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3-letter words starting with c

  • ci$ — CompuServe Information Service
  • cia — The CIA is the government organization in the United States that collects secret information about other countries. CIA is an abbreviation for 'Central Intelligence Agency'.
  • cib — Criminal Investigation Branch (of New Zealand police)
  • cid — The CID is the branch of the police force in Britain concerned with finding out who has committed crimes. CID is an abbreviation for 'Criminal Investigation Department'.
  • cie — compagnie
  • cif — Caltech Intermediate Form
  • cig — a cigarette
  • cil — 1.   (project)   Component Integration Laboratories. 2.   (language)   Common Intermediate Language.
  • cim — computer input on microfilm
  • cio — Congress of Industrial Organizations
  • cip — Cataloging in Publication
  • cir — Committed Information Rate
  • cis — cisgender or cissexual: He may not be macho, but he's definitely a cis male.
  • cit — a town dweller
  • civ — Civil.
  • cix — 1.   (networking)   Commercial Internet Exchange. 2.   (messaging)   Compulink Information eXchange.
  • cja — Criminal Justice Act
  • cjd — CJD is an incurable brain disease that affects human beings and is believed to be caused by eating beef from cows with BSE. CJD is an abbreviation for 'Creutzfeld Jacob disease'.
  • cjk — (character)   In internationalisation, a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The characters of these languages are all partly based on Han characters (i.e., "hanzi" or "kanji"), which require 16-bit character encodings. CJK character encodings should consist minimally of Han characters plus language-specific phonetic scripts such as pinyin, bopomofo, hiragana, hangul, etc.
  • clc — Canadian Labour Congress
  • cld — called
  • cli — 1.   (operating system)   Command Line Interface. 2.   (database, standard)   Call-Level Interface.
  • clk — clerk
  • clm — Career Limiting Move
  • clp — 1. Cornell List Processor. 2. Constraint Logic Programming.
  • clr — Consortium for Lexical Research
  • clu — Chartered Life Underwriter
  • clv — constant linear velocity
  • clx — (library, graphics)   The Common Lisp library providing a low-level interface to the X Window System, equivalent to Xlib. Graphics toolkits can be built on top of CLX, e.g. McCLIM, Garnet, CLUE and CLIO. Various LISP implementors have independently ported CLX to their own platforms, fixing bugs and, in some cases, adding features in the process.
  • cly — to steal or seize
  • cm2 — square centimeter(s)
  • cm3 — cubic centimeter(s)
  • cma — certified medical assistant
  • cmc — 1.   (messaging)   Computer Mediated Communication. 2.   (hardware)   Common Mezzanine Card.
  • cmd — command
  • cmg — Companion of St Michael and St George (a British title)
  • cml — commercial
  • cmm — A CMM is a robot used for measuring the shape of a component by touching it repeatedly with a probe (= a long thin electronic sensing device).
  • cmp — 1. cellular multiprocessing. 2. Container Managed Persistance. 3. Configuration Management Plan.
  • cms — (programming)   A code management system from DEC.
  • cmu — Carnegie Mellon University
  • cmv — cytomegalovirus
  • cmy — Congregation Melech Yisrael
  • cmz — (programming)   A portable interactive code management system from CodeME S.A.R.L in use in the high-energy physics community.
  • cna — Central News Agency, a national stationery chain
  • cnc — CNC is a way of controlling how machine tools operate using a computer.
  • cnd — Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
  • cng — compressed natural gas
  • cni — Coalition for Networked Information
  • cnn — Cable Network News
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