3-letter words starting with f
- fob — a small pocket just below the waistline in trousers for a watch, keys, change, etc. Compare watch pocket.
- foc — father of the chapel
- fod — /fod/ [Abbreviation for "Finger of Death", originally a spell-name from fantasy gaming] To terminate with extreme prejudice and with no regard for other people. From MUDs where the wizard command "FOD
" results in the immediate and total death of , usually as punishment for obnoxious behaviour. This usage migrated to other circumstances, such as "I'm going to fod the process that is burning all the cycles." Compare gun. In aviation, FOD means Foreign Object Damage, e.g. what happens when a jet engine sucks up a rock on the runway or a bird in flight. Finger of Death is a distressingly apt description of what this generally does to the engine. - foe — a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy: a bitter foe.
- fog — a second growth of grass, as after mowing.
- foh — An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt.
- foi — freedom of information
- fon — a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
- foo — (computing) A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.
- fop — a man who is excessively vain and concerned about his dress, appearance, and manners.
- for — for loop
- fos — fructooligosaccharide: a chain polymer of fructose found in a variety of plants, vegetables, and fruits and used as a sweetener
- fou — crazy; foolish.
- fox — Free Objects for Crystallography
- foy — Chiefly Scot. a farewell gift, feast, or drink.
- fp2 — Functional Parallel Programming. A term rewriting language which unifies functional programming and parallel programming. Every object is a term and every computation is done by rewriting. Rewrite rules are used to specify algebraic data types and parallel processes.
- fpa — Abigail (Smith) 1744–1818, U.S. social and political figure (wife of John Adams).
- fpc — A translator from Backus's FP to C.
- fpm — Fast Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory
- fpo — field post office
- fps — (unit) (fps) The unit of measurement of the frame rate of a moving image.
- fpu — Floating-Point Unit
- fql — (language) A functional database language.
- fr. — fragment.
- fra — Wireless Local Loop
- frb — Federal Reserve Board: the government-appointed board that runs the Federal Reserve Bank and sets interest rates
- frg — Federal Republic of Germany
- frl — Frame Representation Language. MIT.
- fro — Obsolete. from; back.
- frs — Fellow of the Royal Society
- frt — freight
- fry — to cook in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in fat or oil.
- fsa — Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
- fsb — front side bus
- fsc — Brothers of the Christian Schools; Christian Brothers
- fsf — Free Software Foundation
- fsh — follicle-stimulating hormone
- fsk — Frequency Shift Keying
- fsl — Formal Semantics Language. A language for compiler writing.
- fsm — 1. (mathematics, algorithm, theory) Finite State Machine. 2. (networking) FDDI Switching Module. (3Com implements this device on its LAN switches).
- fsp — File Service Protocol
- ftc — Federal Trade Commission
- ftp — File Transfer Protocol
- ftw — (chat) An ambiguous acronym which might stand for any of "For The Win" (the thing just referred to will help you succeed), "Forever Two Wheels" (biker slang), WTF backwards, "Fuck The World", "Fuck This War", "Fun To Watch" or something else.
- ftx — Fault Tolerant Unix
- fub — fob2 .
- fud — a fuddy-duddy.
- fug — stale air, especially the humid, warm, ill-smelling air of a crowded room, kitchen, etc.
- ful — Fulani.
- fum — (obsolete, intransitive) To play upon a fiddle.