Skip to content A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z chawat A traditional loincloth of the Malay region. chawbacon An uncultured rustic person. chawbone Jawbone (maxillary bone). chawbuck To beat with a chabuk. chawdron The entrails of an animal, especially when used as a food ingredient; offal. chawer One who chaws; a chewer. chawkie A young silkworm that has not yet reached its second moult stage. chawl A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people. Chawla A surname from Punjabi. Chawmos The most important Kalash festival, celebrated for two weeks at the winter solstice. chawn A gap, rift, or fissure. Chawner A surname. Chawston A hamlet in Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden parish, Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL152562). Chawton A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England, south-west of Alton (OS grid ref SU7037). chaxapeptin A lasso peptide present in an extremotolerant strain of Streptomyces chaxian Synonym of tea whisk chay A chaise (horse-drawn carriage). chaya A teahouse in Japan. Chayahuita An endangered Amazonian language spoken by the native Chayahuita people in the Amazon basin of north-central Peru. chayav responsible, culpable, obligated, typically in either the fulfillment of a mitzvah or in receiving punishment from a beit din Chayce A male given name, variant of Chase. Chayes A surname. chayesite A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal dark blue mineral containing iron, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, and silicon. Chayka A surname. Chayma An extinct language of the Tamanaco group. chayote Sicyos edulis, a tropical American perennial herbaceous vine having tendrils, tuberous roots, and a green, pear-shaped fruit cooked as a vegetable. Chaytor A surname originating as an occupation. Chayuco A town in San Agustín Chayuco, Jamiltepec district, Oaxaca, Mexico. Chaz A diminutive of the male given name Charles. Chazal The sages from the time of the Second Temple and afterward, through the sixth century C.E. chazan A surname from Hebrew. Chazen A surname. chazeret A symbolic bitter herb eaten at Passover, typically Romaine lettuce, used in the korech sandwich. Chazkel A surname. chazuke A simple Japanese dish made by pouring green tea, dashi, or hot water over cooked rice. Chazy A town, hamlet, and census-designated place in Clinton County, New York, United States, named after French Lieutenant de Chézy. Chazyan An age forming part of the Ordovician. Chazza A diminutive of the male given name Charles. chazzanut Jewish liturgical music, as performed by a cantor. chazzer A pig. chazzerai Junk; trash; anything worthless. chbG A gene in the bacterium Escherichia coli that codes for a chitooligosaccharide deacetylase. CHDIRAUX Chief Director of Auxiliary, a duty officer in the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary che The letter Ч, ч. Chea A surname from Khmer. Cheadle A surname. Cheah A surname from Hokkien. Cheal A surname Cheale A surname. Cheam A suburban village in the borough of Sutton, Greater London, on the border with Surrey (OS grid ref TQ2463). cheap Low or reduced in price. cheapass Cheap, stingy; unwilling to spend money. cheapdate A certain mutant strain of fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) with heightened sensitivity to ethyl alcohol (ethanol), causing it to lose postural control at lower concentrations of the drug. cheapen To decrease the value or price of; to make cheaper. cheapener One who cheapens. cheapening The process by which something is cheapened (made more affordable or made vulgar). cheapernet The thinnet form of Ethernet. cheapery Cheap, worthless things; that which is trashy. cheapfake A fake or misleading piece of media (such as a video clip or image) created using conventional methods, as opposed to AI deep learning algorithms. cheapflation The practice of decreasing the main ingredient of a product or replacing it altogether with a less costly one but continuing to market it at the same price and size. cheapie Cheap; inferior. cheapies cheap thrills; salacious excitement cheaping Bargaining, haggling. cheapish Somewhat cheap. cheapishly in a cheapish fashion; quite cheaply cheapjack A peddler, a travelling hawker. cheaply In a cheap manner; without expending much money. cheapness The state or character trait of being cheap (stingy). cheapo Inexpensive and of poor quality. cheapoid Of inferior quality. cheapquel A low-budget sequel. cheapshit Cheap; shoddy; of inferior quality. Cheapside A street, and surrounding district, in the City of London; links Newgate Street, Cornhill, Threadneedle Street, Poultry and Lombard Street (and others). cheapskate Someone who stingily avoids spending money. cheapstead A marketplace. cheapster A stingy person; a cheapskate. Cheaster A person who attends religious services only twice a year, at Christmas and Easter. cheat To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation. cheatability The extent to which a pocket is cheatable cheatable Capable of being cheated cheated Having been tricked or deceived. cheatee One who is cheated. cheater Someone who cheats; something that cheats. cheatercock Someone who violates rules in order to gain an advantage; a cheater. cheaters Spectacles that magnify: reading glasses; often, the inexpensive nonprescription kind. cheatery Cheating; fraud. cheatgrass Bromus tectorum, drooping brome, native to Europe, thought to create an ecology prone to annual fires in many US areas Cheatham A surname. cheating An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity. cheatingly in a cheating manner cheatless Without a cheat or cheats. cheatlike Resembling or characteristic of a cheat. cheatline In civil aviation, a decorative horizontal band of color applied to both sides of an aircraft's fuselage of as part of its livery. Cheatum A surname. Cheatwood A surname. cheaty prone to cheating. cheb A boob; a tit; a breast. chebacco A (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries. Chebanse A village in Chebanse Township, Iroquois County and Otto Township, Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. chebec A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher. Cheboksary The capital and largest city of Chuvashia, Russia. Cheboygan A city, the county seat of Cheboygan County, Michigan, United States. Chebsey A village and civil parish in Stafford district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8628). chebulanin A particular topoisomerase inhibitor chebulic Of or relating to Terminalia chebula. chebulinic Relating to chebulinic acid or its derivatives chebureki Deep-fried turnovers filled with ground meat and onions, a national dish of the Crimean Tatars. Chebyshev A surname from Russian. Chece A surname. cheche A piece of clothing used commonly in hot deserts to protect oneself from the sun or sandstorms. Chechehet A subgroup of the Het people who lived as far south as the mouths of the Colorado and Río Negro rivers in southern Buenos Aires Province. Chechen A member of a Nakh people of the northern Caucasus and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya. Chechenization The process of Chechenizing, that is assimilating into Chechen language or culture. Chechenize To render Chechen, to assimilate into Chechen language or culture. Chechenness The quality of being Chechen. Chechens A Nakh people of the northeastern Caucasus, now mostly Sunni Muslim and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya. chechil A brined string cheese popular in Armenia (especially in the Shirak region), Russia, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Chechnya A republic and federal subject of Russia, in the northern Caucasus. Official name: Chechen Republic. Capital: Grozny. Chechnyan Of or relating to Chechnya. check An inspection or examination. checkability Synonym of verifiability. checkable Able to be verified (confirmed). checkage The act of marking with a check mark. checkback A play of a designated card as a prompt to one's partner to respond with a play indicating the kinds of card he/she holds. checkbite An interocclusal record made by placing a plastic material (that subsequently hardens) between the upper and lower teeth checkbox A space on a paper form that can be optionally filled with a check mark. checkdown A short pass to a running back or tight end made due to the primary receivers being covered. checked Marked with a check mark. checkee Someone or something that is checked. Checkendon A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU6683). checker One who or that which checks or verifies something. checkerberry The teaberry, Gaultheria procumbens. checkerbloom Any of the flowering plants in the genus Sidalcea. checkerboard A square board divided into sixty-four equal squares arranged in eight rows and eight columns, with adjacent squares alternating in color, typically black and white, used to play chess, checkers or draughts. checkerboardedness The presence, in a matrix, of a checkerboard pattern checkerboarding Synonym of checkerboard rendering. checkered Divided into a grid of squares of alternating colours or shades, or into light and dark patches. checkerist One who plays the game of checkers. checkermallow Synonym of checkerbloom. checkers A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces. checkerspot Any of a group of butterflies of the subfamily Nymphalinae whose wings bear a checkered, spotted pattern. checkerwork Synonym of checkwork. checkie A ticket inspector. checking The act of physically keeping an opposing player in check. checkitis The state of nervousness and anxiety and loss of self-confidence that a person whose knowledge or performance is being evaluated or observed may sink into, resulting in tunnel vision, false starts and a high likelihood of serious errors. checkless That cannot be checked or restrained. checklessness Absence of checks (financial instruments). Checkley A hamlet in Doddington and District parish, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England, previously in Checkley cum Wrinehill parish (OS grid ref SJ7346). checklist A list of tasks to be completed, names to be consulted, conditions to be verified and similar. checklister A person who creates or uses checklists.