Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
burial | the act of burying. |
burier | one who buries. |
burrow | a hole in the ground dug esp by certain animals for shelter or defence; (verb) to dig a hole or tunnel in the ground. |
burrower | one that burrows. |
bury | to hide in the ground; to cover. |
cointer | to bury together. |
delve | to dig. |
delver | one who delves. |
dig | an excavation; (verb) to make a hole, excavate. |
diggable | able to be dug. |
digger | one that digs. |
dike | a trench, a ditch; (verb) to make a dike. |
disinhume | to disinter. |
disinter | to exhume. |
ditch | a trench dug in the ground; (verb) to dig a trench in the ground. |
eard | (Scots) earth; (verb) to bury. |
earthmoving | the act of moving large quantities of earth, as with a bulldozer. |
entomb | to place in a tomb; to bury. |
entombment | the act of entombing. |
entrench | to make trenches in or upon. |
entrencher | one who entrenches. |
entrenchment | the act of entrenching. |
excavate | to dig out. |
excavation | the act of excavating. |
excavational | relating to excavation. |
excavator | a vehicle for excavating. |
exhumate | to dig out of the earth. |
exhumation | the act of exhuming. |
exhume | to dig out of the earth. |
exhumer | one who exhumes. |
furrow | a groove (verb) to make a furrow |
gopher | a name applied to various burrowing animals; (verb) to burrow, mine. |
graveside | the area around a grave. |
grout | a thin coarse mortar (verb) to root or grub with the snout |
grub | an insect larva (verb) to dig around in the dirt |
holk | (Scots) to dig, burrow. |
howk | (Scots) to dig, burrow. |
inearth | (Arch.) to inter. |
inhumate | to bury in earth; to inter. |
inhume | to bury in earth; to inter. |
inhumer | one who inhumes. |
inter | to bury. |
interment | the act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth. |
intomb | (Obs.) to place in a tomb. |
intrench | to make trenches in or upon. |
intrencher | one who intrenches. |
mud | wet soft earth (verb) to bury or hide in mud |
quarry | an open excavation for building-stone, slate, etc; (verb) to dig stone from an excavation. |
reburial | a second burial. |
rebury | to bury again. |
reinter | to bury again. |
reinterment | reburial. |
respade | to spade again. |
rootle | to grub. |
rotavate | to break up (soil) with a Rotavator. |
rotovate | to break up (soil) with a Rotavator. |
sepultural | relating to sepulture, the act of burial in a sepulchre. |
sepulture | the act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; (verb) to bury, inter. |
spade | an implement for digging; (verb) to dig with a spade. |
spader | one who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine. |
spadework | preparatory drudgery. |
tomb | any place serving as a grave; (verb) to entomb, bury. |
trench | a long, narrow excavation in the ground; (verb) to dig a long, narrow excavation in the ground. |
trowel | a flat or scoop-shaped tool with a short handle; (verb) to dig with a trowel. |
tunnel | a passage cut underground; (verb) to make a tunnel, dig through. |
tunneler | one who tunnels. |
tunneller | one who tunnels. |
unburrow | to force from a burrow; to unearth. |
unbury | to disinter; to exhume; fig., to disclose. |
undermine | to dig beneath (eg a wall) in order to make it fall. |
undug | not dug. |
unearth | to dig up. |
vivisepulture | the practice of burying people alive. |
wroot | (Obs.) to turn up with the snout. |
yeard | (Scots) to bury. |
yerd | (Scots) earth; (verb) to bury. |
yird | (Scots) earth; (verb) to bury. |
yirth | (US) earth. |