Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| adversary | an opponent. |
| adversity | a state, condition, or instance of serious or continued difficulty or adverse fortune. |
| affray | a noisy brawl; (verb, arch.) to disturb or frighten. |
| affret | (Spenser) a furious onset or attack. |
| aggress | to commit the first act of hostility. |
| aggressor | one who aggresses. |
| aggro | (Short for) aggravation. |
| agonism | a contest or struggle. |
| agonistes | (Greek) one who is in the grip of inner conflict. |
| agonistic | relating to or being aggressive or argumentative. |
| agonistical | relating to athletic contest. |
| agonistically | (Adv.) AGONISTIC, relating to or being aggressive or argumentative. |
| altercate | to dispute, argue. |
| altercation | a disagreement. |
| altercative | relating to altercation. |
| antagonise | to arouse opposition in. |
| antagonism | actively expressed opposition or hostility. |
| antagonist | one that contends with or opposes another. |
| antagonistic | marked by or resulting from antagonism. |
| antagonize | to arouse opposition in. |
| argle | to argue. |
| arguable | capable of being argued about. |
| arguably | (Adv.) ARGUABLE, capable of being argued about. |
| argue | to present reasons for or against. |
| arguer | one who argues. |
| argufier | one who argufies. |
| argufy | (Coll.) to bandy arguments, wrangle. |
| argument | a discussion involving differing points of view. |
| argumentative | given to argument. |
| argumentatively | (Adv.) ARGUMENTATIVE, characterized by argument. |
| argumentive | given to argument. |
| bagarre | (Fr.) a scuffle or brawl. |
| barney | (Coll.) a set-to, a quarrel; (verb) to quarrel. |
| batable | debatable, disputable. |
| belligerence | an aggressive or truculent attitude. |
| belligerency | an aggressive or truculent attitude. |
| belligerent | aggressive (noun) one who wages war |
| belligerently | (Adv.) BELLIGERENT, aggressive. |
| bicker | to argue. |
| bickerer | one who bickers. |
| brabble | (Arch.) a squabble; (verb) to squabble. |
| brangle | (Arch.) a wrangle; a squabble; (verb) to wrangle. |
| brawl | an unruly punch-up; (verb) to fight. |
| brawler | a fighter. |
| brulyie | (Scots) a broil, a noisy disturbance. |
| brulzie | (Scots) a broil, a noisy disturbance. |
| cample | to wrangle. |
| cangle | (Scots) a noise or disturbance; (verb) to wrangle. |
| catfight | an argument between women. |
| clash | a loud noise, such as is caused by the striking together of sheets of metal; (verb) to conflict or disagree. |
| clashing | a striking against; opposition, conflict, disagreement. |
| clashingly | (Adv.) CLASHING. |
| collieshangie | (Scots) a squabble, brawl. |
| colluctation | (Arch.) strife, conflict. |
| combat | a fight; (verb) to engage in combat. |
| combatable | able to be combated. |
| combatant | one engaged in combat. |
| combater | one who combats. |
| conflict | to come into opposition. |
| conflictingly | (Adv.) CONFLICTING. |
| confliction | conflict. |
| conflictive | tending to conflict. |
| conflictory | relating to conflict. |
| conflictual | having the nature of conflict. |
| conteck | (Arch.) strife, discord. |
| contend | to vie. |
| contender | one who contends. |
| contendingly | (Adv.) CONTENDING. |
| contest | a competition; (verb) to compete for. |
| contestable | able to be contested. |
| contestably | (Adv.) CONTESTABLE, able to be contested. |
| contestation | controversy, debate. |
| contester | one who contests. |
| contestingly | (Adv.) CONTESTING. |
| contrarily | (Adv.) CONTRARY, opposite. |
| contrary | opposite; in an opposite direction (verb) to oppose, contradict |
| controverse | (Arch.) a dispute. |
| controversial | of, relating to, or arousing controversy. |
| controversially | (Adv.) CONTROVERSIAL, of, relating to, or arousing controversy. |
| controversy | the action of disputing or contending one with another. |
| controvert | to oppose; to argue against; to dispute. |
| controvertist | one who engages in controversy. |
| debateful | (Obs.) quarrelsome. |
| debatement | (Obs.) controversy. |
| delope | (Hist.) to fire one's gun into the air in a duel. |
| digladiation | a fight, a dispute. |
| dingdong | a set-to, an uproar; (verb) to have a set-to. |
| disaccord | to refuse to assent. |
| disagree | to differ in opinion. |
| disceptator | (Obs.) one who discepts. |
| disconsent | (Obs.) to differ or dissent. |
| discord | disagreement, strife; (verb) to be in disagreement. |
| discursist | (Obs.) a disputer. |
| disputable | that can be disputed. |
| disputably | (Adv.) DISPUTABLE, that can be disputed. |
| disputant | one who disputes. |
| disputation | the action of disputing. |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute. |
| disputatiously | (Adv.) DISPUTATIOUS, inclined to dispute. |
| disputative | inclined to dispute. |
| disputatively | (Adv.) DISPUTATIVE, inclined to dispute. |
| disputativeness | the state of being disputative. |
| dispute | to argue about. |
| disputer | one that disputes. |
| dissension | disagreement. |
| dissensus | (Lat.) a difference of opinion. |
| dissent | disagreement; (verb) to disagree. |
| dissenting | expressing disagreement. |
| dissentingly | (Adv.) DISSENTING. |
| dissention | (US) dissension. |
| dissonance | lack of agreement. |
| dissonancy | discord, dissonance. |
| donnybrook | (Irish) a brawl or heated public dispute. |
| duel | a prearranged fight between two people under fixed conditions; (verb) to fight a duel. |
| dueler | one who fights a duel. |
| duelist | one who fights a duel. |
| dueller | one who fights a duel. |
| duellist | one who fights a duel. |
| duello | (Ital.) a duel, duelling. |
| duelsome | given to duelling. |
| dustup | a to-do, a quarrel. |
| eristic | pertaining to dispute, argument or controversy (noun) a disputant |
| eristical | pertaining to dispute, argument or controversy. |
| eristically | (Adv.) ERISTIC, pertaining to dispute, argument or controversy. |
| fecht | (Scots) to fight. |
| fechter | (Scots) a fighter. |
| feud | a bitter, continuous hostility; (verb) to engage in a feud. |
| fight | a conflict; (verb) to attempt to defeat an adversary. |
| fighter | one that fights. |
| flite | (Scots) to quarrel, brawl. |
| flyte | (Scots) to quarrel, brawl. |
| foe | an enemy. |
| foeman | an enemy in war. |
| frampler | (Scott) a brawler. |
| fratch | a quarrel or brawl. |
| fray | to wear off by rubbing. |
| gainstrive | (Obs.) to strive or struggle against. |
| graplement | (Spenser) a close fight. |
| hafter | a caviler, a wrangler. |
| handplay | a dealing of blows. |
| hassel | an argument. |
| hassle | an argument; (verb) to harass. |
| hors | (Fr.) out of the combat; disabled from fighting. |
| impugnation | the act of impugning. |
| kickup | a noisy argument. |
| litigious | having ready recourse to litigation. |
| litigiously | (Adv.) LITIGIOUS, having ready recourse to litigation. |
| litigiousness | the state of being litigious. |
| luctation | (Obs.) a struggle. |
| melee | (Fr.) a confused struggle. |
| mellay | a confused struggle. |
| miff | a petty falling out; a tiff (verb) to put in a bad mood, offend |
| militance | the condition or fact of being militant, esp in pursuing a political or social end. |
| militancy | the condition or fact of being militant, esp in pursuing a political or social end. |
| monomachia | single combat; a duel. |
| monomachy | single combat; a duel. |
| nonargument | something that is not an argument. |
| nonconcur | to dissent or refuse to concur. |
| nym | as in nym war, a dispute about the right to publish material on the internet under a fictitious name. |
| object | to argue in opposition. |
| onsetter | (Arch.) an assailant. |
| oppose | to be in contention or conflict with. |
| opposer | one that opposes. |
| oppugn | to fight against; to call in question. |
| oppugnancy | (Shakesp.) antagonism. |
| oppugner | one who oppugns. |
| outargue | to surpass in arguing. |
| outbrawl | to surpass in brawling. |
| outduel | to surpass in duelling. |
| outfight | to surpass in fighting. |
| outfling | a sharp retort or gibe; (verb) to whip out. |
| polemicise | to argue or write polemically. |
| polemicist | one who engages in polemics. |
| polemicize | to argue or write polemically, carry on a controversy. |
| polemise | to argue or write polemically, carry on a controversy. |
| polemist | one who engages in polemics. |
| polemize | to argue or write polemically, carry on a controversy. |
| prabble | (Shakesp.) a clamorous contest, a brawl. |
| prawle | (Shakesp.) a Welsh version of brawl. |
| pribble | a clamorous contest, a brawl. |
| pugnacious | having a quarrelsome or combative nature. |
| pugnaciously | (Adv.) PUGNACIOUS, having a quarrelsome or combative nature. |
| punchout | a fist fight. |
| quarrel | a falling out; (verb) to fall out, disagree violently. |
| quarreler | one who quarrels. |
| quarreller | one who quarrels. |
| quarrellous | (Shakesp.) giving to quarrelling. |
| quarrelsome | apt or disposed to quarrel in an often petty manner. |
| quarrelsomeness | the state of being quarrelsome. |
| quibble | an evasive turning away from the point in question to something irrelevant; (verb) to argue over trivialities. |
| quibblingly | (Adv.) QUIBBLING. |
| reargue | to argue anew or again. |
| rebeller | one who rebels. |
| refel | (Obs.) to refute; to disprove. |
| refight | to fight again. |
| repugn | to fight against; to oppose. |
| resist | to strive against. |
| resister | one who resists. |
| resistingly | (Adv.) RESISTING. |
| rival | a competitor in the same field; (verb) to contend with. |
| rivality | rivalry. |
| roughhouse | a brawl; (verb) to brawl. |
| ructious | quarrelsome. |
| scrimmage | a noisy dispute or tussle; a rough or confused struggle; (verb) to take part in a scrimmage. |
| scrimmager | one who scrimmages. |
| scrummage | a noisy dispute or tussle; a rough or confused struggle; (verb) to engage in a scrummage. |
| skrimmage | a noisy dispute or tussle; a rough or confused struggle; (verb) to scuffle. |
| squabble | a petty quarrel; (verb) to quarrel. |
| squabbler | one who squabbles. |
| stickle | to argue stubbornly; to have objections. |
| stoor | great, formidable; stubborn, surly; (noun) an affray, a battle. |
| stoure | (Arch.) tumult, disturbance. |
| stoush | (Aust. sl.) a fight, a brawl; (verb) to fight. |
| strife | bitter conflict or dissension. |
| strifeful | contentious; discordant. |
| strifeless | without strife. |
| strift | (Arch.) a struggle. |
| struggle | a conflict; a hard contest with difficulties; (verb) to make strenuous efforts against opposition. |
| struggler | one who struggles. |
| strugglingly | (Adv.) STRUGGLING. |
| tiff | a slight quarrel; (verb) to be in a huff. |
| tuilyie | (Scots) a fight, a brawl; (verb) to struggle. |
| tuilzie | (Scots) a fight, a brawl; (verb) to struggle. |
| tussle | a sharp struggle; (verb) to struggle. |
| undisputable | not disputable. |
| velitation | a minor dispute; a skirmish. |
| vendetta | (Ital.) a blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the murderer or the murderer's family, esp as customary in Corsica and Sicily. |
| vendettist | one who carries on a vendetta. |
| vitilitigate | to be particularly quarrelsome. |
| vitilitigation | vexatious wrangling. |
| waur | (Scots) worse; (verb) to defeat, to worst. |
| wrangle | to argue noisily. |
| wranglesome | quarrelsome. |