4-letter words containing c
- 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)
- cert — If you say that someone or something is a cert, you mean that you are certain they will succeed.
- cesp — Common ESP
- cess — (formerly) any of several special taxes, such as a land tax in Scotland
- cest — (obsolete) A woman's girdle; a cestus.
- ceta — Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
- cete — a group of badgers
- cewa — Chewa.
- ceyx — a king of Trachis in Thessaly and the husband of Alcyone. He died in a shipwreck and his wife drowned herself in grief
- cfml — ColdFusion Markup Language
- cgbr — Central Government Borrowing Requirement
- cggl — Code-Generator Generator Language
- cgol — (language) A package providing ALGOL-like surface syntax for MACLISP, written by V.R. Pratt in 1977.
- cgsu — Coleg Gwent Students Union
- ch'i — one of two dynasties that ruled in China a.d. 479–502 and, as the Northern Ch'i, a.d. 550–77.
- chad — the small pieces of cardboard or paper removed during the punching of holes in computer printer paper, paper tape, etc
- chai — tea, esp as made in India with added spices
- chal — a person; fellow
- cham — a member of a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam
- chan — Zen (def 1).
- chao — a Vietnamese rice congee
- chap — A chap is a man or boy.
- char — If food chars or if you char it, it burns slightly and turns black as it is cooking.
- chat — When people chat, they talk to each other in an informal and friendly way.
- chav — If you call someone a chav, you think that the way they look shows a lack of taste and education, although they may wear expensive clothes.
- chaw — to chew (tobacco), esp without swallowing it
- chay — a plant of the madder family native to India
- cheb — a town in the W Czech Republic, in W Bohemia on the Ohře River: 12th-century castle where Wallenstein was murdered (1634); a centre of the Sudeten-German movement after World War I. Pop: 34 036 (2007 est)
- chef — A chef is a cook in a restaurant or hotel.