3-letter words containing u
- cul — (chat) "See you later".
- cum — used between two nouns to designate an object of a combined nature
- cun — (obsolete) To know.
- cup — A cup is a small round container that you drink from. Cups usually have handles and are made from china or plastic.
- cur — A cur is an unfriendly dog, especially a mongrel.
- cus — (informal) because.
- cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
- cuz — Cuz is an informal way of saying because.
- cwu — Communications Workers Union
- dau — daughter
- dfu — Designated Fallen Union
- diu — part of the union territory of Daman and Diu (Goa, Daman, and Diu in 1961–87) in W India: a former Portuguese colony, comprising a small island and seaport at the extremity of Kathiawar peninsula.
- dmu — Data Management Unit
- dou — Gerard [gey-rahrt] /ˈgeɪ rɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1613–75, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- dsu — 1. (communications) Data Service Unit. 2. Disk Subsystem Unit (Artecon). 3. (humour) Dwarf Storage Unit.
- dua — Directory User Agent
- dub — to furnish (a film or tape) with a new sound track, as one recorded in the language of the country of import.
- duc — duke.
- dud — a device, person, or enterprise that proves to be a failure.
- due — together; in unison.
- dug — a simple past tense and past participle of dig1. and dig2 .
- duh — Used to comment on an action perceived as foolish or stupid, or a statement perceived as obvious.
- dui — (obsolete) Plural form of duo.
- dum — Cooked with steam.
- dun — to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
- duo — Music. duet.
- dup — to open.
- dur — (in music) written in a major key; major.
- dut — (Hartlepool) A snug woolly hat.
- dux — British. the pupil who is academically first in a class or school.
- eau — Uganda (international car registration)
- ebu — European Broadcasting Union
- ecu — the shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
- edu — (networking) ("education") The top-level domain for educational establishments in the USA (and some other countries). E.g. "mit.edu". The UK equivalent is "ac.uk".
- emu — A large flightless fast-running Australian bird resembling the ostrich, with shaggy gray or brown plumage, bare blue skin on the head and neck, and three-toed feet.
- eou — (character, humour) The mnemonic of a mythical ASCII control character (End Of User) that would make an ASR-33 Teletype explode on receipt. This construction parodies the numerous obscure delimiter and control characters left in ASCII from the days when it was associated more with wire-service teletypes than computers (e.g. FS, GS, RS, US, EM, SUB, ETX, and especially EOT). It is worth remembering that ASR-33s were big, noisy mechanical beasts with a lot of clattering parts; the notion that one might explode was nowhere near as ridiculous as it might seem to someone sitting in front of a tube or flatscreen today.
- esu — Electrostatic unit(s).
- etu — Electrical Trades Union of Australia
- eu- — well, pleasant, or good
- euk — to itch
- eur — Europe
- feu — A perpetual lease at a fixed rent.
- flu — influenza.
- fou — crazy; foolish.
- fpu — Floating-Point Unit
- fub — fob2 .
- fud — a fuddy-duddy.
- fug — stale air, especially the humid, warm, ill-smelling air of a crowded room, kitchen, etc.
- ful — Fulani.
- fum — (obsolete, intransitive) To play upon a fiddle.