ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

spelling, orthograph † ; phonography † , phonetic spelling; anagrammatism † ,
metagrammatism † .
cipher, monogram, anagram; doubleacrostic † .
V. spell.
Adj. literal; alphabetical, abecedarian; syllabic; majuscular † , minuscular † ; uncial &c
(writing) 590.
562. Word -- N. word, term, vocable; name &c 564; phrase &c 566; root, etymon;
derivative; part of speech &c (grammar) 567; ideophone † .
dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary; index, concordance; thesaurus; gradus
[Lat.], delectus [Lat.].
etymology, derivation; glossology † , terminology orismology † ; paleology &c
(philology) 560 [Obs.].
lexicography; glossographer &c (scholar) 492; lexicologist, verbarian † .
Adj. verbal, literal; titular, nominal.
conjugate [Similarly derived], paronymous † ; derivative.
Adv. verbally &c adj.; verbatim &c (exactly) 494.
Phr. the artillery of words [Swift].
563. Neologism -- N. neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression;
back-formation; caconym † ; barbarism.
archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.
corruption, missaying † , malapropism, antiphrasis † .
pun, paranomasia † , play upon words; word play &c (wit) 842; double-entendre &c
(ambiguity) 520 [Fr.]; palindrome, paragram † , anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse
of terms.
dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken
English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism;
Americanism † ; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk,
Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.
dog Latin, macaronics † , gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; babu English † , chichi.
figure of speech &c (metaphor) 521; byword.
colloquialism, informal speech, informal language.
substandard language, vernacular.
vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity.
jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot; St.
Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street
slang.
pseudology † .
pseudonym &c (misnomer) 565; Mr.
So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em † , whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy † ,
thingumbob; je ne sais quoi [Fr.].
neologist † , coiner of words.
V. coin words, coin a term; backform; Americanize, Anglicize.
Adj. neologic † , neological † ; archaic; obsolete &c (old) 124; colloquial; Anglice † .