PowerShell/Data/Abbr/general.csv
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1ABBR,TERM
20D,obvious deed
31AM,Air Mechanic 1st Class
41D,One-Dimensional
52AM,Air Mechanic 2nd Class
62D,Two-dimensional
72G,Second-generation mobile (cellular,wireless) telephone system
82LA,Two Letter Acronym
92Lt,2nd Lieutenant
103AM,Air Mechanic 3rd Class
113D,Three-Dimensional
123G,Third-generation mobile telephone system
133i,Investors In Industry (venture capitalists)
143M,Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
154D,Four-Dimensional (usually three spatial plus one temporal dimension,sometimes four spatial ones)
164G,Fourth-generation mobile telephone system
174WD,Four-wheel drive
185D,Five-Dimensional
196D,Six-Dimensional
207D,Seven-Dimensional
218D,Eight-Dimensional
229D,Nine-Dimensional
23A,Ampere
24A10,Atlantic 10 Conference
25A1C,Airman First Class
26A4,European standard office paper size
27AA,achieved availability,Alcoholics Anonymous,Armed Forces Americas (postal symbol),Aruba (FIPS 10-4 territory code),assembly area,Automobile Association,avenue of approach
28aA,Attoampere
29AAAI,Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence,formerly American Association for Artificial Intelligence
30AAAS,American Association for the Advancement of Science
31AAAV,Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle
32AAC,American Athletic Conference,Army Air Corps (British Army)
33AAD,analogue-analogue-digital (CD quality),Australian Antarctic Division
34AADAC,Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission
35AADC,area air defense commander,amino acid decarboxylase,aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase,Australian Antarctic Data Centre
36AADD,Adult attention deficit disorder
37AADT,annual average daily traffic
38AAFC,U.S. Army Air Corps Ferrying Command (1941-1942),All-America Football Conference (1946-1949)
39AAFES,Army and Air Force Exchange Service
40AAIS,advanced airborne interceptor simulator
41AAM,air-to-air missile
42AAMOF,as a matter of fact
43AAN,American Academy of Nursing
44AANEAS,Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
45AAODL,Atmospheric Aerosols and Optics Data Library
46AAP,advanced acquisition plan,Allied administrative publication,American Academy of Pediatrics
47AAPC,Accounting and Auditing Policy Committee
48AAR,after-action review,Association of American Railroads
49AARP,(i/s) American Association of Retired Persons (now officially known only by the initials)
50AASPEM,advanced air-to-air system performance evaluation model
51AAT,Australian Antarctic Territory
52AAV,Amphibious Assault Vehicle
53AAWC,anti-air warfare commander
54ABA,Adriatic Basketball Association,American Bar Association,American Basketball Association,American Beverage Association,American Bicycle Association,American Birding Association,Australian Broadcasting Authority
55ABB,ASEA Brown Boveri (Swiss-Swedish multinational company)
56ABC,the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet
57ABC,Active Body Control
58ABC,alien big cat
59ABC,always be careful
60ABC,American-born Chinese
61ABC,anti-lock brake controller
62ABCA,American,British and Canadian Armies (originally),Army Bureau of Current Affairs
63ABCS,(U.S.) Army Battle Command System
64ABET,Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
65ABFIST,Advanced Bradley Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer
66ABGI,Addington-Barker Group International
67ABIN,Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (Brazilian Intelligence Agency)
68ABL,American Basketball League
69ABLE,AirBorne Law Enforcement (police air support unit)
70ABM,anti-ballistic missile,Asynchronous Balanced Mode,automated banking machine
71ABMC,American Battle Monuments Commission
72ABN,Australian Business Number (a number issued by the Australian government as registration of a business and used for taxation purposes)
73ABPI,Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
74ABRSM,Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
75ABSTRIPS,abstraction-based STRIPS
76ABV,Alcohol by volume
77ABW,Aruba (ISO 3166 trigram)
78Ac,Actinium
79aC,Attocoulomb
80AC1,Aircraftman 1st Class
81AC2,Aircraftman 2nd Class
82ACARS,Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System
83ACAS,Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society,Advisory,Conciliation and Arbitration Service
84ACCA,The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants,Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment
85ACCD,American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities
86ACCS,Air Communications and Control Squadron
87ACDA,Arms Control & Disarmament Agency
88ACHT,Average Call Hold Time
89ACINT,Acoustic Intelligence
90ACK,Acknowledge (telecommunications; cf. NAK)
91ACLJ,American Center for Law and Justice
92ACLOS,Automatic CLOS (missile control system)
93ACLS,American Council of Learned Societies
94ACMC,(U.S.) Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
95ACNA,Anglican Church in North America
96ACO,Airspace Control Order
97ACOBA,Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
98ACOG,American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
99ACOM,(U.S.) Atlantic Command
100ACORN,Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
101ACR,Advanced Concepts and Requirements
102ACRI,African Crisis Initiative
103ACRT,Advanced Concepts Research Tool simulator
104ACSC,Army Command and Staff College (various nations)
105ACST,American Cooperative School of Tunis
106ACST,Australian Central Standard Time
107ACTD,Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration
108ACTU,Australian Council of Trade Unions
109ACU,American Conservative Union
110ADAGE,Air Defense Air to Ground Engagement (simulation)
111ADAP,AIDS Drug Assistance Program
112ADAS,Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey
113ADAT,Alesis Digital Audio Tape (recording format)
114ADB,Asian Development Bank
115ADDIE,Analyze Design Develop Implement and Evaluate
116ADDNS,Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation
117ADF,Australian Defence Force,African Development Foundation
118ADGB,Air Defence of Great Britain
119ADHD,Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
120ADHS,Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome
121ADI,Acceptable/Allowable Daily Intake
122ADIZ,Air Defence Identification Zone
123ADL,Anti-Defamation League
124ADOA,Air Defence Operations Area
125ADRG,Arc-second Raster Chart (ARC) Digitized Raster Graphics
126ADT,Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC3 hours)
127ADTB,Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin
128ADW,Air Defence Warning
129AEDT,Australian Eastern Daylight Time
130AEF,American Expeditionary Force
131AEGIS,Airborne Early warning Ground environment Interface Segment (fake etymology)
132AESR,Aeronautical Equipment Service Record
133AEST,Australian Eastern Standard Time
134aet,After extra time (Football)
135aF,Attofarad
136AFAIC,As Far As I'm Concerned
137AFAICT,As Far As I Can Tell
138AFAIK,As Far As I Know
139AFAIR,As Far As I Remember/Recall
140AFATDS,Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
141AFC,American Football Conference,Asian Football Confederation
142AFCEA,Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
143AFDB,African Development Bank
144AFES,Automatic Fire Extinguishing System
145AFG,Afghanistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
146AFIS,Automated Fingerprint Identification System,American Forces Information Service
147AFIST,Abrams Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer
148AFJ,April Fool's Joke
149AFK,Away From Keyboard (Internet chat abbreviation)
150AFL,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
151AFLAC,American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus
152AFM,Army Field Manual (UK; the U.S. more frequently uses just FM),Atomic Force Microscope,Aviation Fleet Maintenance
153AFO,Association of Field Ornithologists
154AFOSR,U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
155AFQT,Armed Forces Qualification Test
156AFRC,Air Force Reserve Command
157AFRL,Air Force Research Laboratory
158AFROTC,Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
159AFRRI,(i,U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
160AFRTS,Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
161AFS,Active Front Steering,Air Facility Sub-System,Amniotic Fluid-derived Stem cell,AFS&A or AFSA,U.S. Air Force Studies and Analysis
162AFSC,U.S. Air Force Staff College (obsolete; replaced with JFSC),U.S. Air Force Systems Command
163AFSCN,U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network
164AFSPC,Air Force Space Command
165AFT,American Farmland Trust
166AFV,armoured fighting vehicle
167AFWA,Air Force Weather Agency,Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies,AG[edit]
168ag,Attogram
169Ag,Silver (Latin argentum)
170AGARD,Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development
171AGARDograph,Advanced Guidance for Alliance Research and Development publication
172AGASA,Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (cosmic ray detector)
173AGB,Internal Nintendo initialism (Advanced Game Boy) for Game Boy Advance
174AGC,Adjutant General's Corps (British Army)
175AGC,Apollo Guidance Computer,Automatic Gain Control
176AGDC,Australian Game Developers' Conference
177AGI,Auxiliary Group Intelligence
178AGL,Above Ground Level
179AGM,Annual General Meeting
180AGN,Active Galactic Nucleus
181AGO,Angola (ISO 3166 trigram)
182AGP,Accelerated Graphics Port
183AGRICOLA,Agriculture Online Access
184AGS,Alaska Ground Station (LandSat)
185AGTS,Advanced Gunnery Training System
186AGU,American Geophysical Union
187AGW,Autonomous Guided Weapon
188Ah,Ampere-hour
189AH,Attack Helicopter
190aH,Attohenry
191AHA,American Heart Association
192AHCPR,Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (obsolete; replaced with AHRQ)
193AHEC,Australian Health Ethics Committee
194AHPCRC,Army High Performance Computing Research Center
195AHQ,Air Headquarters
196AHRQ,Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
197AHS,American Housing Survey
198AI,Air Interdiction,Amnesty International,Artificial Insemination,Artificial Intelligence,Anguilla (ISO 3166 digram)
199AIA,Aerospace Industries Association,American Institute of Architects,Anguilla (ISO 3166 trigram)
200AIAA,American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
201AIC,African Independent Church,Animal Identification Coordinator
202AICD,Australian Institute of Company Directors
203AICMFP,And I Claim My Five Pounds
204AID,U.S. Agency for International Development
205AIDS,Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
206AIM,Australian Institute of Management
207AIMP,Aurora Incremental Modernization Project
208AIPAC,American Israel Public Affairs Committee
209AIR,Aircraft Inventory Record
210AIRFA,American Indian Religious Freedom Act
211AIRS, Aerometric Information Retrieval System (obsolete; replaced with AFS)
212AIS,Australian Institute of Sport,Automatic Identification System
213AISB,(British Society for the Study of) Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
214aJ,Attojoule
215AJ,Azerbaijan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
216Ajax,Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
217AJD,Astronomical Julian day
218AJP,Allied Joint Publication
219AJPW,All Japan Pro Wrestling
220AK,Alaska (postal symbol)
221aK,Attokelvin
222AKA,Above knee amputation (orthopaedic usage)
223AKDT,Alaska Standard Daylight Saving Time (UTC8 hours)
224AKST,Alaska Standard Time (UTC9 hours)
225Al,Aluminium
226aL,Attolitre
227ALA,Åland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
228ALAP,As Long/Late As Possible
229ALARM,Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missile
230ALB,Albania (ISO 3166 trigram)
231ALD,Accounting Line Designator (nuclear weapon targeting)
232ALERT,Advanced Linked Extended Reconnaissance and Targeting,Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theatre
233ALF,Africa Leadership Forum,Alien Life Form (cf. ALF (TV series)),Animal Liberation Front
234ALG,Algeria (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
235ALGOL,ALGOrithmic Language
236ALOA,Associated Locksmiths of America,Inc.
237ALOC,Air Lines Of Communication,Average Length of Calls
238ALPA,Air Line Pilots Association
239ALS,Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis,Automatic Landing System
240ALSHS,Abraham Low Self-Help Systems
241ALSP,Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol
242ALTE,Association of Language Testers in Europe
243Am,Americium
244AM-many,including Amplitude Modulation and Ante Meridiem; see entry,Armenia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
245AM1,Airman 1st class
246AMA,American Medical Association,Australian Medical Association
247AMAPS,Aircraft,Missile,Avionics Performance Simulation
248AMC,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
249AMCB,U.S. Army/Marine Corps Board
250AMFR,Age-specific Marital Fertility Rate,Amplitude Modulation Following Response
251AMFRS,Advanced Multi-Function Radio Frequency System,Automatic Multisensor Feature-based Recognition System
252AML,Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
253AMLCD,Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
254AMLO,Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexican politician),Anti-Money Laundering Office (Thailand government agency)
255AMO,Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
256AMOLED,Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode
257AMOS,Advanced MOrtar System,Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory
258AMP,Adenosine MonoPhosphate,Automated Mission Planner
259AMRAAM,Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile
260AMRDEC,U.S. Aviation & Missile Research,Development,& Engineering Center
261AMS,Agriculture Marketing Service,American Mathematical Society
262AMSAA,U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity
263AMSO,U.S. Army Model and Simulation Office
264AMSU,Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
265AMTE,UK Admiralty Marine Technology Establishment (1977-1984)
266AN,Andorra (FIPS 10-4 country code),Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 digram)
267aN,Attonewton
268ANA,Administration for Native Americans,Afghan National Army,All Nippon Airways,Anti-Nuclear Anti-body,Australian National Airways,Australian Natives' Association
269ANC,African National Congress
270AND,Andorra (ISO 3166 trigram)
271ANFO,Ammonium nitrate/fuel oil (explosive)
272ANGLiCo,Air/Naval Gunfire Liaison Company
273ANL,Argonne National Laboratory
274ANM,Acoustic Noise Monitor
275ANOVA,ANalysis Of VAriance
276ANS,Applied and Natural Sciences
277ANSI,American National Standards Institute
278ANT,Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 trigram),Antigua and Barbuda (IOC trigram,but not ISO 3166 or FIFA)
279ANTM,America's Next Top Model
280ANTY,Acronyms,No Thank You
281ANWR,Arctic National Wildlife Refuge /ˈænwɑr/
282ANZ,Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
283ANZAC,Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
284AO,Angola (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Approach Officer (submarine),Area of Operations
285AOC,Air Operations Centre,Air Officer Commanding
286AOD,Adrenalin O.D. (punk rock band)
287AOI,Angle Of Incidence Arab Organization for Industrialization
288AOL,America OnLine
289AOR,Area of Responsibility
290AOSTH,Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
291AOTS,Attack of the Show!
292AOU,American Ornithologists' Union
293APB,All Points Bulletin (police jargon)
294APC,Armoured Personnel Carrier,Armour Piercing Capped (ammunition)
295APCNR,Armour-Piercing,Composite Non-Rigid (ammunition)
296APCR,Armour-Piercing,Composite Rigid (ammunition)
297APDS,Armour-Piercing,Discarding-Sabot (ammunition)
298APEC,Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
299APEDS,AMSAA Performance Estimates Data System
300APEX,Applied Physics Express
301APFSDS,Armour-Piercing,Fin-Stabilised,Discarding Sabot (ammunition)
302APHA,American Public Health Association
303APHE,Armour-Piercing,High Explosive (ammunition)
304APHIS,Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
305APOD,Aerial Port (Airport) Of Debarkation
306APOE,Aerial Port (Airport) Of Embarkation
307APOLLO,Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation
308APP,Allied Procedural Publication
309APR,Annual Percentage Rate
310APS,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]
311AQ,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
312AQIM,Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
313AR,Argentina (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Arkansas (postal symbol),Armour,Arunachal Pradesh (Indian state code)
314Ar,Argon
315ARAG,Advanced Research and Assessment Group
316ARB,Administrative Review Board
317ARBA, Army Review Boards Agency
318ARC,Arc-second Raster Chart,Appalachian Regional Commission
319ARCA,Automobile Racing Club of America
320ARCENT,United States Army Central Command
321ARDA,Advanced Research and Development Activity (became DTO 2006)
322ARE,UK Admiralty Research Establishment (-1991),United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166 trigram)
323ARF,ASEAN Regional Forum
324ARG,Argentina (ISO 3166 trigram)
325ARH,Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter
326ARI,Acute Respiratory Infection,U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
327ARL,UK Admiralty Research Laboratory (1921-1977),U.S. Army Research Laboratory,UIUC Aviation Research Laboratory
328ARM,Anti-Radiation Missile,Adjustable-rate mortgage,Armenia (ISO 3166 trigram)
329ARNet,Acquisition Reform Network
330ARP,Applied Research Programme
331ARPA,Advanced Research Projects Agency
332ARRC,ACE Rapid Reaction Corps
333ARRF,Allied Rapid Reaction Force
334ARRL,American Radio Relay League
335ARSC,Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
336ARSPACE,U.S. Army Space Command
337ART,Adaptive Resonance Theory,Anti-Retroviral Therapy
338ARTCC,Air Route Traffic Control Center
339AS,ActionScript
340AS,American Samoa (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram),Australia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Assam / Asom (Indian state code)
341As,Arsenic
342aS,Attosiemens
343ASA,AcetylSalicylic Acid,American Standards Association,Army Security Agency,Atlantic Southeast Airlines
344ASAP,As Soon As Possible
345ASARS,Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System,Airborne Search and Rescue System
346ASB,Associated Student Body,Alternative Service Book (Church of England)
347ASBO,Anti-Social Behaviour Order
348ASCAP,American Society of Composers,Authors,and Publishers
349ASCC,Army Service Component Commander,Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator,Air Standardization Coordinating Committee
350ASCII,American Standard Code for Information Interchange
351ASD,(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense,autism spectrum disorder
352ASDIC,Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (Sonar)
353ASEAN,Association of Southeast Asian Nations
354ASFAR,Americans for a Society Free of Age Restrictions
355ASG,Area Support Group
356ASIC,Australian Securities and Investments Commission,Aviation Security Identification Card
357ASIO,Australian Security Intelligence Organisation,Audio stream input output
358ASIP,Advanced System Improvement Program,Army Stationing and Installation Plan,Application-specific instruction-set processor
359ASM,Air-to-Surface Missile,American Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram),American Society for Metals,American Society for Microbiology
360ASMB,American Society for Matrix Biology,Adult Swim Message Board
361ASME,American Society of Mechanical Engineers,American Society of Magazine ors
362ASN,Associate of Science in Nursing
363ASOC, 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
364ASP,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
365ASPI,Australian Strategic Policy Institute
366ASR,Alkali-silica reaction,Anti Slip Regulation
367ASRAAM,Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile
368ASSC,Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
369AST,Atlantic Standard Time (UTC4 hours)
370ASTIA,Armed Services Technical Information Agency
371ASTM,American Society for Testing and Materials
372ASTREA,Aerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies (sheriff's air support unit)
373ASUW,AntiSUrface Warfare
374ASVAB,Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery(taken by juniors in high school in the USA)
375ASW,AntiSubmarine Warfare
376ASWORG,(U.S.) AntiSubmarine Warfare Operations Research Group
377At,Astatine
378aT,Attotesla
379ATAC,Air Transportable Acoustic Communications
380ATACMS,Army TACtical Missile System
381ATAPI,Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
382ATAS,Air-To-Air Stinger (missile)
383ATAT,Aiken Tactical Airsoft Team / Star Wars vehicle
384ATCCIS,Army Tactical Command and Control Information System
385ATESS,Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron
386ATG,Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 and FIFA trigram)
387ATGM,Anti-Tank Guided Missile
388ATGW,Anti-Tank Guided Weapon
389ATI,Allied Telesyn International,Inc.,Array Technologies Incorporated. (ATI Technologies)
390Atisbo,a Local Government Area in Nigeria named for constituent communities (Ago-Are,Tede,Irawo,Sabe,Baasi,Ofiki and Owo)
391ATK,Attack
392ATSD,(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense
393ATSDR,Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
394ATV,All-Terrain Vehicle
395Au,Gold (Latin Aurum)
396AUS,Australia (ISO 3166 trigram)
397Auslan,Australian Sign Language
398AUT,Austria (ISO 3166 trigram)
399AUTL,Army Universal Task List
400Av,Aperture value (photographic mode)
401aV,Attovolt
402AVA,American Viticultural Area
403AVB,Audio Video Bridging
404AVDLR,Aviation Depot Level Repair
405AVIM,Aviation Intermediate Maintenance
406AVLB,Armoured Vehicle Launched Body
407AVO,Apprehended Violence Order
408AVP,Arubaanse Volkspartij
409AVP,Association of Volleyball Professionals
410AVRE,Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers
411AVUM,Aviation Unit Maintenance
412AVVO,Acute Vaginal Venereal Outbreak
413AW,Aruba (ISO 3166 digram)
414aW,Attowatt
415AWA,American Wrestling Association
416AWC,Air Warfare Centre
417AWD,All Wheel Drive
418AWE,Advanced Warfighting Experiment
419AWP,Awaiting Parts (SM&R code)
420AWSIM,Air Warfare SIMulation
421AWST,Australian Western Standard Time
422AWW,Above Water Warfare
423AX,Åland Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
424AXP,Ambulance eXchange Point
425AY,Antarctica (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
426AYBABTU,All Your Base Are Belong To Us
427AYU,As Yet Unknown
428AZE,Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 trigram)
429BBQ,Barbecue
430BCC,Blind Carbon Copy
431BEL,Belgium (ISO 3166 trigram)
432BEN,Benin (ISO 3166 trigram)
433BEO,Banquet Event Order
434BERC,Business Environmental Resource Center
435BER,Bit Error Rate
436BHR,Bahrain (ISO 3166 trigram)
437BNS,Bank of Nova Scotia
438BNSF,Burlington Northern Santa Fe (also AAR reporting mark)
439BOAC,British Overseas Airways Corporation (predecessor of British Airways)
440BoAML,Bank of America Merrill Lynch
441BÖC,Blue Öyster Cult
442BOFH,Bastard Operator From Hell
443BOGA,Bend Over and Grab Ankles
444BOGs,Bunch of Guys
445BOL,Bolivia (ISO 3166 trigram)
446BOP,Balance of Payments,
447BOPB,Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque (the complete name of the rugby club),
448BOPD,Barrel of Oil Per Day
449BOS,Battlefield Operating System
450BRA,Brazil (ISO 3166 trigram)
451BRAG,Bicycle Ride Across Georgia
452BS,The Bahamas (ISO 3166 digram),Bassas da India (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Bachelor of Science degree,British subject
453BSatCoP,Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins
454BSNL,Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited,Bachelor of Science in Nursing
455BSoD,Blue Screen of Death (distinct from BSD)
456BSW,British Standard Whitworth (screw thread)
457BSX,Bendigo Stock Exchange
458Bt,Baronet,Bacillus thuringiensis
459BTO,Built To Order
460BTP,British Transport Police
461BTU,British Thermal Unit
462BTW,By The Way
463BU,Bulgaria (FIPS 10-4 country code) -,Burma (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1989)
464BUAV, British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
465BUNO,Bureau Number (aircraft serial number)
466BUR,Burma (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1989)
467BVR,Beyond Visual Range,
468BVT,Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 trigram),
469BW,Bring Wedges (ISO digram)
470BW,Botswana (ISO 3166 digram)
471BWA,Botswana (ISO 3166 trigram)
472BWC,Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
473BWR,Boiling-Water Reactor
474BX,Base eXchange
475BY,Burundi (FIPS 10-4 country code) -,Belarus (ISO 3166 digram)
476BYOC,Bring Your Own Computer (play on BYOB)
477BYOF,Bring Your Own Flask
478BYS,Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1992)
479BYU,Brigham Young University
480BZ,Belize (ISO 3166 digram)
481BZP,Benzylpiperazine
482c,Centi
483c2c,the British rail company formerly known as LTS Rail
484Ca,Calcium
485CACM,Central American Common Market
486CACM,Communications of the ACM
487CADPAT,CAnadian Disruptive PATtern
488CAEn,Close Action Engagement (constructive simulation)
489CAFAD,Combined Arms For Air Defence
490CAFE,Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard
491CAI,Computer Assisted Instruction
492CAIR,Council on American-Islamic Relations
493CALL,Center for Army Lessons Learned
494CalPERS,California Public Employees' Retirement System
495Caltrans,California Department of Transpotation
496CAMRA,CAMpaign for Real Ale
497CAN,Canada (ISO 3166 trigram)
498CANA,Convulsive Antidote,Nerve Agent
499CANDU,CANada Deuterium Uranium (nuclear reactor design)
500CARMONETTE,Computerized Monte Carlo Simulation
501CARP,Computed Air Release Point
502CART,Championship Auto Racing Teams (now defunct)
503CASA,Civil Aviation Safety Authority
504CASS,Command Activated Sonobuoy System
505CASTFOREM,Combined Arms and Support Task FORce Evaluation Model
506CASTOR,Canadian Automatic Small Telescopes for Orbital Research
507CATK,Counterattack
508CATS,Computer Active Technology Suspension
509CATT,Combined Arms Tactical Trainer
510CAV,Cavalry
511CAW,Canadian Auto Workers (trade union)
512CBLA,Comparative bullet lead analysis
513CBM,Canadian Baptist Ministries
514CBM,Commodore Business Machines
515CBML,Coalition Battle Management Language
516CBN,CardsApp Brand Number
517CBOL,Consortium for the Barcode of Life
518CBOT,Chicago Board of Trade
519CBR,Case-Based Reasoning
520CC,carbon copy
521CCA,Counter Command Activity
522CCF,Cartoon Cartoon Fridays
523CCGH,Canadian Coast Guard Hovercraft
524CCH,Computer-Controlled Hostile
525CCOP,Coalition Common Operating/Operational Picture
526CCPA,Consumer Credit Protection Act
527CCR,Creedence Clearwater Revival
528CCRAp,Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance party
529CCRP,Command and Control Research Program
530CCRTS,Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium
531CCSCS,Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
532CCSCS,Coordinadora de Centrales Sindicales del Cono Sur
533CCSK,Cyclic Code Shift Keying
534CCT,Current Commitments Team
535Cd,Cadmium
536cd,Candela
537CD,Compact Disc
538CD1,Cluster of Differentiation 1 (a small gene family)
539CDA,UK Centre for Defence Analysis
540CDC,Control Data Corporation,Cult of the Dead Cow
541CDD,Capabilities Development Document
542CDE,Chemical Defence Equipment
543CDipAF,Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance
544CDL,Commercial driver's license
545CDMA,Code Division Multiple Access
546CDMSII,Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II
547Cdr,Commander
548CDS,Chief of the Defence Staff,Credit default swap
549CDT,Central Daylight Time (UTC5 hours)
550Cdt,Commandant
551Ce,Cerium
552CE,Christian/Common Era
553CEA,Campaign Effectiveness Analysis
554CECOM,U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command
555CEI,Competitive Enterprise Institute
556CENTCOM,United States Central Command
557CENTO,Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact)
558CEO,Chief Executive Officer
559CEP,Circular Error Probable
560CERT,Computer Emergency Response Team
561CESS,Centre for Earth Science Studies (India)
562CEST,Central European Summer Time
563CET,Central European Time
564CEWC,Council for Education in World Citizenship
565Cf,Californium
566CFES,Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System
567CFFZ,Call For Fire Zone
568CFHT,Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
569CFI,Center for Inquiry (CSICOP)
570CFLCC,Coalition Forces Land Component Command
571CFM,Certified Facilities Manager
572CFO,Chief Financial Officer
573CFRP,Carbon fibre reinforced plastic
574CFS,Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
575CFSP,Common Foreign and Security Policy
576CFU,Colony Forming Unit in Microbiology
577CFV,Cavalry Fighting Vehicle
578CFZ,Critical Friendly Zone
579CGH,Comparative Genomic Hybridisation
580CGIG,Cross-Government Implementation Group
581CGS,Chief of the General Staff
582CGT,Capital Gains Tax
583ch,ch(L) is used to denote the Chern character of a line bundle
584CHAMPUS,(U.S.) Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (now known as TRICARE)
585CHAOS,Cambridge Heart Anti-Oxidant Study
586CHAPS,Clearing House Automated Payment System
587CHDK,Canon Hack Development Kit (Canon camera firmware hack)
588CHiP,California Highway Patrol
589CHIPS,Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer
590CHL,Chile (ISO 3166 trigram)
591CHLA,Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
592CHN,China (ISO 3166 trigram)
593CHOGM,Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
594CHP,California Highway Patrol,Combined Heat and Power
595CHPSO,California Hospital Patient Safety Organization
596CHRS,Canadian Heart Rhythm Society
597CHT,Certified Hand Therapist
598Ci,Curie
599CIB,Complete In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
600CIBC,Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
601CID,Certified Interior Designer
602CIEF,Comité international d'enregistrement des fréquences (International Frequency Registration Board)
603CIF,Cost,Insurance,and Freight (Paid) (shipping)
604CINC,Commander in Chief
605CINEOS,Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey
606CIO,Chief information officer,Congress of Industrial Organizations
607CIPE,(European) Centre for International Political Economy
608CIR,(Commander's) Critical Information Requirements
609CIR,Corotating Interaction Region
610CISA,(U.S.) C4I Integration Support Activity
611CISB,Complete In Sealed Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
612CISPR,Comité international spécial des perturbations radioélectriques (Special International Committee on Radio Interference)
613CISSP,Certified Information Systems Security Professional
614CIV,Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 trigram)
615CIVETS,Colombia,Indonesia,Vietnam,Egypt,Turkey,South Africa (economics)
616CIVPOP,Civilian Population
617CIWS,Close-In Weapon System
618CJCS,Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
619CJO,Chief of Joint Operations
620CJTF,Combined Joint Task Force
621CKND,Codename: Kids Next Door
622Cl,Chlorine
623CLA,Clutterers Anonymous
624CLEC,Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
625CLEMARS,California Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System
626CLIC,Compact LInear Collider
627CLO,Cornell Lab of Ornithology
628CLOS,Command to Line-Of-Sight (missile control system)
629CLPFC,CentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
630CLRP,College Loan Repayment Program
631Cm,Curium
632CMHC,Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
633CMIIAW,Correct me if I am wrong
634CMIS,Common management information service
635CMJ,Christopher Martin-Jenkins (BBC sports commentator)
636CML,Chemical,Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (formerly Chronic Myeloid Leukemia)
637CMM,Capability Maturity Model
638CMMC,Corps Materiel Management Centre
639CMP,Common [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture
640CMPD,Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department
641CMPD,Chronic Myeloproliferative Disease
642CMT,Country Music Television
643CMYK,Cyan Magenta Yellow Key/blacK (colour model)
644CNBC,Consumer News and Business Channel
645CNF,Cost and Freight
646CNI,Clinical Nursing Intern
647CNV,Copy-Number Variable (genetics)
648Co,Cobalt
649COB,Close Of Business [day]
650COBRA,Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
651CoDA,Co-Dependents Anonymous
652COGENT,Cognitive Objects within a Graphical EnviroNmenT
653COIL,Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser
654COK,Cook Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
655COL,Colombia (ISO 3166 trigram)
656COLA,Cost Of Living Adjustment
657COM,Comoros (ISO 3166 trigram),Component Object Model
658COMECON,Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (economic counterpart of the Warsaw Pact,1949-1991)
659CONAD,U.S. Continental Air Defense Command
660CONCACAF,Confederation Of North,Central American and Caribbean Association Football
661CONUS,Continental United States
662COO,Chief Operating Officer
663COPE,U.K. Committee On Publication Ethics
664COPUS,U.K. Committee on the Public Understanding of Science
665CORD,Common Operational Requirements Document
666CORE,Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
667COROT,COnvection,ROtation and planetary Transits
668COS,Cooper Ornithological Society
669COSER,COoperative SERvice
670CoT,Car of Tomorrow (former NASCAR race car design)
671COTS,Commercial Off The Shelf
672CPA,Certified Public Accountant
673CPCU,Certified Property Casualty Underwriter
674CPD,Capabilities Production Document
675CPE,Certificate of Proficiency in English
676CPE,Certified Professional Ergonomist
677CPG,Clinical Practice Guideline
678CPI,CERDEC Command,Power and Integration
679CPIM,Certification on Production and Inventory Management
680CPIR,Computationally-Private Information Retrieval
681CPON,Certified Pediatric Oncology Nurse
682CPPCC,Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
683CPR,Canadian Pacific Railway
684CPR,Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
685CPSM,Continuous Phase Shift Modulation
686CPSU,Communist Party of the Soviet Union
687CPT,Contingency Planning Team
688CPU,Contract Postal Unit
689CPV,Cape Verde (ISO 3166 trigram)
690CPX,Command Post eXercise
691Cr,Chromium
692CRAM,Combined Radiometric Correction Model
693CRD,Capstone Requirements Document
694CREB,Cyclic AMP-response Element Binding (protein)
695CREN,Christian Real Estate Network Real Estate Association
696CRIPL,Consolidated Remain-In-Place List
697CRTC,Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
698Cs,Caesium
699CSERIAC,(U.S. DoD) Crew Systems Ergonomics Information Analysis Center
700CSG,Corps Support Group
701CSI,see entry
702CSICOP,Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (became the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2006)
703CSIP,Commercial Stable Image Platform (AMD)
704CSK,Czechoslovakia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1993)
705CSL,U.K. Central Science Laboratory
706CSPI,Center for Science in the Public Interest
707CSR,Control Supply Rate
708CSR,Corporate Social Responsibility
709CSRC,Conflict Studies Research Centre
710CSRF,Cross-Site Request Forgery
711CST,Central Standard Time (UTC6 hours)
712CTBT,Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty
713CTDB,Compact Terrain Data Base (file format)
714CTE,Canton and Enderbury Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984),Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
715CTGF,connective tissue growth factor
716CTI,Co-operative Target Identification
717CTIL,Critical Tracked Items List
718CTIS,Central Tire Inflation System
719CTMS,Clinical Trial Management System
720CTO,Chief Technical Officer,Chief Technology Officer
721CTS,Clear-To-Send,Collective Training Standards,Communications Technology Service,Contract Technical Services,Conversation Time Sharing,COSMIC Top Secret
722CTSS,Compatible Time-Sharing System
723CTU,Counter Terrorist Unit (fictional branch of the Central Intelligence Agency in the television action series 24)
724CTVT,Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour
725CU,Carrie Underwood,Cuba (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
726Cu,Copper (Latin Cuprum)
727CUB,Cuba (ISO 3166 trigram)
728CUCV,Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle
729CUPS,Common Unix Printing System
730CUPW,Canadian Union of Postal Workers
731CUREA,Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy
732CuW,Copper-tungsten pseudo-alloy (from the chemical symbols of the two component elements)
733CUW,Curaçao (ISO 3166 trigram)
734CV,curriculum vitae (résumé)
735CVLL,Crypto Variable Logic Label
736CVSD,Continuous Variable Slope Delta (modulation)
737CVT,Continuously Variable Transmission
738CWC,Chemical Weapons Convention
739CWRU,Case Western Reserve University
740CWS,Canadian Wildlife Service
741CXR,Christmas Island (ISO 3166 trigram)
742CYM,Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
743CZE,Czech Republic (ISO 3166 trigram)
744CZF,(Christian Zombie Fan)
745CZMA,(US) Coastal Zone Management Act
746d,Deci
747D,Deuterium
748DA,Denmark (FIPS 10-4 country code),Debtors Anonymous,U.S. Department of the Army,District Attorney
749DAES,Defence Acquisition Executive Summary,(UK MoD) Directorate of Analysis,Experimentation and Simulation
750DAF,Dissolved Air Flotation,a technique used in water treatment
751DAFIF,Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File
752DAK,Disney's Animal Kingdom
753DAO,Division Ammunition Officer
754DAQ,Data acquisition,Delivered Audio Quality
755DARE,Drug Abuse Resistance Education
756DARO,(U.S.) Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
757DARPA,U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
758DART,Disaster Assistance Response Team,Dublin Area Rapid Transit
759DAS,Defensive Aids Suite
760DASD,(U.S.) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
761DASL,Datapoint's Advanced Systems Language
762DAU,(U.S.) Defense Acquisition University
763DAWN,(U.S.) Drug Abuse Warning Network
764dB,Decibel
765DB,Deutsche Bahn
766Db,Dubnium
767DBA,De Bellis Antiquitatis (miniature wargaming rules)
768DBBL,(U.S. Army Simulation Center) Dismounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory
769DBDO,Desert BDO
770DBE,Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
771DBF,Detection By Fire (weapon launch signature)
772DBR,De Bellis Renationis (miniature wargaming rules)
773DBRA,Davis-Bacon Related Acts
774DBS,Direct Broadcast Services (television)
775DC,da capo,Italian Democrazia Cristiana,Digital Compass,Direct Current,District of Columbia (postal symbol),Douglas Aircraft Company,Dublin Core,Duty Cycle
776DCA,Defensive Counter Air,Drum Corps Associates,DiChloroAcetate
777DCAA,(U.S.) Defense Contract Audit Agency
778DCAS,Devon and Cornwall Archery Society
779DCC,Dallas Christian College
780DCD,[Organ] Donation after Cardiac Death
781DCE,Data Communication Equipment
782DCFC,Death Cab for Cutie
783DCI,Detection,Classification and Identification,Drum Corps International,Duellists' Convocation International,now known simply by the initials
784DCL,Disney Cruise Line
785DCN,Deacon
786DCOM,Disney Channel Original Movie
787DCSOPS,Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and plans
788DCW,Digital Chart of the World
789DCYSC,Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge
790DDA,Deputy District Attorney
791DDN,U.S. Defense Data Network
792DDS,Doctor of Dental Surgery
793DDT,Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (insecticide),Dynamic Debugging Tool (computing),DE[edit]
794DE,Delaware (postal symbol),Germany (ISO 3166 digram)
795DEA,Drug Enforcement Administration
796DEA,Drug Enforcement Agency
797DEC, Department of Environmental Conservation,Digital Equipment Corporation,Disasters Emergency Committee
798DeCA,(U.S.) Defense Commissary Agency
799DEFCON,Defence readiness condition
800DEFRA,(UK) Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs
801DELT,Dual Ended Line Test (ing)
802DEM,Data Exchange Mechanism,Digital Elevation Model
803DEN,Denmark (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
804DEPSECDEF,(U.S.) Deputy Secretary of Defense
805DERA,British Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (1995-2001)
806DES,Deep Ecliptic Survey
807DEU,Germany (ISO 3166 trigram)
808DFAS,(U.S.) Defense Finance and Accounting Service
809DFCB,Data Format Control Book
810DfID,UK Department for International Development
811DFM,Discrete Field Model see Superluminal motion
812DFM,Dynamic Flowgraph Methodology
813DFSP,Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
814DfT,UK Department for Transport
815DFTBA,Don't Forget To Be Awesome,a term commonly used by the Vlogbrothers
816DGPS,Differential GPS
817DGZ,Desired Ground Zero
818DH,dear husband (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists,blogs,and bulletin boards),Designated hitter
819DHA,DocosaHexaenoic Acid
820DHHS,(U.S.) Department of Health and Human Services
821DHL,Dalsey,Hillblom,and Lynn (courier service)
822DHRA,(U.S.) DoD Human Resources Activity
823DHS,U.S. Department of Homeland Security
824DHSS,UK Department of Health and Social Security
825DHTFYSS,U.S. Don't Have Time For You Silly S****
826DHY,Dahomey (ISO 3166 trigram; became BEN for Benin in 1977)
827DIA,U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
828DIAC,Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia) [1]
829DiC,Design Island Centre (computing usually used in a teaching situation)
830DICASS,DIrectional Command Activated Sonobuoy System
831DIFAR,DIrectional Frequency Analysis and Recording
832DIME,Dense Inert Metal Explosive
833DINKY,Double Income,No Kids Yet
834DIP,Dual In-line Package (electronics)
835DIPS,Defense independent pitching statistics
836DIR,Defence Industrial Research
837DIS,Defence Intelligence Staff,(U.S.) Defense Investigative Service,Distributed Interactive Simulation,Draft International Standard (ISO)
838DISA,U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency,Distinguished Individual Service Award
839DISCOM,Division Support Command
840DISE,Deployable Intelligence Support Element
841DISSTAF,DIS Search and Target Acquisition Fidelity experiment
842DITY,Do-It-Yourself
843DIVAD,Division Air Defence
844DIY,Do It Yourself
845DJ,Disc Jockey,Dinner Jacket,Djibouti (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
846DJD,Degenerative Joint Disease,Dublin Julian Day,Discoveries in the Judaean Desert
847DJI,Djibouti (ISO 3166 trigram)
848DJS,Director,Joint Staff
849DK,Denmark (ISO 3166 digram)
850DL,Dexter's Laboratory
851DLA,U.S. Defense Logistics Agency,Dental Laboratories Association
852DLIC,Detachment Left-In-Contact
853DLIR,Depot-Level Inspection and Repair
854DLPMC,DorsoLateral PreMotor Cortex
855DLR,Deutsches Zentrum für Luft,und Raumfahrt (German,German Aerospace Centre),Docklands Light Railway
856DLRP,Data Link Reference Point
857DLS,Deep Lens Survey
858DLSA,(U.S.) Defense Legal Services Agency
859DLSc,Diploma in Library Science
860DLSC,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
861DLTBGYD,Don't let the bastards grind you down
862DM,Dominica (ISO 3166 digram),Dungeon Master (role-playing games)
863DMA,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)
864DMC,(U.S.) Defense Management Council
865DMCA,Digital Millennium Copyright Act
866DMM,Digital Multimeter
867DMOC,Distributed Mission Operations Centre
868DMPA,(U.S.) Defense Medical Programs Activity
869DMPFC,DorsoMedial PreFrontal Cortex
870DMPK,Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
871DMRB,Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
872DMS,U.S. Defense Message System
873DMSP,U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
874DMT,Dimethyltryptamine
875DMU,Diesel Multiple Unit,a method of connecting self-propelled railway vehicles together to form a train under the control of one driver.
876DMV,Department of Motor Vehicles
877DMZ,DeMilitarized Zone
878DN,Deacon
879DNA,U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency,DeoxyriboNucleic Acid,Douglas Noël Adams
880DNAW,Day Night All Weather
881DND,Department of National Defence (Canada),Do Not Disturb
882DNDi,Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative
883DNDO,U.S. Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
884DNK,Denmark (ISO 3166 trigram)
885DNM,Defence Nuclear Material
886DNR,Do Not Resuscitate
887DNS,Domain Name System
888DO,Dominica (FIPS 10-4 country code),Dominican Republic (ISO 3166 digram),Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
889DOA,Dead On Arrival,Dead or Alive
890DOB,Date Of Birth
891DOD,U.S. Department of Defense
892DODAF,U.S. Department of Defense Architectural Framework
893DoDD,U.S. Department of Defense Directive
894DoDEA,(U.S.) Department of Defense Education Activity
895DOE,U.S. Department of Energy
896DOHC,Dual-OverHead-Cam engine
897DOI,U.S. Department of the Interior
898DORA,Defence of the Realm Act
899DOS,Density of State
900DOT,Department of Transportation (U.S. federal or state),Damage Over Time (common in World of Warcraft)
901DOTA,short-form for DEFENSE OF THE ANCIENTS a popular online epic game
902DotD,Deal of the Day (marketing gimmick)
903DOTMLPF,Doctrine,Organization,Training,Materiel,Leadership,Personnel,and Facilities (mnemonic)
904DOW,Died of Wounds
905DP,Decision Point,Dynamic Programming
906DP,Division de production (Algerian petroleum company)
907DPA,UK Defence Procurement Agency
908DPCO,Double-Pole Change Over
909DPDT,Double-Pole Double-Throw
910DPI,Dots Per Inch
911DPICM,Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition
912DPKO,UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations
913DPMO,(U.S.) Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
914DPPDB,Digital Point Positioning Database
915DPRE,Displaced Person or Refugee (plural Displaced Persons and Refugees) (originally Displaced Persons,Refugees,Evacuees)
916DPRK,Democratic People's Republic of Korea
917DPST,Double-Pole Single-Throw
918DQ,Dairy Queen,Jarvis Island (FIPS 10-4 country code)
919DR,Dead Reckoning,Dominican Republic (FIPS 10-4 country code),Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
920DRA,Defence Research Agency (UK,1991-1995),Democratic Republic of America
921DRC,Democratic Republic of the Congo
922DRDC,Defence Research & Development Canada
923DREA,Defence Research Establishment Atlantic (obsolete 2002)
924DRES,Defence Research Establishment Suffield (obsolete 2002)
925DRET,Defence Research Establishment Toronto (obsolete 2002)
926DREV,Defence Research Establishment Valcartier (obsolete 2002)
927DRI,Detection,Recognition,Identification,Dietary Reference Intake
928DRIC,(U.S.) Defense Research Information Center
929DRL,Daytime Running Lights,Dorman Roberts Ltd.
930DRMS,(U.S.) Defense Revitalization and Marketing Service
931DRPR,Drawing Practices
932DRT,Document Related Technologies
933Ds,Darmstadtium
934DS,Dear son (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists,blogs,and bulletin boards),Defence Scientist,Direct Support,Dust Storm (METAR Code)
935DSA,(U.S.) Defense Support Activities,Division Support Area
936DSAA,(U.S.) Defense Security Assistance Agency,Driving Schools Association of the Americas,DECT Standard Authentication Algorithm
937DSAS,Disney Sing Along Songs
938DSB,(U.S.) Defense Science Board
939DSC,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
940DSCS,U.S. Defense Satellite Communications System
941DSCSOC,DSCS Operations Center
942DSD,Defence Studies Department (King's College,London)
943DSE,Dry Sheep Equivalent
944DSG,Direct-Shift Gearbox
945DSID,Dismounted Soldier Identification System
946DSL,Digital Subscriber Line
947DSLR,Digital single-lens reflex (camera)
948DSM,Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
949DSN,Deep Space Network
950DSP,Defense Standardization Program,Defense Support Program,
951DSPL,Design Specialists and Plans Language
952DSR,Deformed Special Relativity
953DSRV,Deaf Sports Recreation Victoria,Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle
954DSS,Digitized Sky Survey,Discarding-Sabot Shell (ammunition)
955DST,Daylight Saving Time
956DSTL,British Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
957DSWA,(U.S.) Defense Special Weapons Agency
958DTA,Dental Technologists Association
959DTD,Digital Terrain Data
960DTE,Data Terminal Equipment,Down To Earth
961DTG,Date-Time Group
962DTH,Direct To Home (television)
963DTI,UK Department of Trade and Industry
964DTIC,(U.S.) Defense Technical Information Center
965DTL,Diode-Transistor Logic (electronics)
966DTLOMS,Doctrine,Training,Leader development,Organization,Materiel,and Soldier (mnemonic)
967DTMF,Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling
968DTO,Disruptive Technology Office (was ARDA)
969DTOMLS,Doctrine,Training,Organization,Materiel,Leader and Soldier development (mnemonic)
970DTR,Determine The Relationship
971DTSA,(U.S.) Defense Technology Security Administration
972DU,Depleted Uranium,Dust (METAR Code)
973DUI,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
974DUMBO,Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (Brooklyn neighborhood)
975DUSD,(U.S.) Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense
976DVLC,UK Driver and Vehicle Licencing Centre
977DVM,Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
978DVO,Direct View Optics
979DVOM,Digital Volt-Ohm Meter
980DVP,various meanings (disambiguation page)
981DW,Drum Workshop
982DWI,Dance With Intensity,Danish West Indies,Diffusion-weighted imaging,Direct water injection,Disaster Welfare Inquiry,Drinking Water Inspectorate,Driving While Intoxicated/Impaired
983DWIM,Do What I Mean
984DWM,Doctor Who Magazine
985DWTS,Dancing with the Stars
986DWW,Down with Webster
987DX,Dexterity (role-playing games),DeXtrorphan,Distant (radio),D-Generation X (professional wrestling stable)
988DXA,Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry
989DXM,DeXtroMethorphan
990DY,Dahomey (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1977)
991Dy,Dysprosium
992DZ,Algeria (ISO 3166 digram),Drizzle (METAR Code),Drop Zone
993DZA,Algeria (ISO 3166 trigram)
994E,East
995EA,Electronic Attack,Emotions Anonymous,Engagement Area,Electronic Arts,Enrolled Agent,Environmental Assessment,Enterprise Architect,Exaampere
996EABU,Explain Acronyms Before Use
997EAC,Echelons Above Corps
998EAPC,Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
999EAST,Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
1000EBD,Electronic Brake Distribution
1001EBE,Extraterrestrial Biological Entity
1002EBO,Effects Based Operations,Encyclopædia Britannica Online,European Board of Ophthalmology
1003EBSA,Employee Benefits Security Administration
1004EBW,Electron Beam Welding
1005EBW,Exploding BridgeWire
1006ECASS,European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences [1]
1007ECB,England (and Wales) Cricket Board,European Central Bank
1008ECBR,European Coalition for Biomedical Research
1009ECCM,Electronic Counter-Counter-Measures
1010ECFS,Electronic Case Filing System
1011ECG,Electrocardiogram
1012ECHO,Each Community Helps Others (EPA programme),Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization,European Commission Host Organization,European Commission Humanitarian aid Office,Exchange Clearing House,Expanded Characteristic Option,Explanatory Coherence by Harmony Optimization
1013ECHR,European Convention on Human Rights
1014ECJ,European Court of Justice
1015ECL,Emitter Coupled Logic (electronics)
1016ECM,Electronic Counter-Measures,Enterprise Content Management
1017ECommHR,European Commission on Human Rights
1018ECS,Emergency Contact System,Enhanced Chip Set (computing),EOSDIS Core System,Extended Chip Set (computing)
1019ECSC,European Coal and Steel Community (distant ancestor of the EU)
1020ECT,ElectroConvulsive Therapy
1021ECtHR,European Court of Human Rights
1022ECU,Ecuador (ISO 3166 trigram),European Currency Unit (ancestor of the euro)
1023ECW,Eastern Championship Wrestling/Extreme Championship Wrestling,ED[edit]
1024EDA,European Defence Agency
1025EDAC,Error Detection And Correction
1026EDCS,Environmental Data Coding Specification
1027EDD,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)
1028EDGAR,Electronic Data Gathering,Analysis,and Retrieval (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings database)
1029EDH,Eastman Dental Hospital
1030EDS,Electronic Data Systems,Electronic Differential System
1031EDSA,Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (a major thoroughfare in Manila with great significance to post-1980 Philippines history)
1032EDT,Eastern Daylight Saving Time (UTC4 hours)
1033EDTA,Electric Drive Transportation Association,EthyleneDiamineTetraAcetic acid,EE[edit]
1034EE,Estonia (ISO 3166 digram; from the country's native name of Eesti),Electrical engineering,Electrical Engineer,E&E,Escape and Evasion (training)
1035EEC,European Economic Community (predecessor of the EU)
1036EEG,ElectroEncephaloGram
1037EENT,End Evening Nautical Twilight
1038EEO,Equal Employment Opportunity
1039EEOC,(U.S.) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
1040EEZ,Economic Exclusion Zone or Exclusive Economic Zone
1041EF,Electro-focus (Canon lens mount),Entry Foyer,Exafarad
1042EFF,Electronic Frontier Foundation
1043EFL,English as a Foreign Language
1044EFM,Enterprise Feedback Management
1045EFOA,European Fuel Oxygenates Association
1046EFSA,European Food Safety Authority
1047EFT,Electronic Fund Transfer
1048EFTA,European Free Trade Area,European Free Trade Association
1049EFV,Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle
1050EG,Egypt (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1051EGBUS,External Genitalia,Bartholin's glands,Urethra & Skene's glands
1052EGCG,EpiGalloCatechin-3-Gallate
1053EGIS,Erieye Ground Interface Segment
1054EGRET,Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope
1055EGY,Egypt (ISO 3166 trigram)
1056EH,Exahenry,Western Sahara (ISO 3166 digram)
1057EHA,Education for All Handicapped Children Act (U.S. federal legislation; since superseded by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act),Emotional Health Anonymous
1058EHF,Extremely High Frequency
1059EHR,Equipment History Record
1060Ei,Exbi
1061EI,Ireland (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Éire)
1062EIA,Environmental Impact Assessment
1063EIAH,Encyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History
1064EIAH,Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain
1065EIC,East India Company
1066EICS,East India Company's Service
1067eID,electronic ID
1068EIRP,Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
1069EIS,Environmental Impact Statement
1070EJ,Exajoule
1071EK,Equatorial Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code),Exakelvin
1072EKG,Electrocardiogram (from German Elektrokardiogramm)
1073EKMS,Electronic Key Management System
1074EL,Exalitre
1075ELF- Earth Liberation Front,Endangered Language Fund,Eritrean Liberation Front,Executable and Linkable Format,Extremely Low Frequency
1076ELINT,Electronic Intelligence
1077ELL,English Language Learner
1078ELM,Edge-Localised Mode (plasma physics)
1079ELO,Electric Light Orchestra
1080ELP,Emerson,Lake & Palmer,European Left Party
1081ELSS,Emergency Life Support Stores
1082ELT,Emergency Locator Transmitter
1083EM,ElectroMagnetism/ElectroMagnetic
1084Em,Exametre
1085EMA,European Medicines Agency
1086EMC,Electric Membership Corporation,Electromagnetic Compatibility,Electro-Motive Corporation,European Muon Collaboration,Evergreen Marine Corporation
1087EMCON,(Electromagnetic) Emissions Control
1088EMD,General Motors Electro-Motive Division,Engineering and Manufacturing Development,European Missile Defence
1089EMDG,Euro-Missile Dynamics Group
1090EMDR,Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
1091EMF,Electromotive force,Epsom Mad Funkers (1990s-2000s indie dance band)
1092EMG,ElectroMyoGraph
1093EMO,Emergency Measures Organisation, Emotional
1094EMP,ElectroMagnetic Pulse
1095EMS,Emergency Medical Services
1096EMT,Emergency Medical Technician
1097EMU,Electric Multiple Unit,a method of connecting self-propelled railway vehicles together to form a train under the control of one driver.
1098EN,Corps of Engineers,Estonia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Exanewton
1099ENCODE,Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (human genome data project)
1100ENE,East North-East
1101ENG,England (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram)
1102ENT,Ear,Nose and Throat
1103ENTEC,Euro NATO Training Engineer Centre
1104ENVL,Envelope
1105ENY,Enemy
1106EO,Electro-Optics,Engagement Operations
1107EOD,Explosive Ordnance Disposal
1108EOG,ElectroOculoGraphy
1109EOM,End of Message
1110EOS,Earth Observation Satellite, 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
1111EOSAT,Earth Observation Satellite
1112EOSDIS, Earth Observation Satellite Data and Information System
1113EOTS,Electro-Optical Tactical Sensor, Eye Of The Storm (World of Warcraft)
1114EP,European Parliament
1115EP,Extended play
1116EPA,EicosaPentaenoic Acid,Environmental Protection Agency
1117EPCOT,Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow
1118EPCR,Endothelial protein C receptor,European Professional Club Rugby
1119EPGS,EOS Polar Ground Sites
1120EPIRB, Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon
1121EPL,English Premier League
1122EPOS,Electronic Point Of Sale
1123EPPA,Employee Polygraph Protection Act
1124EPR,European Pressurised [Nuclear] Reactor
1125EPW,Earth Penetrator Weapon/Warhead,Economic and Political Weekly (Indian publication),Enemy Prisoner of War,EQ[edit]
1126EQ,Emotional Quotient
1127EQG,Equatorial Guinea (FIFA trigram,but not IOC or ISO 3166)
1128ER,Emergency Room,Eritrea (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1129Er,Erbium
1130ERA,Earned run average,Engineering Research Associates,Equal Rights Amendment,English Racing Automobiles,European Railway Agency
1131ERCIM, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
1132ERI,Eritrea (ISO 3166 trigram)
1133ERLAWS,Eastern Ruapehu Lahar Alarm and Warning System
1134EROS,Earth Resources Observation System
1135ERP,Engineer Regulating Point
1136ERR,Eesti Rahvusringhääling
1137ERS,Earth Resources Survey
1138ERTS,Earth Resources Technology Satellite (became Landsat)
1139ERV,Endogenous RetroVirus
1140Es,Einsteinium,Exasecond
1141ES,El Salvador (FIPS 10-4 country code),Electronic warfare Support,Exasiemens,Spain (ISO 3166 digram; from the country's native name of España)
1142ESA,Electro-Spark Alloying,Endangered Species Act,European Space Agency
1143ESC,Embryonic Stem Cell,Electronic Stability Control
1144ESD,ElectroStatic Discharge
1145ESDP,European Security and Defence Policy
1146ESE,East South-East
1147ESH,Western Sahara (ISO 3166 trigram)
1148ESL,English as a Second Language
1149ESM,Electronic warfare Support Measures
1150ESO,European Southern Observatory
1151ESOL,English for Speakers of Other Languages
1152ESP,Electronic Stability Program,Extra-sensory perception,Spain (ISO 3166 trigram)
1153ESPGHAN,European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology,Hepatology and Nutrition
1154ESPN,Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
1155EST,Eastern Standard Time (UTC5 hours),Estonia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1156ESU,Emergency Services Unit
1157ESV,Engineer Support Vehicle
1158ET,Ethiopia (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1159ETF,Emergency Task Force (a special police unit,also jocularly said to stand for Extra-Thick Fuzz)
1160ETH,Ethiopia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1161ETI,Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
1162ETLA,Extended TLA
1163ETM,Electronic Technical Manual,Enhanced Thematic Mapper
1164ETT,Embedded Training Team
1165EU,Europa Island (FIPS 10-4 country code),European Union
1166Eu,Europium
1167EUCOM,(U.S.) European Command
1168EUUSA,European Union and United States of America
1169EV,Exavolt
1170EVA,Earned Value Analysis,Economic value added,Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate,Extra-Vehicular Activity
1171EVIL,Electronic viewfinder (with) interchangeable lens (a type of digital camera)
1172EW,Electronic Warfare,Exawatt
1173EWTN,Eternal Word Television Network
1174Exatesla,Extra Terrestrial
1175EXREP,Expeditious Repair (SM&R code)
1176EZ,Czech Republic (FIPS 10-4 country code),Extraction Zone
1177F,Farad,Fluorine
1178f,Femto
1179fA,Femtoampere
1180FA,Field Artillery,Financial Aid,Football Association (England)
1181FA,Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous
1182FAAD,Forward Area Air Defence
1183FAADEZ,Forward Area Air Defence Engagement Zone
1184FAAFP,Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians
1185FAAN,Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology
1186FAAN,Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
1187FAAQ,Frequently Asked and Anticipated Questions
1188FAASV,Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle
1189FAB,Feline Advisory Bureau (UK feline charity)
1190FAC,Forward Air Controller,Front of Allies for Change,Frontal Affinity Chromatography,Full Aperture Calibrator
1191FACA,(US) Federal Advisory Committee Act
1192FACH,Fuerza Aérea de Chile
1193FACN,Fellow of the American College of Nutrition
1194FACP,Fellow of the American College of Physicians
1195FACS,Fellow of the American College of Surgeons,Formal Aspects of Computing Science,Fluorescent-activated cell sorting
1196FACTS,Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System
1197FAD,Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide,Fuck A Duck,Funding Authorization Document
1198FAH,Federation of American Hospitals,Fine Arts and Humanities,Foreign Affairs Handbook
1199FAM,Foreign Affairs Manual
1200FAO,Food and Agriculture Organization
1201FAPA,Fellow of the American Psychological Association
1202FAPHA,Fellow of the American Public Health Association
1203FARP,Forward Arming and Refuelling Point / Forward Area Rearm/refuel Point
1204FAS,Federation of American Scientists,Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
1205FASCAM,Family of Scatterable Mines[1]
1206FASD,Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
1207FASEB,Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
1208FAT,Field Artillery Tractor
1209FAVS,Future Armoured Vehicle System
1210FAW,Football Association of Wales
1211FB,Facebook,An on-line social network
1212FBCS,Fellow of the British Computer Society
1213FBIDST,Fellow of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists
1214FBIS,Foreign Broadcast Information Service
1215FBM,Board foot
1216FBR,Fast Breeder Reactor,Foundation for Biomedical Research,Friedman,Billings,Ramsey (now known as Arlington Asset Investment)
1217FBS-Federal Bureau of Statistics (Pakistan),Fetal bovine serum,Football Bowl Subdivision (U.S. college football),Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation,FC[edit]
1218fC,Femtocoulomb
1219FC,Fire Control,Football Club,Funnel Cloud (METAR Code)
1220FCC,U.S. Federal Communications Commission
1221FCE,First Certificate in English
1222FCF,Financial Free Cash Flow
1223FCLA,Fraud Claims Law Associate
1224FCM,Federation of Canadian Municipalities,Fogarty's Cove Music
1225FCO,UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1226FCW,Florida Championship Wrestling
1227FD,Falun Dafa
1228FDA,Food and Drug Administration (U.S.)
1229FDBK,(I) Feedback
1230FDC,Federal Detention Center (U.S.),Fire Direction Centre
1231FDR,Flight Data Recorder,Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1232FE,Fully Exposed (armoured vehicle target,as opposed to Hull-Down)
1233Fe,Iron (Latin Ferrum)
1234FEAR,First Encounter Assault Recon,False Evidence Appears Real
1235FEAST,Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation
1236FEATS,Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies link title
1237FEBA,Forward Edge of the Battle Area
1238FED,Field Emission Display
1239FEDEP,Federation Development Process (Simulation)
1240FEF,Frontal Eye Field (neurophysiology)
1241FENS,Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
1242FEP,Firepower Enhancement Program,Fleet satellite (FLTSAT) Extremely high frequency (EHF) Package
1243FES,Flywheel Energy Storage
1244FEST,Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre link title
1245FET,Field-effect transistor
1246FEZ,Fighter Engagement Zone
1247fF,Femtofarad
1248FF,Final Fantasy
1249FFA,Football Federation Australia,Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency,Free-Fire Area,Fusiform Face Area,Future Farmers of America (today the National FFA Organization)
1250FFB,Frum From Birth (referring to an observant Jew born into a religiously observant family)
1251FFC,Free For Chat
1252FFE,Fukuoka Futures Exchange
1253FFG,Guided Missile Frigate (hull classification symbol)
1254FFOV,Forward Field Of View
1255FFS,For Fuck's Sake
1256FFT,Final Fantasy Tactics,FG[edit]
1257FG,Falun Gong
1258fg,Femtogram
1259FG,Fog (METAR Code),French Guiana (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1260FGR,Flickr Group Roulette
1261fH,Femtohenry
1262FHFIF,Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
1263FHI,Family Health International,Fuji Heavy Industries,Ltd.
1264FI,Finland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1265FIB,Fucking Illinois Bastard (Wisconsin slang,variants exist)
1266FIBUA,Fighting In Built-Up Areas
1267FIC,Fellowship for Intentional Community
1268FID,Foreign Internal Defence
1269FIE,Fly-In Echelon
1270FIFO,First In,First Out
1271FIFRA,Federal Insecticide,Fungicide,and Rodenticide Act
1272FIGJAM,Fuck I'm Good,Just Ask Me
1273FIMPT,Fellow of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
1274FIN,Finland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1275FIRES,Fever Induced Refractory Epilepsy Syndrome or Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome
1276FISH,Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridisation
1277FiST,Fire Support Team
1278FITS,Flexible Image Transport System
1279FIU,Florida International University
1280fJ,Femtojoule
1281FJ,Fiji (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1282FJI,Fiji (ISO 3166 trigram)
1283FJN,Financial Job Network
1284FK,Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1285fK,Femtokelvin
1286FKSM,Fort Knox Supplemental Manual
1287FKT,Fastest Known Time
1288fL,Femtolitre
1289FL,Florida (postal symbol)
1290FLA,Florida,Front Line Assembly,Future Large Aircraft
1291FLAB,Four-letter abbreviation
1292FLAC,Free Legal Advice Centres
1293FLAC,Free Lossless Audio Codec
1294FLB,Forward Logistics Base
1295FLET,Forward Line of Enemy Troops
1296FLG,Falun Gong
1297FLIP,Flight Information Publication
1298FLIR,Forward Looking InfraRed (sensor)
1299FLK,Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1300FLOT,Forward Line of Own Troops
1301FLQ,Free Legal Questions
1302FLSA,Fair Labor Standards Act
1303FLTSAT,Fleet Satellite
1304FLTSATCOM,Fleet Satellite Communication System
1305FLUBOS,Fat,Lazy,Useless,Bag Of Shit
1306FM,Factory Mutual http://fmglobal.com
1307FM,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)
1308fm,Femtometre
1309Fm,Fermium
1310FMC,Federal Magistrates' Court (an Australian federal court,formerly FMS),Food Machinery Corporation (original name of the company now known as FMC Corporation)
1311FMCA,Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia (used for citing decisions of the FMC other than family law decisions)
1312FMCAfam,Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia: family (used for citing family law decisions of the FMC)
1313FMCG,(Fast Moving Consumer Goods)
1314FME,Formal Methods Europe
1315FMECA,Failure Modes and Effect Criticality Analysis
1316FMJD,Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames[2]
1317FMLA,Family Medical Leave Act
1318fMRI,Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
1319FMSF,False Memory Syndrome Foundation
1320FMTV,Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles
1321fN,Femtonewton
1322FNA,Functional Needs Analysis
1323FOAD,Fuck Off And Die
1324FOAF,Friend Of A friend
1325FOB,Forward Operating Base
1326FoB,Free On Board (shipping)
1327FOC,Full Operational Capability,First of Class
1328FoE,Friends of the Earth
1329FOGC,Federal Oil and Gas Council
1330FOH,Front Of House
1331FOIA,Freedom of Information Act
1332FOM,Federation Object Model
1333FONSI,Finding of No Significant Impact
1334FOO,Forward Observation Officer
1335FOOP,Friends Of Organ Pipes (Volunteer group)
1336FOR,Field Of Regard,Frame Of Reference
1337FoS,Family of Systems
1338FOS,Florida Ornithological Society,Full Operational Status
1339FOSE,Fallout 3 Script Extender
1340FOSE,Federal Office Systems Expo
1341FOT,Free on truck
1342FOTA,Fellow of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
1343FOTC,Flight of the Conchords
1344FOUO,For Official Use Only
1345FP,French Polynesia (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1346FPS,Fire Prevention System
1347FQ,Baker Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),French Southern and Antarctic Territories (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1979)
1348FR,France (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
1349Fr,Francium
1350FRA,Federal Railroad Administration,France (ISO 3166 trigram)
1351FRAND,Fair,reasonable,and non-discriminatory (concept in standards-setting and intellectual property law)
1352FRCP,Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
1353FRICBM,Full Range ICBM
1354FRO,Faroe Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1355FRS,Fellow of the Royal Society,U.S. Federal Reserve System
1356FRSA,Fellow of the Royal Society of Art
1357FRY,Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1358fs,Femtosecond
1359fS,Femtosiemens
1360FSA,Fire Support Area,UK Food Standards Agency,Functional Solution Analysis
1361FSC,Federal Supply Classification,Forest Stewardship Council (ecological pressure group
1362FSCL,Fire Support Co-ordination Line
1363FSE,Fire Support Element
1364FSF,Free Software Foundation
1365FSH,Follicle Stimulating Hormone
1366FSI,Fuel Stratified Injection
1367FSM,Federated States of Micronesia (ISO 3166 trigram),Flying Spaghetti Monster (satirical religion)
1368FSO,Fire Support Officer,Flotilla Staff Officer,Foreign Service Officer
1369FSS,Fire Support Station
1370FSSP,Families of Structurally Similar Proteins
1371FST,Finance Support Team,Finlands Svenska Television (Finland's Swedish-language television),Future Soviet Tank (Cold War era)
1372FSTC,Foreign Science Technology Center (now NGIC)
1373fT,Femtotesla
1374FTC,Federal Trade Commission
1375FTE,Full Time Equivalent
1376FTL,Faster Than Light
1377FTS,Flight Termination System used during some rocket launches
1378FTS,Fuck That Shit
1379FTW,For The Win (a commonly used phrase used online to indicate success) F@#K The World,Forever Together Where ever (gang slogan)
1380FU,Smoke (METAR Code)
1381FUBAR,Fucked/Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair
1382FUCK,For,Unlawful,Carnal,Knowledge (Van Halen album title)
1383FUD,Fear,Uncertainty & Doubt (marketing strategy)
1384fV,Femtovolt
1385fW,Femtowatt
1386FW,Forward
1387FWC,Football World Cup
1388FWF,Fixed Word Format
1389FWI,French West Indies
1390FWIW,For What It's Worth
1391FWS,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1392FWT,Fresh Water Tank
1393FX,Firefox,Fox Extended,Metropolitan France (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1997),Special effect
1394FXX,Metropolitan France (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1997)
1395FY,Fiscal Year,Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (NATO country code)
1396FYA,For Your Agenda
1397FYDP,Five-Year Defense Plan (U.S.)
1398FYI,For Your Information
1399FYROM,Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
1400FZDZ,Freezing Drizzle (METAR Code)
1401FZFG,Freezing Fog (METAR Code)
1402FZRA,Freezing Rain (METAR Code)
1403G,Gauss,General Audiences (movie rating)
1404g,Gram
1405G1,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Personnel
1406G10,Group of 10 (G7 + Belgium,Netherlands,Sweden,Switzerland; numbering 11 in fact)
1407G15,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)
1408G2,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Intelligence
1409G20,Group of 20 (G8 + Argentina,Australia,Brazil,China,India,Indonesia,Mexico,Saudi Arabia,South Africa,South Korea,Turkey + current European Union presiding country) (1999)
1410G24,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)
1411G3,Heckler & Koch G3
1412G4,Generation Four PowerPC microprocessor,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Logistics
1413G5,Generation Five PowerPC microprocessor,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Public Affairs
1414G6,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Information Technology,Group of 6 (France,Germany,United States,Japan,United Kingdom,Italy) (1975)
1415G7,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Training,Group of 7 (G6 + Canada) (1976)
1416G77,Group of 77 (issued from the United Nations Conference on Commerce and Development,1964; currently numbers 133)
1417G8,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Finance,Group of 8 (G7 + Russia) (1998)
1418GA,Gabon (ISO 3166 digram),The Gambia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Gamblers Anonymous,Georgia (postal symbol),Gigaampere,Goa (Indian state code)
1419Ga,Gallium,Gigaannum
1420GAAR,General Anti-Avoidance Rule (tax evasion)
1421GAB,Gabon (ISO 3166 trigram)
1422GABA,Gamma-AminoButyric Acid
1423GAD,Generalized Anxiety Disorder
1424GAF,Garfield and Friends
1425GALCIT,Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory,California Institute of Technology
1426GAO,U.S. Government Accountability Office
1427GAW,Global Atmospheric Watch
1428GB,Gabon (FIPS 10-4 country code),United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 digram) [glamour boy 7-9/10]
1429GBBC,Great (Global) Backyard Bird Count
1430GBE,Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
1431GBH,Great Bash Heel (Japanese professional wrestling stable),Gregory Bonner Hale (British design and advertising agency),Grievous bodily harm
1432GBR,United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1433GBU,Glide-Bomb Unit,Global Business Unit
1434GC,East Germany (NATO country code; obsolete 1990),General classification (cycling),General counsel,George Cross (British civil decoration),Gigacoulomb [Grindr cruise]
1435GCA,Graduate in Claims Administration
1436GCD,see entry
1437GCF,Greatest Common Factor
1438GCI,Ground-controlled interception
1439GCN,Gamma-ray burst Coordination Network
1440GCS,Global Coordinate System
1441GCSE,General Certificate of Secondary Education (UK)
1442Gd,Gadolinium
1443GD,Grenada (ISO 3166 digram)
1444GDC,Game Developers Conference,General Dental Council
1445GDL,Game Definition Language
1446GDP,General Dental Practitioner (UK),Gross Domestic Product
1447GDR,General Distribution Release (Microsoft Term for a software service release; between Hotfix and Service Pack)
1448GDR,German Democratic Republic (cf. DDR)
1449GDW,Game Designers Workshop
1450GE,General Electric,Genetic Engineering (cf. GM),Georgia (ISO 3166 digram)
1451Ge,Germanium
1452GEBCO,General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
1453GEC,Great Engineering Challenge
1454GED,General Educational Development (high school equivalency credential in the U.S. and Canada)
1455GEEP,Geophysical Equipment Exploration Platform
1456GEMA,Gas and Electricity Markets Authority,Georgia Emergency Management Agency,Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs,und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (German performance rights organisation),Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance
1457GEN,Full General (four stars) in the U.S. Army
1458GEO,Geostationary Earth Orbit,Georgia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1459GEQ,Equatorial Guinea (IOC trigram,but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
1460GER,Germany (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
1461GeV,Gigaelectron-volt
1462GEV,Ground Effect Vehicle
1463GF,French Guiana (ISO 3166 digram),Gigafarad
1464GFCF,Gluten-free,casein-free diet,Gross fixed capital formation
1465GFCI,Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor (aka GFI)
1466GFE,Girlfriend experience (used in escort services),Good Faith Estimate,Government Furnished Equipment
1467GFI,Ground Fault Interruptor (aka GFCI)
1468GFL,German Football League (Germany's Bundesliga for American football; the English-language name is used in German without translation)
1469GFN,Global Footprint Network
1470GG,Georgia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1471GGK,Good God Karma
1472GGP,General Game Playing,General Growth Properties (U.S. shopping center owner),GH[edit]
1473GH,Ghana (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code),Gigahenry
1474GHA,Ghana (ISO 3166 trigram)
1475GHB,gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
1476GI,Galvanised Iron,Gastro-Intestinal,General Issue,Gibraltar (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code),Government Issue
1477Gi,Gibi
1478GIB,Gibraltar (ISO 3166 trigram)
1479GIG,Global Information Grid
1480GIN,Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram),Guidelines International Network
1481GINK,Going Insane Not Knowing,orig. Colorado 2010 M.Kalfas
1482GINO,Godzilla In Name Only
1483GJ,Gigajoule,Grenada (FIPS 10-4 country code),Gujarat (Indian state code)
1484GJD,Geocentric Julian Day
1485GK,Gigakelvin,Guernsey (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1486GL,Gigalitre,Graphics Language,Greenland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code),Grenade Launcher
1487GLAAD,Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
1488GLAC,General Ledger Accounting Code
1489GLAST,Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
1490GLBA,Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
1491GLC,Gas-liquid chromatography
1492GLINT,Gallium-arsenide Laser Illuminator for Night TV,Gated Laser Illuminator for Narrow Television,Gated Laser Intensifier (tape),Gospel Literature International,Graphical Linux Installation Tool
1493GLP,Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 trigram)
1494GLV,Gained Life Value
1495Gm,Gigametre
1496GMC,U.K. General Medical Council,Gospel Music Channel
1497GMFSC,Ground Mobile Forces Satellite Communications
1498GMI,Generic Model Interface,Geometry Model Instance
1499GMO,Genetically Modified Organism
1500GMPCS,Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite
1501GMT,Giant Magellan Telescope,Greenwich Mean Time,GN[edit]
1502GN,Giganewton,Guinea (ISO 3166 digram)
1503GNAS,Grand National Archery Society
1504GNB,Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 trigram)
1505GNP,Gross National Product
1506GNQ,Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram)
1507GnRH,Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
1508GO,Glorioso Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1509GOA,General of the Army (United States only)
1510GOAT,Greatest Of All Time
1511GOC,General Officer Commanding
1512GOES,Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
1513GOP,Grand Old Party
1514GOSC,General Officer Steering Committee
1515GOSH,Great Ormond Street Hospital
1516GOSP,Gas/Oil Separation Plant
1517GOTS,Government off-the-shelf
1518GPA,Grade Point Average
1519GPC,Global Path Cache
1520GPIB,General-Purpose Instrumentation/Interface Bus
1521GPO,General Post Office
1522GPPC,Genetics and Public Policy Center
1523GPR,Ground-Penetrating Radar
1524GRAIL,Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
1525GRAS,Generally recognized as safe (FDA list)
1526GRB,Gamma-Ray Burst
1527GRC,Greece (ISO 3166 trigram)
1528GRD,Grenada (ISO 3166 trigram)
1529GRID,Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (original name of AIDS)
1530GriT,Girl raised in Texas (Woman presenting firm southern traits/beliefs)
1531GRL,Greenland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1532GRP,Graphite-reinforced plastic,see Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer
1533GS,General Schedule (US civil service pay scale),General Support,Gigasiemens,South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
1534Gs,Gigasecond
1535GSA,U.S. General Services Administration
1536GSD,Graphical Situation Display
1537GSGB,(God send glamour boy 9-10/10)
1538GSK,GlaxoSmithKline [good sexual karma]
1539GSN,Game Show Network
1540GSO,General Services Officer (U.S. Department of State)
1541GSOH,Good Sense Of Humour
1542GSP,Georges St-Pierre (Canadian MMA fighter)
1543GSR,Gun Shot Residue
1544GSS,Generic Security Services
1545GST,Goods and Services Tax (Australia,Canada,and other countries)
1546GSW,Gunshot wound
1547GT,Gigatesla,Gran Turismo,Grand Touring,Guatemala (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
1548GTB,Get to bed,namely to get a new job after a long time of searching,usually following a phone call
1549GTC,Gran Telescopio Canarias (Spanish,Canaries Great Telescope)
1550GTD,Getting Things Done
1551GTG,Got To Go (Internet chat)
1552GTGN,Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
1553GTK,Good To Know (Internet chat)
1554GTM,Guatemala (ISO 3166 trigram)
1555GU,Guam (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
1556GUA,Guatemala (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
1557GUF,French Guiana (ISO 3166 trigram)
1558GUILT,Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin
1559GULCR,Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica
1560GUT,Grand Unification Theory
1561GV,Gigavolt,Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1562GW,Games Workshop,Germ Warfare,Gigawatt,Guided Weapon,Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 digram)
1563GWARS,Ground Warfare System (simulation)
1564GWAS,Grand Western Archery Society
1565GWOT,Global War on Terrorism
1566GWS,Gulf War Syndrome,Greater Western Sydney
1567GXE,Gene-enivronment interaction
1568GXM,Matrox Graphics eXpansion Module
1569GxP,Good X Practice (X can mean: clinical,manufacturing,pharmaceutical,etc.)
1570GXP,Grid Exit Point,Global Xchange Programme,Indication of highest performance level on some Pontiac vehicles
1571GY,Guyana (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
1572GZ,Gaza Strip (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Ground Zero
1573GZK,Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off (cosmic ray energies)
1574h,Hecto
1575H,Henry,Hydrogen
1576HA,Haiti (FIPS 10-4 country code),High Availability
1577HAARP,High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
1578HAART,Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy
1579HAI,Human Awareness Institute
1580HAL,Hardware Abstraction Layer
1581HALO,High Altitude Low Opening (parachute jump)
1582HALT,Highly Accelerated Life Test,Hungry Angry Lonely Tired
1583HAM,Amateur radio operator
1584HANS,Head And Neck Support (device used in many race cars)
1585HARM,High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile
1586HAT,Highest Astronomical Tide (nautical charts),Hungarian Automated Telescope
1587HAW,Heavy Antitank Weapon
1588HAWK,Homing All the Way Killer (air defence system)
1589HAZ,Heat-Affected Zone
1590HAZMAT,Hazardous Materials
1591HBCD,HexaBromoCycloDodecane
1592HBO,Home Box Office
1593HBR,Harvard Business Review
1594HBT,Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
1595HBV,Hepatitis B Virus
1596HCCI,Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition
1597HCF,Highest Common Factor
1598HCSC,Higher Command and Staff Course
1599HCT,Higher Colleges of Technology,tertiary education institution in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
1600HD,Henry Draper (star catalogue),Hull-Down (armoured vehicle target,as opposed to Fully Exposed),High Definition,Huntington's Disease
1601HDL,High-Density Lipoprotein
1602HDM,Human Decision-Making
1603HDR,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)
1604HDRA,Henry Doubleday Research Association
1605He,Helium
1606HE,High Explosive
1607HEAT,High Explosive Anti-Tank (ammunition)
1608HEBA,Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association
1609HEER,High-Explosive Extended Range (ammunition)
1610HEIC,Honourable East India Company
1611HEMP,High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse
1612HEO,High Earth Orbit,Highly Elliptical Orbit
1613HEOSS,High Earth Orbit Space Surveillance
1614HEP,High-Explosive Plastic (ammunition)
1615HEPA,High-Efficiency Particulate Air (filter)
1616HESH,High-Explosive,Squash-Head (ammunition)
1617HESV,Heavy Engineering Support Vehicle
1618HETT,Heavy Equipment Transporting Truck / Heavy Equipment Truck Tractor
1619HEU,Highly Enriched Uranium
1620Hewitts,Hills in England,Wales and Ireland over Two Thousand feet (with topographic prominence of at least 30 m)
1621Hf,Hafnium
1622HF,High Frequency
1623HFE,Human Fertilisation and Embryology (UK Act)
1624HFE,The common-emitter current gain in a BJT transistor (also represented by βF). See: BJT
1625HFEA,Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (UK)
1626Hg,Mercury (Latin Hydrargyrum)
1627HGC,UK Human Genetics Commission
1628HGF,Human Growth Factor
1629HGTV,Home & Garden Television
1630HHB,Ha Ha Bonk,The noise made when you laugh your head off. Used instead of LOL...
1631HI,Hawaii (postal symbol)
1632HIH,His (or Her) Imperial Highness
1633HIM,His (or Her) Imperial Majesty
1634HIMAD,High to Medium Altitude Air Defence (see also H/MAD)
1635HIMEZ,High Altitude Missile Engagement Zone
1636HIMYM,How I Met Your Mother
1637HIPAA,U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
1638Hipparcos,HIgh Precision Parallax COllecting Satellite
1639Hird,Hurd of interfaces representing depth (cf. HURD)
1640HiRISE,High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
1641HIT,Health Information Technology
1642HIV,Human Immunodeficiency Virus
1643HIWT,Hobart Institute of Welding Technology
1644HJD,Heliocentric Julian Day
1645HK,Hong Kong (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1646HKG,Hong Kong (ISO 3166 trigram)
1647HKS,HyperKinetic Syndrome
1648hL,Hectolitre
1649HL,Holding Line
1650HLA,High Level Architecture (simulation),Human Leukocyte Antigen
1651HLL,High-Level Language
1652HLN,Headline News
1653HLOS,High Level Output Specification
1654HLVW,Heavy Logistics Vehicle,Wheeled
1655HM,Heard Island and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1656HMCE,Her/His Majesty's Customs and Excise (former UK government department; succeeded by HM Revenue and Customs)
1657HMCS,Her/His Majesty's Canadian Ship,Her Majesty's Courts Service (former UK agency; succeeded by Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service)
1658HMD,Heard and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1659HMF,HydroxyMethyl Furfural
1660HMO,Health maintenance organization
1661HMP,Her Majesty's Prison
1662HMRC,Her/His Majesty's Revenue and Customs
1663HMS,Helmet-mounted display,Her/His Majesty's Ship (Royal Navy)
1664HMSO,Her Majesty's Stationery Office
1665HMV,His Master's Voice
1666HN,Honduras (ISO 3166 digram)
1667HND,Honduras (ISO 3166 trigram)
1668Ho,Holmium
1669HO,Honduras (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1670HOLLAND,Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies
1671HOMES,the Great Lakes; Huron,Ontario,Michigan,Erie,Superior
1672HONY,Humans of New York,a photoblog.
1673HOPI,Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (see Internet2,Abilene Network)
1674HoReCa,Hotel,Restaurant and Catering
1675HORIZON,Hélicoptère d'observation radar et d'investigation sur zone (French,Zone Investigation and Radar Observation Helicopter)
1676HOSTAC,Helicopter Operations from Ships Other Than Aircraft Carriers
1677HOT,Highly Optimised Tolerance
1678HOTAS,Hands on throttle-and-stick
1679HOV,High Occupancy Vehicle
1680HP,Hewlett-Packard,Hindustan Petroleum,Himachal Pradesh (Indian state code)
1681hp,horse power
1682HPA,UK Health Protection Agency
1683HPCL,Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
1684HPLC,High Performance Liquid Chromatography
1685HPT,High[er] Payoff Target
1686HPV,Human Papilloma Virus
1687HQ,HeadQuarters,Howland Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1688HQDA,HeadQuarters,Department of the Army
1689HR,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
1690HRBL,High-level Representation of Behavior Language (original name of the Herbal language)
1691HRD,Human Resource Development
1692HRED,(U.S. Army Research Laboratory's) Human Research and Engineering Directorate (Aberdeen Proving Ground,Maryland)
1693HRF,High iness Forces
1694HRH,His (or Her) Royal Highness
1695HRM,His (or Her) Royal Majesty
1696HRM,Human Resource Management
1697HRT,Hormone Replacement Therapy
1698HRV,Croatia (ISO 3166 trigram),High Resolution Visible,HS[edit]
1699Hs,Hassium
1700HSBC,The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
1701HSC,Higher School Certificate
1702HSM,High School Musical
1703HSMAD,Human Science/Modeling and Analysis Data
1704HSN,Home Shopping Network
1705HSPH,Harvard School of Public Health
1706HSS,Health Service Support,High-Speed Steel
1707HSSI,High-Speed Serial Interface
1708HST,see entry
1709HSV,Herpes Simplex Virus,Hue Saturation Value (colour model),HT[edit]
1710HTA,HyperText Application
1711HTC-High Tech Computer Corporation,original name of the company now known simply as HTC,Horry Telephone Cooperative
1712HTFU,Harden The Fuck Up
1713HTH,Hope That Helps
1714HTI,Haiti (ISO 3166 trigram)
1715HTML,HyperText Markup Language
1716HTR,Heated Towel Rail
1717HTS,High-Temperature Superconducting wire
1718HTTP,HyperText Transfer Protocol
1719HU,Hungary (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1720HUD,Head-Up Display,Housing and Urban Development
1721HUHA,Head up his/her ass (Marine salute; probably a backcronym)
1722HUN,Hungary (ISO 3166 trigram)
1723HURD,Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons (cf. Hird)
1724HV,Upper Volta (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1984)
1725HVAC,Heating,ventilation and air conditioning Used in architecture,business and marketing; refers to a building's entire system of heating,moving,or cooling air.
1726HVAP,High Velocity Armour Piercing (ammunition)
1727HVHF,High velocity human factors
1728HVM,High Velocity Missile
1729HVO,Upper Volta (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984)
1730HVP,HarborView Properties,High vacuum process,Hydrolyzed vegetable protein,Human Variome Project,High Velocity Protection,H.V.P. (rapper),High Voltage Protection,High Vapor Pressure,Hub Voice Processor,High-Velocity Projectile,High-Video Pass,High-Velocity Particle
1731HW,Hardware,High Water (nautical charts)
1732HWM,Hardware morphing (computer graphics rendering)
1733HX,IATA code of Hong Kong Airlines,Medical history,Hydrogen halide,Concept automobile by HUMMER
1734HXB,The glycoprotein Tenascian C
1735HYS,Harvard,Yale,Stanford (perennially named as the top three law schools in the U.S.)
1736HZ,Haze (METAR Code)
1737Hz,Hertz
1738I,Iodine,One (in Roman numerals)
1739IA,Iowa (postal symbol)
1740IAAL,I Am A Lawyer
1741IAB,International Association for Biologicals
1742IACREOT,International Association of Clerks,Recorders,Election Officials,and Treasurers
1743IAD,Ion Assisted Deposition
1744IADS,Integrated Air Defence System
1745IAEA,International Atomic Energy Agency
1746IAF,{i} Industrial Areas Foundation
1747IAFG,Information Assurance Focus Group
1748IAI,International African Institute,Israel Aircraft Industries
1749IANA,Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
1750IANAL,I Am Not A Lawyer
1751IAQ,Indoor air quality,Infrequently Asked Questions
1752IAS,Image Assessment System
1753IASIP,It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
1754IATA,International Air Transport Association
1755IATF,International Automotive Task Force
1756IATSE,International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
1757IAU,International Association of Universities,International Astronomical Union
1758IAUC,International Astronomical Union Circular
1759IAW,In Accordance With
1760IB,International Baccalaureate
1761IBA,Important Bird Area
1762IBD,Inflammatory Bowel Disease
1763IBDM,Information Based Decision Making
1764IBDS,Integrated Biological Detection System,International Business Development Specialist
1765IBM,International Business Machines
1766IBRD,International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (part of the World Bank)
1767IBS,Irritable Bowel Syndrome
1768IC,Ice Crystals (METAR Code),Iceland (FIPS 10-4 country code),Integrated Circuit,[inner circle]
1769ICANN,Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
1770ICAO,International Civil Aviation Organization
1771ICBM,Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
1772ICBN,International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
1773ICC,Integrated Command and Control,International Criminal Court,International Cricket Council,Interstate Commerce Commission,International Chamber of Commerce
1774ICD,Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator,Initial Capabilities Document,International Classification of Diseases
1775ICE,In case of emergency
1776ICES,International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
1777ICF,Intelligent Community Forum
1778ICM,Improved Conventional Munition,Integrated Collection Management,International Congress of Mathematicians,Iraq Campaign Medal
1779ICMP,Internet Control Message Protocol
1780ICNAF,International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (became NAFO in 1978)
1781ICNI,Integrated Communication,Navigation,and Identification
1782ICO,Intermediate Circular Orbit
1783ICP,Inductively coupled plasma,Insane Clown Posse
1784ICRAF,International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (a.k.a. World Agroforestry Centre since 2002)
1785ICRISAT,International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
1786ICRL,Individual Component Repair List
1787ICRS,International Celestial Reference System
1788ICS,In-Country Support,Intelligence and Communications Systems,Interim Contractor Support
1789ICSI,Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
1790ICT,Information and communication technologies
1791ICTH,Island Closest to Heaven/Hell Final Fantasy VIII
1792ICV,Infantry Carrier Vehicle
1793ICW,In Co-ordination With,Indonesia Corruption Watch,Infectious and Chemotherapeutic Waste,Insulating Concrete Wall,Integral Crystalline Waterproofing,Interactive Courseware
1794ICYMI,In Case You Missed It
1795ICZN,International Code of Zoological Nomenclature,International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
1796ID,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)
1797IDA,U.S. Institute for Defense Analyses,International Development Association (part of the World Bank
1798IDC,International Data Corporation
1799IDDI,I don't do initialisms (see irony)
1800IDE,Integrated Development Environment,Integrated Drive Electronics
1801IDeA,Improvement and Development Agency,the former name of Local Government Improvement and Development in the United Kingdom
1802IDEA,Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (U.S.),International Data Encryption Algorithm,International Design Excellence Awards
1803IDF,Israel Defense Forces,Intel Development Forum,International Dairy Federation
1804IDGAF,I don't give a fuck
1805IDK,I don't know
1806IDKIBTI,I don't know,I'm black,that's it
1807IDL,Interface Definition Language
1808IDN,Indonesia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1809IE,Indo-European languages,Internet Explorer,Ireland (ISO 3166 digram),Iced Earth
1810IEA,International Energy Agency
1811IEC,International Electrotechnical Commission
1812IED,Improvised Explosive Device
1813IELTS,International English Language Testing System
1814IER,Information Exchange Requirement
1815IET,Initial Entry Training
1816IET,Institution of Engineering and Technology
1817IETF,Internet Engineering Task Force
1818IEW,Intelligence and Electronic Warfare
1819IFAB,International Football Association Board
1820IFAH,International Federation for Animal Health
1821IFAP,International Federation of Agricultural Producers
1822IFC,International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank),Independent Film Channel
1823IFF,Identification,Friend or Foe,Individually Fresh Frozen,International Flavors and Fragrances
1824IFFN,Identification,Friend,Foe,or Neutral
1825IFO,Identified Flying Object (see also UFO)
1826IFOR,UN Implementation Force,Institute for Operations Research,International Fellowship of Reconciliation
1827IFOV,Instantaneous Field of View
1828IFPI,International Federation of Phonographic Industries
1829IFRB,International Frequency Registration Board
1830IFV,Infantry Fighting Vehicle
1831IG,Inspector General
1832IGNOU,Indira Gandhi National Open University
1833IGS,International Ground Station
1834IGY,Israeli Gay Youth,International Geophysical Year
1835IHH,Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
1836IHO,International Hydrographic Organization
1837IHR,Institute for Historical Review
1838IHSI,Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (Jesuit Historical Institute)
1839II,Two (in Roman numerals)
1840IICA,Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
1841IIE,Innovative Interstellar Explorer
1842III,Three (in Roman numerals)
1843IIRC,If I Recall/Remember Correctly
1844IISS,International Institute for Strategic Studies
1845IIT,Illinois Institute of Technology,Indian Institutes of Technology,Indiana Institute of Technology
1846IJN,Imperial Japanese Navy (World War II)
1847IJWP,Interim Joint Warfare Publication
1848IKEA,Ingvar Kamprad (the company's founder),Elmtaryd (the farm where he was born and raised),Agunnaryd (a village and parish near the farm)
1849IL,Illinois (postal symbol),Israel (ISO 3166 digram)
1850ILC,International Law Commission,International Linear Collider
1851ILDS,Improved Landmine Detection System
1852ILO,International Labour Organization
1853ILRI,International Livestock Research Institute
1854ILY,I Love You [pronounced ILL-LEE]
1855IM,Isle of Man (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Instant Message (internet speech)
1856IMA,Intermediate Maintenance Activity,Institute of Mathematics and Applications
1857IMBD,International Migratory Bird Day
1858IMDb,Internet Movie Database
1859IME,In My Experience
1860IMF,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)
1861IML,International Mister Leather
1862IMLAST,International Movement for Leisure Activities in Science and Technology,see MILSET
1863IMNM,,Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy a rare,but serious ADR of statins [1]
1864IMNSHO,In My Not So Humble Opinion
1865IMPAC,International Merchant Purchase Authorization Card
1866IMPACT,International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce
1867IMPATT,IMPact Avalanche Transit Time diode
1868IMPT,Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
1869IMRL,Individual Material iness List
1870IMRO-Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization,Irish Music Rights Organisation
1871IMS,Information Management System,International Meat Secretariat,Ion Mobility Spectrometer
1872IMSA,Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy,International Mind Sports Association,International Motor Sports Association
1873IMsL,International Ms. Leather
1874IMT,Integrated Management Tool
1875IMU,International Mathematical Union
1876IN,India (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Indiana (postal symbol),Infantry
1877In,Indium
1878INA,Immigration and Nationality Act
1879INAS,International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
1880INCITS,InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
1881IND,India (ISO 3166 trigram)
1882INDIGO,(U.S.) INtelligence DIvision Gaming Operation
1883inet,the Internet
1884INFORMS,(U.S.) Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
1885INFOSEC,Information Security
1886INLA,Irish National Liberation Army
1887INMARSAT,International Maritime Satellite organization
1888INRI,Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudæorum (Latin for: Jesus of Nazareth,King of the Jews)
1889INRIA,Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
1890INS,Immigration and Naturalization Service
1891InSAR,Interferometric synthetic aperture radar
1892INST,Information Standards and Technology
1893INTERFET,International Force for East Timor
1894INTSUM,Intelligence Summary
1895IO,British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1896IOC,Initial Operational Capability,Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission,International Olympic Committee,International Ornithological Congress
1897IOLTA,Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (charitable funding mechanism,especially for legal aid)
1898IOM,Iowa,Ohio,Michigan (soybean origin),Institute of Medicine,International Organisation for Migration,Isle of Man
1899IONA,Islands of the North Atlantic (alternate name for Great Britain,Ireland,the Isle of Man,and related islands)
1900IOT,British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 trigram)
1901IP,Clipperton Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Initial Point,Intellectual Property,Internet Protocol
1902IPA,India Pale Ale,International Phonetic Alphabet,Isopropyl alcohol
1903IPB,Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
1904IPCC,Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,Independent Police Complaints Commission
1905IPL,Inferior Parietal Lobule
1906IPO,Initial Public Offering
1907IPR,In Progress Review,Intellectual Property Rights,Intelligence Production Requirement
1908IPT,Integrated Product/Project Team
1909IPTS,Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
1910IPTV,Internet Protocol TeleVision
1911IPW,Interrogation of Prisoners of War
1912IQ,Intelligence Quotient,Iraq (ISO 3166 digram)
1913Ir,Iridium
1914IRA,Individual Retirement Account,Irish Republican Army (see also List of organisations known as the Irish Republican Army for groups claiming descent from this organisation)
1915IRAD,Internal Research and Development
1916IRAN,(I) Inspect and Repair As Necessary
1917IRAS,Infrared Astronomical Satellite
1918IRB,International Rugby Board
1919IRBM,Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
1920IRC,International Red Cross,International Reply Coupon
1921IREA,Intermountain Rural Electric Association
1922IRINN,Islamic Republic of Iran News Network
1923IRN,Iran (ISO 3166 trigram)
1924IRO,International Refugee Organisation
1925IRQ,Iraq (ISO 3166 trigram)
1926IRS,U.S. Internal Revenue Service
1927IRST,Infra-red Search and Track
1928IS,Iceland (ISO 3166 digram),Israel (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1929ISA,Individual Savings Account,Industry Standard Architecture,Instruction Set Architecture,International Seabed Authority
1930ISAAA,International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications
1931ISAF,International Sailing Federation,International Security Assistance Force
1932ISAR,Inverse SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)
1933ISB,Intermediate Staging Base
1934ISBN,International Standard Book Number (ISO 2108)
1935ISCCP,International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
1936ISCII,Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange
1937ISDN,Integrated Services Digital Network
1938ISEF,Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
1939ISEN,Internet Search Environment Number
1940ISF,Internal Security Force
1941ISI-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
1942ISIL,Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
1943ISL,Iceland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1944ISLN,International Standard Lawyer Number (used initially by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell)
1945ISM,Industrial,scientific or medical,Interstellar medium
1946ISMB,International Society of Matrix Biologists
1947ISMC,Intelligent Sounding Meaningless Conversation
1948ISOGP,Indian Society of Orthodontics for General Practitioners [2]
1949ISP,International Standardized Profile,Internet Service Provider,Information Systems Professional
1950ISPE,International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
1951ISR,Intelligence,Surveillance and Reconnaissance,Israel (ISO 3166 trigram)
1952ISRO,Indian Space Research Organisation
1953ISS,International Shorebird Survey (North America),International Space Station
1954ISSCR,International Society for Stem Cell Research
1955ISSN,International standard serial number (ISO 3297)
1956IST,Information System Technology,UCF Institute for Simulation and Training
1957ISTAR,Intelligence,Surveillance,Target Acquisition,and Reconnaissance
1958ISTC,Institute of Scientific and Technical Communications (UK)
1959ISTS,Intel Science Talent Search
1960ISU,Integrated Sight Unit,International Skating Union,IT[edit]
1961IT,InferoTemporal (neurophysiology),Information Technology,Italy (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
1962ITA,Italy (ISO 3166 trigram)
1963ITAG,Inertial Terrain-Aided Guidance
1964ITALY,I'll Truly Always Love You
1965ITAS,Improved Target Acquisition Sight
1966ITC,InferoTemporal Cortex (neurophysiology)
1967ITCZ,Intertropical Convergence Zone
1968ITEC,Information Technology Exposition & Conference
1969ITEMS,Interactive Tactical Environment Management System
1970ITER,International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
1971ITF,International Tennis Federation
1972ITK,In The Know
1973ITN,Independent Television News (British)
1974ITS,Incompatible Time-sharing System,Individual Training Standards
1975ITT,International Telephone and Telegraph (U.S.)
1976ITTO,International Tropical Timber Organization
1977ITU,Intent-to-Use,International Telecommunication Union (International Telegraph Union 1865-1932),IU[edit]
1978IUCN,International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union)
1979IUSS,Integrated Undersea Surveillance System,Integrated Unit Simulation System,International Union of Soil Sciences
1980IV,Côte d'Ivoire (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Ivory Coast),Four (in Roman numerals),IntraVenous (as in intravenous drip or intravenous therapy)
1981IVD,Internet Video Device,intra vas device
1982Iveco,Industrial Vehicles Corporation
1983IVF,In Vitro Fertilisation
1984IVI,Interchangeable Virtual Instrument
1985IVIS,Inter-Vehicle Information System
1986IVL,Inter-Visibility Line
1987IVM,In Vitro [Oocyte] Maturation
1988IVO,In Vicinity Of
1989IW,Information Warfare
1990IWARS,Infantry Warrior Simulation
1991IWC,International Whaling Commission
1992IWW,Industrial Workers of the World
1993IX,Nine (in Roman numerals)
1994IXT,IntraText digital library; IntraText lexical hypertext
1995IY,Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone (FIPS 10-4 territory code; obsolete 1993)
1996IZ,Iraq (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1997J,Joule
1998J1,Joint [Manpower &] Personnel Directorate
1999J2,Joint Intelligence Directorate
2000J2EE,Java 2 Platform,Enterprise ion
2001J2ME,Java 2 Platform,Micro ion
2002J2SE,Java 2 Platform,Standard ion
2003J3,Joint Operations Directorate
2004J4,Joint Logistics Directorate
2005J5,Joint Strategic Plans & Policy Directorate
2006J6,Joint Information Technology Directorate (Command,Control,Communications & Computer Systems)
2007J7,Joint Operational Plans & Interoperability Directorate
2008J8,Joint Force Structure,Resources,& Assessment Directorate
2009JA,Japan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2010JAFT,Just A Field Test
2011JAL,Japan Airlines
2012JALLC,Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (NATO)
2013JAM,Jamaica (ISO 3166 trigram)
2014JAMA,Journal of the American Medical Association
2015JANET,Joint Academic Network
2016JANUS,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)
2017JATO,Jet-Assisted Take-Off
2018JB,Jail Bait
2019JB,Junior Branch
2020JBFSA,Joint Blue Force Situational Awareness
2021JCDB,Joint Common Data Base
2022JCDS,Joint Chiefs of the Defence Staff
2023JCIDS,Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System
2024JCL,Job Control Language
2025JCP,Java Community Process
2026JCPM,Java Child Process Manager,Jesus Christ Prison Ministry
2027JCS,Joint Chiefs of Staff
2028JCW,Juggalo Championship Wrestling
2029JDBC,Java Data Base Connectivity
2030JDCC,UK Joint Doctrine and Concepts Centre,now the Development,Concepts,and Doctrine Centre,DCDC
2031JDEM,Joint Dark Energy Mission
2032JDL,Jewish Defense League
2033JDM,Japanese domestic market,referring specifically to automobiles and parts,Java Data Mining,Joint design manufacturing,JE[edit]
2034JE,Jersey (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2035JEB,James Ewell Brown (Stuart),John Ellis Bush
2036JEDP,Jahwist,Elohist,Deuteronomist,Priestly (according to the documentary hypothesis,the sources of the Torah)
2037JEE,Java Platform,Enterprise ion
2038JEFX,Joint Expeditionary Force eXperiment
2039JEPD,Jahwist,Elohist,Priestly,Deuteronomist,Jointly Exhaustive,Pairwise Disjoint
2040JET,Joint European Torus
2041JEZ,Joint Engagement Zone
2042JFACC,Joint Force Air Component Commander
2043JFACTSU,U.S. Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standards Unit
2044JFC,Joint Force Commander
2045JFK,John Fitzgerald Kennedy or the airport named after him.
2046JFLCC,Joint Force Land Component Commander
2047JFMCC,Joint Force Maritime Component Commander
2048JFO,Journal of Field Ornithology
2049JFSOCC,Joint Force Special Operations Component Commander
2050JFTX,Joint Field Training Exercise
2051JH,Japan Highway Public Corporation
2052JH,Jharkhand (Indian state code)
2053JI,Joint Implementation
2054JIB,Joint Information Bureau
2055JIC,Joint Intelligence Centre
2056JINI,Java Intelligent Network Infrastructure
2057JITC,Joint Interoperability Test Command
2058JIVE,Joint Institute for VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) in Europe
2059JJAP,Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
2060JK,Jedi Knight,Just Kidding,Spanair (IATA airline designator),Jammu & Kashmir (Indian state code)
2061JL,Japan Airlines (IATA airline designator)
2062JLA,Justice League of America
2063JM,Jamaica (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2064JMS,Java Message Service
2065JN,Jan Mayen Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2066JNI,Java Native Interface
2067JNLP,Java Network Launch Protocol
2068JO,Jordan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2069JOA,Joint Operations Area
2070JOPES,Joint Operations Planning and Execution System
2071JOR,Jordan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2072JOTS,Joint Operations Tactical System
2073JP,Japan (ISO 3166 digram),Justice of the Peace
2074JPL,Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2075JPN,Japan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2076JPOW,Joint Project Optic Windmill
2077JQ,Jetstar Airways (IATA airline designator),Johnny Quick,Johnston Atoll (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Jonny Quest,Joshua Quagmire
2078JRA,Japanese Red Army,Joint Rear Area
2079JRDF,Joint Rapid Deployment Forces
2080JRE,Java Runtime Environment
2081JREF,James Randi Educational Foundation
2082JROC,Joint Requirements Oversight Council
2083JROCM,JROC Memorandum
2084JRRF,Joint Rapid Reaction Force
2085JRSAI,Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
2086JSAP,Japan Society of Applied Physics
2087JSCSC,Joint Services Command and Staff College
2088JSEAD,Joint Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (see SEAD)
2089JSF,Joint Strike Fighter
2090JSIMS,Joint Simulation System
2091JSOA,Joint Special Operations Area
2092JSOTF,Joint Special Operations Task Force
2093JSP,JavaServer Page
2094JSP,Joint Services Publication
2095JSR,Java Specification Request
2096JSS,Joint Support Ship Project
2097JT,Johnston Atoll (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1986),Junior Technician (RAF)
2098JTC,Joint Training Confederation
2099JTF,Joint Task Force
2100JTFEX,Joint Task Force Exercise
2101JTLS,Joint Theater Level Simulation
2102JTMD,Joint Theatre Missile Defence
2103JTN,Johnston Atoll (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
2104JU,Juan de Nova Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2105JUGFET,JUnction Gate Field-Effect Transistor
2106JUICE,JUpiter ICy Moon Explorer
2107JUO,Joint Urban Operations
2108JV,Joint Venture,Junior Varsity
2109JVM,Java Virtual Machine
2110JW,Jehovah's Witnesses
2111JWARS,Joint Warfare System (simulation)
2112JWP,Joint Warfare Publication
2113JWST,James Webb Space Telescope
2114JY,Japanese Yen
2115JZ,Joint Zone
2116K,Kelvin,Potassium (Latin Kalium),Tanker (aircraft designation code)
2117k,Kilo-
2118K,picokelvin
2119K9,Canine Police Unit
2120Ka,Kamov Design Bureau
2121kA,Kiloampere
2122KA,Knowledge Acquisition,Karnataka (Indian state code)
2123KAF,Kandahar Air Field
2124KARNAC,Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context
2125KARR,Knight Automated Roving Robot (Knight Rider character)
2126KATUSA,Korean Augmentation To United States Army
2127KAZ,Kazakhstan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2128KBE,Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
2129KBO,Kuiper Belt Object
2130KBVB,Koninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond (Dutch for Royal Belgian Football Association)
2131kC,Kilocoulomb
2132KCL,King's College London
2133KCS,Kansas City Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark)
2134KD,Kawasaki Disease,Kraft Dinner
2135KE,Kenya (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Kinetic Energy,Knowledge Engineering
2136KEDO,Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
2137KEN,Kenya (ISO 3166 trigram)
2138KERA,Kentucky Education Reform Act (of 1990)
2139kerma,Kinetic Energy Released in MAterial / in MAtter / per unit MAss
2140KESR,Kent and East Sussex Railway.
2141KET,Kentucky Educational Television,Key English Test,KF[edit]
2142kF,Kilofarad
2143KFC,Kentucky Fried Chicken
2144KFOR,UN Kosovo Force
2145KFUPM,King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
2146KG,Kyrgyzstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2147KGO,Knight of the Guelphic Order of Hanover
2148KGZ,Kyrgyzstan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2149KH,Cambodia (ISO 3166 digram)
2150kH,Kilohenry
2151KHL,Kontinental Hockey League
2152KHM,Cambodia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2153KHz,Kilohertz
2154Ki,Kibi
2155KI,Kiribati (ISO 3166 digram)
2156KIA,Killed In Action
2157KIDS,Knowledge-based Integrated Design System
2158KIR,Kiribati (ISO 3166 trigram)
2159KISS,Keep It Simple,Stupid / Keep It Short and Simple,Korean Intelligence Support System
2160KIT,Keep In Touch
2161KITECH,Korean Institute of Industrial Technology
2162KITT,Knight Industries Two Thousand,Knight Industries Three Thousand
2163kJ,Kilojoule
2164kK,Kilokelvin
2165KKK,Ku Klux Klan
2166kL,Kilolitre
2167KL,Kuala Lumpur,Kerala (Indian state code)
2168KLENOT,KLEť Observatory Near Earth and Other unusual objects observations Team and Telescope
2169KLOC,Kilo Lines Of Code
2170KM,Comoros,Knowledge Management
2171KMR,Kwajalein Missile Range
2172KN,Democratic People's Republic of Korea (FIPS 10-4 country code),Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 digram)
2173kN,Kilonewton
2174KNA,Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 trigram)
2175KNVB,Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond (Dutch for Royal Dutch Football Association)
2176KO,Knocked Out
2177KOR,Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram)
2178KP,Kim Possible
2179KPMG,Klynveld,Peat,Marwick,Goerdeler
2180KPNO,Kitt Peak National Observatory
2181KQ,Kenya Airways (IATA airline designator),Kingman Reef (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2182KR,Kiribati (FIPS 10-4 country code),Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 digram)
2183Kr,Krypton
2184KS,Kansas (postal symbol),Republic of Korea (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2185kS,Kilosiemens
2186KSC,Kennedy Space Center
2187KSI,Killed or Seriously Injured
2188KSM,Korean Service Medal,Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
2189KSU,Kansas State University
2190KT,Christmas Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Knight of the Order of the Thistle,Knights Templar
2191kT,Kilotesla
2192KTS,Knight of the Tower and Sword (of Portugal)
2193KU,Kuwait (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2194KUL,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Flemish,Catholic University of Leuven)
2195KUW,Kuwait (UNDP country code,IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
2196kV,Kilovolt
2197KV,Kosovo
2198KVM,Keyboard,Video,Mouse switch
2199kW,Kilowatt
2200KW,Kuwait (ISO 3166 digram)
2201KWB,Kids' WB!
2202KWT,Kuwait (ISO 3166 trigram)
2203KX,Cayman Airways (IATA airline designator)
2204KY,Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 digram),Kentucky (postal symbol)
2205KZ,Kazakhstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2206KZN,KwaZulu-Natal
2207La,Lanthanum
2208LA,Laos (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Louisiana (postal symbol),Los Angeles
2209LAAS,Local Area Augmentation System,Los Angeles Astronomical Society
2210LAB,Logistics Assault Base
2211LabVIEW,Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench
2212LACMA,Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2213LAD,Laser Aiming Device
2214LADW,Local Air Defence Warning
2215LAESI,Local Authority & Emergency Service Information
2216LAMP,(multiple meanings)
2217LAN,Local Area Network
2218LANL,Los Alamos National Laboratory
2219LAO,Laos (ISO 3166 trigram)
2220LAR,Light Armoured Reconnaissance,Logistics Assistance Representative
2221LARC,Livermore Advanced Research Computer (cf. LLNL)
2222LARP,Live-Action Role-Playing
2223LAS,McCarran International Airport (Las Vegas,Nevada)
2224Laser,Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (cf. Maser)
2225LATA,Local Access Transport Area
2226LATCH,Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children (U.S. standard for attachment points for child safety seats in passenger cars)
2227LAV,Land Assault Vehicle,Light Armoured Vehicle,Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus
2228LAW,Light Antitank Weapon
2229LAX,Los Angeles International Airport,The Latin American Xchange (professional wrestling),LB[edit]
2230LB,Lebanon (ISO 3166 digram)
2231LBH,Light Battlefield Helicopter,Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands
2232LBJ,Lady Bird Johnson,LeBron James,Light Bulb Joke,Little Beagle Johnson (the dog owned by Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson),Lyndon Baines Johnson
2233LBN,Lebanon (ISO 3166 trigram)
2234LBNL,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2235LBR,Liberia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2236LBS,Location-Based Services
2237lbs,pounds (plural form of lb,see above)
2238LBT,Large Binocular Telescope
2239LBW,Leg Before Wicket
2240LBY,Libya (ISO 3166 trigram)
2241LC,Line of Contact,Saint Lucia (ISO 3166 digram)
2242LCA,Saint Lucia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2243LCC,Land Component Commander
2244LCCP,Light Contingency Communications Package
2245LCD,Liquid Crystal Display
2246LCE,Leaving Certificate Examination,Load Carrying Equipment,London Commodity Exchange
2247LCM,Least/Lowest Common Multiple
2248LCol,Lieutenant-Colonel (Canada,UK)
2249LCS,League of Legends Championship Series
2250LD,Laser Designator,Limited Deployment,Line of Departure
2251LDA,Lateral Drift Apparatus (paratroops)
2252LDC,Lesser Developing/Developed Country
2253LDL,Low-Density Lipoprotein
2254LDV,Local Defence Volunteers (British Home Guard)
2255LDW,Lane Departure Warning (ADAS)
2256LE,Lebanon (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2257LEC,Local Exchange Carrier
2258LED,Light-Emitting Diode
2259LEGAD,Legal Advice
2260Legs,level emotion gad speed
2261LEMOSS,Long-Endurance MObile Submarine Simulator
2262LEN,Large Extension Node
2263LEP,Large Electron-Positron collider
2264LER,Loss-Exchange Ratio
2265LEU,Low-Enriched Uranium
2266LF,Low Frequency
2267LFO,Low Frequency Oscillation / Oscillator
2268LFTR,Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
2269LG,Latvia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2270LGB,Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual,Laser-guided bomb,self-explanatory
2271LGBT,Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual,Transgender
2272LGLO,Love God,Love Others
2273LGM,Little Green Men
2274LGS,Landsat Ground Station
2275LH,Lithuania (FIPS 10-4 country code),Luteinising Hormone
2276LHC,Large Hadron Collider
2277LHS,Left Hand Side
2278LI,Fifty-one (in Roman numerals),Liberia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Liechtenstein (ISO 3166 digram)
2279Li,Lithium
2280LIBOR,London Interbank Offered Rate
2281LIBS,Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
2282LIE,Liechtenstein (ISO 3166 trigram)
2283LIFO,Last In,First Out
2284LIGO,Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
2285LINEAR,Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
2286LISA,Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
2287LIVE,Liquid Inertial Vibration Eliminator
2288LJ,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)
2289LJJ,Lord Justices of Appeal
2290LK,Sri Lanka (ISO 3166 digram)
2291LKA,Sri Lanka (ISO 3166 trigram)
2292LKR4,Linkwitz-Riley 4th order (audio crossover type)
2293LL,Land Line (telephone),Last Log,Late Latin,Left Limit,Lex Luthor (Superman character),Light Line,Limited Liability,Linked List,Little League
2294LLAD,Low Level Air Defence
2295LLB,Legum Baccalaureus (Latin: Bachelor of Laws)
2296LLC,Limited Liability Company
2297LLGC,Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales),London Lesbian and Gay Centre
2298LLLTV,Low-Light Level Television
2299LLNL,Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2300LLP,Limited Liability Partnership
2301LLTI,Limiting Long-Term Illness,Long Lead Time Item
2302LLTR,Low-Level Transit Route
2303LMAO,Laughing My Ass Off (Internet shorthand)
2304LMB,Lick My Balls
2305LMN,Lifetime Movie Network
2306LMS,Like My Status (Internet shorthand)
2307LMS,London Mathematical Society,London,Midland and Scottish (Railway)
2308LMV,() Light Motor Vehicle
2309LNER,London and North Eastern Railway
2310LNG,Liquefied Natural Gas
2311LNO,Liaison Officer
2312LO,Slovakia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2313LOA,Limit Of Advance
2314LOD,Limit of Detection,see Detection limit
2315LoD,Lines of Development (UK)
2316LOFAR,Low Frequency Analysis and Recording
2317LOGPAC,Logistics Package
2318LOL,Laughing Out Loud (Internet shorthand)
2319LOMEZ,Low Altitude Missile Engagement Zone
2320LONEOS,Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search
2321LOOGY,(p/a) Lefty One-Out GuY,a sometimes pejorative nickname for the left-handed specialist in baseball
2322LORTID,LOng Range Target IDentification
2323LOS,Line Of Sight
2324LOSAT,Line-Of-Sight Anti-Tank (missile)
2325LOTA,Licentiate of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
2326LOTIS,Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System
2327LOTS,Logistics Over-The-Shore
2328LP,Linkin Park,Linkup Point,Listening Post,Long Playing record,Louisiana Pacific (cf. LP Field)
2329LPC,Linear Predictive Coding
2330LPD,Landing Platform Dock (Navy hull classification),Low Probability of Detection
2331LPG,Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cf. LNG)
2332LPI,Low Probability of Intercept
2333LPS,Landsat Processing System,LipoPolySaccharide
2334LQ,Palmyra Atoll (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2335Lr,Lawrencium
2336LR,Liberia (ISO 3166 digram)
2337LRC,Logistics iness Center
2338LRF,Laser rangefinder,Low iness Forces
2339LRGW,Long-Range Guided Weapon
2340LRICBM,Limited Range ICBM
2341LRIP,Low Rate Initial Production
2342LRP,Logistics Release Point
2343LRPE,Long-Range Planning Element
2344LRS,Long Range Surveillance
2345LRU,Line-Replaceable Unit
2346LSE,Least Squares Estimate/Error,London School of Economics,London Stock Exchange
2347LSI,Large-Scale Integration
2348LSIF,Labour Sponsored Investment Fund
2349LSND,Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector
2350LSO,Lesotho (ISO 3166 trigram)
2351LSST,Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
2352LSVW,Light Support Vehicle,Wheeled
2353LT,Lesotho (FIPS 10-4 country code),Lithuania (ISO 3166 digram)
2354Lt,Lieutenant
2355LtC,Lieutenant-Colonel (U.S.)
2356LTC,Long-Term Costing
2357Ltd,Limited
2358LTDP,Long-Term Defence Plan
2359LTG,Lieutenant General,Lightning (METAR Code)
2360LTI,Linear Time-Invariant
2361LTM,Acronym for Laughing To Myself
2362LTP,Long-Term Potentiation
2363LTU,Lithuania (ISO 3166 trigram)
2364LU,Acronym Love You
2365LU,Loonatics Unleashed
2366Lu,Lutetium
2367LUCA,Last Universal Common Ancestor
2368LUG,Linux User Group
2369LULU,Locally Unwanted Land Use (urbanism)
2370LUT,Limited User Test (ing),Local User Terminal
2371LUVW,Light Utility Vehicle,Wheeled
2372LUX,Luxembourg (ISO 3166 trigram)
2373LV,Las Vegas,Latvia (ISO 3166 digram),Launch Vehicle,Leading Vehicle,Leave,Left Ventricle,Level Valve,Linking Verb,Liverpool Victoria
2374LVA,Latvia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2375LVAD,Left Ventricular Assist Device,Low-Velocity Airdrop
2376LVEF,Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
2377LW,Land Warrior,Low Water (nautical charts)
2378Lw,Lawrencium (obsolete 1963)
2379LWR,Laser warning receiver
2380LWRC,Land Warfare Resources Corporation
2381LWS,Land Warrior System
2382LX,Electrics (theatrical term)
2383LX,Luxembourg (amateur radio ITU prefix),Swiss International Air Lines (IATA code)
2384LY,Libya (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Lithuania (amateur radio ITU prefix)
2385LYAO,Laugh Your Ass Off
2386LYLAS,Love You Like A Sister
2387LZ,Bulgaria (amateur radio ITU prefix),Landing Zone
2388M,Mega-,One thousand (in Roman numerals)
2389m,Metre,Milli
2390MA,Madagascar (FIPS 10-4 country code),Marijuana Anonymous,Master of Arts,Massachusetts (postal symbol),Megaampere,Morocco (ISO 3166 digram)
2391Ma,Megaannum
2392mA,Milliampere
2393MAA,Mathematical Association of America
2394MAAC,Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
2395MACE,Multi-Agent Computing Environment
2396MACHO,MAssive Compact Halo Object
2397MADD,Mothers Against Drunk Driving,MyoAdenylate Deaminase Deficiency,Multiply-Add
2398MAF,Maintenance Action Form
2399MAFF,Ministry of Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries (various countries)
2400MAGIC,Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (telescope)
2401MAGNETAR,Metaprogrammable AGent NETwork ARchitecture
2402MAGTF,Marine Air-Ground Task Force
2403MALD,Miniature Air-Launched Decoy
2404MANPADS,MAN-Portable Air Defence System
2405MANPRINT,MANpower and PeRsonnel INTegration
2406MAOI,Monoamine oxidase inhibitor
2407MAPS,Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship
2408MAR,Morocco (ISO 3166 trigram)
2409MarBEF,Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
2410MARC,MAchine able Cataloging (often also defined as MAchine able Code),Mailing list ARChive,Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition,Mid-America Regional Council
2411MARCENT,United States Marine Forces Central Command
2412MARFORCC,Marine Force Component Commander
2413MARRS,Martyn Young,Alex Ayuli,Rudy Tambala,Russell Smith,and Steve Young (British electronic music act)
2414MASAS,Monte Agliale Supernovae and Asteroid Survey
2415Maser,Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
2416MASH,Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
2417MASINT,Measurement And Signature Intelligence
2418MATREX,Modeling Architecture for Technology,Research & EXperimentation
2419MAVS,Mobile Artillery Vehicle System
2420MAW,Malawi (IOC trigram,but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
2421MB,Manitoba (postal symbol),Martinique (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Medal of Bravery (Canada)
2422MBA,Main Battle Area,Main Belt Asteroid,Masters of Business Administration
2423MBBL,(U.S. Armor Center) Mounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory
2424MBCC,Migratory Bird Conservation Commission (U.S.)
2425MBCS,Multi-Byte Character Set
2426MBE,Member of the Order of the British Empire,Multistate Bar Examination (U.S.)
2427MBI,Moody Bible Institute
2428MBIDST,Member of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists
2429MBM,Meat and Bone Meal
2430mbsf,metres below sea floor,[1][2] a depth convention used in paleontology and oceanography
2431MBT,Main Battle Tank
2432MBTA,Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority,Migratory Bird Treaty Act (U.S.)
2433MBTI,Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
2434mC,Millicoulomb
2435MCA,Master of Computer Applications,Micro Channel Architecture,MultiChannel Analyzer,Music Corporation of America,the original name of the now-defunct MCA Inc.
2436MCC,Marylebone Cricket Club,Mission Control Center,Motor Control Center,Movement Control Centre
2437MCD,Minimal Cerebral Dysfunction,Minor civil division (U.S. Census term)
2438MCDL,Model Composition Definition Language
2439MCFT,Modified Compression Field Theory
2440MCG,Melbourne Cricket Ground
2441MCI,Microwave Communications,Inc.
2442MCIS,Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
2443MCM,Mine Counter-Measures
2444MCMV,Mine Counter-Measure Vessel
2445MCNC,Microelectronics Center of North Carolina,Mixing Condensation Nucleus Counter
2446MCP,Maintenance Collection Point,Male Chauvinist Pig
2447MCR,My Chemical Romance
2448MCSF,Marine Corps Security Forces
2449MCT,Movement Control Team
2450MCTIS,Mounted Co-operative Target Identification System
2451MCU,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]
2452Md,Mendelevium
2453MDA,Main Defensive Action/Area,Moldova (ISO 3166 trigram),Muscular Dystrophy Association
2454MDF,Main distribution frame,Medium-density fiberboard
2455MDG,Madagascar (ISO 3166 trigram),UN Millennium Development Goal
2456MDM,Michigan Dartmouth MIT telescope consortium,Master data management
2457MDNA,Madonna's 12th studio album title (2012)
2458MDO,Membership Driven Organisation
2459MDP,Markov Decision Process
2460MDT,Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-6 hours)
2461MDV,Maldives (ISO 3166 trigram)
2462ME,Maine (postal symbol),Mechanical engineer[ing],Medical examiner,Middle East,Middle East Airlines (IATA code),Memory Effect,Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
2463Me,Messerschmitt
2464MEA,Maine Educational Assessment,Middle East Airlines,Millennium Ecosystem Assessment,Minimum en route altitude,Mono-ethanol Amine,Multilateral Environmental Agreement
2465MEAC,Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (ME-ac)
2466MEC,Maine Central Railroad,Manta,Ecuador (IATA location identifier),Model European Council,Mountain East Conference,Mountain Equipment Co-op
2467MECC,Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (later Corporation,dissolved 1999)
2468MECCA,Milwaukee Exposition Convention Center and Arena,a former name for the sports venue now known as UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena
2469MECO,Main engine cutoff (NASA code for point in Space Shuttle assent when three main engines are shut down prior to External Tank (ET) separation)
2470MEDEVAC,Medical evacuation
2471MEDLI,Mars Science Laboratory Entry,Descent,and Landing Instrumentation,Medical & Scientific Libraries of Long Island,Model for Effluent Disposal using Land Irrigation
2472MEDS,Mission Essential Data Set
2473MEF,U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force,Minimum essential facility,Mission essential force
2474MEG,MagnetoEncephaloGraphy
2475MEI,Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,Ltd.
2476MEK,Magyar Elektronikus Konyvtar,Message encryption key,Methyl ethyl ketone,Mujahideen al-Khalq
2477MEL,Maya Embedded Language,Michigan Electronic Library
2478MELT,Metallic Line/Loop Test (ing)
2479MEM,Message Exchange Mechanism,Microelectromechanical
2480MEMS,Microelectromechanical System
2481MEO,Medium earth orbit,Most efficient organization
2482MER,Mars Exploration Rover
2483MERL,Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
2484MES,Manufacturing Execution Systems
2485MES,Marconi Electronic Systems,Medium Edison screw
2486MESSENGER,MErcury Surface,Space ENvironment,GEochemistry and Ranging
2487MET,Meteorological,Middle European Time
2488METAR,[Meteorological] Aviation Routine weather report
2489METOC,Meteorological and Oceanographic
2490MEU,U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit,Maximum Expected Utility
2491MEV,Medical Evacuation Vehicle,Musica Elettronica Viva
2492MeV,Megaelectronvolt
2493MEX,Mexico (ISO 3166 trigram)
2494MEZ,Missile Engagement Zone
2495MF,Mayotte (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Megafarad
2496mF,Millifarad
2497MFSB,Mother,Father,Sister,Brother (1970s Philadelphia studio musicians collective)
2498MG,Machine Gun,Madagascar (ISO 3166 digram),Major General,Mongolia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Morris Garage
2499Mg,Magnesium,Megagram
2500MGB,Medium Girder Bridge,Motor Gun Boat
2501MGM,Metro Goldwyn Mayer,Montgomery,Alabama (Airport Code)
2502MGPAM,My Gym Partner's a Monkey
2503MGS,Mobile Gun System
2504MH,Marshall Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram),Megahenry,Montserrat (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2505mH,Millihenry
2506MHC,Major Histocompatibility Complex
2507MHHW,Mean Higher High Water (nautical charts)
2508MHL,Marshall Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
2509MHLW,Mean Higher Low Water (nautical charts)
2510MHRA,(UK) Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
2511MHW,Mean High Water (nautical charts)
2512MHWN,Mean High Water Neaps (nautical charts)
2513MHWS,Mean High Water Springs (nautical charts)
2514MHz,Megahertz
2515Mi,Mebi
2516MIA,Missing In Action
2517MIAA,Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association,Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association,Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association,Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
2518MIB,Men In Black,Mint In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
2519MICLIC,Mine Clearing Line Charge
2520MICOM,Missile Command
2521MID,Midway Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
2522MIDAS,Man-machine Integration Design and Analysis System
2523MIDI,Musical Instrument Digital Interface
2524MIDS,Multi-Function Information Distribution System
2525MIFG,Shallow Fog (METAR Code)
2526MIKE,Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants
2527MIL,Man-In-the-Loop
2528MILC,Mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera
2529MILF,Mother I'd Like to Fuck
2530MIMAROPA,Mindoro,Marinduque,Romblon,Palawan (a region in the Philippines)
2531MIMOSA,MIcroMeasurements Of Satellite Acceleration
2532MIMPT,Member of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
2533MIP,Multilateral Interoperability Programme,Multiple Identity Poster
2534MIRA,MILAN Infra-Red Acquisition (thermal sight)
2535MIRV,Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle
2536MIS,Management Information Systems,Museum Information System
2537MISREP,Mission Report
2538MISSI,Multilevel Information System Security Initiative
2539MIT,Massachusetts Institute of Technology,methylisothiazoline,Milli Istihbarad Teskilati (Intelligence service of Turkey)
2540MITL,Man-In-The-Loop
2541MITS,see entry
2542MJ,Megajoule,Michael Jordan
2543mJ,Millijoule
2544MJD,Modified Julian Day
2545mK,Millikelvin
2546MKG,Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (American basketball player)
2547MKS,Metre-Kilogram-Second (system of units),MKS Inc. software company
2548MKSA,Metre-Kilogram-Second-Ampere (system of units)
2549ML,Mali (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Maximum Likelihood,Megalitre
2550mL,Millilitre
2551MLA,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
2552MLB,Major League Baseball
2553MLC,Member of the Legislative Council (in India)
2554MLE,Maximum likelihood estimation
2555MLHW,Mean Lower High Water (nautical charts)
2556MLI,Mali (ISO 3166 trigram)
2557MLK,Martin Luther King,Jr.
2558MLL,Major League Lacrosse
2559MLLW,Mean Lower Low Water (nautical charts)
2560MLP,My Little Pony
2561MLRS,Multiple-Launch Rocket System
2562MLS,Major League Soccer,Multiple Listing Service
2563MLSE,Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (owner of several Toronto-based sports teams),Maximum likelihood sequence estimation
2564MLSR,Missing,Lost or Stolen Report
2565MLT,Malta (ISO 3166 trigram)
2566MLVW,Medium Logistics Vehicle,Wheeled
2567MLW,Mean Low Water (nautical charts)
2568MLWN,Mean Low Water Neaps (nautical charts)
2569MLWS,Mean Low Water Springs (nautical charts)
2570Mm,Megametre
2571mm,Millimetre
2572MMA,Mixed martial arts,Moving Mechanical Assembly
2573MMC,Machinist's Mate,Chief (USN rating),Materiel Management Centre
2574MMCM,Machinist's Mate,Master Chief (USN rating),Magnetic Mine Counter Measure
2575MMCS,Machinist's Mate,Senior Chief (USN rating)
2576MMEV,Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle
2577MMI,Magical MonkeyZ Inc.
2578MMI,Man-Machine Interface
2579MMI,McLean Meditation Institute
2580MMIC,McLean Meditation Institute Certified
2581MMIC,Mindfulness & Meditation Instructor,Certified
2582MMO,Massively Multiplayer Online (computer game)
2583MMOR,Master of Management in Operations Research
2584MMORPG,Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
2585MMPR,Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
2586MMR,Measles,Mumps and Rubella vaccine,Myanmar (ISO 3166 trigram)
2587MMS,Multimission Modular Spacecraft
2588MMU,Manchester Metropolitan University,Manned Manoeuvring Unit
2589Mn,Manganese
2590MN,Meganewton,Minnesota (postal symbol),Monaco (FIPS 10-4 country code),Mongolia (ISO 3166 digram)
2591mN,Millinewton
2592MNB,Multinational Brigade
2593MND,Motor Neurone Disease,Multinational Division
2594MNE,Montenegro (ISO 3166 trigram)
2595MNG,Multiple-image Network Graphics,Mongolia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2596MNMF,Multi-National Maritime Force
2597MNP,Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
2598MNS,Mission Needs Statement
2599Mo,Molybdenum
2600MOA,Museum of Art (Brigham Young University)
2601MOAB,Massive Ordnance Air Blast (official),Mother Of All Bombs (slang)
2602MOB,Man Over Board,Marching Owl Band,Movable Object Block
2603MOC,Macedonian Orthodox Church,Measure Of Capability,Mission Operations Centre,My Own Creation (Lego)
2604MOCAS,Mechanization Of Contract Administration Services
2605MOD,Magneto-optical disc,Masters of Deception,Minimum Object Distance,Multiple Organ Dysfunction
2606MoD,Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) and various other countries
2607modem,Modulator-Demodulator
2608Moe,Marvel of entertainment
2609MOE,Measure Of Effectiveness
2610MOF,Ministry of Finance (Japan)
2611MOFA,Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)
2612MOH, Medal of Honor,Music On Hold
2613MOID,Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance
2614MOJWA,Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa
2615MOLO,Mobile Other Licensed Operator (UK)
2616MOM,Master's Degree in Oriental medicine
2617MOM,Message Oriented Middleware
2618MoM,Multiple of the median
2619MoMA,Museum of Modern Art (NYC)
2620MOND,Modified Newtonian Dynamics
2621MOO,Measure Of Outcome
2622MOPE,Ministry of Population and Environment (Nepal),Most Oppressed People Ever (politics)
2623MOPP,Mission-Oriented Protective Posture
2624MORP,Meteorite Observation and Recovery Project
2625MOSFET,Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
2626MOSS,MObile Submarine Simulator,Moving Object Support System
2627MOT,Ministry of Transport (UK)
2628MOTA,Member of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
2629MOTESS,Moving Object and Transient Event Search System
2630MOTO,Mail Order / Telephone Order,Master of the obvious
2631MOU,Memorandum Of Understanding
2632MOVES,Modeling,Virtual Environments,and Simulation Institute
2633MOW,Maintenance of way (also MW)
2634MOZ,Mozambique (ISO 3166 trigram)
2635MPA,Maritime Patrol Aircraft,Master of Public Administration
2636MPa,Megapascal
2637mPa,Millipascal
2638MPAA,Motion Picture Association of America
2639MPC,Minor Planet Center,Minor Planet Circular
2640MPEC,Minor Planet Electronic Circular
2641MPEG,Motion Pictures (Coding) Experts Group
2642MPEV,Multi-Purpose Engineering Vehicle
2643MPF,Maritime Prepositioning Force
2644MPFC,Medial PreFrontal Cortex
2645MPG,Miles Per Gallon
2646MPMC,Medial PreMotor Cortex
2647MPSI,Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland
2648MPSoC,MultiProcessor System-on-Chip
2649MPSRON,Maritime Propositioning Ship Squadron
2650MQ,Martinique (ISO 3166 digram),Midway Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2651MR,Mauritania (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2652MRAV,Multi-Role Armoured Vehicle
2653MRBM,Medium Range Ballistic Missile
2654MRC,Maintenance Requirements Card
2655MRD,Motorized Rifle Division
2656MRGW,Medium-Range Guided Weapon
2657MRI,Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2658MRL,Multiple Rocket Launcher
2659MRPharmS,Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Great Britain)
2660MRR,Maximum Rock and Roll,Minimum-Risk Route,My Restaurant Rules
2661MRS,Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
2662MRSA,Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
2663MRT,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)
2664MRTFB,U.S. Major Range and Test Facility Base
2665Ms,Megasecond
2666mS,Millisiemens
2667MSB,Main Support Battalion,Most Significant Bit (or Byte)
2668MSD,Minimum Safe Distance
2669MSDB,Multi Source Data Base
2670MSE,Multiple Subscriber Element
2671MSG,Message
2672MSG,MonoSodium Glutamate,Madison Square Garden (either the 1879,1890,1925,or current versions of the venue)
2673MSH,Medium Support Helicopter,Mount Saint Helens
2674MSI,Micro-Star International,Multispectral imagery
2675MSIE,Microsoft Internet Explorer,Master of Science in Industrial Engineering
2676MSL,Mars Science Laboratory,Mean Sea Level,Missile
2677MSLP,Mean Sea Level Pressure
2678MSM,Mainstream media,Men who have sex with men,Mount St Mary's School
2679MSN,Microsoft Network,Master of Science in Nursing
2680MSNBC,Microsoft National Broadcasting Company Cable news channel (see also msnbc.com)
2681MSO,Multiple System Operator
2682MSPA,Migrant and Seasonal worker Protection Act,MS Paint Adventures
2683MSPB,Merit Systems Protection Board
2684MSR,Main Supply Route,Module Service Record,Montserrat (ISO 3166 trigram),Motor Schlepp Regulung,Mountain Safety Research (outdoor supplies manufacturer)
2685MSSA,Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
2686MST,Madison Symmetric Torus,Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7 hours),MST3K or MST3k,Mystery Science Theater 3000
2687MSU,Michigan State University,Montana State University,Mountain State University,Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia,a.k.a. MGU),MT[edit]
2688Mt,Meitnerium
2689mT,Millitesla
2690MTA,Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Boston) (now Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority),Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York)
2691MTBF,Mean time between failures
2692MTF,Magnetized target fusion,Medical Treatment Facility,Message Text Format,Modulation transfer function (optics)
2693MtF,Male-to-female transsexual
2694MTG,Magic: The Gathering
2695MTP,Maritime Tactical Publication,Materiel Transfer Plan,Mission Training Plan
2696MTQ,Martinique (ISO 3166 trigram)
2697MTS,Maintenance Training System,Manitoba Telecom Services,Michigan Terminal/Timesharing System,Movement Tracking System,Multichannel television sound,Multi-Technical Services
2698MTT,Methylthiazol tetrazolium (assay)
2699MTV,MainosTeleVisio (Finnish commercial TV company),Music TeleVision
2700MTVL,Mobile Tracked Vehicle,Light
2701MTWS,MAGTF Tactical Warfare System
2702MU,Mauritius (ISO 3166 digram),Oman (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Muscat)
2703MUS,Mauritius (ISO 3166 trigram)
2704MV,Maldives (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Megavolt,Motor Vehicle,Motor Vessel
2705mV,Millivolt
2706MVC,Missouri Valley Conference
2707MVFC,Missouri Valley Football Conference
2708MVNO,Mobile virtual network operator
2709MW,Maintenance of way (also MOW),Malawi (ISO 3166 digram),Medium Wave (radio),Megawatt,Mountain West (Conference) (formal initialism since July 2011)
2710mW,Milliwatt
2711MWESH,Machismo Wizards Extended SHelter (operating system)
2712MWI,Malawi (ISO 3166 trigram)
2713MWOA,Mount Wilson Observatory Association
2714MWR,Morale,Welfare,and Recreation
2715MWTB,Mounted Warfare Test Bed
2716MX,Mail Exchange,Mexico (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Missile eXperimental
2717MY,Malaysia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2718MYOB,Mind Your Own Business
2719MYS,Malaysia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2720MYT,Mayotte (ISO 3166 trigram)
2721MZ,Mach-Zehnder (interferometer),Magnetic Azimuth,Move,Zig (Zero Wing),Mozambique (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2722n,Nano
2723N,Newton,Nitrogen,North
2724N3F,National Fantasy Fan Federation
2725NA,Namibia (ISO 3166 digram),Narcotics Anonymous,National Archives,Negative Acknowledge
2726nA,Nanoampere
2727Na,Sodium (Latin Natrium)
2728NAA,N-Acetylaspartate
2729NAAD,North American Air Defense
2730NAAFI,Navy,Army and Air Force Institute (UK),No Ambition And Fuckall Interest (RSA army slang)
2731NAAK,Mark I NAAK,Nerve Agent Antidote Kit
2732NAAQS,National Ambient Air Quality Standards
2733NAAWS,NATO Anti-Air Warfare System
2734NACA,(U.S.) National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1915-1958,became NASA)
2735NACC,North Atlantic Cooperation Council
2736NACISA,NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency
2737NACMA,NATO Air Command and Control System Management Agency
2738NACRA,North America Caribbean Rugby Association (more specifically rugby union)
2739NAEC,U.S. Naval Air Engineering Center
2740NAF,NATO Architecture Framework,Naval Air Facility
2741NAFERA,Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act
2742NAFLD,NonAlcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
2743NAFO,Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
2744NAFTA,North American Free Trade Agreement
2745NAGPRA,Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
2746NAI,Named Area of Interest,Network Access Identifier
2747NAICS,North American Industry Classification System
2748NAIL,Neurotics Anonymous
2749NAILS,National Airspace Integrated Logistics System
2750NAIRU,Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment
2751NAK,Negative Acknowledge
2752NAM,Namibia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2753NAMBLA,North American Man-Boy Love Association
2754NAMRL,Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory
2755NaN,Not A Number (computing)
2756NAO,UK National Audit Office
2757NAPS,Navy Acquisition Procedures Supplement
2758NARA,(U.S.) National Archives and Records Administration
2759NARAL,National Abortion Rights Action League
2760NARDAC,Naval Regional Data Automation Center
2761NARDIC,U.S. Navy Acquisition Research and Development Information Center
2762NARPV,National Association for Remotely Piloted Vehicles
2763NAS,National Academy of Sciences,National Air Space,National Audubon Society,Naval Air Station,New Attack Submarine
2764NASCAR,National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
2765NASDAQ,National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
2766NASED,National Association of State Election Directors [1][2]
2767NASH,Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
2768NASP,National Aerospace Plane
2769NASS,National Association of Secretaries of State [3]
2770NatGeo,National Geographic
2771NATO,National Association of Theatre Owners,North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
2772NaUKMA,National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
2773NAV,Navigation[al]
2774NAVCAMS,Naval Communications Area Master Station
2775NAVCC,National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
2776NAVCENT,Naval Forces U.S. Central Command
2777NAVDAC,Naval Data Automation Command
2778NAVEUR,Naval Forces U.S. European Command
2779NAVFE,U.S. Naval Forces,Far East
2780NAVFOR,Naval Force
2781NAVMACS,Naval Modular Automatic Communication Subsystem
2782NAVNET,Navy Network
2783NAVS,Non-Cooperative Airborne Vector Scoring
2784NAVSAT,Navigation Satellite
2785NAVSPACECOM,U.S. Navy Space Command
2786NAVSPASUR,U.S. Naval Space Surveillance System
2787NAVSTAR,Navigation Satellite Timing And Ranging
2788NAVTACNET,Navy Tactical Network
2789NAWC,U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center
2790Nb,Niobium
2791NBA,National Basketball Association
2792NBC,National Broadcasting Corporation,Nuclear,Biological,and Chemical
2793NBCRS,NBC (Nuclear,Biological,and Chemical) Reconnaissance System
2794NBIC,Nanotechnology,Biotechnology,Information Technology,Cognitive Science
2795NBL,National Basketball League (Australia)
2796NBT,Nitroblue tetrazolium (assay)
2797nC,Nanocoulomb
2798NC,Network Computer,New Caledonia (ISO 3166 digram),Node Centre,Non-Consensual,Normally Closed,North Carolina (postal symbol)
2799NCA,National Command Authority
2800NCAR,U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research
2801NCB,National Codification Bureau
2802NCCAM,U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2803NCCUSL,National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (U.S.)
2804NCDDR,U.S. National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research
2805NCES,U.S. National Center for Education Statistics,Net-Centric Enterprise Services
2806NCI,U.S. National Cancer Institute
2807NCIS,National Criminal Intelligence Service (British),Naval Criminal Investigative Service (U.S. Navy; see also NCIS,a U.S. TV series based on this unit)
2808NCL,New Caledonia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2809NCLR,National Council of La Raza
2810NCMO,No Commitment Make Out
2811NCND,Non Circumvention & Non Disclosure,Neither Confirm Nor Deny,New Concept New Design
2812NCO,Non-Commissioned Officer
2813NCP,Net Contracted Purchases
2814NCR,National Cash Register Co.
2815NCTR,Non-Co-operative Target Recognition
2816NCW,Network Centric Warfare
2817Nd,Neodymium
2818ND,Non-Disclosure,North Dakota (postal symbol)
2819NDAA,U.S. National Defense Authorization Act
2820NDBP,Non-Departmental Public Body (Scotland)
2821NDCC,New Directions Counseling Center (Concord,California)
2822NDP,New Democratic Party (Canada)
2823NDS,Nintendo DS
2824NDU,National Defense University (Washington,DC)
2825NE,Nebraska (postal symbol),Niger (ISO 3166 digram),North-East
2826Ne,Neon
2827NEA,National Education Association (U.S. labor union),Near-Earth Asteroid,Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD)
2828NEAT-Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking,,National Emergency Access Target (Au Health)
2829NECTEC,National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Thailand)
2830NED,Netherlands (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
2831NEI,National Eye Institute,Not Enough Information,Nuclear Energy Institute
2832NEMS,National Energy Modeling System (USDOE-EIA)
2833NEPA,National Environmental Policy Act
2834NER,Niger (ISO 3166 trigram)
2835NERICA,New Rice for Africa
2836NESDIS,National Environmental Satellite,Data and Information Service
2837NESP,NSA/CSS Enterprise Standards Program
2838NET,National Educational Television
2839NETCU,(UK) National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit
2840NETL,(US) National Energy Technology Laboratory
2841NETWARS,Network Warfare Simulation
2842NEWS,Navy Electronic Warfare Simulator,North,East,West,South
2843NEX,Navy EXchange
2844nF,Nanofarad
2845NF,Norfolk Island (ISO 3166 digram)
2846NFA,(U.S.) National Firearms Act (often used to refer to the guns and accessories regulated under this law),No-Fire Area
2847NFC,National Football Conference,Near field communication
2848NFER,National Foundation for Educational Research
2849NFG,No Fucking Good
2850NFHS,National Federation of State High School Associations
2851NFI,Not F****** Interested
2852NFK,Norfolk Island (ISO 3166 trigram)
2853Nfld,Newfoundland
2854NFPA,National Fluid Power Association (United States)
2855NFT,No Further Text
2856NG,Natural Gas,Next Generation,Niger (FIPS 10-4 country code),Nigeria (ISO 3166 digram)
2857NGA,National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency,Nigeria (ISO 3166 trigram)
2858NGATS,New Generation Army Targetry System
2859NGH,Northern General Hospital
2860NGO,non-governmental organization
2861NGR,Nigeria (IOC trigram,but not ISO 3166 or FIFA)
2862NGS,Naval Gunfire Support
2863nH,Nanohenry
2864NH,New Hampshire (postal symbol),New Hebrides (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1980),Vanuatu (FIPS 10-4 country code; from New Hebrides)
2865NHANES,National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
2866NHB,New Hebrides (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)
2867NHB,No Holds Barred radio (Link)
2868NHL,National Hockey League
2869NHO,Næringslivets Hovedorganisasjon (Confederation of Norwegian Enterprises,a Norwegian employers' organisation)
2870NHRA,National Hot Rod Association
2871NHS,National Health Service (UK)
2872NI,Nicaragua (ISO 3166 digram),Nigeria (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2873Ni,Nickel
2874NIAAA,U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
2875NIAG,NATO Industrial Advisory Group
2876NIAID,National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease
2877NIAMD,National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases
2878NIB,New In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
2879NIBP,Non-invasive blood pressure monitor
2880NIC,Network Interface Card,Nicaragua (ISO 3166 trigram)
2881NicA,Nicotine Anonymous
2882NICAP,National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena
2883NICE,UK. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
2884NICHD,National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [4]
2885NICP,National Inventory Control Point
2886NIDDK,National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
2887NIDRR,National Institute on Disability Research and Rehabilitation
2888NIEHS,National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
2889NIG,Niger (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
2890NIH,National Institutes of Health,Not Invented Here
2891NIIN,National Item Identification Number
2892NIMA,National Imagery and Mapping Agency (became NGA)
2893NIMBY,Not In My Back Yard (See NOME)
2894NIMG,Not In My Generation
2895NIMH,National Institute of Medical Herbalists,National Institute of Mental Health
2896NIN,Nine Inch Nails (band)
2897NIPR,National Institute of Polar Research (Japan)
2898NIR,Northern Ireland (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram)
2899NISAC,U.S. National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center
2900NISCAP,NSA Information System Certification and Accreditation Program
2901NISER,National Institute of Science Education and Research
2902NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology
2903NIT,National Invitation Tournament (U.S. college basketball),National Institutes of Technology (India)
2904NITFS,National Imagery Transmission Format Standard
2905NIU,Niue (ISO 3166 trigram)
2906nJ,Nanojoule
2907NJ,New Jersey (postal symbol)
2908NJHS,National Junior Honor Society
2909NJPW,New Japan Pro Wrestling
2910nK,Nanokelvin
2911NKA,No Known Allergies
2912nL,Nanolitre
2913NL,Netherlands (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),Newfoundland and Labrador (postal symbol)
2914NLB,Non-Linear Battlefield
2915NLD,Netherlands (ISO 3166 trigram)
2916NLF,National Liberation Front (disambiguation)
2917NLL,National Lacrosse League
2918NLP,Natural Language Processing,Neuro-Linguistic Programming (pseudoscience)
2919NLW,Non-Lethal Weapon
2920nm,Nanometre
2921NM,New Mexico (postal symbol)
2922NMCI,Navy Marine Corps Intranet
2923NMCS,Not Mission Capable Supply (SM&R code)
2924NMD,U.S. National Missile Defense
2925NMHNFG,Not Made Here,No Fucking Good
2926NMN,No middle name
2927NMR,Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
2928NMSG,NATO Modelling and Simulation Group
2929nN,Nanonewton
2930NNE,North North-East
2931NNSA,U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration
2932NNW,North North-West
2933NO,Nitric Oxide,Normally Open,Norway (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
2934No,Nobelium
2935NOAA,U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2936NOAF,Norwegian Air Force
2937NOAO,National Optical Astronomy Observatory
2938NOC,UK. National Oceanography Centre
2939NODEF,NATO Oceanographic Data Exchange Format
2940NOGI,New Orleans Grande Isle (award for diving)
2941NOLA,New Orleans,Louisiana (LA is the official postal code for Louisiana)
2942NOLF,Navy OutLying Field
2943NoMBO,Non-mine,Mine-like Bottom Object
2944NOME,Not on Mars Either
2945NOME,Not on Mars Either (see NIMBY)
2946NOPA,National Office Products Alliance,National Office Products Association
2947NOR,Norway (ISO 3166 trigram)
2948NORCECA,North,Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation
2949NORELPREF,No religious preference
2950NORTHAG,Northern Army Group
2951NOS,Network Operating System,New Old Stock (Internet auction/trading listings),Nitric Oxide Synthase (enzyme)
2952NOSA,NATO OSI Security Architecture
2953NOTAFLOF,No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds
2954NOW,National Organization for Women
2955NP,National Permit,A permit in India for trucks so they can go anywhere in the nation
2956Np,Neap tide (nautical charts),Neptunium
2957NP,Nepal (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
2958NPB,Nippon Professional Baseball
2959NPC,National Postgraduate Committee,National Provincial Championship (New Zealand rugby competition,now defunct),Navigation Planning Chart,Non-Player Character (role-playing games)
2960NPCS,Non-Passenger Coaching stock (in Railways)
2961NPD,Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (German)
2962NPDI,New Product Development and Introduction
2963NPG,Needline/Network Participation Group
2964NPH,Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
2965NPL,National Priorities List,Nepal (ISO 3166 trigram)
2966NPO,nothing by mouth
2967NPOV,Neutral Point Of View
2968NQ,Dronning Maud Land (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1983)
2969NQOCD,Not Quite Our Class,Dear (or Darling). (Upper-class English slang)
2970NR,Nauru (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
2971NRA,National Rifle Association
2972NRAO,National Radio Astronomy Observatory
2973NRC,National Research Council (U.S.),Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S.)
2974NRDC,(U.S.) Natural Resources Defense Council
2975NREL,U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2976NRK,Norsk Rikskringkasting (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
2977NRMP,National Resident Matching Program (U.S. medicine)
2978NRO,U.S. National Reconnaissance Office
2979NRT,Near Real Time
2980NRTA,National Rat Terrier Association,National Retail Tenants Association,National Retired Teachers Association,Northwest Regional Transmission Association
2981NRU,Nauru (ISO 3166 trigram)
2982ns,Nanosecond
2983nS,Nanosiemens
2984NS,Norfolk Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark),Nova Scotia (postal symbol),Suriname (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2985NSA,U.S. National Security Agency,Naval Support Activity,No Strings Attached
2986NSABB,National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
2987NSAID,Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug
2988NSB,Norges Statsbaner (Norwegian State Railways)
2989NSC,National Security Council
2990NSDL,National Science Digital Library (US)
2991NSG,National System for Geospatial-Intelligence
2992NSN,National Stock Number
2993NSNA,National Student Nurses' Association
2994NSO,National Standardization Office (ABCA)
2995NSS,(U.S.) Naval Simulation System
2996NST,(UK) Nimrod Software Team
2997NSTAC,National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
2998NSW,New South Wales (postal symbol)
2999nT,Nanotesla
3000NT,National Trust (UK),Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1993),New Technology (Windows NT),Northern Territory (Australia) (postal symbol),Northwest Territories (Canada) (postal symbol)
3001NTC,National Training Center,Negative Temperature Coefficient (thermistor)
3002NTDS,Naval Tactical Data System
3003NTP,Network Time Protocol
3004NTR,Network Time Reference
3005NTRA,National Thoroughbred Racing Association
3006NTSB,National Transportation Safety Board
3007NTSC,National Television Standards Committee (colloquially,Never Twice the Same Color)
3008NTV,Non-Tactical Vehicle
3009NTY,(Internet Abbreviations:) Not Tested Yet; (Alternatively) No Thank You
3010NTZ,Iraq-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1993)
3011NU,Nicaragua (FIPS 10-4 country code),Niue (ISO 3166 digram),Nunavut (postal symbol)
3012NUL,Null character (ASCII code of control character),National Urban League
3013NUTS,Nuclear Utilization Target Selection
3014NUWC,U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center
3015nV,Nanovolt
3016NVEOL,Night Vision and Electro-Optics Laboratory
3017NVESD,CERDEC Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate,Fort Belvoir,Virginia
3018NVG,Night Vision Goggles
3019NVL,Night Vision Laboratory
3020nW,Nanowatt
3021NW,North-West
3022NW,Nuclear Weapon
3023NWA,National Wrestling Alliance
3024NWF,National Wildlife Federation
3025NWFZ,Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
3026NWHN,U.S. National Women's Health Network
3027nWo,New World Order (see article for explanation of idiosyncratic capitalization)
3028NWOAHM,New Wave of American Heavy Metal
3029NWOBHM,New Wave of British Heavy Metal (sometimes pronounced /n.ˈwɒbm/ as if it were an acronym)
3030NWRA,National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association
3031NWSL,National Women's Soccer League (U.S.)
3032NWT,North-West Territories
3033NXA,21st arcade game in the Pump It Up series
3034NXD,Native XML
3035NXE,New Xbox Experience
3036NXG,New Cross Gate station
3037NXL,National XBall League
3038NXN,Nike Cross Nationals
3039NY,New York (postal symbol)
3040NYC,New York City
3041NYHA,New York Heart Association
3042NYO,National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
3043NYRA,National Youth Rights Association,New York Racing Association (horse racing)
3044NYSE,New York Stock Exchange
3045NZ,New Zealand (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3046NZC,New Zealand Cricket
3047NZL,New Zealand (ISO 3166 trigram)
3048NzL,Noze looan (online/event listings)
3049NZOSS,New Zealand Open Source Society
3050NZRU,New Zealand Rugby Union
3051O,Oberst,Observer,Obstacle,Octal,Officer,Official,Oh,Operational,Operator,Oprah (magazine),Outstanding,Oxygen
3052OA,Operational Analysis,Overeaters Anonymous
3053OAC,On Approved Credit
3054OAP,Old Age Pensioner (UK)
3055OARSI,Osteoarthritis Research Society International
3056OAS,Organization of American States
3057OASIS,Objects and Agents for Information Systems and Simulation,Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
3058OASIS,Ontario Agencies Supporting Individuals with Special Needs
3059OASIS,Ontario Association of Sewage Industry Services
3060OASP,Operational Analysis Support Paper/Plan
3061OAU,Organization for African Unity
3062OB,Obedience,Obligation,Obligatory,Obsolete,Obstetrics,Ocean Beach (California),Off Break (cricket),Old Bryanstonian,Order of Battle,Outlet Box (electrical),Overbought (stock market),Oversight Board
3063OBE,Officer of the Order of the British Empire
3064OBS,Observation/Observer,Obsolete,Obstacle,Off Balance Sheet,Optical Burst Switching (IEEE),Organic Brain Syndrome,Organization(al) Breakdown Structure
3065OBSS,Off Board Sensor Systems,Ordo Byantinus Sancti Sepulchri (Byzantine Order of the Holy Sepulchre),Orbiter Boom Sensor System (space shuttle),Origins Billion Star Survey
3066OBX,Outer Banks (North Carolina)
3067OC,Officer Commanding
3068OCA,Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur,Offensive Counter-Air
3069OCD,Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
3070OCFS,Oracle Cluster File System
3071OCFS2,Oracle Cluster File System Release 2
3072OCMCC,[2] Orchard County MCC
3073OCN,Oncology Certified Nurse
3074OCO,Oort Cloud Object
3075OCOKA,Observation,Cover and concealment,Obstacles,Key terrain,and Avenues of approach (mnemonic)
3076OCR,Optical Character Recognition
3077OCS,see entry
3078OD,Old Dragon,Ordnance Datum (nautical charts),Overdose
3079ODAS,OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey
3080ODB,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
3081ODBC,Open DataBase Connectivity
3082ODI,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]
3083OEA,(U.S.) Office of Economic Adjustment
3084OECD,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (international)
3085OED,Oxford English Dictionary
3086OEG,Operation Exposure Guidance
3087OEIS,On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
3088OEM,Original Equipment Manufacturer
3089OFA,Occipital Face Area
3090OFDA,U.S Agency for International Development's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance
3091OGC,Open Geospatial Consortium
3092OGD,Other Government Department
3093OGO,Other Government Organization
3094OGX,OUARGLA,a petroleum state in the south of Algeria
3095OH,Ohio (postal symbol)
3096OHC,OverHead-Cam engine
3097OHHLA,Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive
3098OHIP,Ontario Health Insurance Plan
3099OHMS,On Her (or His) Majesty's Service (also written: O.H.M.S.)
3100OHP,Observatoire de Haute-Provence
3101OHSS,Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome
3102OIC,Officer In Charge
3103OIF,Operation Iraqi Freedom
3104OIOC,Oriental & India Office Collections (in the British Library)
3105OJ,Orange Juice,O.J. Simpson
3106OJT,On-the-Job Training
3107OKC,Oklahoma City
3108OLED,Organic Light-Emitting Diode
3109OLS,Operational Linescan System
3110OM,Oman (ISO 3166 digram),Olympique de Marseille (French football club)
3111OMA,Open Mobile Alliance,Operations & Maintenance,Army
3112OMB,U.S. Office of Management and Budget,Ontario Municipal Board,Order of Mapungubwe in Bronze
3113OMD,Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (1980s pop group)
3114OME,Osaka Mercantile Exchange
3115OMFG,Oh My Fucking God
3116OMG,Oh My God or Or My Gosh
3117OMN,Oman (ISO 3166 trigram)
3118OMNCS,U.S. Office of the Manager for the National Communications System
3119OMP,Order of Mapungubwe in Platinum
3120OMS,Order of Mapungubwe in Silver
3121OMT,Object Model Template
3122OMW,On My Way,Oh My Word
3123ON,Ontario (postal symbol)
3124ONC,Orthopaedic Nurse Certified
3125ONG,Orthodontic National Group
3126ONI,(U.S.) Office of Naval Intelligence
3127Onna,Oniong,Nnung Ndem,and Awa,a Local Government Area in Nigeria
3128ONS,Operational Needs Statement
3129OO,Object Oriented,Over & Out
3130OOAD,Object Oriented Analysis and Design
3131OOBE,Out-of-body experience
3132OOCL,Orient Overseas Container Line
3133OODA,Observation,Orientation,Decision,Action loop (a.k.a. Boyd's Loop)
3134OOMF,One Of My Followers
3135OOO,Out Of the Office
3136OOP,Object-Oriented Programming,Out Of Print
3137OOS,Occupational Overuse Syndrome,OneSAF Objective System,Open Operating System,Out Of Service
3138OOTW,Operations Other Than War
3139OP,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
3140OPA,Other Procurement,Army
3141OPAC,Online Public Access Catalogue
3142OPCON,Operational control
3143OPCW,Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
3144OPEC,Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
3145OPFOR,Opposing force
3146OPI,Office of Primary Interest,Open Prepress Interface
3147OPINTEL,Operational Intelligence
3148OPLAN,Operation plan (also OpPlan)
3149OPORD,Operation order
3150OPP,Ontario Provincial Police,Operational Planning Process,Other People's Property/Pussy/Penis (song)
3151OPS,On-base plus slugging (baseball statistics),Operations
3152OPSEC,Operations security,Open Platform for Security
3153OPSI,Overwhelming post splenectomy infection,UK Office of Public Sector Information
3154OPTAR,Operational target
3155OPV,Offshore Patrol Vessel
3156OQ,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)
3157OR,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
3158ORAU, Oak Ridge Associated Universities
3159ORB, Object Request Broker
3160ORBAT,Order of Battle
3161ORD,Office of Research and Development,Operational Requirements Document
3162ORF,Operational iness Float
3163ORISE,Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
3164ORNL,Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3165ORR,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
3166ORSA,Oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus,Operations Research Society of America
3167OS,Operating System
3168Os,Osmium
3169OSA,Order of St. Augustine
3170OSCE,Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
3171OSD,U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense,On-screen Display
3172OSDL,Open Source Development Labs
3173OSE,Own Separate Entrance
3174OSERS,U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
3175OSETI,Optical SETI also Optical SETI
3176OSHA,Occupational Safety and Health Administration
3177OSI,Office of Strategic Influence,Ontario Swine Improvement,Open Source Initiative,Open Systems Interconnection
3178OSIA,(U.S.) On-Site Inspection Agency
3179OSIRIS,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)
3180OSL,Open Source License,Optically Stimulated Luminescence,Orbiting Solar Laboratory
3181OSM,One Saturday Morning
3182OSOTPBOIAS,One Sec,On The Phone,Be Off In A Sec
3183OSPA,Operations Security Professional's Association site of OSPA
3184OSPA,Oregon School Psychologists Association [3]
3185OSRH,Oružane Snage Republike Hrvatske (en: Armed forces of the Republic of Croatia)
3186OSS,Office of Strategic Services (1942-1945,forerunner of CIA)
3187OSU,Ohio State University,Oklahoma State University
3188OTA,Office of Technology Assessment, Orthodontic Technicians Association
3189OTAC,Orthodontic Technicians Association Conference,Orthodontic Technicians Association Council
3190OTB,Off The Ball,Offtrack Betting,OneSAF Testbed (a descendant of ModSAF)
3191OTC,Over-The-Counter (drugs)
3192OTD,Off the derech (referring to an Orthodox Jew who has stopped practicing the tenets of his or her faith)
3193OTEA,(U.S. Army) Operational Test Evaluation Agency
3194OTI,Office of Transition Initiatives (United States Agency for International Development)
3195OTOH,On The Other Hand
3196OTS,Off the scale,sexually untouchable except for a lot of money.
3197OTSBH,Over The Shoulder Boulder Holder
3198OTW,On The Way
3199OTYBL,Over To You Blue Leader
3200OTYRL,Over To You Red Leader
3201OU,University of Oklahoma
3202OVC,Overcast (METAR Code),Ohio Valley Conference
3203OVV,Optically Visually Violent,or Optically Violently Variable,a type of quasar
3204OW,Old Wykehamist
3205OWN,Oprah Winfrey Network
3206OX,IATA code for Orient Thai Airlines
3207OXC,Optical cross-connect
3208OXM,Official Xbox Magazine
3209OXT,Oxytocin
3210OZ,(?) Australia
3211P,Peta,Phosphorus
3212p,pico
3213P2P,Peer-to-peer (networking)
3214Pa,pascal,Protactinium
3215pA,picoampere
3216PA- Pamela Anderson,Panama (ISO 3166 digram),Paraguay (FIPS 10-4 country code),Partial Agonist,Pennsylvania (postal symbol),petampere,PolyAmide (Nylon),Prince Albert piercing,Public Address (vocal amplification system),Public Affairs,PA 6,Nylon 6 (PolyAmide) (similarly for PA 11,12,46,66,610)
3217PAA,Position Area for Artillery
3218PABX,Private Automated Branch eXchange (company phone system)
3219PAC,Pan Africanist Congress,Partial Solar Calibrator,Patriot Advanced Capabilities,Political action committee, Primary Auditory Cortex
3220PACOM,(U.S.) Pacific Command
3221PADD,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
3222PADI,Professional Association of Diving Instructors
3223PAEK,PolyArylEtherKetone
3224PAFC,Plymouth Argyle Football Club
3225PAH,Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
3226PAHO,Pan American Health Organization
3227PAI,PolyAmide Imide,Pre-Approval Inspection (pharma)
3228PAK,Pakistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
3229Pakistan,Punjab,Afghan states,Kashmir,sIndh,baluchiSTAN
3230PAL,Phase Alternating Line (TV standard),Philippine Airlines
3231PAM, Precision Attack Missile
3232PAMELA,Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics,Pedestrian Accessibility and Movement Environment Laboratory
3233Pamida,Patrick,Michael,and David,sons of the department store chain's co-founder Jim Witherspoon
3234PANS,Pretty Advanced/Awesome Network Services (cf. POTS)
3235PAR,Paraguay (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
3236PARC,Palo Alto Research Center
3237PAROS,Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (treaty)
3238PARP,(NATO Partnership for Peace) Planning And Review Process
3239PARWIG,Power Augmented Ram Wing In Ground (aeroplane wing shape)
3240PAS,See entry
3241PASA,PolyAmide,Semi-Aromatic (Nylon)
3242PASGT,Personnel Armor System,Ground Troops
3243PASR,Personnel Accounting and Strength Reporting
3244PATH,Port Authority Trans-Hudson
3245PAWS,Phased Array Warning System,Progressive Animal Welfare Society
3246PAYD,Pay As You Drive
3247PAYE,Pay As You Earn
3248Pb,Lead (Latin Plumbum)
3249PB,PolyButylene
3250PBA,Philippine Basketball Association,Professional Bowlers Association
3251PBB,PolyBrominated Biphenyl
3252PBCK,Problem Between Chair and Keyboard (computer help desk in-joke)
3253PBD,PolyButaDiene
3254PBDE,PolyBrominated Diphenyl Ether
3255PBI,PolyBenzImidazole
3256PBN,PolyButylene Naphthalate
3257PBOH,Please Become Old History
3258PBR,Pabst Blue Ribbon (beer brand),Professional Bull Riders
3259PBRT,may stand for: Physically Based Raytracing,an open source software rendering system for physically correct image synthesis.
3260PBS,Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (Australia),Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),Public Broadcasting Services (Malta)
3261PBT,PolyButylene Terephthalate
3262PBX,Private Branch eXchange (company phone system)
3263pC,picocoulomb
3264PCAS,Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
3265PCB,see entry
3266PCC,NATO Partnership Coordination Cell,Posterior Cingulate Cortex,Pre-Command Course,Presidents Conference Committee
3267PCCB,Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake
3268PCCIP,President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
3269PCE,PerChlorEthylene
3270PCI,U.S. Pacific Islands Trust Territory (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986),Peripheral Component Interconnect (computer bus)
3271PCIe,Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (computer bus)
3272PCL,Passive Coherent Location
3273PCMCIA,Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (People Can't Memorise Computer-Industry Acronyms)
3274PCN,Pitcairn Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
3275PCP,phencyclidine,Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (formerly Pneumocystis carinii),Probabilistically Checkable Proof
3276PCPI,Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (AMA)
3277PCR,Polymerase chain reaction
3278PCSSD,Pulaski County Special School District
3279PCT,Pacific Crest Trail,Patent Cooperation Treaty
3280PCTE,Portable Common Tool Environment,Punjab College of Technical Education
3281PCZ,Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)
3282Pd,Palladium
3283PD,per diem (Latin: (calculated) by the day),Point of Departure,Police Department,Postal District,Potential Difference,Principal Deputy,Public Domain,Privatdozent
3284PD,Product Director—Example: CERDEC Product Director C4ISR and Network Modernization
3285PDA,Personal Digital Assistant,Predicted Drift Angle,Public Display of Affection,Push-Down Automaton
3286PDD,Past Due Date,Presidential Decision Directive
3287PDF,Panama[nian] Defense Forces (abolished 1990),Portable Document Format,Principal Direction of Fire
3288PDG,President Director General,Product Development Group
3289PDL,Pure Dumb Luck (Texan punk band)
3290PDN,Pull-Down Network
3291PDP,Programmable Data Processor,Performance Development Plan
3292PDQ,Pre-Defined Queries (Siebel packages),Pretty Damn Quick
3293PDRY,People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (obsolete since 1990)
3294PDT,Pacific Daylight [Saving] Time (UTC-7 hours)
3295PDU,Police Dog Unit,Power Distribution Unit,Protocol Data Unit
3296PE,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
3297PE,Professional Engineer
3298PEBCAC,Problem Exists Between Chair and Computer (IT help desk in-joke)
3299PEBKAC,Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair (ditto)
3300PEEK,PolyEtherEtherKetone
3301PEET,Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy
3302PEI,Prince Edward Island,PolyEtherImide
3303PEK,PolyEtherKetone
3304PEPFAR,President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief
3305PER,Peru (ISO 3166 trigram)
3306perl,usually lower case Practical Extraction and Report Language
3307PES,PolyEtherSulfone
3308PEST,UK Public Engagement with Science and Technology
3309PET, Personal Electronic Transactor,Pierre Elliott Trudeau,Positron Emission Tomography (as in PET scan),PolyEthylene Terephthalate (plastic),Preliminary English Test
3310PETA, pentaerythritol triacrylate,People Eating Tasty Animals,People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
3311petawatt-
3312PETE,PolyEthyleneTErephthalate
3313PETP,PolyEthyleneTerePhthalate
3314PF,French Polynesia (ISO 3166 digram),petafarad,Phenol Formaldehyde (resin),Power forward,a player position in Australian rules football,basketball,and ice hockey
3315pF,picofarad
3316PFD,Permanent Fund Dividend = personal flotation device
3317PFE,Permanent Forest Estate
3318PFO,Pissed,Fell Over (medical diagnosis in-joke)
3319PfP,Partnership for Peace
3320PG -
3321Pg,petagram
3322pg,picogram
3323PGCE,Postgraduate Certificate in Education
3324PGD,Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
3325PGENI,Pharmaco-Genetics for Every Nation Initiative
3326PGH,Pre-implantation Genetic Haplotyping
3327PGM,Precision-Guided Munition
3328PGP,Pretty Good Privacy
3329pH,parts of hydrogen (acidity/alkalinity index),picohenry
3330PH,Passive Homing (missile guidance system),petahenry,Philippines (ISO 3166 digram),Probability of Hit,Public Health,Purple Heart
3331PHA,PolyHydroxyAlkanoate,Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
3332PHL,Philippines (ISO 3166 trigram)
3333PHQ,Patient Health Questionnaire
3334Pi,Pebi
3335PI,PolyImide,PolyIsoprene,Private Investigator
3336PIB,PolyIsoButylene
3337PIC,Person In Charge
3338PICNIC,Problem In Chair Not In Computer
3339PICS,Private Investment Capital Subscription
3340PID,Pelvic Inflammatory Disease,Plan Identification Number,Positive Identification,Procedural Identification,Procurement Identification Description
3341PIF, Partners in Flight
3342PIG,Pipeline Inspection Gauge
3343PIM, 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
3344PIN,Personal Identification Number
3345PINF,People In Need Foundation (Czech charitable organisation)
3346PIPA, Program on International Policy Attitudes
3347PIR,Priority Intelligence Requirement
3348PIRA,Provisional Irish Republican Army
3349PIREPS,Pilot Reports
3350PITA,Pain In The Ass
3351PJ,petajoule
3352pJ,picojoule
3353PJHQ,Permanent Joint Headquarters
3354PKA,Previously Known As,Professionally Known As
3355PKE,Partnership of Kindermusik Educators [1] &[2] & [2]
3356PKI,Public Key Infrastructure (cryptography)
3357PKU,Phenylketonuria
3358PL,Ice Pellets (new style METAR Code),petalitre,Phase Line (Co-ordination Line),Poland (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3359pL,picolitre
3360PLAF, People's Liberation Armed Forces,Pluggable look and feel,Product Line Architecture Framework
3361PLAID,Precision Location and Identification
3362PLB,Personal Locator Beacon
3363PLC,Public Limited Company (British)
3364PLCC,Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (electronics)
3365PLD,Probable Line of Deployment
3366PLEBS,People Lacking Everyday Basic Skills
3367PLF,Parachute Landing Fall
3368PLI,Position Location Information,Private Lands Initiative,Professional Liability Insurance
3369PLIF,Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence
3370PLL,Phase-Locked Loop (electronics)
3371PLM,Polarized Light Microscope/Microscopy
3372PLMBA,Phospholipid Bilayer Microarray
3373Pln,Platoon
3374PLO,Palestine Liberation Organization
3375PLOKTA,Press Lots Of Keys To Abort
3376PLP,Platonic Life Partner
3377PLS,Palletized Loading System,Personal Locator System
3378PLUTO,Pipe Line Under The Ocean
3379PLW,Palau (ISO 3166 trigram)
3380Pm,petametre,Promethium
3381pm,picometre
3382PMC,Primary Motor Cortex
3383PMI,Positive Material Identification
3384PMID,PubMed Identifier
3385PMMA,PolyMethylMethAcrylate
3386PMS,Premenstrual Syndrome
3387PMSL,Piss Myself Laughing (Internet shorthand)
3388PMT,Premenstrual Tension (UK) (see Premenstrual Syndrome)
3389PN,petanewton,Pitcairn Islands (ISO 3166 diagram)
3390pN,piconewton
3391PNAC,Project for the New American Century
3392PNC,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
3393PNG,Papua New Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram),Portable Network Graphics
3394PNP,Partido Nuevo Progresista,Plug 'N' Play/Pray,Positive Negative Positive
3395PNVS,Pilot Night Vision Sensor
3396Po,Polonium
3397PO,Post Office
3398PO,Purchase Order
3399POCD,Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction
3400POD,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
3401pod,Plain Old Documentation
3402POE,Perl Object Environment,(b) Port Of Embarkation (c) Polyol Ester (d) Power Over Ethernet
3403POETS,Portable Occultation,Eclipse,and Transit electronic-camera System
3404POFF,Plain Old Flat File
3405POG,Passionfruit,Orange and Guava
3406POGO,Project On Government Oversight
3407POI,Program Of Instruction
3408POK, Plane Of Knowledge
3409POL,Petroleum,Oils and Lubricants,Poland (ISO 3166 trigram)
3410POLAD,Political Advice
3411POM,Program Objective Memorandum,PolyOxyMethylene
3412POMDP,Partially observable Markov decision process
3413PooS,Poo Sniffer (Internet shorthand)
3414POP- Point of Presence,Post Office Protocol,Progesterone Only Pill
3415POR,Portugal (FIFA and IOC trigram,but not ISO 3166),Proposed Operational Requirement
3416POS- Point Of Sale terminal (retail industry transaction computers),Piece Of S**t
3417POSH,Port Outbound Starboard Home (alleged)
3418POSSLQ,Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
3419POT, Plane Of Tranquility
3420POTS,Plain Old Telephone Service (cf. PANS),Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
3421POV,Point of view
3422POW,Prisoner of war
3423PPA,Parahippocampal Place Area,PolyPhthalAmide
3424PPASC,(U.S.) Plans and Program Analysis Support Center
3425PPCLI,Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (regiment)
3426PPG,Pittsburgh Plate Glass (the original name of the company now known as PPG Industries),The Powerpuff Girls
3427PPLI,Precise Participant Location & Identification
3428ppm,Parts Per Million
3429PPM,Parts Per Million
3430PPM,Project Planning and Management
3431PPO,PolyPhenylene Oxide
3432PPP,Point-to-Point Protocol,Purchasing Power Parity
3433PPQ,Pulses Per Quarter (used in music programming,sequencers)
3434PPQN,Pulses Per Quarter Note (ditto)
3435PPQT,Pre-Production Qualification Test
3436PPS,post postscriptum,Precise/Precision Positioning Service (GPS),PolyPhenylene Sulfide
3437PPV,Pay-per-view
3438PQ,Province of Québec (obsolete postal code,replaced by QC),Parti Québécois,PR[edit]
3439Pr,Pastor or Priest
3440Pr,Praseodymium
3441PR,Public Relations,Puerto Rico (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
3442Prb,Presbyter
3443PRBO,Point Reyes Bird Observatory
3444PRC,People's Republic of China
3445PRD,CERDEC Product Realization Directorate
3446PRFG,Partial Fog (METAR Code)
3447PRI,Puerto Rico (ISO 3166 trigram)
3448PRK,Democratic People's Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram)
3449PRM,Personnel iness Management
3450PRT,Portugal (ISO 3166 trigram),Provincial Reconstruction Team
3451PRY,Paraguay (ISO 3166 trigram)
3452Ps,petasecond
3453pS,picosiemens
3454PSA,Paralysis Society of America,Pharmaceutical Society of Australia,Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive,Production Services Association,Prostate Specific Antigen,Public Service Announcement,Public Service Association
3455PSC,Personal service corporation,Primary Somatosensory Cortex
3456PSE,Palestinian Territory,Occupied (ISO 3166 trigram)
3457PSG,Pacific Seabird Group
3458PSI, Portable Source Initiative
3459PSI,Pounds per square inch
3460PSO,Peace Support Operations,Primary Standardisation Office (ABCA),Protocol Supporting Organization (of the ICANN)
3461PSS,Personnel System Support
3462PST,Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8 hours)
3463PSU,Pennsylvania State University
3464PsyOp,Psychological Operations
3465PT,petatesla,Physical Training (in the Army),Portugal (ISO 3166 digram)
3466pT,picotesla
3467Pt,Platinum
3468PTA,Parent-Teacher Association
3469PTAL,Public Transport Accessibility Level
3470PTAN -
3471PTES,People's Trust for Endangered Species
3472PTFE,PolyTetraFluoroEthylene
3473PTI,Pardon the Interruption
3474PTL,Patrol,Primary Target Line
3475PTO,Patent and Trademark Office,Please Turn Over
3476PTSD,Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
3477PU,Guinea-Bissau (FIPS 10-4 country code),Polyurethane,United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1986)
3478Pu,Plutonium
3479Pub,Publication
3480PUG, PET Users Group
3481PUN, Pull-Up Network
3482PUP, Pull-Up Point
3483PUR,Puerto Rico (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
3484PUS,United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
3485PV,petavolt
3486pV,picovolt
3487PVC,Permanent Virtual Circuit,PolyVinyl Chloride,Premature Ventricular Contraction,Primary Visual Cortex
3488PvE,Player versus Environment
3489PvP,Player versus Player
3490PVR,Personal Video Recorder
3491PvZ,Plants vs. Zombies
3492PW,Palau (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
3493pW,picowatt
3494PWA,Pirates With Attitude
3495PWBA,Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration
3496PWC,PieceWise Constant (describing a mathematical function)
3497PwC,PricewaterhouseCoopers (international accounting firm)
3498PWL,PieceWise Linear (describing a mathematical function)
3499PWLC,PieceWise Linear and Concave/Convex (describing a mathematical function)
3500PWR,Pressurized Water Reactor
3501PWV,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
3502PX,Post eXchange
3503PY,Paraguay (ISO 3166 digram),Person-Year,Portsmouth yardstick
3504PYF,French Polynesia (ISO 3166 trigram)
3505PYMWYMI,Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
3506PZ,Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1980),Pickup Zone
3507Q1,First Quarter
3508Q2,Second Quarter
3509Q3,Third Quarter
3510Q4,Fourth Quarter
3511QA,Qatar (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
3512Qantas,Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services
3513QAT,Qatar (ISO 3166 trigram)
3514QB,Quarterback (football)
3515QC,Quality Control,Québec (postal symbol),Queen's Counsel
3516QCA,Qualifications and Curriculum Authority,Quality Council of Alberta
3517QCD,Quantum ChromoDynamics
3518QDR,Quadrennial Defense Review
3519QEH,Queen Elizabeth's Hospital
3520QFE,Quoted For Emphasis,Local ground level atmospheric pressure (aeronautical Q code)
3521QK,Air Canada Jazz (IATA airline designator)
3522QLD,Queensland,(Australia) (postal symbol)
3523QM,Quality Management,Quantum Mechanics,Queen Mother
3524QNH,Regional mean sea level atmospheric pressure (aeronautical Q code)
3525QPR,Queens Park Rangers F.C. (English football team),Quality-Price Ratio (wine evaluation term)
3526QPS,Quark Publishing System
3527QR,Quake Rally,Qualitative Reasoning,Queensland Rail,Queen's Rangers,Quick Release,Quiet Riot,Qatar Airways (IATA airline designator)
3528QSCAT,Quick Scatterometer satellite
3529QSL,Québec Sign Language
3530QSO,Quasi-Stellar Object
3531QT,Quentin Tarantino,QuickTime,QuikTrip,QT (cute) Software
3532Quango,(British Commonwealth) QUasi Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation
3533Quasar,Quasi-stellar radio source
3534QUB,Queen's University Belfast
3535QUIET,Q and U Imaging ExperimenT (Q and U are the Stokes parameters of the CMBR polarization)
3536QZ,Awair (IATA airline designator)
3537R,Reinforcing,Right,Röntgen,Restricted (movie rating)
3538R2I,Resistance to Interrogation
3539R3P,Rearm,Refuel,and Resupply Point
3540RA,Radio Australia
3541Ra,Radium
3542RA,Rain (METAR Code),Rear Area,Reinforced Alert,Republican Army,Right Ascension,Royal Artillery (UK),Royal Academy
3543RAA,Royal Automobile Association,South Australia,Rear Assembly Area
3544RAAF,Royal Australian Air Force
3545Rabobank,Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank (from the two banks that merged to form the modern company)
3546RAC,Royal Automobile Club (in the United Kingdom,renamed RAC plc in 2002)
3547RACK,Risk Aware Consensual Kink (SM phrase)
3548Racon,RAdar beaCON
3549RADA,Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
3550Radar,Radio Detection And Ranging
3551RadB,Rad51/Dmc1 homologous protein
3552RADB,Real America Database,Resource Assessment Database,Reunion Address DataBase,Rice Allelopathy Data Base,Routing Arbiter Database
3553RADb,Routing Assets Data Base
3554RADC,Region Air Defence Commander
3555RAE,UK Royal Aircraft Establishment (-1991)
3556RAF,Red Army Faction,Royal Air Force
3557RAG,Raising and Giving,Rocket Antitank Grenade
3558RAGBRAI,Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa
3559RAM,Rolling Airframe Missile,
3560RAM,Royal Air Maroc
3561Ramark,RAdar MARKer
3562RAOC,Rear Area Operation Centre
3563RAP, 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
3564RARDE,UK Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (1962-1991)
3565RARE,Rapid Acquisition with Relaxation Enhancement (MRI technique)
3566RASC,Royal Army Service Corp,Former corps of British Army
3567RATELO,Radiotelephone Operator
3568Rb,Rubidium
3569RB,Running Back (football)
3570RBAR,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.
3571RBI,Runs Batted In
3572RC,see entry
3573RCA,Radio Corporation of America,Root Cause Analysis,Royal Canadian Artillery,Royal City Avenue (famous entertainment zone in Thailand)
3574RCAF,Royal Canadian Air Force
3575RCC,Rescue Co-ordination Centre
3576RCCO,Royal Canadian College of Organists
3577RCHA,Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (regiment)
3578RCMP,Royal Canadian Mounted Police
3579RCS,Radar Cross-Section,Reaction Control System,Revision Control System
3580RD,Radio Disney
3581RDA,Research,Development,and Acquisition,Recommended Daily Allowance (Nutrition)
3582RDD,Radiological Dispersion Device
3583RDECOM,(U.S. Army) Research,Development and Engineering Command
3584RDM,Remotely Delivered/Deliverable Mine
3585RDO,Rapid,Decisive Operation,Regular Day Off,Remote Data Objects
3586RDT,Remote Digital Terminal
3587RDV,Remote Detection Vehicle
3588Re,Rhenium
3589RE,Royal Engineers
3590REACH,Registration,Evaluation,Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical Substances
3591REACT,Remote Electronically Activated Control Technology
3592REAM,Retired Educators Association of Minnesota
3593RECCE,Reconnaissance
3594REEF,Reef Environmental Education Foundation
3595REME,Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
3596RERC,Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
3597RES,Radiation Exposure Status,Reserve
3598RESNA,Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
3599REU,Réunion (ISO 3166 trigram)
3600RF,Radio Frequency,Receptive Field (neurophysiology)
3601Rf,Rutherfordium
3602RFC,Request for Comments,Royal Flying Corps (WWI precursor to RAF)
3603RFD,Request for Documentation
3604RFE,Request for Evaluation
3605RFEF,Real Federación Española de Fútbol (Spanish for Royal Spanish Football Federation)
3606RFF,Right of First Refusal (legal term)
3607RFI,y For Inspection,y For Issue,Request For Information,Radio Frequency Interference
3608RFID,Radio Frequency IDentification
3609RFL,Rugby Football League
3610RFP,Request for Proposal
3611RFQ,Request for Quotation
3612RFT,Request for Tender
3613RFU,Rugby Football Union
3614RG,Republican Guard
3615Rg,Roentgenium
3616RGB,Red Green Blue (colour model)
3617RGBI,Red Green Blue Intensity (ditto)
3618Rh,Rhodium
3619RH,Southern Rhodesia (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1980)
3620RHIC,Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
3621RHLI,Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Canadian militia regiment)
3622RHO,Southern Rhodesia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)
3623RHS,Right Hand Side,Redland High School,Royal Horticultural Society,London
3624RHU,Replacement Holding Unit
3625RI,Rex et Imperator,Regina et Imperatrix King-Emperor
3626RI,Rhode Island (postal symbol)
3627RIAA,Recording Industry Association of America
3628RIBA,Royal Institute of British Architects
3629RIF,Reduction In Force (layoffs),Resistance Index for Frostbite,ing Is Fundamental
3630RIFA,Red imported fire ant
3631RILA,Retail Industry Leaders Association
3632RIM,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
3633RIMVS,Retinal Imaging Machine Vision System
3634RINO,Republican In Name Only[1]
3635RISC,Reduced Instruction Set Computer
3636RISTA,Reconnaissance,Intelligence,Surveillance,and Target Acquisition (see also ISTAR)
3637RJD,Reduced Julian Day
3638RKBA,Right to Keep and Bear Arms (Second Amendment to the United States Constitution)
3639RKI,Robert Koch Institute,German governmental research institute in Berlin
3640RKO,Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures
3641RL,Release Line,Real Life
3642RLP,Recognised [Operating/Operational] Land Picture
3643RLS,Restless Leg Syndrome
3644RLY,Rally Point
3645RM,see separate disambiguation page
3646RMC,Robert Menzies College
3647RMDA,Records Management and Declassification Agency
3648RMP,Recognised [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture
3649RMS,Rate-Monotonic Scheduling,Richard M. Stallman,Root-Mean-Square,Royal Mail Ship (e.g. RMS Titanic)
3650RN,Radio Netherlands
3651Rn,Radon
3652RN,Royal Navy,Registered Nurse (US)
3653RNA,RiboNucleic Acid
3654RNAD,Royal Naval Armaments Depot (UK)
3655RNPS,Radio Network Planning System
3656RNZ,Radio New Zealand
3657RNZI,Radio New Zealand International
3658RO,Range Only,Red Orchestra,Romania (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3659ROA, Rate Of Ascent
3660ROC,Receiver Operating Characteristic (statistics),Regional Operations Centre,Republic Of China,Roc-A-Fella Records,Regional Organisations of Councils
3661ROD, Rate Of Descent,Record Of Decisions,Report Of Discrepancy
3662ROE,Rules Of Engagement
3663ROFLOL,Rolling On the Floor Laughing Out Loud
3664ROH,Ring of Honor
3665ROI,Return On Investment,Republic of Ireland.
3666ROK, Republic of Korea
3667ROM,-Only Memory,Refuel On the Move,Royal Ontario Museum
3668ROP,Render Output Pipeline
3669ROPE,Research Opportunity and Performance Evidence
3670ROS,Reactive Oxygen Species
3671ROU,Romania (ISO 3166 trigram)
3672ROV,Remotely Operated Vehicle
3673ROW,Right Of Way,Rest Of the World
3674ROZ, Restricted Operations Zone
3675RP,Philippines (FIPS 10-4 country code),Release Point,Role-Playing [relationship potential]
3676RPA,Regional Plan Association
3677RPD,Recognition-Primed Decision-making
3678RPF,Rwandan Patriotic Front
3679RPG,(US-CA) Regional Planning Group,Report Program Generator,Rocket Projectile Gun,Rocket-Propelled Grenade,Role-Playing Game
3680RPL,Reverse Polish Lisp
3681RPM,Records,Promotion,Music (expansion of the title of a former Canadian music magazine),Red Hat Package Manager
3682rpm,revolutions per minute
3683RPN,reverse Polish notation
3684rps,revolutions per second
3685RPV,Remotely Piloted Vehicle
3686RQ,Puerto Rico (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
3687RRB,Railroad Retirement Board
3688RRN,Recurrence Rate Number
3689RRP,Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis
3690RRS,Racing Rules of Sailing
3691RRSP,Registered Retirement Savings Plan (Canada; roughly equivalent to the IRA in the U.S.)
3692RS,Russia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
3693RSA,Regimental Support Area,Republic of South Africa,Rivest-Shamir-Adleman encryption,South Africa (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
3694RSI,Repetitive Strain Injury
3695RSJ,Rolled Steel Joist (construction)
3696RSN,Real Soon Now (coined by author Jerry Pournelle)
3697RSPB,(UK) Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
3698RSPCA,Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
3699RSR,Required Supply Rate
3700RSRE,UK Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (1976-1991)
3701RSRI,Red Sands Research Institute
3702RSS,Really Simple Syndication
3703RSTA,Reconnaissance,Surveillance,and Target Acquisition
3704RT,Real Time,Radio Telephone,Return to duty
3705RTA,Road traffic accident (British)
3706RTBF,Radio-Télévision belge de la Communauté française
3707RTCA,RTCA,Inc.
3708RTF,Rich Text Format
3709RTFM, the Fucking/Fine Manual
3710RTG,Radio-isotope Thermoelectric Generator also used for Rubber Tyred Gantry crane
3711RTGS,Royal Thai General System of Transcription,Real Time Gross Settlement
3712RTI,Run-Time Infrastructure (Simulation)
3713RTL,see entry
3714RTLS,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
3715RTP,Real-time Transport Protocol
3716RTS,see entry
3717RTT,Round Trip Timing
3718RTV,Rapid Terrain Visualization ACTD,Retro Television Network
3719RU,Russia (ISO 3166 digram)
3720Ru,Ruthenium
3721RUC,Royal Ulster Constabulary
3722RUS,Russia (ISO 3166 trigram)
3723RUSI,Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
3724RV,Reconnaissance Vehicle,Recreational Vehicle,Re-entry Vehicle,reciprocation void
3725RW,Rwanda (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3726RWA,Rwanda (ISO 3166 trigram)
3727RWADA,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)
3728RWH,Rain Water Harvesting
3729RWR,Radar Warning Receiver
3730RWS,Remote Weapon Station
3731RX,Receive
3732SA,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
3733SAA,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 — 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
3734SAC,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
3735SAD,Seasonal Affective Disorder,Situational Awareness Display,SADD — originally Students Against Drunk Driving,now Students Against Destructive Decisions (U.S. national school-related group)
3736SADL,Situation Awareness Data Link (“saddle”),Structural Architecture Description Language
3737SALT- Save A Life Today (SALT) Alert; Emergency Contact System,Southern African Large Telescope,Strategic Arms Limitation s
3738SAM,Sequential-Access Memory,Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín,Surface-to-Air Missile
3739SARA,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
3740SART,Search and Rescue Transponder,Situational Awareness Rating Technique,SARU — South African Rugby Union
3741SAS,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”)
3742SAT,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”)
3743SAW,Squad Automatic Weapon,Surface acoustic wave,SAWE — Society of Allied Weight Engineers,SB[edit],Sb — Antimony (Latin Stibium)
3744SB,Sexy Bitch,Sexy Bastard,Sexy Boy (disambiguation),Solomon Islands (ISO 3166 digram),Special Warfare Boat Operator
3745SBA,Santa Barbara Airport,Simulation-Based Acquisition,Sovereign Base Area,Student bar association,SBB — German for the Swiss Federal Railways
3746SBNO,Standing but not operating (in reference to amusement parks)
3747SBS,Special Boat Service,Special Broadcasting Service,Seoul Broadcasting System
3748SC,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)
3749SCS,Scan Correlated Shift,Soil Conservation Service
3750SD,Secure Digital (memory card format),Sheriff's department,Smoke/Decontamination,South Dakota (postal symbol),Sudan (ISO 3166 digram)
3751SDHC,Secure Digital High Capacity
3752SDXC,Secure Digital eXtended Capacity
3753SEM,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
3754SEN,Senegal (ISO 3166 trigram),Small Extension Node
3755SEP,Somebody Elses 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
3756SEU,Single Event Upset (solid state physics),Slightly Enriched Uranium,Special Evidence Unit,SF[edit]
3757SF,Fleet Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification),San Francisco,Science fiction,South Africa (FIPS 10-4 country code),Speculative fiction,Special Forces
3758SFA,Sales force automation,Saturated fatty acid,Scottish Football Association,Stephen F. Austin (State University),Sudan Football Association
3759SG,Senegal (FIPS 10-4 country code),Singapore (ISO 3166 digram),Snow Grains (METAR Code),Study Group
3760SH,Saint Helena (ISO 3166 digram),SONATRACH (Algerian petroleum company)
3761SHAC,Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty,Student Health Action Coalition,SHAPE — Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe,SHF — Super High Frequency,SHN — Saint Helena (ISO 3166 trigram)
3762SHO,Showtime (see also sho.com)
3763SI,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 — 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
3764SIIT,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
3765SIP,Session Initiation Protocol,State Implementation Plan,System Improvement Program,Systematic Investment Plan,SIPP — Self-Invested Personal Pension
3766SIRI,Service Interface for Real Time Information
3767Siri,Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface (Apple iOS software)
3768SISO,Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization,Society of Independent Show Organizers,SIW — Simulation Interoperability Workshop,SIYSS — Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar,SJ[edit]
3769SL,Sierra Leone (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),Start Line
3770SLOC,Sea Lines Of Communication,Source Lines Of Code,SLORC — State Law and Order Restoration Council (of Burma)
3771SLP,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)
3772SME,Scan Mirror Electronics,Subject Matter Expert
3773SMX-many,including: Server Macro Expansion,Solaris MINIX,Spatial multiplexing,Sulfamethoxazole; see entry
3774SNL,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
3775SO,Shared Object (Unix),Sheriff's Office,Significant other,Somalia (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3776SOA,service-oriented architecture,Society of Actuaries,State of the art
3777SOAP,Simple Object Access Protocol,Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (U.S. medical residency matching)
3778SOB,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
3779SoCon,Southern Conference (U.S. college sports)
3780SOD,School Of Dentistry,Statement Of Difference[s],Statement Of Direction,Statement Of Documentation,Statement Of Duty/Duties
3781SOE,Secret Of Evermore,Special Operations Executive (WWII British organization),State Of Emissions (EW)
3782SOF- Special Operations Force,Status of Forces,SOFIA — Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy
3783SOM,Simulation Object Model,Somalia (ISO 3166 trigram),Sonar — SOund Navigation And Ranging
3784SOP,Standing/Standard Operating Procedure,State of Play
3785SOR,State Of iness,Statement Of Requirements
3786Sp,Special,Spring tide (nautical charts),sine prole (Latin,“without offspring”)
3787SR,Sound Reinforcement,Supply Route,Suriname (ISO 3166 digram),Sveriges Radio (Swedish Radio Ltd),SR — Sustained release of a drug
3788SRG,SACEUR Rover Group,Special Republican Guard,SRGW — Short-Range Guided Weapon
3789SSA,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)
3790SSC,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)
3791SSD,Solid-state drive,South Sudan (ISO 3166 trigram),SSDC — U.S. Space and Strategic Defense Command
3792SSDD,Same Shit,Different Day,Single-Sided Double-Density (floppy disk)
3793SSE,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
3794SSN,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)
3795SSR,Radar Picket Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification),Solid State Recorder
3796SSRI,Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor,Social Systems Research Institute
3797SSRN,Social Science Research Network,Nuclear-Powered Radar Picket Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification)
3798SSS,Siding Spring Survey,Side Side Side (an acronym for remembering congruent triangles),Sigue Sigue Sputnik (band),S/SSM — Surface-to-Subsurface Missile
3799ST,Saint Lucia (FIPS 10-4 country code),São Tomé and Príncipe (ISO 3166 digram)
3800STA,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
3801STAR,Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (NASA),Simulation of Tactical Alternative Responses,Special Threat Analysis and Recognition
3802STAT,Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription (cell biology),Special Tertiary Admissions Test (Australia)
3803STB,Surface Transportation Board[2]
3804STFU,Southern Tenant Farmers Union,Stuff You[citation needed],STH — Sonic The Hedgehog
3805STI,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
3806STP,São Tomé and Príncipe (ISO 3166 trigram),Standard Temperature and Pressure,STR — Short Tandem Repeat (DNA analysis),STRATCOM — United States Strategic Command
3807SU,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
3808SV,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)
3809SWA,Secure Web Access,South-West Asia
3810SWAC,Southwestern Athletic Conference
3811SWALK,Sealed With A Loving Kiss,
3812SWAN,System for Wearable Audio Navigation
3813SWAP,Surface Waters Acidification Programme,
3814SWAPO,South-West Africa People's Organisation,
3815SWAT,Special Weapons And Tactics
3816SWE — Sweden (ISO 3166 trigram)
3817SWF,Single White Female
3818SWG,Surface Warfare Group,Symbology Working Group,SWHR — Society for Women's Health Research,SWIG — Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator,SWIR — Short Wave InfraRed (“ss-why-are” or “swhirr”)
3819SWLABR,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)
3820SWP,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
3821T,Tera,Tesla,Tritium
3822Ta,Tantalum
3823TA,Target Acquisition,Teaching Assistant,Tera-ampere,Territorial Army (UK),Tristan da Cunha (ISO 3166 digram)
3824TAA,Transparency Anti-Aliasing,Trans Australia Airlines
3825TAACOM,U.S. Theater Army Area Command
3826TAADCOORD,Theatre Army Air Defence Co-ordinator
3827TAAR,Trace Amine-Associated Receptor
3828TAC,U.S. Tactical Air Command (1946-1992)
3829TACAN,Tactical Air Navigation
3830TACC,Tactical Air Control Centre,(USAF) Tanker Airlift Control Center
3831TACCO,Tactical Coordinator
3832TACCSF,U.S. Theater Aerospace Command & Control Simulation Facility
3833TACDAR,Tactical Detection And Reporting
3834TACP,Tactical Air Control Party,Technology Applications Certification Program
3835TACSOP,Tactical SOP (Standing Operating Procedure)
3836TADIL,Tactical Digital Information Link
3837TADSS,Training Aids,Devices,Simulators,and Simulations
3838TAI,Target[ed] Area of Interest
3839TAJ,Tom and Jerry
3840TAJT,Tom and Jerry Tales
3841TALES,Technical Advice and Lexicon for Enabling Simulation
3842TAN,Tanzania (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
3843TANJ,There Ain't No Justice (used as expletive in the Ringworld novels)
3844TANP,Terrain-Aware Network Planner
3845TANSTAAFL,There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (coined by author Robert A. Heinlein in his The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
3846TAPPS,Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools
3847TARDIS,Time And Relative Dimension In Space (from Doctor Who)
3848TARP,Transparency Accountability Rights for Parents (coined by Karen Plumridge,founder of Black Ribbon Gold Heart)
3849TAS,Tasmania (postal symbol)
3850TASER,Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle
3851TASM,Tactical Air-to-Surface Missile
3852TAT,Tourism Authority of Thailand
3853TATP,TriAcetone TriPeroxide
3854TATT,Tired All The Time (medical diagnosis in-joke)
3855Tb,Terbium
3856TB,Tuberculosis
3857TBA,to be announced
3858TBBPA,TetraBromoBisPhenol-A
3859TBC,to be confirmed,to be continued
3860TBF,to be fair
3861TBGRI,Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute,India
3862TBH,To Be Honest
3863TBL,Turkish Basketball League
3864TBM,Tactical Ballistic Missile,Theatre Ballistic Missile
3865TBS,Turner Broadcasting System
3866TBT,Tributyltin
3867Tc,Technetium
3868TC,Teracoulomb,Turks and Caicos (ISO 3166 digram),United Arab Emirates (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Trucial Coast States)
3869TCA,Transformational Communications Architecture,Turks and Caicos (ISO 3166 trigram)
3870TCAA,Top Counter-Assault Agents
3871TCAS,Traffic Collision Avoidance System
3872TCD,Chad (ISO 3166 trigram)
3873TCG,Trusted Computing Group,Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Gemisi
3874TCHD,Truck Cargo Heavy Duty
3875TCL,Tool Command Language
3876TCM,Turner Classic Movies
3877TCP,Traffic Control Point,Transmission Control Protocol,Trichlorophenol
3878TCU,Texas Christian University
3879TCW,Tasty Coma Wife
3880TCWMS,Tele-Center Workforce Management System
3881TD,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
3882TDA,The Disney Afternoon
3883TDL,Tactical Data Link
3884TDM,Time-Division Multiplexing
3885TDMA,Time Division Multiple Access
3886TDP,Technology Demonstration Programme
3887TDRS,Tracking Data and Relay Satellite
3888TE,Tactical Exploitation,Testosterone to Epitestosterone ratio,Tight end (American football; position generally not used in modern Canadian football)
3889Te,Tellurium
3890TEAL,Tasman Empire Airways Limited
3891Team,Together everyone achieves more
3892TEAMS,The East African Marine System (fiber optic cable)
3893TED,Technology Entertainment Design prize
3894TEETH,Tried Everything Else,Try Homeopathy (medical diagnosis in-joke)
3895TEL, Transporter,Erector and Launcher
3896TELAR,Transporter,Erector,Launcher And Radar
3897TENCAP,Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities
3898TERS,Tactical Event Reporting System
3899TES,Tactical Event System
3900TEST,Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms
3901TEU,Twenty-foot equivalent unit (cargo capacity)
3902TeVeS,Tensor Vector Scalar theory
3903TF -
3904TFMPP,Trifluorophenylmethylpiperazine
3905TFR,Total Fertility Rate
3906TFT,Thin-Film Transistor
3907Tg,Teragram
3908TG,Togo (ISO 3166 digram)
3909TGA,Tonga (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
3910TGIF,Thank God It's Friday,Toes Go In First
3911TGO,Togo (ISO 3166 trigram)
3912TGT,Target (also the ticker symbol for Target Corporation),Ticket Granting Ticket (computer security),Tyrese,Ginuwine,Tank,see TGT (group) for their collaboration
3913TH,Terahenry,Thailand (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3914Th,Thorium
3915THA,Thailand (ISO 3166 trigram)
3916THAAD, Terminal High Altitude Area Defence
3917THEGENTRY,The High-End Group of Earth's New Technologies Research Yield
3918THEL,Tactical High Energy Laser ACTD
3919THG,Tetrahydrogestrinone
3920TI,Tajikistan (FIPS 10-4 country code),Thermal Imaging,Threat Identification,Training Instructor,Texas Instruments
3921Ti,Tebi,Titanium
3922TIA,Total Information Awareness initiative
3923TIA,Transient Ischemic Attack
3924TIALD,Thermal Imaging and Airborne Laser Designation
3925TIBS,Tactical Information Broadcast System
3926TIC,Troops In Contact
3927TIGERS,Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System
3928TIM,Technical Information Memorandum,Technical Interchange Meeting,Toxic Industrial Material,Telecom Italia Mobile
3929TIMS,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
3930TINC,There Is No Cabal
3931TINY,That Is,Not You (internet slang)
3932TIP,Thermal Identification Panel
3933tits,Toes in the Sand
3934TJ,Tajikistan (ISO 3166 digram),Terajoule
3935TJD,Truncated Julian Day
3936TJK,Tajikistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
3937TK,Terakelvin,Tokelau (ISO 3166 digram)
3938TKBL,Türkiye 1. Kadınlar Basketbol Ligi,the Turkish-language name of the Turkish Women's Basketball League
3939TKL,Tokelau (ISO 3166 trigram)
3940TKM,Turkmenistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
3941TL,Team Leader,Teralitre,Timor-Leste (ISO 3166 digram),ThermoLuminescence,TL;DR ,Too long; didnt read.
3942Tl,Thallium
3943TLA,Three-Letter Abbreviation/Acronym
3944TLAM,Tomahawk Land Attack Missile
3945TLAR,That Looks About Right (chat shorthand),Transporter-Launcher And Radar
3946TLATOJL,The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
3947TLC,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)
3948TLD,Thermoluminescent Dosimeter,Top-Level Domain
3949TLM,Traditional Latin Mass,Tridentine Latin Mass,Transaction Lifecycle Management
3950TLPM,T1 Line Performance Monitor
3951TLS,Timor-Leste (ISO 3166 trigram),Times Literary Supplement,TM[edit]
3952TM,Technical Manual,Theatre Missile,Thematic Mapper,trademark (often written in small superscript type: TM or ™),Turing machine,Turkmenistan (ISO 3166 digram) Tympanic Membrane
3953Tm,Terametre
3954TMAP, Texas Medication Algorithm Project
3955TMC,The Movie Channel
3956TMD,Theatre Missile Defence
3957TMDK,The Mighty Don't Kneel (Australian professional wrestling stable also active in Japan)
3958TMI,Too Much Information
3959TMJ,TemporoMandibular Joint (syndrome)
3960TMNT,Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
3961TMO,Table Mountain Observatory,Television match official (rugby union)
3962TMP,East Timor (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 2002),Temporary
3963TMPG,Transparent Multi-Platform Gateway
3964TMR,Twin Main Rotors (helicopter type)
3965TMS,Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
3966TMT,Thirty Meter Telescope
3967TMTOWTDI,There's Than One Way To Do It (from Perl)
3968TN,Tennessee (postal symbol),Teranewton,Tonga (FIPS 10-4 country code),Tunisia (ISO 3166 digram)
3969TNA,Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
3970TNO,Trans-Neptunian Object
3971TNT,Thomas Nationwide Transport,an Australian company that was one of the predecessors to the former TNT N.V. and the current TNT Express,TriNitroToluene, Turner Network Television,TO[edit]
3972TOA,Table Of Authorities,Total Obligation Authority (accounting)
3973TOAD,Temporary,Obsolete,Abandoned,or Derelict site (urbanism),Towed Optical Assessment Device
3974TOBS,Time of OBServation
3975TOGS,Thermal Observation Gunnery Sight
3976TOMS,Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite instrument)
3977TON,Tonga (ISO 3166 trigram)
3978TOT,Time On Target
3979TPE,Chinese Taipei (IOC and FIFA trigram for the country also known as Taiwan)
3980TPI,The point is
3981TPO,Thrombopoietin
3982TPS,The Pennington School
3983TPTB,The Powers That Be (often used to refer to the people responsible for the content of TV series or movies)
3984TQ,Top Qualifier (similar to Pole Position in car racing)
3985TRA,Technology iness Assessment
3986TRAC,(U.S. Army) TRADOC Analysis Center
3987TRACON,Terminal Radar Approach Control
3988TRADOC,(U.S. Army) Training and Doctrine Command
3989TRAIN,Tourist Railway Association,Inc.
3990TRANSCOM,U.S. Transportation Command
3991TRAP,Tactical Receive equipment and related Applications
3992TRASANA,TRADOC Systems Analysis Agency
3993TRD,Towed Radar Decoy
3994TRIGAT,Third Generation Antitank (missile)
3995TRL,Technology readiness level
3996TRP,Target Reference Point,Time of Reporting
3997Trp,Troop
3998TRU,Transuranic
3999TRUEX,Training in Urban Environment Exercise
4000TRW,Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc.
4001Ts,Terasecond
4002TSEC,Transmission Security Encryption Code
4003TSL,Transportation Security Laboratory
4004TSR,Terminate and Stay Resident
4005TSSIA,The Subject Says It All
4006TTCT,Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
4007TTFN,Ta Ta For Now
4008TTO,Trinidad and Tobago (ISO 3166 trigram)
4009TTTEAF,Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
4010TTY,TeleTYpewriter (Printer)
4011TTYL,To You Later (Internet slang)
4012TTZ,Tetrazolium
4013TUC,Trades Union Congress
4014TUG,TeX Users Group
4015TUN,Tunisia (ISO 3166 trigram)
4016TUNS,Technical University of Nova Scotia
4017TUR,Turkey (ISO 3166 trigram)
4018TUSK,Tank Urban Survival Kit
4019TUV,Tuvalu (ISO 3166 trigram)
4020TVA,Tennessee Valley Authority
4021TVR,TreVor (Wilkinson) Racing
4022TVS,Tornado vortex signature
4023TWAIN,Technology Without An Interesting Name
4024TWE,Trans World Entertainment
4025TWI,The Welding Institute
4026TWN,Republic of China (Taiwan) (ISO 3166 trigram)
4027TWP,Technical Working Paper
4028TXV,Thermostatic Expansion Valve
4029TZ,Tanzania (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4030TZA,Tanzania (ISO 3166 trigram)
4031TZC,Tetrazolium chloride
4032U,Uranium
4033UA,Ukraine (ISO 3166 digram) Unit of Action
4034UAAP,University Athletic Association of the Philippines
4035UAB,University of Alabama at Birmingham
4036UAE,United Arab Emirates (also IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
4037UBIGEO,Ubicación Geografica (Spanish for Geographical Location)
4038UCBSA,United Cricket Board of South Africa
4039UCF,University of Central Florida
4040UCLES,University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
4041UCR,University of Costa Rica
4042UCS,Union of Concerned Scientists
4043UDAS,Uppsala-DLR Asteroid Survey
4044UDTS,Uppsala-DLR Trojan Survey
4045UE,Unit of Employment
4046UEFA,Union of European Football Associations
4047UESAC,Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets
4048UFC,Ultimate Fighting Championship
4049UG,Uganda (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4050UGA,Uganda (ISO 3166 trigram)
4051UGV,Unmanned Ground Vehicle
4052UHF,Ultra High Frequency
4053UHMW,Ultra-High Molecular Weight
4054UHRB,Ultra-High Resolution Building (simulation)
4055UIC,University of Illinois at Chicago
4056UID,User ID
4057UIL,University Interscholastic League (governing body for most interscholastic activities,notably sports,in Texas public high schools)
4058UIUC,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4059UJTL,Universal Joint Task List
4060UK,United Kingdom (also FIPS 10-4 country code),University of Kentucky
4061UKIP,United Kingdom Independence Party
4062UKR,Ukraine (ISO 3166 trigram)
4063UL,Underwriters Laboratories
4064ULF,Ultra Low Frequency
4065UM,U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
4066UMBC,University of Maryland,Baltimore County
4067UMC,United Microelectronics Corporation,University of Missouri-Columbia
4068UMCP,Unit Maintenance Collection Point
4069UMES,University of Maryland Eastern Shore
4070UMI,U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
4071UMIST,University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
4072UML,Unified Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Nepal,Unified Modeling Language,University of Massachusetts Lowell,User-Mode Linux
4073UMTS,Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
4074UN,United Nations
4075UNABOM,University and airline bomber (FBI case name)
4076UNAIDS,(i/a) Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
4077UNAMSIL,United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
4078UNCF,United Negro College Fund
4079UNCLOS,United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
4080UNCSGN,United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names
4081UNCTAD,United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
4082UNDCP,United Nations Drug Control Programme
4083UNDE,(i/a) Union of National Defence Employees (Canada)
4084UNDP,United Nations Development Programme
4085UNEP,United Nations Environment Programme
4086UNESCO,United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization
4087UNFCCC,United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
4088UNFICYP,United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
4089UNGEGN,United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
4090UNHCR,United Nations High Commission (er) for Refugees
4091UNICEF,United Nations Children's Fund (originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund)
4092UNICRI,United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
4093UNIDO,United Nations Industrial Development Organization
4094UNIFEM,United Nations Development Fund for Women (from the French Fonds de développement des Nations unies pour la femme)
4095UNIS,University of Surrey,Guildford,England
4096UNLV,University of Nevada,Las Vegas
4097UNMIK,United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
4098UNMOVIC,United Nations Monitoring,Verification and Inspection Commission
4099UNOSOM,United Nations Operations in Somalia
4100UNPROFOR,United Nations Protection Force (in former Yugoslavia)
4101UNRISD,United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
4102UNSM,Union of Nova Scotian Municipalities
4103UNTAC,United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
4104UNTAET,(i/a) United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor
4105UNU,United Nations University
4106UP,Ukraine (FIPS 10-4 country code),Union Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark),Upper Peninsula (of Michigan),Uttar Pradesh
4107UPC,United Pentecostal Church,Universal Product Code
4108UPDM,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
4109UPdM,Università Popolare della Multimedialità
4110UPI,United Press International
4111UPN,United Paramount Network
4112UPS,Uninterruptible Power Supply,United Parcel Service
4113UPTN,Universal Personal Telecommunications Number,Upper Peninsula Telehealth Network
4114UPU,Universal Postal Union
4115UR,Soviet Union (NATO country code,obsolete 1992)
4116URBSFA,Union royale belge des sociétés de football association (French for Royal Belgian Football Association)
4117URD,User Requirements Document
4118URI,Uniform Resource Identifier,University of Rhode Island
4119URU,Uruguay (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
4120URY,Uruguay (ISO 3166 trigram)
4121US,United States (also ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4122USA,United States of America (also ISO 3166 trigram),United States Army
4123USAADAC,U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center,Fort Bliss,Texas
4124USAARMC,U.S. Army ARMor Center,Fort Knox,Kentucky
4125USAAVNC,U.S. Army AViatioN Center,Fort Rucker,Alabama
4126USAF,United States Air Force
4127USAFSPC,U.S. Air Force Space Command
4128USAIC,U.S. Army Infantry Center,U.S. Army Intelligence Center
4129USAID, United States Agency for International Development
4130USAP,Union Sportive des Arlequins Perpignanais,United States Antarctic Program
4131USAPATRIOT,Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
4132USAREUR,United States Army Europe
4133USB,Universal Serial Bus
4134USC,United States Code,University of South Carolina,University of Southern California
4135USCG,United States Coast Guard
4136USCINCSPACE,United States Commander in Chief,Space Command
4137USDA,United States Department of Agriculture
4138USDI,United States Department of the Interior
4139USDOE,United States Department of Energy
4140USDRE,(U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1978-1986)
4141USEC,United States Enrichment Corporation
4142USFL,United States Football League
4143USFWS,United States Fish and Wildlife Service
4144USGS,United States Geological Survey
4145USIA,United States Information Agency
4146USJFCOM,United States Joint Forces Command
4147USL,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
4148USMC,United States Marine Corps
4149USMNT,United States men's national (soccer) team
4150USN,United States Navy
4151USNA,United States National Arboretum,United States Naval Academy
4152USNB,United States Naval Base
4153USNG,United States National Grid
4154USNH,United States Naval Hospital
4155USNI,United States Naval Institute
4156USNO,U.S. Naval Observatory
4157USNOFS,United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station
4158USNP,United States Newspaper Program
4159USNR,United States Navy Reserve
4160USNS,United States Naval Ship
4161USNZ,University Sport New Zealand
4162USPS,United States Postal Service
4163USPTO,United States Patent and Trademark Office
4164USR,Universal System Resources (/usr,directory in a *NIX filesystem),User
4165USS,United States ship (sometimes meaningless; see Star Trek)
4166USSPACECOM,United States Space Command
4167USSR,Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
4168UST,Underground Storage Tank
4169USTRANSCOM,United States Transportation Command
4170USWNT,United States women's national (soccer) team
4171UT,Universal Time
4172UTEP, University of Texas at El Paso (pronounced you-tep)
4173UTM,Universal Transverse Mercator (geographical co-ordinate system)
4174UU,Unitarian Universalism,University of Utah,Unseen University
4175UUA,Unitarian Universalist Association
4176UUID,Universally Unique Identifier (see also GUID)
4177UUV,Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
4178UV,Burkina Faso (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Upper Volta),ultraviolet
4179UW,University of Washington
4180UWO,University of Western Ontario
4181UWT,Under Water Telephone
4182UWTG,Under Water Tug
4183UWW,United World Wrestling
4184UXO,Unexploded Ordnance
4185UY,Uruguay (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4186UZ,Uzbekistan (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4187UZB,Uzbekistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
4188V,5 (in Roman numerals),Vanadium,Volt
4189VA,Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 digram),Veterans Affairs (U.S. Department of),Virginia (postal symbol),Various Artists
4190VACIS,Vehicle And Container Inspection System
4191VACIS,Victorian Ambulance Clinical Information System
4192VANOS,Variable Nockenwelle System
4193VAO,Vienna Art Orchestra
4194VAT,Value-Added Tax,Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 trigram)
4195VB,Victoria Bitter (beer),Visual Basic
4196VBA,Visual Basic for Applications
4197VC,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Victoria Cross
4198VCDS,(Canada) Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff,VAG-COM Diagnostic System
4199VCJCS,Vice Chairman,Joint Chiefs of Staff
4200vCJD,Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
4201VCNO,(U.S.) Vice Chief of Naval Operations
4202VCofS,Vice Chief of Staff
4203VCR,Video cassette recorder
4204VCT,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO 3166 trigram)
4205VD,North Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram,obsolete 1977),Venereal Disease
4206VDFS,VisualSVN Distributed File System (VDFS)
4207VDR,North Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram,obsolete 1977)
4208VE,Venezuela (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
4209VEEGA,Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist manœuvre
4210VEN,Venezuela (ISO 3166 trigram)
4211VERDI,Vittorio Emanuele Re D'Italia (Victor Emmanuel,King of Italy)
4212VERITAS,Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System
4213VFA,Victorian Football Association (historic Australian rules football league),Volatile Fatty Acid
4214VfD,s for deletion (used in Wikipedia)
4215VFL,Victorian Football League,the name of two distinct Australian rules football leagues:
4216VFM,Value For Money
4217VFMO,Very Fast Moving Object (astronomy)
4218VFT,Virtual Function Table
4219VFW,Veterans of Foreign Wars
4220VG,British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
4221VGB,British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
4222VH1, Video Hits One
4223VHF,Very High Frequency
4224VIA,Versatile Interface Adapter
4225VIC,Victoria,Australia (postal symbol),Video Interface Chip,Virginia Intermont College
4226VIDS,Visual Information Display System
4227VII,7 (in Roman numerals)
4228VIII,8 (in Roman numerals)
4229VIN,(i/a) Vehicle Identification Number (ISO 3779)
4230VIP,Very Important Person
4231VIR,U.S. Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram),Virgin Atlantic Airways (ICAO code)
4232VIS,Vavoua International School,Vienna Independent Shorts,Viewable Image Size,Visual Instruction Set
4233VISCII,VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange
4234VIT,Vellore Institute of Technology
4235VIVO,Video In Video Out
4236VJ,Video Jockey
4237VK,Australia (ham radio code),Västerbottens-Kuriren,a Swedish daily newspaper
4238VLA,Very Large Array,(UK) Veterinary Laboratories Agency
4239VLAD, Vertical Line Array DIFAR
4240VLBA,Very Long Baseline Array
4241VLF,Very Low Frequency
4242VLIW,Very Long Instruction Word
4243VLPFC,VentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
4244VLPMC,VentroLateral PreMotor Cortex
4245VLSF,Very Loud,Stink-Free
4246VLSI,Very-large-scale integration
4247VLVS,Very Loud,Very Stinky
4248VM,Vietnam (FIPS 10-4 country code)
4249VMF,Marine Fighting Squadron of the United States Marine Corps
4250VMF,Variable Message Format
4251VMN,VentroMedial Nucleus (neurophysiology)
4252VN,Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram)
4253VNIR,Visible and Near InfraRed
4254VNM,Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram)
4255VNS,see entry
4256VOA,Voice of America
4257VOC,Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company),Volatile organic compounds
4258VOIP,Voice Over Internet Protocol
4259VOLT,Visual OpenType Layout Tool
4260VON,Victorian Order of Nurses
4261VOR,Voice of Russia
4262VOX,Voice Operated oscillator
4263VPN,Virtual Private Network
4264VQ,Vector Quantization,U.S. Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
4265VR,Virtual Reality
4266VRSG,Virtual Reality Scene Generator
4267VSHORAD,Very Short Range Air Defence
4268VSO,Voluntary Services Overseas
4269VSR,Very Special Relativity
4270VT,Vatican City-State (FIPS 10-4 country code),Vermont (postal symbol),Video tape,Virginia Tech
4271VTC,Video Tele-Conference
4272VTEC,Variable valve Timing and Electronic lift Control
4273VTOL,Vertical Take-Off & Landing
4274VU,Vanuatu (ISO 3166 digram),Vedanta University
4275VUB,Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgian university)
4276VUT,Vanuatu (ISO 3166 trigram)
4277VV,Via Voice,Village Voice
4278VVAF,Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
4279VW,Volkswagen
4280VZ,Verizon Communications (NYSE code)
4281W,Tungsten (from German Wolfram),Watt,West
4282W3C,World Wide Web Consortium
4283WA,Namibia (FIPS 10-4 country code; from West Africa),Washington state (postal symbol),Western Australia (postal symbol),World Archery (Federation)
4284WAAC,Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (Britain) (World War I UK)
4285WAAF,Women's Auxiliary Air Force (World War II UK)
4286WAC,Western Athletic Conference,Women's Auxiliary Corps (World War II Canada),Women's Army Corps (World War II U.S.)
4287WACC,Weighted Average Cost of Capital (accounting)
4288WACS,What-A-Cartoon! Show
4289WAD,Weapons Alert Designator
4290WAGGGS,World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
4291WAGs,Wives And Girlfriends (most notably of England national football team players at the 2006 FIFA World Cup,although the term existed earlier)
4292WAK,Wake Island (ISO 3166 trigram,obsolete 1986)
4293WAL,see entry
4294WAN,Wide area network
4295WAP,Wireless Application Protocol
4296WAPIMA,What a pain in my ass
4297WAR,With All Respect
4298WAsP,Short form of WAAAAP (Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program)
4299WASP,White Anglo-Saxon Protestant,Wide Angle Search for Planets,Women Airforce Service Pilots
4300WAYP,White And Yellow Pages
4301WB,Warner Bros.,Welcome Back (Internet shorthand)
4302Wb,Weber
4303WBA,Warner Bros. Animation,West Bromwich Albion (F.C.),World Boxing Association
4304WBC,World Boxing Council
4305WBE,Work Breakdown Element
4306WBO,World Boxing Organization
4307WC,Water Closet,Winston Churchill,World Cup (sports)
4308WCBO,World Chess Boxing Organisation
4309WCBP,World Center for Birds of Prey
4310WCL,World Confederation of Labour
4311WCS,Weapon Control Status,Wildlife Conservation Society
4312WCW,World Championship Wrestling
4313WDC,Western Design Center,World Data Center
4314WDIN,Wildlife Disease Information Node
4315WDWR,Walt Disney World Resort
4316WEBS,Weapon Effectiveness Battle Simulation
4317WEC,World Extreme Cagefighting
4318WEEE,Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
4319WEF,World Economic Forum
4320WEM,West Edmonton Mall
4321WEU,Western European Union
4322WEZ, Weapon Engagement Zone
4323WF,Wallis and Futuna Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
4324WFC,Women's Forage Corps (World War II UK)
4325WFD,Weapon of Focused Destruction
4326WFF,Wallops Flight Facility
4327WFI,Water for Injection
4328WFH,Working from home
4329WFP,World Food Program
4330WFZ,Weapons Free Zone
4331WG,Working Group,Wade-Giles
4332WH,Wehrmacht Heer (German World War II army vehicle licence plate code)
4333WHAM,Wisconsin Hydrogen-Alpha Mapping (telescope)
4334WHI,Women's Health Initiative
4335WHIP,Walks plus hits per inning pitched
4336WHO,World Health Organisation
4337WHS,(U.S.) Washington Headquarters Services
4338WI,Western Sahara (FIPS 10-4 country code),Wisconsin (postal symbol),Women's Institute
4339WIA,Wounded In Action,Wireless Institute of Australia (Amateur Radio)
4340WIIFM,What's in it for me?
4341WIMP,Weakly Interacting Massive Particle,Windows,Icons,Menus,Pointers
4342WIP,Work In Progress
4343WIPO, World Intellectual Property Organization
4344WIPP,[Nuclear] Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
4345WIYN,Wisconsin Indiana Yale NOAO telescope consortium
4346WK,Wake Island (ISO 3166 digram,obsolete 1986)
4347WKYP,Will Keep You Posted
4348WL,Wehrmacht Luftwaffe (German World War II air force vehicle licence plate code)
4349WLB,Women's Land Brigade (World War II Canada)
4350WLF,Wallis and Futuna Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
4351WLOG,Without Loss Of Generality (see WOLOG)
4352WM,Wehrmacht Marine (German World War II navy vehicle licence plate code)
4353WMANUS,West Midlands Area National Union of Students
4354WMD,World Movement for Democracy
4355WMI,Wildlife Management Institute
4356WMO,World Meteorological Organization
4357WNA,World Nuclear Association
4358WNIT,Women's National Invitation Tournament
4359WNSD,What's New,Scooby-Doo?
4360WNW,West North-West
4361WO,Warrant Officer
4362WOF,Width of Fabric
4363WOFT,Waste Of Fucking Time
4364WOFTAM,Waste Of Fucking Time And Money
4365WOI, Wheels Of Italy
4366WOM,Write Only Memory
4367WOS,Wilson Ornithological Society
4368WOSM,World Organization of the Scout Movement,Worldwide Oil Spill Model
4369WOT,Waste Of Time
4370WP,White Phosphorus (ammunition)
4371WPB,War Production Board during World War II
4372WPE,World Pork Expo
4373WPK,Wider Peacekeeping
4374WPT,World Poker Tour,World Premiere Toons
4375WR,Wide Receiver (football)
4376WRAC,Women's Royal Army Corps (World War II UK)
4377WRAIR,Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
4378WRC,World Rally Championship
4379WRC,World Religions Conference
4380WRNG,Warning
4381WRS,Worldwide Reference System
4382WRT,NHS Workforce Review Team
4383WRT,The Linksys routers whose model name start with 'WRT'
4384WRT,Third party firmware for the Linksys WRT routers and compatible models from other vendors.
4385WRT,Wallace Roberts & Todd,LLC (Urban Planning and Design)
4386WRT,Web Runtime (WRT) is a portable application framework developed by Nokia that allows the creation of widgets on the S60 Platform.
4387WRT,Wholesale,Trade,Retail sector,category in employment and economics statistics
4388WRT,Wireless Receiver/Transmitter ( computer networks/IT )
4389WRT,Wireless Ronin Technologies (digital signage)
4390WRT,World Rally Team
4391WRT,Writer Response Theory
4392WRVS,Women's Royal Voluntary Service,now only known by the acronym (UK)
4393WS,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)
4394WSC,Weapon System Catalogue
4395WSDL,Web Services Description Language
4396WSJ,(The) Wall Street Journal
4397WSL,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)
4398WSM,Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram; from Western Samoa),Winchester Short Magnum (family of rifle cartridges)
4399WSROC,Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils
4400WSSM,Winchester Super Short Magnum (family of rifle cartridges)
4401WSTC,Women Signallers Territorial Corps (World War II UK)
4402WSW,West South-West
4403WTB,Wales Tourism Board,Warenterminbörse Hannover
4404WTC,World Trade Center
4405WTF,What the fuck?; also What a Terrible Failure (android)
4406WTFH,What The Fucking Hell
4407WTH,What the Hell
4408WTO,World Trade Organization
4409WU,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)
4410WUBU2,What you been up to
4411WUU2,What you up to,Internet slang popular with teenagers.
4412WV,West Virginia (postal symbol)
4413WVA,World Veterinary Association
4414WVIAC,West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
4415WVR,Women's Volunteer Reserve (World War II UK)
4416WVSC,Women's Volunteer Service Corps (World War II Canada)
4417WVU,West Virginia University
4418WW,see entry
4419WWE,World Wrestling Entertainment
4420WWF,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
4421WWI,World War I
4422WWII,World War II
4423WWIII,World War III
4424WWS,Wheaton Warrenville South High School
4425WWV,Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (catalog of the works of Richard Wagner,and callsign of NIST's shortwave radio station in Fort Collins,Colorado)
4426WWWF,World Wide Wrestling Federation
4427WXO,Weather [Executive] Officer
4428WY,Wyoming (postal symbol)
4429WZ,Swaziland (FIPS 10-4 country code)
4430XBML,eXtended Business Modelling Language
4431XC,Ninety (in Roman numerals)
4432XCBL,XML Common Business Library
4433XD,Used in chatrooms or email for smiley face. X is the eyes; squinted D is the mouth; XD.
4434Xe,Xenon
4435XF,Automobile made by Jaguar,Truck made by DAF Trucks,IATA code for Vladivostok Air
4436XFA,XML Forms Architecture
4437XFC,Xtreme Fighting Championships
4438XFD,Fighter aircraft made by Douglas
4439Xfe,X File Explorer
4440XFF,X-Forwarded-For
4441XFG,Exfoliation glaucoma
4442XFH,1932 rototype U.S. Navy fighter aircraft made by Hall,X-ray fluorescence holography
4443XFN,XHTML Friends Network,
4444XFR,Automobile made by Jaguar
4445XFT,X FreeType interface library
4446XG,Automobile made by Hyundai
4447XGA,Extended Graphics Array
4448XGP,Extreme Game Player
4449XHR,eXtra high Image resolution,XMLHTTPRequest
4450XHTML,eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
4451XI,Eleven (in Roman numerals)
4452XII,Twelve (in Roman numerals)
4453XIII,Thirteen (in Roman numerals)
4454XIV,Fourteen (in Roman numerals)
4455XIX,Nineteen (in Roman numerals)
4456XJ,Automobile made by Jaguar,Automobile made by Jeep
4457XJL,Amphibian aircraft made by Columbia,Automobile made by Jaguar
4458XJS,Automobile made by Jaguar
4459XK,Automobile made by Jaguar,Automobile made by Jeep,Kell blood group precursor
4460XKB,X keyboard extension
4461XKE,Automobile made by Jaguar
4462XKR,Automobile made by Jaguar
4463XL,eXtra Large,Forty (in Roman numerals)
4464XML,eXtensible Markup Language
4465XMSF,eXtensible Modelling and Simulation Framework
4466XN,Christian,Nordic Patent Institute
4467XNC,X Northern Captain
4468XNS,Xerox Network Systems,Extensible Name Service,Christians
4469XNU,X is Not Unix
4470XP,eXperience Point (role-playing games)
4471XQJ,XQuery API for Java™
4472XRAY,X-Ray
4473XRML,eXtensible Rights Markup Language
4474XS,Xiaolin Showdown
4475XSL,eXtensible Style Language
4476XTMH,eXtreme Technology Multiprocessor Hyperlanguage
4477XUL,XML User Interface Language
4478XV,Fifteen (in Roman numerals)
4479XVI,Sixteen (in Roman numerals)
4480XVII,Seventeen (in Roman numerals)
4481XVIII,Eighteen (in Roman numerals)
4482XWF,Xcitement Wrestling Federation
4483XX,Twenty (in Roman numerals)
4484XXX,Hardcore pornography (film rating),Thirty (in Roman numera
4485Xyl,Xylobium
4486XZN,Triple square screw driver
4487y,Yocto-
4488Y,Yotta,Yttrium
4489Y2K,Year Two Thousand
4490yA,Yoctoampere
4491YA,Yottaampere,Young Adult
4492Ya,Yottayear
4493YaBPr,Yet another Brother Pat rant
4494YABSLAG,Yet another boy singing like a girl
4495YAC, Youth-Adult Committee
4496YAFLA,Yet Another Five Letter Abbreviation
4497YAP,Young Aspiring Professional
4498YB,Youcef Benzouada (Southern Algerian name)
4499Yb,Ytterbium
4500yC,Yoctocoulomb
4501YC,Yottacoulomb
4502YD,People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (ISO 3166 digram,obsolete 1990)
4503YDS,Yosemite Decimal System (climbing)
4504YE,Yemen (ISO 3166 digram)
4505YEM,Yemen (ISO 3166 trigram)
4506yF,Yoctofarad
4507YF,Yottafarad
4508yg,Yoctogram
4509Yg,Yottagram
4510YGCO,Yamaneko Group of Comet Observers
4511Ygo,Yu-Gi-Oh!
4512yH,Yoctohenry
4513YH,Yottahenry
4514YHBT,You Have Been Trolled
4515YHIH1,You Heard It Here First (lowercase: yhih1,pronounced yi-hi)
4516YHII,You Have It Inside
4517YHS,Ya Hoor sur!
4518YI,Serbia and Montenegro (deprecated FIPS 10-4 country code,now RB (Serbia) and MJ (Montenegro))
4519Yi,Yobi
4520Yippie,Youth International Party + suffix
4521yJ,Yoctojoule
4522YJ,Yottajoule
4523yK,Yoctokelvin
4524YK,Yottakelvin
4525YKYFCW,You know you're from Christchurch when (post-earthquake joke)
4526yL,Yoctolitre
4527YL,Yottalitre
4528YM,Yemen (FIPS 10-4 country code),Your Magazine (originally Young Miss,later Young & Modern)
4529ym,Yoctometre
4530Ym,Yottametre
4531YMD,People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (ISO 3166 trigram,obsolete 1990)
4532YMMD,You Make My Day
4533yN,Yoctonewton
4534YN,Yottanewton
4535YO,former Yugoslavia (NATO country code,obsolete 1993)
4536YOLO,You Only Live Once
4537YPA,Yards per Pass Attempt (football statistic)
4538YPIO,Your Problem Is Obvious
4539YPO,Young Presidents' Organization
4540ys,Yoctosecond
4541yS,Yoctosiemens
4542Ys,Yottasecond
4543YS,Yottasiemens
4544YSA,Single adult (LDS Church),Young Socialist Alliance,Youth Service America
4545YSI,Young Scots for Independence
4546YT,Mayotte (ISO 3166 digram),Yottatesla,Yukon Territory (postal symbol)
4547yT,Yoctotesla
4548YTD,Year-To-Date
4549YTM,Yield to Maturity
4550YTS,Youth Training Scheme
4551YTT,Yoshi Topsy-Turvy
4552YU,York University,former Yugoslavia (ISO 3166 digram,obsolete 2003)
4553YUG,former Yugoslavia (ISO 3166 trigram,obsolete 2003)
4554Yuppie,Young Urban Professional + suffix
4555yV,Yoctovolt
4556YV,Yottavolt
4557yW,Yoctowatt
4558YW,Yottawatt
4559YYH,YuYu Hakusho
4560z,Zepto
4561Z,Zetta
4562ZA,South Africa (ISO 3166 digram),Zambia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Zettaampere
4563zA,Zeptoampere
4564ZAF,South Africa (ISO 3166 trigram)
4565ZAMS,Zero age main sequence
4566ZAS,Zylinder Abschaltung System
4567ZBT,Zero-Balance Transfer (accounting)
4568zC,Zeptocoulomb
4569ZC,Zettacoulomb
4570ZCM,(n) ZENworks Configuration Management
4571ZCMK,Zone Control Master Key
4572ZCU,Zimbabwe Cricket Union
4573\a,Atto-