| chocolatier |
someone who makes fine chocolate candy, or a store that specializes in the sale of it. |
| Choctaw |
a member of a North American Indian people located formerly in the southern United States and now mainly in Oklahoma. [2 definitions] |
| choice |
an act of choosing or selecting; selection. [7 definitions] |
| choir |
a group of people who sing together, esp. one that sings religious music. [3 definitions] |
| choirboy |
a boy who sings in a choir, esp. a church choir. |
| choke |
to stop or obstruct the breathing of, esp. by squeezing, blocking, or irritating the windpipe. [9 definitions] |
| chokebore |
in a shotgun barrel, a bored inner surface that narrows toward the muzzle to concentrate the pattern of shot. [2 definitions] |
| chokecherry |
any of several American wild cherries that bear long clusters of white flowers and small dark bitter fruit. |
| chokedamp |
an atmosphere very low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide that sometimes occurs in deep mines and causes miners to choke; blackdamp. |
| choker |
one that chokes. [2 definitions] |
| choke up |
to lose the ability to speak because of intense emotion or stress. [2 definitions] |
| choky |
tending to cause choking, as an atmosphere. [2 definitions] |
| cholangitis |
inflammation of one or more bile ducts. |
| chole- |
bile or gall. |
| cholecalciferol |
vitamin D. |
| cholecystectomy |
surgical removal of the gall bladder. |
| choler |
anger; irritability. |
| cholera |
an acute, often fatal, infectious disease that is marked by vomiting, cramps, and diarrhea. |
| choleric |
having a quick temper; easily angered. |
| cholesteatoma |
a tumor-like mass of epithelial cells appearing esp. in the middle ear or mastoid process, also known as a pearl tumor. |
| cholesterol |
a white substance, found in various tissues of all animals, which serves as a detoxifier in the bloodstream and surrounds certain nerve sheaths, and an excess of which is thought to contribute to hardening of the arteries. |