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Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The glossary contains a list of important terms, abbreviations, and slang commonly used by players.

0–9

• 1, 2, 3, or 4 - Refers to Warframe Abilities depending on the context (e.g.  Excalibur's 4 refers to  Exalted Blade)
• 10o - Tenno.
• 1-1-1, x-2-3, x-x-x (Amp) - The general terminology used to describe a specific configuration of an amp. The first, second, and third number refers to the tiers of the amp prism, scaffold and brace being used respectively, with x being a wildcard. Can be shortened to 111, x23 or xxx.
• 2x3, 3x3, 4x3, 5x3, 6x3 (Eidolon) - Describes how many sets of Eidolon Teralysts, Eidolon Gantulysts, and Eidolon Hydrolysts that a group captures in a single night cycle in the Plains of Eidolon (e.g. a 2x3 Eidolon hunt means two sets of Teralyst, Gantulyst, and Hydrolyst captures).
• 2FA - Two Factor Authentication.
• x-x-x-x or xxxx (Railjack) - Describes a player's rank allocation in their Intrinsics (e.g. 5172 or 5-1-7-2 means that the player has Rank 5 in Tactical, Rank 1 in Piloting, Rank 7 in Gunnery, and Rank 2 in Engineering Intrinsic).

A

• AbilityPol - The (Zenurik) Polarity shape. Used for Augments or Channeling mods. See also Scratch/ScratchPol, Dashes
• Add, Adds - Low-level enemies spawned into Assassination missions to distract or harass players trying to focus on the boss. Having one or more members in a squad assigned to "add duty" means they keep the reinforcements under control while the other squad members can focus on the boss.
• Affinity - Experience in Warframe. Contributes to Ranks for Weapons, Warframes, Companions, and Mastery Rank.
• AFK - Away From Keyboard. This refers to someone who, while present in a mission, is not actively playing it. Depending on the use, it may either be informative (the player has to attend to something in real life for a short moment and thus cannot assist) or derogatory (the player does not move at all after the mission starts or is not contributing to the team or mission).
• Aggro (Aggravation) - Both the Threat Level mechanic and the act of giving oneself as great a Threat Level as possible to distract enemies.
• A.I. - Artificial Intelligence. Used to describe Enemy NPCs and their behavior.
• Ambulance - Ambulas. Also owing to the fact that the boss drops parts for  Trinity, a healing Warframe.
• Anarcho-Capitalists - The Corpus.
• Ancient Retribution - A well-known placeholder mod in Warframe that may appear as a Defense or Interception reward due to bugs.
• AoE - Area of Effect; used to describe attacks or Abilities that affect multiple targets within a specified area.
• Arbiters - Arbiters of Hexis.
• Arby/Arbys - Arbitrations.
• AW - Archwing.
• Awoo of Saturn Six - A nickname for the Wolf of Saturn Six.

B

• Baguette - The  Hind, due to the distinct shape and default color of the barrel.
• Baking - Slang for an item being made in the Foundry e.g. "I'm baking an  Excalibur."
• Baconframe -  Atlas, owing to his obi resembling strips of bacon.
  • Bacon Prime -  Atlas Prime, for the same reason.
• Bar - The (Naramon) Polarity shape.
• Baro Ki'Teer - the Void Trader, who offers rare items in exchange for Ducats and Credits.
• Berehynia, Bere - An Interception node on Sedna used for farming Affinity or Focus.
• Boarder - A player whose job is to board Crew-ships in Empyrean missions.
• Booben -  Vauban (also refers to a Vauban player who does not know how to use him).
• BP - Blueprint.
• Broberon - A friendly  Oberon.
• Buff, Buffed - May Refer To:
  • Temporary positive effects on the player, usually granted from Abilities. See Buff & Debuff for a list of buffs. Antonym of Debuff.
  • A permanent increase in overall power of an item like Warframes and Weapons after particular changes (e.g. a damage buff). Antonym of Nerf.
• Build - refers to loadout composition or Mod configuration of a particular Weapon or Warframe (e.g a  Mesa DPS build).

C

• Cabbage - A Void Relic, named as such for their resemblance to cabbages.
• Camp, Camping - To stay in one spot with relatively little or no movement at all.
• Cap, Capt, Capture - May Refer To:
  • In Interception missions, typically to order other players to capture a specific point (e.g. "Cap A" meaning "Capture point A").
  • Capture missions.
  • Capturing Eidolons.
• Cat - May Refer to:
  • A Kavat.
  • An abbreviation of Orokin Catalyst.
• CC - May Refer To:
  • Crowd Control.
  • Critical Chance.
  • Conclave.
• CD - Refers to Critical Damage.
• Cell - Orokin Cell.
• Clan - A guild. A clan has its own chat channel, can build a Dojo, facilitates trades, and allows advanced weapons and items to be researched.
• Clantech - Items obtained primarily through research in a Clan Dojo.
• Clem - Originally a fan-made character inspired by certain Grineer voice lines, now an official character since Hotfix 17.4.3 (2015-09-16).
• Clemmings - Kavor Defectors from the Defection game mode, a portmanteau of Clem and "lemmings".
• Cmod, CM - Control Module.
• CO -  Condition Overload.
• Cooking - Slang for an item being made in the Foundry, e.g. "I'm cooking an  Excalibur."
• Co-op Door - Refers to a door that requires two players present to open when in a Squad.
• Corpus - One of the three main enemy Factions. They are a merchant cult, built on the foundation of salvaged technology and robotics.
• Corrupted - The type of enemies encountered in the Orokin Void or Void Fissures.
• Corrupted Mods - Mods that increase one stat and decrease another, obtained from Orokin Vaults in Deimos.
• Communists - The Grineer.
• CP -  Corrosive Projection, an Aura Mod that reduces enemy Armor.
• Crowd Control - Abilities or actions that incapacitate enemies, such as knockdowns and blinds.
• Cryotic Mods, Cryotic Mod Set - The four  Cold dual-stat mods rewarded in Operation Cryotic Front:  Rime Rounds,  Frigid Blast,  Frostbite and  Vicious Frost. Now obtained as a possible reward for completing Spy missions.

D

• D, DPol - The (Vazarin) Polarity shape.
• Dash (or "-") - The (Naramon) Polarity shape.
• Dashes - The (Zenurik) Polarity shape. Used for Augments or Channeling mods. See also Scratch/ScratchPol, AbilityPol.
• DC, D/C, DCD - Disconnected.
  • DC also may refer to the Design Council.
• DE - Digital Extremes, the developers of WARFRAME.
• Debuff - Temporary negative effects on the player, usually caused by enemies. See Buff & Debuff for a list of debuffs. Antonym of Buff.
• Def - Refers to the Defense mission type.
• Derf, Derf Anyo - An officially recognized fan-made character, as Devstream 30 claims. Usually refers to son, nephew, or another relative of Nef Anyo.
• Diminishing returns - Players may refer to additive stacking as having "diminishing returns" when in reality there is opportunity cost in equipping multiple additively stacking mods. At higher percent bonuses, the relative increase of a particular stat is lower. See Calculating Bonuses for an in-depth explanation.
• DM - May refer to:
  • A direct (private) message.
  • Death Mark from assassins (Stalker, Zanuka Hunter, and The Grustrag Three).
• DMG - Short for damage.
• DNS (technical) - Domain Name Server. Used to determine a player's IP address on an international scale; if a DNS address is mismatched, the player will not be able to connect to other certain players.
• Dogs - May refer to:
  • Internet-shared slang for Grineer, owing to Alad V referring to them as such during The Gradivus Dilemma.
  • A Kubrow.
• Dojo - A Clan's meeting place. Different rooms can be built, which allow research, trading, duels and the like. See Clan.
• Doorway Hero, Door Hero - Denotes the specific act of utilizing choke points (such as doors) to rapidly kill recently spawned enemies. Mostly used as a derogatory term. The term Hallway Hero is sometimes used interchangeably.
• Dorito cape - Abrasys Syandana.
• DoT - Damage over time (e.g.  Toxin,  Electricity and  Slash procs).
• Down, Downed - Being in a Bleedout state.
• DPS - Damage per Second or Damage per Shot. When a player asks for a "DPS Frame" when recruiting a squad, this refers to a Warframe capable of dealing high damage and killing enemies consistently.
  • Burst DPS - Damage per second calculation that does not take reloading into account.
  • Sustained DPS - Damage per second calculation that does take reloading into account and time spent firing.
• DS - Dark Sector. Usually followed by S - Survival (DSS) or D - Defense/Defection (DSD).
• Dual/Dual-stat Mods - Refers to Nightmare Mode Mods which grant two different beneficial stats. Not to be confused with Corrupted Mods.
• Dur - Abbreviation for Ability Duration.

E

• Edgelord - Nickname for the Stalker, his Acolytes,  Nekros, and  Sevagoth.
• Eff - Abbreviation for Ability Efficiency.
• Elephant - A Nickname for the Infested boss Lephantis. See also 'Panties', 'Le Panties'.
• Endo - A form of currency required to upgrade Mods.
• Endurance - The process of playing a single endless mission for a long period of time, to the point where the players have to 'endure' high level enemies as a cause of doing so.
• EOM - End of mission.
• EPS - Energy Per Second, often used to describe the effectiveness of  Trinity's  Energy Vampire, Energizing Dash from the Zenurik school of Focus, or the stacking of the Energy Siphon Aura Mod.
• ESO - Elite Sanctuary Onslaught, available under the Syndicate missions tab in the navigation window.
• EV - A  Trinity build focused on  Energy Vampire, primarily by reducing her Ability Duration in exchange for increasing both Ability Strength and Ability Range.
• Evergreen - Refers to rewards that are continually useful regardless of account progress (e.g. Nightwave offerings always have Nitain Extract as an evergreen reward).
• Excal, Excalibro -  Excalibur.
• Ext - May Refer To:
  • Exterminate missions.
  • Extraction point. See below.
  • An Extinguished Dragon Key, used to open Orokin Vaults.
• Extract, Evac - To complete a mission by going to the extraction point, typically used in Survival and Excavation missions.
• Exp - Experience. Correctly called Affinity and used to increase the Rank of Weapons, Warframes, and Mastery.

F

• Farm, Farming - To play repeatedly or for long periods of time to achieve the desired objective or item, usually to acquire something in large numbers (such as a certain resource or enemy). Synonym of 'Grind'.
• Fashion Frame - When a player creates or aims to create an overall aesthetic modification to a Warframe strictly for the purpose of being aesthetically pleasing.
• Fast Nova - A  Nova modded with  Overextended and no Ability Strength mods in order to cause  Molecular Prime to speed enemies up instead of slowing them down. Commonly used during Infested Defense missions to make enemies get into players' range faster. Also called Speed Nova, Speedva, and Neg Nova.
• FL - Friend List.
• Focus - A selection of special abilities that can only be obtained after completing The Second Dream quest.
• FOMO - The fear of missing out.
• Forehead - Phorid, for both its name and its appearance.
• Forma, Forma'd, Formed, Formaed - To use a Forma to alter a Polarity slot (correctly known as Polarized and Polarization). Also an adjective for a weapon or Warframe that has been polarized a number of times (e.g. 4 Forma Braton).
• FoV - Field of vision/field of view.
• FPS Crusher - A  Volt with a build geared towards  Speed, which often results in significant FPS drops on low-end computers.
• Frame - A Warframe.
• Friendship Door - Refers to a door that requires two players to open when in a Squad.

G

• G3 - The Grustrag Three.
• Garry - Eidolon Gantulyst.
• Gate - Nova's .
• Gate Crash Mods, Gate Crash Mod Set - The four  Slash mods rewarded in Operation: Gate Crash:  Buzz Kill,  Fanged Fusillade,  Sweeping Serration and  Maim. Currently available as a drop from Eidolon Hydrolysts.
• Glass Cannon - A Warframe capable of dealing large amounts of damage, at the cost of having low survivability.
• Glock -  Lex, due to its appearance.
  • Glock Prime -  Lex Prime.
• Golem - The Jordas Golem, an Infested boss.
• GPull -  Greedy Pull, a Warframe Augment Mod for  Mag's  Pull skill.
• Greedy Milk - Derogatory slang for the Corpus, originating from one of General Sargas Ruk's quotes during The Gradivus Dilemma, where he threatened to crush the greedy milk from the skulls of the Corpus.
• Grind - May Refer to:
  • To play repeatedly or for long periods of time to achieve the desired objective or item, usually to acquire something in large numbers (such as a certain resource or enemy). Synonym of 'Farm'.
  • A trick performed using a K-Drive where you grind a surface similar to that of a skateboard.
• Grineer - One of the three main enemy Factions. They are an army of grotesque clones who use ballistics and archaic Weapons.
• Gundition Overload - Typically referrs to  Galvanized Aptitude,  Galvanized Savvy, or  Galvanized Shot, all mods for firearms that give bonus damage for every unique status effect. A portmanteau of "Gun" and  Condition Overload.

H

• H, Host - The host of a Squad.
• Hallway Hero - A negative term referring to a player in a defense mission (Endless Defense, Wave Defense, Mobile Defense, or Survival) who fights far from the Defense objective or team, killing enemies too far to share Affinity and spreading out pickups too thinly. The term Doorway Hero is sometimes used interchangeably with Hallway Hero.
• Harry - Eidolon Hydrolyst.
• HC -  Heavy Caliber.
• Hek - May Refer To:
  • The  Hek. May simultaneously also refer to the  Vaykor Hek.
  • Councilor Vay Hek.
  • A play on words of the word 'Heck'.
• Hexis - Arbiters of Hexis.
• Hitscan - A type of weapon wherein the weapon's target is calculated by way of intersection with a line trace, as opposed to collision with a projectile. Such weapons are said to hit targets 'instantly', on the same frame in which the weapon is fired. Common hitscan weapons include the  Braton,  Burston, and  Soma.
• HM -  Hunter Munitions.
• Hotfix - A WARFRAME update that primarily focuses on bug fixes. Antonym of 'Mainline'.
• HPS - Healing Per Second or Health Per Second, often used to describe the effectiveness of Abilities such as  Renewal, or the stacking of Rejuvenation Aura Mods.
• Hydron - A popular Defense mission node on Sedna for gaining Affinity.

I

• ID -  Irradiating Disarm, a Warframe Augment Mod for  Loki's Disarm skill.
• IkeaFrame - Describes the art of decorating the Clan Dojo or Orbiter to be aesthetically pleasing.
• Index - The Index, a popular mission on Neptune for getting  Credits.
• Infested - One of the three main enemy Factions. Comprised of Corpus and Grineer who have been infected with the Technocyte Virus.
• Infusion ability/mods - Augmented Abilities which buffs the damage of a player's weapon with elements such as  Venom Dose or  Smite Infusion. Other uses:
  • Infuse - Applying infusion Abilities to a player.
• Int - May Refer To:
  • Interception missions.
  • An intact Void Relic.
• Invis - Any form of invisibility.
• IPS - Refers to the physical damage types:  Impact,  Puncture, and  Slash.
• Iso Vault - Isolation Vaults.

J

• Jellyfish - Derogatory nickname for Alad V, coined by Tyl Regor in Operation: Tubemen of Regor.
• Jellyfish Prime -  Ivara Prime, owing to her design being inspired by jellyfish.
• John, John Prodman - A fan-name given to a Prod Crewman who managed to take down Phorid and survive. Many fans have applied this name to the Prod Crewman that frequently appears in Promotional Videos. Digital Extremes have since made the story official, and eventually made John a hard-to-reach enemy in The Index.

K

• Keys - May refer to:
  • Dragon Keys, used to open the Orokin Vaults.
  • Mutalist Alad V Assassinate Keys, required to access the Assassination mission against Mutalist Alad V.
  • Key Share - A group set up to run the same mission multiple times where each player uses a key to activate the mission one after the other.
• Keyface, Keyface Prime -  Excalibur Prime, owing to the Void-key emblem on his helmet.
• Killframe, Kill Frame - A Warframe capable of killing large groups of enemies quickly, most notable examples being  Equinox using  Maim and  Mesa using  Peacemaker.
• Kit - May Refer To:
  • A player's load-out or a Warframe's Abilities.
  • An abbreviation of Baro Ki'Teer.
• KPM - Kills per minute, a metric for measuring kill efficiency of a particular load-out, Weapon, or Warframe.

L

• Leech - May refer to:
  • A player who does not contribute to the mission at all (e.g. a person fishing in the middle of a Bounty).
  • A player who has taken on a mission simply to fill the squad and maximize enemy level, commonly being weak and having low-level equipment with the intention of leveling up quickly.
  • An Energy Leech Eximus.
• LF, LFM, LFG - Looking for member/more, group.
• Lich - Kuva Liches.
• Limb - Eidolon Synovia, a weakpoint on the Eidolon Teralyst, Eidolon Gantulyst, and Eidolon Hydrolyst.
• Lobster, Lobster Butt -  Trinity, named as such due to the overall appearance of her skirt resembling a lobster's tail.
  • Lobster Prime -  Trinity Prime, for the same reason. Could also refer to the Charamote, due to it resembling a lobster.
• LOS - Line of Sight, meaning if enemies can see the player or not. Certain Abilities—particularly those that Blind enemies—generally require Line of Sight for maximum effect, as does scanning.
• Lotus - The Tenno's guide.
• Lure - An Eidolon Lure.
• LS, Life Support - Life Support Modules that are dispensed from dead enemies in Survival missions.

M

• Macaroni - The Efficiency Stimulus pickup in Simaris's Sanctuary Onslaught that restores 10% efficiency. Uncommon usage.
• Main, Mains, Maining - Refers to selection and usage of a specific Warframe for game content, such as regular Missions, Boss Nodes, Void Fissures, Sortie Missions, etc.; in general, usage of the said Warframe, for game play, more than any other Warframe available (e.g  Excalibur mains, etc.).
• Mainline - Refers to a WARFRAME Update that introduces new content and/or significant changes. Antonym of 'Hotfix'.
• Mastery - Mastery Rank. Increased by Mastering Warframes and gear, completing mission nodes, etc. Another Rank is gained by completing tests.
• Mastery Fodder - Weapon with insufficient damage capability, or too gimmicky to be viable for end game play, thus making it useful only in advancing experience for next Mastery Rank. Usually sold right after achieving level 30 with it.
• Mats - Resources. Short for Materials.
• Maxed - Refers to a Mod that is at its max rank.
• MD, MDef, MobDef - Mobile Defense Missions.
• Meme Strike, Mememing Strike - Nickname for the  Maiming Strike Mod.
• Meta - The Metagame, which refers to the best strategies, load-outs, and Squad composition to maximize farming, mission completion, etc.
• Mob - Another term for enemy units.
• Mods - May Refer To:
  • Mods, which are Warframe's core mechanic. Obtained primarily from enemies, these cards can be equipped on Warframes and gear to change their behaviour.
  • Chat moderators.
• MP, M Prime - May Refer To:
  •  Molecular Prime, Nova's 4th Ability.
  • A mission node on Mercury.
• MR - Mastery Rank.

N

• Neffy - Nickname for Nef Anyo, coined by Tyl Regor in Operation: Tubemen of Regor.
• Neg Nova, Negative Nova - A  Nova modded with  Overextended and  Power Donation, and no Ability Strength mods, which causes  Molecular Prime's speed debuff to increase enemy speed, instead of slowing them down. Commonly used during Infested Defense missions to make enemies get into players' range faster. Also called Fast Nova and Speed Nova.
• Nerfed, Nerf - Something that was weakened or needs weakening. Antonym of 'Buff'.
• Neutral Nova - A  Nova with exactly -30% power strength so that  Molecular Prime does not modify the speed of affected enemies. Useful if players only want the damage buff from the ability.
• Nightmare Mods - See dual mods.
• NinTenno - Nickname for players playing Warframe using the Nintendo Switch.
• NM - May refer to:
  • Nightmare Mode. A high-difficulty mission that can occupy random nodes indicated with a special icon and rewards special mods unique to this mode.
  •  Narrow Minded.
• Node - A mission node.
• NPC - Non-player characters. Refers to characters who players can interact with, or enemy units.
• NSW - Nintendo Switch.
• Nuke - Any weapon or Ability that can kill a large number of enemies at once (i.e.  Mend & Maim, the  Ignis Wraith).

O

• OC, OCell, OroCell - Orokin Cell.
• Octopus - The  Phage shotgun. Nicknamed for its appearance when firing.
• OD - Orokin Derelict, 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 awards players Corrupted Mods.
• Onion - A Kuva Guardian. Nicknamed for their helmets' resemblance to onions.
• OP - Overpowered.
• Orokin - An ancient civilization that previously ruled the solar system.
• OV - Orokin Void, usually followed with an additional letter indicating the mission type (e.g. OVS, OVD and OVE refer to Orokin Void Survival, Defense and Exterminate respectively).

P

• Panty, Panties - The Infested boss Lephantis. See also 'Elephant'.
• PBR (Treatment) - Physically-Based Rendering, which offers a less production-intensive approach to the rendering of materials and light. Within the context of the game, this refers to a graphical update that improves the luster of metallic sections of equipment, and allows them to be customized.
• PC - Price check. Used on the trading channel to find out how much something is worth.
• Pilfroid -  Hydroid equipped with the  Pilfering Swarm Augment Mod.
• Pineapple(s) - Anasa Ayatan Sculpture(s), owing to 'Anasa' sounding like the word for 'Pineapple' in multiple languages.
• Pizza, Pizzas - Squad Restores, deployable Equipment that restores either health, energy, shields or ammo every few seconds. Will typically have one attribute prefixed to indicate what it restores (e.g. Energy Pizzas for Squad Energy Restores and so on).
• Plat, Pl, Pt, P - Platinum, a premium currency that can only be obtained from real-life money, trading, and Twitch rewards.
• PM - Private message. Use /w <username> message to whisper to the player.
• PMO - Private message (me an/the) offer. Used in the trade chat in connection with WTB/WTS/WTT.
• PoE - Plains of Eidolon.
• Pol - The Polarity associated with a slot in a Warframe or Weapon.
• Potato, Blue/Gold Potato - An Orokin Catalyst or Orokin Reactor, named as such for their resemblance to potatoes. As per the A Man of Few Words Quest, it is an abbreviation of Potent Orokin Technical Augmentation Tactical Offensive.
  • Potatoed - Refers to equipment that has a Catalyst/Reactor installed.
• PPP -  Primed Pressure Point
• Precept - The abilities that a Companion can use. Precept mods have the Polarity.
• Prime - May refer to:
  • The modifier given to an enhanced version of a Warframe, Weapon or Companion.
  •  Molecular Prime.
• Primed Disappointment, Primed Salt - A community-created Mod that Baro Ki'teer is said to bring when his stock is of low quality. Synonym of 'Baro Ki'Tears', 'Baro Shit-Tier'.
• Proc - The effect of a weapon or Ability triggering one of the additional damage effects via status chance, an abbreviation of Programmed Random Occurrence. See Status Effect.
• PS - Abbreviation of power strength.
• PS4 - Playstation 4
• PS5 - Playstation 5
• PST - Abbreviation of "Please Send Tell", or to send a private message to another player in-game. Use /w <username> message to whisper to the player. Can also be seen as an abbreviation of "Psst!"
• PTC - Public Test Cluster.
• Pubs, Pug, Pugs - Pick-up Group/Public. Used to describe a group that is not preorganized or a player who is not part of the organized group.
• PvE - Player-versus-Environment. Commonly refers to the general gameplay of WARFRAME with players fighting against enemy A.I.
• PvP - Player versus Player. Commonly refers to Conclave.

Q

• QT - The  Quick Thinking mod.

R

• Radshare - A Void Fissure run where all players will carry a specific Void Relic that has been Refined to Radiant, to maximize the odds of getting a specific Prime component.
• Rad -  Radiation.
• Railjack - May refer to:
  • A player's Railjack.
  • Empyrean missions (e.g. "Railjack missions").
• Red Text - In-game announcements that appear in the chatbox from the developers at Digital Extremes. The text is written in red, hence the name. It is often used as a countdown for incoming hotfixes.
• Relogging - Logging out and logging back in.
• Rep, Reputation - Syndicate Standing.
  • Rep wall - Refers to the "wall" that players hit when in early game caused by a limit of Standing per day a player can achieve.
• Res, Rev, Rez - Resurrect/revive, referring to the revival of players or Companions after entering bleed-out state.
• Rework - An overhaul of one of the game's mechanics or a Warframe's Abilities.
• Riven, Riv - Refers to Riven Mods.
• Rotation - In missions with multiple tables of rewards (e.g Defense), refers to the current table which will be selected from when completing certain reward requirements. Rotations A, B, and C are the three rotations that exist and the cycle is usually AABC on loop for endless missions, or ABC for objective based missions like Spy vault or Cache rewards.
  • Short terms such as "RA," "RB," and "RC" refer to such rotations.
• RJ - May refer to:
  • Railjack, mainly used in Recruiting Chat (e.g. "LF RJ Veil").
  •  Radial Javelin, usually referring to an  Excalibur build that prioritizes that Ability.
• 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 Assassins. Sometimes jokingly called Random Number God.
  • RNGesus, RNJesus - A joking nickname attributed to the RNG (above), typically mentioned in such a way to imply the speaker is praying.
• Rolypoly - Ropalolyst.
• Rotten Salad - Mutalist Alad V, owing to Alad being partially infested. See also Spoiled Salad.
• rPol - The Polarity shape.
• RQ -  Resonating Quake, an Augment Mod for  Banshee's  Sound Quake. It may also refer to builds that focus on this Augment.
• Rush - May refer to:
  • Completing a mission as fast as possible.
  • Instantly finish building an item in the Foundry, by spending Platinum.
  • The Rush Mod, which grants increased Sprint Speed to Waframes.
  • The Rush Archwing mission type.

S

• Salad V - A nickname for Alad V, owing to the pronunciation of his name.
• Satanists - Nickname for the Red Veil.
• Scratch, ScratchPol - The Augment/Channeling Polarity.
• Set - May refer to:
  • All the blueprints needed to build something (e.g. a  Nova Prime set will include the blueprints for Neuroptics, Chassis, Systems, and the main blueprint).
  • Set Mods, a type of Mod which grants extra bonuses for having mods of the same Set equipped to your gear.
• Sharkwing - Underwater Archwing gameplay.
• Simaris - Cephalon Simaris.
• Slova - Slow Nova.
• Smolt - A new player who chose  Volt as their starting Warframe.
• SO - Sanctuary Onslaught.
• Soon^TM - a community meme said in response to the release date of any future content of the game, as Digital Extremes has a long history of delaying updates.
• SP - The Steel Path.
• Space AIDS - Refers to the Helminth Cyst and its ability to infect other players via touch.
• Space Grandpa - A nickname for Hunhow, due to the relations uncovered in the quest Natah.
• Space Mom - A nickname for the Lotus. Also applies to her voice actress Rebecca Ford.
• Space Nazi - New Loka.
• Space Stepdad - A nickname for Ballas. He is believed to be the Orokin executor who is responsible for the transference and the creation of Warframes. He is also suggested to be the lover of Margulis, who he mistakes the Lotus for, which is revealed in the quest Apostasy Prologue.
• Space Uncle - A nickname for Teshin.
• Speedva - A  Nova upgraded with  Overextended and  Power Donation, and no Ability Strength mods, to cause  Molecular Prime to speed enemies up instead of slowing them down. Commonly used during Infested Defense missions to make enemies get into players' range faster. Also called Speed Nova.
• Spoiler, Spoiler Mode - A nickname for the Operator.
• Spoiled Salad - A nickname for Mutalist Alad V. See also Rotten Salad.
• Stack, Stacking - Adding multiple effects on top of each other (e.g. stacking buffs).
• Stat Stick - A weapon upgraded specifically to benefit a related Ability (specifically,  Landslide,  Slash Dash,  Shattered Lash and  Whipclaw) or Weapon (i.e. using Vigilante Set Mods on select Robotic Weapons to boost your primary Weapon's performance), at the expense of practical use on the field.
• Str - Abbreviation for Ability Strength.
• Stunlock - A tactic that forces enemies in a Stun phase.
• Suda - Cephalon Suda.
• Switch - Nintendo Switch.
• Syndicate - A group of factions, some with ideologies that clash with other allied factions, that the Tenno can side with.

T

• Tank - A Warframe/player who can take large amounts of damage.
• Taxi - A player who has a mission or Planet unlocked, who will form a group for a player who does not.
• Terry - Eidolon Teralyst.
• Tethra Mods, Tethra Mod Set - The four  Electricity dual-stat mods rewarded in Tethra's Doom:  Jolt,  Shell Shock,  High Voltage and  Voltaic Strike.  Shell Shock and  High Voltage are currently available as drops from Hive Sabotage, and all four occasionally appear in Baro Ki'Teer's stock.
• Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, Tier 4 - The difficulty or level group of enemies in a mission or wave. The tier determines the reward pool players have access to.
• Tomato - An Exilus Adapter, named such for the resemblance to the cross-section of a tomato.
• Trash - Refers to low level or weak enemies such as Chargers or Butchers who have relatively low health compared to other enemies of their respective factions.
• Treasure Goblin - Treasurer.
• Tridolon - Three Eidolons which consists of the Eidolon Teralysts, Eidolon Gantulysts, and Eidolon Hydrolysts.
• TSD - The Second Dream.
• TWW - The War Within.
• Tylenol - Tyl Regor.

U

• UI - User interface. Refers to the menus that the player can interact with.
• Ult, Ultimate - The 4th ability on a Warframe, which is typically the most powerful and costly Warframe Ability.
• Umbra -  Excalibur Umbra.
• Umbral - Warframe builds that use Umbra Mods (e.g. "Umbral Excalibur Build").
• UPol- The Polarity, which is exclusively found on  Excalibur Umbra and the  Skiajati and can only be added on other equipment using Umbra Forma. May also be referred to as QPol due to the shape.
• Unranked - May Refer To:
  • A Mod that is at rank 0 (i.e. no Endo has been used to upgrade the mod).
  • Gear that is currently at rank 0 (e.g. a rank 0  Excalibur).
• /unstuck - A chat command that teleports the player to their last "good" position on the map, useful when the player is stuck in map geometry or manages to clip out of the map and fall into the endless void beneath. Note however, that this command has a 2-minute cool-down between uses.

V

• V, VPol - The Polarity shape. Sometimes called rPol.
• Valkitty -  Valkyr.
• Vault - May Refer To:
  • Orokin Vaults.
  • Isolation Vaults.
  • The process of vaulting Relics and items by removing them from drop tables.
• Veiljack - An Empyrean mission within Veil Proxima, usually used in Recruiting Chat.
• VOIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol; voice chat.
• Vorrito - Captain Vor.
• Voreframe -  Grendel.

W

• WC - Wrong chat.
• Wipers - A contraction of Wraith Twin Vipers.
• Wolf - The Wolf of Saturn Six.
• WP - Waypoint.
• WTB, WTS, WTT, WTTF - Want/Willing to Buy, Sell, or Trade/Trade for.

X

• XB1 - Xbox One
• XBSX - Xbox Series X
• XCal -  Excalibur
• XP - Experience. Correctly called Affinity, used to increase the Rank of Warframes, gear and Mastery Rank.

Y

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

Historical/Legacy Terms

These are terms that may still be used by long-term players but refer to things that no longer exist.

• AbilityPol - An earlier name for the Augment/Channeling Polarity. Up until Update 15.0 (2014-10-24), Warframe Abilities also had their own Mod cards, allowing players to equip/unequip Abilities.
• Acolyte Mods - Refers to mods which used to be dropped by the Stalker's Acolytes. These mods have since been added as rotating rewards from Cambion Drift bounties, and the Acolytes themselves now drop Steel Essence.
• Alert - Missions that appear randomly and give additional credits or loot as a reward. Has been replaced by Nightwave.
  • Alertium - Refers to Nitain Extract, which at the time was obtained by completing one of the four guaranteed daily Nitain alerts.
• Akkad - A Dark Sector Defense mission node on Eris that was popular for players to farm credits using the Secura Lecta. It is no longer popular due to the Secura Lecta receivng a nerf to the amount of bonus credits it provides.
• Arcane Helmet - Before Hotfix 13.2.3 (2014-05-07), alternative helmets for Warframes were not purely cosmetic, and would provide the player with both a positive and a negative effect while the helmet was equipped. These helmets still exist in the game and can be traded between players, but they cannot be obtained through any other means as their natural method of being obtained has since been replaced by pure cosmetic versions. As a result, they are now treated as valuable items to have, even if the player themselves does not intend to use such helmets.
• Channeling - A melee mechanic where using Primary fire while wielding a Melee Weapon would cause the Weapon to deal extra damage at the cost of consuming energy per hit. Replaced by heavy attacks in Update 26.0 (2019-10-31).
• Copter, Coptering, Spin Dashing, Zoren Coptering - Using the slide attack of Melee Weapons, particularly those with a high attack speed, to fling a player a great distance quickly. The momentum generated by Melee slide attacks was greatly reduced in Update 17.0 (2015-07-31) in exchange for Bullet Jumping.
• Draco - An Interception mission node on Ceres that was a popular spot for players to gain Affinity. The mission type was changed to Survival in Update 19.0 (2016-11-11), on top of Ceres becoming an early-mid game planet as a whole, making it less popular.
• E Gate - An Excavation mission node on Venus that was popular for players to get Mods and resources. The mission type was changed to Exterminate in Update 19.0 (2016-11-11), and is described as being the root cause for the implementation of AFK countermeasures.
• Founders - In the early stages of Warframe, there existed a form of Prime Access known as the Founders' Program which could be paid for in a manner similar to current Prime Access Packs. The purpose of the Founders' Program was to help fund the early stages of the game, and upon doing so, players could obtain  Excalibur Prime,  Lato Prime, and/or  Skana Prime alongside having a unique Founder title associated with their account. The Founders' program ended November 1st, 2013, and Digital Extremes has expressed no intentions of ever re-releasing content exclusive to the Founders' Program.
  • This makes Excalibur Prime the only Warframe in the game that newer players cannot obtain through any means.
•  Fusion Core, core - Before the introduction of Endo, Mods used to be leveled by fusing other mods into a specific Mod to rank up. Fusion cores' sole purpose was to be used in fusion, and could not be equipped on any gear. Additionally, they provided more fusion progress than normal Mods did, making them the most used method of leveling mods.
  • R5 - Fusion core ranked Rare 5.
  • U5 - Fusion core ranked Uncommon 5.
• Green - Life Support pick-ups in Survival missions. Named for the green HUD indicator that was unique to them.
• GMag - A  Greedy Pull Augment-using  Mag. At release, the Augment allowed  Pull to affect pickups, bringing them closer to Mag and her allies. It would eventually be nerfed by making it pull pickups towards Mag only; for her allies, pickups would remain in their original positions.
• Harvester - The original name of Zanuka Hunter.
• Helmet - The original name of Neuroptics, a component used to craft Warframes.
• Hieracon - A Dark Sector Excavation mission node on Pluto that was popular for players to farm R5 Fusion Cores. The mission is no longer popular due to the removal of Cores.
• JV - The Jordas Verdict, an 8-player Infested Trial mission which could be obtained by buying and crafting its key from the equipment section in the market.
• Kiste - A Mobile Defense mission located in Ceres that was once a popular spot to farm Affinity much like Draco. It became unpopular when Ceres was made into an early-mid game planet in Update 19.0 (2016-11-11).
• LoR, LOR - Law of Retribution, an 8-player Trial mission which could be obtained by buying and crafting its key from the equipment section in the market.
• Naked Nick - The person inside the Warframe Cryopod before its model was changed in Update 12.0 (2014-02-05).
  • He now appears exclusively during WARFRAME's anniversary alerts as a walking Defense objective.
• Power - Old term for Abilities.
• R+QT - A combo between  Rage and  Quick Thinking which granted invulnerability. The combo's efficiency was reduced in Update 11.1 (2013-11-27), and the term fell out of use soon after.
• Raid - May Refer To:
  • Trials, 8-player end-game content such as The Law of Retribution and The Jordas Verdict, which are no longer available.
  • The long-absent Raid mission type, which has since been replaced by Survival.
• Rainbow Build - A Mod load-out popular during Damage 1.0 that used all elemental damage mods for maximum damage. Fell out of favor with the introduction of Damage 2.0.
• Stamina - A mechanic that acted as a method to hinder the player's ability to perform certain maneuver actions like sprinting or wall-running for an indefinite amount of time. This mechanic has since been removed in Update 17.0 (2015-07-31).
• Self Damage - A mechanic where using explosive Weapons would deal damage to the player should they be within range of the blast radius. Reworked into Stagger in Update 27.2 (2020-03-05). However, Bows equipped with  Thunderbolt still deal self-damage.
• ShieldPol -  Polarize, which was previously known as Shield Polarize before receiving a rework.
• Spin to Win - Refers to a combination of the Mods  Maiming Strike and  Blood Rush, which had the ability to grant any melee weapon in the game critical strike chance values exceeding 500% on slide attacks. Both mods have since been severely nerfed in Update 26.0 (2019-10-31).
• Super Jump - Excalibur's old third Ability, which would lauch you upwards in the air when used. Merged into  Slash Dash in Update 16.9 (2015-06-17).
• Trial - See Raid.
• Twin Bolsak - Anagram of  Twin Basolk, which was largely viewed as underpowered from its introduction in Update 17.8 (2015-10-21) until Update: Specters of the Rail 0.0 (2016-07-08), where it received significant buffs. Usage may be affectionate or not, depending on the context.
• Viver - An Interception node on Eris that was used to get large amounts of Mods, Resources or Credits in a short period of time. This node has since been removed in Update 19.0 (2016-11-11).
  • Vivergate - A series of balance passes/nerfs to several Warframes (particularly  Excalibur,  Mag, and  Trinity) that came in response to constant abuse of Viver.
• Void Keys - A one time use key that would grant access to a Void mission of a specific type, where a name such as "Tower I Capture" would be a tier 1 void capture mission. Not only were Void Keys the only method of accessing the Void, but completing mission reward objectives from them were the only way to obtain Prime components aside from trading with players. They have since been replaced by Void Relics in Update 19.0 (2016-11-11).
  • It was common to refer to specific Keys using short versions of their names. Such example would be "T4D" referring to Tower IV Defense.
• Xini - An Eris mission node, which was formerly a Defense Mission, that was used to gain Affinity in much the same way as Draco. The node is now currently an Interception node.
• World On Fire, WOF - Ember's old fourth Ability. It was a channeled Ability that would cause all enemies within a certain range of Ember to be dealt consistent heat damage. Reworked into Inferno in Update 26.0 (2019-10-31) due to the Ability being able to heavily trivialize lower tier missions.

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