| term | pronunciation | English |
|---|
| 暗殺 | あんさつ | assassination |
| 殺す | ころす | to murder |
| 殺人 | さつじん | murder (noun) |
| 自殺 | じさつ | suicide |
| 一殺那 | いっせつな | (a) moment, an instant |
| 他殺 | たさつ | a murder |
| 併殺 | へいさつ | double-play (baseball) |
| 刺殺 | しさつ | stabbing to death; putting out (baseball) |
| 嘱託殺人 | しょくたくさつじん | contract murder |
| 射殺 | しゃさつ | shooting to death |
| 忙殺 | ぼうさつ | worked to death |
| 惨殺 | ざんさつ | slaughter, massacre |
| 抹殺 | まっさつ | erasure, denial, obliteration, ignoring (an opinion) |
| 挟殺 | きょうさつ | (baseball) rundown |
| 殴り殺す | なぐりころす | to strike dead, to beat to death |
| 殺し | ころし | a murder |
| 殺人未遂 | さつじんみすい | attempted murder |
| 殺伐 | さつばつ | bloodthirsty, brutal, savage |
| 殺傷 | さっしょう | kill and wound |
| 殺到 | さっとう | rush, flood |
| 殺害 | さつがい, せつがい, せちがい | killing, murder |
| 殺菌 | さっきん | sterilization, sterilisation, disinfection |
| 殺虫剤 | さっちゅうざい | insecticide, pesticide |
| 焼身自殺 | しょうしんじさつ | burning oneself to death, suicide by fire |
| 畜殺 | ちくさつ | slaughtering (animals) |
| 畜殺場 | ちくさつば | abattoir |
| 皆殺し | みなごろし | massacre, annihilation, wholesale slaughter |
| 粛殺 | しゅくさつ | withering, blight |
| 絞殺 | こうさつ | hanging, strangulation |
| 自殺未遂 | じさつみすい | attempted suicide |
| 虐殺 | ぎゃくさつ | atrocity, massive killing |
| 銃殺 | じゅうさつ | death by shooting |