WC
water closet.
WC
1 American
w.c.
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American
abbreviation
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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
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British
abbreviation
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water closet
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without charge
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The rod-leading method caused some WC to decompose near the upper portion of the manufactured structure, creating defects in the final material.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
A captivating painting can help a tiny WC feel less claustrophobic and distract from the room’s base function.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025
One particular perk was her own peach-coloured WC.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
"If you'll excuse me, I need to use the WC again."
From A Place so Foreign by Cory Doctorow
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
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 Alfred Lichtenstein
A lobby separates this apartment from the bath rooms, and off it are a w.c. and a towel closet, which latter could be supplied with hot air.
From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Robert Owen Allsop
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 Robert Owen Allsop
Mr. David descends from a long line of misanthropic American comic minds—Fred Allen, W.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
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
It also features William McKinley, a master of the grand hallooing style later adopted by W.C.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
The studio effect suggesting time travel — heard prominently in the cymbals — feels like something out of a 1970s Funkadelic stew; the W.C.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
Of books of great rarity unrepresented in these catalogues a fairly sufficient record exists in Brunet’s Manuel du libraire, the bibliographical collections of Mr W.C.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
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 Leonard Bacon
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 Paul William Miller
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