3-letter words containing e
- dew — small drops of moisture, such as tears
- dex — a tablet of the drug Dexedrine
- dey — the title given to commanders or (from 1710) governors of the Janissaries of Algiers (1671–1830)
- dfe — Department for Education
- die — When people, animals, and plants die, they stop living.
- dle — (character) Data Link Escape, the mnemonic for ASCII 16.
- dme — Distributed Management Environment
- doe — the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- dre — direct recording electronic: a system of voting in elections in which voters enter choices using an electronic device such as a touchscreen
- dse — 1. Display Screen Equipment. See Visual Display Unit. 2. Data Structure Editor.
- dte — Data Terminal Equipment
- due — together; in unison.
- dye — a coloring material or matter.
- 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
- ebb — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
- ebn — east by north
- ebs — electronic braking system
- ebu — European Broadcasting Union
- ebv — Epstein-Barr virus
- ec- — out from; away from
- ecb — European Central Bank
- ecc — error detection and correction
- ecg — electrocardiogram
- eck — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), (Johann Mayer) 1486–1543, German Roman Catholic theologian: opponent of Martin Luther.
- ecl — 1. (hardware) Emitter Coupled Logic. 2. (language) Extensible CL. Wegbreit, ca 1970.
- ecm — (storage) error correcting memory.
- eco — ecological or environmental.
- ecp — 1. Engineering Change Proposal. 2. Enhanced Capabilities Port. 3. Extended Capabilities Port. 4. Extended Concurrent Prolog.
- ecr — efficient consumer response: the use of point-of-sale data to initiate the reordering of stock from a supplier
- ecs — European Communications Satellite
- ect — electroconvulsive therapy
- ecu — the shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
- ed. — ed. is a written abbreviation for editor.
- eda — a female given name.
- edb — a carcinogenic, colorless liquid, BrCH2CH2Br, used as an additive to remove the lead during the burning of leaded gasoline and, formerly, as a fumigant to protect stored food, esp. grain and fruit, from insects, rodents, etc.
- edc — European Defence Community
- edd — Doctor of Education
- ede — a city in SW Nigeria.
- edf — earliest deadline first