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1Abbr,Description
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
174GL, Fourth-generation programming language
184WD, Four-wheel drive
195D,Five-Dimensional
206D,Six-Dimensional
217D,Seven-Dimensional
228D,Eight-Dimensional
239D,Nine-Dimensional
24\a, Atto-
25A, Ampere
26A1C,Airman First Class
27A4,many, including a European standard office paper size; see entry
28A10, Atlantic 10 Conference
29aa, Afar language (ISO 639-1 code)
30aA, Attoampere
31AA- achieved availability,Alcoholics Anonymous, Armed Forces Americas (postal symbol),Aruba (FIPS 10-4 territory code), assembly area,Automobile Association,avenue of approach
32AAAI, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, formerly American Association for Artificial Intelligence
33AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science
34AAAV, Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle
35AAC- American Athletic Conference,Army Air Corps (British Army)
36AAD- analogue-analogue-digital (CD quality),Australian Antarctic Division
37AADD,Adult attention deficit disorder
38AADT, annual average daily traffic
39AADAC, Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission
40AADC- area air defense commander, amino acid decarboxylase, aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase, Australian Antarctic Data Centre
41AAFC- U.S. Army Air Corps Ferrying Command (1941-1942),All-America Football Conference (1946-1949)
42AAFES, Army and Air Force Exchange Service
43AAI, applied artificial intelligence
44AAIS, advanced airborne interceptor simulator
45AAM, air-to-air missile
46AAMOF, as a matter of fact
47AAN, American Academy of Nursing
48AANEAS, Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
49AAODL, Atmospheric Aerosols and Optics Data Library
50AAP- advanced acquisition plan,Allied administrative publication,American Academy of Pediatrics
51AAPC, Accounting and Auditing Policy Committee
52aar, Afar language (ISO 639-2 code)
53AAR- after-action review,Association of American Railroads
54AARP,(i/s) American Association of Retired Persons (now officially known only by the initials)
55AASPEM, advanced air-to-air system performance evaluation model
56AAT, Australian Antarctic Territory
57AAV, Amphibious Assault Vehicle
58AAWC, anti-air warfare commander
59ab, Abkhaz language (ISO 639-1 code)
60AB- Able Seaman (both the rank and the occupation), Alberta (postal symbol)
61ABA- Adriatic Basketball Association,American Bar Association,American Basketball Association,American Beverage Association,American Bicycle Association,American Birding Association,Australian Broadcasting Authority
62ABB, ASEA Brown Boveri (Swiss-Swedish multinational company)
63ABBA, Agnetha, Benny, Björn, Anni-Frid (Swedish pop group)
64ABC- abstinence, be faithful, condoms,Active Body Control,airway, breathing, circulation (see CPR),Alcoholic Beverage Commission,alien big cat,always be careful,American Bird Conservancy,American-born Chinese,American Broadcasting Company,anti-lock brake controller,Associated British Corporation,Atanasoff-Berry Computer,Atlantic Baptist College,atomic, biological, chemical (see NBC),Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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
79ABS- acrylonitrile butadiene styrene,anti-lock braking system
80ABSTRIPS, abstraction-based STRIPS
81ABV, Alcohol by volume
82ABW, Aruba (ISO 3166 trigram)
83aC, Attocoulomb
84Ac, Actinium
85AC1,Aircraftman 1st Class
86AC2,Aircraftman 2nd Class
87ACARS, Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System
88ACAS- Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society,Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
89ACC- U.S. Air Combat Command,Air Component Commander,Alpine Club of Canada,Altocumulus castellanus,Area Control Center,Atlantic Coast Conference,Automatic climate control
90ACCA- The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants,Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment
91ACCAC, Awdurdod Cymwysterau, Cwricwlwm ac Asesu Cymru (Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales)
92ACCD,American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities
93ACCS, Air Communications and Control Squadron
94ACDA, Arms Control & Disarmament Agency
95ACDC- Alternating Current Direct Current,the name of an Australian rock music band,a term for a bisexual person,A/Cdre,Air Commodore
96ACDT- Apple Certified Desktop Technician, Australian Central Daylight Time
97ACE- Air Combat Emulator (computer game),Allied Command Europe,Armored Combat Earthmover,Automatic Computing Engine
98ACF- Administration for Children and Families,American Car and Foundry,American Culinary Federation
99ACHT, Average Call Hold Time
100ACID, Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (in databases)
101ACINT, Acoustic Intelligence
102ACK, Acknowledge (telecommunications; cf. NAK)
103ACL- Access Control List,Anterior cruciate ligament; the initialism can also refer to an injury to this ligament.,Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
104ACLJ, American Center for Law and Justice
105ACLOS, Automatic CLOS (missile control system)
106ACLS, American Council of Learned Societies
107ACLU- American Civil Liberties Union,American Communist Lawyers Union (pejorative slang for the above)
108ACM,many, including Association for Computing Machinery; see entry
109ACMC, (U.S.) Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
110ACN- Airborne Communications Node,Australian Company Number (number issued by the Australian government as registration of a limited liability company)
111ACNA, Anglican Church in North America
112ACO, Airspace Control Order
113ACOBA, Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
114ACOG, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
115ACOM, (U.S.) Atlantic Command
116ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
117ACP- African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States,Air Control Point
118ACR, Advanced Concepts and Requirements
119ACRI, African Crisis Initiative
120ACRT, Advanced Concepts Research Tool simulator
121ACS- Affiliated Computer Services (NYSE ACS),Alaska Communications Service,American Cancer Society,American Chemical Society,Association of Caribbean States,Australian Computer Society
122ACSC, Army Command and Staff College (various nations)
123ACST, Australian Central Standard Time
124ACST, American Cooperative School of Tunis
125ACT- Adaptive Control of Thought (cognitive model),American College Test (ing Program),Australian Capital Territory (also postal symbol),ACT UP, AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
126ACTD, Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration
127ACTF- (U.S.) Army Constructive Training Federation,Australian Children's Television Foundation,ACT-R, ACT-Rational (cognitive model),ACT-R/PM, ACT-R/Perceptual-Motor (cognitive model)
128ACTU, Australian Council of Trade Unions
129ACU, American Conservative Union
130ACUF- BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features, American Conservative Union Foundation
131ACV, Armoured Combat Vehicle
132ADA, Air Defence Artillery,American Dental Association,Assistant District Attorney,Americans with Disabilities Act (see also the similar but non-acronymic Ada programming language)
133ADAGE, Air Defense Air to Ground Engagement (simulation)
134ADAP, AIDS Drug Assistance Program
135ADAS,(a/i) Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey
136ADAT, Alesis Digital Audio Tape (recording format)
137ADatP, Automated Data Processing
138ADATS, Agricultural Development and Training Society,Air Defence Anti-Tank System,Australian Defence Air Traffic System
139ADB, Asian Development Bank
140ADC, Aide De Camp,U.S. Air Defense Command (1946-1992),Apple Display Connector,Program Against Digital Counterfeiting of Currency
141ADCTS, Advanced Distributed Combat Training System
142ADD, Analog Digital Digital (CD quality),Attention-Deficit Disorder,Administration on Developmental Disabilities
143ADDIE, Analyze Design Develop Implement and Evaluate
144ADDNS, Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation
145ADF, Australian Defence Force,African Development Foundation
146ADGB,Air Defence of Great Britain
147ADHD, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
148ADHS, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome
149ADI, Acceptable/Allowable Daily Intake
150ADIZ,(a/i) Air Defence Identification Zone
151ADL, Anti-Defamation League
152ADM, Administrative,,Admiral, and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,Archer Daniels Midland,Assistant Deputy Minister
153ADOA,(a/i) Air Defence Operations Area
154ADP, Adenosine DiPhosphate,Army Doctrine Publication (UK, Canada, Australia),Automatic/Automated Data Processing
155ADRG, Arc-second Raster Chart (ARC) Digitized Raster Graphics
156ADS,(a/i) Active Denial System,Astrophysics Data System,Attention Deficit Syndrome
157ADSR, Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release (sound envelope specification)
158ADT, Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC3 hours)
159ADTB, Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin
160ADW, Air Defence Warning
161ae, Avestan language (ISO 639-1 code)
162AE- Armed Forces Africa/Canada/Europe/Middle East (postal symbol),United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code), Artix Entertainment,American Eagle,A&E,(a/i) Arts & Entertainment Network, the original name for the U.S. TV channel now known as A&E Network
163AED, United Arab Emirates dirham (ISO 4217 currency code)
164AEDT, Australian Eastern Daylight Time
165AEF, American Expeditionary Force
166AEGIS, Airborne Early warning Ground environment Interface Segment (fake etymology)
167AESR, Aeronautical Equipment Service Record
168AEST, Australian Eastern Standard Time
169aet, After extra time (Football)
170AEW, Airborne Early Warning,Airborne Electronic Warfare
171af, Afrikaans language (ISO 639-1 code)
172aF, Attofarad
173AF- Afghanistan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram), Air Force,As f*ck
174AFAIC, As Far As I'm Concerned
175AFAICT, As Far As I Can Tell
176AFAIK, As Far As I Know
177AFAIR, As Far As I Remember/Recall
178AFATDS, Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
179AFC- American Football Conference,Asian Football Confederation
180AFCEA, Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
181AFDB, African Development Bank
182AFES, Automatic Fire Extinguishing System
183AFG, Afghanistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
184AFIS- Automated Fingerprint Identification System,American Forces Information Service
185AFIST, Abrams Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer
186AFJ, April Fool's Joke
187AFK, Away From Keyboard (Internet chat abbreviation)
188AFL- 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
189AFLAC, American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus
190AFM, Army Field Manual (UK; the U.S. more frequently uses just FM),Atomic Force Microscope,Aviation Fleet Maintenance
191AFN, Afghani (ISO 4217 currency code)
192AFO, Association of Field Ornithologists
193AFOSR, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
194AFQT, Armed Forces Qualification Test
195afr, Afrikaans language (ISO 639-2 code)
196AFRC, Air Force Reserve Command
197AFRL, Air Force Research Laboratory
198AFROTC, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
199AFRRI,(i, U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
200AFRTS, Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
201AFS- Active Front Steering,Air Facility Sub-System,Amniotic Fluid-derived Stem cell,AFS&A or AFSA, U.S. Air Force Studies and Analysis
202AFSC- U.S. Air Force Staff College (obsolete; replaced with JFSC),U.S. Air Force Systems Command
203AFSCN, U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network
204AFSPC, Air Force Space Command
205AFT,American Farmland Trust
206AFV, armoured fighting vehicle
207AFWA- Air Force Weather Agency,Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies,AG[edit]
208ag, Attogram
209Ag, Silver (Latin argentum)
210AGARD, Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development
211AGARDograph, Advanced Guidance for Alliance Research and Development publication
212AGASA, Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (cosmic ray detector)
213AGB, Internal Nintendo initialism (Advanced Game Boy) for Game Boy Advance
214AGC- Apollo Guidance Computer,Automatic Gain Control
215AGC, Adjutant General's Corps (British Army)
216AGDC, Australian Game Developers' Conference
217AGI, Auxiliary Group Intelligence
218AGL, Above Ground Level
219AGM, Annual General Meeting
220AGN, Active Galactic Nucleus
221AGO, Angola (ISO 3166 trigram)
222AGP, Accelerated Graphics Port
223AGRICOLA, Agriculture Online Access
224AGS, Alaska Ground Station (LandSat)
225AGTS, Advanced Gunnery Training System
226AGU, American Geophysical Union
227AGW, Autonomous Guided Weapon
228aH, Attohenry
229Ah, Ampere-hour
230AH, Attack Helicopter
231AHA, American Heart Association
232AHCPR, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (obsolete; replaced with AHRQ)
233AHEC, Australian Health Ethics Committee
234AHPCRC, Army High Performance Computing Research Center
235AHQ,Air Headquarters
236AHRQ, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
237AHS, American Housing Survey
238AI- Air Interdiction,Amnesty International,Artificial Insemination,Artificial Intelligence, Anguilla (ISO 3166 digram)
239AIA- Aerospace Industries Association,American Institute of Architects, Anguilla (ISO 3166 trigram)
240AIAA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
241AIC- African Independent Church,Animal Identification Coordinator
242AICD, Australian Institute of Company Directors
243AICMFP, And I Claim My Five Pounds
244AID, U.S. Agency for International Development
245AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
246AIM,many, including AOL Instant Messenger, Australian Institute of Management; see entry
247AIMP, Aurora Incremental Modernization Project
248AIPAC, American Israel Public Affairs Committee
249AIR, Aircraft Inventory Record
250AIRFA, American Indian Religious Freedom Act
251AIRS,(a/i) Aerometric Information Retrieval System (obsolete; replaced with AFS)
252AIS- Australian Institute of Sport,Automatic Identification System
253AISB, (British Society for the Study of) Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
254aJ, Attojoule
255AJ, Azerbaijan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
256Ajax, Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
257AJD, Astronomical Julian day
258AJP, Allied Joint Publication
259AJPW, All Japan Pro Wrestling
260ak, Akan languages (ISO 639-1 code)
261aK, Attokelvin
262AK, Alaska (postal symbol)
263aka, Akan languages (ISO 639-2 code)
264AKA, Above knee amputation (orthopaedic usage)
265AKDT, Alaska Standard Daylight Saving Time (UTC8 hours)
266AKST, Alaska Standard Time (UTC9 hours)
267aL, Attolitre
268Al, Aluminium
269ALA, Åland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
270ALAP, As Long/Late As Possible
271ALARM, Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missile
272ALB, Albania (ISO 3166 trigram)
273ALD, Accounting Line Designator (nuclear weapon targeting)
274ALERT, Advanced Linked Extended Reconnaissance and Targeting,Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theatre
275ALF- Africa Leadership Forum,Alien Life Form (cf. ALF (TV series)),Animal Liberation Front
276ALG, Algeria (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
277ALGOL, ALGOrithmic Language
278ALL, Albanian lek (ISO 4217 currency code)
279ALOA, Associated Locksmiths of America, Inc.
280ALOC- Air Lines Of Communication, Average Length of Calls
281ALPA, Air Line Pilots Association
282ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis,Automatic Landing System
283ALSHS, Abraham Low Self-Help Systems
284ALSP, Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol
285ALTE, Association of Language Testers in Europe
286ALTACS, Automated decision Logic Tactical Air Combat Simulation
287am- Amharic language (ISO 639-1 code),Attometre
288Am, Americium
289AM-many, including Amplitude Modulation and Ante Meridiem; see entry, Armenia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
290AM1,Airman 1st class
291AMA- American Medical Association,Australian Medical Association
292AMAPS, Aircraft, Missile, Avionics Performance Simulation
293AMC- 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
294AMCB, U.S. Army/Marine Corps Board
295AMD- Advanced Micro Devices,Age-related Macular Degeneration, Armenian dram (ISO 4217 currency code)
296AMF, Afghan Military Force
297AMFR- Age-specific Marital Fertility Rate,Amplitude Modulation Following Response
298AMFRS- Advanced Multi-Function Radio Frequency System,Automatic Multisensor Feature-based Recognition System
299amh, Amharic language (ISO 639-2 code)
300AML, Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
301AMLCD, Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
302AMLO- Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexican politician),Anti-Money Laundering Office (Thailand government agency)
303AMO, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
304AMOLED, Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode
305AMOS- Advanced MOrtar System,Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory
306AMP- Adenosine MonoPhosphate,Automated Mission Planner
307AMRAAM, Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile
308AMRDEC, U.S. Aviation & Missile Research, Development, & Engineering Center
309AMS- Agriculture Marketing Service,American Mathematical Society
310AMSAA,(i/a) U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity
311AMSO,(i/a) U.S. Army Model and Simulation Office
312AMSU,Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
313AMTE, UK Admiralty Marine Technology Establishment (1977-1984)
314an, Aragonese language (ISO 639-1 code)
315aN, Attonewton
316AN- Andorra (FIPS 10-4 country code),Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 digram)
317ANA- Administration for Native Americans,Afghan National Army,All Nippon Airways,Anti-Nuclear Anti-body, Australian National Airways,Australian Natives' Association
318ANC, African National Congress
319AND, Andorra (ISO 3166 trigram)
320ANFO, Ammonium nitrate/fuel oil (explosive)
321ANG- Air National Guard, Angola (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166), Netherlands Antillian guilder (ISO 4217 currency code)
322ANGLiCo, Air/Naval Gunfire Liaison Company
323ANL, Argonne National Laboratory
324ANM, Acoustic Noise Monitor
325ANOVA, ANalysis Of VAriance
326ANS, Applied and Natural Sciences
327ANSI, American National Standards Institute
328ANTM, America's Next Top Model
329ANT- Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 trigram),Antigua and Barbuda (IOC trigram, but not ISO 3166 or FIFA)
330ANTY,Acronyms, No Thank You
331ANWR, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge /ˈænwɑr/
332ANZ, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
333ANZAC, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
334AO, Angola (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram), Approach Officer (submarine),Area of Operations
335AOA, Air Officer in charge of Administration,Argonne National Laboratory, Angolan kwanza (ISO 4217 currency code), Award Of Arms (heraldry)
336AOC, Air Operations Centre,Air Officer Commanding
337AOD, Adrenalin O.D. (punk rock band)
338AOI, Angle Of Incidence Arab Organization for Industrialization
339AOL, America OnLine
340AOR, Area of Responsibility
341AOSTH, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
342AOTS, Attack of the Show!
343AOU, American Ornithologists' Union
344AP- Advanced Placement,Air Publication, Andhra Pradesh (Indian state code), Armed Forces Pacific (postal symbol), Associated Press,Auto Pilot
345APA -
346APB, All Points Bulletin (police jargon)
347APC- Armoured Personnel Carrier,Armour Piercing Capped (ammunition)
348APEC, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
349APCNR, Armour-Piercing, Composite Non-Rigid (ammunition)
350APCR, Armour-Piercing, Composite Rigid (ammunition)
351APDS, Armour-Piercing, Discarding-Sabot (ammunition)
352APEDS, AMSAA Performance Estimates Data System
353APEX, Applied Physics Express
354APFSDS, Armour-Piercing, Fin-Stabilised, Discarding Sabot (ammunition)
355APHA, American Public Health Association
356APHE, Armour-Piercing, High Explosive (ammunition)
357APHIS, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
358API, Application Programming Interface
359APL- A Programming Language,Acute Promyeloid Leukaemia,Anti-Personnel Landmine,Applied Physics Laboratory (Johns Hopkins University)
360APM, Advanced Power Management
361APOD, Aerial Port (Airport) Of Debarkation
362APOE, Aerial Port (Airport) Of Embarkation
363APOLLO, Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation
364APP, Allied Procedural Publication
365APR, Annual Percentage Rate
366APS- 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]
367AQ- 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
368AQIM, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
369ar, Arabic language (ISO 639-1 code)
370Ar, Argon
371AR, Argentina (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Arkansas (postal symbol),Armour, Arunachal Pradesh (Indian state code)
372ara, Arabic language (ISO 639-2 code)
373ARAG, Advanced Research and Assessment Group
374ARB, Administrative Review Board
375ARBA,(a/i) Army Review Boards Agency
376ARC, Arc-second Raster Chart,Appalachian Regional Commission
377ARCA, Automobile Racing Club of America
378ARCENT, United States Army Central Command
379ARDA, Advanced Research and Development Activity (became DTO 2006)
380ARE, UK Admiralty Research Establishment (-1991), United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166 trigram)
381ARF, ASEAN Regional Forum
382arg, Aragonese language (ISO 639-2 code)
383ARG, Argentina (ISO 3166 trigram)
384ARH, Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter
385ARI, Acute Respiratory Infection,U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
386ARL, UK Admiralty Research Laboratory (1921-1977),U.S. Army Research Laboratory,UIUC Aviation Research Laboratory
387ARM, Anti-Radiation Missile,Adjustable-rate mortgage, Armenia (ISO 3166 trigram)
388ARNet, Acquisition Reform Network
389ARP, Address Resolution Protocol,Applied Research Programme
390ARPA, Advanced Research Projects Agency
391ARRC, ACE Rapid Reaction Corps
392ARRF, Allied Rapid Reaction Force
393ARRL, American Radio Relay League
394ARS, Agricultural Research Service, Argentine peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
395ARSC, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
396ARSPACE, U.S. Army Space Command
397ART, Adaptive Resonance Theory,Anti-Retroviral Therapy
398ARTCC, Air Route Traffic Control Center
399as, Adult swim, Assamese language (ISO 639-1 code),Attosecond
400aS, Attosiemens
401As, Arsenic
402AS, American Samoa (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram),Australia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Assam / Asom (Indian state code)
403AS, ActionScript
404ASA, AcetylSalicylic Acid,American Standards Association,Army Security Agency,Atlantic Southeast Airlines
405ASAP, As Soon As Possible
406ASARS, Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System,Airborne Search and Rescue System
407ASB, Associated Student Body,Alternative Service Book (Church of England)
408ASBO, Anti-Social Behaviour Order
409ASCAP, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
410ASCC, Army Service Component Commander,Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator,Air Standardization Coordinating Committee
411ASCIET, All Services Combat Identification Evaluation Team
412ASCII, American Standard Code for Information Interchange
413ASD, (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense,autism spectrum disorder
414ASDIC, Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (Sonar)
415ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations
416ASFAR, Americans for a Society Free of Age Restrictions
417ASG, Area Support Group
418ASIC, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Aviation Security Identification Card
419ASIO, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Audio stream input output
420ASIP, Advanced System Improvement Program,Army Stationing and Installation Plan,Application-specific instruction-set processor
421asm, Assamese language (ISO 639-2 code)
422ASM, Air-to-Surface Missile, American Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram), American Society for Metals, American Society for Microbiology
423ASMB, American Society for Matrix Biology,Adult Swim Message Board
424ASME, American Society of Mechanical Engineers,American Society of Magazine ors
425ASN, Associate of Science in Nursing
426ASOC,(a/i) Air Sovereignty Operations Centre,Air Support Operations Centre,Airport Security and Operations Centre,Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition,Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus,Australian Standard Offence Classification
427ASP, 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
428ASPI, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
429ASR, Alkali-silica reaction,Anti Slip Regulation
430ASRAAM, Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile
431ASSC, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
432AST, Atlantic Standard Time (UTC4 hours)
433ASTIA, Armed Services Technical Information Agency
434ASTM, American Society for Testing and Materials
435ASTREA, Aerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies (sheriff's air support unit)
436ASUW, AntiSUrface Warfare
437ASVAB,Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery(taken by juniors in high school in the USA)
438ASW, AntiSubmarine Warfare
439ASWORG, (U.S.) AntiSubmarine Warfare Operations Research Group
440ASX, Advanced Stream Redirector,Australian Securities Exchange
441aT, Attotesla
442At, Astatine
443AT, Anti-Tank, Ashmore and Cartier Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Austria (ISO 3166 digram), Advanced Technology (IBM Personal Computer/AT)
444ATA, Advanced Technology Attachment (IBM Personal Computer),Afghan Transitional Authority,Allen Telescope Array, Antarctica (ISO 3166 trigram)
445ATAC, Air Transportable Acoustic Communications
446ATACMS, Army TACtical Missile System
447ATAPI, Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
448ATAS, Air-To-Air Stinger (missile)
449ATAT, Aiken Tactical Airsoft Team / Star Wars vehicle
450ATB, Active Time Battle, British Antarctic Territory (ISO 3166 trigram; merged with AQ in 1979)
451ATC, Air Traffic Control,Air Training Corps,U.S. Air Transport Command (1942-1948)- Athletic Trainer, Certified (www.nata.org)
452ATCCIS, Army Tactical Command and Control Information System
453ATESS, Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron
454ATG, Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 and FIFA trigram)
455ATGM, Anti-Tank Guided Missile
456ATGW, Anti-Tank Guided Weapon
457ATI, Allied Telesyn International, Inc., Array Technologies Incorporated. (ATI Technologies)
458Atisbo,a Local Government Area in Nigeria named for constituent communities (Ago-Are, Tede, Irawo, Sabe, Baasi, Ofiki and Owo)
459ATK, Attack
460ATL, Atlanta, Georgia, the largest city and capital of Georgia
461ATLAS, All-Terrain Lifter Army System, Assessment Tool for LAnd Systems
462ATM, Automated Teller Machine,Asynchronous Transfer Mode,At The Moment
463ATN, Dronning Maud Land (ISO 3166 trigram; merged with AQ in 1983)
464ATO, Air Tasking Order,Australian Taxation Office
465ATP, Adenosine TriPhosphate,Allied Tactical Publication,Ammunition Transfer Point
466ATSD, (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense
467ATSDR, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
468ATV, All-Terrain Vehicle
469ATWA, Air, Trees, Water, Animals
470Au, Gold (Latin Aurum)
471AU, African Union (was OAU before 2000),American University, Astronomical Unit,Australia (ISO 3166 digram),Austria (FIPS 10-4 country code)
472AUD, Australian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
473AUS, Australia (ISO 3166 trigram)
474AUSCANNZUKUS, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States (security designation)
475Auslan, Australian Sign Language
476AUT, Austria (ISO 3166 trigram)
477AUTL, Army Universal Task List
478av, Avar language (ISO 639-1 code)
479aV, Attovolt
480Av, Aperture value (photographic mode)
481AV- Anguilla (FIPS 10-4 territory code), Audio-Visual, Aviation
482ava, Avar language (ISO 639-2 code)
483AVA, American Viticultural Area
484AVB, Audio Video Bridging
485AVDLR, Aviation Depot Level Repair
486ave, Avestan language (ISO 639-2 code)
487AVGP, Armoured Vehicle, General Purpose
488AVI, Audio Video Interleave
489AVIM, Aviation Intermediate Maintenance
490AVLB, Armoured Vehicle Launched Body
491AVM- Air Vice-Marshal, Arteriovenous malformation
492AVO, Apprehended Violence Order
493AVP, Arubaanse Volkspartij
494AVP, Association of Volleyball Professionals
495AVRE, Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers
496AVTB- Armoured Vehicle Test Bed, Aviation Test Bed
497AVUM, Aviation Unit Maintenance
498AVVO, Acute Vaginal Venereal Outbreak
499aW, Attowatt
500AW, Aruba (ISO 3166 digram)
501AWA, American Wrestling Association
502AWACS, Airborne Warning And Control System
503AWC, Air Warfare Centre
504AWD,many, including All Wheel Drive; see entry
505AWE,(i/a) Advanced Warfighting Experiment
506AWG, Aruban guilder (ISO 4217 currency code)
507AWOL, Absent Without Official Leave / Absent WithOut Leave (military jargon)
508AWP, Awaiting Parts (SM&R code)
509AWSIM, Air Warfare SIMulation
510AWST, Australian Western Standard Time
511AWW, Above Water Warfare
512AX, Åland Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
513AXP, Ambulance eXchange Point
514ay, Aymara language (ISO 639-1 code)
515AY, Antarctica (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
516AYBABTU, All Your Base Are Belong To Us
517aym, Aymara language (ISO 639-2 code)
518AYU, As Yet Unknown
519az, Azerbaijani language (ISO 639-1 code)
520AZ- Arizona (postal symbol),Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 digram), Alkmaar Zaanstreek (Dutch football club)
521aze, Azerbaijani language (ISO 639-2 code)
522AZE, Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 trigram)
523AZN, Azerbaijani manat (ISO 4217 currency code)
524AZUR, Actions en zone urbaine (French, Urban Operations)
525BAR- Barbados (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166), British American Racing,Browning Automatic Rifle,Buy-American Restrictions,BARD - Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund (between the US and Israel),BARDA - Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency,BART - Bay Area Rapid Transit,BAS - Battalion Aid Station,BASE - Building, Antenna, Span, Earth (parachute from),BASF - Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (Baden Aniline and Soda Factory, a German chemicals company),BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (acronym was added later, originally it was simply Basic),BAT - (a/i) Basic Aid Training,BATF - U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms,BATS - Behavior Analysis Training System - Bradley Advanced Training System,BATTeRS - Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey,BB[edit]
526BB- Barbados (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code), Boys' Brigade (Christian youth organization),Brigitte Bardot (actress),Bumblebee
527BBB- Better Business Bureau,Blood-brain barrier
528BBC- Breeding Bird Census,British Broadcasting Corporation, Bumper to Back of Cab (trucking measurement)
529BBD- Barbadian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code), Bowel Bladder Dysfunction
530BBL- Be Back Later,Bird Banding Laboratory,British Basketball League,BBN - Bolt, Beranek and Newman,BBQ - Barbecue[1]
531BBS- Breeding Bird Survey (North America),Brigade/Battalion Battle Simulation,Bulletin Board System,BBSRC - U.K. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council,BBVA - Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (Spanish bank)
532BBYO,B'nai B'rith Youth Organization
533BC- Before Christ,Blind Copy (in emailers),Boston College, Botswana (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Bechuanaland),British Columbia (postal symbol)
534BCA- Bachelor of Computer Application,Black Coaches & Administrators,BCC - Blind Carbon Copy
535BCCI- Bank of Credit and Commerce International,Board of Control for Cricket in India,BCD - Binary-Coded Decimal
536BCS- Bachelor of Computer Science,Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer superconduction theory,Bowl Championship Series (US college football),BCT - Brigade Combat Team,BD[edit],BD - Bangladesh (ISO 3166 digram) - Bermuda (FIPS 10-4 territory code),BDA - British Dental Association,BDD - Body Dysmorphic Disorder - British Defence Doctrine,Bde - Brigade,BDFL - Benevolent Dictator For Life,BDI - Burundi (ISO 3166 trigram),BDNF - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor,BDO - Battle Dress Overgarment,BDOS - Basic Disk Operating System; part of CP/M,BDS -  - Bachelor of Dental Surgery,BDSM - Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission, Sadism and Masochism,BDT - Bangladeshi taka (ISO 4217 currency code) - Bureau de développement des télécommunications (Telecommunication Development Bureau, became ITU-D),BDTA - British Dental Trade Association,BDU - Battle-Dress Uniform,BE[edit],be - Belarusian language (ISO 639-1 code),Be - Beryllium,BE - Belgium (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
537BEA- Banque extérieure d'Algérie,British European Airways (ancestor of British Airways),British Electricity Authority,bel - Belarusian language (ISO 639-2 code),BEL - Belgium (ISO 3166 trigram),BEM - British Empire Medal - Bug-Eyed Monster,ben - Bengali language (ISO 639-2 code),BEN - Benin (ISO 3166 trigram),BEO - Banquet Event Order,BERC - Business Environmental Resource Center,BER - Bit Error Rate
538BH- Bahrain (ISO 3166 digram),Belize (FIPS 10-4 country code),BHD - Bahraini dinar (ISO 4217 currency code),BHR - Bahrain (ISO 3166 trigram)
539BNF- Backus-Naur Form (computing),British National Formulary,BNICE - Biological, Nuclear, Incendiary, Chemical, and Explosive Agents
540BNP- British National Party,Banque Nationale de Paris, a predecessor to today's BNP Paribas,BNS - Bank of Nova Scotia,BNSF - (i/s) Burlington Northern Santa Fe (also AAR reporting mark),BO[edit],bo - Tibetan language (ISO 639-1 code)
541BO- Back Orifice, Belarus (FIPS 10-4 country code), Biarritz Olympique (French rugby union club), Bolivia (ISO 3166 digram), Body odor,BO2k - Back Orifice 2000,BOAC - British Overseas Airways Corporation (predecessor of British Airways)
542BoAML,Bank of America Merrill Lynch
543BOC- British Orthodontic Society,British Oxygen Company,BÖC - Blue Öyster Cult,bod - Tibetan language (ISO 639-2 code),BOD - Biochemical Oxygen Demand,BODMAS - Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction,BOFH - Bastard Operator From Hell,BOGA - Bend Over and Grab Ankles,BOGOF - Buy One, Get One Free
544BOGs, Bunch of Guys
545BOI- Balance Of Investment,Basis Of Issue,BOL - Bolivia (ISO 3166 trigram)
546BOM- Base Object Model,Bill Of Materials,Block of the Month quilting term,Business opportunity meeting,BOP - Balance of Payments,BOPB - Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque (the complete name of the rugby club),BOPD - Barrel of Oil Per Day
547BOQ- Bill Of Quotations,Bachelor Officers' Quarters,Bank Of Queensland,bos - Bosnian language (ISO 639-2 code),BOS - Battlefield Operating System
548BOT- Balance of Trade, Botswana (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166), Build Operate Transfer, Bank of Thailand,BP[edit]
549BP- Battle Position,British Petroleum (today, BP does not officially stand for anything), Solomon Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code; from British Protectorate of the Solomon Islands),Bp - Bishop,BPD - Bipolar Personality Disorder,BPM - Beats Per Minute,BPMo - Business Process Mobility
550BPV- Battlefield Planning Visualization,Bovine papillomavirus,BQ[edit]
551BQ- British Antarctic Territory (former ISO 3166 digram; merged with AQ in 1979),Caribbean Netherlands (current ISO 3166 digram; based on the entity's alternate name of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba),Navassa Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),BR[edit],br - Breton language (ISO 639-1 code),Br - Bromine
552BR- Brazil (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) - Bihar (Indian state code), British Rail,Break Ranks (marching band term),BRA - Brazil (ISO 3166 trigram),BRAG - Bicycle Ride Across Georgia,BRASS - Breathe, Relax, Aim, Sight, Squeeze (Acronym for using a rifle)
553BRN- 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)
554BS- The Bahamas (ISO 3166 digram),Bassas da India (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Bachelor of Science degree,British subject
555Bullshit-
556BSA- Birmingham Small Arms (motorcycles company),Boy Scouts of America,Brigade Support Area
557BSatCoP,Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins
558BSD- Bahamian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code), Berkeley Software Distribution (distinct from BSoD)
559BSE, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease
560BSNL-Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Bachelor of Science in Nursing,BSoD - Blue Screen of Death (distinct from BSD)
561BSP- Between-Show Promotion,Binary Space Partitioning,Board Support Package,British Standard Pipe (screw thread), Business-sponsored,Bone sialoprotein
562BST- Binary search tree,Blended Sales Tax, Bovine somatotropin, British Summer Time,BSW - British Standard Whitworth (screw thread),BSX - Bendigo Stock Exchange,BT[edit]
563Bt- Baronet,Bacillus thuringiensis
564c, Centi
565C, Carbon,Coulomb,One Hundred (in Roman numerals)
566c2c, the British rail company formerly known as LTS Rail
567C2C, Consumer-To-Consumer electronic commerce,Cam-To-Cam internet chat
568ca, Catalan language (ISO 639-1 code)
569Ca, Calcium
570CA- California (postal symbol),Canada (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Catalonia, Civil Affairs,Close Armour,Cocaine Anonymous,Computer Associates,Counter-Air,Cricket Australia
571CAA- Canadian Automobile Association,(NORAD) Center for Aerospace Analysis,(U.S.) Center for Army Analysis,(U.S.) Clean Air Act,(U.S. Army) Concepts Analysis Agency,Civil Aviation Authority,Colonial Athletic Association
572CAAT- or Campaign Against Arms Trade,Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
573CAC- California Association of Criminalists,Chronic Asymptomatic [Disease] Carrier,CACM Central American Common Market
574CACM, Communications of the ACM
575CAD- Canadian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code), Computer-Aided Design,Computer-Aided Dispatch,Cpplint Anxiety Disorder, Condition suffered by software developers who worry about whether they've left any whitespace on the end of a line
576CADCAM, Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing
577CADPAT, CAnadian Disruptive PATtern
578CADMID, Concept, Assessment, Demonstration, Manufacture, In service, Disposal (life cycle mnemonic)
579CAE- Canadian Aviation Electronics (originally),Certificate in Advanced English
580CAEn,(i/a) Close Action Engagement (constructive simulation)
581CAF- Central African Republic (ISO 3166 trigram), Confederation of African Football (or French Confédération Africaine de Football)
582CAFAD, Combined Arms For Air Defence
583CAFDE- Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters,Computer Aided Federation Development Environment
584CAFE, Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard
585CAI, Computer Assisted Instruction
586CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations
587CALABARZON, A region in the Philippines: CAvite, LAguna, BAtangas, Rizal, queZON
588CALL, (U.S.) Center for Army Lessons Learned
589CALM, Communications, Air-interface, Long and Medium range
590CalPERS, California Public Employees' Retirement System
591Caltrans, California Department of Transpotation
592CAM- Chemical Agent Monitor,Complementary and alternative medicine,Computer-Aided Manufacturing,Crassulacean acid metabolism (type of photosynthesis)
593CAMRA, CAMpaign for Real Ale
594CAN, Canada (ISO 3166 trigram)
595CANA, Convulsive Antidote, Nerve Agent
596CANDU, CANada Deuterium Uranium (nuclear reactor design)
597Canola, Canadian oil, low acid (referring to a specific cultivar of rapeseed bred to have a low erucic acid content)
598CAP- Combat Air Patrol,Civil Air Patrol,Common [Operating/Operational] Air Picture,Crisis Action Procedures,Common Agricultural Policy (European Union)
599CAPES- CAPability Evaluation System, Combined Arms Planning and Execution System
600CARE- Citizens Association for Racial Equality (former New Zealand organisation), Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe, Cooperative for Aid and Relief Everywhere (originally Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe)
601CARMONETTE, Computerized Monte Carlo Simulation
602CARP, Computed Air Release Point
603CART, Championship Auto Racing Teams (now defunct)
604CAS- Chemical Abstracts Service,Chief of the Air Staff,Close Air Support
605CASA, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
606CASE- Cellular ammunition storage equipment,Computer-Aided Software Engineering
607CASS, Command Activated Sonobuoy System
608CASTFOREM, Combined Arms and Support Task FORce Evaluation Model
609CASTOR, Canadian Automatic Small Telescopes for Orbital Research
610cat, Catalan language (ISO 639-2 code)
611CAT- Community Acceptance Testing,Computer-Assisted (or Axial) Tomography
612CATK, Counterattack
613CATS, Computer Active Technology Suspension
614CATT,(a/i) Combined Arms Tactical Trainer
615CAV, Cavalry
616CAW, Canadian Auto Workers (trade union)
617CB- Citizens' Band radio, Cambodia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
618CBC- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,Christmas Bird Count,Cipher-Block Chaining,Cornering Brake Control
619CBE- Commander of the Order of the British Empire,Cab Beside Engine (see truck)
620CBGB, Country, Blue Grass, and Blues (former New York City nightclub)
621CBLA, Comparative bullet lead analysis
622CBN,CardsApp Brand Number
623CBM,many, including Canadian Baptist Ministries and Commodore Business Machines; see entry
624CBML, Coalition Battle Management Language
625CBOL, Consortium for the Barcode of Life
626CBOT, Chicago Board of Trade
627CBR, Case-Based Reasoning
628CBRN, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear (weapon or event)
629CBRNE, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or [high-yield] Explosive (weapon or event)
630CBS- Columbia Broadcasting System,Corps Battle Simulation
631CBT- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Combat
632CBUS, Columbus, Ohio
633CC,many, including carbon copy; see entry
634CCA, Counter Command Activity
635CCC- Canterbury Clothing Company,Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S., 1930s and 1940s),Corpus Christi College, Oxford
636CCCP- Central Committee of the Communist Party,Cyrillic for SSSR (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, Russian Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
637CCD- Charge-Coupled Device,Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (Catechism)
638CCF, Cartoon Cartoon Fridays
639CCG- Canadian Coast Guard,Collectible Card Game
640CCGC- Canadian Coast Guard Cutter,Canadian Coast Guard College
641CCGH, Canadian Coast Guard Hovercraft
642CCGS- Canadian Coast Guard Ship,Christ Church Grammar School
643CCH, Computer-Controlled Hostile
644CCIF, Comité consultatif international des communications téléphoniques à grande distance (French for International Telephone Consultative Committee, merged with the CCIT in 1956 to form the CCITT)
645CCII- Command and Control Information Infrastructure,Community Capital Investment Initiative
646CCIR- Comité consultatif international pour la radio (French for Consultative Committee on International Radio, became the ITU Radiocommunication Sector, ITU-R, in 1992),Commander's Critical Information Requirements
647CCIT, Comité consultatif international télégraphique (French for International Telegraph Consultative Committee, merged with the CCIF in 1956 to form the CCITT)
648CCITT, Comité consultatif international téléphonique et télégraphique (French for International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee, became the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector, ITU-T, in 1992)
649CCK- Cholecystokinin, Cocos (Keeling) Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
650CCM- Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd. (now split into two separate companies bearing the CCM name, one manufacturing bicycles and the other ice hockey equipment),Contemporary Christian music
651CCOC- Canadian Children's Opera Chorus,Crosley Car Owners Club
652CCOP, Coalition Common Operating/Operational Picture
653CCP- Casualty Collection Point,Communications Checkpoint,Contingency Communications Package
654CCPA, Consumer Credit Protection Act
655CCR, Creedence Clearwater Revival
656CCRAp, Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance party
657CCRP, Command and Control Research Program
658CCRTS, Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium
659CCSCS, Coordinadora de Centrales Sindicales del Cono Sur
660CCSCS, Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
661CCSK, Cyclic Code Shift Keying
662CCT, Current Commitments Team
663CCTT, Close Combat Tactical Trainer
664cd, Candela
665Cd, Cadmium
666CD,many, including Compact Disc; see entry
667CD1, Cluster of Differentiation 1 (a small gene family)
668CDA, UK Centre for Defence Analysis
669CDC- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (originally (U.S.) Communicable Disease Center),Control Data Corporation,Cult of the Dead Cow
670CDD, Capabilities Development Document
671CDE, Chemical Defence Equipment
672CDEC, U.S. Combat Development Experimentation Center
673CDF- California Department of Forestry [and Fire Protection],Common Data Format, Democratic Republic of Congo franc congolais (ISO 4217 currency code)
674CDipAF, Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance
675CDL, Commercial driver's license
676CDM- Clean Development Mechanism (Kyoto protocol),Cold Dark Matter (astronomy)
677CDMA, Code Division Multiple Access
678CDMSII, Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II
679Cdr, Commander
680CDS- Chief of the Defence Staff,Credit default swap
681Cdt, Commandant
682CDT, Central Daylight Time (UTC5 hours)
683ce, Chechen language (ISO 639-1 code)
684Ce, Cerium
685CE,many, including Christian/Common Era (cf. AD); see entry
686CEA, Campaign Effectiveness Analysis
687CECOM, U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command
688CEI, Competitive Enterprise Institute
689CENTCOM, United States Central Command
690CENTO, Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact)
691CEO, Chief Executive Officer
692CEP, Circular Error Probable
693CERCLA, U.S. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund)
694CERDEC,U.S. Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center
695CERT, Computer Emergency Response Team
696ces, Czech language (ISO 639-2 code)
697CESS, Centre for Earth Science Studies (India)
698CEWC,(a/i) Council for Education in World Citizenship
699Cf, Californium
700CF- Canadian Forces, Central African Republic (ISO 3166 digram),Republic of the Congo (FIPS 10-4 country code)
701CFA- Cat Fanciers' Association,Chartered Financial Analyst,Colour Filtering Array,County Fire Authority,Covering Force Area
702CFAR- Christine's,Federal Acquisition Regulation
703CFC- ChloroFluoroCarbon,Canadian Fish Company
704CFES, Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System
705CFFZ, Call For Fire Zone
706CFG- Context-free grammar,Control flow graph
707CFHT, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
708CFI, Center for Inquiry (CSICOP)
709CFL- Canadian Football League,Co-ordinated Fire Line
710CFLCC, Coalition Forces Land Component Command
711CFM, Certified Facilities Manager [(IFMA)]http://www.ifma.org/
712CFO, Chief Financial Officer
713CFP- Call for papers,College Football Playoff,Common Fisheries Policy (EU)
714CFRP, Carbon fibre reinforced plastic
715CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
716CFSP, Common Foreign and Security Policy
717CFU, Colony Forming Unit in Microbiology
718CFV, Cavalry Fighting Vehicle
719CFZ, Critical Friendly Zone
720CG, Client Group,Computer Graphics,Controls Group, Democratic Republic of the Congo (FIPS 10-4 country code),Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 digram)
721CGDC, Computer Game Developers Conference (became GDC in 1998)
722CGF, Computer-Generated Forces (Simulation)
723CGH, Comparative Genomic Hybridisation
724CGIG, Cross-Government Implementation Group
725CGM, Computer Graphics Metafile
726CGO, Republic of the Congo (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
727CGS, Chief of the General Staff
728CGT, Capital Gains Tax
729ch, Chamorro language (ISO 639-1 code)
730ch,ch(L) is used to denote the Chern character of a line bundle
731CH, Chieftain tank, China (FIPS 10-4 country code),Switzerland (ISO 3166 digram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica)
732cha, Chamorro language (ISO 639-2 code)
733CHAMPUS, (U.S.) Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (now known as TRICARE)
734CHAOS, Cambridge Heart Anti-Oxidant Study
735CHAPS, Clearing House Automated Payment System
736CHDK, Canon Hack Development Kit (Canon camera firmware hack)
737che, Chechen language (ISO 639-2 code)
738CHE, Switzerland (ISO 3166 trigram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica)
739CHF, Swiss franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
740CHI, Columbia Helicopters, Inc
741CHI, Computer-Human Interaction
742CHiP, California Highway Patrol
743CHIPS, Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer
744CHL, Chile (ISO 3166 trigram)
745CHLA, Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
746CHN, China (ISO 3166 trigram)
747CHOGM, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
748CHP, California Highway Patrol,Combined Heat and Power
749CHPSO, California Hospital Patient Safety Organization
750CHS, Combat Health Support
751CHT, Certified Hand Therapist
752chu, Old Church Slavonic language (ISO 639-2 code)
753chv, Chuvash language (ISO 639-2 code)
754CREN, Christian Real Estate Network Real Estate Association
755Ci, Curie
756CI- Chile (FIPS 10-4 country code),Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 digram), Counter-Intelligence,101 (in Roman numerals)
757CIA- Cairo International Airport,Central Intelligence Agency,Culinary Institute of America
758CIAO- Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office,Component-Integrated ACE ORB
759CIB, Complete In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
760CIBC, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
761CID- Combat Identification, Criminal Investigation Division,Criminal Investigations Department
762CID,Certified Interior Designer,A Certified Interior Designer (CID) licensed in New York (USA) plans, designs, supervises and/or consults on various aspects of interior spaces.
763CIEF, Comité international d'enregistrement des fréquences (International Frequency Registration Board)
764CIF, Cost, Insurance, and Freight (Paid) (shipping)
765CIMIC, Civil-Military Co-operation
766CINC, Commander in Chief
767CINEOS, Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey
768CIO- Chief information officer,Congress of Industrial Organizations
769CIP, Combat Identification Panel
770CIPE, (European) Centre for International Political Economy
771CIR, (Commander's) Critical Information Requirements
772CIR, Corotating Interaction Region
773CIS- Canadian Interuniversity Sport,Commonwealth of Independent States,Command and Information System,Communication and Information System
774CISA, (U.S.) C4I Integration Support Activity
775CISB, Complete In Sealed Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
776CISPR, Comité international spécial des perturbations radioélectriques (Special International Committee on Radio Interference)
777CISSP, Certified Information Systems Security Professional
778CITS, Combat Identification Training System
779CIV, Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 trigram)
780CIVETS, Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa (economics)
781CIVPOP, Civilian Population
782CIWS, Close-In Weapon System
783CHRS,Canadian Heart Rhythm Society
784CJ, Cayman Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code), Criminal Justice
785CJC, Canadian Jewish Congress,Cold Junction Compensation
786CJD, Chronological Julian Day,Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
787CJCS, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
788CJO, Chief of Joint Operations
789CJTF, Combined Joint Task Force
790CK, Cocos (Keeling) Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code),Cook Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
791CKA, commonly known as, Canada Kicks Ass
792CKND,Codename: Kids Next Door
793Cl, Chlorine
794CL, Chile (ISO 3166 digram), Co-ordination Line,One Hundred and Fifty (in Roman numerals)
795CLA, Clutterers Anonymous
796CLEC, Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
797CLEMARS, California Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System
798CLI, Command Line Interface/Interpreter
799CLIC, Compact LInear Collider
800CLO, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
801CLOB, Character Large OBject
802CLOS, Command to Line-Of-Sight (missile control system)
803CLOS, Common Lisp Object System
804CLP, Chilean peso (ISO 4217 currency code), Common [Operating/Operational] Land Picture
805CLPFC, CentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
806CLRP, College Loan Repayment Program
807Cm, Curium
808CM- Cameroon (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram), Cruise Missile, Nine Hundred (in Roman numerals)
809CMA- U.S. Chemical Materials Agency,Country Music Association (also used to refer to the organization's annual awards),Crystal Meth Anonymous
810CMB, Cosmic Microwave Background
811CMBR, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
812CME, Coronal Mass Ejection (usually Sun)
813CMHC, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
814CMIIAW, Correct me if I am wrong
815CMIS- Content Management Interoperability Services,Common management information service
816CMJ, Christopher Martin-Jenkins (BBC sports commentator)
817CML- Chemical, Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (formerly Chronic Myeloid Leukemia)
818CMM, Capability Maturity Model
819CMMC, Corps Materiel Management Centre
820CMML- Chronic MyeloMonocytic Leukemia,Continuous Media Markup Language
821CMO, Civil-Military Operations
822CMOC, Civil-Military Operations Centre
823CMOS- Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society,(The) Chicago Manual of Style,Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
824CMP, Common [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture
825CMP, Canadian Military Pattern truck (World War II)
826CMPD, Chronic Myeloproliferative Disease
827CMPD, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department
828CMR- Cameroon (ISO 3166 trigram), Coaxial Main Rotors (helicopter type)
829CMS- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,The Chicago Manual of Style
830CMT, Country Music Television
831CMU- Carnegie Mellon University,Central Michigan University,Concrete Masonry Unit
832CMW- Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada,Canadian Manufacturing Week,Canadian Music Week,Catherine McAuley Westmead (school in New South Wales, Australia),Chicago, Missouri and Western (Railway),Compartmented Mode Workstation,Compton's Most Wanted,Continuous Microwave (processing technology),Custom Maintenance Wizard (Microsoft Office Resource Kit)
833CMYK, Cyan Magenta Yellow Key/blacK (colour model)
834CN-(i/s) Canadian National (railway; also the AAR reporting mark for said company), China (ISO 3166 digram),Comoros (FIPS 10-4 country code)
835CNA- Center for Naval Analyses,Certified Network Administrator,Computer Network Attack,Continental (Casualty Company), National (Fire Insurance Company), and American (Casualty Company), the three companies that merged to form what is now known as CNA Financial
836CNBC,(a/i) Consumer News and Business Channel
837CND- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,Computer Network Defence
838CNE- Canadian National Exhibition,Computer Network Exploitation,Certified Network Engineer
839CNF, Cost and Freight
840CNI, Communications, Navigation and Identification
841CNI, Clinical Nursing Intern
842CNN- Cable News Network,Cellular Nonlinear Network
843CNO, Computer Network Operations
844CNR- Canadian National Railway,Combat Net Radio
845CNV, Copy-Number Variable (genetics)
846CNY, Chinese yuan renminbi (ISO 4217 currency code)
847co, Corsican language (ISO 639-1 code)
848Co, Cobalt
849CO,many, including Central Office (phone company); see entry, Colorado (postal symbol), Commanding Officer (military)
850COA, Certificate/Concept Of Analysis,Course Of Action (military)
851COB, Close Of Business [day]
852COBRA,Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
853COCOM, Combatant Command (military)
854COD, Cash On Delivery, Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram)
855CoDA, Co-Dependents Anonymous
856codec, Coder-Decoder / Compressor-Decompressor / Compression-Decompression algorithm
857COE, Cab Over Engine (see truck),Common Operating Environment (military)
858COEA, Cost Operational Effectiveness Analysis (military)
859COEIA, Combined Operational Effectiveness and Investment Appraisal (military)
860COFT, Conduct Of Fire Trainer (military)
861COG, Centre Of Gravity,Current Operations Group (military), Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram)
862COGENT, Cognitive Objects within a Graphical EnviroNmenT
863COIL, Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser
864COIN, Counter-Insurgency (military)
865COK, Cook Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
866COL, Colombia (ISO 3166 trigram)
867COLA, comp.os.linux.announce,Cost Of Living Adjustment
868COLT, Combat Observation and Lasing Team (military)
869COM, Comoros (ISO 3166 trigram), Component Object Model
870COMECON, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (economic counterpart of the Warsaw Pact, 1949-1991)
871COMMZ, Communications Zone (military)
872COMSEC, Communications Security (military)
873CONAD, U.S. Continental Air Defense Command
874CONCACAF, Confederation Of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football
875CONOPS, Concept of Operations (military)
876CONUS, Continental United States
877COO, Chief Operating Officer
878COP, Colombian peso (ISO 4217 currency code), Common Operating/Operational Picture
879COPE, U.K. Committee On Publication Ethics
880COPUS, U.K. Committee on the Public Understanding of Science
881cor, Cornish language (ISO 639-2 code)
882CORBA, Common Object Request Broker Architecture
883CORD,(i/a) Common Operational Requirements Document
884CORE, Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
885CORG, (U.S.) Combat Operations Research Group
886COROT, COnvection, ROtation and planetary Transits
887cos, Corsican language (ISO 639-2 code),Cosine
888COS, Cooper Ornithological Society
889COSCOM, Corps Support Command (military)
890COSER, COoperative SERvice
891CoT, Car of Tomorrow (former NASCAR race car design)
892COTS, Commercial Off The Shelf
893Coy, Company (military unit)Cow
894CP, Canadian Pacific,Check Point,Command Post,Club Penguin
895CPA, Certified Public Accountant
896CPCU,Certified Property Casualty Underwriter
897CPD, Capabilities Production Document
898CPE, Certificate of Proficiency in English
899CPE, Certified Professional Ergonomist
900CPF, Calibration Parameter File,Canadian Patrol Frigate
901CPG, Clinical Practice Guideline
902CPI, CERDEC Command, Power and Integration
903CPIM, Certification on Production and Inventory Management
904CPIR,Computationally-Private Information Retrieval
905CPON, Certified Pediatric Oncology Nurse
906CPPCC, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
907CPR, Canadian Pacific Railway
908CPR, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
909CPSM, Continuous Phase Shift Modulation
910CPSU, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
911CPT, Contingency Planning Team
912CPU, Central Processing Unit,Contract Postal Unit
913CPV, Cape Verde (ISO 3166 trigram)
914CPX, Command Post eXercise
915CQ, Carrier Qualification,Central Queensland,Charge of Quarters,Congressional Quarterly,Constellation Airlines (IATA airline designator),Northern Mariana Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
916cr, Cree language (ISO 639-1 code)
917Cr, Chromium
918CR- Coral Sea Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Costa Rica (ISO 3166 digram)
919CRAM, Combined Radiometric Correction Model
920CRC- Central RTI Component,Chemical Rubber Company,Christian Reformed Church,Control and Reporting Centre,Cyclic Redundancy Check, Costa Rican colón (ISO 4217 currency code),Costa Rica (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
921CRD, Capstone Requirements Document
922cre, Cree language (ISO 639-2 code)
923CREB, Cyclic AMP-response Element Binding (protein)
924CREEP, Committee for the Re-Election of the President, a pejorative nickname used by opponents
925CRI- China Radio International, Costa Rica (ISO 3166 trigram)
926CRIPL, Consolidated Remain-In-Place List
927CRM, Cardiac Rhythm Management,Customer Relationship Management
928CRO, Croatia (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
929CRP- Committee for the Re-Election of the President,Control and Reporting Post
930CRT- Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy,Cathode Ray Tube,Chinese Remainder Theorem
931CRTC, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
932cs, Czech language (ISO 639-1 code)
933Cs, Caesium
934CS- Combat Support,Computer Scientist, Costa Rica (FIPS 10-4 country code),Serbia and Montenegro (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 2006)
935CSA- Canadian Soccer Association,Canadian Space Agency,Canadian Standards Association,Child Support Agency,Command Staff Advisor,Community-supported agriculture,Confederate States of America,Corps Storage Area, Czech Airlines,C/S/A, CINC, Service, and Agency
936CSC- Closed Spacelike Curve (relativity),Compact system camera,Computer Sciences Corporation,Computer Security Centre,CSCC Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists
937CSERIAC, (U.S. DoD) Crew Systems Ergonomics Information Analysis Center
938CSG, Corps Support Group
939CSI,see entry
940CSICOP, Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (became the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2006)
941CSIP, Commercial Stable Image Platform (AMD)
942CSK, Czechoslovakia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1993)
943CSL, U.K. Central Science Laboratory
944CSPI, Center for Science in the Public Interest
945CSR, Control Supply Rate
946CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility [1]
947CSRC, Conflict Studies Research Centre
948CSRF, Cross-Site Request Forgery
949CSS- Cascading Style Sheets,Catalina Sky Survey,Central Security Service,Combat Service Support,Confederate States Ship,Content-scrambling system,Cross-site scripting
950CSSCS, Combat Service Support Control System
951CST, Central Standard Time (UTC6 hours)
952CT, Computed tomography (medical scan also known as a CAT scan),Central Time zone,Chrono Trigger (Computer/Video games), Connecticut (postal symbol),Canterbury (postal symbol),Chhattisgarh (Indian state code)
953CTBT, Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty
954CTC, Closed Timelike Curve (relativity),(U.S.) Combat Training Center
955CTDB, Compact Terrain Data Base (file format)
956CTE- Canton and Enderbury Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984), Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
957CTGF, connective tissue growth factor
958CTI, Co-operative Target Identification
959CTIL, Critical Tracked Items List
960CTIS, Central Tire Inflation System
961CTMS, Clinical Trial Management System
962CTO, Chief Technical Officer,Chief Technology Officer
963CTS, Clear-To-Send,Collective Training Standards,Communications Technology Service,Contract Technical Services,Conversation Time Sharing,COSMIC Top Secret
964CTSS, Compatible Time-Sharing System
965CTU, Counter Terrorist Unit (fictional branch of the Central Intelligence Agency in the television action series 24)
966CTVT, Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour
967cu, Old Church Slavonic language (ISO 639-1 code)
968Cu, Copper (Latin Cuprum)
969CU, Carrie Underwood,Cuba (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
970CUB, Cuba (ISO 3166 trigram)
971CUCV, Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle
972CUP, Cuban peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
973CUPS, Common Unix Printing System
974CUPW, Canadian Union of Postal Workers
975CUREA, Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy
976CuW, Copper-tungsten pseudo-alloy (from the chemical symbols of the two component elements)
977CUW, Curaçao (ISO 3166 trigram)
978cv, Chuvash language (ISO 639-1 code)
979CV,many, including curriculum vitae (résumé); see entry
980CVCC- Combat Vehicle Command and Control,Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion (1970s Honda automobile engine technology)
981CVE, Cape Verde escudo (ISO 4217 currency code)
982CVI, Combat Vehicle Identification
983CVLL, Crypto Variable Logic Label
984CVR, Cockpit Voice Recorder,Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance
985CVS, Concurrent Versions System
986CVSD, Continuous Variable Slope Delta (modulation)
987CVT, Continuously Variable Transmission
988CW, Continuous Wave,Clothes Washer, Cook Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
989CWC, Chemical Weapons Convention
990CWS, Canadian Wildlife Service
991CWRU, Case Western Reserve University
992CX, Christmas Island (ISO 3166 digram),One Hundred and Ten (in Roman numerals)
993CXR, Christmas Island (ISO 3166 trigram)
994cy, Welsh language (ISO 639-1 code)
995CY, Calendar year, Cyprus (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
996cym, Welsh language (ISO 639-2 code)
997CYM, Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
998CYP, Cyprus (ISO 3166 trigram),Cyprus pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
999CZ, Combat Zone, Czech Republic (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
1000CZE, Czech Republic (ISO 3166 trigram)
1001CZK, Czech koruna (ISO 4217 currency code)
1002CZF, (Christian Zombie Fan)
1003CZMA, (US) Coastal Zone Management Act
1004d, Deci
1005D, Deuterium
1006da, Danish language (ISO 639-1 code),deca
1007DA, Denmark (FIPS 10-4 country code), Debtors Anonymous, U.S. Department of the Army,District Attorney
1008DAB,Digital Audio Broadcasting
1009DACT, Data Automated Communications Terminal,Dissimilar Air Combat Training
1010DAES, Defence Acquisition Executive Summary,(UK MoD) Directorate of Analysis, Experimentation and Simulation
1011DAF, Dissolved Air Flotation, a technique used in water treatment
1012DAFIF, Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File
1013DAK, Disney's Animal Kingdom
1014dan, Danish language (ISO 639-2 code)
1015DAO, Division Ammunition Officer
1016DAQ, Data acquisition, Delivered Audio Quality
1017DARE, Drug Abuse Resistance Education
1018DARO,(i/a) (U.S.) Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
1019DARPA, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
1020DART, Disaster Assistance Response Team,Dublin Area Rapid Transit
1021DAS, Defensive Aids Suite
1022DASD, (U.S.) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
1023DASL, Datapoint's Advanced Systems Language
1024DAU, (U.S.) Defense Acquisition University
1025DAWN, (U.S.) Drug Abuse Warning Network
1026dB, Decibel
1027Db, Dubnium
1028DB, Database,Deutsche Bahn
1029DBA, De Bellis Antiquitatis (miniature wargaming rules)
1030DBBL, (U.S. Army Simulation Center) Dismounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory
1031DBCS, Double Byte Character Set
1032DBDO, Desert BDO
1033DBE, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
1034DBF, Detection By Fire (weapon launch signature)
1035DBM, De Bellis Multitudinis (miniature wargaming rules),Detection By Movement (military target)
1036DBR, De Bellis Renationis (miniature wargaming rules)
1037DBRA, Davis-Bacon Related Acts
1038DBS, Direct Broadcast Services (television)
1039DC, da capo,Italian Democrazia Cristiana,Digital Compass,Direct Current, District of Columbia (postal symbol), Douglas Aircraft Company,Dublin Core,Duty Cycle
1040DCA, Defensive Counter Air,Drum Corps Associates, DiChloroAcetate, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (IATA code)
1041DCAA, (U.S.) Defense Contract Audit Agency
1042DCAS, Devon and Cornwall Archery Society
1043DCC, Dallas Christian College
1044DCC, Digital Command Control (model railroading),Direct Client-to-Client (Internet Relay Chat),Dismounted Close Combat
1045DCCP, Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
1046DCD, [Organ] Donation after Cardiac Death
1047DCE, Data Communication Equipment
1048DCFC, Death Cab for Cutie
1049DCI, Detection, Classification and Identification,Drum Corps International,Duellists' Convocation International, now known simply by the initials
1050DCIM, Digital Camera Images
1051DCIMS, Dental Classification Information Management System,Dismounted Combat Identification Marking System
1052DCL,Disney Cruise Line
1053DCN,Deacon
1054DCOM,Disney Channel Original Movie
1055DCOP, Desktop Communication Protocol
1056DCSOPS, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and plans
1057DCW, Digital Chart of the World
1058DCYSC, Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge
1059DD,many, including due diligence and dear daughter (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists, blogs, and bulletin boards); see entry
1060DDA- Digital Differential Analyzer (graphics algorithm),Digital Differential Analyzer,Deputy District Attorney
1061DDD- Data Display Debugger,Digital Digital Digital (CD mastering)
1062DDL, Digital Data Link
1063DDN, U.S. Defense Data Network
1064DDoS, Distributed Denial of Service
1065DDS, Doctor of Dental Surgery
1066DDT- Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (insecticide),Dynamic Debugging Tool (computing),DE[edit]
1067de, German language (ISO 639-1 code)
1068DE, Delaware (postal symbol),Germany (ISO 3166 digram)
1069DEA, Drug Enforcement Administration
1070DEA, Drug Enforcement Agency
1071DEC,(a/i) Department of Environmental Conservation,Digital Equipment Corporation,Disasters Emergency Committee
1072DeCA, (U.S.) Defense Commissary Agency
1073DECSIM, Model DEComposition and SIMulation algorithm,Directed Energy Combat SIMulation
1074DECT, Digital European Cordless Telephone
1075DEFCON, Defence readiness condition
1076DEFRA, (UK) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
1077DELT, Dual Ended Line Test (ing)
1078DEM, Data Exchange Mechanism,Digital Elevation Model
1079DEN, Denmark (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
1080DEPSECDEF, (U.S.) Deputy Secretary of Defense
1081DERA, British Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (1995-2001)
1082DES, Deep Ecliptic Survey
1083deu, German language (ISO 639-2 code)
1084DEU, Germany (ISO 3166 trigram)
1085DFAS, (U.S.) Defense Finance and Accounting Service
1086DFCB, Data Format Control Book
1087DfID, UK Department for International Development
1088DFM, Dynamic Flowgraph Methodology
1089DFM,(ii) Discrete Field Model see Superluminal motion
1090DFSP, Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
1091DfT, UK Department for Transport
1092DFTBA, Don't Forget To Be Awesome- a term commonly used by the Vlogbrothers
1093DGPS, Differential GPS
1094DGZ, Desired Ground Zero
1095DH, dear husband (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists, blogs, and bulletin boards),Designated hitter
1096DHA, DocosaHexaenoic Acid
1097DHHS, (U.S.) Department of Health and Human Services
1098DHL, Dalsey, Hillblom, and Lynn (courier service)
1099DHRA, (U.S.) DoD Human Resources Activity
1100DHS, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
1101DHSS, UK Department of Health and Social Security
1102DHTFYSS, U.S. Don't Have Time For You Silly S****
1103DHY, Dahomey (ISO 3166 trigram; became BEN for Benin in 1977)
1104DIA, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
1105DIAC, Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia) [1]
1106DiC,Design Island Centre (computing usually used in a teaching situation)
1107DICASS, DIrectional Command Activated Sonobuoy System
1108DILLIGAD, Do I Look Like I Give A Damn? (military shorthand, slightly less offensive than the following)
1109DILLIGAF, Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck? (military shorthand)
1110DIF, Data Interchange Format
1111DIFAR, DIrectional Frequency Analysis and Recording
1112DIME, Dense Inert Metal Explosive
1113DIMM, Dual In-line Memory Module (computing)
1114DINKY, Double Income, No Kids Yet
1115DIP, Dual In-line Package (electronics)
1116DIPS, Defense independent pitching statistics
1117DIR, Defence Industrial Research
1118DIS- Defence Intelligence Staff,(U.S.) Defense Investigative Service,Distributed Interactive Simulation,Draft International Standard (ISO)
1119DISA- U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency,Distinguished Individual Service Award
1120DISCOM, Division Support Command
1121DISE, Deployable Intelligence Support Element
1122DISSTAF, DIS Search and Target Acquisition Fidelity experiment
1123DITY,(i/a) Do-It-Yourself
1124div, Dhivehi language (ISO 639-2 code)
1125DIVAD, Division Air Defence
1126DIY, Do It Yourself
1127DJ, Disc Jockey,Dinner Jacket, Djibouti (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1128DJD, Degenerative Joint Disease,Dublin Julian Day,Discoveries in the Judaean Desert
1129DJF, Djibouti franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
1130DJI, Djibouti (ISO 3166 trigram)
1131DJS, Director, Joint Staff
1132DK, Denmark (ISO 3166 digram)
1133DKK, Danish krone (ISO 4217 currency code)
1134DL,Dexter's Laboratory
1135DLA, U.S. Defense Logistics Agency, Dental Laboratories Association
1136DLIC, Detachment Left-In-Contact
1137DLIR, Depot-Level Inspection and Repair
1138DLL, Dynamic Link Library
1139DLPMC, DorsoLateral PreMotor Cortex
1140DLR, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German, German Aerospace Centre),Docklands Light Railway
1141DLRP, Data Link Reference Point
1142DLS, Deep Lens Survey
1143DLSA, (U.S.) Defense Legal Services Agency
1144DLSc, Diploma in Library Science
1145DLSC, 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
1146DLTBGYD,Don't let the bastards grind you down
1147DM- Dominica (ISO 3166 digram), Dungeon Master (role-playing games)
1148DMA- 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)
1149DMC, (U.S.) Defense Management Council
1150DMCA,Digital Millennium Copyright Act
1151DMI, Desktop Management Interface (computing)
1152DMM,Digital Multimeter
1153DMOC, Distributed Mission Operations Centre
1154DMPA, (U.S.) Defense Medical Programs Activity
1155DMPFC, DorsoMedial PreFrontal Cortex
1156DMPK, Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
1157DMRB, Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
1158DMS, U.S. Defense Message System
1159DMSP, U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
1160DMT, Dimethyltryptamine
1161DMU, Diesel Multiple Unit, a method of connecting self-propelled railway vehicles together to form a train under the control of one driver.
1162DMV, Department of Motor Vehicles
1163DMZ, DeMilitarized Zone
1164DN, Deacon
1165DNA, U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency,DeoxyriboNucleic Acid,Douglas Noël Adams
1166DNAW, Day Night All Weather
1167DND, Department of National Defence (Canada),Do Not Disturb
1168DNDi, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative
1169DNDO, U.S. Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
1170DNM, Defence Nuclear Material
1171DNK, Denmark (ISO 3166 trigram)
1172DNR, Do Not Resuscitate
1173DNS, Domain Name System
1174DO, Dominica (FIPS 10-4 country code),Dominican Republic (ISO 3166 digram), Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
1175DOA, Dead On Arrival,Dead or Alive
1176DOB, Date Of Birth
1177DOD, U.S. Department of Defense
1178DODAF, U.S. Department of Defense Architectural Framework
1179DoDD, U.S. Department of Defense Directive
1180DoDEA, (U.S.) Department of Defense Education Activity
1181DOE,(i/a) U.S. Department of Energy
1182DOHC, Dual-OverHead-Cam engine
1183DOI, Digital Object Identifier,U.S. Department of the Interior
1184DOMS, (U.S.) Director of Military Support
1185DOP, Dominican peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
1186DORA, Defence of the Realm Act
1187DOS, Denial of Service (DoS, cf. DDoS),Density of State,Disk Operating System
1188DOT, Department of Transportation (U.S. federal or state),Damage Over Time (common in World of Warcraft)
1189DOTA,short-form for DEFENSE OF THE ANCIENTS a popular online epic game
1190DotD, Deal of the Day (marketing gimmick)
1191DOTMLPF, Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, Personnel, and Facilities (mnemonic)
1192DOW, Died of Wounds
1193DP, Division de production (Algerian petroleum company)
1194DP, Decision Point,Dynamic Programming
1195DPA, UK Defence Procurement Agency
1196DPCO, Double-Pole Change Over
1197DPDT, Double-Pole Double-Throw
1198DPICM, Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition
1199DPKO, UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations
1200DPMO, (U.S.) Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
1201DPPDB, Digital Point Positioning Database
1202DPRE, Displaced Person or Refugee (plural Displaced Persons and Refugees) (originally Displaced Persons, Refugees, Evacuees)
1203DPRK, Democratic People's Republic of Korea
1204DPST, Double-Pole Single-Throw
1205DQ, Dairy Queen, Jarvis Island (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1206DR, Dead Reckoning, Dominican Republic (FIPS 10-4 country code), Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
1207DRA, Defence Research Agency (UK, 1991-1995),Democratic Republic of America
1208DRC, Democratic Republic of the Congo
1209DRDC, Defence Research & Development Canada
1210DREA,(i/a) Defence Research Establishment Atlantic (obsolete 2002)
1211DRES,(i/a) Defence Research Establishment Suffield (obsolete 2002)
1212DRET,(i/a) Defence Research Establishment Toronto (obsolete 2002)
1213DREV,(i/a) Defence Research Establishment Valcartier (obsolete 2002)
1214DRI, Detection, Recognition, Identification,Dietary Reference Intake
1215DRIC,(i/a) (U.S.) Defense Research Information Center
1216DRL, Daytime Running Lights,Dorman Roberts Ltd.
1217DRM, Digital Rights Management
1218DRMS, (U.S.) Defense Revitalization and Marketing Service
1219DRPR, Drawing Practices
1220DRT, Document Related Technologies
1221Ds, Darmstadtium
1222DS- Dear son (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists, blogs, and bulletin boards),Defence Scientist,Direct Support, Dust Storm (METAR Code)
1223DSA- (U.S.) Defense Support Activities,Division Support Area
1224DSAA- (U.S.) Defense Security Assistance Agency,Driving Schools Association of the Americas,DECT Standard Authentication Algorithm
1225DSAS, Disney Sing Along Songs
1226DSB, (U.S.) Defense Science Board
1227DSC- 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
1228DSCS, U.S. Defense Satellite Communications System
1229DSCSOC, DSCS Operations Center
1230DSD, Defence Studies Department (King's College, London)
1231DSE, Dry Sheep Equivalent
1232DSG,Direct-Shift Gearbox
1233DSID, Dismounted Soldier Identification System
1234DSL, Digital Subscriber Line
1235DSLR, Digital single-lens reflex (camera)
1236DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
1237DSN, Deep Space Network
1238DSO, Distinguished Service Order (British military decoration)
1239DSP- Defense Standardization Program,Defense Support Program,Digital Signal Processing
1240DSPL, Design Specialists and Plans Language
1241DSR, Deformed Special Relativity
1242DSRV- Deaf Sports Recreation Victoria,Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle
1243DSS- Digitized Sky Survey,Discarding-Sabot Shell (ammunition)
1244DST, Daylight saving time
1245DSTL, British Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
1246DSWA, (U.S.) Defense Special Weapons Agency
1247DTA, Dental Technologists Association
1248DTD, Digital Terrain Data
1249DTE, Data Terminal Equipment,Down To Earth
1250DTG, Date-Time Group
1251DTH, Direct To Home (television)
1252DTI, UK Department of Trade and Industry
1253DTIC, (U.S.) Defense Technical Information Center
1254DTL, Diode-Transistor Logic (electronics)
1255DTMF, Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling
1256DTLOMS, Doctrine, Training, Leader development, Organization, Materiel, and Soldier (mnemonic)
1257DTO, Disruptive Technology Office (was ARDA)
1258DTOMLS, Doctrine, Training, Organization, Materiel, Leader and Soldier development (mnemonic)
1259DTR, Determine The Relationship
1260DTSA, (U.S.) Defense Technology Security Administration
1261DU- Depleted Uranium, Dust (METAR Code)
1262DUI- 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
1263DUMBO, Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (Brooklyn neighborhood)
1264DUSD, (U.S.) Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense
1265dv, Dhivehi language (ISO 639-1 code)
1266DVD, Digital Versatile Disk (was Digital Video Disk)
1267DVLC, UK Driver and Vehicle Licencing Centre
1268DVM, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
1269DVO, Direct View Optics
1270DVOM,Digital Volt-Ohm Meter
1271DVP,various meanings (disambiguation page)
1272DW, Drum Workshop
1273DWG, Divisional Wargame (military simulation)
1274DWI, Dance With Intensity,Danish West Indies,Diffusion-weighted imaging,Direct water injection,Disaster Welfare Inquiry,Drinking Water Inspectorate,Driving While Intoxicated/Impaired
1275DWM, Doctor Who Magazine
1276DWIM, Do What I Mean
1277DWTS, Dancing with the Stars
1278DWW, Down with Webster
1279DX- Dexterity (role-playing games), DeXtrorphan,Distant (radio), D-Generation X (professional wrestling stable)
1280DXA, Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry
1281DXM, DeXtroMethorphan
1282Dy, Dysprosium
1283DY, Dahomey (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1977)
1284dz, Dzongkha language (ISO 639-1 code)
1285DZ, Algeria (ISO 3166 digram),Drizzle (METAR Code), Drop Zone
1286DZA, Algeria (ISO 3166 trigram)
1287DZD, Algerian dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
1288dzo, Dzongkha language (ISO 639-2 code)
1289E, East
1290EA, Electronic Attack,Emotions Anonymous,Engagement Area,Electronic Arts,Enrolled Agent,Environmental Assessment,Enterprise Architect, Exaampere
1291EABU, Explain Acronyms Before Use
1292EAC, Echelons Above Corps
1293EAPC, Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
1294EASA, European Aviation Safety Agency
1295EAST, Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
1296EBD, Electronic Brake Distribution
1297EBE, Extraterrestrial Biological Entity
1298EBO,(i/a) Effects Based Operations,Encyclopædia Britannica Online,European Board of Ophthalmology
1299EBSA, Employee Benefits Security Administration
1300EBW, Electron Beam Welding
1301EBW, Exploding BridgeWire
1302EC- Ecuador (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code), Electronic Combat,European Community (see EEC), Exacoulomb
1303ECB- England (and Wales) Cricket Board,European Central Bank
1304ECBR, European Coalition for Biomedical Research
1305ECASS, European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences [1]
1306ECCM, Electronic Counter-Counter-Measures
1307ECFS, Electronic Case Filing System
1308ECG, Electrocardiogram
1309ECHO- 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
1310ECHR, European Convention on Human Rights
1311ECJ, European Court of Justice
1312ECL, Emitter Coupled Logic (electronics)
1313ECM- Electronic Counter-Measures,Enterprise Content Management
1314ECommHR, European Commission on Human Rights
1315ECS- Emergency Contact System,Enhanced Chip Set (computing),EOSDIS Core System,Extended Chip Set (computing)
1316ECSC, European Coal and Steel Community (distant ancestor of the EU)
1317ECT, ElectroConvulsive Therapy
1318ECtHR, European Court of Human Rights
1319ECU- Ecuador (ISO 3166 trigram), European Currency Unit (ancestor of the euro)
1320ECW- Eastern Championship Wrestling/Extreme Championship Wrestling,ED[edit]
1321EDA, European Defence Agency
1322EDAC, Error Detection And Correction
1323EDCS, Environmental Data Coding Specification
1324EDD- 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)
1325EDECSIM, Extended Directed Energy Combat Simulation
1326EDGAR, Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings database)
1327EDH, Eastman Dental Hospital
1328EDS- Electronic Data Systems,Electronic Differential System
1329EDSA, Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (a major thoroughfare in Manila with great significance to post-1980 Philippines history)
1330EDT, Eastern Daylight Saving Time (UTC4 hours)
1331EDTA- Electric Drive Transportation Association, EthyleneDiamineTetraAcetic acid,EE[edit]
1332ee, Ewe language (ISO 639-1 code)
1333EE- Estonia (ISO 3166 digram; from the country's native name of Eesti), Electrical engineering,Electrical Engineer,E&E, Escape and Evasion (training)
1334EEC, European Economic Community (predecessor of the EU)
1335EEG, ElectroEncephaloGram
1336EEK, Estonian kroon (ISO 4217 currency code)
1337EENT, End Evening Nautical Twilight
1338EEO, Equal Employment Opportunity
1339EEOC, (U.S.) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
1340EEZ, Economic Exclusion Zone or Exclusive Economic Zone
1341EF- Electro-focus (Canon lens mount),Entry Foyer, Exafarad
1342EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation
1343EFL,English as a Foreign Language
1344EFM, Enterprise Feedback Management
1345EFOA, European Fuel Oxygenates Association
1346EFSA, European Food Safety Authority
1347EFT, Electronic Fund Transfer
1348EFTA- European Free Trade Area, European Free Trade Association
1349EFV, Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle
1350EG, Egypt (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1351EGBUS, External Genitalia, Bartholin's glands, Urethra & Skene's glands
1352EGCG, EpiGalloCatechin-3-Gallate
1353EGIS, Erieye Ground Interface Segment
1354EGP, Egyptian pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
1355EGRET, Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope
1356EGY, Egypt (ISO 3166 trigram)
1357EH, Exahenry,Western Sahara (ISO 3166 digram)
1358EHA- Education for All Handicapped Children Act (U.S. federal legislation; since superseded by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), Emotional Health Anonymous
1359EHF, Extremely High Frequency
1360EHR, Equipment History Record
1361Ei, Exbi
1362EI, Ireland (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Éire)
1363EIA, Environmental Impact Assessment
1364EIAH,Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain
1365EIAH,Encyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History
1366EIC,East India Company
1367EICS,East India Company's Service
1368eID,electronic ID
1369EIRP, Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
1370EIS, Environmental Impact Statement
1371EJ, Exajoule
1372EK, Equatorial Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code),Exakelvin
1373EKG, Electrocardiogram (from German Elektrokardiogramm)
1374EKMS, Electronic Key Management System
1375el, Greek language (ISO 639-1 code)
1376EL, Exalitre
1377ELF-(a/i) Earth Liberation Front,Endangered Language Fund,Eritrean Liberation Front,Executable and Linkable Format,Extremely Low Frequency
1378ELINT, Electronic Intelligence
1379ell, Greek language (ISO 639-2 code)
1380ELL, English Language Learner
1381ELM, Edge-Localised Mode (plasma physics)
1382ELO, Electric Light Orchestra
1383ELP- Emerson, Lake & Palmer,European Left Party
1384ELSS, Emergency Life Support Stores
1385ELT, Emergency Locator Transmitter
1386Em, Exametre
1387EM, ElectroMagnetism/ElectroMagnetic
1388EMA,(i/a) European Medicines Agency
1389EMC- Electric Membership Corporation,Electromagnetic Compatibility,Electro-Motive Corporation,European Muon Collaboration,Evergreen Marine Corporation
1390EMCON, (Electromagnetic) Emissions Control
1391EMD- General Motors Electro-Motive Division,Engineering and Manufacturing Development,European Missile Defence
1392EMDG, Euro-Missile Dynamics Group
1393EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
1394EMEA, Europe, Middle East and Africa
1395EMF- Electromotive force,Epsom Mad Funkers (1990s-2000s indie dance band)
1396EMG, ElectroMyoGraph
1397EMO, Emergency Measures Organisation- Emotional
1398EMP, ElectroMagnetic Pulse
1399EMS, Emergency Medical Services
1400EMT, Emergency Medical Technician
1401EMU, Electric Multiple Unit,a method of connecting self-propelled railway vehicles together to form a train under the control of one driver.
1402en, English language (ISO 639-1 code)
1403EN- Corps of Engineers, Estonia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Exanewton
1404ENCODE, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (human genome data project)
1405ENE, East North-East
1406eng, English language (ISO 639-2 code)
1407ENG, England (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram)
1408ENT, Ear, Nose and Throat
1409ENTEC, Euro NATO Training Engineer Centre
1410ENVL, Envelope
1411ENY, Enemy
1412eo, Esperanto language (ISO 639-1 code)
1413EO- Electro-Optics,Engagement Operations
1414EOD, Explosive Ordnance Disposal
1415EOG, ElectroOculoGraphy
1416EOS- Earth Observation Satellite,(a/i) Electro-Optical System, Canon's autofocusing system for film and digital SLR cameras, Electrophoresis Operations in Space, a space manufacturing project of the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company
1417EOSAT, Earth Observation Satellite
1418EOSDIS,(a/i) Earth Observation Satellite Data and Information System
1419EOTS- Electro-Optical Tactical Sensor,(a/i) Eye Of The Storm (World of Warcraft)
1420EOM, End of Message
1421EP, European Parliament
1422EP, Extended play
1423EPA- EicosaPentaenoic Acid, Environmental Protection Agency
1424EPCOT, Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow
1425EPCR- Endothelial protein C receptor,European Professional Club Rugby
1426EPGS, EOS Polar Ground Sites
1427EPIRB,(a/i) Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon
1428EPL, English Premier League
1429epo, Esperanto language (ISO 639-2 code)
1430EPOS, Electronic Point Of Sale
1431EPPA, Employee Polygraph Protection Act
1432EPR, European Pressurised [Nuclear] Reactor
1433EPW- Earth Penetrator Weapon/Warhead,Economic and Political Weekly (Indian publication),Enemy Prisoner of War,EQ[edit]
1434EQ, Emotional Quotient
1435EQG, Equatorial Guinea (FIFA trigram, but not IOC or ISO 3166)
1436Er, Erbium
1437ER- Emergency Room, Eritrea (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1438ERA- Earned run average,Engineering Research Associates,Equal Rights Amendment,English Racing Automobiles,European Railway Agency
1439ERCIM,(a/i) European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
1440ERI, Eritrea (ISO 3166 trigram)
1441ERLAWS, Eastern Ruapehu Lahar Alarm and Warning System
1442ERN, Eritrean nakfa (ISO 4217 currency code)
1443EROS, Earth Resources Observation System
1444ERP, Engineer Regulating Point
1445ERR, Eesti Rahvusringhääling
1446ERS, Earth Resources Survey
1447ERTS, Earth Resources Technology Satellite (became Landsat)
1448ERV, Endogenous RetroVirus
1449es, Spanish language (ISO 639-1 code)
1450Es- Einsteinium,Exasecond
1451ES- El Salvador (FIPS 10-4 country code), Electronic warfare Support, Exasiemens,Spain (ISO 3166 digram; from the country's native name of España)
1452ESA- Electro-Spark Alloying,Endangered Species Act,European Space Agency
1453ESC- Embryonic Stem Cell,Electronic Stability Control
1454ESD, ElectroStatic Discharge
1455ESDP, European Security and Defence Policy
1456ESE, East South-East
1457ESH, Western Sahara (ISO 3166 trigram)
1458ESL, English as a Second Language
1459ESM, Electronic warfare Support Measures
1460ESO, European Southern Observatory
1461ESOL, English for Speakers of Other Languages
1462ESP- Electronic Stability Program,Extra-sensory perception, Spain (ISO 3166 trigram)
1463ESPGHAN,European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
1464ESPN, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
1465est, Estonian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1466EST- Eastern Standard Time (UTC5 hours), Estonia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1467ESU, Emergency Services Unit
1468ESV, Engineer Support Vehicle
1469et, Estonian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1470ET- Ethiopia (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1471Exatesla- Extra Terrestrial
1472ETB, Ethiopian Birr (ISO 4217 currency code)
1473ETF, Emergency Task Force (a special police unit, also jocularly said to stand for Extra-Thick Fuzz)
1474ETH, Ethiopia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1475ETI, Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
1476ETLA, Extended TLA
1477ETM- Electronic Technical Manual,Enhanced Thematic Mapper
1478ETOPS, Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards (aviation)
1479ETT, Embedded Training Team
1480eu, Basque language (ISO 639-1 code)
1481Eu, Europium
1482EU- Europa Island (FIPS 10-4 country code), European Union
1483EUCOM, (U.S.) European Command
1484EUR, euro (ISO 4217 currency code)
1485eus, Basque language (ISO 639-2 code)
1486EUUSA, European Union and United States of America
1487EV, Exavolt
1488EVA- Earned Value Analysis,Economic value added,Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate,Extra-Vehicular Activity
1489EVIL, Electronic viewfinder (with) interchangeable lens (a type of digital camera)
1490EW, Electronic Warfare, Exawatt
1491ewe, Ewe language (ISO 639-2 code)
1492EWR, Newark Liberty International Airport (IATA airport code)
1493EWTN, Eternal Word Television Network
1494EXFOR, Experimental Force (military)
1495EXREP, Expeditious Repair (SM&R code)
1496EZ, Czech Republic (FIPS 10-4 country code), Extraction Zone
1497f, Femto
1498F, Farad,Fluorine
1499fa, Persian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1500FA,Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous
1501fA, Femtoampere
1502FA, Field Artillery,Financial Aid,Football Association (England)
1503FAA, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration,Financial Aid Administrator,Fleet Air Arm,Functional Area Analysis
1504FAAD, Forward Area Air Defence
1505FAADEZ, Forward Area Air Defence Engagement Zone
1506FAAN, Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology
1507FAAFP,Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians
1508FAAN, Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
1509FAAQ,(a/i) Frequently Asked and Anticipated Questions (cf. FAQ)
1510FAASV, Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle
1511FAB, Feline Advisory Bureau (UK feline charity)
1512FAC, Forward Air Controller,Front of Allies for Change,Frontal Affinity Chromatography,Full Aperture Calibrator
1513FACA, (US) Federal Advisory Committee Act
1514FACH, Fuerza Aérea de Chile
1515FACN, Fellow of the American College of Nutrition
1516FACP, Fellow of the American College of Physicians
1517FACS, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Formal Aspects of Computing Science,Fluorescent-activated cell sorting
1518FACTS, Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System
1519FAD, Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide,Fuck A Duck, Funding Authorization Document
1520FAH, Federation of American Hospitals,Fine Arts and Humanities,Foreign Affairs Handbook
1521FAM, Foreign Affairs Manual
1522fao, Faroese language (ISO 639-2 code)
1523FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization
1524FAPA,Fellow of the American Psychological Association
1525FAPHA,Fellow of the American Public Health Association
1526FARP, Forward Arming and Refuelling Point / Forward Area Rearm/refuel Point
1527fas, Persian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1528FAS, Federation of American Scientists,Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
1529FASCAM, Family of Scatterable Mines[1]
1530FASD, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
1531FASEB,(a/i) Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
1532FAT, Field Artillery Tractor,File Allocation Table
1533FAVS, Future Armoured Vehicle System
1534FAW, Football Association of Wales
1535FB,Facebook, An on-line social network
1536FBCS, Fellow of the British Computer Society
1537FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
1538FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
1539FBIDST, Fellow of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists
1540FBM, Board foot
1541FBR- Fast Breeder Reactor,Foundation for Biomedical Research,Friedman, Billings, Ramsey (now known as Arlington Asset Investment)
1542FBS-Federal Bureau of Statistics (Pakistan),Fetal bovine serum,Football Bowl Subdivision (U.S. college football),Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation,FC[edit]
1543fC, Femtocoulomb
1544FC- Fire Control,Football Club, Funnel Cloud (METAR Code)
1545FCA- Fellowship of Christian Athletes,Fiat Chrysler Automobiles,Fraction of Combat Active forces
1546FCC, U.S. Federal Communications Commission
1547FCE, First Certificate in English
1548FCF, Financial Free Cash Flow
1549FCLA,Fraud Claims Law Associate
1550FCM- Federation of Canadian Municipalities,Fogarty's Cove Music
1551FCO, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1552FCS- Football Championship Subdivision (U.S. college football),Future Combat System
1553FCW, Florida Championship Wrestling
1554FCZ, Forward Combat Zone
1555FD, Falun Dafa
1556FDA, Food and Drug Administration (U.S.)
1557FDC, Federal Detention Center (U.S.),Fire Direction Centre
1558FDDI, Fibre Distributed Data Interface
1559FDBK,(I) Feedback
1560FDR, Flight Data Recorder,Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1561Fe, Iron (Latin Ferrum)
1562FE, Fully Exposed (armoured vehicle target, as opposed to Hull-Down)
1563FEAR, First Encounter Assault Recon,False Evidence Appears Real
1564FEAST,(a/i) Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation
1565FEATS, Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies link title
1566FEBA, Forward Edge of the Battle Area
1567FED,(a/i) Field emission display
1568FEDEP, Federation Development Process (Simulation)
1569FEF, Frontal Eye Field (neurophysiology)
1570FEMA-(a/i) Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association,(a/i) U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency,Fire Equipment Manufacturers' Association
1571FENS,(a/i) Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
1572FEP, Firepower Enhancement Program,Fleet satellite (FLTSAT) Extremely high frequency (EHF) Package
1573FES, Flywheel Energy Storage
1574FEST, Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre link title
1575FET, Field-effect transistor
1576FEZ,(a/i) Fighter Engagement Zone
1577ff, Fula language (ISO 639-1 code)
1578fF, Femtofarad
1579FF- Final Fantasy, Firefox (Web browser)
1580FFA- Football Federation Australia,Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency,Free-Fire Area,Fusiform Face Area,Future Farmers of America (today the National FFA Organization)
1581FFB, Frum From Birth (referring to an observant Jew born into a religiously observant family)
1582FFC, Free For Chat
1583FFE, Fukuoka Futures Exchange
1584FFG, Guided Missile Frigate (hull classification symbol)
1585FFOV, Forward Field Of View
1586FFS, For Fuck's Sake
1587FFT- Fast Fourier Transform,Final Fantasy Tactics,FG[edit]
1588FG, Falun Gong
1589fg, Femtogram
1590FG, Fog (METAR Code),French Guiana (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1591FGR, Flickr Group Roulette
1592fH, Femtohenry
1593FHFIF, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
1594FHI, Family Health International, Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd.
1595fi, Finnish language (ISO 639-1 code)
1596FI, Finland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1597FIB, Fucking Illinois Bastard (Wisconsin slang, variants exist)
1598FIBUA,(i/a) Fighting In Built-Up Areas
1599FIC, Fellowship for Intentional Community
1600FID, Foreign Internal Defence
1601FIE, Fly-In Echelon
1602FIFO, First In, First Out
1603FIFRA, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
1604FIGJAM, Fuck I'm Good, Just Ask Me
1605fij, Fijian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1606FILO, First In, Last Out (see also LIFO)
1607FIMPT, Fellow of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
1608fin, Finnish language (ISO 639-2 code)
1609FIN, Finland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1610FIPS, Federal Information Processing Standard
1611FIRES,Fever Induced Refractory Epilepsy Syndrome or Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome
1612FISH, Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridisation
1613FiST, Fire Support Team
1614FITS, Flexible Image Transport System
1615FIU, Florida International University
1616fj, Fijian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1617fJ, Femtojoule
1618FJ, Fiji (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1619FJD, Fiji dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
1620FJI, Fiji (ISO 3166 trigram)
1621FJN, Financial Job Network
1622fK, Femtokelvin
1623FK, Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1624FKP, Falkland Islands pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
1625FKSM, Fort Knox Supplemental Manual
1626FKT, Fastest Known Time
1627fL, Femtolitre
1628FL, Florida (postal symbol)
1629FLA, Florida, Front Line Assembly,Future Large Aircraft
1630FLAB, Four-letter abbreviation
1631FLAC,(a/i) Free Lossless Audio Codec
1632FLAC,(a/i) Free Legal Advice Centres
1633FLB, Forward Logistics Base
1634FLET,(a/i) Forward Line of Enemy Troops
1635FLG, Falun Gong
1636FLIP, Flight Information Publication
1637FLIR, Forward Looking InfraRed (sensor)
1638FLK, Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1639FLOT,(a/i) Forward Line of Own Troops
1640FLSA, Fair Labor Standards Act
1641FLQ, Free Legal Questions
1642FLTSAT, Fleet Satellite
1643FLTSATCOM, Fleet Satellite Communication System
1644FLUBOS, Fat, Lazy, Useless, Bag Of Shit
1645FM, Factory Mutual http://fmglobal.com
1646fm, Femtometre
1647Fm, Fermium
1648FM- 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)
1649FMC- Federal Magistrates' Court (an Australian federal court, formerly FMS),Food Machinery Corporation (original name of the company now known as FMC Corporation)
1650FMCA, Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia (used for citing decisions of the FMC other than family law decisions)
1651FMCAfam, Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia: family (used for citing family law decisions of the FMC)
1652FME, Formal Methods Europe
1653FMECA, Failure Modes and Effect Criticality Analysis
1654FMJD, Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames[2]
1655FMLA, Family Medical Leave Act
1656fMRI, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
1657FMS- Federal Magistrates Service (an Australian federal court, now FMC), Flight Management System,Foreign Military Sales
1658FMSF, False Memory Syndrome Foundation
1659FMTV, Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles
1660FMCG, (Fast Moving Consumer Goods)
1661fN, Femtonewton
1662FNA, Functional Needs Analysis
1663fo, Faroese language (ISO 639-1 code)
1664FO, Faroe Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code), Force Operations (military),Forward Observer,Frame Optional (military symbology)
1665FOAD, Fuck Off And Die
1666FOAF, Friend Of A friend
1667FoB, Free On Board (shipping)
1668FOB,(i/a) Forward Operating Base
1669FOC, Full Operational Capability,First of Class
1670FoE, Friends of the Earth
1671FOGC, Federal Oil and Gas Council
1672FOH, Front Of House
1673FOIA, Freedom of Information Act
1674FOM, Federation Object Model
1675FONSI, Finding of No Significant Impact
1676FOO, Forward Observation Officer
1677FOR, Field Of Regard,Frame Of Reference
1678Fortran, The IBM Mathematical FORmula TRANslating System (programming language)
1679FOS, Florida Ornithological Society,Full Operational Status
1680FoS, Family of Systems
1681FOSE, Fallout 3 Script Extender
1682FOSE, Federal Office Systems Expo
1683FOT, Free on truck
1684FOTA, Fellow of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
1685FOTC,Flight of the Conchords
1686FOUO, For Official Use Only
1687FOV, Field Of View
1688FP, French Polynesia (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1689fps, frames per second (motion pictures, television, computer graphics)
1690FPS- Fire Prevention System,First Person Shooter (computer/video games)
1691FOOP, Friends Of Organ Pipes (Volunteer group)
1692FQ, Baker Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),French Southern and Antarctic Territories (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1979)
1693FQDN, Fully Qualified Domain Name
1694fr, French language (ISO 639-1 code)
1695Fr, Francium
1696FR, France (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
1697fra, French language (ISO 639-2 code)
1698FRA- Federal Railroad Administration, France (ISO 3166 trigram)
1699FRAGO, Fragmentary Order (military)
1700FRAND, Fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (concept in standards-setting and intellectual property law)
1701FRCP- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
1702FRICBM, Full Range ICBM
1703frr, North Frisian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1704FRO, Faroe Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1705FRS- Fellow of the Royal Society,U.S. Federal Reserve System
1706FRSA, Fellow of the Royal Society of Art
1707fry, West Frisian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1708FRY, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1709fs, Femtosecond
1710fS, Femtosiemens
1711FS- Fire Support (military), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1712FSA- Fire Support Area,UK Food Standards Agency,Functional Solution Analysis
1713FSC- Federal Supply Classification, Forest Stewardship Council (ecological pressure group
1714FSCL, Fire Support Co-ordination Line
1715FSE, Fire Support Element
1716FSF, Free Software Foundation
1717FSH, Follicle Stimulating Hormone
1718FSI, Fuel Stratified Injection
1719FSM- Federated States of Micronesia (ISO 3166 trigram), Flying Spaghetti Monster (satirical religion)
1720FSO- Fire Support Officer,Flotilla Staff Officer,Foreign Service Officer
1721FSS, Fire Support Station
1722FSSP, Families of Structurally Similar Proteins
1723FST- Finance Support Team,Finlands Svenska Television (Finland's Swedish-language television),Future Soviet Tank (Cold War era)
1724FSTC, Foreign Science Technology Center (now NGIC)
1725fT, Femtotesla
1726FTC, Federal Trade Commission
1727FTE, Full Time Equivalent
1728FTL, Faster Than Light
1729FTP, File Transfer Protocol
1730FTW, For The Win (a commonly used phrase used online to indicate success) F@#K The World, Forever Together Where ever (gang slogan)
1731FTS, Flight Termination System used during some rocket launches
1732FTS, Fuck That Shit
1733FU, Smoke (METAR Code)
1734FUBAR, Fucked/Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair
1735FUCK, For, Unlawful, Carnal, Knowledge (Van Halen album title)
1736FUD, Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt (marketing strategy)
1737ful, Fula language (ISO 639-2 code)
1738fV, Femtovolt
1739fW, Femtowatt
1740FW, Forward
1741FWC, Football World Cup
1742FWF, Fixed Word Format
1743FWI, French West Indies
1744FWIW, For What It's Worth
1745FWS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1746FWT, Fresh Water Tank
1747FX, Firefox,Fox Extended, Metropolitan France (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1997),Special effect
1748FXX, Metropolitan France (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1997)
1749fy, West Frisian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1750FY, Fiscal Year, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (NATO country code)
1751FYA, For Your Agenda
1752FYDP, Five-Year Defense Plan (U.S.)
1753FYI, For Your Information
1754FYROM, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
1755FZDZ, Freezing Drizzle (METAR Code)
1756FZFG, Freezing Fog (METAR Code)
1757FZRA, Freezing Rain (METAR Code)
1758g, Gram
1759G, Gauss, General Audiences (movie rating)
1760G1, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Personnel
1761G2, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Intelligence
1762G3,many, including Heckler & Koch G3; see entry, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Operations and Plans
1763G4, Generation Four PowerPC microprocessor, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Logistics
1764G5, Generation Five PowerPC microprocessor, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Public Affairs
1765G6, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Information Technology, Group of 6 (France, Germany, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy) (1975)
1766G7, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Training, Group of 7 (G6 + Canada) (1976)
1767G8, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Finance, Group of 8 (G7 + Russia) (1998)
1768G9, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC)
1769G10, Group of 10 (G7 + Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland; numbering 11 in fact)
1770G15, 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)
1771G20, Group of 20 (G8 + Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey + current European Union presiding country) (1999)
1772G24, 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)
1773G77, Group of 77 (issued from the United Nations Conference on Commerce and Development, 1964; currently numbers 133)
1774Ga, Gallium,Gigaannum
1775GA, Gabon (ISO 3166 digram),The Gambia (FIPS 10-4 country code), Gamblers Anonymous,Georgia (postal symbol),Gigaampere,Goa (Indian state code)
1776GAAR, General Anti-Avoidance Rule (tax evasion)
1777GAB, Gabon (ISO 3166 trigram)
1778GABA, Gamma-AminoButyric Acid
1779GAD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
1780GAF, Garfield and Friends
1781GALCIT, Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
1782GAO, U.S. Government Accountability Office
1783GAW, Global Atmospheric Watch
1784GB, Gabon (FIPS 10-4 country code),United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 digram) [glamour boy 7-9/10]
1785GBBC, Great (Global) Backyard Bird Count
1786GBE, Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
1787GBH- Great Bash Heel (Japanese professional wrestling stable),Gregory Bonner Hale (British design and advertising agency),Grievous bodily harm
1788GBP, United Kingdom pound sterling (ISO 4217 currency code)
1789GBR, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1790GBU, Glide-Bomb Unit,Global Business Unit
1791GC- East Germany (NATO country code; obsolete 1990), General classification (cycling),General counsel,George Cross (British civil decoration), Gigacoulomb [Grindr cruise]
1792GCA, Graduate in Claims Administration
1793GCD,see entry
1794GCF, Greatest Common Factor
1795GCI, Ground-controlled interception
1796GCN, Gamma-ray burst Coordination Network
1797GCS, Global Coordinate System
1798GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education (UK)
1799gd, Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-1 code)
1800Gd, Gadolinium
1801GD, Grenada (ISO 3166 digram)
1802GDC, Game Developers Conference,General Dental Council
1803GDL, Game Definition Language
1804GDP, General Dental Practitioner (UK),Gross Domestic Product
1805GDR, German Democratic Republic (cf. DDR)
1806GDR, General Distribution Release (Microsoft Term for a software service release; between Hotfix and Service Pack)
1807GDW, Game Designers Workshop
1808Ge, Germanium
1809GE, General Electric,Genetic Engineering (cf. GM), Georgia (ISO 3166 digram)
1810GEBCO, General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
1811GEC, Great Engineering Challenge
1812GED, General Educational Development (high school equivalency credential in the U.S. and Canada)
1813GEEP, Geophysical Equipment Exploration Platform
1814GEL, Georgian lari (ISO 4217 currency code),Gilbert and Ellice Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1977)
1815GEMA, Gas and Electricity Markets Authority,Georgia Emergency Management Agency, Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (German performance rights organisation), Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance
1816GEN, Full General (four stars) in the U.S. Army
1817GEO, Geostationary Earth Orbit, Georgia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1818GEOS, Graphical Environment Operating System
1819GEQ, Equatorial Guinea (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
1820GER, Germany (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
1821GeV, Gigaelectron-volt
1822GEV, Ground Effect Vehicle
1823GF- French Guiana (ISO 3166 digram),Gigafarad
1824GFCF- Gluten-free, casein-free diet,Gross fixed capital formation
1825GFCI, Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor (aka GFI)
1826GFDL, GNU Free Documentation License
1827GFE- Girlfriend experience (used in escort services),Good Faith Estimate,Government Furnished Equipment
1828GFI, Ground Fault Interruptor (aka GFCI)
1829GFL, German Football League (Germany's Bundesliga for American football; the English-language name is used in German without translation)
1830GFN, Global Footprint Network
1831GG, Georgia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1832GGK,Good God Karma
1833GGP- General Game Playing,General Growth Properties (U.S. shopping center owner),GH[edit]
1834GH, Ghana (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code),Gigahenry
1835GHA, Ghana (ISO 3166 trigram)
1836GHB, gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
1837GHC, Ghanan cedi (ISO 4217 currency code)
1838Gi, Gibi
1839GI, Galvanised Iron,Gastro-Intestinal,General Issue, Gibraltar (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code), Government Issue
1840GIB, Gibraltar (ISO 3166 trigram)
1841GIF, Graphics Interchange Format
1842GIG, Global Information Grid
1843GIGO, Garbage In Garbage Out (computing)
1844GIMP, GNU Image Manipulation Program
1845GIN, Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram), Guidelines International Network
1846GINK,Going Insane Not Knowing,orig. Colorado 2010 M.Kalfas
1847GINO, Godzilla In Name Only
1848GIP, Gibraltar pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
1849GIS, Geographic Information System, Google Image Search
1850GISS,(a/i) General Impression of Size and Shape,Goddard Institute for Space Studies
1851GJ, Gigajoule,Grenada (FIPS 10-4 country code),Gujarat (Indian state code)
1852GJD, Geocentric Julian Day
1853GK, Gigakelvin,Guernsey (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1854gl, Galician language (ISO 639-1 code)
1855GL- Gigalitre, Graphics Language, Greenland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code), Grenade Launcher
1856gla, Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-2 code)
1857GLAAD, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
1858GLAC, General Ledger Accounting Code
1859GLAST, Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
1860GLBA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
1861GLC, Gas-liquid chromatography
1862gle, Irish language (ISO 639-2 code)
1863glg, Galician language (ISO 639-2 code)
1864GLINT- Gallium-arsenide Laser Illuminator for Night TV,Gated Laser Illuminator for Narrow Television, Gated Laser Intensifier (tape),Gospel Literature International,Graphical Linux Installation Tool
1865GLP, Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 trigram)
1866GLUT,(a/i) OpenGL Utility Toolkit
1867glv, Manx language (ISO 639-2 code)
1868GLV, Gained Life Value
1869Gm, Gigametre
1870GM- The Gambia (ISO 3166 digram), GameMaster (role-playing),General Motors,Genetically Modified, Germany (FIPS 10-4 country code), Guru Meditation (computing)
1871GMAC- General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the original name of the company now known as Ally Financial,Graduate Management Admission Council,G-MAC, Great Midwest Athletic Conference
1872GMB- The Gambia (ISO 3166 trigram), General, Municipal, Boilermakers (and Allied Trade Union)
1873GMC- U.K. General Medical Council,Gospel Music Channel
1874GMD, Gambian dalasi (ISO 4217 currency code)
1875GMFSC, Ground Mobile Forces Satellite Communications
1876GMI- Generic Model Interface,Geometry Model Instance
1877GML-Generalized Markup Language,Geography Markup Language,Game Maker Language,Graph Modelling Language,Graphical Motion Language,GUI Markup Language
1878GMO, Genetically Modified Organism
1879GMPCS, Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite
1880GMT- Giant Magellan Telescope,Greenwich Mean Time,GN[edit]
1881gn, Guaraní language (ISO 639-1 code)
1882GN- Giganewton,Guinea (ISO 3166 digram)
1883GNAS, Grand National Archery Society
1884GNB, Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 trigram)
1885GNF, Guinean franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
1886GNOME, GNU Network Object Model Environment
1887GNP, Gross National Product
1888GNQ, Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram)
1889GnRH, Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
1890GNU, GNU's Not Unix
1891GO, Glorioso Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1892GOA- General of the Army (United States only), Gun Owners of America
1893GOAT, Greatest of all time (LL Cool J album title)
1894GOC, General Officer Commanding
1895GOES, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
1896GOP, Grand Old Party
1897gorp, granola, oats, raisins, peanuts (another name for trail mix), probably a backronym
1898GOSC,(a/i) General Officer Steering Committee
1899GOSH, Great Ormond Street Hospital
1900GOSP, Gas/Oil Separation Plant
1901GOTS, Government off-the-shelf
1902GOYADIN, Get Off Your Arse, Do It Now (anti-procrastination mantra)
1903GP, General Practitioner,General Purpose,Grand Prix, Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1904GPA, Grade Point Average
1905GPC, Global Path Cache
1906GPG, GNU Privacy Guard
1907GPIB, General-Purpose Instrumentation/Interface Bus
1908GPL, GNU General Public License
1909GPMP, General Purpose Macro Processor
1910GPO, General Post Office
1911GPPC, Genetics and Public Policy Center
1912GPR, Ground-Penetrating Radar
1913GPS, General Problem Solver,Global Positioning System
1914GPT, GEC-Plessey Telecommunications,General Purpose Technology,Get Paid To website
1915GQ- Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 digram), Gentlemen's Quarterly (the original name of the magazine now known simply as GQ), Guam (FIPS 10-4 territory code),GR[edit]
1916GR, Greece (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Hail (METAR Code)
1917GRAIL, Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
1918GRAS, Generally recognized as safe (FDA list)
1919GRB, Gamma-Ray Burst
1920GRC, Greece (ISO 3166 trigram)
1921GRD, Grenada (ISO 3166 trigram)
1922GRE- Graduate Record Examination, Greece (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
1923grep, [search] Globally for Regular Expression, Print [lines]
1924GRid,Global Release Identifier, a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI
1925GRID, Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (original name of AIDS)
1926GriT, Girl raised in Texas (Woman presenting firm southern traits/beliefs)
1927GRL, Greenland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1928GRN- Grenada (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166), Goods Received Note
1929grn, Guaraní language (ISO 639-2 code)
1930GRP, Graphite-reinforced plastic, see Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer
1931Gs, Gigasecond
1932GS- General Schedule (US civil service pay scale),General Support, Gigasiemens,South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
1933GSR, Gun Shot Residue
1934GSA, U.S. General Services Administration
1935GSD, Graphical Situation Display
1936GSGB,(God send glamour boy 9-10/10)
1937GSK, GlaxoSmithKline [good sexual karma]
1938GSN,(a/i) Game Show Network
1939GSO, General Services Officer (U.S. Department of State)
1940GSOH, Good Sense Of Humour
1941GSP,Georges St-Pierre (Canadian MMA fighter)
1942GSS, Generic Security Services
1943GST, Goods and Services Tax (Australia, Canada, and other countries)
1944GSW, Gunshot wound
1945GT, Gigatesla, Gran Turismo,Grand Touring, Guatemala (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
1946GTA, Grand Theft Auto
1947GTB, Get to bed, namely to get a new job after a long time of searching, usually following a phone call
1948GTC, Gran Telescopio Canarias (Spanish, Canaries Great Telescope)
1949GTD, Getting Things Done
1950GTG, Got To Go (Internet chat)
1951GTK, Good To Know (Internet chat)
1952GTGN, Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
1953GTM, Guatemala (ISO 3166 trigram)
1954GTQ, Guatemalan quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)
1955GTV, Gross Tumor Volume quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)
1956gu, Gujarati language (ISO 639-1 code)
1957GU, Guam (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
1958GUA, Guatemala (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
1959GUF, French Guiana (ISO 3166 trigram)
1960GUILT, Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin
1961guj, Gujarati language (ISO 639-2 code)
1962GULCR, Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica
1963GUT, Grand Unification Theory
1964gv, Manx language (ISO 639-1 code)
1965GV, Gigavolt,Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1966GW, Games Workshop,Germ Warfare, Gigawatt, Guided Weapon, Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 digram)
1967GWARS, Ground Warfare System (simulation)
1968GWAS, Grand Western Archery Society
1969GWOT, Global War on Terrorism
1970GWS, Gulf War Syndrome,Greater Western Sydney
1971GXA, Global XML Web Services Architecture
1972GXE, Gene-enivronment interaction
1973GXF, General Exchange Format
1974GXH, IATA code of Gannan Xiahe Airport
1975GXL, Graph eXchange Language
1976GXM, Matrox Graphics eXpansion Module
1977GXP, Grid Exit Point, Global Xchange Programme, Indication of highest performance level on some Pontiac vehicles
1978GxP, Good X Practice (X can mean: clinical, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, etc.)
1979GXY, IATA code of Greeley-Weld County Airport
1980GY, Guyana (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
1981GYD, Guyana dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
1982GYY, Gary/Chicago International Airport (IATA Airport Code)
1983GZ, Gaza Strip (FIPS 10-4 territory code), Ground Zero
1984GZK, Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off (cosmic ray energies)
1985h, Hecto
1986H, Henry,Hydrogen
1987ha, Hausa language (ISO 639-1 code),Hectare
1988HA, Haiti (FIPS 10-4 country code), High Availability
1989HAARP, High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
1990HAART, Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy
1991HAI, Human Awareness Institute
1992HAL, Hardware Abstraction Layer
1993HALO, High Altitude Low Opening (parachute jump)
1994HALT- Highly Accelerated Life Test, Hungry Angry Lonely Tired
1995HAM, Amateur radio operator
1996HANS, Head And Neck Support (device used in many race cars)
1997HARM, High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile
1998hat, Haitian Creole language (ISO 639-2 code)
1999HAT,(i/a) Highest Astronomical Tide (nautical charts), Hungarian Automated Telescope
2000hau, Hausa language (ISO 639-2 code)
2001HAW, Heavy Antitank Weapon
2002HAWK, Homing All the Way Killer (air defence system)
2003HAZ, Heat-Affected Zone
2004HAZMAT, Hazardous Materials
2005HBCD, HexaBromoCycloDodecane
2006HBCI, Home Banking Computer Interface
2007HBO, Home Box Office
2008HBR, Harvard Business Review
2009HBT, Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
2010HBV, Hepatitis B Virus
2011HCCI, Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition
2012HCF, Highest Common Factor
2013HCI, Human-Computer Interaction/Interface
2014HCSC, Higher Command and Staff Course
2015HCT, Higher Colleges of Technology, tertiary education institution in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
2016HD- Henry Draper (star catalogue),Hull-Down (armoured vehicle target, as opposed to Fully Exposed),High Definition,Huntington's Disease
2017HDD- Hard Disk Drive,High-Density Disk
2018HDL, High-Density Lipoprotein
2019HDM, Human Decision-Making
2020HDMI,High Definition Multimedia Interface
2021HDR- Hard disk recorder,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)
2022HDRA, Henry Doubleday Research Association
2023HDTV, High-Definition Television
2024he, Hebrew language (ISO 639-1 code)
2025He, Helium
2026HE, High Explosive
2027HEAT, High Explosive Anti-Tank (ammunition)
2028heb, Hebrew language (ISO 639-2 code)
2029HEBA, Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association
2030HEER, High-Explosive Extended Range (ammunition)
2031HEIC, Honourable East India Company
2032HEMP, High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse
2033HEO- High Earth Orbit, Highly Elliptical Orbit
2034HEOSS, High Earth Orbit Space Surveillance
2035HEP, High-Explosive Plastic (ammunition)
2036HEPA,(a/i) High-Efficiency Particulate Air (filter)
2037her, Herero language (ISO 639-2 code)
2038HESH, High-Explosive, Squash-Head (ammunition)
2039HESV, Heavy Engineering Support Vehicle
2040HETT, Heavy Equipment Transporting Truck / Heavy Equipment Truck Tractor
2041HEU, Highly Enriched Uranium
2042Hewitts, Hills in England, Wales and Ireland over Two Thousand feet (with topographic prominence of at least 30 m)
2043Hf, Hafnium
2044HF, High Frequency
2045HFE, Human Fertilisation and Embryology (UK Act)
2046HFE, The common-emitter current gain in a BJT transistor (also represented by βF). See: BJT
2047HFEA, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (UK)
2048Hg, Mercury (Latin Hydrargyrum)
2049HGC, UK Human Genetics Commission
2050HGF, Human Growth Factor
2051HGTV, Home & Garden Television
2052HHB,Ha Ha Bonk,The noise made when you laugh your head off. Used instead of LOL...
2053hi, Hindi language (ISO 639-1 code)
2054HI, Hawaii (postal symbol)
2055HIH, His (or Her) Imperial Highness
2056HIM, His (or Her) Imperial Majesty
2057HIMAD, High to Medium Altitude Air Defence (see also H/MAD)
2058HIMEZ, High Altitude Missile Engagement Zone
2059HIMYM,How I Met Your Mother
2060hin, Hindi language (ISO 639-2 code)
2061HIPAA, U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
2062Hipparcos, HIgh Precision Parallax COllecting Satellite
2063Hird, Hurd of interfaces representing depth (cf. HURD)
2064HiRISE, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
2065HIT, Health Information Technology
2066HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
2067HIWT, Hobart Institute of Welding Technology
2068HJD, Heliocentric Julian Day
2069HK, Hong Kong (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2070HKD, Hong Kong dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2071HKG, Hong Kong (ISO 3166 trigram)
2072HKS, HyperKinetic Syndrome
2073hL, Hectolitre
2074HL, Holding Line
2075HLA, High Level Architecture (simulation),Human Leukocyte Antigen
2076HLL, High-Level Language
2077HLN, Headline News
2078HLOS, High Level Output Specification
2079HLVW, Heavy Logistics Vehicle, Wheeled
2080HM, Heard Island and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2081HMCE, Her/His Majesty's Customs and Excise (former UK government department; succeeded by HM Revenue and Customs)
2082HMCS- Her/His Majesty's Canadian Ship,Her Majesty's Courts Service (former UK agency; succeeded by Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service)
2083HMD, Heard and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
2084HMF, HydroxyMethyl Furfural
2085HMM, Hidden Markov model
2086hmo, Hiri Motu language (ISO 639-2 code)
2087HMO, Health maintenance organization
2088HMP, Her Majesty's Prison
2089HMRC, Her/His Majesty's Revenue and Customs
2090HMS- Helmet-mounted display,Her/His Majesty's Ship (Royal Navy)
2091HMSO, Her Majesty's Stationery Office
2092HMV, His Master's Voice
2093HN, Honduras (ISO 3166 digram)
2094HND, Honduras (ISO 3166 trigram)
2095HNL, Honduran lempira (ISO 4217 currency code)
2096ho, Hiri Motu language (ISO 639-1 code)
2097Ho, Holmium
2098HO, Honduras (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2099HOLLAND, Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies
2100HOMES,the Great Lakes; Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
2101HONY,Humans of New York, a photoblog.
2102HOPI, Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (see Internet2, Abilene Network)
2103HoReCa, Hotel, Restaurant and Catering
2104HORIZON, Hélicoptère d'observation radar et d'investigation sur zone (French, Zone Investigation and Radar Observation Helicopter)
2105HOSTAC, Helicopter Operations from Ships Other Than Aircraft Carriers
2106HOT, Highly Optimised Tolerance
2107HOTAS, Hands on throttle-and-stick
2108HOV, High Occupancy Vehicle
2109hp, horse power
2110HP, Hewlett-Packard,Hindustan Petroleum, Himachal Pradesh (Indian state code)
2111HPA, UK Health Protection Agency
2112HPCL, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
2113HPLC, High Performance Liquid Chromatography
2114HPT, High[er] Payoff Target
2115HPV, Human Papilloma Virus
2116HQ, HeadQuarters, Howland Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2117HQDA, HeadQuarters, Department of the Army
2118hr, Croatian language (ISO 639-1 code)
2119HR- 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
2120HRBL, High-level Representation of Behavior Language (original name of the Herbal language)
2121HRD, Human Resource Development
2122HRED, (U.S. Army Research Laboratory's) Human Research and Engineering Directorate (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland)
2123HRF, High iness Forces
2124HRH, His (or Her) Royal Highness
2125HRK, Croatian kuna (ISO 4217 currency code)
2126HRM, His (or Her) Royal Majesty
2127HRM, Human Resource Management
2128HRT, Hormone Replacement Therapy
2129hrv, Croatian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2130HRV- Croatia (ISO 3166 trigram), High Resolution Visible,HS[edit]
2131Hs, Hassium
2132HSBC, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
2133HSC, Higher School Certificate
2134HSM, High School Musical
2135HSMAD, Human Science/Modeling and Analysis Data
2136HSN, Home Shopping Network
2137HSPH, Harvard School of Public Health
2138HSS- Health Service Support, High-Speed Steel
2139HSSI, High-Speed Serial Interface
2140HST,see entry
2141HSV- Herpes Simplex Virus,Hue Saturation Value (colour model),HT[edit]
2142ht, Haitian Creole language (ISO 639-1 code)
2143HTA, HyperText Application
2144HTC-High Tech Computer Corporation, original name of the company now known simply as HTC,Horry Telephone Cooperative
2145HTFU, Harden The Fuck Up
2146HTG, Haitian gourde (ISO 4217 currency code)
2147HTH, Hope That Helps
2148HTI, Haiti (ISO 3166 trigram)
2149HTML, HyperText Markup Language
2150HTR, Heated Towel Rail
2151HTS, High-Temperature Superconducting wire
2152HTTP, HyperText Transfer Protocol
2153HU, Hungary (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
2154HUD,(i/a) Head-Up Display,Housing and Urban Development
2155HUF, Hungarian forint (ISO 4217 currency code)
2156HUHA, Head up his/her ass (Marine salute; probably a backcronym)
2157HUMINT, Human Intelligence (military parlance)
2158hun, Hungarian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2159HUN, Hungary (ISO 3166 trigram)
2160HURD, Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons (cf. Hird)
2161HVU, High Value Unit (military)
2162HV, Upper Volta (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1984)
2163HVAC, Heating, ventilation and air conditioning Used in architecture, business and marketing; refers to a building's entire system of heating, moving, or cooling air.
2164HVAP, High Velocity Armour Piercing (ammunition)
2165HVHF,High velocity human factors
2166HVM, High Velocity Missile
2167HVO, Upper Volta (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984)
2168HVP, 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
2169HW, Hardware, High Water (nautical charts)
2170HWM, Hardware morphing (computer graphics rendering)
2171HX, IATA code of Hong Kong Airlines, Medical history, Hydrogen halide, Concept automobile by HUMMER
2172HXB, The glycoprotein Tenascian C
2173hy, Armenian language (ISO 639-1 code)
2174hye, Armenian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2175HYS, Harvard, Yale, Stanford (perennially named as the top three law schools in the U.S.)
2176hz, Herero language (ISO 639-1 code)
2177Hz, Hertz
2178HZ, Haze (METAR Code)
2179I, Iodine,One (in Roman numerals)
2180ia, Interlingua language (ISO 639-1 code)
2181IA, Iowa (postal symbol)
2182IAAL, I Am A Lawyer
2183IAB, International Association for Biologicals
2184IACREOT, International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials, and Treasurers
2185IAD, Ion Assisted Deposition
2186IADS, Integrated Air Defence System
2187IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency
2188IAF,{i} Industrial Areas Foundation
2189IAFG, Information Assurance Focus Group
2190IAI, International African Institute,Israel Aircraft Industries
2191IANA, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
2192IANAL, I Am Not A Lawyer
2193IAQ, Indoor air quality,Infrequently Asked Questions
2194IAS, Image Assessment System
2195IASIP, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2196IATA,(a/i) International Air Transport Association
2197IATF,International Automotive Task Force
2198IATSE,International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
2199IAU, International Association of Universities,International Astronomical Union
2200IAUC, International Astronomical Union Circular
2201IAW, In Accordance With
2202IB, International Baccalaureate
2203IBA, Important Bird Area
2204IBD, Inflammatory Bowel Disease
2205IBDM, Information Based Decision Making
2206IBDS, Integrated Biological Detection System,International Business Development Specialist
2207IBM, International Business Machines
2208ibo, Igbo language (ISO 639-2 code)
2209IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (part of the World Bank)
2210IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome
2211IC, Ice Crystals (METAR Code),Iceland (FIPS 10-4 country code), Integrated Circuit,[inner circle]
2212ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
2213ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization
2214ICBM, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
2215ICBN, International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
2216ICC, Integrated Command and Control,International Criminal Court,International Cricket Council,Interstate Commerce Commission,International Chamber of Commerce
2217ICD, Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator,Initial Capabilities Document,International Classification of Diseases
2218ICE,(i/a) In case of emergency
2219ICES,(a/i) International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
2220ICF, Intelligent Community Forum
2221ICM, Improved Conventional Munition,Integrated Collection Management,International Congress of Mathematicians,Iraq Campaign Medal
2222ICMP, Internet Control Message Protocol
2223ICNAF, International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (became NAFO in 1978)
2224ICNI, Integrated Communication, Navigation, and Identification
2225ICO, Intermediate Circular Orbit
2226ICP, Inductively coupled plasma,Insane Clown Posse
2227ICPE,(a/i) International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology, the annual conference of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
2228ICRAF, International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (a.k.a. World Agroforestry Centre since 2002)
2229ICRISAT,(i/a) International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
2230ICRL, Individual Component Repair List
2231ICRS, International Celestial Reference System
2232ICS, In-Country Support,Intelligence and Communications Systems,Interim Contractor Support
2233ICSI, Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
2234ICT, Information and communication technologies
2235ICTH, Island Closest to Heaven/Hell Final Fantasy VIII
2236ICV, Infantry Carrier Vehicle
2237ICW, In Co-ordination With,Indonesia Corruption Watch,Infectious and Chemotherapeutic Waste,Insulating Concrete Wall,Integral Crystalline Waterproofing, Interactive Courseware
2238ICYMI, In Case You Missed It
2239ICZN, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature,International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
2240id, Indonesian language (ISO 639-1 code)
2241ID- 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)
2242IDA- U.S. Institute for Defense Analyses,International Development Association (part of the World Bank
2243IDC, International Data Corporation
2244IDDI, I don't do initialisms (see irony)
2245IDE- Integrated Development Environment,Integrated Drive Electronics
2246IDeA, Improvement and Development Agency, the former name of Local Government Improvement and Development in the United Kingdom
2247IDEA- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (U.S.),International Data Encryption Algorithm,International Design Excellence Awards
2248IDF- Israel Defense Forces,Intel Development Forum,International Dairy Federation
2249IDGAF, I don't give a fuck
2250IDK, I don't know
2251IDKIBTI,I don't know, I'm black, that's it
2252IDL, Interface Definition Language
2253IDN, Indonesia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2254ido, Ido language (ISO 639-2 code)
2255IDR, Indonesian rupiah (ISO 4217 currency code)
2256ie, Interlingue language (ISO 639-1 code)
2257IE, Indo-European languages,Internet Explorer, Ireland (ISO 3166 digram),Iced Earth
2258IEA, International Energy Agency
2259IEC, International Electrotechnical Commission
2260IED, Improvised Explosive Device
2261IELTS, International English Language Testing System
2262IER, Information Exchange Requirement
2263IET, Institution of Engineering and Technology
2264IET,(ii) Initial Entry Training
2265IETF, Internet Engineering Task Force
2266IEW, Intelligence and Electronic Warfare
2267IFAB, International Football Association Board
2268IFAH, International Federation for Animal Health
2269IFAP, International Federation of Agricultural Producers
2270IFC, International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank), Independent Film Channel
2271IFF, Identification, Friend or Foe,Individually Fresh Frozen,International Flavors and Fragrances
2272IFFN, Identification, Friend, Foe, or Neutral
2273IFO, Identified Flying Object (see also UFO)
2274IFOR, UN Implementation Force, Institute for Operations Research,International Fellowship of Reconciliation
2275IFOV, Instantaneous Field of View
2276IFPI, International Federation of Phonographic Industries
2277IFR, Instrument Flight Rules
2278IFRB, International Frequency Registration Board
2279IFV, Infantry Fighting Vehicle
2280ig, Igbo language (ISO 639-1 code)
2281IG, Inspector General
2282IGNOU, Indira Gandhi National Open University
2283IGS, International Ground Station
2284IGY, Israeli Gay Youth,International Geophysical Year
2285IHH, Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
2286IHO,(i/a) International Hydrographic Organization
2287IHR, Institute for Historical Review
2288IHSI,Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (Jesuit Historical Institute)
2289ii, Sichuan Yi language (ISO 639-1 code)
2290II, Two (in Roman numerals)
2291IICA, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
2292IIE, Innovative Interstellar Explorer
2293iii, Sichuan Yi language (ISO 639-2 code)
2294III, Three (in Roman numerals)
2295IIRC, If I Recall/Remember Correctly
2296IISS, International Institute for Strategic Studies
2297IIT, Illinois Institute of Technology,Indian Institutes of Technology,Indiana Institute of Technology
2298IJN, Imperial Japanese Navy (World War II)
2299IJWP, Interim Joint Warfare Publication
2300ik, Inupiaq language (ISO 639-1 code)
2301IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad (the company's founder), Elmtaryd (the farm where he was born and raised), Agunnaryd (a village and parish near the farm)
2302iku, Inuktitut language (ISO 639-2 code)
2303IL, Illinois (postal symbol),Israel (ISO 3166 digram)
2304ILC, International Law Commission,International Linear Collider
2305ILDS, Improved Landmine Detection System
2306ile, Interlingue language (ISO 639-2 code)
2307ILO, International Labour Organization
2308ILRI, International Livestock Research Institute
2309ILS, Israeli shekel (ISO 4217 currency code)
2310ILY, IATA code for Islay Airport (Scotland), I Love You [pronounced ILL-LEE]
2311IM- Isle of Man (FIPS 10-4 territory code), Instant Message (internet speech)
2312IMA- Intermediate Maintenance Activity,Institute of Mathematics and Applications
2313IMBD, International Migratory Bird Day
2314IMDb,Internet Movie Database
2315IME, In My Experience
2316IMF- 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)
2317IMHO, In My Humble/Honest Opinion, cf. IMO
2318IML, International Mister Leather
2319IMLAST, International Movement for Leisure Activities in Science and Technology,see MILSET
2320IMNM,,Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy a rare, but serious ADR of statins [1]
2321IMNSHO, In My Not So Humble Opinion
2322IMPAC, International Merchant Purchase Authorization Card
2323IMPACT, International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce
2324IMPATT, IMPact Avalanche Transit Time diode
2325IMPT, Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
2326IMRO-Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization,Irish Music Rights Organisation
2327IMRL, Individual Material iness List
2328IMS- Information Management System,International Meat Secretariat,Ion Mobility Spectrometer
2329IMSA- Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy,International Mind Sports Association,International Motor Sports Association
2330IMsL, International Ms. Leather
2331IMT, Integrated Management Tool
2332IMU, International Mathematical Union
2333In, Indium
2334IN, India (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Indiana (postal symbol),Infantry
2335ina, Interlingua language (ISO 639-2 code)
2336INA, Immigration and Nationality Act
2337INAS, International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
2338INCITS, InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
2339ind, Indonesian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2340IND, India (ISO 3166 trigram)
2341inet, the Internet
2342INDIGO, (U.S.) INtelligence DIvision Gaming Operation
2343INFORMS, (U.S.) Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
2344INFOSEC, Information Security
2345INLA, Irish National Liberation Army
2346INMARSAT, International Maritime Satellite organization
2347INR, Indian rupee (ISO 4217 currency code)
2348INRIA, Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
2349INS, Immigration and Naturalization Service
2350InSAR, Interferometric synthetic aperture radar
2351INST, Information Standards and Technology
2352INTSUM, Intelligence Summary
2353INTERFET, International Force for East Timor
2354io, Ido language (ISO 639-1 code)
2355IO, British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2356IOC- Initial Operational Capability,Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission,International Olympic Committee,International Ornithological Congress
2357IOLTA, Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (charitable funding mechanism, especially for legal aid)
2358IOM- Iowa, Ohio, Michigan (soybean origin),Institute of Medicine,International Organisation for Migration,Isle of Man
2359IONA, Islands of the North Atlantic (alternate name for Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and related islands)
2360IOT, British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 trigram)
2361IP, Clipperton Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code), Initial Point,Intellectual Property,Internet Protocol
2362IPA, India Pale Ale,International Phonetic Alphabet,Isopropyl alcohol
2363IPB, Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
2364IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,Independent Police Complaints Commission
2365ipk, Inupiaq language (ISO 639-2 code)
2366IPL, Inferior Parietal Lobule
2367IPO, Initial Public Offering
2368IPR, In Progress Review,Intellectual Property Rights,Intelligence Production Requirement
2369IPT, Integrated Product/Project Team
2370IPTS, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
2371IPTV, Internet Protocol TeleVision
2372IPW, Interrogation of Prisoners of War
2373IQ, Intelligence Quotient, Iraq (ISO 3166 digram)
2374IQD, Iraqi dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2375Ir, Iridium
2376IR, Infrared,Intelligence requirement (military), Iran (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Iran Air (IATA alpha code) see entry for more
2377IRA, Individual Retirement Account,Irish Republican Army (see also List of organisations known as the Irish Republican Army for groups claiming descent from this organisation)
2378IRAD, Internal Research and Development
2379IRAN,(I) Inspect and Repair As Necessary
2380IRAS, Infrared Astronomical Satellite
2381IRB, International Rugby Board
2382IRBM, Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
2383IRC, International Red Cross,International Reply Coupon,Internet Relay Chat
2384IREA, Intermountain Rural Electric Association
2385IRL, Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram),Industrial Research Limited,Indy Racing League,In real life
2386IRN, Iran (ISO 3166 trigram)
2387IRINN,Islamic Republic of Iran News Network
2388IRO, International Refugee Organisation
2389IRQ, Iraq (ISO 3166 trigram)
2390IRR, Iranian rial (ISO 4217 currency code)
2391IRS, U.S. Internal Revenue Service
2392IRST, Infra-red Search and Track
2393is, Icelandic language (ISO 639-1 code)
2394IS- Iceland (ISO 3166 digram),Israel (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2395ISA- Individual Savings Account,Industry Standard Architecture,Instruction Set Architecture,International Seabed Authority
2396ISAAA, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications
2397ISAF- International Sailing Federation,International Security Assistance Force
2398ISAR, Inverse SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)
2399ISB, Intermediate Staging Base
2400ISBN, International Standard Book Number (ISO 2108)
2401ISCCP, International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
2402ISCII, Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange
2403ISDN,Integrated Services Digital Network
2404ISEF, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
2405ISEN, Internet Search Environment Number
2406ISF, Internal Security Force
2407ISI-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
2408ISIL,(i/a) Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
2409ISIS-(i/a) Institute for Science and International Security,Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
2410ISK, Icelandic krona (ISO 4217 currency code)
2411isl, Icelandic language (ISO 639-2 code)
2412ISL, Iceland (ISO 3166 trigram)
2413ISLN, International Standard Lawyer Number (used initially by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell)
2414ISM- Industrial, scientific or medical, Interstellar medium
2415ISMB, International Society of Matrix Biologists
2416ISMC, Intelligent Sounding Meaningless Conversation
2417ISOGP, Indian Society of Orthodontics for General Practitioners [2]
2418ISP- International Standardized Profile,Internet Service Provider,Information Systems Professional
2419ISPE,(a/i) International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
2420ISR- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Israel (ISO 3166 trigram)
2421ISRO, Indian Space Research Organisation
2422ISS- International Shorebird Survey (North America),International Space Station
2423ISSCR, International Society for Stem Cell Research
2424ISSN, International standard serial number (ISO 3297)
2425IST- Information System Technology,UCF Institute for Simulation and Training
2426ISTAR, Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance
2427ISTC, Institute of Scientific and Technical Communications (UK)
2428ISTS, Intel Science Talent Search
2429ISU- Integrated Sight Unit,International Skating Union,IT[edit]
2430it, Italian language (ISO 639-1 code)
2431IT- InferoTemporal (neurophysiology),Information Technology, Italy (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2432ita, Italian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2433ITA, Italy (ISO 3166 trigram)
2434ITAG, Inertial Terrain-Aided Guidance
2435ITALY, I'll Truly Always Love You
2436ITAS, Improved Target Acquisition Sight
2437ITC, InferoTemporal Cortex (neurophysiology)
2438ITCZ,(i/p) Intertropical Convergence Zone
2439ITEC, Information Technology Exposition & Conference
2440ITEMS, Interactive Tactical Environment Management System
2441ITER, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
2442ITF, International Tennis Federation
2443ITK, In The Know
2444ITN, Independent Television News (British)
2445ITS- Incompatible Time-sharing System,Individual Training Standards
2446ITT, International Telephone and Telegraph (U.S.)
2447ITTO, International Tropical Timber Organization
2448ITU- Intent-to-Use,International Telecommunication Union (International Telegraph Union 1865-1932),IU[edit]
2449iu, Inuktitut language (ISO 639-1 code)
2450IUCN, International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union)
2451IUSS, Integrated Undersea Surveillance System,Integrated Unit Simulation System,International Union of Soil Sciences
2452IV, Côte d'Ivoire (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Ivory Coast),Four (in Roman numerals), IntraVenous (as in intravenous drip or intravenous therapy)
2453IVD, Internet Video Device, intra vas device
2454Iveco, Industrial Vehicles Corporation
2455IVF, In Vitro Fertilisation
2456IVI, Interchangeable Virtual Instrument
2457IVIS,(i/a) Inter-Vehicle Information System
2458IVL, Inter-Visibility Line
2459IVM, In Vitro [Oocyte] Maturation
2460IVO, In Vicinity Of
2461IW, Information Warfare
2462IWARS, Infantry Warrior Simulation
2463IWC, International Whaling Commission
2464IWW, Industrial Workers of the World
2465IX, Nine (in Roman numerals)
2466IXT, IntraText digital library; IntraText lexical hypertext
2467IY, Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone (FIPS 10-4 territory code; obsolete 1993)
2468IZ, Iraq (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2469J, Joule
2470J1, Joint [Manpower &] Personnel Directorate
2471J2, Joint Intelligence Directorate
2472J2EE, Java 2 Platform, Enterprise ion
2473J2ME, Java 2 Platform, Micro ion
2474J2SE, Java 2 Platform, Standard ion
2475J3, Joint Operations Directorate
2476J4, Joint Logistics Directorate
2477J5, Joint Strategic Plans & Policy Directorate
2478J6, Joint Information Technology Directorate (Command, Control, Communications & Computer Systems)
2479J7, Joint Operational Plans & Interoperability Directorate
2480J8, Joint Force Structure, Resources, & Assessment Directorate
2481J9, Joint Public Affairs Directorate (Civilian-Military Cooperation)
2482ja, Japanese language (ISO 639-1 code)
2483JA, Japan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2484JAFT, Just A Field Test
2485JAG, Judge Advocate General Corps (military law)
2486JAL, Japan Airlines
2487JALLC, Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (NATO)
2488JAM, Jamaica (ISO 3166 trigram)
2489JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association
2490JANET, Joint Academic Network
2491JANUS, 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)
2492JATO, Jet-Assisted Take-Off
2493jav, Javanese language (ISO 639-2 code)
2494JB, Junior Branch
2495JB, Jail Bait
2496JBFSA, Joint Blue Force Situational Awareness
2497JCDB, Joint Common Data Base
2498JCDS, Joint Chiefs of the Defence Staff
2499JCIDS, Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System
2500JCIET, Joint Combat Identification Evaluation Team
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