Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| barp | a mound or cairn. |
| cairn | a pile of stones forming a landmark. |
| cairned | having a cairn, e.g. of a summit. |
| cairny | like a CAIRN, a mound > CAIRNIER, CAIRNIEST |
| carn karn | a cairn. |
| catacomb | a subterranean cemetery, as at St Sebastian near Rome, consisting of galleries or passages with recesses excavated in the sides for tombs. |
| catafalco | a temporary tomb used in funerals and processions > CATAFALCOES. See also CATAFALQUE. |
| catafalque | a temporary tomb used in funerals and processions. See also CATAFALCO. |
| cenotaph | a tomb or monument erected in honor of a person whose body is elsewhere. |
| cenotaphic | like a CENOTAPH. |
| cinerarium | a place to receive the ashes of the cremated dead > CINERARIA. |
| cippus | a small column marking a burial-place or landmark > CIPPI. [L. cippus, post, stake]. |
| cist | a tomb consisting of stone chest covered with stone slabs. |
| cistvaen kistvaen | a tomb covered with stone slabs. [Welsh cistfaen, from cist, chest + faen (maen), stone]. |
| cromlech | a prehistoric monument, comprising a flat stone resting horizontally on two vertical stones or circle of stones. [Welsh, crom fem. of crwm bowed, arched + llech (flat) stone], |
| cyclolith | a stone circle. |
| darga dargah durgah | a structure over a place where a holy person was buried or cremated. |
| dolmen | a prehistoric structure or tomb of unhewn stones. |
| dolmenic | like a DOLMEN. |
| ebenezer | a memorial stone set up by Samuel after the victory of Mizpeh; a chapel or religious meeting place. [Hebrew eben-ha-ezedr, stone of help]. |
| effigial | relating to an effigy. |
| effigy | a portrait of a person, esp. as a monument or architectural decoration. |
| henge | a circle of stones or wooden posts. |
| howe | a hill, a burial-mound. |
| karn | see CARN. |
| kistvaen | see CISTVAEN. |
| kurgan | a prehistoric burial mound. |
| martyrium | a shrine erected in memory of a martyr > MARTYRIA. |
| martyry | a shrine, chapel or monument in memmory of a martyr. |
| mastaba mastabah | an Egyptian tomb with rectangular base, sloping sides and a flat roof. [Arabic mastaba, stone bench]. |
| mausolean | pertaining to a mausoleum; monumental. |
| mausoleum | a huge, stately tomb; a large, gloomy building > MAUSOLEA or MAUSOLEUMS. [From King Mausolus of Caria, in Asia Minor; when he died his wife had a vast edifice erected in his memory]. |
| megalith | a large rough stone used as a monument. |
| menhir | a single upright rude monolith of usually prehistoric origin. [Welsh maen hir, long stone]. |
| monolith | a large single stone in form of monument, obelisk or column. |
| monostele monostely | a single STELE. |
| monument | to mark with a monument. |
| necropolis | a city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard > NECROPOLI or NECROPOLEIS or NECROPOLISES or NECROPOLES. |
| obeliscal | formed like an OBELISK. |
| obelisk | a stone pillar having a square or rectangular cross section and sides that taper towards a pyramidal top, often used as a monument in ancient Egypt. |
| ossarium | a place where bones are kept > OSSARIUMS. |
| ossuary | a depository for the bones of the dead. |
| peristalith | a prehistoric stone circle. |
| pyramidic pyramidical | of or like a PYRAMID. |
| pyramidion | the capstone of a pyramid or the top of an obelisk. |
| pyramis | a pyramid > PYRAMISES or PYRAMIDES. |
| sarsden sarsen | a sandstone boulder of S. England; such a stone used in a prehistoric monument. |
| serdab | an underground chamber; a secret chamber in an ancient Egyptian tomb. |
| shrinal | relating to a SHRINE. |
| shrine | a place of worship hallowed by association with a sacred person or object, esp. the tomb of a saint or other holy person; (verb) to build a shrine to. |
| speos | a grotto-temple or tomb > SPEOSES. |
| stela | an upright stone slab > STELAE or STELAI. See also STELE. |
| stelar | relating to a STELE, an upright stone slab. |
| stele | an upright stone slab. See also STELA. |
| stelene stelic | relating to a STELE, an upright stone slab. |
| talayot | a prehistoric stone monument of the Balearic Isles. [Sp. atalaya, a lookout]. |
| tombal tombic | pertaining to a tomb. |
| tomblike | like a tomb. |
| tombstone | a stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased. |
| trilith trilithon | a stone monument of two upright and one transverse slab. [Gk. tri, three, + lithos, stone]. |
| trilithic | pertaining to a TRILITH. |
| tumulary | like a TUMULUS, a barrow-mound; a mound of earth over a grave. |
| tumulus | a barrow-mound; a mound of earth over a grave > TUMULI or TUMULUSES. |
| untombed | not buried in a tomb. |
| urnfield | a late Bronze Age cemetery containing funerary urns. |
| ziggurat zikkurat zikurat | an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower consisting of a lofty pyramidal structure built in successive stages with outside staircases and a shrine at the top. [Assyrian ziqquratu, a pinnacle, the top of a mountain]. |