Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the act of writing dictionaries;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lexicography \Lex`i*cog"ra*phy\
(l[e^]ks`[i^]*k[o^]g"r[.a]*f[y^]), n. [Cf. F. lexicographie.]
The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or
dictionary; the principles which are applied in making
dictionaries; as, with so many words lexicography can be
interesting in parts but at length is rather tedious labor.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lexicography
n 1: the act of writing dictionaries
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "lexicography":
criticism, cryptanalysis, cryptography, cryptology, diagnostics,
epigraphy, exegetics, glossography, hermeneutics, lexicology,
lexigraphy, literary criticism, metoposcopy, oneirology,
onomasiology, onomastics, onomatology, paleography, pathognomy,
physiognomics, physiognomy, semantics, semasiology, semeiology,
semeiotics, symptomatology, textual criticism, tropology