Bibliography
Dictionaries
General
Abbreviations. New York (NY): Oxford University Press; 2013. http://public.oed.com/how-to-use-the-oed/abbreviations/.
The American heritage abbreviations dictionary. 3rd ed., updated. Boston (MA): Houghton Mifflin; c2007.
The American heritage dictionary. 5th ed. Boston (MA): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; c2011. http://ahdictionary.com/.
Cambridge essential English dictionary. 2nd ed. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press; 2004. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/essential-british-english/.
The Chambers dictionary. 11th ed. Edinburgh (Scotland): Chambers; c2008.
Cohen SB, editor. The Columbia gazetteer of the world. New York (NY): Columbia University Press; 1998. http://www.columbiagazetteer.org.
Cowie AP, Mackin R. Oxford dictionary of current idiomatic English. Vol. 1, Verbs with prepositions and particles. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 1975.
Cowie AP, Mackin R, McCaig IR. Oxford dictionary of current idiomatic English. Vol. 2, Phrase, clause and sentence idioms. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 1983.
Lindberg CA, compiler. The Oxford American writer’s thesaurus. 3rd ed. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 2012.
Longman dictionary of contemporary English. New York (NY): Pearson ELT; 2003. http://www.ldoceonline.com/.
Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary. 11th ed. Springfield (MA): Merriam-Webster, Inc.; 2003.
Merriam-Webster’s geographical dictionary. 3rd ed., revised and updated. Springfield (MA): Merriam-Webster; c2007.
Pearsall J, Trumble B, editors. The Oxford English reference dictionary. 2nd ed, revised and updated. New York (NY): Oxford University Press; 2003.
Random House unabridged dictionary. 2nd ed. New York (NY): Random House; 1993.
Soanes C, Stevenson A, editors. Concise Oxford English dictionary. 11th ed., revised. New York (NY): Oxford University Press; 2008.
Stahl D, Kerchelich K. Abbreviations dictionary. 10th ed. Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press; 2001. Originated by Ralph De Sola.
Trumble WR, Stevenson A, editors. Shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles. 5th ed. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 2002.
Ritter RM, compiler and editor. The Oxford dictionary for writers and editors. 2nd ed. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 2000.
General Science
The American heritage science dictionary. Boston (MA): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; c2011.
Clugston MJ, editor. The new Penguin dictionary of science. 3rd ed. New York (NY): Penguin Books; 2009.
Collin SMH. Dictionary of science and technology. London (UK): Bloomsbury; 2003.
Collins dictionary of science. Glasgow (Scotland): HarperCollins Publishers; 2005.
Fenna D. A dictionary of weights, measures, and units. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 2002.
Jerrard HG, McNeil DB. A dictionary of scientific units: including dimensionless numbers and scales. 6th ed. New York (NY): Chapman & Hall; 1992.
McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms. 6th ed. New York (NY): McGraw-Hill; c2003.
Random House concise dictionary of science & computers. New York (NY): Random House Reference; c2004.
Wildi T. Metric units and conversion charts: a metrication handbook for engineers, technologists, and scientists. 2nd ed. New York (NY): IEEE Press; c1996.
Biology and Medicine
Dorland’s illustrated medical dictionary. 29th ed. London (UK): W.B. Saunders; 2000.
Hale WG, Saunders VA, Margham JP. Dictionary of biology. New ed. Glasgow (Scotland): HarperCollins; 2003.
Hine R, editor. The Facts On File dictionary of biology. 4th ed. New York (NY): Facts On File; 2005.
Hine R, Martin E, eds. A dictionary of biology. 5th ed. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 2004.
Konstantinidis G, compiler. Elsevier’s dictionary of medicine and biology: in English, Greek, German, Italian, and Latin. Boston (MA): Elsevier; 2005.
Lawrence E, editor. Henderson’s dictionary of biology. 15th ed. New York (NY): Pearson; 2011.
Thain M, Hickman M. The Penguin dictionary of biology. 11th ed. New York (NY): Penguin Books; 2004.
Stedman’s abbrev: abbreviations, acronyms & symbols. 3rd ed. Baltimore (MD): Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2003.
Stedman’s medical dictionary. 28th ed. Philadelphia (PA): Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; c2005.
Stedman’s medical dictionary for the health professions and nursing. Illus. 7th ed. Philadelphia (PA): Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2011.
Tsur SA, compiler. Elsevier’s dictionary of abbreviations, acronyms, synonyms, and symbols used in medicine. 2nd enl. ed. Amsterdam (Netherlands): Elsevier; 2004.
Chemistry
Daintith J, editor. A dictionary of chemistry. 6th ed. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 2008.
Daintith J, editor. The Facts On File dictionary of chemistry. 4th ed. New York (NY): Facts On File; 2005.
Lewis RJ Sr, reviser. Hawley’s condensed chemical dictionary. 15th ed. New York (NY): Wiley; c2007.
McGraw-Hill dictionary of chemistry. 2nd ed. New York (NY): McGraw-Hill; c2003.
Engineering
ASTM dictionary of engineering science & technology. 10th ed. West Conshohocken (PA): ASTM International; 2005. Sponsored by ASTM Committee E02 on Terminology.
Bignami M, compiler. Elsevier’s dictionary of engineering: in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese/Brazilian. Amsterdam (Netherlands): Elsevier; 2004.
Laplante PA, editor. Dictionary of computer science, engineering, and technology. Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press; c2001.
McGraw-Hill dictionary of engineering. 2nd ed. New York (NY): McGraw-Hill; c2003.
Timings RL, Twigg P. The pocket illustrated dictionary of engineering terms. Boston (MA): Butterworth Heinemann; 2001.
Geology
Lapidus DF. Collins dictionary geology. New ed. rev. MacDonald J, Burton C, revisers. Glasgow (Scotland): HarperCollins; 2003.
McGraw-Hill dictionary of geology and mineralogy. 2nd ed. New York (NY): McGraw-Hill; c2003.
Mathematics
Clapham C. The concise Oxford dictionary of mathematics. 4th ed. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 2009.
Daintith J, Clark J, editors. The Facts On File dictionary of mathematics. 4th ed. New York (NY): Facts on File; 2005.
McGraw-Hill dictionary of mathematics. 2nd ed. New York (NY): McGraw-Hill; c2003.
Nelson D, editor. The Penguin dictionary of mathematics. 4th ed. New York (NY): Penguin Books; 2008.
Physics
Daintith J, Rennie R, editors. The Facts On File dictionary of physics. 4th ed. New York (NY): Facts On File; c2005.
Dictionary of physics. Basingstoke (UK): Palgrave Macmillan; 2004. An updated translation of the Lexicon der Physik, published in German.
A dictionary of physics. 6th ed. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 2012.
McGraw-Hill dictionary of physics. 3rd ed. New York (NY): McGraw-Hill; c2003.