| CHILDBEARING | • childbearing n. The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition. • childbearing adj. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for childbirth. • child-bearing adj. (With "years" or "age") Pertaining to the time between puberty and menopause when a woman is able to bear children. |
| CHILDCROWING | • child-crowing n. (Medicine, archaic) A nervous affection with spasm of the muscles closing the glottis. • CHILDCROWING n. a nervous affection with spasm of the muscles closing the glottis. |
| CHILDERMASES | • Childermases prop.n. Plural of Childermas. • CHILDERMAS n. a church festival held on December 28, Holy Innocents' Day. |
| CHILDISHNESS | • childishness n. (Uncountable) The state or characteristic of being childish. • childishness n. (Countable) Childish behaviour. • CHILDISHNESS n. the state of being childish. |
| CHILDMINDERS | • childminders n. Plural of childminder. • CHILDMINDER n. one who looks after other people's children for money. |
| CHILDMINDING | • childminding n. The act of looking after a child or children. • childminding v. Present participle of childmind. • child-minding v. Present participle of child-mind. |
| CHILDPROOFED | • childproofed v. Simple past tense and past participle of childproof. • CHILDPROOF v. to make an environment safe for a child, or safe from a child. |
| CHILIAHEDRON | • chiliahedron n. (Geometry) A polyhedron bounded by one thousand plane surfaces. • CHILIAHEDRON n. (Greek) a one-thousand sided solid figure. |
| CHILIARCHIES | • chiliarchies n. Plural of chiliarchy. • CHILIARCHY n. a body consisting of a thousand men. |
| CHILLINESSES | • chillinesses n. Plural of chilliness. • CHILLINESS n. the quality of being chilly. |
| MOONCHILDREN | • moonchildren n. Plural of moonchild. • MOONCHILD n. someone who is born under the Cancer star sign. |
| OVERCHILLING | • overchilling v. Present participle of overchill. • OVERCHILL v. to chill to excess. |
| SCHILLERISED | • schillerised v. Simple past tense and past participle of schillerise. • SCHILLERISE v. to give a bronze lustre to, also SCHILLERIZE. |
| SCHILLERISES | • schillerises v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of schillerise. • SCHILLERISE v. to give a bronze lustre to, also SCHILLERIZE. |
| SCHILLERIZED | • schillerized v. Simple past tense and past participle of schillerize. • Schillerized v. Simple past tense and past participle of Schillerize. • SCHILLERIZE v. to give a bronze lustre to, also SCHILLERISE. |
| SCHILLERIZES | • schillerizes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of schillerize. • Schillerizes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of Schillerize. • SCHILLERIZE v. to give a bronze lustre to, also SCHILLERISE. |
| STEPCHILDREN | • stepchildren n. Plural of stepchild. • STEPCHILD n. a wife's or husband's but not one's own child, daughter or son. |