An institution of higher education and its ambiance.
The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
verb
To confine to campus as a punishment.
To use a campus board, or to climb without feet as one would on a campus board.
camuse
canaut
cancun
canduc
canful
canful
noun
As much as a can will hold.
cangue
cangue
noun
A heavy wooden collar or yoke borne on the shoulders and enclosing the neck and arms, formerly used in China to punish petty criminals.
cantus
cantus
Noun
A melody or song, particularly ecclesiastical.
The principal voice.
cantut
canuck
canuck
Noun
A Canadian.
A Canadian, especially a French Canadian.
The French-Canadian dialect.
A thing from Canada.
A Canadian pony or horse.
A member of the professional NHL ice hockey team.
The fighter-interceptor.
Adjective
Canadian.
canula
canula
noun
Alternative form of cannula
canute
capful
capful
noun
(nautical) A light puff of wind.
The amount that will fit into a cap.
capuan
capuan
Adjective
Relating to, or characteristic of Capua.
capuli
caputa
caputo
caquet
carful
carful
noun
As much as a car will hold.
carius
carnus
carpus
carpus
noun
(anatomy) The group of bones that make up the wrist.
carrus
carrus
noun
(uncommon, historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
caruso
casaun
caseum
caseum
noun
(archaic) Casein.
cashou
casque
casque
noun
A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary.
A helmet.
casual
casual
adj
(of behavior, usage, or milieu) Informal; relaxed.
(of clothing or utensils) Designed for informal or everyday use.
Careless.
Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
Employed irregularly.
Happening by chance.
Happening or coming to pass without design.
noun
(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
(Britain, dated) A tramp.
(UK, historical) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).
(fandom slang) A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
(video games, informal, derogatory) A player of casual games.
A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.
casula
casula
noun
A chasuble.
casule
catgut
catgut
noun
(countable) A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, especially of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, racquets, sutures etc.
(uncountable) A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.
(uncountable) The material from which such cords are made.
cathud
catsup
catsup
noun
Alternative form of ketchup
caucho
caucho
noun
The latex of Castilla species.
cauchy
cauchy
Adjective
Whose terms become progressively closer to one another.
caucon
caucus
caucus
noun
A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.
A political interest group by members of a legislative body.
A usually preliminary meeting of party members to nominate candidates for public office or delegates to be sent a nominating convention, or to confer regarding policy.
verb
(intransitive or transitive with with) To meet and participate in a caucus.
(transitive) To bring into or treat in a caucus.
caudad
caudad
adv
(anatomy) towards the feet (only in humans); inferior.
(zoology) backwards; toward the tail or posterior part
caudae
caudal
caudal
adj
(anatomical terms of location and direction) Toward the tail end (hind end) of the body; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to inferior.
(zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
noun
A caudal vertebra.
caudex
caudex
noun
(botany) An enlargement of the stem, branch or root of a woody plant, usually serving to store water.
caudle
caudle
noun
A hot drink given to the sick, consisting of wine or ale, eggs, and bread.
verb
(transitive) To make into caudle.
(transitive) To serve as a caudle to; to refresh.
caufle
caught
caught
adj
(cricket) Of the method of being out in which the striker hits the ball and a fielder catches it.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of catch
cauked
caulds
caules
caules
noun
plural of caulis
caulis
caulis
noun
(architecture) Each of the main stalks which support the volutes and helices of a Corinthian capital.
(botany) The stalk of a plant, especially a herbaceous stem in its natural state.
plural of cauli
caulks
caulks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caulk
caunch
caunos
caunus
cauqui
caurus
causae
causal
causal
adj
of, relating to, or being a cause of something; causing
noun
(grammar) a word (such as because) that expresses a reason or a cause
caused
caused
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cause
causer
causer
noun
someone or something that causes or produces an effect.
causes
causes
noun
plural of cause
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cause
causey
causey
noun
(now dialectal) A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc.
(now dialectal) A paved path or highway; a street, or the part of a street paved with paving or cobbles as opposed to flagstones.
(obsolete) An embankment holding in water; a dam.
causon
causse
causus
cautel
cautel
noun
(Christianity) A traditional caution or written direction about the proper manner of administering the sacraments.
(obsolete) caution; prudence; wariness
(obsolete) deceit
cauter
cauter
noun
A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.
cautio
cavour
cayuca
cayuca
noun
A type of dugout canoe of South America.
cayuco
cayuco
noun
A sort of canoe or kayak.
cayuga
cayuga
Noun
One of an indigenous people of North America, part of the
Proper noun
The Northern Iroquoian language of the Cayuga people.
an unincorporated community and county seat of Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada.
an unincorporated community in Livingston County, Illinois, USA.
a town in Vermillion County, Indiana, USA.
a village in Cayuga County, New York, USA.
a tiny city in Sargent County, North Dakota, USA.
an unincorporated community in Anderson County, Texas, USA.
an unincorporated community in Ashland County, Wisconsin, USA.
cayuse
cayuse
noun
(US) A small Indian horse or pony.
cayuta
cecums
cedrus
cedula
cedula
noun
(Philippines) A community tax certificate, often used as a form of identification in the Philippines.
A South American promissory note or mortgage bond on lands.
cedule
cedule
noun
(obsolete) A scroll; a writing; a schedule.
celure
celure
noun
(now rare, historical) A canopy, especially one over a bed or altar.
census
census
noun
An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
Count, tally.
verb
(intransitive) To collect a census.
(transitive) To conduct a census on.
centum
centum
adj
(Indo-European studies) Referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.
noun
(India) Perfect score on a board exam.
(Sanskrit and other Indian philology) Satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic.
cephus
cepous
cercus
cercus
noun
(entomology) Structures on the end of the abdomen of most insects, sometimes long, hairlike sensory organs and sometimes smaller and rigid.
cereus
cereus
noun
Any of the genus Cereus of plants of the cactus family, natives to the Americas, from California to Chile.
cerium
cerium
noun
A chemical element (symbol Ce) with an atomic number of 58, a very soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes when exposed to air.
cerous
cerous
adj
(chemistry) Containing cerium with valence three
Having a cere
cerule
cerule
adj
(poetic) Cerulean.
ceruse
ceruse
noun
white lead, a hydrate of lead mixed with carbonate, which has come to be used as a white pigment, in cosmetics, and for medical purposes.
cervus
cesium
cesium
noun
(American spelling) Alternative form of caesium
cestui
cestui
noun
Alternative form of cestuy
cestus
cestus
noun
(obsolete) A girdle, especially that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power to excite love.
A leather fighting glove, frequently weighted with metal.
cestuy
cestuy
noun
(law) he; the one; the person in question
cesura
cesura
noun
Alternative spelling of caesura
cesure
cetura
chabuk
chabuk
noun
(now historical) A long whip formerly used as an instrument of punishment in India and parts of the Middle East.
chacun
chagul
chandu
chaoua
charnu
charuk
chaule
chauna
chaunt
chaunt
noun
Obsolete spelling of chant
chauri
chaute
chauth
chauve
cheque
cheque
noun
(Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, UK) A draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
Sometimes abbreviations are used (which would be explained on the statement) and only the last three figures of the cheque number may be given. ‘Sundries’ are cash or cheques paid into the account.
The daily cheque clearings began around 1770 when bank clerks met at the Five Bells (a tavern in Lombard Street in the City of London) to exchange all their cheques in one place and settle the balances in cash.
You can avoid dealing with paper cheques — written or printed — by paying your bills online.
chequy
chequy
adj
(heraldry) Chequered.
cherub
cherub
noun
(biblical) A winged creature attending God, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim; similar to a lamassu in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.
(figuratively) A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent.
An artistic depiction of such a being, typically in the form of a winged child or a child's head with wings but no body.
cherup
cherup
noun
Archaic form of chirrup.
cheung
chiaus
chiaus
noun
(historical) An Ottoman Empire court official; an attendant, messenger, herald, interpreter.
(historical) An Ottoman Empire çavuş (“sergeant”).
Obsolete spelling of chouse (“a swindler”)
verb
Obsolete spelling of chouse (“cheat, trick, swindle”)
chihfu
chimus
chinua
chirau
chiule
chiurm
chiusi
chleuh
cholum
chonju
chorus
chorus
noun
(Christianity) A simple, often repetitive, song intended to be sung in a group during informal worship.
(by extension) A group of people in a performance who recite together.
(by extension, chiefly Britain, theater, historical) An actor who reads the prologue and epilogue of a play, and sometimes also acts as a commentator or narrator; also, a portion of a play read by this actor.
(jazz) The improvised solo section in a small group performance.
(often attributively) A feature or setting in electronic music that makes one instrument sound like many.
A group of organ pipes or organ stops intended to be played simultaneously; a compound stop; also, the sound made by such pipes or stops.
A group of people who express a unanimous opinion.
A group of people, animals, or inanimate objects who make sounds together.
A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.
A group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble.
A part of a song which is repeated between verses; a refrain.
A piece of music, especially one in a larger work such as an opera, written to be sung by a choir in parts (for example, by sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses).
A song performed by the singers of such a group.
An instance of singing by a group of people.
The main part of a pop song played after the introduction.
The noise or sound made by such a group.
The opinion expressed by such a group.
verb
(rare) To provide (a song) with a chorus or refrain.
Of animals: to make cries or sounds together.
To echo in unison another person's words.
To express concurrence with (something said by another person); to echo.
To sing (a song), express (a sentiment), or recite or say (words) in chorus.
To sing the chorus or refrain of a song.
To sing, express, or say in, or as if in, unison.
chouan
chough
chough
noun
Either of two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.
The white-winged chough, of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.
chouka
choule
chouse
chouse
noun
(obsolete) A swindler.
(obsolete) A trick; a sham.
(obsolete) One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
verb
(US, of cattle) To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring.
(US, regional) To handle, to take care of.
(obsolete, transitive) To cheat, to trick.
(transitive, US, regional) To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running.
choush
choush
noun
(obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of chiaus.
chteau
chuana
chubby
chubby
adj
Of a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat.
Of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft.
noun
(LGBT slang) An overweight or obese gay man.
(slang) A penile erection, especially when short and with a large circumference; a boner.
A chubby, plump person
chucho
chucks
chucks
intj
(UK, slang, obsolete) A warning cry used by schoolboys when a teacher is approaching.
noun
(Scotland) The game of jacks or jackstones.
plural of chuck
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chuck
chucky
chucky
noun
(Northern Ireland, derogatory, slang) An Irish Republican, especially one who has supported the armed struggle.
(Scotland) A pebble or piece of gravel.
(dated or dialectal) chicken
chudic
chueta
chufas
chufas
noun
plural of chufa
chuffs
chuffs
noun
plural of chuff
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chuff
chuffy
chuffy
adj
(archaic) Rough; boorish; surly.
Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.
chuhra
chuhra
noun
(India, Pakistan, offensive) Any lower-caste person.
(Pakistan, Christianity, ethnic slur, religious slur, offensive) A Hindu or (especially) a Christian convert from a lower caste.
A member of the Chuhra caste in India
chukar
chukar
noun
A species of partridge native to central Asia (Alectoris chukar).
chukka
chukka
noun
Alternative form of chukker
chukka boot
chukor
chukor
noun
Alternative form of chukar
chulan
chulan
noun
The fragrant flowers of Chloranthus spicatus (formerly Chloranthus inconspicuus), used in China for perfuming tea.
chulha
chulha
noun
A traditional Indian earthen stove.
chullo
chullo
noun
A type of hat from Peru or Bolivia, usually made from wool or a similar fabric, and often having ear flaps that tie under the chin for warmth.
chulpa
chumar
chumar
noun
Alternative spelling of chamar
chummy
chummy
adj
(informal) Friendly; on, or trying to be on, intimate terms.
noun
(dated) A felt hat with a low crown.
(law enforcement slang) Nickname for a person, especially a suspect or criminal.