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- Oxford Reference Online
Provides access to Oxford University Press dictionaries and other reference resources on a wide variety of topics including arts, computing, history, languages, law, literature and quotations, religion, sciences, and social sciences. - Dictionaries from Librarians' Internet Index
Abbreviations & Acronyms
- Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government
- Acronym Finder
- BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Instant Messaging Acronyms and Shorthand
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- Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary (PE1693.A3; Ref Desk)
- Periodical Title Abbreviations, v. 1-2 (PN4832.P4; Ref Desk)
English
- Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus (PE1628.M36; Ref Desk)
- OED: Oxford English Dictionary (Reference PE1625.O87 1989)
- Roget's Thesaurus (Reference PE1591.B35)
Foreign Language
- Babel Fish Translation
- Foreign language dictionaries from Yahoo
- Language dictionaries from yourDictionary.com
- WordReference.com
- Chinese (Reference PL1455)
- French (Reference PC2640)
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- Spanish (Reference PC4640)
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- Law.com Dictionary
- Black's Law Dictionary (Reference KF156.B53)
- Real Life Dictionary of the Law (Reference KF156.H55)
Medical
- MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary
- Medterms.com Medical Dictionary
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary (R121.S8)
- Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (Reference R121. T18)
- Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary (Reference R121.M89)
Slang
- NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions (PE2846.S64)
- Oxford Dictionary of Slang (Reference PE3721.O95)
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- Bio Tech's Life Science Dictionary
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
- Dictionary of Computing
- Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
- Grove Art Online
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- New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
- Specialty dictionaries from yourDictionary.com
- Whatis?com dictionary of Information Technology
Last updated by andjsmit on 09/01/2009
