Definition-based Reverse Dictionaries
(English)
- Bernstein, Theodore, Bernstein's Reverse Dictionary, Crown, New York, 1975.
- Edmonds, David (ed.), The Oxford Reverse Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999.
- Kahn, John, Reader's Digest Reverse Dictionary, Reader's Digest, London, 1989.
- http://onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml
- http://www.freescrabbledictionary.com/reverse-dictionary/
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