3-letter words containing r, a
- mra — magnetic resonance
- nra — National Rifle Association
- oar — a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- ora — plural of os2 .
- par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- pra — PRAgmatics. The language used by COPS for specification of code generators.
- rab — a wooden beater for mixing plaster or mortar.
- rac — Royal Automobile Club
- rad — Informal. radical.
- rae — John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- raf — The RAF is the air force of the United Kingdom. RAF is an abbreviation for 'Royal Air Force'.
- rag — a musical composition in ragtime: a piano rag.
- rah — sports cheer
- rai — a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- raj — (in India) rule, especially the British rule prior to 1947.
- ral — 1. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK). 2. An expert system.
- ram — random-access memory; computer memory available to the user for creating, loading, or running programs and for the temporary storage and manipulation of data, in which time of access to each item is independent of the storage sequence. As a storage medium, RAM is volatile, so its contents are lost when the power fails or is turned off.
- ran — simple past tense of run.
- rap — to carry off; transport.
- rar — Royal Australian Regiment
- ras — a sun god of Heliopolis, a universal creator worshiped throughout Egypt (typically represented as a hawk-headed man bearing on his head the solar disk and the uraeus).
- rat — any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- rau — Santha Rama [san-thuh rah-muh] /ˈsæn θə ˈrɑ mə/ (Show IPA), 1923–2009, Indian writer and astrologer.
- rav — a rabbi who is a person's religious mentor, or one to whom questions are addressed for authoritative decision
- raw — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- rax — to stretch oneself, as after sleeping.
- ray — John, 1627?–1705, English naturalist.
- rca — (formerly) Radio Corporation of America
- rda — The RDA of a particular vitamin or mineral is the amount that people need each day to stay healthy. RDA is an abbreviation for 'recommended daily amount'.
- rha — Regional Health Authority
- ria — a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- rma — Royal Military Academy (Sandhurst)
- rna — biology: ribonucleic acid
- rsa — (cryptography, company) (The initials of the authors) 1. RSA Data Security, Inc. 2. Their cryptography systems, especially RSA encryption. The RSA algorithm was first described in the paper:
- rta — road traffic accident
- rwa — Rwanda (international car registration)
- rya — a handwoven Scandinavian rug with a thick pile and usually a strong, colorful design.
- sar — Special Administrative Region (of China)
- sra — Señora
- tar — a sailor.
- uar — United Arab Republic
- var — a department in SE France. 2326 sq. mi. (6025 sq. km). Capital: Draguignan.
- war — a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
- yar — yare (defs 1, 2).
- zar — A religious custom in parts of Africa and the Middle East, involving the possession of an individual (usually female) by a spirit.