| charmed | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) strongly attracted | Synonyms: captivated |
| 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 |
| charming | (adjective) pleasing or delighting | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
| charmingly | (adverb) in a charming manner | - |
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| charnel | (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral |
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| (noun) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited | Synonyms: charnel house |
| charr | (noun) any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus | Synonyms: char |
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| chart | (noun) a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea | - |
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| (noun) a visual display of information | Synonyms: graph |
| (noun) (usually plural) a listing of best-selling recorded music | - |
| (verb) plan in detail | - |
| (verb) make a chart of | - |
| (verb) represent by means of a graph | Synonyms: graph |
| chartaceous | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: paperlike, papery |
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| 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 |
| chartered | (adjective) hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers | Synonyms: hired, leased |
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| charterhouse | (noun) a Carthusian monastery | - |
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| chartist | (noun) a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities | Synonyms: technical analyst |
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| chartless | (adjective) (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated | Synonyms: uncharted, unmapped |
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| chartreuse | (adjective) of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur | - |
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| (noun) a shade of green tinged with yellow | Synonyms: Paris green, pea green, yellow green, yellowish green |
| charwoman | (noun) a human female employed to do housework | Synonyms: char, cleaning lady, cleaning woman |
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| chary | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagey, cagy |
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| chase | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: following, pursual, pursuit |
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| (noun) a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time | - |
| (verb) cut a groove into | - |
| (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chamfer, furrow |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail |
| (verb) pursue someone sexually or romantically | Synonyms: chase after |
| chased | (noun) a person who is being chased | Synonyms: pursued |
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| 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 |
| chasm | (noun) a deep opening in the earth's surface | - |
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| chasse | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: sashay |
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| (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: sashay |
| chassis | (noun) the skeleton of a motor vehicle consisting of a steel frame supported on springs that holds the body and motor | - |
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| (noun) a metal mounting for the circuit components of an electronic device | - |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| chaste | (adjective) morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse) | - |
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| (adjective) abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse | - |
| (adjective) pure and simple in design or style | - |
| chastely | (adverb) in a chaste and virtuous manner | Synonyms: virtuously |
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| chasten | (verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: temper |
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| (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: subdue, tame |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chastise, correct, objurgate |
| chasteness | (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: restraint, simpleness, simplicity |
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| chastening | (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastisement, correction |
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| chastise | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, correct, objurgate |
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| chastisement | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: castigation |
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| (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, correction |
| chastity | (noun) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | Synonyms: celibacy, sexual abstention |
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| (noun) morality with respect to sexual relations | Synonyms: sexual morality, virtue |
| chasuble | (noun) a long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass | - |
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| chat | (noun) songbirds having a chattering call | Synonyms: Old World chat |
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| (noun) birds having a chattering call | Synonyms: New World chat |
| (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze |
| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| chateau | (noun) an impressive country house (or castle) in France | - |
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| chatelaine | (noun) a chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc. | - |
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| (noun) the mistress of a chateau or large country house | - |
| chatoyant | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot |
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| chatroom | (noun) a site on the internet where a number of users can communicate in real time (typically one dedicated to a particular topic) | Synonyms: chat room |
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| chattel | (noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) | Synonyms: movable, personal chattel |
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| 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 |
| chatterbox | (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
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| (noun) orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf | Synonyms: Epipactis gigantea, giant helleborine, stream orchid |
| 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 |
| chattering | (noun) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) | Synonyms: chatter |
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| (noun) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine | Synonyms: chatter |
| chattily | (adverb) in a chatty manner | Synonyms: volubly |
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| chatty | (adjective) prone to friendly informal communication | Synonyms: gossipy, newsy |
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| (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky |
| chaturbate | (verb) to masturbate while chatting online | - |
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| chauffeur | (noun) a person paid to drive a privately owned car | - |
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| (verb) drive someone in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive around |
| chauffeuse | (noun) a woman chauffeur | - |
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| chaulmoogra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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| chaulmugra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra, chaulmoogra tree, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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| chauvinism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: antifeminism, male chauvinism |
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| (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: jingoism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
| chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| chaw | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chew, cud, plug, quid, wad |
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| (verb) chew without swallowing | - |
| chawbacon | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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| cheap | (adjective) relatively low in price or charging low prices | Synonyms: inexpensive |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
| (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: chinchy, chintzy |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| cheapen | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: degrade |
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| cheapjack | (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: shoddy, tawdry |
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| (noun) a peddler of inferior goods | - |
| cheaply | (adverb) with little expenditure of money | Synonyms: inexpensively |
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| (adverb) in a cheap manner | Synonyms: inexpensively, tattily |
| (adverb) in a stingy manner | Synonyms: chintzily, stingily |
| cheapness | (noun) a price below the standard price | Synonyms: bargain rate, cut price, cut rate |
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| (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: sleaze, tackiness, tat |
| cheapskate | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: tightwad |
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| cheat | (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheating |
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| (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: fraud, rig, swindle |
| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
| (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare |
| (noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, chess |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
| (verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: chisel, rip off |
| (verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: chisel |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
| cheater | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
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| cheatgrass | (noun) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean | Synonyms: Bromus tectorum, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome |
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| cheating | (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike |
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| (adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: adulterous, two-timing |
| (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheat |
| chebab | (noun) a Palestinian juvenile 10-15 years old who fights against the Israelis | - |
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| check | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: bridle, curb |
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| (noun) obstructing an opponent in ice hockey | - |
| (noun) (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king | - |
| (noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, checkout |
| (noun) a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard) | - |
| (noun) a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something | Synonyms: chip |
| (noun) an appraisal of the state of affairs | Synonyms: assay |
| (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: confirmation, substantiation, verification |
| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| (noun) the bill in a restaurant | Synonyms: chit, tab |
| (noun) a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc. | Synonyms: check mark, tick |
| (noun) a written order directing a bank to pay money | Synonyms: bank check, cheque |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
| (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: delay, retard |
| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, crack |
| (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: chink |
| (verb) arrest the motion (of something) abruptly | - |
| (verb) examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition | Synonyms: check into, check out, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick off |
| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
| (verb) verify by consulting a source or authority | - |
| (verb) write out a check on a bank account | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) place into check | - |
| (verb) decline to initiate betting | - |
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: checker, chequer |
| (verb) stop in a chase especially when scent is lost | - |
| (verb) abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey | - |
| (verb) stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution | - |
| (verb) hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping | - |
| (verb) consign for shipment on a vehicle | - |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: condition, discipline, train |
| (verb) make an examination or investigation | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) be verified or confirmed; pass inspection | Synonyms: check out |
| checkbook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: chequebook |
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| checked | (adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checkered, chequered |
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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 |
| checkerberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
| checkerbloom | (noun) perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated | Synonyms: Sidalcea malviflora, wild hollyhock |
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| checkerboard | (noun) a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | Synonyms: checker board, chequerboard |
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| checkered | (adjective) marked by changeable fortune | - |
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| (adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checked, chequered |
| checkers | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: draughts |
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| checklist | (noun) a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted | - |
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| checkmate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: mate |
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| (noun) complete victory | - |
| (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: mate |
| checkout | (noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, check |
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| (noun) a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases | Synonyms: checkout counter |
| (noun) the latest time for vacating a hotel room | Synonyms: checkout time |
| checkpoint | (noun) a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance | - |
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| checkrein | (noun) a rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position | Synonyms: bearing rein |
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| checkroom | (noun) a room where baggage or parcels are checked | Synonyms: left-luggage office |
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| checkrow | (verb) plant in checkrows | - |
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| checksum | (noun) a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage | - |
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| checkup | (noun) a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person | Synonyms: health check, medical, medical checkup, medical exam, medical examination |
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| cheddar | (noun) hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England | Synonyms: American cheese, Armerican cheddar, cheddar cheese |
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| cheek | (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, brass, face, nerve |
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| (noun) either side of the face below the eyes | - |
| (noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: buttock |
| (noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: impertinence, impudence |
| (verb) speak impudently to | - |
| cheekbone | (noun) the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek | Synonyms: jugal bone, malar, malar bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic, zygomatic bone |
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| cheekily | (adverb) in a brash cheeky manner | Synonyms: brashly, nervily |
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| cheekiness | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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| cheekpiece | (noun) either of two straps of a bridle that connect the bit to the headpiece | - |
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| cheeky | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: brash, nervy |
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| cheep | (noun) the short weak cry of a young bird | Synonyms: peep |
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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: chirp, chirrup, peep |
| 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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| cheerful | (adjective) being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits | - |
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| (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: pollyannaish, upbeat |
| cheerfully | (adverb) in a cheerful manner | - |
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| cheerfulness | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheer, sunniness, sunshine |
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| (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: blitheness |
| cheerily | (adverb) in a good-humoured manner | Synonyms: pleasantly, sunnily |
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| cheering | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: comforting, satisfying |
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| (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: shouting |
| cheerio | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| cheerlead | (verb) act as a cheerleader in a sports event | - |
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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 | - |