Glossaries

Acronyms

• • • Acronym Finder

Architecture and Real Estate

• • • Commercial Real Estate Terms
    • Construction Glossary
    • Curbed Handbook

Art

• • • Art Evolution Glossary of Art Terms
    • Art Mumble
    • Cheap Joe’s Art Glossary
    • Cleveland Institute of Art (PDF)
    • Hollywood Lexicon
    • Modern Sculpture Glossary of Art Terminology
    • MoMA Glossary of Art Terms
    • The National Gallery (U.K.)
    • Tate’s Online Glossary of Art Terms
    • Visual Arts Cork

Business

• • • AccountingTools‘ Dictionary of Accounting Topics
    • Bankrate Glossary of financial words and phrases
    • Branding Glossary by How Brands are Built
    • The Financial Dictionary
    • Investopedia
    • Investor.gov U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
    • Jargonism
    • Lloyd’s glossary of insurance related terms
    • Common Language Marketing Dictionary
    • Printing terms
    • Creative Research Terms Glossary by the Advertising Research Foundation
    • Retail terms

Law

• • • Law.com
    • U.S. Courts
    • USLegal.com

Medicine and Science

• • • Aquapedia: Water Education Foundation’s online water encyclopedia
    • Complexity Explorer Glossary
    • Medical terms (Merriam Webster)
    • Psychology terms (Alleydog)

Slang

• • • 19th Century Slang (PDF, compiled by Craig Hadley)
    • Green’s Dictionary of Slang
    • Urban Dictionary

Technology

• • • Tech Terms
    • What Is

Writing

• • • The Writer’s Dictionary

English Dictionaries

• • • Cambridge English Dictionary
    • Oxford Dictionaries
    • Dictionary.com
    • Macmillan Dictionary
    • Vocabulary.com
    • Webster’s 1913