English Words: 3
49 words
A restriction on air travel in the United States, such that passengers may carry liquids on board as long as they are in 3.4-ounce containers that fit in a single 1-quart bag.
Following the mnemonic "3-2-1 rule" for data archiving and protection: three copies of a piece of data are created, using two different types of media, and one is stored offsite.
The observation that nonviolent resistance campaigns involving at least 3.5% of the population are likely to achieve political change.
The set of people who, while visiting Antarctica, have gone through a temperature change of 300°F (149°C) while naked, from a sauna to the icy landscape outside, as part of an informal tradition.
The telephonic service for accessing some local government services, depending on the jurisdiction.
Covering the whole of the island of Ireland, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Abbreviation of thirty-twomo; a size of paper cut from standard uncut free sheets, corresponding to such a sheet folded into thirty-two leaves, yielding sixty-four pages when printed on both sides. Page size is dependent on the size of sheet used, with the largest standard size, Atlas (36" by 26") yielding a page size of 6-1/2" by 4-1/2".
A maneuver in various sports (such as skateboarding) in which the player flips backwards, rotates a full turn, and finishes travelling in the original direction.
A kill with a sniper rifle performed without scoping in after doing a 360-degree turn, often but not always while jumping down from a height.
Every day of the year. Typically describes a business or service open or available every day, including holidays, such as a gas station, convenience store, ATM, hotline, or concierge service.
craniocerebellocardiac dysplasia: a rare condition whose symptoms include heart defects, cerebellar hypoplasia, and cranial dysmorphism.
Abbreviation of Triple DES, a cipher formed from the Data Encryption Standard (DES) cipher by using it three times.
An enhancement of the MMX extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture, allowing for enhanced performance with 3D-graphics-heavy applications; rendered obsolescent by later versions of the SSE instruction-set extensions.
A coach-less (no in-game coaching) form of basketball, with 2 opposing sides of 3 on-court players at a time on a side, on a court with a single basket, half the size of a regular basketball court, where defenders and attackers switch during play.
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The English alphabetical index for the letter 3 contains 49 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 1 page, and you are currently viewing page 1. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
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