- Back edge: Unsharpened edge on a single-edged sword
- Basket hilt: Sword hilt with basket-shaped guard to cover and protect the hand (see "Knuckleguard")
- Bell guard: The bell-shaped portion of the weapon between the blade and the handle which protects a fencer's hand
- Burr: Snag or sharp nick in a sword blade which needs to be filed and sanded before blade can be safely swallowed
- Camellia: Non-toxic, non-allergenic edible Japanese oil used for oiling sword blades after use
- Crossguard: Part of the hilt of a sword which runs perpendicular to the blade, which the tang of the sword passes through into the hilt (see "Quillion" and "Tang")
- False edge: A few inches which was sharpened on the usually unsharpened Back Edge at the tip of some longer single-edged swords
- Foible: The weaker and more flexible portion of a fencing blade nearest the tip
- Forte: The stronger and more rigid portion of a fencing blade nearest the bell guard
- Frog: Looped fastener for attaching a scabbard to the belt
- Grip: Covering on a sword handle made of leather or wire that usually, but not always, covers the hilt
- Hilt: Handle of a sword including quillion crossguard, grip and pommel
- Knuckleguard: Portion of the hilt that protected the knuckles, sometimes as developed as a basket hilt
- Kurobara: Non-toxic, non-allergenic edible Japanese oil used for oiling sword blades after use
- Pommel: metal knob, protrusion, or disc on the end of a sword hilt that fastens to the tang of the blade and adds to the sword's functionality, balance, and aesthetics by functioning as a counterweight to the blade while holding the sword blade and hilt in place.
- Quillion: Term for each of the projecting sections of the crossguard on a sword (see also "Crossguard")
- Ricasso: Unsharpened area of a sword blade between the qullion crossguard and the sharpened part of the blade. Sometimes the flat or concave plate containing a slot through which the blade passes is also called a Ricasso.
- Scabbard: Sheath for sword, knife, dagger or bayonet
- Shoulder: Unsharpened area of a sword blade up to six inches between the qullion and the sharpened part of the blade
- Swept hilt: Ornate knuckleguard on a sword hilt that sweeps over the hand but which does not cover or protect the hand quite as fully as a Basket hilt
- Tang: Part of the sword blade that protrudes into the hilt that the grip is secured to
- Tip: Point of the sword blade used for thrusting and stabbing
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