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Chalcis
- noun - type genus of the Chalcididae
Chanced
- verb - be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street"
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
- take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"
Chancel
- noun - area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing
Chancer
- unknown - Someone who runs risks; an unscrupulous type of person
Chances
- noun - a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible; "the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5"
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances;
- a risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her drive"
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"
- be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street"
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
- take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"
- the possibility of future success;
Chancre
- noun - a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)
Charcot
- noun - French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893)
Chaucer
- noun - English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)
Chincha
- - A south American rodent of the genus Lagotis.
Chinche
- - Parsimonious; niggardly.