Basic Reference
DK Findout
Dorling Kindersley's fun, interactive site with information about animals and nature, dinosaurs, math, history, the human body and more! Includes quizzes, videos and fun facts.
American Sign Language Browser
Behind the Name
the etymology and history of first names
Factmonster
(Information Please) Atlas, almanac, dictionary and encyclopedia
Yahoo Translation Site
(Babel Fish Translation)
Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary
Visual Thesauras
an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.
Visuwords - graphical dictionary
VocabGrabber
copy text from any document into the box and VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.