lexicography
Pronunciation:
/ˌlɛksɪˈkɒɡɹəfi//-sə-/noun
Definitions
The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.
The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.