3-letter words starting with n
- nek — a mountain pass
- nen — a river in NE China, flowing S across Manchuria to the Sungari River. 725 miles (1170 km) long.
- neo — new, new-style
- nep — New Economic Policy.
- ner — (slang, childish) An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.
- net — net income, profit, or the like.
- neu — Neuroglioblastoma cell line.
- new — other than the former or the old: a new era; in the New World.
- nex — (archaic) alternative spelling of next.
- ney — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), Duke of Elchingen [el-khing-uh n] /ˈɛl xɪŋ ən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1815, French revolutionary and Napoleonic military leader: marshal of France 1805–15.
- nfa — Finite State Machine
- nfb — National Film Board
- nfc — near field communication: a technology that allows wireless communication of electronic devices over short distances
- nfd — Newfoundland
- nfl — In the United States, the NFL is the organization responsible for professional football. NFL is an abbreviation for 'National Football League.'
- nfs — Network File System
- nft — Network File Transfer. An INTERLINK command on CERNVM.
- nfu — National Farmers Union
- nga — National Graphical Association
- ngc — New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars; a catalogue in which over 8000 nebulae, galaxies, and clusters are listed numerically
- ngf — nerve growth factor
- ngk — New Greek
- ngl — A dialect of IGL.
- ngo — 1901–1963, South Vietnamese statesman: president of the Republic of South Vietnam 1956–63.
- ngu — Nongonococcal urethritis.
- nhg — New High German
- nhi — National Health Insurance
- nhl — In the United States, the NHL is the organization responsible for professional hockey. NHL is an abbreviation for 'National Hockey League.'
- nhs — British National Health Service
- nib — his/her nibs, Informal: Often Facetious. a person in authority, especially one who is demanding and tyrannical: His nibs wants fresh strawberries in December.
- nic — a newly industrialized/industrializing country: the rise of NICs such as Korea and India.
- nid — (linguistics) noun inanimate dependent.
- nig — nidge.
- nih — The United States National Institutes of Health.
- nii — National Information Infrastructure
- nil — nothing; naught; zero.
- nim — a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- nin — Anaïs [uh-nahy-uh s] /əˈnaɪ əs/ (Show IPA), 1903–77, U.S. novelist and diarist.
- nip — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- nis — Network Information Service
- nit — a nitwit.
- niv — New International Version (of the Bible)
- nix — nothing.
- nlc — National Liberal Club
- nlf — National Liberation Front
- nlp — 1. (application) Natural Language Processing. 2. (networking) Network Layer Protocol.
- nlq — near letter quality
- nls — Native Language System
- nlu — National Labor Union
- nlw — National Library of Wales