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. |