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WC or Wc commonly refers to a Water Closet (i.e. a flush toilet). It may also refer to: Winston Churchill

In computing:

• Warcraft, a computer game series
• Welcome, used to reply on thanks
• Water cooled, in reference to cooling computer devices via water
• wc, a Unix utility used for counting words and lines in a file (short for word count)
• web cache, by which web documents are stored to save bandwidth
• Wikimedia Commons, an image repository website
• Wing Commander, the Origin Systems computer game series and related franchise
• Work computer, as opposed to home computer (commonly used in Internet forums)
• Write-combining, a computing performance method of combining multiple memory writes before sending them
• The War Chiefs is the first official expansion pack for the real-time strategy game Age of Empires III
• We Cheer, video game
• Windows Computer ^[1]

In industry:

• Islena Airlines, IATA code
• White Castle (restaurant), the oldest American hamburger fast food restaurant chain
• Will call, when a buyer picks up product directly from the seller
• Wired Country, a New Zealand Internet Service Provider
• Wisconsin Central Ltd., a former Class II Railroad
• Wisconsin Central Railroad
• Workers' compensation, a payment for employees to cover medical costs
• Working Capital
• Week Closing
• Week Commencing

In film:

• W.C (film), Irish feature film set in the toilets of a late night jazz bar.

In music:

• WC (band), a Polish punk rock band
• WC (rapper), a rapper from Los Angeles, California
• Westside Connection, a rap group made up of Ice Cube, WC and Mack 10
• Whitechapel (band), an American deathcore band from Knoxville, Tennessee

In science:

• Winogradsky column, an ecological experiment
• Tungsten carbide, a high-boiling point metallic alloy (chemical formula WC)
• Water column, a conceptual column of water from surface to bottom sediments

In sports:

• World championships, a type of global sporting competition
• World cup, another type of global sporting competition
• Washington Capitals, a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C.
• Wilt Chamberlain, basketball player
• Wild Card, an invitation entry to a tournament, with no needed qualification to participate

In other uses:

• Wade Cederlund, A Professional
• Wah Ching (華青), a Chinese American gang
• Warren Commission, an investigation into the JFK assassination
• Wayside Church
• Wing Chun, a Chinese Kung fu system
• Winx Club, an Italian animated series
• Wolfe City, a small town in Texas
• Wellington College (New Zealand), a public high school in Wellington, New Zealand
• West Coast

1. ^ Some Confusing or Loaded Words and Phrases to Avoid (or Use with Care), Free Software, Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman.

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