| Actions |
|---|
| Camp | Action | To remain in one spot, waiting for certain spawn |
| Capping | Action | Getting the maximum of 800 skill points |
| Drain | Action | Tactic to drain a monster of all of it's magical energy (mana) before attacking it hand to hand |
| Farm | Action | To basically harvest a resouce, ie, visiting all the blacksmiths to buy ingots over and over again |
| Flag | Action | Becoming grey, criminal - often intentionally |
| Gank | Action | To team up on, be teamed up on or killed in an unfavorable way; also, to steal or have something stolen. |
| Guard whacked | Action | Killed by a guard for committing a crime |
| Hit the stone | Action | Dbl-click the faction stone or guildstone |
| House sitting | Action | Waiting for a house that is "In danger of collapsing" to collapse |
| IDOC Camping | Action | Staking out a house in the hopes it will decay and drop all items inside on the floor ready for taking. |
| In Lor | Action | Use nightsight spell |
| Insta-log, instalog | Action | Log out in a location, such as an inn or one's own house, where your character immediately disappears from the game. |
| Insta-Rez | Action | Instantly Resurrect |
| Jacked | Action | Ganked |
| Loot | Action | Remove items from a corpse |
| Macro | Action | Use an external program to perform repeated tasks in game |
| Mana dump | Action | Tactic to use all mana a player has on an opponent in the form of harmful spells |
| Manifest | Action | To become visible when dead |
| Permakill | Action | Permanently kill a character, usually for deletion |
| Ping | Action | Test the amount of lag - a timing action |
| PKing | Action | Killing Players |
| Reg up | Action | Get more reagents, usually prior to a hunting adventure |
| Restock | Action | To restock a vendor |
| Revert | Action | Server outage - revert to previous data backup - Timewarp |
| Rez-Kill | Action | The dastardly act of resurrecting and killing repeatedly |
| RP | Action | Role-play |
| Scam | Action | To gain items, usually valuable, by using devious, illegal methods |
| Spam, spamming | Action | To say the same sentence over and over |
| Spar | Action | To practice fighting or magery skills with a friend without the threat of death |
| Stat Loss | Action | Loss of stats due to murder |
| Timewarp | Action | Server outage - warp back to previous data backup - Revert |
| Wall up | Action | Make a wall at a doorway to prevent exit/entrance |
| X-heal | Action | Cross heal |
| Dungeons |
|---|
| BK Room | Dungeon | Bone Knights Room in Deceit |
| Ice | Dungeon | Ice Dungeon - and - Isle of Honesty, Arctic Isle |
| Keep | Dungeon | Terrathan Keep |
| Liches | Dungeon | Deceit Lower Level |
| Temple | Dungeon | Daemon Temple on Avatar Island |
| Items |
|---|
| Aids | Item | Bandaids |
| Archer Suit | Item | A light armor combination |
| Bandies, Bandys | Item | Bandages |
| Bbs | Item | Blessed black sandals |
| BOD | Item | Bulk Order Deed |
| Check | Item | Bank check |
| Daily | Item | A rare item that spawns once every day |
| Dessies, Dessys | Item | Desert Ostards |
| Dynamic | Item | An item in the game which can be manipulated |
| E-horse | Item | Ethereal Horse |
| Ether | Item | Ethereal Mount |
| GP, gp | Item | Gold pieces or gold coins. |
| Keg(s) | Item | Potion Keg(s) |
| Kite | Item | Kite Shield |
| Long | Item | Long Main Nightmare |
| Loot | Item | Gold, valuables - often removed from a corpse |
| Map | Item | Treasure Map |
| MIB | Item | Message in a bottle |
| Net | Item | Special fishing net |
| Plate | Item | Plate metal armor |
| Pure | Item | Pure Black Nightmare |
| Rares | Item | Uncommon or rare in-game items |
| Reg | Item | Short Main Nightmare |
| Ride | Item | Mount |
| Ridgies, Ridgys | Item | Ridgebacks |
| Ruin | Item | Recall Rune or a certain magical state of an item |
| Semis | Item | Rare items that spawn once every 18 to 38 minutes |
| Server births | Item | Rare items that spawn once when a server becomes active |
| Shard births | Item | Very rare items that spawn once when a shard becomes active for the first time |
| SOS | Item | Message in bottle - Same as MIB |
| ss | Item | sandstone house |
| Static | Item | An item in the game which can not be moved or manipulated |
| Stone | Item | Guildstone, Moonstone |
| T-map | Item | Treasure map. Used to find and dig up hidden treasure. |
| TB Mare | Item | True Black Nightmare |
| Tub | Item | Dye Tub, Furniture Tub, Black Dye Tub |
| vil, villa | Item | house |
| Monsters |
|---|
| Ancients | Monster | Ancient wyrms |
| Bally | Monster | Balron, a very powerful demon |
| BE | Monster | Blood Elemental |
| Blood | Monster | Blood Elemental |
| CoS | Monster | Collector of Souls |
| Drag | Monster | Dragon |
| DSS | Monster | Deep Sea Serpent |
| Earthy | Monster | Earth elemental |
| EG, Elders | Monster | Elder Gazers |
| Ele | Monster | Elemental - Air, Earth, Fire, Water |
| Ellies | Monster | Elementals |
| EW | Monster | Ethereal Warriors |
| GSS | Monster | Giant Silver Serpent |
| LL | Monster | Lich Lord |
| Lord | Monster | Orc Lord or Ogre Lord |
| Mare | Monster | Nightmare. A powerful and tameable horse-like monster |
| ME | Monster | Meer Eternal |
| MM | Monster | Meer Mage |
| Muddy Buddies | Monster | Earth Elementals |
| NPC | Monster | Non-Player Character |
| OL | Monster | Ogre Lord |
| Ophids | Monster | Ophidians |
| Orphs | Monster | Ophidians |
| PE | Monster | Posion Elemental |
| PWW | Monster | Pure White Worm |
| Rats | Monster | Ratmen |
| RC | Monster | Rotting Corpse |
| Serp | Monster | Sea Serpent |
| Skeletal | Monster | Skeletal Dragon |
| Snakes | Monster | Not only snakes, but often ophidians |
| Spid | Monster | Spider |
| Terras | Monster | Terrathans |
| Terravenger | Monster | Terrathan Avenger |
| Tets | Monster | Terrathans |
| TWW | Monster | True White Worm |
| Uni | Monster | Unicorn |
| WW | Monster | White Wyrm. A type of monster |
| Wyrm | Monster | White wyrm |
| Other |
|---|
| 7xGM | Other | A player with 7 skills at maximum (100) level. |
| 8x8 | Other | Method to gain skills using an invisible grid of 8x8 map tiles |
| Ankle Biter | Other | Skilless or New Fighter |
| Anti | Other | Anti-player Killer. A UO player that is out to kill PKs. |
| Avocado | Other | Seer |
| Base | Other | A faction stronghold |
| BH | Other | Burst Hour - Same as Power Hour |
| Blue | Other | Character with innocent status |
| BS | Other | Blacksmith |
| Bug | Other | A glitch in the game causing an error of some type. |
| Carebear | Other | Derogatory term, indicating a Trammel player |
| Char | Other | Character |
| Client | Other | The program on your computer that communicates with the server |
| CoM | Other | Council of Mages - Factions |
| Combo | Other | A tactical combination of magic spells and/or weapon attacks. |
| Coords | Other | Coordinates to a location |
| Count | Other | Murder count |
| cunslor, councelor | Other | counselor |
| Dex | Other | Dexterity - Stat |
| Dex Monkey | Other | A character with high dexterity |
| Dexxer | Other | Thief, Fighter - Character with high dexterity |
| Dread | Other | A Dread Lord/Lady. Mostly obsolete since the glory days of the Dreads was pre T2A. |
| Eastern Sky | Other | Reference to timezone EST |
| emote | Other | Indicate emotion, as in *blushes* |
| Exp | Other | Experience |
| Exploit | Other | An account-bannable offense |
| Fairly | Other | Fairly worn. One of the decay stages of a house |
| GGS | Other | Guaranteed Gain of Skill |
| GL | Other | Glorious Lord/Lady (and also Great Lakes a shard) |
| GM | Other | Game Master, Guild Master, Guild Mistress, Grand Master |
| God Client | Other | The program used by Game Masters - Added capability |
| Gods | Other | Game Masters |
| Greatly | Other | Greatly worn. One of the decay stages of a house |
| Greens | Other | Guilded |
| Grey | Other | Character with criminal or aggressor status. |
| Griefer | Other | A player who repeatedly and intentionally engages in actions designed to interfere with other people's enjoyment of the game. A derogatory term. |
| Gump | Other | Graphical User Menu Pop-up - can be opened and closed |
| Health | Other | A measure of durability - equivalent to Strength |
| Hit points | Other | The number of points remaining before death - See Health |
| ICQ | Other | Instant Messenger that allows you to talk to other players via the net, outside of the game |
| IDOC | Other | In Danger of Collapsing. The final decay stage of a house, before it collapses (disappears) |
| Int | Other | Intelligence - Stat - See Mana |
| k | Other | Thousand. 10k = 10,000 (gold coins, ingots, arrows etc.) |
| Lag | Other | Internet latency, causing the connection to the game server to become slow |
| Lag Monster | Other | Whatever is causing the lag. Not an actual game monster. |
| LB | Other | Lord British. Former King of Britannia. |
| LBR | Other | Lord Blackthorn's Revenge, a UO expansion kit |
| Looter | Other | A person who loots dead players corpses - see Loot |
| Main | Other | Main character - the primary character used in the game. |
| Mana | Other | Needed for casting magic spells - equivalent to Intelligence |
| mil | Other | Million. 10mil = 10 million gold |
| Min | Other | Minax - Factions |
| Mule | Other | A secondary character created for quickly gathering resources (usually gold) or providing services (e.g., creating exceptional armor and weapons) for a primary character which cannot or does not want to devote skill points to those activities. Often created by players whose primary character is a PK, adventurer or merchant, and are often craftsmen of some sort. But the opposite also occurs, where, for example, an alchemist will create a monster basher mule to quickly raise funds to support alchemy |
| Newbie, Noob, newB, noobie | Other | An unworthy opponent; a battle-cry; a new player; uninformed |
| Noto | Other | Notoriety Player Killer. A PK who not only kills non-innocent players but also does so repeatedly, and with no good in-game reasons, so as to be able to kill players without going red himself. A noto will typically attack any grey player on sight, even if the player went grey by accident, or perhaps flagged grey intentionally. Noto is a derogatory term, not used by the noto to refer to himself. |
| Nox Mage | Other | A character with magery and poisoning |
| Oranges | Other | Opposing Guild/Faction |
| Para ganked | Other | Death by repeated paralyze spells so that one cannot move throughout the short remainder of their impending doom. Often characterized by application of several x-pattern energy or paralyze fields as well.. |
| Para, para'd, parad | Other | The casting of, or state of being under the effect of, the paralyze spell |
| PB | Other | Pure Black, the darkest color a Nightmare can be |
| Peach, Peachy | Other | Ingame supporter, replaced for Counselors |
| Perma | Other | Short for permanently grey, which affects a thief who has stolen from someone. |
| PH | Other | Power Hour |
| Picker | Other | Lockpicker |
| Pigeon | Other | ICQ |
| PK | Other | Player Killer. A UO player that is out to kill other (mostly innocent) players in-game. |
| Pure black | Other | The most black an item can be. Also True Black |
| PvM | Other | Player vs Monster |
| PvP | Other | Player vs Player |
| Red | Other | Character with murderer status |
| Red robed | Other | Game Master |
| rot | Other | rate over time |
| Scammer | Other | A person who gains items, usually valuable, by using devious, illegal methods |
| See-saw | Other | To manipulate stats fast using two stat modifying skills |
| Shard | Other | Set of servers spanning one entire UO world |
| Sig | Other | Signature |
| SL | Other | Shadow Lords - Factions |
| Smurf | Other | Counselor |
| Spammer | Other | A person who says the same sentence over and over |
| Stats | Other | The combination of Dexterity, Strength and Intelligence |
| Str | Other | Strength - Stat - See Health |
| T2A | Other | Ultima Online - The Second Age. An expansion pack that added the Lost Lands of Delucia and Papua to the game. |
| TB | Other | True Brits |
| ToW | Other | Terms of War |
| Trammie | Other | Player who prefers playing on the Trammel facet |
| True black | Other | The most black an item can be. Also Pure Black |
| Twink | Other | A low skill player, using high level abilities (a 60/60 twink tamer would have 60 taming, 60 lore but be using dragons). Also a person who thinks they are good but they aren't; someone who has a very unorigional name like 'Goku'. |
| UO3d | Other | The 3d (Third Dawn) client |
| UO:LBR, LBR | Other | Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge |
| UO:R | Other | Ultima Online Renaissance. An expansion pack for UO. |
| UOA | Other | Ultima Online Assist - Third party software |
| UOAM | Other | Ultima Online Auto Map - Third party software |
| Vendor | Other | A player-maintained NPC merchant |
| Vet | Other | Veteran Player |
| Xshard | Other | Across shards, normally used when trading |
| Yoink, *yoink* | Other | To be one less of whatever you had |
| Places |
|---|
| Artic Isle | Place | Frozen island at the north east of Brittania |
| Avatar Island | Place | Jungle island to the south east, has Hythloth dungeon on it |
| Barneyland | Place | Trammel |
| Brit | Place | Britain |
| Brit Bank | Place | West Britain Bank |
| Buc's | Place | Bucaneer's Den |
| CoD | Place | City of the Dead |
| Dagger Isle | Place | Frozen island at the north east of Brittania |
| Del | Place | Delucia |
| Fel | Place | Felucca |
| Fire Island | Place | Avatar Island |
| Fire Island | Place | Jungle island to the south east, has Hythloth dungeon on it |
| Gate | Place | Moongate. A fixed or magical created doorway that allows travel of groups over large distances. |
| Glow | Place | Moonglow. A Britannian town |
| Green acres | Place | An area on the map that is not legitimately an open area of the game, but which nevertheless some players managed to get runes to at some point. Used for testing by OSI personnel and, at one time, for training counselors. |
| GY | Place | Graveyard |
| Ice | Place | Artic Island |
| Ice Island | Place | Same as Artic Island |
| Ish, Ilsh | Place | Ilshenar |
| Justice Region | Place | Area surrounding towns and moongates where guards punish criminals |
| LL | Place | Lost Lands, large world area |
| Mag | Place | Magincia |
| Maze | Place | The Maze |
| Noobieville/town | Place | Haven |
| Nujelm | Place | Nujel'm |
| OL | Place | Old Lands, large world area |
| Pap | Place | Papua |
| Pit | Place | Jhelom Dueling Pit |
| RC Room | Place | Rotting Corpse Room |
| Serps | Place | Serpents Hold |
| Skara | Place | Skara Brae. A Britannian town |
| T2A | Place | The Second Age lands |
| Terra keep | Place | Terrathan Keep |
| Tram | Place | Trammel |
| Trin | Place | Trinsic |
| Valor | Place | Valor Island |
| WBBT | Place | West Britain Bank Trammel |
| Xroad | Place | Crossroad |
| Potions |
|---|
| Black | Potion | Nightsight |
| Blue | Potion | Agility |
| DP | Potion | Deadly Poison. Green. |
| GA | Potion | Greater Agility. Blue. Increases dexterity. |
| GC | Potion | Greater Cure. Orange. Cures Poison |
| GE | Potion | Greater Explosion. Purple. |
| GH | Potion | Greater Heal. Yellow. Restores hit points. |
| GP | Potion | Greater Poison. Green. |
| Green | Potion | Poison |
| GS | Potion | Greater Strength. White. Adds strength. |
| Nox | Potion | Poison or Nightsight |
| NS | Potion | Nightsight. Black. See in the dark |
| Orange | Potion | Cure |
| Pots | Potion | Potions |
| Purple | Potion | Explosion |
| Red | Potion | Refresh |
| White | Potion | Strength |
| Yellow | Potion | Heal |
| Reagents |
|---|
| Ash | Reagent | Sulphorous Ash |
| BM | Reagent | Blood Moss |
| BP | Reagent | Black Pearl |
| Drake | Reagent | Mandrake Root |
| GL | Reagent | Garlic |
| GS | Reagent | Ginseng |
| Moss | Reagent | Blood Moss |
| MR | Reagent | Mandrake Root |
| NS | Reagent | Nightshade |
| Pearl | Reagent | Black Pearl |
| Regs | Reagent | Reagents |
| Root | Reagent | Mandrake Root |
| SA | Reagent | Sulphorous Ash |
| Shade | Reagent | Nightshade |
| Silk | Reagent | Spider Silk |
| SS | Reagent | Spider Silk |
| Shards |
|---|
| Atl | Shard | Atlantic |
| Cats | Shard | Catskills |
| Chessy, Chessie | Shard | Chesapeake |
| Drach | Shard | Drachenfels |
| EU | Shard | Europa |
| GL | Shard | Great Lakes |
| LS | Shard | Lake Superior |
| Mag | Shard | Magincia |
| Ocky | Shard | Oceania |
| Pac | Shard | Pacific |
| SP | Shard | Siege Perilous |
| Skills |
|---|
| Anat | Skill | Anatomy |
| Bowcraft | Skill | Bowcraft, Flething |
| Bowery | Skill | Bowcraft, Flething |
| Carp | Skill | Carpentry |
| Carto, Cart | Skill | Cartography |
| Detect | Skill | Detect Hidden |
| Disarm | Skill | Disarm Thief - Combo Skill |
| Eval | Skill | Evaluate Intelligence |
| Fletching | Skill | Bowcraft, Flething |
| Forensics | Skill | Forensic Evaluation |
| ID | Skill | Item Identification |
| Item ID | Skill | Item Identification |
| Jacker | Skill | Lumberjack |
| LJ | Skill | Lumberjacking |
| Lore | Skill | Animal Lore |
| Lore | Skill | Arms or Animal Lore |
| LP | Skill | Lockpicking |
| Lumber | Skill | Lumberjacking |
| Picking | Skill | Lockpicking |
| Resist | Skill | Magic Resistance |
| SS | Skill | Spirit Speak |
| Stunner | Skill | Mage of Thief with Stun Punch - Combo Skill |
| Swords | Skill | Swordsmanship |
| Taming | Skill | Animal Taming |
| Taste | Skill | Taste Identification |
| Vet | Skill | Veterinary |
| Speech |
|---|
| ??? | Speech | Huh?, Excuse me?, What? |
| ^^ | Speech | a smile |
| afk | Speech | away from keyboard |
| ar | Speech | armor rating |
| Art | Speech | Are (Thou art brave = You are brave) |
| b/f | Speech | boy friend |
| Banz0rr3d | Speech | Forcibly removed from uo (banned) |
| bay | Speech | ebay |
| bbiab | Speech | be back in a bit |
| bbiam | Speech | be back in a minute |
| bbs | Speech | be back soon |
| brb | Speech | be right back |
| brh | Speech | be right here |
| brt | Speech | be right there |
| btw | Speech | by the way |
| c&o, c/o | Speech | chaos and order |
| Cheapie | Speech | Wasted murder count |
| convo | Speech | conversation |
| cul8r | Speech | See you later |
| cya | Speech | See you (later) |
| d00d | Speech | dude |
| dur | Speech | Durable |
| emm acc | Speech | Eminently Accurate |
| g/f | Speech | girl friend |
| gl | Speech | good luck |
| hail | Speech | hello |
| haxxor | Speech | hacker |
| hehe | Speech | Laughter |
| Hither | Speech | Not precisely 'here'; it's more like 'to here, towards here (this point)'. |
| HnK | Speech | Hugs and Kisses |
| ic | Speech | In character - playing a role |
| ic | Speech | I see |
| imma | Speech | I'm a, I am a |
| irl | Speech | in real life |
| j/k | Speech | just kidding |
| j00 | Speech | you |
| k, kk | Speech | ok |
| keke | Speech | laughter |
| l00t | Speech | loot, remove items from a corpse |
| L8er | Speech | Later |
| lamer | Speech | twink |
| Lates | Speech | Later |
| leet, l33t, 1337, 371173 | Speech | very good. Derived from "elite" |
| lol | Speech | laughing out loud |
| lost conn | Speech | lost connection |
| ltz, l8r | Speech | later |
| mk | Speech | Hmm okay |
| morrow | Speech | morning |
| nerfed | Speech | busted, broken, destroyed |
| np | Speech | no problem |
| ooc | Speech | Out of Character, no longer role-playing |
| otoh | Speech | on the other hand |
| otw | Speech | on the way |
| ow | Speech | overweight |
| owned | Speech | I own you, your life, you are defeated |
| para-tame | Speech | paralyze-tame - a method of paralyzing a target in order to more easily tame it |
| peekay, PK | Speech | PK, or player killer |
| plz | Speech | please |
| ppl | Speech | people |
| pwned | Speech | Owned |
| r | Speech | are |
| rl | Speech | real life |
| RoE | Speech | Rules of Engagement |
| rofl | Speech | rolling on the floor laughing |
| roxxors | Speech | rocks |
| Sitters, Campers | Speech | Bank Sitters |
| Smackdown | Speech | Kicked Butt |
| Sploit | Speech | Exploit |
| Sploiter | Speech | One who uses exploits |
| sup | Speech | Hello, what's going on? |
| sup acc | Speech | Surpassingly Accurate |
| suxxors | Speech | sucks |
| tele | Speech | teleport |
| thee | Speech | you (as in: to you) |
| thine | Speech | your |
| thou | Speech | you (as in: you have) |
| thx | Speech | thanks |
| thy | Speech | your - belonging to thee |
| ty | Speech | thank you |
| u | Speech | you |
| ur | Speech | your, you're |
| wazzup | Speech | Hello, what's going on? |
| wb | Speech | Welcome back |
| welx | Speech | welcome |
| Wep | Speech | Weapon |
| woot | Speech | An emotional phrase - I DID IT! YOU DID IT! HOORAY! |
| y | Speech | why |
| yer | Speech | your |
| yw | Speech | you're welcome |
| Spells |
|---|
| BS | Spell | Blade Spirits |
| Chain, CL | Spell | Chain Lightning |
| E-Field | Spell | Energy Field |
| EB | Spell | Energy Bolt |
| Ebolt | Spell | Energy Bolt |
| EQ | Spell | Earthquake |
| EV | Spell | Energy Vortex |
| Exp | Spell | Explosion |
| FS | Spell | Flamestrike |
| Gate | Spell | Gate Travel |
| GH | Spell | Greater Heal |
| Invis | Spell | Invisibility |
| IVM | Spell | In Vas Mani, Greater Heal |
| MB | Spell | Mind Blast |
| Morph | Spell | Polymorph |
| MS | Spell | Meteor Swarm |
| NS | Spell | Nightsight |
| Para | Spell | Paralyze |
| PF, P-Field | Spell | Paralyze Field |
| Poly | Spell | Polymorph |
| Res, Rez | Spell | Resurrection |
| SD | Spell | Summon Daemon |
| Summon | Spell | Summon Creature - Elementals - Air, Earth, Fire, Water |
| Weapons |
|---|
| Bard, Bardy | Weapon | Bardiche |
| Broad, Broady | Weapon | Broadsword |
| Crook | Weapon | Shepherd's crook |
| Dur | Weapon | Durable - Weapon Modifier |
| Emm acc | Weapon | Eminently Accurate - Weapon Modifier |
| Force | Weapon | Weapon modifier |
| Fork | Weapon | War fork |
| Halby, hally | Weapon | Halberd |
| Hammer | Weapon | War Hammer |
| Heavy | Weapon | Heavy Cross-bow |
| Hvy | Weapon | Heavy Cross-bow |
| Kat | Weapon | Katana |
| LS | Weapon | Long spear |
| Might | Weapon | Weapon modifier |
| Power | Weapon | Weapon modifier |
| Qstaff | Weapon | Quarter staff |
| Ruin | Weapon | Weapon modifier |
| Scimi, Skimi | Weapon | Scimitar |
| Silver | Weapon | Weapon modifier - increases ability to kill undead |
| Slayer | Weapon | Virtue Weapon |
| Sup acc | Weapon | Surpassingly Accurate - Weapon Modifier |
| Vanq | Weapon | Weapon of Vanquishing |
| Virtue Weps | Weapon | Weapons of Virtue |
| Xbow | Weapon | Cross-bow |
