3-letter words containing w
- ewo — Educational Welfare Officer
- eww — Used to express disgust or distaste.
- faw — Eye dialect of fortrue; chiefly used to represent the accent of slaves in the United States.
- fbw — fly-by-wire
- few — not many but more than one: Few artists live luxuriously.
- ftw — (chat) An ambiguous acronym which might stand for any of "For The Win" (the thing just referred to will help you succeed), "Forever Two Wheels" (biker slang), WTF backwards, "Fuck The World", "Fuck This War", "Fun To Watch" or something else.
- fwa — flexible working arrangement: an agreement between an employer and employee that the employee's working hours may be adapted to suit his or her particular needs
- fwd — front wheel drive
- gaw — a narrow, trenchlike depression, especially a furrow in the earth or a worn or thin area in cloth.
- gvw — gross vehicle weight
- gwm — Generic Window Manager. An extensible window manager for the X Window System. It is built on top of an interpreter for the WOOL language.
- haw — to utter a sound representing a hesitation or pause in speech.
- hew — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
- how — in what way or manner; by what means?: How did the accident happen?
- hwm — high-water mark
- hwy — highway
- iaw — (chat) inactive window. Used in talk systems to mean that that person will not be taking part in the conversation for a while. The sadly mispelled alternative, "unactive window" (UAW) has also been reported.
- icw — Interactive CourseWare
- iow — (chat) in other words.
- irw — in the real world
- iwc — International Whaling Commission
- iwi — (NZ) A Maori tribe.
- iwo — a city in SW Nigeria.
- iww — an international industrial labor union, considered radical by many, that was organized in Chicago in 1905 and that disintegrated after 1920. Abbreviation: I.W.W., IWW.
- jaw — a swelling wave of water; billow.
- jew — one of a scattered group of people that traces its descent from the Biblical Hebrews or from postexilic adherents of Judaism; Israelite.
- jow — the ringing, tolling, or sound of a bell.
- jwb — Jewish Welfare Board
- jwv — Jewish War Veterans
- kaw — a member of a North American Indian people formerly of eastern Kansas, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- kew — a part of Richmond, in Greater London, England: famous botanical gardens (Kew Gardens)
- kwa — of, belonging to, or constituting Kwa.
- kwh — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- kwt — Kuwait (international car registration)
- law — software law
- lbw — Alternative capitalization of LBW.
- lew — Alfred Russel [ruhs-uh l] /ˈrʌs əl/ (Show IPA), 1823–1913, English naturalist, explorer, and author.
- low — to utter by or as by lowing.
- lwl — length waterline: the length of a vessel at the waterline, taken at the centre axis
- lwm — low water mark
- lwp — (programming) light-weight process.
- lwv — League of Women Voters
- maw — mother1 .
- mew — a cage for hawks, especially while molting.
- mow — Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S. to store (hay) in a barn.
- msw — Master of Social Work
- mwd — MWD is a system of taking measurements while drilling downhole.
- naw — (Scotland) eye dialect of no.
- nbw — north by west
- new — other than the former or the old: a new era; in the New World.