Words That Start With: CHAN

• a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors

• an ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea

• an endowment for the singing of Masses

• a chapel endowed for singing Masses for the soul of the donor

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• a risk involving danger

• a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible

• the possibility of future success

• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

• be the case by chance

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• made or become different in nature or form

• made or become different in some respect

• area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing

• a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors

• a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)

• A scheming opportunist.