3-letter words containing s, p
- pts — parts
- pus — a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- pvs — persistent vegetative state
- rps — revolutions per second
- sap — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
- scp — single-cell protein
- sdp — Service Discovery Protocol
- sep — Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- sgp — Singapore (international car registration)
- shp — shaft horsepower
- sip — to drink (a liquid) a little at a time; take small tastes of: He sipped the hot tea noisily.
- smp — 1. Symbol Manipulation Program. 2. (computer, parallel) symmetric multiprocessing.
- snp — Scottish National Party
- sop — a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- sp2 — SP/2
- spa — a resort town in E Belgium, SE of Liège: famous mineral springs.
- spc — 1. (business) Statistical Process Control. Something to do with quality management. 2. (body) Software Productivity Centre. 3. (company) Software Publishing Corporation. 4. (security) Software Publishing Certificate.
- spd — Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
- spe — Software Practice and Experience
- spf — SPF is used before a number to indicate the degree of protection from the sun's rays that is provided by a sunscreen or similar product. The higher a product's SPF, the more protection it provides. SPF is an abbreviation for 'sun protection factor.'
- spg — System Program Generator. A compiler-writing language.
- spi — 1. (company) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.. 2. (hardware) Serial Peripheral Interface.
- spl — 1. Synchronous Programming Language. A DSP language. "Introduction to the SPL Compiler", Computalker Consultants, 1986. 2. Space Programming Language. Realtime language used by the US Air Force for aerospace software. Aka SPL/J6. Similar to JOVIAL. "Space Programming Language Development", SAMSO TP 70-325, System Development Corp (Sep 1970). (See CLASP). 3. System Programming Language. HP, 1977. An ALGOL-like language for the HP3000 computer allowing inline assembly code. MPE, the OS for the HP3000 was written in SPL. Pub.No.30000-90024, HP. See also SPLash!. 4. Systems Programming Language. PRIME Computer, 80's. A variant of PL/I used on PRIME computers. PL/I subset G, less I/O plus a few extensions. SPL User's Reference Guide, Prime. (See PL/P.) 5. Systems Programming Language. A PL/I subset/extension for the P1000. D.B. Wortman, U Toronto. Philips Data Sys, Netherlands, 1971. Symbolic constants, pointer arithmetic, inline assembly code. Used to implement compilers, operating systems, and database. 6. Student Programming Language. A translator-interpreter for a dialect of PL/I. 7. Set Priority Level
- spm — Sequential Parlog Machine
- spr — Society for Psychical Research
- sps — Symbolic Programming System. Assembly language for IBM 1620.
- spt — seaport
- spx — 1. (networking) Sequenced Packet Exchange. 2. (application) A graphics program for the Atari microcomputer. 3. Simplex.
- spy — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
- srp — A data link layer protocol.
- ssp — statutory sick pay
- stp — shielded twisted pair
- sup — to take liquid into the mouth in small quantities, as by spoonfuls or sips.
- tps — Tree Pruning System. "An Adaptive Tree Pruning System: A Language for Programming Heuristic Tree Searches", E.W. Kozdrowicki, Proc ACM 23rd Natl Conf 1968.
- tsp — travelling salesman problem
- ups — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- usp — unique sales point
- vsp — Very Simple Prolog+.