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4-letter words containing c, e

  • deck — A deck on a vehicle such as a bus or ship is a lower or upper area of it.
  • deco — of or having to do with art deco
  • dect — Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
  • dice — A dice is a small cube which has between one and six spots or numbers on its sides, and which is used in games to provide random numbers. In old-fashioned English, 'dice' was used only as a plural form, and the singular was die, but now 'dice' is used as both the singular and the plural form.
  • duce — a leader or dictator.
  • dyce — Alexander, 1798–1869, Scottish editor.
  • each — every one of two or more considered individually or one by one: each stone in a building; a hallway with a door at each end.
  • ecad — An organism that is modified by its environment.
  • ecce — Art. a painting, statue, or other representation of Christ crowned with thorns.
  • ecco — look there!
  • ecgd — Export Credit Guarantee Department: an agency in the UK that helps exporters of goods and services to gain business
  • eche — (obsolete) Eternal; everlasting.
  • echo — a repetition of sound produced by the reflection of sound waves from a wall, mountain, or other obstructing surface.
  • echt — real; authentic; genuine.
  • ecma — 1. European Computer Manufacturers Association, now {ECMA International}. 2. A subset of ALGOL. [Sammet 1969, p.180].
  • ecmo — extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a method of life support used to oxygenate the blood in newborn babies with lung failure, using a machine incorporating membranes that are impermeable to blood but permeable to oxygen and carbon dioxide
  • eco- — Eco- combines with nouns and adjectives to form other nouns and adjectives which describe something as being related to ecology.
  • econ — Economics.
  • ecrc — European Computer-Industry Research Centre GmbH
  • ecru — very light brown in color, as raw silk, unbleached linen, etc.
  • ecsc — Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
  • ecsl — Extended CSL. A discrete simulation language, the successor to CSL.
  • ecsp — An extension to CSP, supporting dynamic communication channels and nested processes.
  • ecus — the shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
  • edac — error detection and correction
  • educ — education
  • eecu — Educational Employees Credit Union
  • eeoc — Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  • elec — electric
  • emic — Relating to or denoting an approach to the study or description of a particular language or culture in terms of its internal elements and their functioning rather than in terms of any existing external scheme.
  • enc. — enclosed
  • ency — encyclopedia
  • epcs — Experimental Physics Control Systems
  • epic — Of, relating to, or characteristic of an epic or epics.
  • epoc — (operating system)   A family of graphical operating systems developed by Psion for portable devices, primarily PDAs. The name EPOC came from epoch, the beginning of an era, but was backfitted by the engineers to "Electronic Piece Of Cheese". The first version, later known as EPOC16, was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s for Psion's "SIBO" (SIxteen Bit Organisers) devices. All EPOC16 devices feature an 8086-family processor and a 16-bit architecture. EPOC16 is a single-user pre-emptive multitasking operating system, written in Intel 8086 assembler language and C and designed to be delivered in ROM. It supported a simple programming language called OPL and an IDE called OVAL. EPOC16 was followed by EPOC32 in 1997.
  • ercp — endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
  • eric — A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
  • esca — (ichthyology) fleshy growth from an anglerfish's head that acts as a lure.
  • escd — Extended System Configuration Data
  • esrc — Economic and Social Research Council
  • etch — Engrave (metal, glass, or stone ) by coating it with a protective layer, drawing on it with a needle, and then covering it with acid to attack the parts the needle has exposed, especially in order to produce prints from it.
  • etic — Relating to or denoting an approach to the study or description of a particular language or culture that is general, nonstructural, and objective in its perspective.
  • euca — European Union Control Association
  • evac — Evacuation.
  • exc. — Excellency
  • exch — (jargon)   /eks'ch*/ or /eksch/ To exchange two things, each for the other; to swap places. If you point to two people sitting down and say "Exch!", you are asking them to trade places. EXCH, meaning EXCHange, was originally the name of a PDP-10 instruction that exchanged the contents of a register and a memory location. Many newer hackers are probably thinking instead of the PostScript exchange operator (which is usually written in lowercase).
  • excl — exclamation mark
  • exco — (informal) executive committee or council.
  • excp — Execute Channel Program
  • exec — An executive.
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