3-letter words containing e
- bes — an ancient Egyptian god represented as a grotesque hairy dwarf: the patron of music and pleasure
- bet — If you bet on the result of a horse race, football game, or other event, you give someone a sum of money which they give you back with extra money if the result is what you predicted, or which they keep if it is not.
- bev — gigaelectronvolts (GeV)
- bey — (in the Ottoman Empire) a title given to senior officers, provincial governors, certain other officials or nobles, and (sometimes) Europeans
- bez — the branch of a deer's horn above the brow-antler
- bme — Black and Minority Ethnic
- bre — Building Research Establishment
- bse — BSE is a disease which affects the nervous system of cattle and kills them. BSE is an abbreviation for 'bovine spongiform encephalopathy'.
- bye — Bye and bye-bye are informal ways of saying goodbye.
- cae — computer-aided engineering
- cbe — Commander of the (Order of the) British Empire
- cde — compact disc erasable: a compact disc that can be used to record and rerecord
- cea — carcinoembryonic antigen
- cee — the letter C
- cel — a transparent celluloid sheet on which a character, scene, etc., is drawn or painted and which constitutes one frame in the filming of an animated cartoon: may be overlapped for change of background or foreground.
- cen — central
- ceo — CEO is an abbreviation for chief executive officer.
- cep — an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- cer — Closer Economic Relations: a trade agreement between Australia and New Zealand signed in 1983
- cet — Central European Time
- cfe — College of Further Education
- che — Chemical Engineer
- cie — compagnie
- coe — Sebastian, Baron. born 1956, English middle-distance runner and sports administrator: won the 1500 metres at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics; chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games of 2012
- cre — Commission for Racial Equality
- cse — Certificate of Secondary Education
- cue — In the theatre or in a musical performance, a performer's cue is something another performer says or does that is a signal for them to begin speaking, playing, or doing something.
- dae — Dictionary of American English
- dbe — Dame (Commander of the Order) of the British Empire
- dce — 1. Data Communication Equipment. 2. Data Circuit-terminating Equipment. 3. Distributed Computing Environment from OSF.
- dde — a toxic residue of DDT often found in animal tissue: it inhibits calcium production, causing many birds to produce extremely thin eggshells that break on contact with the brooder
- de' — dei (used in Italian names as an elided form of dei): de' Medici.
- de- — De- is added to a verb in order to change the meaning of the verb to its opposite.
- dea — Data Encryption Algorithm
- deb — A deb is the same as a debutante.
- dec — Digital Equipment Corporation
- ded — (in the Russian army) a soldier who has served two or three years
- dee — a river in N Wales and NW England, rising in S Gwynedd and flowing east and north to the Irish Sea. Length: about 112 km (70 miles)
- def — very good, esp of hip-hop
- deg — to water (a plant, etc)
- dei — by the grace of God.
- dek — Data Encryption Key
- del — the differential operator i(∂/∂x) + j(∂/∂y) + k(∂/∂z), where i, j, and k are unit vectors in the x, y, and z directions
- dem — a member of the Democratic Party.
- den — A den is the home of certain types of wild animals such as lions or foxes.
- dep — Deposit.
- der — Distinguished Encoding Rules
- des — Department of Education and Science
- det — diethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic drug
- dev — a software developer: a game dev; a web dev.