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. |