The Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words

The Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words
Author: John Ayto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1998
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9781859862490

Most dictionaries are full of words that nobody looks up. The entries in this dictionary cover only the words that are frequently misspelt, misused, misunderstood, mispronounced or that are genuinely obscure.

The Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words

The Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words
Author: Archie Hobson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195173287

"Features more than 10,000 entries that focus exclusively on words that, while outside most people's working vocabulary, are often encountered in literature, in technical writings such as computing or medical terminology, and in such diverse subject areas as law, philosophy, and art. Special attention is given to easily confused or closely related words. Usage notes are provided to ensure that readers know how to integrate these words into their vocabularies for more precision and power in speech and writing."--Back cover.

The Dictionary of Difficult Words

The Dictionary of Difficult Words
Author: Jane Solomon
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1786038110

รข??What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.

A Dictionary of Difficult Words

A Dictionary of Difficult Words
Author:
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1990
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780517694145

Dendral? Lampadedromy? Here are more than 15,000 definitions of all the difficult and unusual words the reader is likely to encounter. Including foreign words and terms from the sciences and technology, this reference is invaluable to students, writers, puzzle solvers, and the general reader.