chesterfield
A couch, sofa, or love seat with padded arms and back of the same height, often curved outward at the top.
Any couch or sofa.

chesterfields
plural of chesterfield

chibigouazou
A kind of ocelot, described secondhand in 1827 as subspecies Felis pardalis chibigouazou, probably either of subspecies Leopardus pardalis mitis or Leopardus pardalis pseudopardalis.

chickenpox
Alternative form of chicken pox.

chickenpoxes
plural of chickenpox

chiclet
A button allowing the user to subscribe to an RSS feed.

chiclets
plural of chiclet

chiffarobe
Alternative form of chifforobe.

chiffarobes
plural of chiffarobe

chifferobe
Alternative spelling of chifforobe.

chifferobes
plural of chifferobe

chifforobe
A piece of furniture consisting of a wardrobe combined with a chest of drawers.

chifforobes
plural of chifforobe

chiflik
A kind of hereditary landholding in the Ottoman Empire.

chifliks
plural of chiflik

chifteteli
Alternative form of tsifteteli.

chiftlik
Alternative form of chiflik.

chiftliks
plural of chiftlik

chiliogramme
Obsolete spelling of kilogram.

chiliogrammes
plural of chiliogramme

chilogramme
Obsolete form of kilogram.

chilogrammes
plural of chilogramme

choanoskeletons
plural of choanoskeleton

chupacabra
Synonym of chupacabras.

chupacabras
A legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas dating from the 1990s, supposed to attack and drink the blood of livestock, especially goats.

cinguli
plural of cingulum

circumcision
The surgical excision of the foreskin and usually all or most of the penile frenulum.
The surgical excision of the foreskin and usually all or most of the penile frenulum.
The surgical excision of the foreskin and usually all or most of the penile frenulum.
The surgical excision of the clitoral hood of the clitoris; female circumcision.
The surgical excision of the clitoris; clitoridectomy.

circumcisions
plural of circumcision

circumnaphthalene
One of the two products that is yielded from circumscribing naphthalene and pyrene, the other being circumpyrene.

circumpyrene
One of the two products that is yielded from circumscribing naphthalene and pyrene, the other being circumnaphthalene.

circumscriber
One who, or that which, circumscribes.

circumscribers
plural of circumscriber

circumsphere
A sphere that is circumscribed about a polyhedron and touches each of its vertices

circumspheres
plural of circumsphere

ciswoman
Alternative spelling of cis woman.

ciswomen
plural of ciswoman

citrination
The transformation involving the adoption of a lemon yellow hue, characteristic of the philosopher’s stone as described in alchemical tradition.

citrinations
plural of citrination

clepht
Alternative form of klepht.

clephts
plural of clepht

cms
plural of cm; centimeters

coenaesthesis
Alternative form of coenesthesis.

coenesthesis
Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, such as the eye and ear; general perception of one's own body.

colarinos
plural of colarino

collapsium
A fictional material usually described as having an extremely high density.

collarinos
plural of collarino

collocation
The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
Such a specific grouping.
A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.
A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation L[y]=0 by determining coefficients in an expansion y(x)=y_0(x)+∑ₗ₌₀^qαₗy_l(x) so as to make L[y] vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.
A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.

collocations
plural of collocation

colocation
Alternative spelling of collocation.

colocations
plural of colocation

coluli
plural of colulus

colulus
A vestigial organ between the spinnerets in some spiders lacking a cribellum.

commie
A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.
Synonym of anticapitalist.

commieblock
Alternative spelling of commie block.

commieblocks
plural of commieblock

commo
Clipping of communication.

commode
A low chest of drawers on short legs.
A stand for a washbowl and jug.
A chair containing a chamber pot.
A toilet.
A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.

commodes
plural of commode

commos
plural of commo

commy
Alternative form of commie.

complementiser
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of complementizer.

complementisers
plural of complementiser

complementizer
A subordinating conjunction that can convert a clause into a complement clause, i.e. one that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.

complementizers
plural of complementizer

compositries
plural of compositry

compositry
The use, especially in law enforcement, of ready-made images of portions of an object to compose a picture of the entire object, such as the face of a person described by eyewitnesses.

compressability
Alternative form of compressibility.

compurgatrix
Female compurgator.

condop
A condominium with at least one unit being controlled by a residential/housing co-op board.
A co-op that behaves like a condominium.

condops
plural of condop

confidante
A female confidant.
A type of settee having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.
Nonstandard spelling of confidant (male).

confidantes
plural of confidante

confidente
A particular kind of 18th-century sofa.
Misspelling of confidante.

confidentes
plural of confidente

consecutive
Following, in succession, without interruption.
Having some logical sequence.

consecutives
plural of consecutive

conspiracies
plural of conspiracy

conspiracy
An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion.
An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
A secret agreement to do something.
An agreement to work together to bring something about; an act or instance of conspiring.
A group of ravens.
A group of lemurs.
A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.
A conspiracy theory; a hypothesis alleging conspiracy.

conspirancy
Misspelling of conspiracy.

constitution
The act, or process of setting something up, or establishing something; the composition or structure of such a thing; its makeup.
The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions.
A legal document describing such a formal system.
A document issued by a religious authority serving to promulgate some particular church laws or doctrines.
A person's physical makeup or temperament, especially in respect of robustness.
The general health of a person.

constitutions
plural of constitution

contouche
Synonym of robe volante.

convarieties
plural of convariety

convariety
A nomenclatural subgroup of a subspecies above a variety, employed for cultivated plants (but proscribed by the ICNCP, preferring the term cultivar group)

copies
plural of copy

coppie
Obsolete form of copy.

coppy
Like or resembling a cop (police officer).