3-letter words containing r
- nri — Non-Resident Indian: an Indian citizen or person of Indian origin living abroad
- nrl — National Rugby League
- nrn — no reply necessary
- nrt — nicotine replacement therapy: a type of treatment designed to help people give up smoking in which gradually decreasing doses of nicotine are administered through patches on the skin etc to avoid the effects of sudden withdrawal from the drug
- nrv — net realizable value
- nur — A hard knot in wood; a knur or knurl.
- nzr — (the former) New Zealand Railways
- oar — a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat.
- obr — (in the UK) Office for Budget Responsibility: a body that makes assessments of public finances and the economy, independent of the Treasury
- ocr — (text) (OCR, sometimes /oh'k*/) Recognition of printed or written characters by computer. Each page of text is converted to a digital using a scanner and OCR is then applied to this image to produce a text file. This involves complex image processing algorithms and rarely achieves 100% accuracy so manual proof reading is recommended.
- ofr — Old French
- oir — Old Irish
- omr — Optical Mark Reader
- ora — plural of os2 .
- orb — Object Request Broker
- orc — any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- ord — Order.
- ore — a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- orf — (obsolete) Cattle.
- org — Organization (in Internet addresses).
- orm — 1. (programming, database) object relational mapping. 2. (programming) Object Role Modeling.
- orn — (obsolete) To ornament; to adorn.
- oro — gold.
- orr — Sir John Boyd, Boyd Orr, Sir John.
- ors — a Boolean operator that returns a positive result when either or both operands are positive.
- ort — Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- our — (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- pcr — polymerase chain reaction: a technique for rapidly producing many copies of a fragment of DNA for diagnostic or research purposes
- pdr — price-dividend ratio
- per — for each; for every: Membership costs ten dollars per year. This cloth is two dollars per yard.
- pgr — psychogalvanic response
- phr — phrase
- pir — a term of respect for the head of a religious group, especially in Pakistan and various areas of the Middle and Near East.
- plr — Public Lending Right
- por — power-on reset
- ppr — present participle
- pra — PRAgmatics. The language used by COPS for specification of code generators.
- prb — (after the signatures of Pre-Raphaelite painters) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- prc — People's Republic of China
- pri — ISDN Primary Rate Interface. See also BRI
- prk — photorefractive keratectomy
- prl — Proof Refinement Logic. Versions: micro-PRL, lambda-PRL, nu-PRL.
- prn — pro re nata
- pro — in favor of a proposition, opinion, etc.
- prp — performance-related pay
- prs — pairs
- prt — party
- prv — Proverbs
- prw — parents are watching