First Names Rhyming CHRISTOPHER
English Words Rhyming CHRISTOPHER
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CHRĘSTOPHER AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHRĘSTOPHER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 10 Letters (hristopher) - English Words That Ends with hristopher:
Rhyming Words According to Last 9 Letters (ristopher) - English Words That Ends with ristopher:
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (istopher) - English Words That Ends with istopher:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (stopher) - English Words That Ends with stopher:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (topher) - English Words That Ends with topher:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (opher) - English Words That Ends with opher:
| chronopher | noun (n.) An instrument signaling the correct time to distant points by electricity. |
| gopher | noun (n.) One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan. |
| | noun (n.) One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile. |
| | noun (n.) A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows. |
| | noun (n.) A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States. |
| philosopher | noun (n.) One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy. |
| | noun (n.) One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice in the conduct of life; one who lives according to the rules of practical wisdom; one who meets or regards all vicissitudes with calmness. |
| | noun (n.) An alchemist. |
| psilosopher | noun (n.) A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher. |
| theosopher | noun (n.) A theosophist. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (pher) - English Words That Ends with pher:
| aerographer | noun (n.) One versed in aeography: an aerologist. |
| autobiographer | noun (n.) One who writers his own life or biography. |
| bibliographer | noun (n.) One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography. |
| biographer | noun (n.) One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch. |
| brachygrapher | noun (n.) A writer in short hand; a stenographer. |
| calcographer | noun (n.) One who practices calcography. |
| calendographer | noun (n.) One who makes calendars. |
| calligrapher | noun (n.) One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman. |
| cartographer | noun (n.) One who makes charts or maps. |
| chalcographer | noun (n.) Alt. of Chalcographist |
| chartographer | noun (n.) Alt. of Chartography |
| chirographer | noun (n.) One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing. |
| | noun (n.) See chirographist, 2. |
| chorographer | noun (n.) One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. |
| | noun (n.) A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places. |
| chromolithographer | noun (n.) One who is engaged in chromolithography. |
| chronographer | noun (n.) One who writes a chronography; a chronologer. |
| cipher | noun (n.) A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. |
| | noun (n.) One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. |
| | noun (n.) A character in general, as a figure or letter. |
| | noun (n.) A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W. |
| | noun (n.) A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters. |
| | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence. |
| | verb (v. i.) To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic. |
| | verb (v. t.) To write in occult characters. |
| | verb (v. t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer. |
| | verb (v. t.) To decipher. |
| | verb (v. t.) To designate by characters. |
| cometographer | noun (n.) One who describes or writes about comets. |
| cosmographer | noun (n.) One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth. |
| cryptographer | noun (n.) One who writes in cipher, or secret characters. |
| crystallographer | noun (n.) One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography. |
| cypher | noun (n. & v.) See Cipher. |
| cinematographer | noun (n.) One who exhibits moving pictures or who takes chronophotographs by the cinematograph. |
| demonographer | noun (n.) A demonologist. |
| elegiographer | noun (n.) An elegist. |
| epitapher | noun (n.) A writer of epitaphs. |
| ethnographer | noun (n.) One who investigates ethnography. |
| geographer | noun (n.) One versed in geography. |
| glossographer | noun (n.) A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. |
| hagiographer | noun (n.) One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. |
| haliographer | noun (n.) One who writes about or describes the sea. |
| heresiographer | noun (n.) One who writes on heresies. |
| histographer | noun (n.) One who describes organic tissues; an histologist. |
| historiographer | noun (n.) An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction. |
| horologiographer | noun (n.) A maker of clocks, watches, or dials. |
| hydrographer | noun (n.) One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters. |
| hymnographer | noun (n.) One who writes on the subject of hymns. |
| | noun (n.) A writer or composed of hymns. |
| iconographer | noun (n.) A maker of images. |
| lexicographer | noun (n.) The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary. |
| lithoglypher | noun (n.) One who curs or engraves precious stones. |
| lithographer | noun (n.) One who lithographs; one who practices lithography. |
| logographer | noun (n.) A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences. |
| | noun (n.) One skilled in logography. |
| mimographer | noun (n.) A writer of mimes. |
| monographer | noun (n.) A writer of a monograph. |
| mythographer | noun (n.) A composer of fables. |
| orthographer | noun (n.) One versed in orthography; one who spells words correctly. |
| osteographer | noun (n.) An osteologist. |
| palaeographer | adjective (a.) Alt. of Palaeographic |
| paleographer | noun (n.) One skilled in paleography; a paleographist. |
| paragrapher | noun (n.) A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist. |
| paramiographer | noun (n.) A collector or writer of proverbs. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (her) - English Words That Ends with her:
| abolisher | noun (n.) One who abolishes. |
| accomplisher | noun (n.) One who accomplishes. |
| admonisher | noun (n.) One who admonishes. |
| aether | noun (n.) See Ether. |
| ambusher | noun (n.) One lying in ambush. |
| another | adjective (pron. & a.) One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. |
| | adjective (pron. & a.) Not the same; different. |
| | adjective (pron. & a.) Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else. |
| anther | noun (n.) That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. |
| antiburgher | noun (n.) One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath. |
| appeacher | noun (n.) An accuser. |
| approacher | noun (n.) One who approaches. |
| archer | noun (n.) A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow. |
| avoucher | noun (n.) One who avouches. |
| banisher | noun (n.) One who banishes. |
| bather | noun (n.) One who bathes. |
| beaucatcher | noun (n.) A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. |
| belcher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, belches. |
| bellwether | noun (n.) A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck. |
| | noun (n.) Hence: A leader. |
| bencher | noun (n.) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court. |
| | noun (n.) An alderman of a corporation. |
| | noun (n.) A member of a court or council. |
| | noun (n.) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler. |
| beseecher | noun (n.) One who beseeches. |
| bewitcher | noun (n.) One who bewitches. |
| birdcatcher | noun (n.) One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler. |
| blancher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose. |
| | noun (n.) One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside. |
| blandisher | noun (n.) One who uses blandishments. |
| bleacher | noun (n.) One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching. |
| blencher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. |
| | noun (n.) One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back. |
| blucher | noun (n.) A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blucher. |
| blusher | noun (n.) One that blushes. |
| botcher | noun (n.) One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. |
| | noun (n.) A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler. |
| | noun (n.) A young salmon; a grilse. |
| bother | noun (n.) One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother. |
| | verb (v. t.) To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother. |
| | verb (v. i.) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. |
| brancher | noun (n.) That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions. |
| | noun (n.) A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches. |
| brandisher | noun (n.) One who brandishes. |
| breather | noun (n.) One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires. |
| | noun (n.) That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise. |
| britisher | noun (n.) An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp. one in the British military or naval service. |
| broacher | noun (n.) A spit; a broach. |
| | noun (n.) One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter. |
| brother | noun (n.) A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood. |
| | noun (n.) One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc. |
| | noun (n.) One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood. |
| brusher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, brushes. |
| burgher | noun (n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough. |
| | noun (n.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers. |
| burnisher | noun (n.) One who burnishes. |
| | noun (n.) A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses. |
| butcher | noun (n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food. |
| | noun (n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs. |
| | verb (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. |
| blather | noun (n.) Voluble, foolish, or nonsensical talk; -- often in the pl. |
| | verb (v. i. & t.) To talk foolishly, or nonsensically. |
| catcher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, catches. |
| | noun (n.) The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. |
| cherisher | noun (n.) One who cherishes. |
| clearstarcher | noun (n.) One who clearstarches. |
| clincher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast. |
| | noun (n.) That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument. |
| coucher | noun (n.) One who couches. |
| | noun (n.) One who couches paper. |
| | noun (n.) A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic. |
| | noun (n.) The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHRĘSTOPHER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 10 Letters (christophe) - Words That Begins with christophe:
Rhyming Words According to First 9 Letters (christoph) - Words That Begins with christoph:
| christophany | noun (n.) An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion. |
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (christop) - Words That Begins with christop:
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (christo) - Words That Begins with christo:
| christocentric | adjective (a.) Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. |
| christology | noun (n.) A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ. |
| christom | noun (n.) See Chrisom. |
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (christ) - Words That Begins with christ:
| christ | noun (n.) The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah. |
| christcross | noun (n.) The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial. |
| | noun (n.) The beginning and the ending. |
| christening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Christen |
| christendom | noun (n.) The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. |
| | noun (n.) The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. |
| | noun (n.) That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands. |
| | noun (n.) The whole body of Christians. |
| christian | noun (n.) One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. |
| | noun (n.) One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system. |
| | noun (n.) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites. |
| | noun (n.) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. |
| | adjective (a.) Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. |
| christianism | noun (n.) The Christian religion. |
| | noun (n.) The Christian world; Christendom. |
| christianite | noun (n.) Same as Anorthite. |
| | noun (n.) See Phillipsite. |
| christianity | noun (n.) The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ. |
| | noun (n.) Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion |
| | noun (n.) The body of Christian believers. |
| christianization | noun (n.) The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity. |
| christianizing | noun (p. pr. vb. n.) of Christianize |
| christianlike | adjective (a.) Becoming to a Christian. |
| christianly | adjective (a.) Christianlike. |
| | adverb (adv.) In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian religion. |
| christianness | noun (n.) Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity. |
| christless | adjective (a.) Without faith in Christ; unchristian. |
| christlike | adjective (a.) Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. |
| christly | adjective (a.) Christlike. |
| christmas | noun (n.) An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality. |
| christmastide | noun (n.) The season of Christmas. |
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (chris) - Words That Begins with chris:
| chrism | noun (n.) Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The same as Chrisom. |
| chrismal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to or used in chrism. |
| chrismation | noun (n.) The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil. |
| chrismatory | noun (n.) A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept. |
| chrisom | noun (n.) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. |
| | noun (n.) A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (chri) - Words That Begins with chri:
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (chr) - Words That Begins with chr:
| chrematistics | noun (n.) The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy. |
| chreotechnics | noun (n.) The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. |
| chrestomathic | adjective (a.) Teaching what is useful. |
| chrestomathy | noun (n.) A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy. |
| chromascope | noun (n.) An instrument for showing the optical effects of color. |
| chromate | noun (n.) A salt of chromic acid. |
| chromatic | adjective (a.) Relating to color, or to colors. |
| | adjective (a.) Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale. |
| chromatical | adjective (a.) Chromatic. |
| chromatics | noun (n.) The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors. |
| chromatin | noun (n.) Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes. |
| | noun (n.) The deeply staining substance of the nucleus and chromosomes of cells, now supposed to be the physical basis of inheritance, and generally regarded as the same substance as the hypothetical idioplasm or germ plasm. |
| chromatism | noun (n.) The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens. |
| | noun (n.) An abnormal coloring of plants. |
| chromatogenous | adjective (a.) Producing color. |
| chromatography | noun (n.) A treatise on colors |
| chromatology | noun (n.) A treatise on colors. |
| chromatophore | noun (n.) A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods. |
| | noun (n.) One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them. |
| chromatoscope | noun (n.) A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars. |
| chromatosphere | noun (n.) A chromosphere. |
| chromatrope | noun (n.) An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored. |
| | noun (n.) A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects. |
| chromatype | noun (n.) A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium. |
| | noun (n.) The process by which such picture is made. |
| chrome | noun (n.) Same as Chromium. |
| | noun (n.) To treat with a solution of potassium bichromate, as in dyeing. |
| chromic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; -- said of the compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence. |
| chromid | noun (n.) One of the Chromidae, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile. |
| chromidrosis | noun (n.) Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration. |
| chromism | noun (n.) Same as Chromatism. |
| chromite | noun (n.) A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron. |
| | noun (n.) A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid. |
| chromium | noun (n.) A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome. |
| chromo | noun (n.) A chromolithograph. |
| chromoblast | noun (n.) An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell. |
| chromogenic | adjective (a.) Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria. |
| chromograph | noun (n.) An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph. |
| chromoleucite | noun (n.) A chromoplastid. |
| chromolithograph | noun (n.) A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process. |
| chromolithographic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography. |
| chromolithography | noun (n.) Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors. |
| chromophane | noun (n.) A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina. |
| chromophore | noun (n.) Any chemical group or residue (as NO2; N2; or O2) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient. |
| chromophotography | noun (n.) The art of producing photographs in colors. |
| chromophotolithograph | noun (n.) A photolithograph printed in colors. |
| chromoplastid | noun (n.) A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite. |
| chromosome | noun (n.) One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann. |
| chromosphere | noun (n.) An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame. |
| chromospheric | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the chromosphere. |
| chromotype | noun (n.) A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph. |
| | noun (n.) A photographic picture in the natural colors. |
| chromous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds. |
| chromule | noun (n.) A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals. |
| chronic | adjective (a.) Relating to time; according to time. |
| | adjective (a.) Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual. |
| chronical | adjective (a.) Chronic. |
| chronicle | noun (n.) An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time. |
| | noun (n.) A narrative of events; a history; a record. |
| | noun (n.) The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings. |
| | verb (v. t.) To record in a history or chronicle; to record; to register. |
| chronicling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chronicle |
| chronicler | noun (n.) A writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CHRĘSTOPHER:
English Words which starts with 'chris' and ends with 'opher':
English Words which starts with 'chri' and ends with 'pher':
English Words which starts with 'chr' and ends with 'her':
English Words which starts with 'ch' and ends with 'er':
| chafer | noun (n.) One who chafes. |
| | noun (n.) A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer. |
| chaffer | noun (n.) One who chaffs. |
| | noun (n.) Bargaining; merchandise. |
| | noun (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate. |
| | noun (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter. |
| | verb (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in. |
| | verb (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words. |
| chafferer | noun (n.) One who chaffers; a bargainer. |
| chalder | noun (n.) A kind of bird; the oyster catcher. |
| chalkcutter | noun (n.) A man who digs chalk. |
| challenger | noun (n.) One who challenges. |
| chamber | noun (n.) A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers. |
| | noun (n.) Apartments in a lodging house. |
| | noun (n.) A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber. |
| | noun (n.) A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce. |
| | noun (n.) A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye. |
| | noun (n.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court. |
| | noun (n.) A chamber pot. |
| | noun (n.) That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns. |
| | noun (n.) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder. |
| | noun (n.) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades. |
| | verb (v. i.) To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be lascivious. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shut up, as in a chamber. |
| | verb (v. t.) To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun. |
| chamberer | noun (n.) One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. |
| | noun (n.) A civilian; a carpetmonger. |
| chamfer | noun (n.) The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a chamfer on. |
| champer | noun (n.) One who champs, or bites. |
| chandelier | noun (n.) A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling. |
| | noun (n.) A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers. |
| chandler | noun (n.) A maker or seller of candles. |
| | noun (n.) A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler. |
| changer | noun (n.) One who changes or alters the form of anything. |
| | noun (n.) One who deals in or changes money. |
| | noun (n.) One apt to change; an inconstant person. |
| chanter | noun (n.) One who chants; a singer or songster. |
| | noun (n.) The chief singer of the chantry. |
| | noun (n.) The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe. |
| | noun (n.) The hedge sparrow. |
| chanticleer | noun (n.) A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing. |
| chapiter | noun (n.) A capital [Obs.] See Chapital. |
| | noun (n.) A summary in writing of such matters as are to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles. |
| chapter | noun (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters. |
| | noun (n.) An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean. |
| | noun (n.) A community of canons or canonesses. |
| | noun (n.) A bishop's council. |
| | noun (n.) A business meeting of any religious community. |
| | noun (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons. |
| | noun (n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders. |
| | noun (n.) A chapter house. |
| | noun (n.) A decretal epistle. |
| | noun (n.) A location or compartment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To divide into chapters, as a book. |
| | verb (v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse. |
| character | noun (n.) A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. |
| | noun (n.) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character. |
| | noun (n.) The peculiar quality, or the sum of qualities, by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others; the stamp impressed by nature, education, or habit; that which a person or thing really is; nature; disposition. |
| | noun (n.) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; as, he has a great deal of character. |
| | noun (n.) Moral quality; the principles and motives that control the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from suspicion. |
| | noun (n.) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter. |
| | noun (n.) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation; as, a man's character for truth and veracity; to give one a bad character. |
| | noun (n.) A written statement as to behavior, competency, etc., given to a servant. |
| | noun (n.) A unique or extraordinary individuality; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits; a person who illustrates certain phases of character; as, Randolph was a character; Caesar is a great historical character. |
| | noun (n.) One of the persons of a drama or novel. |
| | verb (v. t.) To engrave; to inscribe. |
| | verb (v. t.) To distinguish by particular marks or traits; to describe; to characterize. |
| charger | noun (n.) One who, or that which charges. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge. |
| | noun (n.) A large dish. |
| | noun (n.) A horse for battle or parade. |
| charioteer | noun (n.) One who drives a chariot. |
| | noun (n.) A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones. |
| charmer | noun (n.) One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician. |
| | noun (n.) One who delights and attracts the affections. |
| charter | noun (n.) A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges. |
| | noun (n.) An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers. |
| | noun (n.) A special privilege, immunity, or exemption. |
| | noun (n.) The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below. |
| | verb (v. t.) To establish by charter. |
| | verb (v. t.) To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n. |
| charterer | noun (n.) One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage. |
| chartometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring charts or maps. |
| chaser | noun (n.) One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter. |
| | noun (n.) Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern. |
| | noun (n.) One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase. |
| | noun (n.) A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe. |
| chastener | noun (n.) One who chastens. |
| chastiser | noun (n.) One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector. |
| chatter | noun (n.) Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle. |
| | noun (n.) Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering. |
| | verb (v. i.) To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. |
| | verb (v. i.) To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a noise by rapid collisions. |
| | verb (v. t.) To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly. |
| chatterer | noun (n.) A prater; an idle talker. |
| | noun (n.) A bird of the family Ampelidae -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird. |
| chauffer | noun (n.) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top. |
| chaunter | noun (n.) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. |
| | noun (n.) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. |
| | noun (n.) The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3. |
| chavender | noun (n.) The chub. |
| cheapener | noun (n.) One who cheapens. |
| cheater | noun (n.) One who cheats. |
| | noun (n.) An escheator. |
| checker | noun (n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors. |
| | noun (n.) To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity. |
| | verb (v. t.) One who checks. |
| | verb (v. t.) A piece in the game of draughts or checkers. |
| | verb (v. t.) A pattern in checks; a single check. |
| | verb (v. t.) Checkerwork. |
| cheer | noun (n.) The face; the countenance or its expression. |
| | noun (n.) Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart. |
| | noun (n.) Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation. |
| | noun (n.) That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer. |
| | noun (n.) A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up. |
| | verb (v. t.) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort. |
| | verb (v. t.) To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase. |
| | verb (v. i.) To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be in any state or temper of mind. |
| | verb (v. i.) To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc. |
| cheerer | noun (n.) One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. |
| cheesemonger | noun (n.) One who deals in cheese. |
| cheirepter | noun (n.) One of the Cheiroptera. |
| chelifer | noun (n.) See Book scorpion, under Book. |
| chepster | noun (n.) The European starling. |
| chequer | noun (n. & v.) Same as Checker. |
| cherimoyer | noun (n.) A small downy-leaved tree (Anona Cherimolia), with fragrant flowers. It is a native of Peru. |
| | noun (n.) Its delicious fruit, which is succulent, dark purple, and similar to the custard apple of the West Indies. |
| chevalier | noun (n.) A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. |
| | noun (n.) A member of certain orders of knighthood. |
| chewer | noun (n.) One who chews. |
| chicaner | noun (n.) One who uses chicanery. |
| chider | noun (n.) One who chides or quarrels. |
| chidester | noun (n.) A female scold. |
| chiffonier | noun (n.) Alt. of niere |
| chimer | noun (n.) One who chimes. |
| chipper | adjective (a.) Lively; cheerful; talkative. |
| | verb (v. i.) To chirp or chirrup. |
| chiromancer | noun (n.) One who practices chiromancy. |
| chirper | noun (n.) One who chirps, or is cheerful. |
| chlorometer | noun (n.) An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime. |
| choker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, chokes. |
| | noun (n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock. |
| choler | noun (n.) The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. |
| | noun (n.) Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. |
| chondrometer | noun (n.) A steelyard for weighting grain. |
| chooser | noun (n.) One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. |
| chopper | noun (n.) One who, or that which, chops. |
| chorister | noun (n.) One of a choir; a singer in a chorus. |
| | noun (n.) One who leads a choir in church music. |
| chowder | noun (n.) A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together. |
| | noun (n.) A seller of fish. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a chowder of. |
| chronologer | noun (n.) Same as Chronologist. |
| | noun (n.) A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology. |
| chronometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper. |
| | noun (n.) A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A metronome. |
| churchgoer | noun (n.) One who attends church. |
| chyometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod. |
