This page gathers the 680 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “India” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 2 of 7: from “cell” to “dipper”.
- cell noun A cellular phone.
- cent percent adj Synonym of one hundred percent
- centum noun Perfect score on a board examination.
- cess noun An assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.
- chacha noun An uncle, especially one's father's younger brother.
- chaddi noun Underwear, shorts, especially knickers.
- chai noun Any tea beverage, but especially milk tea, regardless of whether it is spiced.
- chakla noun A flat circular board used for rolling out dough.
- chana noun A dish principally made from chickpeas or chickpea paste.
- chandala noun A person involved in the disposal of corpses, traditionally a lower-caste Hindu and considered untouchable.
- chank noun The large spiral shell of several species of sea conch, much used in making bangles, especially Turbinella pyrum.
- chaprasi noun An official of some kind, especially an important attendant or messenger in the household of an Indian landowner.
- chapterwise adj By chapter; one chapter at a time.
- chargesheet noun A document of accusation prepared by law enforcement to be submitted to the court.
- cheese noun The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.
- chhapri noun A mold or sieve used in manual papermaking.
- chick noun A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
- chinky noun A person from Northeast India.
- chit noun A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
- chobdar noun A frequent attendant of Indian nobles, and formerly also of Anglo-Indian officials of rank, carrying a staff overlaid with silver.
- chop verb To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not…
- chout noun An assessment equal to a quarter of the revenue, levied by the Marathas from other Indian kingdoms as compensation for being exempted from…
- chow mein noun A person from Northeast India.
- chowk noun An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).
- chowki noun The post of a watchman or policeman (chaukidar).
- Chrislamic adj Associated with Christian missionaries or Islamist groups; opposed to Hindutva or Hindu nationalism.
- chuckler noun A shoemaker, a cobbler.
- chuhra noun Any lower-caste person.
- chummery noun The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj.
- chumpaka noun A lodestone.
- chunam noun A type of plaster made from lime and sand, used for indoor finishing and slope protection.
- chup adj Silent, quiet.
- chur noun An island or shoal in a river.
- chut noun A coarse cotton sheet, stretched on a frame and whitewashed, forming the ceiling of a room.
- circle noun A traffic circle or roundabout.
- class noun a grade, standard, level of education.
- clean chit noun A (usually oral) exoneration given by law enforcement agencies to suspects in a crime, likely to be flawed.
- click verb To take (a photograph) with a camera.
- cloakroom noun A room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport.
- CM noun Initialism of chief minister.
- co-brother noun One's wife's sister's husband.
- co-sister noun One's spouse's sibling's wife.
- colony noun An apartment complex or neighborhood.
- communal adj Defined by religious ideas; based on religion.
- communalism noun Stoking conflict or discrimination based on religious identity.
- communally adv Relating to religion
- communitywise adj In terms of communities.
- competition wallah noun A member of the civil service who obtained an appointment by the competitive system instituted in 1856.
- concise verb To make concise; to abridge or summarize.
- congee house noun The temporary lockup of a regiment in India, used as a disciplinary measure.
- congi noun An ardent supporter of the Indian National Congress.
- congo intj congratulations
- consortism noun The relationship between consorts.
- convent noun A Christian school.
- convent school noun Any English-medium school.
- cookroom noun A kitchen or room for cookery.
- cooler noun Ellipsis of air cooler, evaporative cooler, desert cooler, or swamp cooler.
- coosumba noun Safflower.
- country adj Originating in India rather than being imported from abroad.
- country beer noun Beer made in India, not imported from Europe or elsewhere.
- course noun The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.
- cover noun A bag or packet.
- covil noun A Hindu temple.
- cranny noun A clerk writing English.
- crap verb To bullshit.
- creamy layer noun The relatively wealthy and well-educated members of the other backward classes, who are ineligible for government benefit programs.
- crib verb To complain, to grumble
- criminal tribe noun a caste or tribe in British India that is deemed by authorities in "addicted to the systematic commission of non-bailable offences", and…
- croreth adj Being one of a crore equal parts of a whole.
- crori noun The possessor or collector of a crore, or ten million, of any given kind of money; especially an official collector of revenue to the…
- curd noun Dahi.
- cuscus noun vetiver
- customer noun A native official who exacted customs duties.
- cutcherry noun A hall used for business, political, or social assemblies, such as a magistrate's court or a building housing a public agency.
- cutting adj Of a beverage: half-sized.
- dabba noun A kind of lunchbox or food container.
- dabbawalla noun A deliveryperson in Mumbai, India who collects freshly cooked food in lunchboxes from workers' residences (mostly in the suburbs), delivers…
- dacoit noun A bandit or armed robber, especially in former parts of British India.
- dai noun A wet nurse; a midwife.
- dak bungalow noun A posthouse of the old Indian postal service (dak), used as lodging by itinerant British officials and other travellers and as a make-shift…
- dalaal noun An intermediary or go-between.
- dam noun An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.
- dandy noun A boatman, a rower.
- dash noun A prime symbol.
- daur noun A foray or hasty expedition.
- dayee noun midwife
- debond verb To lift a posted bond
- dehire verb To terminate use under a lease of.
- demat adj Shortening of dematerialized
- desai noun In west and south India, a native official in charge of a district, often held by heredity; a petty chief.
- desert fox noun The white-footed fox.
- devil noun A poltergeist that haunts printing works.
- devolvement noun A process whereby if an investment issue is undersubscribed, an underwriter is required to subscribe to the remaining shares; the…
- dewal noun A Hindu temple or mandir.
- dharna noun A sit-in.
- dhobi's earth noun A whitish-grey sandy efflorescence, found in many places, from which by boiling and the addition of quicklime a strong alkali is obtained.
- dhoon noun Any of the flat valleys lying parallel to the base of the Himalayas, and between the rise of that mountain mass and the low tertiary ranges…
- diaper noun An absorbent garment worn around the crotch that retains the wearer's urine and feces, often worn by a baby or young child who is not yet…
- dicky noun the buttocks.
- dipper noun The control in a vehicle that switches between high-beam and low-beam (i.e. dips the lights), especially when used to signal other vehicles.