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THE PIRATE LEXICON
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[From A - F] ~ [From G - L]
[From M - R] ~ [From S - Z]
PIRATES FROM A - F
A
Aby - pay a penalty
Acatour- provisioner; quartermaster
Acracy - government by none; anarchy
Acrasial - ill-regulated; ill-tempered
Adhocracy - unstructured government
Affrayer - disturber of the peace
Affreightment - hiring of a vessel
Affreux - frightening
Aggrandize - increase power or rank
Alabandical - stupefied from drink
Algetic - causing or producing pain
Allision - intentional collision of two ships
Amain - to a high degree; at full speed
Amarulence - bitterness; spite
Ambuscade - executing an ambush
Amerce - to deprive; to punish
Amicicide - murder of a fellow friend
Ana - share in equal quantities
Ancoral - shaped like an anchor
Antarchy - opposition to government
Antiloquy - speaking up against the Man or idea
Argentocracy - government by money
Argosy - a large merchant ship
Armigerous - entitled to bear arms
Atrabilious - bad-tempered person
Auriferous - bearing gold
B
Baldachin - rich embroidered silk and gold fabric
Barbarocracy - government by barbarians
Barque - a boat
Barracan - fine silk cloth
Barracoon - slave barracks
Barrator - officer or seaman who commits fraud
Bawbee - Scottish a coin of low value
Beaupers - linen fabric used for flags
Beaupers - linen fabric used for flags
Bedizen - dress extravagantly and gaudily
Belliferous - bringing war
Bijoux - jewels
Billow - a large sea wave
Bimarian - pertaining to two seas
Binnacle - case in which the compass is kept
Blackguard - a contemptible scoundrel
Blaggard - scoundrel; unprincipled rogue
Bodkin - a dagger
Brigand - a robber; a freebooter
Bunting - light & loose woven fabric for flags
Burgee - flying the ship flag to identify or signal
Burrel - a coarse russet fabric
C
Caboose - a kitchen on a ship's deck; galley
Caitiff - a captive; a prisoner; a slave.
Camisado - an attack carried out at night
Cannonarchy - government ruled by cannons
Capelocracy - government by merchants
Carinated - shaped like a prow or keel of a ship
Cateran - Scottish Highland freebooter or reaver.
Cheviot - coarse heavy or twilled wool fabric
Chicane - to deceive; hoodwink
Chrysophilist - a gold-lover
Contumely - insolent or insulting language
Crapulent - overindulging alcohol
Cullion - a contemptible fellow; a rascal.
D
Dacnomania - obsession with killing
Damnification - cause of injury or loss
Dapocaginous - mean-spirited; heartless
Davit - device for hoisting and lowering a boat
Deadwood - timbers built into ends of ship
Deasil - in the direction of the sun's course
Debel - to conquer in war
Debellate - to conquer or overcome in battle
Decutient - shake down; beat down
Dedition - to surrender; act of capitulation
Defilade - make fortifications against attack
Delope - to fire a gun into the air in a duel
Demurrage - departure delay for loading cargo
Dentiloquent - speaking with clenched teeth
Deoppilate - to break free from obstruction
Depotentiate - to deprive or divest of power
Deprehend - to catch; to seize
Deray - to go wild; to derange or create chaos
Desultory - jumping from one thing to another
Detinue - wrongful seizure of private property
Devall - to sink
Diamantiferous - pertaining to diamonds
Dicacity - raillery; rambling banter
Diestrus - period of sexual inactivity
Dijudicate - to judge; to decide
Dilacerate - to rend or tear asunder
Dilaniate - to tear to pieces
Dilogical - ambiguous; giving two meanings
Dilogy - intentional ambiguous deceptive speech
Diplocephalus - legend - two-headed monster
Dipsomania - crazed need for alcohol
Diribitory - place to distribute pay to soldiers
Disbosom - to make known; to reveal
Discombobulate - to disconcert; to upset
Discountenance - to abash; to discourage
Disembogue - to throw or eject into the sea
Disenthral - set free from enslavement
Disjection - rapid scattering or dispersion
Dispiteous - pitiless; malicious intent
Dispurvey - to deprive someone of provisions
Disseize - to seize or deprive of property
Dissentient - one who creates dissent & discord
Dissilient - springing apart; forced open
Dissolute - one with loose morals; debauchery
Divellent - drawing apart; pulling apart in pieces
Dodger - shield against rain on a ship's bridge
Dodoism - stupid remark
Dogwatch - short, evening watch duty on a ship
Doit - very small amount of money
Dolabrate - pertaining to axes or hatchets
Dolabriform - resembling a hatchet or cleaver
Dolioform - shaped like a barrel
Dolose - having evil or malicious intent
Donnybrook - an uproarious brawl
Doulocracy - government by slaves
Dragoon - to compel by bullying; by force
Dromond - large single-sailed ship
Dudgeon - resentment; offended resignation
Duomachy - duel or fight between two people
E
Ebriection - breakdown from too much drinking
Ebrious - tendency for excessive drinking
Ecdemomania - compulsion for wandering
Eclat - to make notorious or infamous
Egad - an oath
Egomania - an irrational self-centered attitude
Egoism - belief in the pursuit of self-interest
Eleutheromania - intense desire for freedom
Eidolism - belief in ghosts
Elative - movement out of or away from a threat
Elocation - removal from someone's control
Embaphium - small vessel to carry medicine
Emporeutic - barter or trade
Emption - act of buying; purchasing
Enjoin - command; order; issue restrictions
Ensign - large naval flag
Éprouvette - testing strength of gunpowder
Equiparate - to regard or treat as equal
Equipollent - having equal power or force
Equiponderate - be equal in weight; balanced
Esclandre - notoriety; unpleasantness
Esculent - eatable; fit for consumption
Eviscerate - disembowel an enemy
Exequies - funeral rites
Expugn - to storm; to overcome
F
Fandangle - useless or purely ornamental
Fatiloquent - speak prophetically; declare fate
Ffray - an attack or assault; an alarm or fright
Flagelliferous - bearing a whip or flagellum
Flagellomania - crazed enthusiasm for flogging
Flammiferous - producing fire and flames
Flexiloquent - ambiguous speech to deceive
Foray - engage in a foray; ravish or pillage.
Frondeur - a political rebel
Fulminate - to explode violently
Furbelow - to adorn with flashy trimmings
Fustilarian - low class fellow; a scoundrel.
Aby - pay a penalty
Acatour- provisioner; quartermaster
Acracy - government by none; anarchy
Acrasial - ill-regulated; ill-tempered
Adhocracy - unstructured government
Affrayer - disturber of the peace
Affreightment - hiring of a vessel
Affreux - frightening
Aggrandize - increase power or rank
Alabandical - stupefied from drink
Algetic - causing or producing pain
Allision - intentional collision of two ships
Amain - to a high degree; at full speed
Amarulence - bitterness; spite
Ambuscade - executing an ambush
Amerce - to deprive; to punish
Amicicide - murder of a fellow friend
Ana - share in equal quantities
Ancoral - shaped like an anchor
Antarchy - opposition to government
Antiloquy - speaking up against the Man or idea
Argentocracy - government by money
Argosy - a large merchant ship
Armigerous - entitled to bear arms
Atrabilious - bad-tempered person
Auriferous - bearing gold
B
Baldachin - rich embroidered silk and gold fabric
Barbarocracy - government by barbarians
Barque - a boat
Barracan - fine silk cloth
Barracoon - slave barracks
Barrator - officer or seaman who commits fraud
Bawbee - Scottish a coin of low value
Beaupers - linen fabric used for flags
Beaupers - linen fabric used for flags
Bedizen - dress extravagantly and gaudily
Belliferous - bringing war
Bijoux - jewels
Billow - a large sea wave
Bimarian - pertaining to two seas
Binnacle - case in which the compass is kept
Blackguard - a contemptible scoundrel
Blaggard - scoundrel; unprincipled rogue
Bodkin - a dagger
Brigand - a robber; a freebooter
Bunting - light & loose woven fabric for flags
Burgee - flying the ship flag to identify or signal
Burrel - a coarse russet fabric
C
Caboose - a kitchen on a ship's deck; galley
Caitiff - a captive; a prisoner; a slave.
Camisado - an attack carried out at night
Cannonarchy - government ruled by cannons
Capelocracy - government by merchants
Carinated - shaped like a prow or keel of a ship
Cateran - Scottish Highland freebooter or reaver.
Cheviot - coarse heavy or twilled wool fabric
Chicane - to deceive; hoodwink
Chrysophilist - a gold-lover
Contumely - insolent or insulting language
Crapulent - overindulging alcohol
Cullion - a contemptible fellow; a rascal.
D
Dacnomania - obsession with killing
Damnification - cause of injury or loss
Dapocaginous - mean-spirited; heartless
Davit - device for hoisting and lowering a boat
Deadwood - timbers built into ends of ship
Deasil - in the direction of the sun's course
Debel - to conquer in war
Debellate - to conquer or overcome in battle
Decutient - shake down; beat down
Dedition - to surrender; act of capitulation
Defilade - make fortifications against attack
Delope - to fire a gun into the air in a duel
Demurrage - departure delay for loading cargo
Dentiloquent - speaking with clenched teeth
Deoppilate - to break free from obstruction
Depotentiate - to deprive or divest of power
Deprehend - to catch; to seize
Deray - to go wild; to derange or create chaos
Desultory - jumping from one thing to another
Detinue - wrongful seizure of private property
Devall - to sink
Diamantiferous - pertaining to diamonds
Dicacity - raillery; rambling banter
Diestrus - period of sexual inactivity
Dijudicate - to judge; to decide
Dilacerate - to rend or tear asunder
Dilaniate - to tear to pieces
Dilogical - ambiguous; giving two meanings
Dilogy - intentional ambiguous deceptive speech
Diplocephalus - legend - two-headed monster
Dipsomania - crazed need for alcohol
Diribitory - place to distribute pay to soldiers
Disbosom - to make known; to reveal
Discombobulate - to disconcert; to upset
Discountenance - to abash; to discourage
Disembogue - to throw or eject into the sea
Disenthral - set free from enslavement
Disjection - rapid scattering or dispersion
Dispiteous - pitiless; malicious intent
Dispurvey - to deprive someone of provisions
Disseize - to seize or deprive of property
Dissentient - one who creates dissent & discord
Dissilient - springing apart; forced open
Dissolute - one with loose morals; debauchery
Divellent - drawing apart; pulling apart in pieces
Dodger - shield against rain on a ship's bridge
Dodoism - stupid remark
Dogwatch - short, evening watch duty on a ship
Doit - very small amount of money
Dolabrate - pertaining to axes or hatchets
Dolabriform - resembling a hatchet or cleaver
Dolioform - shaped like a barrel
Dolose - having evil or malicious intent
Donnybrook - an uproarious brawl
Doulocracy - government by slaves
Dragoon - to compel by bullying; by force
Dromond - large single-sailed ship
Dudgeon - resentment; offended resignation
Duomachy - duel or fight between two people
E
Ebriection - breakdown from too much drinking
Ebrious - tendency for excessive drinking
Ecdemomania - compulsion for wandering
Eclat - to make notorious or infamous
Egad - an oath
Egomania - an irrational self-centered attitude
Egoism - belief in the pursuit of self-interest
Eleutheromania - intense desire for freedom
Eidolism - belief in ghosts
Elative - movement out of or away from a threat
Elocation - removal from someone's control
Embaphium - small vessel to carry medicine
Emporeutic - barter or trade
Emption - act of buying; purchasing
Enjoin - command; order; issue restrictions
Ensign - large naval flag
Éprouvette - testing strength of gunpowder
Equiparate - to regard or treat as equal
Equipollent - having equal power or force
Equiponderate - be equal in weight; balanced
Esclandre - notoriety; unpleasantness
Esculent - eatable; fit for consumption
Eviscerate - disembowel an enemy
Exequies - funeral rites
Expugn - to storm; to overcome
F
Fandangle - useless or purely ornamental
Fatiloquent - speak prophetically; declare fate
Ffray - an attack or assault; an alarm or fright
Flagelliferous - bearing a whip or flagellum
Flagellomania - crazed enthusiasm for flogging
Flammiferous - producing fire and flames
Flexiloquent - ambiguous speech to deceive
Foray - engage in a foray; ravish or pillage.
Frondeur - a political rebel
Fulminate - to explode violently
Furbelow - to adorn with flashy trimmings
Fustilarian - low class fellow; a scoundrel.
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