wp_list_categories('use_desc_for_title=1');

<ul id="category_list">
    <li><a href="#" title="3">Category C</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" title="1">Category A</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" title="2">Category B</a></li>
 </ul>

$( document ).ready(
    function() {
       sort_list_recursive( $( '#category_list' ) );
    }
);

function sort_list_recursive( parent ) {
    var lst = parent.children( 'li' );
    lst.sort(
        function( a, b ) {
            var _a = a.getElementsByTagName( 'a' )[0].title;
            var _b = b.getElementsByTagName( 'a' )[0].title;
            return _a > _b ? 1 : -1;
        }
    ).appendTo( parent );
    lst.each( function() {
        $( this ).children( 'ul' ).each( function() {
            sort_list_recursive( $( this ) );
        });
    });
}

wp_list_categories('orderby=name');

$terms = get_terms('my_taxonomy', 'hide_empty=0');
        foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
           ${$term->slug} = get_term_by('slug', $term->slug, 'product_cat');
           ${$term->slug.'_array'} = (array)${$term->slug};
           ${$term->slug.'_array_id'} =${$term->slug.'_array'}['term_id'];
      };

$args = array(
        'taxonomy'     => 'my_taxonomy',
        'orderby'      => 'name',
        'show_count'   => true,
        'pad_counts'   => false,
        'hierarchical' => true,
        'title_li'     => '',
        'hide_empty'   => 0,
        'show_option_all' => 'Show all',
        'exclude'    => array( $term1_array_id, $term2_array_id )
      );

      $args_1 = array(
        'taxonomy'     => 'my_taxonomy',
        'orderby'      => 'name',
        'show_count'   => true,
        'pad_counts'   => false,
        'hierarchical' => true,
        'title_li'     => '',
        'hide_empty'   => 0,
        'exclude'    => array( $term3_array_id, $term4_array_id, $term1_array_id )
      );

      $args_2 = array(
        'taxonomy'     => 'my_taxonomy',
        'orderby'      => 'name',
        'show_count'   => true,
        'pad_counts'   => false,
        'hierarchical' => true,
        'title_li'     => '',
        'hide_empty'   => 0,
        'exclude'    => array( $term1_array_id, $term4_array_id, $term5_array_id )
      );

<ul>
    <?php wp_list_categories( $args ); ?>
    <?php wp_list_categories( $args_1 ); ?>
    <?php wp_list_categories( $args_2 ); ?>
</ul>

$categories = get_categories( array(
    'orderby' => 'description',
    'order'   => 'ASC'
) );