A glossary is a list of specialized or technical words with their meanings. Listed below are many glossaries supporting a wide range of subjects. See also Category:Glossaries.
[edit]  Art and culture
Architecture (Classical) • Dance (Ballet • Partners) • Graffiti • Literary • Motion picture • Music (Bagpipes • Colombian • Italian (used in English) • Guitar • Popular • Tabla • Eponymous musical terms) • Poetry (Groups and movements) • Sculpture
[edit] Fiction
Anime and manga (GaoGaiGar • Neon Genesis Evangelion • One Piece • X) • Animorphs (Andalite terminology • Hork-Bajir terminology) • Boats of the "Glen Carrig" • The Dark Tower • Dune • Fan fiction • Farscape • Jabberwocky • Krypton • Literary terms • English to Nadsat (from A Clockwork Orange) • Newspeak words • The Simpsons • Transformers • Historical Fiction
Chess (Problems) • Computer games (Final Fantasy VII • MMORPGs • Xenosaga • Contract bridge • Darts • Game theory • Go opening • Paintball • Pinball • Poker (Jargon • Poker hand slang) • Role-playing games • Sudoku • Solitaire
American football • Australian and New Zealand punting • Basketball • Canadian football • Climbing • Cricket • Cue sports (pool, carom billiards, snooker) • Curling • Cycling (Parts) • Darts • Fencing • Figure skating • Golf • Ice hockey • Paintball • Rowing • SCUBA • Sports terms named after people • Sumo wrestling • Table tennis • Tennis • Trampolining • Volleyball • Water polo • Wing Chun • Wrestling
[edit] Miscellaneous
Clothing • Conjuring • Graphonomics • Numismatics • Owarai • Texas Aggie terms • Wine
[edit]  Geography and places
Medieval land terms • Terms for country subdivisions
[edit]  Health
Alternative medicine • Anatomy (Location, Motion) • Ayurveda • Communication disorders • Diabetes • Medicine • Oncology • Psychiatry
[edit]  History and events
Flags • French Revolution • Japanese history • Netherlands politics • Rwandan Genocide • September 11, 2001 attack • Third Reich • UK local history • Weimare Republic
[edit] Military
Military terminology • British ordnance • Established military terms • Modern AFV and artillery • Modern infantry • Naval • U.S. Army Lineage • WWII German military
[edit]  Mathematics and abstractions
Algorithms and data structures • Arithmetic and Diophantine geometry • Category theory • Cryptographic key types • Differential geometry and topology (General topology, Topology) • Field theory • Game theory • Graph theory • Group theory • Mathematical jargon • Order theory • Probability and statistics • Riemannian and metic geometry • Ring theory • Scheme theory • Semisimple groups • Shapes with metaphorical names • Tensor theory
[edit]  Natural sciences and nature
[edit] Biological science
Butterflies • Invasion biology • Gene Expression • Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms
[edit] Physical science
Classical physics • Climate change • Ichthyology • Severe weather terminology (United States)
[edit]  Philosophy, religion, and spirituality 
Religion • Buddhism • Chinese terms for God • Heidegger • Hinduism • Islam • Philosophical isms • Scientology • Spirituality • Theosophy • The Urantia Book
[edit]  Social sciences and society
Anarcho-capitalism • Corporate • E-learning • Education • Flags • Indian economy • Kinship terminology • Law enforcement • Multiraciality • Numismatics • UK mortgage • US Mortgage • Sexuality (BDSM • Japanese • Homosexuality • Paraphilia • Prostitution • Singapore)
[edit] Languages and slang
- Main list: Lists of English words
Latin and Greek systematic names • Quebec French • Language teaching terms and ideas • Rhetorical terms • Alternative words for British • Greek words for love • Archaic English words and their modern equivalents • Case-sensitive English words • Chicano Caló words and expressions • Common words that have two opposite senses • Dacian words • English words containing Q not followed by U • English words with disputed usage • French words of Arabic origin • Frequently misused English words • Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names • Legal Latin terms • Replaced loan words in Turkish • Self-contradicting words in English • Longest English words with one syllable • Words derived from toponyms • Words having different meanings in British and American English • Words of disputed pronunciation • Words that may be spelled with a ligature • Words that were alternatively spelled in order to change their meaning • Words without vowel letters • Most common words in Esperanto
Internet slang • Slang for police officers • Puerto Rican slang • The Rush Limbaugh Show • South African slang • Stock market slang
[edit] English dialects
American words not widely used in the United Kingdom • Australian English terms for food and drink • Australian English terms for people • British words not widely used in the United States • New Zealand English and Māori
[edit] English words of...
African origin • Afrikaans origin • Arabic origin • Australian Aboriginal origin • Celtic origin • Chinese origin • Czech origin • Dutch origin • Etruscan origin • Finnish origin • French origin • German expressions • German loan words • German origin • Germanic and Latinate equivalents • Greek derivation • Hawaiian origin • Hebrew origin • Hungarian origin • Indian origin (Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu) • Indonesian origin • Irish origin • Irish • Italian origin • Japanese origin • Korean origin • Latin derivation • Malay origin • Maori origin • Native American origin • Norwegian origin • Old Norse origin • Persian origin • Polish origin • Portuguese origin • Romanian origin • Russian origin • Sami origin • Scots origin • Scottish origin • Scottish Gaelic origin • Serbo-Croatian origin • Slovak origin • Spanish origin • Swedish origin • Turkic origin • Ukrainian origin • Welsh origin • Yiddish origin
[edit] Spanish words of...
African origin • Austronesian origin • Basque/Iberian origin • Celtic origin • Chinese origin • Etruscan origin • French origin • Indigenous American Indian origin • Indo-Aryan origin • Iranian origin • Italic origin • Nahuatl origin • Semitic origin • Turkic origin • uncertain origin • various origins
[edit] Other origins
Ainu terms • Exported Arabic terms • Chinook Jargon • Christian terms in Arabic • Islamic terms in Arabic • Gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms • Japanese words of Dutch origin • Japanese words of Portuguese origin • Malay words of Tamil origin • Loan words in Indonesian • Loan words in Sri Lankan Tamil • Sinhala words of Dutch origin • Sinhala words of Portuguese origin • Sinhala words of Tamil origin • Sinhalese words of English Origin
[edit] Discrimination
List of anti-ethnic and anti-national terms • List of disability-related terms with negative connotations • Offensive terms per nationality
[edit]  Technology and applied sciences
Air pollution dispersion terminology • Blogging • Broadcasting • Computing and IT (Alternative terms for free software • Computer • Computer-related • Internet • Legal terms • Object-oriented programming • Unified Modeling Language) • Firefighting (Equipment • Wildland fires) • Library and information science • Machine vision • Metalworking terminology • Mobile phones • Nautical • Telephony • Textile manufacturing • Transport (Aviation, aerospace, and aeronautics • Automotive design • Rail (Passenger rail (NZ railfan • UK railfan • U.S. railfan))) • Woodworking (Joinery)
[edit] See also
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