Abbreviations starting with C (page 1 of 3)

764 abbreviations begin with C. This page lists C to CHINS.

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C – Cup +10 more
C/A – Central air
C&A – Clemens and August
C&B – Compensation and benefits
C&DB – Cough and deep breathe
C&J – Clean and jerk
C&P – Compensation and pension examination
C&S – Culture and sensitivity
C corp – C corporation
C/D – Cup-to-disc ratio
C/D/I – Clean, dry and intact
C. diff – Clostridioides difficile
C-I – Schedule I controlled substance
C-II – Schedule II controlled substance
C-III – Schedule III controlled substance
C-IV – Schedule IV controlled substance
C-level – Chief level (executive rank)
c/o – Complains of +1 more
C-PTSD – Complex post-traumatic stress disorder
C-section – Cesarean section
C-SPAN – Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network
C-spine – Cervical spine
C-SSRS – Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale
C-suite – Chief executive suite (senior executives with chief titles)
C-TPAT – Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism
C-V – Schedule V controlled substance
C1 – First cervical vertebra (atlas)
C2 – Command and control +1 more
C2C – Consumer-to-consumer +1 more
C2H – Contract-to-hire
C4ISR – Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence…
C5-C6 – Fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae (intervertebral level)
C7 – Seventh cervical vertebra (vertebra prominens)
CA – California +7 more
CA-125 – Cancer antigen 125
CA 19-9 – Carbohydrate antigen 19-9
CAA – Clean Air Act +1 more
CAAF – United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
CaaS – Containers as a service
CAASPP – California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress
CAB – Compressions, airway, breathing +3 more
CABG – Coronary artery bypass grafting
CAC – Customer acquisition cost +3 more
CAC 40 – Cotation Assistée en Continu 40 (continuous assisted…
CACI – Compounding aseptic containment isolator
CaCl – Calcium chloride
CACO – Casualty Assistance Calls Officer
CaCO3 – Calcium carbonate
CAD – Coronary artery disease +4 more
CAE – Computer-aided engineering +1 more
CAEP – Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation
CAF – Confederation of African Football +1 more
CAFE – Corporate Average Fuel Economy
CAGE – Cut down, Annoyed, Guilty, Eye-opener (questionnaire)
CAGR – Compound annual growth rate
CAGS – Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study
CAH – Congenital adrenal hyperplasia +1 more
CAI – Cairo International Airport +1 more
CAIA – Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst
CAIO – Chief AI officer
CAIR – Council on American-Islamic Relations
Cal – Food Calorie (kilocalorie) +3 more
Cal. 5th – California Reports, Fifth Series
Cal. App. 5th – California Appellate Reports, Fifth Series
Cal. Ct. App. – California Court of Appeal
Cal Poly – California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Cal. Rptr. 3d – California Reporter, Third Series
Calif. – California
Caltech – California Institute of Technology
CAM – Computer-aided manufacturing +3 more
CAM-ICU – Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit
cAMP – Cyclic adenosine monophosphate
CAMS – Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist
CAN – Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport +2 more
CAN-SPAM – Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And…
CANDU – Canada Deuterium Uranium
CAO – Chief accounting officer +2 more
cap – Capsule +8 more
CAPA – Corrective and preventive action
CAPD – Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
CapEx – Capital expenditure
CAPM – Capital asset pricing model +1 more
CAPOX – Capecitabine and oxaliplatin
caps – Capitals +1 more
CAPT – Captain (US Navy and Coast Guard)
CAPTCHA – Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers…
CAR – Central African Republic +3 more
CAR-T – Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy
Card. – Cardinal
Cards – Cardiology
CARE – CARE International
CARES Act – Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act
CARICOM – Caribbean Community
CAS – Close air support +5 more
Cas9 – CRISPR-associated protein 9
CASA – Court Appointed Special Advocate +1 more
CASB – Cloud access security broker
CASEVAC – Casualty evacuation
CASM – Cost per available seat mile
CASP+ – CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner
CASPer – Computer-Based Assessment for Sampling Personal…
CAT – Common Admission Test +4 more
CATL – Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
CAUTI – Catheter-associated urinary tract infection
CAVC – United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
CAVOK – Ceiling and visibility OK
CB – Center back +3 more
CBA – Collective bargaining agreement +2 more
CBAP – Certified Business Analysis Professional
CBC – Complete blood count +2 more
CBC w/ diff – Complete blood count with differential
CBCT – Cone-beam computed tomography
CBD – Cannabidiol +2 more
CBDC – Central bank digital currency
CBE – Commander of the Order of the British Empire +2 more
CBER – Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
CBEST – California Basic Educational Skills Test
CBG – Capillary blood glucose
CBI – Central Bureau of Investigation
CBM – Cubic meter (freight) +1 more
CBO – Congressional Budget Office +2 more
CBOC – Community-based outpatient clinic
Cboe – Cboe Global Markets (Chicago Board Options Exchange)
CBOT – Chicago Board of Trade
CBP – U.S. Customs and Border Protection
CBR – Complete bed rest +1 more
CBRN – Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
CBRS – Citizens Broadband Radio Service
CBS – Columbia Broadcasting System
CBSA – Canada Border Services Agency +1 more
CBSE – Central Board of Secondary Education
CBT – Cognitive behavioral therapy
CBTC – Communications-based train control
CBU – Cluster bomb unit
CBZ – Carbamazepine +1 more
CC – Carbon copy +7 more
CC&Rs – Covenants, conditions and restrictions
CC BY – Creative Commons Attribution License
CC0 – Creative Commons Zero
CCB – Calcium channel blocker +2 more
CCC – Civilian Conservation Corps +2 more
CCC-SLP – Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language…
CCCP – Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (Union of…
CCD – Charge-coupled device +1 more
CCF – Hundred cubic feet
CCGT – Combined-cycle gas turbine
CCHD – Critical congenital heart disease
CCI – Consumer Confidence Index
CCIE – Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert
CCIM – Certified Commercial Investment Member
CCM – Critical care medicine +2 more
CCMA – Certified Clinical Medical Assistant
CCNA – Cisco Certified Network Associate
CCNE – Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
CCNP – Cisco Certified Network Professional
CCNY – City College of New York
CCO – Chief compliance officer +2 more
CCP – Chinese Communist Party
CCP-C – Certified Critical Care Paramedic
CCPM – Critical chain project management
CCRC – Continuing care retirement community
CCRN – Critical care registered nurse certification
CCS – Carbon capture and storage +3 more
CCSP – Certified Cloud Security Professional
CCSS – Common Core State Standards
CCT – Critical care transport +1 more
CCTA – Coronary computed tomography angiography
ccTLD – Country code top-level domain
CCTV – Closed-circuit television +1 more
CCU – Critical care unit +1 more
CCUS – Carbon capture, utilization and storage
CCW – Carry concealed weapon
CD – Compact Disc +13 more
C.D. Cal. – United States District Court for the Central District of…
CD-R – Compact Disc Recordable
CD-ROM – Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
CD-RW – Compact Disc ReWritable
CD4 – Cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4 T-cell count)
CDA – Communications Decency Act +3 more
CDBG – Community Development Block Grant
CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention +1 more
CDCES – Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist
CDD – Customer due diligence
CDER – Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
CDF – Cumulative distribution function
CDG – Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
CDHP – Consumer-directed health plan
CDI – Clostridioides difficile infection +1 more
CDK – Cloud Development Kit
CDK4/6i – Cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitor
CDL – Commercial driver's license
CDM – Central defensive midfielder +1 more
CDMA – Code-division multiple access
CDMX – Ciudad de México (Mexico City)
CDN – Content delivery network
cDNA – Complementary DNA
CDO – Chief data officer +3 more
CDP – Census-designated place +2 more
CDR – Commander +1 more
Cdre – Commodore
CDS – Credit default swap +1 more
CDT – Central Daylight Time +1 more
CDTM – Collaborative drug therapy management
CDU – Christian Democratic Union of Germany +1 more
CDW – Collision damage waiver
CDX – Credit default swap index
CE – Common Era +3 more
CEA – Carcinoembryonic antigen +3 more
CEB – Common English Bible
CEC – Consumer Electronics Control
CECL – Current expected credit losses
CECT – Contrast-enhanced computed tomography
CEDEX – Courrier d'entreprise à distribution exceptionnelle…
CEE – Central and Eastern Europe
cEEG – Continuous electroencephalography
CEF – Closed-end fund
CeFi – Centralized finance
CEFR – Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
CEH – Certified Ethical Hacker
CEL – Check engine light
CELTA – Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other…
cem. – Cemetery +1 more
CEN – Certified Emergency Nurse
CENTCOM – United States Central Command
CEO – Chief executive officer
CEP – Community Eligibility Provision
CERCLA – Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and…
CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research
CERO – Computer Entertainment Rating Organization
cert. – Certiorari +2 more
cert. denied – Certiorari denied
cert. granted – Certiorari granted
CES – Consumer Electronics Show +2 more
CEST – Central European Summer Time
CET – Central European Time
cet. par. – Ceteris paribus (other things being equal)
CET1 – Common Equity Tier 1
CEU – Continuing education unit
CEV – Contemporary English Version
CEW – Conducted electrical weapon
CEX – Centralized exchange
cf. – Confer (compare) +8 more
CF% – Corsi for percentage
CFA – Chartered Financial Analyst +2 more
CFAA – Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
CFC – Chlorofluorocarbon +1 more
CFD – Computational fluid dynamics
CFE – Certified Fraud Examiner
CFI – Certified flight instructor
CFII – Certified flight instructor - instrument
CFIT – Controlled flight into terrain
CFL – Canadian Football League
cfm – Cubic feet per minute
Cfn – Craftsman
CFO – Chief financial officer
CFP – Certified Financial Planner +2 more
CFPB – Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
C.F.R. – Code of Federal Regulations +2 more
CFRE – Certified Fund Raising Executive
CFRN – Certified Flight Registered Nurse
CFS – Cash flow statement +1 more
CFT – Countering the financing of terrorism
CFTC – Commodity Futures Trading Commission
CFU – Colony-forming unit
CG – Republic of the Congo +3 more
CGA – Contact guard assist
CGC – Certified Guaranty Company
CGI – Computer-generated imagery +1 more
CGK – Soekarno-Hatta International Airport
CGL – Commercial general liability
CGM – Continuous glucose monitor
CGMA – Chartered Global Management Accountant
cGMP – Current good manufacturing practice
CGNAT – Carrier-grade NAT
CGO – Chief growth officer
CGPA – Cumulative grade point average
CGS – Centimeter-gram-second system
CGSC – Command and General Staff College
CGT – Capital gains tax
CH – Switzerland +3 more
CH4 – Methane
CHA – Charisma
CHA2DS2-VASc – Congestive heart failure, Hypertension, Age 75 or older…
CHAdeMO – CHAdeMO DC charging standard
CHAMPVA – Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of…
CHAPS – Clearing House Automated Payment System
Chas. – Charles
CHB – Complete heart block +1 more
CHC – Community health center
CHD – Congenital heart disease +1 more
CHEA – Council for Higher Education Accreditation
Chem 7 – Seven-test chemistry panel
chemo – Chemotherapy
CHES – Certified Health Education Specialist
CHF – Swiss franc +1 more
ChFC – Chartered Financial Consultant
CHG – Chlorhexidine gluconate
CHHA – Certified home health aide
CHI – Chicago +1 more
CHINS – Child in need of services