Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| airstrike | an attack by military aircraft. |
| ambuscade | (Fr.) an ambush; (verb) to lay an ambush. |
| ambuscado | an ambuscade. |
| ambush | to attack from a concealed place. |
| ambusher | one who ambushes. |
| anabasis | (Greek) an expedition or an advance, esp a military one; also, a difficult or dangerous retreat. |
| assail | to attack. |
| assailant | one who assails. |
| assailer | one who assails. |
| assault | an attack; (verb) to attack. |
| assaulter | one who assaults. |
| assiege | (Spenser) to besiege. |
| attack | to set upon violently. |
| attrit | to wear down esp enemy forces. |
| barrage | a heavy or continuous fire; (verb) to subject to a massive attack. |
| batteilant | (Spenser) combatant. |
| battle | to fight. |
| battler | one who battles. |
| beleaguer | to surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege. |
| beleaguerment | the state of being beleaguered. |
| besiege | to surround. |
| besiegement | the state of being besieged. |
| besieger | one that besieges. |
| besiegingly | (Adv.) BESIEGING. |
| blitz | (Ger.) to attack or damage (as if) by an air raid; to deal with or complete by a burst of intense activity. |
| blitzkrieg | (Ger.) a rapid advance in warfare. |
| bodrag | (Spenser) a hostile attack, a raid. |
| bordraging | (Spenser) a hostile attack, a raid. |
| breakthrough | an offensive thrust that penetrates and carries beyond a defensive line in warfare. |
| brushfire | a border war, involving mobilization only on a small and local scale. |
| bushfighting | fighting in the bush. |
| camisade | (Spanish) in mediaeval warfare, a night attack. |
| counterraid | a raid in retaliation; (verb) to make a retaliatory raid. |
| creach | (Gaelic) a foray, booty. |
| creagh | (Gaelic) a foray, booty. |
| crescentade | a religious war for Islam. |
| depredate | to plunder or prey upon. |
| depredation | the act of depredating. |
| depredatory | serving to depredate. |
| dogfight | a fight between dogs; a fight between fighter aircraft, esp at close quarters; (verb) to engage in aerial combat. |
| emboscata | (Ital.) an ambuscade. |
| escarmouche | (Obs.) a skirmish. |
| expugn | to take by storm. |
| expugnation | the act of expugning. |
| firefight | an intense exchange of gunfire. |
| foray | a raid, a venture; (verb) to make a raid. |
| forayer | one who makes or joins in a foray. |
| forray | (Spenser) to foray; to ravage. |
| freeboot | to plunder. |
| guerillaism | the activities of guerillas. |
| guerrillaism | the activities of guerrillas. |
| harry | to plunder, ravage. |
| herriment | (Scots) spoliation, plunder. |
| herryment | (Scots) spoliation, plunder. |
| hership | (Scots) plundering, plunder, esp cattle. |
| infight | to fight at close quarters. |
| maraud | to rove in search of booty. |
| marauder | one that marauds. |
| pickeer | to forage, to skirmish in advance of an army. |
| pickeerer | one who pickeers, a marauder. |
| pillage | to plunder. |
| pillager | one who pillages. |
| raid | a sudden swift assault; (verb) to make a sudden assault on. |
| raider | one that raids. |
| rapine | pillaging. |
| ravage | to destroy. |
| ravager | one who ravages. |
| ravener | one who, or that which, ravens or plunders. |
| raveningly | (Adv.) RAVENING. |
| ravin | plunder, booty; (verb) to take away by force. |
| razzia | (Arabic) a plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid. |
| reave | (Arch.) to rob, plunder. |
| reaver | a raider, plunderer. |
| reive | (Arch.) to plunder, rob. |
| reiver | a raider, plunderer. |
| rieve | to rob, plunder. |
| riever | a raider, plunderer. |
| sackage | the act of taking by storm and pillaging; (verb) to sack or plunder.. |
| saliaunce | (Spenser) an assault, sally. |
| sallier | one who sallies. |
| scarmoge | (Arch.) a skirmish. |
| siegecraft | the military art of conducting a siege. |
| skirmish | to engage in a minor battle. |
| sortie | a sally from a besieged party to attack their besiegers; (verb) to make a sortie. |
| spoliate | to despoil; to plunder. |
| spoliation | the act of pillaging and plundering. |
| spoylefull | (Spenser) plundering. |
| spreagh | (Gaelic) a cattle raid, a foray. |
| spreaghery | cattle-stealing; plunder esp of petty possessions. |
| sprechery | cattle-stealing; plunder esp of petty possessions. |
| spuilzie | (Scots) spoliation; (verb) to plunder. |
| spulye | (Scots) spoliation; (verb) to plunder. |
| spulyie | (Scots) spoliation; (verb) to plunder. |
| spulzie | (Scots) spoliation; (verb) to plunder. |
| stour | (Scots) a battle, assault. |
| stowre | (Scots) a battle assault. |
| warfare | the waging of war; (verb, obs.) to wage war. |
| warray | (Obs.) to make war on. |
| warrey | (Obs.) to make war on. |
| waterloo | a decisive defeat. |