logo-, log-, -logia, -logic, -logical, -logism, -logician, -logian, -logist, -logy +

1. One who legislates about words.
2. A self-styled authority on words.

Literally, “a leader or guider in words, and someone who is a language legislator or dictator, a person who lays down rules about words.”

1. A sign or character representing a word.
2. A symbol or character used, alone or in combination, as the graphic representation of a whole word as a single letter (¢, $, £, ¥, ™®).
3. A symbol, as found on road-signs, advertising, etc., designed to represent in simple graphic form an object, concept, or attitude.

A symbol that represents the meaning of a whole word or phrase; that is, the symbols used in shorthand or the symbols: $, #, &, %, £, ¶, ©, etc.

1. A story writer: short-story, novelist, etc. 2. A writer of spoken language in longhand as opposed to shorthand.
3. A prose writer in ancient Greece.

1. The art of arranging letters for printing.
2. A method of printing in which whole words, or syllables, are cast as single types.
3. A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand; for example, a number of reporters, each in succession, take down three or four words.

1. A word puzzle, especially an anagram.
2. A word puzzle in which a single word must be discovered from combinations of synonyms, other words, or verses.

Inability to comprehend spoken language.

The worship of words; an unreasonable regard for words or for verbal truth.

An obsession with words.

A word maniac or someone who has seizures about words; a verbivore, a logophile.

As Charles H. Elster, in his There’s a Word for It! writes: “The logoleptic person can lose verbal control in various ways—by going gaga over a pyrotechnic display of logodaedaly, by participating in a logomachy over some obscure point of grammar or etymology, or by being rendered senseless by a logographer’s logorrhea.” (page 199)

Someone who studies words.

1. The study of words.
2. The science of words, especially the field of orthographic (correct spelling) and homophonic word games.

1. A description of a dispute over or about words.
2. A reference to a contention about words or an instance of this.

1. A dispute over or about words.
2. A controversy marked by verbiage.
3. Contention about words or an instance of this.

1. An argument about the uses and/or meanings of words.
2. A dispute about words; a semantic contention getting away from issues or reality.
3. Fighting about words.
4. A word game.