3-letter words that end in a
- gpa — grade point average
- gsa — General Services Administration
- gta — Greater Toronto Area
- haa — hepatitis-associated antigen; an antigen that occurs in the blood serum of some people, esp those with serum hepatitis
- hda — Head Disk Assembly
- hea — Alternative spelling of hea'.
- hla — human leucocyte antigen
- hma — high memory area
- hoa — (obsolete) ho; hey; a call for attention.
- hra — In the U.S., an HRA is a program that allows an employer to set aside funds to reimburse medical expenses paid by participating employees.
- hsa — In the U.S., an HSA is a medical savings account with tax advantages that is available to taxpayers who are enrolled in a high deductible health plan.
- iaa — indoleacetic acid
- iba — Independent Broadcasting Authority
- ica — Independent Computing Architecture
- ida — Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters). Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- iea — International Energy Agency
- ifa — independent financial adviser
- ila — a town in SW Nigeria.
- ima — Alternative form of Imma.
- ina — a female given name.
- ipa — International Phonetic Alphabet
- ira — a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- isa — 1. (architecture) Integrated Systems Architecture. 2. (body) International Smalltalk Association. 3. (architecture) instruction set architecture. 4. (architecture) Industry Standard Architecture.
- ita — A kind of palm tree (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco.
- iva — any composite plant of the genus Iva, characterized by usually opposite leaves and inconspicuous greenish-yellow flowers.
- j/a — joint account
- jsa — Japanese Standards Association.
- kea — Keos.
- kha — the seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet, representing a velar spirant consonant sound.
- kia — Also, K.I.A. killed in action.
- koa — a Hawaiian acacia, Acacia koa, of the legume family, characterized by spreading branches and gray bark.
- 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.
- kwa — of, belonging to, or constituting Kwa.
- kya — Thousand years ago.
- lba — Logical Block Addressing
- lea — Homer, 1876–1912, U.S. soldier and author: adviser 1911–12 to Sun Yat-sen in China.
- lha — 1. (filename extension) The filename extension for a file produced by the shareware compression and archive software LHARC. 2. (tool) A compression program for MS-DOS. Output files have the extension ".lzh".
- lia — Leah (def 1).
- lka — Lan Kanal Adapter
- loa — A god in the voodoo cult of Haiti.
- lta — Lawn Tennis Association
- maa — A bleating sound, as that of a sheep or goat.
- mba — Léon [le-awn] /lɛˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1902–67, African statesman: president of Gabon 1961–67.
- mca — Micro Channel Architecture
- mda — Monochrome Display Adapter
- mea — an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- mha — Member of the House of Assembly
- mia — missing in action.
- mla — In Australia and some other countries, an MLA is a person who has been elected as a member of parliament. MLA is an abbreviation for 'member of the legislative assembly'.
- mma — A fast Mathematica-like system, in Allegro CL by R. Fateman, 1991.