Name a field, art or skill ending in -graphy

October 22, 2026 · Daily Dive #99

Explore 1,727 recorded answers and their points for question 4 on October 22, 2026.

Dated record7 questions · 15,060 recorded answers

1,727 recorded names on October 22, 2026, 1,668 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Scan the vocabulary of sciences, crafts and professions for names built on the Greek root for writing, drawing or recording, then group what you find by discipline. Only established fields, arts, techniques or skills whose standard English name ends in -graphy qualify; plurals of unrelated words, brand names and invented coinages are excluded.

1,727 recorded answers1,668 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut1,66785 pts
  • Rare5160 pts
  • Schooler530 pts
  • Plankton310 pts
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Recorded answers

1,727 recorded answers

How to approach it

The suffix is productive, so treat this as a word-building exercise rather than a memory test. Write the ending on its own, then list everything the practice can be applied to: body parts, instruments, materials, landscapes, populations, light and sound. Attach each candidate to the ending and check whether the result is a term you have actually seen in a textbook, a journal or a craft manual; if it feels constructed on the spot, it probably is not recorded. Then add qualifiers such as a technique, a contrast medium, a wavelength or a scale, because longer and more specific names are usually the ones a dictionary recognizes. Keep a list, prune duplicates and obvious non-words, and submit the variants you can spell with confidence.

Get a hint

Start from the suffix itself: it marks a practice of recording, imaging or describing something, so hunt for the object being recorded rather than for a whole discipline.

A little more

Split the territory into three broad families: clinical imaging, the earth and life sciences that map or describe phenomena, and arts or crafts built on a writing or printing technique.

One step further

Push past the everyday members of the family into specialist compounds, where a body part, an instrument, a material or a measuring method sits in front of the suffix.

Reveal answers 1,727
  • Medical geographyDeep Cut85points
  • Medical PhotographyDeep Cut85points
  • Medium format photographyDeep Cut85points
  • Medium pressure liquid chromatographyDeep Cut85points
  • MegalographyDeep Cut85points
  • MegaphotographyDeep Cut85points
  • MeibographyDeep Cut85points
  • Membrane chromatographyDeep Cut85points
  • Mental cartographyDeep Cut85points
  • Mesenteric angiographyDeep Cut85points
  • MetabibliographyDeep Cut85points
  • MetaethnographyDeep Cut85points
  • MetageographyDeep Cut85points
  • MetagraphyDeep Cut85points
  • Metal lithographyDeep Cut85points
  • MetalexicographyDeep Cut85points
  • MetallographyDeep Cut85points
  • MetaphotographyDeep Cut85points
  • MeteorographyDeep Cut85points
  • MetrophotographyDeep Cut85points
  • MIBG scintigraphyDeep Cut85points
  • Micellar electrokinetic chromatographyDeep Cut85points
  • Micellar liquid chromatographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicroangiographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicroautoradiographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrobarographyDeep Cut85points
  • Microbial biogeographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrocinematographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrocosmographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrocrystallographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicroelastographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicroethnographyDeep Cut85points
  • Microfluidic chromatographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrofluorographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrofractographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrogeographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrolithographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrolymphangiographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrometallographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicroneurographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicropetrographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrophotographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrophysiographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicroradiographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrostereolithographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrostratigraphyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrotomographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrotopographyDeep Cut85points
  • MicrotypographyDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The scoring here rewards specificity rather than cleverness. Only 51 of the 1,716 top-scoring entries sat at 60 points, while 1,664 clustered at 85, a distribution that tells you the field was dominated by specialized compounds, each obscure enough to clear the middle tier but not unique enough to break away. 3D mammography and 3D typography (85 each) are typical: a qualifier plus a familiar root, recognizable to a specialist and unknown to a general solver. Actigraphy (85) and Adoxography (85) sit in the same band, technical or archaic but documented. The lone 100-point answer, Steganography, was evidently picked by almost nobody else, so it collected the full rarity bonus. A plain, everyday member of the family lands in the low tier because hundreds of solvers reach for it first; stacking a modifier onto the root moves you into the 85 band, and only a genuinely surprising but real term reaches 100.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 22 Oct, 12:31 UTC

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