| chipping | (noun) the act of chipping something | Synonyms: chip, splintering |
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| chips | (noun) strips of potato fried in deep fat | Synonyms: french-fried potatoes, french fries, fries |
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| chiralgia | (noun) a pain in the hand that is not traumatic | - |
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| chirk | (verb) make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird | - |
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| chirography | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, penmanship |
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| chirology | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chiromancy, palm reading, palmistry |
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| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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| chiromancer | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: palmist, palmister |
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| chiromancy | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, palm reading, palmistry |
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| chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to 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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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirrup, peep |
| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: tweedle |
| chirpily | (adverb) in a cheerfully buoyant manner | Synonyms: buoyantly |
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| chirpiness | (noun) cheerful and lively | - |
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| chirpy | (adjective) (birds or insects) characterized by or tending to chirp | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: buoyant, perky |
| chirr | (verb) make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas | - |
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| chirrup | (noun) a series of chirps | Synonyms: twitter |
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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirp, peep |
| chisel | (noun) an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge | - |
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| (verb) carve with a chisel | - |
| (verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: cheat |
| (verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: cheat, rip off |
| chiseled | (adjective) having a clean and distinct outline as if precisely cut along the edges | Synonyms: well-defined |
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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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| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| 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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| chitinous | (adjective) of or resembling chitin | - |
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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 |
| chitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: twitter |
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| 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 |
| chivalric | (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: knightly, mediaeval, medieval |
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| chivalrous | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: gallant, knightly |
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| chivalrously | (adverb) in a gallant manner | Synonyms: gallantly |
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| 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 |
| chivvy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chivy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chlorothiazide | (noun) a diuretic drug (trade name Diuril) used in the treatment of edema and hypertension | Synonyms: Diuril |
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| cholelithiasis | (noun) the presence of gallstones in the gallbladder | - |
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| chondrichthian | (noun) fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified | Synonyms: cartilaginous fish |
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| choreographic | (adjective) of or concerned with choreography | - |
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| chromatographic | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographical |
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| chromatographical | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographic |
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| chromatographically | (adverb) by means of a chromatographic process | - |
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| citizenship | (noun) conduct as a citizen | - |
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| (noun) the status of a citizen with rights and duties | - |
| clashing | (adjective) sharply and harshly discordant | - |
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| clerkship | (noun) the job of clerk | - |
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| clothier | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: haberdasher |
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| clothing | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable |
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| coaching | (noun) the job of a professional coach | Synonyms: coaching job |
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| 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 |
| cochin | (noun) Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs | Synonyms: cochin china |
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| cochineal | (noun) Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye | Synonyms: cochineal insect, Dactylopius coccus |
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| (noun) a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects | - |
| colchicine | (noun) an analgesic drug derived from the saffron plant and used to treat gout | - |
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| commandership | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandery |
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| companionship | (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: company, fellowship, society |
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| comptrollership | (noun) the position of comptroller | - |
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| comradeship | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradery |
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| connoisseurship | (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: vertu, virtu |
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| consulship | (noun) the post of consul | - |
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| containership | (noun) a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes | Synonyms: container ship, container vessel |
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| controllership | (noun) the position of controller | - |
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| copartnership | (noun) a partnership in which employees get a share of the profits in addition to their wages | - |
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| corinthian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture | - |
| corticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin |
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| cosmographist | (noun) a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography | Synonyms: cosmographer |
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| coughing | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: cough |
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| councillorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councilorship |
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| councilorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councillorship |
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| counsellorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counselorship |
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| counselorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counsellorship |
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| courtship | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, suit, wooing |
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| couthie | (adjective) (chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial | Synonyms: couthy |
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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 | - |
| (verb) flog with a cowhide | - |
| craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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| crashing | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, flaming, fucking |
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| creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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| crotaphion | (noun) the tip of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone | - |
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| crushing | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: devastating |
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| (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: quelling, stifling, suppression |
| crushingly | (adverb) in a crushing manner | - |
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| cryptographic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptographical | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptographically | (adverb) in a cryptographic manner | - |
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| cryptorchidism | (noun) failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops | Synonyms: cryptorchidy, cryptorchism |
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| cryptorchidy | (noun) failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops | Synonyms: cryptorchidism, cryptorchism |
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| cryptorchism | (noun) failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops | Synonyms: cryptorchidism, cryptorchidy |
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| curatorship | (noun) the position of curator | - |
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| cushion | (noun) a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc. | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses | Synonyms: shock, shock absorber |
| (noun) the layer of air that supports a hovercraft or similar vehicle | - |
| (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, soften |
| cushioned | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushiony, padded |
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| cushioning | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: padding |
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| cushiony | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushioned, padded |
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| custodianship | (noun) the position of custodian | - |
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