Associations to the word «Charnel»

CHARNEL, noun. A chapel attached to a mortuary.

CHARNEL, noun. A repository for dead bodies.

CHARNEL, adjective. Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.

CHARNEL HOUSE, noun. A vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored

CHARNEL HOUSES, noun. Plural of charnel house

CHARNEL, noun. A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited.

CHARNEL, adjective. Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs".