3-letter words containing a
- fao — For the Attention Of. Used on an address or label, specifies an individual to whom the document should be delivered, usually put on when the address is of an organisation.
- fap — (obsolete) Drunk.
- faq — frequently asked question
- far — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- fas — the twentieth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- fat — File Allocation Table
- fav — (informal) abbreviation of favorite (US) or 'favourite' (UK).
- faw — Eye dialect of fortrue; chiefly used to represent the accent of slaves in the United States.
- fax — facsimile
- fay — a female given name, form of Faith.
- fba — Fellow of the British Academy
- fca — Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
- fda — Food and Drug Administration
- ffa — free from alongside (ship)
- fha — Federal Housing Administration
- fia — (in Britain) Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries
- fpa — Abigail (Smith) 1744–1818, U.S. social and political figure (wife of John Adams).
- fra — Wireless Local Loop
- fsa — Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
- fwa — flexible working arrangement: an agreement between an employer and employee that the employee's working hours may be adapted to suit his or her particular needs
- fya — For your amusement.
- gaa — Gaelic Athletic Association
- gab — to talk or chat idly; chatter.
- gac — The Southeast Asian fruit Momordica cochinchinensis, a reddish spiny gourd with high lycopene content.
- gad — to move restlessly or aimlessly from one place to another: to gad about.
- gae — go1
- gag — to introduce usually comic interpolations into (a script, an actor's part, or the like) (usually followed by up).
- gah — Used to express exasperation or dismay.
- gai — Guaranteed Annual Income
- gak — Expressing disgust or trepidation.
- gal — a centimeter-gram-second unit of acceleration, equal to one centimeter per second per second.
- gam — a herd or school of whales.
- gan — simple past tense of gin3 .
- gao — a city in E Mali.
- gap — a department in SE France. 2179 sq. mi. (5645 sq. km). Capital: Gap.
- gar — Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- gas — GNU assembler
- gat — simple past tense of get.
- gau — (Tibetan Buddhism) A prayer box or small container worn as jewelry/jewellery and containing an amulet or similar item.
- gaw — a narrow, trenchlike depression, especially a furrow in the earth or a worn or thin area in cloth.
- gay — of, relating to, or exhibiting sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex; homosexual: a gay couple. Antonyms: straight.
- gaz — gazetteer
- gba — Alderney (international car registration)
- gca — ground control approach
- gda — (application) (Genetic Data Analysis) A program by Paul O. Lewis and Dmitri Zaykin, designed to accompany the referenced book, that computes linkage and hardy-weinberg disequilibrium and some genetic distances, and provides method-of-moments estimators for hierarchical F-statistics. A command-line version by Chris Basten runs under Mac OS.
- gea — Graph Extended ALGOL. Extension of ALGOL 60 for graph manipulation, on UNIVAC 1108. "A Language for Treating Graphs", S. Crespi-Reghizzi et al, CACM 13(5) (May 1970).
- gla — Greater London Assembly, established in 2000
- goa — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
- gpa — grade point average
- gsa — General Services Administration