The English

suffix In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry ...

-graphy means a "field of study" or related to "writing" a book, and is an anglicization of the French ''-graphie'' inherited from the Latin ''-graphia'', which is a transliterated direct borrowing from Greek.

Arts

* Cartography – art and field of making maps *

Choreography Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which Motion (physics), motion or Visual appearance, form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design ...

– art of creating and arranging dances or ballets * Cinematography – art of making lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for the cinema. * Collagraphy - In

printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed techniq ...

, a fine art technique in which

collage Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...

materials are used as ink-carrying imagery on a printing plate. *

Iconography Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct fro ...

– art of interpreting the content by icons. *

Klecksography Klecksography is the art of making images from inkblots (German ''Tinten-Klecks''). The work was pioneered by Justinus Kerner, who included klecksographs in his books of poetry. Since the 1890s, psychologists have used it as a tool for studying th ...

– art of making images from inkblots. * Lithography – planographic printing technique * Photography – art, practice or occupation of taking and printing photographs. *

Photolithography In integrated circuit manufacturing, photolithography or optical lithography is a general term used for techniques that use light to produce minutely patterned thin films of suitable materials over a substrate, such as a silicon wafer, to protect ...

– method for microfabrication in electronics manufacturing. *

Pornography Pornography (often shortened to porn or porno) is the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal. Primarily intended for adults,

– practice, occupation and result of producing sexually arousing imagery or words. * Pyrography – art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks. * Serigraphy –

technique that uses a stencil made of fine synthetic material through which ink is forced. * Tasseography – art of reading tea leaves * Thermography – thermal imaging. * Tomography – three-dimensional imaging * Typography – art and techniques of type design * Videography – art and techniques of filming video. * Vitreography – in

, a fine art technique that uses glass printing matrices. * Xerography – means of copying documents.

Writing

* Cacography – bad handwriting or spelling *

Calligraphy Calligraphy (from el, link=y, καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument. Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as "t ...

– art of fine handwriting * Cryptography – art of writing hidden secrets * Orthography – rules of correct writing * Palaeography – study of historical handwriting * Pictography – use of pictographs * Steganography – art of writing hidden messages *

Stenography Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek ''ste ...

– art of writing in shorthand

Science

* Geography – use of images to depict the Earth and its regions. * Radiography – use of X-rays to produce medical images

Types of works

Autobiography An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life. It is a form of biography. Definition The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English peri ...

– biography of a person written by themselves *

Bibliography Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...

– list of writings used or considered by an author in preparing a particular work * Biography – account of a person's life * Discography – listing of sound recordings * Filmography – list of movie titles that share a similar characteristic such as the same genre, the same director, the same actor, etc. *

Ludography This is a list of all video game lists on Wikipedia, sorted by varying classifications. By platform Acorn * List of Acorn Electron games Apple * List of Apple II games * List of Apple IIGS games * List of iOS games * List of Macintosh games ...

or gameography – list of games, specifically video games

Fields of study

* Areography – geography of Mars (studies the physical features of the planet) * Cartography – study and making of maps * Cosmography – study and making of maps of the universe or cosmos * Cryptography – study of securing information. *

Crystallography Crystallography is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in crystalline solids. Crystallography is a fundamental subject in the fields of materials science and solid-state physics (condensed matter physics). The wor ...

– study of crystals * Demography – study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics * Encephalography – recording of voltages from the brain *

Ethnography Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

– study of cultures * Floriography – language of flowers * Geography – study of spatial relationships on the Earth's surface *

Hagiography A hagiography (; ) is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions. Early Christian hagiographies migh ...

– study of saints * Historiography – study of the study of history * Holography – study and mapping of computer project imaged called Holograms for interactive and assisted computations. * Hydrography – measurement and description of any waters *

Oceanography Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamic ...

– exploration and scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena *

Orography Orography is the study of the topographic relief of mountains, and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain. Orography (also known as ''oreography'', ''orology'' or ''oreology'') falls within the broader discip ...

– science and study of mountains *

Reprography Reprography (a portmanteau of ''reproduction'' and ''photography'') is the reproduction of graphics through mechanical or electrical means, such as photography or xerography. Reprography is commonly used in catalogs and archives, as well as in th ...

– reproduction of graphics through mechanical or electrical means *

Selenography Selenography is the study of the surface and physical features of the Moon (also known as geography of the Moon, or selenodesy). Like geography and areography, selenography is a subdiscipline within the field of planetary science. Historica ...

– study and mapping of the physical features of the Moon *

Topography Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces. The topography of an area may refer to the land forms and features themselves, or a description or depiction in maps. Topography is a field of geoscience and planetary s ...

– study of Earth's surface shape and features or those of planets, moons and asteroids * Uranography – study and mapping of stars and space objects

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