Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| abrosia | fasting. |
| alible | nourishing. |
| aliment | food, nourishment; (verb) to feed, nourish. |
| anthropophagy | cannibalism. |
| apician | of or pertaining to luxurious eating. |
| apositic | relating to apositia, loss of appetite. |
| aristology | the science of dining. |
| autocoprophagy | eating one's own feces. |
| autophagous | related to autophagy, sustenance by self-absorption of the tissues of the body. |
| autophagy | sustenance by self-absorption of the tissues of the body. |
| bacteriophagy | the eating of bacteria. |
| bantingism | slimming by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter. |
| begnaw | to gnaw. |
| bibation | tippling. |
| bibbery | tippling. |
| binge | to overindulge in food or drink. |
| birler | one who birls, carouses. |
| bitable | that can be bitten. |
| biteable | that can be bitten. |
| breakfaster | one who takes breakfast. |
| breastfeed | to feed by breast. |
| browst | (Scots) a brewing. |
| bubbler | (Tradename) a kind of drinking fountain. |
| bumper | a cup or glass full to the brim; (verb) to drink bumpers. |
| byrl | to carouse. |
| cacotrophy | bad or inadequate diet. |
| champ | to bite or chew. |
| champer | one who champs, or bites. |
| chaw | to chew esp tobacco. |
| chawer | one who chaws. |
| chew | to crush or grind with the teeth. |
| chewer | one who chews. |
| chewy | hard to chew. |
| chomp | to chew vigorously. |
| chomper | one who chomps. |
| chow | (Coll.) food; (verb) to eat. |
| chowdown | the act of eating a large quantity of food, esp for competitive purposes. |
| chugalug | to drink without pause. |
| chump | a thick lump, a blockhead; (verb) to munch. |
| cibation | (Obs.) the seventh of the twelve processes employed by alchemists in the search for the philosopher's stone, 'feeding the matter'; taking food, feeding. |
| clem | to starve. |
| comestible | edible; (noun) something edible. |
| commensal | eating at the same table (noun) one who eats at the same table |
| commensally | (Adv.) COMMENSAL, eating at the same table. |
| coprophagy | feeding on dung. |
| cranch | to crunch. |
| crapulence | the sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. |
| crapulent | suffering from overindulgence in food or drink. |
| crapulently | (Adv.) CRAPULENT, suffering from overindulgence in food or drink. |
| crapulosity | the state of being crapulous. |
| crapulous | suffering from overindulgence in food or drink. |
| crapulously | (Adv.) CRAPULOUS, suffering from overindulgence in food or drink. |
| crapulousness | the state of being crapulous. |
| craunch | (Dial.) a crunch (verb) to crunch |
| creophagy | the act of eating meat. |
| cud | food chewed again by a ruminating animal. |
| deglutition | the power or act of swallowing. |
| deglutitive | relating to deglutition. |
| deglutitory | relating to deglutition. |
| degust | to taste, relish. |
| degustate | to taste, relish. |
| degustation | the action or an instance of tasting esp in a series of small portions. |
| degustatory | relating to degustation. |
| delibate | (Obs.) to sip. |
| devour | to eat up voraciously. |
| devourer | one that devours. |
| devouringly | (Adv.) DEVOURING. |
| devourment | the act of devouring. |
| digester | one who digests. |
| digestor | one who digests. |
| dinner | the chief meal of the day; (verb) to dine. |
| dinnerless | having no dinner. |
| drink | to swallow liquid. |
| drinkable | capable of being drunk (noun) something drinkable |
| drinkably | (Adv.) DRINKABLE, capable of being drunk. |
| dysphagy | difficulty in swallowing. |
| eat | to consume by mouth ) ET. |
| eatable | that can be eaten; (noun) something that can be eaten. |
| eaten | (PaP.) EAT, to consume by mouth. |
| eater | one that eats. |
| edacity | ravenousness, voracity. |
| edibility | the quality of being edible. |
| edible | able to be eaten; (noun) a thing to eat. |
| edibleness | suitableness for being eaten. |
| endophagous | exhibiting endophagy, cannibalism within a tribe. |
| endophagy | cannibalism within a tribe; eating away from within. |
| engorge | to gorge, to glut. |
| entomophagy | the eating of insects. |
| epulation | feasting, indulging in fine food. |
| esculent | edible; (noun) something edible. |
| esurient | hungry, greedy. |
| esuriently | (Adv.) ESURIENT, hungry, greedy. |
| exophagous | relating to exophagy, cannibalism outside one's own group. |
| exophagy | cannibalism outside one's own group. |
| faster | one who fasts. |
| feaster | one who feasts. |
| garlicky | like or tasting of garlic. |
| gastronomic | relating to gastronomy. |
| gastronomical | relating to gastronomy. |
| gastronomically | (Adv.) GASTRONOMICAL, relating to gastronomy. |
| gastronomy | the study of fine dining. |
| gluggable | of wine, easy and pleasant to drink. |
| gluttonise | to eat to excess. |
| gluttonize | to eat to excess. |
| gnaw | to chew with the teeth. |
| gnawable | that can be gnawed. |
| gnawer | one who, or that which, gnaws. |
| gobble | to eat hastily. |
| goloptious | (Sl.) delicious, voluptuous. |
| goluptious | (Sl.) delicious, voluptuous. |
| gorge | the throat; a deep narrow valley; (verb) to eat greedily. |
| gorgeable | that can be gorged. |
| gorgedly | (Adv.) GORGED, glutted. |
| gulch | a ravine; (verb) to swallow greedily. |
| gulosity | (Arch.) enormous appetite; greediness. |
| gustable | capable of being tasted; (noun) something capable of being tasted. |
| gustation | the act of tasting. |
| gustative | relating to gustation, tasting. |
| gustatorily | (Adv.) GUSTATORY, pertaining to the sense of taste. |
| gustatory | pertaining to the sense of taste. |
| handfeed | to feed by hand. |
| hippophagy | feeding on horses. |
| hoppy | tasting of hops. |
| hungerful | hungry. |
| hyperphagia | eating too much. |
| hyperphagic | relating to hyperphagia, eating too much. |
| imbibe | to drink. |
| imbiber | one that imbibes. |
| inedibility | the state of being inedible. |
| inedible | not fit to be eaten. |
| inedibly | (Adv.) INEDIBLE, not fit to be eaten. |
| inesculent | (Arch.) inedible. |
| ingesta | (Lat.) that which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal. |
| inhaust | (Arch.) to drink in. |
| innutrition | lack of nutrition; the failure to give proper nourishment. |
| interdine | to eat together. |
| leftover | an unused or unconsumed portion. |
| lickerish | (Obs.) dainty, tempting to the taste; lecherous. |
| lickerishly | (Adv.) LICKERISH, dainty, tempting to the taste. |
| lickerishness | (Obs.) the state of being lickerish. |
| liquorish | (Obs.) dainty, tempting to the taste; lecherous. |
| liquorishly | (Adv.) LIQUORISH, dainty, tempting to the taste. |
| liquorishness | the state of being liquorish. |
| macerator | a person who fasts and becomes emaciated. |
| malty | containing or tasting of malt. |
| manducate | to chew or eat. |
| manducation | chewing. |
| manducatory | relating to manducation. |
| masticate | to chew; to knead mechanically. |
| mastication | the act of masticating. |
| mealless | without a meal. |
| monophagy | the eating of one kind of food only. |
| moop | (Scots) to nibble, munch. |
| moup | (Scots) to nibble, munch. |
| mouthfeel | the sensory perception of a particular food while chewing. |
| muckamuck | (Coll.) food; (verb) to consume food. |
| munch | to chew with a crackling sound. |
| muncher | one who munches. |
| nibble | to eat with small bites. |
| nibbler | one who nibbles. |
| nibbling | the act of nibbling. |
| nibblingly | (Adv.) NIBBLING. |
| nosh | (Yiddish) food; (verb) to eat. |
| nosher | one who noshes, nibbles between meals. |
| nourishing | sustaining. |
| nourishingly | (Adv.) NOURISHING. |
| nourishment | food, nutriment. |
| nouriture | nourishment, nurture. |
| nourriture | nourishment, nurture. |
| nutrition | the act of nourishing; food. |
| nutritional | relating to nutrition. |
| nutritionally | (Adv.) NUTRITIONAL, relating to nutrition. |
| nutritious | giving nourishment. |
| nutritiously | (Adv.) NUTRITIOUS, giving nourishment. |
| nutritive | relating to nutrition (noun) a substance that nourishes |
| nutritively | (Adv.) NUTRITIVE, relating to nutrition. |
| onychophagy | the habit of biting one's fingernails. |
| outdrink | to drink more than. |
| outeat | to eat more than. |
| outfast | to surpass in fasting. |
| outfeast | to exceed in feasting. |
| outgnaw | to surpass in gnawing. |
| outsavor | (US) to surpass in savor. |
| overdrink | to drink to excess. |
| overeat | to eat too much. |
| overeater | one who overeats. |
| overfeed | to feed to excess. |
| overgorge | (Shakesp.) to gorge to excess. |
| oversup | to sup to excess. |
| palate | the roof of the mouth; (verb, Shakesp.) to relish. |
| pantophagy | omnivorousness. |
| pap | soft food for infants (verb) to feed soft pap food to infants |
| potability | the state of being potable. |
| potable | fit to drink; (noun) something fit to drink. |
| potation | the activity of drinking. |
| potatory | pertaining to (excessive) drinking. |
| quaff | to drink, sup. |
| quaffable | that can be quaffed. |
| quencher | one who, or that which, quenches. |
| ravenousness | the state of being ravenous. |
| rechew | to chew again. |
| refeed | to feed again. |
| refeeding | the act of feeding again. |
| regaler | one who regales. |
| regorge | to disgorge; to regurgitate. |
| relish | to enjoy. |
| retaste | to taste again. |
| revictual | to victual again. |
| ruminate | to chew the cud. |
| ruminatingly | (Adv.) RUMINATING. |
| sair | (Scots) sore, very (verb) to savour |
| sapid | pleasantly flavoured SAPIDER, SAPIDEST. |
| sapidity | the state of being sapid, pleasantly flavoured. |
| sapor | taste, flavour. |
| saporific | flavourful. |
| saporous | flavourful. |
| sapour | taste; flavour. |
| sar | (Scots) to savour. |
| savoriness | the quality of being savory. |
| savorous | having a savor. |
| savour | flavour, relish (verb) to relish the taste of |
| savourer | one who savours. |
| savourless | without savour. |
| scrummy | (Coll.) scrumptious. |
| sip | a small mouthful of liquid; (verb) to drink in small mouthfuls. |
| sippable | capable of being sipped. |
| sipper | one who sips. |
| sipple | to sip often. |
| skoff | to devour; to plunder. |
| slurp | a noisy swallow (verb) to eat or drink noisily |
| snarf | (Coll.) to eat or drink greedily. |
| sourness | the state of being sour. |
| starver | one who starves. |
| stodge | dense sticky stuff (verb) to cram, stuff or gorge with food |
| sup | a small mouthful; (verb) to take liquid into the mouth. |
| swallow | a gulp; a migratory bird; (verb) to take through the mouth and esophagus into the stomach. |
| swallower | one who swallows. |
| swig | a draught of liquid; (verb) to drink deeply or rapidly. |
| swigger | one who swigs. |
| tangy | having a fresh or sharp taste. |
| thirst | the desire to drink (verb) to feel a desire or need to drink |
| thirstful | thirsty. |
| thrist | (Spenser) thirst (verb) to thirst |
| tift | (Scots) a slight quarrel; (verb) to be in a huff. |
| tipple | an alcoholic drink; (verb) to drink alcohol constantly in small quantities. |
| toothsome | attractive; palatable. |
| toothsomely | (Adv.) TOOTHSOME, attractive; palatable. |
| umami | (Japanese) a savoury flavour, the taste of monosodium glutamate. |
| undereat | to eat too little. |
| uneatable | that cannot be eaten. |
| uneaten | not eaten. |
| unfed | not fed. |
| ventripotent | taking a greedy delight in eating. |
| victual | provision; in plural, food; (verb) to provide with food. |
| vittle | (Dial.) to victual. |
| wairsh | tasteless, insipid, unsalted. |
| waucht | (Scots) a large draught; (verb) to drink in large draughts. |
| waught | (Scots) a large draught of any liquid; (verb) to drink in large draughts. |
| wersh | (Scots) tasteless, insipid, unsalted. |
| williewaught | (Scots) a deep draught of alcohol. |