Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
anadyomene | coming up or emerging, esp of Aphrodite from the sea. |
arise | to get up. |
arisen | (PaP.) ARISE, to get up. |
ascend | to go or move upward. |
ascendable | capable of being ascended. |
ascendible | capable of being ascended. |
ascension | an ascent to heaven, esp Christ's. |
ascent | the act of ascending. |
astart | (Spenser) to start up. |
astert | (Obs.) to start up. |
availe | (Spenser) to descend. |
avale | (Obs.) to descend. |
bob | a short jerking motion; (verb) to move quickly up and down. |
cadent | (Shakesp.) falling. |
clamber | to climb awkwardly. |
clamberer | one who clambers. |
climb | an ascent; (verb) to ascend. |
climber | one that climbs. |
degringoler | to descend rapidly or steeply; to decline, fail. |
delapse | (Obs.) to sink down. |
delapsion | a sinking down. |
descend | to come or go down. |
descendable | that can be descended. |
descendible | that can be descended. |
descension | the act of going downward. |
descent | the act of descending. |
devall | to sink, decline. |
dip | a brief downwards movement; (verb) to immerse briefly; to lower. |
dismount | to get down from an elevated position. |
dive | a headfirst plunge; (verb) to plunge headfirst into. |
douk | to duck, bathe. |
down | to a lower position; (adj.) low, depressed; (noun) soft feathers (verb) to cause to fall |
downfall | a sudden fall. |
downflow | a running or flowing down. |
downslide | a downward movement. |
drap | (Scots) to drop. |
drip | a falling in drops (verb) to fall in drops |
duck | any bird of the family Anatidae; (verb) to lower quickly. |
elevate | to raise. |
elevation | the act of elevating. |
elevational | relating to elevation. |
elevator | one that elevates. |
elevatory | able or tending to raise. |
faa | (Scots) to fall. |
faceplant | to fall on to one's face. |
fall | to descend under the force of gravity. |
fallen | (PaP.) FALL, to descend under the force of gravity. |
flap | anything broad and flexible hanging loose (verb) to wave up and down |
flop | to fall heavily and noisily. |
fluctuate | to vary this way and that; to go up and down or to and fro. |
founder | to sink. |
high | elevated (verb) to ascend; to raise higher |
highly | (Adv.) HIGH, elevated. |
hoick | to hitch up, to jerk upwards. |
hoik | to hitch up, to jerk upwards. |
infall | a falling inwards. |
infalling | falling inwards. |
levitate | to rise and float in the air. |
mount | a rise; a horse one rides; (verb) to get up on. |
mounter | one who mounts. |
outraise | to surpass in raising. |
outsoar | to soar beyond or above. |
overtop | to rise above. |
plong | (Spenser) to plunge. |
plonge | (Spenser) to plunge. |
plummet | a leaden or other weight, esp on a plumb line; (verb) to drop straight down. |
plunge | a sudden downward movement; (verb) to throw or thrust suddenly or forcibly into something. |
pratfall | a fall on the buttocks; (verb) to fall on the buttocks. |
purler | a headlong or heavy fall. |
raiser | one who raises. |
rearise | to arise again. |
reascend | to rise, mount, or climb again. |
reascension | the act of ascending again esp to heaven. |
reascent | a new ascent. |
reclimb | to climb again. |
redescend | to descend again. |
redip | to dip again. |
refall | to fall again. |
reraise | to raise again. |
rerise | to rise again. |
resurge | to rise again, surge again. |
rise | an elevation, an increase; (verb) to move upward. |
risen | (PaP.) RISE, to move upward. |
scale | a thin plate on a fish etc (verb) to climb up or over |
scaly | covered with scales. |
scansorial | climbing; adapted for climbing. |
sclim | (Scots) to climb. |
scrome | (Dial.) to crawl or climb, esp using the hands. |
seesaw | to move up and down or back and forth. |
shinny | an Irish game resembling hockey; (verb) to climb eg to shinny up a tree. |
sink | a depression in a surface (verb) to move to a lower level |
sinkage | the process of sinking; the amount of sinking. |
sklim | (Scots) to climb. |
slump | a sudden decline (verb) to fall or sink suddenly |
soar | to fly at a great height. |
soaringly | (Adv.) SOARING, the act of soaring. |
speel | (Scots) to climb. |
speeler | a climber (originally an acrobat, a performer). |
speil | (Scots) to climb. |
spire | a tapering or conical body (verb) to wind, mount in spirals |
sprackle | (Scots) to clamber. |
sprauchle | (Scots) to clamber. |
subside | to sink to a lower or normal level. |
surge | an uprush (verb) to move in a swelling manner |
surgent | rising; swelling, as a flood. |
surgy | rising in surges or billows. |
swoop | a sudden descent (verb) to make a sudden descent |
swooper | one who swoops. |
tumble | a fall, a somersault; (verb) to fall or roll end over end. |
unascendable | not capable of being ascended. |
unascendible | not capable of being ascended. |
undescendable | that cannot be descended. |
undescendible | that cannot be descended. |
upclimb | to climb up; to ascend. |
updart | to dart up. |
updraft | an upwards movement of air. |
updraught | an upwards movement of air. |
upflow | to flow or stream up. |
upgang | (Scots) ascent. |
upgo | to go up. |
upgrow | to grow up. |
upgrowth | upward growth. |
upgush | to gush upward. |
upjet | to spout up. |
uplead | to lead up. |
upreach | to reach up. |
uprear | to raise; to erect. |
uprisal | the act of uprising. |
uprise | to rise up. |
upriser | one who rises up. |
uprist | a rising; an uprising. |
uprush | to rush upward. |
upryst | (Spenser) riseth up. |
upshoot | to shoot upward. |
upsoar | to soar or mount up. |
upspear | to grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass. |
upspring | to spring up. |
upstand | a turned-up edge on a horizontal or sloping plane where it adjoins a vertical plane; (verb, Milton) to stand up. |
upstream | to stream up. |
upsurge | to surge upwards. |
upswarm | (Arch.) to rise or send upwards in a swarm. |
upsweep | to sweep upward. |
upswell | to swell or rise up. |
upthrust | to thrust upwards. |
upwaft | to waft upward. |
upwell | to well up. |
upwhirl | to whirl upwards. |