3-letter words starting with t
- tmt — telecommunications, media, and technology
- tmv — tobacco mosaic virus
- tnc — (hardware) A threaded version of a BNC.
- tnf — tumor necrosis factor
- tng — training
- tnt — trinitrotoluene: explosive substance
- tnx — (chat) Thanks. Also "TNX 1.0E6" or "TNXE6" - thanks a million.
- to- — completely, entirely, severely
- tob — the principal outer garment in some parts of north and central Africa, consisting of a length of cloth that is sewn into a long loose skirt or is draped around the body and fastened over one shoulder.
- toc — train operating company
- tod — a fox.
- toe — Hector ("Toe") 1912–1995, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
- tog — a coat.
- tok — Referred to in Ursula K. LeGuin's "Always Coming Home." Seems to be similar to the original BASIC.
- tom — Alvan, 1804–87, and his son Alvan Graham, 1832–97, U.S. astronomers and telescope-lens manufacturers.
- ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- too — in addition; also; furthermore; moreover: young, clever, and rich too.
- top — Technical/Office Protocol
- tor — a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- tos — the contract for acceptable use of digital media as defined by the developer. Abbreviation: TOS, ToS.
- tot — a total.
- tow — to pull or haul (a car, barge, trailer, etc.) by a rope, chain, or other device: The car was towed to the service station.
- toy — an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
- tpa — Transient Program Area
- tpf — Transaction Processing Facility
- tpi — tax and price index: a measure of the increase in taxable income needed to compensate for an increase in retail prices
- tpk — turnpike
- tpl — 1. Table Producing Language. "The Bureau of Labor Statistics Table Producing Language (TPL)", R.C. Mendelssohn, Proc ACM Annual Conf (1974). 2. Fleming Nielson. A concurrent functional language. 3. Terminal Programming Language. Texas Inst, late 70's. Used on the TI-990/1 Small Business Computer and the TI-771 Intelligent Terminal.
- tpn — triphosphopyridine nucleotide
- tpo — twisted pair only
- tpr — Trooper
- tps — Tree Pruning System. "An Adaptive Tree Pruning System: A Language for Programming Heuristic Tree Searches", E.W. Kozdrowicki, Proc ACM 23rd Natl Conf 1968.
- tpu — Text Processing Utility
- tpx — Terminal Productivity eXecutive
- tqm — TQM is a set of management principles aimed at improving performance throughout a company, especially by involving employees in decision-making. TQM is an abbreviation for 'total quality management'.
- trc — Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a body established in 1996 to investigate political crimes committed under the apartheid system
- trh — Their Royal Highnesses
- tro — tail recursion optimisation
- trs — term rewriting system
- try — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
- tsb — (the former) Trustee Savings Bank, now incorporated in Lloyds TSB
- tse — transmissible spongiform encephalopathy: any of a group of degenerative brain diseases, including BSE in cattle, that can be transmitted from one individual or species to another
- tsh — thyroid-stimulating hormone
- tsk — an exclamation of “tsk.”.
- tso — Time Sharing Option
- tsp — travelling salesman problem
- tsr — Terminate and Stay Resident
- tss — toxic shock syndrome
- tsv — tab-separated values
- ttd — Telecommunications Device for the Deaf