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 21 of 21: from “verso” to “◌̆”.
- verso noun The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an even page number.
- vertex noun A sharp downward point opposite a crotch, as in the letters "V" and "W" but not "Y".
- vicesimo-quarto noun A book size, (2.5"–3.3" x 5"–6.25"), corresponding to the paper size.
- vidphone noun videophone
- vignette noun A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a…
- villain noun A character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero; an antagonist who is also evil or malevolent.
- villancico noun A traditional Spanish (or Portuguese) folk song with short stanzas and a refrain; now especially common as a Christmas carol.
- virelai noun A medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, with the rhyme scheme AABAAB.
- virgula noun Synonym of virgule: a punctuation mark.
- virgule noun A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩ and used as a scratch comma and caesura mark.
- visiphone noun A telephone capable of making video calls.
- vocalization noun The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries…
- voice noun A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- volta noun A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.
- volte-face noun A dramatic change in mood or tone.
- von Neumann machine noun Any machine that is capable of self-replication.
- von Neumann probe noun A von Neumann machine, or machine capable of self-replication, that is sent on interstellar voyages to investigate or terraform.
- vowel noun A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y (sometimes), and w (rarely).
- vox nihili noun A spelling or textual error.
- Vril noun A controllable form of energy.
- wain noun A chariot or similar stately carriage.
- waitron noun A robotic or mechanical waiter.
- waka noun A kind of classical Japanese poem.
- walkaway noun An elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel; any similarly elevated walkway.
- walker noun A zombie.
- warbird noun A heavily-armed starship.
- warp noun A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter, faster-than-light…
- warp bubble noun A detached region of spacetime which is theoretically capable of moving faster than the speed of light.
- warp drive noun A technological device that warps spacetime to enable movement through space in a non-Newtonian manner.
- warp speed noun A hypothetical, extremely rapid, speed, resulting from entering a separate dimension, termed hyperspace; much faster than the speed of…
- warship noun A spacecraft built or armed for space warfare.
- warsuit noun A suit equipped with technology for use in combat.
- Water Baby noun A kind of spirit in Native American folklore, inhabiting bodies of water and often appearing as an infant whose cries are an omen of…
- water sprite noun A general term for an elemental spirit associated with water, said to be able to breathe water or air and sometimes is able to fly.
- waver noun In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
- web noun A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
- webbing noun Tapes conducting webs of paper in a printing machine.
- wedge noun A háček.
- weeping angel noun A being that can only move when not being watched by a person, usually hostile and depicted as a statue or other humanoid inanimate object.
- weight noun The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
- werecow noun A person who transforms into a cow or cowlike creature, like a werewolf transforms into a wolf or wolflike creature.
- wetware noun The human brain or mind, likened to a computer part.
- whack noun The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
- whiskering noun A defect of gravure printing characterized by printed areas possessing hairlike tendrils of ink sticking out into non-image areas.
- white adj Not containing characters; see white space.
- white knight noun A hero, savior, or righteous individual.
- white lady noun A female ghost dressed in white, who is associated with local legends of tragedy.
- white out verb To space out a composition for printing.
- whiteletter noun A light roman and italic letterform favored by humanist scribes and typographers in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- whorror noun A genre of horror movies, stories, or media that combine frightening material with sex, nudity, or eroticism.
- whydunit noun A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the motives for committing it.
- widow noun A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
- wilamowitzianus noun a meter consisting of two choriambs, used in Attic tragedy and in Roman comedy, used by Plautus and Terence.
- Wild Hunt noun A spectral hunting party of riders and hounds, often led by a supernatural huntsman, that sweeps noisily through the sky or countryside at…
- wild man noun A mythic or legendary primitive man inhabiting forests or wilderness regions, typically depicted as hairy all over and unclothed.
- wild woman noun A type of female sprite, strikingly beautiful, with long, flowing hair, that live under hills and mounds.
- will o' the wisp noun A flickering light or lantern, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes, held by a supernatural creature who uses it to lure travelers at…
- wing noun A háček.
- wingding noun A dingbat (ornamental typographical symbol), especially one from the Wingdings font.
- wirehead noun A person who has an electronic brain implant.
- with privilege adv used to indicate a book has been legally published or is entitled to special privileges, e.g., due to a royal monopoly
- wood-child noun A fairy or elf that inhabits the woods.
- woodblock noun A wooden block used as a printing form.
- woodwoman noun A female elf, nature spirit, or the like, that inhabits the woods.
- wordlist noun The section of a style guide that lists particular words and terms, arranged alphabetically, to show for each one the preferred…
- worldbuilding noun The conception and description of a fictional world, often as the setting of a work of fiction, particularly in speculative fiction.
- worm noun Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
- wrapping noun The breaking of a section of text into lines so that it will fit into the available width of a display area.
- x-height noun The distance between the baseline and midline in a typeface, typically equal to the height of the lower-case letter x.
- X-ray vision noun The ability or superpower to see through most or all solid objects as if they were transparent.
- xenoarchaeology noun A fictional science concerned with the physical remains of alien cultures that may be found on planets which have been inhabited or visited…
- xenocide noun The genocide of an entire alien species.
- xenofiction noun Fictional stories about non-humans, especially extraterrestrials.
- xenology noun The study of alien life.
- xenopathology noun The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences among different sentient species of the galaxy.
- xenophile noun A human who is attracted to extraterrestrial aliens.
- xenophilia noun Love (especially sexual love) between humans and extraterrestrials.
- xenophobe noun One who hates or fears extraterrestial life.
- xenophobia noun A fear of aliens.
- yahoo noun One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, inhabiting the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.
- yandere noun A character, usually a girl, who has an obsessive and possessive side regarding their crush, ready to use violent (if not murderous) means…
- yaoi noun A narrative or visual work featuring a romantic or sexual relationship between two or more men.
- yaoi hand noun A large (typically disproportionate) hand of a man or boy, associated with early yaoi (Japanese homoerotic fiction) manga.
- yaoi hole noun In Japanese homoerotic fiction, a supposed male sexual organ (resembling the vulva) distinct from the penis and anus, derived from…
- yellow adj Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
- yottaton noun A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb, based on how many septillion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
- young adult noun An adolescent; a genre of writing aimed primarily at this readership.
- zettaton noun A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb, based on how many sextillion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
- zombie strip noun A newspaper or magazine strip cartoon that is continued by others following the retirement or death of its originator.
- zombify verb To turn into a zombie (a member of the living dead or undead).
- zoomorphism noun The use of animal figures in art and design or of animal symbols in literature.
- ◌́ character Used to show an unexpectedly stressed syllable, or where the choice of stress is metrically important, e.g. idiosyncratic caléndar; noun…
- ◌̄ character Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is long. Also used alone to mark stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨ˉ⟩.
- ◌̆ character Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is short. Also used alone to mark a syllable without stress in a metrical foot or…