| charles | (n) King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574), Syn. Charles IX |
| charles | (n) King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461), Syn. Charles VII |
| charles | (n) as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877), Syn. Charles II, Charles the Bald, Charles I |
| charles | (n) King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685), Syn. Charles II |
| charles | (n) son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649), Syn. Charles Stuart, Charles I |
| charles | (n) the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948), Syn. Prince Charles |
| charles | (n) French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823), Syn. Jacques Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles |
| charles | (n) a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston, Syn. Charles River |
| charleston | (n) state capital of West Virginia in the central part of the state on the Kanawha river, Syn. capital of West Virginia |
| charleston | (n) a port city in southeastern South Carolina |