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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs (2006)
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altWith more entries than any other reference of its kind, McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs shows you how American English is spoken today. You will find commonly used phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, proverbial expressions, and clichйs. The dictionary contains more than 24,000 entries, each defined and followed by one or two example sentences. It also includes a Phrase-Finder Index with more than 60,000 entries.


notice that the book (edited in 2006) is different from the other ones by the same author on englishtips.org:
NTC's Thematic Dictionary of American Idioms (1998) , NTC`s American Idioms Dictionary

 
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The Pocket Oxford Dictionary
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The Pocket Oxford DictionaryThe Pocket Oxford Dictionary
Contains over 140.000 definitions.
The Pocket Oxford Dictionary program gives you instant access to an invaluable reference book directly from Windows.
 
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A Dictionary of Colour: A Lexicon of the Language of Colour
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A Dictionary of Colour: A Lexicon of the Language of Colour A Dictionary of Colour: A Lexicon of the Language of Colour
By Ian Paterson

This comprehensive resource explores every aspect of color and its many applications across the disciplines and through the ages. With more than 4,100 entries, this dictionary explores the language of color from historical, design, language, symbolic, literary, and commercial perspectives. Appendixes include adjectives of color, more than 1,000 colors arranged according to color groupings, and color phrases such as blue funk and scream blue murder. This unusual reference will appeal to writers, designers, artists and illustrators, art critics, decorators, and language enthusiasts.
 
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Pocket dictionaries
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Pocket dictionaries
Free downloads - Dictionaries (Microsoft reader – Lit )

Download the dictionaries on this page to add reference materials to your on-screen library.
Encarta, English-French, French-English, German - English, English-German, English-Italian, Italian-English, English-Spanish, Spanish-English.

 
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Англо-русский тематический словарь
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Англо-русский тематический словарь

Словарь содержит около 3500 слов английского языка, сгруппированных вокруг девяти тем, наиболее необходимых в устном общении. В тематических группах слова расположены по принципу употребительности; для удобства нахождения слов в конце словаря дан алфавитный указатель. Словарь будет полезен всем, кто активно изучает английский язык, стремится пополнить свой словарный запас.
 
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