3-letter words containing n
- bun — Buns are small bread rolls. They are sometimes sweet and may contain dried fruit or spices.
- c/n — credit note
- can — You use can when you are mentioning a quality or fact about something which people may make use of if they want to.
- cbn — call-by-name
- cdn — Canadian
- cen — central
- cna — Central News Agency, a national stationery chain
- cnc — CNC is a way of controlling how machine tools operate using a computer.
- cnd — Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
- cng — compressed natural gas
- cni — Coalition for Networked Information
- cnn — Cable Network News
- cno — Chief of Naval Operations
- cnr — Canadian National Railways
- cns — central nervous system
- con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- ctn — cotangent
- cun — (obsolete) To know.
- dan — a small buoy used as a marker at sea
- ddn — Defense Data Network
- den — A den is the home of certain types of wild animals such as lions or foxes.
- din — religion, especially the religious observances of a Muslim.
- 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.
- dnb — Dictionary of National Biography
- dnf — Disjunctive Normal Form
- dnr — do not resuscitate
- dns — Domain name server, the system that automatically translates Internet addresses to the numeric machine addresses that computers use.
- don — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
- dpn — Decomposed Petri Net
- dsn — Digital Switched Network
- dun — to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
- dyn — Dyne.
- ean — (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth young; yean.
- ebn — east by north
- een — even2 .
- en- — En- is added to words to form verbs that describe the process of putting someone into a particular state, condition, or place, or to form adjectives and nouns that describe that process or those states and conditions.
- enc — Enclosure (indicating that a letter is accompanied by further material).
- end — Come or bring to a final point; finish.
- ene — in an east-northeasterly direction
- eng — Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in runni'ng' and ri'n'k.
- enl — enlarged
- eno — Brian (Peter George St Baptiste de la Salle). born 1948, English musician, noted esp as a member (1971–73) of Roxy Music, a collaborator with David Bowie (1977–79), a pioneer of ambient music, and record producer of acts such as U2 and Coldplay
- enq — 1. (character) /enkw/ or /enk/ ENQuire. The mnemonic for ASCII character 5. 2. (chat) An on-line convention for querying someone's availability. After opening a chat connection to someone apparently in heavy hack mode, one might type "SYN SYN ENQ?" (the SYNs representing notional synchronisation bytes), and expect a return of ACK or NAK depending on whether or not the person felt interruptible. Compare ping, finger.
- ens — Ensign.
- ent — (fantasy) A fictional large talking tree.
- env — envelope
- eny — Eye dialect of any.
- eon — An indefinite and very long period of time, often a period exaggerated for humorous or rhetorical effect.
- eqn — Language for typesetting mathematics. "A System for Typesetting Mathematics", B.W. Kernighan and L.L. Cherry, CACM 18(3):151-157 (Mar 1975).
- ern — Alternative spelling of erne.