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10,231 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

cheeseburger: cheeseburger
chef: head; article, principal point; principal motive, charge, count of indictment; chief; top third of a coat of arms
chef: a boss, chief, leader; a culinary chef, chief cook
chef d'accusation: charge (of a crime, as in a court); count of an indictment
chef d'entreprise: business executive, head of a company
chef d'escadron: Military rank that replaces the rank of commandant in the artillery
chef d'escadrons: Military rank that replaces the rank of commandant in the cavalry
chef d'orchestre: conductor
chef d'État: chief of state
chef de bande: band chief
chef de cabinet: chief of staff (head of political department)
chef de chœur: choirmaster
chef de corps: commanding officer
chef de famille: head of household, head of the family
chef de file: leader; party leader; lead ship; name ship; class leader
chef de gare: stationmaster
chef de guerre: war chief, war leader, warlord
chef de partie: chef de partie, line cook
chef de produit: product manager
chef de projet: project manager
chef de rayon: department manager; floorwalker, shop-walker
chef-d'œuvre: the chief example of a body of work, a masterpiece
chef-lieu: a city, town, or village that serves as the administrative centre of an area, in various French-speaking countries
cheffer: synonym of dire; to work as a chef
chefferie: A chiefdom
cheftain: chief, captain, chieftain
cheftaine: a woman in charge of a troop of young scouts; a woman in charge of a group of people, assembly
cheftaine: captain, chieftain
cheh: Well done; serves you right.
cheik: sheik
cheikh: sheikh
cheikhat: sheikdom
cheiroptérophilie: chiropterophilia
chelem: slam
chelin: shilling
chelléen: Abbevillian
chelou: shady, creepy, dodgy
chem.: abbreviation of chemin
chemin: path, way, road; road
chemin de Damas: road to Damascus
chemin de croix: Way of the Cross; Via Crucis; painful, strenuous experience
chemin de fer: railroad, railway; chemin de fer
chemin de halage: towing path, towpath (path alongside a canal or river, originally for horses towing barges, now more often used as a footpath)
chemin de ronde: wallwalk
chemin de terre: dirt road, dirt track
chemin des écoliers: the scenic route, the long way round
chemin faisant: on the way
chemin méchant: a muddy road
chemineau: migrant worker; vagabond
cheminement: progress, course
cheminer: to walk on, to keep walking (especially on a long and regular or a painful walk)
cheminot: a railway worker
cheminée: a chimney; a fireplace or hearth; a vertical vent, exhaust or gallery; a hole at the centre of some models of parachute; the glass tube protecting the flame of a kerosene or similar wick lamp
cheminée de fée: fairy chimney, hoodoo
chemise: shirt (that opens in the front); folder (office supplies); chemise (wall-enforcing earthwork)
chemise brune: brownshirt (uniformed member of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), especially a storm trooper of the Sturmabteilung)
chemise de nuit: nightgown, nightie
chemise noire: blackshirt, squadrista (uniformed member of a paramilitary wing of the Italian Fascist Party)
chemiser: to line (cover the inside surface of)
chemiserie: outfitters' (shop), haberdashery