Dictionaries
- Acronym Finder
- Lookup acronyms, abbreviations, or initialisms
- Aphorisms Galore
- All those wise sayings you wish you could remember
- Cliche Finder
- Find them before they find you
- Dictionary.com
- Also a Thesaurus and an Encyclopedia
- Quotations Page
- Who wrote that?
- Quotationz
- What the wise said about a given subject
- Skeptics Dictionary
- Good antidote to hype, pseudoscience and superstition
- What is?
- Compter and Internet jargon buster
Encyclopedias
- Answers
- Combined dictionary and encyclopedia and more
- Bartleby Reference
- Compendium of Reference Sites
- Britannica
- Considered the world's best, including some free material
- eHow
- Clear instructions on how to do (just about) everything
- Columbia
- Mostly free material
- Encarta
- From Microsoft
- HighBeam Encyclopedia
- Also from the Columbia Encyclopedia
- How Stuff Works
- Learn How Everything Works
- InfoPlease
- Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus.
- Made How
- How Products are Made
- The Why Files
- The science behind the news
- Tricks of the Trade
- Professional secrets from those in the know.
- Wikipedia
- The Free Encyclopedia that anyone can edit
- World Atlas
- Maps, Flags and Geography Facts and Figures
