Abbreviations

Maybe ideal for new player (under construction). So please add something useful here. Also expand into ZK slang in general, not just abbreviations.

A

• AA - Anti Air
• anni - Annihilator (heavy tachyon tower)
• AoE - Area of Effect (splash damage)
• avenger - old name for Swift (multirole fighter)

B

• BB - Big Bertha - the long range cannon
• BD - Black Dawn - skirmish gunship
• behe - Behemoth (artillery battery)
• BW - BlastWing - flying bomb unit

C

• cata - Catapult - artillery unit
• com(m) - Commander - the starting unit
• con - Construction Unit - any mobile unit with ability to build stuff
• CS - ChainSaw - Powerful Anti Air structure

D

• det - (also detri) - Detriment (the largest strider)
• DDM - Doomsday Machine - heavy defensive structure
• dgun - Disintegrator Gun - class of special weapons that need manual activation using "D" key - for example Dante's missile volley or special commander weapons
• domi - Dominatrix (capture vehicle)
• DPS - Damage Per Second
• DRP - Disco Rave Party - the superweapon
• Drop - A "drop" happens when units are loaded into transports and then "dropped" somewhere, like the enemy base

E

• E - Energy - the resource
• eco - Economy - all resource-producing units and buildings
• elo - a rating system used for balancing games basing on estimated players skill
• EMP - ElectroMagnetic Pulse - paralyzer weapons

F

• fac- Factory - building that produces mobile units
• FW - Firewalker (artillery bot)
• fus - Fusion Reactor

G

• geo - Geothermal Powerplant or the spot where it can be built (also _geospot_)
• GS - Gunships
• golly - Goliath (heavy tank)
• grid - energy grid - system of connected energy sources, part of overdrive. Structures are in the same grid if their "circles" touch.

H

• HLT - Heavy Laser Tower (the Stinger turret)

J

• JJ - JumpJet factory

L

• Licho - old name for Wyvern (heavy bomber plane)
• link - to link disconnected parts of energy grid together OR to link shields together
• LLT - Light Laser Tower (the Lotus turret)
• lobster - a taunt on a player who haven't performed well in ongoing or previous battle(s).
• LoS - line of sight
• LV - Light Vehicles (Factory)

M

• M - Metal - the resource
• mex - Metal Extractor, to mex the action of constructing extractors on untapped metal spots
• morph - to upgrade a commander or a geothermal generator
• moho - old name for Advanced Geothermal
• MT - Missile Tower (the Defender turret)

N

• nano - Caretaker nanolathe tower (static constructor)
• nap - to kidnap - usually "comnap" - capture enemy commander with air transport

O

• OD - OverDrive - overdrive pumps spare energy to metal extractors to improve their output, see economic section of the manual
• OP - OverPowered - something is considered too good for its cost (eg a unit/module/ability)
• owled - weak enough it might as well not be in the game

P

• pene - Penetrator (hovercraft artillery)
• porc - (from porcupine) - heavy defenses, usually useless
• porcing - playing too defensively, not taking enough land
• PW - PlanetWars - the online multiplayer campaign
• plop (fac) - deploying your first factory, which is free and builds instantly

R

• rec - Reclaim - command to recycle units, wreckages and map features
• ress/rez - Ressurection (common misspelled version of resurrection) - ability to recreate a unit from its wreckage

S

• SD - Stardust
• singu - Singularity Reactor - most powerful, and most dangerous energy-producing structure
• Shadow - old name for Raven (bomber plane)
• shiny - huge explosion caused either by nuke, or destruction of Singularity Reactor
• skydust - Stardust on a terraformed spire
• stiletto - old name for Thunderbird (disarming plane)
• selfd - Self Destruct - usually meant as an encouragement to self destruct all your things using CTRL+A, CTRL+D keys to end the game; sometimes to self destruct a single unit for its powerful death explosion
• shield-ball - A group of units that have shields, usually containing thugs, felons, and possibly an aspis(mobile area shield)

T

• terra - Terraform - a way to modify map's landscape

U

• UP - UnderPowered - something is considered too weak for its cost (eg a unit/module/ability)
• Ulti - Ultimatum - cloaked anti-heavy strider

Z

• ZK - Zero Kelvin - the name of this game