3-letter words containing a
- dat — DAT is a type of magnetic tape used to make very high quality recordings of sound by recording it in digital form. DAT is an abbreviation for 'digital audio tape'.
- dau — daughter
- daw — jackdaw
- dax — an index of share prices based on an average of 30 leading stocks quoted on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
- day — A day is one of the seven twenty-four hour periods of time in a week.
- dba — Doctor of Business Administration
- dca — 1. Defense Communications Agency. See DISA. 2. Document Content Architecture from IBM.
- dea — Data Encryption Algorithm
- dfa — Doctor of Fine Arts
- dha — District Health Authority
- dma — (architecture) (DMA) A facility of some architectures which allows a peripheral to read and write memory without intervention by the CPU. DMA is a limited form of bus mastering.
- dna — Deoxyribonucleic acid, a self-replicating material present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.
- doa — patient: dead on arrival
- dpa — Data Protection Act
- dsa — Directory System Agent
- dua — Directory User Agent
- ea. — each
- eaf — Effort Adjustment Factor
- eag — Extended Affix Grammar
- eai — Enterprise Application Integration
- eak — Kenya (international car registration)
- eam — (dialectal, or, obsolete) Uncle.
- ean — (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth young; yean.
- ear — the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
- eas — the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- eat — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- eau — Uganda (international car registration)
- eax — Environmental Audio eXtensions
- eda — a female given name.
- eea — European Economic Area
- efa — essential fatty acid
- ega — Enhanced Graphics Adapter
- eia — Electronics Industry Association
- ema — A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.
- epa — eicosapentaenoic acid: a fatty acid, found in certain fish oils, that can reduce blood cholesterol
- era — A long and distinct period of history with a particular feature or characteristic.
- esa — 1. (architecture) Enterprise Systems Architecture. 2. (body) European Space Agency.
- eta — The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
- eva — 1. A toy ALGOL-like language used in "Formal Specification of Programming Languages: A Panoramic Primer", F.G. Pagan, P-H 1981. 2. Explicit Vector Language.
- faa — The letter ف in the Arabic script.
- fab — fabulous (def 2).
- fac — A large ornamental letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book.
- fad — a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.
- fae — Alternative spelling of fey (etymology 2).
- fag — Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual.
- fah — (music) An anglicised spelling of fa.
- fai — Fédération aéronautique internationale
- fak — Alternative form of fuck.
- fam — a close friend or group of friends thought of as family: All these guys are my fam.
- fan — an enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc.: a baseball fan; a great fan of Charlie Chaplin.