changer | (noun) an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention | Synonyms: auto-changer, record changer |
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(noun) a person who changes something | Synonyms: modifier |
chanter | (noun) reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played | Synonyms: melody pipe |
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chapelgoer | (noun) a Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England | Synonyms: Nonconformist |
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chapiter | (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: cap, capital |
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chapter | (noun) a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled | - |
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(noun) a series of related events forming an episode | - |
(noun) a local branch of some fraternity or association | - |
(noun) an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church | - |
(noun) any distinct period in history or in a person's life | - |
character | (noun) (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes | - |
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(noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
(noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: lineament, quality |
(noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | Synonyms: part, persona, role, theatrical role |
(noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | Synonyms: graph, grapheme, graphic symbol |
(noun) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | Synonyms: character reference, reference |
(noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: case, eccentric, type |
(noun) an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) | Synonyms: fictional character, fictitious character |
(noun) good repute | - |
(verb) engrave or inscribe characters on | - |
charger | (noun) formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle | Synonyms: courser |
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(noun) a device that can hold a rechargeable battery by means of an electrical cable | Synonyms: battery charger |
charioteer | (noun) the driver of a chariot | - |
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charmer | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: beguiler |
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(noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker |
charter | (noun) a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation | - |
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(noun) a contract to hire or lease transportation | - |
(verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: engage, hire, lease, rent, take |
(verb) grant a charter to | - |
(verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: hire, lease, rent |
chaser | (noun) a drink to follow immediately after another drink | - |
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(noun) a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture | Synonyms: pursuer |
chatter | (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, yack, yak, yakety-yak |
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(noun) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) | Synonyms: chattering |
(noun) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine | Synonyms: chattering |
(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
(verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
(verb) make noise as if chattering away | - |
(verb) cut unevenly with a chattering tool | - |
(verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: click |
chatterer | (noun) passerine bird of New World tropics | Synonyms: cotinga |
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(noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, magpie, prater, spouter |
cheater | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
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checker | (noun) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers | Synonyms: chequer |
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(noun) one who checks the correctness of something | - |
(noun) an attendant who checks coats or baggage | - |
(verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: chequer |
(verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, chequer |
cheer | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine |
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(noun) a cry or shout of approval | - |
(verb) become cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, chirk up |
(verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
(verb) show approval or good wishes by shouting | - |
(verb) cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, jolly along, jolly up |
(verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: embolden, hearten, recreate |
cheerer | (noun) a spectator who shouts encouragement | - |
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cheerleader | (noun) someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event | - |
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(noun) an enthusiastic and vocal supporter | - |
cheeseburger | (noun) a hamburger with melted cheese on it | - |
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cheeseflower | (noun) erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States | Synonyms: cheese, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, tall mallow |
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cheesemonger | (noun) someone who sells cheese | - |
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chequer | (noun) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers | Synonyms: checker |
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(verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: checker |
(verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, checker |
chevalier | (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: cavalier |
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chewer | (noun) someone who chews (especially someone who chews tobacco) | - |
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chiffonier | (noun) a tall elegant chest of drawers | Synonyms: commode |
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chigger | (noun) larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation | Synonyms: harvest mite, jigger, redbug |
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(noun) small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans | Synonyms: chigoe, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans |
chiggerflower | (noun) erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers | Synonyms: Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, chigger flower, Indian paintbrush, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root |
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chiller | (noun) excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones | Synonyms: hair-raiser |
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chimer | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chamarre, simarre |
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chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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chipper | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, jaunty |
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chiromancer | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: palmist, palmister |
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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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chitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: twitter |
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choirmaster | (noun) the musical director of a choir | Synonyms: cantor, precentor |
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choker | (noun) a high tight collar | Synonyms: neck ruff, ruff, ruffle |
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(noun) necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck | Synonyms: collar, dog collar, neckband |
(noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler |
(noun) an unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation | - |
choler | (noun) a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger | Synonyms: yellow bile |
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(noun) a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance | Synonyms: anger, ire |
(noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance |
chooser | (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: picker, selector |
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chopper | (noun) a grounder that bounces high in the air | Synonyms: chop |
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(noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: cleaver, meat cleaver |
(noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird |
(noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: pearly |
choreographer | (noun) someone who creates new dances | - |
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chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
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chowder | (noun) a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes | - |
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chronicler | (noun) someone who writes chronicles | - |
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chronometer | (noun) an accurate clock (especially used in navigation) | - |
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chukker | (noun) (polo) one of six divisions into which a polo match is divided | Synonyms: chukka |
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churchgoer | (noun) a religious person who goes to church regularly | Synonyms: church member |
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cider | (noun) a beverage made from juice pressed from apples | Synonyms: cyder |
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cinder | (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: clinker |
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cinematographer | (noun) a photographer who operates a movie camera | Synonyms: camera operator, cameraman |
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cipher | (noun) a secret method of writing | Synonyms: cryptograph, cypher, secret code |
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(noun) a message written in a secret code | Synonyms: cypher |
(noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cypher, nobody, nonentity |
(noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
(noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cypher, nought, zero |
(verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
(verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
cither | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: zither, zithern |
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(noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cithern, citole, cittern, gittern |
clabber | (noun) raw milk that has soured and thickened | - |
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(verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clot, curdle |
clamber | (noun) an awkward climb | - |
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(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
clanger | (noun) a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate | - |
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clanker | (noun) something that makes a clanking noise. | - |
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clapper | (noun) metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side | Synonyms: tongue |
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(noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: glossa, lingua, tongue |
(noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: applauder |
classifier | (noun) an algorithm that implements classification. | - |
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(noun) a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs | - |
(noun) a person who creates classifications | - |
clatter | (noun) a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement) | - |
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(verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clack |
claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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clavier | (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: fingerboard, piano keyboard |
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(noun) a stringed instrument that has a keyboard | Synonyms: Klavier |
clawhammer | (noun) a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails | Synonyms: carpenter's hammer, claw hammer |
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cleaner | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleanser, cleansing agent |
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(noun) someone whose occupation is cleaning | - |
(noun) the operator of dry-cleaning establishment | Synonyms: dry cleaner |
cleanser | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleaner, cleansing agent |
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cleaver | (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: chopper, meat cleaver |
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clever | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: cunning, ingenious |
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(adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: apt |
(adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, canny |
cliffhanger | (noun) an episode that ends in suspense | - |
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(noun) a contest whose outcome is uncertain up to the very end | - |
climber | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climbing iron, crampon, crampoon |
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(noun) someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains | - |
(noun) someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior | Synonyms: social climber |
(noun) someone who ascends on foot | Synonyms: mounter |
(noun) a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants | - |
clincher | (noun) a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets | - |
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(noun) a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively | Synonyms: decisive factor |
(noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: determiner, determining factor |
clinker | (noun) a hard brick used as a paving stone | Synonyms: clinker brick |
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(noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: cinder |
(verb) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning | - |
(verb) clear out the cinders and clinker from | - |
clinometer | (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: inclinometer |
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clipper | (noun) scissors for cutting hair or finger nails | - |
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(noun) shears for cutting grass or shrubbery | - |
(noun) a fast sailing ship used in former times | Synonyms: clipper ship |
(noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: limiter |
clitter | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: stridulate |
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cloakmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments | Synonyms: furrier |
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clobber | (noun) informal terms for personal possessions | Synonyms: stuff |
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(verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
(verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, batter |
clockmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clocksmith |
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clodhopper | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, brogue, work shoe |
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cloister | (noun) residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) | Synonyms: religious residence |
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(noun) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) | - |
(verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
(verb) surround with a cloister | - |
(verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
closer | (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: finisher |
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(noun) a person who closes something | - |
(adverb) (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance | Synonyms: nearer, nigher |
clothier | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: haberdasher |
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clover | (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: trefoil |
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clowder | (noun) a group of cats | - |
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clumber | (noun) a thickset spaniel with longish silky hair | Synonyms: clumber spaniel |
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cluster | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, clump, clustering |
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(verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, clump |
(verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, constellate, flock |
clutter | (noun) unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen | - |
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(noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
(verb) fill a space in a disorderly way | Synonyms: clutter up |
clyster | (noun) an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: enema |
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coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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coaster | (noun) a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle) | - |
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(noun) someone who coasts | - |
(noun) a resident of a coastal area | - |
coaxer | (noun) someone who tries to persuade by blandishment and coaxing | Synonyms: wheedler |
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cobber | (noun) Australian term for a pal | - |
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cobbler | (noun) a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit | Synonyms: deep-dish pie |
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(noun) tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit | - |
(noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: shoemaker |
cockchafer | (noun) any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult | Synonyms: May beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha |
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cocker | (noun) a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England | Synonyms: cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel |
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(verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
cocksucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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(noun) a person who performs fellatio | - |
coddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: mollycoddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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coder | (noun) a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs | Synonyms: computer programmer, programmer, software engineer |
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codetalker | (noun) a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II | Synonyms: windtalker |
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codger | (noun) used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man | Synonyms: old codger |
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coffer | (noun) a chest especially for storing valuables | - |
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(noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: caisson, lacunar |
cofounder | (noun) one of a group of founders | - |
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