http://dico.isc.cnrs.fr/ French and English thesaurus and a French>English, English>French dictionary.
http://elsap1.unicaen.fr/cgi-bin/cherches.cgi 49,000 entries and 396,000 links to similar words. Obtain synonyms for a particular word, each one displayed with a link to more synonyms. In French only.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ English dictionary of legal, IT, medical, financial terms. Also includes thesaurus, dictionary of acronyms and idioms.
http://www.wordreference.com/fr/ Four multilingual translation dictionaries (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English) and a monolingual English dictionary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. To be used with caution. Also exists in other languages (4 million articles in 229 languages).