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3-letter words starting with i

  • irl — 1.   (jargon, chat)   In real life. Generally synonymous with f2f. 2.   (language, robotics)   Industrial Robot Language.
  • irm — Information Resource Management
  • irn — Independent Radio News
  • iro — (formerly, in Britain) Inland Revenue Office
  • irq — interrupt request
  • irs — Internal Revenue Service
  • iru — A West African condiment made from fermented locust beans.
  • irw — in the real world
  • is- — iso-
  • is. — (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
  • isa — 1.   (architecture)   Integrated Systems Architecture. 2.   (body)   International Smalltalk Association. 3.   (architecture)   instruction set architecture. 4.   (architecture)   Industry Standard Architecture.
  • isd — international subscriber dialling
  • ise — Interactive Software Engineering
  • isf — Information Systems Factory
  • ish — Eye dialect of is.
  • isl — Interface Specification Language. Xerox PARC. Interface description language used by the ILU (Inter-Language Unification) system. Includes descriptions of multiple inheritance, exceptions and garbage collection. E-mail: Bill Janssen <[email protected]>.
  • ism — a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice: This is the age of isms.
  • iso — isolated camera.
  • isp — Ichnospecies.
  • isr — Israel
  • iss — International Space Station
  • ist — (company)   Imperial Software Technology.
  • isu — (sumo) an individual seat in the loft-like balcony of a sumo arena.
  • isv — Independent Software Vendor (not a hardware manufacturer).
  • ita — A kind of palm tree (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco.
  • itc — Independent Television Commission
  • ith — (mathematics) Occurring at position i in a sequence.
  • itn — Independent Television News
  • ito — Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
  • itp — Intent to Package
  • its — sweet vermouth: gin and it.
  • itt — Obsolete spelling of it.
  • 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;
  • itv — UK television network
  • iud — contraceptive: intrauterine device
  • iui — intrauterine insemination: a form of fertility treatment in which sperm are injected directly into the uterus
  • ius — intrauterine system; a hormonal contraceptive coil, such as Mirena, that carries a supply of progestogen, which is released in small amounts over a period of three to five years
  • iva — any composite plant of the genus Iva, characterized by usually opposite leaves and inconspicuous greenish-yellow flowers.
  • ive — (informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of I've.
  • ivf — in vitro fertilization
  • ivr — Interactive Voice Response
  • ivs — an intravenous device for delivering electrolyte solutions, medicines, and nutrients.
  • ivy — any of various other climbing or trailing plants.
  • iwc — International Whaling Commission
  • iwi — (NZ) A Maori tribe.
  • iwo — a city in SW Nigeria.
  • iww — an international industrial labor union, considered radical by many, that was organized in Chicago in 1905 and that disintegrated after 1920. Abbreviation: I.W.W., IWW.
  • ixo — Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol
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