http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zdop&rkey=dic
Galileo Resource (Requires password off campus)
Includes audio files with pronunciations of words. Also has a thesaurus feature.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org
"For people learning English all around the world." Includes a standard English dictionary as well as a dictionary of idioms and a phrasal verbs book. Also has a French/English section and a Spanish/English one.
With translation help and complete foreign language dictionaries. Also has a feature that will help identify to which language a word belongs.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/specialty.html
From accounting to golf to wine, find definitions of terms and phrases related to specific interests/disciplines.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
From the Michigan State University Communication Technology Laboratory - this site features Quicktime video of thousands of signs.
"SYMBOLS.com contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics."
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/
An officially sanctioned dictionary of military terminology.
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/
Contains over 46,000 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, eponyms, history, in fact anything to do with medicine or science."
http://www.epicurious.com/cooking/how_to/food_dictionary/
More than 4,000 terms about food.
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