HC

HC, hc pr H/C may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Half cadence, in music; see cadence (music)
• Hard-coded subtitles, in media
• Hardcore punk, a music genre
• WWE Hardcore Championship, a defunct title in World Wrestling Entertainment
• Haute couture, in fashion
• Hors de commerce, prints similar to Artist Proofs except they are only available through the artist directly

Education

• Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, US
• Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, US
• Honorary degree, or honoris causa

Science, technology, and mathematics

Medicine

• Head circumference, an important growth measurement in pediatrics
• Health Canada
• Health care
• Hemicrania continua
• Hog cholera, also called classical swine fever
• Hydrocortisone or cortisol
• Hyperelastosis cutis or hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia

Chemistry

• Hemocyanin, a metalloprotein
• Hexachloroethane, the active ingredient in the AN M8 smoke grenade.
• Homocapsaicin, a capsaicinoid
• Hydrocarbon
• Hydrocarbon gas, or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)

Computing

• Home computer
• Hamiltonian circuit, a concept in graph theory and computer science
• HyperCard, a Macintosh hypermedia program
• Felix HC, a series of Romanian personal microcomputers produced by ICE Felix Bucharest and which were ZX Spectrum clones

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

• Hard-coded subtitles, in media
• HCMOS (high-speed CMOS), an integrated circuit family
• Hemianthus callitrichoides, a freshwater aquatic plant native to Cuba
• Hermitian conjugate, in mathematics and quantum physics
• Hurricane tie, or hurricane connector, a structural component
• The collection of hereditarily countable sets in set theory

Sport

• Head Coach, managerial position for sports teams
• Hors catégorie (French), used in cycle races to designate a climb that is "beyond categorization"

Other uses

• Hampshire Constabulary, a police force in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in South East England
• Hardcore (disambiguation)
• Hebrew calendar
• Heritage Corridor, a Metra commuter rail line running from Chicago to Joliet, Illinois
• Highway contract, an outsourced United States Postal Service delivery method, formerly known as Star routes
• Holiday Club, a group of friends that organise holidays
• Hors concours; meaning not participating in a competition or contest; see List of French words and phrases used by English speakers
• Hospitality Club, an internet-based hospitality service
• Huron County, Ontario, Canada
• Aero-Tropics Air Services (IATA airline designator HC)