- OED
- Brit. multivolume set
- Brit. reference work
- Multivolume ref.
- Big dict.
- Gigantic ref. work
- Lexicographic colossus
- Ref. that's gone through two editions in 125 years
- The Professor and the Madman subj.
- Ref. whose 2015 Word of the Year is the "Face With Tears of Joy" emoji
- Ref. that recently added the word "hoverboard"
- Ref. of substantial fame and even more substantial size
- Reference work that added "idiocracy" in 2018, for short
- Its first electronic edition was released in 1988: Abbr.
- Ref. whose 2017 Word of the Year was "youthquake"
- Ref. that added "burner phone" in 2022
- Vol. that "sharenting" was added to in 2022
- Ginormous ref. that added "ginormous" in 1989
- Book whose second edition was 21,728 pages, briefly
- Brit. word ref
- Its third edition is scheduled to be finished in 2037: Abbr.
- Multivolume Brit. reference
- Multivolume ref. work
- Ref. book whose last print edition came out in 1989
- Ref. set
- Ref. staple that used to come with a magnifying glass
- Ref. that has a zed section
- Ref. work that spans 21,730 pages
- Ref. book that will probably never be printed again
- Ref. that uses British headword spellings
- It uses British headword spellings, briefly
- Ref. that added "follically challenged" and "adulting" in 2020
- Ref. work that added "oobleck" and "stromboli" in 2020
- Lexicon's initials
- Brit. dictionary
- Londoner's lexicon (abbr.)
- U.K. lexicon
- Lexicon for a don
- Big Brit. bk.
- Big ref. full of defs.
- Wordsmith's ref.
- UK lexical tome
- U.K. reference
- 20-vol. reference
- London Philological Soc. creation
- Ref. tome
- Multi-volume dictionary (abbr.)
- Multi-volume reference book (abbr.)
- Voluminous Brit. ref. source
- Multivolume ref. set
- Ref. that has included "crowdfunding" and "photobomb" since 2015
- It has a very large "set" section: Abbr.
- Alternative to F&W or M-W
- It added "ringtone" in 2017: Abbr.
- What Brexit entered in late 2016: Abbr.
- J.R.R. Tolkien was once employed as a researcher for it: Abbr.
- Last word in words, for many: Abbr.
- Where "doh" has been found since 2001: Abbr.
- Multivolume lexicon, for short
- Brit. word book
- Brit. lexicon
- Brit. word bk.
- British word bk.
- Large dict.
- Brit. reference staple
- Large ref. work
- Venerable ref. work
- Twenty-volume UK reference
- Ref. room offering
- Subj. of "The Professor and the Madman"
- Major ref. work
- Library ref.
- Brit. library ref.
- Brit. word reference
- Huge ref. work
- Twenty-volume ref. for writers
- Huge ref. set
- Subject of the book "The Meaning of Everything," briefly
- Voluminous lexicological work (abbr.)
- Ref. work featured in "The Professor and the Madman"
- Enormous ref. work
- Heavy ref. work
- Ref. that's been online since 2000
- Ref. work whose Compact Edition is sold with a magnifying glass
- Big word ref.
- Brit. reference tome
- British ref. work
- Multi-vol. lexicon
- Twenty-volume ref. work
- 20-vol. book of spells?
- Pub. whose 2014 word of the year is "vape"
- Ref. book that included the words "cisgender" and "intersectionality" in its latest update
- Brit's reference source
- Its Vol. XVI is "Soot-Styx"
- Wk. that begins with "A-Bazouki"
- Brit. tome
- Ref. book
- Ref. work
- Ref. staple
- Big ref. book
- Large ref.
- Ref. conceived in 1857
- Big ref.
- Authoritative ref.
- Subj. of Simon Winchester's "The Meaning of Everything"
- 20-vol. lexicon
- Brit. reference
- Ref. work chronicled in "The Professor and the Madman"
- Massive lexicon: Abbr.
- Ref. that added "chapstick" in 2021
- Ref. work that added "freshperson" in 2021
- 130-lb.-plus ref.
- Hefty ref.
- 20-volume ref.
- British ref.
- Etymologist's ref.
- Its "Concise" version has more than 1,700 pgs.
- Shelf-filling ref. work
- Work requiring oversized shelves, briefly
- Half-caf was added to it in 2012
- Ref. with about 600,000 word-forms
- U.K. lexicological work
- Venerable ref.
- Where age always goes before beauty, briefly
- Heavy Brit. reference set
- Heavy ref.
- Un-PC was added to it in 2014
- Ref. section staple
- Ref. shelf filler
- Clickbait site, as of Sep. 2016
- Online ref. since 2000
- Ref. with quarterly online updates
- Shelf-filling bks.
- Clickbait was added to it in Sep. 2016
- Ref. for wordsmiths
- Ref. updated quarterly
- Mansplain was added to it in Jan. 2018
- Webspace was added to it in Jun. 2017
- Exhaustive ref.
- Its Jun. 2019 additions include "bae" and "yeesh"
- Ref. work whose 2018 Word of the Year is "toxic"
- Voluminous ref. work
- Its Jan. 2018 additions include "hangry" and "mansplain"
- J.R.R. Tolkien did some research for it
- Lexicon with 600,000+ wds.
- Ref. whose first edition took decades to complete
- Ref. whose recent updates include "chillax" and "whatev"
- Classic ref. work
- Multivolume set in the reference sect.
- Ref. work that added "YOLO" in 2016
- Ref. work that added "livestream" in 2021
- Voluminous ref.
- Ref. that could be considered hi-def.?
- Ref. work that added "influencer" in 2022
- Ref. work that once employed J.R.R. Tolkien
- Uni resource
- Long reference work, for short
- Ref. that added "adultification" in 2023
- British ref. book
- Brit. reference set
- Lge. reference work
- Venerable ref. set
- British lexicon: Abbr.
- Mulitvolume ref. work
- British reference set: Abbr.
- Brit. ref. work
- Its first vol. was published in 1884
- Venerable British ref. set
- Venerable lexicon: Abbr.
- Major ref. set
- Venerable reference wk.
- Many-vol. lexicon
- Voluminous ref. set
- 20-volume ref. set
- Champs' prize on the UK game show "Countdown"
- Multi-vol. reference set
- UK reference set
- British ref. set
- Massive Brit. reference
- The Meaning of Everything subject: Abbr.
- It added "YouTuber" in 2016
- It added "brr-brr" in 2016
- UK word authority
- 20-vol. work
- Bks. with millions of quotations
- Lexicographical authority
- It added "e-waste" in 2020
- It's had OMG since 2011
- The definitive record updated quarterly
- British reference bk.
- Ref. of note
- Lexicographic behemoth, for short
- Ref. conceived of in 1857 by London's Philological Society
- A-to-zed ref.
- Its first vol. covered A to Ant
- Reading the ___ (2008 book subtitled "One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages")
- Multivolume lex.
- Ref. whose last entry is "zyxt"
- Subj. of the book "The Meaning of Everything"
- Subj. of the book "Treasure-House of the Language"
- Addendum to Euclid's theorems.
- Big dictionary: Abbr.
- British relative of Webster's: Abbr.
- Britain's "Webster."
- Noted English dictionary: Abbr.
- Noted dictionary: Abbr.
- Famous dictionary: Abbr.
- Great dictionary: Abbr.
- Standard reference book: Abbr.
- Famed dictionary: Abbr.
- A ref. book
- Certain ref. work
- Reference book: Abbr.
- Eng. lexicon
- Noted ref. book
- Distinguished dict.
- Dict. published in England
- Well-known dict.
- Large ref. book
- Expensive ref. work
- James Murray work: Abbr.
- Respected ref. work
- Noted publication of 1933, for short
- Some library vols.
- Often-cited ref.
- Of which A-Ant was pub. in Jan. 1884
- It may fill a lib. shelf
- Lib. reference
- Philologist's ref.
- Set of Brit. tomes
- The Professor and the Madman topic, for short
- Lexicon with many citations: Abbr.
- It comes in many vols.
- Monument of lexicography, for short
- Citation-filled ref.
- Philologists' work, for short
- Ref. work with more than 300,000 entries
- Ref. work with online subscriptions
- Work started by London's Philological Soc.
- Shak. is its most-quoted writer
- Brit. resource for wordsmiths
- Competitor of Chambers, for short
- Orthographer's ref.
- 20-vol. reference work
- It has hundreds of thousands of meanings: Abbr.
- Its first two vols. covered 43-Across
- Work containing about 2.5 million quotations: Abbr.
- U.K. wordsmith's ref.
- British ref. for wordsmiths
- It took 70 years to complete, in brief
- Its first complete ed. was published in 1928
- Its last word is "zyxt": Abbr.
- Massive ref.
- Ref. with more than 2 1/2 million quotations
- Ref. work that took 70 years to complete
- Multivolume set, for short
- Ref. with about 22,000 pages
- Word ref. started in 1857
- Work that's been punningly called a "lex icon": Abbr.
- Lexical ref.
- A-to-zed lexicon, in brief
- It added "essential worker" in March of 2021: Abbr.
- Ref. work that took more than 70 years to complete
- Subj. of Charlotte Brewer's "Treasure-House of the Language"
- Where Boxing Day comes before Christmas, in brief?
- Time magazine's "scholarly Everest," for short
- 21,728-pg. work that is constantly updated
- Reading the ___: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages (2008 book)
- A heart symbol, meaning "love," was its first graphical entry, for short
- Big ref. work
- Brit. resource for writers
- Classic work originally in 10 vols.
- Classic work whose "shorter" version comes in two vols.
- It ends with "zyzzyva," in brief
- Its first vol., A-Ant, was published in 1884
- Massive lang. reference
- Massive resource: Abbr.
- Ref. that added "cruciverbalist" (a person who does crosswords) in 2006
- Subj. of the 2003 book "The Meaning of Everything"
- Webster's Third competitor, for short
- Work containing more than 3.5 million citations, for short
- Hefty lexical ref.
- It has included a heart symbol since 2011, in brief
- Its second ed. contains about 59 million words
- Masterwork in philology, for short
- Publication whose first ed. took more than 70 years to complete
- Ref. work begun by the London Philological Society
- Its "concise" version has almost 1,700 pages: Abbr.
- Ref. work in which the verb "set" has a 60,000-word entry
- Alternative to Webster's, in brief
- Meaningful work, for short?
- Big reference, but shortened
- Ref. work that Tolkien contributed to from "waggle" to "wild"
- Ref. that added "turnt" and "deepfake" in 2023
- Ref. work that began as a Philological Society project
- Set of books once awarded to winners of Britain's "Countdown" game show, for short
- Some 3.5 million quotations were gathered for it, for short
- Brit. word authority
- Venerable reference book from the UK
- Compendious ref.
- Ref. that added the word "anally" in 2010
- Book that tells you the meaning of "life": Abbr.
- Webster's relative, for short
- Its second ed. has 20 volumes
- Ref. with a high word count
- Ref. that added "vaccine passport" in 2022
- It consists of 20 vols.
- UK reference book
- Awesomesauce was added to it in 2020: Abbr.
- Word ref. since 1884
- Ammon Shea's "Reading the ___: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages" (book hailed by the _Times_ as "the 'Super Size Me' of lexicography")
- British reference book, for short
- Ref. whose second edition was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II
- British reference work that added "sharenting" and "sharesies" in 2022: Abbr.
- Publication that once employed J. R. R. Tolkien, for short
- Ref. that added "chonky" in 2023
- Ref. work whose 2022 additions included "vax" and "folx"
- Brit. ref. book
- Noted Brit lexicon
- Oft-cited ref. book
- British multivolume set (Abbr.)
- Famed British ref.
- Latin@ was added to it in Mar. 2019
- Massive reference, for short
- Ref. that added "xoxo" in 2019
- Ref. that took 70 years to complete
- Its 1971 ed. came with a magnifying glass
- Large Brit. reference
- Lexicon from a British uni
- Ref. that added "safe space" in 2020
- Ref. with 20 volumes
- Ref. to which "adorkable" was introduced in 2020
- Ref. with thousands of definitions
- Non-fungible was added to it in Dec. 2021
- Ref. that added "gaslighter" in 2022
- Ref. work started in 1857
- Ref. whose 2022 word of the year was "goblin mode"
- Ref. book whose 2023 word of the year was "rizz"
- Ref. whose 2021 word of the year was "vax"
- English ref. bk.
- Tell-all bk.: Brit.
- Eng. dictionary
- Oxford dict.
- Twenty-vol. dictionary
- Brit's reference bk.
- Ref. text
- Brit. reference bk.
- Word-lover's ref. book
- Massive ref. work
- Respected ref. book
- UK multi-volume ref. work
- Where a Brit may find a def.
- Its 2019 Word of the Year was "climate emergency" (Abbr.)
- U.K.-published reference work (Abbr.)
- Reference work that added "turnt" in 2023 (Abbr.)
- Word ref.
- Murray's ref. work
- Murray's gt. work
- Multi-vol. reference
- UK ref.
- Zyxt is its final entry: Abbr.
- Expensive ref.
- Twenty-vol. reference
- 20-volume ref. work
- Ref. last published in 1989
- Its 1989 edition weighed about 138 lbs.
- Ref. that includes ROFL as of 2016
- Ref. that recently added "locavore" and "phablet"
- Reference wk. that added "YOLO" in 2016
- Big reference bk.
- Dict. with over 600,000 words
- Famed multivolume ref. wk.
- Venerable ref. book
- Work whose second edition contains 59 million wds.
- Big Brit. reference
- Humongous ref.
- Ref. for Anglophones
- Big ref. for word lovers
- Huge reference from the U.K.
- Multi-volume word ref.
- Ref. work with over 45,000 obsolete words
- Its second edition had 21,730 pp.
- Massive Brit. lexicon
- Venerable reference bk.
- Ref. that added "lamestream" and "deep state" in 2023
- Ref. that added "spidey sense" and "turnt" in 2023
- Massive ref. work from Britain
- Ref. that added "babyccino" in 2024
- Ref. that added "jillionaire" in 2024
- Ref. that added "swear jar" in 2023
- Work J.R.R. Tolkien contributed to
