cesspool
An underground pit where sewage is held.
A filthy place.

cesspools
plural of cesspool

chabootra
Alternative form of chabutra.

chabootras
plural of chabootra

chabutra
A paved terrace attached to a house or garden.

chabutras
plural of chabutra

chadarim
plural of cheder

chadorim
plural of cheder

chaharbagh
A traditional square-shaped layout of Persian gardens comprising four square gardens separated by waterways, together representing the four gardens and four rivers of Paradise

chaharbaghs
plural of chaharbagh

chainworks
A factory where chains are made.

chaitya
A Buddhist or Jain shrine including a stupa.

chaityas
plural of chaitya

chalkface
A cliff or quarry exposing chalk, e.g. the White Cliffs of Dover
The environment where teaching is carried out, specifically a school.

chalkfaces
plural of chalkface

chalkland
Land in which the underlying geology is chalk.

chalklands
plural of chalkland

chalkpit
A quarry where chalk is extracted.

chalkpits
plural of chalkpit

chamberlet
A little chamber.

chamberlets
plural of chamberlet

chambermaid
A maid who handles the chores in a hotel room or (chiefly historically) a bedroom in a wealthy household.
A chamberer.

chambermaids
plural of chambermaid

chamberwoman
Synonym of chambermaid.

chamberwomen
plural of chamberwoman

chamsin
Alternative form of khamsin.

chamsins
plural of chamsin

chanate
a kind of bird
a kind of bird
a kind of bird
black person
coffee

chanates
plural of chanate

chandries
plural of chandry

chandry
A chandlery (candle-store).

changeroom
changing room, locker-room

changerooms
plural of changeroom

changie
A changing room.

changies
Synonym of changie (“a diaper change”).

channelisation
Alternative spelling of channelization.

channelisations
plural of channelisation

channelization
The straightening and widening of a stream or river.
The division of a wide-band communications channel into multiple narrow-band channels.

channelizations
plural of channelization

channelway
A channel in a rock or glacier.

channelways
plural of channelway

chanop
An IRC channel operator.

chanops
plural of chanop

chaoni
An Anglo-Indian cantonment.

chaos
The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
A vast chasm or abyss.
A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.

chaoses
plural of chaos

chapellanies
plural of chapellany

chapellany
A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.

chapelman
A clergyman; an official from a chapel.

chapelmen
plural of chapelman

chapelries
plural of chapelry

chapelry
The district attached to a chapel; a division of a large parish which has its own district chapel.

chapelwarden
The warden of a chapel.

chapelwardens
plural of chapelwarden

chappars
plural of chappar

chapulin
A grasshopper toasted on a comal eaten in Mexico, mainly in Oaxaca State.

charbagh
Alternative form of chaharbagh.

charbaghs
plural of charbagh

chargemaster
A comprehensive list maintained by a hospital of prices of goods and services it will bill to its patients and their respective health insurers.

chargemasters
plural of chargemaster

chargeship
The position or office of a chargé d'affaires.

chariotway
A road for chariots.

chariotways
plural of chariotway

charmel
A fruitful field.

chartermaster
A contractor for working a pit or part of a pit.

chartermasters
plural of chartermaster

chatbox
A chat room.
A tagboard.

chatboxes
plural of chatbox

chatelaine
The mistress of a castle or large household.
A chain or clasp worn at the waist by women with handkerchief, keys, etc., attached, supposed to resemble the chain of keys once worn by medieval chatelaines.
A similar thing in miniature attached to a watchchain.

chatelaines
plural of chatelaine

chatelet
A little castle.

chatelets
plural of chatelet

chatspace
A chat room or similar online space in which users can exchange messages.

chatspaces
plural of chatspace

chausingha
Alternative form of chousingha.

chausinghas
plural of chausingha

chawat
A traditional loincloth of the Malay region.

chawats
plural of chawat

chawl
A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.

chawls
plural of chawl

chazzan
Alternative form of hazzan.

chazzanim
plural of chazzan

chazzans
plural of chazzan

chazzen
Alternative form of hazzan.

chazzenim
plural of chazzen

chazzens
plural of chazzen

cheaperies
plural of cheapery.

cheapery
Cheap, worthless things; that which is trashy.

cheapstead
A marketplace.

cheapsteads
plural of cheapstead

checkbox
A space on a paper form that can be optionally filled with a check mark.
An on-screen box that can be optionally filled with a check mark, to enable or disable a setting.

checkboxes
plural of checkbox

checkpoint
A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection.
A situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be returned in the event of a crisis by using a combination of backups and logs; the data stored at this event.
A predetermined point in a map, level or scenario that the player may resume from if they die or restart.
A biological control mechanism ensuring correct progression through the cell cycle.

checkpointed
simple past and past participle of checkpoint

checkpoints
plural of checkpoint

checkroll
A list of servants in a household, or slaves on a plantation.
a list of labourers

checkrolls
plural of checkroll

chedarim
plural of cheder

cheder
An elementary school for Jewish children, teaching basic Judaism and Hebrew.

chederim
plural of cheder

cheders
plural of cheder

chedipe
A witch-vampire in the folklore of the Koya people, most of whom live near the Godavari River in Andhra Pradesh, India.

chedipes
plural of chedipe

cheesiness
The quality, condition, or state of being cheesy.

chelicera
Either of the prehensile claws found on the proboscis of chelicerates (horseshoe crabs, sea spiders and arachnids).

chelicerae
plural of chelicera

chelifore
The first appendage of a pair on the head of a sea spider.

chelifores
plural of chelifore

cheloniid
Any sea turtle in the family Cheloniidae.

cheloniids
plural of cheloniid

chelonioid
Any sea turtle of the superfamily Chelonioidea

chelonioids
plural of chelonioid

chemocline
The boundary layer between the mixolimnion and monimolimnion in a meromictic lake (one with permanently stratified layers).

chemoclines
plural of chemocline

chemodectoma
A paraganglioma.

chemodectomas
plural of chemodectoma

chemodectomata
plural of chemodectoma

chengguan
An officer of a City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau in China.

chengguans
plural of chengguan

cheonse
Alternative form of jeonse.

chergui
Alternative form of sharqi.

cheroot
A cigar with square-cut ends.

cheroots
plural of cheroot

chersonese
A peninsula.

chersoneses
plural of chersonese

chersonesi
plural of chersonesus

chersonesus
Alternative form of chersonese.

chersonesuses
plural of chersonesus

cherute
Archaic form of cheroot.

cherutes
plural of cherute

chessboard
The square board used in the game of chess, subdivided into eight rows of eight squares each, the squares in each row and column being of alternating colours.
A mathematical construction based on this pattern of squares

chessboards
plural of chessboard

chettangi
A bamboo shade structure used during village festivals, typically to house sacred items or provide shelter in Andhra Pradesh.

chevache
Archaic form of chevauchee.

chevachie
Archaic form of chevauchee.