3-letter words that end in b
- mob — Digital Technology. (in a video game) a hostile nonplayer character that the player may target and fight.
- msb — Most Significant Bit
- mtb — a motor torpedo boat
- nab — to arrest or capture.
- ncb — National Coal Board: (in Britain between 1947 and 1987) an organization set up to run the nationalised coal mining industry
- neb — a bill or beak, as of a bird.
- nfb — National Film Board
- nib — his/her nibs, Informal: Often Facetious. a person in authority, especially one who is demanding and tyrannical: His nibs wants fresh strawberries in December.
- nob — a person of wealth or social importance.
- nsb — National Savings Bank
- nub — the point, gist, or heart of something.
- obb — (music) obbligato.
- omb — Office of Management and Budget
- orb — Object Request Broker
- osb — Order of Saint Benedict
- otb — off-track betting: betting at an establishment outside a racetrack
- pbb — any of several fat-soluble, cancer-causing substances formerly used as fire retardants
- pcb — 1. (hardware) Power Circuit Breaker. 2. (hardware) Power Control Box. 3. (hardware) Printed Circuit Board. 4. Process Control Block. 5. Product Configuration Baseline. 6. Program Control Block. 7. (networking) Protocol Control Block. (TCP).
- pdb — a white, crystalline, volatile, water-insoluble solid, C 6 H 4 Cl 2 , of the benzene series, having a penetrating odor: used chiefly as a moth repellent.
- phb — Bachelor of Philosophy
- pob — Prisoner of Bill
- ppb — parts per billion
- prb — (after the signatures of Pre-Raphaelite painters) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- pub — a bar or tavern.
- rab — a wooden beater for mixing plaster or mortar.
- rcb — Republic of Congo (international car registration)
- rdb — Oracle Rdb
- reb — Mister (used as a title of respect).
- rgb — Red, Green, Blue. The three colours of light which can be mixed to produce any other colour. Coloured images are often stored as a sequence of RGB triplets or as separate red, green and blue overlays though this is not the only possible representation (see CMYK and HSV). These colours correspond to the three "guns" in a colour cathode ray tube and to the colour receptors in the human eye. Often used as a synonym for colour, as in "RGB monitor" as opposed to monochrome (black and white).
- rib — one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
- rmb — renminbi (yuan)
- rob — to take something from (someone) by unlawful force or threat of violence; steal from.
- rub — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- sab — a person engaged in direct action to prevent a targeted activity, esp fox hunting, taking place
- scb — Bachelor of Science
- sib — related by blood; akin.
- smb — 1. (protocol) Server Message Block. 2. (hardware, protocol) System Management Bus.
- sob — to weep with a convulsive catching of the breath.
- srb — Serbia (international car registration)
- ssb — single sideband (transmission)
- stb — set-top box
- sub — a submarine.
- tab — ht
- tcb — 1. (jargon) Trouble Came Back. 2. (security) (Orange Book) Trusted Computing Base. 3. (operating system) Task Control Block.
- thb — Bachelor of Theology
- tlb — Translation Look-aside Buffer
- tob — the principal outer garment in some parts of north and central Africa, consisting of a length of cloth that is sewn into a long loose skirt or is draped around the body and fastened over one shoulder.
- tsb — (the former) Trustee Savings Bank, now incorporated in Lloyds TSB
- tub — a bathtub.
- ucb — University of California at Berkeley