(chiefly Britain, archaic) A woman who buys and sells; a female trader.
chariotway
chariotway
noun
A road for chariots.
charlestown
charlesworth
charlottetown
charlottetown
Proper noun
Provincial capital of Prince Edward Island (Canada).
charmwise
charwoman
charwoman
noun
(chiefly Britain) A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.
charwomen
charwomen
noun
plural of charwoman
chasteweed
chatawa
chatsworth
chatsworth
Proper noun
a civil parish in and around district, Derbyshire, England.
a town near Queensland, Australia.
a township and village in Ontario, Canada.
a township in South Africa.
a settlement in province, South Africa.
a small settlement in provice, Zimbabwe.
a neighbourhood in the San Fernando Valley, California, USA.
a city in Georgia, USA
an incorporated town in Illinois, USA.
a small city in Iowa, USA.
an unincorporated community in New Jersey, USA.
chatwin
chatwood
chatwood
noun
Little sticks; twigs for burning; firewood.
chaw
chaw
noun
(countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.
(obsolete) The jaw.
verb
(UK, slang) To steal.
(archaic or nonstandard outside dialects, e.g. Appalachia, Southern US) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud)
(obsolete, transitive) To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider
chawan
chawan
noun
An East Asian tea bowl, in which tea may be prepared and then consumed.
chawbacon
chawbacon
noun
(archaic) An uncultured rustic person.
chawbone
chawbuck
chawbuck
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To beat with a chabuk.
chawdron
chawdron
noun
(now historical) A sauce made from chopped entrails.
(obsolete) Entrails, intestines (of animals as food)
chawed
chawed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chaw, i.e. nonstandard variant of chewed.
chawer
chawer
noun
One who chaws; a chewer.
chawers
chawers
noun
plural of chawer
chawia
chawing
chawing
verb
present participle of chaw, i.e. nonstandard variant of chewing.
chawk
chawl
chawl
noun
A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
chawle
chawn
chaworth
chaws
chaws
noun
plural of chaw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chaw
chawstick
chawstick
noun
Alternative form of chewstick (“plant”)
checkerwise
checkerwise
adj
Alternative spelling of chequerwise
checkerwork
checkerwork
noun
(figuratively) Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
Work consisting of or showing checkers, varied alternately by colour or material.
checkrow
checkrow
verb
(agriculture) To plant seeds at the intersections of a criss-cross pattern previously marked out on the ground.
checkrowed
checkrowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of checkrow
checkrower
checkrower
noun
(agriculture) A device for checkrowing.
checkrowing
checkrowing
verb
present participle of checkrow
checkrows
checkrows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of checkrow
checkweigher
checkweigher
noun
Alternative form of check weigher
checkweighman
checkweighman
noun
A person, elected by miners, whose task is to check what the mine owner's weighman states has been the amount of coal that has been mined; used especially if the miners' wages are related to production.
checkweighmen
checkweighmen
noun
plural of checkweighman
checkwork
checkwork
noun
Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
checkwriter
checkwriter
noun
A machine that writes on preprinted checks in such a way as to prevent fraudulent alteration of the check.
Nauclea orientalis (Leichhardt tree, yellow cheesewood, Canary cheesewood).
Pittosporum species.
cheewink
cheewink
noun
Alternative form of chewink
chemawinite
chengchow
chenoweth
chequerwise
chequerwise
adj
Arranged in staggered rows, like the squares of a chequerboard.
chequerwork
chequerwork
noun
Alternative form of checkerwork
cheraw
chernow
chestertown
cheswick
cheswick
Proper noun
A village on the northern border of Bristol, England
cheswold
chevronwise
chevronwise
adv
(heraldry) Synonym of chevrony: chevron-like, in the manner of a chevron.
chew
chew
noun
(countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
(informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
(uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
Level of chewiness.
The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
verb
(informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
chewa
chewable
chewable
adj
(finance, of a poison pill) Allowing for a particular type of bid that does not trigger the flip-in.
Capable of being chewed.
Chewy.
noun
A medicine supplied in a form that can be chewed.
Anything that is chewable; anything that is able to be chewed.
chewalla
chewbark
chewed
chewed
adj
That has been chewed; masticated.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chew
chewelah
cheweler
chewer
chewer
noun
One who chews.
chewers
chewers
noun
plural of chewer
chewet
chewet
noun
(obsolete) A chough.
(obsolete) A kind of meat pie.
chewie
chewie
noun
(Australia, informal) Chewing gum.
(informal) A chewable treat or toy intended for a pet.
chewier
chewier
adj
comparative form of chewy: more chewy
chewiest
chewiest
adj
superlative form of chewy: most chewy
chewinesses
chewing
chewing
noun
(drugs) The consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant.
(drugs) The consumption of loose leaf tobacco juice from tobacco plants by chewing leaves near the cheek.
The act by which something is chewed on; mastication.
verb
present participle of chew
chewink
chewink
noun
A bird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, the Eastern towhee.
chewinks
chewinks
noun
plural of chewink
chews
chews
noun
plural of chew
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chew
chewstick
chewstick
noun
A twig with a frayed end, used for cleaning the teeth.
Any of various plants in the genus Gouania used for oral hygiene, especieally Gouania lupuloides, of the Caribbean.
chewsville
chewy
chewy
adj
Having a pliable or springy texture when chewed.
noun
(Australia, informal) Alternative form of chewie (“chewing gum”)
(US, informal) A type of soft and sticky cookie.
chichewa
chickasaw
chickasaws
chickenweed
chickenweed
noun
The plant Euphorbia hypericifolia.
The plant Portulaca quadrifida.
The plant Senecio vulgaris.
chickenwort
chickenwort
noun
common chickweed
chickweed
chickweed
noun
Ageratum conyzoides, chickweed
Cerastium - mouse-ear chickweed
Holosteum - jagged chickweed
Moenchia - upright chickweed
Paronychia - chickweed
Stellaria pro parte - chickweed
especially common chickweed, Stellaria media, a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.
chickweeds
chickweeds
noun
plural of chickweed
chickwit
chiggerweed
chigwell
childcrowing
childward
childwife
childwite
childwold
chilhowee
chilhowie
chilliwack
chimalakwe
chinatown
chinatown
Noun
A district of a city or town (in a country other than China) in which there is a large concentration of Chinese residents and businesses.
chinaware
chinaware
noun
Synonym of china: porcelain tableware.
chinawoman
chinawoman
noun
(obsolete) A female dealer in porcelain.
chindwin
chingpaw
chinhwan
chinwag
chinwag
noun
(Britain, Ireland, informal) An informal conversation, usually about everyday matters; a chat, a gossip.
verb
(British, Ireland, informal) To chat, to gossip.
chinwagging
chinwagging
verb
present participle of chinwag
chinwood
chipewyan
chipewyan
Noun
A member of a Native American tribe of Central Canada, in the regions of Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, and Saskatchewan.
Proper noun
The Northern Athabascan language spoken by this tribe.
chippewa
chippewa
Noun
A member of the Ojibwe people.
Proper noun
The Ojibwe language.
Any of four rivers, one each in Michigan, Minnesota, Ontario, and Wisconsin.
chippewas
chippeway
chippeways
chipwood
chittamwood
chittamwood
noun
A North American tree (Sideroxylon lanuginosum); the wood of this tree
chivw
chiwere
chiwere
Proper noun
A Siouan language originally spoken by the Missouria, Otoe and Iowa peoples.
chlodwig
chmielewski
chocowinity
choctaw
choctaw
Proper noun
An peoples native to the area currently known as in the
The of the Choctaw tribe.
An in
An unincorporated community in Mississippi.
A in that is a of
Adjective
Relating to the Choctaw tribe or its language.
Noun
A person of Choctaw heritage.
choctaws
choirwise
choirwise
adv
in the manner of a choir; antiphonally
chokeweed
chontawood
chorwat
chorwon
chorzow
chow
chow
noun
(Trinidad and Tobago) Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
(chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
(mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
(slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
A Chow Chow.
A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
verb
(mahjong) To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.
(slang, South Africa) To eat.
chowanoc
chowchilla
chowchilla
noun
Orthonyx spaldingii, a passerine bird in the logrunner family Orthonychidae, endemic to Australia.
chowchow
chowchow
adj
Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed.
noun
A Chinese preserve.
An American relish, containing pickled green tomatoes, cabbage, and often other vegetables.
chowchows
chowchows
noun
plural of chowchow
chowder
chowder
noun
A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened.
A thick, creamy soup or stew.
Alternative spelling of jowter
verb
(transitive) To make (seafood, etc.) into chowder.