| chasuble | (noun) a long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass | - |
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| chat | (noun) songbirds having a chattering call | Synonyms: Old World chat |
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| (noun) birds having a chattering call | Synonyms: New World chat |
| (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze |
| chateau | (noun) an impressive country house (or castle) in France | - |
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| chatelaine | (noun) a chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc. | - |
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| (noun) the mistress of a chateau or large country house | - |
| chatroom | (noun) a site on the internet where a number of users can communicate in real time (typically one dedicated to a particular topic) | Synonyms: chat room |
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| chattel | (noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) | Synonyms: movable, personal chattel |
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| chatter | (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, yack, yak, yakety-yak |
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| (noun) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) | Synonyms: chattering |
| (noun) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine | Synonyms: chattering |
| chatterbox | (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
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| (noun) orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf | Synonyms: Epipactis gigantea, giant helleborine, stream orchid |
| chatterer | (noun) passerine bird of New World tropics | Synonyms: cotinga |
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| (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, magpie, prater, spouter |
| chattering | (noun) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) | Synonyms: chatter |
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| (noun) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine | Synonyms: chatter |
| chauffeur | (noun) a person paid to drive a privately owned car | - |
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| chauffeuse | (noun) a woman chauffeur | - |
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| chaulmoogra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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| chaulmugra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra, chaulmoogra tree, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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| chauvinism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: antifeminism, male chauvinism |
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| (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: jingoism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
| chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
| chaw | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chew, cud, plug, quid, wad |
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| chawbacon | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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| chicha | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| chitchat | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| clochard | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
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| cockchafer | (noun) any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult | Synonyms: May beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha |
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| concha | (noun) (anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape | - |
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| countercharge | (noun) a retaliatory charge | - |
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| (noun) a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser | - |
| dacha | (noun) Russian country house | - |
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| disaccharidase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides into monosaccharides | - |
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| disaccharide | (noun) any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis | - |
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| discharge | (noun) the act of discharging a gun | Synonyms: firing, firing off |
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| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
| (noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: release, waiver |
| (noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: venting |
| (noun) the sudden giving off of energy | - |
| (noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: outpouring, run |
| (noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, electric arc, electric discharge, spark |
| (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: emission, expelling |
| (noun) a substance that is emitted or released | Synonyms: emission |
| disenchantment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disillusion, disillusionment |
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| enchanter | (noun) a sorcerer or magician | - |
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| enchantingness | (noun) Quality of having the ability to enchant; being charming, delightful. | - |
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| enchantment | (noun) a magical spell | Synonyms: bewitchment |
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| (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enthrallment, fascination |
| (noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: spell, trance |
| enchantress | (noun) a female sorcerer or magician | Synonyms: witch |
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| (noun) a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive | Synonyms: Delilah, femme fatale, siren, temptress |
| eschalot | (noun) type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning | Synonyms: Allium ascalonicum, Allium cepa aggregatum, multiplier onion, shallot |
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| eschar | (noun) a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin | - |
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| eschatologist | (noun) a theologian who specializes in eschatology | - |
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| eschatology | (noun) the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind | - |
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| eschaton | (noun) (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives | Synonyms: crack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, Doomsday, doomsday, end of the world, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment |
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| exarchate | (noun) a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church | Synonyms: eparchy |
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| exchange | (noun) reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) | Synonyms: interchange |
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| (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: commutation, substitution |
| (noun) the act of changing one thing for another thing | Synonyms: interchange |
| (noun) the act of giving something in return for something received | - |
| (noun) (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value | - |
| (noun) (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop | - |
| (noun) (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes | Synonyms: rally |
| (noun) a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members | - |
| (noun) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication | Synonyms: central, telephone exchange |
| (noun) a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one) | - |
| (noun) chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another | - |
| exchangeability | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: fungibility, interchangeability, interchangeableness |
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| exchanger | (noun) one whose business is to exchange the money of one country for that of another country | Synonyms: money changer |
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| flowchart | (noun) a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system | Synonyms: flow chart, flow diagram, flow sheet |
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| guacharo | (noun) nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter | Synonyms: oilbird, Steatornis caripensis |
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| highchair | (noun) a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray | Synonyms: feeding chair |
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| horchata | (noun) Spanish traditional beverage, made of ground almonds, sesame seeds, rice, barley, tigernuts (chufas), or melon seeds | - |
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| impeachability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: indictability |
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| interchange | (noun) the act of changing one thing for another thing | Synonyms: exchange |
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| (noun) mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) | Synonyms: give-and-take, reciprocation |
| (noun) reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) | Synonyms: exchange |
| (noun) a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams | - |
| interchangeability | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, fungibility, interchangeableness |
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| interchangeableness | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, fungibility, interchangeability |
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| ischaemia | (noun) local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism | Synonyms: ischemia |
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| isochalaz | (noun) a line indicating a constant frequency of hail storms. | - |
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| kwacha | (noun) the basic unit of money in Malawi | Synonyms: Malawi kwacha |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Zambia | Synonyms: Zambian kwacha |
| lechatelierite | (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
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| leprechaun | (noun) a mischievous elf in Irish folklore | - |
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| matriarchate | (noun) a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line | Synonyms: matriarchy |
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| mechanic | (noun) a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools | Synonyms: machinist, shop mechanic |
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| (noun) someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles | Synonyms: auto-mechanic, automobile mechanic, car-mechanic, grease monkey |
| mechanics | (noun) the technical aspects of doing something | Synonyms: mechanism |
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| (noun) the branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies in a frame of reference | - |
| mechanisation | (noun) the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware | Synonyms: automation, mechanization |
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| (noun) the condition of having a highly technical implementation | Synonyms: mechanization |
| mechanism | (noun) the technical aspects of doing something | Synonyms: mechanics |
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| (noun) device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function | - |
| (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes | - |
| (noun) a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function | - |
| (noun) the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction | Synonyms: chemical mechanism |
| mechanist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to the doctrine of mechanism | - |
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| mechanization | (noun) the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware | Synonyms: automation, mechanisation |
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| (noun) the condition of having a highly technical implementation | Synonyms: mechanisation |
| meerschaum | (noun) a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum | - |
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| (noun) a white clayey mineral | Synonyms: sepiolite |
| merchandise | (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: product, ware |
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| (noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandising |
| merchandiser | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchant |
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| merchandising | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, selling |
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| (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, publicizing |
| (noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandise |
| merchant | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchandiser |
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| merchantability | (noun) the state of being fit for market; ready to be bought or sold | - |
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| merchantman | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, freighter, merchant ship |
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| mischance | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: misadventure, mishap |
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| (noun) an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate | Synonyms: bad luck, mishap |
| mishpachah | (noun) (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) | Synonyms: mishpocha |
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| mishpocha | (noun) (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) | Synonyms: mishpachah |
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| mocha | (noun) a dark brown color | - |
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| (noun) a superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia | Synonyms: mocha coffee |
| (noun) a flavoring made from coffee mixed with chocolate | - |
| (noun) soft suede glove leather from goatskin | - |
| monosaccharide | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharose, simple sugar |
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| monosaccharose | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharide, simple sugar |
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| mucopolysaccharide | (noun) complex polysaccharides containing an amino group; occur chiefly as components of connective tissue | - |
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| mucopolysaccharidosis | (noun) any of a group of genetic disorders involving a defect in the metabolism of mucopolysaccharides resulting in greater than normal levels of mucopolysaccharides in tissues | - |
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| nebuchadnezzar | (noun) a very large wine bottle holding the equivalent of 20 normal bottles of wine; used especially for display | - |
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| nonchalance | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, unconcern |
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| nucha | (noun) the back side of the neck | Synonyms: nape, scruff |
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| oligochaete | (noun) hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body | Synonyms: oligochaete worm |
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| oligosaccharide | (noun) any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis | - |
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| orchard | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: grove, plantation, woodlet |
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| overcharge | (noun) a price that is too high | - |
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| pacha | (noun) a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt | Synonyms: pasha |
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| panchayat | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayet, punchayet |
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| panchayet | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayat, punchayet |
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| panocha | (noun) fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts | Synonyms: panoche, penoche, penuche |
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| patriarchate | (noun) a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | Synonyms: patriarchy |
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| (noun) the jurisdiction of a patriarch | - |
| penchant | (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: predilection, preference, taste |
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| petchary | (noun) a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America; similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird | Synonyms: gray kingbird, grey kingbird, Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis |
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| photomechanics | (noun) the technique of using photomechanical methods to make photographs into plates for printing | - |
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| (noun) the process whereby printing surfaces (plates or cylinders) are produced by photographic methods | Synonyms: photoplate making |
| pilchard | (noun) small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring | Synonyms: Sardina pilchardus, sardine |
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| (noun) small fatty fish usually canned | Synonyms: sardine |
| plainchant | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a liturgical chant consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line | Synonyms: plainsong |
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| pochard | (noun) heavy-bodied Old World diving duck having a grey-and-black body and reddish head | Synonyms: Aythya ferina |
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| polychaete | (noun) chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles | Synonyms: polychaete worm, polychete, polychete worm |
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| polysaccharide | (noun) any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules | Synonyms: polyose |
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| protoarchaeology | (noun) the study of prehistoric human artifacts and human fossils | Synonyms: protoarcheology |
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| punchayet | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayat, panchayet |
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| purchase | (noun) the acquisition of something for payment | - |
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| (noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: leverage |
| (noun) a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage | - |
| (noun) something acquired by purchase | - |