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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churidars | (noun) tight trousers worn by people from the Indian subcontinent (typically with a kameez or kurta) | - |
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churl | (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: barbarian, boor, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
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(noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: crank, crosspatch, grouch, grump |
(noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: niggard, scrooge, skinflint |
churlish | (adjective) having a bad disposition; surly | - |
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(adjective) rude and boorish | - |
churlishly | (adverb) in a churlish manner | Synonyms: surlily |
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churn | (noun) a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk | Synonyms: butter churn |
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(verb) stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter | - |
(verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, moil, roil |
churning | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: roiled, roiling, roily, turbulent |
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(adjective) moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation | Synonyms: churned-up |
churr | (verb) make a vibrant sound, as of some birds | Synonyms: whirr |
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churrigueresco | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresque |
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churrigueresque | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresco |
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chute | (noun) sloping channel through which things can descend | Synonyms: slide, slideway, sloping trough |
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(noun) rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall | Synonyms: parachute |
(verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: jump, parachute |
chutney | (noun) a spicy condiment made of chopped fruits or vegetables cooked in vinegar and sugar with ginger and spices | Synonyms: Indian relish |
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chutzpa | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpah, hutzpah |
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chutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, hutzpah |
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chutzpanik | (noun) (Yiddish) a person characterized by chutzpa | - |
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chylaceous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylous |
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chyle | (noun) a milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats; formed in the small intestine during digestion of ingested fats | - |
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chylifactive | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactory, chylific |
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chylifactory | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylific |
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chyliferous | (adjective) transmitting chyle | - |
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chylific | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylifactory |
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chyloderma | (noun) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction | Synonyms: elephantiasis scroti |
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chylomicron | (noun) a microscopic particle of triglycerides produced in the intestines during digestion; in the bloodstream they release their fatty acids into the blood | - |
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chylous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylaceous |
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chyme | (noun) a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum | - |
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chymosin | (noun) an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate | Synonyms: rennin |
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