Paul Beaufait's List: Online Dictionaries

Thanks to Yuly for pointing out this powerful toolkit allowing wildcard searches and including a reverse dictionary. OneLook contains "19,044,271 words in 1062 dictionaries indexed" (home page, bottom line, 2011.01.28). It sub-divides long lists of hits into categories: "General, Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Slang, Sports, Tech, [and] Phrases."

"This is the front page of the Simple English Wikipedia. Wikipedias are places where people work together to write encyclopedias in different languages. We use simple English words and grammar here. The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone! That includes children and adults who are learning English." (About Wikipedia, ¶1)

Dictionary of phrases comprising categorical lists for Biblical, Sailor's, and Shakespearean lingo

"basic tran[s]lator that can handle several languages simultaneously. Looks good but as with any basic translators, not very reliable for more than single words" (Isabelle Jones).

If you become an EJOD member, you apparently get access to twice as many words: "Free version (2006 version) contains about 10,000 words. Member version (2008 version) contains about 20,000 words" (Free Search English-Japanese Online Dictionary, ¶1).\n\nSite also notes plans to branch out into polite language, and cultural topics (Future Projects)