| chiasm | (noun) an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X | Synonyms: chiasma, decussation |
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| chiasma | (noun) an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X | Synonyms: chiasm, decussation |
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| chiasmal | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmatic, chiasmic |
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| chiasmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmal, chiasmic |
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| chiasmic | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmal, chiasmatic |
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| chiasmus | (noun) inversion in the second of two parallel phrases | - |
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| chic | (adjective) elegant and stylish | Synonyms: smart, voguish |
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| (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
| chicane | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| (noun) a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file | - |
| (noun) a bridge hand that is void of trumps | - |
| (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, cavil |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
| chicanery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| chicha | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| chichi | (adjective) affectedly trendy and fashionable | - |
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| (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
| (noun) someone who dresses in a trendy fashionable way | - |
| chichipe | (noun) tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit | Synonyms: Lemaireocereus chichipe |
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| 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 |
| chicle | (noun) gum-like substance from the sapodilla | Synonyms: chicle gum |
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| chicness | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
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| chicory | (noun) crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste | Synonyms: curly endive |
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| (noun) root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee | Synonyms: chicory root |
| (noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory plant, Cichorium intybus, succory |
| (noun) the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: chicory root |
| chicot | (noun) handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: bonduc, Gymnocladus dioica, Kentucky coffee tree |
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| chide | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| chiding | (noun) rebuking a person harshly | Synonyms: objurgation, scolding, tongue-lashing |
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| chief | (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: main, master, primary, principal |
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| (noun) a person who is in charge | Synonyms: head, top dog |
| (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, foreman, gaffer, honcho |
| (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chieftain, headman, tribal chief |
| chiefly | (adverb) for the most part | Synonyms: in the main, mainly, primarily, principally |
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| chieftain | (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chief, headman, tribal chief |
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| (noun) the leader of a group of people | Synonyms: captain |
| chieftaincy | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftainship |
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| chieftainship | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftaincy |
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| chiffon | (noun) a sheer fabric of silk or rayon | - |
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| chiffonier | (noun) a tall elegant chest of drawers | Synonyms: commode |
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| chigetai | (noun) Mongolian wild ass | Synonyms: dziggetai, Equus hemionus hemionus |
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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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| chignon | (noun) a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck | - |
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| chigoe | (noun) small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans | Synonyms: chigger, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans |
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| chilblain | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblains, pernio |
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| chilblained | (adjective) having chilblains | - |
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| chilblains | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblain, pernio |
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| child | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
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| (noun) a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age | Synonyms: kid |
| (noun) an immature childish person | Synonyms: baby |
| (noun) a member of a clan or tribe | - |
| childbearing | (adjective) relating to or suitable for childbirth | - |
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| (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbirth, vaginal birth |
| childbed | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
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| childbirth | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbearing, vaginal birth |
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| childcare | (noun) a service involving care for other people's children | Synonyms: child care |
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| childhood | (noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: puerility |
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| (noun) the time of person's life when they are a child | - |
| childish | (adjective) indicating a lack of maturity | Synonyms: infantile |
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| childishly | (adverb) in a childlike manner | - |
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| childishness | (noun) a property characteristic of a child | Synonyms: puerility |
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| childless | (adjective) without offspring | - |
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| childlessness | (noun) the condition of being without offspring | - |
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| childlike | (adjective) exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity | Synonyms: dewy-eyed, round-eyed, simple, wide-eyed |
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| (adjective) befitting a young child | Synonyms: childly |
| childly | (adjective) befitting a young child | Synonyms: childlike |
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| childproof | (verb) make safe against children | Synonyms: child-proof |
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| chile | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly |
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| chili | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili pepper, chilli, chilly |
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| (noun) ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans | Synonyms: chili con carne |
| chiliad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard |
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| chiliasm | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: millenarianism, millenarism, millenniumism |
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| chiliast | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: millenarian, millenarist |
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| chiliastic | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: millenarian |
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| chill | (noun) coldness due to a cold environment | Synonyms: gelidity, iciness |
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| (noun) a sudden numbing dread | Synonyms: pall |
| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
| (noun) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | Synonyms: shivering |
| (verb) loose heat | Synonyms: cool, cool down |
| (verb) make cool or cooler | Synonyms: cool, cool down |
| (verb) depress or discourage | - |
| chiller | (noun) excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones | Synonyms: hair-raiser |
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| chilli | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili, chili pepper, chilly |
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| chilliness | (noun) the property of being moderately cold | Synonyms: coolness, nip |
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| (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness |
| chilling | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: scary, shivery, shuddery |
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| (noun) the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature | Synonyms: cooling, temperature reduction |
| chilly | (adjective) appreciably or disagreeably cold | Synonyms: parky |
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| (adjective) not characterized by emotion | - |
| (adjective) lacking warmth of feeling | - |
| (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili, chili pepper, chilli |
| chimaera | (noun) a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail | - |
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| (noun) a grotesque product of the imagination | Synonyms: chimera |
| chime | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: bell, gong |
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| (verb) emit a sound | - |
| chimer | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chamarre, simarre |
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| chimera | (noun) a grotesque product of the imagination | Synonyms: chimaera |
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| chimeral | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeric, chimerical |
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| chimeric | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimerical |
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| chimerical | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimeric |
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| (adjective) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination | - |
| chimney | (noun) a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building | - |
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| (noun) a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp | Synonyms: lamp chimney |
| chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| chimneypot | (noun) a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft | - |
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| chimneystack | (noun) the part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several flues | - |
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| chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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| chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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| chimp | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes |
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| chimpanzee | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimp, Pan troglodytes |
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| chin | (noun) the protruding part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: mentum |
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| (verb) raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar | Synonyms: chin up |
| china | (noun) high quality porcelain originally made only in China | - |
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| (noun) dishware made of high quality porcelain | Synonyms: chinaware |
| chinaberry | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, azederach, China tree, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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| (noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, Sapindus saponaria |
| chinaware | (noun) dishware made of high quality porcelain | Synonyms: china |
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| chincapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chinkapin, chinquapin |
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| chinch | (noun) bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | Synonyms: bed bug, bedbug, Cimex lectularius |
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| chincherinchee | (noun) South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers | Synonyms: Ornithogalum thyrsoides, wonder flower |
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| chinchilla | (noun) small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur | Synonyms: Chinchilla laniger |
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| (noun) a thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton | - |
| (noun) the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla | - |
| chinchillon | (noun) gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas | Synonyms: Lagostomus maximus, viscacha |
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| chinchona | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Cinchona | Synonyms: cinchona |
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| chinchy | (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: cheap, chintzy |
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| chine | (noun) backbone of an animal | - |
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| (noun) cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone | - |
| (verb) cut through the backbone of an animal | - |
| chink | (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: click, clink |
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| (noun) a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall | - |
| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent | Synonyms: Chinaman |
| (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: check |
| (verb) fill the chinks of, as with caulking | - |
| (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: clink, tink, tinkle |
| chinkapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chincapin, chinquapin |
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| chinked | (adjective) having narrow opening filled | Synonyms: stopped-up |
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