3-letter words containing n
- esn — educationally subnormal; formerly used to designate a person of limited intelligence who needs special schooling
- fan — an enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc.: a baseball fan; a great fan of Charlie Chaplin.
- fdn — foundation
- fen — low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
- fin — Slang. a five-dollar bill.
- fmn — flavin mononucleotide; a phosphoric ester of riboflavin that acts as the prosthetic group for many flavoproteins
- fnc — Federal Networking Council
- fon — a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
- fun — something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.
- fyn — an island in S Denmark. 1149 sq. mi. (2975 sq. km).
- gan — simple past tense of gin3 .
- gdn — gdn is a written abbreviation for garden, for example in addresses, or in advertisements for houses that are for sale.
- gen — generate
- gin — a female Aborigine.
- gnc — General Nursing Council
- gnn — Global Network Navigator
- gnp — gross national product
- gnu — either of two stocky, oxlike antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, the silver-gray, white-bearded C. taurinus of the eastern African plain and the black, white-tailed C. gnou of central South Africa: recently near extinction, the South African gnu is now protected.
- gon — (US, dialectal) Alternative form of gonna.
- gun — Also called gin rummy. a variety of rummy for two players, in which a player with 10 or fewer points in unmatched cards can end the game by laying down the hand.
- han — a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion. Compare Earlier Han, Later Han.
- hen — the female of the domestic fowl.
- hin — an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about one and one half gallons (5.7 liters).
- hnc — High-speed Net Connect
- hnd — Higher National Diploma; a qualification in technical subjects equivalent to an ordinary degree
- hon — honey (def 6).
- hun — a member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century a.d.
- ian — a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- ibn — (in Arabic names) son of.
- idn — in Dei nomine
- ien — Internet Experiment Note
- ign — ignition
- ihn — Initialism of I hope not.
- in- — In- is added to some words to form words with the opposite meaning. For example, something that is incorrect is not correct.
- ina — a female given name.
- inc — (chiefly, North America) alternative spelling of Inc.
- ind — Literary. India.
- ine — died after 726, king of Wessex (688–726)
- inf — European-based U.S. nuclear weapons that were capable of striking the Soviet Union and Soviet ones that could hit Western Europe (usually used attributively): INF missiles; the 1987 INF Treaty.
- ing — A water meadow.
- ink — a fluid or viscous substance used for writing or printing.
- inn — a river in central Europe, flowing from S Switzerland through Austria and Germany into the Danube. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- ino — a sea goddess who rescued Odysseus from drowning by giving him a magic veil.
- inr — The INR is a test that times the clotting of blood, used in measuring warfarin dosage.
- ins — (used to indicate inclusion within space, a place, or limits): walking in the park.
- int — (programming) An integer.
- inv — Invoice.
- ion — Classical Mythology. the eponymous ancestor of the Ionians: a son of Apollo and Creusa who is abandoned by his mother but returns to become an attendant in Apollo's temple at Delphi.
- irn — Independent Radio News
- itn — Independent Television News