4-letter words starting with c
- cbbc — Childrens British Broadcasting Coorperation
- cbbs — bulletin board system
- cber — a person who owns and operates a CB radio.
- cbir — (image) content-based information retrieval.
- cbrn — (of weapons or warfare) chemical, bacteriological, radiological, or nuclear
- cbso — City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- cc'd — to send a duplicate of a document, email, or the like to: I always cc my boss when I write a memo to my staff.
- cccp — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- ccea — Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment
- cced — to send a duplicate of a document, email, or the like to: I always cc my boss when I write a memo to my staff.
- cclu — Cambridge CLU. CLU extended to support concurrency, distributed programming and remote procedure call, by G. Hamilton et al at CUCL. E-mail: Jean Bacon <[email protected]>.
- ccma — Council for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration
- ccrc — Criminal Cases Review Commission: a British government body established in 1997 to investigate alleged miscarriages of justice
- ccsp — Contextually Communicating Sequential Processes
- ccta — Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
- cctv — CCTV is an abbreviation for 'closed-circuit television'.
- cd-i — Compact Disc Interactive
- cd-r — A CD-R is a CD which is capable of recording sound and images, for example from another CD or from the Internet. CD-R is an abbreviation for 'compact disc recordable'.
- cddi — Copper Distributed Data Interface
- cdif — CASE Data Interchange Format
- cdma — code-division multiple access: a digital technology used in mobile phones
- cdna — complementary DNA; a form of DNA artificially synthesized from a messenger RNA template and used in genetic engineering to produce gene clones
- cdpd — Cellular Digital Packet Data
- cdre — Commodore
- cdtv — compact disc television
- cebu — an island in the central Philippines. Pop: 2 091 602 (latest est). Area: 4422 sq km (1707 sq miles)
- ceca — a cul-de-sac, especially that in which the large intestine begins.
- cede — If someone in a position of authority cedes land or power to someone else, they let them have the land or power, often as a result of military or political pressure.
- cedi — the standard monetary unit of Ghana, divided into 100 pesewas
- cees — the letter C.
- cegb — (the former) Central Electricity Generating Board
- ceil — to line (a ceiling) with plaster, boarding, etc
- cela — Camilo José (kaˈmilo xoˈse). 1916–2002, Spanish novelist and essayist. His works include The Family of Pascual Duarte (1942), La Colmena (1951), and La Cruz de San Andrés (1994). Nobel prize for literature 1989
- cell — A cell is the smallest part of an animal or plant that is able to function independently. Every animal or plant is made up of millions of cells.
- celp — (language) Computationally Extended Logic Programming.
- cels — Plural form of cel.
- celt — If you describe someone as a Celt, you mean that they are part of the racial group which comes from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and some other areas such as Brittany.
- cene — (genetics) A control gene.
- ceng — chartered engineer
- cens — a type of annual property ground rent
- cent — A cent is a small unit of money worth one hundredth of some currencies, for example the dollar and the euro.
- cepe — a large, fleshy, edible boletus mushroom (Boletus edulis) with a brown cap and a thick, white stem
- ceps — Plural form of cep.
- cept — Comite Europeen des Postes et Telecommunications
- cer- — cero-
- cera — (in prescriptions) wax.
- cere — a soft waxy swelling, containing the nostrils, at the base of the upper beak in such birds as the parrot
- cerf — Bennett (Alfred) 1898–1971, U.S. book publisher, editor, and writer.
- cern — Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire; an organization of European states with a centre in Geneva for research in high-energy particle physics, now called the European Laboratory for Particle Physics
- cero — a large spiny-finned food fish, Scomberomorus regalis, of warm American coastal regions of the Atlantic: family Scombridae (mackerels, tunnies, etc)