chalcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: calcedony |
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chalcid | (noun) any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects | Synonyms: chalcid fly, chalcid wasp, chalcidfly |
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chalcidfly | (noun) any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects | Synonyms: chalcid, chalcid fly, chalcid wasp |
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chalcocite | (noun) a heavy grey mineral that is an ore of copper | Synonyms: copper glance |
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chalcopyrite | (noun) a yellow copper ore (CuFeS2) made up of copper and iron sulfide | Synonyms: copper pyrites |
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chaldron | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 36 bushels | - |
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chalet | (noun) a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style | - |
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chalice | (noun) a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup | Synonyms: goblet |
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chalk | (noun) a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces | - |
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(noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
(noun) a pure flat white with little reflectance | - |
(noun) a soft whitish calcite | - |
chalkboard | (noun) sheet of slate; for writing with chalk | Synonyms: blackboard |
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chalkpit | (noun) a quarry for chalk | Synonyms: chalk pit |
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chalkstone | (noun) a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout | Synonyms: tophus |
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challah | (noun) (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking | Synonyms: hallah |
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challenge | (noun) a call to engage in a contest or fight | - |
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(noun) questioning a statement and demanding an explanation | - |
(noun) a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror | - |
(noun) a demand by a sentry for a password or identification | - |
(noun) a demanding or stimulating situation | - |
challenger | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: competition, competitor, contender, rival |
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challis | (noun) a soft lightweight fabric (usually printed) | - |
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chalybite | (noun) iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate | Synonyms: siderite |
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chamaeleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chameleon |
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chamarre | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chimer, simarre |
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chamber | (noun) a natural or artificial enclosed space | - |
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(noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
(noun) a room where a judge transacts business | - |
(noun) an enclosed volume in the body | - |
(noun) a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly | - |
chamberlain | (noun) the treasurer of a municipal corporation | - |
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(noun) an officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman | - |
chambermaid | (noun) a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) | Synonyms: fille de chambre |
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chamberpot | (noun) a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom | Synonyms: potty, thunder mug |
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chambray | (noun) a lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp | - |
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chameleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chamaeleon |
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(noun) a changeable or inconstant person | - |
chamfer | (noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | Synonyms: bevel, cant |
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chamfron | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chanfron, front-stall, frontstall, testiere |
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chammy | (noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy leather, chamois, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leather |
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chamois | (noun) hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips | Synonyms: Rupicapra rupicapra |
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(noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy, chammy leather, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leather |
chamomile | (noun) Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis | Synonyms: Anthemis nobilis, camomile, Chamaemelum nobilis |
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chamosite | (noun) a greenish grey or black silicate of iron and aluminum | - |
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champ | (noun) someone who has won first place in a competition | Synonyms: champion, title-holder |
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champagne | (noun) a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there | Synonyms: bubbly |
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champaign | (noun) extensive tract of level open land | Synonyms: field, plain |
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champerty | (noun) an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded | - |
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champion | (noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: fighter, hero, paladin |
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(noun) someone who has won first place in a competition | Synonyms: champ, title-holder |
(noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, friend, protagonist, supporter |
(noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
championship | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backing, backup, patronage |
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(noun) a competition at which a champion is chosen | - |
(noun) the status of being a champion | Synonyms: title |
chanal | (noun) thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries | Synonyms: chanar, Geoffroea decorticans |
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chanar | (noun) thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries | Synonyms: chanal, Geoffroea decorticans |
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chance | (noun) a risk involving danger | - |
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(noun) a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible | Synonyms: probability |
(noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: fortune, hazard, luck |
(noun) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances | Synonyms: opportunity |
(noun) the possibility of future success | Synonyms: prospect |
chancel | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: bema, sanctuary |
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chancellery | (noun) a government building housing the office of a chancellor | - |
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chancellor | (noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: premier, prime minister |
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(noun) the honorary or titular head of a university | - |
chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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chancery | (noun) an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records | - |
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(noun) a court with jurisdiction in equity | Synonyms: court of chancery |
chancre | (noun) a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis) | - |
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chancroid | (noun) infectious venereal ulcer | - |
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chandelier | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
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chandelle | (noun) a flight maneuver consisting of a steep climbing turn executed to gain altitude while changing direction | - |
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chandler | (noun) a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints | - |
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(noun) a retail dealer in provisions and supplies | - |
chandlery | (noun) a storeroom where candles are kept | - |
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(noun) candles and other commodities sold by a chandler | - |
chanfron | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chamfron, front-stall, frontstall, testiere |
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change | (noun) the action of changing something | - |
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(noun) a different or fresh set of clothes | - |
(noun) a thing that is different | - |
(noun) a difference that is usually pleasant | Synonyms: variety |
(noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: alteration, modification |
(noun) the result of alteration or modification | - |
(noun) coins of small denomination regarded collectively | - |
(noun) the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due | - |
(noun) money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency | - |
(noun) a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event | - |
changeability | (noun) the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeableness |
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changeableness | (noun) the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeability |
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changefulness | (noun) the quality of being changeable and variable | Synonyms: inconstancy |
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changelessness | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness |
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(noun) the property of remaining unchanged | - |
changeling | (noun) a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy | - |
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(noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard |
changeover | (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: conversion, transition |
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changer | (noun) an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention | Synonyms: auto-changer, record changer |
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(noun) a person who changes something | Synonyms: modifier |
channel | (noun) a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors | Synonyms: distribution channel |
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(noun) a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through | - |
(noun) a television station and its programs | Synonyms: television channel, TV channel |
(noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: canal, duct, epithelial duct |
(noun) a path over which electrical signals can pass | Synonyms: transmission channel |
(noun) (often plural) a means of communication or access | Synonyms: communication channel, line |
(noun) a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels | - |
(noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: groove |
channelisation | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelization |
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channelization | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelisation |
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channels | (noun) official routes of communication | - |
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chanoyu | (noun) an ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea | Synonyms: tea ceremony |
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chant | (noun) a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone | - |
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chantarelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chanterelle |
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chanter | (noun) reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played | Synonyms: melody pipe |
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chanterelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chantarelle |
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chantey | (noun) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors | Synonyms: chanty, sea chantey, shanty |
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chanting | (noun) the act of singing in a monotonous tone | Synonyms: intonation |
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chantry | (noun) a chapel endowed for singing Masses for the soul of the donor | - |
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(noun) an endowment for the singing of Masses | - |
chanty | (noun) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors | Synonyms: chantey, sea chantey, shanty |
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chaos | (noun) (physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions | - |
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(noun) the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos | - |
(noun) a state of extreme confusion and disorder | Synonyms: bedlam, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness |
chap | (noun) (usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs | - |
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(noun) a crack in a lip caused usually by cold | - |
(noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
(noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: crack, cranny, crevice, fissure |
chaparral | (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: bush, scrub |
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chapati | (noun) flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle | Synonyms: chapatti |
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chapatti | (noun) flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle | Synonyms: chapati |
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chapeau | (noun) headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim | Synonyms: hat, lid |
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chapel | (noun) a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar | Synonyms: chapel service |
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(noun) a place of worship that has its own altar | - |
chapelgoer | (noun) a Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England | Synonyms: Nonconformist |
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chaperon | (noun) one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people | Synonyms: chaperone |
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chaperone | (noun) one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people | Synonyms: chaperon |
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chapiter | (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: cap, capital |
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chaplain | (noun) a clergyman ministering to some institution | - |
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chaplaincy | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplainship |
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chaplainship | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplaincy |
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chaplet | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: coronal, garland, lei, wreath |
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chapman | (noun) archaic term for an itinerant peddler | - |
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chapter | (noun) a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled | - |
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(noun) a series of related events forming an episode | - |
(noun) a local branch of some fraternity or association | - |
(noun) an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church | - |
(noun) any distinct period in history or in a person's life | - |
chapterhouse | (noun) a house used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternity | Synonyms: frat house, fraternity house |
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(noun) a building attached to a monastery or cathedral; used as a meeting place for the chapter | - |
char | (noun) any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus | Synonyms: charr |
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(noun) a human female employed to do housework | Synonyms: charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman |
(noun) a charred substance | - |
charabanc | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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characid | (noun) any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae | Synonyms: characin, characin fish |
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characin | (noun) any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae | Synonyms: characid, characin fish |
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character | (noun) (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes | - |
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(noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
(noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: lineament, quality |
(noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | Synonyms: part, persona, role, theatrical role |
(noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | Synonyms: graph, grapheme, graphic symbol |
(noun) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | Synonyms: character reference, reference |
(noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: case, eccentric, type |
(noun) an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) | Synonyms: fictional character, fictitious character |
(noun) good repute | - |
characterisation | (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
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(noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterization |
characteristic | (noun) a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | - |
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(noun) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | Synonyms: device characteristic |
(noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: feature |
(noun) the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | - |
characteristicness | (noun) The quality or state of being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | - |
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characterization | (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: enactment, personation, portrayal |
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(noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
(noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterisation |