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Glossary of baseball terms
Glossary of baseball terms: official rules vocabulary (strike zone, infield fly, fielder's choice), statistics (batting average, OPS+, wOBA, wRC+, save, blown save), and slang (walk-off, can of corn, southpaw), with origins and 2023-2025 rule and Statcast additions.
Glossary of basketball terms
Glossary of basketball terms: reference vocabulary of the game, covering FIBA and NBA court areas (elbow, wing, block), actions (pick and roll, give-and-go), fouls, goaltending, and stats; FIBA rules differ from NBA rules in game length, fouls, and three-point distance.
Glossary of BDSM
Glossary of BDSM: reference vocabulary of kink terminology, covering the acronym (bondage & discipline, dominance & submission, sadism & masochism), roles like dominant, submissive, and switch, and terms such as scene, safeword, SSC, RACK, aftercare, and munch.
Glossary of BitTorrent terms
A glossary of BitTorrent's vocabulary, drawn from the original protocol, its enhancement proposals, and tracker jargon, defining torrent files, swarms, seeds, leechers, trackers, DHT, magnet links, and choking.
Glossary of bowling
Glossary of bowling: the terminology of tenpin bowling, covering scoring marks (strike, spare, turkey, perfect game 300), pin leaves (split, baby split, bucket), and lane terms (pocket, Brooklyn, hook, gutter ball), with rule-based counts from PBA and USBC-style play.
Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States
A reference list of British terms not widely used in the United States, ranging from everyday words like flat and chips to slang like bloke and loo.
Glossary of carriage and driving terminology
A glossary of carriage and driving terminology is a reference vocabulary covering horse-drawn vehicles, parts, harness, and driving terms, consolidated in Berkebile's 1978 Smithsonian dictionary.
Glossary of civil engineering
A glossary of civil engineering is a controlled collection of defined terms used in the design, construction, and maintenance of built infrastructure, serving engineers, contractors, and lawyers.
Glossary of contract bridge terms
Glossary of contract bridge terms: reference vocabulary of the card game bridge, covering auction, contract, book, dummy, vulnerability, conventions such as Stayman, Blackwood, 0314/1430, takeout double, matchpoints, IMPs, and duplicate tournament terms.
Glossary of cue sports terms
A glossary of cue sports terms, also called a glossary of pool and billiards terms, defining the vocabulary of pool, carom billiards, and snooker, the three principal cue sport disciplines.
Glossary of curling
Glossary of curling: reference list of curling terms (sheet, house, hammer, hog line, take-out, bonspiel, Brier) from Curling Canada, USA Curling, and World Curling rules, including 2026 sweeping regulations.
Glossary of cycling
A glossary of cycling is a reference list of bicycle terms, spanning formal ISO standards like ISO 8090, enthusiast jargon, and French racing words such as peloton.
Glossary of dance moves
Glossary of dance moves: reference lists naming and defining steps and figures across styles, from ballet dictionaries and ballroom syllabi to bachata, breaking, Chinese dance terms, and computational movement vocabularies.
Glossary of darts
Glossary of darts: reference vocabulary of the sport, covering oche (2.37 m throwing line), ton, 180 maximum, bogey numbers, nine-darter, Big Fish 170, madhouse, bust, and equipment terms like barrel, shaft, and flight.
Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States
Early twentieth century American slang, roughly 1900-1920s coinages such as bunk, jitney, flapper, and hep, documented by Mencken's American Language, the 1926 Wise-crack dictionary, and later historical slang dictionaries.
Glossary of equestrian terms
Glossary of equestrian terms, also called Glossary of equestrianism, is a reference list of specialized vocabulary for horses, riding, and horse care, covering tack, gaits, and rider aids.
Glossary of French words and expressions in English
French loanwords and expressions in English: terms borrowed from French, especially after the Norman Conquest of 1066, spanning food (restaurant, à la carte), law, fashion, art, and untranslatable phrases such as déjà vu and carte blanche.
Glossary of golf
Glossary of golf: the specialized vocabulary of golf, including scoring terms (par, bogey, birdie, albatross), Rules of Golf terminology (penalty area, club-length), handicap terms, and match play terms like dormie and foursomes.
Glossary of Islam
The Glossary of Islam, also called a list of Islamic terms in Arabic, is a reference list of Arabic terms for Islamic belief, law, worship, and spirituality.
Glossary of leaf morphology
Glossary of leaf morphology is the set of technical terms botanists use to describe a leaf's shape, tip, base, margin, venation, and arrangement in plant descriptions and taxonomy.
Glossary of lichen terms
Glossary of lichen terms: specialized vocabulary for lichen identification, covering mycobiont and photobiont, thallus structure, growth forms (crustose, foliose, fruticose), apothecia, soredia, isidia, and TLC chemistry.
Glossary of literary terms
Glossary of literary terms: reference works defining the vocabulary of literary study, led by Abrams and Harpham's A Glossary of Literary Terms, Cuddon's dictionary, and Baldick's Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms.
Glossary of mathematical symbols
Glossary of mathematical symbols: a reference pairing signs such as +, =, ∫, ∀ with their meanings. Also called math notation reference. Covers symbol categories, origins from 3500 B.C. numerals to Recorde's 1557 equal sign and Leibniz's calculus notation, and Unicode/MathML encoding.
Glossary of military abbreviations
Glossary of military abbreviations: reference lists pairing acronyms, initialisms, and brevity codes with full terms, exemplified by the DoD Dictionary, NATO's AAP-15, and WWII naval and German glossaries.
Glossary of motorsport terms
Glossary of motorsport terms: cross-discipline vocabulary of motor racing, covering F1, IndyCar, WEC, WRC, MotoGP and drag racing. Includes understeer/oversteer, flags, safety car vs VSC vs FCY, tyre compounds, and 2026 F1 terms like Overtake Mode.
Glossary of music terminology
Glossary of music terminology: reference lists defining Italian, French, German, and Latin performance, form, and texture terms, from Tinctoris's 1475 dictionary to Grove, Harvard, and Oxford dictionaries.
Glossary of names for the British
Glossary of names for the British, also called alternative names for the British, covering terms from the formal demonym British to the nicknames limey and pom.
Glossary of Nazi Germany
Glossary of Nazi Germany: reference lexicon of Third Reich terms such as Endlösung, Sonderbehandlung, Gleichschaltung, Führer, and Lebensraum, their euphemistic meanings, and their postwar translation.
Glossary of poker terms
Glossary of poker terms: reference vocabulary of poker, also called poker jargon or lingo. Covers betting actions (all-in, check-raise), forced bets (ante, blinds), hand names (set, nuts), tournament terms (bubble, satellite), and strategy terms (equity, pot odds, SPR).
Glossary of psychiatry
Glossary of psychiatry: reference vocabulary of psychiatric diagnosis, centered on DSM (APA, 1952, now DSM-5-TR) and ICD (WHO, ICD-11), plus terms like nosology, mental status examination, residual categories, and RDoC.