Encyclopaedias and Dictionaries
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Updated: 05/02/16

Encyclopaedias

http://schools-wikipedia.org The moderated school version of Wikipedia

http://www.britannica.com Encyclopaedia Britannica - free

http://www.encyclopedia.com/ Encyclopaedia

Dictionaries and Thesaurus

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ Links to a dictionary for anything

http://www.dictionary.com/ Dictionary.com

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/ Oxford dictionaries

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Cambridge Dictionary

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dictionary.htm The Free Dictionary

http://www.freethesaurus.com/ The Free Thesaurus

http://www.merriam-webster.com/ Webster's dictionary & thesaurus

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ Visual Thesaurus

Dictionary Google search

Thesaurus Google search

Reference

http://www.vlib.org.uk/ The Virtual Library

http://www.bartleby.com/ Literature, reference and verse

http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/ Famous quotations from the above site

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ The Free Library, wealth of literary material

http://howstuffworks.com How things work

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ National Geographic

http://www.infoplease.com/ Millions of facts

http://www.ukphonebook.com/ Find a UK telephone number, address (You need to register, 5 free searches a day)

http://www.yell.com/ Yellow pages