4-letter words containing c
- itcz — Intertropical Convergence Zone
- jack — Sir John Arthur ("Jack") 1926–2014, Australian racing-car driver and designer.
- jct. — junction
- jdbc — Java Database Connectivity
- jfcl — /jif'kl/, /jaf'kl/, /j*-fi'kl/ (obsolete) To cancel or annul something. "Why don't you jfcl that out?" The fastest do-nothing instruction on older models of the PDP-10 happened to be JFCL, which stands for "Jump if Flag set and then CLear the flag"; this does something useful, but is a very fast no-operation if no flag is specified. Geoff Goodfellow, one of the jargon-1 co-authors, had JFCL on the licence plate of his BMW for years. Usage: rare except among old-time PDP-10 hackers.
- jfcu — Jamaica Fishermen Co-operative Union
- jock — Scot. and Irish English. a nickname for John. an innocent lad; country boy.
- joco — a joke
- juco — junior college
- kcal — kilocalorie
- kcmg — Knight Commander (of the Order) of St Michael and St George
- kčs. — koruna
- kcvo — Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
- keck — to retch; be nauseated.
- kick — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kloc — (unit, programming) Thousand (kilo-) Lines of code.
- koch — Edward I. 1924–2013, U.S. politician: mayor of New York City 1977–89.
- kwic — keyword in context
- kwoc — key word out of context
- lace — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
- lacs — Plural form of lac.
- lacw — leading aircraftwoman
- lacy — of or resembling lace; lacelike: a lacy gown; a lacy leaf.
- laic — Also, laical. lay; secular.
- larc — long-acting reversible contraceptive (or contraception): the use of LARCs such as the intrauterine device, or IUD.
- lcos — liquid crystal on silicon: a technology used in television screens in which liquid crystals are applied to a silicon chip, allowing the production of high resolution images
- lcsw — licensed clinical social worker
- lech — to behave like a lecher (often followed by for or after).
- lect — (linguistics, sociolinguistics) A specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect.
- lice — plural of louse.
- lich — the body; the trunk.
- lick — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- linc — 1. (language) A Burroughs/Unisys 4GL designed in New Zealand. 2. Laboratory Instrument Computer.
- loc. — locative
- loca — a plural of locus.
- loch — a lake.
- loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- lock — a tress, curl, or ringlet of hair.
- loco — locoweed.
- logc — A C extension incorporating rule-oriented programming, for AI application programs. Production rules are encapsulated into functional components called rulesets. LogC uses a search network algorithm similar to RETE. Version 1.6.
- lpac — 1. (audio, compression) Lossless Predictive Audio Compression. 2. London Parallel Applications Centre.
- lrcp — Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians
- lrcs — Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons
- lrsc — Licentiate of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- luce — Clare Boothe, 1903–87, U.S. writer, politician, and diplomat.
- luck — Polish name of Lutsk.
- lucy — a female given name.
- lych — the body; the trunk.
- mac- — (in surnames of Scottish or Irish Gaelic origin) son of