Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| allonge | a lunge or thrusting movement; (verb) to make a lunge or thrust. |
| appel | a stamp of the foot in a false attack, in order to create an opening for a hit. |
| backsword | an archaic, edged, unpointed sword used in prizefighting. |
| battuta | a hitting of the opponent's blade as a distraction or to provoke a response. |
| botte | a pass or thrust in fencing. |
| broadsword | any sword intended for cutting instead of thrusting; a SABRE. |
| button | a guard on the tip of a fencing foil. |
| coquille | a basket-hilt of a sword in the shape of a shell. |
| counter | to make an attack while parrying one. |
| envelopment | an engagement that sweeps the opponent's blade through a full circle. |
| epee | a sword similar to the foil but with a larger guard and a heavier blade of triangular cross section. |
| epeeist | one who uses an EPEE. |
| faible foible | the part of a foil blade between the middle and the point. |
| feint | an attack into one line with the intention of switching to another line before the attack is completed; (verb) to make a feint. |
| fence | to practice the art of fencing. |
| fencer | one that fences. |
| flanconade | a thrust in the side. |
| fleche | an attack in which the aggressor leaps off his leading foot, attempts to make the hit, and then passes the opponent at a run. |
| fleuret | a fencing foil. |
| foil | a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button and usually having a bell-shaped guard; (verb) to frustrate. |
| foilist | one who fences with a foil. |
| foilsman | a man who fences with a foil. |
| foilswoman | a woman who fences with a foil. |
| foin | to make a thrust. |
| forte | the lower, stronger part of the blade. |
| hilt | the handle of a sword, consisting of guard, grip, and pommel. |
| imbroccata | a downward pass or thrust. |
| lunge | an attack made by extending the rear leg and landing on the bent front leg. |
| maraging | a special steel used for making blades; said to be stronger and break more cleanly than conventional steels. |
| martingal martingale | a strap that binds the grip to the wrist or forearm. |
| montant montanto | an upward blow. |
| moulinet | a whirling cut, executed from the wrist or elbow. |
| octave | the eighth of eight parrying positions: blade down and to the outside, wrist supinated. |
| outfence | to surpass at fencing. |
| parry | to ward off a blow. |
| passado | a forward thrust > PASSADOES or PASSADOS. |
| piste | the linear strip on which a fencing bout is fought; approx. 2m wide and 14m long. |
| plastron | a fencer's wadded breast-shield. |
| prime | the first of eight parrying positions: blade down and to the inside, wrist pronated. |
| punto puncto | a pass or thrust > PUNTOS, PUNCTOS. |
| quarte | the fourth of eight parrying positions: blade up and to the inside, wrist supinated. |
| quinte | the fifth of eight parrying positions: blade up and to the inside, wrist pronated. |
| rapier | a long, double-edged thrusting sword popular in the 16th-17th centuries. |
| remise | an effective second thrust after the first has failed. |
| reprise | renewal of an attack that missed or was parried, after a return to en-garde. |
| reverso | a back-handed sword-stroke > REVERSI or REVERSOS. |
| ripost riposte | in fencing, a return thrust after a parry; (verb) to make such a thrust. |
| saber sabre | a stout cavalry sword, having a single edge; (verb) to strike with a sabre. |
| salle | a fencing hall or club. |
| schlager | a German fraternity duelling sword, used with cuts to the face and no footwork. |
| scrimure | a fencer. |
| seconde | the second of eight parrying positions: blade down and to the outside, wrist pronated. |
| septime | the seventh of eight parrying position: blade down and to the inside, wrist supinated. |
| singlestick | a one-handed fencing stick with a hand guard. |
| sixte | the sixth of eight parrying positions: blade up and to the outside, wrist supinated. |
| stoccado stoccata | a stab; a straight thrust with a rapier. The plural of STOCCADO is STOCCADOS or STOCCADOES. |
| stramacon stramazon | a downward cut. |
| thrust | an attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point. |
| tierce | the third of eight parrying position: blade up and to the outside, wrist pronated. |
| touche | a call acknowledging a hit. |
| volt volte | a sudden leap to avoid a thrust; (verb) to make a volt. |