Welcome to the expanded and updated Descriptionary. This fourth edition includes some extremely interesting and useful new categories, such as Anthropology and Archaeology, Brain, Chemistry, Dinosaurs, Evolution, Fishing, Gems, Jewelry, Prison Slang, Rocks and Gems, Sleep, Surfing, and Torture and Punishment, to name a few.
It has also greatly broadened its lists of terms related to farming, finance, geology, Internet, meteorology, occult, psychology, and politics, among others. As in the last edition, the end of the book features the vocabulary builder, Words You Should Know, which contains more than 1,050 words and expressions every articulate person should know.

Why use Descriptionary?

Descriptionary provides indispensable glossaries of terms to help you define and  describe a subject you are writing about, be it cathedrals or castles, the stock market or stock cars. Consult Descriptionary whenever you are tempted to use words such as watchamacallit, thingamajig, or doohickey or whenever you are at a loss for a
precise term.

Let’s say, for example, you need the word for a sharp, steely descending peak, but you just cannot seem to bring the word to mind. Consult the standard dictionary and you will confront the age-old question of how to look up a word when you do not know what the word is. The answer is, you cannot—not with a standard dictionary,
anyway. Nor will a thesaurus offer much help.
A thesaurus lists the synonyms of mountains, not the components of mountains. Enter Descriptionary to find the word you are looking for: matterhorn. This book lists not only definitions and synonyms, but also all the technically accurate words used in describing a mountain—words like cairn, cordillera, couloir, Krummholz zone, ridgeback, saddle, scree, and sierra, to name just a few.