AllWords.com
Features two modern English dictionaries, multilingual search, and translation. Also features a guide to language sites on the web and a language discussion forum.
http://www.allwords.com/ |
Worthless Word for the Day
Obscure, abstruse and/or recondite word, especially one not falling into medical terms, foreign monetary units, foreign units of measure, legal terms, or professional jargon of any type.
http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/ |
Word Assault
Looks up multiple words simultaneously using several databases including Webster's, Easton's, Wordnet, and the Devil's Dictionary.
http://www.wordassault.com/ |
Word Central
Student dictionary and rhyming dictionary online at Merriam-Webster's website. Daily Buzzword by subscription.
http://www.wordcentral.com/ |
OneLook Dictionaries
Look up a word or term in an Internet dictionary or glossary. Free search access to a frequently updated database of words, terms, names, and acronyms.
http://www.onelook.com/ |
Cambridge International Dictionaries
Free online dictionary from Cambridge University Press.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ |
Research-It
Includes several dictionaries and a thesaurus as well as online tools for shipping and mailing, currency exchange, and language translation.
http://www.itools.com/ |
Dictionary Building Software for Reporters
Software program for realtime reporters and captioners that lists many diverse vocabulary lists.
http://www.dictionaryjumpstart.com/ |
Cooldictionary.com
Free edition of a complete Webster dictionary. Fully crosslinked.
http://www.cooldictionary.com/ |
Skeptic's Dictionary
Skeptical definitions and essays on occult, paranormal, supernatural and pseudoscientific ideas and practices with references to the best skeptical literature.
http://skepdic.com/ |
Information Please Dictionary
Infoplease's free online dictionary. Features almanacs, an encyclopedia, and an atlas.
http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary.html |
Dictionary Society of North America
An international organization of librarians, booksellers, translators, linguists, publishers, writers, journalists, and collectors. Founded in 1975 to further research in dictionary making, study, collection, and use. Member of the American Council of Learned Societies.
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dsna/index.html |
High Definition Dictionary
Mixed collection of drug terminology with an apparently arbitrarily selected mix of other, unrelated terms. Dictionary accepts contributions of new terms.
http://hdd.rox.com/ |
The Century Dictionary Online
Free 500,000 word dictionary of English with an encyclopedia and world atlas. Uses DjVu and JPEG formats to display page images. Has headword lookup and full text search of 22 million words of underlying text.
http://www.global-language.com/CENTURY/ |
Dictionary of Comprehension
A Dictionary of Comprehension in different languages.
http://www.dictionarydictionary.com/ |
The Alternative Dictionaries
Includes a list of slang terms and phrases in various languages.
http://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/ |
Lighting Design Terminology
Explanations of terms used in architectural lighting and lighting simulation.
http://www.schorsch.com/kbase/glossary/ |
Word Spy
Site dedicated to recently coined words and existing words revived into modern usage.
http://www.wordspy.com/ |
DICT Development Group
A WWW interface to several freely available on-line dictionaries, including Webster's 1913, the Jargon File, the US Gazetteer, and Easton's Bible Dictionary.
http://www.dict.org/ |
The Newbury House Online Dictionary
Search over 40,000 entries to get clear concise definitions and when available related pictures.
http://nhd.heinle.com/ |
Strange Dictionaries
Free online versions of the Dictionary of One-Letter Words, the Dictionary of All-Vowel Words, the Dictionary of All-Consonant Words, and other strange dictionary resources.
http://www.blueray.com/dictionary/ |
The Superhero Dictionary
Each entry compares a superhero's name with its real life meaning and includes comparison pictures and pronunciations.
http://shdictionary.tripod.com/ |
Dictionary of Difficult Words
Search or browse this dictionary of more than 13,000 words.
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/ |
Collection of Web-Dictionaries
Sorted list of online dictionaries of more than 50 languages, mostly bilingual.
http://www.leo.org/~mike/dictionaries.html |
Dictionaries, Lexica and Lexical Resources
Collection of links to various online dictionaries and other lexical references.
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/etext.html#dictionaries |
Dictionaries on the Web
Link collection -- over 100 links to various dictionaries of about 40 languages.
http://www.helsinki.fi/~hkantola/dict.html |
Glossaries
Collection of more than 2400 links to glossaries and dictionaries.
http://frankdietz.com/glossary.htm |
EZresearch.com
Provides a directory of dictionaries.
http://www.ezresearch.com/reference/dict.html |
Free Dictionary and Free Translation
Collection of free dictionaries and translation sites. Supports searching all dictionaries with just one mouse click.
http://www.stars21.com/freemorn/index.html |
Dictionary.com
Free online dictionary search, translator, word of the day, crossword puzzles and word games, and vocabulary learning resources for many languages.
http://dictionary.reference.com/ |
