| CASINGHEAD | • CASINGHEAD n. in mineral extraction, the part of a well that is above the surface. |
| CHAGRINNED | • chagrinned v. Simple past tense and past participle of chagrin. • chagrinned adj. Alternative form of chagrined. • CHAGRIN v. (French) to humiliate. |
| CHALLENGED | • challenged adj. (Euphemistic) Lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill ; used after adverbs to make politically… • challenged adj. (Humorous) Used following adverbs to make adjectives in imitation of and mocking adjectives of this kind. • challenged v. Simple past tense and past participle of challenge. |
| CHARGEHAND | • chargehand n. (UK) A person who is in charge of a small group of workers; a lesser foreman. • charge-hand n. Alternative spelling of charge hand. • charge␣hand n. (Britain) deputy to a foreman in a factory. |
| CHINWAGGED | • chinwagged v. Simple past tense and past participle of chinwag. • CHINWAG v. to chat. |
| CHOWDERING | • chowdering v. Present participle of chowder. • CHOWDER v. to make a thick soup. |
| CHUNDERING | • chundering v. Present participle of chunder. • chundering n. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, slang) The act of vomiting. • CHUNDER v. (Australian slang) to vomit. |
| CYNGHANEDD | • cynghanedd n. (Prosody) The complex system of internal assonance, alliteration and rhyme in Welsh strict-meter poetry. • CYNGHANEDD n. (Welsh) a technique in Welsh verse. |
| DEBAUCHING | • debauching v. Present participle of debauch. • DEBAUCH v. to lead into lewdness, also DEBOSH. |
| DEBOUCHING | • debouching v. Present participle of debouche. • DEBOUCH v. to emerge or issue from a narrow area into the open. |
| DRENCHINGS | • drenchings n. Plural of drenching. • DRENCHING n. the act of drenching. |
| DUCHESSING | • duchessing v. Present participle of duchess. • DUCHESS v. to overwhelm with flattery. |
| GRANDCHILD | • grandchild n. A child of someone’s child. • GRANDCHILD n. the child of one's son or daughter. |
| HENDECAGON | • hendecagon n. (Geometry) a polygon with eleven edges and eleven angles. • HENDECAGON n. an eleven-sided polygon, also ENDECAGON. |
| ORCHARDING | • orcharding n. The growing of fruit in an orchard. • orcharding n. The hobby of visiting orchards. (Can we add an example for this sense?) • ORCHARDING n. the cultivation of orchards. |
| OUTCHIDING | • OUTCHIDE v. to surpass in chiding. |
| PHAGEDENIC | • phagedenic adj. Relating to phagedena. • PHAGEDENIC adj. relating to phagedena, hospital gangrene, also PHAGEDAENIC. |
| SCHEDULING | • scheduling v. Present participle of schedule. • scheduling n. (Uncountable) A function in many aspects of industry, commerce and computing in which events are timed… • scheduling n. (Countable) The time at which a particular event is scheduled. |
| UNCHILDING | • unchilding v. (Archaic) present participle of unchild (“removing a child from a parent; disowning”). • unchilding adj. (Archaic) Life-threatening, life-taking. • UNCHILD v. (Shakespeare) to change from being a child. |