3-letter words containing a
- isa — 1. (architecture) Integrated Systems Architecture. 2. (body) International Smalltalk Association. 3. (architecture) instruction set architecture. 4. (architecture) Industry Standard Architecture.
- ita — A kind of palm tree (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco.
- iva — any composite plant of the genus Iva, characterized by usually opposite leaves and inconspicuous greenish-yellow flowers.
- j/a — joint account
- jab — a poke with the end or point of something; a sharp, quick thrust.
- jac — jacket.
- jad — Joint Application Design Or "Joint Application Development".
- jag — a period of unrestrained indulgence in an activity; spree; binge: a crying jag; a talking jag.
- jai — victory (to)
- jak — jackfruit.
- jam — to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
- jan — a male given name, form of John.
- jap — a term used to refer to a pampered young Jewish-American woman, especially one who takes material advantages for granted.
- jar — Java archive
- jas — (South Africa, crude, slang) Horny (desiring sexual activity).
- jat — a member of an Indo-Aryan people living mainly in northwestern India. In early times they offered vigorous resistance to the Muslim invaders of India.
- jav — Java
- jaw — a swelling wave of water; billow.
- jay — John, 1745–1829, U.S. statesman and jurist: first chief justice of the U.S. 1789–95.
- jaz — Jaz Drive
- jsa — Japanese Standards Association.
- kab — an ancient Hebrew measure equal to about two quarts.
- kae — a jackdaw or jay
- kaf — the twenty-second letter of the Arabic alphabet, representing a velar stop consonant sound.
- kai — (NZ, informal) food.
- kaj — (Armenian mythology) spirits of storm and wind; can be both ugly and beautiful.
- kak — A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Cambodian riel.
- kal — kalends (calends)
- kam — a Kam-Tai language spoken in southern China.
- kan — Archaic form of khan.
- kap — Kernel Andorra Prolog. The predecessor of AKL.
- kar — (marketing) deliberate misspelling of car.
- kas — a spiritual entity, an aspect of the individual, believed to live within the body during life and to survive it after death.
- kat — an evergreen shrub, Catha edulis, of Arabia and Africa, the leaves of which are used as a narcotic when chewed or made into a beverage.
- kaw — a member of a North American Indian people formerly of eastern Kansas, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- kay — Sir Arthurian Romance. the rude, boastful foster brother and seneschal of Arthur.
- kea — Keos.
- kha — the seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet, representing a velar spirant consonant sound.
- kia — Also, K.I.A. killed in action.
- koa — a Hawaiian acacia, Acacia koa, of the legume family, characterized by spreading branches and gray bark.
- kra — Isthmus of, the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Siam. 35 miles (56 km) wide.
- kwa — of, belonging to, or constituting Kwa.
- kya — Thousand years ago.
- la. — La. is a written abbreviation for lane, and is used especially in addresses and on maps or signs.
- lab — Informal. Labrador retriever.
- lac — (in prescriptions) milk.
- lad — a boy or youth.
- lae — a seaport in E Papua New Guinea: used as a major supply base by the Japanese in World War II.
- lag — netlag
- lah — (music) alternative spelling of la.