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

chemisette: short-sleeved shirt; camisole; tank top
chemisier: shirtmaking
chemisier: shirtmaker; blouse
chenal: canal, channel; eavesdrop, eavestrough, gutter
chenapan: scamp, rascal, rogue, scoundrel; a naughty child, scamp, little rascal
chenet: fire dog, andiron
chenette: wall germander (Teucrium chamaedrys)
chengyu: chengyu
chenil: kennel; kennels; pigsty (dirty or very untidy place)
chenille: caterpillar; chenille; caterpillar track, snow chain; whirligig (fairground attraction)
chenillette: tankette; a tracked sidewalk tractor, especially one equipped with a sidewalk (UK: pavement) clearing snowplow; a snowcat
chenin: a white wine from the Loire valley in France
chenu: hoary, snow-capped; grey-haired, grey-headed; elderly
chenument: hoarily; excellently
cheptel: livestock; herd; crowd (of people)
cher: dear, honey, hon
cher: dear, beloved; expensive, costly
cher: dearly; super
cherbourgeois: of, from or relating to the city and former commune of Cherbourg, department of Manche, Normandy, France
chercher: to look for, to seek; to look (to do something); to mess with someone, ask for trouble; to pick up, to go and get; to get to know oneself
chercher chaussure à son pied: to look for the right fit for one; to look for one's special someone, to look for the right person; to look for a suitable match
chercher des noises: to try and pick a fight, to try to pick a quarrel
chercher des poux: to try and pick a fight, to try to pick a quarrel
chercher la corde à tourner le vent: to go on a wild-goose chase
chercher la merde: to look for trouble, to ask for trouble, to fish for trouble; to fuck with, to try and pick a fight with
chercher la petite bête: to nitpick, to split hairs
chercher le poil dans l'œuf: to split hairs
chercher midi à quatorze heures: to complicate things needlessly; to seek a knot in a bulrush
chercher misère: to give (someone) a hard time, to make (someone's) life a misery, to torment
chercher querelle: to try and pick a fight, to try to pick a quarrel
chercher ses mots: to fumble for words, to grasp for words, to be at a loss for words
chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin: to look for a needle in a haystack
chercheur: searcher (one who searches); researcher
cherchez l'erreur: Used to draw one's interlocutor's attention to the curious, contradictory or ironic character of what one has just said.
cherchez la femme: A cliche in detective fiction, used to suggest that a mystery can be resolved by identifying a femme fatale or female love interest.
chergui: sharqi
cherokee: Cherokee
cherokee: Cherokee (language)
cherrer: to overdo it; to go too far
cherry: cherry brandy
cherté: expensiveness, high cost
chervis: skirret
chesseresse: drought
chester: cheshire (cheese)
chesterfield: a chesterfield (a couch, sofa, or love seat)
cheum: ugly
chevaine: chub (Leuciscus cephalus, now Squalius cephalus)
cheval: horse; ellipsis of cheval-vapeur (“horsepower”); ellipsis of cheval fiscal (“tax horsepower”); horse, H (narcotic)
cheval d'arçons: pommel horse (apparatus for gymnastic exercises with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright pommels, as hand grips, near the centre; held upright with adjustable legs)
cheval de Przewalski: Przewalski's horse
cheval de Troie: Trojan horse (a wooden horse used by the Greeks); Trojan horse (malware)
cheval de bataille: war-horse, battle-charger; hobbyhorse, favourite theme
cheval de bât: packhorse
cheval de frise: cheval de frise
cheval de main: led horse
cheval de trait: draft horse, draught horse
cheval du diable: praying mantis; locust
cheval fiscal: tax horsepower
cheval qui boit dans son blanc: horse that has a white nose and the rest of its body another colour
cheval à bascule: rocking horse (a child’s toy consisting of a (usually wooden) horse mounted on a rocker or swing)