A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
verb
To eat brunch.
bucher
bursch
bursch
noun
(archaic) A German university student.
charnu
charuk
chauri
cherub
cherub
noun
(biblical) A winged creature attending God, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim; similar to a lamassu in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.
(figuratively) A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent.
An artistic depiction of such a being, typically in the form of a winged child or a child's head with wings but no body.
cherup
cherup
noun
Archaic form of chirrup.
chirau
chiurm
chorus
chorus
noun
(Christianity) A simple, often repetitive, song intended to be sung in a group during informal worship.
(by extension) A group of people in a performance who recite together.
(by extension, chiefly Britain, theater, historical) An actor who reads the prologue and epilogue of a play, and sometimes also acts as a commentator or narrator; also, a portion of a play read by this actor.
(jazz) The improvised solo section in a small group performance.
(often attributively) A feature or setting in electronic music that makes one instrument sound like many.
A group of organ pipes or organ stops intended to be played simultaneously; a compound stop; also, the sound made by such pipes or stops.
A group of people who express a unanimous opinion.
A group of people, animals, or inanimate objects who make sounds together.
A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.
A group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble.
A part of a song which is repeated between verses; a refrain.
A piece of music, especially one in a larger work such as an opera, written to be sung by a choir in parts (for example, by sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses).
A song performed by the singers of such a group.
An instance of singing by a group of people.
The main part of a pop song played after the introduction.
The noise or sound made by such a group.
The opinion expressed by such a group.
verb
(rare) To provide (a song) with a chorus or refrain.
Of animals: to make cries or sounds together.
To echo in unison another person's words.
To express concurrence with (something said by another person); to echo.
To sing (a song), express (a sentiment), or recite or say (words) in chorus.
To sing the chorus or refrain of a song.
To sing, express, or say in, or as if in, unison.
chuhra
chuhra
noun
(India, Pakistan, offensive) Any lower-caste person.
(Pakistan, Christianity, ethnic slur, religious slur, offensive) A Hindu or (especially) a Christian convert from a lower caste.
A member of the Chuhra caste in India
chukar
chukar
noun
A species of partridge native to central Asia (Alectoris chukar).
chukor
chukor
noun
Alternative form of chukar
chumar
chumar
noun
Alternative spelling of chamar
church
church
intj
(slang) Expressing strong agreement.
noun
(countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
(countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
(countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.
(informal) Any religious group.
(obsolete) Assembly.
(uncountable) Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
(uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.
verb
(transitive) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.
(transitive, Christianity, now historical) To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).
churel
churel
noun
In Hindu folklore, the ghost of a low-caste woman who died during childbirth or menstruation.
churls
churls
noun
plural of churl
churly
churly
adj
(archaic) rude; churlish; violent
churns
churns
noun
plural of churn
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of churn
churro
churro
noun
A fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage.
churrs
churrs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of churr
chuser
chuser
noun
Obsolete spelling of chooser.
chuter
crouch
crouch
noun
(obsolete) A cross.
A bent or stooped position.
verb
(intransitive) To bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear.
(intransitive) To bend servilely; to bow in reverence or humility.
(obsolete) To sign with the cross; bless.
crouth
cruche
crunch
crunch
noun
(chiefly US) The symbol #.
(cooking, generally in the plural) A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
(exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
(slang) A shortage.
(software engineering, slang) The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
A critical moment or event.
A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
A problem that leads to a crisis.
verb
(automotive, transitive) To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
(computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
(slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
(software engineering, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
To grind or press with violence and noise.
crutch
crutch
noun
(heraldry) A type of cross formed from two C-shapes joined back to back.
(nautical) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.
(nautical) A knee, or piece of knee timber.
A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
Something that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
verb
(intransitive) To move on crutches.
(transitive) To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag.
(transitive) To support on crutches; to prop up.
(transitive, in soap-making) to stir with a crutch.
curagh
curchy
curchy
noun
(later dialectal) Obsolete form of curtsey.
curhan
duarch
euchre
euchre
noun
(card games) A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
verb
To deceive or outwit.
grouch
grouch
noun
A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
One who is grumpy or irritable.
verb
(intransitive) To be grumpy or irritable; to complain.
grunch
grutch
grutch
verb
(intransitive) To murmur, complain.
(obsolete) To grudge.
hircus
horcus
krutch
kursch
murchy
nochur
rausch
rochus
rouche
rouche
noun
Alternative form of ruche
ruched
ruched
adj
(of cloth) with tight elastic folds
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ruche
ruches
ruches
noun
plural of ruche
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ruche
rudich
ruzich
schnur
schurz
scrush
trucha
trunch
trunch
noun
(obsolete) A stake; a small post.
ulrich
unarch
unarch
noun
The head of a phalanx or phalanstery.
unrich
unrich
adj
Not rich.
uparch
uparch
verb
(geology, transitive) To cause to arch upward.
urchin
urchin
noun
(historical) A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
(obsolete) A hedgehog.
(obsolete) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
A mischievous child.
A sea urchin.
A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.