3-letter words that end in b
- fcb — (operating system) file control block.
- feb — February
- fib — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
- fmb — Federal Maritime Board
- fob — a small pocket just below the waistline in trousers for a watch, keys, change, etc. Compare watch pocket.
- frb — Federal Reserve Board: the government-appointed board that runs the Federal Reserve Bank and sets interest rates
- fsb — front side bus
- fub — fob2 .
- gab — to talk or chat idly; chatter.
- gcb — (Knight) Grand Cross of the Bath
- gdb — (programming, tool) GNU debugger. The FSF's source-level debugger for C, C++ and other languages. Developed by many people but most recently Fred Fish <[email protected]>, Stu Grossman <[email protected]> and John Gilmore <[email protected]> all of Cygnus Support. GDB fills the same niche as dbx. Programs must be compiled to include debugging symbols. Version 4.11. Distributed under GNU CopyLeft. It runs on most Unix variants, VMS, VXWorks, Amiga and MS-DOS. FTP gdb-*.tar.[zZ] from a GNU archive site. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bug reports).
- geb — the god of the earth and the father of Osiris and Isis.
- ghb — GHB is a drug with some medical uses, which some people take illegally to make them feel happy and energetic. GHB is an abbreviation for 'gamma hydroxybutyrate'.
- gib — a cat, especially a male cat.
- glb — greatest lower bound
- gmb — Grand Master Bowman; the highest standard of archer
- gob — the mouth.
- gub — a white person.
- hab — Diminutive of habitation or habitation facility.
- hib — Haemophilus influenzae type b: a vaccine against a type of bacterial meningitis, administered to children
- hob — a hobgoblin or elf.
- hsb — hue, saturation, brightness
- hub — the central part of a wheel, as that part into which the spokes are inserted.
- iab — Internet Architecture Board
- idb — illicit diamond buying
- jab — a poke with the end or point of something; a sharp, quick thrust.
- jcb — a type of construction machine with a hydraulically operated shovel on the front and an excavator arm on the back
- jib — the act of jibing.
- job — the central figure in an Old Testament parable of the righteous sufferer.
- jtb — jump trace buffer
- jwb — Jewish Welfare Board
- kab — an ancient Hebrew measure equal to about two quarts.
- kcb — Knight Commander of the Bath
- keb — Geb.
- kgb — Soviet secret police
- klb — Known Lazy Bastard
- kob — an African antelope, Kobus kob, related to the puku and the lechwe.
- lab — Informal. Labrador retriever.
- ldb — /l*'d*b/ [PDP-10 instruction] To extract from the middle. "LDB me a slice of cake, please." This usage has been kept alive by Common LISP's function of the same name. Considered silly. See also DPB.
- leb — a person from Lebanon or of Lebanese origin
- lib — something improvised in speech, music, etc.: Was that joke part of your speech or an ad lib?
- llb — Bachelor of Laws
- lob — Tennis. to hit (a ball) in a high arc to the back of the opponent's court.
- lsb — 1. Least Significant Bit. 2. (Rarely) Least Significant Byte.
- lub — least upper bound
- mab — Queen Mab.
- mcb — miniature circuit breaker; a small trip switch operated by an overload and used to protect an electric circuit, esp a domestic circuit as an alternative to a fuse
- mgb — Ministry of State Security; the Soviet secret police from 1946 to 1954
- mib — Management Information Base
- mlb — middle linebacker