Dictionaries, Acronyms, and Thesauri

Oxford English Dictionary (UNR users only)
The complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition OED. Quarterly updates of the in-progress third edition. Entries include etymology, usage quotes, and date charts.
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus (UNR users only)
Part of the Britannica Online site. Click Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus under the search box to search the dictionary.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Open-access version of the Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged (UNR users only)
Based on the 1961 edition, with updates into the contemporary period.
Wordsmyth
An "Educational Dictionary and Thesaurus." Easy searching for word meanings and synonyms.

WordReference.com
Online French, Italian, and Spanish Dictionary.
Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, and Body Language Cues
Definitions, illustrations, and quotes researched and assembled by David B. Givens, director of the Center for Nonverbal Studies.
OneLook Dictionaries
Contains more than six hundred dictionaries. Capability to search in all at once. Can search for English, French, Spanish, or German definitions.
AltaVista's Babelfish
Translates words and phrases for these languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Russian to English is also available.
Paralink
Offered through Project MT, a provider of computer-aided translation software, which is used to translate documents like business contracts
YourDictionary.com
A portal for language and language-related products. Can search for word meanings and find foreign language dictionaries.

ARTFL Project: University of Chicago
Site includes a French-English dictionary with over 75,000 terms, reference guide, a database of French literature with over 2,000 texts, and links to other French language resources. The dictionary searches any entry in both directions.
English-Finnish-English On-Line Dictionary
Searches for any entry in both directions.
Eurodicautom
Useful for searching most European Union languages.
Free On-Line Directional English-Japanese Dictionary
Easy-to-use dictionary searches for any entry in both directions. Not designed to accept romanized Japanese input.
German-English-German Dictionary
Searches for any entry in both directions. Based on a wordlist of about 140,000 entries. Provided by the Technische Universitat at Chemnitz.
The New English-German Dictionary
Searches for any entry in both directions, and contains about 190,000 entries. This is a reference database, not a translator.
Latin-English Dictionary
Searches for any entry in both directions. Contains about 8,000 headwords.
Spanish-English
Features American English and Latin American Spanish. Contains more than 70,000 entries.
Swedish-English
Features Swedish-English and English-Swedish words.
Vesna Belarussian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, English Dictionary
Useful for such languages Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.

World Wide Web Acronym & Abbreviations Server
Search for acronyms or abbreviations. Search for a word and retrieve all acronyms that contain the word.
STANDS4.com
"A source for acronyms and abbreviations." Browse by category or alphabetically, or do a search.