3-letter words containing n
- prn — pro re nata
- psn — Packet Switch Node
- ptn — Physical Transport Network
- pun — the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- pwn — Slang. to totally defeat or dominate, especially in a video or computer game: You just got pwned! I pwned those guys in the end.
- qin — Ch'in.
- qnp — queen's knight's pawn
- qnx — (operating system) A realtime, network distributed, POSIX-certified, microkernel, multi-user, multitasking, ROMable, fault-tolerant, embeddable operating system that supports TCP/IP, NFS, FTP, the X Window System, Microsoft Windows as a guest process, Ethernet, Token Ring, Arcnet and Watcom ANSI C/C++. Support for Pentium, 486, 386, 286, 80x87. Developed and distributed by QNX Software Systems, Ltd. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- ran — simple past tense of run.
- rcn — Royal Canadian Navy
- rgn — Registered General Nurse
- rin — a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- rna — biology: ribonucleic acid
- rnd — round
- rnf — Root Normal Form
- rnr — Royal Naval Reserve
- rnz — Radio New Zealand
- rpn — postfix notation
- rsn — Real Soon Now
- rtn — An RTN is the code that identifies a financial institution on a check or transfer.
- run — execution
- s/n — signal-to-noise ratio: the difference, in decibels, between the level of a specific signal and that of unwanted noise
- san — Storage Area Network
- sen — a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- sin — the 12th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- sna — Systems Network Architecture
- sng — synthetic natural gas
- sni — Siemens Nixdorf Informationssteme, AG
- snp — Scottish National Party
- snr — signal-to-noise ratio
- son — a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- sqn — squadron
- srn — State Registered Nurse
- ssn — severely subnormal; used of a person of very limited intelligence who needs special schooling
- sun — (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- syn — 1. (character) Synchronous idle. 2. (language) A syntactic specification language for COPS. 3. [TCP/IP SYN request?]
- tan — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- ten — a cardinal number, nine plus one.
- tin — taxpayer identification number.
- tnc — (hardware) A threaded version of a BNC.
- tnf — tumor necrosis factor
- tng — training
- tnt — trinitrotoluene: explosive substance
- tnx — (chat) Thanks. Also "TNX 1.0E6" or "TNXE6" - thanks a million.
- ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- tpn — triphosphopyridine nucleotide
- tun — a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- uan — User Action Notation. A notation from VPI for representation of activity in a graphical user interface.
- un- — Un- is added to the beginning of adjectives, adverbs, and nouns, in order to form words that have the opposite meaning.
- una — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “one.”.