3-letter words containing u
- ius — intrauterine system; a hormonal contraceptive coil, such as Mirena, that carries a supply of progestogen, which is released in small amounts over a period of three to five years
- jeu — a game.
- jiu — Any Chinese alcoholic beverage.
- jud — Doctor of Canon and Civil Law
- jue — an ancient Chinese vessel for wine, having three high legs and a handle.
- jug — a sound made by a bird, especially a nightingale.
- jul — July
- jun — chon (def 1).
- jus — a right.
- jut — to extend beyond the main body or line; project; protrude (often followed by out): The narrow strip of land juts out into the bay.
- juv — juvenile
- juz — One of thirty parts of the Quran.
- kue — the letter Q
- kun — Béla [bey-lo] /ˈbeɪ lɒ/ (Show IPA), 1885–1937, Hungarian Communist leader.
- kur — (in Sumerian mythology) the world of the dead.
- kut — A traditional Korean shamanic ritual.
- kyu — A grade or rank in Japanese martial arts.
- lau — Langage a Assignation Unique. A single assignment language for the LAU dataflow machine, Toulouse.
- leu — a coin and monetary unit of Romania, equal to 100 bani. Abbreviation: L.
- lou — Henry Louis ("Lou") 1903–41, U.S. baseball player.
- lru — least recently used
- lub — least upper bound
- lud — (UK,eye dialect) lord qual used in addressing a judge.
- lug — Linux User Group
- lul — Alternative form of lol.
- lum — (Scotland, northern England) A chimney.
- lun — Logical Unit Number
- luo — a member of a people living mainly in southwest Kenya.
- lur — a large bronze musical horn found in Danish peat bogs and probably dating to the Bronze Age
- luv — love.
- lux — a unit of illumination, equivalent to 0.0929 foot-candle and equal to the illumination produced by luminous flux of one lumen falling perpendicularly on a surface one meter square. Symbol: lx.
- luz — A small bone in the human spinal column, believed in Muslim and Jewish traditions to be the indestructible bone from which the body will be rebuilt at the time of resurrection.
- mau — Media Access Unit
- mdu — Middle Dutch
- meu — Meum athamanticum, a European herb.
- mmu — Memory Management Unit
- mou — memorandum of understanding
- mtu — Maximum Transmission Unit
- mua — mail user agent
- mud — wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
- mue — (obsolete) To mew; to moult.
- mug — a drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
- mum — silent; not saying a word: to keep mum.
- mun — (dialect, Northern English, modal auxiliary, defective) Must.
- 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.
- mut — a dog, especially a mongrel.
- mux — multiplexing
- muy — (informal) very.
- nau — (networking) 1. Network Addressable Unit. 2. Network Access Unit.
- neu — Neuroglioblastoma cell line.