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  • changeroom — a room for use in changing one's clothes.
  • channel op — (messaging)   /chan'l op/ (Or "op", "chan op", "chop") Someone who is endowed with privileges on a particular IRC channel. These privileges include the right to kick users, to change various status bits and to make others into CHOPs. The full form, "channel operator", is almost never used.
  • chaparejos — chaps1
  • chaperoned — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
  • chaperones — Plural form of chaperone.
  • chaperonin — A protein that aids the assembly and folding of other protein molecules in living cells.
  • chardonnet — (Louis Marie) Hilaire Bernigaud (ilɛr bɛrniɡo), Comte de. 1839–1924, French chemist and industrialist who produced rayon, the first artificial fibre
  • charge off — to treat or regard as a loss
  • charge-off — a write-off, especially of a bad loan by a bank.
  • chargeoffs — Plural form of chargeoff.
  • charioteer — In ancient times, a charioteer was a chariot driver.
  • charleston — The Charleston is a lively dance that was popular in the 1920s.
  • charlottes — Plural form of charlotte.
  • charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
  • charthouse — the compartment on a ship or boat where charts are kept
  • chase down — If you chase someone down, you run after them or follow them quickly and catch them.
  • chatterbot — chatbot
  • chatterbox — A chatterbox is someone who talks a lot.
  • chatterton — Thomas. 1752–70, British poet; author of spurious medieval verse and prose: he committed suicide at the age of 17
  • cheap shot — A cheap shot is a comment someone makes which you think is unfair or unkind.
  • cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
  • chekhovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Anton Chekhov or his writings, especially as they are evocative of a mood of introspection and frustration.
  • chelonians — Plural form of chelonian.
  • chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
  • chemostats — Plural form of chemostat.
  • chemotaxis — the movement of a microorganism or cell in response to a chemical stimulus
  • cheongsams — Plural form of cheongsam.
  • chessboard — A chessboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing chess.
  • chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
  • chiffarobe — Alternative form of chifforobe.
  • chiffonade — finely shredded leaf vegetables used as a base for a dish or as a garnish
  • china rose — a rosaceous shrub, Rosa chinensis (or R. indica), with red, pink, or white fragrant flowers: the ancestor of many cultivated roses
  • chitarrone — a large lute with a double neck in common use during the baroque period, esp in Italy
  • chloralose — an anaesthetic and sedative composed of chloral and glucose, also used as a preparation to kill birds and rodents
  • chloramine — an unstable colourless liquid with a pungent odour, made by the reaction of sodium hypochlorite and ammonia. Formula: NH2Cl
  • chloridate — to expose to or prepare with a chloride
  • chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
  • choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum
  • chocolates — Plural form of chocolate.
  • chocolatey — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
  • choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
  • cholagogue — a drug or other substance that promotes the flow of bile from the gall bladder into the duodenum
  • chopfallen — chapfallen
  • chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
  • chromagens — Plural form of chromagen.
  • chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
  • chromonema — a coiled chromatin thread within a single chromosome
  • chrysocale — a copper alloy containing zinc and lead.
  • chylaceous — of or resembling chyle.
  • chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
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