Name Report For First Name CHAUNCE:

CHAUNCE

First name CHAUNCE's origin is English. CHAUNCE means "chancellor". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CHAUNCE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of chaunce.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with CHAUNCE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with CHAUNCE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming CHAUNCE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CHAUNCE AS A WHOLE:

chaunceler chauncey

NAMES RHYMING WITH CHAUNCE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (haunce) - Names That Ends with haunce:

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (aunce) - Names That Ends with aunce:

leodegraunce

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (unce) - Names That Ends with unce:

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (nce) - Names That Ends with nce:

candance yohance lance ance aviance caidance caydence clemence essence florence france kadence kadience kaedence kaidance kaydance kaydence kaydience morgance ronce chance darence darrance darrence derrance laurence lawrence leodegrance leonce lorance lorence nahcomence ponce prince spence tarrence terrance terrence torrance vance vince ryence laudegrance bellance cadence patience constance dorrance terence torence torrence

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ce) - Names That Ends with ce:

fenice alarice canace circe dice dirce eunice eurydice glauce helice kalonice benoyce prentice anstice eustace maurice aleece aleyece alice allyce alyce anice annice berenice bernice bernyce brandice brandyce candace candice candyce caprice catrice cherice clarice danice darice delice denice deniece derorice dulce ellice ellyce elyce felice galice ganice

NAMES RHYMING WITH CHAUNCE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (chaunc) - Names That Begins with chaunc:

chauncy

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (chaun) - Names That Begins with chaun:

chaun chaunte chauntel

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (chau) - Names That Begins with chau:

chau

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cha) - Names That Begins with cha:

cha cha'akmongwi cha'kwaina cha'risa cha'tima chaba chabah chace chad chadburn chadburne chadbyrne chadwi chadwick chadwik chadwyk chafulumisa chaga chagai chaim chaisly chait chaitra chaka chakierra chalchiuitl chalina chalise chalmer chalmers chamorra chamunda chamyle chan chana chanah chanan chancellor chancey chanda chandara chandi chandler chandra chandria chane chanel chanell chanelle chaney chanler chann channa channe channelle channing channon chano chanoch chansomps chantae chantal chantalle chantay chante chantel chantell chantelle chantrell chanya chapa chapalu chapin chapman chappel chappell char chardae chardanae chardonnay charee charion charis charise charissa chariste charity charla charlaine charlayne charlee charleen charleena charlena charlene

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CHAUNCE:

First Names which starts with 'cha' and ends with 'nce':

First Names which starts with 'ch' and ends with 'ce':

chayce

First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'e':

cabe cable cace cade cadee cadie caesare caflice cailie caindale caine cairbre caitie calandre calanthe caldre cale calfhie calfhierde calibome caliborne callee callie calliope calliste cambrie camdene came camile camille candide candie canice caoimhe caolaidhe capucine caree caresse carilynne carine carlene carlie carlisle carlyle carme carmelide carmeline carmine carolanne carole caroline carolyne carree carrie cartere carthage case casee casidhe casie cassadee cassie catarine cate cateline catharine catherine cathie cathmore catlee catline cattee catti-brie caycee cayle cecile cecille ceire celandine celene celesse celeste celestine celidone celie celine cerise cesare charlette charlie charline charlique charlise charlize charlotte charmaine charmayne charmine chase

English Words Rhyming CHAUNCE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CHAUNCE AS A WHOLE:



ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHAUNCE (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (haunce) - English Words That Ends with haunce:



Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (aunce) - English Words That Ends with aunce:


acustumauncenoun (n.) See Accustomance.

launcenoun (n.) A lance.
 noun (n.) A balance.
 noun (n.) See Lant, the fish.

mountenauncenoun (n.) Mountance.

pauncenoun (n.) The pansy.

purveiauncenoun (n.) Purveyance.

saliaunceadjective (a.) Salience; onslaught.

somonauncenoun (n.) Alt. of Somonce

sovenauncenoun (n.) Remembrance.

trauncenoun (n. & v.) See Trance.


Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (unce) - English Words That Ends with unce:


bouncenoun (n.) A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
 noun (n.) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
 noun (n.) An explosion, or the noise of one.
 noun (n.) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
 noun (n.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
 verb (v. i.) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
 verb (v. i.) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
 verb (v. i.) To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
 verb (v. t.) To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
 verb (v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
 verb (v. t.) To bully; to scold.
 adverb (adv.) With a sudden leap; suddenly.

duncenoun (n.) One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.

flouncenoun (n.) The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
 noun (n.) An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.
 verb (v. i.) To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
 verb (v. t.) To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.

fluidouncenoun (n.) See Fluid ounce, under Fluid.

frouncenoun (n.) A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.
 noun (n.) An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.
 verb (v. i.) To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.
 verb (v. i.) To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.

jouncenoun (n.) A jolt; a shake; a hard trot.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.

ouncenoun (n.) A weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, and containing 437/ grains.
 noun (n.) The twelfth part of a troy pound.
 noun (n.) Fig.: A small portion; a bit.
 noun (n.) A feline quadruped (Felis irbis, / uncia) resembling the leopard in size, and somewhat in color, but it has longer and thicker fur, which forms a short mane on the back. The ounce is pale yellowish gray, with irregular dark spots on the neck and limbs, and dark rings on the body. It inhabits the lofty mountain ranges of Asia. Called also once.

pouncenoun (n.) A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.
 noun (n.) Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern.
 verb (v. t.) The claw or talon of a bird of prey.
 verb (v. t.) A punch or stamp.
 verb (v. t.) Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
 verb (v. t.) To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
 verb (v. t.) To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament.
 verb (v. i.) To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.

pronouncenoun (n.) Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.
 verb (v. t.) To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.
 verb (v. t.) To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
 verb (v. t.) To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
 verb (v. t.) To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
 verb (v. i.) To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
 verb (v. i.) To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.

renouncenoun (n.) Act of renouncing.
 verb (v. t.) To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.
 verb (v. t.) To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
 verb (v. t.) To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
 verb (v. i.) To make renunciation.
 verb (v. i.) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.

rouncenoun (n.) The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.

troyouncenoun (n.) See Troy ounce, under Troy weight, above, and under Ounce.

uncenoun (n.) A claw.
 noun (n.) An ounce; a small portion.


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (nce) - English Words That Ends with nce:


abaisancenoun (n.) Obeisance.

abearancenoun (n.) Behavior.

aberrancenoun (n.) Alt. of Aberrancy

abeyancenoun (n.) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
 noun (n.) Suspension; temporary suppression.

abhorrencenoun (n.) Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.

abidancenoun (n.) The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).

abodancenoun (n.) An omen; a portending.

abscondencenoun (n.) Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding.

absencenoun (n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.
 noun (n.) Want; destitution; withdrawal.
 noun (n.) Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.

absistencenoun (n.) A standing aloof.

abstinencenoun (n.) The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.
 noun (n.) The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.

abundancenoun (n.) An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.

accedencenoun (n.) The act of acceding.

acceptancenoun (n.) The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
 noun (n.) State of being accepted; acceptableness.
 noun (n.) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.
 noun (n.) The bill itself when accepted.
 noun (n.) An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.
 noun (n.) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.
 noun (n.) Meaning; acceptation.

accidencenoun (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
 noun (n.) The rudiments of any subject.

accordancenoun (n.) Agreement; harmony; conformity.

accrescencenoun (n.) Continuous growth; an accretion.

accustomancenoun (n.) Custom; habitual use.

acescencenoun (n.) Alt. of Acescency

achievancenoun (n.) Achievement.

acquaintancenoun (n.) A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
 noun (n.) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.

acquiescencenoun (n.) A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
 noun (n.) Submission to an injury by the party injured.
 noun (n.) Tacit concurrence in the action of another.

acquittancenoun (n.) The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.
 noun (n.) A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
 verb (v. t.) To acquit.

acturiencenoun (n.) Tendency or impulse to act.

adherencenoun (n.) The quality or state of adhering.
 noun (n.) The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.

admirancenoun (n.) Admiration.

admittancenoun (n.) The act of admitting.
 noun (n.) Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.
 noun (n.) Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument.
 noun (n.) Admissibility.
 noun (n.) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
 noun (n.) The reciprocal of impedance.

adolescencenoun (n.) The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

advanceadjective (a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.
 verb (v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
 verb (v. t.) To raise; to elevate.
 verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
 verb (v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.
 verb (v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
 verb (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.
 verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
 verb (v. t.) To extol; to laud.
 verb (v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
 verb (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
 verb (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
 verb (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
 verb (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
 verb (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
 verb (v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.
 verb (v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.

affiancenoun (n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
 noun (n.) Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.
 verb (v. t.) To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.
 verb (v. t.) To assure by promise.

affirmancenoun (n.) Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.
 noun (n.) A strong declaration; affirmation.

affluencenoun (n.) A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx.
 noun (n.) An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth.

aggrievancenoun (n.) Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.

aidancenoun (n.) Aid.

albescencenoun (n.) The act of becoming white; whitishness.

alkalescencenoun (n.) Alt. of Alkalescency

allegeancenoun (n.) Allegation.

allegiancenoun (n.) The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state.
 noun (n.) Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.

alliancenoun (n.) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.
 noun (n.) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
 noun (n.) The persons or parties allied.
 verb (v. t.) To connect by alliance; to ally.

allowancenoun (n.) Approval; approbation.
 noun (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
 noun (n.) Acknowledgment.
 noun (n.) License; indulgence.
 noun (n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
 noun (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
 noun (n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
 noun (n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.

allurancenoun (n.) Allurement.

altiloquencenoun (n.) Lofty speech; pompous language.

ambulancenoun (n.) A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.
 noun (n.) An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital.

amenancenoun (n.) Behavior; bearing.

annoyancenoun (n.) The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.
 noun (n.) That which annoys.

antecedencenoun (n.) The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
 noun (n.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.

apparencenoun (n.) Appearance.

appearancenoun (n.) The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
 noun (n.) A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky.
 noun (n.) Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien.
 noun (n.) Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him.
 noun (n.) The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.
 noun (n.) Probability; likelihood.
 noun (n.) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction.

appendancenoun (n.) Something appendant.

appendencenoun (n.) Alt. of Appendency

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHAUNCE (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (chaunc) - Words That Begins with chaunc:



Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (chaun) - Words That Begins with chaun:


chaunnoun (n.) A gap.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To open; to yawn.

chauntnoun (n. & v.) See Chant.

chaunternoun (n.) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
 noun (n.) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.
 noun (n.) The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.

chaunterienoun (n.) See Chantry.


Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (chau) - Words That Begins with chau:


chaudronnoun (n.) See Chawdron.

chauffernoun (n.) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.

chauldronnoun (n.) See Chawdron.

chausnoun (n.) a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).

chaussesnoun (n. pl.) The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.

chaussurenoun (n.) A foot covering of any kind.

chauvinismnoun (n.) Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.

chauffeurnoun (n.) Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.
 noun (n.) One who manages the running of an automobile; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle.

chauffeusenoun (n.) A woman chauffeur.


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cha) - Words That Begins with cha:


chamomilenoun (n.) A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.
 noun (n.) See Camomile.

chabnoun (n.) The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).

chabasitenoun (n.) Alt. of Cabazite

chablisnoun (n.) A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.
 noun (n.) a white wine resembling Chablis{1}, but made elsewhere, as in California.

chabouknoun (n.) Alt. of Chabuk

chabuknoun (n.) A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment.

chacenoun (n.) See 3d Chase, n., 3.
 verb (v. t.) To pursue. See Chase v. t.

chachalacanoun (n.) The Texan guan (Ortalis vetula).

chacmanoun (n.) A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.]

chaconnenoun (n.) An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations.

chadnoun (n.) See Shad.

chaetetesnoun (n.) A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian limestones.

chaetiferousadjective (a.) Bearing setae.

chaetodontnoun (n.) A marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae. The chaetodonts have broad, compressed bodies, and usually bright colors.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetodonts or the family Chaetodontidae.

chaetognathadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha.

chaetognathanoun (n. pl.) An order of free-swimming marine worms, of which the genus Sagitta is the type. They have groups of curved spines on each side of the head.

chaetopodnoun (n.) One of the Chaetopoda.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Chaetopoda.

chaetopodanoun (n. pl.) A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochaeta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychaeta, including most of the marine species.

chaetotaxynoun (n.) The arrangement of bristles on an insect.

chafingnoun (p pr. & vb. n.) of Chafe
 verb (v. t.) The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing.

chafenoun (n.) Heat excited by friction.
 noun (n.) Injury or wear caused by friction.
 noun (n.) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
 verb (v. t.) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
 verb (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
 verb (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.
 verb (v. i.) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
 verb (v. i.) To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.
 verb (v. i.) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

chafernoun (n.) One who chafes.
 noun (n.) A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan.
 noun (n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.

chafewaxnoun (n.) Alt. of Chaffwax

chaffwaxnoun (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

chafeweednoun (n.) The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.

chaffnoun (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
 noun (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
 noun (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
 noun (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
 noun (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.
 verb (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
 verb (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

chaffingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaff
 noun (n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.

chaffernoun (n.) One who chaffs.
 noun (n.) Bargaining; merchandise.
 noun (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.
 noun (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter.
 verb (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in.
 verb (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words.

chafferingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaffer

chafferernoun (n.) One who chaffers; a bargainer.

chafferynoun (n.) Traffic; bargaining.

chaffinchnoun (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.

chafflessadjective (a.) Without chaff.

chaffyadjective (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
 adjective (a.) Light or worthless as chaff.
 adjective (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
 adjective (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.

chagreennoun (n.) See Shagreen.

chagrinnoun (n.) Vexation; mortification.
 noun (n.) To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.
 adjective (a.) Chagrined.
 verb (v. i.) To be vexed or annoyed.

chargriningnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chagrin

chainnoun (n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.
 noun (n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.
 noun (n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.
 noun (n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.
 noun (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
 noun (n.) The warp threads of a web.
 verb (v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
 verb (v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.
 verb (v. t.) To unite closely and strongly.
 verb (v. t.) To measure with the chain.
 verb (v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.

chainingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chain

chainlessadjective (a.) Having no chain; not restrained or fettered.

chainletnoun (n.) A small chain.

chainworknoun (n.) Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.

chairnoun (n.) A movable single seat with a back.
 noun (n.) An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.
 noun (n.) The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.
 noun (n.) A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.
 noun (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
 verb (v. t.) To place in a chair.
 verb (v. t.) To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.

chairingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chair

chairmannoun (n.) The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.
 noun (n.) One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan.

chairmanshipnoun (n.) The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.

chaisenoun (n.) A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse.
 noun (n.) a carriage in general.

chajanoun (n.) The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, / Chauna, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi.

chalazanoun (n.) The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus.
 noun (n.) A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle.

chalazaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the chalaza.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CHAUNCE:

English Words which starts with 'cha' and ends with 'nce':

chancenoun (n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
 noun (n.) The operation or activity of such agent.
 noun (n.) The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty.
 noun (n.) A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him.
 noun (n.) Probability.
 adjective (a.) Happening by chance; casual.
 verb (v. i.) To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation.
 verb (v. t.) To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with it as object.
 verb (v. t.) To befall; to happen to.
 adverb (adv.) By chance; perchance.

English Words which starts with 'ch' and ends with 'ce':

chalicenoun (n.) A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

chevisancenoun (n.) Achievement; deed; performance.
 noun (n.) A bargain; profit; gain.
 noun (n.) A making of contracts.
 noun (n.) A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.
 noun (n.) An unlawful agreement or contract.

chievancenoun (n.) An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount.

choicenoun (n.) Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
 noun (n.) The power or opportunity of choosing; option.
 noun (n.) Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.
 noun (n.) A sufficient number to choose among.
 noun (n.) The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.
 noun (n.) The best part; that which is preferable.
 superlative (superl.) Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.
 superlative (superl.) Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
 superlative (superl.) Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.