Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| aftergrass | the grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath. |
| alang | (Malay) a coarse grass of the Malay peninsula. |
| alfa | (Arabic) a N. African esparto grass. |
| alfalfa | (Arabic) a kind of cereal grass. |
| amelcorn | (Ger.) a variety of wheat from which starch is produced. |
| arrowgrass | a grass of a genus of marsh plants whose burst capsule is like an arrowhead. |
| bajra | (Hindi) in the Indian subcontinent, pearl millet or a similar grain. |
| bajree | (Hindi) in the Indian subcontinent, pearl millet or a similar grain. |
| bajri | (Hindi) in the Indian subcontinent, pearl millet or a similar grain. |
| bamboo | (Malay) a tropical grass. |
| barley | a cereal grass. |
| bennet | a dry grass stalk. |
| bent | a stiff wiry grass. |
| bentgrass | a variety of grass. |
| benty | like bent, a stiff, wiry grass. |
| bere | barley, esp the six-rowed barley. |
| bigg | four-rowed barley. |
| blady | as in blady grass, a coarse Australian grass. |
| bluestem | a kind of prairie grass. |
| brome | a kind of grass, resembling oats. |
| bromegrass | a kind of grass resembling oats. |
| broomcorn | a kind of millet of whose stalks brooms are made. |
| buffel | as in buffel grass, grass used for pasture in Africa etc. No -S. |
| bullrush | an aquatic plant, reed-mace. |
| bulrush | an aquatic plant, reed-mace. |
| bunchgrass | a kind of W. American grass, that grows in clumps. |
| cannach | (Scots) a cotton-grass. |
| carex | (Lat.) a genus of plants, the sedges. |
| chufa | (Spanish) a sedgelike plant producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean. |
| clubrush | any sedge of the genus Scirpus. |
| cocksfoot | a type of grass. |
| cogon | a kind of fast-growing Asian grass. |
| cordgrass | a grass of the genus Spartina found in salt-marshes. |
| crabgrass | a type of grass. |
| cutgrass | a kind of swamp grass. |
| danthonia | a tufted grass native to Australia and New Zealand. |
| dari | (Arabic) Indian millet. |
| darnel | a species of ryegrass. |
| deergrass | a type of grass. |
| dhoora | (Arabic) Indian millet. |
| dhourra | (Arabic) Indian millet. |
| dhurra | (Arabic) Indian millet. |
| diss | an Algerian grass; (verb) to disrespect. |
| dogstail | a grass with spiky flowerheads. |
| dogtail | a grass with spiky flowerheads. |
| doob | (Hindi) dog's tooth grass, prized as food for cattle. |
| doura | (Arabic) Indian millet. |
| dourah | (Arabic) Indian millet. |
| dropseed | a type of grass. |
| dura | (Arabic) Indian millet. |
| durr | (Arabic) Indian millet. |
| durra | (Arabic) Indian millet. |
| durum | (Lat.) a strain of wheat, aka macaroni wheat. |
| einkorn | (Ger.) a variety of wheat. |
| emmer | (Ger.) a primitive strain of wheat. |
| eriophorum | a plant of the cotton-grass genus. |
| esparto | (Spanish) a tough, wiry grass, providing a fiber used for paper and cordage. |
| fescue | any of various perennial freq. wiry and tufted grasses constituting the genus Festuca. |
| feterita | (Spanish) a cereal grass. |
| fiorin | (Irish) a species of creeping bent grass. |
| foggage | (Scots) a grass that grows after the hay is cut. |
| forb | (Greek) any herb that does not resemble grass. |
| galleta | (Spanish) a perennial grass. |
| gama | (Spanish) a kind of pasture grass found in the Western United States. |
| glebous | (Arch.) cloddy, turfy. |
| glyceria | an aquatic grass. |
| grama | (Spanish) a kind of pasture grass found in the Western United States. |
| gramma | (Spanish) a kind of pasture grass found in the Western United States. |
| grassily | (Adv.) GRASSY, of or like grass. |
| grassless | destitute of grass. |
| grasslike | like grass. |
| grasswrack | eelgrass. |
| grassy | of or like grass. |
| halfa | (Arabic) a N. African esparto grass. |
| hardgrass | cocksfoot or other coarse grass. |
| hardinggrass | a perennial forage grass of the US. |
| harestail | a species of cotton grass. |
| hayey | like hay. |
| haylage | a type of hay. |
| herbage | herbs collectively. |
| herbaged | covered with grass. |
| jawari | (Hindi) Indian millet, aka durra. |
| johnsongrass | a tall perennial sorghum widely used as forage. |
| jowar | (Hindi) Indian millet, aka durra. |
| jowari | (Hindi) Indian millet, aka durra. |
| kans | (Hindi) an Indian grass related to sugarcane. |
| kikuyu | (Bantu) an African grass. |
| lalang | (Malay) a coarse grass of the Malay archipelago. |
| lemongrass | a fragrant perennial grass. |
| lolium | (Lat.) any plant of the Lolium genus of grasses. |
| lopgrass | soft brome-grass. |
| maize | an American cereal grass. |
| marram | (ON) a seaside grass. |
| marrum | (ON) a seaside grass. |
| mashlam | a mixed grain, esp rye and wheat. |
| mashlim | a mixed grain, esp rye and wheat. |
| mashlin | a mixed grain, esp rye and wheat. |
| mashloch | a mixed grain, esp rye and wheat. |
| mashlum | (Scots) a mixed grain, esp rye and wheat. |
| maslin | a mixed grain, esp rye and wheat. |
| matgrass | a small rushlike moorland grass. |
| matweed | a name of several maritime grasses. |
| melic | a type of perennial grass. |
| melick | a type of perennial grass. |
| miliary | like or concerning millet seeds. |
| millet | a cereal grass. |
| milo | a drought-resistant variety of sorghum. |
| miscanthus | any of several hardy, ornamental, perennial grasses. |
| muhly | a perennial grass. |
| nassella | as in nassella tussock, a type of tussock grass. No -S. |
| nutgrass | any of various American sedges. |
| nutsedge | any of various American sedges. |
| oat | a kind of grass, the seeds of which are used as food. |
| oatlike | resembling oats. |
| panic | frantic or sudden fright (verb) to be thrown into panic |
| panick | any grass of the genus Panicum. |
| panicum | (Lat.) any grass of the genus Panicum. |
| pannick | any grass of the genus Panicum. |
| paspalum | any plant of the tropical genus Paspalum of pasture grasses, eg pampas-grass. |
| pilcorn | the naked oat, a variety in which the glume does not adhere to the grain. |
| poa | a meadow-grass plant. |
| proso | (Russian) a variety of millet. |
| quitch | a perennial grass; (verb, Spenser) to stir, move. |
| ragee | (Hindi) a kind of millet. |
| raggee | (Hindi) a kind of millet. |
| raggy | ragged, rough (noun, Hindi) a kind of millet |
| ragi | (Hindi) a kind of millet. |
| raupo | (Maori) the New Zealand bulrush. |
| raygrass | a pasture and fodder type of grass. |
| redtop | a kind of grass highly valued in the US for pasturage and hay for cattle. |
| reed | a tall stiff hard-culmed marsh or water grass of various kinds (verb) to fasten or thatch with reed |
| rhy | (Spenser) rye. |
| ricegrass | any of several barnyard grasses, esp. shama millet. |
| roosa | (Hindi) a kind of E. Indian grass from which an aromatic oil is distilled. |
| rotgrass | soft grass, butterwort, pennywort or other plant reputed to cause sheep-rot. |
| rusa | (Hindi) a kind of E. Indian grass from which an aromatic oil is distilled. |
| rye | a cereal grass. |
| ryeflour | a pasture and fodder type of grass. |
| ryegrass | a pasture and fodder type of grass. |
| sacahuista | (Nahuatl) a bear grass that may cause poisoning in livestock. |
| sacahuiste | (Nahuatl) a bear grass that may cause poisoning in livestock. |
| sacaton | (Spanish) a type of coarse perennial grass growing in alkaline regions of the southern US. |
| saccharum | a genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane. |
| sarrasin | (Fr.) buckwheat. |
| sarrazin | (Fr.) buckwheat. |
| sawgrass | a sedge with serrated leaves, growing in coastal areas of the southeastern US. |
| seagrass | a grasslike plant living in or close to the sea. |
| sedge | a plant like a grass but with solid stem. |
| sedged | made or composed of sedge. |
| sedgy | abounding in sedge. |
| sorgho | (Fr.) Indian millet and its varieties. |
| sorghum | a genus of grasses related to sugarcane, and including durra and Kaffir corn. |
| sorgo | (Fr.) Indian millet and its varieties. |
| spartina | a type of grass growing in salt marshes. |
| spelt | a hardy wheat, aka emmer. |
| speltz | a hardy wheat, aka emmer. |
| spinifex | (Lat.) a sharp-pointed Australian grass. |
| squitch | quitch grass. |
| stipa | (Lat.) any grass of the feather grass genus Stipa. |
| strae | (Scots) straw. |
| sugarcane | a tall woody grass of tropical and semitropical regions, yielding sugar. |
| sward | a portion of land covered with grass (verb) to cover with grass |
| swardy | covered with sward or grass. |
| switchgrass | a panic grass of the western US that is used for hay. |
| tallgrass | long grass in a N. American prairie. |
| taramea | (Maori) a variety of New Zealand speargrass. |
| tef | (Amharic) an Ethiopian cereal grass. |
| teff | (Amharic) an Ethiopian cereal grass. |
| teosinte | (Nahuatl} a Mexican grass grown as fodder, allied to maize but with several stems from the base. |
| terf | (Milton) turf. |
| terfe | (Milton) turf. |
| timothy | a kind of grass. |
| toadgrass | a kind of low rush. |
| toadrush | a kind of low rush. |
| toetoe | (Maori) a tall reedlike grass of New Zealand. |
| toitoi | (Maori) a tall reedlike grass of New Zealand. |
| trigo | a kind of wheat. |
| triticale | a hybrid of wheat and rye. |
| triticum | (Lat.) a genus of grasses including the various species of wheat. |
| turfgrass | grass grown for lawns. |
| turfiness | the state of being turfy. |
| tussac | as in tussac grass, a kind of grass. No -S. |
| vetiver | (Tamil) an E. Indian grass; also, its fragrant roots which are much used for making mats and screens. |
| whangee | (Chinese) a kind of grass related to the bamboo; a cane made from the stem of this. |
| wheat | any cereal grass of the genus Triticum. |
| wiregrass | a variety of fine grass. |
| witchgrass | a N. American grass common on cultivated land. |
| woodrush | a kind of rush. |
| zacaton | (Spanish) a type of coarse perennial grass growing in alkaline regions of the southern US. |
| zea | part of a cereal plant, once used as a diuretic. |
| zizania | (Greek) a genus of grasses including Indian rice. |
| zoysia | a kind of perennial grass. |