3-letter words that end in n
- lyn — (Scotland) A waterfall.
- man — Unix manual page
- men — plural of man1 .
- mfn — most favored nation
- min — a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- mln — Million.
- mon — an Austroasiatic language used chiefly in Burma in the vicinity of Moulmein.
- msn — The Microsoft Network
- mtn — mountain
- mun — (dialect, Northern English, modal auxiliary, defective) Must.
- nan — Not-a-Number
- nen — a river in NE China, flowing S across Manchuria to the Sungari River. 725 miles (1170 km) long.
- nin — Anaïs [uh-nahy-uh s] /əˈnaɪ əs/ (Show IPA), 1903–77, U.S. novelist and diarist.
- non — notwithstanding.
- nrn — no reply necessary
- nun — the 25th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- ohn — Alternative form of on (
- orn — (obsolete) To ornament; to adorn.
- own — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
- p/n — promissory note
- pan — an international distress signal used by shore stations to inform a ship, aircraft, etc., of something vital to its safety or to the safety of one of its passengers.
- pcn — 1. Program Composition Notation. 2. (communications) Personal Communication Network.
- pen — a female swan.
- pin — Personal Identification Number
- ppn — Project-Programmer Number. A user-ID under TOPS-10 and its various mutant progeny at SAIL, BBN, CompuServe and elsewhere. Old-time hackers from the PDP-10 era sometimes use this to refer to user IDs on other systems as well.
- prn — pro re nata
- psn — Packet Switch Node
- ptn — Physical Transport Network
- pun — the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- pwn — Slang. to totally defeat or dominate, especially in a video or computer game: You just got pwned! I pwned those guys in the end.
- qin — Ch'in.
- ran — simple past tense of run.
- rcn — Royal Canadian Navy
- rgn — Registered General Nurse
- rin — a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- rpn — postfix notation
- rsn — Real Soon Now
- rtn — An RTN is the code that identifies a financial institution on a check or transfer.
- run — execution
- s/n — signal-to-noise ratio: the difference, in decibels, between the level of a specific signal and that of unwanted noise
- san — Storage Area Network
- sen — a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- sin — the 12th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- son — a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- sqn — squadron
- srn — State Registered Nurse
- ssn — severely subnormal; used of a person of very limited intelligence who needs special schooling
- sun — (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- syn — 1. (character) Synchronous idle. 2. (language) A syntactic specification language for COPS. 3. [TCP/IP SYN request?]
- tan — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.