Dictionaries

Here is our collection of top dictionaries, thesauri and other word-related reference books.
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Rogets Superthesauru
by Marc McCutcheon
Writer's Digest Books, (August, 2004)

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Roget's Descriptive Word Finder
by Barbara Ann Kipfer
Writer's Digest Books, (May, 2003)

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Dictionary of Concise Writing: 10,000 Alternative to Wordy Phrases
by Robert Hartwell Fiske
Marion Street Press, (August, 2002)
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The Dimwit's Dictionary: 5,000 Overused Word and Phrases and Alternatives to Them
by Robert Hartwell Fiske
Marion Street Press, (August, 2002)

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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
by Bill Bryson
Broadway Books, (August, 2002)

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Flip Dictionary
by Barbara Ann Kipfer, Ph.D.
Writer's Digest Books, (January, 2002)
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Roget's Thesaurus of Phrases
by Barbara Ann Kipfer
Writers Digest Books, (July, 2001)

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Clinician's Thesaurus, 5th Edition
by Edward L., Ph.D. Zuckerman
Guilford Press, (July, 2000)

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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style
by Paul W. Lovinger
Viking, (July, 2000)
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Newton's Telecom Dictionary : The Official Dictionary of Telecommunications and the Internet
by Harry Newton, Ray Horak
Telecom Books/Miller Freeman, (March, 2000)

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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
by Elizabeth Knowles
Getty Ctr for Education in the Arts, (November, 1999)

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Ultimate Visual Dictionary 2000
DK Publishing, (September, 1999)

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Abbreviations Dictionary : A Practical Compilation of Today's Acronyms and Abbreviations
by Robert S. Wachal
Houghton Mifflin, (September, 1999)

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Encarta World English Dictionary
by Anne Soukhanov
St Martins Press, (August, 1999)

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Random House Webster's Large Print Dictionary
Random House Reference, (July, 1999)

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Columbia Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations
by Reginald Foakes, Mary Foakes, William Shakespeare
Columbia University Press, (June, 1998)

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Roget's Super Thesaurus
by Marc McCutcheon
Writer's Digest Books, (May, 1998)

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The Instant Intellectual
by Norah Vincent and Chad Conway
Hyperion, (May, 1998)
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Slang : The Authoritative Topic-By-Topic Dictionary of American Lingoes from All Walks of Life
by Paul Dickson
Pocket Books, (April, 1998)

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A Dictionary of the Bible
by W. R. F. Browning, Graham Stanton, Richard Coggins
Oxford University Press, (April, 1998)

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American Slang Dictionary (3rd Ed)
by Robert L., Ph.D. Chapman (Editor), Barbara Ann Kipfer
HarperCollins, (February, 1998)

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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
by Christine Ammer
Houghton Mifflin Co., (October, 1997)

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The Disheveled Dictionary : A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Houghton Mifflin Co., (September, 1997)

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The Thesaurus of Slang
by Esther Lewin, Albert E. Lewin
Facts on File, (September, 1997)

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The Oxford Desk Dictionary and Thesauras : American Edition
Berkley, (August, 1997)

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Webster's New World College Dictionary
by Webster's New World Editors and David B. Guralnik
MacMillan General Reference, (June, 1997)

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Roget's Pocket Thesaurus
Houghton Mifflin Co., (May, 1997)

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The American Heritage College Dictionary
Houghton Mifflin Co., (April, 1997)

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Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary 3rd Edition
Merriam Webster, (April, 1997)

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Roget's II : The New Thesaurus
Berkley, (February, 1997)

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American Heritage : Dictionary of American Quotations
by Margaret Miner, Hugh Rawson
Penguin USA, (January, 1997)

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Random House Roget's Thesaurus
by Tony Geiss
Ballantine Books, (August, 1996)

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Bartlett's Roget's Thesaurus
by Roger Donald (editor)
Little Brown & Company, (July, 1996)

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Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th Edition)
Merriam Webster, (May, 1996)

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