- Roget's thesaurus of words for writers, over 2,300 emotive, evocative, descriptive synonyms, antonyms, and related terms every writer should know, David Olsen, Michelle Bevilacqua, Justin Cord Hayes, and Robert Bly
- Eat your words, a fascinating look at the language of food, Charlotte Foltz Jones ; illustrated by John O'Brien
- English for everyone, course book, US editors, Allison Singer, Jenny Siklos ; editors, Lili Bryant, Ben Ffrancon Davies, Level 4
- Black sheep and lame ducks, the origins of even more phrases we use every day, Albert Jack ; Illustrations by Ama Page
- A dictionary of literary and thematic terms, Edward Quinn
- Descriptionary, Marc McCutcheon
- Why do we say it?, the stories behind the words, expressions, and cliches we use
- Chin music, tall talk and other talk, collected from American folklore by Alvin Schwartz ; illustrated by John O'Brien
- Unusual words and how they came about,, by Edwin Radford
- The language of World War II;, abbreviations, captions, quotations, slogans, titles and other terms and phrases,, compiled by A. Marjorie Taylor ..
- Phrases that sell, ultimate phrase finder to help you promote your products, services, and ideas, Edward Werz and Sally Germain
- There's a frog in my throat, 440 animal sayings a little bird told me, written by Loreen Leedy & Pat Street ; illustrated by Loreen Leedy
- Metaphors dictionary, Elyse Sommer, executive editor ; Dorrie Weiss, associate editor
- British phrasebook, Elizabeth Bartsch-Parker ... [et al.]
- Roget's superthesaurus, Marc McCutcheon
- The chicktionary, from A-line to Z-snap, the words every woman should know, Anna Lefler
- English for everyone course book, author, Rachel Harding, Level 2
- As, a surfeit of similes, Norton Juster ; pictures by David Small
- Oxford picture dictionary, Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, Norma Shapiro ; translation reviewed by Wilawan Gawichai
- Slang, a very short introduction, Jonathan Green
- A chocolate moose for dinner, written and illustrated by Fred Gwynne
- The well-spoken thesaurus, the most powerful ways to say everyday words and phrases, Tom Heehler
- The Oxford dictionary of allusions, edited by Andrew Delahunty, Sheila Dignen, and Penny Stock
- A dictionary of Australian colloquialisms, [by] G. A. Wilkes
- Words of a feather, an etymological explanation of astonishing word pairs, Graeme Donald
- The big book of talking dirty, with an introduction by Jonathon Green ; cartoons by Dan Pearce
- The best thing since sliced bread, clichés : what they mean and where they came from, Nigel Fountain
- Animal crackers, a bestial lexicon, Robert Hendrickson
- Spilling the beans on the cat's pajamas, popular expressions, What they mean and how we got them, Judy Parkinson
- Roget's thesaurus of words for students, helpful, descriptive, precise synonyms, antonyms, and related terms every high school and college student should know how to use, David Olsen, Michelle Bevilacqua, Justin Cord Hayes, & Burton Jay Nadler
- Weeds in the garden of words, further observations on the tangled history of the English language, Kate Burridge
- Phraseology, the definitive compendium : thousands of bizarre origins, unexpected connections, and fascinating facts about English's best expressions, Barbara Ann Kipfer
- Eat your words, a fascinating look at the language of food, Charlotte Foltz Jones ; illustrated by John O'Brien
- The dimwit's dictionary, more than 5,000 overused words and phrases and alternatives to them, [Robert Hartwell Fiske]
- A multicultural dictionary of literary terms, by Gary Carey and Mary Ellen Snodgrass
- It's been said before, a guide to the use and abuse of clich?s, Orin Hargraves
- Death sentences, how clichés, weasel words, and management-speak are strangling public language, Don Watson
- Picturesque expressions, a thematic dictionary, Laurence Urdang, editorial director ; Nancy LaRoche, editor in chief
- A dictionary of catch phrases, British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day, Eric Partridge
- The bibliophile's dictionary, 2,054 masterful words & phrases, by Miles Westley
- English for everyone practice book, author, Thomas Booth, Level 1
- The chronology of words and phrases, a thousand years in the history of English, Linda and Roger Flavell
- Dictionary of word and phrase origins,, by William and Mary Morris
- The official dictionary of unofficial English, a crunk omnibus for thrillionaires and bampots for the ecozoic age, Grant Barrett.
- Understanding similes, by Robin Johnson
- The Penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary theory, J.A. Cuddon ; (revised by C.E. Preston)
- English for everyone, course book, US editors, Allison Singer, Jenny Siklos ; editors, Hayley Maher, Laura Sandford, Level 3
- A writer's guide to using eight methods of transition, Victor C. Pellegrino
- Yiddish dictionary & phrasebook, translated by Vera Szabo|¹
- Perfect phrases for coaching employee performance, hundreds of ready-to-use phrases for building employee engagement and creating star performers, Laura Poole