3-letter words starting with e
- eel — any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- een — even2 .
- eeo — equal employment opportunity
- eep — (onomatopoeia) An expression of surprise or dismay.
- eer — ever.
- ees — (rare) Plural form of ey, the name of the letter E.
- eet — Eastern European Time
- eew — Alternative spelling of ew.
- ef- — ex-1
- efa — essential fatty acid
- eff — Electronic Frontier Foundation
- efi — Extensible Firmware Interface
- efl — Extended Fortran Language
- eft — electronic funds transfer
- ega — Enhanced Graphics Adapter
- egg — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- egm — extraordinary general meeting
- ego — A person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance.
- egp — Exterior Gateway Protocol
- ehf — extremely high frequency
- eho — Environmental Health Officer
- ehv — equine herpesvirus
- eia — Electronics Industry Association
- eib — European Investment Bank
- eid — Alternative capitalization of Eid.
- eir — (neologism) Belonging to em, their (singular). non-gloss definition Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with 'his' and 'her'.
- eis — Educational Institute of Scotland
- ejb — Enterprise JavaBeans
- eke — Manage to support oneself or make a living with difficulty.
- ekg — EKG is an abbreviation for electrocardiogram.
- el1 — Extensible Language One. An extensible language by B. Wegbreit of Harvard ca 1974. EL1 is internally somewhat Lisp-like, but fully typed with records and pointers. The external syntax is ALGOL-like and extensible, supporting user-defined data structures, control structures and operations. The parser is table-driven, with a modifiable set of productions. Used as the basis for the ECL operating system.
- eld — Old age.
- elf — A supernatural creature of folk tales, typically represented as a small, elusive figure in human form with pointed ears, magical powers, and a capricious nature.
- eli — (in the Bible) A priest who acted as a teacher to the prophet Samuel (1 Sam. 1–3).
- elk — Extension Language Kit
- ell — A former measure of length (equivalent to six hand breadths) used mainly for textiles, locally variable but typically about 45 inches.
- elm — A tall deciduous tree that typically has rough serrated leaves and propagates from root suckers.
- elp — 1. English Language Programs. Language for testing avionics equipment, on Varian 620/i. "Multiband Automatic test Equipment - A Computer Controlled Checkout System", T. Kuroda et al, Proc SJCC, 38 (1971). 2. Equational Logic Programming. A semantically pure, fully lazy language by M.J. O'Donnell <[email protected]>.
- els — Plural form of el.
- elt — English Language Teaching
- elv — Experimental Law Variation, one of a number of proposed rule changes to Rugby Union trialled in the game for twelve months during 2008 and 2009
- ely — a cathedral city in E England, in E Cambridgeshire on the River Ouse. Pop: 13 954 (2001)
- em- — Em- is a form of en- that is used before b-, m-, and p-.
- ema — A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.
- emc — Electromagnetic Compatibility
- eme — (obsolete except Scotland) An uncle.
- emf — electromotive force
- emg — electromyogram
- emi — External Machine Interface
- eml — Extended ML. A language for formally specifying SML programs.