Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| alleycat | a stray cat living in alleys and back streets. |
| baudrons | a quasi-proper name for the cat; also for the hare. N.B. There is no singular BAUDRON. |
| bobcat | a short-tailed N. American lynx. |
| caracal | a kind of wild cat. [Turkish qara-qualq, black ear]. |
| catamount catamountain | any wild large species of cat, esp. the leopard, panther or ocelot. |
| cathood | the state of being a cat. |
| catlike | like a cat, feline. |
| cattish | catlike; feline. |
| cattishly | in the manner of a cat. |
| cheetah chetah | a hunting cat of Africa. |
| clowder | a group of cats. |
| colorpoint | a breed of domestic cat. |
| cougar couguar | a puma. |
| eyra | a S. American wild cat. |
| felid | a member of the cat family. [L. felis, cat]. |
| feline | (a member) of the cat family. |
| felinely | in the manner of a feline. |
| felinity | the quality of being feline. |
| gib | a castrated male cat. |
| grimalkin | a cat; esp. an old female cat. [Gri, grey, + malkin, an old diminutive of Matilda or Maud]. |
| jaguar | a powerful feline beaast of prey, related to the leopard. |
| jaguarondi jaguarundi | a South American wild cat. |
| korat | a cat having a silver-blue coat. [From Korat province, Thailand]. |
| leonine | of or like a lion. |
| leopard | a large spotted cat found in Africa and Asia, aka PANTHER. |
| libbard | a leopard. |
| liger | a cross between a lion and a tiger. |
| lion | a large tawny cat. |
| lioness | a female LION. |
| lionly | like a lion; fierce> LIONLIER, LIONLIEST. |
| lyncean | lynx-like; sharp-sighted. |
| lynx | an animal of the Lynx genus of wild cats. |
| lynxlike | like a LYNX. |
| malkin | a cat. [An old diminutive of Matilda or Maud]. |
| manul | a kind of Central Asian wild cat. |
| margay | a spotted S. American tiger-cat. |
| mog moggie moggy | a cat. |
| mouser | a cat kept to catch mice. |
| munchkin | a breed of medium-sized cat with short legs. |
| oceloid | resembling the OCELOT. |
| ocelot | an American cat, like a small leopard. |
| ocicat | a large short-haired cat with a spotted cat. |
| ounce | formerly a lynx; now generally the snow leopard, a big cat of Asia with markings similar to a leopard's. |
| panther | a leopard, esp. a black one. |
| pard pardal pardale pardalis | a leopard. |
| pardine | pertaining to or like a leopard; spotted. |
| poussie | a pussy. |
| puma | a moderately large carnivorous mammal of the cat family. |
| puss | a familiar name for a cat. Also PUSSY. |
| pussy | a familiar name for a cat; (adj.) full of pus > PUSSIER, PUSSIEST. |
| ragdoll | a kind of domestic cat. |
| ramcat | a male cat. |
| rooikat | a kind of S. African LYNX. |
| rumpy | a Manx cat; a tailless chicken. |
| sealpoint | a variety of Siamese cat. |
| serval | a long-legged African wildcat with a yellowish coat and black spots. |
| shorthair | a breed of domestic cat with a short thick coat. |
| simba | (Swahili) a lion. |
| sphynx | a kind of cat. |
| tabby | a cat with grey and brown fur. |
| tabbyhood | the state of being a TABBY. |
| tiger | a large fierce striped cat of India. |
| tigerish tigrish | resembling a tiger. |
| tigerishly tigrishly | in the manner of a tiger. |
| tigerlike | like a tiger. |
| tigerly | in the manner of a tiger TIGERLIER, TIGERLIEST. |
| tigery | like a tiger > TIGERIER, TIGERIEST. |
| tiglon tigon | a cross between a tiger and a lioness. |
| tigress | a female tiger. |
| tigrine | of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger. |
| tigroid | like a tiger. |
| tomcat | a male cat; (verb) to engage in indiscriminate sexual behaviour. |
| wildcat | an undomesticated species of cat native to Europe; (verb) to drill an experimental well in an area of unknown productivity in search of oil, gas, ore, etc. |