4-letter words starting with c
- 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.
- crow — A crow is a large black bird which makes a loud, harsh noise.
- crtc — Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission
- crud — You use crud to refer to any disgustingly dirty or sticky substance.
- crue — Obsolete form of crew.
- crum — Obsolete form of crumb.
- crus — the leg, esp from the knee to the foot
- crut — crud (def 1).
- crux — The crux of a problem or argument is the most important or difficult part of it which affects everything else.
- cruz — San Juan de la [sahn hwahn de lah] /sɑn ʰwɑn dɛ lɑ/ (Show IPA), John of the Cross, Saint.
- cryo — (informal) cryoprecipitate.
- cs-4 — ["CS-4 Language Reference Manual and Operating System Interface", Ben M. Brosgol et al, Report IR-130-2, Intermetrics, Cambridge MA, Oct 1975].
- csar — Alternative form of tsar.
- csce — (formerly) Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe
- csci — Computer Software Configuration Item
- cscw — Computer Supported Cooperative Work
- cseu — (in Britain) Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions
- csid — character set identifier
- csmp — Continuous System Modeling Program
- csps — ["Toward Comprehensive Specification of Distributed Systems", G. Roman et al, Proc 7th Intl Conf on Distrib Comp Sys, IEEE 1987, pp. 282-289].
- cssa — An object-oriented language.
- cssl — Continuous System Simulation Language
- csta — Computer Science Teachers Association
- csys — Certificate of Sixth Year Studies
- ctcp — (networking) Client To Client Protocol
- ctn. — carton.
- ctos — 1. (operating system) Computerised Tomography Operating System. 2. (operating system) Convergent Technologies Operating System.
- ctrl — control
- ctss — Compatible Timesharing System
- cuba — a republic and the largest island in the Caribbean, at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: became a Spanish colony after its discovery by Columbus in 1492; gained independence after the Spanish-American War of 1898 but remained subject to US influence until declared a people's republic under Castro in 1960; subject of an international crisis in 1962, when the US blockaded the island in order to compel the Soviet Union to dismantle its nuclear missile base. Sugar comprises about 80 per cent of total exports; the economy was badly affected by loss of trade following the collapse of the Soviet Union and by the continuing US trade embargo. Diplomatic ties with the US restored in 2014. Language: Spanish. Religion: nonreligious majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Havana. Pop: 11 061 886 (2013 est). Area: 110 922 sq km (42 827 sq miles)
- cube — A cube is a solid object with six square surfaces which are all the same size.
- cubs — the junior branch of the Scout Association
- cuch — CUrry-CHurch.
- cuck — (slang) A cuckold.
- cuda — a barracuda.
- cuds — the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.
- cued — a long, tapering rod, tipped with a soft leather pad, used to strike the ball in billiards, pool, etc.
- cues — the letter Q, q.
- cuff — The cuffs of a shirt or dress are the parts at the ends of the sleeves, which are thicker than the rest of the sleeve.
- cuit — the ankle
- cuke — a cucumber
- cull — If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.
- culm — coal-mine waste
- culo — the buttocks.
- cult — A cult is a fairly small religious group, especially one which is considered strange.
- cume — Marketing. cumulative/accumulated audience: the number of people reached by an advertising or broadcasting medium over a specified period of time: The station has a weekly cume of 5.5 million. the cumulative gross earnings from a movie, album, etc.: the cume for the Star Wars franchise.