3-letter words containing r
- src — Science Research Council: a former agency responsible for scientific research that was publicly funded. Also known as the SERC or Science and Engineering Research Council.
- sri — SRI International
- srl — 1. Bharat Jayaraman. 2. Schema Representation language. 3. Structured Robot Language. C. Blume & W. Jacob, U Karlsruhe.
- srn — State Registered Nurse
- sro — standing room only
- srp — A data link layer protocol.
- ssr — Scalable Sampling Rate
- str — steamer
- sur — upon; on the basis of: sur mortgage.
- syr — Syria (international car registration)
- tar — a sailor.
- tdr — Time Domain Reflectometer
- ter — (in prescriptions) three times.
- tir — Transports Internationaux Routiers
- tor — a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- tpr — Trooper
- trc — Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a body established in 1996 to investigate political crimes committed under the apartheid system
- trh — Their Royal Highnesses
- tro — tail recursion optimisation
- trs — term rewriting system
- try — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
- tsr — Terminate and Stay Resident
- tvr — television rating: a measurement of the popularity of a television programme based on a survey
- tyr — the god of strife.
- uar — United Arab Republic
- ubr — (in England and Wales) Uniform Business Rate: a tax on business property
- udr — Ulster Defence Regiment
- ur- — original, primitive
- urb — an urban area.
- urc — Uniform Resource Citation (previously Universal).
- urd — any of three goddesses of fate, the goddess of the past (Urd) the goddess of the present (Verdandi) and the goddess of the future (Skuld)
- uri — Universal Resource Identifier
- url — Uniform Resource Locator
- urn — Uniform Resource Name
- urp — used to suggest the sound of a belch
- usr — U.S. Robotics, Inc.
- var — a department in SE France. 2326 sq. mi. (6025 sq. km). Capital: Draguignan.
- vcr — A VCR is a machine that can be used to record television programmes or films onto videotapes, so that people can play them back and watch them later on a television set. VCR is an abbreviation for 'video cassette recorder'.
- ver — verse(s)
- vfr — Visual Flight Rules
- vhr — Vance Hines Racing
- vir — husband (used chiefly in the legal phrase et vir).
- vkr — Vitamin K Resources
- vlr — Victory Lane Racing
- vnr — Ventral Nerve Root
- vor — to warn
- vrc — Vertical Redundancy Check
- vrg — Ventral Respiratory Group
- vri — Victoria Regina et Imperatrix
- vrl — Vision Resources Library