Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| abundance abondance | a call of nine tricks in whist. |
| ante | to put a fixed stake in the pot > ANTES, ANTEING, ANTED or ANTEED. |
| baccara baccarat | a French card game. |
| banker | a betting card game. |
| basset | an old Venetian card game, resembling FARO. |
| basto | the ace of clubs in QUADRILLE and OMBER > BASTOS. [Sp. basto, club]. |
| bezique | a card game played with two decks of cards. |
| blackjack | vingt-et-un, or a game like it. |
| boston | a card game similar to WHIST. |
| bouillotte | a card game resembling POKER. |
| brag | a card-game like POKER; (verb) to boast. |
| bridge | any of various card games, for two pairs of players, developed from whist. |
| canasta | a card game similar to RUMMY. |
| canfield | a card game adapted from PATIENCE. |
| capot | to win all the tricks at the game of PIQUET > CAPOTS, CAPOTTING, CAPOTTED. |
| cardcastle | a tower built with cards. |
| cardplayer | one who plays cards. |
| cardsharp cardsharper | one who practises deception at cards. |
| cartomancer | one who practises CARTOMANCY. |
| cartomancy | divination or the telling of fortunes using playing cards. |
| casino cassino | a card game, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points > CASINI or CASINOS; CASSINOS. |
| cheat | a card game in which deception is allowed. |
| chemmy | a card game, chemin de fer. |
| cinch | a card game in which the five of trumps ranks highest. |
| cinque | five; the number five in dice or cards. |
| codille | a term at the card game OMBER, signifying that the game is won. |
| conquian cooncan | a game resembling rummy. |
| cribbage | a card-game in which player discards a certain number of cards. |
| crossruff | to trump alternately. |
| croupier | the dealer in a casino. |
| deuce | the two in cards and dice. |
| doubleton | two cards that are the only ones of their suit dealt to a player. |
| drawbridge | bridge played by two people, with two dummy hands, not exposed. |
| ecarte | a game in which cards may be discarded for others. |
| endplay | in bridge, to play the last few tricks in a hand so that an opponent is forced to make a particular lead. |
| euchre | a card game; (verb) to score over, to outwit. |
| faro | a card game > FAROS. |
| finesse | at bridge, an attempt by a player holding a higher card to take the trick with a lower card, risking loss. |
| gin | a type of rummy in which a player whose unmatched cards count ten or less may stop the game. |
| gleek | an old card game for three players, each having twelve cards, and eight being left for the stock. |
| goulash | in bridge, a re-deal of cards that have been arranged in suits and order of value. |
| grab | a simple card game depending upon prompt claiming. |
| hazardry | playing at games of chance. |
| hearts | a card game in which the object is to avoid taking tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades. |
| jambone | a lone hand in EUCHRE. |
| jeton jetton | a piece of stamped metal used as a counter in card-playing. |
| kalooki kalookie kaluki | a card game similar to rummy, using two packs of cards and two jokers. |
| klondike klondyke | a very rich source of wealth; a card game, a kind of patience; (verb) to export (fish, esp. mackerel or herring) while fresh, freq. to a foreign factory ship. |
| lansquenet | a card game. |
| lanterloo | a card game, an ancestral form of LOO. [Fr. lanturlu, a meaningless refrain]. |
| loo | a card game; (verb) to subject to a forfeit at loo. |
| lottery | a card game of chance. |
| manille | in the card games OMBRE and QUADRILLE, the highest card but one. |
| matador matadore | the three chief cards in the games OMBRE and QUADRILLE. |
| matrimony | a card game of chance in which one of the winning combinations is that of king and queen. |
| maw | an old card game played with a pack of 36. |
| michigan | a card game, equivalent to NEWMARKET. |
| misdeal | to deal wrongly > MISDEALS, MISDEALING, MISDEALT. |
| misere | at cards, an undertaking to take no tricks. [Fr. = poverty, misery]. |
| mistigris | a variation of poker in which a joker or blank card can be given any value; the card so used > MISTIGRISES. [Fr. mistigri, jack of clubs]. |
| monte | a favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards. |
| mournival | a set of four, especially a set of four court cards in one hand. [Fr. mornifle, a slap, a taunt]. |
| muggins | a children's card-game > MUGGINSES. |
| mumchance | a silent game with cards or dice. |
| nap napoleon | a French modification of the game of EUCHRE, each player receiving five cards and playing as an individual. |
| newmarket | a card game in which the stakes go to those who succeed in playing out cards whose duplicates lie on the table. |
| noddy | an old game like cribbage; the jack in this and other games. |
| nontrump | of a suit in cards, not TRUMP. |
| omber ombre | a card game > OMBRES. [Sp. hombre, man]. |
| outbid | to surpass in bidding. |
| outraise | to exceed in raising e.g. in a bid at cards. |
| outtrump | to surpass in trumping. |
| overbid | to bid or offer more trumps than a hand justifies. |
| overcall | in bridge, to outbid. |
| overruff | at cards, to trump with a higher trump. |
| overtrick | at bridge, a trick in excess of those contracted for. |
| overtrump | to trump with a higher card than the trump already played. |
| pam | the knave of clubs > PAMS. |
| patience | a card game of various kinds, generally for one person, the object being to fit the cards, as they turn up, into some scheme. |
| pedro | a card-game, aka sancho-pedro > PEDROS. |
| pelmanism | a card game in which the cards are spread out face down and have to be picked up in matching pairs. |
| penneech penneeck | an old card-game with a new trump for every trick. |
| penuchle pinocle pinochle penuckle | a card game played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs. |
| picquet piquet | a game for two with 32 cards; (verb) to tie to a stake. |
| plafond | an early form of contract bridge. |
| poker | a card game in which players bet on their hands and the winning player takes the pool of staked money. |
| pokie | a poker machine. |
| pone | the card player on the dealer's right responsible for cutting the cards. |
| pontoon | a card game of chance, or the winning score of 21 points which is its object. |
| primero | an old card game > PRIMEROS. |
| quadrille | a four-handed game with 40 cards, similar to ombre; (verb) to play quadrille. |
| quatorze | the four aces, kings, queens, knaves or tens in pique, counting fourteen. |
| quatre | a card, die, or domino, having four spots, or pips. |
| quinze | a card game. |
| rebid | to bid again. |
| redeal | to deal again. |
| repique | at piquet, the winning of thirty points or more; (verb) to score a repique. |
| reversis | an old card game in which the taker of fewest tricks wins > REVERSISES. |
| revie | to stake more than an opponent has proposed on > REVIES, REVYING, REVIED. |
| rounce | an American card game. |
| rubicon | the winning of a game in piquet before one's opponent scores; (verb) to win in this way > RUBICONS, RUBICONING, RUBICONED. [L. Rubico, a stream in Italy]. |
| ruff | to play a trump card when one cannot follow through. |
| rummy | a card game in which players try to collect sequences or sets of three or four cards of the same kind; (adj.) queer > RUMMIER, RUMMIEST; RUMMILY. |
| schneid | a series of losses. |
| septleva | (in the game of basset) seven times as much added to the first stake. [Fr. sept-et-le-va]. |
| sheephead | a trick-taking card game originating in Germany. |
| showdown | in poker, the exposure of players' cards face up on on the table at the end of the game. |
| shutout | at bridge, a bid intended to stop opponents from bidding. |
| singleton | a playing card that is the only one of its suit in a player's hand. |
| skat | a card game for three persons, resembling solo whist. |
| slapjack | a card game in which players try to win the pack by being the first to slap a hand over the jack, as it is turned over on top of the pile. |
| sluff | to discard a card or cards. |
| snap | a type of card game in which the first player to shout 'snap' on spotting a matching pair of cards wins all the cards on the table. |
| solitaire | a game played by one person with a board and balls, pegs, etc. |
| spadille spadillio spadillo | the ace of spades in the game of OMBRE. |
| spoilfive | a certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled. |
| spoof | a card game; (verb) to trick, hoax. |
| stud | a form of POKER. |
| switch | a changeover (esp in cards to another suit, led or called). |
| tablanette | a variant of the card game CASSINO. |
| tarabish | a trick-taking card game popular in Nova Scotia. |
| taroc tarok tarot | a card of a type originating in Italy with an allegorical picture; a set, traditionally consisting of 78 such cards, used in card games and esp fortune-telling; (usu in pl) a game played with tarots together with cards of the ordinary suits. |
| tenace | the holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand. [Sp. tenaza, pincers]. |
| tiddy | very small > TIDDIER, TIDDIEST; (noun) the four of trumps at the game of GLEEK. |
| towie | a form of contract BRIDGE. |
| tredille tredrille | a card game for three. |
| trey | the three in cards or dice. |
| trez | the three in cards or dice > TREZES. |
| trump | a card of a suit that ranks higher than any card of any other suit; (verb) to play a trump card instead of following suit, to outdo. |
| trumpless | without a TRUMP. |
| undealt | not dealt. |
| undertrick | in BRIDGE, a trick short of the number declared. |
| undertrump | to play a lower trump on a trick to which a higher trump has already been played. |
| vint | a game like contract BRIDGE; (verb) to gather grapes. |
| whist | a card game played by two against two, in which the object is to take a majority of the thirteen tricks, each trick over six scoring one point. |
| yarborough | a type of hand at bridge. |