Winzip and War files
 

Does Ubuntu work with Winzip and War files. Some of the files I will be downloading will be zipped or in the War file types. Thanks

Also is there a list of phrases or words used in the linux system, this will help me while I wait delivery of the disc I ordered. Thanks again.

Yes, Ubuntu work with zip & war. You can simply use File-roller.
I think you need something like Linux dictionary or glossary?
See this.

File-roller is just a front-end ("cover") to make it easy to use several different un/compressing tools; it doesn't, as far as I know, do much anything unless the actual tools (that are usually command-line programs) are installed (and they usually are). The basic tools are compress (.Z), gzip (.gz), bzip2 (.bzip2) and zip (.zip). So there's a zip for Linux too; don't let WinZip fool you to think it's the only Zip program in the world :) There're actually several others, like 7-Zip. Anyway, those un/compressing programs usually like to work in the command-line environment (because there's no need to have a graphical user interface just to compress or uncompress something), File-Roller and such interfaces are just a very nice way to have them work together in a good-looking manner. It's sometimes easier for a new Linux user, too, to have a graphical tool in front of you for the daily tasks than try to learn the various command-line programs and their usage right away..

Well, shortly said, Zip and several others work well under Linux. Rar too, but that's probably not open source.. :) Zip is, if I'm right, less used under Linux than gzip or bzip2 for example, but it's a matter of personal taste (actually there are physical differences between the compressing utilies, that are shown firstly in the file size of the compressed archive, so it might make a difference for you).