AAA,administration,authorization,and authentication,American Automobile Association ("Triple-A"),anti-aircraft artillery,Amateur Athletic Association (of England),Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (Spanish,"Assistance,Consulting,and Administration"—Mexican professional wrestling promotion)
AAAI,Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence,formerly American Association for Artificial Intelligence
AAAS,American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAAV,Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle
AAC,American Athletic Conference,Army Air Corps (British Army)
AC,"Adriamycin-Cyclophosphamide (chemotherapy),Air Conditioning,Aircraftman,Alternating Current,Altocumulus,ante Christum (Latin,"before Christ"; see BC),ante cibum (Latin,"before meals"),Antigua and Barbuda (FIPS 10-4 country code),Associazione Calcio (Italian,"football (soccer) club"),A/C,Air Conditioned/Conditioning,Aircraft"
aC,Attocoulomb
AC1,Aircraftman 1st Class
AC2,Aircraftman 2nd Class
ACA,"Affordable Care Act,shorthand for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,commonly called 'Obamacare',Airspace Control Authority,Airspace Co-ordination Area,A Current Affair"
ACARS,Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System
ACAS,Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society,Advisory,Conciliation and Arbitration Service
ACB,Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto (Spanish for "Association of Basketball Clubs")
ACCA,The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants,Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment
ACCAC,"Awdurdod Cymwysterau,Cwricwlwm ac Asesu Cymru (Qualifications,Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales)"
ACCD,American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities
ACCS,Air Communications and Control Squadron
ACDA,Arms Control & Disarmament Agency
ACDC,"Alternating Current Direct Current,the name of an Australian rock music band,a term for a bisexual person,A/Cdre,Air Commodore"
ACDT,"Apple Certified Desktop Technician,Australian Central Daylight Time"
ACES,"Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia (Spanish,"Central Colombian Airlines"),Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services of Alfred State College"
ACF,"Administration for Children and Families,American Car and Foundry,American Culinary Federation"
ACHT,Average Call Hold Time
ACINT,Acoustic Intelligence
ACK,Acknowledge (telecommunications; cf. NAK)
ACL,"Access Control List,Anterior cruciate ligament; the initialism can also refer to an injury to this ligament.,Atlantic Coast Line Railroad"
ACLJ,American Center for Law and Justice
ACLOS,Automatic CLOS (missile control system)
ACLS,American Council of Learned Societies
ACLU,"American Civil Liberties Union,American Communist Lawyers Union (pejorative slang for the above)"
ACM,"many,including Association for Computing Machinery; see entry"
ACMC,(U.S.) Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
ACN,"Airborne Communications Node,Australian Company Number (number issued by the Australian government as registration of a limited liability company)"
ACNA,Anglican Church in North America
ACO,Airspace Control Order
ACOBA,Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
ACOG,American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
ACOM,(U.S.) Atlantic Command
ACORN,Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
ACP,"African,Caribbean and Pacific Group of States,Air Control Point"
ACR,Advanced Concepts and Requirements
ACRI,African Crisis Initiative
ACRT,Advanced Concepts Research Tool simulator
ACS,"Affiliated Computer Services (NYSE ACS),Alaska Communications Service,American Cancer Society,American Chemical Society,Association of Caribbean States,Australian Computer Society"
ACSC,Army Command and Staff College (various nations)
ACST,American Cooperative School of Tunis
ACST,Australian Central Standard Time
ACT,"Adaptive Control of Thought (cognitive model),American College Test (ing Program),Australian Capital Territory (also postal symbol),ACT UP,AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power"
ACTD,Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration
ACTF,"(U.S.) Army Constructive Training Federation,Australian Children's Television Foundation,ACT-R,ACT-Rational (cognitive model),ACT-R/PM,ACT-R/Perceptual-Motor (cognitive model)"
ACTU,Australian Council of Trade Unions
ACU,American Conservative Union
ACUF,"Advisory Committee on Undersea Features,American Conservative Union Foundation"
AD,"Air Defence,Andorra (ISO 3166 digram),Anno Domini (Latin,"In the year of our Lord")"
ADA,"Air Defence Artillery,American Dental Association,Assistant District Attorney,Americans with Disabilities Act (see also the similar but non-acronymic Ada programming language)"
ADAC,Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (German for "General German Automobile Club")
ADAGE,Air Defense Air to Ground Engagement (simulation)
ADAP,AIDS Drug Assistance Program
ADAS,Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey
ADAT,Alesis Digital Audio Tape (recording format)
ADATS,"Agricultural Development and Training Society,Air Defence Anti-Tank System,Australian Defence Air Traffic System"
ADB,Asian Development Bank
ADC,"Aide De Camp,U.S. Air Defense Command (1946-1992),Apple Display Connector,Program Against Digital Counterfeiting of Currency"
ADD,"Analog Digital Digital (CD quality),Attention-Deficit Disorder,Administration on Developmental Disabilities"
ADDIE,Analyze Design Develop Implement and Evaluate
ADDNS,Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation
ADF,Australian Defence Force,African Development Foundation
ADGB,Air Defence of Great Britain
ADHD,Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHS,Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome
ADI,Acceptable/Allowable Daily Intake
ADIZ,Air Defence Identification Zone
ADL,Anti-Defamation League
ADM,"Administrative,,Admiral,and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,Archer Daniels Midland,Assistant Deputy Minister"
ADOA,Air Defence Operations Area
ADP,"Adenosine DiPhosphate,Army Doctrine Publication (UK,Canada,Australia),Automatic/Automated Data Processing"
AE,"Armed Forces Africa/Canada/Europe/Middle East (postal symbol),United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code),Artix Entertainment,American Eagle,A&E,(a/i) Arts & Entertainment Network,the original name for the U.S. TV channel now known as A&E Network"
ae,Avestan language (ISO 639-1 code)
AED,United Arab Emirates dirham (ISO 4217 currency code)
AEDT,Australian Eastern Daylight Time
AEF,American Expeditionary Force
AEGIS,Airborne Early warning Ground environment Interface Segment (fake etymology)
AESR,Aeronautical Equipment Service Record
AEST,Australian Eastern Standard Time
aet,After extra time (Football)
AEW,"Airborne Early Warning,Airborne Electronic Warfare"
AF,"Afghanistan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Air Force,As f*ck"
af,Afrikaans language (ISO 639-1 code)
aF,Attofarad
AFA,"U.S. Air Force Academy,Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (Spanish for 'Argentine Football Association')"
AFAIC,As Far As I'm Concerned
AFAICT,As Far As I Can Tell
AFAIK,As Far As I Know
AFAIR,As Far As I Remember/Recall
AFAM,Associazione Friulana di Astronomia e Meteorologia (Italian,"Friuli Association of Astronomy and Meteorology"),Department of African and Afro-American Studies,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — notable for its links to the school's academic-athletic scandal in the 2010s
AFATDS,Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
AFC,American Football Conference,Asian Football Confederation
AFCEA,Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
AFDB,African Development Bank
AFES,Automatic Fire Extinguishing System
AFG,Afghanistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
AFI,French Territory of the Afars and Issas (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1977),"Agencia Federal de Investigaciónes" (México)
AFIS,Automated Fingerprint Identification System,American Forces Information Service
AFIST,Abrams Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer
AFJ,April Fool's Joke
AFK,Away From Keyboard (Internet chat abbreviation)
AFL,American Federation of Labor,American Football League — either the 1960s league that merged into the National Football League,or one of several other leagues of American football,Arena Football League,Australian Football League,AFL-CIO,American Federation of Labor,Congress of Industrial Organizations
AFLAC,American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus
AFM,Army Field Manual (UK; the U.S. more frequently uses just FM),Atomic Force Microscope,Aviation Fleet Maintenance
AFN,Afghani (ISO 4217 currency code)
AFO,Association of Field Ornithologists
AFOSR,U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
AFP,Agence France-Presse (French,"French Press Agency"),Australian Federal Police
AFQT,Armed Forces Qualification Test
afr,Afrikaans language (ISO 639-2 code)
AFRC,Air Force Reserve Command
AFRL,Air Force Research Laboratory
AFROTC,Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
AFRRI,(i,U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
AFRTS,Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
AFS,Active Front Steering,Air Facility Sub-System,Amniotic Fluid-derived Stem cell,AFS&A or AFSA,U.S. Air Force Studies and Analysis
AFSC,U.S. Air Force Staff College (obsolete; replaced with JFSC),U.S. Air Force Systems Command
AFSCN,U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network
AFSPC,Air Force Space Command
AFT,American Farmland Trust
AFV,armoured fighting vehicle
AFWA,Air Force Weather Agency,Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies,AG[edit]
AG,air gunner,Aktiengesellschaft (German,"incorporated"),Algeria (FIPS 10-4 country code),Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 digram),Assemblies of God
ag,Attogram
Ag,Silver (Latin argentum)
AGA-(a/i) AB Gas-accumulator ("ah-gah",Swedish company),Advanced Graphics Architecture
AGARD,Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development
AGARDograph,Advanced Guidance for Alliance Research and Development publication
AGASA,Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (cosmic ray detector)
AGB,Internal Nintendo initialism (Advanced Game Boy) for Game Boy Advance
AGC,Adjutant General's Corps (British Army)
AGC,Apollo Guidance Computer,Automatic Gain Control
AGDC,Australian Game Developers' Conference
AGI,Auxiliary Group Intelligence
AGL,Above Ground Level
AGM,Annual General Meeting
AGN,Active Galactic Nucleus
AGO,Angola (ISO 3166 trigram)
AGP,Accelerated Graphics Port
AGRICOLA,Agriculture Online Access
AGS,Alaska Ground Station (LandSat)
AGTS,Advanced Gunnery Training System
AGU,American Geophysical Union
AGW,Autonomous Guided Weapon
Ah,Ampere-hour
AH,Attack Helicopter
aH,Attohenry
AHA,American Heart Association
AHCPR,Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (obsolete; replaced with AHRQ)
AHEC,Australian Health Ethics Committee
AHPCRC,Army High Performance Computing Research Center
AHQ,Air Headquarters
AHRQ,Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AHS,American Housing Survey
AI,Air Interdiction,Amnesty International,Artificial Insemination,Artificial Intelligence,Anguilla (ISO 3166 digram)
AIA,Aerospace Industries Association,American Institute of Architects,Anguilla (ISO 3166 trigram)
AIAA,American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIRS,(a/i) Aerometric Information Retrieval System (obsolete; replaced with AFS)
AIS,Australian Institute of Sport,Automatic Identification System
AISB,(British Society for the Study of) Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
aJ,Attojoule
AJ,Azerbaijan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
Ajax,Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
AJD,Astronomical Julian day
AJP,Allied Joint Publication
AJPW,All Japan Pro Wrestling
ak,Akan languages (ISO 639-1 code)
AK,Alaska (postal symbol)
aK,Attokelvin
AKA,Above knee amputation (orthopaedic usage)
aka,Akan languages (ISO 639-2 code)
AKDT,Alaska Standard Daylight Saving Time (UTC−8 hours)
AKP,Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Turkish,"Justice and Development Party")
AKST,Alaska Standard Time (UTC−9 hours)
AL,Alabama (postal symbol),Albania (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Anno Lucis (Latin,"Year of Light",in Masonic tradition,most often seen on plaques bearing the founding dates of buildings,in years AD and years AL)
Al,Aluminium
aL,Attolitre
ALA,Åland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
ALAP,As Long/Late As Possible
ALARM,Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missile
ALB,Albania (ISO 3166 trigram)
ALD,Accounting Line Designator (nuclear weapon targeting)
ALERT,Advanced Linked Extended Reconnaissance and Targeting,Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theatre
ALF,Africa Leadership Forum,Alien Life Form (cf. ALF (TV series)),Animal Liberation Front
ALG,Algeria (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
ALGOL,ALGOrithmic Language
ALL,Albanian lek (ISO 4217 currency code)
ALOA,Associated Locksmiths of America,Inc.
ALOC,Air Lines Of Communication,Average Length of Calls
ALPA,Air Line Pilots Association
ALS,Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis,Automatic Landing System
ALSHS,Abraham Low Self-Help Systems
ALSP,Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol
ALTE,Association of Language Testers in Europe
Am,Americium
am,Amharic language (ISO 639-1 code),Attometre
AM-many,including Amplitude Modulation and Ante Meridiem; see entry,Armenia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
AM1,Airman 1st class
AMA,American Medical Association,Australian Medical Association
AMC,Adaptive modulation and coding (digital communications),U.S. Air Mobility Command,American Motors Corporation,American Movie Classics (TV network; now known simply by the initials),U.S. Army Materiel Command
AMCB,U.S. Army/Marine Corps Board
AMD,Advanced Micro Devices,Age-related Macular Degeneration,Armenian dram (ISO 4217 currency code)
AMFOM,Advanced Missile Fly Out Model ("am-fomm")
AMFR,Age-specific Marital Fertility Rate,Amplitude Modulation Following Response
AMFRS,Advanced Multi-Function Radio Frequency System,Automatic Multisensor Feature-based Recognition System
amh,Amharic language (ISO 639-2 code)
AML,Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
AMLCD,Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
AMLO,Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexican politician),Anti-Money Laundering Office (Thailand government agency)
AMO,Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
AMOLED,Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode
AMOS,Advanced MOrtar System,Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory
AN,Andorra (FIPS 10-4 country code),Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 digram)
an,Aragonese language (ISO 639-1 code)
aN,Attonewton
ANA,Administration for Native Americans,Afghan National Army,All Nippon Airways,Anti-Nuclear Anti-body,Australian National Airways,Australian Natives' Association
ANC,African National Congress
AND,Andorra (ISO 3166 trigram)
ANFO,Ammonium nitrate/fuel oil (explosive)
ANG,Air National Guard,Angola (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166),Netherlands Antillian guilder (ISO 4217 currency code)
ANGLiCo,Air/Naval Gunfire Liaison Company
ANL,Argonne National Laboratory
ANM,Acoustic Noise Monitor
ANOVA,ANalysis Of VAriance
ANS,Applied and Natural Sciences
ANSI,American National Standards Institute
ANT,Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 trigram),Antigua and Barbuda (IOC trigram,but not ISO 3166 or FIFA)
ANTM,America's Next Top Model
ANTY,Acronyms,No Thank You
ANWR,Arctic National Wildlife Refuge /ˈænwɑr/
ANZ,Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
ANZAC,Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
AO,Angola (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Approach Officer (submarine),Area of Operations
AOA,Air Officer in charge of Administration,Argonne National Laboratory,Angolan kwanza (ISO 4217 currency code),Award Of Arms (heraldry)
AOC,Air Operations Centre,Air Officer Commanding
AOD,Adrenalin O.D. (punk rock band)
AOI,Angle Of Incidence Arab Organization for Industrialization
APOLLO,Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation
APP,Allied Procedural Publication
APR,Annual Percentage Rate
APS,Advanced Photo System (cf. APS-C,an image sensor format based on the size of the original APS film frame),American Physical Society,Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome,AQ[edit]
AQ,AdventureQuest,American Samoa (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Antarctica (ISO 3166 digram),Automatic qualifier,a term used by U.S. sports media from 1998 to 2013 to refer to the six conferences whose champions automatically entered the now-defunct Bowl Championship Series of college football
AQIM,Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
ar,Arabic language (ISO 639-1 code)
AR,Argentina (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Arkansas (postal symbol),Armour,Arunachal Pradesh (Indian state code)
ASIP,Advanced System Improvement Program,Army Stationing and Installation Plan,Application-specific instruction-set processor
ASL,Above Sea Level,American Sign Language (also known as Ameslan),"Age,Sex,Location?" (Internet slang)
ASM,Air-to-Surface Missile,American Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram),American Society for Metals,American Society for Microbiology
asm,Assamese language (ISO 639-2 code)
ASMB,American Society for Matrix Biology,Adult Swim Message Board
ASME,American Society of Mechanical Engineers,American Society of Magazine ors
ASMP,Air-Sol Moyenne Portée missile (French "Medium-range air to surface"),Asymmetric multiprocessing
ASN,Associate of Science in Nursing
ASOC,(a/i) Air Sovereignty Operations Centre,Air Support Operations Centre,Airport Security and Operations Centre,Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition,Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus,Australian Standard Offence Classification
ASP,Active Server Pages,American Society of Primatologists,Ammunition Supply Point,Application Service Provider (cf internet service provider),Astronomical Society of the Pacific,Association of Surfing Professionals
ASPI,Australian Strategic Policy Institute
ASR,Alkali-silica reaction,Anti Slip Regulation
ASRAAM,Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile
ASSC,Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
AST,Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4 hours)
ASTIA,Armed Services Technical Information Agency
ASTM,American Society for Testing and Materials
ASTREA,Aerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies (sheriff's air support unit)
ASUW,AntiSUrface Warfare
ASVAB,Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery(taken by juniors in high school in the USA)
ASVEL,Association Sportive Villeurbanne Éveil Lyonnais (Association Sportive is French for "Sporting Association"; the club was founded through the merger of AS Villeurbanne and Éveil Lyonnais)
ASW,AntiSubmarine Warfare
ASWORG,(U.S.) AntiSubmarine Warfare Operations Research Group
ATCCIS,Army Tactical Command and Control Information System
ATESS,Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron
ATF,French Southern Territories (ISO 3166 trigram),(U.S.) Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives (from its previous name,which did not include "Explosives")
ATG,Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 and FIFA trigram)
AUC,"Ab Urbe Condita / Anno Urbis Conditae (Latin "from the founding of the city" / "in the year since the founding of the city") (of Rome),Area Under the Curve (concentration time curve; medicine)"
AZ,Arizona (postal symbol),Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 digram),Alkmaar Zaanstreek (Dutch football club)
az,Azerbaijani language (ISO 639-1 code)
AZE,Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 trigram)
aze,Azerbaijani language (ISO 639-2 code)
AZN,Azerbaijani manat (ISO 4217 currency code)
AZUR,Actions en zone urbaine (French,Urban Operations)
BAR,Barbados (IOC trigram,but not FIFA or ISO 3166),British American Racing,Browning Automatic Rifle,Buy-American Restrictions,BARD, Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund (between the US and Israel),BARDA, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency,BART, Bay Area Rapid Transit,BAS, Battalion Aid Station,BASE, Building,Antenna,Span,Earth (parachute from),BASF, Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (Baden Aniline and Soda Factory,a German chemicals company),BASIC, Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (acronym was added later,originally it was simply Basic),BAT,(a/i) Basic Aid Training,BATF, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,and Firearms,BATS, Behavior Analysis Training System,Bradley Advanced Training System,BATTeRS, Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey,BB[edit]
BB,Barbados (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code),Boys' Brigade (Christian youth organization),Brigitte Bardot (actress),Bumblebee
BBB,Better Business Bureau,Blood-brain barrier
BBC,Breeding Bird Census,British Broadcasting Corporation,Bumper to Back of Cab (trucking measurement)
BBD,Barbadian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code),Bowel Bladder Dysfunction
BBL,Be Back Later,Bird Banding Laboratory,British Basketball League,BBN, Bolt,Beranek and Newman,BBQ, Barbecue[1]
BBS,Breeding Bird Survey (North America),Brigade/Battalion Battle Simulation,Bulletin Board System,BBSRC, U.K. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council,BBVA, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (Spanish bank)
BBYO,B'nai B'rith Youth Organization
BC,Before Christ,Blind Copy (in emailers),Boston College,Botswana (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Bechuanaland),British Columbia (postal symbol)
BCA,Bachelor of Computer Application,Black Coaches & Administrators,BCC, Blind Carbon Copy
BCCI,Bank of Credit and Commerce International,Board of Control for Cricket in India,BCD, Binary-Coded Decimal
BEA,Banque extérieure d'Algérie,British European Airways (ancestor of British Airways),British Electricity Authority,bel, Belarusian language (ISO 639-2 code),BEL, Belgium (ISO 3166 trigram),BEM, British Empire Medal,Bug-Eyed Monster,ben, Bengali language (ISO 639-2 code),BEN, Benin (ISO 3166 trigram),BEO, Banquet Event Order,BERC, Business Environmental Resource Center,BER, Bit Error Rate
BH,Bahrain (ISO 3166 digram),Belize (FIPS 10-4 country code),BHD, Bahraini dinar (ISO 4217 currency code),BHR, Bahrain (ISO 3166 trigram)
BNF,Backus-Naur Form (computing),British National Formulary,BNICE, Biological,Nuclear,Incendiary,Chemical,and Explosive Agents
BNP,British National Party,Banque Nationale de Paris,a predecessor to today's BNP Paribas,BNS, Bank of Nova Scotia,BNSF,(i/s) Burlington Northern Santa Fe (also AAR reporting mark),BO[edit],bo, Tibetan language (ISO 639-1 code)
BO,Back Orifice,Belarus (FIPS 10-4 country code),Biarritz Olympique (French rugby union club),Bolivia (ISO 3166 digram),Body odor,BO2k, Back Orifice 2000,BOAC, British Overseas Airways Corporation (predecessor of British Airways)
BoAML,Bank of America Merrill Lynch
BOC,British Orthodontic Society,British Oxygen Company,BÖC, Blue Öyster Cult,bod, Tibetan language (ISO 639-2 code),BOD, Biochemical Oxygen Demand,BODMAS, Brackets,Orders,Division,Multiplication,Addition,Subtraction,BOFH, Bastard Operator From Hell,BOGA, Bend Over and Grab Ankles,BOGOF, Buy One,Get One Free
BOGs,Bunch of Guys
BOI,Balance Of Investment,Basis Of Issue,BOL, Bolivia (ISO 3166 trigram)
BOM,Base Object Model,Bill Of Materials,Block of the Month quilting term,Business opportunity meeting,BOP, Balance of Payments,BOPB, Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque (the complete name of the rugby club),BOPD, Barrel of Oil Per Day
BOQ,Bill Of Quotations,Bachelor Officers' Quarters,Bank Of Queensland,bos, Bosnian language (ISO 639-2 code),BOS, Battlefield Operating System
BOT,Balance of Trade,Botswana (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166),Build Operate Transfer,Bank of Thailand,BP[edit]
BP,Battle Position,British Petroleum (today,BP does not officially stand for anything),Solomon Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code; from British Protectorate of the Solomon Islands),Bp, Bishop,BPD, Bipolar Personality Disorder,BPM, Beats Per Minute,BPMo, Business Process Mobility
BQ,British Antarctic Territory (former ISO 3166 digram; merged with AQ in 1979),Caribbean Netherlands (current ISO 3166 digram; based on the entity's alternate name of Bonaire,Sint Eustatius and Saba),Navassa Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),BR[edit],br, Breton language (ISO 639-1 code),Br, Bromine
BR,Brazil (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code),Bihar (Indian state code),British Rail,Break Ranks (marching band term),BRA, Brazil (ISO 3166 trigram),BRAG, Bicycle Ride Across Georgia,BRASS,Breathe,Relax,Aim,Sight,Squeeze (Acronym for using a rifle)
BRN,Bahrain (IOC trigram,but not FIFA or ISO 3166),Brunei (ISO 3166 trigram),BRSB, Battlefield Reasoning System Brianna,BRU, Brunei (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166),BS[edit],bs, Bosnian language (ISO 639-1 code)
BS,The Bahamas (ISO 3166 digram),Bassas da India (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Bachelor of Science degree,British subject
BSA,Birmingham Small Arms (motorcycles company),Boy Scouts of America,Brigade Support Area
BSatCoP,Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins
BSD,Bahamian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code),Berkeley Software Distribution (distinct from BSoD)
BSE,Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy,better known as mad cow disease
BSN-Baloncesto Superior Nacional (Spanish,"National Superior Basketball"; top Puerto Rican league),Bank Simpanan Nasional (Malay,"National Savings Bank"; government-owned Malaysian bank)
BSNL-Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited,Bachelor of Science in Nursing,BSoD, Blue Screen of Death (distinct from BSD)
BSP,Between-Show Promotion,Binary Space Partitioning,Board Support Package,British Standard Pipe (screw thread),Business-sponsored,Bone sialoprotein
BST,Binary search tree,Blended Sales Tax,Bovine somatotropin,British Summer Time,BSW, British Standard Whitworth (screw thread),BSX, Bendigo Stock Exchange,BT[edit]
BT,Baal teshuva (Hebrew,"master of repentance"),used to describe a Jew who adopts Orthodox Judaism as an adult,Bathythermograph,Bhutan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),BitTorrent,British Telecom,the former name of the company now known as BT Group,BTDT, Been There,Done That,Bti, Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis,BTID, Battlefield Target Identification Device,BTIS, Battlefield Target Identification System
Bt,Baronet,Bacillus thuringiensis
BTN,Bhutan (ISO 3166 trigram),Bhutanese ngultrum (ISO 4217 currency code),BTO, Built To Order,BTP, British Transport Police,BTR, Bronetransporter (БТР = Бронетранспортер "(Heavy) Armoured (Personnel) Transporter") †[2],BTU, British Thermal Unit,BTW, By The Way,BU[edit],BU,,Bulgaria (FIPS 10-4 country code)-,Burma (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1989),BUAV, British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection,BUG-E, Battlefield Universal Gateway Equipment ("buggy"),bul,,Bulgarian language (ISO 639-2 code),BUL,,Bulgaria (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166),BUNO or BuNo, Bureau Number (aircraft serial number),BUR,,Burma (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1989),BV[edit],BV,,Background Vocals-,Battlefield Visualization,,Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code),BVD, Bradley,Voorhees & Day (underwear manufacturer),BVR, Beyond Visual Range,BVT, Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 trigram),BW[edit],B&W, Babcock & Wilcox,Black and White,Bowers & Wilkins,BW, Bring Wedges (ISO digram),BW, Botswana (ISO 3166 digram),BWA, Botswana (ISO 3166 trigram),BWARS, Bees,Wasps & Ants Recording Society,BWC, Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention,BWP, Botswanian pula (ISO 4217 currency code),BWR, Boiling-Water Reactor,BX[edit],BX, Base eXchange,,BY[edit],BY,,Burundi (FIPS 10-4 country code)-,Belarus (ISO 3166 digram),BYOB, Bring Your Own Bottle (or "beer","beverage",or "booze") (multiple,but similar,meanings),BYOC, Bring Your Own Computer (play on BYOB),BYOF, Bring Your Own Flask,BYR, Belarusian ruble (ISO 4217 currency code),BYS,,Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1992),BYU, Brigham Young University,BZ[edit],BZ, Belize (ISO 3166 digram),BZD, Belize dollar (ISO 4217 currency code),BZP, Benzylpiperazine,References[edit],^ See references and discussion under Barbecue and :List of acronyms and initialisms: B. Examples of use: [1],[2],[3],[4],^ a b c d e f http://www.milparade.com/Soderzhaniye.pdf,^ http://www.tbkarunia.com,v,t,e,List of acronyms,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z,Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_acronyms:_B&oldid=693551285",Categories: Lists of abbreviations,Navigation menu,Personal tools,Not logged inContributionsCreate accountLog in,Namespaces,,,,,,,View history,
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C,Carbon,Coulomb,One Hundred (in Roman numerals)
c,Centi
C2C,Consumer-To-Consumer electronic commerce,Cam-To-Cam internet chat
c2c,the British rail company formerly known as LTS Rail
Ca,Calcium
CA,California (postal symbol),Canada (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Catalonia,Civil Affairs,Close Armour,Cocaine Anonymous,Computer Associates,Counter-Air,Cricket Australia
ca,Catalan language (ISO 639-1 code)
CAA,Canadian Automobile Association,(NORAD) Center for Aerospace Analysis,(U.S.) Center for Army Analysis,(U.S.) Clean Air Act,(U.S. Army) Concepts Analysis Agency,Civil Aviation Authority,Colonial Athletic Association
CAAT,or Campaign Against Arms Trade,Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
CAC,California Association of Criminalists,Chronic Asymptomatic [Disease] Carrier,CACM Central American Common Market
CACM,Communications of the ACM
CAD,Canadian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code),Computer-Aided Design,Computer-Aided Dispatch,Cpplint Anxiety Disorder,Condition suffered by software developers who worry about whether they've left any whitespace on the end of a line
Canola,Canadian oil,low acid (referring to a specific cultivar of rapeseed bred to have a low erucic acid content)
CAPES,CAPability Evaluation System,Combined Arms Planning and Execution System
CARE,Citizens Association for Racial Equality (former New Zealand organisation),Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe,Cooperative for Aid and Relief Everywhere (originally Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe)
CARMONETTE,Computerized Monte Carlo Simulation
CARP,Computed Air Release Point
CART,Championship Auto Racing Teams (now defunct)
CAS,Chemical Abstracts Service,Chief of the Air Staff,Close Air Support
CCC,Canterbury Clothing Company,Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.,1930s and 1940s),Corpus Christi College,Oxford
CCCP,Central Committee of the Communist Party,Cyrillic for SSSR (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik,Russian Союз Советских Социалистических Республик,Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
CCD,Charge-Coupled Device,Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (Catechism)
CCF,Cartoon Cartoon Fridays
CCG,Canadian Coast Guard,Collectible Card Game
CCGC,Canadian Coast Guard Cutter,Canadian Coast Guard College
CCGH,Canadian Coast Guard Hovercraft
CCGS,Canadian Coast Guard Ship,Christ Church Grammar School
CCH,Computer-Controlled Hostile
CCIF,Comité consultatif international des communications téléphoniques à grande distance (French for International Telephone Consultative Committee,merged with the CCIT in 1956 to form the CCITT)
CCII,Command and Control Information Infrastructure,Community Capital Investment Initiative
CCIR,Comité consultatif international pour la radio (French for Consultative Committee on International Radio,became the ITU Radiocommunication Sector,ITU-R,in 1992),Commander's Critical Information Requirements
CCIT,Comité consultatif international télégraphique (French for International Telegraph Consultative Committee,merged with the CCIF in 1956 to form the CCITT)
CCITT,Comité consultatif international téléphonique et télégraphique (French for International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee,became the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector,ITU-T,in 1992)
CCK,Cholecystokinin,Cocos (Keeling) Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
CCM,Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd. (now split into two separate companies bearing the CCM name,one manufacturing bicycles and the other ice hockey equipment),Contemporary Christian music
CCOC,Canadian Children's Opera Chorus,Crosley Car Owners Club
CCOP,Coalition Common Operating/Operational Picture
CECOM,U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command
CEDEX,Courrier d'entreprise à distribution exceptionnelle (French,"Company Mail with Exceptional Distribution"; "exceptional" refers to the volume of mail)
CEGEP,Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel (French,"College of General and Vocational Education")
CEI,Competitive Enterprise Institute
CENTCOM,United States Central Command
CENTO,Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact)
CENZUB,Centre d'entraînement aux actions en zone urbaine (French,"Urban Operations Training Centre")
CEO,Chief Executive Officer
CEP,Circular Error Probable
CEPT,(a/i) Conférence européenne des administrations des postes et des télécommunications (French,"European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations")
CIB,Complete In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
CIBC,Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
CICS,Customer Information Control System (IBM mainframe software; "kicks" or "C-I-C-S")
CID,Certified Interior Designer,A Certified Interior Designer (CID) licensed in New York (USA) plans,designs,supervises and/or consults on various aspects of interior spaces.
CIEF,Comité international d'enregistrement des fréquences (International Frequency Registration Board)
CIF,Cost,Insurance,and Freight (Paid) (shipping)
CIMMYT,(a/i) Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz Y Trigo (Spanish,"International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center")
CINC,Commander in Chief
CINEOS,Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey
CIO,Chief information officer,Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIPE,(European) Centre for International Political Economy
CIR,(Commander's) Critical Information Requirements
CIR,Corotating Interaction Region
CIS,Canadian Interuniversity Sport,Commonwealth of Independent States,Command and Information System,Communication and Information System
CISA,(U.S.) C4I Integration Support Activity
CISB,Complete In Sealed Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
CISPR,Comité international spécial des perturbations radioélectriques (Special International Committee on Radio Interference)
CISSP,Certified Information Systems Security Professional
CITES,Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (of Wild Fauna and Flora) ("sigh-tease")
CIV,Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 trigram)
CIVETS,Colombia,Indonesia,Vietnam,Egypt,Turkey,South Africa (economics)
CIVPOP,Civilian Population
CIWS,Close-In Weapon System
CJ,Cayman Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code),Criminal Justice
CMR,Cameroon (ISO 3166 trigram),Coaxial Main Rotors (helicopter type)
CMS,Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,The Chicago Manual of Style
CMT,Country Music Television
CMU,Carnegie Mellon University,Central Michigan University,Concrete Masonry Unit
CMW,Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada,Canadian Manufacturing Week,Canadian Music Week,Catherine McAuley Westmead (school in New South Wales,Australia),Chicago,Missouri and Western (Railway),Compartmented Mode Workstation,Compton's Most Wanted,Continuous Microwave (processing technology),Custom Maintenance Wizard (Microsoft Office Resource Kit)
CMYK,Cyan Magenta Yellow Key/blacK (colour model)
CN,Canadian National (railway; also the AAR reporting mark for said company),China (ISO 3166 digram),Comoros (FIPS 10-4 country code)
CNA,Center for Naval Analyses,Certified Network Administrator,Computer Network Attack,Continental (Casualty Company),National (Fire Insurance Company),and American (Casualty Company),the three companies that merged to form what is now known as CNA Financial
CNBC,(a/i) Consumer News and Business Channel
CND,Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,Computer Network Defence
CNE,Canadian National Exhibition,Computer Network Exploitation,Certified Network Engineer
CNF,Cost and Freight
CNI,Clinical Nursing Intern
CNI,Communications,Navigation and Identification
CNN,Cable News Network,Cellular Nonlinear Network
CNV,Copy-Number Variable (genetics)
CNY,Chinese yuan renminbi (ISO 4217 currency code)
Co,Cobalt
co,Corsican language (ISO 639-1 code)
COB,Close Of Business [day]
COBRA,Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
COD,Cash On Delivery,Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram)
CoDA,Co-Dependents Anonymous
COGENT,Cognitive Objects within a Graphical EnviroNmenT
COIL,Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser
COK,Cook Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
COL,Colombia (ISO 3166 trigram)
COLA,Cost Of Living Adjustment
COM,Comoros (ISO 3166 trigram),Component Object Model
COMECON,Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (economic counterpart of the Warsaw Pact,1949-1991)
CONAD,U.S. Continental Air Defense Command
CONCACAF,Confederation Of North,Central American and Caribbean Association Football
CONMEBOL,Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol or Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol (respectively Spanish and Portuguese for "South American Football Confederation")
CONUS,Continental United States
COO,Chief Operating Officer
COP,Colombian peso (ISO 4217 currency code),Common Operating/Operational Picture
COPE,U.K. Committee On Publication Ethics
COPUS,U.K. Committee on the Public Understanding of Science
cor,Cornish language (ISO 639-2 code)
CORD,Common Operational Requirements Document
CORE,Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
COROT,COnvection,ROtation and planetary Transits
COS,Cooper Ornithological Society
cos,Corsican language (ISO 639-2 code),Cosine
COSER,COoperative SERvice
CoT,Car of Tomorrow (former NASCAR race car design)
CRC,Central RTI Component,Chemical Rubber Company,Christian Reformed Church,Control and Reporting Centre,Cyclic Redundancy Check,Costa Rican colón (ISO 4217 currency code),Costa Rica (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
CRD,Capstone Requirements Document
cre,Cree language (ISO 639-2 code)
CREB,Cyclic AMP-response Element Binding (protein)
CREEP,Committee for the Re-Election of the President,a pejorative nickname used by opponents
CREN,Christian Real Estate Network Real Estate Association
CRI,China Radio International,Costa Rica (ISO 3166 trigram)
CRO,Croatia (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
CRP,Committee for the Re-Election of the President,Control and Reporting Post
CRT,Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy,Cathode Ray Tube,Chinese Remainder Theorem
CRTC,Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Cs,Caesium
cs,Czech language (ISO 639-1 code)
CSA,Canadian Soccer Association,Canadian Space Agency,Canadian Standards Association,Child Support Agency,Command Staff Advisor,Community-supported agriculture,Confederate States of America,Corps Storage Area,Czech Airlines,C/S/A,CINC,Service,and Agency
CSC,Closed Spacelike Curve (relativity),Compact system camera,Computer Sciences Corporation,Computer Security Centre,CSCC Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists
CSERIAC,(U.S. DoD) Crew Systems Ergonomics Information Analysis Center
CSG,Corps Support Group
CSI,see entry
CSICOP,Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (became the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2006)
CSIP,Commercial Stable Image Platform (AMD)
CSIS,Canadian Security Intelligence Service ("seessiss"),(U.S.) Center for Strategic & International Studies
CSK,Czechoslovakia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1993)
CSL,U.K. Central Science Laboratory
CSPI,Center for Science in the Public Interest
CSR,Control Supply Rate
CSR,Corporate Social Responsibility [1]
CSRC,Conflict Studies Research Centre
CSRF,Cross-Site Request Forgery
CST,Central Standard Time (UTC−6 hours)
CT,Computed tomography (medical scan also known as a CAT scan),Central Time zone,Chrono Trigger (Computer/Video games),Connecticut (postal symbol),Canterbury (postal symbol),Chhattisgarh (Indian state code)
CTA,Central African Republic (FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166 or IOC),Chicago Transit Authority,Comando-Geral de Tecnologia Aerospacial (Portuguese,[Brazilian] "General Command for Aerospace Technology")
CTBT,Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty
CTDB,Compact Terrain Data Base (file format)
CTE,Canton and Enderbury Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984),Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
CTS,Clear-To-Send,Collective Training Standards,Communications Technology Service,Contract Technical Services,Conversation Time Sharing,COSMIC Top Secret
CTSS,Compatible Time-Sharing System
CTU,Counter Terrorist Unit (fictional branch of the Central Intelligence Agency in the television action series 24)
CTVT,Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour
CU,Carrie Underwood,Cuba (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
Cu,Copper (Latin Cuprum)
cu,Old Church Slavonic language (ISO 639-1 code)
CUB,Cuba (ISO 3166 trigram)
CUCV,Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle
CUNY,City University of New York ("CUE-knee")
CUP,Cuban peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
CUPE,Canadian Union of Public Employees ("CUE-pee")
CUPS,Common Unix Printing System
CUPW,Canadian Union of Postal Workers
CUREA,Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy
CuW,Copper-tungsten pseudo-alloy (from the chemical symbols of the two component elements)
CX,"Christmas Island (ISO 3166 digram),or: One Hundred and Ten (in Roman numerals)"
CXR,Christmas Island (ISO 3166 trigram)
CY,"Calendar year, or: Cyprus (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)"
cy,Welsh language (ISO 639-1 code)
CYM,Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
cym,Welsh language (ISO 639-2 code)
CYP,Cyprus (ISO 3166 trigram),Cyprus pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
CZE,Czech Republic (ISO 3166 trigram)
CZF,(Christian Zombie Fan)
CZK,Czech koruna (ISO 4217 currency code)
CZMA,(US) Coastal Zone Management Act
d,Deci
D,Deuterium
da,Danish language (ISO 639-1 code),deca
DA,Denmark (FIPS 10-4 country code),Debtors Anonymous,U.S. Department of the Army,District Attorney
DADVSI,Loi sur le droit d’auteur et les droits voisins dans la société de l’information (French,"Law on copyrights and related rights in the information society")
DAES,Defence Acquisition Executive Summary,(UK MoD) Directorate of Analysis,Experimentation and Simulation
DAF,Dissolved Air Flotation,a technique used in water treatment
DAFIF,Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File
DDP,Danish Design Prize,Deutsche Demokratische Partei (German,"German Democratic Party",former political party in Weimar Germany),Diamond Dallas Page (American professional wrestler)
DDR,Dance Dance Revolution,Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German,"German Democratic Republic" (GDR),East Germany),Double Data Rate,East Germany (ISO 3166 trigram,obsolete since 1990),DDR&E,(U.S.) Defense Department Research and Engineering
DE,Delaware (postal symbol),Germany (ISO 3166 digram)
de,German language (ISO 639-1 code)
DEA,Drug Enforcement Administration
DEA,Drug Enforcement Agency
DEC,(a/i) Department of Environmental Conservation,Digital Equipment Corporation,Disasters Emergency Committee
DeCA,(U.S.) Defense Commissary Agency
DEFCON,Defence readiness condition
DEFRA,(UK) Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs
DELT,Dual Ended Line Test (ing)
DEM,Data Exchange Mechanism,Digital Elevation Model
DEN,Denmark (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
DEPSECDEF,(U.S.) Deputy Secretary of Defense
DERA,British Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (1995-2001)
DES,Deep Ecliptic Survey
deu,German language (ISO 639-2 code)
DEU,Germany (ISO 3166 trigram)
DF,Direct Fire,Direction Finding,Distrito Federal (Spanish and Portuguese for "federal district")
DFAD,Digital Feature Analysis Data ("dee-fad")
DFAS,(U.S.) Defense Finance and Accounting Service
DFB,Deutscher Fußball-Bund (German for "German Football Association")
DFCB,Data Format Control Book
DfID,UK Department for International Development
DFL,Democratic-Farmer-Labor (the full designation of the Minnesota affiliate of the U.S. Democratic Party),Deutsche Fußball Liga (German for "German Football League"),the operator of the top two leagues of German football
DFM,Discrete Field Model see Superluminal motion
DFM,Dynamic Flowgraph Methodology
DFSP,Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
DfT,UK Department for Transport
DFTBA,Don't Forget To Be Awesome,a term commonly used by the Vlogbrothers
DG,Dei gratia (Latin,"by the grace of God"),Director-General,Data General
DGA,Direction générale des armées (French "Armed Forces General Directorate")
DGPS,Differential GPS
DGZ,Desired Ground Zero
DH,dear husband (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists,blogs,and bulletin boards),Designated hitter
DHA,DocosaHexaenoic Acid
DHHS,(U.S.) Department of Health and Human Services
DHL,Dalsey,Hillblom,and Lynn (courier service)
DHRA,(U.S.) DoD Human Resources Activity
DHS,U.S. Department of Homeland Security
DHSS,UK Department of Health and Social Security
DHTFYSS,U.S. Don't Have Time For You Silly S****
DHY,Dahomey (ISO 3166 trigram; became BEN for Benin in 1977)
DIA,U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
DIAC,Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia) [1]
DiC,Design Island Centre (computing usually used in a teaching situation)
DICASS,DIrectional Command Activated Sonobuoy System
DIFAR,DIrectional Frequency Analysis and Recording
DIME,Dense Inert Metal Explosive
DIN,Deutsches Institut für Normung (German,"German Institute for Standardization"),Drug Identification Number (Canadian drug marketing requirement)
DINA-(p/a) Diesel Nacional (Spanish,"National Diesel"—Mexican bus and truck manufacturer now known as DINA),Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (Spanish,"National Intelligence Directorate"—former secret police of Chile)
DINKY,Double Income,No Kids Yet
DIP,Dual In-line Package (electronics)
DIPS,Defense independent pitching statistics
DIR,Defence Industrial Research
DIS,Defence Intelligence Staff,(U.S.) Defense Investigative Service,Distributed Interactive Simulation,Draft International Standard (ISO)
DISA,U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency,Distinguished Individual Service Award
DISCOM,Division Support Command
DISE,Deployable Intelligence Support Element
DISSTAF,DIS Search and Target Acquisition Fidelity experiment
DITY,Do-It-Yourself
div,Dhivehi language (ISO 639-2 code)
DIVAD,Division Air Defence
DIY,Do It Yourself
DJ,Disc Jockey,Dinner Jacket,Djibouti (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
DJD,Degenerative Joint Disease,Dublin Julian Day,Discoveries in the Judaean Desert
DJF,Djibouti franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
DJI,Djibouti (ISO 3166 trigram)
DJS,Director,Joint Staff
DK,Denmark (ISO 3166 digram)
DKK,Danish krone (ISO 4217 currency code)
DL,Dexter's Laboratory
DLA,U.S. Defense Logistics Agency,Dental Laboratories Association
DLIC,Detachment Left-In-Contact
DLIR,Depot-Level Inspection and Repair
DLPMC,DorsoLateral PreMotor Cortex
DLR,Deutsches Zentrum für Luft,und Raumfahrt (German,German Aerospace Centre),Docklands Light Railway
DLRP,Data Link Reference Point
DLS,Deep Lens Survey
DLSA,(U.S.) Defense Legal Services Agency
DLSc,Diploma in Library Science
DLSC,U.S. Defense Logistics Services Center,U.S. Defense Logistics Support Command,Department of Library Special Collections (Western Kentucky University Libraries),Direct Loan Servicing Center,Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts (Canada),Dominican Lay Scholars Community
DLTBGYD,Don't let the bastards grind you down
DM,Dominica (ISO 3166 digram),Dungeon Master (role-playing games)
DMA,Designated market area (primarily a U.S. term),U.S. Defense Mapping Agency (became NIMA,then NGA),Direct Memory Access (computing),Dominica (ISO 3166 trigram)
DMC,(U.S.) Defense Management Council
DMCA,Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DMD,dentariae medicinae doctor (Latin,"doctor of dental medicine"),Digital Micromirror Device,Digital Multilayer Disk
DRMS,(U.S.) Defense Revitalization and Marketing Service
DRPR,Drawing Practices
DRT,Document Related Technologies
Ds,Darmstadtium
DS,Dear son (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists,blogs,and bulletin boards),Defence Scientist,Direct Support,Dust Storm (METAR Code)
DSA,(U.S.) Defense Support Activities,Division Support Area
DSAA,(U.S.) Defense Security Assistance Agency,Driving Schools Association of the Americas,DECT Standard Authentication Algorithm
DSAS,Disney Sing Along Songs
DSB,(U.S.) Defense Science Board
DSC,Differential Scanning Calorimeter,Digital Selective Calling,Digital Still Camera,Distinguished Service Cross,Doctor of Surgical Chiropody (obsolete),Document structure convention (PostScript programming),Dynamic Stability Control
DSCS,U.S. Defense Satellite Communications System
DSCSOC,DSCS Operations Center
DSD,Defence Studies Department (King's College,London)
DSDS,Deutschland sucht den Superstar (German,"Germany Seeks the Superstar"),the German version of the Idol series
DSE,Dry Sheep Equivalent
DSG,Direct-Shift Gearbox
DSID,Dismounted Soldier Identification System
DSL,Digital Subscriber Line
DSLR,Digital single-lens reflex (camera)
DSM,Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
DSN,Deep Space Network
dsp,decessit sine prole (Latin,"died without issue"),genealogy short-hand
DSP,Defense Standardization Program,Defense Support Program,
dspl,decessit sine prole legitima (Latin,"died without legitimate issue")
DSPL,Design Specialists and Plans Language
dspm,decessit sine prole mascula [superstite] (Latin,"died without surviving male issue" )
dspml,decessit sine prole mascula legitima (Latin,"died without legitimate male issue")
dspms,decessit sine prole mascula superstite (Latin,"died without surviving male issue")
dsps,Decessit sine prole superstite (Latin,"died without surviving issue")
DTM,Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (German,"German Touring Car Masters",a current motor racing series),Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (German,"German Touring Car Championship",a defunct motor racing series)
DTMF,Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling
DTO,Disruptive Technology Office (was ARDA)
DTOMLS,Doctrine,Training,Organization,Materiel,Leader and Soldier development (mnemonic)
DUI,Data Use Identifier,Data Use Institute,Davis Unified Ignition,Diving Unlimited International,Documento Único de Identidad,Documento Unico de Importación,Driving Under the Influence,Duke University Improv
DUMBO,Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (Brooklyn neighborhood)
DUSD,(U.S.) Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense
DV,Daily Value (FDA food guide),Deo volente (Latin,"God willing")
dv,Dhivehi language (ISO 639-1 code)
DVLC,UK Driver and Vehicle Licencing Centre
dvm,decessit vita matris (Latin,"died in the lifetime of the mother")
DVM,Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
DVO,Direct View Optics
DVOM,Digital Volt-Ohm Meter
dvp,decessit vita patris (Latin,"died in the lifetime of the father")
DVP,various meanings (disambiguation page)
dvu,decessit vita uxoris (Latin,"died in the lifetime of spouse")
DW,Drum Workshop
DWI,Dance With Intensity,Danish West Indies,Diffusion-weighted imaging,Direct water injection,Disaster Welfare Inquiry,Drinking Water Inspectorate,Driving While Intoxicated/Impaired
DWIM,Do What I Mean
DWM,Doctor Who Magazine
DWTS,Dancing with the Stars
DWW,Down with Webster
DX,Dexterity (role-playing games),DeXtrorphan,Distant (radio),D-Generation X (professional wrestling stable)
DXA,Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry
DXM,DeXtroMethorphan
DY,Dahomey (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1977)
Dy,Dysprosium
DZ,Algeria (ISO 3166 digram),Drizzle (METAR Code),Drop Zone
EDD,Earliest due date,Electron-detachment dissociation,Elena Delle Donne (American basketball player),Employment Development Department (California state agency),End-diastolic dimension,Expected Date of Delivery (pregnancy)
EDGAR,Electronic Data Gathering,Analysis,and Retrieval (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings database)
EDH,Eastman Dental Hospital
EDS,Electronic Data Systems,Electronic Differential System
EDSA,Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (a major thoroughfare in Manila with great significance to post-1980 Philippines history)
EHA,Education for All Handicapped Children Act (U.S. federal legislation; since superseded by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act),Emotional Health Anonymous
EHF,Extremely High Frequency
EHR,Equipment History Record
Ei,Exbi
EI,Ireland (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Éire)
EIA,Environmental Impact Assessment
EIAH,Encyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History
EIAH,Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain
EIC,East India Company
EICS,East India Company's Service
eID,electronic ID
EIRP,Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
EIS,Environmental Impact Statement
EJ,Exajoule
EK,Equatorial Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code),Exakelvin
EKG,Electrocardiogram (from German Elektrokardiogramm)
EKMS,Electronic Key Management System
EL,Exalitre
el,Greek language (ISO 639-1 code)
ELF-(a/i) Earth Liberation Front,Endangered Language Fund,Eritrean Liberation Front,Executable and Linkable Format,Extremely Low Frequency
ELINT,Electronic Intelligence
ELL,English Language Learner
ell,Greek language (ISO 639-2 code)
ELM,Edge-Localised Mode (plasma physics)
ELO,Electric Light Orchestra
ELP,Emerson,Lake & Palmer,European Left Party
ELSS,Emergency Life Support Stores
ELT,Emergency Locator Transmitter
EM,ElectroMagnetism/ElectroMagnetic
Em,Exametre
EMA,European Medicines Agency
Embraer,Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica (Portuguese,"Brazilian Aeronautics Company")
EMU,Electric Multiple Unit,a method of connecting self-propelled railway vehicles together to form a train under the control of one driver.
EN,Corps of Engineers,Estonia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Exanewton
en,English language (ISO 639-1 code)
ENCODE,Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (human genome data project)
ENE,East North-East
ENG,England (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram)
eng,English language (ISO 639-2 code)
ENSATT,École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques de théâtre (French,"Higher National School of Theatrical Arts and Techniques")
ENT,Ear,Nose and Throat
ENTEC,Euro NATO Training Engineer Centre
ENVL,Envelope
ENY,Enemy
EO,Electro-Optics,Engagement Operations
eo,Esperanto language (ISO 639-1 code)
EOD,Explosive Ordnance Disposal
EOG,ElectroOculoGraphy
EOM,End of Message
EOS,Earth Observation Satellite,(a/i) Electro-Optical System,Canon's autofocusing system for film and digital SLR cameras,Electrophoresis Operations in Space,a space manufacturing project of the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company
EOSAT,Earth Observation Satellite
EOSDIS,(a/i) Earth Observation Satellite Data and Information System
EOTS,Electro-Optical Tactical Sensor,(a/i) Eye Of The Storm (World of Warcraft)
EPCOT,Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow
EPCR,Endothelial protein C receptor,European Professional Club Rugby
EPFL,École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (French,"Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology")
EPGS,EOS Polar Ground Sites
EPIRB,(a/i) Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon
EPL,English Premier League
EPLRS,Enhanced Position Location Reporting System ("ee-plarz")
EPO,Ellinikí Podosferikí Omospondía (Greek Ελληνική Ποδοσφαιρική Ομοσπονδία,translated as "Hellenic Football Federation"),European Patent Organisation or its main organ,the European Patent Office,Erythropoietin
epo,Esperanto language (ISO 639-2 code)
EPOS,Electronic Point Of Sale
EPPA,Employee Polygraph Protection Act
EPR,European Pressurised [Nuclear] Reactor
EPW,Earth Penetrator Weapon/Warhead,Economic and Political Weekly (Indian publication),Enemy Prisoner of War,EQ[edit]
EQ,Emotional Quotient
EQG,Equatorial Guinea (FIFA trigram,but not IOC or ISO 3166)
ER,Emergency Room,Eritrea (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
Er,Erbium
ERA,Earned run average,Engineering Research Associates,Equal Rights Amendment,English Racing Automobiles,European Railway Agency
ERCIM,(a/i) European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
ERI,Eritrea (ISO 3166 trigram)
ERLAWS,Eastern Ruapehu Lahar Alarm and Warning System
FARC,Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Spanish,"Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia")
FARP,Forward Arming and Refuelling Point / Forward Area Rearm/refuel Point
FAS,Federation of American Scientists,Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
fas,Persian language (ISO 639-2 code)
FASCAM,Family of Scatterable Mines[1]
FASD,Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
FASEB,(a/i) Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
FAT,Field Artillery Tractor
FAVS,Future Armoured Vehicle System
FAW,Football Association of Wales
FB,Facebook,An on-line social network
FBCS,Fellow of the British Computer Society
FBIDST,Fellow of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists
FBIS,Foreign Broadcast Information Service
FBM,Board foot
FBR,Fast Breeder Reactor,Foundation for Biomedical Research,Friedman,Billings,Ramsey (now known as Arlington Asset Investment)
FBS-Federal Bureau of Statistics (Pakistan),Fetal bovine serum,Football Bowl Subdivision (U.S. college football),Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation,FC[edit]
FCM,Federation of Canadian Municipalities,Fogarty's Cove Music
FCO,UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
FCW,Florida Championship Wrestling
FD,Falun Dafa
FDA,Food and Drug Administration (U.S.)
FDBK,(I) Feedback
FDC,Federal Detention Center (U.S.),Fire Direction Centre
FDR,Flight Data Recorder,Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FE,Fully Exposed (armoured vehicle target,as opposed to Hull-Down)
Fe,Iron (Latin Ferrum)
FEAR,First Encounter Assault Recon,False Evidence Appears Real
FEAST,(a/i) Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation
FEATS,Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies link title
FEB,Federación Española de Baloncesto (Spanish,"Spanish Basketball Federation"),Federatie Eredivisie Basketball (Dutch,"Federation Honorary Division (of) Basketball"),the former name of the basketball competition now known in Dutch by the English-language Dutch Basketball League,Força Expedicionária Brasileira (Portuguese,"Brazilian Expeditionary Force")
FEBA,Forward Edge of the Battle Area
FED,(a/i) Field emission display
FEDEP,Federation Development Process (Simulation)
FEF,Frontal Eye Field (neurophysiology)
FEI,Fédération équestre internationale (French,"International Federation for Equestrian Sports")
FEMA-(a/i) Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association,(a/i) U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency,Fire Equipment Manufacturers' Association
FEMEXFUT,Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación (Spanish,"Mexican Association Football Federation")
FENAFUTH,Federación Nacional Autónoma de Fútbol de Honduras (Spanish,"National Autonomous Football Federation of Honduras")
FENS,(a/i) Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
FEP,Firepower Enhancement Program,Fleet satellite (FLTSAT) Extremely high frequency (EHF) Package
FEPAFUT,Federación Panameña de Fútbol (Spanish,"Panamanian Football Federation")
FES,Flywheel Energy Storage
FEST,Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre link title
FET,Field-effect transistor
FEZ,(a/i) Fighter Engagement Zone
fF,Femtofarad
FF,Final Fantasy
ff,Fula language (ISO 639-1 code)
FFA,Football Federation Australia,Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency,Free-Fire Area,Fusiform Face Area,Future Farmers of America (today the National FFA Organization)
FFB,Frum From Birth (referring to an observant Jew born into a religiously observant family)
FFC,Free For Chat
FFE,Fukuoka Futures Exchange
FFF,Fédération française de football (French,"French Football Federation")
FIBA,originally Fédération internationale de basket-ball amateur (French,"International Amateur Basketball Federation"); since 1989, Fédération internationale de basket-ball
FIBUA,Fighting In Built-Up Areas
FIC,Fellowship for Intentional Community
FID,Foreign Internal Defence
FIE,Fly-In Echelon
FIFA,Fédération internationale de football association (French,"International Association Football Federation")
FIFe,Fédération internationale féline (French,"International Feline Federation")
FIG,Fédération internationale des géomètres (French,"International Federation of Surveyors"),Fédération internationale de gymnastique (French,"International Federation of Gymnastics"),Feminist Improvising Group (music ensemble)
FIGJAM,Fuck I'm Good,Just Ask Me
fij,Fijian language (ISO 639-2 code)
FILA,Fédération internationale des luttes associées (French,"International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles"),former name of the sport governing body now known as United World Wrestling
FIMPT,Fellow of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
FIN,Finland (ISO 3166 trigram)
fin,Finnish language (ISO 639-2 code)
FINA,(p/a) Fédération internationale de natation (French,"International Swimming Federation")
FIR,Final Inspection Report,Federazione Italiana Rugby (Italian,"Italian Rugby (Union) Federation")
FIRES,Fever Induced Refractory Epilepsy Syndrome or Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome
FIS,(a/i) Fédération internationale de ski (French "International Ski Federation")
FISA,Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (French,"International Federation of Rowing Associations")
FISH,Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridisation
FiST,Fire Support Team
FITS,Flexible Image Transport System
FIU,Florida International University
fJ,Femtojoule
FJ,Fiji (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
fj,Fijian language (ISO 639-1 code)
FJD,Fiji dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
FJI,Fiji (ISO 3166 trigram)
FJN,Financial Job Network
FK,Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
fK,Femtokelvin
FKP,Falkland Islands pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
FKSM,Fort Knox Supplemental Manual
FKT,Fastest Known Time
fL,Femtolitre
FL,Florida (postal symbol)
fl,floruit (Latin,"living") (genealogy)
FLA,Florida,Front Line Assembly,Future Large Aircraft
FLAB,Four-letter abbreviation
FLAC,(a/i) Free Legal Advice Centres
FLAC,(a/i) Free Lossless Audio Codec
FLAK,FLugAbwehrKanone (German for "Anti-Aircraft Guns")
FLB,Forward Logistics Base
FLET,(a/i) Forward Line of Enemy Troops
FLG,Falun Gong
FLIP,Flight Information Publication
FLIR,Forward Looking InfraRed (sensor)
FLK,Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
FLOT,(a/i) Forward Line of Own Troops
FLQ,Free Legal Questions
FLQ,Front de libération du Québec (French for "Québec Liberation Front")
FLSA,Fair Labor Standards Act
FLTSAT,Fleet Satellite
FLTSATCOM,Fleet Satellite Communication System
FLUBOS,Fat,Lazy,Useless,Bag Of Shit
FM,Factory Mutual http://fmglobal.com
FM,Federal Magistrate (Australian post-nominal),Federated States of Micronesia (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code),Field Manual,Flight Manager,Frequency Modulation (electronics)
fm,Femtometre
Fm,Fermium
FMC,Federal Magistrates' Court (an Australian federal court,formerly FMS),Food Machinery Corporation (original name of the company now known as FMC Corporation)
FMCA,Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia (used for citing decisions of the FMC other than family law decisions)
FMCAfam,Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia: family (used for citing family law decisions of the FMC)
FMCG,(Fast Moving Consumer Goods)
FME,Formal Methods Europe
FMECA,Failure Modes and Effect Criticality Analysis
FMJD,Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames[2]
FMLA,Family Medical Leave Act
Fmr,Former (As in "Fmr. president")
fMRI,Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
FMSF,False Memory Syndrome Foundation
FMTV,Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles
fN,Femtonewton
FNA,Functional Needs Analysis
fo,Faroese language (ISO 639-1 code)
FOAD,Fuck Off And Die
FOAF,Friend Of A friend
FOB,Forward Operating Base
FoB,Free On Board (shipping)
FOC,Full Operational Capability,First of Class
FoE,Friends of the Earth
FOGC,Federal Oil and Gas Council
FOH,Front Of House
FOIA,Freedom of Information Act
FOM,Federation Object Model
FONSI,Finding of No Significant Impact
FOO,Forward Observation Officer
FOOP,Friends Of Organ Pipes (Volunteer group)
FOR,Field Of Regard,Frame Of Reference
FoS,Family of Systems
FOS,Florida Ornithological Society,Full Operational Status
FOSE,Fallout 3 Script Extender
FOSE,Federal Office Systems Expo
FOT,Free on truck
FOTA,Fellow of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
FOTC,Flight of the Conchords
FOUO,For Official Use Only
FP,French Polynesia (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
FPF,Federação Portuguesa de Futebol ("Portuguese Football Federation" in that language),Final Protective Fire
FPS,Fire Prevention System
FQ,Baker Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),French Southern and Antarctic Territories (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1979)
FR,France (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
Fr,Francium
fr,French language (ISO 639-1 code)
FRA,Federal Railroad Administration,France (ISO 3166 trigram)
fra,French language (ISO 639-2 code)
FRAND,Fair,reasonable,and non-discriminatory (concept in standards-setting and intellectual property law)
FRCP,Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
FRICBM,Full Range ICBM
FRO,Faroe Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
FRR,Falls Road Railroad (reporting mark),Federaţia Română de Radioamatorism (Romanian,"Romanian Amateur Radio Federation"),Fix,Rebuild,Replace,Federaţia Română de Rugby (Romanian,"Romanian Rugby (Union) Federation")
frr,North Frisian language (ISO 639-2 code)
FRS,Fellow of the Royal Society,U.S. Federal Reserve System
FRSA,Fellow of the Royal Society of Art
FRY,Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
fry,West Frisian language (ISO 639-2 code)
fs,Femtosecond
fS,Femtosiemens
FSA,Fire Support Area,UK Food Standards Agency,Functional Solution Analysis
FSB,Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoi Federatsii (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции,Russian "Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation",succeeded the FSK in 1995),Forward Support Battalion
FSC,Federal Supply Classification,Forest Stewardship Council (ecological pressure group
FSCL,Fire Support Co-ordination Line
FSE,Fire Support Element
FSF,Free Software Foundation
FSH,Follicle Stimulating Hormone
FSI,Fuel Stratified Injection
FSK,Federal'naya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki (Федера́льная Слу́жба Контрразве́дки,Russian "Federal Counterintelligence Service",succeeded the KGB in 1991)
FSM,Federated States of Micronesia (ISO 3166 trigram),Flying Spaghetti Monster (satirical religion)
FSO,Fire Support Officer,Flotilla Staff Officer,Foreign Service Officer
FSS,Fire Support Station
FSSP,Families of Structurally Similar Proteins
FST,Finance Support Team,Finlands Svenska Television (Finland's Swedish-language television),Future Soviet Tank (Cold War era)
FSTC,Foreign Science Technology Center (now NGIC)
FSV,Fire Support Vehicle,Fisheries Survey Vessel,Flexible Sender Validation,Fort St. Vrain,Fußball und Sportverein (German "Football and Sport Association",as in FSV Mainz),FT[edit]
fT,Femtotesla
FTC,Federal Trade Commission
FTE,Full Time Equivalent
FTL,Faster Than Light
FTS,Flight Termination System used during some rocket launches
FTS,Fuck That Shit
FTSE,(a/i) Financial Times Stock Exchange ("footsie")
FTW,For The Win (a commonly used phrase used online to indicate success) F@#K The World,Forever Together Where ever (gang slogan)
FU,Smoke (METAR Code)
FUBAR,Fucked/Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair
FUCK,For,Unlawful,Carnal,Knowledge (Van Halen album title)
FUD,Fear,Uncertainty & Doubt (marketing strategy)
ful,Fula language (ISO 639-2 code)
fV,Femtovolt
fW,Femtowatt
FW,Forward
FWC,Football World Cup
FWF,Fixed Word Format
FWI,French West Indies
FWIW,For What It's Worth
FWS,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
FWT,Fresh Water Tank
FX,Firefox,Fox Extended,Metropolitan France (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1997),Special effect
FXX,Metropolitan France (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1997)
FY,Fiscal Year,Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (NATO country code)
fy,West Frisian language (ISO 639-1 code)
FYA,For Your Agenda
FYDP,Five-Year Defense Plan (U.S.)
FYI,For Your Information
FYROM,Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
FZDZ,Freezing Drizzle (METAR Code)
FZFG,Freezing Fog (METAR Code)
FZRA,Freezing Rain (METAR Code)
G,Gauss,General Audiences (movie rating)
g,Gram
G1,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Personnel
G10,Group of 10 (G7 + Belgium,Netherlands,Sweden,Switzerland; numbering 11 in fact)
G15,Group of 15 (subset of G77,formed 1989: Algeria,Argentina,Brazil,Chile,Egypt,India,Indonesia,Jamaica,Kenya,Nigeria,Malaysia,Mexico,Peru,Senegal,Sri Lanka,Venezuela and Zimbabwe; currently numbers 17)
G2,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Intelligence
G20,Group of 20 (G8 + Argentina,Australia,Brazil,China,India,Indonesia,Mexico,Saudi Arabia,South Africa,South Korea,Turkey + current European Union presiding country) (1999)
G24,Group of 24 (subset of G77,formed 1971: Algeria,Argentina,Brazil,Colombia,Côte d'Ivoire,Democratic Republic of the Congo,Egypt,Ethiopia,Gabon,Ghana,Guatemala,India,Iran,Lebanon,Mexico,Nigeria,Pakistan,Peru,Philippines,South Africa,Syria,Sri Lanka,Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela)
GDR,General Distribution Release (Microsoft Term for a software service release; between Hotfix and Service Pack)
GDR,German Democratic Republic (cf. DDR)
GDW,Game Designers Workshop
GE,General Electric,Genetic Engineering (cf. GM),Georgia (ISO 3166 digram)
Ge,Germanium
GEBCO,General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
GEC,Great Engineering Challenge
GED,General Educational Development (high school equivalency credential in the U.S. and Canada)
GEEP,Geophysical Equipment Exploration Platform
GEL,Georgian lari (ISO 4217 currency code),Gilbert and Ellice Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1977)
GEMA,Gas and Electricity Markets Authority,Georgia Emergency Management Agency,Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs,und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (German performance rights organisation),Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance
GEN,Full General (four stars) in the U.S. Army
GEO,Geostationary Earth Orbit,Georgia (ISO 3166 trigram)
GEQ,Equatorial Guinea (IOC trigram,but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
GER,Germany (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
Gestapo,GEheime STAatsPOlizei (German "secret state police")
GeV,Gigaelectron-volt
GEV,Ground Effect Vehicle
GF,French Guiana (ISO 3166 digram),Gigafarad
GFCF,Gluten-free,casein-free diet,Gross fixed capital formation
GFCI,Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor (aka GFI)
GFE,Girlfriend experience (used in escort services),Good Faith Estimate,Government Furnished Equipment
GFI,Ground Fault Interruptor (aka GFCI)
GFL,German Football League (Germany's Bundesliga for American football; the English-language name is used in German without translation)
GFN,Global Footprint Network
GFY,"good for you" or "go fuck yourself",depending on the context (Internet chat)
GG,Georgia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
GGK,Good God Karma
GGP,General Game Playing,General Growth Properties (U.S. shopping center owner),GH[edit]
GH,Ghana (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code),Gigahenry
GHA,Ghana (ISO 3166 trigram)
GHB,gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
GHC,Ghanan cedi (ISO 4217 currency code)
GI,Galvanised Iron,Gastro-Intestinal,General Issue,Gibraltar (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code),Government Issue
Gi,Gibi
GIB,Gibraltar (ISO 3166 trigram)
GIG,Global Information Grid
GIN,Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram),Guidelines International Network
GINK,Going Insane Not Knowing,orig. Colorado 2010 M.Kalfas
GINO,Godzilla In Name Only
GIP,Gibraltar pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
GISS,(a/i) General Impression of Size and Shape,Goddard Institute for Space Studies
GJ,Gigajoule,Grenada (FIPS 10-4 country code),Gujarat (Indian state code)
GJD,Geocentric Julian Day
GK,Gigakelvin,Guernsey (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
gl,Galician language (ISO 639-1 code)
GL,Gigalitre,Graphics Language,Greenland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code),Grenade Launcher
gla,Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-2 code)
GLAAD,Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
GLAC,General Ledger Accounting Code
GLAST,Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
GLBA,Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
GLC,Gas-liquid chromatography
gle,Irish language (ISO 639-2 code)
glg,Galician language (ISO 639-2 code)
GLINT,Gallium-arsenide Laser Illuminator for Night TV,Gated Laser Illuminator for Narrow Television,Gated Laser Intensifier (tape),Gospel Literature International,Graphical Linux Installation Tool
GM,"The Gambia (ISO 3166 digram),GameMaster (role-playing),General Motors,Genetically Modified,Germany (FIPS 10-4 country code),Guru Meditation (computing)"
GMAC,"General Motors Acceptance Corporation,the original name of the company now known as Ally Financial,Graduate Management Admission Council,G-MAC,Great Midwest Athletic Conference"
GMB,"The Gambia (ISO 3166 trigram),General,Municipal,Boilermakers (and Allied Trade Union)"
GQ,"Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 digram),Gentlemen's Quarterly (the original name of the magazine now known simply as GQ),Guam (FIPS 10-4 territory code),GR[edit]"
GR,"Greece (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Hail (METAR Code)"
GRU,Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje Upravlenije/Главное Разведывательное Управление (Russian,"Main Intelligence Directorate" [of the former Soviet and now Russian armed forces])
GS,General Schedule (US civil service pay scale),General Support,Gigasiemens,South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
Gs,Gigasecond
GSA,U.S. General Services Administration
GSD,Graphical Situation Display
GSG,German Sport Guns,Global Scenario Group (former environmental research organization),Grenzschutzgruppe (German,"Border Guard Group" — Germany's GSG 9 counterterrorist unit was originally a special branch of the border police)
GSGB,(God send glamour boy 9-10/10)
GSK,GlaxoSmithKline [good sexual karma]
GSM,General Service Medal,Grams per Square Metre (paper thickness; properly g/m2),Ground Station Module,Groupe spécial mobile (French,"Special Mobile Group"; official expansion is now Global System for Mobile Communications)
GSN,(a/i) Game Show Network
GSO,General Services Officer (U.S. Department of State)
GSOH,Good Sense Of Humour
GSP,Georges St-Pierre (Canadian MMA fighter)
GSR,Gun Shot Residue
GSS,Generic Security Services
GST,Goods and Services Tax (Australia,Canada,and other countries)
GSW,Gunshot wound
GT,Gigatesla,Gran Turismo,Grand Touring,Guatemala (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
GTB,Get to bed,namely to get a new job after a long time of searching,usually following a phone call
GTC,Gran Telescopio Canarias (Spanish,Canaries Great Telescope)
GTD,Getting Things Done
GTG,Got To Go (Internet chat)
GTGN,Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
GTK,Good To Know (Internet chat)
GTM,Guatemala (ISO 3166 trigram)
GTQ,Guatemalan quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)
GTV,Gross Tumor Volume quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)
GU,Guam (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
gu,Gujarati language (ISO 639-1 code)
GUA,Guatemala (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
GUF,French Guiana (ISO 3166 trigram)
GUI,Graphical user interface ("goo-ey")
GUILT,Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin
guj,Gujarati language (ISO 639-2 code)
Gulag,Glavnoye Upravleniye ispravitelno-trudovykh LAGerei i kolonii (Russian Главное Управление Исправительно—Трудовых Лагерей и колоний,"Main Directorate of Corrective Labour Camps")
GULCR,Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica
GUM,Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin (Russian Главный Универсальный Магазин,"Main Department Store"; known in Soviet times as Gosudarstvennyi Universalnyi Magazin/Государственный Универсальный Магазин,"State Department Store"),Guam (ISO 3166 trigram),Guide to the expression of Uncertainty in Measurement
GUT,Grand Unification Theory
GV,Gigavolt,Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code)
gv,Manx language (ISO 639-1 code)
GW,Games Workshop,Germ Warfare,Gigawatt,Guided Weapon,Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 digram)
GWARS,Ground Warfare System (simulation)
GWAS,Grand Western Archery Society
GWOT,Global War on Terrorism
GWS,Gulf War Syndrome,Greater Western Sydney
GXE,Gene-enivronment interaction
GXM,Matrox Graphics eXpansion Module
GxP,Good X Practice (X can mean: clinical,manufacturing,pharmaceutical,etc.)
GXP,Grid Exit Point,Global Xchange Programme,Indication of highest performance level on some Pontiac vehicles
GY,Guyana (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
GYD,Guyana dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
GZ,Gaza Strip (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Ground Zero
GZK,Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off (cosmic ray energies)
h,Hecto
H,Henry,Hydrogen
HA,Haiti (FIPS 10-4 country code),High Availability
ha,Hausa language (ISO 639-1 code),Hectare
HAARP,High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
HAART,Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy
HAI,Human Awareness Institute
HAL,Hardware Abstraction Layer
HALO,High Altitude Low Opening (parachute jump)
HALT,Highly Accelerated Life Test,Hungry Angry Lonely Tired
HAM,Amateur radio operator
HANS,Head And Neck Support (device used in many race cars)
HDR,Henningson,Durham & Richardson (founders of the engineering and construction firm now known by their initials),High dynamic range,a term used in both digital imaging and 3D rendering,Hot Dry Rock (experimental geothermal technology),Human Development Report (UN publication)
HDRA,Henry Doubleday Research Association
he,Hebrew language (ISO 639-1 code)
He,Helium
HE,High Explosive
HEAT,High Explosive Anti-Tank (ammunition)
heb,Hebrew language (ISO 639-2 code)
HEBA,Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association
HEER,High-Explosive Extended Range (ammunition)
HEIC,Honourable East India Company
HEMP,High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse
HEO,High Earth Orbit,Highly Elliptical Orbit
HEOSS,High Earth Orbit Space Surveillance
HEP,High-Explosive Plastic (ammunition)
HEPA,(a/i) High-Efficiency Particulate Air (filter)
her,Herero language (ISO 639-2 code)
HESH,High-Explosive,Squash-Head (ammunition)
HESV,Heavy Engineering Support Vehicle
HETT,Heavy Equipment Transporting Truck / Heavy Equipment Truck Tractor
HEU,Highly Enriched Uranium
Hewitts,Hills in England,Wales and Ireland over Two Thousand feet (with topographic prominence of at least 30 m)
Hf,Hafnium
HF,High Frequency
HFAC,Human Factors ("aytchfak")
HFE,Human Fertilisation and Embryology (UK Act)
HFE,The common-emitter current gain in a BJT transistor (also represented by βF). See: BJT
HFEA,Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (UK)
Hg,Mercury (Latin Hydrargyrum)
HGC,UK Human Genetics Commission
HGF,Human Growth Factor
HGTV,Home & Garden Television
HHB,Ha Ha Bonk,The noise made when you laugh your head off. Used instead of LOL...
HHD,humanitatum doctor (Latin,"doctor of humanities")
HI,Hawaii (postal symbol)
hi,Hindi language (ISO 639-1 code)
HIDACZ,High-Density Airspace Control Zone ("high dak zed/zee")
HIH,His (or Her) Imperial Highness
HIM,His (or Her) Imperial Majesty
HIMAD,High to Medium Altitude Air Defence (see also H/MAD)
HIMEZ,High Altitude Missile Engagement Zone
HIMYM,How I Met Your Mother
hin,Hindi language (ISO 639-2 code)
HIPAA,U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HOMES,the Great Lakes; Huron,Ontario,Michigan,Erie,Superior
HONY,Humans of New York,a photoblog.
HOPI,Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (see Internet2,Abilene Network)
HoReCa,Hotel,Restaurant and Catering
HORIZON,Hélicoptère d'observation radar et d'investigation sur zone (French,Zone Investigation and Radar Observation Helicopter)
HOSTAC,Helicopter Operations from Ships Other Than Aircraft Carriers
HOT,Highly Optimised Tolerance
HOTAS,Hands on throttle-and-stick
HOV,High Occupancy Vehicle
HP,Hewlett-Packard,Hindustan Petroleum,Himachal Pradesh (Indian state code)
hp,horse power
HPA,UK Health Protection Agency
HPCL,Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
HPLC,High Performance Liquid Chromatography
HPT,High[er] Payoff Target
HPV,Human Papilloma Virus
HQ,HeadQuarters,Howland Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
HQDA,HeadQuarters,Department of the Army
HR,Croatia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram,from the country's native name of Hrvatska),Haryana (Indian state code),Harvard Revised star catalogue,Human Resources
hr,Croatian language (ISO 639-1 code)
HRBL,High-level Representation of Behavior Language (original name of the Herbal language)
HRD,Human Resource Development
HRED,(U.S. Army Research Laboratory's) Human Research and Engineering Directorate (Aberdeen Proving Ground,Maryland)
HRF,High iness Forces
HRH,His (or Her) Royal Highness
HRK,Croatian kuna (ISO 4217 currency code)
HRM,His (or Her) Royal Majesty
HRM,Human Resource Management
HRT,Hormone Replacement Therapy
HRV,Croatia (ISO 3166 trigram),High Resolution Visible,HS[edit]
hrv,Croatian language (ISO 639-2 code)
Hs,Hassium
HSBC,The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
HSC,Higher School Certificate
HSM,High School Musical
HSMAD,Human Science/Modeling and Analysis Data
HSN,Home Shopping Network
HSPH,Harvard School of Public Health
HSS,Health Service Support,High-Speed Steel
HSSI,High-Speed Serial Interface
HST,see entry
HSV,Herpes Simplex Virus,Hue Saturation Value (colour model),HT[edit]
HT,Haiti (ISO 3166 digram),High Temperature,hoc tempore (Latin,"at this time"),hoc titulo (Latin,"under this title")
ht,Haitian Creole language (ISO 639-1 code)
HTA,HyperText Application
HTC-High Tech Computer Corporation,original name of the company now known simply as HTC,Horry Telephone Cooperative
HTFU,Harden The Fuck Up
HTG,Haitian gourde (ISO 4217 currency code)
HTH,Hope That Helps
HTI,Haiti (ISO 3166 trigram)
HTML,HyperText Markup Language
HTR,Heated Towel Rail
HTS,High-Temperature Superconducting wire
HTTP,HyperText Transfer Protocol
HU,Hungary (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
HUD,Head-Up Display,Housing and Urban Development
HUF,Hungarian forint (ISO 4217 currency code)
HUHA,Head up his/her ass (Marine salute; probably a backcronym)
hun,Hungarian language (ISO 639-2 code)
HUN,Hungary (ISO 3166 trigram)
HURD,Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons (cf. Hird)
HV,Upper Volta (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1984)
HVAC,Heating,ventilation and air conditioning Used in architecture,business and marketing; refers to a building's entire system of heating,moving,or cooling air.
ICZN,International Code of Zoological Nomenclature,International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
ID,Idaho (postal symbol),Identity,Indonesia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Infantry Division,Intelligent Design,ID10T Error,Idiot User Error (IT help desk inside joke)
id,Indonesian language (ISO 639-1 code)
IDA,U.S. Institute for Defense Analyses,International Development Association (part of the World Bank
IDC,International Data Corporation
IDDI,I don't do initialisms (see irony)
IDE,Integrated Development Environment,Integrated Drive Electronics
IDeA,Improvement and Development Agency,the former name of Local Government Improvement and Development in the United Kingdom
IDEA,Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (U.S.),International Data Encryption Algorithm,International Design Excellence Awards
IDF,Israel Defense Forces,Intel Development Forum,International Dairy Federation
IDGAF,I don't give a fuck
IDK,I don't know
IDKIBTI,I don't know,I'm black,that's it
IDL,Interface Definition Language
IDN,Indonesia (ISO 3166 trigram)
ido,Ido language (ISO 639-2 code)
IDR,Indonesian rupiah (ISO 4217 currency code)
IE,Indo-European languages,Internet Explorer,Ireland (ISO 3166 digram),Iced Earth
ie,Interlingue language (ISO 639-1 code)
IEA,International Energy Agency
IEC,International Electrotechnical Commission
IED,Improvised Explosive Device
IEEE,Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ("I triple-E")
IELTS,International English Language Testing System
IER,Information Exchange Requirement
IET,Initial Entry Training
IET,Institution of Engineering and Technology
IETF,Internet Engineering Task Force
IEW,Intelligence and Electronic Warfare
IFAB,International Football Association Board
IFAH,International Federation for Animal Health
IFAP,International Federation of Agricultural Producers
IFC,International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank),Independent Film Channel
IFF,Identification,Friend or Foe,Individually Fresh Frozen,International Flavors and Fragrances
IFFN,Identification,Friend,Foe,or Neutral
IFO,Identified Flying Object (see also UFO)
IFOR,UN Implementation Force,Institute for Operations Research,International Fellowship of Reconciliation
IFOV,Instantaneous Field of View
IFPI,International Federation of Phonographic Industries
IFRB,International Frequency Registration Board
IFV,Infantry Fighting Vehicle
ig,Igbo language (ISO 639-1 code)
IG,Inspector General
IGNOU,Indira Gandhi National Open University
IGS,International Ground Station
IGY,Israeli Gay Youth,International Geophysical Year
IHH,Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
IHO,International Hydrographic Organization
IHOP,International House of Pancakes,the original name of this American restaurant chain ("EYE-hop")
IHR,Institute for Historical Review
IHSI,Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (Jesuit Historical Institute)
ii,Sichuan Yi language (ISO 639-1 code)
II,Two (in Roman numerals)
IICA,Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
IIE,Innovative Interstellar Explorer
iii,Sichuan Yi language (ISO 639-2 code)
III,Three (in Roman numerals)
IIRC,If I Recall/Remember Correctly
IISS,International Institute for Strategic Studies
IIT,Illinois Institute of Technology,Indian Institutes of Technology,Indiana Institute of Technology
IJN,Imperial Japanese Navy (World War II)
IJWP,Interim Joint Warfare Publication
ik,Inupiaq language (ISO 639-1 code)
IKEA,Ingvar Kamprad (the company's founder),Elmtaryd (the farm where he was born and raised),Agunnaryd (a village and parish near the farm)
iku, Inuktitut language (ISO 639-2 code)
IL,Illinois (postal symbol),Israel (ISO 3166 digram)
ILC,International Law Commission,International Linear Collider
ILDS,Improved Landmine Detection System
ile,Interlingue language (ISO 639-2 code)
ILO,International Labour Organization
ILRI,International Livestock Research Institute
ILS,Israeli shekel (ISO 4217 currency code)
ILY,I Love You [pronounced ILL-LEE]
IM,Isle of Man (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Instant Message (internet speech)
IMA,Intermediate Maintenance Activity,Institute of Mathematics and Applications
IMBD,International Migratory Bird Day
IMDb,Internet Movie Database
IME,In My Experience
IMF,id music file/id's music format (audio file format),Impossible Missions Force,the protagonist organization in the Mission: Impossible media franchise,International Monetary Fund (the most common use for the initialism)
IMHO,"In My Humble/Honest Opinion"
IML,International Mister Leather
IMLAST,International Movement for Leisure Activities in Science and Technology,see MILSET
IMNM,,Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy a rare,but serious ADR of statins [1]
IMPACT,International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce
IMPATT,IMPact Avalanche Transit Time diode
IMPT,Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
IMR,Inzhenernaya Mashina Razgrazhdeniya (Russian Инженерные Машины Разграждения,"Engineer Vehicle Obstacle-Clearing") †
IMRI,Industrial Membrane Research Institute,Information Management Research Institute,Institut pour le management de la recherche et de l'innovation (French,"Institute for the Management of Research and Innovation"),International Market Research Information,Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
IMRL,Individual Material iness List
IMRO-Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization,Irish Music Rights Organisation
INRI,(a/i) Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudæorum (Latin,"Jesus of Nazareth,King of the Jews")
INRIA,Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
INS,Immigration and Naturalization Service
InSAR,Interferometric synthetic aperture radar
INST,Information Standards and Technology
INTERFET,International Force for East Timor
INTSUM,Intelligence Summary
IO,British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
io,Ido language (ISO 639-1 code)
IOC,Initial Operational Capability,Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission,International Olympic Committee,International Ornithological Congress
IOLTA,Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (charitable funding mechanism,especially for legal aid)
IOM,Iowa,Ohio,Michigan (soybean origin),Institute of Medicine,International Organisation for Migration,Isle of Man
IONA,Islands of the North Atlantic (alternate name for Great Britain,Ireland,the Isle of Man,and related islands)
IOT,British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 trigram)
IOU,"I Owe You" (Promissory note)
IP,Clipperton Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Initial Point,Intellectual Property,Internet Protocol
IPA,India Pale Ale,International Phonetic Alphabet,Isopropyl alcohol
IPB,Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
IPCC,Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,Independent Police Complaints Commission
ipk,Inupiaq language (ISO 639-2 code)
IPL,Inferior Parietal Lobule
IPN,Instytut Pamieci Narodowej (Polish,"Institute for National Memory")
IPO,Initial Public Offering
IPR,In Progress Review,Intellectual Property Rights,Intelligence Production Requirement
IPT,Integrated Product/Project Team
IPTS,Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
IPTV,Internet Protocol TeleVision
IPW,Interrogation of Prisoners of War
iq,idem quod (Latin,"the same as")
IQ,Intelligence Quotient,Iraq (ISO 3166 digram)
IQD,Iraqi dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
Ir,Iridium
IRA,Individual Retirement Account,Irish Republican Army (see also List of organisations known as the Irish Republican Army for groups claiming descent from this organisation)
IRAD,Internal Research and Development
IRAN,(I) Inspect and Repair As Necessary
IRAS,Infrared Astronomical Satellite
IRB,International Rugby Board
IRBM,Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
IRC,International Red Cross,International Reply Coupon
IREA,Intermountain Rural Electric Association
IRINN,Islamic Republic of Iran News Network
IRL,"Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram),Industrial Research Limited,Indy Racing League,In real life"
ISCII,Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange
ISDN,Integrated Services Digital Network
ISEF,Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
ISEN,Internet Search Environment Number
ISF,Internal Security Force
ISI-Indian Standards Institute,former name of the Bureau of Indian Standards,Inter-Services Intelligence (Pakistan),Islamic State of Iraq,an umbrella organization for several Iraqi insurgent groups
ISIL,Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
ISIS,"Institute for Science and International Security, or: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria"
ISK,Icelandic krona (ISO 4217 currency code)
ISL,Iceland (ISO 3166 trigram)
isl,Icelandic language (ISO 639-2 code)
ISLN,International Standard Lawyer Number (used initially by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell)
ISM,Industrial,scientific or medical,Interstellar medium
J8,Joint Force Structure,Resources,& Assessment Directorate
JA,Japan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
ja,Japanese language (ISO 639-1 code)
JAFT,Just A Field Test
JAL,Japan Airlines
JALLC,Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (NATO)
JAM,Jamaica (ISO 3166 trigram)
JAMA,Journal of the American Medical Association
JANET,Joint Academic Network
JANUS,Joint Academic Network Using Satellites (UK),Joint Army Navy Uniform Simulation,Joint Army-Navy Staff,Just ANother Useless Simulation (Note: The U.S. Army Janus simulation is not an acronym)
JATO,Jet-Assisted Take-Off
jav,Javanese language (ISO 639-2 code)
JB,Jail Bait
JB,Junior Branch
JBFSA,Joint Blue Force Situational Awareness
JCATS,Joint Conflict And Tactical Simulation ("djay-catts")
JCDB,Joint Common Data Base
JCDS,Joint Chiefs of the Defence Staff
JCIDS,Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System
JCL,Job Control Language
JCP,Java Community Process
JCPM,Java Child Process Manager,Jesus Christ Prison Ministry
JCS,Joint Chiefs of Staff
JCW,Juggalo Championship Wrestling
JD,Jack Daniel's (whiskey),Julian day,Juris Doctor (Latin,"doctor of jurisprudence")
JDAM,(a/i) Joint Direct Attack Munition ("djay-dam")
JDBC,Java Data Base Connectivity
JDCC,UK Joint Doctrine and Concepts Centre,now the Development,Concepts,and Doctrine Centre,DCDC
JDEM,Joint Dark Energy Mission
JDK,Java Development Kit
JDL,Jewish Defense League
JDM,Japanese domestic market,referring specifically to automobiles and parts,Java Data Mining,Joint design manufacturing,JE[edit]
JE,Jersey (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
JEB,James Ewell Brown (Stuart),John Ellis Bush
JEDP,Jahwist,Elohist,Deuteronomist,Priestly (according to the documentary hypothesis,the sources of the Torah)
KBE,Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
KBO,Kuiper Belt Object
KBVB,Koninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond (Dutch for Royal Belgian Football Association)
kC,Kilocoulomb
KCK,Kansas City,Kansas,Koma Civakên Kurdistan (Kurdish,"Union of Communities in Kurdistan")
KCL,King's College London
KCMO,Kansas City,Missouri (pronounced "K-C-Moe")
KCS,Kansas City Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark)
KD,Kawasaki Disease,Kraft Dinner
KE,Kenya (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Kinetic Energy,Knowledge Engineering
KEDO,Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
KEN,Kenya (ISO 3166 trigram)
KERA,Kentucky Education Reform Act (of 1990)
kerma,Kinetic Energy Released in MAterial / in MAtter / per unit MAss
KES,Kenyan shilling (ISO 4217 currency code),Killer Elite Squad (Japanese professional wrestling stable)
KESR,Kent and East Sussex Railway.
KET,Kentucky Educational Television,Key English Test,KF[edit]
kF,Kilofarad
KFC,Kentucky Fried Chicken
KFOR,UN Kosovo Force
KFUPM,King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
kg,Kilogram,Kongo language (ISO 639-1 code)
KG,Kyrgyzstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
KGB,Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Russian "Committee for State Security") (1954-1991)
KGO,Knight of the Guelphic Order of Hanover
KGS,Kyrgyz som (ISO 4217 currency code)
KGZ,Kyrgyzstan (ISO 3166 trigram)
KH,Cambodia (ISO 3166 digram)
kH,Kilohenry
KHL,Kontinental Hockey League
KHM,Cambodia (ISO 3166 trigram)
khm,Khmer language (ISO 639-2 code)
KHR,Cambodian riel (ISO 4217 currency code)
KHz,Kilohertz
ki,Gikuyu language (ISO 639-1 code)
Ki,Kibi
KI,Kiribati (ISO 3166 digram)
KIA,Killed In Action
KIDS,Knowledge-based Integrated Design System
kik,Gikuyu language (ISO 639-2 code),common typo for LOL
kin,Kinyarwanda language (ISO 639-2 code)
KIR,Kiribati (ISO 3166 trigram)
kir,Kyrgyz language (ISO 639-2 code)
KISS,Keep It Simple,Stupid / Keep It Short and Simple,Korean Intelligence Support System
KIT,Keep In Touch
KITECH,Korean Institute of Industrial Technology
KITT,Knight Industries Two Thousand,Knight Industries Three Thousand
kJ,Kilojoule
kj,Kuanyama language (ISO 639-1 code)
KK,Kabushiki kaisha (Japanese for "Stock Company",found in the legal names of countless Japanese corporations),Košarkarski klub (Slovenian),Košarkaški Klub (Croatian and Serbian in Latin script),Кошаркашки клуб (Serbian Cyrillic),Krepšinio Klubas (Lithuanian); all mean "Basketball Club",as in KK Union Olimpija,KK Cibona,KK Partizan,and KK Atletas
kk,Kazakh language (ISO 639-1 code)
kK,Kilokelvin
KKK,Ku Klux Klan
kl,Kalaallisut language (ISO 639-1 code)
kL,Kilolitre
KL,Kuala Lumpur,Kerala (Indian state code)
KLENOT,KLEť Observatory Near Earth and Other unusual objects observations Team and Telescope
KLS,Kleine-Levin syndrome,Košarkaška liga Srbije (Latin) or Кошаркашка лига Србије (Cyrillic) (Serbian,"Basketball League of Serbia"),Kuala Lumpur Sentral,KM[edit]
KM,Comoros,Knowledge Management
km,Khmer language (ISO 639-1 code),Kilometre
KMF,Comoro franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
KMFDM,Kein mitleid für die mehrheit (German "No pity for the majority" music band)
KMR,Kwajalein Missile Range
KN,Democratic People's Republic of Korea (FIPS 10-4 country code),Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 digram)
kn,Kannada language (ISO 639-1 code)
kN,Kilonewton
KNA,Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 trigram)
KNVB,Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond (Dutch for Royal Dutch Football Association)
LDS,Latter-day Saint (also "Latter Day Saint"); also used as an abbreviation by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,Liberal Democracy of Slovenia
LJ,La Jolla,Larry Johnson (both the American football and basketball players of that name),LaserJet (HP printer brand),Library Journal,Linux Journal,LiveJournal,Ljubljana,Lord Justice of Appeal,Sierra National Airlines (IATA code)
LJJ,Lord Justices of Appeal
LK,Sri Lanka (ISO 3166 digram)
LKA,Sri Lanka (ISO 3166 trigram)
LKL,Lietuvos krepšinio lyga (Lithuanian,"Lithuanian Basketball League")
LKR,Sri Lanka rupee (ISO 4217 currency code)
LKR4,Linkwitz-Riley 4th order (audio crossover type)
LL,Land Line (telephone),Last Log,Late Latin,Left Limit,Lex Luthor (Superman character),Light Line,Limited Liability,Linked List,Little League
LLAD,Low Level Air Defence
LLB,Legum Baccalaureus (Latin: Bachelor of Laws)
LLC,Limited Liability Company
LLGC,Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales),London Lesbian and Gay Centre
LLLTV,Low-Light Level Television
LLNL,Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LLP,Limited Liability Partnership
LLTI,Limiting Long-Term Illness,Long Lead Time Item
LLTR,Low-Level Transit Route
LMAO,Laughing My Ass Off (Internet shorthand)
LMB,Lick My Balls
LMFAO,Laughing My F**king Ass Off (Internet shorthand,electro-hop duo)
LMN,(a/i) Lifetime Movie Network
LMS,Like My Status (Internet shorthand)
LMS,London Mathematical Society,London,Midland and Scottish (Railway)
LMV,() Light Motor Vehicle
ln,Lingala language (ISO 639-1 code),Natural logarithm
LNB,Liga Nacional de Básquet (Rioplatense Spanish,"National Basketball League"; top Argentine league),Ligue Nationale de Basketball (French,"National Basketball League"; the organization that operates France's top two leagues,and the unrelated top league of Switzerland),Low-Noise Block (Satellite dish)
LNER,London and North Eastern Railway
LNG,Liquefied Natural Gas
LNO,Liaison Officer
LNR,Ligue Nationale de Rugby (French,"National Rugby League")
lo,Lao language (ISO 639-1 code)
LO,Slovakia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
LOA,Limit Of Advance
LOC,(a/i) Level of Operational Capability,Limited Operational Capability,Lines Of Code,Lines Of Communication,see entry
MAPS,Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship
MAQS,Museum of the American Quilter's Society ("max")
mar,Marathi language (ISO 639-2 code)
MAR,Morocco (ISO 3166 trigram)
MarBEF,Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
MARC,MAchine able Cataloging (often also defined as MAchine able Code),Mailing list ARChive,Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition,Mid-America Regional Council
MARCENT,United States Marine Forces Central Command
MARFORCC,Marine Force Component Commander
MARRS,Martyn Young,Alex Ayuli,Rudy Tambala,Russell Smith,and Steve Young (British electronic music act)
MASAS,Monte Agliale Supernovae and Asteroid Survey
Maser,Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
MASH,Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
MASINT,Measurement And Signature Intelligence
MATREX,Modeling Architecture for Technology,Research & EXperimentation
MAVS,(a/i) Mobile Artillery Vehicle System
MAW,Malawi (IOC trigram,but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
MAX,Meta-reasoning Architecture for "X"
MB,Manitoba (postal symbol),Martinique (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Medal of Bravery (Canada)
MBA,Main Battle Area,Main Belt Asteroid,Masters of Business Administration
MBE,Member of the Order of the British Empire,Multistate Bar Examination (U.S.)
MBI,Moody Bible Institute
MBIDST,Member of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists
MBM,Meat and Bone Meal
mbsf,metres below sea floor,[1][2] a depth convention used in paleontology and oceanography
MBT,Main Battle Tank
MBTA,Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority,Migratory Bird Treaty Act (U.S.)
MBTI,Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
mC,Millicoulomb
MCA,Master of Computer Applications,Micro Channel Architecture,MultiChannel Analyzer,Music Corporation of America,the original name of the now-defunct MCA Inc.
MCC,Marylebone Cricket Club,Mission Control Center,Motor Control Center,Movement Control Centre
MCD,Minimal Cerebral Dysfunction,Minor civil division (U.S. Census term)
MCDL,Model Composition Definition Language
MCFT,Modified Compression Field Theory
MCG,Melbourne Cricket Ground
MCI,Microwave Communications,Inc.
MCIS,Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
MCM,Mine Counter-Measures
MCMV,Mine Counter-Measure Vessel
MCNC,Microelectronics Center of North Carolina,Mixing Condensation Nucleus Counter
MCTIS,Mounted Co-operative Target Identification System
MCU,Marine Corps University,Marvel Cinematic Universe,Medium close-up (camera direction in British TV scripts),Microcontroller unit,Milk clotting units,Ming Chuan University,Minimum coded unit (digital imaging),Multipoint control unit,Municipal Credit Union (New York),MD[edit]
Md,Mendelevium
MDA,Main Defensive Action/Area,Moldova (ISO 3166 trigram),Muscular Dystrophy Association
MDF,Main distribution frame,Medium-density fiberboard
MDG,Madagascar (ISO 3166 trigram),UN Millennium Development Goal
MDL,Moldovan leu (ISO 4217 currency code)
MDM,Michigan Dartmouth MIT telescope consortium,Master data management
MDMA,MethyleneDioxy-MethylAmphetamine (also known as "Ecstasy")
MECCA,Milwaukee Exposition Convention Center and Arena,a former name for the sports venue now known as UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena
MECO,Main engine cutoff (NASA code for point in Space Shuttle assent when three main engines are shut down prior to External Tank (ET) separation)
MEDEVAC,Medical evacuation
MEDLI,Mars Science Laboratory Entry,Descent,and Landing Instrumentation,Medical & Scientific Libraries of Long Island,Model for Effluent Disposal using Land Irrigation
MEDS,Mission Essential Data Set
MEF,U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force,Minimum essential facility,Mission essential force
MEG,MagnetoEncephaloGraphy
MEI,Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,Ltd.
MEK,Magyar Elektronikus Konyvtar,Message encryption key,Methyl ethyl ketone,Mujahideen al-Khalq
MEP,Mechanical Electrical Plumbing,Member of the European Parliament,Missions étrangères de Paris (French for "Paris Foreign Missions"),Model European Parliament
MILSET,Mouvement International pour le Loisir Scientifique Et Technique (French,"International Movement for Leisure Activities in Science and Technology")
MIMAROPA,Mindoro,Marinduque,Romblon,Palawan (a region in the Philippines)
MIMOSA,MIcroMeasurements Of Satellite Acceleration
MIMPT,Member of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
MKO,Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (Persian,"People's Mujahedin of Iran")
MKS,Metre-Kilogram-Second (system of units),MKS Inc. software company
MKSA,Metre-Kilogram-Second-Ampere (system of units)
ml,Malayalam language (ISO 639-1 code)
ML,Mali (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Maximum Likelihood,Megalitre
mL,Millilitre
MLA,Martial Law Administration of Bangladesh,Master of Landscape Architecture,Medical Library Association,Member of Legislative Assembly,Modern Language Association,Mutual legal assistance treaty,Myelosis Leucemica Acuta
MLB,Major League Baseball
MLC,Member of the Legislative Council (in India)
MLE,Maximum likelihood estimation
mlg,Malagasy language (ISO 639-2 code)
MLHW,Mean Lower High Water (nautical charts)
MLI,Mali (ISO 3166 trigram)
MLK,Martin Luther King,Jr.
MLL,Major League Lacrosse
MLLW,Mean Lower Low Water (nautical charts)
MLP,My Little Pony
MLRS,Multiple-Launch Rocket System
MLS,Major League Soccer,Multiple Listing Service
MLSE,Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (owner of several Toronto-based sports teams),Maximum likelihood sequence estimation
MLSR,Missing,Lost or Stolen Report
MLT,Malta (ISO 3166 trigram)
mlt,Maltese language (ISO 639-2 code)
MLVW,Medium Logistics Vehicle,Wheeled
MLW,Mean Low Water (nautical charts)
MLWN,Mean Low Water Neaps (nautical charts)
MLWS,Mean Low Water Springs (nautical charts)
Mm,Megametre
mm,Millimetre
MMA,Mixed martial arts,Moving Mechanical Assembly
MMC,Machinist's Mate,Chief (USN rating),Materiel Management Centre
MOSS,MObile Submarine Simulator,Moving Object Support System
MOT,Ministry of Transport (UK)
MOTA,Member of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
MOTESS,Moving Object and Transient Event Search System
MOTO,Mail Order / Telephone Order,Master of the obvious
MOU,Memorandum Of Understanding
MOVES,Modeling,Virtual Environments,and Simulation Institute
MOW,Maintenance of way (also MW)
MOZ,Mozambique (ISO 3166 trigram)
MPA,Maritime Patrol Aircraft,Master of Public Administration
MPa,Megapascal
mPa,Millipascal
MPAA,Motion Picture Association of America
MPC,Minor Planet Center,Minor Planet Circular
MPEC,Minor Planet Electronic Circular
MPEG,Motion Pictures (Coding) Experts Group
MPEV,Multi-Purpose Engineering Vehicle
MPF,Maritime Prepositioning Force
MPFC,Medial PreFrontal Cortex
MPG,Miles Per Gallon
MPMC,Medial PreMotor Cortex
MPSI,Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland
MPSoC,MultiProcessor System-on-Chip
MPSRON,Maritime Propositioning Ship Squadron
MQ,Martinique (ISO 3166 digram),Midway Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
mr,Marathi language (ISO 639-1 code)
MR,Mauritania (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
MRAV,Multi-Role Armoured Vehicle
MRBM,Medium Range Ballistic Missile
MRC,Maintenance Requirements Card
MRD,Motorized Rifle Division
MRGO,Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal (also referred to as MR-GO or "Mr. Go")
MRGW,Medium-Range Guided Weapon
MRI,Magnetic Resonance Imaging
mri,Māori language (ISO 639-2 code)
MRL,Multiple Rocket Launcher
MRO,Maintenance,Repair and Operating,Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,Mauritanian ouguiya (ISO 4217 currency code)
MRPharmS,Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Great Britain)
MRR,Maximum Rock and Roll,Minimum-Risk Route,My Restaurant Rules
MRS,Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
MRSA,Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
MRT,Mass Rapid Transit — used as either an official or unofficial name for metro systems in Singapore,Kaoshiung,Bangkok,Taipei,Chennai,and Delhi,Mauritania (ISO 3166 trigram)
MRTFB,U.S. Major Range and Test Facility Base
ms,Malay language (ISO 639-1 code),Millisecond
MS,mano sinistra (Latin,"left hand"),manuscript,Master of Science,Megasiemens,Microsoft (sometimes M$),Mississippi (postal symbol),Montserrat (ISO 3166 digram),Multiple Sclerosis,M&S,Modelling & Simulation,Marks & Spencer
Ms,Megasecond
mS,Millisiemens
msa,Malay language (ISO 639-2 code)
MSB,Main Support Battalion,Most Significant Bit (or Byte)
MSD,Minimum Safe Distance
MSDB,Multi Source Data Base
MSE,Multiple Subscriber Element
MSEC,Message Security Encryption Code ("emm-sec")
MSG,Message
MSG,MonoSodium Glutamate,Madison Square Garden (either the 1879,1890,1925,or current versions of the venue)
MSM,Mainstream media,Men who have sex with men,Mount St Mary's School
MSN,Microsoft Network,Master of Science in Nursing
MSNBC,Microsoft National Broadcasting Company Cable news channel (see also msnbc.com)
MSO,Multiple System Operator
MSPA,Migrant and Seasonal worker Protection Act,MS Paint Adventures
MSPB,Merit Systems Protection Board
MSR,Main Supply Route,Module Service Record,Montserrat (ISO 3166 trigram),Motor Schlepp Regulung,Mountain Safety Research (outdoor supplies manufacturer)
NCAA,National Collegiate Athletic Association ("NC double A")
NCAR,U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCB,National Codification Bureau
NCCAM,U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
NCCUSL,National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (U.S.)
NCDDR,U.S. National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research
NCES,U.S. National Center for Education Statistics,Net-Centric Enterprise Services
NCI,U.S. National Cancer Institute
NCIS,National Criminal Intelligence Service (British),Naval Criminal Investigative Service (U.S. Navy; see also NCIS,a U.S. TV series based on this unit)
NCL,New Caledonia (ISO 3166 trigram)
NCLR,National Council of La Raza
NCMO,No Commitment Make Out
NCND,Non Circumvention & Non Disclosure,Neither Confirm Nor Deny,New Concept New Design
NCO,Non-Commissioned Officer
NCP,Net Contracted Purchases
NCR,National Cash Register Co.
NCTR,Non-Co-operative Target Recognition
NCW,Network Centric Warfare
Nd,Neodymium
ND,Non-Disclosure,North Dakota (postal symbol)
nd,Northern Ndebele language (ISO 639-1 code)
NDAA,U.S. National Defense Authorization Act
NDBP,Non-Departmental Public Body (Scotland)
NDCC,New Directions Counseling Center (Concord,California)
nde,Northern Ndebele language (ISO 639-2 code)
NDH,Neue Deutsche Härte (German,"new German hardness"—heavy metal genre),Nezavisna Država Hrvatska (Croatian,"Independent State of Croatia"—Nazi puppet state)
ndo,Ndonga language (ISO 639-2 code)
NDP,New Democratic Party (Canada)
NDS,Nintendo DS
NDU,National Defense University (Washington,DC)
NE,Nebraska (postal symbol),Niger (ISO 3166 digram),North-East
Ne,Neon
ne,Nepali language (ISO 639-1 code)
NEA,National Education Association (U.S. labor union),Near-Earth Asteroid,Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD)
NEAT-Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking,,National Emergency Access Target (Au Health)
NEC,Network-enabled capability,Nijmegen Eendracht Combinatie (Dutch,"Nijmegen Unity Combination"; football club formed by the 1910 merger of the Nijmegen and Eendracht clubs),Nippon Electric Company,the original English-language name of the company now known as NEC,Northeast Conference (U.S. college sports)
NECTEC,National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Thailand)
NED,Netherlands (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
NEI,National Eye Institute,Not Enough Information,Nuclear Energy Institute
NEMS,National Energy Modeling System (USDOE-EIA)
nep,Nepali language (ISO 639-2 code)
NEPA,National Environmental Policy Act
NER,Niger (ISO 3166 trigram)
NERICA,New Rice for Africa
NESDIS,National Environmental Satellite,Data and Information Service
NESP,NSA/CSS Enterprise Standards Program
NET,National Educational Television
NETCU,(UK) National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit
OBSS,Off Board Sensor Systems,Ordo Byantinus Sancti Sepulchri (Byzantine Order of the Holy Sepulchre),Orbiter Boom Sensor System (space shuttle),Origins Billion Star Survey
OBX,Outer Banks (North Carolina)
oc,Occitan language (ISO 639-1 code)
OC,Officer Commanding
OCA,Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur,Offensive Counter-Air
OCD,Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCFS,Oracle Cluster File System
OCFS2,Oracle Cluster File System Release 2
oci,Occitan language (ISO 639-2 code)
OCMCC,[2] Orchard County MCC
OCN,Oncology Certified Nurse
OCO,Oort Cloud Object
OCOKA,Observation,Cover and concealment,Obstacles,Key terrain,and Avenues of approach (mnemonic)
OCR,Optical Character Recognition
OCS,see entry
OD,Old Dragon,Ordnance Datum (nautical charts),Overdose
ODAS,OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey
ODB,Ol' Dirty Bastard (rapper),One Dirty B*tch/Broad/Babe (professional wrestler),Operational Data Base,Original David Baker (professional poker player; used to distinguish from another professional poker player of the same name),Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
ODBC,Open DataBase Connectivity
ODI,Office for Disability Issues (UK government agency),One Day International (cricket),Open Data-Link Interface,Oracle Data Integrator,Overseas Development Institute (UK think tank),OE[edit]
OEA,(U.S.) Office of Economic Adjustment
OECD,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (international)
OED,Oxford English Dictionary
OEG,Operation Exposure Guidance
OEIS,On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
OEM,Original Equipment Manufacturer
OFA,Occipital Face Area
OFDA,U.S Agency for International Development's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance
OGC,Open Geospatial Consortium
OGD,Other Government Department
OGO,Other Government Organization
OGX,OUARGLA,a petroleum state in the south of Algeria
OH,Ohio (postal symbol)
OHC,OverHead-Cam engine
OHHLA,Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive
OHIP,Ontario Health Insurance Plan
OHMS,On Her (or His) Majesty's Service (also written: O.H.M.S.)
OHP,Observatoire de Haute-Provence
OHSS,Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome
OIC,Officer In Charge
OIE,World Organisation for Animal Health (originally the Office international des épizooties,French for "International Epizootic Office")
OIF,Operation Iraqi Freedom
OIOC,Oriental & India Office Collections (in the British Library)
oj,Anishinaabe language (Ojibwa) (ISO 639-1 code)
OJ,Orange Juice,O.J. Simpson
oji,Anishinaabe language (Ojibwa) (ISO 639-2 code)
OJT,On-the-Job Training
OK,Oklahoma (postal symbol),oll korrect (facetious alteration of "all correct",1839)
OKC,Oklahoma City
OLED,Organic Light-Emitting Diode
OLS,Operational Linescan System
OM,Oman (ISO 3166 digram),Olympique de Marseille (French football club)
om,Oromo language (ISO 639-1 code)
OMA,Open Mobile Alliance,Operations & Maintenance,Army
OMB,U.S. Office of Management and Budget,Ontario Municipal Board,Order of Mapungubwe in Bronze
OMD,Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (1980s pop group)
OME,Osaka Mercantile Exchange
OMFG,Oh My Fucking God
OMG,Oh My God or Or My Gosh
OMGW,"Oh My Gosh it's Windy"
OMN,Oman (ISO 3166 trigram)
OMNCS,U.S. Office of the Manager for the National Communications System
OMP,Order of Mapungubwe in Platinum
OMR,Omani rial (ISO 4217 currency code)
OMS,Order of Mapungubwe in Silver
OMT,Object Model Template
OMW,On My Way,Oh My Word
ON,Ontario (postal symbol)
ONC,Orthopaedic Nurse Certified
ONCE,Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (Spanish,"National Organization for the Spanish Blind")
ONG,Orthodontic National Group
ONH,Óglaigh na hÉireann (Irish idiom for "soldiers of Ireland"),used for the following:
ONI,(U.S.) Office of Naval Intelligence
Onna,Oniong,Nnung Ndem,and Awa,a Local Government Area in Nigeria
OOS,Occupational Overuse Syndrome,OneSAF Objective System,Open Operating System,Out Of Service
OOTW,Operations Other Than War
OP,Observation Point/Post,Ocean Pacific (surfwear and swimwear brand),Original Poster (internet),Order Point,in inventory management; the inventory state at which more items should be ordered. Often expressed as a part of OP/OQ (when quantity OP is reached,order OQ new items),Overpowered,often used to refer to fictional characters (e.g. Superman) or game mechanics (e.g. the Black Lotus in Magic: the Gathering) that are considered disproportionately strong
OPA,Other Procurement,Army
OPAC,Online Public Access Catalogue
OPCON,Operational control
OPCW,Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
OPEC,Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPFOR,Opposing force
OPI,Office of Primary Interest,Open Prepress Interface
OPS,On-base plus slugging (baseball statistics),Operations
OPSEC,Operations security,Open Platform for Security
OPSI,Overwhelming post splenectomy infection,UK Office of Public Sector Information
OPTAR,Operational target
OPV,Offshore Patrol Vessel
OQ,Order Quantity,in inventory management; the quantity of new items to be ordered. Often expressed as a part of OP/OQ (when quantity OP is reached,order OQ new items)
OR,Operating Room (surgery),Operational/Operations Research,Oregon (postal symbol),overreciprocation,when the leader of an inner circle friendship contacts a friend more than is wanted or reasonable
or,Oriya language (ISO 639-1 code)
ORAU,(a/i) Oak Ridge Associated Universities
ORB,(a/i) Object Request Broker
ORBAT,Order of Battle
ORD,Office of Research and Development,Operational Requirements Document
ORF,Operational iness Float
ori,Oriya language (ISO 639-2 code)
ORISE,Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
orm,Oromo language (ISO 639-2 code)
ORNL,Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORR,Oak Ridge Reservation (U.S. DOE),Office of Rail Regulation (UK government),Office of Refugee Resettlement,(CIA) Office of Research and Reports,Operational iness Rate,Operational iness Review
ORSA,Oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus,Operations Research Society of America
OS,Operating System
Os,Osmium
os,Ossetic language (ISO 639-1 code)
OSA,Order of St. Augustine
OSCE,Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
OSD,U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense,On-screen Display
OSDL,Open Source Development Labs
OSE,Own Separate Entrance
OSERS,U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
OSETI,Optical SETI also Optical SETI
OSHA,Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSI,Office of Strategic Influence,Ontario Swine Improvement,Open Source Initiative,Open Systems Interconnection
OSIA,(U.S.) On-Site Inspection Agency
OSIRIS,Optical,Spectroscopic,and Infrared Remote Imaging System (astronomical system on the Rosetta spacecraft),Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy (astronomical system on the land-based Gran Telescopio Canarias)
OSL,Open Source License,Optically Stimulated Luminescence,Orbiting Solar Laboratory
OSM,One Saturday Morning
OSOTPBOIAS,One Sec,On The Phone,Be Off In A Sec
OSPA,Operations Security Professional's Association site of OSPA
OSPA,Oregon School Psychologists Association [3]
OSRH,Oružane Snage Republike Hrvatske (en: Armed forces of the Republic of Croatia)
OSS,Office of Strategic Services (1942-1945,forerunner of CIA)
oss,Ossetic language (ISO 639-2 code)
OSU,Ohio State University,Oklahoma State University
OTA,Office of Technology Assessment,(a/i) Orthodontic Technicians Association
OTAC,Orthodontic Technicians Association Conference,Orthodontic Technicians Association Council
OTB,Off The Ball,Offtrack Betting,OneSAF Testbed (a descendant of ModSAF)
OTC,Over-The-Counter (drugs)
OTD,Off the derech (referring to an Orthodox Jew who has stopped practicing the tenets of his or her faith)
OTEA,(U.S. Army) Operational Test Evaluation Agency
OTI,Office of Transition Initiatives (United States Agency for International Development)
OTO,Ordo Templi Orientis (Latin,"Order of the Temple of the East",i.e. the Order of Oriental Templars)
OTOH,On The Other Hand
OTS,Off the scale,sexually untouchable except for a lot of money.
OTSBH,Over The Shoulder Boulder Holder
OTW,On The Way
OTYBL,Over To You Blue Leader
OTYRL,Over To You Red Leader
OU,University of Oklahoma
OVC,Overcast (METAR Code),Ohio Valley Conference
OVV,Optically Visually Violent,or Optically Violently Variable,a type of quasar
PADD,Personal Access Display Device (as seen in the Star Trek franchise),Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts,used for data collection in the U.S. petroleum industry
PADI,Professional Association of Diving Instructors
PAL,Phase Alternating Line (TV standard),Philippine Airlines
PAM,(a/i) Precision Attack Missile
PAMELA,Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics,Pedestrian Accessibility and Movement Environment Laboratory
Pamida,Patrick,Michael,and David,sons of the department store chain's co-founder Jim Witherspoon
PAN,Panama (ISO 3166 trigram),Partai Amanat Nasional (Indonesian,"National Mandate Party"),Indonesian political party,Partido Acción Nacional (Spanish,"National Action Party"),political parties in El Salvador,Mexico,and Nicaragua,Partido de Avanzada Nacional (Spanish,"National Advancement Party"),Guatemalan political party,Personal Area Network,PolyAcryloNitrile,Programa de Asistencia Nutricional (Spanish,"Nutritional Assistance Program"),U.S. federal program for nutritional needs of poor families in Puerto Rico
PCPI,Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (AMA)
PCR,Polymerase chain reaction
PCSSD,Pulaski County Special School District
PCT,Pacific Crest Trail,Patent Cooperation Treaty
PCTE,Portable Common Tool Environment,Punjab College of Technical Education
PCZ,Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)
Pd,Palladium
PD,per diem (Latin: (calculated) by the day),Point of Departure,Police Department,Postal District,Potential Difference,Principal Deputy,Public Domain,Privatdozent
PD,Product Director—Example: CERDEC Product Director C4ISR and Network Modernization
PDA,Personal Digital Assistant,Predicted Drift Angle,Public Display of Affection,Push-Down Automaton
PDD,Past Due Date,Presidential Decision Directive
PDF,Panama[nian] Defense Forces (abolished 1990),Portable Document Format,Principal Direction of Fire
PDG,President Director General,Product Development Group
PDL,Pure Dumb Luck (Texan punk band)
PDN,Pull-Down Network
PDP,Programmable Data Processor,Performance Development Plan
PDRY,People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (obsolete since 1990)
PDT,Pacific Daylight [Saving] Time (UTC-7 hours)
PDU,Police Dog Unit,Power Distribution Unit,Protocol Data Unit
PE,Ice Pellets (old style METAR Code),Peru (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),Physical Education,Premature Ejaculation,Prince Edward Island (postal code),Price to Earning ratio (used for equity shares),Plant Extract
PE,Professional Engineer
PEBCAC,Problem Exists Between Chair and Computer (IT help desk in-joke)
PEBKAC,Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair (ditto)
PEEK,PolyEtherEtherKetone
PEET,Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy
PEGIDA,Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes (German,"Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West")
PEI,Prince Edward Island,PolyEtherImide
PEK,PolyEtherKetone
PEN,Peruvian sol (ISO 4217 currency code),Poets,Essayists and Novelists,the original meaning of the initialism of the organization now known as PEN International,PolyEthylene Naphthalate
PEO,Παγκύπρια Εργατική Ομοσπονδία (Greek for "Pancyprian Federation of Labour"),Philanthropic Educational Organization,PolyEthylene Oxide,Professional Employer Organization,Professional Engineers Ontario
PEPFAR,President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief
PER,Peru (ISO 3166 trigram)
perl,usually lower case Practical Extraction and Report Language
PES,PolyEtherSulfone
PEST,UK Public Engagement with Science and Technology
PET,(a/i) Personal Electronic Transactor,Pierre Elliott Trudeau,Positron Emission Tomography (as in PET scan),PolyEthylene Terephthalate (plastic),Preliminary English Test
PETA,(a/i) pentaerythritol triacrylate,People Eating Tasty Animals,People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
petawatt-
PETE,PolyEthyleneTErephthalate
PETP,PolyEthyleneTerePhthalate
PF,French Polynesia (ISO 3166 digram),petafarad,Phenol Formaldehyde (resin),Power forward,a player position in Australian rules football,basketball,and ice hockey
pF,picofarad
PFD,Permanent Fund Dividend = personal flotation device
PFE,Permanent Forest Estate
PFIY,Please Fix it Yourself ("pee-fiy")
PFLAG,Parents,Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays ("pee-flag")
PFO,Pissed,Fell Over (medical diagnosis in-joke)
PfP,Partnership for Peace
PG -
Pg,petagram
pg,picogram
PGCE,Postgraduate Certificate in Education
PGD,Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
PGENI,Pharmaco-Genetics for Every Nation Initiative
PGH,Pre-implantation Genetic Haplotyping
PGK,Papua New Guinea kina (ISO 4217 currency code)
PGM,Precision-Guided Munition
PGP,Pretty Good Privacy
pH,parts of hydrogen (acidity/alkalinity index),picohenry
PH,Passive Homing (missile guidance system),petahenry,Philippines (ISO 3166 digram),Probability of Hit,Public Health,Purple Heart
PHA,PolyHydroxyAlkanoate,Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
PHL,Philippines (ISO 3166 trigram)
PHP,Philippine peso (ISO 4217 currency code),PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (originally Personal Home Page (Tools))
PIM,(a/i) Parameterized Ionospheric Model,Path of Intended Motion,Pediatric Index of Mortality,Personal Information Manager/Management,Presence and Interworking Mobility,Processor-In-Memory,Program Integration Manager,Protocol Independent Multicast
PIN,Personal Identification Number
PINF,People In Need Foundation (Czech charitable organisation)
PIPA,(a/i) Program on International Policy Attitudes
PIR,Priority Intelligence Requirement
PIRA,Provisional Irish Republican Army
PIREPS,Pilot Reports
PITA,Pain In The Ass
PJ,petajoule
pJ,picojoule
PJHQ,Permanent Joint Headquarters
PJs,Pajamas ("pee-jayz")
PK,Pakistan (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),petakelvin,Player Kill[er],Probability of Kill,PolyKetone,Pulemet Kalashnikova (Russian ПК пулемет Калашникова,"Machinegun Kalashnikov")[1]
PKA,Previously Known As,Professionally Known As
PKE,Partnership of Kindermusik Educators [1] &[2] & [2]
PLK,Polska Liga Koszykówki (Polish,"Polish Basketball League")
PLKK,Polska Liga Koszykówki Kobiet (Polish,"Polish Women's Basketball League")
PLL,Phase-Locked Loop (electronics)
PLM,Polarized Light Microscope/Microscopy
PLMBA,Phospholipid Bilayer Microarray
Pln,Platoon
PLN,Polish zloty (ISO 4217 currency code)
PLO,Palestine Liberation Organization
PLOKTA,Press Lots Of Keys To Abort
PLP,Platonic Life Partner
PLS,Palletized Loading System,Personal Locator System
PLUTO,Pipe Line Under The Ocean
PLW,Palau (ISO 3166 trigram)
PM,Panama (FIPS 10-4 country code),Perry Mason,Phase Modulation,Post Meridiem (Latin "after noon"),Prime Minister,Project Manager,Saint Pierre and Miquelon (ISO 3166 digram)
PMT,Premenstrual Tension (UK) (see Premenstrual Syndrome)
PN,petanewton,Pitcairn Islands (ISO 3166 diagram)
pN,piconewton
PNAC,Project for the New American Century
PNC,Palestinian National Council,Palmerston North City (cf. PNC,a New Zealand rapper from this city),Pittsburgh National Corporation,one of the two companies that merged into today's PNC Financial Services,Provident National Corporation,the other company that merged into PNC Financial Services
PNG,Papua New Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram),Portable Network Graphics
PNH,Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria,Police Nationale d'Haïti (French,"National Police of Haiti"),PO[edit]
PNP,Partido Nuevo Progresista,Plug 'N' Play/Pray,Positive Negative Positive
PNVS,Pilot Night Vision Sensor
PO,Dust Devil (METAR Code),per os (Latin,"by mouth"),Portugal (FIPS 10-4 country code)
Po,Polonium
PO,Post Office
PO,Purchase Order
POCD,Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction
POD,Payable on Death (banking term,and the full name of American metal band P.O.D.),Point of divergence (alternate or counterfactual history),Port of Debarkation
pod,Plain Old Documentation
POE,Perl Object Environment,(b) Port Of Embarkation (c) Polyol Ester (d) Power Over Ethernet
POETS,Portable Occultation,Eclipse,and Transit electronic-camera System
POFF,Plain Old Flat File
POG,Passionfruit,Orange and Guava
POGO,Project On Government Oversight
POI,Program Of Instruction
POK,(a/i) Plane Of Knowledge
POL,Petroleum,Oils and Lubricants,Poland (ISO 3166 trigram)
pol,Polish language (ISO 639-2 code)
POLAD,Political Advice
POM,Program Objective Memorandum,PolyOxyMethylene
POMDP,Partially observable Markov decision process
PooS,Poo Sniffer (Internet shorthand)
POP-(a/i) Point of Presence,Post Office Protocol,Progesterone Only Pill
POR,Portugal (FIFA and IOC trigram,but not ISO 3166),Proposed Operational Requirement
por,Portuguese language (ISO 639-2 code)
POS-(a/i) Point Of Sale terminal (retail industry transaction computers),Piece Of S**t
POSH,Port Outbound Starboard Home (alleged)
POSSLQ,Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
POT,(a/i) Plane Of Tranquility
POTS,Plain Old Telephone Service (cf. PANS),Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
POV,Point of view
POW,Prisoner of war
PP,Papua New Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code),Passage Point,per procurationem (Latin,"by proxy")
pp-pages,especially in references,e.g. "A. U. Thor,Title,Journal X,Vol. 1,no. 2 (2010) pp. 13-42."
PPA,Parahippocampal Place Area,PolyPhthalAmide
PPASC,(U.S.) Plans and Program Analysis Support Center
PPASSCCATAG,"Proud Parents Against Singles,Seniors,Childless Couples And Teens And Gays",a fictional group formed by Marge Simpson
PPCLI,Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (regiment)
PPG,Pittsburgh Plate Glass (the original name of the company now known as PPG Industries),The Powerpuff Girls
PPL,Pakistan Petroleum Limited,Pay per lead (marketing),Pennsylvania Power and Light,former name of the U.S. utility company now known as PPL,Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Liechtensteins (German,"Scouts and Guides of Liechtenstein"),Phonographic Performance Limited (UK performing rights organisation)
PPP,Point-to-Point Protocol,Purchasing Power Parity
PPQ,Pulses Per Quarter (used in music programming,sequencers)
PPQN,Pulses Per Quarter Note (ditto)
PPQT,Pre-Production Qualification Test
PPS,post postscriptum,Precise/Precision Positioning Service (GPS),PolyPhenylene Sulfide
PPV,Pay-per-view
PQ,Province of Québec (obsolete postal code,replaced by QC),Parti Québécois,PR[edit]
Pr,Pastor or Priest
Pr,Praseodymium
PR,Public Relations,Puerto Rico (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
Prb,Presbyter
PRBO,Point Reyes Bird Observatory
PRC,People's Republic of China
PRD,CERDEC Product Realization Directorate
PRFG,Partial Fog (METAR Code)
PRI,Puerto Rico (ISO 3166 trigram)
PRK,Democratic People's Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram)
PRM,Personnel iness Management
PRN,pro re nata (Latin,"for the emergency","as needed")
PRT,Portugal (ISO 3166 trigram),Provincial Reconstruction Team
PRY,Paraguay (ISO 3166 trigram)
PS,Palestinian Territory,Occupied (ISO 3166 digram),Personnel Services,petasiemens,post scriptum (Latin,"written after"),Power Steering,Power Supply,Public School
ps,Pashto language (ISO 639-1 code),picosecond
Ps,petasecond
pS,picosiemens
PSA,Paralysis Society of America,Pharmaceutical Society of Australia,Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive,Production Services Association,Prostate Specific Antigen,Public Service Announcement,Public Service Association
PSC,Personal service corporation,Primary Somatosensory Cortex
PSE,Palestinian Territory,Occupied (ISO 3166 trigram)
PSG,Pacific Seabird Group
PSI,(a/i) Portable Source Initiative
PSI,Pounds per square inch
PSO,Peace Support Operations,Primary Standardisation Office (ABCA),Protocol Supporting Organization (of the ICANN)
PSS,Personnel System Support
PST,Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8 hours)
PSU,Pennsylvania State University
PSV,Philips Sport Vereniging (Dutch for "Philips Sports Union"),Public Service Vehicle
PsyOp,Psychological Operations
PT,petatesla,Physical Training (in the Army),Portugal (ISO 3166 digram)
pT,picotesla
Pt,Platinum
pt,Portuguese language (ISO 639-1 code)
PTA,Parent-Teacher Association
PTAL,Public Transport Accessibility Level
PTAN -
PTES,People's Trust for Endangered Species
PTFE,PolyTetraFluoroEthylene
PTI,Pardon the Interruption
PTL,Patrol,Primary Target Line
PTO,Patent and Trademark Office,Please Turn Over
PTSD,Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTUI,(a/i) Plain-Text User Interface ("pa-too-ey") (cf CLI)
PU,Guinea-Bissau (FIPS 10-4 country code),Polyurethane,United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1986)
Pu,Plutonium
Pub,Publication
PUG,(a/i) PET Users Group
PUN,(a/i) Pull-Up Network
PUP,(a/i) Pull-Up Point
PUR,Puerto Rico (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
pus,Pashto language (ISO 639-2 code)
PUS,United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
PWC,PieceWise Constant (describing a mathematical function)
PwC,PricewaterhouseCoopers (international accounting firm)
PWL,PieceWise Linear (describing a mathematical function)
PWLC,PieceWise Linear and Concave/Convex (describing a mathematical function)
PWP,Plot,What Plot? / Porn Without Plot (denotes plotless,um,"feel-good" stories in online fiction,especially fanfic or erotic fiction)
PWR,Pressurized Water Reactor
PWV,Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging,the original name for the South African province now known as Gauteng,and still used to refer to the metropolitan agglomeration at the core of the province
PX,Post eXchange
PY,Paraguay (ISO 3166 digram),Person-Year,Portsmouth yardstick
PYF,French Polynesia (ISO 3166 trigram)
PYG,Paraguayan guaraní (ISO 4217 currency code)
PYMWYMI,Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
PZ,Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1980),Pickup Zone
Q1,First Quarter
Q2,Second Quarter
Q3,Third Quarter
Q4,Fourth Quarter
QA,Qatar (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
Qantas,Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services
RA,Rain (METAR Code),Rear Area,Reinforced Alert,Republican Army,Right Ascension,Royal Artillery (UK),Royal Academy
RAA,Royal Automobile Association,South Australia,Rear Assembly Area
RAAF,Royal Australian Air Force
Rabobank,Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank (from the two banks that merged to form the modern company)
RAC,Royal Automobile Club (in the United Kingdom,renamed RAC plc in 2002)
RACK,Risk Aware Consensual Kink (SM phrase)
Racon,RAdar beaCON
RADA,Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Radar,Radio Detection And Ranging
RadB,Rad51/Dmc1 homologous protein
RADB,Real America Database,Resource Assessment Database,Reunion Address DataBase,Rice Allelopathy Data Base,Routing Arbiter Database
RADb,Routing Assets Data Base
RADC,Region Air Defence Commander
RAE,UK Royal Aircraft Establishment (-1991)
RAF,Red Army Faction,Royal Air Force
RAG,Raising and Giving,Rocket Antitank Grenade
RAGBRAI,Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa
RAM,Rolling Airframe Missile,
RAM,Royal Air Maroc
Ramark,RAdar MARKer
RAOC,Rear Area Operation Centre
RAP,(a/i) Radio Access Point,Radiological Assistance Program (U.S. Department of Energy),Rear Area Protection,Recognised [Operating/Operational] Air Picture,Recurring Advance Payment,Relational Associative Processor,Reliable Acoustic Path,Rocket-Assisted Projectile,Rule Against Perpetuities
RARDE,UK Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (1962-1991)
RARE,Rapid Acquisition with Relaxation Enhancement (MRI technique)
RASC,Royal Army Service Corp,Former corps of British Army
RATELO,Radiotelephone Operator
Rb,Rubidium
RB,Running Back (football)
RBAR,Row By Agonizing Row,a derogatory way of describing a technique of scanning a set of records in a database to update or examine the contents of each one. This is the technique of last resort in most cases,since most database operations are optimized when using set based analysis instead of the RBAR method.
RBI,Runs Batted In
RBOC,(a/i) Regional Bell Operating Company ("Baby Bell")
RC,see entry
RCA,Radio Corporation of America,Root Cause Analysis,Royal Canadian Artillery,Royal City Avenue (famous entertainment zone in Thailand)
RCAF,Royal Canadian Air Force
RCAR,Research Council for Automobile Repairs ("are-car")
RCC,Rescue Co-ordination Centre
RCCO,Royal Canadian College of Organists
RCHA,Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (regiment)
RCMP,Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RCRA,Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("reck-ra" or "rick-ra")
RCS,Radar Cross-Section,Reaction Control System,Revision Control System
RCT,Randomized Controlled Trial,Robotically Controlled Telescope,Rugby club toulonnais (French,"Rugby Club of Toulon")
RDDL,(a/i) Resource Directory Description Language ("riddle")
RDECOM,(U.S. Army) Research,Development and Engineering Command
RDM,Remotely Delivered/Deliverable Mine
RDO,Rapid,Decisive Operation,Regular Day Off,Remote Data Objects
RDS,Remote Desktop Services (Microsoft service),Réseau des sports (French,"Sports Network" — Canadian French-language TV channel),Respiratory distress syndrome,Royal Dublin Society (see also RDS Arena,a stadium on the grounds often called "the RDS")
RDT,Remote Digital Terminal
RDV,Remote Detection Vehicle
Re,Rhenium
RE,Royal Engineers
REACH,Registration,Evaluation,Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical Substances
REACT,Remote Electronically Activated Control Technology
REAM,Retired Educators Association of Minnesota
RECCE,Reconnaissance
REEF,Reef Environmental Education Foundation
REM,"Rapid Eye Movement (sleep phase),Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum"
REME,Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
RERC,Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
RES,Radiation Exposure Status,Reserve
RESNA,Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
REU,Réunion (ISO 3166 trigram)
RF,Radio Frequency,Receptive Field (neurophysiology)
Rf,Rutherfordium
RFC,Request for Comments,Royal Flying Corps (WWI precursor to RAF)
RFD,Request for Documentation
RFE,Request for Evaluation
RFEF,Real Federación Española de Fútbol (Spanish for Royal Spanish Football Federation)
RFF,Right of First Refusal (legal term)
RFI,y For Inspection,y For Issue,Request For Information,Radio Frequency Interference
RFID,Radio Frequency IDentification
RFL,Rugby Football League
RFP,Request for Proposal
RFQ,Request for Quotation
RFT,Request for Tender
RFU,Rugby Football Union
RG,Republican Guard
Rg,Roentgenium
RGB,Red Green Blue (colour model)
RGBI,Red Green Blue Intensity (ditto)
Rh,Rhodium
RH,Southern Rhodesia (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1980)
RHIC,Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
RHLI,Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Canadian militia regiment)
RHO,Southern Rhodesia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)
RHS,Right Hand Side,Redland High School,Royal Horticultural Society,London
RHU,Replacement Holding Unit
RHWR,Radar Homing and Warning Receiver ("raw" for short)
RI,Rex et Imperator,Regina et Imperatrix King-Emperor
RI,Rhode Island (postal symbol)
RIAA,Recording Industry Association of America
RIBA,Royal Institute of British Architects
RIF,Reduction In Force (layoffs),Resistance Index for Frostbite,ing Is Fundamental
RIFA,Red imported fire ant
RILA,Retail Industry Leaders Association
RIM,Remote integrated multiplexer,Australian term for a digital loop carrier,Research In Motion,former name of the BlackBerry company,Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (Maoist organization),Royal Indian Marine,former navy of British colonial India
RIMVS,Retinal Imaging Machine Vision System
RINO,Republican In Name Only[1]
RIP-(a/i) Relief In Place,requiesca[n]t in pace (Latin for "may he/she/they rest in peace")
RIS,Range Instrumentation System,Réseau Info Sports (French,roughly "Sports News Network" — Canadian French-language TV channel)
RISC,Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RISD,Rhode Island School of Design ("riz-dee")
RISTA,Reconnaissance,Intelligence,Surveillance,and Target Acquisition (see also ISTAR)
RJD,Reduced Julian Day
RKBA,Right to Keep and Bear Arms (Second Amendment to the United States Constitution)
RKI,Robert Koch Institute,German governmental research institute in Berlin
RKO,Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures
RL,Release Line,Real Life
RLP,Recognised [Operating/Operational] Land Picture
RLS,Restless Leg Syndrome
RLY,Rally Point
rm,Raeto-Romansh language (ISO 639-1 code)
RM,see separate disambiguation page
RMC,Robert Menzies College
RMDA,Records Management and Declassification Agency
RSVP,répondez s'il vous plaît (French for "respond if you please")
RT,Real Time,Radio Telephone,Return to duty
RTA,Road traffic accident (British)
RTBF,Radio-Télévision belge de la Communauté française
RTCA,RTCA,Inc.
RTF,Rich Text Format
RTFM, the Fucking/Fine Manual
RTG,Radio-isotope Thermoelectric Generator also used for Rubber Tyred Gantry crane
RTGS,Royal Thai General System of Transcription,Real Time Gross Settlement
RTI,Run-Time Infrastructure (Simulation)
RTL,see entry
RTLS,Return to Launch Site,period in NASA Space Shuttle assent profile where,during assent,shuttle aborts assent and turns and glides back to landing strip at launch site
RTP,Real-time Transport Protocol
RTS,see entry
RTT,Round Trip Timing
RTV,Rapid Terrain Visualization ACTD,Retro Television Network
RU,Russia (ISO 3166 digram)
ru,Russian language (ISO 639-1 code)
Ru,Ruthenium
RUB,Russian ruble (ISO 4217 currency code)
RUC,Royal Ulster Constabulary
run,Rundi language (Kirundi) (ISO 639-2 code)
RUS,Russia (ISO 3166 trigram)
rus,Russian language (ISO 639-2 code)
RUSI,Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
RVD,Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst (Dutch,"Government Information Service"),Rob Van Dam (American professional wrestler),RW[edit]
RW,Rwanda (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
rw,Rwanda language (Kinyarwanda) (ISO 639-1 code)
RWA,Rwanda (ISO 3166 trigram)
RWADA,Resident Weighted Average Daily Attendance (New York State term used in public education to indicate the size of a school district,i.e. its number of students)
RWF,Rwandan franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
RWH,Rain Water Harvesting
RWR,Radar Warning Receiver
RWS,Remote Weapon Station
Rx,Medical prescription (possibly from Latin "recipere","to take": see entry)
RX,Receive
SA,Sand (METAR Code),Saudi Arabia (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),Sexaholics Anonymous,sine anno (Latin,“without year”),Situational awareness,South Africa,(i/s) South Australia (postal symbol),Standards Australia,Sturmabteilung (German,“Storm Detachment”,Nazi forerunner and rival of SS),S.A.,designation for a corporation in many European countries; see article for meanings
SAA,Saudi Arabian Airlines,former name of Saudia,Sex Addicts Anonymous,South African Airways,Southern Athletic Association,Standards Association of Australia,a former name of Standards Australia,SAAB — Svenska Aeroplan AB (Swedish aircraft manufacturer; also refers to its former auto manufacturing arm),SAAFR — (a/i) Standard use Army Aircraft Flight Route (“safer”),SAAMI — Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (“sammy”),SAARC — South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation,SAB — Soprano Alto Baritone,Sabena — Société anonyme belge d'exploitation de la navigation aérienne (French for “Belgian Company for Exploiting Aerial Navigation”,1923-2001),SABIC — Saudi Basic Industries Corporation,SABR — Society for American Baseball Research
SAC,Standards Activity Committee (of SISO),U.S. Strategic Air Command (1946-1992),SACAT — Semi Attended Customer Activated Terminal (Supermarket checkout),SACEUR — Supreme Allied Commander EURope,SACLANT — Supreme Allied Commander atLANTic,SACLOS — Semi-Automatic Command to Line of Sight
SAD,Seasonal Affective Disorder,Situational Awareness Display,SADD — originally Students Against Drunk Driving,now Students Against Destructive Decisions (U.S. national school-related group)
SADL,Situation Awareness Data Link (“saddle”),Structural Architecture Description Language
SAE,Society of Automotive Engineers[1],Stamped addressed envelope,SAFER — Steel And Foam Energy Reduction,SAFICT — Software Agents as Facilitators of Interoperability in Collective Training,sag — Sango language (ISO 639-2 code),SAG — Screen Actors Guild,SAGAT — Situation Awareness Global Assessment Technique,SAGE — Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (simulation),SAHB — Sensational Alex Harvey Band,SAIC — Science Applications International Corporation
SALT-(a/i) Save A Life Today (SALT) Alert; Emergency Contact System,Southern African Large Telescope,Strategic Arms Limitation s
SAM,Sequential-Access Memory,Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín,Surface-to-Air Missile
Sambo,(p/a) Samooborona bez oruzhiya (Russian: "Самооборона без оружия",literally "self-defense without weapons")
san,Sanskrit language (ISO 639-2 code),Storage Area Network
SAR,Saudi riyal (ISO 4217 currency code),Search And Rescue,Special Administrative Region,Synthetic Aperture Radar
SARA,Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy,Scientific Atlanta Resident Application,Scottish Amateur Rowing Association,Southern African Railway Association,State Administration for Religious Affairs,SARP — Search And Rescue Processor,SARR — (i/a) Search And Rescue Repeater,SARS — Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SART,Search and Rescue Transponder,Situational Awareness Rating Technique,SARU — South African Rugby Union
SAS,Scandinavian Airlines System,Second Avenue Subway,Situational Awareness System,Special Air Service,Studies,Analysis and Simulation,Side Angle Side,Statistical Analysis System (original meaning; SAS Institute Inc. has evolved far beyond that scope),SASE — Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope,SASO — Stability and Support Operations,SASOL — Suid Afrikaanse Steenkool en Oli.e. (Afrikaans,“South African Coal and Oil”)
SAT,formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test; now known solely by the initials,Small Arms Trainer,SATB — Soprano Alto Tenor Bass,SATNAV — Satellite Navigation (Increasingly common GPS based system in new vehicles),SATs — Standard Assessment Tasks and other similar terms describing tests used in English schools; see National Curriculum assessment#Terminology,SAU — Saudi Arabia (ISO 3166 trigram),SAVAK — Sazamane Etelaat va Amniate Kechvar (Iranian “Security and Intelligence Service”)
SAW,Squad Automatic Weapon,Surface acoustic wave,SAWE — Society of Allied Weight Engineers,SB[edit],Sb — Antimony (Latin Stibium)
SB,Sexy Bitch,Sexy Bastard,Sexy Boy (disambiguation),Solomon Islands (ISO 3166 digram),Special Warfare Boat Operator
SBA,Santa Barbara Airport,Simulation-Based Acquisition,Sovereign Base Area,Student bar association,SBB — German for the Swiss Federal Railways
SBD,Solomon Islands dollar (ISO 4217 currency code),Silent But Deadly
SBNO,Standing but not operating (in reference to amusement parks)
SBP,Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (Filipino,"Basketball Federation of the Philippines"),U.S. School Breakfast Program,Society of Business Practitioners,State Bank of Pakistan
SBS,Special Boat Service,Special Broadcasting Service,Seoul Broadcasting System
SBW,Sonny Bill Williams (New Zealand dual-code rugby player),SC[edit],sc — Sardinian language (ISO 639-1 code),Sc — Scandium
SC,Cruiser Submarine (US Navy hull classification) c Saint Kitts and Nevis (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Saint Christopher),Seychelles (ISO 3166 digram),South Carolina (postal symbol)
SCO,Santa Cruz Operation (initials later used by SCO Group),Scotland (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram),Shanghai Cooperation Organization,SCOTUS — Supreme Court of the United States,SCR — Seychelles rupee (ISO 4217 currency code),SCRAM — Safety Control Rod Axe Man
SCS,Scan Correlated Shift,Soil Conservation Service
SD,Secure Digital (memory card format),Sheriff's department,Smoke/Decontamination,South Dakota (postal symbol),Sudan (ISO 3166 digram)
SDC,Shaft Driven Compressor,U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command (1985-1992),SDG — Sudanese pound (ISO 4217 currency code),SDG — Sum Dum Goy,greasy spoon chinese restaurant,SDH — Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDHC,Secure Digital High Capacity
SDXC,Secure Digital eXtended Capacity
SE,Seychelles (FIPS 10-4 country code),Societas Europaea (form of business organization in the EU),South-east,Sweden (ISO 3166 digram),Synthetic Environment,System Engineering,SEAD — Suppression of Enemy Air Defence,SEADI — Senior Executioner of Approved Driving Instructors,SEAFDEC — Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center,SEAL — SEa-Air-Land,SEAT — Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo (Spanish for "Spanish Touring Car Company"),SEATO — Southeast Asia Treaty Organization,SeaWiFS — Sea-Viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (satellite instrument)
SEC,U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,Security,Southeastern Conference,SECAM — Séquentiel couleur à mémoire (French for “Colour Sequential with Memory”; TV standard,cf. NTSC,PAL),SECDEF — (U.S.) Secretary of Defense,SED — CERDEC Software Engineering Directorate,SEDRIS — Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification,SEE — Small Emplacement Excavator,SEG — Society of Exploration Geophysicists,SEG — Special Escort Group,SEK — Swedish krona (ISO 4217 currency code),Selkent — South East London & Kent Bus Company,SELT — Single Ended Line Test (ing)
SEM,Sensor Employment Manager,Switch to Email Mode,i.e. stop texting as it is more disruptive by making a sound or vibrating and email instead,for a given time
SEN,Senegal (ISO 3166 trigram),Small Extension Node
SEP,Somebody Else’s Problem,Spherical Error Probable,System Enhancement Package,System Engineering Plan,SEPTA — Southeastern Pennsylvania Rapid-Transit Authority,SERE — Survival,Evasion,Resistance and Escape,SESSPE — Submarine Escape and Surface Survival Personnel Equipment,SET — Staphylococcal EnteroToxin,SETI — Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence,SETAC — Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
SEU,Single Event Upset (solid state physics),Slightly Enriched Uranium,Special Evidence Unit,SF[edit]
SF,Fleet Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification),San Francisco,Science fiction,South Africa (FIPS 10-4 country code),Speculative fiction,Special Forces
SFA,Sales force automation,Saturated fatty acid,Scottish Football Association,Stephen F. Austin (State University),Sudan Football Association
SFE,Supercritical fluid extraction,Sydney Futures Exchange,SFF — Standard File Format,sf&f — Science fiction & fantasy,SFM — Switch to Facebook Mode,i.e. to message someone on Facebook instead of texting as it is less disruptive in the sense of the phone not making sound or vibrating,for a period of time,SFOB — Special Forces Operations Base,SFOR — UN Stabilisation Force (in Bosnia and Herzegovina),SFU — Simon Fraser University (Canada),SG[edit],sg — Sango language (ISO 639-1 code),Sg — Seaborgium
SG,Senegal (FIPS 10-4 country code),Singapore (ISO 3166 digram),Snow Grains (METAR Code),Study Group
SGC,Server Gated Cryptography,Stargate Command,SGD — Singapore dollar (ISO 4217 currency code),SGML — Standard Generalized Markup Language,SGP — Singapore (ISO 3166 trigram)
SGS,South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (ISO 3166 trigram),Svalbard Ground Station (Landsat),Société Générale de Surveillance,SH[edit],sh — Serbo-Croatian language (ISO 639-1 code)
SH,Saint Helena (ISO 3166 digram),SONATRACH (Algerian petroleum company)
SHAC,Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty,Student Health Action Coalition,SHAPE — Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe,SHF — Super High Frequency,SHN — Saint Helena (ISO 3166 trigram)
SHO,Showtime (see also sho.com)
SI,Slovenia (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),Socialist International,Sports Illustrated,Système International (French,International System of Units),SIA — Singapore Airlines (ICAO code),SIA — Survivors of Incest Anonymous,SIAM — Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,SIC — Standard Industrial Classification,SICS — (a/i) Swedish Institute of Computer Science,SIDS — Sudden infant death syndrome,SIDU — select,insert,delete,update. See Create,read,update and delete,SIF — Selective Identification Feature,SIFF — Successor IFF
SIG,Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (German,"Swiss Industry Company"). See also SIG Sauer,a firearms manufacturer spun off from the aforementioned company in 2000.,.signature (UNIX shell/Internet standard file name),(a/i) Special Interest Group,SIGCAT — Special Interest Group for CD-ROM Applications and Technology,SIGINT — Signals Intelligence,SIGMET — Significant Meteorological Information
SIIT,Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies (Canadian university),Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (Thai university),Stateless IP/ICMP Translation algorithm,SIMAC — Semantic Interaction with Music Audio Contents,SIMLAS — Soldier Integrated Multipurpose Laser System,SIMM — Single In-line Memory Module,SIMNET — SIMulator NETwork,later SIMulation NETwork,SIMNET-D,SIMNET-Developmental,SIMP — Strongly Interacting Massive Particle
SIMPLE,Satellite Interactive Multimedia Platform for Low-cost Earth stations,Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (as used in SIMPLE IRA),Standard Interface for Multiple Platform Link Evaluation (NATO STANAG 5602),sin — Sinhalese language (ISO 639-2 code),SIN — Social Insurance Number (Canada),SINCGARS — SINgle Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System
Siri,Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface (Apple iOS software)
SISO,Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization,Society of Independent Show Organizers,SIW — Simulation Interoperability Workshop,SIYSS — Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar,SJ[edit]
SK,Saskatchewan (postal symbol),Slovakia (ISO 3166 digram),SKC — Clear Sky (METAR Code),SKK — Slovak koruna (ISO 4217 currency code),SKM — Sikkim (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1975),SL[edit],sl — Slovene language (ISO 639-1 code)
SL,Sierra Leone (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),Start Line
SLA,Service Level Agreement,Symbionese Liberation Army,SLAA — Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous,SLAC — Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,SLAN — sine loco,anno,nomine (Latin,“without place,year,or name”),SLAPP — Strategic lawsuit against public participation,SLB — Solomon Islands (ISO 3166 trigram),SLBM — Sea/Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile,SLC — Scan Line Corrector,SLE — Sierra Leone (ISO 3166 trigram),SLI/SLi,(i/s) Scan-Line Interleave,Scalable Link Interface,SLIT — SubLingual ImmunoTherapy,slk — Slovak language (ISO 639-2 code),SLL — Sierra Leone leone (ISO 4217 currency code),SLO — Slovenia (IOC trigram,but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
SLOC,Sea Lines Of Communication,Source Lines Of Code,SLORC — State Law and Order Restoration Council (of Burma)
SLP,Sea Level Pressure,Super Long Play,slph — Standard litre per hour (air flow),slpm — Standard litre per minute (air flow),slps — Standard litre per second (air flow),SLR — Single-Lens Reflex (camera)
SLT,Single Lens Translucent,Speech and language therapist,Solid Logic Technology (electronics),Swing Landing Trainer (paratroops),Secondary lymphoid tissue,slv — Slovenian language (ISO 639-2 code),SLV — El Salvador (ISO 3166 trigram),SM[edit],sm — Samoan language (ISO 639-1 code),Sm — Samarium
SM,Sado-Masochism,San Marino (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),Soldier's Manual,Submarine Minelayer (US Navy hull classification),SMA — Scan Mirror Assembly,SMART — Subject Matter And Requirements Team,SMASS — Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey,SMCT — Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks,SMD — Surface Mount Device,SMDR — Station Message Detail Recording,sme — Northern Sami language (ISO 639-2 code)
SME,Scan Mirror Electronics,Subject Matter Expert
SMX-many,including: Server Macro Expansion,Solaris MINIX,Spatial multiplexing,Sulfamethoxazole; see entry
SMZ-many,including: Silver Mt. Zion,Sulfamethazine,Sulfamethoxazole; see entry,SN[edit],sn — Shona language (ISO 639-1 code),Sn — Tin (Latin Stannum)
SN,Senegal (ISO 3166 digram),Singapore (FIPS 10-4 country code),Snow (METAR Code),SuperNova,Screen Name,sna — Shona language (ISO 639-2 code),SNAFU — “Situation Normal — All Fouled/Fucked Up”,SNAP — Supernova/Acceleration Probe,SNCB — Société nationale des chemins de fer de Belgique (French for “Belgian Railways National Society”,NMBS in Dutch),SNCF — Société nationale des chemins de fer français (French for “French Railways National Society”),snd — Sindhi language (ISO 639-2 code),SND — Standard Nomenclature Database,SNE — Synthetic Natural Environment,SNES — Super Nintendo Entertainment System,SNÉTA — Syndicat national pour l'étude des transports aériens (French for “Aerial transport Study National Syndicate”,1919-1923),SNG — Satellite News Gathering (television)
SNL,Saturday Night Live (television),Società Navigazione del Lago di Lugano,SNM — Special Nuclear Material,SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol,SNOBOL — StriNg Oriented symBOlic Language,SNP — Single-nucleotide polymorphism
SNR,SuperNova Remnant,Signal-to-Noise Ratio,SNRI — Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor,SNS — Spallation Neutron Source,SNU — Solar Neutrino Unit,SO[edit],so — Somali language (ISO 639-1 code)
SO,Shared Object (Unix),Sheriff's Office,Significant other,Somalia (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
SOA,service-oriented architecture,Society of Actuaries,State of the art
SOAP,Simple Object Access Protocol,Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (U.S. medical residency matching)
SOB,Son Of a Bitch,Same Old Bullshit,SOC — Sector Operations Centre,SOCCSKSARGEN — South Cotabato,Cotabato,Sultan Kudarat,Sarangani,General Santos City (a region in the Philippines; pronounced “sock-sar-gen”),SOCOM — (U.S.) Special Operations Command
SoCon,Southern Conference (U.S. college sports)
SOD,School Of Dentistry,Statement Of Difference[s],Statement Of Direction,Statement Of Documentation,Statement Of Duty/Duties
SOE,Secret Of Evermore,Special Operations Executive (WWII British organization),State Of Emissions (EW)
SOF-(a/i) Special Operations Force,Status of Forces,SOFIA — Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy
SOGAT,Society of Graphical and Allied Trades,Former British printing union,SOHC — Single-OverHead-Cam engine,SOHO — Solar and Heliospheric Observatory,SOI — Signal Operating Instruction,SOL — Shit Out of Luck,SOLIS — Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun,som — Somali language (ISO 639-2 code)
SOM,Simulation Object Model,Somalia (ISO 3166 trigram),Sonar — SOund Navigation And Ranging
SOP,Standing/Standard Operating Procedure,State of Play
SOR,State Of iness,Statement Of Requirements
SOS,Somali shilling (ISO 4217 currency code),Save Our Souls,SOSTAR — Stand-Off Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar,sot — Sotho language (ISO 639-2 code),SOUTHAG — Southern Army Group,SOUTHCOM — (U.S.) Southern Command,SOV — Single Occupant Vehicle,SOW — Statement Of Work,SOWHAT — RESNA Subcommittee on Wheelchairs and Transportation,SOX — Sarbanes-Oxley Act,SP[edit]
South-Sulphur/Sulfur,S0-9[edit],S4C — Sianel Pedwar Cymru (Welsh,"Channel Four Wales"),SA[edit],sa — Sanskrit language (ISO 639-1 code)
SP,Security Police,Self-Propelled,Shore Patrol,Spain (FIPS 10-4 country code),Start Point,Strong Point,spa — Spanish language (ISO 639-2 code),SPAAG — Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun,SPACECOM — (U.S.) Space Command,Spaser — Surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation,SPC — Secretariat of the Pacific Community,SPCO — Single-Pole Change Over
SPL,Scottish Premier League,Superior Parietal Lobule,Sound Pressure Level,SPM — Saint Pierre and Miquelon (ISO 3166 trigram),SPOD — (a/i) Sea Port of Debarkation,SPOE — (a/i) Sea Port of Embarkation,SPOT — Satellite pour l'observation de la Terre (French,“Satellite for Earth Observation”),SPQR — Senatus Populusque Romanus (Latin “The Senate and the People of Rome”),sps — sine prole superstite (Latin,“without surviving issue”),SPS — Standard Positioning Service (GPS),SPST — Single-Pole Single-Throw,SQ[edit],sq — Albanian language (ISO 639-1 code),SQ — Sound Quality,SQ — Standard Quality,sqi — Albanian language (ISO 639-2 code),SQL — (i/a) Structured Query Language (“seek-well”),SQUID — Superconducting QUantum Interference Device,SR[edit],sr — Serbian language (ISO 639-1 code),Sr — Strontium
SR,Sound Reinforcement,Supply Route,Suriname (ISO 3166 digram),Sveriges Radio (Swedish Radio Ltd),SR — Sustained release of a drug
SRL,Savannah River Laboratory,Single Rocket Launcher,Survival Research Labs,SRM — Specified Risk Material,srp — Serbian language (ISO 639-2 code),SRS — Savannah River Site,SRSP — Science and Religion in Schools Project,SRTP — [Secure Real-time Transport Protocol],SS[edit],ss — Swati language (ISO 639-1 code)
SSA,Cargo Submarine (US Navy hull classification),Social Security Administration (U.S.),Statistics South Africa,SSB — Single-sideband modulation,SSB — Sacramento Sustainable Business,SSBN — Nuclear-Powered Ballistic Missile Submarine (US Navy hull classification)
SSC,Safe,Sane,Consensual (SM phrase),Secondary Somatosensory Cortex,Smaller-Scale Contingency,U.S. Army Soldiers System Center (Natick,Massachusetts),Superconducting Super Collider,SSCCATAGAPP — Singles,Seniors,Childless Couples,And Teens And Gays Against Parasitic Parents (fictional organization from The Simpsons)
SSD,Solid-state drive,South Sudan (ISO 3166 trigram),SSDC — U.S. Space and Strategic Defense Command
SSE,South South-East,Streaming SIMD Extensions,SSG — Guided Missile Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification),SSGN — Nuclear-Powered Guided Missile Submarine (US Navy hull classification),SSH — Saffir-Simpson Hurricane scale,SSK — Hunter-Killer Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification),SSKP — Single-Shot Kill Probability,SSL — Secure Sockets Layer,SSM — Surface-to-Surface (Guided) Missile
SSN,Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarine (US Navy hull classification),SIM Serial Number,Social Security Number (U.S.),Socialist Solidarity Network,Subsystem number (SCCP,SS7),SSNW — Same Shit,New Wrapping,SSO — Submarine Oiler (retired US Navy hull classification),SSP — Submarine Transport (retired US Navy hull classification)
SSR,Radar Picket Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification),Solid State Recorder
SSRI,Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor,Social Systems Research Institute
SSRN,Social Science Research Network,Nuclear-Powered Radar Picket Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification)
SSS,Siding Spring Survey,Side Side Side (an acronym for remembering congruent triangles),Sigue Sigue Sputnik (band),S/SSM — Surface-to-Subsurface Missile
SST,SuperSonic Transport,Training Submarine (US Navy hull classification),Saturated Suction Temperature (refrigeration cycles),SSTO — Single-Stage To Orbit,SSV — Soft-Skinned Vehicle (i.e.,unarmoured),ssw — Swati language (ISO 639-2 code),SSW — South South-West,ST[edit],st — Sotho language (ISO 639-1 code)
ST,Saint Lucia (FIPS 10-4 country code),São Tomé and Príncipe (ISO 3166 digram)
STA,Scheduled Time of Arrival,Surveillance and Target Acquisition,STAG — (U.S.) Strategy and Tactics Group,STAGE — Scenario Toolkit And Generation Environment,STANAG — (NATO) Standardisation Agreement
STAR,Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (NASA),Simulation of Tactical Alternative Responses,Special Threat Analysis and Recognition
STAT,Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription (cell biology),Special Tertiary Admissions Test (Australia)
STB,Surface Transportation Board[2]
STD,São Tomé and Príncipe dobra (ISO 4217 currency code),Sexually Transmitted Disease,STDM — Statistical Time Division Multiplexing,STENTOR — Satellite de télécommunications pour expérimenter de nouvelles technologies en orbite (French,“Orbital New Technology Experimental Telecommunications Satellite”)
STFU,Southern Tenant Farmers Union,Stuff You[citation needed],STH — Sonic The Hedgehog
STI,Sexually Transmitted Infection,Subaru Tecnica International,STK — Satellite Tool Kit,STM — Short Term Memory,STOL — Short Take-Off and Landing,STOVL — Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing
STP,São Tomé and Príncipe (ISO 3166 trigram),Standard Temperature and Pressure,STR — Short Tandem Repeat (DNA analysis),STRATCOM — United States Strategic Command
SU,Soviet Union (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1992),Sudan (FIPS 10-4 country code),SUB — Student Union Building,SuD — Subject under Discussion,SUDC — Swedish United Dawah Center,a salafist Islamic organisation in Sweden
SUI,Sonic user interface,Switzerland (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166),SUK — Start Up Kit,sun — Sundanese language (ISO 639-2 code),SUN — ,Soviet Union (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1992),Stanford University Network that led to Sun Microsystems,SUNY — State University of New York (usually pronounced “sue-knee”),SUR — Suriname (ISO 3166 trigram),SURTASS — Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System,SUSAT — Sight Unit Small Arms,Trilux,SUV — Sport Utility Vehicle,SV[edit],sv — Swedish language (ISO 639-1 code)
SV,El Salvador (ISO 3166 digram),Sportverein (German for “Sport Association”,as in Hamburger SV and SV Werder Bremen),SVC — Secondary Visual Cortex,SvD — Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish newspaper)
SVD,Singular Value Decomposition,Snaiperskaya Vintovka Dragunova (Снайперская винтовка Драгунова,Russian for “Dragunov Sniper Rifle”),SVG — Scalable Vector Graphics,SVK — Slovakia (ISO 3166 trigram),SVM — Support Vector Machine (artificial intelligence),SVN — Slovenia (ISO 3166 and FIFA trigram),SVO — subject-verb-object,SVR — Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki (Служба Внешней Разведки,Russian for "Foreign Intelligence Service"),SW[edit],sw — Swahili language (ISO 639-1 code)
SW,South-West ordinal direction,Sweden (FIPS 10-4 country code),Shortwave,swa — Swahili language (ISO 639-2 code)
SWA,Secure Web Access,South-West Asia
SWAC,Southwestern Athletic Conference
SWALK,Sealed With A Loving Kiss,
SWAN,System for Wearable Audio Navigation
SWAP,Surface Waters Acidification Programme,
SWAPO,South-West Africa People's Organisation,
SWAT,Special Weapons And Tactics
SWE — Sweden (ISO 3166 trigram)
swe,Swedish language (ISO 639-2 code)
SWF,Single White Female
SWG,Surface Warfare Group,Symbology Working Group,SWHR — Society for Women's Health Research,SWIG — Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator,SWIR — (a/i) Short Wave InfraRed (“ss-why-are” or “swhirr”)
SWLABR,She Was Like A Bearded Rainbow,Cream song (Bruce,Clapton and Baker),SWORD — Subjective WORkload Dominance,SWORDS — Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System,SWOT — Strengths,Weaknesses,Opportunities,Threats (mnemonic)
SWP,Special Working Party (“swipp”),Systematic Westing Plan (a plan of periodic westing of shares or mutual funds worth a fixed amount of money),Skill With Prizes (UK pub quiz machines — quality titles include: Pub Quiz,Quiz City,Frog in a Liquidizer,Who Wants To Win a Tenner?),SWT — Sea Water Tank,SWV — Sisters With Voices (American female R&B vocal group),SWZ — Swaziland (ISO 3166 trigram),SX[edit],SX — Sonic X
SXM,Scanning X-ray Microscope,Sint Maarten (ISO 3166 trigram),Stream X-Machine,SY[edit],SY — Syria (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),SYC — Seychelles (ISO 3166 trigram),SYP — Syrian pound (ISO 4217 currency code),SYR — Syria (ISO 3166 trigram),Syriza — Synaspismós Rizospastikís Aristerás (Greek Συνασπισμός Ριζοσπαστικής Αριστεράς,"Coalition of the Radical Left"),SysML — System Modeling Language,Sysop — System Operator,SZ[edit]
SZ,Swaziland (ISO 3166 digram),Switzerland (FIPS 10-4 country code),SZL — Swaziland lilangeni (ISO 4217 currency code),References[edit],^ Society of Automotive Engineers,^ Replaced Interstate Commerce Commission on January 1st,1996,v,t,e,List of acronyms,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z,Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_acronyms:_S&oldid=694527511",Categories: Lists of abbreviationsHidden categories: All articles with unsourced statementss with unsourced statements from December 2015,Navigation menu,Personal tools,Not logged inContributionsCreate accountLog in,Namespaces,,,,,,,View history,
T,Tera,Tesla,Tritium
ta,Tamil language (ISO 639-1 code)
Ta,Tantalum
TA,Target Acquisition,Teaching Assistant,Tera-ampere,Territorial Army (UK),Tristan da Cunha (ISO 3166 digram)
TAA,Transparency Anti-Aliasing,Trans Australia Airlines
TAACOM,U.S. Theater Army Area Command
TAADCOORD,Theatre Army Air Defence Co-ordinator
TAAR,Trace Amine-Associated Receptor
TAC,U.S. Tactical Air Command (1946-1992)
TACAN,Tactical Air Navigation
TACC,Tactical Air Control Centre,(USAF) Tanker Airlift Control Center
TACCO,Tactical Coordinator
TACCSF,U.S. Theater Aerospace Command & Control Simulation Facility
TACDAR,Tactical Detection And Reporting
TACP,Tactical Air Control Party,Technology Applications Certification Program
TC,Teracoulomb,Turks and Caicos (ISO 3166 digram),United Arab Emirates (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Trucial Coast States)
TCA,Transformational Communications Architecture,Turks and Caicos (ISO 3166 trigram)
TCAA,Top Counter-Assault Agents
TCAS,Traffic Collision Avoidance System
TCCCS,"Tactical Command,Control and Communication System"
TCD,Chad (ISO 3166 trigram)
TCG,Trusted Computing Group,Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Gemisi
TCHD,Truck Cargo Heavy Duty
TCL,Tool Command Language
TCM,Turner Classic Movies
TCP,Traffic Control Point,Transmission Control Protocol,Trichlorophenol
TCU,Texas Christian University
TCW,Tasty Coma Wife
TCWMS,Tele-Center Workforce Management System
TD,Territorial Decoration,Toon Disney,Toronto-Dominion (Bank); see also its U.S. subsidiary,TD Bank,N.A.,Touchdown,Tower Defence A game type,involves defending waves of enemies using tower
TDA,The Disney Afternoon
TDL,Tactical Data Link
TDM,Time-Division Multiplexing
TDMA,Time Division Multiple Access
TDP,Technology Demonstration Programme
TDRS,Tracking Data and Relay Satellite
TE,Tactical Exploitation,Testosterone to Epitestosterone ratio,Tight end (American football; position generally not used in modern Canadian football)
Te,Tellurium
te,Telugu language (ISO 639-1 code)
TEAL,Tasman Empire Airways Limited
Team,Together everyone achieves more
TEAMS,The East African Marine System (fiber optic cable)
TENCAP,Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities
TERS,Tactical Event Reporting System
TES,Tactical Event System
TEST,Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms
TEU,Twenty-foot equivalent unit (cargo capacity)
TeVeS,Tensor Vector Scalar theory
TF -
TFMPP,Trifluorophenylmethylpiperazine
TFR,Total Fertility Rate
TFT,Thin-Film Transistor
tg,Tajik language (ISO 639-1 code)
Tg,Teragram
TG,Togo (ISO 3166 digram)
TGA,Tonga (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
TGB,Tres grande bibliothèque (French,"Very Large Library"),a sarcastic nickname for the Bibliothèque nationale de France
TGIF,Thank God It's Friday,Toes Go In First
tgk,Tajik language (ISO 639-2 code)
tgl,Tagalog language (ISO 639-2 code)
TGO,Togo (ISO 3166 trigram)
TGT,Target (also the ticker symbol for Target Corporation),Ticket Granting Ticket (computer security),Tyrese,Ginuwine,Tank,see TGT (group) for their collaboration
TGV,Tanjong Golden Village (Malaysian cinema chain),Tanora malaGasy Vonona (Malagasy,"Young Malagasies Determined",political party),Test Generation with Verification,Train à grande vitesse (French for "High-Speed Train"),TH[edit]
TH,Terahenry,Thailand (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
th,Thai language (ISO 639-1 code)
Th,Thorium
tha,Thai language (ISO 639-2 code)
THA,Thailand (ISO 3166 trigram)
THAAD,(a/i) Terminal High Altitude Area Defence
THB,Thai baht (ISO 4217 currency code)
THEGENTRY,The High-End Group of Earth's New Technologies Research Yield
THEL,Tactical High Energy Laser ACTD
THG,Tetrahydrogestrinone
Thulium-
TI,Tajikistan (FIPS 10-4 country code),Thermal Imaging,Threat Identification,Training Instructor,Texas Instruments
Ti,Tebi,Titanium
ti,Tigrinya language (ISO 639-1 code)
TIA,Total Information Awareness initiative
TIA,Transient Ischemic Attack
TIALD,Thermal Imaging and Airborne Laser Designation
TIBS,Tactical Information Broadcast System
TIC,Troops In Contact
TID,Target Identification,ter in die (Latin,"three times daily")
TIGERS,Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System
TIM,Technical Information Memorandum,Technical Interchange Meeting,Toxic Industrial Material,Telecom Italia Mobile
TIMS,Tactical Internet Management System,The Institute of Management Sciences,The International Molinological Society,Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner,Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry,Travel Information Management Services,Tuberculosis Information Management System
TINC,There Is No Cabal
TINY,That Is,Not You (internet slang)
TIP,Thermal Identification Panel
tir,Tigrinya language (ISO 639-2 code)
tits,Toes in the Sand
TJ,Tajikistan (ISO 3166 digram),Terajoule
TJD,Truncated Julian Day
TJK,Tajikistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
TJS,Tajik somoni (ISO 4217 currency code)
TK,Terakelvin,Tokelau (ISO 3166 digram)
tk,Turkmen language (ISO 639-1 code)
TKBL,Türkiye 1. Kadınlar Basketbol Ligi,the Turkish-language name of the Turkish Women's Basketball League
TKL,Tokelau (ISO 3166 trigram)
TKM,Turkmenistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
tl,Tagalog language (ISO 639-1 code)
TL,Team Leader,Teralitre,Timor-Leste (ISO 3166 digram),ThermoLuminescence,TL;DR ,Too long; didn’t read.
Tl,Thallium
TLA,Three-Letter Abbreviation/Acronym
TLAM,Tomahawk Land Attack Missile
TLAR,That Looks About Right (chat shorthand),Transporter-Launcher And Radar
TLATOJL,The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
TLC,Tender Loving Care,The Learning Channel (now known strictly by the initials),Thin Layer Chromatography,T-Boz,Lefteye,Chilli,Tables,Ladders,and Chairs (type of professional wrestling match)
TLD,Thermoluminescent Dosimeter,Top-Level Domain
TLM,Traditional Latin Mass,Tridentine Latin Mass,Transaction Lifecycle Management
TLPM,T1 Line Performance Monitor
TLS,Timor-Leste (ISO 3166 trigram),Times Literary Supplement,TM[edit]
TM,Technical Manual,Theatre Missile,Thematic Mapper,trademark (often written in small superscript type: TM or ™),Turing machine,Turkmenistan (ISO 3166 digram) Tympanic Membrane
Tm,Terametre
TMA,Terminal Manoeuvring Area (restricted flying zone),Texas Medical Association,Tristeza y muerte de agave (Spanish,"wilting and death of agave"),a disease affecting the blue agave,from which the popular spirit tequila is produced
TMAP,(a/i) Texas Medication Algorithm Project
TMC,The Movie Channel
TMD,Theatre Missile Defence
TMDK,The Mighty Don't Kneel (Australian professional wrestling stable also active in Japan)
TMI,Too Much Information
TMJ,TemporoMandibular Joint (syndrome)
TMM,Turkmen manat (ISO 4217 currency code)
TMNT,Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
TMO,Table Mountain Observatory,Television match official (rugby union)
TMP,East Timor (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 2002),Temporary
TMPG,Transparent Multi-Platform Gateway
TMR,Twin Main Rotors (helicopter type)
TMS,Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
TMT,Thirty Meter Telescope
TMTOWTDI,There's Than One Way To Do It (from Perl)
TMZ,Thirty-Mile Zone,an area in and around Los Angeles considered "local" under entertainment industry union work rules
TN,Tennessee (postal symbol),Teranewton,Tonga (FIPS 10-4 country code),Tunisia (ISO 3166 digram)
tn,Tswana language (ISO 639-1 code)
TNA,Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
TND,Tunisian dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
TNO,Trans-Neptunian Object
TNT,Thomas Nationwide Transport,an Australian company that was one of the predecessors to the former TNT N.V. and the current TNT Express,TriNitroToluene,(a/i) Turner Network Television,TO[edit]
TO,Togo (FIPS 10-4 country code),Tonga (ISO 3166 digram)
to,Tongan language (ISO 639-1 code)
TOA,Table Of Authorities,Total Obligation Authority (accounting)
TOAD,Temporary,Obsolete,Abandoned,or Derelict site (urbanism),Towed Optical Assessment Device
TOBS,Time of OBServation
TOC-(a/i) Table Of Contents,Tactical Operations Centre,Temporo-Occipital transition Cortex,Top of Concrete,To-do,To-do-List
TOS,Tape Operating System,Terms of service,The Original Series,used to distinguish the first Star Trek TV series from other parts of the media franchise,Tramiel Operating System
TT,Teratesla,Terrestrial Time,Tourist Trophy (Motorcycle sport),Trinidad and Tobago (ISO 3166 digram)
TTCT,Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
TTD,Trinidad and Tobago dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
TTFN,Ta Ta For Now
TTL,Tax,Title,License,Through-the-lens (photography),Time 'till live,Time to live,Transistor-transistor logic
TTO,Trinidad and Tobago (ISO 3166 trigram)
TTP,Tactics,Techniques,and Procedures,Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura,Trailer Transfer Point
TTTEAF,Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
TTY,TeleTYpewriter (Printer)
TTYL, To You Later (Internet slang)
TTZ,Tetrazolium
TU,Technische Universität (German for "Technical University"),Thammasat University (Thailand),Turkey (FIPS 10-4 country code)
TUC,Trades Union Congress
TUG,TeX Users Group
TUI,(a/i) Text-based user interface (cf. CLI),among other uses
tuk,Turkmen language (ISO 639-2 code)
TUN,Tunisia (ISO 3166 trigram)
TUNS,Technical University of Nova Scotia
TUR,Turkey (ISO 3166 trigram)
Tur,Turkish language (ISO 639-2 code)
TUSK,Tank Urban Survival Kit
TUV,Tuvalu (ISO 3166 trigram)
TV,Television,Teravolt,Transvestite,Tuvalu (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
Tv,Time value,a designation seen on some camera dials for shutter priority mode
TVA,Tennessee Valley Authority
TVG-(p/i) Television Games (Network),Tick,Very Good,Often used by School Teachers when marking homework etc. (Tick VG)[1][2]
TVR,TreVor (Wilkinson) Racing
TVS,Tornado vortex signature
TW,Republic of China (Taiwan) (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),Terawatt
tw,Twi language (ISO 639-1 code)
TWAIN,Technology Without An Interesting Name
TWD,Taiwan dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
TWE,Trans World Entertainment
TWI,The Welding Institute
twi,Twi language (ISO 639-2 code)
TWIP,Take What Insurance Pays,When a surgeon agrees to accept a lower payment than he ordinarily would for a procedure and not charge the patient the difference
TWN,Republic of China (Taiwan) (ISO 3166 trigram)
TWP,Technical Working Paper
TWS,Thermal Weapon Sight,Track While Scan
TX,Texas (postal symbol),Transmit,Turkmenistan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
TXV,Thermostatic Expansion Valve
ty,Tahitian language (ISO 639-1 code)
TYT,Take Your Time,Internet chat abbreviation
TZ,Tanzania (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
TZA,Tanzania (ISO 3166 trigram)
TZC,Tetrazolium chloride
TZS,Tanzanian shilling (ISO 4217 currency code)
U,Uranium
UA,Ukraine (ISO 3166 digram) Unit of Action
UAAP,University Athletic Association of the Philippines
UAB,University of Alabama at Birmingham
UAE,United Arab Emirates (also IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
UAH,Ukrainian hryvnia (ISO 4217 currency code),University of Alabama in Huntsville
UAR,Uniformly At Random (probability),Unión Argentina de Rugby (Spanish for "Argentine Rugby Union"),United Arab Republic
UAV,Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,Unprotected Anal and Vaginal sex,UB[edit]
UBC,United Baptist Church,University of British Columbia
UBIGEO,Ubicación Geografica (Spanish for Geographical Location)
UBS,Unbundled Bitstream Services,United Bank of Switzerland,United Banque Suisse
UCBSA,United Cricket Board of South Africa
UCF,University of Central Florida
UCI,Union Cycliste Internationale (French,"International Cycling Union"),University of California,Irvine
UCLA,"University of California at Los Angeles"
UCLES,University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
UCR,"University of California at Riverside"
UCR,University of Costa Rica
UCS,Union of Concerned Scientists
UCSB,"University of California at Santa Barbara"
UCSD,"University of California at San Diego"
UDAS,Uppsala-DLR Asteroid Survey
UDDI,"Universal Description,Discovery and Integration"
UDTS,Uppsala-DLR Trojan Survey
UE,Unit of Employment
UEFA,Union of European Football Associations
UESAC,Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets
UFC,Ultimate Fighting Championship
UFO,"Unidentified Flying Object, or: United Farmers of Ontario"
UG,Uganda (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
ug,Uyghur language (ISO 639-1 code)
UGA,Uganda (ISO 3166 trigram)
UGV,Unmanned Ground Vehicle
UGX,Ugandan shilling (ISO 4217 currency code)
UHF,Ultra High Frequency
UHMW,Ultra-High Molecular Weight
UHRB,Ultra-High Resolution Building (simulation)
UIC,University of Illinois at Chicago
UID,User ID
uig,Uyghur language (ISO 639-2 code)
UIL,University Interscholastic League (governing body for most interscholastic activities,notably sports,in Texas public high schools)
UIUC,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
UJTL,Universal Joint Task List
uk,Ukrainian language (ISO 639-1 code)
UK,United Kingdom (also FIPS 10-4 country code),University of Kentucky
UKIP,United Kingdom Independence Party
UKR,Ukraine (ISO 3166 trigram)
ukr,Ukrainian language (ISO 639-2 code)
UL,Underwriters Laboratories
ULEB,Union des ligues européens de basket-ball,French for "Union of European Basketball Leagues"
ULF,Ultra Low Frequency
UM,U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
UMBC,University of Maryland,Baltimore County
UMC,United Microelectronics Corporation,University of Missouri-Columbia
UMCP,Unit Maintenance Collection Point
UMES,University of Maryland Eastern Shore
UMI,U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
UMIST,University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
UMK,Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (Polish "Nicolaus Copernicus University")
UML,Unified Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Nepal,Unified Modeling Language,University of Massachusetts Lowell,User-Mode Linux
UMTS,Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UN,United Nations
UNABOM,University and airline bomber (FBI case name)
UNAIDS,(i/a) Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
UNaM,(p/a) Universidad Nacional de Misiones (Spanish,"National University of Misiones")
UNAM,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Spanish,"National Autonomous University of Mexico")
UNAMSIL,United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
UNCF,United Negro College Fund
UNCLOS,United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
UNCSGN,United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names
UNCTAD,United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNDCP,United Nations Drug Control Programme
UNDE,(i/a) Union of National Defence Employees (Canada)
UNDP,United Nations Development Programme
UNEP,United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO,United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFCCC,United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNFICYP,United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
UNGEGN,United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
UNHCR,United Nations High Commission (er) for Refugees
UNICEF,United Nations Children's Fund (originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund)
UNICRI,United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
UNIDO,United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNIFEM,United Nations Development Fund for Women (from the French Fonds de développement des Nations unies pour la femme)
UNIS,University of Surrey,Guildford,England
UNLV,University of Nevada,Las Vegas
UNMIK,United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
UNMOVIC,United Nations Monitoring,Verification and Inspection Commission
UNOSOM,United Nations Operations in Somalia
UNPROFOR,United Nations Protection Force (in former Yugoslavia)
UNRISD,United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
UNSM,Union of Nova Scotian Municipalities
UNTAC,United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
UNTAET,(i/a) United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor
UPDM,Uganda People's Democratic Movement,Unified Modeling Language Profile for DoDAF and MoDAF,Unité de psychiatrie du développement mental,Universal Pattern Decomposition Method,Unix Power Device Management,Unpressurized Docking Mast,Urban Planning,Design and Management
UPS,Uninterruptible Power Supply,United Parcel Service
UPTN,Universal Personal Telecommunications Number,Upper Peninsula Telehealth Network
UPU,Universal Postal Union
UR,Soviet Union (NATO country code,obsolete 1992)
ur,Urdu language (ISO 639-1 code)
URBSFA,Union royale belge des sociétés de football association (French for Royal Belgian Football Association)
urd,Urdu language (ISO 639-2 code)
URD,User Requirements Document
URI,Uniform Resource Identifier,University of Rhode Island
URL,(a/i) Uniform Resource Locator ("earl")
URU,Uruguay (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
URY,Uruguay (ISO 3166 trigram)
US,United States (also ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
USA,United States of America (also ISO 3166 trigram),United States Army
USAADAC,U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center,Fort Bliss,Texas
USAARMC,U.S. Army ARMor Center,Fort Knox,Kentucky
USAAVNC,U.S. Army AViatioN Center,Fort Rucker,Alabama
USAF,United States Air Force
USAFSPC,U.S. Air Force Space Command
USAIC,U.S. Army Infantry Center,U.S. Army Intelligence Center
USAID,(a/i) United States Agency for International Development
USAP,Union Sportive des Arlequins Perpignanais,United States Antarctic Program
USAPATRIOT,Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
USAREUR,United States Army Europe
USB,Universal Serial Bus
USC,United States Code,University of South Carolina,University of Southern California
USCG,United States Coast Guard
USCINCSPACE,United States Commander in Chief,Space Command
USD,(U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense* USD(A&T),(U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology),United States dollar (ISO 4217 currency code),USD(AT&L),(U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,Technology,and Logistics,USD(C),(U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
USDA,United States Department of Agriculture
USDI,United States Department of the Interior
USDOE,United States Department of Energy
USDRE,(U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1978-1986)
USEC,United States Enrichment Corporation
USFL,United States Football League
USFWS,United States Fish and Wildlife Service
USGS,United States Geological Survey
USIA,United States Information Agency
USJFCOM,United States Joint Forces Command
USL,United Soccer League,a third-level U.S. league. Not to be confused with an earlier league of the same name.,United Soccer Leagues,the organization that operates the above league,plus several other lower-level leagues,University of Southwestern Louisiana,a former name for the school now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
USMC,United States Marine Corps
USMNT,United States men's national (soccer) team
USN,United States Navy
USNA,United States National Arboretum,United States Naval Academy
USNB,United States Naval Base
USNG,United States National Grid
USNH,United States Naval Hospital
USNI,United States Naval Institute
USNO,U.S. Naval Observatory
USNOFS,United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station
USNP,United States Newspaper Program
USNR,United States Navy Reserve
USNS,United States Naval Ship
USNY,University of the State of New York (usually pronounced "use-knee")
USNZ,University Sport New Zealand
USPS,United States Postal Service
USPTO,United States Patent and Trademark Office
USR,Universal System Resources (/usr,directory in a *NIX filesystem),User
USS,United States ship (sometimes meaningless; see Star Trek)
USSPACECOM,United States Space Command
USSR,Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
UST,Underground Storage Tank
USTRANSCOM,United States Transportation Command
USWNT,United States women's national (soccer) team
UT,Universal Time
UTEP,(a/i) University of Texas at El Paso (pronounced you-tep)
UU,Unitarian Universalism,University of Utah,Unseen University
UUA,Unitarian Universalist Association
UUID,Universally Unique Identifier (see also GUID)
UUV,Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
UV,Burkina Faso (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Upper Volta),ultraviolet
UVM,Universal Verification Methodology,Universidad del Valle de México,University of Vermont,from its Latin name of Universitas Viridis Montis ("University of the Green Mountains"),UV mapping,UW[edit]
UW,University of Washington
UWO,University of Western Ontario
UWT,Under Water Telephone
UWTG,Under Water Tug
UWW,United World Wrestling
UXO,Unexploded Ordnance
UY,Uruguay (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
UYU,Uruguayan peso uruguayo (ISO 4217 currency code)
uz,Uzbek language (ISO 639-1 code)
UZ,Uzbekistan (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
uzb,Uzbek language (ISO 639-2 code)
UZB,Uzbekistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
UZS,Uzbek som (ISO 4217 currency code)
V,5 (in Roman numerals),Vanadium,Volt
VA,Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 digram),Veterans Affairs (U.S. Department of),Virginia (postal symbol),Various Artists
VACIS,Vehicle And Container Inspection System
VACIS,Victorian Ambulance Clinical Information System
VANOS,Variable Nockenwelle System
VAO,Vienna Art Orchestra
VAT,Value-Added Tax,Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 trigram)
VB,Victoria Bitter (beer),Visual Basic
VBA,Visual Basic for Applications
VC,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Victoria Cross
VCDS,(Canada) Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff,VAG-COM Diagnostic System
VCJCS,Vice Chairman,Joint Chiefs of Staff
vCJD,Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
VCNO,(U.S.) Vice Chief of Naval Operations
VCofS,Vice Chief of Staff
VCR,Video cassette recorder
VCT,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO 3166 trigram)
VD,North Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram,obsolete 1977),Venereal Disease
VDFS,VisualSVN Distributed File System (VDFS)
VDMOS,(i/a) Vertical Double-diffused MOS transistor ("vee-dee-moss")
VDOT,(i/a) Virginia Department of Transportation ("vee-dot")
VDR,North Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram,obsolete 1977)
ve,Venda language (ISO 639-1 code)
VE,Venezuela (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
VEB,Venezuelan bolívar (ISO 4217 currency code)
VEEGA,Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist manœuvre
ven,Venda language (ISO 639-2 code)
VEN,Venezuela (ISO 3166 trigram)
VERDI,Vittorio Emanuele Re D'Italia (Victor Emmanuel,King of Italy)
VERITAS,Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System
VFA,Victorian Football Association (historic Australian rules football league),Volatile Fatty Acid
VfD,s for deletion (used in Wikipedia)
VFL,Victorian Football League,the name of two distinct Australian rules football leagues:
VFM,Value For Money
VFMO,Very Fast Moving Object (astronomy)
VFT,Virtual Function Table
VFW,Veterans of Foreign Wars
VG,British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
VGB,British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
VH1,(a/i) Video Hits One
VHF,Very High Frequency
VI,6 (in Roman numerals),British Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code),U.S. Virgin Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram),vide infra (Latin,"see below"),Virtual Instrument (LabVIEW)
vi,Vietnamese language (ISO 639-1 code)
VIA,Versatile Interface Adapter
VIC,Victoria,Australia (postal symbol),Video Interface Chip,Virginia Intermont College
VIDS,Visual Information Display System
vie,Vietnamese language (ISO 639-2 code)
VII,7 (in Roman numerals)
VIII,8 (in Roman numerals)
VIN,(i/a) Vehicle Identification Number (ISO 3779)
VIP,Very Important Person
VIR,U.S. Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram),Virgin Atlantic Airways (ICAO code)
VIS,Vavoua International School,Vienna Independent Shorts,Viewable Image Size,Visual Instruction Set
VISCII,VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange
VIT,Vellore Institute of Technology
VIVO,Video In Video Out
VJ,Video Jockey
VK,Australia (ham radio code),Västerbottens-Kuriren,a Swedish daily newspaper
VLA,Very Large Array,(UK) Veterinary Laboratories Agency
VLAD,(a/i) Vertical Line Array DIFAR
VLBA,Very Long Baseline Array
VLF,Very Low Frequency
VLIW,Very Long Instruction Word
VLPFC,VentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
VLPMC,VentroLateral PreMotor Cortex
VLSF,Very Loud,Stink-Free
VLSI,Very-large-scale integration
VLVS,Very Loud,Very Stinky
VM,Vietnam (FIPS 10-4 country code)
VMASC,(i/a) Virginia Modeling Analysis & Simulation Center ("vee-mask")
VMF,Marine Fighting Squadron of the United States Marine Corps
VMF,Variable Message Format
VMN,VentroMedial Nucleus (neurophysiology)
VN,Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram)
VND,Vietnamese đồng (ISO 4217 currency code)
VNIR,Visible and Near InfraRed
VNM,Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram)
VNS,see entry
vo,Volapük language (ISO 639-1 code)
VOA,Voice of America
VOC,Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company),Volatile organic compounds
VOIP,Voice Over Internet Protocol
vol,Volapük language (ISO 639-2 code)
VOLT,Visual OpenType Layout Tool
Volvo,Swedish supplier of commercial vehicles owned by Ford Motor Company. "Volvo" means "I roll" in Latin.
VS,Very Special (brandy grade),vide supra (Latin,"see above")
VSAT,Very Small Aperture Terminal ("vee-satt")
VSHORAD,Very Short Range Air Defence
VSO,Voluntary Services Overseas
VSOP,Variations séculaires des orbites planétaires (French,"Planetary Orbit Secular Variations"),Very Small Outline Package (integrated circuit),Very Superior Old Pale (brandy grade),VLBI Space Observatory Programme
VSR,Very Special Relativity
VT,Vatican City-State (FIPS 10-4 country code),Vermont (postal symbol),Video tape,Virginia Tech
VTC,Video Tele-Conference
VTEC,Variable valve Timing and Electronic lift Control
WRVS,Women's Royal Voluntary Service,now only known by the acronym (UK)
WS,Samoa (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram; from the country's former name of Western Samoa),Writer to the Signet (a Scottish solicitor)
WSC,Weapon System Catalogue
WSDL,Web Services Description Language
WSJ,(The) Wall Street Journal
WSL,White Star Line (shipping company),Women's Super League,used to describe England's top women's association football league and top women's rugby union competition,Workers' Socialist League (UK political party)
WSM,Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram; from Western Samoa),Winchester Short Magnum (family of rifle cartridges)
WSMR,(a/i) White Sands Missile Range ("whiz-murr")
WSROC,Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils
WSSM,Winchester Super Short Magnum (family of rifle cartridges)
WST,Water Soluble Tetrazolium (assay),Samoan tālā (ISO 4217 currency code)
WSTC,Women Signallers Territorial Corps (World WarII UK)
WSW,West South-West
WTB,Wales Tourism Board,Warenterminbörse Hannover
WTB,Want to Buy (a commonly used phrase in the online game "World of Warcraft")
WTC,World Trade Center
WTF,What the fuck?; also What a Terrible Failure (android)
WTFH,What The Fucking Hell
WTH,What the Hell
WTO,World Trade Organization
WTS,Want to Sell (a commonly used phrase in the online game "World of Warcraft")
WU,Wabash University,Washington University in St. Louis,Western Union,Windows Update,Work unit,WU Wien (German Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien,Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration)
WUBU2,What you been up to
WUU2,What you up to,Internet slang popular with teenagers.
WV,West Virginia (postal symbol)
WVA,World Veterinary Association
WVIAC,West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
WVR,Women's Volunteer Reserve (World WarII UK)
WVSC,Women's Volunteer Service Corps (World WarII Canada)
WVU,West Virginia University
WVUIT,West Virginia University Institute of Technology (note,however,that the initialism is almost never used; the popular name of the school is "WVU Tech")
WW,see entry
WWE,World Wrestling Entertainment
WWF,World Wide Fund for Nature,from its original name of World Wildlife Fund,which remains the legal name in the U.S. and Canada,World Wrestling Federation
WWI,World WarI
WWII,World WarII
WWIII,World WarIII
WWJD,"What would Jesus do?"
WWS,Wheaton Warrenville South High School
WWV,Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (catalog of the works of Richard Wagner,and callsign of NIST's shortwave radio station in Fort Collins,Colorado)
WWWF,World Wide Wrestling Federation
WXO,Weather [Executive] Officer
WY,Wyoming (postal symbol)
WYSIWYG,What You See Is What You Get (pronounced "wizzy-wig". See entry for derived acronyms)
WYSIWYP,What You See Is What You Print / What You See Is What You Pay ("wizzy-whip")
WZ,Swaziland (FIPS 10-4 country code)
XAF,BEAC (Banque des états de l'Afrique centrale) Central Africa CFA (Coopération financière en Afrique centrale) franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
XAG,Silver Troy ounce (ISO 4217 currency code)
XAU,Gold Troy ounce (ISO 4217 currency code)
XBA,European Composite Unit (EURCO; Bonds market unit) (ISO 4217 currency code)
XBB,European Monetary Unit (E.M.U.; Bonds market unit) (ISO 4217 currency code)
XBML,eXtended Business Modelling Language
XC,Ninety (in Roman numerals)
XCBL,XML Common Business Library
XCD,East Caribbean dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
XD,Used in chatrooms or email for smiley face. X is the eyes; squinted D is the mouth; XD.
Xe,Xenon
XF,Automobile made by Jaguar,Truck made by DAF Trucks,IATA code for Vladivostok Air
XFA,XML Forms Architecture
XFC,Xtreme Fighting Championships
XFD,Fighter aircraft made by Douglas
Xfe,X File Explorer
XFF,X-Forwarded-For
XFG,Exfoliation glaucoma
XFH,1932 rototype U.S. Navy fighter aircraft made by Hall,X-ray fluorescence holography
XFN,XHTML Friends Network,
XFR,Automobile made by Jaguar
XFT,X FreeType interface library
XG,Automobile made by Hyundai
XGA,Extended Graphics Array
XGE,Xoreax Grid Engine,Signal for "I Surrender"
XGP,Extreme Game Player
xh,Xhosa language (ISO 639-1 code)
xho,Xhosa language (ISO 639-2 code)
XHR,eXtra high Image resolution,XMLHTTPRequest
XHTML,eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
XI,Eleven (in Roman numerals)
XII,Twelve (in Roman numerals)
XIII,Thirteen (in Roman numerals)
XIV,Fourteen (in Roman numerals)
XIX,Nineteen (in Roman numerals)
XJ,Automobile made by Jaguar,Automobile made by Jeep
XJL,Amphibian aircraft made by Columbia,Automobile made by Jaguar
XJS,Automobile made by Jaguar
XK,Automobile made by Jaguar,Automobile made by Jeep,Kell blood group precursor
XKB,X keyboard extension
XKE,Automobile made by Jaguar
XKR,Automobile made by Jaguar
XL,eXtra Large,Forty (in Roman numerals)
XML,eXtensible Markup Language
XMSF,eXtensible Modelling and Simulation Framework
XN,Christian,Nordic Patent Institute
XNA,"X-No-Archive,Xeno Nucleic Acid"
XNC,X Northern Captain
XNS,Xerox Network Systems,Extensible Name Service,Christians
XNU,X is Not Unix
XO,Χριστιανός Ορθόδοξος (Xristianos Orthodoksos,Greek for "Eastern Orthodoxy"),eXecutive Officer,eXtra Old (brandy grade)
XOF,BCÉAO (Banque centrale des états de l'Afrique de l'Ouest) West African CFA (Communauté financière d'Afrique) franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
