Glossary

This page contains a list of important terms and abbreviations commonly used by players.

A

 * Affinity - Experience in Warframe. Contributes to levels for weapons, warframes and sentinels.
 * Alert - Missions that appear randomly and give additional credits or loot as a reward.
 * AMD - Antimatter Drop, Nova's 2nd ability

B

 * Baking - A term used to describe an item being made in the foundry. e.g. "My Nova's still baking."
 * Bar, BarPol - The polarity shape.
 * Baguette - Hind.
 * Boxheads - Corpus Crewmen or Techs.
 * Buff, Buffed - Improving something's ability in overall.

C

 * Cap, Capture - Refers to the Capture mission type. Players will often advertise Void runs and its difficulty. (e.g. T3 Cap)
 * CC - Crowd Control.
 * Clan - Warframe's version of a guild.  A clan has its own chat channel, can build a Dojo, facilitates trades, and allows advanced weapons and items to be researched.
 * Cmod, CM - Control Module
 * Cooking - A term used to describe an item being made in the foundry e.g. "I have a blue potato cooking"
 * Corpus - One of the three main enemy faction. They are a merchant cult, built on the foundation of salvaged technology and robotics.
 * Corrupted - The type of enemies encountered in the Orokin Void.
 * Corrupted Mods - Mods that increase one stat and decrease another. Found in Orokin Derelict Vaults using Dragon Keys.
 * Copter, Coptering - using the slide attack of fast melee weapons to fling a player a great distance quickly. See Zoren Coptering.
 * Crit - A critical hit.

D

 * DC - Disconnected.
 * Def, Defense - Refers to the Defense mission type. Players will often advertise Void runs and its difficulty. (e.g. T3 Def)
 * D, DPol - The  polarity shape.
 * Dash, - The polarity shape.
 * Dashes, AbilityPol - The polarity shape. Used for warframe abilities.
 * Dojo - A clan meeting place. Different rooms can be built, with purposes of research, trading, duels, and even an Obstacle Course.
 * Down, Downed - When you run out of health, you get 'downed' (a state that the game calls Bleedout). Teammates can revive you back to full health and shields.
 * Doges - Internet-shared slang for Grineer.
 * Dual Mods - AKA Dual-Stat Mods. Refers to Nightmare Mode Mods which grant two different beneficial stats. Not to be confused with Corrupted Mods.

E

 * Ext, Exterminate - Refers to the Exterminate mission type. Players will often advertise Void runs and its difficulty. (e.g. T3 Ext)
 * Extract - To exit a mission or head to the extraction point.
 * Exp - Experience. Correctly called Affinity, used to level Weapons, Warframes and Mastery.

F

 * FTC - Failed to Connect to Server. This normally happens if a player's DNS server is incompatible of connecting with other players' IP address.
 * Farm - To play repeatedly or for long periods in order to obtain experience, resources, mods, or blueprints.
 * Forma, Forma'd - To use a Forma (alter a polarity slot) of a weapon or warframe.
 * Friendship Door - A term used to refer to a door that requires two players to simultaneously activate opposite panels to open. If the player is alone, they can open the door alone.

G

 * G3 - The Grustrag Three.
 * Gate - Nova's Worm Hole.
 * Greedy Milk - Insulting slang for Corpus.
 * Grind - To play repeatedly or for long periods in order to obtain experience, resources, mods, or blueprints.
 * Grineer - One of the enemy factions. A race of clones.
 * Groth - Gorgon Wraith.

H

 * Hallway Hero - A negative term referring to a player in a defense mission (endless, wave, mobile, or survival) who fights far from the defense objective or team, killing enemies too far away for their teammates' to share Affinity.
 * Hitscan - A type of weapon with projectiles that hits targets 'instantly' i.e.: Braton, Burston, Soma.

I

 * Infested - A main enemy faction. Comprised of Corpus and Grineer that have been infected with the Technocyte Virus.

J

 * Juggling - a strategic move that forces enemies to remain in a ragdoll-phase for a prolonged period of time. (ex. Juggling via Pull)

K

 * Keys - Void Keys, Derelict Keys or Dragon Keys used to enter the Orokin Void, Orokin Derelicts or Vaults.
 * Kill Frame - A warframe capable of killing large groups of enemies quickly, namely Nova, Ember, Saryn or Volt.

L

 * Lasers - Laser Barriers  found inside the frame of some Corpus doors activated by nearby Security Cameras.
 * LFM, LFG - Looking for member, group.
 * Lotus - The Tenno players' guide.
 * LS, Life Support - Life Support Modules that are dispensed from dead enemies in Survival missions.

M

 * MD, Mob Def, Mobile Defense - Refers to the Mobile Defense mission type. Players will often advertise Void runs and its difficulty. (e.g. T3 Mob Def)
 * Mastery - Your overall account level. Increased by leveling up weapons, warframes and sentinels (not counting forma(s)) and completing a test.
 * Mats - Resource loot.
 * Mods - "Cards" picked up during missions and won for completing some missions. These are used to enhance the power of Warframes, weapons, and sentinels.
 * MP, M Prime - Molecular Prime, Nova's 4th ability. Often used to clear out large groups of enemies. Also may refer to the second mission on Mercury.

N

 * Nerfed, Nerf - Something that was recently weakened or needs weakening.
 * Nightmare Mods - See dual mods.
 * NM, Nightmare - Nightmare Mode. A high difficulty mission that can occupy random nodes indicated with a skull, rewards special mods unique to these missions.
 * Nuke - any weapon or ability that is able to kill a large quantity of enemies at once - e.g. Molecular Prime or Ogris. May also be used as an adjective - "nuking" a target.

O

 * Octopus - The Phage rifle. Nicknamed for its appearance when firing.
 * OC, OCell (O Cell) - Orokin Cell.
 * OD - Orokin Derelict missions, usually followed with an additional letter indicating the mission type. e.g. ODS, ODD and ODA refer to Orokin Derelict Survival, Defense and Assassination respectively.
 * ODV - Orokin Derelict Vault, a section of the Orokin Derelicts that provides players Corrupted Mods upon completion of missions after unlocking such vaults.
 * Orokin - The name of the race that previously ruled the solar system. Tenno are their descendents.
 * OV - Orokin Void missions, usually followed with an additional letter indicating the mission type, as well as the Tower number representing the difficulty. For example: OVS, OVD and OVE refer to Orokin Void Survival, Defense and Exterminate respectively. And for the Tower number, a general T1, T2, or T3, meaning Tower one, two, or three.

P

 * PC - Price check. Used on the trading channel to find out how much something is worth.
 * Plat, Pl, P - Platinum, the game currency that can only be won or paid for.
 * PM - Private message. Use /w message to whisper to the player.
 * Pol - Polarity, the 'shape' associated with a slot in a warframe or weapon.
 * Potato, Potatoed, Blue/Gold Potato - An Orokin Catalyst or Orokin Reactor, named such for their resemblance to potatoes.
 * Precept - The abilities a sentinel uses. Precept mods have the polarity.
 * Prime - The surname given to an enhanced version of a warframe or weapon. It can also refer to the use of Molecular Prime (see M Prime).
 * PST - Please send tell. Use /w message to whisper to the player.
 * PUG, Pugs - Pick-up Group. Used to describe a group that is not preorganized or a player that is not part of the organized group.

Q

 * QT - Quick Thinking, a mod that drains energy in place of health if damage would down you.

R

 * R+QT - A combo between Rage and Quick Thinking mod which grants invincibility towards death, this no longer works since Update 11.
 * Red Text - In game announcements that appear in chat from the developer Digital Extremes. The text are written in red, hence the name.
 * RNG - Random Number Generator. Used to refer to the random chance of things happening in the game, such as mod drops or the appearance of the Stalker/Harvester.
 * Rollers - Rollers are Grineer rolling balls that will jump at players with hidden blades extended and continue to attack the player until they are destroyed.
 * Rush - To complete a mission as fast as possible.

S

 * Sandal - Snipetron Vandal
 * ShieldPol - shield Polarize.
 * Slide - While running, press the crouch key to perform a slide maneuver; can also be performed in conjunction with a jump and/or attack.
 * Stomp - Rhino Stomp.
 * Stunlock - A tactic that forces enemies in a Stun-phase or remain them plummeting to the ground.

T

 * T1/T2/T3 - Tower 1, 2 or 3 Orokin Void missions.
 * Tank - A player that can take large amounts of damage.
 * Taxi - A player that has a mission or planet unlocked that will form a group for a player that does not.
 * Tier 1 / Tier 2 / Tier 3 - The difficulty or level group of enemies in a mission or wave. The tier determines the reward pool players have access to.

U

 * Ult, Ultimate - The '4' ability on a Warframe. Comes from the 4th ability often being the most powerful and costly warframe ability.

V

 * V, VPol - The polarity shape. Rarely called rPol.
 * Vault - See ODV.

W

 * Warframe - The exosuit worn by Tenno. These have special abilities that are used for specific tasks.
 * WTS, WTB, WTT, WTG - Wanting to sell, buy, trade and get.
 * Wombo Combo - Two Warframe abilities used in conjunction that cause mass destruction.

X

 * Xini - A very commonly played high-level defense map.
 * XP - Experience. Correctly called Affinity, used to level Weapons, Warframes and Mastery.

Y

 * Yelling - Having a discussion through in-game chat, then distributes it to the forums.

Z

 * Zoren Copter - Using the Dual Zoren slide attack to move faster.

Legacy Terms
These are terms that may still be used by long-term players but refer to things that no longer exist.
 * Green - Life Support pick-ups in Survival missions. Named for the green HUD indicator that was unique to them.
 * Red Crit - A term for a feature that is no longer in the game. Now refers to unusually high critical hits.