Italian to English Dictionary (Dizionario Italiano-Inglese)

Charter-colony

A colony established and governed under a charter granted by the monarch or parliament, granting the inhabitants considerable self-governing privileges.

Chas

An informal diminutive or short form of the male given name Charles.

Chautauqua

An adult education movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which combined education and entertainment through lectures, concerts, and dramatic performances.

Chazerei

Worthless stuff, junk, or trash.

Cheesecigning

A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus region of Chechnya, or relating to its culture and people.

Chemiluminescence

The emission of light during a chemical reaction, typically without the production of significant heat.

Chemotaxis

The movement of a motile cell or organism in a direction corresponding to a gradient of increasing or decreasing concentration of a particular chemical substance.

Chephren

An ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty during the Old Kingdom, builder of the second pyramid at Giza and traditionally associated with the Great Sphinx.

Chevrette

Leather made from sheepskin or goat skin that has been dressed and dyed, often used in bookbinding.

Chiaroscuro

The treatment of light and shade in a drawing or painting, especially when strongly contrasting.

Chiasm

A grammatical figure of speech wherein the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second.

Chiliasm

The belief that Christ will establish a kingdom on earth for a thousand years before the Last Judgment, synonymous with millenarianism.