Wikipedia:Contents/Glossaries

Wikipedia's contents: Glossaries

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.

General reference

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See: Lists of topics: Reference

"-graphies" (subjects ending in "graphy").
Library and information science

Culture and the arts

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Culture

Clothing • Flamenco • Owarai • Ancient Roman culture • Wine

Arts

Architecture (Classical) • Dance (Ballet • Belly dance • Country dance • Partner dance) • Glass art • Graffiti • Motion picture • Music (Bagpipes • Carnatic • Colombian • Italian (used in English) • 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

Board games • Chess (Computer chess • Problems) • Card games (Blackjack • 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

Magic and illusion • Notaphily • Numismatics

Geography and places

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Geography •

Flags • Medieval land terms • Terms for country subdivisions •

European Union

Health and fitness

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History and events

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History

• Archaeology • French Revolution • Japanese history • Nazi Germany • Ancient Roman culture • Weimar Republic • Wobbly lingo

Military

Military terminology • British ordnance • Abbreviations • Naval • German military

Human activities

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Underwater diving

Mathematics and logic

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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

Natural and physical sciences

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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)

People and self

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BDSM

• Graphonomics • Homosexuality

Philosophy and thinking

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Philosophy

Religion and belief systems

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Ancient Roman religion

• Buddhism • Christianity (Catholic Church) • Hinduism • Islam • Judaism • New Thought • Shinto • Sikhism

• Spirituality

Society and social sciences

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Business, politics, and law

Business • Corporate • Economics • Education • Journalism • Legal (Legal Latin terms) • Project management and consulting • UK mortgage • US mortgage • US politics

Languages and slang

Main list: Lists of English words

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 • 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

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

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...

Austronesian origin • 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

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Technology and applied sciences

Agriculture • Aerospace engineering • Air pollution dispersion terminology • Broadcasting • Engineering • Fuel cell terms • Firefighting (Firefighting equipment, Wildland fires) • Firelighting • Fisheries • Heating, ventilation, AC (HVAC) • Metalworking terminology • Microelectronics manufacturing • Mill machinery • Telephony • Textile manufacturing • Woodworking (Joinery)

Computing and information technology

Artificial intelligence • 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 • Internet (Internet slang, Blogging)

Transport

Automotive design • Aviation, aerospace, and aeronautics • Nautical • Rail (Passenger rail, UK railway terms, U.S. railway terms, NZ railway terms) • Road • U.S. trucking industry