(obsolete) The body of young aspirants for knighthood.
bitchery
bitchery
noun
Behavior considered typical of a bitch
botchery
botchery
noun
An act of botching.
Something botched; clumsy or careless workmanship.
butchery
butchery
noun
(rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
(slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian.
A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
A meat market
The butchering of meat.
The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
catheryn
catheryn
Proper noun
name, a rare nonstandard spelling variant of Catherine.
chaffery
chaffery
noun
(obsolete) traffic; bargaining; buying and selling
chambery
chancery
chancery
adv
(boxing) With the head of an antagonist under one's arm, so that one can pommel it with the other fist at will.
(figurative) In an awkward situation; wholly under the power of someone else.
noun
(boxing, slang) The position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm.
(historical) In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.
(historical) In the Middle Ages, a government office that produced and notarized official documents.
(slang, archaic) Any awkward predicament.
(writing) Short for chancery hand.
In the United States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.
The type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy.
The type of building that houses the offices and administration of a diocese; the offices of a diocese.
chapelry
chapelry
noun
The district attached to a chapel; a division of a large parish which has its own district chapel.
charleys
charleys
noun
plural of charley
charlyne
chartley
chattery
chattery
adj
Tending to chatter
cheapery
cheatery
cheatery
noun
(obsolete) Cheating; fraud.
checkery
cheerily
cheerily
adv
In a cheerful manner; with a cheery demeanour.
cheesery
cheesery
noun
(US) A bakery, cooking house, plant or other factory that specializes in making cheese.
chelydra
chelydre
chelydre
noun
(obsolete) A fetid water snake.
chemurgy
chemurgy
noun
(chemistry) a branch of applied chemistry that is concerned with preparing industrial products from agricultural raw materials.
cherilyn
chertsey
chertsey
Proper noun
A town in Surrey, England.
A town in New Zealand.
A municipality in Quebec, Canada.
cheverly
chevrony
chevrony
adj
Chevron-shaped, zigzag, especially (heraldry) chevronwise.
Having chevrons, especially (heraldry) charged with chevrons.
chickery
chiefery
chiefery
noun
(historical) An Irish head tax
A colonial administrative centre.
The form of government in which people are ruled by a chief.
The land ruled over by a chief; chieftainship.
The leaders or chiefs of a people, collectively.
The status or role of a chief; chieftainship.
chrisney
christye
chryseis
chryseis
Proper noun
Character of the book The Iliad.
chrysene
chrysene
noun
(organic chemistry) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, 1,2-benzphenanthrene, containing four fused benzene rings
chrysler
chrysler
Noun
An automobile of the make definition.
chrysome
chrysome
noun
Alternative form of chrisom
chryssee
chrystel
chummery
chummery
noun
(India, historical) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj.
(South Asia) The shared home of a group of men who are unmarried or working at a distance from their families.
cleruchy
cleruchy
noun
(historical, Ancient Greece) A form of Athenian colony in the time of Ancient Greece, under which the settlers or cleruchs retained their citizenship, and were assigned plots, or kleroi, of agricultural land, while the community remained a political dependency of Athens.
coryphee
coryphee
noun
Alternative form of coryphée
cutchery
cutchery
noun
A spice: kitchery.
Alternative spelling of cutcherry (administration office)
Alternative spelling of kedgeree (dish of fish, rice and eggs)
An Indian dish of rice boiled with split pulse, onions, eggs, butter, and condiments
cychreus
cyphered
cyphered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cypher
cytherea
decarchy
decarchy
noun
(politics) A government of ten people, especially (historical) various Greek councils of ten men
demarchy
demarchy
noun
Government by decision-makers who have been randomly selected by sortition (lot) from a pool of eligible citizens.
endarchy
endarchy
noun
(botany) A vascular system in which development starts nearest the axis center and spreads outward.
A system in which decision-making is centralized.
erythric
erythric
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling erythrin.
eunuchry
eunuchry
noun
The state of being a eunuch.
eyereach
eyereach
noun
The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.
fetichry
filchery
finchery
finchery
noun
(historical) A structure into which finches are decoyed so that they can be caught in a net.
fitchery
flachery
frenchly
frenchly
Adjective
French.
Adverb
In the manner of the French or their language.
hatchery
hatchery
noun
A facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish or poultry.
hectorly
hectorly
adj
Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting.
heroicly
heroicly
adv
(archaic) In a heroic way; heroically.
hexarchy
hexarchy
noun
A group of six states.
heydrich
hydremic
hydremic
adj
Relating to or exhibiting hydremia.
hypernic
hypernic
noun
The wood of a tropical tree Haematoxylon brasiletto (found in Nicaragua); a red dye extracted from it
hyraceum
hyraceum
noun
The petrified remains of hyrax urine and feces produced by the rock hyrax (“Cape hyrax”), Procavia capensis (“P. apensis”), typically found in the communal midden piles of hyrax colonies.
hysteric
hysteric
adj
(medicine) Hysterical; relating to hysteria.
noun
A hysterical person.
leechery
lynchers
lynchers
noun
plural of lyncher
minchery
ocyrrhoe
patchery
patchery
noun
(UK, India, military, historical) Living quarters for married soldiers.
Hypocrisy; trickery.
That which is thrown or sown together usually clumsily or with different color and textures, like patchwork.
peachery
peachery
noun
A hothouse in which peaches are grown.
petchary
pitchery
prophecy
prophecy
noun
A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
The public interpretation of Scripture.
verb
(chiefly dated) Alternative form of prophesy
ratchety
ratchety
adj
Moving in jerks.
Resembling or characteristic of a ratchet
schemery
schemery
noun
The act of plotting or scheming.
schuyler
schuyler
Proper noun
name, transferred use of the surname since the nineteenth century.
a city in Nebraska, USA
screechy
screechy
adj
Given to screeching.
Resembling a screech.
strachey
stretchy
stretchy
adj
Capable of stretching; elastic.
Inclined to stretch, as from weariness.
teachery
thearchy
thearchy
noun
A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.
A system or ordering of deities. (Compare pantheon.)
trachyte
trachyte
noun
(geology) A pale igneous rock consisting mostly of potassium feldspar and plagioclase.