Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| anelace anlace anlas | a short two-edged dagger. |
| ataghan yataghan yatagan | a Muslim long curved knife. |
| athame | a witch's knife used in ritual. |
| backsword | a sword with one sharp edge. |
| barong | a broad-bladed Philippine knife. |
| baselard | a short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century. |
| bilbo | a rapier or sword > BILBOS or BILBOES. [From the town of Bilbao, famous for its swords]. |
| bilboa | a rapier or sword, a BILBO. |
| blade | a sword. |
| bodkin | a dagger, stiletto; a blunt needle. |
| bokken | a wooden sword for training. |
| boline | a witch's knife used in ritual, an ATHAME. |
| bolo | a traditional long-bladed Philippine knife > BOLOS. |
| bowie | as in bowie knife, a large knife. No —S. |
| brand brond | (poetic) a sword. |
| broadsword | a cutting sword with a broad blade. |
| brondyron | a brand, a sword. |
| cemitare | a SCIMITAR. |
| chakra | in Sikh culture, a disc-shaped knife used as a missile; a discus representing the sun, as in portrayals of Hindu gods; in yoga, one of the seven centres of spiritual power in the body. |
| choil | the end of a knife blade nearest the handle. |
| chiv chive shiv chib | a knife; (verb) to cut with a knife > CHIVVED, CHIVED, SHIVVED, CHIBBED. |
| claymore | a large sword. [Gaelic claidheamh, sword + mor, great]. |
| couteau | a knife; a dagger > COUTEAUX. |
| crampet | a metal tip at the end of a SCABBARD. |
| crease creese kreese cris kris | a dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. CREESE, KREESE and KRIS can be used as verbs: to stab with this > CREESED, KREESED, KRISED. |
| curtalax curtaxe curtalaxe | a short broad sword; a cutlass. |
| curtana | a sword without a point, symbolic of mercy. [L. curtus, short]. |
| cutlas cutlass | a curved, one-edged sword formerly used by sailors. |
| cutto cuttoe | a large knife > CUTTOES. [Fr. couteau]. |
| da dah | a heavy Burmese knife. |
| dagger | a short stabbing weapon with a pointed blade; (verb) to stab with a dagger. |
| daggerlike | like a dagger. |
| digladiate | to fight with swords; to fence. |
| digladiator | one who fights with swords. |
| dirk | a kind of dagger; (verb) to stab with a dirk. |
| dudgeon | the haft of a dagger; a small dagger; also, a fit or state of angry indignation usually provoked by opposition. |
| epee | a sword similar to the foil but with a larger guard and a heavier blade of triangular cross section. |
| espada | a sword. |
| estoc | a sword used for thrusting, esp. in bullfighting. |
| falchion fauchion fauchon faulchion | a broad curved sword. |
| foil | a light slender flexible sword usually having a bell-shaped guard, and when used in the sport of fencing tipped with a button. |
| foin foyne | to thrust with a sword or spear. |
| fox | a type of sword. |
| gladius | a sword; also a cuttlefish pen > GLADIUSES. |
| glaive gleave | a broadsword. |
| glaived | bearing a GLAIVE, a broadsword. |
| gully gulley | a big knife; a groove; (verb) to wear a gully in. |
| handjar hanjar khanjar | a Persian dagger. |
| hanger | a short sword. |
| jackknife | a knife with the blade pivoted to fit into a recess in the handle; (verb) to fold up like a jackknife. |
| jambiya jambiyah | a Middle Eastern curved dagger with two edges. |
| jockteleg | a large clasp knife. [Possibly from jack the leg, the all-purpose knife that hangs by the leg]. |
| katana | a long single-edged samurai sword. |
| khanda | a double-edged Sikh sword. |
| khanjar | see HANJAR. |
| kirpan | a small sword or dagger worn by Sikhs. |
| knife | (verb) to stab with a knife. |
| knifelike | like a knife. |
| knive | to knife. |
| kreese | see CREESE. |
| kris | see CREESE. |
| kukri | a broad curved Gurkha knife. |
| machete matchet | a broad heavy knife used for cutting or as a weapon, esp. in parts of Central and South America. |
| panga | an African knife, like a machete. |
| paperknife | a knife for cutting paper |
| parang | a large Malay or Dyak sheath-knife. |
| penknife | a small POCKETKNIFE. |
| pilcher | a scabbard. |
| pocketknife | a knife for carrying in the pocket. |
| poignado poinado | a PONIARD, a small dagger > POIGNADOES, POINADOES. |
| poniard | a small dagger; (verb) to stab with a poniard. |
| quillon | the arm of the cross-guard of a sword handle. |
| rapier | a straight, two-edged sword with a narrow pointed blade, designed especially for thrusting. |
| rapierlike | like a RAPIER. |
| rapiered | wearing a RAPIER. |
| saber sabre | a stout cavalry sword, having a single edge; (verb) to strike with a sabre. |
| saberlike | like a SABER. |
| sabrelike | like a SABRE. |
| scabbard | a holder for a bladed weapon such as a sword. |
| schiavone | a basket-hilted broadsword used by the Doge's bodyguard of Slavs. [Ital. Schiavoni, Slavs]. |
| schlager | a duelling sword used in some German universities. |
| scimetar scimitar scimiter semitar semitaur simitar symitar symitare | a curved sword. |
| shabble | an old rusty sword. |
| shank | an often homemade knife; (verb) in golf, to strike the ball by mistake with the part of the club where the clubhead meets the shaft. |
| shortsword | a sword with a short blade. |
| simi | in Africa, a short two-edged sword or large knife. |
| skean skeen skene | a double-edged dagger used in Ireland and Scotland. [Gaelic sgean, knife]. |
| smallsword | a light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century. |
| snickersnee | a large knife, cutlass etc.; a knife fight. [Orig. steake or snye - an English variation on a Dutch term meaning 'thrust and cut']. |
| spadroon | a sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust. |
| stilet stylet | a small poniard, a stiletto. |
| stiletto | a narrow dagger; (verb) to stab with a stiletto > STILETTOS or STILETTOES. |
| sweard | sword. |
| sword | (verb) to wield a sword > SWORDED, SWORDING. |
| swordcraft | skill at making swords. |
| swordlike | like a sword. |
| swordplay | fighting with swords. |
| swordproof | proof against swords. |
| swordstick | a hollow stick containing a sword. |
| tanto | a short Japanese sword > TANTOS. |
| toledo | a sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons > TOLEDOS. |
| tsuba | a metal plate at the top of a Japanese scabbard, serving as a sword-guard. |
| tulwar | an Indian sabre. |
| ulu | an Eskimo knife. [Inupiaq]. |
| unscabbard | to withdraw e.g. a sword from a scabbard. |
| vorpal | a nonsense word coined by Lewis Carroll to describe a sword. |
| whinger | a dirk or short sword. |
| whiniard whinyard | a short sword or dirk. |
| yatagan yataghan | see ATAGHAN. |