3-letter words containing n
- ney — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), Duke of Elchingen [el-khing-uh n] /ˈɛl xɪŋ ən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1815, French revolutionary and Napoleonic military leader: marshal of France 1805–15.
- nfa — Finite State Machine
- nfb — National Film Board
- nfc — near field communication: a technology that allows wireless communication of electronic devices over short distances
- nfd — Newfoundland
- nfl — In the United States, the NFL is the organization responsible for professional football. NFL is an abbreviation for 'National Football League.'
- nfs — Network File System
- nft — Network File Transfer. An INTERLINK command on CERNVM.
- nfu — National Farmers Union
- nga — National Graphical Association
- ngc — New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars; a catalogue in which over 8000 nebulae, galaxies, and clusters are listed numerically
- ngf — nerve growth factor
- ngk — New Greek
- ngl — A dialect of IGL.
- ngo — 1901–1963, South Vietnamese statesman: president of the Republic of South Vietnam 1956–63.
- ngu — Nongonococcal urethritis.
- nhg — New High German
- nhi — National Health Insurance
- nhl — In the United States, the NHL is the organization responsible for professional hockey. NHL is an abbreviation for 'National Hockey League.'
- nhs — British National Health Service
- nib — his/her nibs, Informal: Often Facetious. a person in authority, especially one who is demanding and tyrannical: His nibs wants fresh strawberries in December.
- nic — a newly industrialized/industrializing country: the rise of NICs such as Korea and India.
- nid — (linguistics) noun inanimate dependent.
- nig — nidge.
- nih — The United States National Institutes of Health.
- nii — National Information Infrastructure
- nil — nothing; naught; zero.
- nim — a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- nin — Anaïs [uh-nahy-uh s] /əˈnaɪ əs/ (Show IPA), 1903–77, U.S. novelist and diarist.
- nip — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- nis — Network Information Service
- nit — a nitwit.
- niv — New International Version (of the Bible)
- nix — nothing.
- nlc — National Liberal Club
- nlf — National Liberation Front
- nlp — 1. (application) Natural Language Processing. 2. (networking) Network Layer Protocol.
- nlq — near letter quality
- nls — Native Language System
- nlu — National Labor Union
- nlw — National Library of Wales
- nlx — (hardware, standard) A low-profile, low TCO motherboard design created jointly by Intel Corp., IBM, DEC and other PC vendors. In contrast to the traditional single-board design, NLX uses a riser card to carry PCI, ISA and AGP bus data (despite Intel's stated intent to rid PC motherboards of the ISA bus by 2000). Version 1.2 of NLX is the final specification, and was frozen in March 1997. Minor modifications appear in the form of "Engineering Change Requests".
- nmi — Non-Maskable Interrupt
- nml — (language) A specification language for instruction sets, based on attribute grammars, for back-end generators.
- nmr — nuclear magnetic resonance
- nmu — Non-Maintainer Upload
- nne — north-northeast
- nni — Network Node Interface
- nnp — net national product
- nnw — north-northwest