List of acronyms: C GudangMovies21 Rebahinxxi LK21

      This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter C.
      For the purposes of this list:

      acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome, pronounced to rhyme with cars
      initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee
      pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
      (a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome
      (i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc
      (p) = pseudo-blend, e.g.: UNIFEM – (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
      (s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – megahertz)
      Some terms are spoken as either acronym or initialism, e.g., VoIP, pronounced both as voyp and V-O-I-P.
      (Main list of acronyms)

      c – (s) Centi
      C – (s) Carbon – Coulomb – One Hundred (in Roman numerals)


      C0–9


      C2 or C2 – (i) Command and Control
      c2c – (s) the British rail company formerly known as LTS Rail
      C2C
      (p) Coast to Coast Athletic Conference
      Consumer-To-Consumer electronic commerce
      Cam-To-Cam internet chat
      C2D or C2D – (i) Intel Core 2 Duo
      C2IEDM or C2IEDM – (i) Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model
      C2IS or C2IS – (i) Command and Control Information System
      C2PC or C2PC – (i) Command and Control Personal Computer
      C2V or C2V – (i) Command and Control Vehicle
      C2W or C2W – (i) Command and Control Warfare
      C3 or C3
      (i) Colorectal Cancer Condition
      Command, Control, and Communications
      C3I or C3I – (i) Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
      C4 or C4 – (i) Command, Control, Communications, and Computers
      C4I or C4I – (i) Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence
      C4ISR or C4ISR – (i) Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance


      CA


      ca – (s) Catalan language (ISO 639-1 code)
      Ca – (s) Calcium
      CA
      (s) California (postal symbol)
      Canada (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
      Catalonia
      (i) Civil Affairs
      Close Armour
      Cocaine Anonymous
      Computer Associates
      Counter-Air
      Cricket Australia
      CAA
      (i) Canadian Automobile Association
      (NORAD) Center for Aerospace Analysis
      (U.S.) Center for Army Analysis
      (U.S.) Clean Air Act
      (U.S. Army) Concepts Analysis Agency
      Civil Aviation Authority
      Coastal Athletic Association or its former name of Colonial Athletic Association
      CAAT
      (i) or (a) Campaign Against Arms Trade
      Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
      CABB (p/i) – Confederación Argentina de Básquetbol (Spanish, "Argentine Basketball Confederation")
      CAC
      (i) California Association of Criminalists
      Chronic Asymptomatic [Disease] Carrier
      CACM
      (i) Central American Common Market
      (i) Communications of the ACM
      CAD
      (s) Canadian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
      (a) Computer-Aided Design
      Computer-Aided Dispatch
      Cpplint Anxiety Disorder - (a) Condition suffered by software developers who worry about whether they've left any whitespace on the end of a line
      CADCAM – (a) Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing
      CADMID – (a) Concept, Assessment, Demonstration, Manufacture, In service, Disposal (life cycle mnemonic)
      CADPAT – (p) CAnadian Disruptive PATtern
      CADT – Child/Adolescent Day Treatment
      CAE
      (i) Canadian Aviation Electronics (originally)
      Certificate in Advanced English
      CAEn – (i/a) Close Action Engagement (constructive simulation)
      CAF
      (s) Central African Republic (ISO 3166 trigram)
      (i) Confederation of African Football (or French Confédération Africaine de Football)
      CAFAD – (a) Combined Arms For Air Defence
      CAFDE
      (a) Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters
      Computer Aided Federation Development Environment
      CAFE – (a) Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard
      CAI – (i) Computer Assisted Instruction
      CAIR – (i) Council on American-Islamic Relations
      Calabarzon – (p) A region in the Philippines: CAvite, LAguna, BAtangas, Rizal, queZON
      CALL – (a) (U.S.) Center for Army Lessons Learned
      CALM – (p) Communications, Air-interface, Long and Medium range
      CalPERS – (p) California Public Employees' Retirement System
      CalSTRS – (p) California State Teachers' Retirement System
      Caltrans – (p) California Department of Transportation
      CAM
      (a) Chemical Agent Monitor
      Complementary and alternative medicine
      Computer-Aided Manufacturing
      Crassulacean acid metabolism (type of photosynthesis)
      CAMRA – (p) CAMpaign for Real Ale
      CAN – (s) Canada (ISO 3166 trigram)
      CANA – (a) Convulsive Antidote, Nerve Agent
      CANDU – (p) CANada Deuterium Uranium (nuclear reactor design)
      Canola – (p) Canadian oil, low acid (referring to a specific cultivar of rapeseed bred to have a low erucic acid content)
      CAP
      (i) Combat Air Patrol
      Civil Air Patrol
      Common [Operating/Operational] Air Picture
      Crisis Action Procedures
      Common Agricultural Policy (European Union)
      CAPES
      (p) CAPability Evaluation System
      (a) Combined Arms Planning and Execution System
      CAQ – (i) Coalition Avenir Québec (French, "Coalition for Québec's Future"; political party in that Canadian province)
      CARB (i) – California Air Resources Board
      CARE
      (a) Citizens Association for Racial Equality (former New Zealand organisation)
      (p) Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe
      (a) Cooperative for Aid and Relief Everywhere (originally Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe)
      CARMONETTE – (p) Computerized Monte Carlo Simulation
      CARP – (a) Computed Air Release Point
      CART – (a) Championship Auto Racing Teams (now defunct)
      CAS
      (i) Chemical Abstracts Service
      Chief of the Air Staff
      Close Air Support
      CASA –(a) Civil Aviation Safety Authority
      CASE
      (a) Cellular ammunition storage equipment
      Computer-Aided Software Engineering
      CASS – (a) Command Activated Sonobuoy System
      CASTFOREM – (p) Combined Arms and Support Task Force Evaluation Model
      CASTOR – (a) Canadian Automatic Small Telescopes for Orbital Research
      cat – (s) Catalan language (ISO 639-2 code)
      CAT
      (a) Community Acceptance Testing
      Computer-Assisted (or Axial) Tomography
      CATK – (p) Counterattack
      CATS – (a) Computer Active Technology Suspension
      CATT – (a/i) Combined Arms Tactical Trainer
      CAV – (p) Cavalry
      CAVE - Citizens Against Virtually Everything
      CAVOK – (p) Ceiling And Visibility OK ("Kav-okay")
      CAW – (i) Canadian Auto Workers (trade union)


      CB


      CB
      (i) Citizens' Band radio
      (s) Cambodia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
      CBASSE – (a) Commission on Behavioral And Social Sciences and Education ("sea bass")
      CBC
      (i) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
      Christmas Bird Count
      Cipher-Block Chaining
      Cornering Brake Control
      CBE
      (i) Commander of the Order of the British Empire
      Cab Beside Engine (see truck)
      CBF – (i) Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (Portuguese, "Brazilian Football Confederation")
      CBGB – (i) Country, Blue Grass, and Blues (former New York City nightclub)
      CBLA – (i) Comparative bullet lead analysis
      CBN – CardsApp Brand Number
      CBM – many, including Canadian Baptist Ministries and Commodore Business Machines; see entry
      CBML – (i) Coalition Battle Management Language
      CBOL – (i) Consortium for the Barcode of Life
      CBOT – (i) Chicago Board of Trade
      CBP – (i) (U.S.) Customs and Border Protection
      CBR – (i) Case-Based Reasoning
      CBRE
      (i) Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees
      Certified broadcast radio engineer (U.S. professional certification)
      Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosive Defence Group (Singapore)
      Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis
      CBRN – (i) Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear (weapon or event)
      CBRNE – (i) Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or [high-yield] Explosive (weapon or event)
      CBS
      (i) Columbia Broadcasting System
      Corps Battle Simulation
      CBT
      (i) Cock and Ball Torture
      (i) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
      (i) Closed Beta Test
      (p) Combat
      CBUS – (i) Columbus, Ohio


      CC


      CC – many, including carbon copy; see entry
      CCA – (i) Counter Command Activity
      CCCAA – (p/i) California Community College Athletic Association (usually pronounced "3C-2A")
      CCC
      CCC - (p/i) Coricidin Cough & Cold
      CCC
      (i) Canterbury Clothing Company
      Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S., 1930s and 1940s)
      Corpus Christi College, Oxford
      CCCP
      (i) Central Committee of the Communist Party
      Cyrillic for SSSR (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, Russian Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
      CCD
      (i) Charge-Coupled Device
      Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (Catechism)
      CCF – (i) Cartoon Cartoon Fridays
      CCG
      (i) Canadian Coast Guard
      Collectible Card Game
      CCGC
      (i) Canadian Coast Guard Cutter
      Canadian Coast Guard College
      CCGH – (i) Canadian Coast Guard Hovercraft
      CCGS
      (i) Canadian Coast Guard Ship
      Christ Church Grammar School
      CCH – (i) Computer-Controlled Hostile
      CCIF – (p) Comité consultatif international des communications téléphoniques à grande distance (French for International Telephone Consultative Committee, merged with the CCIT in 1956 to form the CCITT)
      CCII
      (i) Command and Control Information Infrastructure
      Community Capital Investment Initiative
      CCIR
      (i) Comité consultatif international pour la radio (French for Consultative Committee on International Radio, became the ITU Radiocommunication Sector, ITU-R, in 1992)
      commander's critical information requirement
      CCIT – (p) Comité consultatif international télégraphique (French for International Telegraph Consultative Committee, merged with the CCIF in 1956 to form the CCITT)
      CCITT – (p) Comité consultatif international téléphonique et télégraphique (French for International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee, became the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector, ITU-T, in 1992)
      CCK
      (p) Cholecystokinin
      (s) Cocos (Keeling) Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
      CCM
      (i) Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd. (now split into two separate companies bearing the CCM name, one manufacturing bicycles and the other ice hockey equipment)
      Contemporary Christian music
      Cape Cod Mall
      CCOC
      (i) Canadian Children's Opera Chorus
      CCOP – (i) Coalition Common Operating/Operational Picture
      CCP
      (i) Casualty Collection Point
      Communications Checkpoint
      Contingency Communications Package
      CCPA – (i) Consumer Credit Protection Act
      CCR
      (i) Covenants, conditions, and restrictions (related to real estate, especially in the US)
      Creedence Clearwater Revival
      CCRAp – (p) Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance party
      CCRP – (i) Command and Control Research Program
      CCRTS – (i) Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium
      CCSCS – (a) Coordinadora de Centrales Sindicales del Cono Sur
      CCSCS – (i) Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
      CCSIL – (i) Command and Control Simulation Interface Language ("cecil")
      CCSK – (i) Cyclic Code Shift Keying
      CCT – (i) Current Commitments Team
      CCTT – (i) Close Combat Tactical Trainer


      CD


      cd – (s) Candela
      Cd – (s) Cadmium
      CD – many, including Compact Disc; see entry
      CD1 – (i) Cluster of Differentiation 1 (a small gene family)
      CDA – (i) UK Centre for Defence Analysis
      CDC
      (i) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (originally (U.S.) Communicable Disease Center)
      Control Data Corporation
      Cult of the Dead Cow
      CDD – (i) Capabilities Development Document
      CDE – (i) Chemical Defence Equipment
      CDEC – (i) U.S. Combat Development Experimentation Center
      CDF
      (i) California Department of Forestry [and Fire Protection]
      Common Data Format
      (s) Democratic Republic of Congo franc congolais (ISO 4217 currency code)
      CDIAC – (a) Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center ("see-dee-ack")
      CDipAF – (i) Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance
      CDL – (i) Commercial driver's license
      CDM
      (i) Clean Development Mechanism (Kyoto protocol)
      Cold Dark Matter (astronomy)
      CDMA – (i) Code Division Multiple Access
      CDMO – (i) Contract Development & Manufacturing Organizations
      CDMSII – (p) Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II
      CDMX – (p) Ciudad de México, the Spanish name of Mexico City
      Cdr – (p) Commander
      CDS
      (i) Chief of the Defence Staff
      Credit default swap
      Cdt – (p) Commandant
      CDT – (i) Central Daylight Time (UTC−5 hours)


      CE


      ce – (s) Chechen language (ISO 639-1 code)
      Ce – (s) Cerium
      CE – many, including Christian/Common Era (cf. AD); see entry
      CEA – (i) Campaign Effectiveness Analysis
      CECOM – (p) U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command
      CEDEX – (p) Courrier d'entreprise à distribution exceptionnelle (French, "Company Mail with Exceptional Distribution"; "exceptional" refers to the volume of mail)
      CEGEP – (p) Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel (French, "College of General and Vocational Education")
      CEI – (i) Competitive Enterprise Institute
      CENTCOM – (p) United States Central Command
      CENTO – (a) Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact)
      CENZUB – (p) Centre d'entraînement aux actions en zone urbaine (French, "Urban Operations Training Centre")
      CEO – (i) Chief Executive Officer
      CEP – (i) Circular Error Probable
      CEPT – (a/i) Conférence européenne des administrations des postes et des télécommunications (French, "European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations")
      CERCLA – (a) U.S. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund)
      CERDEC – U.S. Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center
      CERGA – (a) Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie (French, "Astrometry and Geodynamics Research Centre")
      CERN – (a) Centre européen pour la recherche nucléaire (French, "European Organization for Nuclear Research")
      CERT – (a) Computer Emergency Response Team
      ces – (s) Czech language (ISO 639-2 code)
      CESS – (i) Centre for Earth Science Studies (India)
      CEV
      (i) Combat Engineer Vehicle
      Confédération européenne de volleyball (French, "European Volleyball Confederation")
      Crew Exploration Vehicle
      CEWC – (a/i) Council for Education in World Citizenship


      CF


      cf. – (i) confer (Latin "compare", or "see also")
      Cf – (s) Californium
      CF
      (i) Canadian Forces
      (s) Central African Republic (ISO 3166 digram)
      (s) Consolidated Freightways
      Republic of the Congo (FIPS 10-4 country code)
      CFA
      (i) Cat Fanciers' Association
      Chartered Financial Analyst
      College Football Association (former consortium of US major college football conferences)
      Color Filter Array
      County Fire Authority
      Covering Force Area
      CFAR
      (i) Christine's
      Federal Acquisition Regulation
      CFC
      (i) ChloroFluoroCarbon
      Canadian Fish Company
      CFE – (i) Constitution for the Federation of Earth
      CFES – (a) Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System
      CFFZ – (i) Call For Fire Zone
      CFG
      (i) Context-free grammar
      Control-flow graph
      CFHT – (i) Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope
      CFI – (i) Center for Inquiry (CSICOP)
      CFL
      (i) Canadian Football League
      Co-ordinated Fire Line
      CFLCC – (i) Coalition Forces Land Component Command
      CFM – (i) Certified Facilities Manager [(IFMA)]http://www.ifma.org/
      CFO – (i) Chief Financial Officer
      CFP
      (i) Call for papers
      College Football Playoff
      Common Fisheries Policy (EU)
      CFR
      (i) Code of Federal Regulations
      Căile Ferate Române (Romanian, "Romanian Railways")
      CFRP – (i) Carbon fibre reinforced plastic
      CFS – (i) Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
      CFSP – (i) Common Foreign and Security Policy
      CFU – (i) Colony Forming Unit(s) in Microbiology
      CFV – (i) Cavalry Fighting Vehicle
      CFZ – (i) Critical Friendly Zone


      CG


      CG – (i) Client Group – Computer Graphics – Controls Group – (s) Democratic Republic of the Congo (FIPS 10-4 country code) – Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 digram)
      CGDC – (i) Computer Game Developers Conference (became GDC in 1998)
      CGF – (i) Computer-Generated Forces (Simulation)
      CGH – (i) Comparative Genomic Hybridisation
      CGIG – (i) Cross-Government Implementation Group
      CGM – (i) Computer Graphics Metafile
      CGO – (s) Republic of the Congo (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
      CGS – (i) Chief of the General Staff
      CGSI – Consumer Guidance Society of India
      CGT – (i) Capital Gains Tax


      CH


      ch – (s) Chamorro language (ISO 639-1 code)
      ch – ch(L) is used to denote the Chern character of a line bundle
      CH
      (p) Chieftain tank
      (s) China (FIPS 10-4 country code)
      Switzerland (ISO 3166 digram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica)
      cha – (s) Chamorro language (ISO 639-2 code)
      CHAMPUS – (a) (U.S.) Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (now known as TRICARE)
      CHAOS – (a) Cambridge Heart Anti-Oxidant Study
      CHAPS – (a) Clearing House Automated Payment System
      CHDK – (i) Canon Hack Development Kit (Canon camera firmware hack)
      che – (s) Chechen language (ISO 639-2 code)
      CHE – (s) Switzerland (ISO 3166 trigram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica)
      CHF – (s) Swiss franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
      CHI
      Catholic Health Initiatives (US hospital network)
      (s) Chile (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
      (i) Columbia Helicopters, Inc
      Computer-Human Interaction
      CHiP – (a) California Highway Patrol
      CHIPS – (a) Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer
      CHL – (s) Chile (ISO 3166 trigram)
      CHLA – (a) Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
      CHN – (s) China (ISO 3166 trigram)
      CHOGM – (a) Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
      CHP
      (i) California Highway Patrol
      Combined Heat and Power
      CHPSO – (a) California Hospital Patient Safety Organization
      CHRS – Canadian Heart Rhythm Society
      CHS – (i) Combat Health Support
      CHT – (i) Certified Hand Therapist
      chu – (s) Old Church Slavonic language (ISO 639-2 code)
      chv – (s) Chuvash language (ISO 639-2 code)
      CREN – (p) Christian Real Estate Network Real Estate Association


      CI


      Ci – (s) Curie
      CI
      (s) Chile (FIPS 10-4 country code)
      Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 digram)
      (i) Counter-Intelligence
      101 (in Roman numerals)
      CIA
      (i) Cairo International Airport
      Central Intelligence Agency
      Cru' in Action
      Culinary Institute of America
      CIAO
      (i) Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office
      Component-Integrated ACE ORB
      CIB – (i) Complete In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
      CIBC – (i) Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
      CICS – (a) Customer Information Control System (IBM mainframe software; "kicks" or "C-I-C-S")
      CID
      (i) Certified Interior Designer (New York State professional licensing designation)
      (p) Combat Identification
      (i) Criminal Investigation Division
      Criminal Investigations Department
      CIÉ – (i) Commission internationale de l'éclairage
      CIEF – (i) Comité international d'enregistrement des fréquences (International Frequency Registration Board)
      CIF
      (i) California Interscholastic Federation (high school sports governing body)
      Cost, Insurance, and Freight (Paid) (shipping)
      CIMIC – (p) Civil-Military Co-operation
      CIMMYT – (a/i) Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz Y Trigo (Spanish, "International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center")
      CINC – (p) Commander in Chief
      CINEOS – (a) Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey
      CIO
      (i) Chief information officer
      Congress of Industrial Organizations
      CIP – (a) Combat Identification Panel
      CIPE – (i) (European) Centre for International Political Economy
      CIR – (i) (Commander's) Critical Information Requirements
      CIR – (s) Corotating Interaction Region
      CIS
      (i) Canadian Interuniversity Sport, a former name of the organization now known as U Sports
      Commonwealth of Independent States
      Command and Information System
      Communication and Information System
      CISA – (a) (U.S.) C4I Integration Support Activity
      CISB – (i) Complete In Sealed Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
      CISPR – (i) Comité international spécial des perturbations radioélectriques (Special International Committee on Radio Interference)
      CISSP – (i) Certified Information Systems Security Professional
      CITES – (p) Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (of Wild Fauna and Flora) ("sigh-tease")
      CITS – (i) Combat Identification Training System
      CIV – (s) Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 trigram)
      CIVETS – (a) Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa (economics)
      CIVPOP – (p) Civilian Population
      CIWS – (i) Close-In Weapon System


      CJ


      CJ
      (s) Cayman Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code)
      (i) Criminal Justice
      CJC
      (i) Canadian Jewish Congress
      Cold Junction Compensation
      CJD
      (i) Chronological Julian Day
      Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
      CJCS – (i) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
      CJO – (i) Chief of Joint Operations
      CJTF – (i) Combined Joint Task Force


      CK


      CK – (s) Cocos (Keeling) Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code) – Cook Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
      CKA – (i) commonly known as, (a) Canada Kicks Ass
      CKND – Codename: Kids Next Door


      CL


      Cl – (s) Chlorine
      CL – (s) Chile (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Co-ordination Line – One Hundred and Fifty (in Roman numerals)
      CLA – (i) Clutterers Anonymous
      CLEC – (i) Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
      CLEMARS – (a) California Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System
      CLI – (i) Command Line Interface/Interpreter
      CLIC – (p) Compact LInear Collider
      CLO – (i) Cornell Lab of Ornithology
      CLOB – (p) Character Large OBject
      CLOS – (i) Command to Line-Of-Sight (missile control system)
      CLOS – (a) Common Lisp Object System
      CLP – (s) Chilean peso (ISO 4217 currency code) – (i) Common [Operating/Operational] Land Picture
      CLPFC – (i) CentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
      CLRP – (a) College Loan Repayment Program


      CM


      Cm – (s) Curium
      CM
      (s) Cameroon (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
      (i) Cruise Missile
      (s) Nine Hundred (in Roman numerals)
      CMA
      (i) U.S. Chemical Materials Agency
      Country Music Association (also used to refer to the organization's annual awards)
      Crystal Meth Anonymous
      CMB – (i) Cosmic Microwave Background
      CMBR – (i) Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
      CME – (a) Coronal Mass Ejection (usually Sun)
      CMHC – (i) Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
      CMIIAW – (i) Correct me if I am wrong
      CMIS
      (a) Content Management Interoperability Services
      Common management information service
      CMJ – (i) Christopher Martin-Jenkins (BBC sports commentator)
      CML
      (p) Chemical
      (i) Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (formerly Chronic Myeloid Leukemia)
      CMLL – (i) Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish, "World Wrestling Council"—Mexican professional wrestling promotion)
      CMM – (i) Capability Maturity Model
      CMMC – (i) Corps Materiel Management Centre
      CMML
      (i) Chronic MyeloMonocytic Leukemia
      Continuous Media Markup Language
      CMO – (i) Civil-Military Operations
      CMOC – (i) Civil-Military Operations Centre
      CMOS
      (i) Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
      (The) Chicago Manual of Style
      Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
      CMP – (i) Common [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture
      CMP – (i) Canadian Military Pattern truck (World War II)
      CMPD
      (i) Chronic Myeloproliferative Disease
      (i) Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
      (i) Costa Mesa Police Department
      CMR
      (s) Cameroon (ISO 3166 trigram)
      (i) Coaxial Main Rotors (helicopter type)
      CMS
      (i) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
      The Chicago Manual of Style
      CMT – (i) Country Music Television
      CMU
      (i) Carnegie Mellon University
      Central Michigan University
      Concrete Masonry Unit
      CMW
      (i) Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada
      Canadian Manufacturing Week
      Canadian Music Week
      Catherine McAuley Westmead (school in New South Wales, Australia)
      Chicago, Missouri and Western (Railway)
      Compartmented Mode Workstation
      Compton's Most Wanted
      Continuous Microwave (processing technology)
      Custom Maintenance Wizard (Microsoft Office Resource Kit)
      CMYK – (i) Cyan Magenta Yellow Key/blacK (color model)


      CN


      CN
      (i/s) Canadian National (railway; also the AAR reporting mark for said company)
      (s) China (ISO 3166 digram)
      Comoros (FIPS 10-4 country code)
      CNA
      (i) Center for Naval Analyses
      Certified Network Administrator
      Computer Network Attack
      Continental (Casualty Company), National (Fire Insurance Company), and American (Casualty Company), the three companies that merged to form what is now known as CNA Financial
      CNBC – (a/i) Consumer News and Business Channel
      CND
      (i) Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
      Computer Network Defence
      CNE
      (i) Canadian National Exhibition
      Computer Network Exploitation
      Certified Network Engineer
      CNES – (i) Centre national d'études spatiales (French, "National Centre for Space Studies")
      CNF – (p) Cost and Freight
      CNI – (i) Communications, Navigation and Identification
      CNI – (a) Clinical Nursing Intern
      CNN
      (i) Cable News Network
      Cellular Nonlinear Network
      CNO – (i) Computer Network Operations
      CNR
      (i) Canadian National Railway
      Combat Net Radio
      CNV – (i) Copy-Number Variable (genetics)
      CNY – (s) Chinese yuan renminbi (ISO 4217 currency code)


      CO


      c/o – (i) care of (postal code indicating temporary address change)
      co – (s) Corsican language (ISO 639-1 code)
      Co – (s) Cobalt
      Co. – Company
      CO – many, including Central Office (phone company); see entry – (s) Colorado (postal symbol) – (i) Commanding Officer (military)
      COA – (i) Certificate/Concept Of Analysis – Course Of Action (military)
      COB – (i) Close Of Business [day]
      COBOL (p) – COmmon Business-Oriented Language
      COBRA – Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
      COCOM – (p) Combatant Command (military)
      COD – (i) Cash On Delivery – (s) Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram)
      CoDA – (i) Co-Dependents Anonymous
      codec – (p) Coder-Decoder / Compressor-Decompressor / Compression-Decompression algorithm
      COE – (i) Cab Over Engine (see truck) – Common Operating Environment (military)
      COEA – (i) Cost Operational Effectiveness Analysis (military)
      COEIA – (i) Combined Operational Effectiveness and Investment Appraisal (military)
      C of I – (i) Certificate of Indebtedness (financial) – (i) The College of Idaho
      COFT – (i) Conduct Of Fire Trainer (military)
      COG – (i) Centre Of Gravity – Current Operations Group (military) – (s) Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram)
      COGENT – (a) Cognitive Objects within a Graphical EnviroNmenT
      COIL – (a) Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser
      COIN – (p) Counter-Insurgency (military)
      COK – (s) Cook Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
      COL
      (s) Colombia (ISO 3166 trigram)
      (i) Cost of Living
      COLA – (a) comp.os.linux.announce – Cost Of Living Adjustment
      COLT – (a) Combat Observation and Lasing Team (military)
      COM – (s) Comoros (ISO 3166 trigram) – (a) Component Object Model
      COMECON – (p) Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (economic counterpart of the Warsaw Pact, 1949–1991)
      COMLEX-USA – (p/a) Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination of the United States (of America); "COMLEX" typically pronounced as a single word, with "USA" spelled out
      COMMZ – (p) Communications Zone (military)
      COMSEC – (p) Communications Security (military)
      CONAD – (p) U.S. Continental Air Defense Command
      CONCACAF – (a) Confederation Of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football
      CONMEBOL – (p) Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol or Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol (respectively Spanish and Portuguese for "South American Football Confederation")
      CONOPS – (p) Concept of Operations (military)
      CONUS – (p) Continental United States
      COO – (i) Chief Operating Officer
      COP – (s) Colombian peso (ISO 4217 currency code) – (a) Common Operating/Operational Picture
      COPD –(i) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
      COPE – (a) U.K. Committee On Publication Ethics
      COPUS – (p) U.K. Committee on the Public Understanding of Science
      cor – (s) Cornish language (ISO 639-2 code)
      CORBA – (a) Common Object Request Broker Architecture
      CORD – (i/a) Common Operational Requirements Document
      CORE – (a) Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
      CORG – (i) (U.S.) Combat Operations Research Group
      COROT – (p) COnvection, ROtation and planetary Transits
      cos – (s) Corsican language (ISO 639-2 code) – Cosine
      COS – (i) Cooper Ornithological Society
      COSCOM – (p) Corps Support Command (military)
      COSER – (p) COoperative SERvice
      COSHH – (p) Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health (United Kingdom)
      CoSIDA – (p) College Sports Information Directors of America, the original name of the organization now known as College Sports Communicators
      CoT – (i) Car of Tomorrow (former NASCAR race car design)
      COTS – (a) Commercial Off The Shelf
      COVID-19 – Coronavirus disease 2019
      Coy – (s) Company (military unit)Cow


      CP


      CP
      (i) Canadian Pacific
      Check Point
      Command Post
      Club Penguin
      CPA – (i) Certified Public Accountant
      CPAC
      (p) Conservative Political Action Conference
      Cable Public Affairs Channel ("see-pack")
      CPAP
      (i) Center for Public Administration and Policy
      Coalition for the Prevention of Alcohol Problems
      Consecutive primes in arithmetic progression
      (p) Continuous positive airway pressure ("see-pap")
      CPC – Certified Professional Coder, a certification from AAPC
      CPCU – Certified Property Casualty Underwriter
      CPD – (i) Capabilities Production Document
      CPE
      (i) Certificate of Proficiency in English
      Certified Professional Ergonomist
      (i) Clinical Pastoral Education
      CPEC – (p) China–Pakistan Economic Corridor ("see-pec")
      CPF
      (i) Calibration Parameter File
      Canadian Patrol Frigate
      CPG – (a) Clinical Practice Guideline
      CPI – (i) CERDEC Command, Power and Integration
      CPIM – (a) Certification on Production and Inventory Management
      CPIR – Computationally-Private Information Retrieval
      CPON – (i) Certified Pediatric Oncology Nurse
      CPPCC – (i) Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
      CPR
      (i) Canadian Pacific Railway
      (i) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
      CPS
      Crown Prosecution Service (UK government agency)
      Child Protection Service (Collection of US government agencies)
      CPSM – (i) Continuous Phase Shift Modulation
      CPSU – (i) Communist Party of the Soviet Union
      CPT – (i) Contingency Planning Team
      CPU
      (i) Central Processing Unit
      Contract Postal Unit
      CPV – (s) Cape Verde (ISO 3166 trigram)
      CPX – (p) Command Post eXercise


      CQ


      CQ – (i) Carrier Qualification – Central Queensland – Charge of Quarters – Congressional Quarterly – Constellation Airlines (IATA airline designator) – Northern Mariana Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
      CQD – (i) Close Quarters Drill (Morse distress code preceding SOS: CQ "calling all stations", D "Distress"; often incorrectly interpreted as "Come Quick, Distress")


      CR


      cr – (s) Cree language (ISO 639-1 code)
      Cr – (s) Chromium
      CR
      (s) Coral Sea Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
      Costa Rica (ISO 3166 digram)
      CRAM – (i) Combined Radiometric Correction Model
      [C.R.A.P. (acronym) Citizens Raging Against Phones] Group of people on GTA III (PS2)]
      CRC
      (i) Central RTI Component
      Chemical Rubber Company
      Christian Reformed Church
      Control and Reporting Centre
      Cyclic Redundancy Check
      (s) Costa Rican colón (ISO 4217 currency code)
      Costa Rica (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
      CRD – (i) Capstone Requirements Document
      cre – (s) Cree language (ISO 639-2 code)
      C.R.E.A.M. –Cash Rules Everything Around Me
      CREB – (a) Cyclic AMP-response Element Binding (protein)
      CREEP – (a) Committee for the Re-Election of the President, a pejorative nickname used by opponents
      CRI
      (a) China Radio International
      (s) Costa Rica (ISO 3166 trigram)
      CRIPL – (i) Consolidated Remain-In-Place List
      CRISPR – (a) clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
      CRM – (i) Cardiac Rhythm Management – Customer Relationship Management
      CRO – (s) Croatia (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166) – Contract Research Organization
      CRP
      (i) Committee for the Re-Election of the President
      Control and Reporting Post
      CRT
      (i) Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
      Cathode-Ray Tube
      Chinese Remainder Theorem
      CRTC – (i) Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
      [CWAJGA? (disambiguation) Can't We All Just Get Along?] Used in the 90s & early 2000s to resolve or stop arguments and disagreements between people


      CS


      cs – (s) Czech language (ISO 639-1 code)
      Cs – (s) Caesium
      CS
      (i) Combat Support
      Computer Scientist
      Counter-Strike
      (s) Costa Rica (FIPS 10-4 country code)
      Serbia and Montenegro (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 2006)
      CSA
      (i) Canadian Soccer Association
      Canadian Space Agency
      Canadian Standards Association
      Chief Scientific Advisor
      Child Support Agency
      Command Staff Advisor
      Community-supported agriculture
      Confederate States of America
      Corps Storage Area
      (p) Czech Airlines
      C/S/A – (i) CINC, Service, and Agency
      CSAR – (p) Combat Search and Rescue ("seessar")
      CSC
      (i) Closed Spacelike Curve (relativity)
      College Sports Communicators (U.S. organization for college sports information directors)
      Compact system camera
      Computer Sciences Corporation (became DXC Technology in 2017)
      Computer Security Centre
      CSCC - Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists
      CSEAL – (i/a) Combat Systems Engineering and Analysis Laboratory ("see-seal")
      CSERIAC – (p) (U.S. DoD) Crew Systems Ergonomics Information Analysis Center
      CSG – (i) Corps Support Group
      CSI – see entry
      CSICOP – (i) Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (became the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2006)
      CSIP – (i) Commercial Stable Image Platform (AMD)
      CSIS
      (p) Canadian Security Intelligence Service ("seessiss")
      (i) (U.S.) Center for Strategic & International Studies
      CSK – (s) Czechoslovakia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1993)
      CSL – (i) U.K. Central Science Laboratory
      CSM – see entry
      C-SPAN – (i) Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network
      CSPI – (i) Center for Science in the Public Interest
      CSR – (i) Control Supply Rate
      CSR – (i) Corporate Social Responsibility [1]
      CSRC – (i) Conflict Studies Research Centre
      CSRF – (i) Cross-Site Request Forgery
      CSS
      (i) Cascading Style Sheets
      Catalina Sky Survey
      Central Security Service
      Combat Service Support
      Confederate States Ship
      Content-scrambling system
      Cross-site scripting
      CSSCS – (i) Combat Service Support Control System
      CST – (i) Central Standard Time (UTC−6 hours)


      CT


      CT – (i) Computed tomography (medical scan also known as a CAT scan) – Central Time zone – Chrono Trigger (Computer/Video games) – (s) Connecticut (postal symbol) – Canterbury (postal symbol) – Chhattisgarh (Indian state code)
      CTA
      (s) Central African Republic (FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166 or IOC)
      (i) Chicago Transit Authority
      (i) Comando-Geral de Tecnologia Aerospacial (Portuguese, [Brazilian] "General Command for Aerospace Technology")
      CTBT – (i) Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty
      CTC – (i) Closed Timelike Curve (relativity) – (U.S.) Combat Training Center
      CTDB – (i) Compact Terrain Data Base (file format)
      CTE
      (s) Canton and Enderbury Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984)
      (i) Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
      CTGF – (i) connective tissue growth factor
      CTI – (i) Co-operative Target Identification
      CTIL – (i) Critical Tracked Items List
      CTIS – (i) Central Tire Inflation System
      CTMS – (i) Clinical Trial Management System
      CTO – (i) Chief Technical Officer – Chief Technology Officer
      CTS – (i) Clear-To-Send – Collective Training Standards – Communications Technology Service – Contract Technical Services – Conversation Time Sharing – COSMIC Top Secret
      CTSS – (i) Compatible Time-Sharing System
      CTU – (i) Counter Terrorist Unit (fictional branch of the Central Intelligence Agency in the television action series 24)
      CTVT – (i) Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour


      CU


      cu – (s) Old Church Slavonic language (ISO 639-1 code)
      Cu – (s) Copper (Latin Cuprum)
      CU
      (i) Carrie Underwood
      (s) Cuba (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
      (i) University of Colorado Boulder
      CUB – (s) Cuba (ISO 3166 trigram)
      CUCV – (i) Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle
      CUDAAP –(a) Custom Database Applications
      CUNY – (a) City University of New York ("CUE-knee")
      CUP – (s) Cuban peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
      CUPE – (a) Canadian Union of Public Employees ("CUE-pee")
      CUPS – (a) Common Unix Printing System
      CUPW – (i) Canadian Union of Postal Workers
      CUREA – (a) Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy
      CuW – (s) Copper-tungsten pseudo-alloy (from the chemical symbols of the two component elements)
      CUW – (s) Curaçao (ISO 3166 trigram)


      CV


      cv – (s) Chuvash language (ISO 639-1 code)
      CV – many, including curriculum vitae (résumé); see entry
      CVCC
      (i) Combat Vehicle Command and Control
      Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion (1970s Honda automobile engine technology)
      CVE – (s) Cape Verde escudo (ISO 4217 currency code)
      CVI – (i) Combat Vehicle Identification
      CVLL – (i) Crypto Variable Logic Label
      CVR – (i) Cockpit Voice Recorder – Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance
      CVR(T) – (i) Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked)
      CVS – (i) Concurrent Versions System
      CVSD – (i) Continuous Variable Slope Delta (modulation)
      CVT – (i) Continuously Variable Transmission


      CW


      CW
      (i) Continuous Wave
      (s) Cook Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
      (i) Clothes washer
      (i) The CW
      CW/CE – (i) Construction Worker / Construction Electrician IBEW
      CWC – (i) Chemical Weapons Convention
      CWL – (i) Campus Wide Login
      CWS – (i) Canadian Wildlife Service
      CWRU – (i) Case Western Reserve University


      CX


      CX – (s) Christmas Island (ISO 3166 digram) – One Hundred and Ten (in Roman numerals)
      CXR
      (s) Christmas Island (ISO 3166 trigram)
      (s) IATA code for Cam Ranh International Airport


      CY


      cy – (s) Welsh language (ISO 639-1 code)
      CY – (i) Calendar year – (s) Cyprus (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
      cym – (s) Welsh language (ISO 639-2 code)
      CYM – (s) Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
      CYP – (s) Cyprus (ISO 3166 trigram) – Cyprus pound (ISO 4217 currency code)


      CZ


      CZ
      (i) combat zone
      (s) Czech Republic (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
      CZE – (s) Czech Republic (ISO 3166 trigram)
      CZK – (s) Czech koruna (ISO 4217 currency code)
      CZF – constructive Zermelo-Fraenkel
      CZMA – (i) (US) Coastal Zone Management Act
      CZW – (i) Combat Zone Wrestling


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