Top Dictionaries for Quick Lookup

Merriam-Webster Dictionary – the Webster dictionary is one of the most cited dictionaries.

AskOxford.com – The online version of the famous Oxford dictionary.

Dictionary.com – Dictionary.com is one of the most popular dictionaries on the web.
FreeDictionary.com – the Free dictionary.

Dictionaries

• American-Heritage Collegiate Dictionary
• Century Unabridged Dictionary (1889)
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
• Historical Dictionary of American Slang
• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
• New World College Dictionary
• Oxford English Dictionary (Subscription or Purchase Only)
• Wordnik English Dictionary
• Chambers (British) English Dictionary
• Dictionarium Britannicum
• Dictionary.com
• Encarta
• Get-Definition Dictionary
• Illustrated Semantically Organized Glossary
• Learning English Online
• Modern English-Indo-European Dictionary
• Newbury House Online Dictionary
• The Macquarie Dictionary (Australian—requires subscription)
• Wordnet English Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Wordsmyth

Specialty Dictionaries

• The Phrase Finder
• English Specialty Dictionaries (125 categories)
• Baby-Talk Dictionary
• Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
• Dictionary of Idioms
• Dictionary of Newfoundland English Online
• Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811)
• GoEnglish.com Idiom Dictionary
• Grandiloquent Dictionary
• Middle English Dictionary
• Piggot’s Political Dictionary (1795)
• Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Scots English Dictionary

Grammars

• Directory of English Grammar
• A Brief Grammatical Sketch of English
• Advanced English Lessons
• Beginning English for Somali Speakers
• English Club English Grammar
• English Online from New Zealand Ministry of Education
• Eva Easton’s Basic English Grammar
• Online English Grammar
• Phonetics Flash Animation Project
• The Internet Grammar of English

General Dictionaries, Sorted by Number of Words in Database

1. Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia: [5278306 words]
2. Dictionary.com: [775929 words]
3. Dict.cc Englisch/Deutsch Wörterbuch: [750745 words]
4. Dict.cc Englisch/Deutsch Wörterbuch: [590803 words]
5. Wiktionary: [580200 words]
6. bab.la: [512709 words]
7. Wordnik: [472624 words]
8. Dictionary/thesaurus: [444483 words]
9. Online Talking Dictionary: [293864 words]
10. Free Dictionary: [254453 words]
11. Rhymezone: [229780 words]
12. LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus: [187425 words]
13. AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary: [175063 words]
14. Mnemonic Dictionary: [147153 words]
15. Infoplease Dictionary: [127110 words]
16. WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper: [119160 words]
17. Urdu/English Dictionary: [113319 words]
18. Online Plain Text English Dictionary: [111729 words]
19. Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary, 11th Edition: [107545 words]
20. Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition: [107301 words]
21. UltraLingua English Dictionary: [103294 words]
22. Cambridge International Dictionary of English: [92986 words]
23. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: [90491 words]
24. Webster’s Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition: [88773 words]
25. Eurodict Online: [81035 words]
26. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.: [80134 words]
27. Webster’s 1828 Dictionary: [62949 words]
28. Logos Multilingual E-translation Portal: [60678 words]
29. Langtolang: [51081 words]
30. Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: [50831 words]
31. The Free Dictionary: [49963 words]
32. Gaelic Language (Manx): [48957 words]
33. The Free Dictionary: [48752 words]
34. The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus: [47719 words]
35. Macmillan Dictionary: [46109 words]
36. Compact Oxford English Dictionary: [41947 words]
37. Cambridge Dictionary of American English: [37791 words]
38. Collins Pocket English Dictionary: [37476 words]
39. 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica: [33710 words]
40. Columbia Gazetteer of North America: [33247 words]
41. The Free Dictionary: [28043 words]
42. Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms: [24060 words]
43. The Free Dictionary: [23996 words]
44. The Free Dictionary: [22814 words]
45. Online Etymology Dictionary: [21462 words]
46. General English-Spanish: [20735 words]
47. Langtolang English from/to French dictionary: [20075 words]
48. The Phrontistery – A Dictionary of Obscure Words: [16690 words]
49. Hutchinson Dictionaries: [15195 words]
50. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): [15100 words]
51. Hutchinson’s Dictionary of Difficult Words: [14455 words]
52. Cobuild Student Dictionary for Learners of English: [13410 words]
53. 18 LANGUAGES MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARY: [9103 words]
54. Luciferous Logolepsy: [9029 words]
55. Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (Encyclopedia.com): [7267 words]
56. Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations: [7192 words]
57. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: [6639 words]
58. Virdainas – a Sudovian Dictionary: [5920 words]
59. The Free Dictionary: [5417 words]
60. E Cobham Brewer, The Reader’s Handbook: [5272 words]
61. Faclair G?idhlig – Beurla Gaelic – English Dictionary: [5173 words]
62. Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms: [5132 words]
63. Typographical Errors in Library Databases: [5114 words]
64. Encarta® Online Encyclopedia, North American Edition: [4994 words]
65. Who2: [4331 words]
66. Worthless Word For The Day: [4234 words]
67. InfoVisual Visual Dictionary: [3884 words]
68. R-O-Matic Italian/English Dictionary: [3504 words]
69. The Word Spy: [2701 words]
70. MyWord.info: [2507 words]
71. Japanese Kanji & Chinese Calligraphy Dictionary: [2420 words]
72. GREEK-ENGLISH DICTIONARY: [2403 words]
73. World Wide Words: [2363 words]
74. Dictionary of Americanisms (1848): [2158 words]
75. V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary: [2042 words]
76. Grandiloquent Dictionary: [2039 words]
77. Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs: [1929 words]
78. Strange and Unusual Dictionaries: [1769 words]
79. The Word Detective: [1599 words]
80. All About Homonyms: [1506 words]
81. Double-Tongued Word Wrester: [1269 words]
82. Bali: The Online Travel Guide: [978 words]
83. My Hebrew Dictionary: [974 words]
84. Phrase Finder: [939 words]
85. UVic Writer’s Guide: [759 words]
86. A to Z list of the most popular idioms: [433 words]
87. ESL Idiom Page: [401 words]
88. Britih-American Dictionary: [365 words]
89. American-Britih Dictionary: [362 words]
90. The Spoken Taino Language: [334 words]
91. Yiddish-Hebrew-English-German-Russian Picture Dictionary: [186 words]
92. Phrasal Verb Page: [173 words]
93. Robb: German English: [160 words]
94. Russian dictionary: [157 words]
95. Turkish Acronyms to live by: [138 words]
96. Celtic Dictionary: [129 words]
97. New English Words: [113 words]
98. Foreign Words and Phrases: [73 words]
99. Election glossary: [61 words]
100. Ye Olde English Sayings: [43 words]

U.S. Mail Holidays – UPS Holidays – DHL Holidays – FedEx Holidays

The following is the 2010 holiday schedule for USPS in the United States.

[Visit USPS' Calendar]

Friday, January 1 – New Year’s Day
Monday, January 18 – Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday
Monday, February 15 – Washington’s Birthday (President’s Day)
Monday, May 31 – Memorial Day
Monday, July 4 – Independence Day (observed Monday the 5th)
Monday, September 6 – Labor Day
Monday, October 11 – Columbus Day
Thursday, November 11 – Veterans Day
Thursday, November 25 – Thanksgiving Day
Saturday, December 25 – Christmas Day
Saturday, January 1, 2011 – New Year’s Day

The following is the 2010 holiday schedule for UPS in the United States.

[Visit UPS Days of Operation]

New Year’s Day – January 1, 2010*
Memorial Day – May 31, 2010*
Independence Day – observed Monday, July 5th, 2010*
Labor Day – September 6, 2010*
Thanksgiving Day – November 25, 2010*
Day after Thanksgiving – November 26, 2010* (Only delivery and pickup of air and international packages is available November 26th)
Christmas Day – December 25, 2010*
New Year’s Eve – December 31, 2010* (Only delivery and pickup of air and international packages is available December 31st)
New Year’s Day – January 1, 2011*

Saturday and Sunday are rest days for United Parcel Service. (Saturday delivery and pickup is available in certain regions)

* UPS Express Critical is available 365 days each year

The following is the 2010 holiday schedule for DHL operations in the United States.

DHL holiday schedules vary by country, and international holidays may have an impact on transit times.

[DHL Holiday Schedule]

New Year’s Day – Friday, January 1, 2010
Memorial Day – Monday, May 31, 2010
Independence Day – Sunday, July 4, 2010
Labor Day – Monday, September 6, 2010
Thanksgiving – Thursday, November 25, 2010
Christmas Day – Saturday, December 25, 2010
New Year’s Day – Saturday, January 1, 2011

2010 FedEx holiday delivery schedule for the U.S.

[FedEx Holiday Schedule]

New Year’s Day – January 1, 2010
Memorial Day – May 31, 2010
Independence Day – observed Monday, July 5, 2010
Labor Day – September 6, 2010
Thanksgiving Day – November 25, 2010
Christmas Day – December 25, 2010
New Year’s Day – January 1, 2011

Need the official date and time:

• The Official U.S. Time

Need to know the time in an
important city?
Use these lists to find out:

• Small Time Zone List with Cities
• Large Time Zone List with Cities

For the person that’s about to make an International phone call or is planning a trip to a foreign country, the world time map helps you plan for any event involving an international setting.

• Click on the map below for time the time difference or use this Time Zone Converter.

1. AOL Daily Crossword
2. American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
3. Amo’s Online Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
4. AskOxford Crosswords
5. BestCrosswords.com – Site offers a variety of online and printable crossword puzzles. All the crossword puzzles on this site are free and play directly in your web browser.
6. Bible Crossword Puzzles – One crossword for every chapter in the new testament some 259 crosswords.
7. Boston Globe Crossword
8. CANOE Daily Crossword
9. CBC Crossword
10. Cricklers – “We have re-invented the crossword puzzle and we hope you enjoy the results.”
11. CrosSynergy – crosswords by Bob Klahn.
12. Crossword Central
13. Crossword Dictionary
14. Crossword Express – K-12+ education vocabulary lesson or theme crosswords.
15. Crossword Helper
16. Crossword of the Day
17. Crossword of the Week
18. Crossword Puzzle Dictionary Search
19. Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students
20. Crossword Puzzles Games – This web site offers 32,400 free crossword puzzles and fun tools for people who enjoy word games. Get some help with a puzzle or create your own, free.
21. Crossword Puzzle Guide – guide by Infoplease to help you solve your crosswords along with ‘History of the Crossword Puzzle’.
22. Crossword Puzzle Solver (1) – American Heritage Dictionaries
23. Crossword Puzzle Solver (2) – Enter the number of letters and the letters that you do know and the Crossword Solver returns a list of possible words.
24. Crossword Puzzle Solver (3)
25. Crossword Puzzles - offers links to puzzle sites, articles, solving tools, and other resources.
26. Crosswordsite – free family-friendly US and UK crosswords, graded from easy quick puzzles to tough cryptics; printable or online versions available.
27. Cruciverb-L – a place for crossword puzzle enthusiasts to hang out.
28. Daily Word Jumble
29. Denver Post Crossword
30. Dell Daily Crossword
31. Denver Post Crossword
32. Double Crostic Crossword Puzzle Page
33. FirstScience.com: Daily Crossword
34. FirstScience.com: Weekly Crossword
35. GardenWeb Crossword Puzzle
36. Guardian Unlimited Crossword
37. Heritage Crossword Puzzle
38. Hexaword – Hexagonal Crossword Puzzle
39. Houston Chronicle Daily Crossword
40. Infoplease Weekly Crossword
41. Internet Anagram Server
42. iVilliage Crossword Center
43. Jumbo and Crossword Solver
44. Kentucky Crosswords – Easy general knowledge crosswords, “Kentucky” themed crosswords, sports crosswords, Bible crosswords, Sudoku puzzles to play online or print, puzzles just for kids, logic problems and more.
45. London Telegraph Crossword
46. Los Angeles Times Crossword
47. MacNamara’s Band, Inc. Crossword Puzzles
48. Minneapolis Star Tribune Crossword Puzzle
49. MSNBC Crossword
50. New York Times Crossword – Subscription-based. Free weekly puzzle from NYT archive, available every Monday.
51. Newsday Crossword
52. Newsword Crosswords
53. One Across – Search for crossword puzzle answers.
54. Puzzle Choice – Choose from many different crossword styles including US and UK standard, giant, cryptic, coded and themed.
55. Roman Numeral Converter – Converts normal numbers to roman digits, and vice versa.
56. SignOn San Diego Crossword Puzzle
57. Sudoku Puzzle – Daily Sudoku puzzle available at this site.
58. Thinks.com Daily Crossword
59. ThirdAge Crosswords
60. tidbits puzzles - “a fast, fun original word game for people who like crossword puzzles in a hurry.”
61. The Times and The Sunday Times Crosswords
62. Toronto Star Crossword Challenge
63. uPuzzles Crossword
64. Universal Crossword
65. USA Today Crosswords
66. Washington Post Crossword – Front Page – Daily, Sunday, and TV Crosswords.
67. Webber’s Crypitc Crosswords
68. Word Finder: National Puzzlers’ League – The National Puzzlers’ League provides a search engine for words listed in a number of dictionaries.
69. World’s First Crossword: The History
70. Yahoo! Crossword Puzzles
71. yourDictionary Crossword Puzzles

• American Heritage – Fourth edition has 90,000+ entries.
• Cambridge Dictionaries – Includes phrases and idioms.
• Dictionary.com – Definitions from Webster’s and more.
• Merriam-Webster – Familiar, fast and easy dictionary.
• OneLook Dictionaries – Search many dictionaries at once.
• World English Dictionary – Includes audio pronunciations.
• yourDictionary.com – Dictionaries for 230+ languages.
• Glossarist.com – A Glossary directory to 20 topics.