3-letter words containing b
- keb — Geb.
- kgb — Soviet secret police
- klb — Known Lazy Bastard
- kob — an African antelope, Kobus kob, related to the puku and the lechwe.
- lab — Informal. Labrador retriever.
- lb. — pound.
- lba — Logical Block Addressing
- lbd — little black dress
- lbf — Pound-force (unit of force).
- lbj — Lyndon Baines Johnson
- lbl — Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- lbo — finance: leveraged buyout
- lbs — Plural form of lb; pounds.
- lbv — Late Bottled Vintage: applied to port wine that has been matured in casks for six years and is then ready for drinking
- lbw — Alternative capitalization of LBW.
- lbx — Low Bandwidth X.
- ldb — /l*'d*b/ [PDP-10 instruction] To extract from the middle. "LDB me a slice of cake, please." This usage has been kept alive by Common LISP's function of the same name. Considered silly. See also DPB.
- leb — a person from Lebanon or of Lebanese origin
- lib — something improvised in speech, music, etc.: Was that joke part of your speech or an ad lib?
- llb — Bachelor of Laws
- lob — Tennis. to hit (a ball) in a high arc to the back of the opponent's court.
- lsb — 1. Least Significant Bit. 2. (Rarely) Least Significant Byte.
- lub — least upper bound
- mab — Queen Mab.
- mba — Léon [le-awn] /lɛˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1902–67, African statesman: president of Gabon 1961–67.
- mbe — An MBE is a British honour that is awarded to a person by the King or Queen for a particular achievement. MBE is an abbreviation for 'Member of the Order of the British Empire'.
- mbo — law: management buyout
- mcb — miniature circuit breaker; a small trip switch operated by an overload and used to protect an electric circuit, esp a domestic circuit as an alternative to a fuse
- mgb — Ministry of State Security; the Soviet secret police from 1946 to 1954
- mib — Management Information Base
- mlb — middle linebacker
- mob — Digital Technology. (in a video game) a hostile nonplayer character that the player may target and fight.
- msb — Most Significant Bit
- mtb — a motor torpedo boat
- nab — to arrest or capture.
- nba — In the United States, the NBA is the organization responsible for professional basketball. NBA is an abbreviation for 'National Basketball Association.'
- nbc — US TV network
- nbe — north by east
- nbg — no bloody good
- nbs — National Bureau of Standards: part of the US Department of Commerce, now NIST.
- nbt — NetBios over TCP/IP
- nbw — north by west
- ncb — National Coal Board: (in Britain between 1947 and 1987) an organization set up to run the nationalised coal mining industry
- neb — a bill or beak, as of a bird.
- nfb — National Film Board
- nib — his/her nibs, Informal: Often Facetious. a person in authority, especially one who is demanding and tyrannical: His nibs wants fresh strawberries in December.
- nob — a person of wealth or social importance.
- nsb — National Savings Bank
- nub — the point, gist, or heart of something.
- ob- — /ob/ prefix Obligatory. A piece of netiquette acknowledging that the author has been straying from the newsgroup's charter topic. For example, if a posting in alt.sex is a response to a part of someone else's posting that has nothing particularly to do with sex, the author may append "ObSex" (or "Obsex") and toss off a question or vignette about some unusual erotic act. It is considered a sign of great winnitude when one's Obs are more interesting than other people's whole postings.