| church | (noun) a service conducted in a house of worship | Synonyms: church service |
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| (noun) a place for public (especially Christian) worship | Synonyms: church building |
| (noun) one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship | Synonyms: Christian church |
| (noun) the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church | - |
| (verb) perform a special church rite or service for | - |
| churchgoer | (noun) a religious person who goes to church regularly | Synonyms: church member |
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| churchgoing | (adjective) actively practicing a religion | - |
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| churchly | (adjective) resembling or suggesting or appropriate to a church | - |
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| churchman | (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: cleric, divine, ecclesiastic |
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| churchwarden | (noun) an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters | - |
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| churchyard | (noun) the yard associated with a church | Synonyms: God's acre |
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| interchurch | (adjective) occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations | Synonyms: interdenominational |
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| kurchee | (noun) tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea | Synonyms: conessi, Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchi |
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| kurchi | (noun) tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea | Synonyms: conessi, Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchee |
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| lurch | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: stagger, stumble |
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| (noun) the act of moving forward suddenly | Synonyms: lunge |
| (noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: pitch, pitching |
| (noun) a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage) | - |
| (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: skunk |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: pitch, shift |
| (verb) move slowly and unsteadily | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag |
| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: prowl |
| lurcher | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurker, skulker |
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| nonchurchgoing | (adjective) no longer active or practicing | Synonyms: lapsed |
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| purchasable | (adjective) available for purchase | Synonyms: for sale |
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| (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, dishonest, venal |
| purchase | (noun) the acquisition of something for payment | - |
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| (noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: leverage |
| (noun) a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage | - |
| (noun) something acquired by purchase | - |
| (verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: buy |
| purchaser | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, emptor, vendee |
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| purchasing | (noun) the act of buying | Synonyms: buying |
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| repurchase | (noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold | Synonyms: buyback, redemption |
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| (verb) buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away | Synonyms: buy back |
| surcharge | (noun) an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) | - |
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| (verb) show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given | - |
| (verb) fill to an excessive degree | - |
| (verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overcharge, overload |
| (verb) print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote | - |
| (verb) fill to capacity with people | - |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak |
| (verb) charge an extra fee, as for a special service | - |
| unchurch | (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: curse, excommunicate |
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| urchin | (noun) poor and often mischievous city child | - |
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