Acronyms with C

  • Famous agency: Central Intelligence Agency.

  • CAT scan = computed axial tomography.

  • Common acronym: cash on delivery.

  • Cable News Network, major TV channel.

  • US agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

  • Common job title: Chief Executive Officer.

  • Lifesaving aid: cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

  • Tech term: computer-aided design.

  • US broadcaster: Columbia Broadcasting System.

  • EU policy: Common Agricultural Policy.

  • Child Protective Services (US), well-known.

  • Tech: Controller Area Network (CAN bus).

  • Central Business District; widely used acronym.

  • Closed-circuit television, widely known.

  • Certified Public Accountant; common finance title

  • Country code: Central African Republic.

  • Cathode-ray tube; old TV and monitor display tech

  • Central Processing Unit; core chip of a computer

  • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; major TV/radio

  • Medical acronym: chronic inflammatory disease

  • Medical acronym: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  • Common org/phrase acronym: Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere

  • Business acronym: customer relationship management systems

  • US pharmacy/retail chain initials; big company

  • Web/platform acronym: content management system

  • Often means cognitive behavioral therapy in psychology

  • Multiple acronyms; in med: complementary and alternative medicine

  • Several orgs; e.g. Canadian Automobile Association

  • cul

  • Common org acronym: Canadian Standards Association

  • Famous US intelligence agency; Central Intelligence Agency

  • US health insurance program; stands for Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act

  • Very common keyboard/tech abbreviation for Control

  • Cascading Style Sheets, web page styling language

  • Often for Colorado or Chicago State Univ context

  • Can mean Conference of Parties or Community Oriented Policing

  • Commonly for Chicago Police Department

  • Computed axial tomography, medical imaging scan

  • Computed tomography scan, common medical acronym

  • COLD

  • Can mean Corporate/Certified/Community Identity Theft etc.

  • Used for various programs, e.g. CARES Act in US

  • Central Standard Time, time zone in North America

  • Computer-generated imagery, movie visual effects

  • European nuclear research org near Geneva

  • Charge-coupled device, light sensor in cameras

  • Computer Aided Learning, edu tech acronym

  • .com top-level domain; also Component Object Model

  • Commonwealth of Independent States, post‑Soviet bloc

  • Chief Financial Officer, top exec role

  • Central Control Unit, common in engineering

  • Caps Lock key often shortened to CAPS

  • Citizens Advice Bureau acronym in UK/IE

  • Cyclic Redundancy Check, data integrity code

  • Clearing House Interbank Payments System

  • Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, now CARE

  • Center / Counter / Control; common short form

  • Comma-Separated Values, text data format

  • Chief Operating Officer, high‑level exec role

  • Child of Deaf Adult; identity/community term

  • Stands for "close of business", end of workday.

  • Central nervous system in biology/medicine.

  • Chlorofluorocarbon, ozone‑depleting chemical.

  • Often "Customer Data Platform" in marketing tech.

  • Central African Republic, ISO country code.

  • "Controller Area Network", car/industrial bus.

  • Can mean "College of American Pathologists" etc.

  • Cash on delivery, payment on receipt of goods.

  • Chinese yuan, ISO currency code for China.

  • Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.

The words in the list Acronyms with C come from players of the word game City, Country, River.