Abbreviations

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

Characters

 * A
 * B
 * C
 * D
 * E
 * G
 * H
 * L
 * M
 * N
 * O
 * P
 * R
 * S
 * T
 * U
 * Z

List of used abbreviations in Zero-K

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