Dungeon Name Generator

One press names a dungeon for the map, such as The Drowned Oubliette of the Salt King.

Dungeon Name Generator: 20 dungeon names

The Windowless Oubliette of the Nine Masons

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  • Describing wordWindowless
  • PlaceOubliette
  • Whosethe Nine Masons
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    1. The Windowless Oubliette of the Nine Masons
    2. The Ink-Dark Barbican of the Pale Steward
    3. The Leaden Fogou of the Broken Jester
    4. The Wandering Postern of the Salt King
    5. The Shattered Adit of the Chalk Witch
    6. The Mirrored Labyrinth of the Ash Countess
    7. The Tide-Washed Bolthole of the Queen of Mislaid Things
    8. The Mildewed Adit of the Wrong Heir
    9. The Weeping Vaultage of the Emperor's Plumber
    10. The Echoing Winze of the Dust Merchant
    11. The Walled-Up Crypt of the Glass Empress
    12. The Chained Adit of the Stair Counter
    13. The Soot-Walled Oubliette of the Glass Empress
    14. The Owl-Haunted Stope of the Stair Counter
    15. The Mirrored Fogou of the Second-Best Locksmith
    16. The Lantern-Lit Mastaba of the Glass Empress
    17. The Hundred-Door Vaultage of the Well Keeper
    18. The Bottomless Crypt of the Seven Lamplighters
    19. The Nine-Key Ossuary of the Gilded Miser
    20. The Doorless Ossuary of the Pale Steward

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    How it works

    This dungeon name generator makes up the name on the map for a game or a story: a describing word, a real word for a place under the ground or inside a stronghold, and whose it was.

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    Name the dungeon in three parts

    Press New dungeon name. Keep the owner and press for every crypt and undercroft under one villain's castle, or keep the place word and change the rest.

    What the place words mean

    Every place word is real, and the list below gives its dictionary meaning. An oubliette is a dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top. A souterrain is an underground chamber or passage of Iron Age settlements. A donjon is the keep of an early castle.

    Questions and answers

    What is a good name for a dungeon?

    A describing word, a place word and an owner, as in The Thrice-Sealed Undercroft of Mother Harrow. The place word says what kind of place it is, and the owner says whose it was.

    What is an oubliette?

    An oubliette is a dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top. The word has been used in English since the 18th century.

    What is the difference between a dungeon and a donjon?

    A donjon is the fortified tower and main residence of an early castle, its keep. A dungeon is an underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle. Both words come from the Old French donjon.

    Can I use these names in my campaign?

    Yes, at no charge. Each pair of describing word and place word was checked against Wikipedia page titles and fan wikis of games, and a match was taken out. Search a name before you publish it.

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    Describing word: all 68 describing words

    A 1

    • Ashen

    B 4

    • Bell-Deep
    • Borrowed
    • Bottomless
    • Brazen
    Show all 68 describing words (63 more)

    C 6

    • Candle-Black
    • Chained
    • Cobwebbed
    • Cold-Hearth
    • Crooked
    • Crumbling

    D 4

    • Deep-Delved
    • Doorless
    • Dripping
    • Drowned

    E 2

    • Echoing
    • Ever-Dripping

    F 2

    • Flooded
    • Frost-Split

    G 1

    • Gilded

    H 3

    • Half-Dug
    • Hollow
    • Hundred-Door

    I 4

    • Ink-Dark
    • Inverted
    • Iron-Shut
    • Ivy-Choked

    K 1

    • Keyless

    L 6

    • Lantern-Lit
    • Leaden
    • Left-Hand
    • Lightless
    • Long-Shut
    • Low-Roofed

    M 4

    • Many-Doored
    • Mildewed
    • Mirrored
    • Murmuring

    N 3

    • Never-Finished
    • Nine-Key
    • Ninth

    O 1

    • Owl-Haunted

    R 4

    • Rat-Quiet
    • Root-Bound
    • Root-Roofed
    • Rusted

    S 7

    • Sevenfold
    • Seventh
    • Shattered
    • Slow-Sinking
    • Soot-Walled
    • Stairless
    • Starless

    T 7

    • Thirteen-Lock
    • Thirteenth
    • Thrice-Sealed
    • Ticking
    • Tide-Washed
    • Tilted
    • Twice-Flooded

    U 3

    • Under-River
    • Unfinished
    • Unlit

    W 5

    • Walled-Up
    • Wandering
    • Weeping
    • Whispering
    • Windowless

    How this list was compiled: Our own list of 68 describing words, written on 2026-10-03. Every pair of a describing word and a place word was checked by script that day against English Wikipedia page titles (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0) and the page titles of fan wikis of games, books and shows, with and without The; words behind a match were taken out (Sunken, Forgotten, Nameless, Unmapped, Sighing, and the place words Catacomb and Dungeon). No pair that is left matched. GeoNames was not searched. A name can still match a place in a published adventure, so search it before you publish. Licence: own work

    Place: all 31 place words

    Under the ground 8

    • Bolthole A hidden place of emergency refuge.
    • Cryptoporticus In ancient Rome, a vaulted arcade or corridor at, or just below, ground level.
    • Erdstall A small manmade tunnel made in medieval Europe.
    • Fogou A Cornish souterrain: an underground, dry-stone-walled chamber open on two ends.
    • Hypogeum An underground room or cavern.
    Show all 31 place words (26 more)

    Under the ground, continued

    • Labyrinth A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
    • Souterrain An underground chamber or passage sometimes used as a store, especially one associated with Iron Age settlements.
    • Vaultage An obsolete word for a vaulted place or arched cellar.

    Inside a stronghold 8

    • Barbican A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town.
    • Bastille A fortified tower or other building; a small citadel or fortress.
    • Casemate A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry.
    • Donjon The fortified tower and main residence of a motte or early castle; a keep.
    • Oubliette A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top.
    • Postern A hidden or secret exit or tunnel of a fortification such as a castle.
    • Sally Port An opening into a fortification, usually arched, to enable a sally; a postern.
    • Undercroft A cellar or vaulted storage room.

    Burial places 9

    • Barrow A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
    • Columbarium A building or vault for the storage of urns that hold cremated remains.
    • Crypt An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial chamber.
    • Mastaba A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built in Ancient Egyptian times above tombs.
    • Necropolis A cemetery, especially a large one in or near a city.
    • Ossuary A container, receptacle or building for holding the bones of the dead.
    • Serdab A sealed chamber in an Ancient Egyptian tomb that held a statue of the person buried there.
    • Tholos A dome-shaped tomb from the Mycenaean period of Ancient Greece.
    • Tumulus A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow.

    Mines and water 6

    • Adit A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
    • Cistern A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater.
    • Qanat An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the inside of a hill to villages in the valley.
    • Stope A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
    • Sump The lowest part of a mineshaft, into which water drains.
    • Winze In mining, a steep shaft, for example one that joins two levels in a mine.

    How this list was compiled: 31 real words for a place under the ground or inside a stronghold. Each line follows a sense of the word's entry in English Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/, read on 2026-10-03, CC BY-SA 4.0); a script checked the words behind each line. Licence: own selection; meanings from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

    Whose: all 86 owners

    A 1

    • the Ash Countess

    B 4

    • the Barefoot Prince
    • the Baron of Doors
    • the Brine Witch
    • the Broken Jester
    Show all 86 owners (81 more)

    C 10

    • the Candle Prince
    • the Candlewick Countess
    • Captain Halfpast
    • the Chain Maker
    • the Chalk Witch
    • the Cinder Marshal
    • the Clay Colonel
    • the Clockmaker's Widow
    • the Copper Judge
    • the Countess of Small Hours

    D 4

    • Dame Orrery
    • the Drowned Admiral
    • the Duke of Nowhere in Particular
    • the Dust Merchant

    E 3

    • the Earl of Echoes
    • the Emperor's Plumber
    • the Exiled Librarian

    F 3

    • the Ferryman's Daughter
    • the First Digger
    • the Forgotten Heir

    G 4

    • the Gilded Miser
    • the Glass Empress
    • Grandfather Thorn
    • the Grey Reeve

    H 1

    • the Hungry Regent

    I 1

    • the Iron Governess

    K 3

    • the Keeper of Odd Keys
    • the Key Warden
    • King Under-Stairs

    L 7

    • Lady Undermere
    • Lady Vespertine
    • the Lamplighter King
    • the Lantern Thief
    • the Last Gardener
    • the Laughing Magistrate
    • the Lost Surveyor

    M 6

    • the Marsh Baroness
    • the Master of Unfinished Rooms
    • the Mayor of Beneath
    • the Mirror Duchess
    • the Mistress of Drains
    • Mother Harrow

    N 2

    • the Nine Masons
    • the Ninth Chancellor

    O 3

    • Old Marrowick
    • the Old Quartermaster
    • the Owl Margrave

    P 5

    • the Pale Steward
    • the Paper Emperor
    • the Patient Jailer
    • the Prince of Cobwebs
    • the Puzzle King

    Q 2

    • the Quarrymaster General
    • the Queen of Mislaid Things

    R 3

    • the Riddle Maker
    • the Runaway Apprentice
    • the Rust Baron

    S 9

    • the Salt King
    • the Second-Best Locksmith
    • the Seven Lamplighters
    • the Sexton's Apprentice
    • the Silent Vizier
    • the Sleeping Cook
    • the Sleepless Astronomer
    • the Sleepless Mason
    • the Stair Counter

    T 6

    • the Tallow Lord
    • the Thane of Mud
    • the Thimble Queen
    • the Third Usurper
    • the Thorn Regent
    • the Tin Duke

    U 2

    • the Under-Gardener
    • the Unpaid Architect

    V 1

    • the Vanished Mint-Master

    W 6

    • the Warden of the Low Stair
    • the Wax Chancellor
    • the Weeping Engineer
    • the Well Keeper
    • the Winter Tyrant
    • the Wrong Heir

    How this list was compiled: Our own list of 86 invented owners, written on 2026-10-03. Each was checked by script against English Wikipedia page titles, with and without The, the page titles of fan wikis and every list on this site; 6 that stood on another list of this site were taken out. Licence: own work