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Wikipedia's contents: List of glossaries

General reference
Culture and the arts
Geography and places
Health and fitness

History and events
Mathematics and logic
Natural and physical sciences
People and self

Philosophy and thinking
Religion and belief systems
Society and social sciences
Technology and applied sciences

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. Also try our sister project Wiktionary.

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General reference

See: Lists of topics: Reference

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Culture and the arts

Culture

Clothing • Conjuring • Graphonomics • Notaphily • Numismatics • Owarai • Wine

Arts

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

Fiction

Anime and manga (GaoGaiGar • InuYasha • Neon Genesis Evangelion • X) • Animorphs (Andalite terminology • Hork-Bajir terminology) • Boats of the "Glen Carrig" • The Dark Tower • Dune • Fan fiction • His Dark Materials • Historical Fiction • Jabberwocky • Krypton • Literary terms • Newspeak words • The Simpsons • Transformers

Games

Chess (Problems) • Computer games (Final Fantasy VII • Xenosaga) • Contract bridge • Darts • Game theory • Go opening • Pinball • Poker • Role-playing games • Sudoku • Solitaire

Sport

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 • Rowing • Rugby league • Rugby union • SCUBA • Sports terms named after people • Sumo wrestling • Table tennis • Tennis • Trampolining • Volleyball • Water polo • Wing Chun • Wrestling

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Geography and places

Medieval land terms • Terms for country subdivisions

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Health and fitness

Alternative medicine • Anatomy (Location, Motion) • Ayurveda • Cell biology • Communication disorders • Diabetes • Acronyms in healthcare • Medical terminology (Roots, suffixes and prefixes • Medical slang • Abbreviations • Prescription abbreviations) • Oncology • Psychiatry

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History and events

Flags • French Revolution • Japanese history • Netherlands politics • Rwandan Genocide • September 11, 2001 attack • Third Reich • UK local history • Weimare Republic

Military

Military terminology • British ordnance • Established military terms • Modern AFV and artillery • Modern infantry • Naval • WWII German military

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Mathematics and logic

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 metric geometry • Ring theory • Scheme theory • Semisimple groups • Shapes with metaphorical names • Tensor theory

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Natural and physical sciences

Biological science

Butterflies • Invasion biology • Gene Expression • Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms

Physical science

Classical physics • Climate change • Ichthyology • Severe weather terminology (United States) • Glossary of Chemistry

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People and self

Philosophy and thinking

Heidegger • Philosophical isms

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Religion and belief systems

Buddhism • Christian • Jewish • Hinduism • Islam • Spirituality

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Society and social sciences

Corporate • Education • Indian economy • Law enforcement • Numismatics • UK mortgage • US Mortgage • BDSM • Homosexuality

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 • 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 without vowel letters • Most common words in Esperanto

Slang

Slang for police officers • Puerto Rican slang • South African slang

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

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

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

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

Discrimination

List of anti-ethnic and anti-national terms • List of disability-related terms with negative connotations • Offensive terms per nationality

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Technology and applied sciences

Air pollution dispersion terminology • Blogging • Broadcasting • Computing and IT

(Alternative terms for free software • Computer • Internet • Legal terms • Object-oriented programming • Unified Modeling Language) • Firefighting (Equipment • Wildland fires) • Library and information science • Machine vision • Metalworking terminology • Mill machinery • 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) • Winemaking

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Portal:Contents/List of glossaries

Wikipedia's contents: List of glossaries

General reference

Culture and the arts

Geography and places

Health and fitness

History and events

Mathematics and logic

Natural and physical sciences

People and self

Philosophy and thinking

Religion and belief systems

Society and social sciences

Technology and applied sciences