3-letter words that end in a
- mna — Alternative form of mina (weight unit).
- moa — any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- mra — magnetic resonance
- msa — Master of Science in Agriculture
- mta — 1. (messaging) Message Transfer Agent. 2. (messaging) Message Transfer Architecture. (AT&T). 3. Multiple Terminal Access. 4. Maintenance Task Analysis.
- mua — mail user agent
- mva — An MVA happens when a vehicle hits a person, an object, or another vehicle, causing injury or damage.
- mya — Million years ago.
- n/a — not applicable
- naa — (Geordie) alternative spelling of knaa.
- nba — In the United States, the NBA is the organization responsible for professional basketball. NBA is an abbreviation for 'National Basketball Association.'
- nea — National Education Association.
- nfa — Finite State Machine
- nga — National Graphical Association
- noa — (NZ, among the Maori) Non-sacred; such that it must be kept separate from what is tapu.
- npa — Newspaper Publishers' Association
- nqa — National Qualifications Authority
- nra — National Rifle Association
- nsa — National Security Agency: a US federal defence bureau established in 1972 that specializes in cryptography
- nta — a white crystalline powder, N(CH2COOH)3, formerly used in detergents for its biodegradable qualities, but now considered a possible health hazard
- oba — a hereditary tribal ruler among various peoples in the Benin region of western Africa.
- oca — a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- oda — a room within a harem.
- oea — the capital and chief port of Libya, in the northwest on the Mediterranean: founded by Phoenicians in about the 7th century bc; the only city that has survived of the three (Oea, Leptis Magna, and Sabratha) that formed the African Tripolis ('three cities'); fishing and manufacturing centre. Pop: 1 223 300 (2002 est)
- ofa — Optimal Flexible Architecture
- oka — a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- ola — Alt form olay.
- oma — a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base: fibroma; melanoma.
- ona — a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- ooa — object-oriented analysis
- ora — plural of os2 .
- osa — 1. Open Scripting Architecture. 2. Open System Architecture.
- ova — plural of ovum.
- pca — (tool, programming) A dynamic analyser from DEC giving information on run-time performance and code use.
- pda — (computer) (PDA) A small hand-held computer typically providing calendar, contacts, and note-taking applications but may include other applications, for example a web browser and media player. Small keyboards and pen-based input systems are most commonly used for user input. The Apple Newton was a fairly early example.
- pea — the round, edible seed of a widely cultivated plant, Pisum sativum, of the legume family.
- pfa — please find attached
- pga — 1. (graphics, specification) Professional Graphics Adapter. 2. (hardware) Pin Grid Array.
- pha — Public Housing Administration
- pia — a female given name.
- pla — (language, music) A high-level music programming language, written in SAIL. Pla includes concurrency based on message passing.
- poa — Portable Object Adapter
- ppa — a substance, C 9 H 1 3 NO, related to ephedrine and amphetamine, available in various popular nonprescription diet aids as an appetite suppressant.
- pra — PRAgmatics. The language used by COPS for specification of code generators.
- psa — Problem Statement Analizer. See PSL/PSA.
- pta — peseta.
- pva — a colorless, odorless, nontoxic, transparent, thermoplastic, water-insoluble resin used as an adhesive in certain paints and as an intermediate in the synthesis of polyvinyl acetal and polyvinyl alcohol.
- pwa — person with AIDS
- pya — an aluminum coin of Burma, the 100th part of a kyat.
- qca — Quantum-dot Cellular Automata