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Thesauri, Acronyms, and Abbreviations

Thesauri

ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus Search Form
Search the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus version 1.02 (supplemented: July 1991) released to the public domain by MICRA, Inc. and the Gutenberg Project.

Roget's Thesauri (from Bartleby.com)
Search Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition (1995) and Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1922) simultaneously or individually.

Thesaurus.com
A catalog of English words and phrases that can be accessed by keyword searching, alphabetical list, or browsing an outline which groups words by similarity of meaning.

WWWebster Thesaurus
World Wide Web version of thesaurus from Merriam-Webster.


Acronyms and Abbreviations

Abbreviations.com
The ultimate acronyms and abbreviations resource on the web.

Acronym Attic
Searching over 3 million acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.

Acronym Finder
Find out what more than 500,000 acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms stand for.

The Internet Acronym Server
"Searching for the Meaning of L.I.F.E. since 1988."

Journal Abbreviations
Electronic and print resources to help decipher journal abbreviations.