11 Rules of Writing - This site is a concise guide to some of the most commonly violated rules of writing.
AGI GIS Dictionary - Revised Edition - includes definitions for 980 terms which either relate directly to GIS or which GIS users may come across in the course of their work.
ARTFL Project - Project dedicated to French language including a 150 million word database of written French.
Able Writer: A Rhetoric and Handbook - describes an English composition handbook that treats pre-writing, outlining, English grammar, usage, word choice, dictionaries, spelling, punctuation, and writing college research papers.
Acronymbuster V1.0P - a collection of 10,000 computer acronyms & abbreviations.
Acronym Finder - a searchable
database of over 141,000 acronyms/abbreviations and their meanings. Covers: common
acronyms, computers, technology, government, telecommunications, and
military acronyms, with an emphasis on Department of Defense (DoD), Air
Force, Army, and Navy acronyms.
Antagonyms - words that have opposite meanings (e.g., "bad" can mean bad or good depending on usage).
ArtLex - "Welcome to ArtLex. You will find definitions of more than 3,100 terms here, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web."
Babel - A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms.
Biographical Dictionary of English Literature - From the Everyman Edition of 1910, Edited by Ernest Rhys: "The primary aim of this book is to give as much information about English authors, including under this designation American and Colonial writers, as the prescribed limits will admit of."
Bloomberg Financial Glossary - Over 6,000 entries with 15,000 links complied by Campbell R, Harvey, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online - You may choose from the Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs or Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms.
Casey's Reverse Dictionary - "Finally, the remedy for that tip-of-the-tongue feeling! You type in a definition, and Casey's dictionary will tell you which word you are trying to think of."
Climbing Dictionary, The - Provides definitions for a comprehensive list of American and English climbing terms and their translations in German, French, Canadian French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Polish.
DOD Dictionary of Military Terms - All approved joint definitions are contained in Joint Publication 1-02, "DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms."
Dictionary of Difficult Words - index of over 13,900 difficult words from The Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words. Use as a resource for increasing your vocabulary, for word games and puzzles, or just for enjoying and enriching your word power.
Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - dictionary for those terms commonly used, defined, contested, and misunderstood in the philosophy of mind.
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - E. Cobham Brewer's 1898 collection of more than 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog 'words with a tale to tell.'
Dictionary of Science and Technology - Search or browse this 1992 dictionary of 130,000 terms defined in 130 fields of science for brief definitions.
Dictionary of Symbolism - From abnormality to zodiac, this dictionary lists common literary symbols and their connotations.
Dictionary of Units, A - an explanation of the principal systems of units, their history, standards, and conversion factors for changing from one to the other.
DictSearch - Dictsearch provides multiple search capability in language and specialty (medical, computing) dictionaries throughout the Net. Includes monolingual and bilingual searches of most European and some Asian languages.
DOT - Dictionary of Occupational Titles - It's the official dictionary of occupational titles. DOT's database is arranged alphabetically and can be read online or downloaded in one file.
Duhaime's Law Dictionary - Researched, written in plain language and provided free of charge, to the WWLIA and its users, by lawyer Lloyd Duhaime.
Ethnologue Database - on-line database of information about 6,500 languages. Includes alternate names, number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic data.
European Medical Dictionary - 1830 medical terms in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish
Evolution o Alphabets - exploration of early alphabets uses animation to demonstrate the transformation of written characters over
time.
Exploding Dictionary - This dictionary looks up the word and presents the definitions twice. First a clean definition then with every work in the definition hyperlinked.
FreeTranslation.com - "FreeTranslation.com is a straight forward, easy-to-use site for rapid translations where you can get the 'gist' of foreign language text and web pages."
Glossary of Literary Terms and Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
- Two dictionaries of terms used in literature. The definitions can be found through pull-down menus, or users can conduct simple and Boolean searches with truncation. Excellent for scholars, students of literature, and book reviewers.
InvestorWords - "With over 5,000 investing terms and 15,000 links between related words, InvestorWords is the most comprehensive financial glossary you'll find anywhere, online or off."
Language and Culture - covers more than thirty languages,
from Arabic to Finnish to Tagalog to Ukrainian. Learn Survival Phrases.
Each language has about two dozen commonly used
phrases - in the language, in English translation, and as a
sound file.
Language Identifier - This program can be used to identify the language of origin of a phrase, word or sentence. Submit the words of your choosing and the list will be returned reordered, with the most likely choice at the top of the list in one file.
Languages on the Web - "All about foreign languages, 30,000+ selected links to as many as 400 different languages, online language courses, language sites evaluation, free advice on how to study, plus the first Internet library of multilingual parallel texts to let you learn faster and more effectively."
Latin Language and Literature - This list of online resources provides links to Latin-English
and multilingual dictionaries, study aides, and literature
resources.
Learn Spanish - A free, online tutorial for learning Spanish. Each lesson includes a cultural lesson both in English and Spanish (many with links to additional resources), practice exercises, and a test. Words in the lessons and the cultural files are linked to sound files so you can hear the correct pronunciation (requires the free Real Player plug-in.
Lexical FreeNet - a directory of over 500 translation dictionaries and glossaries.
Lexicool - Site allows the user to search for relationships between words, concepts, and people. It is a combination thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and concept navigator.
Life Science Dictionary - 8300+ terms that deal with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics. We also have some terms relating to ecology, limnology, pharmacology, toxicology and medicine.
Medical Dictionary - Site features encylopedic dictionary of over 9,000 classic and contemporary medical terms. Written entirely by physicians for both professional and non-professional readers site assists everyone concerned about health -- their health and the health of those that matter to them.
Michaelis Soft Dicionários - variety of dictionaries online: English/Portugues; Spanish/Portuguese; Portuguese/German and Portuguese/French.
Movie Terminology Glossary - definitions of terms and phrases frequently used in the world of movies, film, acting, and cinemagoing.
New Words in English - neologisms and novel uses of words in English. The words give a good picture of the creative aspects of word formation and use in present day English.
Newbury House Online Dictionary - This online dictionary contains over 40,000 entries and is based on the best selling Newbury House Dictionary of American English. Providing simple and clear definitions, this online tool provides a wealth of sample sentences, idioms, and a wide array of cultural facts and figures.
On-Line Dictionary of the Social Sciences - This social science dictionary has 1000
entries covering the disciplines of sociology, criminology, political
science and women's study with a commitment to Canadian examples and
events and names.
On-line Medical Dictionary - over 46,000 terms relating to biology, chemistry, medicine, science or technology.
Oran's Dictionary of the Law - From the West Group, Oran's Legal Dictionary defines and illustrates more than 6,000 technical terms and hundreds of Latin, Old French and Old English words used in legal and business documents.
RhymeZone - site offers rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, related words, and other phonetic and semantic functions; it also has integrated cross-referencing of famous quotations, Shakespeare, Biblical passages, Mother Goose rhymes, and user-submitted poetry.
SharpWriter.com - "Whether you are a technical writer, a novelist, a student writing a term paper, a manager writing a memo, a journalist writing a travel article -- SharpWriter.Com is your resource! "
Visual Thesaurus - Plumb Design - an exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.
Voycabulary - lets you look up words in online dictionaries and thesauruses by entering in a url or paragraph and clicking on the words. Supports many languages and translations.
Xlation.com - More Than Words - this site maintains a
directory of links to about 1,600 glossaries (search by language and subject area) and over sixty online grammars.
