3-letter words starting with e
- erm — Electronic Report Management
- ern — Alternative spelling of erne.
- ero — Education Review Office
- erp — Enterprise Resource Planning
- err — Be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake.
- ers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of er.
- ert — (transitive, UK dialectal) To incite; urge on; encourage.
- erw — (historical) A medieval Welsh unit of surface area equal to 11664 sq. ft. or about \u00bc acre.
- es- — ex-1 (sense 1)
- esa — 1. (architecture) Enterprise Systems Architecture. 2. (body) European Space Agency.
- esb — electrical stimulation of the brain
- esc — escape
- esd — Electrostatic Discharge
- ese — (obsolete) ease; pleasure.
- esf — Eureka Software Factory.
- esh — The name of the IPA symbol '\u0283'.
- esi — 1. European Software Institute. 2. A dialect of JOSS.
- esk — Eskimo
- esl — Expert Systems Ltd.
- esn — educationally subnormal; formerly used to designate a person of limited intelligence who needs special schooling
- eso — European Southern Observatory
- esp — Especially.
- esr — Eric S. Raymond
- ess — A thing shaped like the letter S.
- est — A system for self-improvement aimed at developing a person's potential through intensive group awareness and training sessions.
- esu — Electrostatic unit(s).
- eta — The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
- etb — End Transmission Block
- etc — ExTendible Compiler
- etd — estimated time of departure
- etf — electronic transfer of funds
- eth — A letter (capital '\u00d0', small '\u00f0') introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in etyl - but still in modern use in Icelandic, Faroese, and phonetics to represent the voiced dental fricative
- etl — (database) The processes of Extracting, Transforming (or Transporting), and Loading data from source systems into a data warehouse.
- etm — (database) An active DBMS from the University of Karlsruhe.
- ets — Educational Testing Service
- ett — Endotracheal tube.
- etu — Electrical Trades Union of Australia
- etv — Educational Television: a series of educational programmes, or a channel offering such programming, based in Hong Kong
- ety — Etymology.
- eu- — well, pleasant, or good
- euk — to itch
- eur — Europe
- ev6 — (hardware, protocol) (Alpha EV6) Compaq's bus protocol for Slot A motherboards. The Alpha EV6 bus protocol is capable of bus speeds from 40 to 400 MHz and uses a point-to-point topology with clock forwarding.
- eva — 1. A toy ALGOL-like language used in "Formal Specification of Programming Languages: A Panoramic Primer", F.G. Pagan, P-H 1981. 2. Explicit Vector Language.
- eve — Extensible VAX Editor
- ewe — A female sheep.
- ewk — to itch
- ewo — Educational Welfare Officer
- eww — Used to express disgust or distaste.
- ex- — ex- is added to nouns to show that someone or something is no longer the thing referred to by that noun. For example, a someone's ex-husband is no longer their husband.