-graphy

-graphy
The English suffix -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 – 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, a fine art technique in which collage materials are used as ink-carrying imagery on a printing plate.
Iconography – art of interpreting the content by icons.
Klecksography – art of making images from inkblots.
Lithography – planographic printing technique
Photography – art, practice or occupation of taking and printing photographs.
Photolithography – method for microfabrication in electronics manufacturing.
Pornography – practice, occupation and result of producing sexually arousing imagery or words.
Pyrography – art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks.
Serigraphy – printmaking 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 printmaking, a fine art technique that uses glass printing matrices.
Xerography – means of copying documents.
Writing
Cacography – bad handwriting or spelling
Calligraphy – 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 – 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 – biography of a person written by themselves
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 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 – 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 – study of cultures
Floriography – language of flowers
Geography – study of spatial relationships on the Earth's surface
Hagiography – 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 – exploration and scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena
Orography – science and study of mountains
Reprography – reproduction of graphics through mechanical or electrical means
Selenography – study and mapping of the physical features of the Moon
Topography – study of Earth's surface shape and features or those of planets, moons and asteroids
Uranography – study and mapping of stars and space objects
See also
-ism
-ology
-logy
List of words ending in ology
References
English suffixes
Lists of words