3-letter words containing g
- gus — a male given name, form of Augustus or Gustave.
- gut — the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
- guv — term of address used to a man, especially by a younger man, boy, employee, or social inferior.
- guy — a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “woods.”.
- gvl — Graphical View Language. A visual language for specifying interactive graphical output by T.C.N. Graham & J.R. Cordy, Queen's University, Canada.
- gvw — gross vehicle weight
- gwm — Generic Window Manager. An extensible window manager for the X Window System. It is built on top of an interpreter for the WOOL language.
- gym — a gymnasium.
- gyp — a male college servant, as at Cambridge and Durham.
- hag — bog; quagmire.
- hcg — human chorionic gonadotrophin
- hgh — HGH is an abbreviation for human growth hormone.
- hgt — height
- hgv — heavy goods vehicle
- hmg — His (or Her) Majesty's Government
- hog — a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
- hug — to clasp tightly in the arms, especially with affection; embrace.
- igc — Institute for Global Communications
- igg — To deliberately ignore.
- igl — Interactive Graphic Language. Used primarily by Physics Dept at Brooklyn Poly, uses numerical methods on vectors to approximate continuous function problems that don't have closed form solutions.
- igm — International Grandmaster
- ign — ignition
- igo — a Japanese game for two persons, played on a board having 361 intersections on which black and white stones or counters are alternately placed, the object being to block off and capture the opponent's stones and control the larger part of the board.
- igp — Interior Gateway Protocol
- igs — Internet Go Server.
- igu — (chat) I Give Up. Often found appended to documents, e-mail, programs that don't work, etc.
- igy — International Geophysical Year
- ing — A water meadow.
- jag — a period of unrestrained indulgence in an activity; spree; binge: a crying jag; a talking jag.
- jeg — (machinery) Alternative form of jig.
- jgs — Judges
- jig — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- jog — to move or shake with a push or jerk: The horseman jogged the reins lightly.
- jpg — A file extension indicating a file of JPEG file format; i.e., a digital picture.
- jug — a sound made by a bird, especially a nightingale.
- keg — a small cask or barrel, usually holding from 5 to 10 gallons (19 to 38 liters).
- kgb — Soviet secret police
- kgs — Plural form of kg; kilograms.
- ksg — Knight of the Order of St Gregory the Great (a Papal honorary title)
- lag — netlag
- ldg — leading
- leg — either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
- lgn — Linear Graph Notation
- lgr — Late Greek
- lgv — large goods vehicle
- lig — (intransitive, UK dialectal) To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.
- lng — liquefied natural gas
- log — Mathematics. logarithm.
- lpg — 1. Linguaggio Procedure Grafiche (Italian for "Graphical Procedures Language"). dott. Gabriele Selmi. Roughly a cross between Fortran and APL, with graphical-oriented extensions and several peculiarities. Underlies the products of CAD.LAB Spa. "Graphical Procedure Language User's Guide and Reference Manual", CAD.LAB, Bologna, Italy, 1989, order code GO89/9. 2. Langage de Programmation Generique. An applicative language, both specification and functional. Special emphasis on parametrised declarations. "Design and Implementation of a Generic, Logic and Functional Programming Language", D. Bert et al, ESOP 86, LNCS 213, Springer 1986.
- ltg — Lieutenant General