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 13 of 21: from “noncapital” to “periplus”.
- noncapital noun A letter that is not uppercase.
- nonpareil noun A size of type between ruby and emerald (or, in the United States, between agate and minion), standardized as 6-point; (countable) a slug…
- nonsense noun A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
- nordic noun A member of a race of extraterrestrials similar in appearance to Nordic humans.
- Norse noun A size of type between Saxon and excelsior, 2+¹⁄₂-point type.
- Not-Deer noun A fictional deer-like creature with unusual or supernatural characteristics, commonly depicted as walking on two legs, being intelligent…
- novelette noun A short novel, synonymous with novella.
- novelism noun The dominance of the novel as a literary form.
- novum noun An innovation which is fictional, but, following the logic of cognitive estrangement (characteristic of science fiction), is afforded…
- nuk intj The sound of a pacifier being suckled on.
- null-grav adj Relating to, producing, or designed for a condition of zero gravity.
- nut noun En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- o noun American Library Association abbreviation of octavo, a book size (20-25 cm).
- obelisk noun A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient…
- obelus noun A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient…
- Oberonian adj Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Oberon.
- object head noun The head of a subject which is an object.
- oblique noun Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
- oblique mark noun Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩, sometimes (generally proscribed) inclusive of similar marks such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- octarine noun The color of magic, a notional extra color distinct from the colors of the rainbow / normal visible light spectrum, which is said (chiefly…
- octave noun A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
- octavo noun A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large…
- octodecimo noun A size of a sheet of paper resulting from folding and cutting a sheet of paper into eighteenths (3.5"–4.5" x 4.9"–5.9").
- odal adj Of or relating to an ode or odes.
- oddment noun A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. (usually plural).
- off worlder noun One who is not from the local world (whether a dimension, plane, planet, or universe); an alien.
- offset noun The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- offworld adj Not on Earth.
- ogonek noun A hook-shaped diacritical mark ⟨◌̨⟩ attached underneath a vowel, typically to indicate nasalization, as in Ąą, Ęę, Įį, Ǫǫ or Ųų.
- ogre noun A large, grotesque, brutish humanoid monster, typically marked by great strength and a propensity to kill or devour humans.
- okurigana noun In the Japanese language, the kana which follow a stem written with kanji, which record how that stem is inflected, and guides recognition…
- omake noun Additional material to the main series added to the tankobon edition of a manga.
- on stun prep_phrase An intensity setting of the fictional phaser energy weapon, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69), which non-lethally stuns its…
- one shot noun A television program, film, or comic book that is not part of a series.
- Oompa Loompa noun Any of the fictional pygmies who manufacture candy in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
- optical size noun A form of a font optimized for a certain size. For example, larger sizes lend themselves to more delicate forms that would negatively…
- orangette noun An orange-haired person, especially a woman.
- orbital defense platform noun A satellite or space station, found in many different works of science fiction, meant to defend a planet against attack from space.
- organic noun A living organism, as opposed to a robot or hologram.
- orientalism noun The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East, especially in 19th century Europe.
- orientalist adj Of the West, to take in aspects of the East; pertaining to the representational tendency orientalism.
- orientation noun The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
- Orion drive noun A theoretical means to propel spacecraft through space, by detonating nuclear bombs behind the spaceship and riding the nuclear explosions…
- ornithoid noun Any bird-like creature.
- orphan noun A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
- orthotic adj Of Greek typography: having an upright form, distinct from the cursive and chancery types.
- otherspace noun A type of space with different physical laws than ordinary space, often permitting faster-than-light travel.
- ottava noun Ottava rima.
- ottava rima noun An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two…
- out noun A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
- out of print adj No longer offered for sale by a publisher; no longer on the firsthand market.
- out of sorts adj With some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font.
- outworld noun A planet that is remote from the homeworld of a civilization.
- outworlder noun One who comes from another planet, or from a society so culturally foreign as to be a different world.
- over the transom prep_phrase Of a work submitted for publication, unsolicited.
- overlay noun A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- overmind noun The leading or controlling mind in a groupmind.
- overprint verb To overlap different colours to avoid gaps.
- overrun noun A turnover: a break to a new line by text flowing within the column.
- oversaturated adj Overcrowded; stagnant as a result.
- overset noun Copy or type set in excess of a given space; (countable) an instance of this.
- overshoot noun The portion of a letter extending above the capline of other letters of the same font, or the relative degree of such extent.
- overskies adj interplanetary, intergalactic.
- overstrike noun The printing of one character over another, as - on top of L to produce Ł.
- oxia noun An Ancient Greek pitch-marking diacritic: ⟨ ´ ⟩; written atop vowels, it denotes high pitch on short vowels, and rising pitch on long…
- page noun The type set up for printing a page.
- palatal hook noun = háček (when it takes the form of a prime)
- Pandoran adj Of or relating to the fictional moon Pandora in the 2009 science fiction film Avatar.
- panel noun An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- panromantic adj Transcending various forms of Romanticism (“an intellectual (especially artistic, literary, musical, and philosophical) movement that…
- panthan noun A Martian mercenary.
- pantropy noun The process of adapting humans through genetic and/or cybernetic means to thrive in environments otherwise inhospitable to them, such as…
- pantsing noun An improvised style of writing without an outline.
- paper jam noun A malfunction in a computer's printer or a photocopier or similar device occurring when sheets of paper become jammed inside.
- paperback verb To issue or publish (a book) in a paperback edition.
- parablepsis noun A circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying, or accidentally skips over some of…
- paradelle noun A ridiculously restrictive poetic form consisting of four sestets that must repeat lines and reuse all previous words according to a fixed…
- paragon noun The size of type between great primer and double pica, standardized as 20-point.
- paragraph break noun A place within written content representing a semantic departure where one paragraph ends and another begins; usually represented visually…
- parallel adj Coexisting but normally not interacting with the regular reality.
- parallel universe noun A universe that exists separately alongside another universe, as part of a multiverse.
- paranatural noun A paranormal entity.
- parataxis noun The juxtaposition of two images or fragments, usually starkly dissimilar, without a clear connection.
- parathesis noun The matter contained within brackets.
- parnassian adj Of or relating to a style of poetry or language which can only be created by poets, but not in the language of inspiration.
- partheniac adj anapestic dimeter catalectic, paroemiac
- particle beam noun Ellipsis of particle-beam weapon and particle beamer; synonym of ray gun.
- patch noun An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
- patch up verb To overlay.
- pathos noun An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
- pay off noun A resolution or justification of an event that has already occurred.
- pearl noun The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as 5-point.
- pentameter noun A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
- pentimento noun The presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work; especially (painting) an image which has been painted over but…
- pentina noun A fixed verse form consisting of five stanzas of five lines each, normally followed by a two-line envoi.
- penultimate noun The penultimate syllable of a word or metrical line.
- Perditean adj Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Perdita.
- perfecting noun The process of printing on both sides of the printed-on material during its single pass through the printing press.
- perfecting press noun A press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.
- periplus noun An account of a voyage, particularly those of Hanno and Arrian, recording ports and coastal landmarks.