| child abuse | the physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children |
| child neglect | failure of caretakers to provide adequate emotional and physical care for a child |
| play child's play | activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules, Freud believed in the utility of play to a small child |
| child's game | a game enjoyed by children |
cinch breeze
picnic
snap duck soup
child's play
pushover
walkover
piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
| sperm count | the act of estimating the number of spermatozoa in an ejaculate |
child pornography
kiddie porn
kiddy porn | the illegal use of children in pornographic pictures or films |
childcare
child care | a service involving care for other people's children |
sperm whale
cachalot
black whale Physeter catodon | large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil, also a source of ambergris |
pygmy sperm whale
Kogia breviceps | small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America |
dwarf sperm whale
Kogia simus | very small (to feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific |
| child's room | a bedroom for a child |
| sperm bank | a depository for storing sperm |
| child's body | the body of a human child |
sperm
sperm cell
spermatozoon
spermatozoan | the male reproductive cell, the male gamete, a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material |
developmental psychology
genetic psychology
child psychology | the branch of psychology that studies the social and mental development of children |
| Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children | an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel |
| donor card | a card that you carry on your person and that authorizes the use of your organs for transplantation after your death |
United Nations Children's Fund
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
UNICEF | an agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries |
child welfare agency
child welfare service | an administrative unit responsible for social work concerned with the welfare and vocational training of children |
bastard by-blow
love child
illegitimate child
illegitimate
whoreson | the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents |
| blood donor | someone who gives blood to be used for transfusions |
c child
kid
youngster
minor
shaver
nipper
small fry tiddler
tike tyke fry
nestling | a young person of either sex, she writes books for children, they're just kids, `tiddler' is a British term for youngster |
| child kid | a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age, they had three children, they were able to send their kids to college |
| child baby | an immature childish person, he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived, stop being a baby! |
| child | a member of a clan or tribe, the children of Israel |
child prodigy
infant prodigy
wonder child | a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age, Mozart was a child prodigy |
donor
giver
presenter
bestower
conferrer | person who makes a gift of property |
| donor | (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host) |
female child
girl little girl | a youthful female person, the baby was a girl, the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle |
fosterhild
foster child
fosterling | a child who is raised by foster parents |
hippie
hippy
hipster
flower child | someone who rejects the established culture, advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle |
| latchkey child | a school-age child who is home without adult supervision for part of the day (especially after school until a parent returns home from work) |
male child
boy | a youthful male person, the baby was a boy, she made the boy brush his teeth every night, most soldiers are only boys in uniform |
| organ donor | someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation |
pederast
paederast
child molester | a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner |
| poster child | a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes, she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy |
schoolchild
school-age child
pupil | a young person attending school (up through senior high school) |
| universal donor | a person whose type O Rh-negative blood may be safely transfused into persons with other blood types |
waif
street child | a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned, street children beg or steal in order to survive |
| child support | court-ordered support paid by one spouse to the other who has custody of the children after the parents are separated |
| sperm count | the number of sperm in an ejaculate, the sperm count is used as an indicator of male fertility |
| sperm oil | an animal oil found in the blubber of the sperm whale |
child-proof
childproof | make safe against children, childproof the apartment |
big(p)
enceinte
expectant
gravid
great(p)
large(p)
heavy(p)
with child(p) | in an advanced stage of pregnancy, was big with child, was great with child |
| sperm-filled | filled with sperm |
| child-centered | designed to promote a child's personal qualities rather than to provide training or information |