| caroche | (noun) a luxurious carriage suitable for nobility in the 16th and 17th century | - |
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| cartouch | (noun) a cartridge (usually with paper casing) | Synonyms: cartouche |
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| cartouche | (noun) a cartridge (usually with paper casing) | Synonyms: cartouch |
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| catachresis | (noun) strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths') | - |
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| catachrestic | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestical |
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| catachrestical | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestic |
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| catananche | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Catananche having long-stalked heads of blue or yellow flowers | - |
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| catch | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: grab, snap, snatch |
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| (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
| (noun) a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth | - |
| (noun) a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window | - |
| (noun) a restraint that checks the motion of something | Synonyms: stop |
| (noun) a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident | Synonyms: gimmick |
| (noun) a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion) | - |
| (noun) anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching) | - |
| (noun) a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect | Synonyms: match |
| (noun) the quantity that was caught | Synonyms: haul |
| (verb) come down with | - |
| (verb) be struck or affected by | - |
| (verb) delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned | - |
| (verb) detect a blunder or misstep | Synonyms: trip up |
| (verb) discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state | - |
| (verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) become aware of | - |
| (verb) be the catcher | - |
| (verb) catch up with and possibly overtake | Synonyms: catch up with, overtake |
| (verb) take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of | Synonyms: grab |
| (verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase | Synonyms: capture, get |
| (verb) capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping | Synonyms: capture |
| (verb) to hook or entangle | Synonyms: hitch |
| (verb) attract and fix | Synonyms: arrest, get |
| (verb) cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled | - |
| (verb) spread or be communicated | - |
| (verb) take in and retain | - |
| (verb) reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) apprehend and reproduce accurately | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) reach in time | - |
| (verb) hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers | Synonyms: overhear, take in |
| (verb) perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily | Synonyms: pick up |
| (verb) see or watch | Synonyms: see, take in, view, watch |
| (verb) suffer from the receipt of | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) perceive by hearing | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly | - |
| (verb) check oneself during an action | - |
| (verb) start burning | - |
| catchall | (noun) an enclosure or receptacle for odds and ends | - |
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| catcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: backstop |
| catchfly | (noun) mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone | Synonyms: lychnis |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Silene | Synonyms: campion, silene |
| catching | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| (noun) (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team | - |
| (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: detection, espial, spotting, spying |
| (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: contracting |
| catchment | (noun) a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area) | - |
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| catchpenny | (adjective) designed to sell quickly without concern for quality | - |
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| catchphrase | (noun) a phrase that has become a catchword | Synonyms: catch phrase |
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| catchweed | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: cleavers, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| catchword | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: motto, shibboleth, slogan |
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| (noun) a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page | Synonyms: guide word, guideword |
| catchy | (adjective) likely to attract attention | Synonyms: attention-getting |
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| (adjective) having concealed difficulty | Synonyms: tricky |
| catechesis | (noun) oral religious instruction (as before baptism or confirmation) | - |
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| catechetic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetical |
| catechetical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| catechin | (noun) a tannic acid that is extracted from black catechu as a white crystalline substance | - |
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| catechise | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechize |
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| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechize |
| catechism | (noun) an elementary book summarizing the principles of a Christian religion; written as questions and answers | - |
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| (noun) a series of questions put to an individual (such as a political candidate) to elicit their views | - |
| catechismal | (adjective) of or relating to a catechism summarizing the principles of Christianity | - |
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| catechist | (noun) one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism) | - |
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| catechistic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| catechize | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechise |
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| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechise |
| catecholamine | (noun) any of a group of chemicals including epinephrine and norepinephrine that are produced in the medulla of the adrenal gland | - |
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| catechu | (noun) East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu | Synonyms: Acacia catechu, Jerusalem thorn |
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| (noun) extract of the heartwood of Acacia catechu used for dyeing and tanning and preserving fishnets and sails; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: black catechu |
| catechumen | (noun) a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist | Synonyms: neophyte |
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| centrarchid | (noun) small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed | Synonyms: sunfish |
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| cephalochordate | (noun) fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column | - |
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| cetchup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: catsup, ketchup, tomato ketchup |
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| chabasite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and aluminum | Synonyms: chabazite |
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| chabazite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and aluminum | Synonyms: chabasite |
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| chachalaca | (noun) slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds | - |
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| chachka | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: tchotchke, tsatske, tshatshke |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske, tshatshke |
| chacma | (noun) greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa | Synonyms: chacma baboon, Papio ursinus |
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| chad | (noun) a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape | - |
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| chadar | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chaddar, chador, chuddar |
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| chaddar | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chadar, chador, chuddar |
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| chadlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, charlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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| chador | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chadar, chaddar, chuddar |
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| chaenactis | (noun) any of several United States plants having long stalks of funnel-shaped white or yellow flowers | - |
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| chaeta | (noun) a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm | - |
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| chaetal | (adjective) of or relating to chaetae (setae or bristles) | - |
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| chaetodon | (noun) any fish of the genus Chaetodon | - |
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| chaetognath | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: arrowworm |
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| chaetognathan | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathous |
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| chaetognathous | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathan |
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| chafe | (noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: annoyance, vexation |
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| (noun) soreness and warmth caused by friction | - |
| (verb) warm by rubbing, as with the hands | - |
| (verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: excoriate |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: fray, fret, rub, scratch |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| (verb) feel extreme irritation or anger | - |
| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: fret, gall |
| chafed | (adjective) painful from having the skin abraded | Synonyms: galled |
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| chafeweed | (noun) weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike | Synonyms: Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed |
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| chaff | (noun) foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure | - |
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| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble |
| (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, jolly, josh, kid |
| chaffer | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster |
| chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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| chafflike | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chaffy |
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| chaffweed | (noun) weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves | Synonyms: bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel |
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| chaffy | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chafflike |
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| (adjective) value | - |
| chafing | (noun) soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction | - |
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| chagrin | (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: humiliation, mortification |
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| (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, humble, humiliate, mortify |
| chagrined | (adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: abashed, embarrassed |
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| chain | (noun) a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament | - |
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| (noun) a necklace made by stringing objects together | Synonyms: strand, string |
| (noun) anything that acts as a restraint | - |
| (noun) a linked or connected series of objects | - |
| (noun) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together | Synonyms: concatenation |
| (noun) (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) | Synonyms: chemical chain |
| (noun) a series of hills or mountains | Synonyms: chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range, range of mountains |
| (noun) a unit of length | - |
| (verb) fasten or secure with chains | - |
| (verb) connect or arrange into a chain by linking | - |
| chained | (adjective) bound with chains | Synonyms: enchained, in chains |
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| chainlike | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: catenulate |
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| chains | (noun) metal shackles; for hands or legs | Synonyms: irons |
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| chainsaw | (noun) portable power saw; teeth linked to form an endless chain | Synonyms: chain saw |
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| chair | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: professorship |
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| (noun) a seat for one person, with a support for the back | - |
| (noun) an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person | Synonyms: death chair, electric chair, hot seat |
| (noun) a particular seat in an orchestra | - |
| (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chairperson, president |
| (verb) preside over | Synonyms: lead, moderate |
| (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chairman |
| chairlift | (noun) a ski lift on which riders (skiers or sightseers) are seated and carried up or down a mountainside; seats are hung from an endless overhead cable | Synonyms: chair lift |
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| chairman | (noun) the male officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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| (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chair |
| chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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| chairperson | (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, president |
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| chairwoman | (noun) the female officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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| chaise | (noun) a carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: shay |
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| (noun) a long chair; for reclining | Synonyms: chaise longue, daybed |
| chaja | (noun) largest crested screamer; native to southern Brazil and Argentina | Synonyms: Chauna torquata |
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| chalaza | (noun) one of two spiral bands of tissue connecting the egg yolk to the enclosing membrane at either end of the shell | - |
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| (noun) basal part of a plant ovule opposite the micropyle; where integument and nucellus are joined | - |
| chalazion | (noun) a small sebaceous cyst of the eyelid resulting when a Meibomian gland is blocked | Synonyms: Meibomian cyst |
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| chalcanthite | (noun) hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulfate | Synonyms: blue copperas, blue stone, blue vitriol |
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| 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 | - |
| (verb) write, draw, or trace with chalk | - |
| 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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| chalky | (adjective) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk | Synonyms: calcareous |
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| (adjective) of something having the color of chalk | - |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) issue a challenge to | - |
| (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: dispute, gainsay |
| (verb) raise a formal objection in a court of law | Synonyms: take exception |
| (verb) ask for identification | - |
| challengeable | (adjective) capable of being challenged | - |
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| challenger | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: competition, competitor, contender, rival |
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| challenging | (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: ambitious |
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| (adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: intriguing |
| (adjective) stimulating interest or thought | Synonyms: thought-provoking |
| challis | (noun) a soft lightweight fabric (usually printed) | - |
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| chalybeate | (adjective) containing or impregnated with or tasting of iron | - |
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| chalybite | (noun) iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate | Synonyms: siderite |
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