Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Reference

• Encyclopedia Britannica
• American English Dictionary
• Webster's Dictionary
• Hypertext Webster Interface
• Webster's Dictionary (via telnet)
• English Dictionary (Princeton University)
• Roget's Thesaurus (also searchable)
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian

Esoteric Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• The Devil's Dictionary
• Encyclopedia Mystica
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• The Skeptic's Dictionary
• CIA World Factbook 1995

German - English

• LEO German-English Dictionary
• English <-> German Dictionary
• Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch

American English

• UK -> US English Dictionary
• US -> UK English Dictionary
• American English Dictionary

Technical English

• BioTech Biotechnology Dictionary
• The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• Software Engineering Glossary

Other Languages

• Multilingual On-line Dictionary
• Foreign Languages for Travellers
• ECHO - EURODICAUTOM
• English-Slovene Dictionary
• Japanese/English Dictionary Gateway
• English-russian russian-english dictionary

Thesaurus

• ARTFL Project: ROGET Form
• Roget's Thesaurus [nih.gov]
• roget - thesaurus
• NASA Thesaurus
• Thesaurus

Acronym Dictionary

• The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server
• CORDIS RTD Acronyms Database
• Acronym Dictionary
• The Acronym Expander
• Akronyme/acronyms

Hacker's Dictionary

• Hacker's Dictionary
• Hacker's Jargon
• The Jargon File

General Reference Sites

• ERIC Document Archive
• Journalism Periodicals Index
• Movie Reviews Newsgroup Archive
• Poetry Database
• Science Fiction Reviews
• The Alternative Dictionaries
• SCREENsite Reference Shelf
• Collection of Reference Documents at Wiretap
• US Library of Congress

Virtual Reference Desks

• General Reference Desk at Rice University
• Virtual Reference Desk at UC Irvine
• InfoSlug at UoC Santa Cruz
• Virtual Reference Desk at Perdue
• The English Server's Reference Desk

Online Spell Checkers

• Webster HTML Spell Checker
• Spell-Checker

Quotes Collections

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• The Oxford Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Miscellaneous

• Dictionaries - Martin Ramsch
• Pedro's Dictionaries
• The Human Languages Page
• Linguistics

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