Index of English words, starting with "ch"

(1) - Chilly (a.) Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.

(1) - Chilopoda (n. pl.) One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.

(1) - Chimaera (n.) A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

(1) - Chimb (v. i.) Chime.
(2) - Chimb (n.) The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.

(1) - Chime (v. i.) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
(2) - Chime (v. i.) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
(3) - Chime (n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
(4) - Chime (n.) To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
(5) - Chime (n.) To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
(6) - Chime (n.) To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
(7) - Chime (n.) Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
(8) - Chime (n.) A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.
(9) - Chime (n.) The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
(10) - Chime (n.) See Chine, n., 3.