4-letter words containing a, c
- lacs — Plural form of lac.
- lacw — leading aircraftwoman
- lacy — of or resembling lace; lacelike: a lacy gown; a lacy leaf.
- laic — Also, laical. lay; secular.
- larc — long-acting reversible contraceptive (or contraception): the use of LARCs such as the intrauterine device, or IUD.
- loca — a plural of locus.
- lpac — 1. (audio, compression) Lossless Predictive Audio Compression. 2. London Parallel Applications Centre.
- mac- — (in surnames of Scottish or Irish Gaelic origin) son of
- maca — Multiple Access with Colision Avoidance
- mace — a spice ground from the layer between a nutmeg shell and its outer husk, resembling nutmeg in flavor.
- mach — Ernst [ernst] /ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1838–1916, Austrian physicist, psychologist, and philosopher.
- mack — a mackintosh.
- macl — Macintosh Allegro CL. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- maco — an Egyptian cotton, used especially in the manufacture of hosiery and undergarments.
- macs — Plural form of mac.
- macx — A package allowing the Macintosh to be used as an X server.
- macy — R(owland) H(ussey) [roh-luh nd huhs-ee] /ˈroʊ lənd ˈhʌs i/ (Show IPA), 1823–77, U.S. retail merchant.
- marc — a standardized system developed by the Library of Congress for producing and transmitting machine-readable bibliographic records.
- mcad — Microsoft Certified Application Developer
- mcat — Medical College Admissions Test
- mcga — Multi-Color Graphics Array
- mcsa — (education) 1. Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator. 2. Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate.
- mdac — Microsoft Data Access Components
- mica — any member of a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum with other bases, chiefly potassium, magnesium, iron, and lithium, that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent, and usually elastic laminae; isinglass.
- mrca — multirole combat aircraft
- nach — an Indian dance
- nack — (computing) To acknowledge negatively; to send a NAK signal to.
- nacu — National Association of Colleges and Universities
- naic — National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (headquarters Cornell University, New York State)
- narc — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- ncaa — National Collegiate Athletic Association
- ncea — National Certificate of Educational Attainment
- ncsa — National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- ncua — The NCUA is a US government agency that monitors federal credit unions.
- nica — Nicaragua
- ocal — On-Line Cryptanalytic Aid Language.
- ocam — Organisation commune africaine et malgache: an association of the 14 principal Francophone states of Africa, established in 1965 to further political cooperation and economic and social development
- ocas — a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- ocra — Alternative spelling of okra.
- octa — (meteorology) The fraction of the sky that is obscured by clouds, in eighths (one octa means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two octas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).
- ohac — own house and car: used in lonely hearts columns and personal advertisements
- opac — Online Public Access Catalog
- orac — Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity: a measure of the ability of a substance, esp the blood, to absorb free radicals, used in determining the antioxidant effects of foods
- orca — the killer whale, Orcinus orca.
- paca — a large, white-spotted, almost tailless rodent, Agouti paca, of Central and South America, having features resembling a guinea pig and rabbit: valued as food.
- pace — a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.: to walk at a brisk pace of five miles an hour.
- pack — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- paco — an alpaca
- pact — an agreement, covenant, or compact: We made a pact not to argue any more.
- pacy — You use pacy to describe someone, especially a sports player, who has the ability to move very quickly.