Electronic Reference

Dictionaries and Thesauri (English Language)

• Oxford Reference Online Dictionaries, thesauri and reference works published by Oxford University Press.
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1894 ed.)
• The Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases
• Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
• The Concise Oxford English Dictionary
• Dictionary of Difficult Words
• A Dictionary of First Names
• A Dictionary of Slang English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
• Foolish Dictionary
• The New Oxford American Dictionary
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English
• The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English
• The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
• The Oxford Dictionary of English
• The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
• The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
• Oxford English Dictionary
• The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
• The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus
• Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
• Roget's Thesaurus
• WordNet A lexical database of English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
• Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
• yourDictionary.com

Encyclopaedias

• World Encyclopedia
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia.com
• Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS - UNESCO)
A collection of sixteen science,
technology and social sciences encyclopedias.
To browse individual titles, from the search page select Table of Contents.
• Wikipedia