3-letter words starting with p
- pte — Pte is used before a person's name as a written abbreviation for the military title private.
- ptf — Program Temporary Fix
- ptg — printing
- pti — Portable Tool Interface
- ptn — Physical Transport Network
- pto — please turn over: the page
- pts — parts
- ptt — Post, Telephone and Telegraph administration
- ptv — pay television
- pty — proprietary: used to denote a private limited company
- pub — a bar or tavern.
- pud — pudding.
- pug — Also called pugmark. a footprint, especially of a game animal.
- pul — a coin and monetary unit of Afghanistan, the 100th part of an afghani.
- pun — the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- pup — a young dog; puppy.
- pur — to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
- pus — a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- put — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- puy — a city in and the capital of Haute-Loire, in central France: cathedral.
- pva — a colorless, odorless, nontoxic, transparent, thermoplastic, water-insoluble resin used as an adhesive in certain paints and as an intermediate in the synthesis of polyvinyl acetal and polyvinyl alcohol.
- pvc — a white, water-insoluble, thermoplastic resin, derived by the polymerization of vinyl chloride: used chiefly for thin coatings, insulation, and pipings.
- pvm — Parallel Virtual Machine
- pvp — a white, amorphous, water-soluble powder, (C 6 H 9 NO) n , used chiefly as a vehicle in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.
- pvr — personal(ized) video recorder: a device for recording and replaying television programmes and films etc that uses a hard disk rather than videocassettes or DVDs and has various computer functions
- pvs — persistent vegetative state
- pvv — The PVV is the number encoded in the magnetic strip on the back of some types of debit or credit card, which allows the cardholder's PIN to be checked by ATMs and retail card readers.
- pwa — person with AIDS
- pwn — Slang. to totally defeat or dominate, especially in a video or computer game: You just got pwned! I pwned those guys in the end.
- pwr — pressurized-water reactor
- pwt — pennyweight
- pxt — he (or she) painted it
- py- — pyo-
- pya — an aluminum coin of Burma, the 100th part of a kyat.
- pye — (in England before the Reformation) a book of ecclesiastical rules for finding the particulars of the service for the day.
- pym — John, 1584–1643, English statesman.
- pyx — Ecclesiastical. the box or vessel in which the reserved Eucharist or Host is kept. a watch-shaped container for carrying the Eucharist to the sick.