Word origins

• cold weaponA weapon that does not use explosives or fire.
• conflictogenesisThe process by which conflicts arise; the genesis of conflict.
• conflictogenicTending to cause conflict.
• conflictologyConflict resolution: the method and process involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict and retribution.
• corsaccorsac fox
• corsac foxa medium-sized Asiatic fox, of species Vulpes corsac.
• coulibiacA loaf of fish, meat, or vegetables baked in a pastry shell.
• daggetTarry oil of European white birch, formerly used in the arts and in medicine.
• DamanskySynonym of Zhenbao: the Russian name.
• DecistA member of the opposition faction within the Bolshevik party known as the Democratic Centralists.
• Ded MorozA fictional man in Slavic culture who delivers presents to children on New Year's Eve.
• dedovshchinaHazing, the informal system of subjection and physical or sexual abuse of new junior conscripts, formerly in the Soviet Armed Forces and contemporarily in the Russian, Ukrainian, etc. armed forces.
• dedushkaA Russian grandfather.
• defamiliarisationThe representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
• deficit goodA commodity which was chronically difficult for citizens of the Soviet Union to obtain; particularly one which was considered a necessity or only a very basic luxury in the West, such as toilet paper or a car.
• DekabristDecembrist
• dekulakizeUsually with reference to the Soviet Union and communist Eastern Europe: to dispossess a kulak (that is, a prosperous peasant) of his or her property and/or rights.
• DelyankirA village in Sakha, Russia.
• DemidovkaA former settlement in Suyetka Raion, Altai Krai, Siberian Federal District, Russia.
• dengaAn obsolete unit of currency in Russia equal to half a kopek.
• DerzhavinA surname
• desantA member of the Russian Airborne Troops.
• desmurgyThe study of medical dressings.
• dessiatinaA Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.
• DevedzhyanA surname from Armenian, variant of Devejyan.
• devotchkaA girl, especially one of Russian descent.
• dezinformatsiyadisinformation, especially in the context of the former Soviet Union
• DishelA surname from Russian.
• diversantA saboteur.
• DobrovskiiA surname from Russian.
• DodonovoA village near Zheleznogorsk in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
• DolgeA surname from German.
• doliaAn old Russian unit of weight, approximately 44 milligrams.
• domovoyA type of house sprite from Slavic mythology.
• domraA round-bodied lute of East Slavic origin with either three or four strings.
• DonetsOne of several rivers in Eastern Europe, including but not limited to
• Donetsk People's RepublicA Russian-backed, partially-recognized secessionist state proclaimed in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on 7 April 2014. It was later unilaterally annexed by Russia on 30 September 2022.
• do svidaniyaFarewell; goodbye; see you later.
• DoukhoborA member of a religious group of Russian origin who rejected the Czarist government of the late 1800s and Russian Orthodox priests, icons, and rituals, aiming to internalize the living spirit of God in each individual.
• DragunovaA feminine surname from Russian
• droshkyAn open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia.
• druzhinaA retinue in the service of a chieftain in mediaeval Slavic Europe.
• dubokA dead drop.
• DudinkaA port city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, on the Yenisei river.
• DuginA surname from Russian.
• durakA traditional Russian card game in which players attempt to shed all of their cards.
• DyatlovA surname.
• DyboA surname from Russian.
• DzaudzhikauFormer name of Vladikavkaz: the capital city of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia.
• DzerzhinskyA surname from Russian; especially when referring to Felix Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the Cheka.
• DzhokharA male given name from Russian [in turn from Chechen].
• DzhugdzhurA mountain range in eastern Russia
• edinolichnikA noncollectivized agricultural peasant in the Soviet Union.
• ekranoplana ground-effect vehicle
• elephant's footAdenia pechuelii.
• ElisabethpolFormer name of Ganja.
• ElizavetA transliteration of the Russian female given name Елизавет (Jelizavet).
• esaulThe head of a group or unit of Cossacks.
• EtokaA river in Stavropol Krai, Russia.
• EvenkA member of the Evenki people of Northeastern Asia (formerly called the Tungus people).
• EvenkiA Tungusic language spoken in Russia, Mongolia and China.
• FabergéA surname.
• face controlThe policy, in upscale nightclubs, of restricting entry based on a bouncer's snap judgment of the suitability of a person's looks, money, style or attitude.
• fantastikaspeculative fiction
• fartsovkaIn the Soviet Union, the illegal trade of acquiring desirable consumer goods and currency from foreigners.
• fartsovshchikA person involved in the illegal trade of fartsovka.
• Father FrostIn Slavic culture, especially Russia, a traditional Yuletide gift-bearing character.
• federal subjectA constituent entity of Russia, its top-level political division; it includes all federated entities: republics, krais, oblasts, cities of federal importance, an autonomous oblast, and autonomous okrugs, all of which are, constitutionally, equal subjects of the federation.
• feldscherIn Russia, one with practical but not formal medical training.
• fellow travellerOne who travels together with another.
• fenyaA Russian cant language used among criminals.
• FeodosiaA port and resort city and raion in Crimea, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but de facto in Russia.
• FeschukA surname from Russian.
• FilatievA transliteration of the Russian surname Филатьев (Filatʹjev).
• FilatyevA transliteration of the Russian surname Филатьев (Filatʹjev).
• fish furlow-quality or fake fur used as a fabric for clothing
• fortochkaA small ventilation window, spanning the frame of one window pane, that opens on hinges independently of the whole window, common in Russia, other post-Soviet states and Finland.
• freedomiteA member of a Christian zealot sect that split off from the Doukhobors, and which was involved in protests against certain policies of the Canadian government during the early to mid 20th century; the Doukhobors were a non-Orthodox religious group which emigrated from Russia to Canada at the end of the 19th century to escape persecution.
• GalichA town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, situated on the southern bank of Lake Galichskoye.
• galyakA flat, glossy kind of fur obtained from a newborn or stillborn lamb or kid (goat).
• GamburtsevA surname from Russian
• GamburtsevsA mountain range in Dome A, Antarctic Plateau, East Antarctica, Antarctica, the magnitude of the Alps, completely buried under kilometres of glacier, under the Antarctic ice cap.
• garnetzAn old Russian measure, one eighth of a chetverik.
• GavriilA transliteration of the Russian male given name Гаврии́л (Gavriíl).
• GenukhA village in Tsuntinsky district, Dagestan, Russia.
• GershengornA surname.
• GilyakNivkh
• GlavsetA Russian agency engaged in online propaganda on behalf of Russian business and political interests.
• GogolianOf or relating to the Russian-Empire writer Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) or his works.
• golden billionThe world's richest billion people, maintained by an indefinite elite which supposedly pulls strings to amass wealth and destroy regular people’s lives.
• GoloiadA surname.
• GolojadA surname.
• golomyankaEither of two species of fish of the family Cottidae, endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia (Comephorus baicalensis and Comephorus dybowskii).
• GoloyadA surname.
• golubtsyRussian cabbage rolls.
• goparSynonym of gopnik.
• Gorno-BadakhshanAn autonomous region of Tajikistan, home to the Pamir mountains and peoples. Capital: Khorugh.
• gorodkiAn ancient Russian folk sport of trying to knock arrangements of skittles out of a square by throwing a bat at them.
• GoskinoThe State Committee for Cinematography of the Soviet Union.
• GosplanThe State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union.