Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| akvavit aquavit | a Scandinavian spirit made from potatoes or grain and flavoured with caraway seeds. |
| bergylt | the Norway haddock. |
| boyg | a problem difficult to get to grips with. |
| brisling | a Norwegian sprat. |
| buhund | a type of Norwegian dog. |
| finnesko finnsko finsko | a reindeer-skin boot with the hair on > FINNESKO, FINNSKO, FINSKO. |
| fjeld | a high, barren Scandinavian plateau. |
| fjord | a coastal valley which was sculpted by glacial action. |
| gjetost | cheese made from goat's milk. |
| halling | a Norwegian country dance. |
| jarlsberg | a type of Norwegian cheese. |
| klister | a kind of wax for skis. [Norw. klister, paste]. |
| kraken | a legendary sea monster. |
| langspel langspiel | an old Shetland cithern. |
| lemming | a small short-tailed Arctic rodent. |
| lutefisk | dried codfish. [Norw. lute, to wash in lye solution, + fisk, fish]. |
| minke | a kind of whale. [From a Norwegian whaler Meincke, who harpooned one by accident]. |
| mysost | a mild cheese. [Norw. myse, whey + ost cheese]. |
| quisling | a puppet leader supported by foreign power. [From Vidkun Quisling]. |
| rosemaling | the art of painting (wooden objects) with flower motifs; flower motifs, esp. painted on wood. |
| saeter | an upland pasture that provides summer pasture. |
| sei | a whale, a kind of rorqual. [Norw. sei, coalfish]. |
| sild | herring, esp. canned, lightly smoked herring imported from Scandinavia. |
| skijoring skikjoring skioring | the sport of being drawn on skis over snow by horse or motor. |
| slalom | a zig-zag course e.g. in skiing; (verb) to ski a slalom. |
| smorbrod | hors d'oeuvres served on slices of buttered bread. Also (Danish) SMORREBROD. |
| telemark | a skiing turn or stop executed by shifting the weight forward on the ski so that it will be on the outside of the turn, and gradually turning its tip inward; (verb) to make this kind of skiing turn. [From Telemark in Norway]. |
| torsk | a gadid fish, aka CUSK. |