| chiromancy | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, palm reading, palmistry |
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| chiropodist | (noun) a specialist in care for the feet | Synonyms: foot doctor, podiatrist |
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| chiropody | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the feet | Synonyms: podiatry |
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| chiropractic | (noun) a method of treatment that manipulates body structures (especially the spine) to relieve low back pain or even headache or high blood pressure | - |
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| chiropractor | (noun) a therapist who practices chiropractic | - |
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| chiropteran | (noun) nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate | Synonyms: bat |
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| chirp | (noun) a sharp sound made by small birds or insects | - |
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| chirpiness | (noun) cheerful and lively | - |
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| chirrup | (noun) a series of chirps | Synonyms: twitter |
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| chisel | (noun) an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge | - |
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| chiseler | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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| chiseller | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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| chit | (noun) the bill in a restaurant | Synonyms: check, tab |
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| (noun) a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect | - |
| 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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| chitin | (noun) a tough semitransparent horny substance; the principal component of the exoskeletons of arthropods and the cell walls of certain fungi | - |
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| chitlings | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlins, chitterlings |
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| chitlins | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlings, chitterlings |
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| chiton | (noun) primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates | Synonyms: coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle |
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| (noun) a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece | - |
| 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 |
| chitterlings | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlings, chitlins |
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| 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 |
| chivalry | (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: gallantry, politesse |
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| (noun) the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct | Synonyms: knightliness |
| chivaree | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, charivari, shivaree |
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| chive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chives, cive, schnittlaugh |
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| chives | (noun) cylindrical leaves used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning | - |
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| (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, cive, schnittlaugh |