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. |