WC

WC commonly refers to a water closet (flush toilet), a Western commode (a toilet with a Western bowl design), or to a room containing a flush toilet.

WC may also refer to:

Computing

• wc (Unix), a Unix utility used for counting words and lines in a file
• Write-combining, a computing performance method of combining multiple memory writes before sending them
• Writing Commons

Industry

• Wisconsin Central Ltd., a railroad subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway
• Weather Central, a provider of broadcast and interactive web weather solutions
• Working capital, a financial metric
• Isleña Airlines (IATA code), an airline based in La Ceiba, Honduras

Entertainment

• W.C. (film), an Irish feature film set
• WC (band), a Polish punk rock band
• WC (rapper), a rapper from Los Angeles, California
• Wild Card (sports), a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play.

Places

• WC postcode area, a group of postcode districts in central London, England
• West Covina, a city in Southern California

Sports

• World Cup, a type of global sporting competition

Other uses

• Allis-Chalmers Model WC, a row crop tractor
• The chemical formula for tungsten carbide, a high-boiling-point metallic compound
• Wall cloud, a lowered area of a thunderstorm at the updraft-downdraft interchange where tornadoes may form
• Weil–Châtelet group in mathematics
• Water cooler, a device that cools and dispenses water.
• WC can also stand for Wellington College, a LGBT friendly school based in Wellington, New Zealand.