Wikipedia:Contents/Glossaries
Wikipedia's contents: Glossaries
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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:Wikipedia glossaries. Also try our sister project Wiktionary.
- See: Lists of topics: Reference
- "-graphies"(subjects ending in "graphy").
- Library and information science
Culture
Clothing • Flamenco • Owarai • Ancient Roman culture • Wine
Arts
Architecture
(Classical
)
• Dance
()
• Glass art
• Graffiti
• Motion picture
• Guitar • Jazz and popular music
)
• Pottery and ceramics
• Sculpture
• Textile arts (Dyeing • Sewing)
• Theater
Fiction and literature
Anime and manga
• Dune
• Jabberwocky
• Literary terms
• Newspeak words
• Poetry (Groups and movements)
Games
Chess (Computer chess • Problems
)
• Contract bridge • Patience (Solitaire) • Poker
)
• Go opening
• Pinball
• Role-playing games
• Sudoku
• Video games
Sports
American football
• Archery
• Association football
• Australian and New Zealand punting
• Australian rules football
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bowling
• Bowls
• Canadian football
• Climbing
• Cricket
• Cue sports (pool, carom billiards, snooker)
• Curling
• Cycling (Parts
)
• Darts
• Equestrianism
• Fencing
• Figure skating
• Gaelic games
• Golf
• Gymnastics
• Ice hockey
• North American horse racing
• Motorcycling
• Motorsport
• Rowing
• Rugby league
• Rugby union
• SCUBA and underwater diving
• Skiing and snowboarding
• Sports terms named after people
• Sumo wrestling
• Surfing
• Table tennis
• Tennis
• Trampolining
• Volleyball
• Water polo
• Wing Chun
• Wrestling
Collecting and hobbies
- Alternative medicine
- Anatomy
- Communication disorders
- Diabetes
- Acronyms in healthcare
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Clinical research
History
• Archaeology • French Revolution • Japanese history • Nazi Germany • Ancient Roman culture • Weimar Republic •
Wobbly lingo
Military
Algorithms and data structures
• Areas of mathematics • Arithmetic and Diophantine geometry • Calculus • Category theory • Cryptographic key types • Differential geometry and topology (Topology) • Field theory • Game theory •
Graph theory
• Group theory
• Mathematical jargon
• Mathematical symbols
• Linear algebra
• Order theory
• Probability and statistics
• Riemannian and metric geometry
• Ring theory
• Scheme theory
• Semisimple groups
• Shapes with metaphorical names
• Tensor theory
Biological sciences
Biology • Botany (Phytopathology • Plant morphology) • Dinosaur anatomy • Ecology (Invasion biology) • Entomology • Environmental science • Equestrian terms •
Evolutionary biology
•
Genetics
•
Lichens •
Ichthyology
•
Ornithology •
Scientific naming (Latin and Greek systematic names) •
Virology
Physical sciences
Astronomy (Meteoritics) •
Chemistry
•
Climate change •
Geography
•
Geology
•
Meteorology (Severe weather terminology) •
Physics (Quantum mechanics (elementary) • String theory)
Ancient Roman religion
• Buddhism • Christianity (Catholic Church) •
Hinduism
• Islam
• Judaism
• New Thought
• Shinto
• Sikhism
• Spirituality
Business, politics, and law
Business • Corporate • Economics •
Education
• Journalism
• Legal Latin terms
)
• Project management and consulting
• UK mortgage
• US mortgage
• US politics
Languages and slang
- Main list: Lists of English words
Language teaching terms and ideas
• Rhetorical terms
• Alternative words for British
• Greek words for love
• Case-sensitive English words
• Chicano Caló words and expressions
• Dacian words
• English words containing Q not followed by U
• English words with disputed usage
• French words of Arabic origin
• Frequently misused English words
• 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 that may be spelled with a ligature
• Words without vowel letters
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
• French expressions
• 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
• 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
• Spanish origin
• Swedish origin
• Turkic origin
• Ukrainian origin
• Welsh origin
• Yiddish origin
Spanish words of...
Basque/Iberian origin
• Celtic origin
• Chinese origin
• French origin
• Indigenous American Indian origin
• Indo-Aryan origin
• Nahuatl origin
• Semitic origin
• Turkic origin
• uncertain origin
• various origins
Other origins
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
• 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 disability-related terms with negative connotations •
Offensive terms per nationality
Technology and applied sciences
Agriculture • Aerospace engineering •
Air pollution dispersion terminology
• Broadcasting
• Engineering
• Fuel cell terms
• Wildland fires
)
• Firelighting
• Fisheries
• Heating, ventilation, AC (HVAC)
• Metalworking terminology
• Microelectronics manufacturing
• Mill machinery
• Telephony
• Textile manufacturing
• Joinery
)
Computing and information technology
Computer
• Computer science
• Computing and IT
• Computing and IT abbreviations
• Algorithms and data structures
• Alternative terms for free software
• Object-oriented programming
• Unified Modeling Language
• Machine vision
• Blogging
)
Transport
Automotive design
• Aviation, aerospace, and aeronautics
• Nautical
• NZ railway terms
)
• Road
• U.S. trucking industry