3-letter words that end in u
- ilu — I love you
- imu — a usually large, covered cooking pit in which food is cooked by means of heated stones.
- iou — promissory note
- ipu — A percussion instrument made from hollowed gourds, often used to provide a beat for hula dancing.
- iru — A West African condiment made from fermented locust beans.
- isu — (sumo) an individual seat in the loft-like balcony of a sumo arena.
- itu — (body, standard) (ITU) ITU-T, the telecommunication standardisation sector of ITU, is responsible for making technical recommendations about telephone and data (including fax) communications systems for PTTs and suppliers. Before 1993-03-01 ITU-T was known as CCITT. Every four years they hold plenary sessions where they adopt new standards; there was one in 1992. ITU works closely with all standards organisations to form an international uniform standards system for communication. Study Group XVII is responsible for recommending standards for data communications over telephone networks. They publish the V.XX standards and X.n protocols. V.21 is the same as EIA's EIA-232. V.24 is the same as EIA's EIA-232C. V.28 is the same as EIA's EIA-232D. Address: International Telecommunication Union, Information Services Department, Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland. Telephone: +41 (22) 730 5554. Fax: +41 (22) 730 5337. E-mail: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> (Mail body: HELP). ITU-T standards can be obtained by FTP from Korea; UK - Imperial, HENSA; France - INRIA, IMAG; Israel; FTP USA: UUNET, gatekeeper, world.std.com; Australia; Germany; Japan;
- jeu — a game.
- jiu — Any Chinese alcoholic beverage.
- kyu — A grade or rank in Japanese martial arts.
- lau — Langage a Assignation Unique. A single assignment language for the LAU dataflow machine, Toulouse.
- leu — a coin and monetary unit of Romania, equal to 100 bani. Abbreviation: L.
- lou — Henry Louis ("Lou") 1903–41, U.S. baseball player.
- lru — least recently used
- mau — Media Access Unit
- mdu — Middle Dutch
- meu — Meum athamanticum, a European herb.
- mmu — Memory Management Unit
- mou — memorandum of understanding
- mtu — Maximum Transmission Unit
- nau — (networking) 1. Network Addressable Unit. 2. Network Access Unit.
- neu — Neuroglioblastoma cell line.
- nfu — National Farmers Union
- ngu — Nongonococcal urethritis.
- nlu — National Labor Union
- nmu — Non-Maintainer Upload
- nsu — nonspecific urethritis
- nwu — National Writers Union
- oau — the former Organization of African Unity (now called the African Union)
- odu — Old Dutch
- ohu — (NZ, historical) A kind of rural commune established in New Zealand under a government scheme of the mid-1970s.
- ozu — ˌYasuˈjiro (ˌjɑsuˈdʒiroʊ ) ; yäˌso̅ojēˈrō) 1903-63; Jpn. film director
- pau — a department in SW France. 2978 sq. mi. (7710 sq. km). Capital: Pau.
- pcu — PCI Configuration Utility
- pdu — Protocol Data Unit
- piu — more: più allegro.
- pku — phenylketonuria
- plu — a beaver skin, especially one of prime quality.
- psu — power supply unit
- rau — Santha Rama [san-thuh rah-muh] /ˈsæn θə ˈrɑ mə/ (Show IPA), 1923–2009, Indian writer and astrologer.
- rou — Uruguay (international car registration)
- rsu — An RSU is a grant valued in terms of company stock that takes the form of a promise that employees will receive stock in the future either as shares or the cash equivalent.
- sau — German name of Sava.
- sbu — strategic business unit: a division within an organization responsible for marketing its own range of products
- shu — the god of the air, sometimes represented with arms upraised, supporting the vault of heaven.
- sku — stock-keeping unit
- sou — (formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- stu — a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- tau — the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet (T, τ).
- tiu — an English god of the sky and of war, the equivalent of Tyr in Scandinavian mythology.