chewing | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, manduction, mastication |
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chewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: cheewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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chickweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Stellaria | - |
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(noun) any of various plants related to the common chickweed | Synonyms: clammy chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, mouse ear, mouse eared chickweed |
chiggerflower | (noun) erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers | Synonyms: Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, chigger flower, Indian paintbrush, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root |
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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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chinaware | (noun) dishware made of high quality porcelain | Synonyms: china |
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chittamwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittimwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
(noun) shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke | Synonyms: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus |
chittimwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
chow | (noun) breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China | Synonyms: chow chow |
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(noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chuck, eats, grub |
chowchow | (noun) a Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and ginger | - |
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(noun) chopped pickles in mustard sauce | - |
chowder | (noun) a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes | - |
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chuckwalla | (noun) a herbivorous lizard that lives among rocks in the arid parts of southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Sauromalus obesus |
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churchwarden | (noun) an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters | - |
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citronwood | (noun) wood of a citron tree | - |
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(noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: sandarac |
clammyweed | (noun) strong-scented herb common in southern United States covered with intermixed gland and hairs | Synonyms: Polanisia dodecandra, Polanisia graveolens |
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clampdown | (noun) sudden restriction on an activity | - |
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clanswoman | (noun) a female member of a clan | - |
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classwork | (noun) the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom | - |
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claw | (noun) sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles | - |
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(noun) a bird's foot | - |
(noun) a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | Synonyms: chela, nipper, pincer |
(noun) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | Synonyms: hook |
clawback | (noun) finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way | - |
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clawfoot | (noun) a deformity of the foot characterized by an abnormally high arch and hyperextension of the toes which gives the foot the appearance of a claw | Synonyms: pes cavus |
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clawhammer | (noun) a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails | Synonyms: carpenter's hammer, claw hammer |
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clayware | (noun) ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | Synonyms: pottery |
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clearway | (noun) a road on which you are not allowed to stop (unless you have a breakdown) | - |
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clearweed | (noun) a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves | Synonyms: dead nettle, Pilea pumilla, richweed |
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clerihew | (noun) a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person | - |
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clew | (noun) evidence that helps to solve a problem | Synonyms: clue, cue |
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(noun) a ball of yarn or cord or thread | - |
clews | (noun) the cords used to suspend a hammock | - |
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clockwork | (noun) any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock | - |
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closedown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closing, closure, shutdown |
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clowder | (noun) a group of cats | - |
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clown | (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew |
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(noun) a rude or vulgar fool | Synonyms: buffoon |
clowning | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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(noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: comedy, drollery, funniness |
coachwhip | (noun) a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip | Synonyms: coachwhip snake, Masticophis flagellum |
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(noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers | Synonyms: Fouquieria splendens, Jacob's staff, ocotillo, vine cactus |
cobweb | (noun) a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web | - |
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(noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: gossamer |
(noun) a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider | - |
cockcrow | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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cocoswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocuswood, granadilla wood |
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cocuswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocoswood, granadilla wood |
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codswallop | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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cogwheel | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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coleslaw | (noun) basically shredded cabbage | Synonyms: slaw |
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colewort | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, kail, kale |
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collywobbles | (noun) severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology; characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diarrhea | Synonyms: cholera morbus |
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comedown | (noun) decline to a lower status or level | - |
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committeewoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a committee | - |
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commonweal | (noun) the good of a community | Synonyms: common good |
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commonwealth | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state |
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(noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: democracy, republic |
(noun) a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | - |
(noun) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | - |
companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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coneflower | (noun) any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center | - |
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(noun) any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones | - |
(noun) a wildflower of the genus Ratibida | - |
congresswoman | (noun) a female member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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cookware | (noun) a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking | Synonyms: cooking utensil |
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coolwart | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: false miterwort, false mitrewort, foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia |
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copperware | (noun) utensils made with copper | - |
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copywriter | (noun) a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy | - |
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coralwood | (noun) East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coral-wood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood |
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coralwort | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralroot, Dentaria bulbifera |
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cordwood | (noun) firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord | - |
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corkscrew | (noun) a bottle opener that pulls corks | Synonyms: bottle screw |
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corkwood | (noun) very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in southeastern United States having extremely light wood | Synonyms: corkwood tree, Leitneria floridana |
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cornflower | (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus |
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(noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: strawflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
cottonweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers | - |
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(noun) an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts | Synonyms: Anaphalis margaritacea, pearly everlasting |
cottonwick | (noun) of warm Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Haemulon malanurum |
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cottonwood | (noun) any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed | - |
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(noun) American basswood of the Allegheny region | Synonyms: Tilia heterophylla, white basswood |
councilwoman | (noun) a woman who is a council member | - |
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countdown | (noun) counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle) | - |
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counterblow | (noun) a return blow; a retaliatory blow | - |
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counterglow | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: gegenschein |
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counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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counterwoman | (noun) a female who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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countrywoman | (noun) a woman from your own country | - |
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(noun) a woman who lives in the country and has country ways | - |
coursework | (noun) work assigned to and done by a student during a course of study; usually it is evaluated as part of the student's grade in the course | - |
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cow | (noun) female of domestic cattle: | Synonyms: moo-cow |
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(noun) mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull' | - |
(noun) a large unpleasant woman | - |
cowage | (noun) the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing | Synonyms: Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna aterrima, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean |
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(noun) pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey | - |
coward | (noun) a person who shows fear or timidity | - |
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cowardice | (noun) the trait of lacking courage | Synonyms: cowardliness |
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cowardliness | (noun) the trait of lacking courage | Synonyms: cowardice |
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cowbarn | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowhouse, cowshed |
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cowbell | (noun) a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be easily located | - |
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cowberry | (noun) tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller | Synonyms: lingonberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry |
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(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
cowbird | (noun) North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests | - |
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cowboy | (noun) someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles) | - |
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(noun) a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging | Synonyms: rodeo rider |
(noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cattleman, cowman |
cowcatcher | (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, fender, pilot |
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cowfish | (noun) trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes | Synonyms: Lactophrys quadricornis |
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cowgirl | (noun) a woman cowboy | - |
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cowhand | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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cowherb | (noun) European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort | Synonyms: cow cockle, Saponaria vaccaria, Vaccaria hispanica, Vaccaria pyramidata |
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cowherd | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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cowhide | (noun) a heavy flexible whip braided from leather made from the hide of a cow | - |
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(noun) leather made from the hide of a cow | Synonyms: cowskin |
(noun) the hide of a cow | - |
cowhouse | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowbarn, cowshed |
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cowl | (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowling, hood |
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(noun) a loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk) | - |
cowlick | (noun) a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat | - |
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cowling | (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowl, hood |
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cowman | (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cattleman, cowboy |
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cowpea | (noun) eaten fresh as shell beans or dried | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
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(noun) sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure | Synonyms: black-eyed pea, cowpea plant, Vigna sinensis, Vigna unguiculata |
(noun) fruit or seed of the cowpea plant | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
cowpie | (noun) fecal matter of a cow | Synonyms: cow pie |
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cowpoke | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpuncher, puncher |
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cowpox | (noun) a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox | Synonyms: vaccinia |
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cowpuncher | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, puncher |
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cowrie | (noun) any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Synonyms: cowry |
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