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Major English general dictionaries not indexed on OneLook

• Newbury House Dictionary of American English
• Longman Web Dictionary
• Collins Dictionaries by Harper Collins at WordReference.com

Other dictionary collections

• yourDictionary.com
• XLation.com Glossaries
• The Glossarist
• Language Dictionaries and Translators
• www.1000Dictionaries.com A large list of dictionary links
• Yahoo index of On-line Dictionaries
• RefDesk.com facts page
• Megalist of Word Links

Multi-language dictionaries

• Eurocosm Multilingual Phrase Dictionary
• Free Translation.com (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese)
• LOGOS multilingual context database
• Word2Word
• Paderborn List of Dictionaries
• Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
• ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary
• American Sign Language

Dictionaries of a different kind

• Build your own dictionary
• Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus
• UrbanDictionary is a user-contributed dictionary of slang
• RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus
• Financial dictionary from the makers of this site
• WriteExpress Online Rhyming Dictionary
• VoyCabulary transforms any webpage into links to Dictionary or Thesaurus lookups
• Dictionary of English Phonesthemes - relation of word sounds to meanings
• Quote Search - find a quotation
• American Sign Language

Improve your word power

• Garbl's Editorial Style Manual, part of Garbl's Writing Center
• Strunk, William, Jr. The Elements of Style
• On-Line English Grammar
• A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
• Focusing on Words English words derived from Latin and Greek elements
• eLearnAid sells tools for word power

Other links

• AskOxford.com
• OneAcross.com, a great tool for solving crossword puzzle clues
• The Atlantic's Language Page
• International Journal of Lexicography
• The DICT Development Group Online Dictionary Database
• English Grammar
• alt.usage.english discussion group home page and FAQ
• Frequently Asked Questions (from alt.usage.english newsgroup)
• UsingEnglish: Resources and forums for ESL teachers/students
• Spell Check Game (Find out how good you are at spelling)
• The Dictionary Project, a volunteer effort to give out dictionaries to young students
• Word lists in various languages
• Language Identifier