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 (see in all page types)
- "-graphies" (subjects ending in "graphy").
- Library and information science
Culture and the arts (see in all page types)
Culture
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
Geography and places (see in all page types)
Health and fitness (see in all page types)
History and events (see in all page types)
Archaeology • Flags • French Revolution • Japanese history • Nazi Germany • UK local history • Weimar Republic • Wobbly lingo
Military
Human activities (see in all page types)
Mathematics and logic (see in all page types)
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 • 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 (see in all page types)
Biological sciences
Biology • Botany (Phytopathology • Plant morphology) • Dinosaur anatomy • Ecology (Invasion biology) • Entomology • Environmental science • Equestrian terms • Evolutionary biology • Genetics • Ichthyology • Ornithology • Scientific naming (Latin and Greek systematic names) • Virology
Physical sciences
People and self (see in all page types)
Philosophy and thinking (see in all page types)
Religion and belief systems (see in all page types)
Society and social sciences (see in all page types)
Corporate • Economics • Education • Law enforcement • Legal (Legal Latin terms) • UK mortgage • US Mortgage
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 • Plain English words and phrases • 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 • Serbo-Croatian origin • Slovak 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 • Etruscan 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
Technology and applied sciences (see in all page types)
Technology and applied sciences
Agriculture • Aerospace engineering • Broadcasting • Telephony • Engineering • Fuel cell terms • Air pollution dispersion terminology • Heating, ventilation, AC (HVAC) • Firefighting (Firefighting equipment, Wildland fires) • Firelighting • Fisheries • Metalworking terminology • Mill machinery • Woodworking (Joinery) • Textile manufacturing
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