Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| aboma | a S. American snake. |
| adder | a venomous snake. |
| agama agamid | a tropical lizard. |
| agamoid | having the features of an AGAMID. |
| aligarta alligarta | an old term for alligator. |
| alligator | a reptile of a mainly American family related to the crocodile but with a shorter, broader snout and non-protruding teeth. |
| amphisbaena | a worm-lizard; also, a mythical two-headed serpent or lizard. |
| anaconda | a S. American boa of the genus Eunectes. |
| anguifauna | the snakes of a region. |
| anguine | of or pertaining to snakes. |
| anole | a tropical lizard. |
| asp | a venomous snake. |
| aspick | an asp. |
| aspish | pertaining to, or like, an asp. |
| basilisk | a harmless crested lizard of Central America; also, a legendary lizard/serpent with lethal breath and glance. |
| blacksnake | a snake of a black color, found in the US. |
| blindworm | a kind of legless lizard, aka slowworm. |
| boa | a kind of constricting snake. |
| boma | a S. American boa and anaconda. |
| boomslang | a highly venomous southern African tree-snake. |
| bullsnake | an American burrowing snake. |
| bushmaster | a venomous snake. |
| caiman cayman | the South American alligator. |
| cameleon chameleon chamaeleon | a lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. |
| camoodi | (Caribbean) an anaconda. |
| cerastes | a genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper. [Gk. kerastes, from keras, a horn]. |
| chelonian | any member of the turtle or tortoise family. |
| chuckwalla chuckawalla | an iguanid lizard of Mexico and the south-western US. [Mex. Sp. chacahuala from Amer. Indian.] |
| coachwhip | a large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States. [Strange that this is non-TLW when it's your snake — so what do you call it?] |
| cobra | a kind of snake. |
| cobric | of or like a cobra. |
| cobriform | like or related to the cobra. |
| colubrid | a kind of snake, including the garter and king snake. |
| colubriform | shaped like a snake. |
| colubrine | like a snake; cunning. |
| cooter | a kind of turtle. |
| copperhead | a poisonous American serpent, closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles. |
| cottonmouth | an American snake. |
| croc | crocodile. |
| crocodile | a large long-tailed tropical reptile of the genus Crocodilus (order Crocodilia). |
| crotaline | of or pertaining to rattlesnakes. |
| dendrophis | a snake of the genus Dendrophis, a tree snake. |
| diamondback | a kind of rattlesnake. |
| diapsid | a reptile whose skull has two pairs of temporal arches > DIAPSIDS. Cf. SYNAPSID. |
| dipsas | a fabulous snake whose bite was believed to cause intense thirst. [Gk. dipsa, thirst]. Pl. DIPSADES. |
| draco | as in draco lizard, a kind of flying lizard. No —S. |
| dugite | an Australian venomous snake. |
| elapid | a kind of snake, including cobras, krait, taipan etc. |
| elapine | like or pertaining to the Elapidae, a family of venomous snakes, including the cobras. |
| emyd emyde | a genus of freshwater terrapin. |
| emys | a genus of freshwater terrapin > EMYDES. |
| gaboon | a kind of snake, the gaboon viper. |
| galapago | a kind of tortoise > GALAPAGOS. |
| galliwasp | a West Indian lizard, about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous. |
| garial gavial gharial | an Indian crocodile with a long snout. [Hindi ghariyal, crocodile]. |
| gator gater | an alligator. |
| gavialoid | of or like a GAVIAL. |
| gecko | any lizard of the family Geckonidae. Pl. GECKOS or GECKOES. |
| gila | a large tuberculated lizard native to Arizona, New Mexico, etc. |
| goanna | a kind of lizard. |
| gotcha | as in gotcha lizard, an Australian name for a crocodile. No —S. |
| guana | any large lizard. |
| habu | a venomous snake, found in Asia. |
| hamadryad | a king cobra. Also a wood-nymph; also a kind of baboon. Pl. HAMADRYADS or HAMADRYADES. |
| hatteria | a kind of New Zealand lizard, aka SPHENODON or TUATERA. |
| hawkbill hawksbill | a kind of sea turtle. |
| herpetoid | of or relating to snakes. |
| hicatee hiccatee | a West Indian freshwater tortoise. |
| hognose | a short-bodied, harmless American snake. |
| iguana | a tropical lizard. |
| iguanian | resembling, or pertaining to, the IGUANA. |
| iguanid | any member of the iguana family. |
| jacare | (Tupi) the caiman. |
| jararaca jararaka | a venomous serpent of Brazil. |
| kabaragoya | (Tagalog) a very large monitor lizard. |
| kingsnake | a N. American snake. |
| karait krait | a venomous snake of India. |
| lacertian | relating to lizards; (noun) a member of the lizard family > LACERTIANS. |
| lacertid | a lizard. |
| lacertilian | of or pertaining to lizards; (noun) a member of the lizard family > LACERTILIANS. |
| lacertine | a member of the lizard family > LACERTINES. |
| langaha | a colubriform snake of Madagascar; its nose is prolonged in the form of a sharp blade. |
| leatherback | a kind of turtle. |
| leguaan leguan | (Dutch) a large S. African lizard. |
| lizard | any member of the Lacertilia, an order of scaly reptiles, usu. differing from snakes in having four legs, movable eyelids, and non-expansible mouths. |
| loggerhead | a large-headed sea turtle. |
| mamba | a venomous African snake. |
| massasauga | a kind of rattlesnake. |
| matamata | the bearded tortoise of South American rivers. |
| moccasin mocassin | a kind of N. American pit-viper. |
| mokomoko | (Maori) a kind of SKINK. |
| moloch | a spiny Australian lizard. |
| muggar mugger muggur | a broad-snouted Indian crocodile. [Hindi magar]. |
| naga | a snake, especially the cobra; a divine snake (Hindu mythology). |
| ngarara | (Maori) a lizard found in New Zealand. |
| ophidian | of or like a snake. |
| perentie perenty | (Native Australian) a large Australian monitor lizard. |
| python | a large snake that suffocates its victims by constriction. |
| rattler | a rattlesnake. |
| rattlesnake | a venomous American pit-viper with rattling horny rings on the end of its tail. |
| reptilian | a reptile. |
| reptilious | like a reptile. |
| reptiloid | a reptile-like creature > REPTILOIDS. |
| ridley | a marine turtle. |
| ringhals rinkhals | an African snake that spits its venom. Pl. RINGHALSES, RINKHALSES. |
| saltie | a saltwater crocodile. |
| saurian | any of a group (Sauria) of reptiles, lizard like. |
| sauroid | like or pertaining to the saurians. |
| scincoid scincoidian | (any animal) resembling a SKINK. |
| seps | a skink of the genus Seps with a serpentlike body. |
| serpent | |
| serpentry | serpents collectively. |
| skink | a type of lizard; also a verb, meaning to pour out. |
| slowworm | a kind of legless lizard. |
| snake | |
| snakelike | like a snake. |
| snaky snakey | like a snake > SNAKIER, SNAKIEST. |
| snakiness | being like a snake. |
| snakish | having the qualities or characteristics of a snake; snaky. |
| sphenodon | an animal of the genus, also known as HATTERIA, to which the TUATARA belongs. |
| sphenodont | relating to a SPHENODON; (noun) a sphenodon > SPHENODONTS |
| stellio | as in stellio lizard, a STELLION. |
| stellion | an E. Mediterranean lizard with starry spots. |
| stinkpot | a common musk turtle found in SE Canada and the eastern US, which emits a foul-smelling secretion when disturbed. |
| sucuruju | a S. American Indian term for the anaconda. |
| sungazer | an African lizard given to basking in the sun. |
| surucucu | a S. American Indian name for the bushmaster snake. |
| synapsid | a reptile of the extinct subclass Synapsida, aka mammal-like reptile. |
| taipan | an Australian venomous snake. |
| tegu teguexin | a large black and yellow S. American lizard. |
| teiid | a tropical American lizard. |
| thalassian | a type of sea turtle. |
| tokay | a large gecko of southern Asia and Indonesia. |
| tortoise | |
| tuatara tuatera | a primitive reptile found in New Zealand, of the genus Hatteria. |
| uta | any of a genus of large lizards. |
| varan | a monitor lizard. |
| viperine | of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper. |
| viperish | like a viper. |
| viperishly | in a viperish manner. |
| viperlike | like a viper. |
| viperous | having the qualities of a viper; venomous. |
| whiptail | a kind of lizard with a long slender tail. |
| whipsnake | a long thin snake. |
| worral worrel | an Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown. [Arabic waral, lizard]. |
| zonure | a kind of tropical lizard. |