4-letter words starting with c
- cots — a small house; cottage; hut.
- coty — René Jules Gustave [ruh-ney zhyl gys-tav] /rəˈneɪ ʒül güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1882–1962, president of France 1954–59.
- coue — Émile (emil). 1857–1926, French psychologist and pharmacist: advocated psychotherapy by autosuggestion
- coun — Abbreviation of council.
- coup — When there is a coup, a group of people seize power in a country.
- cove — A cove is a part of a coast where the land curves inwards so that the sea is partly enclosed.
- cowk — to retch or feel nauseated
- cowl — A cowl is a large loose hood covering a person's head, or their head and shoulders. Cowls are worn especially by monks.
- cows — Plural form of cow.
- cowy — of or resembling the nature of a cow; bovine
- coxa — a technical name for the hipbone or hip joint
- coxy — cocky; impudent; arrogant
- coys — artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
- coze — an intimate friendly chat
- cozy — warm and comfortable; snug
- cp/m — an operating system widely used on microcomputers to enable a wide range of software from many suppliers to be run on them
- cpag — Child Poverty Action Group
- cpan — Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
- cpga — Ceramic Pin Grid Array
- cpl. — Cpl. is the written abbreviation for corporal when it is used as a title.
- cpld — complex programmable logic device
- cppp — (tool) A compiler front-end for C++ by Tony Davis <[email protected]> with complete semantic processing. cppp is based on Yacc and outputs an abstract syntax graph. Version: 1.14.
- cpre — Council for the Protection of Rural England
- cpsa — Civil and Public Services Association
- cpsr — Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
- cpsu — (formerly) Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- cpve — Certificate of Pre-vocational Education: a certificate awarded for completion of a broad-based course of study offered as a less advanced alternative to traditional school-leaving qualifications
- cqsw — Certificate of Qualification in Social Work
- crab — A crab is a sea creature with a flat round body covered by a shell, and five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair. Crabs usually move sideways.
- crac — Careers Research and Advisory Centre
- crag — A crag is a steep rocky cliff or part of a mountain.
- cram — If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them.
- cran — a unit of capacity used for measuring fresh herring, equal to 37.5 gallons
- crap — If you describe something as crap, you think that it is wrong or of very poor quality.
- crat — Bureaucrat.
- craw — the stomach of an animal
- cray — a crayfish
- creb — cyclic amp-response element binding protein; a protein involved in the long-term memory process
- cred — Cred is the same as street cred.
- cree — temporary immunity from the rules of a game: said by children
- cren — Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
- creo — (slang) short for creationist.
- crew — The crew of a ship, an aircraft, or a spacecraft is the people who work on and operate it.
- cria — a baby llama, alpaca, or vicuña
- crib — A crib is a bed for a small baby.
- crik — Obsolete spelling of creak.
- crim — criminal
- crin — Horsehair fabric.
- crip — a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
- crit — a critic.