4-letter words starting with c
- cuna — a member of a group of American Indian people inhabiting settlements on the Isthmus of Panama and islands in the Gulf of San Blas.
- cunt — Cunt is an offensive word that some people use to refer to a woman's vagina.
- cuny — (nautical) An ordinary seaman.
- cupe — Canadian Union of Public Employees
- cupl — Cornell University Programming Language. A language for simple mathematics problems, based on CORC, with PL/I-like syntax.
- cups — a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable from which to drink tea, soup, etc.
- curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
- curd — The thick white substance which is formed when milk turns sour can be referred to as curds.
- cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
- curf — a cherty limestone found in Portland stone beds
- curl — If you have curls, your hair is in the form of tight curves and spirals.
- curn — a grain of corn
- curr — a purring or cooing sound
- curs — a mongrel dog, especially a worthless or unfriendly one.
- curt — If you describe someone as curt, you mean that they speak or reply in a brief and rather rude way.
- cush — the son of Ham and brother of Canaan (Genesis 10:6)
- cusi — A collection of indices to various web and other Internet documents. It is located at Nexor in the UK.
- cusk — a gadoid food fish, Brosmius brosme, of northern coastal waters, having a single long dorsal fin
- cuso — Canadian University Services Overseas; an organization that sends students to work as volunteers in developing countries
- cusp — any of the small elevations on the grinding or chewing surface of a tooth
- cuss — If someone cusses, they swear at someone or use bad language.
- cust — Custody.
- cute — Something or someone that is cute is very pretty or attractive, or is intended to appear pretty or attractive.
- cuts — Computer Users' Tape System
- cutt — Obsolete spelling of cut.
- cuve — a wine vat.
- cuyp — Aelbert (ˈaːlbert). 1620–91, Dutch painter of landscapes and animals
- cweb — (language) An ANSI C implementation of the Web literate programming language. Version 3.1 by Levy, Knuth, and Marc van Leeuwen is writen in, and outputs, ANSI C and C++.
- cwic — Compiler for Writing and Implementing Compilers. Val Schorre. One of the early metacompilers. Compare Meta-II.
- cwms — cirque (def 1).
- cyan — a highly saturated green-blue that is the complementary colour of red and forms, with magenta and yellow, a set of primary colours
- cycl — A frame language.
- cyke — cyclorama (def 2).
- cyle — Alternative form of sile.
- cyma — either of two mouldings having a double curve, part concave and part convex. Cyma recta has the convex part nearer the wall and cyma reversa has the concave part nearer the wall
- cyme — an inflorescence in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem and subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems
- cyon — Obsolete spelling of scion.
- cyst — A cyst is a growth containing liquid that appears inside your body or under your skin.
- cyte — Obsolete spelling of city.
- czar — an emperor: title of any of the former emperors of Russia and, at various times, the sovereigns of other Slavic nations