Dictionaries

AlphaDictionary.com

Free online word reference site featuring various specialty glossaries, word games, as well as language dictionaries.

Bee Dictionary

Offers word definitions, audio pronunciations, as well as multiple usage examples, synonyms, and antonyms.

Cambridge Dictionaries

Offers an online dictionary and sells a variety of dictionary products.

CleverKeys

Download software and get instant access to spelling checks, thesaurus, and definitions.

Collins Dictionary

Features a free online comprehensive English dictionary and thesaurus. Also offers bilingual French, Spanish, and German dictionaries.

Cool Dictionary

Webster-based dictionary with pronunciation audios. Also makes use of Wiktionary and Wikipedia resources.

Creative Glossary

Definitions for hundreds of words related to creative endeavors.

DefineItFast

Not your typical web-based dictionary. The use of AJAX makes the search for definitions both fast and interactive.

Definitions.net

Online dictionary providing instant lookup and translations of word and phrase definitions, complete with images

Dictionary Link

Guide to free online dictionaries and translation services. Also provides links to thesauri and encyclopedias.

Dictionary of American Regional English

Dictionary project that recorded the words, phrases, pronunciations, and parts of grammar and syntax that vary from one state to another.

Dictionary.com

Vocabulary database with thesauri and encyclopedia articles. Also presents articles, games, and a host of other language resources.

Die.net Online Dictionary

Fast and free dictionary offering cross-referenced definitions with results form WordNet, Webster's, FOLDOC, and various other references.

ESL Dictionaries and References

Selection of detachable and free resources for learning the English language. With direct links to other online dictionaries.

Free Dictionary

Online English dictionary that gives English definitions, synonyms, pronunciation, and spelling with auto suggestion and auto spell check.

Gabby's Wordspeller

Phonetic dictionary enables searching for word meanings and spellings using a spelling of how the word sounds like, not how it should be written.

Hyperdictionary

Contains English, computer, dream, and medical dictionaries. With a thesaurus.

Inogolo

Offers phonetic and audio pronunciations of a variety of people names, places, and other miscellaneous things.

iTools

Presents dictionary and thesaurus tools, as well as translation, currency exchange, and geographical search functions.

Lexipedia

Provides definitions as well as a visual representation of related words, categorized by nouns, verbs, synonyms, antonyms, and other related categories.

Longman English Dictionary

Contemporary English dictionary. Includes pronunciation guides and example sentences.

Luciferous Logolepsy

Dictionary filled with obscure English words and their definitions.

Macmillan Dictionary

Online dictionary and thesaurus featuring pronunciation guides and real usage examples and notes. Also presents current buzzwords.

Merriam-Webster

Official site contains searchable database, games, word of the day, new words and slang, quizzes, trends, popular words, and links to other dictionaries. http://www.facebook.com/merriamwebster merriamwebster

Mnemonic Dictionary

Provides you with the meaning of a word but also provides a key mnemonic to retain that meaning for long time in your memory.

Newbury House Dictionary of American English

Complete English vocabulary resource containing over 40,000 entries. With pronunciation guides.

One Look

Key in a word or phrase in the provided search bar and find definitions, translations, or dictionaries.

OneLook Reverse Dictionary

Allows users to input phrases and then recommends words to match those phrases. Also offers pattern search.

Oxford Dictionaries

Online English dictionary and language reference. Also features puzzles, games, and resources for children, schools, and learners of English.

Phrays

Offers a word of the day, the definition, and the ability to use it in a sentence.

Pseudodictionary.com

Slang dictionary featuring a compilation of new words, webspeak, colloquialisms, and more.

Snappy Words

Visual thesaurus and dictionary. Just enter words or phrases, and receive a visual map to related words and definitions.

The Superhero Dictionary

Resource for information about various comic, games, and TV heroes. Juxtaposes the information on superhero names' real and fiction meanings.

Tip of My Tongue

Online tool to help remember a particular word given a set of letters, meaning, and word length.

Visual Dictionary Online

Features fifteen major themes where users can access thousands of images and see words in a unique way.

Visual Multimedia Visual Dictionary

Find 15 themes and over 6,000 images that illustrate words and their meaning.

Visuwords

Online visual dictionary and thesaurus that presents words and their relationships to other similar or related words.

Webster's Dictionary Encyclopedia

Features a combination dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia providing users with synonyms, quotes, abbreviations, and acronyms for queries.

Word Central

Free and fast online word query tool. With word games and daily buzzwords.

Word Hippo

Online reference for synonyms, antonyms,word meanings, rhymes, plural forms, and translations in a number of major foreign languages.

Word Spy

Searchable vocabulary database also provides detailed information on word usage and citations.

Word Thrill

Free online dictionary listing definitions and synonyms for hundreds of thousands of words in the English language.

Wordnik

Offers word definitions from 3 major dictionaries, as well as usage examples from across the web, related photos, and links to recent posts on Twitter.

WordWeb Online

International dictionary covering American, British, Australian, Canadian, and Asian English spellings and word variations.

yourDictionary.com

Complete online portal for language and language-related products and services with more than 1800 dictionaries in 250 languages.

ZebraWords

Offers an easy to use dictionary, and thesaurus, and translation tools.

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