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glossaries by subject

Architecture

• English-French Glossary of Construction Terminology (Canada)

• Intelligent Build and Design Glossary (in English)

• Italian architecture glossaries

• Sebastian's Technical Glossary
  Building pathology & construction technology, architecture, civil, structural, forensic, mechanical, pavement and materials engineering with elements of testing and quality science.

Art

• Artlandia Glossary of Pattern Design (English-only)

• English-French glossary of painting styles

• French-Dutch glossary of terms related to the restoration of art and paintings (courtesy TERMISTI)

• Italian art and history glossaries

Automotive

• English-Afrikaans automotive terminology

• English-Afrikaans automotive terminology

• English-French glossary of automobile terms related to brakes

• English-French glossary of automobile terms related to suspensions

• Land Rover Dictionary (English, German, Finnish, Swedish, French, Dutch and Flemish)

Aviation

• English-French glossary of aeronautical terms

• En-Fr Air Traffic Control Dictionary

• En-Fr-Ge Air Traffic Control Dictionary

Biology

• Animal word list in English, Swedish, French and Latin

• Biographical Dictionary of Biologists

• BioTech Biotechnology Dictionary
  Contains over 8000 terms associated with biology, biochemistry, Medicine and pharmacology.

• Dictionary of Cell Biology. 5450 entries and 5772 cross-references.

• English-French glossary of Phytovirology terms (courtesy TERMISTI)

• English glossary of Natural History terms
  Subjects include Phylogenetics, Geology, Biochemistry, Biology, Ecology, Life History, Zoology, and Botany.

• English glossary of terms related to the human genome project

• English glossary of organism names.

• English-Latin glossary of nomenclatural terms in zoology.
  Glossary of terms commonly occurring in zoological taxonomic literature.

• English glossary of of dog terms

• Fish Glossary
  Glossary of fish and other marine animals in Danish, English, Faroese, French, German, Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian and Portuguese. Developed by the Icelandic Marine Research Institute.

• Fishflying dictionary in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and English

• Fish name glossary (saltwater) in Swedish, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Latin

• Glossary of molecular biology terms and abbreviations (English, Italian, Russian)

• Italian plants and animals glossaries

• Latin approved lists of bacterial names (HON Allergy Glossary).

• List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature
  The List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature includes, alphabetically and chronologically, the official nomenclature of bacteria and the nomenclatural changes as cited in the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names, or published, or validated in the International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology (1997, 47, 590-592). It is extensively annotated to clarify the Rules which govern the scientific nomenclature.

• MAGUS: Multilingual Animal Glossary (Birds and Mammals in 53 Languages of Europe)
  Pan-European Dictionary of Common Names of Wild and Domestic Animals: Mammals and Birds in 53 Languages of Europe

• "Multilingual Dictionary of the Horse" (2nd abridged English French Spanish German edition)

Boating

• English-French-German-Italian-Spanish glossary of terms related to boat rigging and sailing (courtesy TERMISTI)

Botany

• Dictionary of botanical epithets

• Glossary of Botanical Terms

• Italian plants and animals glossaries

• Glossary of botanical terms (english-dutch / dutch-english)
  Developed by a botanical study group at Eindhoven, the Netherlands, this glossary contains English-Dutch and Dutch-English botanical terms. In addition to botanical terms, it also contains some words that describe landscape elements.

• Multilingual database of Plant Names

Business

• Business English-Spanish-English Glossary by A.D. Miles

• DAFA - French dictionary of business and economic terms
  The DAFA is the first genuine language dictionary of Business French. The DAFA contains 11000 multiword units and a very keen system to differentiate synonyms and its conceptual organisation. It includes more than 3000 contexts from the fields of business and economics, numerous usage notes and geographical variants from Belgium, France, Québec and the French speaking part of Switzerland.

• Danish - English, English - Danish microeconomics glossary.
  Maintained by Esben Sloth Andersen, University of Aalborg, Dept. of Business Studies.

• English advertising/marketing glossary

• English-French glossary of microeconomics (courtesy TERMISTI)

• English Glossary of Financial Terms
  Contains definitions of over 6000 finance, business, investment and stock market terms.

• Italian business glossaries

• Italian marketing glossaries

• Triccionario: German-English-Spanish Business Dictionary
  Contains about 100.000 translations in the business sector.

• Turkish-English & English-Turkish dictionary (more than 400,000 words/phrases specializing in business terms) by Ugur Yorulmaz [Turkish version] and [English version]

Chemistry

• Beilstein English-German dictionary of Organic Chemistry

• BioTech Biotechnology Dictionary
  Contains over 8000 terms associated with biology, biochemistry, Medicine and pharmacology.

• Chemical Acronyms Database
  From Indiana Unversity Science Libraries.

• Chemical Compounds Acronyms Database

• Chemistry Database
  Database of chemical compounds.

• English-Spanish dictionary of clinical laboratory science

• German-English Acronym dictionary (also chemical acronyms)

• Glossary for the Modern Soap Maker
  A collection of soap making terms, definitions and acronyms for today's soap maker.

• Italian chemistry glossaries

• Italian IT glossaries

• Polish-English-Polish chemical dictionary (~15,000 terms)

Computing

• Acronym Finder Web Site, a database of more than 45,000 acronyms and their meanings
  Contains acronyms about: General topics, Computers, Technology, Government, Telecommunications, and the Military including Department of Defense (DoD), Air Force, Army, Navy, and Coast Guard acronyms.

• Acronym List of the computer science department service of the University of Oldenburg
  This is a collection of computer-related acronyms and abbreviations. It contains more than 26,000 entries.

• Brian Cryer's Glossary of IT Terms with Links to other IT glossaries

• Chinese (Simplified) glossary of Java and related terms

• Chinese (Traditional) glossary of Java and related terms

• Computer and Internet glossary (English-only)

• Computerlexikon Informationsarchiv.net - monolingual german computer glossary

• Computer-related Acronyms (English-only)

• Computing Terminology Dictionary (English)

• Dictionnaire de Neologie Internet

• English-Afrikaans computer terminology

• English-Afrikaans computer terminology

• English-French computer glossary

• English glossary of IT terms with links

• English glossary of Java and related terms

• English-Italian Internet Glossary

• English-Russian Dictionary of Computing for Everyone

• English-Spanish Glossary of Computer Science Terminology
  Over 11000 entries, English to Spanish with translation, explanation, links to webs and images. The glossary gathers those terms that are used in the field of Computer Science and other related sciences. It also includes companies, organisations and foundations, as well as prominent figures in the IT world.

• English-Swedish Internet glossary.

• English-Turkish dictionary of Computer Terms

• French glossary of computing

• French glossary of Java and related terms

• French Lexicon of Internet Terminology (Office de la langue francaise)

• German glossary of Java and related terms

• Glossary of Database-related Terms

• Greek-English-Greek informatics terminology dictionary

• Italian computing and Internet glossaries

• Italian glossary of Java and related terms

• Japanese glossary of Java and related terms

• Korean glossary of Java and related terms

• Lexique Informatique Officieux de la Commission Ministirielle de Terminologie Informatique

• Lexitec Finnish Glossaries
  Lexitec online features English-Finnish and Finnish-English glossaries of Computer terms based on a leading Finnish printed vocabulary of computer Terms by a professional translator.

• Microsoft Glossaries in Several Languages

• PC Webopaedia Personal Computer dictionary - largest on the Internet

• Russian-English computer dictionary

• Slovene computer science dictionary

• Slovene-English-Slovene computer dictionary

• Software Engineering Glossary (English)

• Spanish Dictionaries (includes Computer Dictionary)

• Spanish-English word list of computer terms

• Spanish glossary of internet terms

• Spanish glossary of Java and related terms

• Swedish glossary of Java and related terms

• Web Hosting Glossary - Web and Internet-related glossary (English)

Education

• English-Afrikaans education terminology (South Africa's new edu-system)

• Vietnamese-English dictionary of educational terms

Energy

• Dictionary of energy terms (english, german, french, russian)

• English glossary of energy terms.
  A guide to terms used in the civil nuclear industry by The Uranium Institute, independent forum for issues affecting the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

• English-Italian-Russian-French on-line dictionary on oil and gas

Engineering

• English-French glossary of terms related to GPS receivers (courtesy TERMISTI)

• English-French Glossary of Construction Terminology (Canada)

• English Glossary of Electron Microscopy Terms from the University of Nebraska

• English Glossary of Lighting Design Terms

• German Glossary of Lighting Design Terms

• Glossary of petroleum and natural gas terms (English, Italian, Russian, German, French)

• Italian electronics glossaries

• Korean-English-Korean Materials Dictionary

• Sebastian's Technical Glossary
  Building pathology & construction technology, architecture, civil, structural, forensic, mechanical, pavement and materials engineering with elements of testing and quality science.

Environment

• EPA Terminology Reference System, EEA Generalized Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus (GEMET)
  These systems comprise a 12-language glossary/thesaurus of environmental terminology.

Finance

• A to Z Glossary of financial terms by Money World, UK's personal Finance Web Site (English)

• Dictionary of Banking and Monetary acronyms

• Dictionary of Financial Risk Management from the American Stock Exchange, and other useful financial glossaries

• Dictionary of financial derivative terms

• Dictionary of Financial Terms

• En/Fr/Ge/It dictionary of financial terms

• English Glossary of Debt-related Terms
  Contains definitions of over 400 debt-related terms.

• English Glossary of Financial Terms
  Contains definitions of over 6000 finance, business, investment and stock market terms.

• English Glossary of Mortgage Terms
  Contains definitions of over 400 mortgage-related terms.

• English-Russian Glossary of International Banking & Finance Acronyms and Abbreviations

• English-Spanish glossary of banking and credit terms (courtesy TERMISTI)

• Glossary of Financial Terms
  This glossary with over 5000 financial terms in English, German, French and Italian can be used free of charge for non-commercial use on a query-by-query basis. The service is a co-operative effort of Axone Services and Developpement SA and Viel Tradition Group.

• Investopedia - Financial Dictionary
  A free financial dictionary with thousands of terms and buzz words. Each term not only contains the definition but also tips, related terms, and related links to help you better understand the word.

• Italian economics and finance glossaries

• Italian economics glossaries

• Italian finance glossaries

• Taxopedia - Glossary of tax terms

Food

• Multilingual Gastronomic Glossary
  This glossary contains words and expressions that you may encounter when you go shopping for food, in French, Swedish and English.

• Italian food and drink glossaries

• Spanish Food Dictionary
  Includes many food terms normally not included in general dictionaries.

Fun stuff

• Glossary of Mistranslations

• Japanese Computer Joke Dictionary

• Ka-BOOM! A Dictionary of Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (English)

• The Gangsters and Mobsters Glossary

• The Giant Picture Dictionary (English)

• Italian hobbies glossaries

• Italian cinema glossaries

• Italian music glossaries

• New 60's Slang Dictionary

• Prison Terms Glossary
  The Correctional Officers Guide to Prison Slang

Health

• Italian health & medicine glossaries

• Links to on-line health glossaries courtesy of the London Health Libraries

History

• The Biographical Dictionary
  This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. It can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords.

• Biographical Dictionary of Biologists

• Italian art and history glossaries

Horses

• En-Fr-Ge Equestrian Sports Dictionary

• "Multilingual Dictionary of the Horse" (2nd abridged English French Spanish German edition)

Insurance

• English-French Insurance and Actuarial Lexicon (over 10,000 terms)

• English glossary of Insurance Terms by Fallbrook Insurance Center, USA

• English Life Insurance and Pension glossary by American Council of Life lnsurance

• German - English - French - Italian - Spanish: Internationales Immobilien-Vokabular

• Italian insurance glossaries

Internet

• Dictionnaire de Neologie Internet

• English-Afrikaans internet terminology

• English-Swedish Internet glossary

• French Lexicon of Internet Terminology (Office de la langue francaise)

• Italian computing and Internet glossaries

• Short Polish-English internetwork security word list

• Spanish glossary of internet terms

• TECHtionary - world's first animated dictionary on telecommunications, data networking and internet technology

• Web design glossary
  This web design glossary has been created to further your understanding of web design jargon & related wording that you will encounter in this site and elsewhere. This glossary's intention is to be relevant and beneficial to your understanding rather than be comprehensive.

• Web Hosting Glossary - Web and Internet-related glossary (English)

Law

• Dictionary of English legal terms

• English (USA) glossary by Court TV Lawcenter

• English-French glossary of terms related to inventions, patents, and patent law
  Provided by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office

• English-Spanish glossary of legal building/construction terms (courtesy TERMISTI)

• English Translation of Japanese Laws
  This is a list of links to more than 100 Japanese laws in English. It is included in the JGuide of Stanford University, findlaw.com, Legal Research Tools of Washington University among others.

• French-Spanish glossary of terms relating to testaments, declarations, and notaries (courtesy TERMISTI)

• Glossary of terms used in the criminal justice process

• Italian law glossaries

• Italian law & politics glossaries

Library and Information Sciences

• ODLIS - Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science Terminology

Linguistics

• English etymology dictionary
  I hope this map of the wheel-ruts of English will be useful or amusing to a lot of people. It's not meant to be pedantic: These are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant 600 or 2,000 years ago. Think of it like looking at pictures of your friends' parents when they were your age. People will continue to use words as they will, finding new or wider meanings for old words and coining new ones to fit new situations. In fact, this list is a testimony to that process.

• English-German Dictionary of Linguistic Terms

• English-German Glossary of Translation and Interpretation Terms

• English-Spanish dictionary of library and information science
  This is a compilation of terminology (both general and specific) used by library and information professionals and contains 89,215 entries. Last update November 2003.

• German-English Glossary of Translation and Interpretation Terms

Literature

• ARTFL - Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language

• Book of Proverbs in Latin, English, French, German and Italian.

• The Encyclopeadia Mythica in English
  An encyclopeadia on mythology, folklore, mysticism, and more...

• English glossary of Literary Criticism. In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities by the Summer Institute of Linguists

• English glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples

• Glossary of Poetic Terms

• Shakespeare Dictionary
  A list of Shakespearean words, definitions, and sample usages.

• Spanish-English-Spanish Proverbs Dictionary
  A new dictionary of 5,000 proverbs and sayings.

Mathematics

• English-Finnish-Swedish Mathematics dictionary

• English-Spanish glossary of regrouping terms (courtesy TERMISTI)

• Mathematical Programming Glossary

• Online Dictionary of Units of Measurement

• Somali-Italian-English Mathematical dictionary

Media

• English Glossary of Radio Terms

Medicine

• BioTech Biotechnology Dictionary
  Contains over 8000 terms associated with biology, biochemistry, Medicine and pharmacology.

• CAVE LION - Romanian Dictionary of Medicine

• English-Chinese dictionary of medical terms
  This online resource tool, intended for both professional and public use, has been manually compiled with reference to an extensive collection of bilingual medical dictionaries and glossaries published by institutions and healthcare authorities in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

• English-French glossary of Autism terms (courtesy TERMISTI)

• English glossary of Medical, Statistical and Clinical Research Terminology by National AIDS Treatment Activist Forum, USA

• English glossary of Oncology Terms from the Cheshire Medical Center Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene

• English Medical dictionary by MediciNet

• European Medical dictionary (1830 medical terms in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish)
  The project was commissioned by The European Commission and executed by Heymans Institute of Pharmacology and Mercator School, Department of Applied Linguistics.

• French-Spanish glossary of terms related to abortion (courtesy TERMISTI)

• Internet Medical Terminology Resources - Medizinische Terminologie Ressourcen im Internet by Josef Ingener

• Italian health & medicine glossaries

• Italian medicine glossaries

• Links to on-line medical glossaries courtesy of the London Health Libraries

• Medical Dictionary
  An English medical dictionary of medical-related terminology and information online

• The Medical Dictionary Search Engine

• Medical online dictionaries and glossaries
  Over 1,660 links to useful & informative medical & health-related web sites and medical dictionaries in nineteen languages; compiled by André Fairchild.

• The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

• On-line Medical Dictionary

• Search engine for medical data

• Swedish-English medical glossary from Karolinska Institutet

Meteorology

• English glossary of Weather Terms by Weca - The Westchester Emergency Communications Association, NY

• Tropical Cyclone and Hurricane glossary in English, USA Today

• Weather glossary in English by KATV Channel 7, Little Rock

Military

• Acronym Finder web Site, a database of more than 45,000 acronyms and their meanings
  Contains acronyms about: General topics, Computers, Technology, Government, Telecommunications, and the Military including Department of Defense (DoD), Air Force, Army, Navy, and Coast Guard acronyms.

• Army Technology Glossary (in English)

• Swedish-English Military Dictionary

Pharmacology

• BioTech Biotechnology Dictionary
  Contains over 8000 terms associated with biology, biochemistry, Medicine and pharmacology.

• Drug Development Glossary (in English)

• English glossary of Oxygent by Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp.

• English Slang Drug Terms

• Glossary of pharmaceutical terms

• Search engine for medical data - one of its sections is Pharmaceutical

Politics

• Italian law & politics glossaries

Real Estate

• Real Estate Glossary
  Online English glossary of real estate terms and phrases

Religion

• 17th Century Biblical English Glossary

• Charles Muller's on-line dictionary of Buddhism and East Asian literary terms

• English glossary of Buddhist terms

• Italian religion glossaries

• Theosophical terms glossary

Science

• Compressed Air Glossary

• English-Finnish Glossary of Remote Sensing from the Helsinki University of Technology

• EURODICAUTOM - Danish - Dutch - English - French - Finnish - German - Greek - Italian - Portuguese - Spanish - Swedish
  An on-line terminology database containing scientific and technical terms, contextual phrases and abbreviations in all official languages of the European Union.

• Italian science and technology glossaries

• Portoeditora Portuguese-English-Portuguese on-line dictionary
  More than 600,000 searchable words. Approximately 235,000 definitions, expressions and example sentences. Technical and scientific vocabulary, including lexicon of new technologies. Detailed etymological information for more than 83,000 words. Verb conjugations for more than 13,500 verbs. Recognition of inflected forms.

Slang

• The Alternative Dictionaries of slang, dirty words and other "bad language"

Space

• Thesaurus of NASA terms

Sports

• The Bowler's dictionary in English
  Common bowling terms and their definitions.

• Climbing dictionary in German, French, Dutch, English, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Polish and Slovak

• English-French glossary of Hubble Space Telescope terms (courtesy TERMISTI)

• English-Japanese Climbing dictionary

• Greek - English Olympic Games historical glossary

• Italian sports glossaries

Technical

• Acronym Finder Web Site, a database of more than 45,000 acronyms and their meanings
  Contains acronyms about: General topics, Computers, Technology, Government, Telecommunications, and the Military including Department of Defense (DoD), Air Force, Army, Navy, and Coast Guard acronyms.

• English-Vietnamese dictionary of Technical Terms

• EURODICAUTOM - Danish - Dutch - English - French - Finnish - German - Greek - Italian - Portuguese - Spanish - Swedish
  An on-line terminology database containing scientific and technical terms, contextual phrases and abbreviations in all official languages of the European Union.

• French - English - French mechnical technical dictionary

• Finnish-English technical word list

• German-English technical dictionary
  Over 34,000 entries in the fields of Patent Law, Automotive Engineering, Telecommunications, Chemistry, Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering

• Glossary of trenchless technology terms

• Italian electronics glossaries

• Italian science and technology glossaries

• On-line search of over 300 English glossaries including technical

• Portoeditora Portuguese-English-Portuguese on-line dictionary
  More than 600,000 searchable words. Approximately 235,000 definitions, expressions and example sentences. Technical and scientific vocabulary, including lexicon of new technologies. Detailed etymological information for more than 83,000 words. Verb conjugations for more than 13,500 verbs. Recognition of inflected forms.

Telecommunications

• Acronym Finder Web Site, a database of more than 45,000 acronyms and their meanings
  Contains acronyms about: General topics, Computers, Technology, Government, Telecommunications, and the Military including Department of Defense (DoD), Air Force, Army, Navy, and Coast Guard acronyms.

• Acronyms for the telecommunication and electronics industries

• English-French glossary of fiber optic terms pertaining to cable television (courtesy TERMISTI)

• English glossary of Satellite terms

• English Glossary of VCN (Video, Compression, Networking)

• IBM glossary of computing and networking terms (English)

• Short Polish-English internetwork security word list

• TECHtionary - world's first animated dictionary on telecommunications, data networking and internet technology

• TERMITE
  TERMITE is the ITU's 60,000-entry terminology database containing primarily Telecommunication terms relating to technical standards. The database also Includes terms pertaining to technical fields and administrative and Financial matters relevant to the structure and functioning of ITU. The entries are primarily in English, French, Spanish and sometimes Russian (transcribed), although some may also contain Italian, German and Portuguese.

• UCSB English glossary of telecommunications wiring terms

Wine

• English-Afrikaans wine terminology

• Italian food and drink glossaries

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