4-letter words containing r, c
- cire — (of fabric) treated with a heat or wax process to make it smooth
- cirl — a bird belonging to the bunting family
- cmdr — Cmdr is a written abbreviation for commander.
- cnar — compound net annual rate
- cnri — Corporation for National Research Initiatives
- coir — Coir is a rough material made from coconut shells which is used to make ropes and mats.
- comr — Commissioner
- cor- — com-
- cora — a feminine name
- corb — A basket used in coal mines, etc.; a corf.
- corc — CORnell Compiler. Simple language for student math problems.
- cord — Cord is strong, thick string.
- core — The core of a fruit is the central part of it. It contains seeds or pips.
- corf — a wagon or basket used formerly in mines
- cori — Carl Ferdinand. 1896–1984, US biochemist, born in Bohemia; shared a Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1947) with his wife Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896–1957) and Bernardo Houssay, for elucidating the stages of glycolysis
- cork — Cork is a soft, light substance which forms the bark of a type of Mediterranean tree.
- corm — an organ of vegetative reproduction in plants such as the crocus, consisting of a globular stem base swollen with food and surrounded by papery scale leaves
- corn — Corn is used to refer to crops such as wheat and barley. It can also be used to refer to the seeds from these plants.
- coro — a city in NW Venezuela.
- corr — corrected
- cory — any of various freshwater catfish belonging to the South American Corydoras genus
- cpre — Council for the Protection of Rural England
- cpsr — Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
- crab — A crab is a sea creature with a flat round body covered by a shell, and five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair. Crabs usually move sideways.
- crac — Careers Research and Advisory Centre
- crag — A crag is a steep rocky cliff or part of a mountain.
- cram — If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them.
- cran — a unit of capacity used for measuring fresh herring, equal to 37.5 gallons
- crap — If you describe something as crap, you think that it is wrong or of very poor quality.
- crat — Bureaucrat.
- craw — the stomach of an animal
- cray — a crayfish
- creb — cyclic amp-response element binding protein; a protein involved in the long-term memory process
- cred — Cred is the same as street cred.
- cree — temporary immunity from the rules of a game: said by children
- cren — Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
- creo — (slang) short for creationist.
- crew — The crew of a ship, an aircraft, or a spacecraft is the people who work on and operate it.
- cria — a baby llama, alpaca, or vicuña
- crib — A crib is a bed for a small baby.
- crik — Obsolete spelling of creak.
- crim — criminal
- crin — Horsehair fabric.
- crip — a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
- crit — a critic.
- crlf — (character) /ker'l*f/, sometimes /kru'l*f/ or /C-R-L-F/ A carriage return (CR, ASCII 13) followed by a line feed (LF, ASCII 10). Under Unix influence this usage has become less common because Unix uses just line feed as its line terminator. See newline, terpri.
- croc — crocodile
- crog — to ride on a bicycle as a passenger
- cron — (operating system) The Unix clock daemon that executes commands at specified dates and times according to instructions in a "crontab" file.
- crop — Crops are plants such as wheat and potatoes that are grown in large quantities for food.