| cheongsam |
a fitted Chinese dress having a high neck, usu. short sleeves, and side slits to the thighs. |
| cherish |
to value with great affection. [3 definitions] |
| cherishable |
combined form of cherish. |
| Cherokee |
a member of a North American Indian tribe that formerly lived in the southeastern United States, and now is mostly in Oklahoma and North Carolina. [2 definitions] |
| Cherokee rose |
a climbing, thornless rose that bears large white fragrant flowers. |
| cheroot |
an untapered cigar made with both ends open. |
| cherries jubilee |
a dessert made of vanilla ice cream topped with a sauce of black cherries and served flambé with brandy or kirsch. |
| cherry |
the edible fruit of the cherry tree, having a small, hard stone enclosed by yellow, red, or dark purple flesh. [5 definitions] |
| cherry bomb |
a round, red, very explosive firecracker. |
| cherrystone |
the edible quahog clam when it is partly grown and still fairly small. |
| cherry tomato |
a red or yellow tomato about the size of a cherry, often used in salads. |
| chert |
a hard compact rock, esp. of quartz, found in limestone. |
| cherub |
a heavenly being, esp. one of the second order of angels, usu. represented as a winged child with a chubby face and rosy cheeks. [2 definitions] |
| chervil |
a plant of the parsley family having aromatic leaves and used as a seasoning or as a salad herb. [2 definitions] |
| Cheshire cat |
in the nineteenth-century children's novel Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, a grinning cat that magically disappears, his grin being the last to fade away. |
| Cheshvan |
variant of Heshvan. |
| chess1 |
a game of strategy for two people in which each player starts with a king and queen, two each of bishops, knights, and rooks, and eight pawns and in which the object is to trap the opponent's king. |
| chess2 |
any of a variety of weedy grasses, esp. cheat. |
| chess3 |
a floor board of a pontoon bridge. |
| chessboard |
a checkerboard used for playing chess. |
| chessman |
any one of the pieces used in playing chess. |