| Dictionaries |
| Sl. No. |
Name |
URL |
| 1 |
Photonics Dictionary |
www.photonics.com/ |
| 2 |
International Legal Dictionary |
www.wwlia.org/diction.htm |
| 3 |
Language Dictionaries & Translators - Includes free translation services, glossary & many more. |
rivendel.com/~ric/resources/dictionary.html |
| 4 |
Dictionary.com -Definitions from Webster's and more |
dictionary.reference.com/ |
| 5 |
Acronym Dictionary |
acronyms.silmaril.ie/acro.html |
| 6 |
Imagine the Universe : Astrophysics Dictionary |
imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/dictionary.html |
| 7 |
Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing (Imperial College,London) |
foldoc.org/ |
| 8 |
American Heritage -- Fourth edition has 90,000+ |
www.bartleby.com/ |
| 9 |
Merriam-Webster -Familiar, fast and easy dictionary. |
www.merriam-webster.com/netdict.htm |
| Encyclopedias |
| Sl No. |
Name |
URL |
| 1 |
Encyberpedia |
www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm |
| 2 |
Britannica Concise |
www.britannica.com/ |
| 3 |
Open-site Encyclopedia |
open-site.org/ |
| 4 |
Columbia Encyclopedia, |
www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/ |
| 5 |
Bartleby (Great Books Online) |
www.bartleby.com/ |
| 6 |
Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology |
www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia.html |
| 7 |
HighBea Encyclopedia |
www.encyclopedia.com/ |
| 8 |
Wikipedia,The Free Encyclopedia |
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page |
| 9 |
Symbols.com (Online encyclopedia of western sign and ideograms) |
www.symbols.com/ |
| 10 |
Free and Open General Encyclopedia |
www.wikipedia.org/ |
| 11 |
Encyclopedia of the Orient |
i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm |
| Thesaurus |
| Sl. No. |
Name |
URL |
| 1 |
NASA Thesaurus |
www.sti.nasa.gov/thesfrm1.htm |
| 2 |
Roget's Thesaurus |
machaut.uchicago.edu |
| 3 |
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon) |
www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict |
| 4 |
Controlling your language - links to metadata vocabularies |
www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/crossmedia/advice/controlling-your-language-links-to-metadata-vocabularies/ |
| 5 |
WWWebster Thesaurus (Merriam Webster) |
www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus.htm |
| 6 |
WordNet Vocabulary --Provides homonyms, synonyms, and coordinate terms. Helper |
poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/wn |
| 7 |
Infoplease thesaurus |
www.infoplease.com/thesaurus |
| 8 |
The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary --Use for rhymes, to spell check, to find synonyms,etc. |
www.rhymezone.com/ |