Dictionaries and Lexica

 locavore -- 2007 New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year

Standard Dictionaries

• The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
• The American Heritage® Book of English Usage
• Cambridge Dictionaries
• Digital Dictionaries of South Asia -- University of Chicago
• English-Russian Dictionary -- The Verbioso Verb Reference System
• Funk & Wagnalls
• Grandiloquent Dictionary -- obscure and rare words in the English language
• Lingoz: Building the world's largest dictionary
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
• Mirriam - Webster Online Dictionary
• OneLook Dictionaries
  • OneLook Reverse Dictionary
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• Oxford REFERENCE On-Line
• Webster's Hypertext Interface Dictionary
• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- 1913 Edition, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago

  • The Online Plain Text English Dictionary ( based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary)
    
    

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Specialized Dictionaries

Speciality Dictionaries from yourdictionary.com

• Biology -- from John W. Kimball's, Biology
• ChatDictionary -- Tribal Voice
• Children's Dictionary -- Logos
• A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
• cookabulary -- Relish Magazine
• The Devil's Dictionary -- Ambrose Bierce
• Dictionaries, Grammars, and other online language resources -- Jennifer Runner
• Dictionary.com
• Dictionary of Botanical Words
• Dictionary of Computing -- (FOLDOC) Denis Howe
• A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
• The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 3rd edition, 2002 -- E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, James Tref
• Digital Dictionaries of South Asia -- University of Chicago
• The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
• Online Etymology Dictionary -- Dictionary.com
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• The Phrase Finder
• WorldWideWords: International English from a British Point of View -- Michael Quinion
• Wordnik
• Wordorigins.org
  
  

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• English-to-American Dictionary
• Epicurious Food Dictionary -- Epicurious Food
  
• Explore connections between concepts and words -- Lexical FreeNet
• Forthright's Phrontistery -- Stephen Chrisomalis
• The Exploding Dictionary -- index of publically avaliable dictionaries
• foreign language dictionaries
• Genetics related glossaries -- babylon
• Handspeak: A Sign Language Dictionary -- American Sign Language (ASL) signs for words
• Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words
• Hypertext Webster Interface
• Hypertextual Finance Glossary -- Campbell R. Harvey
• Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings -- University of Wisconsin
• Jargon Scout -- the Net's language scout
• Lingoz: Building the world's largest dictionary
• The Logos Dictionary -- translates to 30 languages
• Luciferous Logolepsy (obscure English words) -- Alan M. Taylor
  
  

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• Medical Dictionary -- MedicineNet.com
• MediLexicon -- medical dictionary
• Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science -- Joan M. Reitz
• Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences -- Athabasca University
• Pharma-Lexicon: A Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Medicine
• ProfessorWord
• Rhyming Dictionary -- Lexical FreeNet
• The Skeptic's Dictionary
• SpellChecker.org
• Visuwords: Online Graphical Dictionary
• The Visual Dictionary -- Bernard Déry
• Web Dictionaries -- Anthro.Net
• Webopedia
• World Wide Words -- Exploring the English Language
• Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
  
  

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Words of the Day

• Wordsmith.org's A.Word.A.Day
• Dictionary.com's "Word of the Day"
• Mavens' (Formerly Jesse's) Word of the Day Archive
• Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Day
• Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
•Thank You Quotes and Thank You Sayings -- InspirationalSpark

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Essays on Langauge

• The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States, 1921-- H.L. Mencken (1880–1956)