| chick | (noun) young bird especially of domestic fowl | Synonyms: biddy |
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| (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, dame, doll, skirt, wench |
| chickadee | (noun) any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America | - |
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| chicken | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
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| (noun) a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: Gallus gallus |
| (noun) a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops | - |
| (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: poulet, volaille |
| (noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: crybaby, wimp |
| chickenfeed | (noun) a trifling sum of money | Synonyms: chump change, small change |
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| chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
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| chickenhearted | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chicken, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
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| chickenpox | (noun) an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body | Synonyms: varicella |
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| chickenshit | (noun) a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear | - |
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| chickeree | (noun) far western United States counterpart of the red squirrel | Synonyms: Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi |
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| chickpea | (noun) large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | Synonyms: garbanzo |
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| (noun) Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds | Synonyms: chickpea plant, Cicer arietinum, Egyptian pea |
| (noun) the seed of the chickpea plant | Synonyms: garbanzo |
| chickweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Stellaria | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants related to the common chickweed | Synonyms: clammy chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, mouse ear, mouse eared chickweed |
| dabchick | (noun) small European grebe | Synonyms: little grebe, Podiceps ruficollis |
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| doohickey | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| hick | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, rube, yahoo, yokel |
| hickey | (noun) a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover | Synonyms: love bite |
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| (noun) a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne | Synonyms: pimple, zit |
| hickory | (noun) American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts | Synonyms: hickory tree |
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| (noun) valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees | - |
| jimhickey | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
| peachick | (noun) a young peafowl | Synonyms: pea-chick |
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| thick | (adjective) not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions | - |
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| (adjective) relatively dense in consistency | - |
| (adjective) abounding; having a lot of | - |
| (adjective) (used informally) associated on close terms | Synonyms: buddy-buddy, chummy |
| (adjective) having component parts closely crowded together | Synonyms: dense |
| (adjective) hard to pass through because of dense growth | Synonyms: dense |
| (adjective) (of darkness) densely dark | Synonyms: deep |
| (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, stocky, thickset |
| (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
| (adjective) spoken as if with a thick tongue | Synonyms: slurred |
| (noun) the location of something surrounded by other things | Synonyms: midst |
| (adverb) in quick succession | Synonyms: thickly |
| (adverb) with a thick consistency | Synonyms: thickly |
| thicken | (verb) become thick or thicker | Synonyms: inspissate |
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| (verb) make thick or thicker | Synonyms: inspissate |
| (verb) make viscous or dense | Synonyms: inspissate |
| thickened | (adjective) made or having become thick | - |
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| (adjective) made thick in consistency | - |
| (adjective) having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear | Synonyms: callous, calloused |
| thickener | (noun) any material used to thicken | Synonyms: thickening |
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| thickening | (adjective) becoming more intricate or complex | - |
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| (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: deepening |
| (noun) the act of thickening | Synonyms: inspissation |
| (noun) any thickened enlargement | Synonyms: knob, node |
| (noun) any material used to thicken | Synonyms: thickener |
| thicket | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse |
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| thickhead | (noun) Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call | Synonyms: whistler |
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| thickheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, wooden-headed |
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| thickly | (adverb) in quick succession | Synonyms: thick |
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| (adverb) in a concentrated manner | Synonyms: densely |
| (adverb) spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue | - |
| (adverb) with thickness; in a thick manner | - |
| (adverb) with a thick consistency | Synonyms: thick |
| thickness | (noun) the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | - |
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| (noun) resistance to flow | - |
| (noun) used of a line or mark | Synonyms: heaviness |
| (noun) indistinct articulation | - |
| thickset | (adjective) planted or growing close together | - |
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| (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, stocky, thick |
| thickspread | (adjective) covered thickly | - |
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| whicker | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whinny |
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| (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whinny |