chili

Plural: chilies, chilis

Noun

• A hot pepper, or a dish of ground meat and beans.
• ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans
• very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
• The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
• Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.
• A spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer.
• A dish made with chili peppers and other ingredients, such as beans and beef.
• Cincinnati chili.

Examples

• Playing CHILI ignited a chain reaction of high-scoring words for her.

Synonyms

chile, chili con carne, chili pepper, chilli, chilly, chili powder