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  • chancel screen — a screen separating the chancel from the main body of a church
  • chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
  • changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
  • changelessness — The state or quality of being changeless.
  • channel surfer — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • characterising — Present participle of characterise.
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
  • charles sumner — Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
  • charles's wain — Big Dipper
  • chase pointers — (programming)   To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • chemosynthesis — the formation of organic material by certain bacteria using energy derived from simple chemical reactions
  • chemosynthetic — That utilizes chemosynthesis.
  • chest expander — a device for strengthening the chest muscles, consisting of two handles attached to strong springs or elastic cords that the user pulls apart across the chest
  • chest-on-chest — a chest of drawers fitted onto another, somewhat larger one
  • chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • chicken switch — a device by which an astronaut may eject the capsule in which he or she rides in the event that a rocket malfunctions.
  • children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
  • chiltern hills — a range of low chalk hills in SE England extending northwards from the Thames valley. Highest point: 260 m (852 ft)
  • chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
  • china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
  • chinese banana — a large southern Chinese plant, Musa acuminata, of the banana family, having blue-green leaves, yellowish-white flowers with reddish-brown bracts, and fragrant, edible, curved fruit from 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 cm) long, often borne in clusters of 200.
  • chinese empire — China as ruled by the emperors until the establishment of the republic in 1911–12
  • chinese houses — a plant, Collinsia heterophylla, of the figwort family, native to California, having clusters of double-lipped purple and white flowers.
  • chinese leaves — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
  • chinese puzzle — an intricate puzzle, esp one consisting of boxes within boxes
  • chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
  • cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
  • cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
  • chondrogenesis — the growth of cartilage
  • christian name — Some people refer to their first names as their Christian names.
  • christian year — a year in the ecclesiastical calendar, used especially in reference to the various feast days and special seasons.
  • christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
  • christocentric — having as the theological focal point the teachings and practices of Jesus Christ.
  • chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
  • chronosequence — (geology) A sequence of different soils formed at different times.
  • chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
  • cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
  • cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
  • cinnamon stone — essonite
  • circuitousness — The state of being circuitous.
  • circumbendibus — a circumlocution
  • circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
  • circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
  • cis-trans test — a test to define the unit of genetic function, based on whether two mutations of the same character occur in a single chromosome (the cis position) or in different cistrons in each chromosome of a homologous pair (the trans position)
  • cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
  • cislunar space — the region beyond the earth's atmosphere occurring between the earth and moon
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