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3-letter words containing p

  • ep- — epi-
  • epa — eicosapentaenoic acid: a fatty acid, found in certain fish oils, that can reduce blood cholesterol
  • epg — electronic programme guide
  • epi — A syringe or autoinjector filled with epinephrine, most frequently used for the treatment of acute allergic reactions to avoid or treat the onset of anaphylactic shock.
  • epl — 1. Early PL/I. 2. Experimental Programming Language. 3. Eden Programming Language. 4. Equational Programming Language 5. Ethernet Private Line
  • epo — EPO is a drug that can improve performance in sports and is used illegally by some sportspeople. EPO is short for 'erythropoietin'.
  • epp — enhanced parallel port
  • epr — electron paramagnetic resonance
  • eps — Encapsulated PostScript
  • epz — export processing zone: an industrial area containing many foreign-owned factories
  • erp — Enterprise Resource Planning
  • esp — Especially.
  • exp — exponential (sense 2)
  • fap — (obsolete) Drunk.
  • fcp — Flat Concurrent Prolog.
  • fdp — Freie Demokratische Partei: a liberal political party in Germany
  • ffp — Formal FP. A language similar to FP, but with regular sugarless syntax, for machine execution. See also FL.
  • fip — (US, obsolete) fippenny bit.
  • fop — a man who is excessively vain and concerned about his dress, appearance, and manners.
  • fp2 — Functional Parallel Programming. A term rewriting language which unifies functional programming and parallel programming. Every object is a term and every computation is done by rewriting. Rewrite rules are used to specify algebraic data types and parallel processes.
  • fpa — Abigail (Smith) 1744–1818, U.S. social and political figure (wife of John Adams).
  • fpc — A translator from Backus's FP to C.
  • fpm — Fast Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory
  • fpo — field post office
  • fps — (unit)   (fps) The unit of measurement of the frame rate of a moving image.
  • fpu — Floating-Point Unit
  • fsp — File Service Protocol
  • ftp — File Transfer Protocol
  • fup — (Internet) follow-up.
  • gap — a department in SE France. 2179 sq. mi. (5645 sq. km). Capital: Gap.
  • gdp — Gross domestic product.
  • gip — Informal: Sometimes Offensive. a swindle or fraud.
  • gnp — gross national product
  • gop — Grand Old Party: Republicans
  • gpa — grade point average
  • gpf — General Protection failure/fault
  • gpi — general paralysis of the insane (general paresis)
  • gpl — 1. General Purpose Language. 2. ["A Sample Management Application Program in a Graphical Data-driven Programming language", A.L. Davis et al, Digest of Papers, Compcon Spring 81, Feb 1981, pp. 162-167]. 3. Genken Programming Language. 4. General Public License.
  • gpm — General Purpose Macro-generator
  • gpo — (in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
  • gps — Global Positioning System
  • gpu — State Political Administration; the Soviet police and secret police from 1922 to 1923
  • gpv — General Public Virus
  • gpx — Early system on UNIVAC II. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • grp — Group.
  • gup — gossip
  • gyp — a male college servant, as at Cambridge and Durham.
  • hap — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • hbp — hit by pitcher
  • hcp — handicap
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