| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| chiasm | noun | Alt. of Chiasma |
| chicha | noun | See Chica. |
| chicky | noun | A chicken; — used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls. |
| chider | noun | One who chides or quarrels. |
| chieve | verb i. | See Cheve, v. i. |
| chiffo | noun | Alt. of niere |
| chigoe | noun | Alt. of Chigre |
| chigre | noun | A species of flea (Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger. |
| childe | noun | A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland. |
| chilli | noun | See Chili. |
| chilly | adjective | Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering. |
| chimed | imp. & past participle | of Chime |
| chimer | noun | One who chimes. |
| chinch | noun | The bedbug (Cimex lectularius)., A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; — also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor. |
| chined | imp. & past participle | of Chine, Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; — used in composition., Broken in the back. |
| chinky | adjective | Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. |
| chinse | verb t. & i. | To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly. |
| chintz | noun | Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed. |
| chippy | adjective | Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless., A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; — also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note. |
| chirre | verb i. | To coo, as a pigeon. |
| chisel | noun | A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; — usually driven by a mallet or hammer., To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue., To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat. |
| chitin | noun | A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin. |
| chiton | noun | An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt., One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora. |
| chitty | adjective | Full of chits or sprouts., Childish; like a babe. |