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 8 of 21: from “Gaian” to “hellevator”.
- Gaian noun An inhabitant of Earth.
- galactographic adj Pertaining to galactography; to the charting and mapping galaxies.
- galactography noun The science of charting and mapping galaxies.
- galley noun An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
- gallitrap noun Grass growing in a circle that possesses the magical power of compelling anyone standing within it to confess their wrongdoings.
- gallows noun The rest for the tympan when raised.
- Ganymedean noun An inhabitant of Ganymede (a moon of Jupiter).
- garrulous adj Excessively wordy and rambling.
- gaslight romance noun A subgenre of fantasy and historical fiction that combines Gothic elements with a Victorian or Edwardian setting.
- gem noun A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot.
- geminatio vocalium noun The process of indicating that a vowel is pronounced long by writing it twice, especially as was sometimes done in Latin due to influence…
- gen verb To genetically engineer.
- generation ship noun A type of interstellar spaceship, where generations of humans live and die aboard during the journey through interstellar space, as the…
- genki noun A playful, hyperactive girl.
- genre fiction noun Fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre (such as mystery, romance, or horror) with an existing…
- genre-savvy adj aware of the elements that are typically found in a particular genre; able to recognize and/or predict the tropes that come into play
- Georgian adj Pertaining to a movement in lyric poetry during the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom (1910–1936).
- german noun A size of type between American and Saxon, 1+¹⁄₂-point type.
- get in verb To produce fewer copies than anticipated.
- geta mark noun The symbol 〓, used as a placeholder in electronic or printed text to indicate the presence of an ideographic character for which no glyph…
- getup noun Layout and production style, as of a magazine.
- ghost noun Ellipsis of ghostwriter.
- ghost bullet noun A supernatural bullet that wounds or kills a person, especially one that is shot by a supernatural assailant.
- ghost character noun A character who is mentioned as appearing on stage, but does not do anything and seems to have no purpose.
- ghostwrite verb To write under the name of another (especially literary works).
- Gibsonesque adj Reminiscent of the works of William Gibson (born 1948), American-Canadian novelist and essayist who popularized the science fiction concept…
- glass verb To bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- glassed adj Of a place: having been turned into glass by the heat and pressure of a nuclear explosion.
- Glyconian noun A kind of verse in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry, consisting of a spondee, a choriambus, and a pyrrhic.
- glyconic noun Synonym of Glyconian.
- glyph noun A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style.
- gnaborretni noun The symbol ⸘ (an inverted superimposed exclamation point and question mark), used in place of ¡¿ in Spanish, Galician, and Leonese.
- go to bed verb Of a newspaper: to finish being prepared for printing.
- gods noun The quadrats used by printers in throwing on the imposing stone, similar to the movement in casting dice.
- godsdamn intj An expression of anger, surprise, or frustration.
- going home club noun A group of people not participating in extracurricular clubs or activities; a metaphorical "club" of people not belonging to any school…
- gold adj Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is immediately available for to read for free with no embargo…
- gold blocking noun A technique where gold foil or another metallic foil is applied using heat and pressure from an engraved block or die to emboss designs or…
- Gothamite noun An inhabitant of the fictional Gotham City, the home of the superhero Batman.
- Gothic adj Of or relating to the style of fictional writing associated with Gothic fiction, emphasizing violent or macabre events in a mysterious…
- graph noun A graphical unit on the token-level, the abstracted fundamental shape of a character or letter as distinct from its ductus (realization in…
- graphic novelist noun A person who creates fiction using a succession of pictures interspersed with text (i.e. a comic book).
- graser noun A device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation in the gamma ray wavelength by the use of excitation…
- grass hand noun An additional worker taken on at busy times.
- grav noun An artificial gravity generator.
- graveyard poetry noun A type of morbid poetry which lingers on human mortality, tombs, and burial grounds, popular in the preromantic period of 18th-century…
- gravitics noun The fictional science of studying and controlling gravity.
- gravitied adj Having a specified type or strength of gravity.
- gravo- prefix grave (accent)
- gravo-acute accent noun A dipping tone, or the diacritic that denotes it, similar in form to the breve (˘) and the háček (ˇ).
- gravure noun A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder.
- grawlix noun An image resembling an illegible scribble used for this purpose.
- gray hat noun A morally ambiguous character; an antihero.
- grease noun Synonym of fat (“work containing much blank, profitable to the compositor”).
- great primer noun The size of type between English and paragon, standardized as 18-point, used in the printing of large-format English bibles.
- Grecism noun A word or idiom of the Greek language used in another language, especially for literary effect.
- greeking noun Nonsense text or graphics inserted into a document as a placeholder to create a dummy layout, or to demonstrate a type font; the practice…
- greenskin noun One of several distinct green-skinned creatures often grouped together, such as orcs, goblins and (sometimes) trolls.
- grey alien noun An archetypical humanoid alien, usually described as having grey skin, elongated, hairless, sexless features, and a large head with bulbous…
- grimdark noun The literary genre of speculative fiction that is amoral, dystopian, or violent.
- grindylow noun A folkloric creature, said to inhabit water and to grab children with its long sinewy arms and drown them.
- gritty adj Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence.
- grotesque adj Sans serif.
- grotesquerie noun A genre of horror literature that was popular in the early 20th century, and practiced by writers such as Ambrose Bierce and Fritz Leiber.
- gubbins noun A half-savage race said to live in Devonshire, described by the pastoral poet William Browne, among others.
- guide noun A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.
- guideword noun A word that is printed at the top or bottom of the page in a reference work, in order to help readers find a specific entry.
- gumberoo noun A fictional forest-dwelling animal, similar to a hairless bear but larger, with hide so tough that bullets bounce off it, but that is…
- gutter noun A space between printed columns of text.
- gynoid noun An android (humanoid robot) in female form.
- gyrobus noun A flying bus.
- haa intj A sigh.
- háček noun A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling an apostrophe (’)…
- hack noun An untalented writer.
- hack-and-slash adj Shallowly devoted to the gory details.
- haikai noun A form of Japanese comic verse, featuring satire and puns.
- hair space noun A piece of metal type used to create the narrowest space.
- hair stroke noun A fine line drawn out at the top or bottom of a letter.
- hal noun A homicidal computer, an artificial intelligence that acts similarly to the HAL 9000 featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- halftone noun A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
- halfwidth adj Of a text character, occupying the space of half of a fullwidth character, or one "normal" text column.
- halieutics noun A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing, especially in Ancient Rome.
- hanahaki noun A fictional illness in which a person bearing an unrequited love coughs up flower petals until they die or their feelings are reciprocated.…
- handman noun One who assembles printing type by hand.
- handset verb To typeset by hand.
- hanging adj Extending beyond the margins of a page.
- hard light noun A solid, tangible hologram (projection of light), which can be used to construct structures such as walls or armor.
- hard-boiled adj Written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect.
- harem ending noun The ending of a hentai or pornhwa in which the protagonist ends up partnered with all or several of the potential love interests…
- hash noun The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
- hat noun The circumflex symbol.
- hatted adj Written with a circumflex ('^'). For example, â.
- headband noun A thin slip of iron on the tympan of a printing press.
- headline noun The line at the top of a page containing the folio or number of the page.
- headpiece noun A decorative page heading used at the start of volumes or chapters.
- headstick noun A straight piece of furniture placed at the head of a form, between the chase and the type.
- heat-ray noun A weapon that fires a beam of extremely high temperature.
- hedera noun A fleuron depicting an ivy leaf.
- hellbox noun A receptacle where cast metal sorts were thrown after printing.
- hellevator noun Alternative letter-case form of Hellevator (“a notional elevator that leads to Hell”).