| OED | "Mansplain" was added to it in Jan. 2018 |
| OED | "Reading the ___: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages" (2008 book) |
| OED | "The Professor and the Madman" subj. |
| OED | "The Professor and the Madman" topic, for short |
| OED | "Webspace" was added to it in Jun. 2017 |
| OED | ''The definitive record'' updated quarterly |
| OED | 20-vol. lexicon |
| OED | 20-vol. reference |
| OED | 20-vol. reference work |
| OED | 20-vol. work |
| OED | 20-volume ref. |
| OED | 20-volume ref. set |
| OED | 21,728-pg. work that is constantly updated |
| OED | A heart symbol, meaning "love," was its first graphical entry, for short |
| OED | Alternative to Webster's, in brief |
| OED | Ammon Shea’s “Reading the ___: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages” (book hailed by the Times as “the ‘Super Size Me’ of lexicography”) |
| OED | A-to-zed lexicon, in brief |
| OED | A-to-zed reference: Abbr. |
| OED | Big Brit. reference |
| OED | Big Brit. reference book |
| OED | Big ref. for word lovers |
| OED | Big ref. work |
| OED | Big reference bk. |
| OED | Big reference, but shortened |
| OED | Bks. with millions of quotations |
| OED | Book whose first vol. covered A to Ant |
| OED | Brit. lexicon |
| OED | Brit. ref. work |
| OED | Brit. reference |
| OED | Brit. reference book |
| OED | Brit. reference work |
| OED | Brit. resource for wordsmiths |
| OED | Brit. resource for writers |
| OED | Brit. tome |
| OED | Brit. word reference |
| OED | British book where you can look up words and their meanings: Abbr. |
| OED | British lexicon (Abbr.) |
| OED | British lexicon, a reference for wordsmiths: Abbr. |
| OED | British linguist's reference: Abbr. |
| OED | British ref. for wordsmiths |
| OED | British ref. set |
| OED | British ref. work |
| OED | British ref. work that took 70 years to complete |
| OED | British reference book letters (anagram of "deo") |
| OED | British reference book, for short |
| OED | British reference book: Abbr. |
| OED | British reference set, for short |
| OED | British reference that added the entry "super PAC" in 2012: Abbr. |
| OED | British reference work (Abbr.) |
| OED | British reference work that added “sharenting” and “sharesies” in 2022: Abbr. |
| OED | British reference work, for short |
| OED | British word reference: Abbr. |
| OED | British wordsmith's reference book: Abbr. |
| OED | British word-lover's reference: Abbr. |
| OED | Citation-filled ref. |
| OED | Classic ref. work |
| OED | Classic work originally in 10 vols. |
| OED | Classic work whose "shorter" version comes in two vols. |
| OED | Competitor of Chambers, for short |
| OED | Dict. with over 600,000 words |
| OED | Dictionary published by the Oxford University Press, briefly |
| OED | Etymologist's ref. |
| OED | Exhaustive British reference work (Abbr.) |
| OED | Exhaustive ref. |
| OED | Expensive ref. work |
| OED | Famed British reference work (abbr.) |
| OED | Famed multivolume ref. wk. |
| OED | Hefty British reference work (Abbr.) |
| OED | Hefty lexical ref. |
| OED | Huge Brit. lexicon |
| OED | Huge ref. work |
| OED | Huge reference from the U.K. |
| OED | Humongous ref. |
| OED | It added "essential worker" in March of 2021: Abbr. |
| OED | It added ''e-waste'' in 2020 |
| OED | It comes in many vols. |
| OED | It ends with "zyzzyva," in brief |
| OED | It has hundreds of thousands of meanings: Abbr. |
| OED | It has included a heart symbol since 2011, in brief |
| OED | It may fill a lib. shelf |
| OED | It took 70 years to complete, in brief |
| OED | It's 2021 word of the year was "vax" |
| OED | It's had OMG since 2011 |
| OED | Its "concise" version has almost 1,700 pages: Abbr. |
| OED | Its 2019 Word of the Year was "climate emergency" (Abbr.) |
| OED | Its 2022 Word of the Year was "goblin mode" (Abbr.) |
| OED | Its Jan. 2018 additions include "hangry" and "mansplain" |
| OED | Its Jun. 2019 additions include "bae" and "yeesh" |
| OED | Its first complete ed. was published in 1928 |
| OED | Its first two vols. covered 43-Across |
| OED | Its first vol., A-Ant, was published in 1884 |
| OED | Its last word is "zyxt": Abbr. |
| OED | Its second ed. contains about 59 million words |
| OED | Its second edition had 21,730 pp. |
| OED | J.R.R. Tolkien did some research for it |
| OED | James Murray work: Abbr. |
| OED | Large Brit. lexicon |
| OED | Large British reference book containing lots of definitions: Abbr. |
| OED | Large ref. work |
| OED | Letters that I had to look up in what turned out to be itself, in order to find out what they meant |
| OED | Lexical ref. |
| OED | Lexicographical authority |
| OED | Lexicon with 600,000+ wds. |
| OED | Lexicon with many citations: Abbr. |
| OED | Lexicon with quarterly online updates (Abbr.) |
| OED | Lib. reference |
| OED | Library ref. |
| OED | Massive Brit. lexicon |
| OED | Massive Brit. reference work |
| OED | Massive lang. reference |
| OED | Massive lexicon: Abbr. |
| OED | Massive ref. |
| OED | Massive ref. bk. |
| OED | Massive resource: Abbr. |
| OED | Masterwork in philology, for short |
| OED | Meaningful work, for short? |
| OED | Monument of lexicography, for short |
| OED | Multivolume Brit. lexicon |
| OED | Multivolume Brit. reference |
| OED | Multivolume British reference work (Abbr.) |
| OED | Multivolume British reference: Abbr. |
| OED | Multivolume U.K. lexicon |
| OED | Multivolume ref. |
| OED | Multivolume ref. work |
| OED | Multivolume reference book for wordsmiths: Abbr. |
| OED | Multivolume set in the reference sect. |
| OED | Multivolume set, for short |
| OED | Multi-volume reference: Abbr. |
| OED | Multi-volume word ref. |
| OED | Noted publication of 1933, for short |
| OED | Of which A-Ant was pub. in Jan. 1884 |
| OED | Often-cited ref. |
| OED | Orthographer's ref. |
| OED | Philologist's ref. |
| OED | Philologists' work, for short |
| OED | Principal historical dictionary of the English language: Abbr. |
| OED | Publ. where the verb "set" takes approx. 60,000 words to describe |
| OED | Publication that once employed J. R. R. Tolkien, for short |
| OED | Publication whose first ed. took more than 70 years to complete |
| OED | Ref. for Anglophones |
| OED | Ref. for wordsmiths |
| OED | Ref. room offering |
| OED | Ref. set |
| OED | Ref. staple |
| OED | Ref. that added "chapstick" in 2021 |
| OED | Ref. that added "cruciverbalist" (a person who does crosswords) in 2006 |
| OED | Ref. that added "deepfake" in 2023 |
| OED | Ref. that added "pinkie promise" and "porch pirate" in 2022 |
| OED | Ref. that added gig economy and essential worker in 2021 |
| OED | Ref. that added “chonky” in 2023 |
| OED | Ref. that could be considered hi-def.? |
| OED | Ref. updated quarterly |
| OED | Ref. whose first edition took decades to complete |
| OED | Ref. whose recent updates include "chillax" and "whatev" |
| OED | Ref. whose second edition was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II |
| OED | Ref. with about 22,000 pages |
| OED | Ref. with more than 2 1/2 million quotations |
| OED | Ref. work begun by the London Philological Society |
| OED | Ref. work favoring "favour" |
| OED | Ref. work in which the verb "set" has a 60,000-word entry |
| OED | Ref. work that added "Dylanesque" to its lexicon in 2018 |
| OED | Ref. work that added "YOLO" in 2016 |
| OED | Ref. work that added "awesomesauce" in 2020 |
| OED | Ref. work that added "freshperson" in 2021 |
| OED | Ref. work that added "influencer" in 2022 |
| OED | Ref. work that added "livestream" in 2021 |
| OED | Ref. work that once employed J.R.R. Tolkien |
| OED | Ref. work that took 70 years to complete |
| OED | Ref. work that took more than 70 years to complete |
| OED | Ref. work whose "Concise" version has more than 1,700 pages |
| OED | Ref. work whose 2018 Word of the Year is "toxic" |
| OED | Ref. work whose 2022 additions included “vax” and “folx” |
| OED | Ref. work with more than 300,000 entries |
| OED | Ref. work with online subscriptions |
| OED | Ref. work with over 45,000 obsolete words |
| OED | Reference book for a wordsmith: Abbr. |
| OED | Reference book that adds new words every year: Abbr. |
| OED | Reference wk. that added "YOLO" in 2016 |
| OED | Reference work published by OUP |
| OED | Reference work that added "mansplain" in January 2018 (Abbr.) |
| OED | Reference work whose first edition took decades to complete (Abbr.) |
| OED | Respected ref. work |
| OED | Set of Brit. tomes |
| OED | Shak. is its most-quoted writer |
| OED | Some library vols. |
| OED | Subj. of the 2003 book "The Meaning of Everything" |
| OED | Time magazine's "scholarly Everest," for short |
| OED | U.K. lexicon |
| OED | U.K. ref. bk. |
| OED | U.K. reference |
| OED | U.K. reference bk. |
| OED | U.K. reference book |
| OED | U.K. wordsmith's ref. |
| OED | U.K.-based language reference book (anagram of "doe"): Abbr. |
| OED | U.K.-based vocabulary volume: Abbr. |
| OED | U.K.-published reference work (Abbr.) |
| OED | UK reference set |
| OED | UK reference work |
| OED | UK word authority |
| OED | Uni resource |
| OED | Venerable ref. |
| OED | Venerable ref. book |
| OED | Venerable ref. set |
| OED | Voluminous book published in Britain and where you may look for word meanings: Abbr. |
| OED | Voluminous ref. |
| OED | Voluminous ref. set |
| OED | Voluminous ref. work |
| OED | Webster's Third competitor, for short |
| OED | Where Boxing Day comes before Christmas, in brief? |
| OED | Word ref. since 1884 |
| OED | Word ref. started in 1857 |
| OED | Wordsmith's ref. |
| OED | Wordsmith's reference in London: Abbr. |
| OED | Wordsmith's reference: Abbr. |
| OED | Wordsmith's reference: Abbr. (anagram of "ode") |
| OED | Work begun in 1857 by the Philological Society of London (abbr.) |
| OED | Work containing about 2.5 million quotations: Abbr. |
| OED | Work containing more than 3.5 million citations, for short |
| OED | Work started by London's Philological Soc. |
| OED | Work that's been punningly called a "lex icon": Abbr. |
| OED | Work whose second edition contains 59 million wds. |
| OED | “Awesomesauce” was added to it in 2020: Abbr. |
| OED | “The Meaning of Everything” subject: Abbr. |