3-letter words containing a, l
- lar — (initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- las — the syllable used for the sixth tone of a diatonic scale.
- lat — a former silver coin of Latvia, equal to 100 santimi.
- lau — Langage a Assignation Unique. A single assignment language for the LAU dataflow machine, Toulouse.
- lav — a variable retrovirus that invades and inactivates helper T cells of the immune system and is a cause of AIDS and AIDS-related complex: variants were identified in several laboratories and independently named lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) and AIDS-related virus (ARV) the name human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) being subsequently proposed by an international taxonomy committee.
- law — software law
- lax — not strict or severe; careless or negligent: lax morals; a lax attitude toward discipline.
- lay — to bring about or affect by lying (often used reflexively): to lie oneself out of a difficulty; accustomed to lying his way out of difficulties.
- lba — Logical Block Addressing
- lea — Homer, 1876–1912, U.S. soldier and author: adviser 1911–12 to Sun Yat-sen in China.
- lha — 1. (filename extension) The filename extension for a file produced by the shareware compression and archive software LHARC. 2. (tool) A compression program for MS-DOS. Output files have the extension ".lzh".
- lia — Leah (def 1).
- lka — Lan Kanal Adapter
- loa — A god in the voodoo cult of Haiti.
- lta — Lawn Tennis Association
- mal — Micro Assembly Language
- mla — In Australia and some other countries, an MLA is a person who has been elected as a member of parliament. MLA is an abbreviation for 'member of the legislative assembly'.
- ola — Alt form olay.
- pal — a special air service offered by the U.S. Postal Service for sending parcels from 5 to 30 pounds (2.3 to 13.5 kg) to overseas servicemen: only the regular parcel post rate to the U.S. port of shipment plus $1 is charged. Compare SAM (def 2).
- pla — (language, music) A high-level music programming language, written in SAIL. Pla includes concurrency based on message passing.
- ral — 1. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK). 2. An expert system.
- sal — a male given name, form of Salvatore.
- tal — Transaction Application Language
- tla — (jargon) (TLA) The canonical, self-describing acronym for the name of a species with which computing terminology is infested. Examples include MCA, FTP, SNA, CPU, MMU, DMU, FPU, TLA. This dictionary contains many TLAs. Sometimes used by extension for any confusing acronym. People who like this looser usage argue that not all TLAs have three letters, just as not all four-letter words have four letters. One also hears of "ETLA" (Extended Three-Letter Acronym) being used to describe four-letter acronyms. The term "SFLA" (Stupid Four-Letter Acronym) has also been reported. See also YABA. The self-effacing phrase "TDM TLA" (Too Damn Many...) is used to bemoan the plethora of TLAs in use. In 1989, a random of the journalistic persuasion asked hacker Paul Boutin "What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90s?" Paul's straight-faced response: "There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms." (To be exact, there are 26^3 = 17,576.)
- val — a male given name, form of Valentine.
- vla — very large array
- wal — Sierra Leone (international car registration)