This electronic edition of the world-famous Concise Oxford English Dictionary provides an authoritative, up-to-the-minute description of the English language. The dictionary offers rich vocabulary coverage, with full treatment of World English, rare, historical and archaic terms, as well as scientific and technical vocabulary and provides hundreds of helpful notes on grammar and usage. The Concise Oxford Thesaurus provides comprehensive lists of alternative and opposite words for a range of contexts. Thousands of example phrases help you select the correct word or sense, while clear labelling of informal, literary or technical items and regional usage ensures you select the appropriate level. Over 400 supplementary entries list everything from alloys and artists to wines and worms.

• Dictionary – High speed search of over 240,000 words, phrases & definitions.
• Thesaurus – High speed search of over 4 million synonym links.
• Spellchecker – Instant phonetic spell correction for over 130,000 words.
• Crossword Solver – Enables you to complete those hard to finish crosswords.
• Anagram/ Jumble Solver – Type a word or a jumble letters and the solver will build a list of as many valid words as possible.
• Word Maker – Enter words or jumbled letters and make a list of all possible words.
• Abbreviation Solver – Allows you to search the abbreviation database to “decode” over 10,000 common abbreviations.
• Letter Changer – Enter a word; view a list of possible alternative words by changing one letter at a time.
• Phrase Finder – Searches for phrases using the word entered.
• Definition Search – Searches for entries containing the entered words.
• Knowledge Finder – Searches across all 256 thematic lists.
• 9 word games – with 2 skill levels to build your vocabulary.
• Easy-Learn – Allows you to create your own word list from the Dictionary, Thesaurus and spellchecker.
• Calculator – with memory & percent.
• 190 metric/ imperial & currency converters.
• Meets GCSE and National Curriculum needs.