3-letter words containing c, t
- tcp — Transmission Control Protocol
- tec — detective.
- thc — tetrahydrocannabidinol: the active ingredient in cannabis, giving it its narcotic and psychoactive effects
- tic — Pathology. a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face. tic douloureux.
- tlc — If someone or something needs some TLC, they need to be treated in a kind and caring way. TLC is an abbreviation for 'tender loving care.'
- tnc — (hardware) A threaded version of a BNC.
- toc — train operating company
- trc — Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a body established in 1996 to investigate political crimes committed under the apartheid system
- tuc — In Britain, the TUC is an organization which represents trade unions, and to which most trade unions belong. TUC is an abbreviation for 'Trades Union Congress'.
- uct — University of Cape Town
- utc — (time, standard) (UTC, World Time) The standard time common to every place in the world. UTC is derived from International Atomic Time (TAI) by the addition of a whole number of "leap seconds" to synchronise it with Universal Time 1 (UT1), thus allowing for the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit, the rotational axis tilt (23.5 degrees), but still showing the Earth's irregular rotation, on which UT1 is based. Coordinated Universal Time is expressed using a 24-hour clock and uses the Gregorian calendar. It is used in aeroplane and ship navigation, where it also sometimes known by the military name, "Zulu time". "Zulu" in the phonetic alphabet stands for "Z" which stands for longitude zero. UTC was defined by the International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR), a predecessor of the ITU-T. CCIR Recommendation 460-4, or ITU-T Recommendation X.680 (7/94), contains the full definition. The language-independent international abbreviation, UTC, is neither English nor French. It means both "Coordinated Universal Time" and "Temps Universel Coordonné".
- wtc — World Trade Center
- ytc — Yakima Tennis Club