3-letter words containing b
- bnf — Backus-Naur Form. Originally Backus Normal Form.
- bnp — British National Party
- boa — A boa or a feather boa is a long soft scarf made of feathers or of short pieces of very light fabric.
- bob — If something bobs, it moves up and down, like something does when it is floating on water.
- bod — A bod is a person.
- bof — basic oxygen furnace
- bog — A bog is an area of land which is very wet and muddy.
- boi — a lesbian who adopts a boyish appearance or manner
- bok — Edward William, 1863–1930, U.S. editor and writer, born in the Netherlands.
- bol — Bolivia (international car registration)
- bon — an annual festival celebrated by Japanese Buddhists
- boo — If you boo a speaker or performer, you shout 'boo' or make other loud sounds to indicate that you do not like them, their opinions, or their performance.
- bop — A bop is a dance.
- boq — bachelor officers' quarters
- bor — a neighbour
- bos — 1. (operating system) Basic Operating System. 2. (tool) A data management system written at DESY and used in some high energy physics programs. 3. (programming) The Basic Object System.
- bot — A bot is a computer program that carries out tasks for other programs or users, especially on the Internet.
- bow — When you bow to someone, you briefly bend your body towards them as a formal way of greeting them or showing respect.
- box — A box is a square or rectangular container with hard or stiff sides. Boxes often have lids.
- boy — A boy is a child who will grow up to be a man.
- boz — Charles Dickens
- bpc — British Pharmaceutical Codex
- bpd — barrels per day
- bph — a condition characterized by a noncancerous enlargement of the prostate gland, esp. affecting older men and typically resulting in obstruction of the flow of urine
- bpi — bits per inch (used of a computer tape or disk surface)
- bpl — birthplace
- bpp — bits per pixel
- bpr — business process re-engineering
- bps — bps is a measurement of the speed at which computer data is transferred, for example by a modem. bps is an abbreviation for 'bits per second'.
- bqs — Berkeley Quality Software
- br. — Br. is a written abbreviation for British.
- bra — A bra is a piece of underwear that women wear to support their breasts.
- brb — be right back
- bre — Building Research Establishment
- brh — Branch and Hang
- bri — Basic Rate Interface
- brn — Bahrain (international car registration)
- bro — Some men use bro as a friendly way of addressing other men when they are talking to them.
- brr — used when one feels cold
- brs — Big Red Switch
- brt — be right there
- bru — Brunei (international car registration)
- bsa — Boy Scouts of America
- bsb — British Sky Broadcasting (formerly for British Satellite Broadcasting)
- bsc — A BSc is a first degree in a science subject. BSc is an abbreviation for 'Bachelor of Science'.
- bsd — Berkeley Software Distribution: a UNIX-based computer operating system
- bse — BSE is a disease which affects the nervous system of cattle and kills them. BSE is an abbreviation for 'bovine spongiform encephalopathy'.
- bsf — British Standard fine thread
- bsi — British Standards Institution
- bsl — below sea level