BC

BC or B.C. may refer to:

Before Christ, an epoch used in dating years prior to the estimated birth of Jesus

Places

Baja California, Mexico's northernmost state
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
Basque Country (disambiguation), land of the Basque people
Benin City, Edo State, southern Nigeria
Botswana, World Meteorological Organization country code and FIPS 10-4 code: 'BC'
British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province
"Bull City", a nickname for Durham, North Carolina

Balliol College, Oxford, a college of the University of Oxford
Benedictine Military School , formerly Benedictine College, Savannah, Georgia
Boston College, a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Brazosport College, a college located in Lake Jackson, Texas
Bureau of Corrections (Philippines), an agency of the Department of Justice of the Philippines, charged with the custody and rehabilitation of national offenders

Bella Center, Scandinavia's largest exhibition and conference center, in Copenhagen, Denmark
Blue Cross, a trade association of United States health insurance companies
Boise Cascade, a manufacturer of paper and pulp products
Brasseries du Cameroun, a brewery in Cameroon
British Council, a non-departmental public body and registered charity for cultural relations in the United Kingdom
Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league professional baseball club
Brunswick Corporation, stock symbol for a consumer sporting goods manufacturer traded on the New York Stock Exchange
Basketball Club, in Romanian, for example BC Mureş Târgu Mureş

Basso Continuo, an accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period
Bad Company (drum and bass group), a drum and bass band
Body Count, rapper Ice-T's metal band
Bad Company, an English hard rock supergroup
Broadway Calls, an American Punk Rock band
B.C. (comic strip), a syndicated comic strip originated by Johnny Hart, and the name of one of its characters
Barnabas Collins, a fictional vampire from the ABC soap opera Dark Shadows
Border Crossings, a musical radio show that airs on Voice of America
The Breakfast Club, a teenager-oriented dramedy released in the year 1985
Breathe Carolina, an electronica band from Denver, Colorado

Backward compatibility, compatibility of new product with old product
Buoyancy compensator (diving), a piece of scuba diving equipment
Ballistic coefficient, a measure of air drag on a projectile, the ratio of its sectional density to its coefficient of form
Base curve radius, a parameter of a contact lens
Black carbon, a carbonaceous component of soot
Boundary condition (mathematics), a constraint on partial differential equations
Battle Command, a military process

Burning Crusade, an expansion to the online role-playing game World of Warcraft
Bionic Commando, a series of video games
Battle Command (video game), a tank simulation game

Bc, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Brassocattleya
BC Powder, a brand name of pain reliever
Birth control, prevent or reduce the likelihood of pregnancy or childbirth
Breast cancer, cancers originating from breast tissue
Board certification, as in Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Board Certified (APRN, BC)
Blood Culture, employed to detect microorganisms in the blood

Skymark Airlines, IATA airline code
NZR BC class, a steam locomotive classification used by the New Zealand Railways Department
Barre and Chelsea Railroad

Background Check, the process of compiling records on a person
Breath control, controlling breathing
Bliss bibliographic classification, a library cataloguing system
BookCrossing, a website which encourages leaving books in public places to be found by others
Base Camp, in mountaineering
Bachelor's degree, in Middle European countries
Basilian Chouerite Order, a religious order