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,Afar language (ISO 639-1 code)
29aA,Attoampere
30AAAI,Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence,formerly American Association for Artificial Intelligence
31AAAS,American Association for the Advancement of Science
32AAAV,Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle
33AAC,American Athletic Conference,Army Air Corps (British Army)
34AAD,analogue-analogue-digital (CD quality),Australian Antarctic Division
35AADAC,Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission
36AADC,area air defense commander,amino acid decarboxylase,aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase,Australian Antarctic Data Centre
37AADD,Adult attention deficit disorder
38AADT,annual average daily traffic
39AAFC,U.S. Army Air Corps Ferrying Command (1941-1942),All-America Football Conference (1946-1949)
40AAFES,Army and Air Force Exchange Service
41AAIS,advanced airborne interceptor simulator
42AAM,air-to-air missile
43AAMOF,as a matter of fact
44AAN,American Academy of Nursing
45AANEAS,Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
46AAODL,Atmospheric Aerosols and Optics Data Library
47AAP,advanced acquisition plan,Allied administrative publication,American Academy of Pediatrics
48AAPC,Accounting and Auditing Policy Committee
49aar,Afar language (ISO 639-2 code)
50AAR,after-action review,Association of American Railroads
51AARP,(i/s) American Association of Retired Persons (now officially known only by the initials)
52AASPEM,advanced air-to-air system performance evaluation model
53AAT,Australian Antarctic Territory
54AAV,Amphibious Assault Vehicle
55AAWC,anti-air warfare commander
56ab,Abkhaz language (ISO 639-1 code)
57ABA,Adriatic Basketball Association,American Bar Association,American Basketball Association,American Beverage Association,American Bicycle Association,American Birding Association,Australian Broadcasting Authority
58ABB,ASEA Brown Boveri (Swiss-Swedish multinational company)
59ABC,the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet
60ABC,Active Body Control
61ABC,alien big cat
62ABC,always be careful
63ABC,American-born Chinese
64ABC,anti-lock brake controller
65ABCA,American,British and Canadian Armies (originally),Army Bureau of Current Affairs
66ABCS,(U.S.) Army Battle Command System
67ABET,Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
68ABFIST,Advanced Bradley Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer
69ABGI,Addington-Barker Group International
70ABIN,Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (Brazilian Intelligence Agency)
71abk,Abkhaz language (ISO 639-2 code)
72ABL,American Basketball League
73ABLE,AirBorne Law Enforcement (police air support unit)
74ABM,anti-ballistic missile,Asynchronous Balanced Mode,automated banking machine
75ABMC,American Battle Monuments Commission
76ABN,Australian Business Number (a number issued by the Australian government as registration of a business and used for taxation purposes)
77ABPI,Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
78ABRSM,Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
79ABSTRIPS,abstraction-based STRIPS
80ABV,Alcohol by volume
81ABW,Aruba (ISO 3166 trigram)
82Ac,Actinium
83aC,Attocoulomb
84AC1,Aircraftman 1st Class
85AC2,Aircraftman 2nd Class
86ACARS,Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System
87ACAS,Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society,Advisory,Conciliation and Arbitration Service
88ACCA,The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants,Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment
89ACCD,American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities
90ACCS,Air Communications and Control Squadron
91ACDA,Arms Control & Disarmament Agency
92ACHT,Average Call Hold Time
93ACINT,Acoustic Intelligence
94ACK,Acknowledge (telecommunications; cf. NAK)
95ACLJ,American Center for Law and Justice
96ACLOS,Automatic CLOS (missile control system)
97ACLS,American Council of Learned Societies
98ACMC,(U.S.) Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
99ACNA,Anglican Church in North America
100ACO,Airspace Control Order
101ACOBA,Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
102ACOG,American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
103ACOM,(U.S.) Atlantic Command
104ACORN,Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
105ACR,Advanced Concepts and Requirements
106ACRI,African Crisis Initiative
107ACRT,Advanced Concepts Research Tool simulator
108ACSC,Army Command and Staff College (various nations)
109ACST,American Cooperative School of Tunis
110ACST,Australian Central Standard Time
111ACTD,Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration
112ACTU,Australian Council of Trade Unions
113ACU,American Conservative Union
114ADAGE,Air Defense Air to Ground Engagement (simulation)
115ADAP,AIDS Drug Assistance Program
116ADAS,Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey
117ADAT,Alesis Digital Audio Tape (recording format)
118ADB,Asian Development Bank
119ADDIE,Analyze Design Develop Implement and Evaluate
120ADDNS,Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation
121ADF,Australian Defence Force,African Development Foundation
122ADGB,Air Defence of Great Britain
123ADHD,Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
124ADHS,Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome
125ADI,Acceptable/Allowable Daily Intake
126ADIZ,Air Defence Identification Zone
127ADL,Anti-Defamation League
128ADOA,Air Defence Operations Area
129ADRG,Arc-second Raster Chart (ARC) Digitized Raster Graphics
130ADT,Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC3 hours)
131ADTB,Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin
132ADW,Air Defence Warning
133ae,Avestan language (ISO 639-1 code)
134AED,United Arab Emirates dirham (ISO 4217 currency code)
135AEDT,Australian Eastern Daylight Time
136AEF,American Expeditionary Force
137AEGIS,Airborne Early warning Ground environment Interface Segment (fake etymology)
138AESR,Aeronautical Equipment Service Record
139AEST,Australian Eastern Standard Time
140aet,After extra time (Football)
141af,Afrikaans language (ISO 639-1 code)
142aF,Attofarad
143AFAIC,As Far As I'm Concerned
144AFAICT,As Far As I Can Tell
145AFAIK,As Far As I Know
146AFAIR,As Far As I Remember/Recall
147AFATDS,Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
148AFC,American Football Conference,Asian Football Confederation
149AFCEA,Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
150AFDB,African Development Bank
151AFES,Automatic Fire Extinguishing System
152AFG,Afghanistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
153AFIS,Automated Fingerprint Identification System,American Forces Information Service
154AFIST,Abrams Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer
155AFJ,April Fool's Joke
156AFK,Away From Keyboard (Internet chat abbreviation)
157AFL,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
158AFLAC,American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus
159AFM,Army Field Manual (UK; the U.S. more frequently uses just FM),Atomic Force Microscope,Aviation Fleet Maintenance
160AFN,Afghani (ISO 4217 currency code)
161AFO,Association of Field Ornithologists
162AFOSR,U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
163AFQT,Armed Forces Qualification Test
164afr,Afrikaans language (ISO 639-2 code)
165AFRC,Air Force Reserve Command
166AFRL,Air Force Research Laboratory
167AFROTC,Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
168AFRRI,(i,U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
169AFRTS,Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
170AFS,Active Front Steering,Air Facility Sub-System,Amniotic Fluid-derived Stem cell,AFS&A or AFSA,U.S. Air Force Studies and Analysis
171AFSC,U.S. Air Force Staff College (obsolete; replaced with JFSC),U.S. Air Force Systems Command
172AFSCN,U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network
173AFSPC,Air Force Space Command
174AFT,American Farmland Trust
175AFV,armoured fighting vehicle
176AFWA,Air Force Weather Agency,Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies,AG[edit]
177ag,Attogram
178Ag,Silver (Latin argentum)
179AGARD,Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development
180AGARDograph,Advanced Guidance for Alliance Research and Development publication
181AGASA,Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (cosmic ray detector)
182AGB,Internal Nintendo initialism (Advanced Game Boy) for Game Boy Advance
183AGC,Adjutant General's Corps (British Army)
184AGC,Apollo Guidance Computer,Automatic Gain Control
185AGDC,Australian Game Developers' Conference
186AGI,Auxiliary Group Intelligence
187AGL,Above Ground Level
188AGM,Annual General Meeting
189AGN,Active Galactic Nucleus
190AGO,Angola (ISO 3166 trigram)
191AGP,Accelerated Graphics Port
192AGRICOLA,Agriculture Online Access
193AGS,Alaska Ground Station (LandSat)
194AGTS,Advanced Gunnery Training System
195AGU,American Geophysical Union
196AGW,Autonomous Guided Weapon
197Ah,Ampere-hour
198AH,Attack Helicopter
199aH,Attohenry
200AHA,American Heart Association
201AHCPR,Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (obsolete; replaced with AHRQ)
202AHEC,Australian Health Ethics Committee
203AHPCRC,Army High Performance Computing Research Center
204AHQ,Air Headquarters
205AHRQ,Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
206AHS,American Housing Survey
207AI,Air Interdiction,Amnesty International,Artificial Insemination,Artificial Intelligence,Anguilla (ISO 3166 digram)
208AIA,Aerospace Industries Association,American Institute of Architects,Anguilla (ISO 3166 trigram)
209AIAA,American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
210AIC,African Independent Church,Animal Identification Coordinator
211AICD,Australian Institute of Company Directors
212AICMFP,And I Claim My Five Pounds
213AID,U.S. Agency for International Development
214AIDS,Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
215AIM,Australian Institute of Management
216AIMP,Aurora Incremental Modernization Project
217AIPAC,American Israel Public Affairs Committee
218AIR,Aircraft Inventory Record
219AIRFA,American Indian Religious Freedom Act
220AIRS, Aerometric Information Retrieval System (obsolete; replaced with AFS)
221AIS,Australian Institute of Sport,Automatic Identification System
222AISB,(British Society for the Study of) Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
223aJ,Attojoule
224AJ,Azerbaijan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
225Ajax,Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
226AJD,Astronomical Julian day
227AJP,Allied Joint Publication
228AJPW,All Japan Pro Wrestling
229ak,Akan languages (ISO 639-1 code)
230AK,Alaska (postal symbol)
231aK,Attokelvin
232AKA,Above knee amputation (orthopaedic usage)
233aka,Akan languages (ISO 639-2 code)
234AKDT,Alaska Standard Daylight Saving Time (UTC8 hours)
235AKST,Alaska Standard Time (UTC9 hours)
236Al,Aluminium
237aL,Attolitre
238ALA,Åland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
239ALAP,As Long/Late As Possible
240ALARM,Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missile
241ALB,Albania (ISO 3166 trigram)
242ALD,Accounting Line Designator (nuclear weapon targeting)
243ALERT,Advanced Linked Extended Reconnaissance and Targeting,Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theatre
244ALF,Africa Leadership Forum,Alien Life Form (cf. ALF (TV series)),Animal Liberation Front
245ALG,Algeria (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
246ALGOL,ALGOrithmic Language
247ALL,Albanian lek (ISO 4217 currency code)
248ALOA,Associated Locksmiths of America,Inc.
249ALOC,Air Lines Of Communication,Average Length of Calls
250ALPA,Air Line Pilots Association
251ALS,Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis,Automatic Landing System
252ALSHS,Abraham Low Self-Help Systems
253ALSP,Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol
254ALTE,Association of Language Testers in Europe
255Am,Americium
256am,Amharic language (ISO 639-1 code),Attometre
257AM-many,including Amplitude Modulation and Ante Meridiem; see entry,Armenia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
258AM1,Airman 1st class
259AMA,American Medical Association,Australian Medical Association
260AMAPS,Aircraft,Missile,Avionics Performance Simulation
261AMC,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
262AMCB,U.S. Army/Marine Corps Board
263AMFR,Age-specific Marital Fertility Rate,Amplitude Modulation Following Response
264AMFRS,Advanced Multi-Function Radio Frequency System,Automatic Multisensor Feature-based Recognition System
265amh,Amharic language (ISO 639-2 code)
266AML,Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
267AMLCD,Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
268AMLO,Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexican politician),Anti-Money Laundering Office (Thailand government agency)
269AMO,Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
270AMOLED,Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode
271AMOS,Advanced MOrtar System,Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory
272AMP,Adenosine MonoPhosphate,Automated Mission Planner
273AMRAAM,Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile
274AMRDEC,U.S. Aviation & Missile Research,Development,& Engineering Center
275AMS,Agriculture Marketing Service,American Mathematical Society
276AMSAA,U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity
277AMSO,U.S. Army Model and Simulation Office
278AMSU,Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
279AMTE,UK Admiralty Marine Technology Establishment (1977-1984)
280AN,Andorra (FIPS 10-4 country code),Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 digram)
281an,Aragonese language (ISO 639-1 code)
282aN,Attonewton
283ANA,Administration for Native Americans,Afghan National Army,All Nippon Airways,Anti-Nuclear Anti-body,Australian National Airways,Australian Natives' Association
284ANC,African National Congress
285AND,Andorra (ISO 3166 trigram)
286ANFO,Ammonium nitrate/fuel oil (explosive)
287ANG,Air National Guard,Angola (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166),Netherlands Antillian guilder (ISO 4217 currency code)
288ANGLiCo,Air/Naval Gunfire Liaison Company
289ANL,Argonne National Laboratory
290ANM,Acoustic Noise Monitor
291ANOVA,ANalysis Of VAriance
292ANS,Applied and Natural Sciences
293ANSI,American National Standards Institute
294ANT,Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 trigram),Antigua and Barbuda (IOC trigram,but not ISO 3166 or FIFA)
295ANTM,America's Next Top Model
296ANTY,Acronyms,No Thank You
297ANWR,Arctic National Wildlife Refuge /ˈænwɑr/
298ANZ,Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
299ANZAC,Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
300AO,Angola (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Approach Officer (submarine),Area of Operations
301AOA,Air Officer in charge of Administration,Argonne National Laboratory,Angolan kwanza (ISO 4217 currency code),Award Of Arms (heraldry)
302AOC,Air Operations Centre,Air Officer Commanding
303AOD,Adrenalin O.D. (punk rock band)
304AOI,Angle Of Incidence Arab Organization for Industrialization
305AOL,America OnLine
306AOR,Area of Responsibility
307AOSTH,Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
308AOTS,Attack of the Show!
309AOU,American Ornithologists' Union
310APB,All Points Bulletin (police jargon)
311APC,Armoured Personnel Carrier,Armour Piercing Capped (ammunition)
312APCNR,Armour-Piercing,Composite Non-Rigid (ammunition)
313APCR,Armour-Piercing,Composite Rigid (ammunition)
314APDS,Armour-Piercing,Discarding-Sabot (ammunition)
315APEC,Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
316APEDS,AMSAA Performance Estimates Data System
317APEX,Applied Physics Express
318APFSDS,Armour-Piercing,Fin-Stabilised,Discarding Sabot (ammunition)
319APHA,American Public Health Association
320APHE,Armour-Piercing,High Explosive (ammunition)
321APHIS,Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
322APOD,Aerial Port (Airport) Of Debarkation
323APOE,Aerial Port (Airport) Of Embarkation
324APOLLO,Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation
325APP,Allied Procedural Publication
326APR,Annual Percentage Rate
327APS,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]
328AQ,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
329AQIM,Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
330ar,Arabic language (ISO 639-1 code)
331AR,Argentina (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Arkansas (postal symbol),Armour,Arunachal Pradesh (Indian state code)
332Ar,Argon
333ara,Arabic language (ISO 639-2 code)
334ARAG,Advanced Research and Assessment Group
335ARB,Administrative Review Board
336ARBA, Army Review Boards Agency
337ARC,Arc-second Raster Chart,Appalachian Regional Commission
338ARCA,Automobile Racing Club of America
339ARCENT,United States Army Central Command
340ARDA,Advanced Research and Development Activity (became DTO 2006)
341ARE,UK Admiralty Research Establishment (-1991),United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166 trigram)
342ARF,ASEAN Regional Forum
343arg,Aragonese language (ISO 639-2 code)
344ARG,Argentina (ISO 3166 trigram)
345ARH,Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter
346ARI,Acute Respiratory Infection,U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
347ARL,UK Admiralty Research Laboratory (1921-1977),U.S. Army Research Laboratory,UIUC Aviation Research Laboratory
348ARM,Anti-Radiation Missile,Adjustable-rate mortgage,Armenia (ISO 3166 trigram)
349ARNet,Acquisition Reform Network
350ARP,Applied Research Programme
351ARPA,Advanced Research Projects Agency
352ARRC,ACE Rapid Reaction Corps
353ARRF,Allied Rapid Reaction Force
354ARRL,American Radio Relay League
355ARS,Agricultural Research Service,Argentine peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
356ARSC,Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
357ARSPACE,U.S. Army Space Command
358ART,Adaptive Resonance Theory,Anti-Retroviral Therapy
359ARTCC,Air Route Traffic Control Center
360AS,ActionScript
361as,Adult swim,Assamese language (ISO 639-1 code),Attosecond
362AS,American Samoa (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram),Australia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Assam / Asom (Indian state code)
363As,Arsenic
364aS,Attosiemens
365ASA,AcetylSalicylic Acid,American Standards Association,Army Security Agency,Atlantic Southeast Airlines
366ASAP,As Soon As Possible
367ASARS,Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System,Airborne Search and Rescue System
368ASB,Associated Student Body,Alternative Service Book (Church of England)
369ASBO,Anti-Social Behaviour Order
370ASCAP,American Society of Composers,Authors,and Publishers
371ASCC,Army Service Component Commander,Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator,Air Standardization Coordinating Committee
372ASCII,American Standard Code for Information Interchange
373ASD,(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense,autism spectrum disorder
374ASDIC,Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (Sonar)
375ASEAN,Association of Southeast Asian Nations
376ASFAR,Americans for a Society Free of Age Restrictions
377ASG,Area Support Group
378ASIC,Australian Securities and Investments Commission,Aviation Security Identification Card
379ASIO,Australian Security Intelligence Organisation,Audio stream input output
380ASIP,Advanced System Improvement Program,Army Stationing and Installation Plan,Application-specific instruction-set processor
381ASM,Air-to-Surface Missile,American Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram),American Society for Metals,American Society for Microbiology
382asm,Assamese language (ISO 639-2 code)
383ASMB,American Society for Matrix Biology,Adult Swim Message Board
384ASME,American Society of Mechanical Engineers,American Society of Magazine ors
385ASN,Associate of Science in Nursing
386ASOC, 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
387ASP,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
388ASPI,Australian Strategic Policy Institute
389ASR,Alkali-silica reaction,Anti Slip Regulation
390ASRAAM,Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile
391ASSC,Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
392AST,Atlantic Standard Time (UTC4 hours)
393ASTIA,Armed Services Technical Information Agency
394ASTM,American Society for Testing and Materials
395ASTREA,Aerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies (sheriff's air support unit)
396ASUW,AntiSUrface Warfare
397ASVAB,Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery(taken by juniors in high school in the USA)
398ASW,AntiSubmarine Warfare
399ASWORG,(U.S.) AntiSubmarine Warfare Operations Research Group
400At,Astatine
401aT,Attotesla
402ATAC,Air Transportable Acoustic Communications
403ATACMS,Army TACtical Missile System
404ATAPI,Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
405ATAS,Air-To-Air Stinger (missile)
406ATAT,Aiken Tactical Airsoft Team / Star Wars vehicle
407ATCCIS,Army Tactical Command and Control Information System
408ATESS,Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron
409ATG,Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 and FIFA trigram)
410ATGM,Anti-Tank Guided Missile
411ATGW,Anti-Tank Guided Weapon
412ATI,Allied Telesyn International,Inc.,Array Technologies Incorporated. (ATI Technologies)
413Atisbo,a Local Government Area in Nigeria named for constituent communities (Ago-Are,Tede,Irawo,Sabe,Baasi,Ofiki and Owo)
414ATK,Attack
415ATSD,(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense
416ATSDR,Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
417ATV,All-Terrain Vehicle
418Au,Gold (Latin Aurum)
419AUD,Australian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
420AUS,Australia (ISO 3166 trigram)
421Auslan,Australian Sign Language
422AUT,Austria (ISO 3166 trigram)
423AUTL,Army Universal Task List
424Av,Aperture value (photographic mode)
425aV,Attovolt
426av,Avar language (ISO 639-1 code)
427AVA,American Viticultural Area
428ava,Avar language (ISO 639-2 code)
429AVB,Audio Video Bridging
430AVDLR,Aviation Depot Level Repair
431ave,Avestan language (ISO 639-2 code)
432AVIM,Aviation Intermediate Maintenance
433AVLB,Armoured Vehicle Launched Body
434AVO,Apprehended Violence Order
435AVP,Arubaanse Volkspartij
436AVP,Association of Volleyball Professionals
437AVRE,Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers
438AVUM,Aviation Unit Maintenance
439AVVO,Acute Vaginal Venereal Outbreak
440AW,Aruba (ISO 3166 digram)
441aW,Attowatt
442AWA,American Wrestling Association
443AWC,Air Warfare Centre
444AWD,All Wheel Drive
445AWE,Advanced Warfighting Experiment
446AWG,Aruban guilder (ISO 4217 currency code)
447AWP,Awaiting Parts (SM&R code)
448AWSIM,Air Warfare SIMulation
449AWST,Australian Western Standard Time
450AWW,Above Water Warfare
451AX,Åland Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
452AXP,Ambulance eXchange Point
453AY,Antarctica (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
454ay,Aymara language (ISO 639-1 code)
455AYBABTU,All Your Base Are Belong To Us
456aym,Aymara language (ISO 639-2 code)
457AYU,As Yet Unknown
458az,Azerbaijani language (ISO 639-1 code)
459AZE,Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 trigram)
460aze,Azerbaijani language (ISO 639-2 code)
461AZN,Azerbaijani manat (ISO 4217 currency code)
462BBQ,Barbecue
463BCC,Blind Carbon Copy
464BEL,Belgium (ISO 3166 trigram)
465BEN,Benin (ISO 3166 trigram)
466BEO,Banquet Event Order
467BERC,Business Environmental Resource Center
468BER,Bit Error Rate
469BHD,Bahraini dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
470BHR,Bahrain (ISO 3166 trigram)
471BNS,Bank of Nova Scotia
472BNSF,Burlington Northern Santa Fe (also AAR reporting mark)
473BOAC,British Overseas Airways Corporation (predecessor of British Airways)
474BoAML,Bank of America Merrill Lynch
475BÖC,Blue Öyster Cult
476BOFH,Bastard Operator From Hell
477BOGA,Bend Over and Grab Ankles
478BOGs,Bunch of Guys
479BOL,Bolivia (ISO 3166 trigram)
480BOP,Balance of Payments,
481BOPB,Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque (the complete name of the rugby club),
482BOPD,Barrel of Oil Per Day
483BOS,Battlefield Operating System
484BRA,Brazil (ISO 3166 trigram)
485BRAG,Bicycle Ride Across Georgia
486BRN,Bahrain (IOC trigram,but not FIFA or ISO 3166),Brunei (ISO 3166 trigram),BRSB , Battlefield Reasoning System Brianna,BRU , Brunei (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166),BS[edit],bs , Bosnian language (ISO 639-1 code)
487BS,The Bahamas (ISO 3166 digram),Bassas da India (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Bachelor of Science degree,British subject
488BSatCoP,Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins
489BSNL,Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited,Bachelor of Science in Nursing
490BSoD,Blue Screen of Death (distinct from BSD)
491BSW,British Standard Whitworth (screw thread)
492BSX,Bendigo Stock Exchange
493Bt,Baronet,Bacillus thuringiensis
494BTN,Bhutan (ISO 3166 trigram),Bhutanese ngultrum (ISO 4217 currency code)
495BTO,Built To Order
496BTP,British Transport Police
497BTU,British Thermal Unit
498BTW,By The Way
499BU,Bulgaria (FIPS 10-4 country code) -,Burma (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1989)
500BUAV, British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
501BUL,Bulgarian language (ISO 639-2 code),Bulgaria (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
502BUNO,Bureau Number (aircraft serial number)
503BUR,Burma (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1989)
504BVR,Beyond Visual Range,
505BVT,Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 trigram),
506BW,Bring Wedges (ISO digram)
507BW,Botswana (ISO 3166 digram)
508BWA,Botswana (ISO 3166 trigram)
509BWC,Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
510BWP,Botswanian pula (ISO 4217 currency code)
511BWR,Boiling-Water Reactor
512BX,Base eXchange
513BY,Burundi (FIPS 10-4 country code) -,Belarus (ISO 3166 digram)
514BYOC,Bring Your Own Computer (play on BYOB)
515BYOF,Bring Your Own Flask
516BYR,Belarusian ruble (ISO 4217 currency code)
517BYS,Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1992)
518BYU,Brigham Young University
519BZ,Belize (ISO 3166 digram)
520BZD,Belize dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
521BZP,Benzylpiperazine
522c,Centi
523c2c,the British rail company formerly known as LTS Rail
524Ca,Calcium
525ca,Catalan language (ISO 639-1 code)
526CACM,Central American Common Market
527CACM,Communications of the ACM
528CADPAT,CAnadian Disruptive PATtern
529CAEn,Close Action Engagement (constructive simulation)
530CAFAD,Combined Arms For Air Defence
531CAFE,Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard
532CAI,Computer Assisted Instruction
533CAIR,Council on American-Islamic Relations
534CALL,Center for Army Lessons Learned
535CalPERS,California Public Employees' Retirement System
536Caltrans,California Department of Transpotation
537CAMRA,CAMpaign for Real Ale
538CAN,Canada (ISO 3166 trigram)
539CANA,Convulsive Antidote,Nerve Agent
540CANDU,CANada Deuterium Uranium (nuclear reactor design)
541CARMONETTE,Computerized Monte Carlo Simulation
542CARP,Computed Air Release Point
543CART,Championship Auto Racing Teams (now defunct)
544CASA,Civil Aviation Safety Authority
545CASS,Command Activated Sonobuoy System
546CASTFOREM,Combined Arms and Support Task FORce Evaluation Model
547CASTOR,Canadian Automatic Small Telescopes for Orbital Research
548cat,Catalan language (ISO 639-2 code)
549CATK,Counterattack
550CATS,Computer Active Technology Suspension
551CATT,Combined Arms Tactical Trainer
552CAV,Cavalry
553CAW,Canadian Auto Workers (trade union)
554CBLA,Comparative bullet lead analysis
555CBM,Canadian Baptist Ministries
556CBM,Commodore Business Machines
557CBML,Coalition Battle Management Language
558CBN,CardsApp Brand Number
559CBOL,Consortium for the Barcode of Life
560CBOT,Chicago Board of Trade
561CBR,Case-Based Reasoning
562CC,carbon copy
563CCA,Counter Command Activity
564CCF,Cartoon Cartoon Fridays
565CCGH,Canadian Coast Guard Hovercraft
566CCH,Computer-Controlled Hostile
567CCOP,Coalition Common Operating/Operational Picture
568CCPA,Consumer Credit Protection Act
569CCR,Creedence Clearwater Revival
570CCRAp,Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance party
571CCRP,Command and Control Research Program
572CCRTS,Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium
573CCSCS,Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
574CCSCS,Coordinadora de Centrales Sindicales del Cono Sur
575CCSK,Cyclic Code Shift Keying
576CCT,Current Commitments Team
577Cd,Cadmium
578cd,Candela
579CD,Compact Disc
580CD1,Cluster of Differentiation 1 (a small gene family)
581CDA,UK Centre for Defence Analysis
582CDC,Control Data Corporation,Cult of the Dead Cow
583CDD,Capabilities Development Document
584CDE,Chemical Defence Equipment
585CDipAF,Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance
586CDL,Commercial driver's license
587CDMA,Code Division Multiple Access
588CDMSII,Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II
589Cdr,Commander
590CDS,Chief of the Defence Staff,Credit default swap
591CDT,Central Daylight Time (UTC5 hours)
592Cdt,Commandant
593Ce,Cerium
594ce,Chechen language (ISO 639-1 code)
595CE,Christian/Common Era
596CEA,Campaign Effectiveness Analysis
597CECOM,U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command
598CEI,Competitive Enterprise Institute
599CENTCOM,United States Central Command
600CENTO,Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact)
601CEO,Chief Executive Officer
602CEP,Circular Error Probable
603CERT,Computer Emergency Response Team
604ces,Czech language (ISO 639-2 code)
605CESS,Centre for Earth Science Studies (India)
606CEST,Central European Summer Time
607CET,Central European Time
608CEWC,Council for Education in World Citizenship
609Cf,Californium
610CFES,Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System
611CFFZ,Call For Fire Zone
612CFHT,Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
613CFI,Center for Inquiry (CSICOP)
614CFLCC,Coalition Forces Land Component Command
615CFM,Certified Facilities Manager
616CFO,Chief Financial Officer
617CFRP,Carbon fibre reinforced plastic
618CFS,Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
619CFSP,Common Foreign and Security Policy
620CFU,Colony Forming Unit in Microbiology
621CFV,Cavalry Fighting Vehicle
622CFZ,Critical Friendly Zone
623CGH,Comparative Genomic Hybridisation
624CGIG,Cross-Government Implementation Group
625CGS,Chief of the General Staff
626CGT,Capital Gains Tax
627ch,ch(L) is used to denote the Chern character of a line bundle
628ch,Chamorro language (ISO 639-1 code)
629cha,Chamorro language (ISO 639-2 code)
630CHAMPUS,(U.S.) Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (now known as TRICARE)
631CHAOS,Cambridge Heart Anti-Oxidant Study
632CHAPS,Clearing House Automated Payment System
633CHDK,Canon Hack Development Kit (Canon camera firmware hack)
634che,Chechen language (ISO 639-2 code)
635CHF,Swiss franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
636CHiP,California Highway Patrol
637CHIPS,Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer
638CHL,Chile (ISO 3166 trigram)
639CHLA,Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
640CHN,China (ISO 3166 trigram)
641CHOGM,Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
642CHP,California Highway Patrol,Combined Heat and Power
643CHPSO,California Hospital Patient Safety Organization
644CHRS,Canadian Heart Rhythm Society
645CHT,Certified Hand Therapist
646chu,Old Church Slavonic language (ISO 639-2 code)
647chv,Chuvash language (ISO 639-2 code)
648Ci,Curie
649CIB,Complete In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
650CIBC,Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
651CID,Certified Interior Designer
652CIEF,Comité international d'enregistrement des fréquences (International Frequency Registration Board)
653CIF,Cost,Insurance,and Freight (Paid) (shipping)
654CINC,Commander in Chief
655CINEOS,Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey
656CIO,Chief information officer,Congress of Industrial Organizations
657CIPE,(European) Centre for International Political Economy
658CIR,(Commander's) Critical Information Requirements
659CIR,Corotating Interaction Region
660CISA,(U.S.) C4I Integration Support Activity
661CISB,Complete In Sealed Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
662CISPR,Comité international spécial des perturbations radioélectriques (Special International Committee on Radio Interference)
663CISSP,Certified Information Systems Security Professional
664CIV,Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 trigram)
665CIVETS,Colombia,Indonesia,Vietnam,Egypt,Turkey,South Africa (economics)
666CIVPOP,Civilian Population
667CIWS,Close-In Weapon System
668CJCS,Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
669CJO,Chief of Joint Operations
670CJTF,Combined Joint Task Force
671CKND,Codename: Kids Next Door
672Cl,Chlorine
673CLA,Clutterers Anonymous
674CLEC,Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
675CLEMARS,California Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System
676CLIC,Compact LInear Collider
677CLO,Cornell Lab of Ornithology
678CLOS,Command to Line-Of-Sight (missile control system)
679CLP,Chilean peso (ISO 4217 currency code),Common [Operating/Operational] Land Picture
680CLPFC,CentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
681CLRP,College Loan Repayment Program
682Cm,Curium
683CMHC,Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
684CMIIAW,Correct me if I am wrong
685CMIS,Common management information service
686CMJ,Christopher Martin-Jenkins (BBC sports commentator)
687CML,Chemical,Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (formerly Chronic Myeloid Leukemia)
688CMM,Capability Maturity Model
689CMMC,Corps Materiel Management Centre
690CMP,Common [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture
691CMPD,Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department
692CMPD,Chronic Myeloproliferative Disease
693CMT,Country Music Television
694CMYK,Cyan Magenta Yellow Key/blacK (colour model)
695CNBC,Consumer News and Business Channel
696CNF,Cost and Freight
697CNI,Clinical Nursing Intern
698CNV,Copy-Number Variable (genetics)
699CNY,Chinese yuan renminbi (ISO 4217 currency code)
700Co,Cobalt
701co,Corsican language (ISO 639-1 code)
702COB,Close Of Business [day]
703COBRA,Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
704CoDA,Co-Dependents Anonymous
705COGENT,Cognitive Objects within a Graphical EnviroNmenT
706COIL,Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser
707COK,Cook Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
708COL,Colombia (ISO 3166 trigram)
709COLA,Cost Of Living Adjustment
710COM,Comoros (ISO 3166 trigram),Component Object Model
711COMECON,Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (economic counterpart of the Warsaw Pact,1949-1991)
712CONAD,U.S. Continental Air Defense Command
713CONCACAF,Confederation Of North,Central American and Caribbean Association Football
714CONUS,Continental United States
715COO,Chief Operating Officer
716COPE,U.K. Committee On Publication Ethics
717COPUS,U.K. Committee on the Public Understanding of Science
718cor,Cornish language (ISO 639-2 code)
719CORD,Common Operational Requirements Document
720CORE,Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
721COROT,COnvection,ROtation and planetary Transits
722COS,Cooper Ornithological Society
723COSER,COoperative SERvice
724CoT,Car of Tomorrow (former NASCAR race car design)
725COTS,Commercial Off The Shelf
726CPA,Certified Public Accountant
727CPCU,Certified Property Casualty Underwriter
728CPD,Capabilities Production Document
729CPE,Certificate of Proficiency in English
730CPE,Certified Professional Ergonomist
731CPG,Clinical Practice Guideline
732CPI,CERDEC Command,Power and Integration
733CPIM,Certification on Production and Inventory Management
734CPIR,Computationally-Private Information Retrieval
735CPON,Certified Pediatric Oncology Nurse
736CPPCC,Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
737CPR,Canadian Pacific Railway
738CPR,Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
739CPSM,Continuous Phase Shift Modulation
740CPSU,Communist Party of the Soviet Union
741CPT,Contingency Planning Team
742CPU,Contract Postal Unit
743CPV,Cape Verde (ISO 3166 trigram)
744CPX,Command Post eXercise
745Cr,Chromium
746cr,Cree language (ISO 639-1 code)
747CRAM,Combined Radiometric Correction Model
748CRD,Capstone Requirements Document
749cre,Cree language (ISO 639-2 code)
750CREB,Cyclic AMP-response Element Binding (protein)
751CREN,Christian Real Estate Network Real Estate Association
752CRIPL,Consolidated Remain-In-Place List
753CRTC,Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
754Cs,Caesium
755cs,Czech language (ISO 639-1 code)
756CSERIAC,(U.S. DoD) Crew Systems Ergonomics Information Analysis Center
757CSG,Corps Support Group
758CSI,see entry
759CSICOP,Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (became the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2006)
760CSIP,Commercial Stable Image Platform (AMD)
761CSK,Czechoslovakia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1993)
762CSL,U.K. Central Science Laboratory
763CSPI,Center for Science in the Public Interest
764CSR,Control Supply Rate
765CSR,Corporate Social Responsibility
766CSRC,Conflict Studies Research Centre
767CSRF,Cross-Site Request Forgery
768CST,Central Standard Time (UTC6 hours)
769CTBT,Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty
770CTDB,Compact Terrain Data Base (file format)
771CTE,Canton and Enderbury Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984),Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
772CTGF,connective tissue growth factor
773CTI,Co-operative Target Identification
774CTIL,Critical Tracked Items List
775CTIS,Central Tire Inflation System
776CTMS,Clinical Trial Management System
777CTO,Chief Technical Officer,Chief Technology Officer
778CTS,Clear-To-Send,Collective Training Standards,Communications Technology Service,Contract Technical Services,Conversation Time Sharing,COSMIC Top Secret
779CTSS,Compatible Time-Sharing System
780CTU,Counter Terrorist Unit (fictional branch of the Central Intelligence Agency in the television action series 24)
781CTVT,Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour
782CU,Carrie Underwood,Cuba (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
783Cu,Copper (Latin Cuprum)
784cu,Old Church Slavonic language (ISO 639-1 code)
785CUB,Cuba (ISO 3166 trigram)
786CUCV,Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle
787CUP,Cuban peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
788CUPS,Common Unix Printing System
789CUPW,Canadian Union of Postal Workers
790CUREA,Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy
791CuW,Copper-tungsten pseudo-alloy (from the chemical symbols of the two component elements)
792CUW,Curaçao (ISO 3166 trigram)
793cv,Chuvash language (ISO 639-1 code)
794CV,curriculum vitae (résumé)
795CVE,Cape Verde escudo (ISO 4217 currency code)
796CVLL,Crypto Variable Logic Label
797CVSD,Continuous Variable Slope Delta (modulation)
798CVT,Continuously Variable Transmission
799CWC,Chemical Weapons Convention
800CWRU,Case Western Reserve University
801CWS,Canadian Wildlife Service
802CXR,Christmas Island (ISO 3166 trigram)
803cy,Welsh language (ISO 639-1 code)
804CYM,Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
805cym,Welsh language (ISO 639-2 code)
806CYP,Cyprus (ISO 3166 trigram),Cyprus pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
807CZE,Czech Republic (ISO 3166 trigram)
808CZF,(Christian Zombie Fan)
809CZK,Czech koruna (ISO 4217 currency code)
810CZMA,(US) Coastal Zone Management Act
811d,Deci
812D,Deuterium
813da,Danish language (ISO 639-1 code),deca
814DA,Denmark (FIPS 10-4 country code),Debtors Anonymous,U.S. Department of the Army,District Attorney
815DAES,Defence Acquisition Executive Summary,(UK MoD) Directorate of Analysis,Experimentation and Simulation
816DAF,Dissolved Air Flotation,a technique used in water treatment
817DAFIF,Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File
818DAK,Disney's Animal Kingdom
819dan,Danish language (ISO 639-2 code)
820DAO,Division Ammunition Officer
821DAQ,Data acquisition,Delivered Audio Quality
822DARE,Drug Abuse Resistance Education
823DARO,(U.S.) Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
824DARPA,U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
825DART,Disaster Assistance Response Team,Dublin Area Rapid Transit
826DAS,Defensive Aids Suite
827DASD,(U.S.) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
828DASL,Datapoint's Advanced Systems Language
829DAU,(U.S.) Defense Acquisition University
830DAWN,(U.S.) Drug Abuse Warning Network
831dB,Decibel
832DB,Deutsche Bahn
833Db,Dubnium
834DBA,De Bellis Antiquitatis (miniature wargaming rules)
835DBBL,(U.S. Army Simulation Center) Dismounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory
836DBDO,Desert BDO
837DBE,Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
838DBF,Detection By Fire (weapon launch signature)
839DBR,De Bellis Renationis (miniature wargaming rules)
840DBRA,Davis-Bacon Related Acts
841DBS,Direct Broadcast Services (television)
842DC,da capo,Italian Democrazia Cristiana,Digital Compass,Direct Current,District of Columbia (postal symbol),Douglas Aircraft Company,Dublin Core,Duty Cycle
843DCA,Defensive Counter Air,Drum Corps Associates,DiChloroAcetate
844DCAA,(U.S.) Defense Contract Audit Agency
845DCAS,Devon and Cornwall Archery Society
846DCC,Dallas Christian College
847DCD,[Organ] Donation after Cardiac Death
848DCE,Data Communication Equipment
849DCFC,Death Cab for Cutie
850DCI,Detection,Classification and Identification,Drum Corps International,Duellists' Convocation International,now known simply by the initials
851DCL,Disney Cruise Line
852DCN,Deacon
853DCOM,Disney Channel Original Movie
854DCSOPS,Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and plans
855DCW,Digital Chart of the World
856DCYSC,Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge
857DDA,Deputy District Attorney
858DDN,U.S. Defense Data Network
859DDS,Doctor of Dental Surgery
860DDT,Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (insecticide),Dynamic Debugging Tool (computing),DE[edit]
861DE,Delaware (postal symbol),Germany (ISO 3166 digram)
862de,German language (ISO 639-1 code)
863DEA,Drug Enforcement Administration
864DEA,Drug Enforcement Agency
865DEC, Department of Environmental Conservation,Digital Equipment Corporation,Disasters Emergency Committee
866DeCA,(U.S.) Defense Commissary Agency
867DEFCON,Defence readiness condition
868DEFRA,(UK) Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs
869DELT,Dual Ended Line Test (ing)
870DEM,Data Exchange Mechanism,Digital Elevation Model
871DEN,Denmark (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
872DEPSECDEF,(U.S.) Deputy Secretary of Defense
873DERA,British Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (1995-2001)
874DES,Deep Ecliptic Survey
875deu,German language (ISO 639-2 code)
876DEU,Germany (ISO 3166 trigram)
877DFAS,(U.S.) Defense Finance and Accounting Service
878DFCB,Data Format Control Book
879DfID,UK Department for International Development
880DFM,Discrete Field Model see Superluminal motion
881DFM,Dynamic Flowgraph Methodology
882DFSP,Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
883DfT,UK Department for Transport
884DFTBA,Don't Forget To Be Awesome,a term commonly used by the Vlogbrothers
885DGPS,Differential GPS
886DGZ,Desired Ground Zero
887DH,dear husband (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists,blogs,and bulletin boards),Designated hitter
888DHA,DocosaHexaenoic Acid
889DHHS,(U.S.) Department of Health and Human Services
890DHL,Dalsey,Hillblom,and Lynn (courier service)
891DHRA,(U.S.) DoD Human Resources Activity
892DHS,U.S. Department of Homeland Security
893DHSS,UK Department of Health and Social Security
894DHTFYSS,U.S. Don't Have Time For You Silly S****
895DHY,Dahomey (ISO 3166 trigram; became BEN for Benin in 1977)
896DIA,U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
897DIAC,Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia) [1]
898DiC,Design Island Centre (computing usually used in a teaching situation)
899DICASS,DIrectional Command Activated Sonobuoy System
900DIFAR,DIrectional Frequency Analysis and Recording
901DIME,Dense Inert Metal Explosive
902DINKY,Double Income,No Kids Yet
903DIP,Dual In-line Package (electronics)
904DIPS,Defense independent pitching statistics
905DIR,Defence Industrial Research
906DIS,Defence Intelligence Staff,(U.S.) Defense Investigative Service,Distributed Interactive Simulation,Draft International Standard (ISO)
907DISA,U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency,Distinguished Individual Service Award
908DISCOM,Division Support Command
909DISE,Deployable Intelligence Support Element
910DISSTAF,DIS Search and Target Acquisition Fidelity experiment
911DITY,Do-It-Yourself
912div,Dhivehi language (ISO 639-2 code)
913DIVAD,Division Air Defence
914DIY,Do It Yourself
915DJ,Disc Jockey,Dinner Jacket,Djibouti (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
916DJD,Degenerative Joint Disease,Dublin Julian Day,Discoveries in the Judaean Desert
917DJF,Djibouti franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
918DJI,Djibouti (ISO 3166 trigram)
919DJS,Director,Joint Staff
920DK,Denmark (ISO 3166 digram)
921DKK,Danish krone (ISO 4217 currency code)
922DL,Dexter's Laboratory
923DLA,U.S. Defense Logistics Agency,Dental Laboratories Association
924DLIC,Detachment Left-In-Contact
925DLIR,Depot-Level Inspection and Repair
926DLPMC,DorsoLateral PreMotor Cortex
927DLR,Deutsches Zentrum für Luft,und Raumfahrt (German,German Aerospace Centre),Docklands Light Railway
928DLRP,Data Link Reference Point
929DLS,Deep Lens Survey
930DLSA,(U.S.) Defense Legal Services Agency
931DLSc,Diploma in Library Science
932DLSC,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
933DLTBGYD,Don't let the bastards grind you down
934DM,Dominica (ISO 3166 digram),Dungeon Master (role-playing games)
935DMA,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)
936DMC,(U.S.) Defense Management Council
937DMCA,Digital Millennium Copyright Act
938DMM,Digital Multimeter
939DMOC,Distributed Mission Operations Centre
940DMPA,(U.S.) Defense Medical Programs Activity
941DMPFC,DorsoMedial PreFrontal Cortex
942DMPK,Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
943DMRB,Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
944DMS,U.S. Defense Message System
945DMSP,U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
946DMT,Dimethyltryptamine
947DMU,Diesel Multiple Unit,a method of connecting self-propelled railway vehicles together to form a train under the control of one driver.
948DMV,Department of Motor Vehicles
949DMZ,DeMilitarized Zone
950DN,Deacon
951DNA,U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency,DeoxyriboNucleic Acid,Douglas Noël Adams
952DNAW,Day Night All Weather
953DND,Department of National Defence (Canada),Do Not Disturb
954DNDi,Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative
955DNDO,U.S. Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
956DNK,Denmark (ISO 3166 trigram)
957DNM,Defence Nuclear Material
958DNR,Do Not Resuscitate
959DNS,Domain Name System
960DO,Dominica (FIPS 10-4 country code),Dominican Republic (ISO 3166 digram),Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
961DOA,Dead On Arrival,Dead or Alive
962DOB,Date Of Birth
963DOD,U.S. Department of Defense
964DODAF,U.S. Department of Defense Architectural Framework
965DoDD,U.S. Department of Defense Directive
966DoDEA,(U.S.) Department of Defense Education Activity
967DOE,U.S. Department of Energy
968DOHC,Dual-OverHead-Cam engine
969DOI,U.S. Department of the Interior
970DOP,Dominican peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
971DORA,Defence of the Realm Act
972DOS,Density of State
973DOT,Department of Transportation (U.S. federal or state),Damage Over Time (common in World of Warcraft)
974DOTA,short-form for DEFENSE OF THE ANCIENTS a popular online epic game
975DotD,Deal of the Day (marketing gimmick)
976DOTMLPF,Doctrine,Organization,Training,Materiel,Leadership,Personnel,and Facilities (mnemonic)
977DOW,Died of Wounds
978DP,Decision Point,Dynamic Programming
979DP,Division de production (Algerian petroleum company)
980DPA,UK Defence Procurement Agency
981DPCO,Double-Pole Change Over
982DPDT,Double-Pole Double-Throw
983DPI,Dots Per Inch
984DPICM,Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition
985DPKO,UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations
986DPMO,(U.S.) Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
987DPPDB,Digital Point Positioning Database
988DPRE,Displaced Person or Refugee (plural Displaced Persons and Refugees) (originally Displaced Persons,Refugees,Evacuees)
989DPRK,Democratic People's Republic of Korea
990DPST,Double-Pole Single-Throw
991DQ,Dairy Queen,Jarvis Island (FIPS 10-4 country code)
992DR,Dead Reckoning,Dominican Republic (FIPS 10-4 country code),Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
993DRA,Defence Research Agency (UK,1991-1995),Democratic Republic of America
994DRC,Democratic Republic of the Congo
995DRDC,Defence Research & Development Canada
996DREA,Defence Research Establishment Atlantic (obsolete 2002)
997DRES,Defence Research Establishment Suffield (obsolete 2002)
998DRET,Defence Research Establishment Toronto (obsolete 2002)
999DREV,Defence Research Establishment Valcartier (obsolete 2002)
1000DRI,Detection,Recognition,Identification,Dietary Reference Intake
1001DRIC,(U.S.) Defense Research Information Center
1002DRL,Daytime Running Lights,Dorman Roberts Ltd.
1003DRMS,(U.S.) Defense Revitalization and Marketing Service
1004DRPR,Drawing Practices
1005DRT,Document Related Technologies
1006Ds,Darmstadtium
1007DS,Dear son (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists,blogs,and bulletin boards),Defence Scientist,Direct Support,Dust Storm (METAR Code)
1008DSA,(U.S.) Defense Support Activities,Division Support Area
1009DSAA,(U.S.) Defense Security Assistance Agency,Driving Schools Association of the Americas,DECT Standard Authentication Algorithm
1010DSAS,Disney Sing Along Songs
1011DSB,(U.S.) Defense Science Board
1012DSC,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
1013DSCS,U.S. Defense Satellite Communications System
1014DSCSOC,DSCS Operations Center
1015DSD,Defence Studies Department (King's College,London)
1016DSE,Dry Sheep Equivalent
1017DSG,Direct-Shift Gearbox
1018DSID,Dismounted Soldier Identification System
1019DSL,Digital Subscriber Line
1020DSLR,Digital single-lens reflex (camera)
1021DSM,Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
1022DSN,Deep Space Network
1023DSP,Defense Standardization Program,Defense Support Program,
1024DSPL,Design Specialists and Plans Language
1025DSR,Deformed Special Relativity
1026DSRV,Deaf Sports Recreation Victoria,Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle
1027DSS,Digitized Sky Survey,Discarding-Sabot Shell (ammunition)
1028DST,Daylight Saving Time
1029DSTL,British Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
1030DSWA,(U.S.) Defense Special Weapons Agency
1031DTA,Dental Technologists Association
1032DTD,Digital Terrain Data
1033DTE,Data Terminal Equipment,Down To Earth
1034DTG,Date-Time Group
1035DTH,Direct To Home (television)
1036DTI,UK Department of Trade and Industry
1037DTIC,(U.S.) Defense Technical Information Center
1038DTL,Diode-Transistor Logic (electronics)
1039DTLOMS,Doctrine,Training,Leader development,Organization,Materiel,and Soldier (mnemonic)
1040DTMF,Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling
1041DTO,Disruptive Technology Office (was ARDA)
1042DTOMLS,Doctrine,Training,Organization,Materiel,Leader and Soldier development (mnemonic)
1043DTR,Determine The Relationship
1044DTSA,(U.S.) Defense Technology Security Administration
1045DU,Depleted Uranium,Dust (METAR Code)
1046DUI,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
1047DUMBO,Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (Brooklyn neighborhood)
1048DUSD,(U.S.) Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense
1049dv,Dhivehi language (ISO 639-1 code)
1050DVLC,UK Driver and Vehicle Licencing Centre
1051DVM,Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
1052DVO,Direct View Optics
1053DVOM,Digital Volt-Ohm Meter
1054DVP,various meanings (disambiguation page)
1055DW,Drum Workshop
1056DWI,Dance With Intensity,Danish West Indies,Diffusion-weighted imaging,Direct water injection,Disaster Welfare Inquiry,Drinking Water Inspectorate,Driving While Intoxicated/Impaired
1057DWIM,Do What I Mean
1058DWM,Doctor Who Magazine
1059DWTS,Dancing with the Stars
1060DWW,Down with Webster
1061DX,Dexterity (role-playing games),DeXtrorphan,Distant (radio),D-Generation X (professional wrestling stable)
1062DXA,Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry
1063DXM,DeXtroMethorphan
1064DY,Dahomey (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1977)
1065Dy,Dysprosium
1066DZ,Algeria (ISO 3166 digram),Drizzle (METAR Code),Drop Zone
1067dz,Dzongkha language (ISO 639-1 code)
1068DZA,Algeria (ISO 3166 trigram)
1069DZD,Algerian dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
1070dzo,Dzongkha language (ISO 639-2 code)
1071E,East
1072EA,Electronic Attack,Emotions Anonymous,Engagement Area,Electronic Arts,Enrolled Agent,Environmental Assessment,Enterprise Architect,Exaampere
1073EABU,Explain Acronyms Before Use
1074EAC,Echelons Above Corps
1075EAPC,Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
1076EAST,Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
1077EBD,Electronic Brake Distribution
1078EBE,Extraterrestrial Biological Entity
1079EBO,Effects Based Operations,Encyclopædia Britannica Online,European Board of Ophthalmology
1080EBSA,Employee Benefits Security Administration
1081EBW,Electron Beam Welding
1082EBW,Exploding BridgeWire
1083ECASS,European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences [1]
1084ECB,England (and Wales) Cricket Board,European Central Bank
1085ECBR,European Coalition for Biomedical Research
1086ECCM,Electronic Counter-Counter-Measures
1087ECFS,Electronic Case Filing System
1088ECG,Electrocardiogram
1089ECHO,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
1090ECHR,European Convention on Human Rights
1091ECJ,European Court of Justice
1092ECL,Emitter Coupled Logic (electronics)
1093ECM,Electronic Counter-Measures,Enterprise Content Management
1094ECommHR,European Commission on Human Rights
1095ECS,Emergency Contact System,Enhanced Chip Set (computing),EOSDIS Core System,Extended Chip Set (computing)
1096ECSC,European Coal and Steel Community (distant ancestor of the EU)
1097ECT,ElectroConvulsive Therapy
1098ECtHR,European Court of Human Rights
1099ECU,Ecuador (ISO 3166 trigram),European Currency Unit (ancestor of the euro)
1100ECW,Eastern Championship Wrestling/Extreme Championship Wrestling,ED[edit]
1101EDA,European Defence Agency
1102EDAC,Error Detection And Correction
1103EDCS,Environmental Data Coding Specification
1104EDD,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)
1105EDGAR,Electronic Data Gathering,Analysis,and Retrieval (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings database)
1106EDH,Eastman Dental Hospital
1107EDS,Electronic Data Systems,Electronic Differential System
1108EDSA,Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (a major thoroughfare in Manila with great significance to post-1980 Philippines history)
1109EDT,Eastern Daylight Saving Time (UTC4 hours)
1110EDTA,Electric Drive Transportation Association,EthyleneDiamineTetraAcetic acid,EE[edit]
1111EE,Estonia (ISO 3166 digram; from the country's native name of Eesti),Electrical engineering,Electrical Engineer,E&E,Escape and Evasion (training)
1112ee,Ewe language (ISO 639-1 code)
1113EEC,European Economic Community (predecessor of the EU)
1114EEG,ElectroEncephaloGram
1115EEK,Estonian kroon (ISO 4217 currency code)
1116EENT,End Evening Nautical Twilight
1117EEO,Equal Employment Opportunity
1118EEOC,(U.S.) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
1119EEZ,Economic Exclusion Zone or Exclusive Economic Zone
1120EF,Electro-focus (Canon lens mount),Entry Foyer,Exafarad
1121EFF,Electronic Frontier Foundation
1122EFL,English as a Foreign Language
1123EFM,Enterprise Feedback Management
1124EFOA,European Fuel Oxygenates Association
1125EFSA,European Food Safety Authority
1126EFT,Electronic Fund Transfer
1127EFTA,European Free Trade Area,European Free Trade Association
1128EFV,Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle
1129EG,Egypt (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1130EGBUS,External Genitalia,Bartholin's glands,Urethra & Skene's glands
1131EGCG,EpiGalloCatechin-3-Gallate
1132EGIS,Erieye Ground Interface Segment
1133EGP,Egyptian pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
1134EGRET,Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope
1135EGY,Egypt (ISO 3166 trigram)
1136EH,Exahenry,Western Sahara (ISO 3166 digram)
1137EHA,Education for All Handicapped Children Act (U.S. federal legislation; since superseded by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act),Emotional Health Anonymous
1138EHF,Extremely High Frequency
1139EHR,Equipment History Record
1140Ei,Exbi
1141EI,Ireland (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Éire)
1142EIA,Environmental Impact Assessment
1143EIAH,Encyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History
1144EIAH,Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain
1145EIC,East India Company
1146EICS,East India Company's Service
1147eID,electronic ID
1148EIRP,Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
1149EIS,Environmental Impact Statement
1150EJ,Exajoule
1151EK,Equatorial Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code),Exakelvin
1152EKG,Electrocardiogram (from German Elektrokardiogramm)
1153EKMS,Electronic Key Management System
1154EL,Exalitre
1155el,Greek language (ISO 639-1 code)
1156ELF- Earth Liberation Front,Endangered Language Fund,Eritrean Liberation Front,Executable and Linkable Format,Extremely Low Frequency
1157ELINT,Electronic Intelligence
1158ELL,English Language Learner
1159ell,Greek language (ISO 639-2 code)
1160ELM,Edge-Localised Mode (plasma physics)
1161ELO,Electric Light Orchestra
1162ELP,Emerson,Lake & Palmer,European Left Party
1163ELSS,Emergency Life Support Stores
1164ELT,Emergency Locator Transmitter
1165EM,ElectroMagnetism/ElectroMagnetic
1166Em,Exametre
1167EMA,European Medicines Agency
1168EMC,Electric Membership Corporation,Electromagnetic Compatibility,Electro-Motive Corporation,European Muon Collaboration,Evergreen Marine Corporation
1169EMCON,(Electromagnetic) Emissions Control
1170EMD,General Motors Electro-Motive Division,Engineering and Manufacturing Development,European Missile Defence
1171EMDG,Euro-Missile Dynamics Group
1172EMDR,Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
1173EMF,Electromotive force,Epsom Mad Funkers (1990s-2000s indie dance band)
1174EMG,ElectroMyoGraph
1175EMO,Emergency Measures Organisation, Emotional
1176EMP,ElectroMagnetic Pulse
1177EMS,Emergency Medical Services
1178EMT,Emergency Medical Technician
1179EMU,Electric Multiple Unit,a method of connecting self-propelled railway vehicles together to form a train under the control of one driver.
1180EN,Corps of Engineers,Estonia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Exanewton
1181en,English language (ISO 639-1 code)
1182ENCODE,Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (human genome data project)
1183ENE,East North-East
1184ENG,England (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram)
1185eng,English language (ISO 639-2 code)
1186ENT,Ear,Nose and Throat
1187ENTEC,Euro NATO Training Engineer Centre
1188ENVL,Envelope
1189ENY,Enemy
1190EO,Electro-Optics,Engagement Operations
1191eo,Esperanto language (ISO 639-1 code)
1192EOD,Explosive Ordnance Disposal
1193EOG,ElectroOculoGraphy
1194EOM,End of Message
1195EOS,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
1196EOSAT,Earth Observation Satellite
1197EOSDIS, Earth Observation Satellite Data and Information System
1198EOTS,Electro-Optical Tactical Sensor, Eye Of The Storm (World of Warcraft)
1199EP,European Parliament
1200EP,Extended play
1201EPA,EicosaPentaenoic Acid,Environmental Protection Agency
1202EPCOT,Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow
1203EPCR,Endothelial protein C receptor,European Professional Club Rugby
1204EPGS,EOS Polar Ground Sites
1205EPIRB, Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon
1206EPL,English Premier League
1207epo,Esperanto language (ISO 639-2 code)
1208EPOS,Electronic Point Of Sale
1209EPPA,Employee Polygraph Protection Act
1210EPR,European Pressurised [Nuclear] Reactor
1211EPW,Earth Penetrator Weapon/Warhead,Economic and Political Weekly (Indian publication),Enemy Prisoner of War,EQ[edit]
1212EQ,Emotional Quotient
1213EQG,Equatorial Guinea (FIFA trigram,but not IOC or ISO 3166)
1214ER,Emergency Room,Eritrea (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1215Er,Erbium
1216ERA,Earned run average,Engineering Research Associates,Equal Rights Amendment,English Racing Automobiles,European Railway Agency
1217ERCIM, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
1218ERI,Eritrea (ISO 3166 trigram)
1219ERLAWS,Eastern Ruapehu Lahar Alarm and Warning System
1220ERN,Eritrean nakfa (ISO 4217 currency code)
1221EROS,Earth Resources Observation System
1222ERP,Engineer Regulating Point
1223ERR,Eesti Rahvusringhääling
1224ERS,Earth Resources Survey
1225ERTS,Earth Resources Technology Satellite (became Landsat)
1226ERV,Endogenous RetroVirus
1227Es,Einsteinium,Exasecond
1228ES,El Salvador (FIPS 10-4 country code),Electronic warfare Support,Exasiemens,Spain (ISO 3166 digram; from the country's native name of España)
1229es,Spanish language (ISO 639-1 code)
1230ESA,Electro-Spark Alloying,Endangered Species Act,European Space Agency
1231ESC,Embryonic Stem Cell,Electronic Stability Control
1232ESD,ElectroStatic Discharge
1233ESDP,European Security and Defence Policy
1234ESE,East South-East
1235ESH,Western Sahara (ISO 3166 trigram)
1236ESL,English as a Second Language
1237ESM,Electronic warfare Support Measures
1238ESO,European Southern Observatory
1239ESOL,English for Speakers of Other Languages
1240ESP,Electronic Stability Program,Extra-sensory perception,Spain (ISO 3166 trigram)
1241ESPGHAN,European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology,Hepatology and Nutrition
1242ESPN,Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
1243EST,Eastern Standard Time (UTC5 hours),Estonia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1244est,Estonian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1245ESU,Emergency Services Unit
1246ESV,Engineer Support Vehicle
1247et,Estonian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1248ET,Ethiopia (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1249ETB,Ethiopian Birr (ISO 4217 currency code)
1250ETF,Emergency Task Force (a special police unit,also jocularly said to stand for Extra-Thick Fuzz)
1251ETH,Ethiopia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1252ETI,Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
1253ETLA,Extended TLA
1254ETM,Electronic Technical Manual,Enhanced Thematic Mapper
1255ETT,Embedded Training Team
1256eu,Basque language (ISO 639-1 code)
1257EU,Europa Island (FIPS 10-4 country code),European Union
1258Eu,Europium
1259EUCOM,(U.S.) European Command
1260EUR,euro (ISO 4217 currency code)
1261eus,Basque language (ISO 639-2 code)
1262EUUSA,European Union and United States of America
1263EV,Exavolt
1264EVA,Earned Value Analysis,Economic value added,Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate,Extra-Vehicular Activity
1265EVIL,Electronic viewfinder (with) interchangeable lens (a type of digital camera)
1266EW,Electronic Warfare,Exawatt
1267ewe,Ewe language (ISO 639-2 code)
1268EWTN,Eternal Word Television Network
1269Exatesla,Extra Terrestrial
1270EXREP,Expeditious Repair (SM&R code)
1271EZ,Czech Republic (FIPS 10-4 country code),Extraction Zone
1272F,Farad,Fluorine
1273f,Femto
1274fA,Femtoampere
1275FA,Field Artillery,Financial Aid,Football Association (England)
1276FA,Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous
1277fa,Persian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1278FAAD,Forward Area Air Defence
1279FAADEZ,Forward Area Air Defence Engagement Zone
1280FAAFP,Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians
1281FAAN,Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology
1282FAAN,Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
1283FAAQ,Frequently Asked and Anticipated Questions
1284FAASV,Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle
1285FAB,Feline Advisory Bureau (UK feline charity)
1286FAC,Forward Air Controller,Front of Allies for Change,Frontal Affinity Chromatography,Full Aperture Calibrator
1287FACA,(US) Federal Advisory Committee Act
1288FACH,Fuerza Aérea de Chile
1289FACN,Fellow of the American College of Nutrition
1290FACP,Fellow of the American College of Physicians
1291FACS,Fellow of the American College of Surgeons,Formal Aspects of Computing Science,Fluorescent-activated cell sorting
1292FACTS,Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System
1293FAD,Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide,Fuck A Duck,Funding Authorization Document
1294FAH,Federation of American Hospitals,Fine Arts and Humanities,Foreign Affairs Handbook
1295FAM,Foreign Affairs Manual
1296fao,Faroese language (ISO 639-2 code)
1297FAO,Food and Agriculture Organization
1298FAPA,Fellow of the American Psychological Association
1299FAPHA,Fellow of the American Public Health Association
1300FARP,Forward Arming and Refuelling Point / Forward Area Rearm/refuel Point
1301FAS,Federation of American Scientists,Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
1302fas,Persian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1303FASCAM,Family of Scatterable Mines[1]
1304FASD,Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
1305FASEB,Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
1306FAT,Field Artillery Tractor
1307FAVS,Future Armoured Vehicle System
1308FAW,Football Association of Wales
1309FB,Facebook,An on-line social network
1310FBCS,Fellow of the British Computer Society
1311FBIDST,Fellow of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists
1312FBIS,Foreign Broadcast Information Service
1313FBM,Board foot
1314FBR,Fast Breeder Reactor,Foundation for Biomedical Research,Friedman,Billings,Ramsey (now known as Arlington Asset Investment)
1315FBS-Federal Bureau of Statistics (Pakistan),Fetal bovine serum,Football Bowl Subdivision (U.S. college football),Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation,FC[edit]
1316fC,Femtocoulomb
1317FC,Fire Control,Football Club,Funnel Cloud (METAR Code)
1318FCC,U.S. Federal Communications Commission
1319FCE,First Certificate in English
1320FCF,Financial Free Cash Flow
1321FCLA,Fraud Claims Law Associate
1322FCM,Federation of Canadian Municipalities,Fogarty's Cove Music
1323FCO,UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1324FCW,Florida Championship Wrestling
1325FD,Falun Dafa
1326FDA,Food and Drug Administration (U.S.)
1327FDBK,(I) Feedback
1328FDC,Federal Detention Center (U.S.),Fire Direction Centre
1329FDR,Flight Data Recorder,Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1330FE,Fully Exposed (armoured vehicle target,as opposed to Hull-Down)
1331Fe,Iron (Latin Ferrum)
1332FEAR,First Encounter Assault Recon,False Evidence Appears Real
1333FEAST,Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation
1334FEATS,Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies link title
1335FEBA,Forward Edge of the Battle Area
1336FED,Field Emission Display
1337FEDEP,Federation Development Process (Simulation)
1338FEF,Frontal Eye Field (neurophysiology)
1339FENS,Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
1340FEP,Firepower Enhancement Program,Fleet satellite (FLTSAT) Extremely high frequency (EHF) Package
1341FES,Flywheel Energy Storage
1342FEST,Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre link title
1343FET,Field-effect transistor
1344FEZ,Fighter Engagement Zone
1345fF,Femtofarad
1346FF,Final Fantasy
1347ff,Fula language (ISO 639-1 code)
1348FFA,Football Federation Australia,Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency,Free-Fire Area,Fusiform Face Area,Future Farmers of America (today the National FFA Organization)
1349FFB,Frum From Birth (referring to an observant Jew born into a religiously observant family)
1350FFC,Free For Chat
1351FFE,Fukuoka Futures Exchange
1352FFG,Guided Missile Frigate (hull classification symbol)
1353FFOV,Forward Field Of View
1354FFS,For Fuck's Sake
1355FFT,Final Fantasy Tactics,FG[edit]
1356FG,Falun Gong
1357fg,Femtogram
1358FG,Fog (METAR Code),French Guiana (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1359FGR,Flickr Group Roulette
1360fH,Femtohenry
1361FHFIF,Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
1362FHI,Family Health International,Fuji Heavy Industries,Ltd.
1363FI,Finland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1364fi,Finnish language (ISO 639-1 code)
1365FIB,Fucking Illinois Bastard (Wisconsin slang,variants exist)
1366FIBUA,Fighting In Built-Up Areas
1367FIC,Fellowship for Intentional Community
1368FID,Foreign Internal Defence
1369FIE,Fly-In Echelon
1370FIFO,First In,First Out
1371FIFRA,Federal Insecticide,Fungicide,and Rodenticide Act
1372FIGJAM,Fuck I'm Good,Just Ask Me
1373fij,Fijian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1374FIMPT,Fellow of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
1375FIN,Finland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1376fin,Finnish language (ISO 639-2 code)
1377FIRES,Fever Induced Refractory Epilepsy Syndrome or Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome
1378FISH,Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridisation
1379FiST,Fire Support Team
1380FITS,Flexible Image Transport System
1381FIU,Florida International University
1382fJ,Femtojoule
1383FJ,Fiji (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1384fj,Fijian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1385FJD,Fiji dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
1386FJI,Fiji (ISO 3166 trigram)
1387FJN,Financial Job Network
1388FK,Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1389fK,Femtokelvin
1390FKP,Falkland Islands pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
1391FKSM,Fort Knox Supplemental Manual
1392FKT,Fastest Known Time
1393fL,Femtolitre
1394FL,Florida (postal symbol)
1395FLA,Florida,Front Line Assembly,Future Large Aircraft
1396FLAB,Four-letter abbreviation
1397FLAC,Free Legal Advice Centres
1398FLAC,Free Lossless Audio Codec
1399FLB,Forward Logistics Base
1400FLET,Forward Line of Enemy Troops
1401FLG,Falun Gong
1402FLIP,Flight Information Publication
1403FLIR,Forward Looking InfraRed (sensor)
1404FLK,Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1405FLOT,Forward Line of Own Troops
1406FLQ,Free Legal Questions
1407FLSA,Fair Labor Standards Act
1408FLTSAT,Fleet Satellite
1409FLTSATCOM,Fleet Satellite Communication System
1410FLUBOS,Fat,Lazy,Useless,Bag Of Shit
1411FM,Factory Mutual http://fmglobal.com
1412FM,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)
1413fm,Femtometre
1414Fm,Fermium
1415FMC,Federal Magistrates' Court (an Australian federal court,formerly FMS),Food Machinery Corporation (original name of the company now known as FMC Corporation)
1416FMCA,Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia (used for citing decisions of the FMC other than family law decisions)
1417FMCAfam,Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia: family (used for citing family law decisions of the FMC)
1418FMCG,(Fast Moving Consumer Goods)
1419FME,Formal Methods Europe
1420FMECA,Failure Modes and Effect Criticality Analysis
1421FMJD,Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames[2]
1422FMLA,Family Medical Leave Act
1423fMRI,Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
1424FMSF,False Memory Syndrome Foundation
1425FMTV,Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles
1426fN,Femtonewton
1427FNA,Functional Needs Analysis
1428fo,Faroese language (ISO 639-1 code)
1429FOAD,Fuck Off And Die
1430FOAF,Friend Of A friend
1431FOB,Forward Operating Base
1432FoB,Free On Board (shipping)
1433FOC,Full Operational Capability,First of Class
1434FoE,Friends of the Earth
1435FOGC,Federal Oil and Gas Council
1436FOH,Front Of House
1437FOIA,Freedom of Information Act
1438FOM,Federation Object Model
1439FONSI,Finding of No Significant Impact
1440FOO,Forward Observation Officer
1441FOOP,Friends Of Organ Pipes (Volunteer group)
1442FOR,Field Of Regard,Frame Of Reference
1443FoS,Family of Systems
1444FOS,Florida Ornithological Society,Full Operational Status
1445FOSE,Fallout 3 Script Extender
1446FOSE,Federal Office Systems Expo
1447FOT,Free on truck
1448FOTA,Fellow of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
1449FOTC,Flight of the Conchords
1450FOUO,For Official Use Only
1451FP,French Polynesia (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1452FPS,Fire Prevention System
1453FQ,Baker Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),French Southern and Antarctic Territories (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1979)
1454FR,France (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
1455Fr,Francium
1456fr,French language (ISO 639-1 code)
1457FRA,Federal Railroad Administration,France (ISO 3166 trigram)
1458fra,French language (ISO 639-2 code)
1459FRAND,Fair,reasonable,and non-discriminatory (concept in standards-setting and intellectual property law)
1460FRCP,Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
1461FRICBM,Full Range ICBM
1462FRO,Faroe Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1463frr,North Frisian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1464FRS,Fellow of the Royal Society,U.S. Federal Reserve System
1465FRSA,Fellow of the Royal Society of Art
1466FRY,Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1467fry,West Frisian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1468fs,Femtosecond
1469fS,Femtosiemens
1470FSA,Fire Support Area,UK Food Standards Agency,Functional Solution Analysis
1471FSC,Federal Supply Classification,Forest Stewardship Council (ecological pressure group
1472FSCL,Fire Support Co-ordination Line
1473FSE,Fire Support Element
1474FSF,Free Software Foundation
1475FSH,Follicle Stimulating Hormone
1476FSI,Fuel Stratified Injection
1477FSM,Federated States of Micronesia (ISO 3166 trigram),Flying Spaghetti Monster (satirical religion)
1478FSO,Fire Support Officer,Flotilla Staff Officer,Foreign Service Officer
1479FSS,Fire Support Station
1480FSSP,Families of Structurally Similar Proteins
1481FST,Finance Support Team,Finlands Svenska Television (Finland's Swedish-language television),Future Soviet Tank (Cold War era)
1482FSTC,Foreign Science Technology Center (now NGIC)
1483fT,Femtotesla
1484FTC,Federal Trade Commission
1485FTE,Full Time Equivalent
1486FTL,Faster Than Light
1487FTS,Flight Termination System used during some rocket launches
1488FTS,Fuck That Shit
1489FTW,For The Win (a commonly used phrase used online to indicate success) F@#K The World,Forever Together Where ever (gang slogan)
1490FU,Smoke (METAR Code)
1491FUBAR,Fucked/Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair
1492FUCK,For,Unlawful,Carnal,Knowledge (Van Halen album title)
1493FUD,Fear,Uncertainty & Doubt (marketing strategy)
1494ful,Fula language (ISO 639-2 code)
1495fV,Femtovolt
1496fW,Femtowatt
1497FW,Forward
1498FWC,Football World Cup
1499FWF,Fixed Word Format
1500FWI,French West Indies
1501FWIW,For What It's Worth
1502FWS,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1503FWT,Fresh Water Tank
1504FX,Firefox,Fox Extended,Metropolitan France (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1997),Special effect
1505FXX,Metropolitan France (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1997)
1506FY,Fiscal Year,Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (NATO country code)
1507fy,West Frisian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1508FYA,For Your Agenda
1509FYDP,Five-Year Defense Plan (U.S.)
1510FYI,For Your Information
1511FYROM,Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
1512FZDZ,Freezing Drizzle (METAR Code)
1513FZFG,Freezing Fog (METAR Code)
1514FZRA,Freezing Rain (METAR Code)
1515G,Gauss,General Audiences (movie rating)
1516g,Gram
1517G1,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Personnel
1518G10,Group of 10 (G7 + Belgium,Netherlands,Sweden,Switzerland; numbering 11 in fact)
1519G15,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)
1520G2,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Intelligence
1521G20,Group of 20 (G8 + Argentina,Australia,Brazil,China,India,Indonesia,Mexico,Saudi Arabia,South Africa,South Korea,Turkey + current European Union presiding country) (1999)
1522G24,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)
1523G3,Heckler & Koch G3
1524G4,Generation Four PowerPC microprocessor,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Logistics
1525G5,Generation Five PowerPC microprocessor,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Public Affairs
1526G6,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Information Technology,Group of 6 (France,Germany,United States,Japan,United Kingdom,Italy) (1975)
1527G7,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Training,Group of 7 (G6 + Canada) (1976)
1528G77,Group of 77 (issued from the United Nations Conference on Commerce and Development,1964; currently numbers 133)
1529G8,Assistant Chief-of-Staff,Finance,Group of 8 (G7 + Russia) (1998)
1530GA,Gabon (ISO 3166 digram),The Gambia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Gamblers Anonymous,Georgia (postal symbol),Gigaampere,Goa (Indian state code)
1531Ga,Gallium,Gigaannum
1532GAAR,General Anti-Avoidance Rule (tax evasion)
1533GAB,Gabon (ISO 3166 trigram)
1534GABA,Gamma-AminoButyric Acid
1535GAD,Generalized Anxiety Disorder
1536GAF,Garfield and Friends
1537GALCIT,Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory,California Institute of Technology
1538GAO,U.S. Government Accountability Office
1539GAW,Global Atmospheric Watch
1540GB,Gabon (FIPS 10-4 country code),United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 digram) [glamour boy 7-9/10]
1541GBBC,Great (Global) Backyard Bird Count
1542GBE,Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
1543GBH,Great Bash Heel (Japanese professional wrestling stable),Gregory Bonner Hale (British design and advertising agency),Grievous bodily harm
1544GBP,United Kingdom pound sterling (ISO 4217 currency code)
1545GBR,United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1546GBU,Glide-Bomb Unit,Global Business Unit
1547GC,East Germany (NATO country code; obsolete 1990),General classification (cycling),General counsel,George Cross (British civil decoration),Gigacoulomb [Grindr cruise]
1548GCA,Graduate in Claims Administration
1549GCD,see entry
1550GCF,Greatest Common Factor
1551GCI,Ground-controlled interception
1552GCN,Gamma-ray burst Coordination Network
1553GCS,Global Coordinate System
1554GCSE,General Certificate of Secondary Education (UK)
1555Gd,Gadolinium
1556GD,Grenada (ISO 3166 digram)
1557gd,Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-1 code)
1558GDC,Game Developers Conference,General Dental Council
1559GDL,Game Definition Language
1560GDP,General Dental Practitioner (UK),Gross Domestic Product
1561GDR,General Distribution Release (Microsoft Term for a software service release; between Hotfix and Service Pack)
1562GDR,German Democratic Republic (cf. DDR)
1563GDW,Game Designers Workshop
1564GE,General Electric,Genetic Engineering (cf. GM),Georgia (ISO 3166 digram)
1565Ge,Germanium
1566GEBCO,General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
1567GEC,Great Engineering Challenge
1568GED,General Educational Development (high school equivalency credential in the U.S. and Canada)
1569GEEP,Geophysical Equipment Exploration Platform
1570GEL,Georgian lari (ISO 4217 currency code),Gilbert and Ellice Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1977)
1571GEMA,Gas and Electricity Markets Authority,Georgia Emergency Management Agency,Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs,und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (German performance rights organisation),Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance
1572GEN,Full General (four stars) in the U.S. Army
1573GEO,Geostationary Earth Orbit,Georgia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1574GEQ,Equatorial Guinea (IOC trigram,but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
1575GER,Germany (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
1576GeV,Gigaelectron-volt
1577GEV,Ground Effect Vehicle
1578GF,French Guiana (ISO 3166 digram),Gigafarad
1579GFCF,Gluten-free,casein-free diet,Gross fixed capital formation
1580GFCI,Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor (aka GFI)
1581GFE,Girlfriend experience (used in escort services),Good Faith Estimate,Government Furnished Equipment
1582GFI,Ground Fault Interruptor (aka GFCI)
1583GFL,German Football League (Germany's Bundesliga for American football; the English-language name is used in German without translation)
1584GFN,Global Footprint Network
1585GG,Georgia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1586GGK,Good God Karma
1587GGP,General Game Playing,General Growth Properties (U.S. shopping center owner),GH[edit]
1588GH,Ghana (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code),Gigahenry
1589GHA,Ghana (ISO 3166 trigram)
1590GHB,gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
1591GHC,Ghanan cedi (ISO 4217 currency code)
1592GI,Galvanised Iron,Gastro-Intestinal,General Issue,Gibraltar (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code),Government Issue
1593Gi,Gibi
1594GIB,Gibraltar (ISO 3166 trigram)
1595GIG,Global Information Grid
1596GIN,Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram),Guidelines International Network
1597GINK,Going Insane Not Knowing,orig. Colorado 2010 M.Kalfas
1598GINO,Godzilla In Name Only
1599GIP,Gibraltar pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
1600GJ,Gigajoule,Grenada (FIPS 10-4 country code),Gujarat (Indian state code)
1601GJD,Geocentric Julian Day
1602GK,Gigakelvin,Guernsey (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1603gl,Galician language (ISO 639-1 code)
1604GL,Gigalitre,Graphics Language,Greenland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code),Grenade Launcher
1605gla,Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-2 code)
1606GLAAD,Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
1607GLAC,General Ledger Accounting Code
1608GLAST,Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
1609GLBA,Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
1610GLC,Gas-liquid chromatography
1611gle,Irish language (ISO 639-2 code)
1612glg,Galician language (ISO 639-2 code)
1613GLINT,Gallium-arsenide Laser Illuminator for Night TV,Gated Laser Illuminator for Narrow Television,Gated Laser Intensifier (tape),Gospel Literature International,Graphical Linux Installation Tool
1614GLP,Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 trigram)
1615GLV,Gained Life Value
1616glv,Manx language (ISO 639-2 code)
1617Gm,Gigametre
1618GMC,U.K. General Medical Council,Gospel Music Channel
1619GMD,Gambian dalasi (ISO 4217 currency code)
1620GMFSC,Ground Mobile Forces Satellite Communications
1621GMI,Generic Model Interface,Geometry Model Instance
1622GMO,Genetically Modified Organism
1623GMPCS,Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite
1624GMT,Giant Magellan Telescope,Greenwich Mean Time,GN[edit]
1625GN,Giganewton,Guinea (ISO 3166 digram)
1626gn,Guaraní language (ISO 639-1 code)
1627GNAS,Grand National Archery Society
1628GNB,Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 trigram)
1629GNF,Guinean franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
1630GNP,Gross National Product
1631GNQ,Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram)
1632GnRH,Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
1633GO,Glorioso Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1634GOA,General of the Army (United States only)
1635GOAT,Greatest Of All Time
1636GOC,General Officer Commanding
1637GOES,Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
1638GOP,Grand Old Party
1639GOSC,General Officer Steering Committee
1640GOSH,Great Ormond Street Hospital
1641GOSP,Gas/Oil Separation Plant
1642GOTS,Government off-the-shelf
1643GPA,Grade Point Average
1644GPC,Global Path Cache
1645GPIB,General-Purpose Instrumentation/Interface Bus
1646GPO,General Post Office
1647GPPC,Genetics and Public Policy Center
1648GPR,Ground-Penetrating Radar
1649GRAIL,Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
1650GRAS,Generally recognized as safe (FDA list)
1651GRB,Gamma-Ray Burst
1652GRC,Greece (ISO 3166 trigram)
1653GRD,Grenada (ISO 3166 trigram)
1654GRID,Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (original name of AIDS)
1655GriT,Girl raised in Texas (Woman presenting firm southern traits/beliefs)
1656GRL,Greenland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1657grn,Guaraní language (ISO 639-2 code)
1658GRP,Graphite-reinforced plastic,see Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer
1659GS,General Schedule (US civil service pay scale),General Support,Gigasiemens,South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
1660Gs,Gigasecond
1661GSA,U.S. General Services Administration
1662GSD,Graphical Situation Display
1663GSGB,(God send glamour boy 9-10/10)
1664GSK,GlaxoSmithKline [good sexual karma]
1665GSN,Game Show Network
1666GSO,General Services Officer (U.S. Department of State)
1667GSOH,Good Sense Of Humour
1668GSP,Georges St-Pierre (Canadian MMA fighter)
1669GSR,Gun Shot Residue
1670GSS,Generic Security Services
1671GST,Goods and Services Tax (Australia,Canada,and other countries)
1672GSW,Gunshot wound
1673GT,Gigatesla,Gran Turismo,Grand Touring,Guatemala (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
1674GTB,Get to bed,namely to get a new job after a long time of searching,usually following a phone call
1675GTC,Gran Telescopio Canarias (Spanish,Canaries Great Telescope)
1676GTD,Getting Things Done
1677GTG,Got To Go (Internet chat)
1678GTGN,Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
1679GTK,Good To Know (Internet chat)
1680GTM,Guatemala (ISO 3166 trigram)
1681GTQ,Guatemalan quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)
1682GTV,Gross Tumor Volume quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)
1683GU,Guam (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
1684gu,Gujarati language (ISO 639-1 code)
1685GUA,Guatemala (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
1686GUF,French Guiana (ISO 3166 trigram)
1687GUILT,Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin
1688guj,Gujarati language (ISO 639-2 code)
1689GULCR,Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica
1690GUT,Grand Unification Theory
1691GV,Gigavolt,Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1692gv,Manx language (ISO 639-1 code)
1693GW,Games Workshop,Germ Warfare,Gigawatt,Guided Weapon,Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 digram)
1694GWARS,Ground Warfare System (simulation)
1695GWAS,Grand Western Archery Society
1696GWOT,Global War on Terrorism
1697GWS,Gulf War Syndrome,Greater Western Sydney
1698GXE,Gene-enivronment interaction
1699GXM,Matrox Graphics eXpansion Module
1700GxP,Good X Practice (X can mean: clinical,manufacturing,pharmaceutical,etc.)
1701GXP,Grid Exit Point,Global Xchange Programme,Indication of highest performance level on some Pontiac vehicles
1702GY,Guyana (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
1703GYD,Guyana dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
1704GZ,Gaza Strip (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Ground Zero
1705GZK,Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off (cosmic ray energies)
1706h,Hecto
1707H,Henry,Hydrogen
1708HA,Haiti (FIPS 10-4 country code),High Availability
1709ha,Hausa language (ISO 639-1 code),Hectare
1710HAARP,High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
1711HAART,Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy
1712HAI,Human Awareness Institute
1713HAL,Hardware Abstraction Layer
1714HALO,High Altitude Low Opening (parachute jump)
1715HALT,Highly Accelerated Life Test,Hungry Angry Lonely Tired
1716HAM,Amateur radio operator
1717HANS,Head And Neck Support (device used in many race cars)
1718HARM,High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile
1719hat,Haitian Creole language (ISO 639-2 code)
1720HAT,Highest Astronomical Tide (nautical charts),Hungarian Automated Telescope
1721hau,Hausa language (ISO 639-2 code)
1722HAW,Heavy Antitank Weapon
1723HAWK,Homing All the Way Killer (air defence system)
1724HAZ,Heat-Affected Zone
1725HAZMAT,Hazardous Materials
1726HBCD,HexaBromoCycloDodecane
1727HBO,Home Box Office
1728HBR,Harvard Business Review
1729HBT,Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
1730HBV,Hepatitis B Virus
1731HCCI,Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition
1732HCF,Highest Common Factor
1733HCSC,Higher Command and Staff Course
1734HCT,Higher Colleges of Technology,tertiary education institution in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
1735HD,Henry Draper (star catalogue),Hull-Down (armoured vehicle target,as opposed to Fully Exposed),High Definition,Huntington's Disease
1736HDL,High-Density Lipoprotein
1737HDM,Human Decision-Making
1738HDR,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)
1739HDRA,Henry Doubleday Research Association
1740he,Hebrew language (ISO 639-1 code)
1741He,Helium
1742HE,High Explosive
1743HEAT,High Explosive Anti-Tank (ammunition)
1744heb,Hebrew language (ISO 639-2 code)
1745HEBA,Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association
1746HEER,High-Explosive Extended Range (ammunition)
1747HEIC,Honourable East India Company
1748HEMP,High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse
1749HEO,High Earth Orbit,Highly Elliptical Orbit
1750HEOSS,High Earth Orbit Space Surveillance
1751HEP,High-Explosive Plastic (ammunition)
1752HEPA,High-Efficiency Particulate Air (filter)
1753her,Herero language (ISO 639-2 code)
1754HESH,High-Explosive,Squash-Head (ammunition)
1755HESV,Heavy Engineering Support Vehicle
1756HETT,Heavy Equipment Transporting Truck / Heavy Equipment Truck Tractor
1757HEU,Highly Enriched Uranium
1758Hewitts,Hills in England,Wales and Ireland over Two Thousand feet (with topographic prominence of at least 30 m)
1759Hf,Hafnium
1760HF,High Frequency
1761HFE,Human Fertilisation and Embryology (UK Act)
1762HFE,The common-emitter current gain in a BJT transistor (also represented by βF). See: BJT
1763HFEA,Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (UK)
1764Hg,Mercury (Latin Hydrargyrum)
1765HGC,UK Human Genetics Commission
1766HGF,Human Growth Factor
1767HGTV,Home & Garden Television
1768HHB,Ha Ha Bonk,The noise made when you laugh your head off. Used instead of LOL...
1769HI,Hawaii (postal symbol)
1770hi,Hindi language (ISO 639-1 code)
1771HIH,His (or Her) Imperial Highness
1772HIM,His (or Her) Imperial Majesty
1773HIMAD,High to Medium Altitude Air Defence (see also H/MAD)
1774HIMEZ,High Altitude Missile Engagement Zone
1775HIMYM,How I Met Your Mother
1776hin,Hindi language (ISO 639-2 code)
1777HIPAA,U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
1778Hipparcos,HIgh Precision Parallax COllecting Satellite
1779Hird,Hurd of interfaces representing depth (cf. HURD)
1780HiRISE,High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
1781HIT,Health Information Technology
1782HIV,Human Immunodeficiency Virus
1783HIWT,Hobart Institute of Welding Technology
1784HJD,Heliocentric Julian Day
1785HK,Hong Kong (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1786HKD,Hong Kong dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
1787HKG,Hong Kong (ISO 3166 trigram)
1788HKS,HyperKinetic Syndrome
1789hL,Hectolitre
1790HL,Holding Line
1791HLA,High Level Architecture (simulation),Human Leukocyte Antigen
1792HLL,High-Level Language
1793HLN,Headline News
1794HLOS,High Level Output Specification
1795HLVW,Heavy Logistics Vehicle,Wheeled
1796HM,Heard Island and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1797HMCE,Her/His Majesty's Customs and Excise (former UK government department; succeeded by HM Revenue and Customs)
1798HMCS,Her/His Majesty's Canadian Ship,Her Majesty's Courts Service (former UK agency; succeeded by Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service)
1799HMD,Heard and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1800HMF,HydroxyMethyl Furfural
1801HMO,Health maintenance organization
1802hmo,Hiri Motu language (ISO 639-2 code)
1803HMP,Her Majesty's Prison
1804HMRC,Her/His Majesty's Revenue and Customs
1805HMS,Helmet-mounted display,Her/His Majesty's Ship (Royal Navy)
1806HMSO,Her Majesty's Stationery Office
1807HMV,His Master's Voice
1808HN,Honduras (ISO 3166 digram)
1809HND,Honduras (ISO 3166 trigram)
1810HNL,Honduran lempira (ISO 4217 currency code)
1811ho,Hiri Motu language (ISO 639-1 code)
1812Ho,Holmium
1813HO,Honduras (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1814HOLLAND,Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies
1815HOMES,the Great Lakes; Huron,Ontario,Michigan,Erie,Superior
1816HONY,Humans of New York,a photoblog.
1817HOPI,Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (see Internet2,Abilene Network)
1818HoReCa,Hotel,Restaurant and Catering
1819HORIZON,Hélicoptère d'observation radar et d'investigation sur zone (French,Zone Investigation and Radar Observation Helicopter)
1820HOSTAC,Helicopter Operations from Ships Other Than Aircraft Carriers
1821HOT,Highly Optimised Tolerance
1822HOTAS,Hands on throttle-and-stick
1823HOV,High Occupancy Vehicle
1824HP,Hewlett-Packard,Hindustan Petroleum,Himachal Pradesh (Indian state code)
1825hp,horse power
1826HPA,UK Health Protection Agency
1827HPCL,Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
1828HPLC,High Performance Liquid Chromatography
1829HPT,High[er] Payoff Target
1830HPV,Human Papilloma Virus
1831HQ,HeadQuarters,Howland Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1832HQDA,HeadQuarters,Department of the Army
1833HR,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
1834hr,Croatian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1835HRBL,High-level Representation of Behavior Language (original name of the Herbal language)
1836HRD,Human Resource Development
1837HRED,(U.S. Army Research Laboratory's) Human Research and Engineering Directorate (Aberdeen Proving Ground,Maryland)
1838HRF,High iness Forces
1839HRH,His (or Her) Royal Highness
1840HRK,Croatian kuna (ISO 4217 currency code)
1841HRM,His (or Her) Royal Majesty
1842HRM,Human Resource Management
1843HRT,Hormone Replacement Therapy
1844HRV,Croatia (ISO 3166 trigram),High Resolution Visible,HS[edit]
1845hrv,Croatian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1846Hs,Hassium
1847HSBC,The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
1848HSC,Higher School Certificate
1849HSM,High School Musical
1850HSMAD,Human Science/Modeling and Analysis Data
1851HSN,Home Shopping Network
1852HSPH,Harvard School of Public Health
1853HSS,Health Service Support,High-Speed Steel
1854HSSI,High-Speed Serial Interface
1855HST,see entry
1856HSV,Herpes Simplex Virus,Hue Saturation Value (colour model),HT[edit]
1857ht,Haitian Creole language (ISO 639-1 code)
1858HTA,HyperText Application
1859HTC-High Tech Computer Corporation,original name of the company now known simply as HTC,Horry Telephone Cooperative
1860HTFU,Harden The Fuck Up
1861HTG,Haitian gourde (ISO 4217 currency code)
1862HTH,Hope That Helps
1863HTI,Haiti (ISO 3166 trigram)
1864HTML,HyperText Markup Language
1865HTR,Heated Towel Rail
1866HTS,High-Temperature Superconducting wire
1867HTTP,HyperText Transfer Protocol
1868HU,Hungary (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1869HUD,Head-Up Display,Housing and Urban Development
1870HUF,Hungarian forint (ISO 4217 currency code)
1871HUHA,Head up his/her ass (Marine salute; probably a backcronym)
1872hun,Hungarian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1873HUN,Hungary (ISO 3166 trigram)
1874HURD,Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons (cf. Hird)
1875HV,Upper Volta (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1984)
1876HVAC,Heating,ventilation and air conditioning Used in architecture,business and marketing; refers to a building's entire system of heating,moving,or cooling air.
1877HVAP,High Velocity Armour Piercing (ammunition)
1878HVHF,High velocity human factors
1879HVM,High Velocity Missile
1880HVO,Upper Volta (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984)
1881HVP,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
1882HW,Hardware,High Water (nautical charts)
1883HWM,Hardware morphing (computer graphics rendering)
1884HX,IATA code of Hong Kong Airlines,Medical history,Hydrogen halide,Concept automobile by HUMMER
1885HXB,The glycoprotein Tenascian C
1886hy,Armenian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1887hye,Armenian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1888HYS,Harvard,Yale,Stanford (perennially named as the top three law schools in the U.S.)
1889HZ,Haze (METAR Code)
1890hz,Herero language (ISO 639-1 code)
1891Hz,Hertz
1892I,Iodine,One (in Roman numerals)
1893ia,Interlingua language (ISO 639-1 code)
1894IA,Iowa (postal symbol)
1895IAAL,I Am A Lawyer
1896IAB,International Association for Biologicals
1897IACREOT,International Association of Clerks,Recorders,Election Officials,and Treasurers
1898IAD,Ion Assisted Deposition
1899IADS,Integrated Air Defence System
1900IAEA,International Atomic Energy Agency
1901IAF,{i} Industrial Areas Foundation
1902IAFG,Information Assurance Focus Group
1903IAI,International African Institute,Israel Aircraft Industries
1904IANA,Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
1905IANAL,I Am Not A Lawyer
1906IAQ,Indoor air quality,Infrequently Asked Questions
1907IAS,Image Assessment System
1908IASIP,It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
1909IATA,International Air Transport Association
1910IATF,International Automotive Task Force
1911IATSE,International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
1912IAU,International Association of Universities,International Astronomical Union
1913IAUC,International Astronomical Union Circular
1914IAW,In Accordance With
1915IB,International Baccalaureate
1916IBA,Important Bird Area
1917IBD,Inflammatory Bowel Disease
1918IBDM,Information Based Decision Making
1919IBDS,Integrated Biological Detection System,International Business Development Specialist
1920IBM,International Business Machines
1921ibo,Igbo language (ISO 639-2 code)
1922IBRD,International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (part of the World Bank)
1923IBS,Irritable Bowel Syndrome
1924IC,Ice Crystals (METAR Code),Iceland (FIPS 10-4 country code),Integrated Circuit,[inner circle]
1925ICANN,Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
1926ICAO,International Civil Aviation Organization
1927ICBM,Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
1928ICBN,International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
1929ICC,Integrated Command and Control,International Criminal Court,International Cricket Council,Interstate Commerce Commission,International Chamber of Commerce
1930ICD,Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator,Initial Capabilities Document,International Classification of Diseases
1931ICE,In case of emergency
1932ICES,International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
1933ICF,Intelligent Community Forum
1934ICM,Improved Conventional Munition,Integrated Collection Management,International Congress of Mathematicians,Iraq Campaign Medal
1935ICMP,Internet Control Message Protocol
1936ICNAF,International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (became NAFO in 1978)
1937ICNI,Integrated Communication,Navigation,and Identification
1938ICO,Intermediate Circular Orbit
1939ICP,Inductively coupled plasma,Insane Clown Posse
1940ICRAF,International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (a.k.a. World Agroforestry Centre since 2002)
1941ICRISAT,International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
1942ICRL,Individual Component Repair List
1943ICRS,International Celestial Reference System
1944ICS,In-Country Support,Intelligence and Communications Systems,Interim Contractor Support
1945ICSI,Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
1946ICT,Information and communication technologies
1947ICTH,Island Closest to Heaven/Hell Final Fantasy VIII
1948ICV,Infantry Carrier Vehicle
1949ICW,In Co-ordination With,Indonesia Corruption Watch,Infectious and Chemotherapeutic Waste,Insulating Concrete Wall,Integral Crystalline Waterproofing,Interactive Courseware
1950ICYMI,In Case You Missed It
1951ICZN,International Code of Zoological Nomenclature,International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
1952ID,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)
1953id,Indonesian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1954IDA,U.S. Institute for Defense Analyses,International Development Association (part of the World Bank
1955IDC,International Data Corporation
1956IDDI,I don't do initialisms (see irony)
1957IDE,Integrated Development Environment,Integrated Drive Electronics
1958IDeA,Improvement and Development Agency,the former name of Local Government Improvement and Development in the United Kingdom
1959IDEA,Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (U.S.),International Data Encryption Algorithm,International Design Excellence Awards
1960IDF,Israel Defense Forces,Intel Development Forum,International Dairy Federation
1961IDGAF,I don't give a fuck
1962IDK,I don't know
1963IDKIBTI,I don't know,I'm black,that's it
1964IDL,Interface Definition Language
1965IDN,Indonesia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1966ido,Ido language (ISO 639-2 code)
1967IDR,Indonesian rupiah (ISO 4217 currency code)
1968IE,Indo-European languages,Internet Explorer,Ireland (ISO 3166 digram),Iced Earth
1969ie,Interlingue language (ISO 639-1 code)
1970IEA,International Energy Agency
1971IEC,International Electrotechnical Commission
1972IED,Improvised Explosive Device
1973IELTS,International English Language Testing System
1974IER,Information Exchange Requirement
1975IET,Initial Entry Training
1976IET,Institution of Engineering and Technology
1977IETF,Internet Engineering Task Force
1978IEW,Intelligence and Electronic Warfare
1979IFAB,International Football Association Board
1980IFAH,International Federation for Animal Health
1981IFAP,International Federation of Agricultural Producers
1982IFC,International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank),Independent Film Channel
1983IFF,Identification,Friend or Foe,Individually Fresh Frozen,International Flavors and Fragrances
1984IFFN,Identification,Friend,Foe,or Neutral
1985IFO,Identified Flying Object (see also UFO)
1986IFOR,UN Implementation Force,Institute for Operations Research,International Fellowship of Reconciliation
1987IFOV,Instantaneous Field of View
1988IFPI,International Federation of Phonographic Industries
1989IFRB,International Frequency Registration Board
1990IFV,Infantry Fighting Vehicle
1991ig,Igbo language (ISO 639-1 code)
1992IG,Inspector General
1993IGNOU,Indira Gandhi National Open University
1994IGS,International Ground Station
1995IGY,Israeli Gay Youth,International Geophysical Year
1996IHH,Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
1997IHO,International Hydrographic Organization
1998IHR,Institute for Historical Review
1999IHSI,Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (Jesuit Historical Institute)
2000ii,Sichuan Yi language (ISO 639-1 code)
2001II,Two (in Roman numerals)
2002IICA,Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
2003IIE,Innovative Interstellar Explorer
2004iii,Sichuan Yi language (ISO 639-2 code)
2005III,Three (in Roman numerals)
2006IIRC,If I Recall/Remember Correctly
2007IISS,International Institute for Strategic Studies
2008IIT,Illinois Institute of Technology,Indian Institutes of Technology,Indiana Institute of Technology
2009IJN,Imperial Japanese Navy (World War II)
2010IJWP,Interim Joint Warfare Publication
2011ik,Inupiaq language (ISO 639-1 code)
2012IKEA,Ingvar Kamprad (the company's founder),Elmtaryd (the farm where he was born and raised),Agunnaryd (a village and parish near the farm)
2013iku, Inuktitut language (ISO 639-2 code)
2014IL,Illinois (postal symbol),Israel (ISO 3166 digram)
2015ILC,International Law Commission,International Linear Collider
2016ILDS,Improved Landmine Detection System
2017ile,Interlingue language (ISO 639-2 code)
2018ILO,International Labour Organization
2019ILRI,International Livestock Research Institute
2020ILS,Israeli shekel (ISO 4217 currency code)
2021ILY,I Love You [pronounced ILL-LEE]
2022IM,Isle of Man (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Instant Message (internet speech)
2023IMA,Intermediate Maintenance Activity,Institute of Mathematics and Applications
2024IMBD,International Migratory Bird Day
2025IMDb,Internet Movie Database
2026IME,In My Experience
2027IMF,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)
2028IML,International Mister Leather
2029IMLAST,International Movement for Leisure Activities in Science and Technology,see MILSET
2030IMNM,,Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy a rare,but serious ADR of statins [1]
2031IMNSHO,In My Not So Humble Opinion
2032IMPAC,International Merchant Purchase Authorization Card
2033IMPACT,International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce
2034IMPATT,IMPact Avalanche Transit Time diode
2035IMPT,Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
2036IMRL,Individual Material iness List
2037IMRO-Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization,Irish Music Rights Organisation
2038IMS,Information Management System,International Meat Secretariat,Ion Mobility Spectrometer
2039IMSA,Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy,International Mind Sports Association,International Motor Sports Association
2040IMsL,International Ms. Leather
2041IMT,Integrated Management Tool
2042IMU,International Mathematical Union
2043IN,India (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Indiana (postal symbol),Infantry
2044In,Indium
2045INA,Immigration and Nationality Act
2046ina,Interlingua language (ISO 639-2 code)
2047INAS,International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
2048INCITS,InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
2049IND,India (ISO 3166 trigram)
2050ind,Indonesian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2051INDIGO,(U.S.) INtelligence DIvision Gaming Operation
2052inet,the Internet
2053INFORMS,(U.S.) Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
2054INFOSEC,Information Security
2055INLA,Irish National Liberation Army
2056INMARSAT,International Maritime Satellite organization
2057INR,Indian rupee (ISO 4217 currency code)
2058INRI,Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudæorum (Latin for: Jesus of Nazareth,King of the Jews)
2059INRIA,Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
2060INS,Immigration and Naturalization Service
2061InSAR,Interferometric synthetic aperture radar
2062INST,Information Standards and Technology
2063INTERFET,International Force for East Timor
2064INTSUM,Intelligence Summary
2065IO,British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2066io,Ido language (ISO 639-1 code)
2067IOC,Initial Operational Capability,Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission,International Olympic Committee,International Ornithological Congress
2068IOLTA,Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (charitable funding mechanism,especially for legal aid)
2069IOM,Iowa,Ohio,Michigan (soybean origin),Institute of Medicine,International Organisation for Migration,Isle of Man
2070IONA,Islands of the North Atlantic (alternate name for Great Britain,Ireland,the Isle of Man,and related islands)
2071IOT,British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 trigram)
2072IP,Clipperton Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Initial Point,Intellectual Property,Internet Protocol
2073IPA,India Pale Ale,International Phonetic Alphabet,Isopropyl alcohol
2074IPB,Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
2075IPCC,Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,Independent Police Complaints Commission
2076ipk,Inupiaq language (ISO 639-2 code)
2077IPL,Inferior Parietal Lobule
2078IPO,Initial Public Offering
2079IPR,In Progress Review,Intellectual Property Rights,Intelligence Production Requirement
2080IPT,Integrated Product/Project Team
2081IPTS,Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
2082IPTV,Internet Protocol TeleVision
2083IPW,Interrogation of Prisoners of War
2084IQ,Intelligence Quotient,Iraq (ISO 3166 digram)
2085IQD,Iraqi dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2086Ir,Iridium
2087IRA,Individual Retirement Account,Irish Republican Army (see also List of organisations known as the Irish Republican Army for groups claiming descent from this organisation)
2088IRAD,Internal Research and Development
2089IRAN,(I) Inspect and Repair As Necessary
2090IRAS,Infrared Astronomical Satellite
2091IRB,International Rugby Board
2092IRBM,Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
2093IRC,International Red Cross,International Reply Coupon
2094IREA,Intermountain Rural Electric Association
2095IRINN,Islamic Republic of Iran News Network
2096IRN,Iran (ISO 3166 trigram)
2097IRO,International Refugee Organisation
2098IRQ,Iraq (ISO 3166 trigram)
2099IRR,Iranian rial (ISO 4217 currency code)
2100IRS,U.S. Internal Revenue Service
2101IRST,Infra-red Search and Track
2102IS,Iceland (ISO 3166 digram),Israel (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2103is,Icelandic language (ISO 639-1 code)
2104ISA,Individual Savings Account,Industry Standard Architecture,Instruction Set Architecture,International Seabed Authority
2105ISAAA,International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications
2106ISAF,International Sailing Federation,International Security Assistance Force
2107ISAR,Inverse SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)
2108ISB,Intermediate Staging Base
2109ISBN,International Standard Book Number (ISO 2108)
2110ISCCP,International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
2111ISCII,Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange
2112ISDN,Integrated Services Digital Network
2113ISEF,Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
2114ISEN,Internet Search Environment Number
2115ISF,Internal Security Force
2116ISI-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
2117ISIL,Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
2118ISK,Icelandic krona (ISO 4217 currency code)
2119ISL,Iceland (ISO 3166 trigram)
2120isl,Icelandic language (ISO 639-2 code)
2121ISLN,International Standard Lawyer Number (used initially by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell)
2122ISM,Industrial,scientific or medical,Interstellar medium
2123ISMB,International Society of Matrix Biologists
2124ISMC,Intelligent Sounding Meaningless Conversation
2125ISOGP,Indian Society of Orthodontics for General Practitioners [2]
2126ISP,International Standardized Profile,Internet Service Provider,Information Systems Professional
2127ISPE,International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
2128ISR,Intelligence,Surveillance and Reconnaissance,Israel (ISO 3166 trigram)
2129ISRO,Indian Space Research Organisation
2130ISS,International Shorebird Survey (North America),International Space Station
2131ISSCR,International Society for Stem Cell Research
2132ISSN,International standard serial number (ISO 3297)
2133IST,Information System Technology,UCF Institute for Simulation and Training
2134ISTAR,Intelligence,Surveillance,Target Acquisition,and Reconnaissance
2135ISTC,Institute of Scientific and Technical Communications (UK)
2136ISTS,Intel Science Talent Search
2137ISU,Integrated Sight Unit,International Skating Union,IT[edit]
2138IT,InferoTemporal (neurophysiology),Information Technology,Italy (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2139it,Italian language (ISO 639-1 code)
2140ita,Italian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2141ITA,Italy (ISO 3166 trigram)
2142ITAG,Inertial Terrain-Aided Guidance
2143ITALY,I'll Truly Always Love You
2144ITAS,Improved Target Acquisition Sight
2145ITC,InferoTemporal Cortex (neurophysiology)
2146ITCZ,Intertropical Convergence Zone
2147ITEC,Information Technology Exposition & Conference
2148ITEMS,Interactive Tactical Environment Management System
2149ITER,International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
2150ITF,International Tennis Federation
2151ITK,In The Know
2152ITN,Independent Television News (British)
2153ITS,Incompatible Time-sharing System,Individual Training Standards
2154ITT,International Telephone and Telegraph (U.S.)
2155ITTO,International Tropical Timber Organization
2156ITU,Intent-to-Use,International Telecommunication Union (International Telegraph Union 1865-1932),IU[edit]
2157iu, Inuktitut language (ISO 639-1 code)
2158IUCN,International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union)
2159IUSS,Integrated Undersea Surveillance System,Integrated Unit Simulation System,International Union of Soil Sciences
2160IV,Côte d'Ivoire (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Ivory Coast),Four (in Roman numerals),IntraVenous (as in intravenous drip or intravenous therapy)
2161IVD,Internet Video Device,intra vas device
2162Iveco,Industrial Vehicles Corporation
2163IVF,In Vitro Fertilisation
2164IVI,Interchangeable Virtual Instrument
2165IVIS,Inter-Vehicle Information System
2166IVL,Inter-Visibility Line
2167IVM,In Vitro [Oocyte] Maturation
2168IVO,In Vicinity Of
2169IW,Information Warfare
2170IWARS,Infantry Warrior Simulation
2171IWC,International Whaling Commission
2172IWW,Industrial Workers of the World
2173IX,Nine (in Roman numerals)
2174IXT,IntraText digital library; IntraText lexical hypertext
2175IY,Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone (FIPS 10-4 territory code; obsolete 1993)
2176IZ,Iraq (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2177J,Joule
2178J1,Joint [Manpower &] Personnel Directorate
2179J2,Joint Intelligence Directorate
2180J2EE,Java 2 Platform,Enterprise ion
2181J2ME,Java 2 Platform,Micro ion
2182J2SE,Java 2 Platform,Standard ion
2183J3,Joint Operations Directorate
2184J4,Joint Logistics Directorate
2185J5,Joint Strategic Plans & Policy Directorate
2186J6,Joint Information Technology Directorate (Command,Control,Communications & Computer Systems)
2187J7,Joint Operational Plans & Interoperability Directorate
2188J8,Joint Force Structure,Resources,& Assessment Directorate
2189JA,Japan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2190ja,Japanese language (ISO 639-1 code)
2191JAFT,Just A Field Test
2192JAL,Japan Airlines
2193JALLC,Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (NATO)
2194JAM,Jamaica (ISO 3166 trigram)
2195JAMA,Journal of the American Medical Association
2196JANET,Joint Academic Network
2197JANUS,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)
2198JATO,Jet-Assisted Take-Off
2199jav,Javanese language (ISO 639-2 code)
2200JB,Jail Bait
2201JB,Junior Branch
2202JBFSA,Joint Blue Force Situational Awareness
2203JCDB,Joint Common Data Base
2204JCDS,Joint Chiefs of the Defence Staff
2205JCIDS,Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System
2206JCL,Job Control Language
2207JCP,Java Community Process
2208JCPM,Java Child Process Manager,Jesus Christ Prison Ministry
2209JCS,Joint Chiefs of Staff
2210JCW,Juggalo Championship Wrestling
2211JDBC,Java Data Base Connectivity
2212JDCC,UK Joint Doctrine and Concepts Centre,now the Development,Concepts,and Doctrine Centre,DCDC
2213JDEM,Joint Dark Energy Mission
2214JDL,Jewish Defense League
2215JDM,Japanese domestic market,referring specifically to automobiles and parts,Java Data Mining,Joint design manufacturing,JE[edit]
2216JE,Jersey (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2217JEB,James Ewell Brown (Stuart),John Ellis Bush
2218JEDP,Jahwist,Elohist,Deuteronomist,Priestly (according to the documentary hypothesis,the sources of the Torah)
2219JEE,Java Platform,Enterprise ion
2220JEFX,Joint Expeditionary Force eXperiment
2221JEPD,Jahwist,Elohist,Priestly,Deuteronomist,Jointly Exhaustive,Pairwise Disjoint
2222JET,Joint European Torus
2223JEZ,Joint Engagement Zone
2224JFACC,Joint Force Air Component Commander
2225JFACTSU,U.S. Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standards Unit
2226JFC,Joint Force Commander
2227JFK,John Fitzgerald Kennedy or the airport named after him.
2228JFLCC,Joint Force Land Component Commander
2229JFMCC,Joint Force Maritime Component Commander
2230JFO,Journal of Field Ornithology
2231JFSOCC,Joint Force Special Operations Component Commander
2232JFTX,Joint Field Training Exercise
2233JH,Japan Highway Public Corporation
2234JH,Jharkhand (Indian state code)
2235JI,Joint Implementation
2236JIB,Joint Information Bureau
2237JIC,Joint Intelligence Centre
2238JINI,Java Intelligent Network Infrastructure
2239JITC,Joint Interoperability Test Command
2240JIVE,Joint Institute for VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) in Europe
2241JJAP,Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
2242JK,Jedi Knight,Just Kidding,Spanair (IATA airline designator),Jammu & Kashmir (Indian state code)
2243JL,Japan Airlines (IATA airline designator)
2244JLA,Justice League of America
2245JM,Jamaica (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2246JMD,Jamaican dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2247JMS,Java Message Service
2248JN,Jan Mayen Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2249JNI,Java Native Interface
2250JNLP,Java Network Launch Protocol
2251JO,Jordan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2252JOA,Joint Operations Area
2253JOD,Jordanian dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2254JOPES,Joint Operations Planning and Execution System
2255JOR,Jordan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2256JOTS,Joint Operations Tactical System
2257JP,Japan (ISO 3166 digram),Justice of the Peace
2258JPL,Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2259JPN,Japan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2260jpn,Japanese language (ISO 639-2 code)
2261JPOW,Joint Project Optic Windmill
2262JPY,Japanese yen (ISO 4217 currency code)
2263JQ,Jetstar Airways (IATA airline designator),Johnny Quick,Johnston Atoll (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Jonny Quest,Joshua Quagmire
2264JRA,Japanese Red Army,Joint Rear Area
2265JRDF,Joint Rapid Deployment Forces
2266JRE,Java Runtime Environment
2267JREF,James Randi Educational Foundation
2268JROC,Joint Requirements Oversight Council
2269JROCM,JROC Memorandum
2270JRRF,Joint Rapid Reaction Force
2271JRSAI,Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
2272JSAP,Japan Society of Applied Physics
2273JSCSC,Joint Services Command and Staff College
2274JSEAD,Joint Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (see SEAD)
2275JSF,Joint Strike Fighter
2276JSIMS,Joint Simulation System
2277JSOA,Joint Special Operations Area
2278JSOTF,Joint Special Operations Task Force
2279JSP,JavaServer Page
2280JSP,Joint Services Publication
2281JSR,Java Specification Request
2282JSS,Joint Support Ship Project
2283JT,Johnston Atoll (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1986),Junior Technician (RAF)
2284JTC,Joint Training Confederation
2285JTF,Joint Task Force
2286JTFEX,Joint Task Force Exercise
2287JTLS,Joint Theater Level Simulation
2288JTMD,Joint Theatre Missile Defence
2289JTN,Johnston Atoll (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
2290JU,Juan de Nova Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2291JUGFET,JUnction Gate Field-Effect Transistor
2292JUICE,JUpiter ICy Moon Explorer
2293JUO,Joint Urban Operations
2294jv,Javanese language (ISO 639-1 code)
2295JV,Joint Venture,Junior Varsity
2296JVM,Java Virtual Machine
2297JW,Jehovah's Witnesses
2298JWARS,Joint Warfare System (simulation)
2299JWP,Joint Warfare Publication
2300JWST,James Webb Space Telescope
2301JY,Japanese Yen
2302JZ,Joint Zone
2303K,Kelvin,Potassium (Latin Kalium),Tanker (aircraft designation code)
2304k,Kilo-
2305K,picokelvin
2306K9,Canine Police Unit
2307ka,Georgian language (ISO 639-1 code)
2308Ka,Kamov Design Bureau
2309kA,Kiloampere
2310KA,Knowledge Acquisition,Karnataka (Indian state code)
2311KAF,Kandahar Air Field
2312kal,Kalaallisut language (ISO 639-2 code)
2313kan,Kannada language (ISO 639-2 code)
2314KARNAC,Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context
2315KARR,Knight Automated Roving Robot (Knight Rider character)
2316kas,Kashmiri language (ISO 639-2 code)
2317kat,Georgian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2318KATUSA,Korean Augmentation To United States Army
2319kau,Kanuri language (ISO 639-2 code)
2320kaz,Kazakh language (ISO 639-2 code)
2321KAZ,Kazakhstan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2322KBE,Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
2323KBO,Kuiper Belt Object
2324KBVB,Koninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond (Dutch for Royal Belgian Football Association)
2325kC,Kilocoulomb
2326KCL,King's College London
2327KCS,Kansas City Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark)
2328KD,Kawasaki Disease,Kraft Dinner
2329KE,Kenya (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Kinetic Energy,Knowledge Engineering
2330KEDO,Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
2331KEN,Kenya (ISO 3166 trigram)
2332KERA,Kentucky Education Reform Act (of 1990)
2333kerma,Kinetic Energy Released in MAterial / in MAtter / per unit MAss
2334KES,Kenyan shilling (ISO 4217 currency code),Killer Elite Squad (Japanese professional wrestling stable)
2335KESR,Kent and East Sussex Railway.
2336KET,Kentucky Educational Television,Key English Test,KF[edit]
2337kF,Kilofarad
2338KFC,Kentucky Fried Chicken
2339KFOR,UN Kosovo Force
2340KFUPM,King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
2341kg,Kilogram,Kongo language (ISO 639-1 code)
2342KG,Kyrgyzstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2343KGO,Knight of the Guelphic Order of Hanover
2344KGS,Kyrgyz som (ISO 4217 currency code)
2345KGZ,Kyrgyzstan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2346KH,Cambodia (ISO 3166 digram)
2347kH,Kilohenry
2348KHL,Kontinental Hockey League
2349KHM,Cambodia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2350khm,Khmer language (ISO 639-2 code)
2351KHR,Cambodian riel (ISO 4217 currency code)
2352KHz,Kilohertz
2353ki,Gikuyu language (ISO 639-1 code)
2354Ki,Kibi
2355KI,Kiribati (ISO 3166 digram)
2356KIA,Killed In Action
2357KIDS,Knowledge-based Integrated Design System
2358kik,Gikuyu language (ISO 639-2 code),common typo for LOL
2359kin,Kinyarwanda language (ISO 639-2 code)
2360KIR,Kiribati (ISO 3166 trigram)
2361kir,Kyrgyz language (ISO 639-2 code)
2362KISS,Keep It Simple,Stupid / Keep It Short and Simple,Korean Intelligence Support System
2363KIT,Keep In Touch
2364KITECH,Korean Institute of Industrial Technology
2365KITT,Knight Industries Two Thousand,Knight Industries Three Thousand
2366kJ,Kilojoule
2367kj,Kuanyama language (ISO 639-1 code)
2368kk,Kazakh language (ISO 639-1 code)
2369kK,Kilokelvin
2370KKK,Ku Klux Klan
2371kl,Kalaallisut language (ISO 639-1 code)
2372kL,Kilolitre
2373KL,Kuala Lumpur,Kerala (Indian state code)
2374KLENOT,KLEť Observatory Near Earth and Other unusual objects observations Team and Telescope
2375KLOC,Kilo Lines Of Code
2376KM,Comoros,Knowledge Management
2377km,Khmer language (ISO 639-1 code),Kilometre
2378KMF,Comoro franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
2379KMR,Kwajalein Missile Range
2380KN,Democratic People's Republic of Korea (FIPS 10-4 country code),Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 digram)
2381kn,Kannada language (ISO 639-1 code)
2382kN,Kilonewton
2383KNA,Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 trigram)
2384KNVB,Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond (Dutch for Royal Dutch Football Association)
2385KO,Knocked Out
2386ko,Korean language (ISO 639-1 code)
2387kom,Komi language (ISO 639-2 code)
2388kon,Kongo language (ISO 639-2 code)
2389kor,Korean language (ISO 639-2 code)
2390KOR,Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram)
2391KP,Kim Possible
2392KPMG,Klynveld,Peat,Marwick,Goerdeler
2393KPNO,Kitt Peak National Observatory
2394KPW,North Korean won (ISO 4217 currency code)
2395KQ,Kenya Airways (IATA airline designator),Kingman Reef (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2396kr,Kanuri language (ISO 639-1 code)
2397KR,Kiribati (FIPS 10-4 country code),Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 digram)
2398Kr,Krypton
2399KRW,South Korean won (ISO 4217 currency code)
2400KS,Kansas (postal symbol),Republic of Korea (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2401ks,Kashmiri language (ISO 639-1 code),Kilosecond
2402kS,Kilosiemens
2403KSC,Kennedy Space Center
2404KSI,Killed or Seriously Injured
2405KSM,Korean Service Medal,Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
2406KSU,Kansas State University
2407KT,Christmas Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Knight of the Order of the Thistle,Knights Templar
2408kT,Kilotesla
2409KTS,Knight of the Tower and Sword (of Portugal)
2410ku,Kurdish language (ISO 639-1 code)
2411KU,Kuwait (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2412kua,Kuanyama language (ISO 639-2 code)
2413KUL,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Flemish,Catholic University of Leuven)
2414kur,Kurdish language (ISO 639-2 code)
2415KUW,Kuwait (UNDP country code,IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
2416kV,Kilovolt
2417kv,Komi language (ISO 639-1 code)
2418KV,Kosovo
2419KVM,Keyboard,Video,Mouse switch
2420kw,Cornish language (ISO 639-1 code)
2421kW,Kilowatt
2422KW,Kuwait (ISO 3166 digram)
2423KWB,Kids' WB!
2424KWD,Kuwaiti dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2425KWT,Kuwait (ISO 3166 trigram)
2426KX,Cayman Airways (IATA airline designator)
2427KY,Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 digram),Kentucky (postal symbol)
2428ky,Kyrgyz language (ISO 639-1 code)
2429KYD,Cayman Islands dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2430KZ,Kazakhstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2431KZN,KwaZulu-Natal
2432KZT,Kazakh tenge (ISO 4217 currency code)
2433La,Lanthanum
2434LA,Laos (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Louisiana (postal symbol),Los Angeles
2435la,Latin language (ISO 639-1 code)
2436LAAS,Local Area Augmentation System,Los Angeles Astronomical Society
2437LAB,Logistics Assault Base
2438LabVIEW,Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench
2439LACMA,Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2440LAD,Laser Aiming Device
2441LADW,Local Air Defence Warning
2442LAESI,Local Authority & Emergency Service Information
2443LAK,Laotian kip (ISO 4217 currency code)
2444LAMP,(multiple meanings)
2445LAN,Local Area Network
2446LANL,Los Alamos National Laboratory
2447lao,Lao language (ISO 639-2 code)
2448LAO,Laos (ISO 3166 trigram)
2449LAR,Light Armoured Reconnaissance,Logistics Assistance Representative
2450LARC,Livermore Advanced Research Computer (cf. LLNL)
2451LARP,Live-Action Role-Playing
2452LAS,McCarran International Airport (Las Vegas,Nevada)
2453Laser,Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (cf. Maser)
2454lat,Latin language (ISO 639-2 code)
2455LATA,Local Access Transport Area
2456LATCH,Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children (U.S. standard for attachment points for child safety seats in passenger cars)
2457LAV,Land Assault Vehicle,Light Armoured Vehicle,Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus
2458lav,Latvian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2459LAW,Light Antitank Weapon
2460LAX,Los Angeles International Airport,The Latin American Xchange (professional wrestling),LB[edit]
2461LB,Lebanon (ISO 3166 digram)
2462lb,pound (Latin librum),Luxembourgish language (ISO 639-1 code)
2463LBH,Light Battlefield Helicopter,Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands
2464LBJ,Lady Bird Johnson,LeBron James,Light Bulb Joke,Little Beagle Johnson (the dog owned by Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson),Lyndon Baines Johnson
2465LBN,Lebanon (ISO 3166 trigram)
2466LBNL,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2467LBP,Lebanese pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
2468LBR,Liberia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2469LBS,Location-Based Services
2470lbs,pounds (plural form of lb,see above)
2471LBT,Large Binocular Telescope
2472LBW,Leg Before Wicket
2473LBY,Libya (ISO 3166 trigram)
2474LC,Line of Contact,Saint Lucia (ISO 3166 digram)
2475LCA,Saint Lucia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2476LCC,Land Component Commander
2477LCCP,Light Contingency Communications Package
2478LCD,Liquid Crystal Display
2479LCE,Leaving Certificate Examination,Load Carrying Equipment,London Commodity Exchange
2480LCM,Least/Lowest Common Multiple
2481LCol,Lieutenant-Colonel (Canada,UK)
2482LCS,League of Legends Championship Series
2483LD,Laser Designator,Limited Deployment,Line of Departure
2484LDA,Lateral Drift Apparatus (paratroops)
2485LDC,Lesser Developing/Developed Country
2486LDL,Low-Density Lipoprotein
2487LDV,Local Defence Volunteers (British Home Guard)
2488LDW,Lane Departure Warning (ADAS)
2489LE,Lebanon (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2490LEC,Local Exchange Carrier
2491LED,Light-Emitting Diode
2492LEGAD,Legal Advice
2493Legs,level emotion gad speed
2494LEMOSS,Long-Endurance MObile Submarine Simulator
2495LEN,Large Extension Node
2496LEP,Large Electron-Positron collider
2497LER,Loss-Exchange Ratio
2498LEU,Low-Enriched Uranium
2499LF,Low Frequency
2500LFO,Low Frequency Oscillation / Oscillator
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