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3-letter words starting with s

  • soo — the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
  • sop — a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
  • sos — sol1 .
  • sot — a drunkard.
  • sou — (formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
  • sow — to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
  • sox — a hard blow.
  • soy — soy sauce.
  • sp2 — SP/2
  • spa — a resort town in E Belgium, SE of Liège: famous mineral springs.
  • spc — 1.   (business)   Statistical Process Control. Something to do with quality management. 2.   (body)   Software Productivity Centre. 3.   (company)   Software Publishing Corporation. 4.   (security)   Software Publishing Certificate.
  • spd — Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
  • spe — Software Practice and Experience
  • spf — SPF is used before a number to indicate the degree of protection from the sun's rays that is provided by a sunscreen or similar product. The higher a product's SPF, the more protection it provides. SPF is an abbreviation for 'sun protection factor.'
  • spg — System Program Generator. A compiler-writing language.
  • spi — 1.   (company)   Software in the Public Interest, Inc.. 2.   (hardware)   Serial Peripheral Interface.
  • spl — 1. Synchronous Programming Language. A DSP language. "Introduction to the SPL Compiler", Computalker Consultants, 1986. 2. Space Programming Language. Realtime language used by the US Air Force for aerospace software. Aka SPL/J6. Similar to JOVIAL. "Space Programming Language Development", SAMSO TP 70-325, System Development Corp (Sep 1970). (See CLASP). 3. System Programming Language. HP, 1977. An ALGOL-like language for the HP3000 computer allowing inline assembly code. MPE, the OS for the HP3000 was written in SPL. Pub.No.30000-90024, HP. See also SPLash!. 4. Systems Programming Language. PRIME Computer, 80's. A variant of PL/I used on PRIME computers. PL/I subset G, less I/O plus a few extensions. SPL User's Reference Guide, Prime. (See PL/P.) 5. Systems Programming Language. A PL/I subset/extension for the P1000. D.B. Wortman, U Toronto. Philips Data Sys, Netherlands, 1971. Symbolic constants, pointer arithmetic, inline assembly code. Used to implement compilers, operating systems, and database. 6. Student Programming Language. A translator-interpreter for a dialect of PL/I. 7. Set Priority Level
  • spm — Sequential Parlog Machine
  • spr — Society for Psychical Research
  • sps — Symbolic Programming System. Assembly language for IBM 1620.
  • spt — seaport
  • spx — 1.   (networking)   Sequenced Packet Exchange. 2.   (application)   A graphics program for the Atari microcomputer. 3. Simplex.
  • spy — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
  • sqa — Scottish Qualifications Agency
  • sqe — Signal Quality Error
  • sql — (language, database, standard)   /S Q L/ An industry-standard language for creating, updating and, querying relational database management systems. SQL was developed by IBM in the 1970s for use in System R. It is the de facto standard as well as being an ISO and ANSI standard. It is often embedded in general purpose programming languages. The first SQL standard, in 1986, provided basic language constructs for defining and manipulating tables of data; a revision in 1989 added language extensions for referential integrity and generalised integrity constraints. Another revision in 1992 provided facilities for schema manipulation and data administration, as well as substantial enhancements for data definition and data manipulation. Development is currently underway to enhance SQL into a computationally complete language for the definition and management of persistent, complex objects. This includes: generalisation and specialisation hierarchies, multiple inheritance, user defined data types, triggers and assertions, support for knowledge based systems, recursive query expressions, and additional data administration tools. It also includes the specification of abstract data types (ADTs), object identifiers, methods, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, and all of the other facilities normally associated with object data management. The emerging SQL3 standard is expected to be complete in 1998. According to Allen G. Taylor, SQL does not stand for "Structured Query Language". That, like "SEQUEL" (and its pronunciation /see'kw*l/), was just another unofficial name for a precursor of SQL. However, the IBM SQL Reference manual for DB2 and Craig Mullins's "DB2 Developer's Guide" say SQL does stand for "Structured Query Language".
  • sqn — squadron
  • sqr — (database, language)   A fourth generation language for the creation of reports from databases. SQR is interpreted to dynamically generate SQL queries and format the results. Originally a Sybase product, it was then sold to MITI, who subsequently changed their name to SQRIBE. SQR Server supports native database access for all major DBMSs and the use of platform independent Java code.
  • sra — Señora
  • srb — Serbia (international car registration)
  • src — Science Research Council: a former agency responsible for scientific research that was publicly funded. Also known as the SERC or Science and Engineering Research Council.
  • sri — SRI International
  • srl — 1. Bharat Jayaraman. 2. Schema Representation language. 3. Structured Robot Language. C. Blume & W. Jacob, U Karlsruhe.
  • srn — State Registered Nurse
  • sro — standing room only
  • srp — A data link layer protocol.
  • ss7 — Signalling System 7
  • ssa — Sub-Saharan Africa
  • ssb — single sideband (transmission)
  • ssc — (in India) Secondary School Certificate
  • ssd — 1. Solid State Disk 2. Seven-Segment Display
  • sse — Streaming SIMD Extensions
  • ssg — Staff Sergeant
  • ssi — 1.   (electronics)   small scale integration. 2.   (computer)   A kind of PDP-11(?). 3.   (web)   server-side include.
  • ssl — 1.   (language)   Synthesizer Specification Language. 2.   (language)   Syntax/Semantic Language (S/SL). 3.   (networking, web)   Secure Sockets Layer.
  • ssm — surface-to-surface missile
  • ssn — severely subnormal; used of a person of very limited intelligence who needs special schooling
  • sso — single sign-on
  • ssp — statutory sick pay
  • ssr — Scalable Sampling Rate
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