to “arsis”.
- -con suffix Used to form the names of conventions.
- -er suffix Junior, child, younger person. (Attached to a name, usually one syllable of the given name.)
- -ette suffix Used to form nouns and adjectives signifying a person, especially a woman, with the specified hair color.
- -id suffix Forming the names of epic poems.
- -vac suffix Used in the naming of computer systems and computer models, due to the use of vacuum tubes as the functional elements of computers of the…
- 12mo noun A book size using duodecimo-sized pages.
- 18mo noun A book size octodecimo-sized pages.
- 32mo noun A book with leaves of such size, about the size of a contemporary trade paperback.
- 3d noun A system capable of recording or displaying three-dimensional video.
- 3D print verb To use a 3D printer to make (a three-dimensional solid object) from a digital model.
- 555 adj Pertaining to a fake telephone number. The local exchange and area code number 555 was reserved in North American dialing plan for…
- 8vo noun A book size, corresponding to the page size.
- abated adj humbled.
- ABC noun A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order.
- ABCs noun A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order.
- abhuman adj Having some human characteristics, but others which are alien or monstrous; partially human.
- academicism noun Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
- acatalectic adj Designating a line of verse having the required number of syllables in the last foot
- accent noun A mark used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken stress.
- accessible adj Easily understood or appreciated.
- accolade noun Synonym of curly bracket.
- action noun The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding…
- acute noun An acute accent (´).
- acute accent noun A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.
- ad interim copyright noun A special short-term copyright valid for five years from the date of its first publication, applied to certain books and periodicals in the…
- adamantine noun Synonym of adamantium (“a fictional metal which is indestructible or nearly so”).
- adaptation noun An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
- adjunct noun A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation…
- Adonic noun A verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee.
- adrenochrome noun A fictional drug obtained from human adrenal glands.
- adscript noun Something written or printed immediately after another character and aligned with it.
- advance copy noun A copy of a forthcoming book, magazine, film etc. that is distributed by the publisher to a limited audience before mass distribution.
- aerocar noun A flying car; a flying machine which looks and functions similarly to modern cars, often described as using antigravity technology.
- aerostation noun A floating or elevated station.
- Africanfuturism noun An Afrocentric subgenre of science fiction that foregrounds familial, spiritual and historical connections among Black people, paying…
- Afropunk noun Afrocentric science fiction.
- agate noun The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+¹⁄₂-point.
- age regression noun The physical reversion to a younger age, sometimes spontaneously and non-consensually.
- ageless sleep noun A magical state of suspended animation, where-in the recipient is placed in a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known…
- agency pricing noun A pricing system in which a supplier sets the price charged for their product by a reseller, with the reseller contractually positioned as…
- agropelter noun A mythical monster of the United States, said to inhabit hollow tree trunks and hurl wooden splinters and branches at passers-by.
- ahegao noun An exaggerated facial expression consisting of flushed cheeks, rolled-back eyes, and the tongue hanging out, intended to depict a person…
- AIP noun acoustic inkjet printing
- air pirate noun A pirate who travels by aircraft and targets other aircraft, analogously to the actions of a traditional seafaring pirate against ships.
- alba noun A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.
- Alcaic verse noun A Greek meter, supposedly invented by Alcaeus, consisting of combinations of spondee, iambs and dactyls.
- Alcmanian adj A verse comprising four dactyls, a dactylic tetrameter.
- Aldebaranian adj Relating to the Aldebaran system or to Aldebaranians.
- alexandrine noun A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts.
- Algeresque adj in the style of author Horatio Alger, typically of poor boys earning riches through wealthy benefactors.
- all caps noun Text or a font in which all letters are capitalised.
- alligator noun A kind of job press.
- Alpha Centaurian noun A native or inhabitant of Alpha Centauri.
- Altairian adj Of or relating to the star Altair.
- alternative history noun A genre of fiction based around or involving ahistorical events (often occurring after a fixed point of divergence from real history).
- alternative press noun Collectively, newspapers or other printed publications which provide an editorial perspective and information differing from—and often…
- alternative universe noun An imaginary realm, often a variant form of the real world or of the fictional universe usually depicted in a work, depicting a different…
- Amalthean noun A native or inhabitant of Amalthea.
- ambisyllabicity noun The property of a consonant being analysed as acting simultaneously as the coda of one syllable and the onset of the following syllable, as…
- American noun A size of type smaller than German, 1-point type.
- anacreontic noun A short lyrical piece about love and wine.
- anastatic adj Of or relating to a printing process in which copies of drawings are printed from facsimiles produced in relief on zinc plates.
- andy noun android
- angle bracket noun Either of a pair of symbols, ⟨ ⟩, used to enclose text in various technical contexts, and in mathematical formulas to denote an interval, a…
- angle quote noun A guillemet.
- angries noun The Angry Young Men.
- Angry Young Man noun Any of a group of mostly working-class and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who rose to prominence in the 1950s, their works…
- anilox noun A method used to provide a measured amount of ink to a flexo printing plate, involving a hard cylinder whose surface is covered in tiny…
- animalist noun A writer of animal stories.
- annum noun A "year" determined by the revolution of an extraterrestrial planet.
- ansible noun A hypothetical device that enables users to communicate instantaneously across great distances; that is, a faster-than-light communication…
- antagonist noun The main character or force opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama.
- Antarctican noun A native of Antarctica.
- Antarean noun A native or inhabitant of Antares.
- anti-story noun A work of fiction in which the author breaks in some way the conventional rules of storytelling, usually with some feature (for example, a…
- anti-Tom adj Belonging to a class of 19th-century pro-slavery novels and writings in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- antiacceleration adj Preventing or counteracting acceleration.
- anticathartic adj In no way causing or inducing catharsis.
- antiepic noun A literary work challenging the conventions of the epic.
- antigrav noun Antigravity.
- antihero noun A protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals.
- antiheroine noun A female protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals; a female…
- antiliterature noun Written works that deliberately avoid the typical conventions of literature, such as antinovels, antiplays and antipoems.
- antimeme noun A meme deployed to nullify or protect against another meme.
- antinovel noun A novel that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of the novel, such as a coherent plot and protagonist.
- antipastoral adj Eschewing pastoral literary themes and conventions.
- Antiqua noun A style of typeface used to mimic styles of handwriting or calligraphy common during the 15th and 16th centuries.
- antique adj Designating a style of type.
- antispastic adj Of, pertaining to antispasts
- apex noun A diacritic in Classical Latin that resembles and gave rise to the acute.
- apollonian noun A native of the planet Apollo.
- apologetic apostrophe noun An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word.
- apostrophe noun The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
- apostrophic adj Pertaining to the grammatical use of, or using, the apostrophe (the diacritical mark ').
- apostrophically adv With apostrophes.
- arcadian adj Ideally rustic or pastoral.
- archetype noun A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
- Arielian adj Of or relating to the Popean character Ariel.
- arsic adj Of the elevation of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word, usually the part of the word or phrase upon which the stress or…
- arsis noun The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a…