| chopsteak | (noun) a patty of ground cooked beef | Synonyms: beef patty, chop steak, chopped steak, hamburger steak |
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| chopstick | (noun) one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with | - |
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| choragic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a choragus | - |
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| choragus | (noun) (ancient Greece) leader of a group or festival; leader of a chorus | - |
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| choral | (adjective) related to or written for or performed by a chorus or choir | - |
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| (noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: chorale |
| chorale | (noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: choral |
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| chorally | (adverb) by a chorus | - |
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| chord | (noun) a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together | - |
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| (noun) a straight line connecting two points on a curve | - |
| (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: harmonise, harmonize |
| (verb) play chords on (a stringed instrument) | - |
| chordal | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or emphasizing chords | - |
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| chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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| chordate | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata | - |
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| (noun) any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column | - |
| chorditis | (noun) inflammation of the vocal cords | - |
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| (noun) inflammation of the spermatic cord or vocal cords or vocal folds | - |
| chordomesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordamesoderm |
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| chordophone | (noun) a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers | - |
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| chore | (noun) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | Synonyms: job, task |
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| chorea | (noun) any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs | - |
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| (noun) chorea in dogs | Synonyms: canine chorea |
| choreograph | (verb) plan and oversee the development and details of | - |
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| (verb) compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music | - |
| choreographer | (noun) someone who creates new dances | - |
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| choreographic | (adjective) of or concerned with choreography | - |
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| choreography | (noun) a show involving artistic dancing | Synonyms: stage dancing |
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| (noun) the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes | - |
| (noun) a notation used by choreographers | - |
| choric | (adjective) relating to or written for or in the style of a Greek chorus | - |
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| chorine | (noun) a woman who dances in a chorus line | Synonyms: chorus girl, showgirl |
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| chorioallantois | (noun) the very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois | Synonyms: chorioallantoic membrane |
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| choriomeningitis | (noun) a cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges | - |
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| chorion | (noun) the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | - |
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| chorionic | (adjective) of or relating to a chorion | - |
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| chorioretinitis | (noun) inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina | - |
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| chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
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| chorizo | (noun) a spicy Spanish pork sausage | - |
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| choroid | (noun) a highly vascular membrane in the eye between the retina and the sclera; a dark pigmentation minimizes the scattering of light inside the eye | Synonyms: choroid coat |
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| chortle | (noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh | Synonyms: chuckle |
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| (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chuckle, laugh softly |
| chorus | (noun) the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers | Synonyms: refrain |
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| (noun) any utterance produced simultaneously by a group | - |
| (noun) a group of people assembled to sing together | - |
| (noun) a body of dancers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: chorus line |
| (noun) a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play | Synonyms: Greek chorus |
| (verb) utter in unison | - |
| (verb) sing in a choir | Synonyms: choir |
| chosen | (noun) an exclusive group of people | Synonyms: elect |
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| (noun) one who is the object of choice; who is given preference | - |
| chou | (noun) puff filled with cream or custard | Synonyms: cream puff |
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| (noun) any of various types of cabbage | Synonyms: cabbage |
| chough | (noun) a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage | - |
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| chouse | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, jockey, screw, shaft |
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| 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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| cinchona | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Cinchona | Synonyms: chinchona |
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| (noun) medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine | Synonyms: cinchona bark, Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark |
| cinchonine | (noun) an alkaloid derivative of the bark of cinchona trees that is used as an antimalarial drug | - |
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| clavichord | (noun) an early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound | - |
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| conchoid | (noun) Any of a family of curves defined as the locus of points p, such that each p is on a line that passes through a given fixed point P and intersects a given curve, C, and the distance from p to the point of intersection with C is a specified constant (note that for nontrivial cases two such points p satisfy the criteria, and the resultant curve has two parts). | - |
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| conchologist | (noun) a collector and student of mollusc shells | - |
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| conchology | (noun) the collection and study of mollusc shells | Synonyms: shell collecting |
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| corchorus | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute | - |
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| costochondritis | (noun) inflammation at the junction of a rib and its cartilage | - |
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| dichondra | (noun) a creeping perennial herb with hairy stems and orbicular to reniform leaves and small white to greenish flowers; used as a grass substitute in warm regions | Synonyms: Dichondra micrantha |
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| dichotomisation | (noun) the act of dividing into two sharply different categories | Synonyms: dichotomization |
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| dichotomise | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomize |
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| dichotomization | (noun) the act of dividing into two sharply different categories | Synonyms: dichotomisation |
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| dichotomize | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomise |
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| dichotomous | (adjective) divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications | - |
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| dichotomously | (adverb) in a dichotomous manner | - |
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| dichotomy | (noun) being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses | Synonyms: duality |
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| dolichocephalic | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocranial, dolichocranic |
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| (noun) an adult with a long narrow head | - |
| dolichocephalism | (noun) the quality of being dolichocephalic | Synonyms: dolichocephaly |
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| dolichocephaly | (noun) the quality of being dolichocephalic | Synonyms: dolichocephalism |
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| dolichocranial | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranic |
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| dolichocranic | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranial |
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| echo | (noun) an imitation or repetition | - |
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| (noun) the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves | Synonyms: replication, reverberation, sound reflection |
| (noun) a reflected television or radio or radar beam | - |
| (noun) a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc. | - |
| (noun) a reply that repeats what has just been said | - |
| (verb) to say again or imitate | Synonyms: repeat |
| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: resound, reverberate, ring |
| (verb) bring to mind | Synonyms: recall |
| echocardiogram | (noun) a graphical image of the heart produced by an echocardiograph | - |
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| echocardiograph | (noun) a sonograph that creates an image of the heart and its abnormalities | - |
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| echocardiography | (noun) a noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study to structure and motions of the heart | - |
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| echoencephalogram | (noun) a graphical image of the brain produced by an echoencephalograph | - |
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| echoencephalograph | (noun) a sonograph that creates an image of the brain and its abnormalities | - |
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| echoencephalography | (noun) a noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study the anatomy of the brain | - |
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| echogram | (noun) an image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves); used to observe fetal growth or to study bodily organs | Synonyms: sonogram |
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| echograph | (noun) An instrument used to record an echogram. | - |
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| echography | (noun) using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs | Synonyms: sonography, ultrasonography, ultrasound |
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| echoic | (adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic |
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| (adjective) like or characteristic of an echo | Synonyms: echolike |
| echoing | (adjective) (of sounds) repeating by reflection | Synonyms: reechoing |
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| echolalia | (noun) (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia) | - |
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| (noun) an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others | - |
| echoless | (adjective) having or producing no echo | - |
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| echolike | (adjective) like or characteristic of an echo | Synonyms: echoic |
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| echolocation | (noun) determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it | Synonyms: echo sounding |
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| echovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants | - |
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| enchondroma | (noun) benign slow-growing tumor of cartilaginous cells at the ends of tubular bones (especially in the hands and feet) | - |
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| eunuchoidism | (noun) the state of being a eunuch (either because of lacking testicles or because they failed to develop) | Synonyms: male hypogonadism |
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| gaucho | (noun) a cowboy of the South American Pampas | - |
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| gazpacho | (noun) a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold | - |
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| harpsichord | (noun) a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots | Synonyms: cembalo |
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| harpsichordist | (noun) someone who plays the harpsichord | - |
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| highschool | (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high, high school, senior high, senior high school |
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| hogchoker | (noun) useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama | Synonyms: Trinectes maculatus |
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| honcho | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, foreman, gaffer |
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| hypercholesteremia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesterolemia |
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| hypercholesterolemia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesteremia |
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| hypochondria | (noun) chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments | Synonyms: hypochondriasis |
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| hypochondriac | (adjective) suffering from hypochondria | Synonyms: hypochondriacal |
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| (noun) a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments | - |
| hypochondriacal | (adjective) suffering from hypochondria | Synonyms: hypochondriac |
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| hypochondriasis | (noun) chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments | Synonyms: hypochondria |
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| hypochondrium | (noun) the upper region of the abdomen just below the lowest ribs on either side of the epigastrium | - |
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| ichor | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) (Greek mythology) the rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods | - |
| ichorous | (adjective) of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies | Synonyms: sanious |
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| inchoate | (adjective) only partly in existence; imperfectly formed | Synonyms: incipient |
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| inchoative | (adjective) in an initial stage | Synonyms: inceptive |
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| (noun) aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb | Synonyms: inchoative aspect |
| interscholastic | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interschool |
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| interschool | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interscholastic |
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| kinetochore | (noun) a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape | Synonyms: centromere |
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