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3-letter words containing u

  • fun — something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.
  • fup — (Internet) follow-up.
  • fur — the fine, soft, thick, hairy coat of the skin of a mammal.
  • fut — future
  • gau — (Tibetan Buddhism) A prayer box or small container worn as jewelry/jewellery and containing an amulet or similar item.
  • gbu — German Beneficial Union
  • gju — a type of violin used in Shetland
  • glu — (language)   A practical coarse grain implementation of the Lucid dataflow language for networks.
  • gnu — either of two stocky, oxlike antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, the silver-gray, white-bearded C. taurinus of the eastern African plain and the black, white-tailed C. gnou of central South Africa: recently near extinction, the South African gnu is now protected.
  • gpu — State Political Administration; the Soviet police and secret police from 1922 to 1923
  • gru — Glavnoe Razvedovatelnoe Upravlenie
  • gub — a white person.
  • gud — Nonstandard spelling of good.
  • gue — (Shetland) A kind of fiddle or violin played on the Shetland Islands.
  • gui — graphical user interface.
  • gul — a large octagonal design derived from the shape of a rose, a motif on Oriental rugs.
  • gum — Often, gums. Also called gingiva. the firm, fleshy tissue covering the alveolar parts of either jaw and enveloping the necks of the teeth.
  • gun — Also called gin rummy. a variety of rummy for two players, in which a player with 10 or fewer points in unmatched cards can end the game by laying down the hand.
  • gup — gossip
  • 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.
  • gus — a male given name, form of Augustus or Gustave.
  • gut — the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
  • guv — term of address used to a man, especially by a younger man, boy, employee, or social inferior.
  • guy — a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “woods.”.
  • heu — highly enriched uranium
  • hsu — Health Services Union
  • hub — the central part of a wheel, as that part into which the spokes are inserted.
  • huc — Acronym of hydrologic unit code.
  • hud — Department of Housing and Urban Development.
  • hue — a seaport in central Vietnam: former capital of Annam.
  • hug — to clasp tightly in the arms, especially with affection; embrace.
  • huh — Used to express scorn, anger, disbelief, surprise, or amusement.
  • hui — (in Hawaii) a club or association.
  • huk — a member of the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan (People's Liberation Army) a Communist agrarian revolutionary group in central Luzon in the Philippines.
  • hum — to make a low, continuous, droning sound.
  • hun — a member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century a.d.
  • hup — Used as a way of encouraging a marching rhythm.
  • hus — John, 1369?–1415, Czech religious reformer and martyr.
  • hut — a small or humble dwelling of simple construction, especially one made of natural materials, as of logs or grass.
  • icu — intensive care unit
  • igu — (chat)   I Give Up. Often found appended to documents, e-mail, programs that don't work, etc.
  • ilu — I love you
  • imu — a usually large, covered cooking pit in which food is cooked by means of heated stones.
  • iou — promissory note
  • ipu — A percussion instrument made from hollowed gourds, often used to provide a beat for hula dancing.
  • iru — A West African condiment made from fermented locust beans.
  • isu — (sumo) an individual seat in the loft-like balcony of a sumo arena.
  • itu — (body, standard)   (ITU) ITU-T, the telecommunication standardisation sector of ITU, is responsible for making technical recommendations about telephone and data (including fax) communications systems for PTTs and suppliers. Before 1993-03-01 ITU-T was known as CCITT. Every four years they hold plenary sessions where they adopt new standards; there was one in 1992. ITU works closely with all standards organisations to form an international uniform standards system for communication. Study Group XVII is responsible for recommending standards for data communications over telephone networks. They publish the V.XX standards and X.n protocols. V.21 is the same as EIA's EIA-232. V.24 is the same as EIA's EIA-232C. V.28 is the same as EIA's EIA-232D. Address: International Telecommunication Union, Information Services Department, Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland. Telephone: +41 (22) 730 5554. Fax: +41 (22) 730 5337. E-mail: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> (Mail body: HELP). ITU-T standards can be obtained by FTP from Korea; UK - Imperial, HENSA; France - INRIA, IMAG; Israel; FTP USA: UUNET, gatekeeper, world.std.com; Australia; Germany; Japan;
  • iud — contraceptive: intrauterine device
  • iui — intrauterine insemination: a form of fertility treatment in which sperm are injected directly into the uterus
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