| achimenes | (noun) any plant of the genus Achimenes having showy bell-shaped flowers that resemble gloxinias | Synonyms: hot water plant |
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| ahimsa | (noun) a Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine holding that all forms of life are sacred and urging the avoidance of violence | - |
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| amphimixis | (noun) union of sperm and egg in sexual reproduction | - |
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| (noun) reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete | Synonyms: sexual reproduction |
| archimandrite | (noun) the superior of an abbey of monks | Synonyms: abbot |
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| chimaera | (noun) a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail | - |
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| (noun) a grotesque product of the imagination | Synonyms: chimera |
| chime | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: bell, gong |
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| chimer | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chamarre, simarre |
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| chimera | (noun) a grotesque product of the imagination | Synonyms: chimaera |
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| chimney | (noun) a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building | - |
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| (noun) a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp | Synonyms: lamp chimney |
| chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| chimneypot | (noun) a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft | - |
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| chimneystack | (noun) the part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several flues | - |
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| chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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| chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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| chimp | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes |
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| chimpanzee | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimp, Pan troglodytes |
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| glutethimide | (noun) sedative (trade name Doriden) used to treat some sleep disorders | Synonyms: Doriden |
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| khimar | (noun) a headscarf worn by observant Muslim women that hangs down to just above the waist | - |
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| mahimahi | (noun) large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphin, dolphinfish |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphinfish |
| phimosis | (noun) an abnormal tightness of the foreskin preventing retraction over the glans | - |
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| sashimi | (noun) very thinly sliced raw fish | - |
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| shim | (noun) a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices | - |
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| shimmer | (noun) a weak and tremulous light | Synonyms: play |
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| shimmy | (noun) lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips | - |
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| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shift, slip, teddy |
| (noun) an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels) | - |
| thimble | (noun) a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container | - |
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| (noun) as much as a thimble will hold | Synonyms: thimbleful |
| thimbleberry | (noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis |
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| (noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry |
| (noun) shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus |
| thimbleful | (noun) as much as a thimble will hold | Synonyms: thimble |
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| thimblerig | (noun) a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under | Synonyms: shell game |
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| thimbleweed | (noun) a common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles | Synonyms: Anemone cylindrica |
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| thimerosal | (noun) a light-colored crystalline powder (trade name Merthiolate) used as a surgical antiseptic | Synonyms: Merthiolate, sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate |
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| whim | (noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whimsey, whimsy |
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| (noun) a sudden desire | Synonyms: caprice, impulse |
| whimper | (noun) a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way | Synonyms: whine |
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| whimsey | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| (noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whim, whimsy |
| whimsicality | (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, mischievousness, puckishness |
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| (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsy |
| whimsy | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality |
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| (noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whim, whimsey |