| CHILD | • child n. (Broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation)… • child n. (With possessive) One’s direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one’s offspring; a son or daughter. • child n. (Cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card. |
| CHILE | • chile n. (US, regional) Alternative form of chili (a chili pepper). • chile n. (Southern US, AAVE) Pronunciation spelling of child. • Chile prop.n. A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Chile. |
| CHILI | • chili n. (Countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum… • chili n. (Uncountable) Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking. • chili n. (Indian Chinese cuisine) A spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer. |
| CHILL | • chill n. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness. • chill n. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through… • chill n. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually… |
| HILAR | • hilar adj. Relating to or near a hilum. • HILAR adj. belonging to the hilum, a mark where seed was attached to its stalk. |
| HILCH | • hilch v. (Scotland) To hobble. • hilch n. (Scotland) A limp. • HILCH v. (Scots) to hobble. |
| HILLO | • hillo interj. Obsolete form of hello. • hillo v. (Obsolete) To holler, shout loudly at someone. • HILLO v. to shout out a greeting, also HALLO, HALLOA, HALLOO, HELLO, HILLOA, HOLLA, HOLLO, HOLLOA, HOLLOO, HULLO. |
| HILLS | • hills n. Plural of hill. • hills v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hill. • Hills prop.n. A surname. |
| HILLY | • hilly adj. (Of a landscape) Abundant in hills; having many hills. • HILLY adj. abounding in hills. |
| HILTS | • hilts n. Plural of hilt. • hilts v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hilt. • Hilts prop.n. Plural of Hilt. |
| HILUM | • hilum n. (Botany) The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or… • hilum n. (Botany) The nucleus of a starch grain. • hilum n. (Anatomy) A depression or fissure through which ducts, nerves, or blood vessels enter and leave a gland… |
| HILUS | • hilus n. (Anatomy) A hilum. • HILUS n. (Latin) the scar on a seed where it joined its stalk, also HILUM. |
| NIHIL | • nihil n. (Countable, law) A nihil dicit. • nihil n. (Uncountable, chiefly philosophy) nothingness, nonbeing. • NIHIL n. (Latin) nothing. |
| SHILL | • shill n. A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial. • shill n. (Derogatory) Any person paid to endorse a product. • shill n. An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game. |
| SHILY | • shily adv. Archaic form of shyly. • SHY adv. embarrassed, bashful. |
| THILK | • THILK adj. (dialect) the same. |
| THILL | • thill n. One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft. • thill n. (Mining) The shallow stratum of underclay that lies under a seam of coal; the bottom of a coal-seam. • Thill prop.n. A surname. |
| WHILE | • while n. An uncertain duration of time, a period of time. • while conj. During the same time that. • while conj. Although. |
| WHILK | • whilk n. Alternative form of whelk. • WHILK adj. (Scots) which. |