chabasite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and aluminum | Synonyms: chabazite |
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chabazite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and aluminum | Synonyms: chabasite |
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chachalaca | (noun) slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds | - |
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chachka | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: tchotchke, tsatske, tshatshke |
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(noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske, tshatshke |
chacma | (noun) greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa | Synonyms: chacma baboon, Papio ursinus |
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chad | (noun) a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape | - |
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chadar | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chaddar, chador, chuddar |
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chaddar | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chadar, chador, chuddar |
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chadlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, charlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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chador | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chadar, chaddar, chuddar |
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chaenactis | (noun) any of several United States plants having long stalks of funnel-shaped white or yellow flowers | - |
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chaeta | (noun) a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm | - |
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chaetal | (adjective) of or relating to chaetae (setae or bristles) | - |
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chaetodon | (noun) any fish of the genus Chaetodon | - |
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chaetognath | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: arrowworm |
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chaetognathan | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathous |
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chaetognathous | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathan |
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chafe | (noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: annoyance, vexation |
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(noun) soreness and warmth caused by friction | - |
(verb) warm by rubbing, as with the hands | - |
(verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: excoriate |
(verb) cause friction | Synonyms: fray, fret, rub, scratch |
(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
(verb) feel extreme irritation or anger | - |
(verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: fret, gall |
chafed | (adjective) painful from having the skin abraded | Synonyms: galled |
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chafeweed | (noun) weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike | Synonyms: Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed |
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chaff | (noun) foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure | - |
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(noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble |
(verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, jolly, josh, kid |
chaffer | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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(verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster |
chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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chafflike | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chaffy |
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chaffweed | (noun) weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves | Synonyms: bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel |
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chaffy | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chafflike |
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(adjective) value | - |
chafing | (noun) soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction | - |
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chagrin | (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: humiliation, mortification |
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(verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, humble, humiliate, mortify |
chagrined | (adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: abashed, embarrassed |
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chain | (noun) a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament | - |
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(noun) a necklace made by stringing objects together | Synonyms: strand, string |
(noun) anything that acts as a restraint | - |
(noun) a linked or connected series of objects | - |
(noun) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together | Synonyms: concatenation |
(noun) (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership | - |
(noun) (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) | Synonyms: chemical chain |
(noun) a series of hills or mountains | Synonyms: chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range, range of mountains |
(noun) a unit of length | - |
(verb) fasten or secure with chains | - |
(verb) connect or arrange into a chain by linking | - |
chained | (adjective) bound with chains | Synonyms: enchained, in chains |
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chainlike | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: catenulate |
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chains | (noun) metal shackles; for hands or legs | Synonyms: irons |
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chainsaw | (noun) portable power saw; teeth linked to form an endless chain | Synonyms: chain saw |
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chair | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: professorship |
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(noun) a seat for one person, with a support for the back | - |
(noun) an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person | Synonyms: death chair, electric chair, hot seat |
(noun) a particular seat in an orchestra | - |
(noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chairperson, president |
(verb) preside over | Synonyms: lead, moderate |
(verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chairman |
chairlift | (noun) a ski lift on which riders (skiers or sightseers) are seated and carried up or down a mountainside; seats are hung from an endless overhead cable | Synonyms: chair lift |
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chairman | (noun) the male officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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(verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chair |
chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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chairperson | (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, president |
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chairwoman | (noun) the female officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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chaise | (noun) a carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: shay |
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(noun) a long chair; for reclining | Synonyms: chaise longue, daybed |
chaja | (noun) largest crested screamer; native to southern Brazil and Argentina | Synonyms: Chauna torquata |
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chalaza | (noun) one of two spiral bands of tissue connecting the egg yolk to the enclosing membrane at either end of the shell | - |
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(noun) basal part of a plant ovule opposite the micropyle; where integument and nucellus are joined | - |
chalazion | (noun) a small sebaceous cyst of the eyelid resulting when a Meibomian gland is blocked | Synonyms: Meibomian cyst |
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chalcanthite | (noun) hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulfate | Synonyms: blue copperas, blue stone, blue vitriol |
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chalcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: calcedony |
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chalcid | (noun) any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects | Synonyms: chalcid fly, chalcid wasp, chalcidfly |
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chalcidfly | (noun) any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects | Synonyms: chalcid, chalcid fly, chalcid wasp |
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chalcocite | (noun) a heavy grey mineral that is an ore of copper | Synonyms: copper glance |
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chalcopyrite | (noun) a yellow copper ore (CuFeS2) made up of copper and iron sulfide | Synonyms: copper pyrites |
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chaldron | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 36 bushels | - |
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chalet | (noun) a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style | - |
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chalice | (noun) a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup | Synonyms: goblet |
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chalk | (noun) a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces | - |
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(noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
(noun) a pure flat white with little reflectance | - |
(noun) a soft whitish calcite | - |
(verb) write, draw, or trace with chalk | - |
chalkboard | (noun) sheet of slate; for writing with chalk | Synonyms: blackboard |
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chalkpit | (noun) a quarry for chalk | Synonyms: chalk pit |
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chalkstone | (noun) a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout | Synonyms: tophus |
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chalky | (adjective) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk | Synonyms: calcareous |
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(adjective) of something having the color of chalk | - |
challah | (noun) (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking | Synonyms: hallah |
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challenge | (noun) a call to engage in a contest or fight | - |
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(noun) questioning a statement and demanding an explanation | - |
(noun) a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror | - |
(noun) a demand by a sentry for a password or identification | - |
(noun) a demanding or stimulating situation | - |
(verb) issue a challenge to | - |
(verb) take exception to | Synonyms: dispute, gainsay |
(verb) raise a formal objection in a court of law | Synonyms: take exception |
(verb) ask for identification | - |
challengeable | (adjective) capable of being challenged | - |
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challenger | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: competition, competitor, contender, rival |
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challenging | (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: ambitious |
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(adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: intriguing |
(adjective) stimulating interest or thought | Synonyms: thought-provoking |
challis | (noun) a soft lightweight fabric (usually printed) | - |
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chalybeate | (adjective) containing or impregnated with or tasting of iron | - |
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chalybite | (noun) iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate | Synonyms: siderite |
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chamaeleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chameleon |
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chamarre | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chimer, simarre |
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chamber | (noun) a natural or artificial enclosed space | - |
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(noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
(noun) a room where a judge transacts business | - |
(noun) an enclosed volume in the body | - |
(noun) a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly | - |
(verb) place in a chamber | - |
chambered | (adjective) having compartmental chambers | - |
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chamberlain | (noun) the treasurer of a municipal corporation | - |
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(noun) an officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman | - |
chambermaid | (noun) a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) | Synonyms: fille de chambre |
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chamberpot | (noun) a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom | Synonyms: potty, thunder mug |
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chambray | (noun) a lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp | - |
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chameleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chamaeleon |
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(noun) a changeable or inconstant person | - |
chamfer | (noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | Synonyms: bevel, cant |
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(verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chase, furrow |
(verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: bevel |
chamfron | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chanfron, front-stall, frontstall, testiere |
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chammy | (noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy leather, chamois, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leather |
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chamois | (noun) hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips | Synonyms: Rupicapra rupicapra |
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(noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy, chammy leather, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leather |
chamomile | (noun) Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis | Synonyms: Anthemis nobilis, camomile, Chamaemelum nobilis |
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chamosite | (noun) a greenish grey or black silicate of iron and aluminum | - |
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champ | (noun) someone who has won first place in a competition | Synonyms: champion, title-holder |
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(verb) chew noisily or vigorously | Synonyms: chomp |
(verb) chafe at the bit, like horses | - |
champagne | (noun) a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there | Synonyms: bubbly |
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champaign | (noun) extensive tract of level open land | Synonyms: field, plain |
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champerty | (noun) an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded | - |
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champion | (adjective) holding first place in a contest | Synonyms: prizewinning |
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(noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: fighter, hero, paladin |
(noun) someone who has won first place in a competition | Synonyms: champ, title-holder |
(noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, friend, protagonist, supporter |
(noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
(verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: defend |
championship | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backing, backup, patronage |
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(noun) a competition at which a champion is chosen | - |
(noun) the status of being a champion | Synonyms: title |
champleve | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: cloisonne |
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chanal | (noun) thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries | Synonyms: chanar, Geoffroea decorticans |
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chanar | (noun) thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries | Synonyms: chanal, Geoffroea decorticans |
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chance | (adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: casual |
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(noun) a risk involving danger | - |
(noun) a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible | Synonyms: probability |
(noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: fortune, hazard, luck |
(noun) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances | Synonyms: opportunity |
(noun) the possibility of future success | Synonyms: prospect |
(verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, encounter, find, happen |
(verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
(verb) be the case by chance | - |
chanceful | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chancy, dicey, dodgy |
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chancel | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: bema, sanctuary |
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chancellery | (noun) a government building housing the office of a chancellor | - |
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chancellor | (noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: premier, prime minister |
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(noun) the honorary or titular head of a university | - |
chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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chancery | (noun) an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records | - |
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(noun) a court with jurisdiction in equity | Synonyms: court of chancery |
chancre | (noun) a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis) | - |
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chancroid | (noun) infectious venereal ulcer | - |
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chancroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having chancroids | - |
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