Amasec - A Widely available and highly alcoholic beverage distilled from wine.

Aquila/Sign of the Aquila -- A sign of devotion to the imperium that forms the Imperial Eagle, by crossing the hands with the palms pressed to the chest and the thumbs linked.

Augmetic - Cybernetic/Bionic, usually in the sense of body implants or repairs.

Bleed Out - To die of blood loss before medical attention can be given.

Blunt - Sanctioned Psyker slang for a non-telepath.

Bone 'ead - An Ogryn sergeant with surgically enhanced intelligence who can interpret orders for his less advanced squadmates. Also used as a term of abuse for anyone given to taking orders too literrally to the detriment of their subordinates.

Catachan Kiss - Headbutt

Chart Table/Chart Desk - A small, portable easel-like device for displaying tactical hololithic maps and three-dimensional terrain models. A chart desk is a heavier and usually non-portable version.

Codifier/Cogitator/Logic Engine - Device empowered by the Machine Spirit to perform complex calculations and battlefield metriculations.

Cooker - Melta-gun

Counterseptic - Antiseptic and analgesic fluid used to combat infection.

Dataslate - Hand-held device used to store and transfer information, imagery and orders.

Det-tape - tape peeled off to detonate tube charges (time delay determined by length tape is trimmed to). Also used as a general-purpose detonator material.

Do a Yarrick - take a trophy from a dead enemy.

Emperor's Benediction - Euphemisim for a Mercy Killing.

Enginseer - A Techpriest of the Adeptus Mechanicus charged with the responsibility of tending the machine spirits of a regiment's vehicles.

Flakboard - General Purpose Sheet Material for defence and repair. Fitted to the inside walls of defensive positions to prevent spalling material - dislodged by weapon impacts - causing injury.

Found Wanting - Euphemism for field execution by a Commissar; "He was found wanting at the front line."

Freak, Brain, Bolt Magnet - Derogatory terms for Sanctioned Psykers.

Fyceline - Principal chemical ingredient used in the manufacture of standard Imperial Guard explosives.

Greenskin, 'skin - Slang for an Ork.

Gun-Baby - Whiteshield, or Conscript.

Hangman, Leash - Derogatory terms for a Commissar.

Hololithic - Three-Dimensional Imagery.

Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer - Standard text manual issued to every Guardsmen, containing proper procedure for everything from marching to bayonetting techniques. Also includes prescribed prayers and hymnals.

Interior Guards - General Term, a world's PDF or a Guard Regiment given colonial duties.

Juvenat - As in "Juvenat Processes" or "Juvenant Drugs" Techniques of prolonging youth and virility. Usually highly expensive and reserved for senior officers or Imperial Nobility.

Lamp-Pack - Standard Guard Issue, compact lamp with internal (limited) power supply, designed to be hand held, or fixed onto lasgun's bayonet lugs.

Leftovers - An incomplete squad built from the remnants of squads that have suffered casualties.

Lho Sticks - An addictive narcotic rolled into a compact tube and smoked by guardsmen. Officio Medicae personnel have warned that they may cause respiratory damage.

Long-las - Any model lasgun modified or designed for sniper use. (As the name implies, they are usually longer than standard-pattern weapons.)

Magnoculars - Powerful optical device for the magnification of distant objects. Can be modified to varying levels of complexity, with range-finders, azimuth metriculators and heat-sensing equipment.

Micro-bead - (also Micro-bead link, micro-bead intercom) small, short-range Vox system for inter-trooper communications in the field. Usually a small ear-plug with a tiny wire mouth-stalk. Generally only found on regiments from civilised or industrialised worlds.

Multikey - Universal key/lock-pick.

Ninve-Seventies - Imperial Guard issue entrenching tool.

Obscura - Prescribed Narcotic

One-way Ticket - Assignation to a grav-chute landing. "To be given a one-way ticket."

Pict - A video-feed equivalent of vox.

Plank - idiot, also a derogatory term for an Ogryn.

Promethium - A general term for fuel, but commonly used to refer to the highly volatile and incendiary jelly used as fuel in flamer units. Designed to adhere to the target and rapidly immolate them. Promethium reaches extermely high temperatures within seconds of ignition, and even burns underwater.

Resuscitrex - Offico Medicae device incorporating a number of specialised devices, most frequently used to fibrillate patients who have suffered Cardiac Arrest.

Savlar - A thief or drug addict.

Scope - General term for powered spotter sights. May be the telescopic sights on a long-las, or a hand-held "telescope" used by an officer.

Scrambled - Insane, shell-shocked.

Screamer-Killer - Tyranid "Carnifex" genus.

Shell - Carapace Armour.

Slap - Disciplined by a senior officer for minor infraction (possession of unauthorised publications, for instance.)

Spook - Tyranid "Lictor" Genus

Sweeper/Sweeper Set/Sweeper Broom - Man-portable Mine Detector.

The Emperor Protects - Common soldiers' blessing or refrain.

The Green (Catachan Phrase) - Jungle Terrain., Deathworld-Class Jungle.

Torch - Flamer

Toy Soldiers, Glory Boys - Storm Troopers, Special Operations teams

Tread Fether (Tanith Phrase) - Man-portable, shoulder launched anti-tank weapon.

Tube Charges - 20cm (approx) long metal tubes filled with explosives for demolition work or grenades-type work.

Twist - Imperial Slang for a mutant.

Vox-Caster - A powerful, usually backpack-carried, communications gear. "A vox set"

Vox-Officer - the member of a squad or platoon trained to carry the vox-caster and operate it and other communications systems. General term for this branch of specialisation is "Signals."