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Abbreviations & Acronyms
- Search acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations on YourDictionary.com
- A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Abbreviations.com
- Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds (Berlin)
- Academic Journal Abbreviations
- Acronym Finder (750,000+ acronyms)
- Agriculture Acronyms
- German-English Acronym Dictionary (Berlin)
- Medical Abbreviations
- Morgan Online - Abbreviations
- The Internet Acronym Server
- The NUMA Dictionary of Derivatives Acronyms
Antonyms, Synonyms, Homophones and Anagrams
Thesauri
- Search Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus and Rogets II: The New Thesaurus on YourDictionary.com
- Roget's Thesaurus Headwords
- Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
- Bibliomania: "Soule's Synonymes"
Idioms and Phrases
Quotations
- Search Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations on YourDictionary.com
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Project Bartleby)
- The Quotations Page
Lexicography and Lexical Databases
- Bibliomania—Free online literature and study guide
- Electronic Text Center (browse collections by language)
- ICAME Corpus Collection
- ICAME: International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English
- ISK Corpora (Brown Corpus: English, French, German)
- SIGLEX (A Special Interest Group on the Lexicon by The Association for Computational Linguistics)
- The British National Corpus
- The Oxford Text Archives
- Word Gumbo (Archive of public domain language resources)
- WordNet - A Lexical Database for English
Pronunciation and Rhyming Dictionaries
- RhymZone Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus
- WriteExpress Online Rhyming Dictionary for Poetry and Songwriting
- Vocabulary of Alliteration
Writing Systems
- African Writing Systems
- Ancient Scripts.com - A Compendium of World-wide Writing Systems from Prehistory to Today
- Omniglot - Writing Systems & Languages of the World
Miscellany
- Grammar Books Recommended by YourDictionary.com
- Cliché Finder
- Dictionary of Difficult Words
- GlossPost - a discussion list for translators, interpreters, terminologists and technical writers.
- Online Conversion - Over 5,000 units and 50,000 Converisons
- Bible Search
- XE.com Universal Currency Converter on YourDictionary.com
Multilingual Dictionaries
- Index of All Language Dictionaries
- Afro-Asiatic Language Dictionaries
- Altaic Language Dictionary List
- Celtic Language Dictionaries
- Germanic Language Dictionaries
- Romance Language Dictionaries
- Slavic Language Dictionary List
General
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- Allwords.com (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish)
- Arabic Translator (English, French, Turkish, German)
- Bulgarian Rechnik - Common words and expressions in 6 languages (Bulgarian, English, Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish)
- DictSearch - All-in-one Dictionary Search (translate from 69 source languages into 73 target languages)
- From Language to Language
- IATE - The EU's multilingual term base
- Slovnik.cz - Multilingual Dictionary (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Latin, Czech)
- Slovnyk - The multilanguage Dictionary
- The Internet Dictionary Project
- Tritrans - Translate words between Spanish, English and Norwegian
Agriculture
- Agrovoc Agricultural Database (multiple languages)
- Glossary of Terms for Agriculture and Precision Farming (German > English)
Architecture
Art
Biography
Biology
Business
Chemistry
Clothing
Computing
- Search computer definitions on YourDictionary.com
- Queen Mary University of London's Language Dictionaries of Computing Terms
Construction
Cooking
- The Cook's Illustrated Dictionary: English, French, German, Spanish
- English to Spanish Cooking Terminology
- Food Lexicon: Danish, Dutch, English, French, and German
- Multilingual Gastronomical Glossary: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Culture
Education
- The European Education Thesaurus: Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish
- Continuing Education Glossary
- Glossary of Educational Terms
- Understanding Second Language Terminology
Engineering
Environment
Etymology
Film
Finance
Fish
- Aquarium and Fish Dictionary
- Fish and Seafood Dictionary
- Tropical Fish Picture Dictioanry
- Online Seafood Watch Guide to Sustainable Seafood Choices
Geology
Internet
- Search computer definitions on YourDictionary.com
- NETGLOS Glossary of Internet Terms (English and French)
Law
- Search legal definitions on YourDictionary.com
- Canadian multilingual glossary: English, Chinese(simplified, traditional), Farsi, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese
Linguistics
Marketing
Mathematics
Medicine
- Search medical definitions on YourDictionary.com
- Glossary of Medication Terms: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
- The European Multilingual Thesaurus on Health Promotion in 12 Languages (Large PDF file)
Music
Photography
Religion
Sailing and Shipping
Science
Sports
Telecommunications
Textiles
- Textile Technical Dictionary (English, French, German, Spanish)
- Textile Dictionary (English, Italian, French, German)
Trade
Translate between Languages!
- American Translators Association (organization for translators)
- Babel Fish Multilingual Translation (Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish)
- Reverso Translator (English, French, German, Spanish)
- Free Translation.Com (Arabic, English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese plus many, many more)
- Mezzofanti Translations
- WorldLingo Text Translator (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish plus many, many more)
- Eurocosm Multilingual Phrase Dictionary (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish (with audio pronunciations)
An Index of Dictionary Indices
- Encyberpedia - Dictionaries, Glossaries and Thesauri
- Kitamakura's On-line Glossary Index
- Leximagne--l'Empereur des pages dico - French dictionaries, glossaries and wordlists
- Online Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias
- Language Automation - Glossaries by Language
- Yahoo Dictionary Index
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