4-letter words starting with c
- clat — an irksome or troublesome task
- claw — The claws of a bird or animal are the thin, hard, curved nails at the end of its feet.
- clay — Clay is a kind of earth that is soft when it is wet and hard when it is dry. Clay is shaped and baked to make things such as pots and bricks.
- clea — a female given name, form of Cleopatra.
- clef — A clef is a symbol at the beginning of a line of music that indicates the pitch of the written notes.
- cleg — another name for a horsefly, esp one of the genus Haematopota
- clem — to be hungry or cause to be hungry
- cleo — Clear Language for Expressing Orders
- clep — College-Level Examination Program
- clew — a ball of thread, yarn, or twine
- cley — (obsolete) A claw.
- clio — the Muse of history
- clip — A clip is a small device, usually made of metal or plastic, that is specially shaped for holding things together.
- clit — clitoris.
- clix — (language) ["Overview of a Parallel Object-Oriented Language CLIX", J. Hur et al, in ECOOP '87, LNCS 276, Springer 1987, pp. 265-273].
- clod — A clod of earth is a large lump of earth.
- cloe — a female given name, form of Chloe.
- clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
- clop — to make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
- clos — Common LISP Object System
- clot — A clot is a sticky lump that forms when blood dries up or becomes thick.
- clou — the crux; focus
- clow — a clove
- cloy — to make weary or cause weariness through an excess of something initially pleasurable or sweet
- clp* — (language, logic programming) A derivative of Constraint Logic Programming (CLP).
- club — A club is an organization of people interested in a particular activity or subject who usually meet on a regular basis.
- clue — A clue to a problem or mystery is something that helps you to find the answer to it.
- cluj — an industrial city in NW Romania, on the Someşul-Mic River: former capital of Transylvania. Pop: 297 000 (2005 est)
- clum — Silence.
- clut — colour palette
- cmay — (operating system) A microkernel.
- cmdg — commanding
- cmdr — Cmdr is a written abbreviation for commander.
- cmea — Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
- cmga — 1. (body) Computer Management Group of Australia 2. (body) Community of Massive Gaming Agency.
- cmip — Common Management Information Protocol
- cmis — Common Management Information Services
- cmos — complementary metal oxide silicon
- cmvc — Configuration Management Version Control from IBM.
- cmyk — (graphics) cyan, magenta, yellow, key. A colour model that describes each colour in terms of the quantity of each secondary colour (cyan, magenta, yellow), and "key" (black) it contains. The CMYK system is used for printing. For mixing of pigments, it is better to use the secondary colours, since they mix subtractively instead of additively. The secondary colours of light are cyan, magenta and yellow, which correspond to the primary colours of pigment (blue, red and yellow). In addition, although black could be obtained by mixing these three in equal proportions, in four-colour printing it always has its own ink. This gives the CMYK model. The K stands for "Key' or 'blacK,' so as not to cause confusion with the B in RGB. Alternative colour models are RGB and HSB.
- cnaa — the Council for National Academic Awards: a former degree-awarding body separate from the universities
- cnar — compound net annual rate
- cnet — (body) Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion.
- cnri — Corporation for National Research Initiatives
- cnut — a.d. 994?–1035, Danish king of England 1017–35; of Denmark 1018–35; and of Norway 1028–35.
- coag — (nautical) Alternative form of coak.
- coak — (in a scarf joint) a tenon in one member fitting into a corresponding recess of the other.
- coal — Coal is a hard black substance that is extracted from the ground and burned as fuel.
- coat — A coat is a piece of clothing with long sleeves which you wear over your other clothes when you go outside.
- coax — If you coax someone into doing something, you gently try to persuade them to do it.