Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| abduct | to kidnap. |
| abduction | kidnap. |
| abet | to incite to or assist in an illegal act. |
| abetment | the act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc. |
| abettal | the act of ABETTING. |
| abscond | to depart suddenly and secretly. |
| anticrime | opposed to crime. |
| antifraud | designed to reduce fraud. |
| antigang | designed to restrict the activities of criminal gangs. |
| antigraft | designed to reduce corruption. |
| antirape | opposed to rape. |
| antitheft | designed to prevent theft. |
| arson | the malicious or fraudulent burning of property. |
| arsonous | relating to ARSON. |
| assault | an unlawful attempt to apply force to the person of another (when force is actually applied, the act amounts to BATTERY); (verb) to attack. |
| autocrime | crime related to cars. |
| banditry | the activities of a bandit. |
| barratrous barretrous | tainted with, or constituting, BARRATRY. |
| barratry barretry | the offense of frequently stirring up lawsuits or quarrels. |
| battery | an attack against a person, beating or wounding by touching clothes or body. |
| becrime | to make guilty of crime. |
| berob | to rob. |
| bigamous | guilty of bigamy > BIGAMOUSLY. |
| bigamy | the crime of being married to two people simultaneously. |
| blackbird | to traffic in slaves. |
| blackmail | to extort money from a person by threats. |
| blag | to rob, steal. |
| bloodguilt | the guilt of shedding blood, e.g. in murder. |
| bobbitt | to amputate a husband's penis (not sure if this is a officially a crime, but it does seem questionable behaviour). |
| bobol | a type of fraud carried out by one with access to public funds; (verb) to commit a bobol > BOBOLS, BOBOLLING, BOBOLLED. |
| bootleg | to make, sell, or transport (alcoholic liquor) for sale illegally; to produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally. [From a smuggler's practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots]. |
| bossnapping | kidnapping a company's boss as part of industrial action. |
| brigandage | the life and practice of brigands; highway robbery. |
| brigandry | the act of being a BRIGAND. |
| burglarise burglarize | to commit BURGLARY. |
| burglary | forcible entry into a building especially at night with the intent to commit a crime (as theft). |
| burgle | to commit BURGLARY. |
| calumny | the malicious uttering of false charges calculated to damage another's reputation; (verb) to utter a calumny > CALUMNIED, CALUMNYING. |
| carjack | to hijack a road vehicle and its occupants. |
| champerty | an illegal contract to finance a lawsuit for a percentage fee. |
| chantage | blackmail to prevent exposure of scandalous facts. |
| cly | to seize or steal > CLIES, CLYING, CLIED. |
| collusion | a secret agreement to deceive, e.g. one made between the opposing parties in a lawsuit. |
| condiddle | to steal. |
| conspirant | engaging in a plot to commit a crime; conspiring. |
| conspire | to plot or scheme together, esp. treasonously. |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods. |
| conversion | unauthorised dealing with another's property. |
| covin covyne covine | a conspiracy between two or more people to act to the injury of another. |
| crime | a violation of law, esp if serious; (verb) to charge or convict of an infraction of regulations. |
| crimeful | full of crime. |
| crimeless | without crime. |
| crimen | (Lat.) crime, as in crimen falsi, the crime of perjury > CRIMINA. |
| crimewave | a period of increased criminal activity. |
| criminality | the state of being criminal. |
| criminate | to accuse of a crime or other wrongful act; to incriminate. |
| criminogenic | causing crime. |
| criminology | study of crime; criminals. |
| criminous | criminal, chiefly in the ecclesiastical phrase 'a criminous clerk'. |
| criminousness | the state of being CRIMINOUS. |
| crookery | crooked activity. |
| cybercrime | computer-related crime. |
| cyberterrorism | computer-related terrorism. |
| dacoitage dacoity dakoiti dakoity | robbery by dacoits, Indian brigands. |
| defalcate | to embezzle money held on trust. |
| defalcation | the act or an instance of embezzling. |
| defamation | the act of defaming another. |
| defamatory | serving to defame > DEFAMATORILY. |
| delict | a violation of law; an offence. |
| dewitt | to lynch. [From the surname of two brothers, John and Cornelius De Witt, who were lynched by a mob in 1672]. |
| dognap | to abduct a dog > DOGNAPS, DOGNAPING or DOGNAPPING, DOGNAPED or DOGNAPPED. |
| duffing | cattle-stealing. |
| embezzle | to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use. |
| embezzlement | the act of EMBEZZLING. |
| embracery | an attempt to influence a jury illegally as by bribery, threats, or promises. |
| enlevement | (Scots law) the abduction of a woman or child. |
| ethnocide | the extermination of a racial or cultural group. |
| extorsive extortive | relating to or practising extortion. |
| extortion | the illegal securing of money by compulsion or violence. |
| felony | a grave crime. |
| fenagle finagle | to obtain by guile or swindling. |
| filch | to steal. |
| filicidal | relating to FILICIDE, the killing of one's own child. |
| filicide | the killing of one's own child. |
| finagle | see FENAGLE. |
| fineer | to get goods on credit by fraud or deception. |
| flimp | to rob somebody while a partner hustles. |
| forgery | fraudulently making or altering anything, esp anything printed. |
| fratricidal | relating to FRATRICIDE. |
| fratricide | the killing of a brother. |
| fraud | criminal deception done with the intention of gaining an advantage. |
| fraudful | full of fraud or deceit > FRAUDFULLY. |
| fraudulence fraudulency | the state of being FRAUDULENT. |
| fraudulent | characterized by fraud > FRAUDULENTLY. |
| fraudulentness | the state of being FRAUDULENT. |
| freebootery freebooty | piracy. |
| fugitation | in Scots law, absconding from justice. |
| furacious | given to thieving; thievish. [L. furari, to steal]. |
| furaciousness furacity | addictedness to theft; thievishness. |
| genocidal | relating to GENOCIDE. |
| genocide | the deliberate extermination of a national or racial group. |
| glom | to steal > GLOMS, GLOMMING, GLOMMED. |
| graymail | pressure on an official to reveal sensitive information. |
| gunrunning | smuggling guns into a country. |
| hamesucken | (Scots) the assaulting of a man in his own house. |
| heist | a robbery; (verb) to steal or rob in a heist. |
| highjack hijack | to seize a vehicle while in transit. |
| homicidal | related to homicide > HOMICIDALLY. |
| homicide | the killing of one person by another. |
| housebreaking | the act of breaking into a house for the purpose of stealing. |
| illegal | against the law > ILLEGALLY. |
| illegality | the state of being ILLEGAL. |
| infanticide | the killing of a small child. |
| infanticidal | relating to INFANTICIDE. |
| jackroll | to rob a drunken or sleeping person. |
| joyride | to take a car without the owner's permission > JOYRIDES, JOYRIDING, JOYRODE, JOYRIDDEN. |
| kidnap | to abduct > KIDNAPS, KIDNAPING or KIDNAPPING, KIDNAPED or KIDNAPPED. |
| klephtism | being a KLEPHT, a Greek brigand. |
| laches | negligence or unreasonable delay in pursuing a legal remedy > LACHESES. N.B. no LACHE*. |
| larcenous | relating to LARCENY, theft of personal property > LARCENOUSLY. |
| larceny | theft of personal property (replaced as a statutory crime in English law by THEFT). |
| latrocinium | highway robbery > LATROCINIA. |
| latrociny | highway robbery. [L. latro, thief]. |
| legering | selling short weight. |
| levant | to run away from a debt. |
| libel | to defame by the circulation of libellous statements; accuse falsely and maliciously > LIBELS, LIBELING or LIBELLING, LIBELED or LIBELLED. |
| libellous libelous | relating to LIBEL. |
| lynch | to put to death without legal sanction. |
| maihem mayhem | maiming, malicious damage. |
| mainor mainour | stolen property discovered on thief's person. |
| malefactory | having the nature of a MALEFACTOR. |
| malfeasance | evil-doing; illegal activities. |
| malversation | dishonest or unethical conduct in office, such as bribery, extortion or embezzlement. |
| manslaughter | the unlawful killing of a human being without express or implied malice. |
| mansworn | perjured; one who commit perjury > MANSWORNS. |
| matricidal | relating to MATRICIDE. |
| matricide | the killing of a mother. |
| mayhem | see MAIHEM. |
| misdemeanour | a legal offence of less gravity than a FELONY. |
| misfeasance | the doing of a lawful act in a wrongful manner. |
| misprision | a wrongful act or omission; spec. a misdemeanour or failure of duty by a public official. |
| moonshine | illegally distilled or smuggled whisky or other spirit; (verb) to distil illicit liquor > MOONSHINES, MOONSHINING, MOONSHINED. |
| mopery | violation of a trivial or imaginary law, for example, loitering, used to arrest someone when no other crime can be charged. |
| multicide | mass murder. |
| murder murther | to kill unlawfully with premediated malice. |
| murderous | inclined to murder > MURDEROUSLY. |
| murther | see MURDER. |
| mutine | mutiny; a mutineer; (verb) to mutiny. |
| mutiny | to revolt against constituted authority. |
| nim | to take or steal > NIMS, NIMMING, NIMMED. |
| noncrime | something that is not a crime. |
| noxal | relating to wrongful injury by an animal or person belonging to another. |
| obreption | an attempt to obtain ecclesiastical dispensation, etc., fraudulently. |
| outlawry | the state of being an OUTLAW. |
| outthieve | to surpass at thieving. |
| parricidal | of or pertaining to PARRICIDE. |
| parricide | the killing of a parent or close relative. |
| patricidal | of or pertaining to PATRICIDE. |
| patricide | the killing of a father. |
| peculate | to embezzle. |
| peculation | embezzlement. |
| perduellion | treason. |
| perjurious perjurous | guilty of perjury. |
| perjury | the willful giving of false testimony under oath in a judicial proceeding. |
| petnap | to kidnap a pet > PETNAPS, PETNAPING or PETNAPPING, PETNAPPED. |
| picaroon | a pirate ship; (verb) to act as a pirate. |
| pickery | in Scots law, petty theft. |
| pickpocket | to pick pockets. |
| pilfer | to steal. |
| pilferable | that can be pilfered. |
| pilferage | the act of pilfering. |
| pilfery | petty theft. |
| piracy | robbery on the high seas. |
| plagiarise plagiarize | to steal ideas or writings from another person and present them as one's own. |
| plagium | the crime of kidnapping. |
| plunderage | the EMBEZZLEMENT of goods on shipboard. |
| poach | to steal game. |
| praemunire | the offense of introducing foreign authority into England, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress the civil power of the pope in the kingdom. |
| prig | to filch. |
| prolicidal | relating to PROLICIDE, the killing of offspring. |
| prolicide | killing of offspring; killing of the human race. |
| purloin | to steal; to filch. |
| purpresture | encroachment on public property. |
| rape | unlawful sexual intercourse (by force) with another person without that person's consent; (verb) to commit rape. |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior, especially a relapse into criminal behavior. |
| recidivous | given to RECIDIVISM. |
| regicidal | pertaining to REGICIDE, or to one committing it. |
| regicide | the killing of a king. |
| rob | to steal. |
| robbery | the act of one who robs. |
| rort | to commit fraud, falsify accounts. |
| rustle | to steal cattle or horses. |
| safecracking | the act of breaking open a safe. |
| scrump skrump | to steal fruit (esp. apples) from trees. |
| sedition | conduct or language inciting people to rebellion or a breach of public order. |
| seditious | relating to SEDITION > SEDITIOUSLY. |
| shoplift | to steal from a shop. |
| skrump | see SCRUMP. |
| skyjack | to hijack an aeroplane. |
| slander | to defame. |
| slanderous | relating to SLANDER > SLANDEROUSLY. |
| sororicidal | relating to SORORICIDE, the killing of one's own sister. |
| sororicide | the killing of one's own sister. |
| steal | to take without right or permission > STEALS, STEALING, STOLE or (Scots) STEALT or STEALED or (obs.) STAW, STOLEN or (obs.) STOLN or (Scots) STOWN. |
| stealage | theft. |
| stellionate | fraud committed in making contracts, esp. that which involves selling the same thing, or rights to the same thing, to different persons. |
| stickup | a robbery at gunpoint. |
| stouth | (Scots) theft. |
| stoutherie | (Scots) theft, stolen goods. |
| stouthrief | (Scots) theft with violence. |
| suborn | to bribe or procure to commit an unlawful act. |
| thagi | murder and robbery by thugs > THAGIS. |
| theft | the act of stealing. |
| theftuous | thievish. |
| thieve | to steal. |
| thievery | the act or practice of stealing. |
| thuggee | murder and robbery by thugs. |
| thuggery | the behaviour of a thug. |
| thuggism | the system of robbery and assassination practised by the Thugs. |
| tort | a breach of a duty imposed by law (rather than by contract) which gives a right of action for damages. |
| tortious | committing a wrongful deed > TORTIOUSLY. |
| trahison | treachery; treason. |
| treason | violation of allegiance toward one's country. |
| treasonable | of the nature of treason > TREASONABLY. |
| trespass | to enter unlawfully upon another's land. |
| trigamy | the state of being married to three spouses at the same time. |
| trucage truquage | the faking of works of art. |
| twoccing twocking | the offence of taking (a car) without the owner's consent. |
| unhoard | to take or steal from a hoard. |
| uxoricidal | of or pertaining to UXORICIDE. |
| uxoricide | the murder of a wife by her husband. |