chiaroscuro
— Noun
– English
~ a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color
chiasm
— Noun
– English
~ an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X
chiasma
— Noun
– English
~ an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X
chiasmal
— Adjective
– English
~ of or relating to a chiasm
chiasmatic
— Adjective
– English
~ of or relating to a chiasm
chiasmic
— Adjective
– English
~ of or relating to a chiasm
chiasmus
— Noun
– English
~ inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
chic
— Adjective
– English
~ elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut"
chic
— Noun
– English
~ elegance by virtue of being fashionable
Chicago
— Noun
– English
~ a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
Chicago
— Noun
– English
~ largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan
chicane
— Verb
– English
~ raise trivial objections
chicane
— Verb
– English
~ defeat someone through trickery or deceit
chicane
— Noun
– English
~ the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
chicane
— Noun
– English
~ a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
chicane
— Noun
– English
~ a bridge hand that is void of trumps
chicanery
— Noun
– English
~ the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
chicano
— Noun
– English
~ a person of Mexican descent
chicha
— Noun
– English
~ an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola"