LC or Lc may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Library of Congress Classification The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress in the United States, which can be used for shelving books in a library. LCC is mainly used by large research and academic librar ...

, a system of library classification

Gaming and play

Lego Chess ''Lego Chess'' is a Lego-themed, chess-based strategy video game developed by Krisalis Software, published by Lego Media, and released for Microsoft Windows in 1998. Gameplay The rules of the game can be changed to cater to many popular vari ...

, a Lego-based chess video game *

Lego Creator Lego Creator is a Lego theme for generic models. Creator sets have few specialized bricks to create buildings, creatures, vehicles, and robots. Some sets featured instructions for three different possible builds from the bricks included and mos ...

, a theme of Lego * ''Lego Creator'' (video game), a Lego video game *

Liberty City (Grand Theft Auto) ''Grand Theft Auto'' (''GTA'') is a series of action-adventure games created by David Jones and Mike Dailly. Later titles were developed under the oversight of brothers Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut. It is primarily ...

, a fictional city in the ''Grand Theft Auto'' computer and video game series

Music

* ''LC'' (album), 1981 album by The Durutti Column * Lacuna Coil, an Italian gothic metal band *

Living Colour Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984. The band currently consists of guitarist Vernon Reid, lead vocalist Corey Glover, drummer Will Calhoun and bassist Doug Wimbish (who replaced Muzz Skillings in 1992). S ...

, an American hard rock band formed in New York *

Los Campesinos! Los Campesinos! are a seven-piece indie pop band from Cardiff, Wales, formed in early 2006 at Cardiff University. Though the band formed in Wales, none of the members are Welsh people, Welsh. The band has gone through several lineup changes dur ...

, a British indie-rock band formed in Cardiff

In other media

* Licensed Companion, from the ''

In Death The ''...in Death'' series of novels and novellas is written by Nora Roberts under her pseudonym J. D. Robb. Set in a mid-21st-century New York City, they feature NYPSD ("New York City Police and Security Department") lieutenant Eve Dallas and he ...

'' novels of J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) *

Shop LC Shop LC, formerly known as Liquidation Channel and The Jewelry Channel, is an American cable television network based in Austin, Texas, which mainly specializes in selling jewelry. The network is a subsidiary of the Indian-based Vaibhav Global ...

, a 24/7 American shopping television channel

Businesses, organisations, and government agencies

Government agencies

Irish Land Commission The Irish Land Commission was created by the British crown in 1843 to 'inquire into the occupation of the land in Ireland. The office of the commission was in Dublin Castle, and the records were, on its conclusion, deposited in the records tower t ...

(or simply Land Commission), a rent fixing commission by the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881 *

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library ...

, the ''de facto'' United States national library * Liquor Control, including the

Liquor Control Board of Ontario The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is a Crown corporations of Canada, Crown corporation that retails and distributes alcoholic beverages throughout the Provinces of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. It is accountable to the Legislati ...

and the

Manitoba Liquor Control Commission The Manitoba Liquor Control Commission (MLCC) was a Crown corporation mandated with regulating, distributing, and selling beverage alcohol in the Canadian province of Manitoba. In 2014, the Manitoba government merged MLCC with the Manitoba ...

Local Council (Uganda) A Local Council (LC) is a form of local elected government within the districts of Uganda. Background Uganda has been holding elections consistently for more than 30 years now, at the different levels including Presidential, Parliamentary, D ...

, a form of local elected government within the districts of Uganda * Technical Department of the

Ministry of Aviation (Nazi Germany) The Ministry of Aviation (german: Reichsluftfahrtministerium, abbreviated RLM) was a government department during the period of Nazi Germany (1933–45). It is also the original name of the Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus building on the Wilhelmstrasse ...

in charge of research and development (LC, but more often referred to as C-amt) * Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway, a state-operated commuter rail service in the Kanpur-Lucknow region of India

Religious organizations

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Church, or Roman Catholic Church *

Legion of Christ The Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ ( la, Congregatio Legionariorum Christi; abbreviated LC; also Legion of Christ) is a Roman Catholic clerical religious order made up of priests and candidates for the priesthood established by Marcia ...

, a Roman Catholic religious order of priests *

Liberty Counsel Liberty Counsel is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt religious liberty organization that engages in litigation related to evangelical Christian values. Liberty Counsel was founded in 1989 by its chairman Mathew Staver and its president Anita L. Staver, who a ...

, a legal organization dedicated to advancing specific religious freedoms

Schools

Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the college after General Laf ...

, a private college in Easton, Pennsylvania, US *

Laguna College The Laguna College, more popularly known by its initials LC, is a private, nonsectarian, co-educational institution located in San Pablo City, Laguna, Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of ...

, a non-sectarian, private school in San Pablo City, Laguna *

Launceston College (Tasmania) Launceston College is a government comprehensive senior secondary school located in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Established in 1913 as the Launceston State High School and subsequently known as Launceston College, the college caters for ...

, a public senior-secondary school in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia *

Letran College The Colegio de San Juan de Letran, (transl: College of San Juan de Letran) also referred to by its acronym CSJL, is a private Catholic coeducational basic and higher education institution owned and run by the friars of the Order of Preachers i ...

in Manila, Philippines *

Lewis and Clark Community College Lewis and Clark Community College is a public community college in Godfrey, Illinois. It serves approximately 15,000 credit and non-credit students annually. The college has nine locations throughout the St. Louis Metro East, including a campu ...

, a community college in Godfrey, Illinois, US * Lomagundi College, an independent, boarding school in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe * Loomis Chaffee, a coeducational boarding school in Windsor, Connecticut, US * Lynchburg College, a private liberal arts college in Lynchburg, Virginia, US * Lynden Christian Schools, a private school in Lynden, Washington, US

Other businesses and organizations

* Latvian Way, a political party of Latvia * LC Perú, a Peruvian airline * Lean Cuisine, a brand of microwaveable meals * LendingClub, NYSE ticker symbol LC * Lotta Continua, a former far-left extra-parliamentary organization in Italy * Varig Logística (IATA airline designator LC)

Economics and finance

* Letter of credit, a document issued to provide a payment undertaking * Local currency, also referred to as Local Currency Unit or LCU

People

* Lorne Cardinal, stage and television actor * Leonora Carrington, Mexican painter/surrealist * Liz Claiborne, fashion designer * Les Claypool, bassist best known for his work with Primus * Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist * Laveranues Coles, New York Jets wide receiver * Lauren Conrad, fashion designer and former reality TV star on ''The Hills'' and ''Laguna Beach'' * Le Corbusier, architect, and a series of furniture designed by same

Places

* Las Cruces, New Mexico, US * LC, Swansea, a Leisure Centre in Wales * Leicester, a city in the United Kingdom * Lewis Center, Ohio, United States * Little Compton, Rhode Island, US * Lučenec, a town in Slovakia * Saint Lucia, ISO 3166-1 country code

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* × Laeliocattleya, × ''Laeliocattleya'', a genus of orchids * Langerhans cell, a tissue-resident macrophage * Lethal concentration, a means to quantitatively indicate a gas or aerosol hazard * Lignocellulose * Locus coeruleus, a noradrenergic nucleus in the brain stem * Long COVID, a term for aftereffects occurring after recovering from and presumed to be caused by COVID-19

Ecology

* Least Concern, a World Conservation Union "Red List of Threatened Species" category

Electronics and computing

* .lc, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Lucia * Macintosh LC family, a range of personal computers manufactured by Apple in the early 1990s * Macintosh LC, the first computer in the Macintosh LC family * LC-type optical fiber connector * LC circuit, in electronics, a circuit with an inductor and a capacitor * Linear cryptanalysis, a form of cryptanalysis * Lines of Code * Logic cell, in Field-programmable gate arrays

Vehicles

* Toyota Land Cruiser, an SUV built by Toyota Motor Corporation * Lexus LC, a grand tourer built by Toyota Motor Corporation * Geely LC, a hatchback car * Landing craft, used to convey infantry and vehicles to shore in an amphibious assault

Other uses in science and technology

* Launch Complex (disambiguation), Launch Complex, a rocket launch site * Leading coefficient, in mathematics * Leeuwin Current, a warm ocean current * Liquid chromatography, an analytical chemistry technique * Liquid crystal, a phase of matter with properties between a solid and a liquid state, commonly used in displays

Other uses

* Law corporation, a special type of limited liability corporation available for single attorneys in California * Irish Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate, the final course in the Irish secondary school system * Letter case, used in orthography and typography to denote the difference between capital and non-capital letters ** Lower case lettering * Level crossing, on some maps, an intersection of a railway line and road at the same level * ''Loc. cit.'' (''loco citato''), in citations, used to repeat a citation, including the page to which the citation refers * Long course, an Olympic-size swimming pool * Lord Chancellor, a senior functionary in the government of the United Kingdom