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Fortran mode provides many built-in abbrevs for common keywords and declarations. These are the same sort of abbrevs that you can define yourself. To use them, you must turn on Abbrev mode. see Abbrevs.
The built-in abbrevs are unusual in one way: they all start with a semicolon. You cannot normally use semicolon in an abbrev, but Fortran mode makes this possible by changing the syntax of semicolon to “word constituent”.
For example, one built-in Fortran abbrev is ‘;c’ for ‘continue’. If you insert ‘;c’ and then insert a punctuation character such as a space or a newline, the ‘;c’ changes automatically to ‘continue’, provided Abbrev mode is enabled.
Type ‘;?’ or ‘;C-h’ to display a list of all built-in Fortran abbrevs and what they stand for.