Question: What term is used exclusively for the New Testament books Matthew, Mark and Luke?
Answer: Synoptics.
Comments: The first three gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke, are known as the Synoptic gospels. The word "synoptic" is a compund of the Greek, συν (syn, "together") and όψις (opsis, "seeing"). They are so named as they see the story of Jesus very similarly.
The fourth canonical gospel, John, contains only eight percent of the synoptic material. (Kenneth Kramer, World Scriptures: An Introduction to Comparative Religions, 1986, p. 214)
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