3-letter words that end in e
- poe — PowerOpen Environment
- ppe — philosophy, politics, and economics: a university course
- pqe — post-qualification experience
- pte — Pte is used before a person's name as a written abbreviation for the military title private.
- pye — (in England before the Reformation) a book of ecclesiastical rules for finding the particulars of the service for the day.
- qbe — Query By Example
- qpe — (language) 1. A two-dimensional pictorial query language. 2. A rewrite system with one-way unification, used for English-French translation. It led to Prolog.
- que — barbecue.
- rae — John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- rbe — relative biological effectiveness (of radiation)
- ree — Arikara.
- rfe — 1. Request For Enhancement (compare RFC). 2. (From "Radio Free Europe", Bellcore and Sun) Radio Free Ethernet. A system originated by Peter Langston for broadcasting audio among Sun SPARCstations over the Ethernet.
- rhe — a centimeter-gram-second unit of fluidity, equal to the reciprocal of poise.
- rie — Dame Lucie, original name Lucie Gomperz. 1902–95, British potter, born in Austria
- rje — Remote Job Entry
- rle — run-length encoding
- rme — rape or rapeseed methyl ester: a fuel derived from rapeseed oil
- roe — the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- rue — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
- rye — a city in SE New York, on Long Island Sound.
- sbe — Microsoft Office Small Business Edition
- sce — Scottish Certificate of Education: either of two public examinations in specific subjects taken as school-leaving qualifications or as qualifying examinations for entry into a university, college, etc
- sde — Software Development Environment: equivalent to SEE.
- see — to perceive with the eyes; look at.
- she — a female person or animal.
- sme — Suriname (international car registration)
- soe — Standard Operating Environment
- spe — Software Practice and Experience
- sqe — Signal Quality Error
- sse — Streaming SIMD Extensions
- ste — Saint (female)
- sue — to institute a process in law against; bring a civil action against: to sue someone for damages.
- sye — to strain
- tae — to.
- tce — ton coal equivalent: a measure of energy
- tde — DDD
- tee — Golf. Also called teeing ground. the starting place, usually a hard mound of earth, at the beginning of play for each hole. a small wooden, plastic, metal, or rubber peg from which the ball is driven, as in teeing off.
- the — (used to modify an adjective or adverb in the comparative degree and to signify “in or by that,” “on that account,” “in or by so much,” or “in some or any degree”): He's been on vacation and looks the better for it.
- tie — to bind, fasten, or attach with a cord, string, or the like, drawn together and knotted: to tie a tin can on a dog's tail.
- toe — Hector ("Toe") 1912–1995, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
- tse — transmissible spongiform encephalopathy: any of a group of degenerative brain diseases, including BSE in cattle, that can be transmitted from one individual or species to another
- tye — (in mining) a trough used to separate valuable material from dross
- u4e — yours for ever
- uae — United Arab Emirates
- ube — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan.
- uce — unsolicited commercial e-mail
- uke — ukulele.
- ule — caucho.
- ume — a river in N Sweden, flowing SE from the W border to the Gulf of Bothnia. Aabout 285 miles (460 km) long.
- une — front page (of a publication).