3-letter words containing b
- oba — a hereditary tribal ruler among various peoples in the Benin region of western Africa.
- obb — (music) obbligato.
- obe — Office By Example
- obi — a long, broad sash tied about the waist over a Japanese kimono.
- obj — (grammar, programming) abbreviation of object.
- obl — oblique
- obo — Or best offer (used in advertisements).
- obr — (in the UK) Office for Budget Responsibility: a body that makes assessments of public finances and the economy, independent of the Treasury
- obs — a river in the W Russian Federation in Asia, flowing NW to the Gulf of Ob. 2500 miles (4025 km) long.
- obv — obviously: Obv they didn't know each other till today.
- oby — Archaic form of obeah.
- omb — Office of Management and Budget
- orb — Object Request Broker
- osb — Order of Saint Benedict
- otb — off-track betting: betting at an establishment outside a racetrack
- pbb — any of several fat-soluble, cancer-causing substances formerly used as fire retardants
- pbd — Programmer Brain Damage
- pbm — play by mail. See play by electronic mail.
- pbs — In the United States, PBS is an organization that broadcasts television programs and is not financed by advertising. PBS is an abbreviation for 'Public Broadcasting Service.'
- pbx — Private Branch Exchange
- pcb — 1. (hardware) Power Circuit Breaker. 2. (hardware) Power Control Box. 3. (hardware) Printed Circuit Board. 4. Process Control Block. 5. Product Configuration Baseline. 6. Program Control Block. 7. (networking) Protocol Control Block. (TCP).
- pdb — a white, crystalline, volatile, water-insoluble solid, C 6 H 4 Cl 2 , of the benzene series, having a penetrating odor: used chiefly as a moth repellent.
- phb — Bachelor of Philosophy
- pob — Prisoner of Bill
- ppb — parts per billion
- prb — (after the signatures of Pre-Raphaelite painters) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- pub — a bar or tavern.
- qbe — Query By Example
- qbp — queen's bishop's pawn
- rab — a wooden beater for mixing plaster or mortar.
- rb- — reconnaissance bomber
- rbc — red blood cell
- rbe — relative biological effectiveness (of radiation)
- rbi — run(s) batted in
- rcb — Republic of Congo (international car registration)
- rdb — Oracle Rdb
- reb — Mister (used as a title of respect).
- rgb — Red, Green, Blue. The three colours of light which can be mixed to produce any other colour. Coloured images are often stored as a sequence of RGB triplets or as separate red, green and blue overlays though this is not the only possible representation (see CMYK and HSV). These colours correspond to the three "guns" in a colour cathode ray tube and to the colour receptors in the human eye. Often used as a synonym for colour, as in "RGB monitor" as opposed to monochrome (black and white).
- rib — one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
- rmb — renminbi (yuan)
- rob — to take something from (someone) by unlawful force or threat of violence; steal from.
- rub — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- sab — a person engaged in direct action to prevent a targeted activity, esp fox hunting, taking place
- sba — standard beam approach: a radar navigation system that gives lateral guidance to aircraft when landing
- sbd — Smart Battery Data
- sbe — Microsoft Office Small Business Edition
- sbm — Solution Based Modelling
- sbr — Spectral Band Replication
- sbs — Special Boat Service
- sbu — strategic business unit: a division within an organization responsible for marketing its own range of products