Wikipedia's contents: Glossaries

A glossary is a list of specialised or technical words with their meanings. Listed below are many glossaries supporting a wide range of subjects. See also Category:Wikipedia glossaries. Also try our sister project Wiktionary.

General reference

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Culture and the arts

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Culture

ClothingFlamencoOwaraiAncient Roman cultureWine

Arts

Architecture (Classical) • Dance (BalletBelly danceCountry dancePartner dance) • Glass artGraffitiMotion pictureMusic (BagpipesCarnaticColombianItalian (used in English) • GuitarJazz and popular music) • Pottery and ceramicsSculptureTextile arts (DyeingSewing) • Theater

Fiction and literature

Anime and mangaDuneJabberwockyLiterary termsNewspeak wordsPoetry (Groups and movements)

Games

Board gamesChess (Computer chessProblems) • Card games (BlackjackContract bridgePatience (Solitaire)Poker) • Go openingPinballRole-playing gamesSudokuVideo games

Sports

American footballArcheryAssociation footballAustralian and New Zealand puntingAustralian rules footballBaseballBasketballBowlingBowlsCanadian footballClimbingCricketCue sports (pool, carom billiards, snooker)CurlingCycling (Parts) • DartsEquestrianismFencingFigure skatingGaelic gamesGolfGymnasticsIce hockeyNorth American horse racingMotorcyclingMotorsportRowingRugby leagueRugby unionSCUBA and underwater divingSkiing and snowboardingSports terms named after peopleSumo wrestlingSurfingTable tennisTennisTrampoliningVolleyballWater poloWing ChunWrestling

Collecting and hobbies

Magic and illusionNotaphilyNumismatics

Geography and places

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Health and fitness

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History and events

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Human activities

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Mathematics and logic

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Natural and physical sciences

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People and self

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Philosophy and thinking

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Religion and belief systems

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Society and social sciences

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Business, politics, and law

BusinessCorporateEconomicsEducationJournalismLegal (Legal Latin terms) • Project management and consultingUK mortgageUS mortgageUS politics

Languages and slang

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Quebec FrenchLanguage teaching terms and ideasRhetorical termsAlternative words for BritishGreek words for loveCase-sensitive English wordsChicano Caló words and expressionsDacian wordsEnglish words containing Q not followed by UEnglish words with disputed usageFrench words of Arabic originFrequently misused English wordsReplaced loan words in TurkishSelf-contradicting words in EnglishLongest English words with one syllableWords derived from toponymsWords having different meanings in British and American EnglishWords that may be spelled with a ligatureWords without vowel letters

Slang

Slang for police officersPuerto Rican slangSouth African slangWobbly lingo

English dialects

American words not widely used in the United KingdomAustralian English terms for food and drinkAustralian English terms for peopleBritish words not widely used in the United StatesNew Zealand English and Māori

English words of...

African originAfrikaans originArabic originAustralian Aboriginal originCeltic originChinese originCzech originDutch originEtruscan originFinnish originFrench originFrench expressionsGerman expressionsGerman loan wordsGerman originGermanic and Latinate equivalentsGreek derivationHawaiian originHebrew originHungarian originIndian origin (Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu) • Indonesian originIrish originIrishJapanese originKorean originLatin derivationMalay originMaori originNative American originNorwegian originOld Norse originPersian originPolish originPortuguese originRomanian originRussian originSami originScots originScottish originScottish Gaelic originSpanish originSwedish originTurkic originUkrainian originWelsh originYiddish origin

Spanish words of...

Austronesian originBasque/Iberian originCeltic originChinese originFrench originIndigenous American Indian originIndo-Aryan originNahuatl originSemitic originTurkic originuncertain originvarious origins

Other origins

Exported Arabic termsChinook JargonChristian terms in ArabicIslamic terms in ArabicGairaigo and wasei-eigo termsJapanese words of Dutch originJapanese words of Portuguese originLoan words in IndonesianLoan words in Sri Lankan TamilSinhala words of Dutch originSinhala words of Portuguese originSinhala words of Tamil originSinhalese words of English Origin

Discrimination

List of disability-related terms with negative connotationsOffensive terms per nationality

Technology and applied sciences

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