3-letter words containing r
- grp — Group.
- grr — A growl of anger or disappointment.
- grt — gross registered tons
- gru — Glavnoe Razvedovatelnoe Upravlenie
- gry — (archaic) A small amount.
- gsr — galvanic skin response
- gur — a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, including Mossi and other languages spoken in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Mali.
- har — A sound of laughter, with a sarcastic connotation.
- her — Slang. a female: Is the new baby a her or a him?
- hir — (neologism) them (singular). non-gloss definition Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with 'him' and 'her'.
- hor — (Geordie) her.
- hpr — High Performance Routing
- hra — In the U.S., an HRA is a program that allows an employer to set aside funds to reimburse medical expenses paid by participating employees.
- hre — Holy Roman Emperor or Empire
- hrh — HRH is an abbreviation for 'His Royal Highness' or 'Her Royal Highness' when it is used as part of the title of a prince or princess.
- hrm — Expressing a moment of particular curiosity or thoughtfulness.
- hrs — Hours.
- hrt — HRT is given to women and involves taking the hormone oestrogen, usually in order to control the symptoms of the menopause. HRT is an abbreviation for 'hormone replacement therapy'.
- iar — Instruction Address Register. The IBM name for program counter.
- icr — Institute for Cancer Research
- ifr — instrument flying regulations
- iir — Infinite Impulse Response
- ilr — indefinite leave to remain: an immigration status permitting a person to work or study in the UK without limit of time
- imr — Internet Monthly Report
- inr — The INR is a test that times the clotting of blood, used in measuring warfarin dosage.
- ir- — Ir- is added to words that begin with the letter 'r' to form words with the opposite meaning.
- ira — a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- irc — Internet Relay Chat
- ird — Inland Revenue Department
- ire — intense anger; wrath.
- irk — to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
- irl — 1. (jargon, chat) In real life. Generally synonymous with f2f. 2. (language, robotics) Industrial Robot Language.
- irm — Information Resource Management
- irn — Independent Radio News
- iro — (formerly, in Britain) Inland Revenue Office
- irq — interrupt request
- irs — Internal Revenue Service
- iru — A West African condiment made from fermented locust beans.
- irw — in the real world
- isr — Israel
- ivr — Interactive Voice Response
- jar — Java archive
- jcr — junior common room
- jer — Slavic Linguistics. either of two letters (ъ, ь) of the Cyrillic alphabet used, as in Old Church Slavonic, to indicate two short vowels, or, as in Russian, to indicate that the preceding consonant is hard or soft. Compare hard sign, soft sign.
- jnr — Jnr is a written abbreviation for junior. It is used after a man's name to distinguish him from an older member of his family with the same name.
- jor — In Indian music, a formal section of composition in the long elaboration (alap) of a raga that forms the beginning of a performance.
- jre — Java Run-Time Environment
- jrl — J. Random Loser. The names JRL and JRN were sometimes used as example names when discussing a kind of user ID used under TOPS-10 and WAITS. They were understood to be the initials of (fictitious) programmers named "J. Random Loser" and "J. Random Nerd". For example, if one said "To log in, type log one comma jay are en" (that is, "log 1,JRN"), the listener would have understood that he should use his own computer ID in place of "JRN".
- jrn — J. Random Nerd. See JRL.
- k&r — (publication) Kernighan and Ritchie. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book, cited below, describing the basis of K&R C, especially the classic and influential first edition. Synonyms: White Book, Old Testament. See also New Testament.