Dictionaries

Abbreviations

Search for acronyms and abbreviations individually or by category, that include Computing, Internet, Business, Regional, and International subjects.

Acronym Finder

More than 480,000 entries covering acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms including Information Technology, Military & Government and Slang & Pop Culture.

Glossary of Botanical Terms

Contains very basic definitions with hypertext links to other terms for more than 4,400 terms relating to botany, gardening, horticulture and landscape architecture. Updated regularly.

InvestorWords - Investing Glossary

Hypertext dictionary of more than 4,000 investing terms, from InvestorGuide.

LOGOS Dictionary

Multilingual on-line dictionary. Searches on words or phrases. More than 5 million words in the database.

Multilingual Glossary of Medical Terms

This glossary of common and technical medical terms is available in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. There is an English language dictionary for term definitions. From the European Commission.

NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary

Features a listing of hundreds of words that are rapidly evolving into the new vocabulary of the technology industry and the Web community.

On-line Medical Dictionary

Contains more than 15,000 terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, and eponyms.

One Look Dictionaries, The Faster Finder

The ultimate Internet dictionary lookup site. Search 460 general and specialized English dictionaries simultaneously, or select the ones you want to search.

Rhyming Dictionary

Includes thesaurus and dictionary.

Translating Dictionaries - travlang

Translates your words from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Portuguese, Finnish, Hungarian, Czech, Afrikaans, Latin, or Esperanto, as well as from each of these languages to the others. Includes phrases.

Webopedia:

Dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology.

Whatis.com

Hyper-linked definitions of more than 1,000 Internet and computer related terms. All can be browsed or searched.

What's the Meaning of This?

Origins and theory of origins about "Ye Olde English Sayings" and "Amerispeak."

Wordsmyth English Dictionary Thesaurus (WEDT)

This is an original standard dictionary-thesaurus of American English with definitions and pronunciations, an integrated thesaurus, and usage examples. A nice feature is the Approximate Search, which will find words that are close in spelling to your word. The database has approximately 50,000 headwords, and nearly 13,000 of these have thesaurus entries.

WWWebster Dictionary

Based on the Webster's 10th Collegiate edition, 1993. More than 160,000 entries. Each word is accompanied by definition, pronunciation, usage, grammatical function, and a brief etymology. A thesaurus can be queried for similar words, hypertext cross references are available, and misspellings return suggested spellings. Includes an extensive pronunciation guide.

Your Dictionary.Com

Internet directory of dictionaries with more than 800 dictionaries in over 160 different languages. Contains the following sections: languages; multilingual; specialized, thesauri and other vocabulary aids; and an index of other dictionary indexes.

 

Note: Also see Literature: Grammar and Style

Almanacs & Quick Information

Country Studies

Each study is written by a multidisciplinary team of social scientists. Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions. From the Library of Congress.

Farmer's Almanac

Chock full of information, just like its print version.

The 50 States of the United States: Capital Cities and Information Links

This site lists the fifty states and information on their locations (latitude and longitude), birds, colleges and universities, constitutions, flowers, genealogical resources, geological formations, geographical features, mottos, national forests and parks, newspapers, nicknames, non profit organizations, populations, state and federal representatives, songs, and the dates of entry into the union. All facts are linked to over 1529 governmental or authoritative web pages.

Flags of the World

Comprehensive site that allows you to search by country, keyword or title. Contains over 1500 images

Fugitive Fact File

The Hennepin County Library (MN) staff's fugitive fact file contains hard-to-find answers in thousands of topics -- browseable or searchable. Results include answer, source, date, and web site, if pertinent. Some of it is MN specific, but there's something here for everyone!

Information Please

The publishers have put the Information Please Almanac, their Entertainment Almanac and Sports Almanac, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and the Random House College Dictionary online for searching or browsing. You can search these ready reference works together or separately and by subject or full text keyword. Be sure to read their Help section. In addition they do a feature story each week (Spotlight) covering a topic in the news.

Nation Master

Large data source gathered from cited authoritative resources that allows users to compare all types of statistics on countries. Fun to browse for interesting statistical facts.

Price's List of Lists

The List of Lists is a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources available on the Internet.

Rulers

This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government going back to 1900 of all currently existing countries and territories. Therefore for Soviet Union, see Russia.

U.S. Department of State Background Notes

Background notes is an official United States Government publication which profiles countries and organizations of the world. Each entry generally includes the following on each country: Profile, People, Government, Economy, History, Political Conditions, Economy, Foreign relations, Principal U.S. Officials.

Wolfram|Alpha (W|A)

A computational knowledge engine using its own internal knowledge base instead of searching the web and returning links. Emphasis on science and engineering plus a variety of subjects including mathematics, statistics, chemistry, finance, stock comparisons, geography, food, and data analysis.

World Factbook

Published annually, by the Central Intelligence Agency, this is a handy reference work for basic statistical data on the countries of the world.

Calendars

Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar

Calculates Easter on the Julian, Gregorian and other calendars.

Calendar Zone

Provides links to many celestial, holiday, cultural and religious calendars.

Chase's Calendar of Events

Holiday information and list of special events for each month.

Earth Calendar

Search for holidays around the world by date, country or religion.

Holidays and Other Dates in the U.S. Secular Calendar

Calculates when federal holidays and other widely celebrated days fall for any given year after 1776. Includes dates for daylight savings time.

Perpetual Calendar

Allows you to determine the day of the week for any month and year.  Links to site where complete perpetual calendar is printable.

Printable Calendar

Finished Microsoft Word calendars for any date.

World Dates Archive

Database of important dates, listed by month. Have to choose month and can then use your browser's Find feature to search for an event. Great, if you don't have Chase's Annual Events handy and can guess the month you want.

Converters

Currency Converter

This currency converter contains the exchange rates for 164 different currencies beginning on January 1, 1990. The converter is updated every day at 8:00pm EST.

Entisoft Units Conversion Calculator

Enter what you want to covert and what you want it converted to, then the calculator does its thing.  Also does time zone conversions.

Measurement Converter

Weight, Capacity and Volume, Length, Area, Speed Pressure, Temperature, Circular Measure, and Time.

Timezone Converter

Converts the time and date in one part of the world to the time and date in another part.

Encyclopedias

Columbia Encyclopedia

 

Encyclopedia Britannica

 

Wikipedia

A free content online encyclopedia where anyone can post and edit an article on any subject.