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- chapter ring — a ringlike band on the dial of a clock that bears the numerals or other symbols of the hours.
- chapter room — a room for the use of the chapter of a religious institution
- chapter stop — any of several markers placed at intervals on a DVD film, enabling the viewer to find and select particular scenes
- chapterhouse — the building attached to a cathedral, collegiate church, or religious house in which the chapter meets
- characterful — If you describe something as characterful, you mean that it is pleasant and interesting.
- characteries — Plural form of charactery.
- characterise — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
- characterism — the description of character
- characterize — If something is characterized by a particular feature or quality, that feature or quality is an obvious part of it.
- charcuteries — Plural form of charcuterie.
- charge plate — an identification plate, especially one from which an impression can be taken, issued to a customer and used to make purchases on a credit basis.
- chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
- charterhouse — a Carthusian monastery
- charterparty — an agreement for the hire of all or part of a ship for a specified voyage or period of time
- chateau wine — a wine produced from any of certain vineyards in the Bordeaux region of France
- chattel real — an interest in land less than a freehold, such as a lease
- chatter mark — any of a series of grooves, pits, and scratches on the surface of a rock, usually made by the movement of a glacier
- chatterboxes — Plural form of chatterbox.
- cheese eater — an informer; rat.
- cheese steak — a sandwich of sliced steak topped with melted cheese and fried onions, usually served on a long roll.
- cheesecutter — a board with a wire attached for cutting cheese
- cheesetaster — a small instrument for extracting a piece of cheese from a larger block for the purpose of tasting
- chelicerates — Plural form of chelicerate.
- chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chitterlings — the intestines of a pig or other animal prepared as a dish
- chlorapatite — (mineral) A variety of apatite containing chloride instead of fluoride.
- chlorophytes — Plural form of chlorophyte.
- choirmasters — Plural form of choirmaster.
- chorusmaster — the conductor of a choir
- christenings — Plural form of christening.
- christianite — (mineral) alternative name of phillipsite.
- chrome steel — any of various hard rust-resistant steels containing chromium
- chromocenter — karyosome (def 1).
- chronometers — Plural form of chronometer.
- chronosystem — A pattern of events and transitions over the course of a person's life.
- chrysophytes — Plural form of chrysophyte.
- cinque terre — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- circumcenter — the center of a circumscribed circle; that point where any two perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a polygon inscribed in the circle intersect.
- circumgyrate — to cause (something) to move in a circular motion
- circumlocute — to speak in a circuitous way
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- circumrotate — to turn like a wheel; rotate
- circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumvolute — To roll, curl or twist around.
- citlaltepetl — a volcano in SE Mexico, in central Veracruz state: the highest peak in the country. Height: 5636 m (18 492 ft), though this is disputed between different sources
- civic center — In a city or town, a civic center is a building or buildings that contain local government offices and often recreational or cultural facilities for the public.
- class system — a system in which social status is largely determined by the family into which a person is born