All That Is – the universe and beyond
Barkers – dogs
Bed-warmers – denigrating name for cats with homes
Bittercold – very cold weather, coldest month of the year
Boulderfalls – a cascade of boulders forming a Stonehenge
Brightmoon – the full moon
Brood kits – baby skunks
Bushytails – squirrels
Buttercup Root – Goldenseal, an herb to fight infection
Cactus Water – Aloe, soothing herb
Catlings – adolescent cats
Chamomile – herb with small, yellow flowers for settling nerves
Cold-moons – cold months of the year
Commonspeak – shared tongue of body language, scent, intuition
Cramp bark – used for female troubles
Dark-moon – the new moon
Death-Den – shelter where ferals are taken and euthanized
Den – where a cat or other animal lives, also called a nest
Denchurls – enormous fighting cats, palace guard for evil
Den-kin – pet cat, domesticated by humans
Deosil – clockwise motion, used to summon energy for spells
Dog Father – deity for canines, also called Lord Tooth & Tail
Dreamweed – Valerian
Earth Mother – Nature, considered feminine, nurturing force
Eight-leggeds – spiders
False-stone – concrete, asphalt
Feathertails – birds
Ferals – cats born in the wild without human connection
Fetch – a cat's spirit self, leads it to Beyond & Fields of Nip
Fields of Nip – where cats go when they die, cat heaven
Fin-backs – fish
Flattails – beavers
Flatstone – diamond shaped stone for Newmoon Gatherings
Furleaf – Comfrey, an herb to fight infection
Ghostdogs – coyotes, also called gulchdogs
Goldenseal – herb that fights infection
Graytail – gray fox
Great Mother – cat deity, loving spirit, mother to all
Green – huge nature park where the kin live
Guardian Stone – boulder hiding the opening to Hillside Pod den
Head-jewel – shape of varying colors between the ears
Ironstone Manor – home of the Royals, Ozymandias
Jinny – female skunk, sow
Kin – cats, also called Pelted Ones, Clan of Fang and Claw
Kits – kittens, baby cats
Longears – rabbits
Longtails - rats
Malkin – evil cat
Metal pelts – cars, trucks, buses
Milk Mother's Spill – the Milky Way
Moon – one night
Nightsoil – feces
No-furs – human beings, also called no-pelts
No-tails – human beings
One oak – unit of measurement, the height of an average oak
One tail – unit of measurement, length of a cat tail
Plate-lickers – denigrating name for cats with homes
Pod – clan, extended family of cats by blood and/or friendship
Poppy Seeds – used for pain relief
Prey pile – where all hunters put their catch to share
Provider – a human who feeds ferals, gives them shelter
Ravenspeak – the magic that lets all animals understand them
Redberry Tree – Guelder Rose, Cramp Bark, for menses bleeding
Redtails – foxes
Ringtails – raccoons
Ronins – rogue cats who wander alone
Roundeyes – owls
Rue – an herb to ease birthing
Rumble-road – street
Shelter-veil – a magical place invisible to the uninitiated
Skywater – rain
Slitherers – snakes
Smelltails – skunks
Snapjaws – vicious dogs
Snuggery – bed for queen with kittens, made of moss and herbs
Squawkbeaks – ravens
Standing Folk – trees
Sun – one day
Sunhigh – noon
Sunfall – sunset
Sweetgrass – slender-leafed, fragrant grass used for nests
Tall-ones – human beings
Tall-walkers – human beings
Two-leggeds – human beings
Two-legged den – where a human lives
True-blood – purebred Royal, the Persians of Ironstone Manor
Turn of the Moon – one complete moon cycle, one month
Uprights – human beings
Walk-Ins – spirits of kin killed by Malkins who steal bodies
Warm-moons – warm months of the year
Waterfall Boulder – huge granite slab above Hillside Pod den
White Truck – animal control truck, greatly feared
Widdershins – counter-clockwise motion, to banish, or lessen
Wildborn – feral, a cat born in the wild without human connection
Younglings – adolescent cats