3-letter words containing r
- kar — (marketing) deliberate misspelling of car.
- kir — an apéritif of white wine or sometimes champagne (Kir Royale) flavored with cassis.
- kor — homer2 .
- 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.
- krc — Kent Recursive Calculator
- krl — Knowledge Representation Language. A frame-based language.
- krp — king's rook's pawn
- krs — (language) A frame-based language built on Common LISP.
- ksr — 1. Keyboard Send Receive. 2. (company) Kendall Square Research.
- kur — (in Sumerian mythology) the world of the dead.
- l8r — L8R is the written abbreviation for 'later', mainly used in text messages and e-mails.
- lar — (initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
- ldr — long distance relationship
- ler — the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- lgr — Late Greek
- lir — Ler.
- lor — an exclamation of surprise or dismay
- lpr — Line printer. The Unix print command. This does not actually print files but rather copies (or links) them to a spool area from where a daemon copies them to the printer.
- lrc — Longitudinal Redundancy Check
- lrp — lead replacement petrol
- lrt — light-rail transit
- lru — least recently used
- lsr — 1. (networking) Label Switching Router. 2. (operating system) Local Shared Resources.
- ltr — Langage Temps-Réel. (French for "real-time language") A French predecessor to Ada, LTR is Modula-like with a set of special-purpose real-time constructs based on an event model. It was mentioned in the reference below.
- lur — a large bronze musical horn found in Danish peat bogs and probably dating to the Bronze Age
- mar — to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- mdr — multi-drug resistant
- mfr — manufacture.
- mgr — Manager.
- mhr — Member of the House of Representatives
- mir — a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- mlr — law: minimum lending rate
- mmr — vaccine against measles, mumps, rubella
- mor — Humus formed under acid conditions.
- mr. — mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position: Mr. Lawson; Mr. President.
- mra — magnetic resonance
- mrc — Metals Reserve Company
- mre — meal ready to eat: a US military precooked ration pack
- mri — scanning procedure
- mrm — mechanically recovered meat: a reconstituted meat product created from offal and other meat waste, often used in hamburgers, sausages, pies, etc
- mrp — Material Requirements Planning
- mrs — a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman: Mrs. Jones; Mrs. Susan Jones.
- msr — An MSR is a device that converts information on the magnetic stripe of a credit card into data that can be understood by retail software.
- mur — a river in S central Austria, NE Slovenia, and N Croatia, flowing NE and SE to the Drava River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- ner — (slang, childish) An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.
- nmr — nuclear magnetic resonance
- nor — a Boolean operator that returns a positive result when both operands are negative.
- npr — National Public Radio
- nra — National Rifle Association
- nrc — National Research Council