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3-letter words starting with c

  • cno — Chief of Naval Operations
  • cnr — Canadian National Railways
  • cns — central nervous system
  • co- — co- is used to form verbs or nouns that refer to people sharing things or doing things together.
  • co. — Co. is used as an abbreviation for company when it is part of the name of an organization.
  • co2 — (language, database)   An object-oriented database language combining C and O2, from GIP Altair, Versailles, France.
  • coa — coenzyme A
  • cob — A cob is a type of short strong horse.
  • cod — Cod are a type of large edible fish.
  • coe — Sebastian, Baron. born 1956, English middle-distance runner and sports administrator: won the 1500 metres at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics; chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games of 2012
  • cog — A cog is a wheel with square or triangular teeth around the edge, which is used in a machine to turn another wheel or part.
  • coi — Central Office of Information
  • col — Physical Geography. a pass or depression in a mountain range or ridge.
  • com — a commercial company
  • con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
  • coo — When a dove or pigeon coos, it makes the soft sounds that doves and pigeons typically make.
  • cop — A cop is a policeman or policewoman.
  • coq — A trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat.
  • cor — You can say cor when you are surprised or impressed.
  • cos — one of the Greek Dodecanese Islands in the SE Aegean Sea, off the SW coast of Turkey. 111 sq. mi. (287 sq. km).
  • cot — A cot is a bed for a baby, with bars or panels round it so that the baby cannot fall out.
  • cov — covariance
  • cow — A cow is a large female animal that is kept on farms for its milk. People sometimes refer to male and female animals of this species as cows.
  • cox — In a rowing boat, the cox is the person who gives instructions to the rowers.
  • coy — evasive, esp in an annoying way
  • coz — cousin
  • cpa — CPA is an abbreviation for certified public accountant.
  • cpb — Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • cpd — compound
  • cpi — CPI is an abbreviation for consumer price index.
  • cpl — Combined Programming Language. U Cambridge and U London. A very complex language, syntactically based on ALGOL 60, with a pure functional subset. Provides the ..where.. form of local definitions. Strongly typed but has a "general" type enabling a weak form of polymorphism. Functions may be defined as either normal or applicative order. Typed array and polymorphic list structures. List selection is through structure matching. Partially implemented on the Titan (Atlas 2) computer at Cambridge. Led to the much simpler BCPL. "The Main Features of CPL", D.W. Barron et al, Computer J 6(2):134-143 (Jul 1963).
  • cpm — critical path method: a mathematically based method of scheduling the steps required to carry out a project
  • cpo — Chief Petty Officer
  • cpp — C preprocessor.
  • cpr — CPR is a medical technique for reviving someone whose heart has stopped beating by pressing on their chest and breathing into their mouth. CPR is an abbreviation for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
  • cps — cycles per second
  • cpu — In a computer, the CPU is the part that processes all the data and makes the computer work. CPU is an abbreviation for 'central processing unit'.
  • cqb — close-quarter battle
  • crb — (in Britain) Criminal Records Bureau
  • crc — cyclic redundancy check
  • crd — customer relations department
  • cre — Commission for Racial Equality
  • cri — Crown Research Institutes
  • crl — Carnegie Representation Language.
  • crm — customer relationship management
  • cro — cathode-ray oscilloscope
  • crp — Central Reserve Police
  • crs — creditors
  • crt — cathode-ray tube
  • cru — (in France) a vineyard, group of vineyards, or wine-producing region
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