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• 130-lb.-plus ref.
• 20-vol. lexicon
• 20-vol. reference work
• 20-vol. reference
• 20-vol. work
• 20-volume ref. set
• 20-volume ref. work
• 20-volume ref.
• 21,728-pg. work that is constantly updated
• A heart symbol, meaning "love," was its first graphical entry, for short
• A ref. book
• A-to-zed ref.
• Acronym for a world class dictionary
• Big Brit. reference
• Big ref. for word lovers
• Big ref. work
• Big ref.
• Big reference bk.
• Big U.K. lexicon
• Big word ref.
• Authoritative ref.
• Bks. with millions of quotations
• Book that tells you the meaning of "life": Abbr.
• Book whose second edition was 21,728 pages, briefly
• Famed British ref.
• Famed English dictionary, abbr.
• Famed multivolume ref. wk.
• Compendious ref.
• Competitor of Chambers, for short
• Certain ref. work
• Definitive def. source
• Definitive source for linguists: Abbr.
• Champs' prize on the UK game show "Countdown"
• It added "brr-brr" in 2016
• It added "e-waste" in 2020
• It added "YouTuber" in 2016
• It comes in many vols.
• Brit. lexicon
• Brit. library ref.
• Brit. ref. book
• Brit. ref. work
• Brit. reference bk.
• Brit. reference book
• Brit. reference set
• Brit. reference that added "uplink" in 2013
• Brit. reference that recently added the word "phablet"
• Brit. reference tome
• Brit. reference work
• Brit. reference
• Brit. resource for wordsmiths
• Brit. resource for writers
• Brit. word authority
• Brit word bk.
• Brit. word book
• Brit. word ref
• Brit. word reference
• It ends with "zyzzyva," in brief
• British lexicon (Abbr.)
• British / lexicon, / in brief
• British multivolume set (Abbr.)
• British ref. book
• British ref. for wordsmiths
• British ref. set
• British ref. work
• British ref.
• British reference that added the entry "super PAC" in 2012: Abbr.
• British word bk.
• It has around 600,000 defs.
• It has hundreds of thousands of meanings: Abbr.
• It has included a heart symbol since 2011, in brief
• It may fill a lib. shelf
• "Half-caf" was added to it in 2012
• Gargantuan Brit. lexicon
• Dict. published in England
• Dict. with over 600,000 words
• It took 70 years to complete, in brief
• Huge ref. set
• Huge ref. work
• Huge reference: Abbr.
• Huge reference from the U.K.
• Humongous ref.
• Its 1971 ed. came with a magnifying glass
• Its 1989 edition weighed about 138 lbs.
• Its 2019 Word of the Year was "climate emergency" (Abbr.)
• Eng. lexicon
• Its "concise" version has almost 1,700 pages: Abbr.
• Its "Concise" version has more than 1,700 pgs.
• Its first complete ed. was published in 1928
• Its first vol., A-Ant, was published in 1884
• Its first vol. covered A to Ant
• Its first vol. was published in 1884
• It's had OMG since 2011
• Its Jan. 2018 additions include "hangry" and "mansplain"
• Its Jun. 2019 additions include "bae" and "yeesh"
• Its last word is "zyxt": Abbr.
• Citation-filled ref.
• Enormous ref. work
• Distinguished dict.
• Its second ed. contains about 59 million words
• Its third edition is scheduled to be finished in 2037: Abbr.
• Its Vol. XVI is "Soot-Styx"
• Gigantic ref. work
• Classic ref. work
• Classic work originally in 10 vols.
• Classic work whose "shorter" version comes in two vols.
• James Murray work: Abbr.
• Etymologist's ref.
• Clickbait site, as of Sep. 2016
• "Clickbait" was added to it in Sep. 2016
• Heavy Brit. reference set
• Heavy ref. work
• Heavy ref.
• Hefty lexical ref.
• Hefty ref.
• Hefty reference: Abbr.
• Exhaustive ref.
• Exhaustive word ref.
• Expensive ref. work
• Expensive ref.
• J.R.R. Tolkien did some research for it
• Noted Brit lexicon
• Orthographer's ref.
• Noted publication of 1933, for short
• Noted ref. book
• Noted ref. work
• Pub. with over 300,000 entries
• Set of Brit. tomes
• Publication whose first ed. took more than 70 years to complete
• "Mansplain" was added to it in Jan. 2018
• Venerable British ref. set
• Venerable lexicon: Abbr.
• Venerable ref. book
• Venerable ref. set
• Venerable ref. work
• Venerable ref.
• Venerable reference book from the UK
• Venerable reference wk.
• Many-vol. lexicon
• Shak. is its most-quoted writer
• The "definitive record of the English language"
• Shelf-filling bks.
• Shelf-filling ref. work
• Multi-vol. Brit. ref.
• Multi-vol. lexicon
• Multi-vol. reference set
• Multi-volume ref. work
• Multi-volume ref.
• Multi-volume word ref.
• Multivolume Brit. reference
• Multivolume lex.
• Multivolume ref. work
• Multivolume ref.
• Multivolume set, for short
• Massive Brit. lexicon
• Massive Brit. reference
• Massive lang. reference
• Massive ref. bk.
• Massive ref. work
• Massive ref.
• Massive reference, for short
• Massive resource: Abbr.
• Massive-sized Brit. lexicon
• Subj. of Simon Winchester's "The Meaning of Everything"
• Subj. of the 2003 book "The Meaning of Everything"
• Subj. of the book "The Meaning of Everything"
• Subj. of the book "Treasure-House of the Language"
• Subj. of "The Professor and the Madman"
• Masterwork in philology, for short
• "The Meaning of Everything" subject: Abbr.
• Subject of the book "The Meaning of Everything," briefly
• Of which A-Ant was pub. in Jan. 1884
• Voluminous British lexicological work (abbr.)
• Voluminous lexicological work (abbr.)
• Voluminous lexicological work: Abbr.
• Voluminous ref.
• Voluminous ref. set
• Voluminous ref. work
• “The Professor and the Madman” subj.
• "The Professor and the Madman" subj.
• "The Professor and the Madman" topic, for short
• Oft-cited ref. book
• Often-cited ref.
• Wk. that begins with "A-Bazouki"
• Lit. giant?
• Large Brit. reference
• Large British ref. book
• Large ref. book
• "Reading the ___" (2008 book subtitled "One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages")
• "Reading the ___: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages" (2008 book)
• "Latin@" was added to it in Mar. 2019
• Ref. book that comes with a magnifying glass
• Ref. book that will probably never be printed again
• Ref. book whose first edition took 68 years to complete
• Ref. book whose last print edition came out in 1989
• Ref. book
• Ref. conceived of in 1857 by London's Philological Society
• Ref. for Anglophones
• Ref. for wordsmiths
• Ref. last published in 1989
• Ref. of note
• Ref. room offering
• Ref. section staple
• Ref. set
• Ref. shelf filler
• Ref. staple that used to come with a magnifying glass
• Ref. staple
• Ref. that added "binge-watch" in 2018
• Ref. that added "cruciverbalist" (a person who does crosswords) in 2006
• Ref. that added "safe space" in 2020
• Ref. that added the word "anally" in 2010
• Ref. that added "xoxo" in 2019
• Ref. that has a zed section
• Ref. that includes ROFL as of 2016
• Ref. that recently added "locavore" and "phablet"
• Ref. that recently added the word "hoverboard"
• Ref. that took 70 years to complete
• Ref. that uses British headword spellings
• Ref. that's been online since 2000
• Ref. that's gone through two editions in 125 years
• Ref. tome
• Ref. updated quarterly
• Ref. which added "starter marriage" and "starchitect" in 2016
• Ref. whose 2015 Word of the Year is the "Face With Tears of Joy" emoji
• Ref. whose first edition took decades to complete
• Ref. whose last entry is "zyxt"
• Ref. whose recent updates include "chillax" and "whatev"
• Ref. with 20 volumes
• Ref. with about 22,000 pages
• Ref. with about 600,000 word-forms
• Ref. with more than 2 1/2 million quotations
• Ref. with no proper nouns in its earliest edition
• Ref. with no substitute
• Ref. with quarterly online updates
• Ref. work begun by the London Philological Society
• Ref. work chronicled in "The Professor and the Madman"
• Ref. work featured in "The Professor and the Madman"
• Ref. work in which the verb "set" has a 60,000-word entry
• Ref. work that spans 21,730 pages
• Ref. work that took 70 years to complete
• Ref. work whose 2018 Word of the Year is "toxic"
• Ref. work whose Compact Edition is sold with a magnifying glass
• Ref. work with more than 300,000 entries
• Ref. work with online subscriptions
• Ref. work with over 45,000 obsolete words
• Ref. work
• Reference book: Abbr.
• Reference volume from the UK
• Reference where you might find out that a philobat is used in psychoanalysis for a person who enjoys the challenge of coping alone with dangerous situations
• Reference wk. that added "YOLO" in 2016
• Online ref. since 2000
• Lexical ref.
• Lexicographer's ref.
• Lexicographic behemoth, for short
• Lexicographical authority
• Lexicon from a British uni
• Lexicon with 600,000+ wds.
• Lexicon with many citations: Abbr.
• Lib. reference
• Library ref.
• Respected ref. book
• Respected ref. work
• Philologist's ref.
• Philologists' work, for short
• Major ref. set
• Major ref. work
• Monument of lexicography, for short
• Source with 600,000 words
• Word-lover's ref. book
• Word ref. started in 1857
• Twenty-vol. reference
• Twenty-volume ref. for writers
• Twenty-volume ref. work
• "Webspace" was added to it in Jun. 2017
• Webster's relative, for short
• Webster's Third competitor, for short
• Weighty ref. work
• Wordsmith's ref.
• Wordy tome, for short
• Work containing about 2.5 million quotations: Abbr.
• Work containing more than 3.5 million citations, for short
• Well-known dict.
• Work requiring oversized shelves, briefly
• Work started by London's Philological Soc.
• Work that's been punningly called a "lex icon": Abbr.
• Work whose second edition contains 59 million wds.
• U.K. lexicological work
• UK lexicon
• U.K. lexicon
• UK multi-volume ref. work
• U.K.-published reference work (Abbr.)
• U.K. ref. bk.
• U.K. reference
• U.K. reference bk.
• U.K. reference book
• UK reference book
• UK reference set
• U.K. reference work
• UK reference
• UK word authority
• U.K. wordsmith's ref.
• "Un-PC" was added to it in 2014
• Time magazine's "scholarly Everest," for short
• Tell-all bk.: Brit.
• Where a Brit may find a def.
• Where age always goes before beauty, briefly
• "Zyxt" is its final entry: Abbr.

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