Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| agacerie | (Fr.) an allurement, coquetry. |
| amorousness | the quality of being amorous. |
| amourette | (Fr.) a brief or unimportant love affair. |
| bedright | (Shakesp.) the privilege or due of the marriage bed. |
| bedrite | the privilege or due of the marriage-bed. |
| betroth | to engage to marry. |
| bridal | related to brides (noun) a wedding |
| bridally | (Adv.) BRIDAL, related to brides. |
| bride | a woman about to be married or newly married; (verb) to act the bride. |
| bridemaid | a bridesmaid. |
| bridewealth | in tribal societies, etc, a price paid (usu in kind) to a bride's family by the bridegroom. |
| broose | (Scots) a race at a wedding. |
| brouze | (Scott) a race at a wedding. |
| concubinage | the cohabitation of persons not legally married. |
| concubitancy | a custom by which marriage between certain persons is obligatory. |
| confarreate | relating to confarreation. |
| confarreation | a Roman patrician mode of marriage, in which a spelt cake was offered up. |
| coquet | (Fr.) to flirt, to dally. |
| coquetry | a flirtatious act or attitude. |
| coquettish | practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring. |
| coquettishly | (Adv.) COQUETTISH, practicing or exhibiting coquetry. |
| coquettishness | the state of being coquettish. |
| corinthianise | (Arch.) to be licentious. |
| corinthianize | (Arch.) to be licentious. |
| courtship | the act of wooing a woman in order to persuade her to become one's wife. |
| dalliance | flirtation. |
| espousal | a marriage ceremony. |
| fiancailles | (Fr.) betrothal. |
| flirt | one who flirts (verb) to behave amorously without serious intent |
| flirtation | the act of flirting. |
| flirtatious | given to flirting. |
| flirtatiously | (Adv.) FLIRTATIOUS, given to flirting. |
| flirtatiousness | the state of being flirtatious. |
| flirter | one who flirts. |
| flirting | the act of flirting. |
| flirtingly | (Adv.) FLIRTING. |
| flirtish | (Obs.) given to flirting. |
| flirty | flirtatious. |
| footsie | flirtation involving the touching together of feet. |
| footsy | flirtation involving the touching together of feet. |
| gallant | brave (noun) a dashing, debonair young man; (verb) to pay court to or flirt with (a woman); esp attend or act as an escort to (a woman) |
| handfast | a betrothal; (verb, arch.) to betroth. |
| honeymonth | (Obs.) honeymoon; (verb) to spend one's honeymoon. |
| honeymoon | the first weeks after marriage, commonly spent on holiday; (verb) to go on honeymoon. |
| infare | a housewarming after a wedding. |
| inmarriage | endogamy. |
| kneesies | the flirtatious touching of knees under the table. |
| lobola | (Nguni) an African custom whereby the bridegroom's family makes a payment in cattle or cash to the bride's family before marriage. |
| lobolo | (Nguni) an African custom whereby the bridegroom's family makes a payment in cattle or cash to the bride's family before marriage. |
| minauderie | (Fr.) coquetry. |
| monogamist | one who practices or upholds monogamy. |
| monogamous | relating to monogamy. |
| monogamously | (Adv.) MONOGAMOUS, relating to monogamy. |
| monogamy | marriage with one person at a time. |
| nikah | in Islamic marriage, the contract between bride and bridegroom. |
| nuptial | relating to weddings (noun) a wedding ceremony |
| nuptially | (Adv.) NUPTIAL, relating to a wedding. |
| outmarriage | marriage outside the social group. |
| patrilocal | designating a form of marriage in which the wife goes to live with the husband's group. |
| patrilocally | (Adv.) PATRILOCAL, of a form of marriage in which the wife goes to live with the husband's group. |
| polygamise | to practise polygamy. |
| polygamize | to practise polygamy. |
| prenuptial | an arrangement made or occurring before marriage. |
| romance | a love affair; (verb) to woo. |
| sangeet | (Hindi) a kind of pre-wedding party in a Hindi or Sikh marriage. |
| smirting | flirting among those smoking outside a nonsmoking area. |
| smoocher | one who smooches. |
| smoodge | (Aust. sl.) to kiss closely. |
| smooge | (Aust. sl.) to kiss closely. |
| spammie | (Dial.) a lovebite. |
| sponsalia | nuptials, marriage. |
| subarration | an ancient form of betrothal in which pledges of money, rings, etc were given by the man to the woman. |
| subarrhation | an ancient form of betrothal in which pledges of money, rings, etc were given by the man to the woman. |
| troth | faith, fidelity; (verb, Shakesp.) to betroth. |
| trothplight | (Arch.) betrothal; (verb) to betroth. |
| uncoquettish | not coquettish. |
| wanton | thoughtlessly cruel (noun) an immoral person; (verb) to behave in a wanton fashion |
| wantonly | (Adv.) WANTON, thoughtlessly cruel. |
| womanise | to pursue or engage in casual sexual encounters with women. |
| womaniser | one who engages in casual sexual encounters with women. |
| womanize | to pursue or engage in casual sexual encounters with women. |
| womanizer | one who engages in casual sexual encounters with women. |
| woo | to court; to seek the support of. |
| wooable | capable of being wooed. |
| wooer | one that woos. |
| wooingly | (Adv.) WOOING. seductive. |