WC
water closet.
WC
1 American
w.c.
2
American
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water closet.
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without charge.
W.C.
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American
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water closet.
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West Central (postal district in London, England).
WC
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British
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water closet
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(in London postal code) West Central
wc
2
British
abbreviation
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water closet
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without charge
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For instance, the rod-leading technique led to decomposition of WC near the top portion of the build, which created defects in the finished material.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
In this process, powders of WC and Co are compressed under high pressure and heated in sintering machines to form solid cemented carbide.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
His collection includes ornate WC pans and basins covered in floral decoration, huge old cast-iron baths, antique brass taps, polished wooden loo seats, and that potty with the Fuhrer feature.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024
WC: For me, the ultimate elegance is a pressed T-shirt, khakis with a black belt and white sneakers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2023
I staggered into the WC, and hung my head in the oubliette for an eternity, but nothing was coming up.
From A Place so Foreign by Doctorow, Cory
The elevator is the "lift," the toilet the "w.c."
From Time Magazine Archive
She objects, they argue, and in tears she excuses herself to go to the w.c.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first floor contains four bed-rooms, two dressing-rooms, bath-room, w.c., etc.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 by Various
The frigidarium is cut off from the corridor or landing of the house by a lobby, which provides a w.c. and a space for boots and shoes and linen and towels.
From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Allsop, Robert Owen
Mechenmal used the delay to slip by me, run into the w.c., which he locked behind him.
From The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein by Lichtenstein, Alfred
The greatest comedians of the 20th century were those who made movies: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the Marx Brothers, W.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
On Monday morning, the authorities discovered that Mr. Roush, 22, and Jatonia Bryant, 23, had escaped from the W.C.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
Kovacs — an individual, an auteur, an outsider inside the system — also has something of the anarchic, world-upending, enrapturing appeal of Marx brothers and W.C.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
The play's title comes from "Joe Turner's Blues," written in 1915 by W.C.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2022
Fifteen pounds, being one quarter's rent due on Midsummer Day last, for the premises occupied by him at No. 14, South Rupert Street, W.C.
From The Gentleman's Model Letter-writer A Complete Guide to Correspondence on All Subjects, with Commercial Forms by Anonymous
I think England will play well tonight, the so called disastrous world cup was pretty much as most objective folk anticipated, England are a little thin talent wise and expectation is modest post wc.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2010
The riches wc have gathered are excellent and great.
From The Lay of the Cid by Bacon, Leonard
These, whilst they liu'd, did liue in all content, contending who should loue each other most, To wc pure loue, proude Fame her eares down lent, and through the world, of it doth highly boast.
From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Miller, Paul William
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