| 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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| chancrous | (adjective) of or having chancres | - |
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| chancy | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chanceful, dicey, dodgy |
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| (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: flukey, fluky, iffy |
| chandelier | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
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| chandelle | (noun) a flight maneuver consisting of a steep climbing turn executed to gain altitude while changing direction | - |
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| (verb) climb suddenly and steeply | - |
| chandler | (noun) a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints | - |
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| (noun) a retail dealer in provisions and supplies | - |
| chandlery | (noun) a storeroom where candles are kept | - |
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| (noun) candles and other commodities sold by a chandler | - |
| chanfron | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chamfron, front-stall, frontstall, testiere |
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| change | (noun) the action of changing something | - |
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| (noun) a different or fresh set of clothes | - |
| (noun) a thing that is different | - |
| (noun) a difference that is usually pleasant | Synonyms: variety |
| (noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: alteration, modification |
| (noun) the result of alteration or modification | - |
| (noun) coins of small denomination regarded collectively | - |
| (noun) the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due | - |
| (noun) money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency | - |
| (noun) a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event | - |
| (verb) undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature | - |
| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: alter, modify |
| (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: alter, vary |
| (verb) change clothes; put on different clothes | - |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: commute, convert, exchange |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: shift, switch |
| (verb) remove or replace the coverings of | - |
| (verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: deepen |
| (verb) change from one vehicle or transportation line to another | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: exchange, interchange |
| changeability | (noun) the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeableness |
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| changeable | (adjective) such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeful |
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| (adjective) capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: mutable |
| (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: chatoyant, iridescent, shot |
| (adjective) subject to change | Synonyms: uncertain, unsettled |
| changeableness | (noun) the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeability |
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| changed | (adjective) made or become different in nature or form | - |
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| (adjective) made or become different in some respect | - |
| changeful | (adjective) such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeable |
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| changefulness | (noun) the quality of being changeable and variable | Synonyms: inconstancy |
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| changeless | (adjective) not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: immutable |
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| (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: constant, invariant, unvarying |
| (adjective) remaining the same for indefinitely long times | Synonyms: unalterable |
| changelessness | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness |
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| (noun) the property of remaining unchanged | - |
| changeling | (noun) a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy | - |
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| (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard |
| changeover | (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: conversion, transition |
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| 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 |
| changing | (adjective) marked by continuous change or effective action | Synonyms: ever-changing |
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| channel | (noun) a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors | Synonyms: distribution channel |
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| (noun) a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through | - |
| (noun) a television station and its programs | Synonyms: television channel, TV channel |
| (noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: canal, duct, epithelial duct |
| (noun) a path over which electrical signals can pass | Synonyms: transmission channel |
| (noun) (often plural) a means of communication or access | Synonyms: communication channel, line |
| (noun) a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels | - |
| (noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: groove |
| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
| (verb) direct the flow of | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
| channelisation | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelization |
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| channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| channelization | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelisation |
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| channelize | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| channels | (noun) official routes of communication | - |
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| chanoyu | (noun) an ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea | Synonyms: tea ceremony |
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| chant | (noun) a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone | - |
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| (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, intonate, intone |
| (verb) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | Synonyms: intone, tone |
| chantarelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chanterelle |
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| chanted | (adjective) sung or uttered rhythmically in a monotone | - |
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| chanter | (noun) reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played | Synonyms: melody pipe |
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| chanterelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chantarelle |
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| chantey | (noun) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors | Synonyms: chanty, sea chantey, shanty |
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| chanting | (noun) the act of singing in a monotonous tone | Synonyms: intonation |
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| chantlike | (adjective) uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting | Synonyms: intoned, singsong |
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| chantry | (noun) a chapel endowed for singing Masses for the soul of the donor | - |
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| (noun) an endowment for the singing of Masses | - |
| chanty | (noun) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors | Synonyms: chantey, sea chantey, shanty |
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