3-letter words starting with o
- ofc — (Internet slang) abbreviation of of course.
- off — so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
- ofm — Ordo Fratrum Minorum (the Franciscans)
- ofr — Old French
- ofs — (Orange) Free State
- oft — often.
- ogg — (games) /og/ (CMU) 1. In the multi-player space combat game Netrek, to execute kamikaze attacks against enemy ships which are carrying armies or occupying strategic positions. Named during a game in which one of the players repeatedly used the tactic while playing Orion ship G, showing up in the player list as "Og". This trick has been roundly denounced by those who would return to the good old days when the tactic of dogfighting was dominant, but as Sun Tzu wrote, "What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy." However, the traditional answer to the newbie question "What does ogg mean?" is just "Pick up some armies and I'll show you." 2. In other games, to forcefully attack an opponent with the expectation that the resources expended will be renewed faster than the opponent will be able to regain his previous advantage. Taken more seriously as a tactic since it has gained a simple name. 3. To do anything forcefully, possibly without consideration of the drain on future resources. "I guess I'd better go ogg the problem set that's due tomorrow." "Whoops! I looked down at the map for a sec and almost ogged that oncoming car."
- ogo — Ogonori.
- ohg — Old High German
- ohm — Georg Simon [gey-awrk zee-mawn] /geɪˈɔrk ˈzi mɔn/ (Show IPA), 1787–1854, German physicist.
- ohn — Alternative form of on (
- oho — Used to express pleased surprise or recognition.
- ohp — An OHP is the same as an overhead projector.
- ohs — the exclamation “oh.”.
- ohu — (NZ, historical) A kind of rural commune established in New Zealand under a government scheme of the mid-1970s.
- ohv — overhead valve
- oic — (chat) oh, I see.
- oid — object identifier
- oik — oaf; lout.
- oil — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- oir — Old Irish
- oka — a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
- oke — oka1 .
- ola — Alt form olay.
- olc — On-Line Computer system
- old — far advanced in the years of one's or its life: an old man; an old horse; an old tree.
- ole — Object Linking and Embedding
- olg — Old Low German
- olm — Proteus anguinus, a cave-dwelling salamander with external gills, found along the coast from northeastern Italy to Montenegro.
- oma — a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base: fibroma; melanoma.
- omb — Office of Management and Budget
- omf — Object Management Facility. Part of the DAA proposed by Hewlett-Packard and Sun.
- omg — Object Management Group
- omi — Biwa.
- omm — Officer of the Order of Military Merit
- omr — Optical Mark Reader
- oms — Opportunity Management System
- omt — Object Modelling Technique
- ona — a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
- onc — Open Network Computing
- ond — Ordinary National Diploma
- one — being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather than two or more; a single: one woman; one nation; one piece of cake.
- oni — (military, US) w Office of Naval Intelligence.
- ono — Or nearest offer.
- ons — so as to be or remain supported by or suspended from: Put your package down on the table; Hang your coat on the hook.
- onx — A graphics package from LAL Orsay.
- onz — Order of New Zealand
- oo- — egg or ovum
- ooa — object-oriented analysis
- ood — object-oriented design