4-letter words containing c
- cass — Lewis1782-1866; U.S. statesman
- cast — The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
- cate — a choice bit; dainty
- cath — Catholic
- cato — Marcus Porcius (ˈmɑːkəsˈpɔːʃɪəs), known as Cato the Elder or the Censor. 234–149 bc, Roman statesman and writer, noted for his relentless opposition to Carthage
- cats — credit accumulation transfer scheme: a scheme enabling school-leavers and others to acquire transferable certificates for relevant work experience and study towards a recognized qualification
- catt — Carrie Chapman1859-1947; U.S. leader in the movement for women's suffrage
- catv — community antenna television
- cauf — a cage used by fishermen for holding live fish in the water
- caul — a portion of the amniotic sac sometimes covering a child's head at birth
- caup — a gift given by a man to his master for his keeping and protection
- caus — causative
- caut — (obsolete, done by a panther) Emit a call in the manner of a panther.
- cava — a Spanish sparkling wine produced by a method similar to that used for champagne
- cave — A cave is a large hole in the side of a cliff or hill, or one that is under the ground.
- cavu — ceiling and visibility unlimited
- cavy — any small South American hystricomorph rodent of the family Caviidae, esp any of the genus Cavia, having a thickset body and very small tail
- caws — Plural form of caw.
- cayo — Lb Latin America A small island or ledge of rock in the water; a key.
- cays — Plural form of cay.
- caza — A Turkish provincial subdivision.
- caze — Obsolete spelling of because.
- cbbc — Childrens British Broadcasting Coorperation
- cbbs — bulletin board system
- cber — a person who owns and operates a CB radio.
- cbir — (image) content-based information retrieval.
- cbrn — (of weapons or warfare) chemical, bacteriological, radiological, or nuclear
- cbso — City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- cc'd — to send a duplicate of a document, email, or the like to: I always cc my boss when I write a memo to my staff.
- cccp — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- ccea — Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment
- cced — to send a duplicate of a document, email, or the like to: I always cc my boss when I write a memo to my staff.
- cclu — Cambridge CLU. CLU extended to support concurrency, distributed programming and remote procedure call, by G. Hamilton et al at CUCL. E-mail: Jean Bacon <[email protected]>.
- ccma — Council for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration
- ccrc — Criminal Cases Review Commission: a British government body established in 1997 to investigate alleged miscarriages of justice
- ccsp — Contextually Communicating Sequential Processes
- ccta — Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
- cctv — CCTV is an abbreviation for 'closed-circuit television'.
- cd-i — Compact Disc Interactive
- cd-r — A CD-R is a CD which is capable of recording sound and images, for example from another CD or from the Internet. CD-R is an abbreviation for 'compact disc recordable'.
- cddi — Copper Distributed Data Interface
- cdif — CASE Data Interchange Format
- cdma — code-division multiple access: a digital technology used in mobile phones
- cdna — complementary DNA; a form of DNA artificially synthesized from a messenger RNA template and used in genetic engineering to produce gene clones
- cdpd — Cellular Digital Packet Data
- cdre — Commodore
- cdtv — compact disc television
- cebu — an island in the central Philippines. Pop: 2 091 602 (latest est). Area: 4422 sq km (1707 sq miles)
- ceca — a cul-de-sac, especially that in which the large intestine begins.
- cede — If someone in a position of authority cedes land or power to someone else, they let them have the land or power, often as a result of military or political pressure.