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1 | ABBR | MEANING |
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2 | 0D | obvious deed |
3 | 1AM | Air Mechanic 1st Class |
4 | 1D | One-Dimensional |
5 | 2AM | Air Mechanic 2nd Class |
6 | 2D | Two-dimensional |
7 | 2LA | Two Letter Acronym |
8 | 2Lt | 2nd Lieutenant |
9 | 3AM | Air Mechanic 3rd Class |
10 | 3D | Three-Dimensional |
11 | 3G | Third-generation mobile telephone system |
12 | 3i | Investors In Industry (venture capitalists) |
13 | 3M | Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company |
14 | 4G | Fourth-generation mobile telephone system |
15 | 4WD | Four-wheel drive |
16 | 5D | Five-Dimensional |
17 | 6D | Six-Dimensional |
18 | 7D | Seven-Dimensional |
19 | 8D | Eight-Dimensional |
20 | 9D | Nine-Dimensional |
21 | A | Ampere |
22 | A10 | Atlantic 10 Conference |
23 | A1C | Airman First Class |
24 | A4 | European standard office paper size |
25 | aA | Attoampere |
26 | AAA | administration,authorization,and authentication,American Automobile Association ('Triple-A'),anti-aircraft artillery,Amateur Athletic Association (of England),Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (Spanish,'Assistance,Consulting,and Administration'—Mexican professional wrestling promotion) |
27 | AAAS | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
28 | AAAV | Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle |
29 | AADAC | Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission |
30 | AADD | Adult attention deficit disorder |
31 | AADT | annual average daily traffic |
32 | AAFES | Army and Air Force Exchange Service |
33 | AAIS | advanced airborne interceptor simulator |
34 | AAM | air-to-air missile |
35 | AAMOF | as a matter of fact |
36 | AAN | American Academy of Nursing |
37 | AANEAS | Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey |
38 | AAODL | Atmospheric Aerosols and Optics Data Library |
39 | AAPC | Accounting and Auditing Policy Committee |
40 | AARP | American Association of Retired Persons (now officially known only by the initials) |
41 | AASPEM | advanced air-to-air system performance evaluation model |
42 | AAT | Australian Antarctic Territory |
43 | AAV | Amphibious Assault Vehicle |
44 | AAWC | anti-air warfare commander |
45 | AB | Able Seaman (both the rank and the occupation),Alberta (postal symbol) |
46 | ABB | ASEA Brown Boveri (Swiss-Swedish multinational company) |
47 | ABBA | Agnetha,Benny,Björn,Anni-Frid (Swedish pop group) |
48 | ABC | the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet |
49 | ABC | abstinence, be faithful, condoms |
50 | ABC | Active Body Control |
51 | ABC | airway, breathing, circulation |
52 | ABC | Alcoholic Beverage Commission |
53 | ABC | alien big cat |
54 | ABC | always be careful |
55 | ABC | American-born Chinese |
56 | ABC | anti-lock brake controller |
57 | ABC | atomic, biological, chemical |
58 | ABCS | (U.S.) Army Battle Command System |
59 | ABET | Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology |
60 | ABFIST | Advanced Bradley Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer |
61 | ABGI | Addington-Barker Group International |
62 | ABIN | Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (Brazilian Intelligence Agency) |
63 | ABL | American Basketball League |
64 | ABLE | AirBorne Law Enforcement (police air support unit) |
65 | ABMC | American Battle Monuments Commission |
66 | ABN | Australian Business Number (a number issued by the Australian government as registration of a business and used for taxation purposes) |
67 | ABPI | Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry |
68 | ABRSM | Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music |
69 | ABS | anti-lock braking system |
70 | ABSA | Amalgamated Banks of South Africa |
71 | ABSTRIPS | abstraction-based STRIPS |
72 | ABV | Alcohol by volume |
73 | ABW | Aruba (ISO 3166 trigram) |
74 | Ac | Actinium |
75 | AC | Adriamycin-Cyclophosphamide (chemotherapy),Air Conditioning,Aircraftman,Alternating Current,Altocumulus,ante Christum (Latin,'before Christ'; see BC),ante cibum (Latin,'before meals'),Antigua and Barbuda (FIPS 10-4 country code),Associazione Calcio (Italian,'football (soccer) club'),A/C,Air Conditioned/Conditioning,Aircraft |
76 | aC | Attocoulomb |
77 | AC1 | Aircraftman 1st Class |
78 | AC2 | Aircraftman 2nd Class |
79 | ACA | Affordable Care Act,shorthand for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,commonly called 'Obamacare',Airspace Control Authority,Airspace Co-ordination Area,A Current Affair |
80 | ACARS | Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System |
81 | ACB | Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto (Spanish for 'Association of Basketball Clubs') |
82 | ACCAC | Awdurdod Cymwysterau,Cwricwlwm ac Asesu Cymru (Qualifications,Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales) |
83 | ACCD | American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities |
84 | ACCS | Air Communications and Control Squadron |
85 | ACDA | Arms Control & Disarmament Agency |
86 | ACDC | Alternating Current Direct Current,the name of an Australian rock music band,a term for a bisexual person,A/Cdre,Air Commodore |
87 | ACDT | Apple Certified Desktop Technician,Australian Central Daylight Time |
88 | ACES | Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia (Spanish,'Central Colombian Airlines'),Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services of Alfred State College |
89 | ACF | Administration for Children and Families,American Car and Foundry,American Culinary Federation |
90 | ACHT | Average Call Hold Time |
91 | ACINT | Acoustic Intelligence |
92 | ACK | Acknowledge (telecommunications; cf. NAK) |
93 | ACL | Access Control List,Anterior cruciate ligament; the initialism can also refer to an injury to this ligament.,Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
94 | ACLJ | American Center for Law and Justice |
95 | ACLOS | Automatic CLOS (missile control system) |
96 | ACLS | American Council of Learned Societies |
97 | ACLU | American Civil Liberties Union,American Communist Lawyers Union (pejorative slang for the above) |
98 | ACM | many,including Association for Computing Machinery; see entry |
99 | ACMC | (U.S.) Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps |
100 | ACN | Airborne Communications Node,Australian Company Number (number issued by the Australian government as registration of a limited liability company) |
101 | ACNA | Anglican Church in North America |
102 | ACO | Airspace Control Order |
103 | ACOBA | Advisory Committee on Business Appointments |
104 | ACOG | American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists |
105 | ACOM | (U.S.) Atlantic Command |
106 | ACORN | Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now |
107 | ACP | African,Caribbean and Pacific Group of States,Air Control Point |
108 | ACR | Advanced Concepts and Requirements |
109 | ACRI | African Crisis Initiative |
110 | ACRT | Advanced Concepts Research Tool simulator |
111 | ACS | Affiliated Computer Services (NYSE ACS),Alaska Communications Service,American Cancer Society,American Chemical Society,Association of Caribbean States,Australian Computer Society |
112 | ACSC | Army Command and Staff College (various nations) |
113 | ACST | American Cooperative School of Tunis |
114 | ACST | Australian Central Standard Time |
115 | ACT | Adaptive Control of Thought (cognitive model),American College Test (ing Program),Australian Capital Territory (also postal symbol),ACT UP,AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power |
116 | ACTD | Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration |
117 | ACTF | (U.S.) Army Constructive Training Federation,Australian Children's Television Foundation,ACT-R,ACT-Rational (cognitive model),ACT-R/PM,ACT-R/Perceptual-Motor (cognitive model) |
118 | ACTU | Australian Council of Trade Unions |
119 | ACU | American Conservative Union |
120 | ACUF | Advisory Committee on Undersea Features,American Conservative Union Foundation |
121 | AD | Air Defence,Andorra (ISO 3166 digram),Anno Domini (Latin,'In the year of our Lord') |
122 | ADA | Air Defence Artillery,American Dental Association,Assistant District Attorney,Americans with Disabilities Act (see also the similar but non-acronymic Ada programming language) |
123 | ADAC | Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (German for 'General German Automobile Club') |
124 | ADAGE | Air Defense Air to Ground Engagement (simulation) |
125 | ADAP | AIDS Drug Assistance Program |
126 | ADAS | Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey |
127 | ADAT | Alesis Digital Audio Tape (recording format) |
128 | ADATS | Agricultural Development and Training Society,Air Defence Anti-Tank System,Australian Defence Air Traffic System |
129 | ADB | Asian Development Bank |
130 | ADC | Aide De Camp,U.S. Air Defense Command (1946-1992),Apple Display Connector,Program Against Digital Counterfeiting of Currency |
131 | ADD | Analog Digital Digital (CD quality),Attention-Deficit Disorder,Administration on Developmental Disabilities |
132 | ADDIE | Analyze Design Develop Implement and Evaluate |
133 | ADDNS | Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation |
134 | ADGB | Air Defence of Great Britain |
135 | ADHD | Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
136 | ADHS | Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome |
137 | ADI | Acceptable/Allowable Daily Intake |
138 | ADIZ | Air Defence Identification Zone |
139 | ADL | Anti-Defamation League |
140 | ADM | Administrative,,Admiral,and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,Archer Daniels Midland,Assistant Deputy Minister |
141 | ADOA | Air Defence Operations Area |
142 | ADP | Adenosine DiPhosphate,Army Doctrine Publication (UK,Canada,Australia),Automatic/Automated Data Processing |
143 | ADRG | Arc-second Raster Chart (ARC) Digitized Raster Graphics |
144 | ADS | Active Denial System,Astrophysics Data System,Attention Deficit Syndrome |
145 | ADSR | Attack,Decay,Sustain,Release (sound envelope specification) |
146 | ADT | Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC−3 hours) |
147 | ADTB | Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin |
148 | ADW | Air Defence Warning |
149 | AE | Armed Forces Africa/Canada/Europe/Middle East (postal symbol),United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code),Artix Entertainment,American Eagle,A&E, Arts & Entertainment Network,the original name for the U.S. TV channel now known as A&E Network |
150 | AEDT | Australian Eastern Daylight Time |
151 | AEF | American Expeditionary Force |
152 | AEGIS | Airborne Early warning Ground environment Interface Segment (fake etymology) |
153 | AESR | Aeronautical Equipment Service Record |
154 | AEST | Australian Eastern Standard Time |
155 | aet | After extra time (Football) |
156 | AEW | Airborne Early Warning,Airborne Electronic Warfare |
157 | AF | Afghanistan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Air Force,As f*ck |
158 | aF | Attofarad |
159 | AFA | U.S. Air Force Academy,Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (Spanish for 'Argentine Football Association') |
160 | AFAIC | As Far As I'm Concerned |
161 | AFAICT | As Far As I Can Tell |
162 | AFAIK | As Far As I Know |
163 | AFAIR | As Far As I Remember/Recall |
164 | AFAM | Associazione Friulana di Astronomia e Meteorologia (Italian,'Friuli Association of Astronomy and Meteorology'),Department of African and Afro-American Studies,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — notable for its links to the school's academic-athletic scandal in the 2010s |
165 | AFATDS | Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System |
166 | AFCEA | Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association |
167 | AFDB | African Development Bank |
168 | AFES | Automatic Fire Extinguishing System |
169 | AFG | Afghanistan (ISO 3166 trigram) |
170 | AFI | French Territory of the Afars and Issas (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1977),'Agencia Federal de Investigaciónes' (México) |
171 | AFIST | Abrams Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer |
172 | AFJ | April Fool's Joke |
173 | AFK | Away From Keyboard (Internet chat abbreviation) |
174 | AFLAC | American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus |
175 | AFO | Association of Field Ornithologists |
176 | AFOSR | U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research |
177 | AFP | Agence France-Presse (French,'French Press Agency'), Australian Federal Police |
178 | AFQT | Armed Forces Qualification Test |
179 | AFRC | Air Force Reserve Command |
180 | AFRL | Air Force Research Laboratory |
181 | AFROTC | Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps |
182 | AFRTS | Armed Forces Radio and Television Service |
183 | AFSC | U.S. Air Force Staff College (obsolete; replaced with JFSC), U.S. Air Force Systems Command |
184 | AFSCN | U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network |
185 | AFSPC | Air Force Space Command |
186 | AFT | American Farmland Trust |
187 | AFV | armoured fighting vehicle |
188 | AG | air gunner,Aktiengesellschaft (German,'incorporated'),Algeria (FIPS 10-4 country code),Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 digram),Assemblies of God |
189 | ag | Attogram |
190 | Ag | Silver (Latin argentum) |
191 | AGA | AB Gas-accumulator ('ah-gah',Swedish company),Advanced Graphics Architecture |
192 | AGARD | Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development |
193 | AGARDograph | Advanced Guidance for Alliance Research and Development publication |
194 | AGASA | Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (cosmic ray detector) |
195 | AGB | Internal Nintendo initialism (Advanced Game Boy) for Game Boy Advance |
196 | AGC | Adjutant General's Corps (British Army) |
197 | AGDC | Australian Game Developers' Conference |
198 | AGI | Auxiliary Group Intelligence |
199 | AGM | Annual General Meeting |
200 | AGN | Active Galactic Nucleus |
201 | AGO | Angola (ISO 3166 trigram) |
202 | AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port |
203 | AGRICOLA | Agriculture Online Access |
204 | AGS | Alaska Ground Station (LandSat) |
205 | AGTS | Advanced Gunnery Training System |
206 | AGU | American Geophysical Union |
207 | AGW | Autonomous Guided Weapon |
208 | Ah | Ampere-hour |
209 | AH | Attack Helicopter |
210 | aH | Attohenry |
211 | AHA | American Heart Association |
212 | AHCPR | Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (obsolete; replaced with AHRQ) |
213 | AHEC | Australian Health Ethics Committee |
214 | AHPCRC | Army High Performance Computing Research Center |
215 | AHQ | Air Headquarters |
216 | AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
217 | AHS | American Housing Survey |
218 | AI | Air Interdiction,Amnesty International,Artificial Insemination,Artificial Intelligence,Anguilla (ISO 3166 digram) |
219 | AIA | Aerospace Industries Association,American Institute of Architects,Anguilla (ISO 3166 trigram) |
220 | AIAA | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
221 | AIC | African Independent Church,Animal Identification Coordinator |
222 | AICD | Australian Institute of Company Directors |
223 | AICMFP | And I Claim My Five Pounds |
224 | AID | U.S. Agency for International Development |
225 | AIDS | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
226 | AIM | Australian Institute of Management |
227 | AIMP | Aurora Incremental Modernization Project |
228 | AIPAC | American Israel Public Affairs Committee |
229 | AIR | Aircraft Inventory Record |
230 | AIRFA | American Indian Religious Freedom Act |
231 | AIRS | Aerometric Information Retrieval System (obsolete; replaced with AFS) |
232 | AIS | Australian Institute of Sport,Automatic Identification System |
233 | AISB | (British Society for the Study of) Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour |
234 | aJ | Attojoule |
235 | AJ | Azerbaijan (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
236 | Ajax | Asynchronous JavaScript And XML |
237 | AJD | Astronomical Julian day |
238 | AJP | Allied Joint Publication |
239 | AJPW | All Japan Pro Wrestling |
240 | AK | Alaska (postal symbol) |
241 | aK | Attokelvin |
242 | AKA | Above knee amputation (orthopaedic usage) |
243 | AKDT | Alaska Standard Daylight Saving Time (UTC−8 hours) |
244 | AKP | Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Turkish,'Justice and Development Party') |
245 | AKST | Alaska Standard Time (UTC−9 hours) |
246 | AL | Alabama (postal symbol),Albania (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Anno Lucis (Latin,'Year of Light',in Masonic tradition,most often seen on plaques bearing the founding dates of buildings,in years AD and years AL) |
247 | Al | Aluminium |
248 | aL | Attolitre |
249 | ALA | Åland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
250 | ALAP | As Long/Late As Possible |
251 | ALARM | Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missile |
252 | ALB | Albania (ISO 3166 trigram) |
253 | ALD | Accounting Line Designator (nuclear weapon targeting) |
254 | ALERT | Advanced Linked Extended Reconnaissance and Targeting,Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theatre |
255 | ALF | Africa Leadership Forum,Alien Life Form (cf. ALF (TV series)),Animal Liberation Front |
256 | ALG | Algeria (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166) |
257 | ALGOL | ALGOrithmic Language |
258 | ALPA | Air Line Pilots Association |
259 | ALS | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
260 | ALSHS | Abraham Low Self-Help Systems |
261 | ALSP | Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol |
262 | ALTE | Association of Language Testers in Europe |
263 | Am | Americium |
264 | AM | Amplitude Modulation and Ante Meridiem; see entry,Armenia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) |
265 | AM1 | Airman 1st class |
266 | AMCB | U.S. Army/Marine Corps Board |
267 | AMFOM | Advanced Missile Fly Out Model |
268 | AMFR | Age-specific Marital Fertility Rate,Amplitude Modulation Following Response |
269 | AMFRS | Advanced Multi-Function Radio Frequency System,Automatic Multisensor Feature-based Recognition System |
270 | AML | Acute Myeloid Leukaemia |
271 | AMLCD | Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display |
272 | AMLO | Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexican politician),Anti-Money Laundering Office (Thailand government agency) |
273 | AMO | Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation |
274 | AMOLED | Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode |
275 | AMOS | Advanced MOrtar System,Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory |
276 | AMP | Adenosine MonoPhosphate,Automated Mission Planner |
277 | AMRAAM | Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile |
278 | AMRDEC | U.S. Aviation & Missile Research,Development,& Engineering Center |
279 | AMS | Agriculture Marketing Service,American Mathematical Society |
280 | AMSAA | U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity |
281 | AMSO | U.S. Army Model and Simulation Office |
282 | AMSU | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
283 | AMTE | UK Admiralty Marine Technology Establishment (1977-1984) |
284 | AN | Andorra (FIPS 10-4 country code),Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 digram) |
285 | aN | Attonewton |
286 | ANA | Administration for Native Americans,Afghan National Army,All Nippon Airways,Anti-Nuclear Anti-body,Australian National Airways,Australian Natives' Association |
287 | ANC | African National Congress |
288 | AND | Andorra (ISO 3166 trigram) |
289 | ANFO | Ammonium nitrate/fuel oil (explosive) |
290 | ANGLiCo | Air/Naval Gunfire Liaison Company |
291 | ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
292 | ANM | Acoustic Noise Monitor |
293 | ANOVA | ANalysis Of VAriance |
294 | ANS | Applied and Natural Sciences |
295 | ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
296 | ANT | Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 trigram),Antigua and Barbuda (IOC trigram,but not ISO 3166 or FIFA) |
297 | ANTM | America's Next Top Model |
298 | ANTY | Acronyms,No Thank You |
299 | ANWR | Arctic National Wildlife Refuge /ˈænwɑr/ |
300 | ANZ | Australia and New Zealand Banking Group |
301 | ANZAC | Australian and New Zealand Army Corps |
302 | AO | Angola (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Approach Officer (submarine),Area of Operations |
303 | AOC | Air Operations Centre,Air Officer Commanding |
304 | AOD | Adrenalin O.D. (punk rock band) |
305 | AOI | Angle Of Incidence (Arab Organization for Industrialization) |
306 | AOL | America OnLine |
307 | AOR | Area of Responsibility |
308 | AOSTH | Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog |
309 | AOTS | Attack of the Show! |
310 | AOU | American Ornithologists' Union |
311 | AP | Advanced Placement,Air Publication,Andhra Pradesh (Indian state code),Armed Forces Pacific (postal symbol),Associated Press,Auto Pilot |
312 | APB | All Points Bulletin (police jargon) |
313 | APEC | Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation |
314 | APEDS | AMSAA Performance Estimates Data System |
315 | APEX | Applied Physics Express |
316 | APHA | American Public Health Association |
317 | APHIS | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service |
318 | APL | Acute Promyeloid Leukaemia,Anti-Personnel Landmine,Applied Physics Laboratory (Johns Hopkins University) |
319 | APOD | Aerial Port (Airport) Of Debarkation |
320 | APOE | Aerial Port (Airport) Of Embarkation |
321 | APOLLO | Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation |
322 | APP | Allied Procedural Publication |
323 | APR | Annual Percentage Rate |
324 | AQIM | Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb |
325 | Ar | Argon |
326 | ARAG | Advanced Research and Assessment Group |
327 | ARB | Administrative Review Board |
328 | ARBA | Army Review Boards Agency |
329 | ARCA | Automobile Racing Club of America |
330 | ARCENT | United States Army Central Command |
331 | ARDA | Advanced Research and Development Activity (became DTO 2006) |
332 | ARF | ASEAN Regional Forum |
333 | ARG | Argentina (ISO 3166 trigram) |
334 | ARH | Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter |
335 | ARNet | Acquisition Reform Network |
336 | ARP | Applied Research Programme |
337 | ARPA | Advanced Research Projects Agency |
338 | ARRC | ACE Rapid Reaction Corps |
339 | ARRF | Allied Rapid Reaction Force |
340 | ARRL | American Radio Relay League |
341 | ARSC | Arctic Region Supercomputing Center |
342 | ARSPACE | U.S. Army Space Command |
343 | ARTCC | Air Route Traffic Control Center |
344 | ARWG | Army Research Working Group |
345 | AS | ActionScript |
346 | AS | American Samoa (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram),Australia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Assam / Asom (Indian state code) |
347 | As | Arsenic |
348 | aS | Attosiemens |
349 | ASA | AcetylSalicylic Acid,American Standards Association,Army Security Agency,Atlantic Southeast Airlines |
350 | ASAP | As Soon As Possible |
351 | ASARS | Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System,Airborne Search and Rescue System |
352 | asbl | association sans but lucratif (French 'Non-profit organisation') |
353 | ASBO | Anti-Social Behaviour Order |
354 | ASCAP | American Society of Composers,Authors,and Publishers |
355 | ASCC | Army Service Component Commander,Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator,Air Standardization Coordinating Committee |
356 | ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
357 | ASD | (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense,autism spectrum disorder |
358 | ASDIC | Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (Sonar) |
359 | ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
360 | ASFAR | Americans for a Society Free of Age Restrictions |
361 | ASG | Area Support Group |
362 | ASIC | Australian Securities and Investments Commission,Aviation Security Identification Card |
363 | ASICS | Anima sana in corpore sano (Latin,'A sound mind in a sound body') (athletic shoe manufacturer) |
364 | ASIO | Australian Security Intelligence Organisation,Audio stream input output |
365 | ASIP | Advanced System Improvement Program,Army Stationing and Installation Plan,Application-specific instruction-set processor |
366 | ASL | Above Sea Level,American Sign Language (also known as Ameslan),'Age,Sex,Location?' (Internet slang) |
367 | ASM | Air-to-Surface Missile,American Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram),American Society for Metals,American Society for Microbiology |
368 | ASMB | American Society for Matrix Biology,Adult Swim Message Board |
369 | ASME | American Society of Mechanical Engineers,American Society of Magazine ors |
370 | ASMP | Air-Sol Moyenne Portée missile (French 'Medium-range air to surface'),Asymmetric multiprocessing |
371 | ASN | Associate of Science in Nursing |
372 | ASOC | 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 |
373 | ASP | Active Server Pages,American Society of Primatologists,Ammunition Supply Point,Application Service Provider (cf internet service provider),Astronomical Society of the Pacific,Association of Surfing Professionals |
374 | ASPI | Australian Strategic Policy Institute |
375 | ASR | Alkali-silica reaction,Anti Slip Regulation |
376 | ASRAAM | Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile |
377 | ASSC | Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness |
378 | AST | Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4 hours) |
379 | ASTIA | Armed Services Technical Information Agency |
380 | ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials |
381 | ASTREA | Aerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies (sheriff's air support unit) |
382 | ASUW | AntiSUrface Warfare |
383 | ASVAB | Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery(taken by juniors in high school in the USA) |
384 | ASVEL | Association Sportive Villeurbanne Éveil Lyonnais (Association Sportive is French for 'Sporting Association'; the club was founded through the merger of AS Villeurbanne and Éveil Lyonnais) |
385 | ASW | AntiSubmarine Warfare |
386 | ASWORG | (U.S.) AntiSubmarine Warfare Operations Research Group |
387 | ASX | Advanced Stream Redirector,Australian Securities Exchange |
388 | AT | Anti-Tank,Ashmore and Cartier Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Austria (ISO 3166 digram),Advanced Technology (IBM Personal Computer/AT) |
389 | At | Astatine |
390 | aT | Attotesla |
391 | ATA | Advanced Technology Attachment (IBM Personal Computer),Afghan Transitional Authority,Allen Telescope Array,Antarctica (ISO 3166 trigram) |
392 | ATAC | Air Transportable Acoustic Communications |
393 | ATACMS | Army TACtical Missile System |
394 | ATAPI | Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface |
395 | ATAS | Air-To-Air Stinger (missile) |
396 | ATAT | Aiken Tactical Airsoft Team / Star Wars vehicle |
397 | ATB | Active Time Battle,British Antarctic Territory (ISO 3166 trigram; merged with AQ in 1979) |
398 | ATC | Air Training Corps, U.S. Air Transport Command (1942-1948), Athletic Trainer,Certified |
399 | ATCCIS | Army Tactical Command and Control Information System |
400 | ATESS | Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron |
401 | ATF | French Southern Territories (ISO 3166 trigram),(U.S.) Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives |
402 | ATG | Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 and FIFA trigram) |
403 | ATGM | Anti-Tank Guided Missile |
404 | ATGW | Anti-Tank Guided Weapon |
405 | ATK | Attack |
406 | ATL | Atlanta,Georgia,the largest city and capital of Georgia |
407 | ATLAS | All-Terrain Lifter Army System,Assessment Tool for LAnd Systems |
408 | ATM | Automated Teller Machine,Asynchronous Transfer Mode,At The Moment |
409 | ATN | Dronning Maud Land (ISO 3166 trigram; merged with AQ in 1983) |
410 | ATO | Air Tasking Order,Australian Taxation Office |
411 | ATP | Adenosine TriPhosphate,Allied Tactical Publication,Ammunition Transfer Point |
412 | ATSD | (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense |
413 | ATSDR | Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry |
414 | ATV | All-Terrain Vehicle |
415 | ATWA | Air,Trees,Water,Animals |
416 | AU | African Union (was OAU before 2000),American University,Astronomical Unit,Australia (ISO 3166 digram),Austria (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
417 | Au | Gold (Latin Aurum) |
418 | AUC | Ab Urbe Condita / Anno Urbis Conditae (Latin 'from the founding of the city' / 'in the year since the founding of the city') (of Rome),Area Under the Curve (concentration time curve; medicine) |
419 | AUS | Australia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
420 | AUSCANNZUKUS | Australia,Canada,New Zealand,United Kingdom,United States (security designation) |
421 | Auslan | Australian Sign Language |
422 | AUT | Austria (ISO 3166 trigram) |
423 | AUTL | Army Universal Task List |
424 | AV | Anguilla (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Audio-Visual,Aviation |
425 | Av | Aperture value (photographic mode) |
426 | aV | Attovolt |
427 | AVA | American Viticultural Area |
428 | AVB | Audio Video Bridging |
429 | AVDLR | Aviation Depot Level Repair |
430 | AVGP | Armoured Vehicle, General Purpose |
431 | AVIM | Aviation Intermediate Maintenance |
432 | AVLB | Armoured Vehicle Launched Body |
433 | AVM | Air Vice-Marshal, Arteriovenous malformation |
434 | AVO | Apprehended Violence Order |
435 | AVP | Arubaanse Volkspartij |
436 | AVP | Association of Volleyball Professionals |
437 | AVRE | Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers |
438 | AVTB | Armoured Vehicle Test Bed,Aviation Test Bed |
439 | AVUM | Aviation Unit Maintenance |
440 | AVVO | Acute Vaginal Venereal Outbreak |
441 | AW | Aruba (ISO 3166 digram) |
442 | aW | Attowatt |
443 | AWA | American Wrestling Association |
444 | AWC | Air Warfare Centre |
445 | AWD | All Wheel Drive |
446 | AWE | Advanced Warfighting Experiment |
447 | AWP | Awaiting Parts (SM&R code) |
448 | AWSIM | Air Warfare SIMulation |
449 | AWST | Australian Western Standard Time |
450 | AWW | Above Water Warfare |
451 | AX | Åland Islands (ISO 3166 digram) |
452 | AXP | Ambulance eXchange Point |
453 | AY | Antarctica (FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
454 | AYBABTU | All Your Base Are Belong To Us |
455 | AYU | As Yet Unknown |
456 | AZ | Arizona (postal symbol),Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 digram),Alkmaar Zaanstreek (Dutch football club) |
457 | AZE | Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 trigram) |
458 | AZUR | Actions en zone urbaine (French for: Urban Operations) |
459 | BAR | Barbados (IOC trigram,but not FIFA or ISO 3166),British American Racing,Browning Automatic Rifle,Buy-American Restrictions,BARD , Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund (between the US and Israel),BARDA , Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency,BART , Bay Area Rapid Transit,BAS , Battalion Aid Station,BASE , Building,Antenna,Span,Earth (parachute from),BASF , Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (Baden Aniline and Soda Factory,a German chemicals company),BASIC , Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (acronym was added later,originally it was simply Basic),BAT , 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] |
460 | BB | Barbados (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code),Boys' Brigade (Christian youth organization),Brigitte Bardot (actress),Bumblebee |
461 | BBB | Better Business Bureau,Blood-brain barrier |
462 | BBC | Breeding Bird Census,British Broadcasting Corporation,Bumper to Back of Cab (trucking measurement) |
463 | BBL | Be Back Later,Bird Banding Laboratory,British Basketball League |
464 | BBN | Bolt,Beranek and Newman |
465 | BBQ | Barbecue |
466 | BBS | Breeding Bird Survey (North America),Brigade/Battalion Battle Simulation,Bulletin Board System,BBSRC , U.K. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council,BBVA , Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (Spanish bank) |
467 | BBYO | B'nai B'rith Youth Organization |
468 | BC | Before Christ,Blind Copy (in emailers),Boston College,Botswana (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Bechuanaland),British Columbia (postal symbol) |
469 | BCA | Bachelor of Computer Application,Black Coaches & Administrators |
470 | BCC | Blind Carbon Copy |
471 | BCCI | Bank of Credit and Commerce International,Board of Control for Cricket in India,BCD , Binary-Coded Decimal |
472 | BEA | Banque extérieure d'Algérie,British European Airways (ancestor of British Airways),British Electricity Authority,bel |
473 | BEL | Belgium (ISO 3166 trigram) |
474 | BEN | Benin (ISO 3166 trigram) |
475 | BEO | Banquet Event Order |
476 | BERC | Business Environmental Resource Center |
477 | BER | Bit Error Rate |
478 | BH | Bahrain (ISO 3166 digram),Belize (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
479 | BHR | Bahrain (ISO 3166 trigram) |
480 | BNF | Backus-Naur Form (computing), British National Formulary |
481 | BNICE | Biological,Nuclear,Incendiary,Chemical,and Explosive Agents |
482 | BNP | British National Party,Banque Nationale de Paris,a predecessor to today's BNP Paribas |
483 | BNS | Bank of Nova Scotia |
484 | BNSF | Burlington Northern Santa Fe (also AAR reporting mark) |
485 | BO | Back Orifice,Belarus (FIPS 10-4 country code),Biarritz Olympique (French rugby union club),Bolivia (ISO 3166 digram),Body odor |
486 | BOAC | British Overseas Airways Corporation (predecessor of British Airways) |
487 | BoAML | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
488 | BOC | British Orthodontic Society, British Oxygen Company |
489 | BÖC | Blue Öyster Cult |
490 | BODMAS | Brackets,Orders,Division,Multiplication,Addition,Subtraction |
491 | BOFH | Bastard Operator From Hell |
492 | BOGA | Bend Over and Grab Ankles |
493 | BOGOF | Buy One,Get One Free |
494 | BOGs | Bunch of Guys |
495 | BOI | Balance Of Investment,Basis Of Issue |
496 | BOL | Bolivia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
497 | BOM | Base Object Model,Bill Of Materials,Block of the Month quilting term,Business opportunity meeting |
498 | BOPD | Barrel of Oil Per Day |
499 | BOS | Battlefield Operating System |
500 | BOT | Balance of Trade,Botswana (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166),Build Operate Transfer,Bank of Thailand,BP[edit] |
501 | BP | Battle Position,British Petroleum (today,BP does not officially stand for anything),Solomon Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code; from British Protectorate of the Solomon Islands),Bp , Bishop,BPD , Bipolar Personality Disorder,BPM , Beats Per Minute,BPMo , Business Process Mobility |
502 | BPV | Battlefield Planning Visualization,Bovine papillomavirus |
503 | BQ | British Antarctic Territory (former ISO 3166 digram; merged with AQ in 1979),Caribbean Netherlands (current ISO 3166 digram; based on the entity's alternate name of Bonaire,Sint Eustatius and Saba),Navassa Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
504 | BR | Brazil (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) ,Bihar (Indian state code),British Rail,Break Ranks (marching band term) |
505 | BRA | Brazil (ISO 3166 trigram) |
506 | BRAG | Bicycle Ride Across Georgia |
507 | BRASS | Breathe,Relax,Aim,Sight,Squeeze (acronym for using a rifle) |
508 | BSA | Birmingham Small Arms (motorcycles company),Boy Scouts of America,Brigade Support Area |
509 | BSatCoP | Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins |
510 | BSE | Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (better known as mad cow disease) |
511 | BSN | Baloncesto Superior Nacional (Spanish,'National Superior Basketball'; top Puerto Rican league),Bank Simpanan Nasional (Malay,'National Savings Bank'; government-owned Malaysian bank) |
512 | BSNL | Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited,Bachelor of Science in Nursing |
513 | BSoD | Blue Screen of Death (distinct from BSD) |
514 | BSP | Between-Show Promotion,Binary Space Partitioning,Board Support Package,British Standard Pipe (screw thread),Business-sponsored,Bone sialoprotein |
515 | BST | Binary search tree,Blended Sales Tax,Bovine somatotropin,British Summer Time |
516 | BSW | British Standard Whitworth (screw thread) |
517 | BSX | Bendigo Stock Exchange |
518 | BT | Baal teshuva (Hebrew,'master of repentance') ,used to describe a Jew who adopts Orthodox Judaism as an adult,Bathythermograph,Bhutan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),BitTorrent,British Telecom,the former name of the company now known as BT Group,BTDT , Been There,Done That,Bti , Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis,BTID , Battlefield Target Identification Device,BTIS , Battlefield Target Identification System |
519 | Bt | Baronet,Bacillus thuringiensis |
520 | BTO | Built To Order |
521 | BTP | British Transport Police |
522 | BTR | Bronetransporter (БТР = Бронетранспортер '(Heavy) Armoured (Personnel) Transporter') |
523 | BTU | British Thermal Unit |
524 | BTW | By The Way |
525 | BU | Bulgaria (FIPS 10-4 country code) -,Burma (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1989) |
526 | BUAV | British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection |
527 | BUG-E | Battlefield Universal Gateway Equipment ('buggy') |
528 | BUNO | Bureau Number (aircraft serial number) |
529 | BUR | Burma (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1989) |
530 | BV | Background Vocals -,Battlefield Visualization ,,Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
531 | BVD | Bradley,Voorhees & Day (underwear manufacturer) |
532 | BVR | Beyond Visual Range |
533 | BVT | Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 trigram) |
534 | B&W | Babcock & Wilcox, Black and White, Bowers & Wilkins |
535 | BW | Bring Wedges (ISO digram) |
536 | BW | Botswana (ISO 3166 digram) |
537 | BWA | Botswana (ISO 3166 trigram) |
538 | BWARS | Bees,Wasps & Ants Recording Society |
539 | BWC | Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention |
540 | BWR | Boiling-Water Reactor |
541 | BX | Base eXchange |
542 | BY | Burundi (FIPS 10-4 country code), Belarus (ISO 3166 digram), Bavaria |
543 | BYOB | Bring Your Own Bottle (or beer, beverage, or booze) (multiple,but similar,meanings) |
544 | BYOC | Bring Your Own Computer (play on BYOB) |
545 | BYOF | Bring Your Own Flask |
546 | BYS | Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1992) |
547 | BYU | Brigham Young University |
548 | BZ | Belize (ISO 3166 digram) |
549 | BZP | Benzylpiperazine |
550 | C | Carbon, Coulomb, One Hundred (in Roman numerals) |
551 | c | Centi |
552 | C2C | Consumer-To-Consumer electronic commerce, Cam-To-Cam internet chat |
553 | c2c | the British rail company formerly known as LTS Rail |
554 | Ca | Calcium |
555 | CA | California (postal symbol),Canada (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Catalonia,Civil Affairs,Close Armour,Cocaine Anonymous,Computer Associates,Counter-Air,Cricket Australia |
556 | CAA | Canadian Automobile Association,(NORAD) Center for Aerospace Analysis,(U.S.) Center for Army Analysis,(U.S.) Clean Air Act,(U.S. Army) Concepts Analysis Agency,Civil Aviation Authority,Colonial Athletic Association |
557 | CAAT | Campaign Against Arms Trade,Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing |
558 | CAC | California Association of Criminalists,Chronic Asymptomatic [Disease] Carrier |
559 | CACM | Central American Common Market |
560 | CACM | Communications of the ACM |
561 | CADCAM | Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing |
562 | CADMID | Concept,Assessment,Demonstration,Manufacture,In service,Disposal (life cycle mnemonic) |
563 | CADPAT | CAnadian Disruptive PATtern |
564 | CAE | Canadian Aviation Electronics (originally),Certificate in Advanced English |
565 | CAEn | Close Action Engagement (constructive simulation) |
566 | CAF | Central African Republic (ISO 3166 trigram),Confederation of African Football (or French Confédération Africaine de Football) |
567 | CAFAD | Combined Arms For Air Defence |
568 | CAFDE | Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters,Computer Aided Federation Development Environment |
569 | CAFE | Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard |
570 | CAI | Computer Assisted Instruction |
571 | CAIR | Council on American-Islamic Relations |
572 | CALABARZON | A region in the Philippines: CAvite,LAguna,BAtangas,Rizal,queZON |
573 | CALL | Center for Army Lessons Learned |
574 | CALM | Communications,Air-interface,Long and Medium range |
575 | CalPERS | California Public Employees' Retirement System |
576 | Caltrans | California Department of Transpotation |
577 | CAM | Chemical Agent Monitor,Complementary and alternative medicine,Computer-Aided Manufacturing,Crassulacean acid metabolism (type of photosynthesis) |
578 | CAMRA | CAMpaign for Real Ale |
579 | CAN | Canada (ISO 3166 trigram) |
580 | CANDU | CANada Deuterium Uranium (nuclear reactor design) |
581 | Canola | Canadian oil,low acid (referring to a specific cultivar of rapeseed bred to have a low erucic acid content) |
582 | CAPES | CAPability Evaluation System,Combined Arms Planning and Execution System |
583 | CARE | Citizens Association for Racial Equality (former New Zealand organisation),Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe,Cooperative for Aid and Relief Everywhere (originally Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) |
584 | CARMONETTE | Computerized Monte Carlo Simulation |
585 | CARP | Computed Air Release Point |
586 | CART | Championship Auto Racing Teams (now defunct) |
587 | CAS | Chemical Abstracts Service,Chief of the Air Staff,Close Air Support |
588 | CASA | Civil Aviation Safety Authority |
589 | CASE | Cellular ammunition storage equipment,Computer-Aided Software Engineering |
590 | CASS | Command Activated Sonobuoy System |
591 | CASTFOREM | Combined Arms and Support Task FORce Evaluation Model |
592 | CASTOR | Canadian Automatic Small Telescopes for Orbital Research |
593 | CAT | Community Acceptance Testing |
594 | CATK | Counterattack |
595 | CATS | Computer Active Technology Suspension |
596 | CATT | Combined Arms Tactical Trainer |
597 | CAV | Cavalry |
598 | CAVOK | Ceiling And Visibility OK ('Kav-okay') |
599 | CAW | Canadian Auto Workers (trade union) |
600 | CB | Citizens' Band radio,Cambodia (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
601 | CBASSE | Commission on Behavioral And Social Sciences and Education ('sea bass') |
602 | CBC | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,Christmas Bird Count,Cipher-Block Chaining,Cornering Brake Control |
603 | CBE | Commander of the Order of the British Empire,Cab Beside Engine (see truck) |
604 | CBF | Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (Portuguese,'Brazilian Football Confederation') |
605 | CBGB | Country,Blue Grass,and Blues (former New York City nightclub) |
606 | CBLA | Comparative bullet lead analysis |
607 | CBM | Canadian Baptist Ministries |
608 | CBM | Commodore Business Machines |
609 | CBML | Coalition Battle Management Language |
610 | CBN | CardsApp Brand Number |
611 | CBOL | Consortium for the Barcode of Life |
612 | CBOT | Chicago Board of Trade |
613 | CBR | Case-Based Reasoning |
614 | CBRN | Chemical,Biological,Radiological,or Nuclear (weapon or event) |
615 | CBRNE | Chemical,Biological,Radiological,Nuclear or [high-yield] Explosive (weapon or event) |
616 | CBS | Columbia Broadcasting System,Corps Battle Simulation |
617 | CBUS | Columbus,Ohio |
618 | CC | carbon copy |
619 | CCA | Counter Command Activity |
620 | CCC | Canterbury Clothing Company,Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.,1930s and 1940s),Corpus Christi College,Oxford |
621 | CCCP | Central Committee of the Communist Party,Cyrillic for SSSR (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik,Russian Союз Советских Социалистических Республик,Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) |
622 | CCD | Charge-Coupled Device,Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (Catechism) |
623 | CCF | Cartoon Cartoon Fridays |
624 | CCG | Canadian Coast Guard,Collectible Card Game |
625 | CCGC | Canadian Coast Guard Cutter,Canadian Coast Guard College |
626 | CCGH | Canadian Coast Guard Hovercraft |
627 | CCGS | Canadian Coast Guard Ship,Christ Church Grammar School |
628 | CCH | Computer-Controlled Hostile |
629 | CCIF | Comité consultatif international des communications téléphoniques à grande distance (French for International Telephone Consultative Committee,merged with the CCIT in 1956 to form the CCITT) |
630 | CCII | Command and Control Information Infrastructure,Community Capital Investment Initiative |
631 | CCIR | Comité consultatif international pour la radio (French for Consultative Committee on International Radio,became the ITU Radiocommunication Sector,ITU-R,in 1992),Commander's Critical Information Requirements |
632 | CCIT | Comité consultatif international télégraphique (French for International Telegraph Consultative Committee,merged with the CCIF in 1956 to form the CCITT) |
633 | CCITT | Comité consultatif international téléphonique et télégraphique (French for International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee,became the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector,ITU-T,in 1992) |
634 | CCK | Cholecystokinin,Cocos (Keeling) Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
635 | CCM | Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd. (now split into two separate companies bearing the CCM name,one manufacturing bicycles and the other ice hockey equipment),Contemporary Christian music |
636 | CCOC | Canadian Children's Opera Chorus,Crosley Car Owners Club |
637 | CCOP | Coalition Common Operating/Operational Picture |
638 | CCP | Casualty Collection Point,Communications Checkpoint,Contingency Communications Package |
639 | CCPA | Consumer Credit Protection Act |
640 | CCR | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
641 | CCRAp | Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance party |
642 | CCRP | Command and Control Research Program |
643 | CCRTS | Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium |
644 | CCSCS | Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems |
645 | CCSCS | Coordinadora de Centrales Sindicales del Cono Sur |
646 | CCSIL | Command and Control Simulation Interface Language ('cecil') |
647 | CCSK | Cyclic Code Shift Keying |
648 | CCT | Current Commitments Team |
649 | Cd | Cadmium |
650 | cd | Candela |
651 | CD | Compact Disc |
652 | CD1 | Cluster of Differentiation 1 (a small gene family) |
653 | CDA | UK Centre for Defence Analysis |
654 | CDD | Capabilities Development Document |
655 | CDE | Chemical Defence Equipment |
656 | CDIAC | Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center ('see-dee-ack') |
657 | CDipAF | Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance |
658 | CDL | Commercial driver's license |
659 | CDM | Clean Development Mechanism (Kyoto protocol), Cold Dark Matter (astronomy) |
660 | CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access |
661 | CDMSII | Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II |
662 | Cdr | Commander |
663 | CDT | Central Daylight Time (UTC−5 hours) |
664 | Cdt | Commandant |
665 | Ce | Cerium |
666 | CE | Christian/Common Era |
667 | CEA | Campaign Effectiveness Analysis |
668 | CECOM | U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command |
669 | CEDEX | Courrier d'entreprise à distribution exceptionnelle (French,'Company Mail with Exceptional Distribution'; 'exceptional' refers to the volume of mail) |
670 | CEGEP | Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel (French,'College of General and Vocational Education') |
671 | CEI | Competitive Enterprise Institute |
672 | CENTCOM | United States Central Command |
673 | CENTO | Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact) |
674 | CENZUB | Centre d'entraînement aux actions en zone urbaine (French,'Urban Operations Training Centre') |
675 | CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
676 | CEP | Circular Error Probable |
677 | CEPT | Conférence européenne des administrations des postes et des télécommunications (French,'European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations') |
678 | CERCLA | U.S. Comprehensive Environmental Response,Compensation,and Liability Act (Superfund) |
679 | CERDEC | U.S. Communications-Electronics Research,Development and Engineering Center |
680 | CERGA | Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie (French,'Astrometry and Geodynamics Research Centre') |
681 | CERN | Centre européen pour la recherche nucléaire (French,'European Organization for Nuclear Research') |
682 | CERT | Computer Emergency Response Team |
683 | CESS | Centre for Earth Science Studies (India) |
684 | CEST | Central European Summer Time |
685 | CET | Central European Time |
686 | CEWC | Council for Education in World Citizenship |
687 | Cf | Californium |
688 | CF | Canadian Forces,Central African Republic (ISO 3166 digram),Republic of the Congo (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
689 | CFA | Cat Fanciers' Association,Chartered Financial Analyst,Colour Filtering Array,County Fire Authority,Covering Force Area |
690 | CFAR | Christine's,Federal Acquisition Regulation |
691 | CFC | ChloroFluoroCarbon,Canadian Fish Company |
692 | CFES | Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System |
693 | CFFZ | Call For Fire Zone |
694 | CFG | Context-free grammar,Control flow graph |
695 | CFHT | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope |
696 | CFI | Center for Inquiry (CSICOP) |
697 | CFL | Canadian Football League,Co-ordinated Fire Line |
698 | CFLCC | Coalition Forces Land Component Command |
699 | CFM | Certified Facilities Manager |
700 | CFO | Chief Financial Officer |
701 | CFP | Call for papers, College Football Playoff, Common Fisheries Policy (EU) |
702 | CFR | Code of Federal Regulations,Căile Ferate Române (Romanian,'Romanian Railways') |
703 | CFRP | Carbon fibre reinforced plastic |
704 | CFS | Chronic Fatigue Syndrome |
705 | CFSP | Common Foreign and Security Policy |
706 | CFU | Colony Forming Unit in Microbiology |
707 | CFV | Cavalry Fighting Vehicle |
708 | CFZ | Critical Friendly Zone |
709 | CG | Client Group,Computer Graphics,Controls Group,Democratic Republic of the Congo (FIPS 10-4 country code),Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 digram) |
710 | CGH | Comparative Genomic Hybridisation |
711 | CGIG | Cross-Government Implementation Group |
712 | CGO | Republic of the Congo (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166) |
713 | CGS | Chief of the General Staff |
714 | CGT | Capital Gains Tax |
715 | ch | ch(L) is used to denote the Chern character of a line bundle |
716 | CH | Chieftain tank,China (FIPS 10-4 country code),Switzerland (ISO 3166 digram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica) |
717 | CHAMPUS | (U.S.) Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (now known as TRICARE) |
718 | CHAOS | Cambridge Heart Anti-Oxidant Study |
719 | CHAPS | Clearing House Automated Payment System |
720 | CHDK | Canon Hack Development Kit (Canon camera firmware hack) |
721 | CHE | Switzerland (ISO 3166 trigram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica) |
722 | CHI | Columbia Helicopters,Inc |
723 | CHiP | California Highway Patrol |
724 | CHIPS | Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer |
725 | CHL | Chile (ISO 3166 trigram) |
726 | CHLA | Core Historical Literature of Agriculture |
727 | CHN | China (ISO 3166 trigram) |
728 | CHOGM | Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting |
729 | CHPSO | California Hospital Patient Safety Organization |
730 | CHRS | Canadian Heart Rhythm Society |
731 | CHT | Certified Hand Therapist |
732 | CI | Chile (FIPS 10-4 country code),Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 digram),Counter-Intelligence,101 (in Roman numerals) |
733 | Ci | Curie |
734 | CIA | Cairo International Airport,Central Intelligence Agency,Culinary Institute of America |
735 | CIAO | Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office,Component-Integrated ACE ORB |
736 | CIB | Complete In Box (Internet auction/trading listings) |
737 | CIBC | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce |
738 | CICS | Customer Information Control System (IBM mainframe software; 'kicks' or 'C-I-C-S') |
739 | CID | Certified Interior Designer |
740 | CIEF | Comité international d'enregistrement des fréquences (International Frequency Registration Board) |
741 | CIF | Cost,Insurance,and Freight (Paid) (shipping) |
742 | CIMMYT | Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz Y Trigo (Spanish,'International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center') |
743 | CINC | Commander in Chief |
744 | CINEOS | Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey |
745 | CIO | Chief information officer,Congress of Industrial Organizations |
746 | CIPE | (European) Centre for International Political Economy |
747 | CIR | (Commander's) Critical Information Requirements |
748 | CIR | Corotating Interaction Region |
749 | CIS | Canadian Interuniversity Sport,Commonwealth of Independent States,Command and Information System,Communication and Information System |
750 | CISA | (U.S.) C4I Integration Support Activity |
751 | CISB | Complete In Sealed Box (Internet auction/trading listings) |
752 | CISPR | Comité international spécial des perturbations radioélectriques (Special International Committee on Radio Interference) |
753 | CISSP | Certified Information Systems Security Professional |
754 | CITES | Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (of Wild Fauna and Flora) ('sigh-tease') |
755 | CIV | Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 trigram) |
756 | CIVETS | Colombia,Indonesia,Vietnam,Egypt,Turkey,South Africa (economics) |
757 | CIVPOP | Civilian Population |
758 | CIWS | Close-In Weapon System |
759 | CJ | Cayman Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code),Criminal Justice |
760 | CJC | Canadian Jewish Congress,Cold Junction Compensation |
761 | CJCS | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
762 | CJD | Chronological Julian Day,Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
763 | CJO | Chief of Joint Operations |
764 | CJTF | Combined Joint Task Force |
765 | CK | Cocos (Keeling) Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code),Cook Islands (ISO 3166 digram) |
766 | CKA | commonly known as, Canada Kicks Ass |
767 | CKND | Codename: Kids Next Door |
768 | CL | Chile (ISO 3166 digram),Co-ordination Line,One Hundred and Fifty (in Roman numerals) |
769 | Cl | Chlorine |
770 | CLA | Clutterers Anonymous |
771 | CLEC | Competitive Local Exchange Carrier |
772 | CLEMARS | California Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System |
773 | CLIC | Compact LInear Collider |
774 | CLO | Cornell Lab of Ornithology |
775 | CLOS | Command to Line-Of-Sight (missile control system) |
776 | CLPFC | CentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex |
777 | CLRP | College Loan Repayment Program |
778 | CM | Cameroon (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Cruise Missile,Nine Hundred (in Roman numerals) |
779 | Cm | Curium |
780 | CMA | U.S. Chemical Materials Agency,Country Music Association (also used to refer to the organization's annual awards),Crystal Meth Anonymous |
781 | CMHC | Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation |
782 | CMIIAW | Correct me if I am wrong |
783 | CMIS | Common management information service |
784 | CMJ | Christopher Martin-Jenkins (BBC sports commentator) |
785 | CMLL | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish,'Worldwide Wrestling Council'—Mexican professional wrestling promotion) |
786 | CMM | Capability Maturity Model |
787 | CMMC | Corps Materiel Management Centre |
788 | CMML | Chronic MyeloMonocytic Leukemia,Continuous Media Markup Language |
789 | CMOS | Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society,(The) Chicago Manual of Style,Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
790 | CMP | Common [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture |
791 | CMPD | Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department |
792 | CMPD | Chronic Myeloproliferative Disease |
793 | CMR | Cameroon (ISO 3166 trigram),Coaxial Main Rotors (helicopter type) |
794 | CMS | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,The Chicago Manual of Style |
795 | CMT | Country Music Television |
796 | CMU | Carnegie Mellon University,Central Michigan University,Concrete Masonry Unit |
797 | CMW | Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada,Canadian Manufacturing Week,Canadian Music Week,Catherine McAuley Westmead (school in New South Wales,Australia),Chicago,Missouri and Western (Railway),Compartmented Mode Workstation,Compton's Most Wanted,Continuous Microwave (processing technology),Custom Maintenance Wizard (Microsoft Office Resource Kit) |
798 | CMYK | Cyan Magenta Yellow Key/blacK (colour model) |
799 | CN | Canadian National (railway; also the AAR reporting mark for said company),China (ISO 3166 digram),Comoros (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
800 | CNA | Center for Naval Analyses,Certified Network Administrator,Computer Network Attack,Continental (Casualty Company),National (Fire Insurance Company),and American (Casualty Company),the three companies that merged to form what is now known as CNA Financial |
801 | CNBC | Consumer News and Business Channel |
802 | CND | Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,Computer Network Defence |
803 | CNE | Canadian National Exhibition,Computer Network Exploitation,Certified Network Engineer |
804 | CNF | Cost and Freight |
805 | CNI | Clinical Nursing Intern |
806 | CNI | Communications,Navigation and Identification |
807 | CNN | Cable News Network,Cellular Nonlinear Network |
808 | CNV | Copy-Number Variable (genetics) |
809 | Co | Cobalt |
810 | COB | Close Of Business [day] |
811 | COBRA | Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 |
812 | COD | Cash On Delivery,Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram) |
813 | CoDA | Co-Dependents Anonymous |
814 | COGENT | Cognitive Objects within a Graphical EnviroNmenT |
815 | COIL | Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser |
816 | COK | Cook Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
817 | COL | Colombia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
818 | COLA | Cost Of Living Adjustment |
819 | CONAD | U.S. Continental Air Defense Command |
820 | CONMEBOL | Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol or Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol (respectively Spanish and Portuguese for 'South American Football Confederation') |
821 | CONUS | Continental United States |
822 | COO | Chief Operating Officer |
823 | COPE | U.K. Committee On Publication Ethics |
824 | COPUS | U.K. Committee on the Public Understanding of Science |
825 | CORD | Common Operational Requirements Document |
826 | CORE | Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education |
827 | COS | Cooper Ornithological Society |
828 | COSER | COoperative SERvice |
829 | CoT | Car of Tomorrow (former NASCAR race car design) |
830 | COTS | Commercial Off The Shelf |
831 | CP | Canadian Pacific,Check Point,Command Post,Club Penguin |
832 | CPA | Certified Public Accountant |
833 | CPAC | Conservative Political Action Conference,Cable Public Affairs Channel ('see-pack') |
834 | CPCU | Certified Property Casualty Underwriter |
835 | CPD | Capabilities Production Document |
836 | CPE | Certificate of Proficiency in English |
837 | CPE | Certified Professional Ergonomist |
838 | CPF | Calibration Parameter File,Canadian Patrol Frigate |
839 | CPG | Clinical Practice Guideline |
840 | CPIM | Certification on Production and Inventory Management |
841 | CPIR | Computationally-Private Information Retrieval |
842 | CPON | Certified Pediatric Oncology Nurse |
843 | CPPCC | Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference |
844 | CPR | Canadian Pacific Railway |
845 | CPR | Cardiopulmonary resuscitation |
846 | CPSM | Continuous Phase Shift Modulation |
847 | CPSU | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
848 | CPT | Contingency Planning Team |
849 | CPU | Contract Postal Unit |
850 | CPV | Cape Verde (ISO 3166 trigram) |
851 | CPX | Command Post eXercise |
852 | CQ | Carrier Qualification,Central Queensland,Charge of Quarters,Congressional Quarterly,Constellation Airlines (IATA airline designator),Northern Mariana Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
853 | CQD | Close Quarters Drill (Morse distress code preceding SOS: CQ 'calling all stations',D 'Distress'; often incorrectly interpreted as 'Come Quick,Distress') |
854 | Cr | Chromium |
855 | CR | Coral Sea Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Costa Rica (ISO 3166 digram) |
856 | CRAM | Combined Radiometric Correction Model |
857 | CRD | Capstone Requirements Document |
858 | CREB | Cyclic AMP-response Element Binding (protein) |
859 | CREEP | Committee for the Re-Election of the President,a pejorative nickname used by opponents |
860 | CREN | Christian Real Estate Network Real Estate Association |
861 | CRI | China Radio International,Costa Rica (ISO 3166 trigram) |
862 | CRIPL | Consolidated Remain-In-Place List |
863 | CRM | Cardiac Rhythm Management,Customer Relationship Management |
864 | CRO | Croatia (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166) |
865 | CRP | Committee for the Re-Election of the President,Control and Reporting Post |
866 | CRT | Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy,Cathode Ray Tube,Chinese Remainder Theorem |
867 | CRTC | Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission |
868 | Cs | Caesium |
869 | CSA | Canadian Soccer Association,Canadian Space Agency,Canadian Standards Association,Child Support Agency,Command Staff Advisor,Community-supported agriculture,Confederate States of America,Corps Storage Area,Czech Airlines,C/S/A,CINC,Service,and Agency |
870 | CSC | Closed Spacelike Curve (relativity),Compact system camera,Computer Sciences Corporation,Computer Security Centre,CSCC Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists |
871 | CSERIAC | (U.S. DoD) Crew Systems Ergonomics Information Analysis Center |
872 | CSG | Corps Support Group |
873 | CSI | see entry |
874 | CSICOP | Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (became the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2006) |
875 | CSIP | Commercial Stable Image Platform (AMD) |
876 | CSIS | Canadian Security Intelligence Service ('seessiss'),(U.S.) Center for Strategic & International Studies |
877 | CSK | Czechoslovakia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1993) |
878 | CSL | U.K. Central Science Laboratory |
879 | CSPI | Center for Science in the Public Interest |
880 | CSR | Control Supply Rate |
881 | CSR | Corporate Social Responsibility |
882 | CSRC | Conflict Studies Research Centre |
883 | CSRF | Cross-Site Request Forgery |
884 | CST | Central Standard Time (UTC−6 hours) |
885 | CT | Computed tomography (medical scan also known as a CAT scan),Central Time zone,Chrono Trigger (Computer/Video games),Connecticut (postal symbol),Canterbury (postal symbol),Chhattisgarh (Indian state code) |
886 | CTA | Central African Republic (FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166 or IOC),Chicago Transit Authority,Comando-Geral de Tecnologia Aerospacial (Portuguese,[Brazilian] 'General Command for Aerospace Technology') |
887 | CTBT | Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty |
888 | CTDB | Compact Terrain Data Base (file format) |
889 | CTE | Canton and Enderbury Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984),Chronic traumatic encephalopathy |
890 | CTGF | connective tissue growth factor |
891 | CTI | Co-operative Target Identification |
892 | CTIL | Critical Tracked Items List |
893 | CTIS | Central Tire Inflation System |
894 | CTMS | Clinical Trial Management System |
895 | CTO | Chief Technical Officer,Chief Technology Officer |
896 | CTS | Clear-To-Send,Collective Training Standards,Communications Technology Service,Contract Technical Services,Conversation Time Sharing,COSMIC Top Secret |
897 | CTSS | Compatible Time-Sharing System |
898 | CTU | Counter Terrorist Unit (fictional branch of the Central Intelligence Agency in the television action series 24) |
899 | CTVT | Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour |
900 | Cu | Copper (Latin Cuprum) |
901 | CUB | Cuba (ISO 3166 trigram) |
902 | CUCV | Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle |
903 | CUNY | City University of New York ('CUE-knee') |
904 | CUPE | Canadian Union of Public Employees ('CUE-pee') |
905 | CUPS | Common Unix Printing System |
906 | CUPW | Canadian Union of Postal Workers |
907 | CUREA | Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy |
908 | CuW | Copper-tungsten pseudo-alloy (from the chemical symbols of the two component elements) |
909 | CUW | Curaçao (ISO 3166 trigram) |
910 | CV | curriculum vitae (résumé) |
911 | CVLL | Crypto Variable Logic Label |
912 | CVSD | Continuous Variable Slope Delta (modulation) |
913 | CVT | Continuously Variable Transmission |
914 | CW | Calendar Week, or: Continuous Wave, or: Clothes Washer, or: Cook Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
915 | CWC | Chemical Weapons Convention |
916 | CWRU | Case Western Reserve University |
917 | CWS | Canadian Wildlife Service |
918 | CX | Christmas Island (ISO 3166 digram),or: One Hundred and Ten (in Roman numerals) |
919 | CXR | Christmas Island (ISO 3166 trigram) |
920 | CY | Calendar year, or: Cyprus (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram) |
921 | CYM | Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
922 | CZE | Czech Republic (ISO 3166 trigram) |
923 | CZF | (Christian Zombie Fan) |
924 | CZMA | (US) Coastal Zone Management Act |
925 | d | Deci |
926 | D | Deuterium |
927 | DADVSI | Loi sur le droit d’auteur et les droits voisins dans la société de l’information (French,'Law on copyrights and related rights in the information society') |
928 | DAES | Defence Acquisition Executive Summary,(UK MoD) Directorate of Analysis,Experimentation and Simulation |
929 | DAF | Dissolved Air Flotation,a technique used in water treatment |
930 | DAFIF | Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File |
931 | DAK | Disney's Animal Kingdom |
932 | DAO | Division Ammunition Officer |
933 | DAQ | Data acquisition,Delivered Audio Quality |
934 | DARE | Drug Abuse Resistance Education |
935 | DARO | (U.S.) Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office |
936 | DARPA | U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
937 | DART | Disaster Assistance Response Team,Dublin Area Rapid Transit |
938 | DAS | Defensive Aids Suite |
939 | DASD | (U.S.) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense |
940 | DASL | Datapoint's Advanced Systems Language |
941 | DAU | (U.S.) Defense Acquisition University |
942 | DAWN | (U.S.) Drug Abuse Warning Network |
943 | dB | Decibel |
944 | DB | Deutsche Bahn |
945 | Db | Dubnium |
946 | DBA | De Bellis Antiquitatis (miniature wargaming rules) |
947 | DBBL | (U.S. Army Simulation Center) Dismounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory |
948 | DBDO | Desert BDO |
949 | DBE | Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
950 | DBF | Detection By Fire (weapon launch signature) |
951 | DBR | De Bellis Renationis (miniature wargaming rules) |
952 | DBRA | Davis-Bacon Related Acts |
953 | DBS | Direct Broadcast Services (television) |
954 | DC | da capo,Italian Democrazia Cristiana,Digital Compass,Direct Current,District of Columbia (postal symbol),Douglas Aircraft Company,Dublin Core,Duty Cycle |
955 | DCA | Defensive Counter Air,Drum Corps Associates,DiChloroAcetate |
956 | DCAA | (U.S.) Defense Contract Audit Agency |
957 | DCAS | Devon and Cornwall Archery Society |
958 | DCC | Dallas Christian College |
959 | DCD | [Organ] Donation after Cardiac Death |
960 | DCE | Data Communication Equipment |
961 | DCFC | Death Cab for Cutie |
962 | DCI | Detection,Classification and Identification,Drum Corps International,Duellists' Convocation International,now known simply by the initials |
963 | DCL | Disney Cruise Line |
964 | DCN | Deacon |
965 | DCOM | Disney Channel Original Movie |
966 | DCSOPS | Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and plans |
967 | DCW | Digital Chart of the World |
968 | DCYSC | Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
969 | DD | due diligence and dear daughter (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists,blogs,and bulletin boards) |
970 | DDA | Deputy District Attorney |
971 | DDN | U.S. Defense Data Network |
972 | DDS | Doctor of Dental Surgery |
973 | DDT | Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (insecticide),Dynamic Debugging Tool (computing),DE[edit] |
974 | DE | Delaware (postal symbol),Germany (ISO 3166 digram) |
975 | DEA | Drug Enforcement Administration |
976 | DEA | Drug Enforcement Agency |
977 | DEC | Department of Environmental Conservation,Digital Equipment Corporation,Disasters Emergency Committee |
978 | DeCA | (U.S.) Defense Commissary Agency |
979 | DEFCON | Defence readiness condition |
980 | DEFRA | (UK) Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs |
981 | DELT | Dual Ended Line Test (ing) |
982 | DEM | Data Exchange Mechanism,Digital Elevation Model |
983 | DEN | Denmark (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166) |
984 | DEPSECDEF | (U.S.) Deputy Secretary of Defense |
985 | DERA | British Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (1995-2001) |
986 | DES | Deep Ecliptic Survey |
987 | DEU | Germany (ISO 3166 trigram) |
988 | DF | Direct Fire,Direction Finding,Distrito Federal (Spanish and Portuguese for 'federal district') |
989 | DFAS | (U.S.) Defense Finance and Accounting Service |
990 | DFB | Deutscher Fußball-Bund (German for 'German Football Association') |
991 | DFCB | Data Format Control Book |
992 | DfID | UK Department for International Development |
993 | DFM | Discrete Field Model see Superluminal motion |
994 | DFM | Dynamic Flowgraph Methodology |
995 | DFSP | Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans |
996 | DfT | UK Department for Transport |
997 | DFTBA | Don't Forget To Be Awesome,a term commonly used by the Vlogbrothers |
998 | DG | Dei gratia (Latin,'by the grace of God'),Director-General,Data General |
999 | DGA | Direction générale des armées (French 'Armed Forces General Directorate') |
1000 | DGPS | Differential GPS |
1001 | DGZ | Desired Ground Zero |
1002 | DHA | DocosaHexaenoic Acid |
1003 | DHHS | (U.S.) Department of Health and Human Services |
1004 | DHRA | (U.S.) DoD Human Resources Activity |
1005 | DHS | U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
1006 | DHSS | UK Department of Health and Social Security |
1007 | DHTFYSS | U.S. Don't Have Time For You Silly S**** |
1008 | DHY | Dahomey (ISO 3166 trigram; became BEN for Benin in 1977) |
1009 | DIA | U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency |
1010 | DIAC | Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia) [1] |
1011 | DiC | Design Island Centre (computing usually used in a teaching situation) |
1012 | DICASS | DIrectional Command Activated Sonobuoy System |
1013 | DIFAR | DIrectional Frequency Analysis and Recording |
1014 | DIME | Dense Inert Metal Explosive |
1015 | DIP | Dual In-line Package (electronics) |
1016 | DIPS | Defense independent pitching statistics |
1017 | DIR | Defence Industrial Research |
1018 | DISCOM | Division Support Command |
1019 | DISE | Deployable Intelligence Support Element |
1020 | DISSTAF | DIS Search and Target Acquisition Fidelity experiment |
1021 | DITY | Do-It-Yourself |
1022 | DIVAD | Division Air Defence |
1023 | DIY | Do It Yourself |
1024 | DJI | Djibouti (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1025 | DK | Denmark (ISO 3166 digram) |
1026 | DL | Dexter's Laboratory |
1027 | DLIC | Detachment Left-In-Contact |
1028 | DLIR | Depot-Level Inspection and Repair |
1029 | DLPMC | DorsoLateral PreMotor Cortex |
1030 | DLRP | Data Link Reference Point |
1031 | DLS | Deep Lens Survey |
1032 | DLSA | (U.S.) Defense Legal Services Agency |
1033 | DLSc | Diploma in Library Science |
1034 | DLTBGYD | Don't let the bastards grind you down |
1035 | DMC | (U.S.) Defense Management Council |
1036 | DMCA | Digital Millennium Copyright Act |
1037 | DMM | Digital Multimeter |
1038 | DMOC | Distributed Mission Operations Centre |
1039 | DMPA | (U.S.) Defense Medical Programs Activity |
1040 | DMPFC | DorsoMedial PreFrontal Cortex |
1041 | DMPK | Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics |
1042 | DMRB | Design Manual for Roads and Bridges |
1043 | DMS | U.S. Defense Message System |
1044 | DMSP | U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
1045 | DMT | Dimethyltryptamine |
1046 | DMV | Department of Motor Vehicles |
1047 | DMZ | DeMilitarized Zone |
1048 | DN | Deacon |
1049 | DNAW | Day Night All Weather |
1050 | DNDi | Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative |
1051 | DNDO | U.S. Domestic Nuclear Detection Office |
1052 | DNK | Denmark (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1053 | DNM | Defence Nuclear Material |
1054 | DNR | Do Not Resuscitate |
1055 | DNS | Domain Name System |
1056 | DOB | Date Of Birth |
1057 | DOD | U.S. Department of Defense |
1058 | DODAF | U.S. Department of Defense Architectural Framework |
1059 | DoDD | U.S. Department of Defense Directive |
1060 | DoDEA | (U.S.) Department of Defense Education Activity |
1061 | DOE | U.S. Department of Energy |
1062 | DOHC | Dual-OverHead-Cam engine |
1063 | DOI | U.S. Department of the Interior |
1064 | DORA | Defence of the Realm Act |
1065 | DOS | Density of State |
1066 | DOTA | short-form for DEFENSE OF THE ANCIENTS a popular online epic game |
1067 | DotD | Deal of the Day (marketing gimmick) |
1068 | DOW | Died of Wounds |
1069 | DP | Division de production (Algerian petroleum company) |
1070 | DPA | UK Defence Procurement Agency |
1071 | DPCO | Double-Pole Change Over |
1072 | DPDT | Double-Pole Double-Throw |
1073 | DPI | Dots Per Inch |
1074 | DPICM | Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition |
1075 | DPKO | UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations |
1076 | DPMO | (U.S.) Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office |
1077 | DPPDB | Digital Point Positioning Database |
1078 | DPRK | Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
1079 | DPST | Double-Pole Single-Throw |
1080 | DRC | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
1081 | DRDC | Defence Research & Development Canada |
1082 | DREA | Defence Research Establishment Atlantic (obsolete 2002) |
1083 | DRES | Defence Research Establishment Suffield (obsolete 2002) |
1084 | DRET | Defence Research Establishment Toronto (obsolete 2002) |
1085 | DREV | Defence Research Establishment Valcartier (obsolete 2002) |
1086 | DRIC | (U.S.) Defense Research Information Center |
1087 | DRMS | (U.S.) Defense Revitalization and Marketing Service |
1088 | DRPR | Drawing Practices |
1089 | DRT | Document Related Technologies |
1090 | Ds | Darmstadtium |
1091 | DSAS | Disney Sing Along Songs |
1092 | DSB | (U.S.) Defense Science Board |
1093 | DSCS | U.S. Defense Satellite Communications System |
1094 | DSCSOC | DSCS Operations Center |
1095 | DSE | Dry Sheep Equivalent |
1096 | DSG | Direct-Shift Gearbox |
1097 | DSID | Dismounted Soldier Identification System |
1098 | DSL | Digital Subscriber Line |
1099 | DSLR | Digital single-lens reflex (camera) |
1100 | DSM | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |
1101 | DSN | Deep Space Network |
1102 | DSPL | Design Specialists and Plans Language |
1103 | DSR | Deformed Special Relativity |
1104 | DST | Daylight Saving Time |
1105 | DSTL | British Defence Science and Technology Laboratory |
1106 | DSWA | (U.S.) Defense Special Weapons Agency |
1107 | DTA | Dental Technologists Association |
1108 | DTD | Digital Terrain Data |
1109 | DTG | Date-Time Group |
1110 | DTH | Direct To Home (television) |
1111 | DTI | UK Department of Trade and Industry |
1112 | DTIC | (U.S.) Defense Technical Information Center |
1113 | DTL | Diode-Transistor Logic (electronics) |
1114 | DTMF | Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling |
1115 | DTO | Disruptive Technology Office (was ARDA) |
1116 | DTR | Determine The Relationship |
1117 | DTSA | (U.S.) Defense Technology Security Administration |
1118 | DUMBO | Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (Brooklyn neighborhood) |
1119 | DUSD | (U.S.) Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense |
1120 | DVLC | UK Driver and Vehicle Licencing Centre |
1121 | DVM | Doctor of Veterinary Medicine |
1122 | DVO | Direct View Optics |
1123 | DVOM | Digital Volt-Ohm Meter |
1124 | DVP | various meanings (disambiguation page) |
1125 | DW | Drum Workshop |
1126 | DWIM | Do What I Mean |
1127 | DWM | Doctor Who Magazine |
1128 | DWTS | Dancing with the Stars |
1129 | DWW | Down with Webster |
1130 | DXA | Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry |
1131 | DXM | DeXtroMethorphan |
1132 | DY | Dahomey (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1977) |
1133 | Dy | Dysprosium |
1134 | DZA | Algeria (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1135 | E | East |
1136 | EABU | Explain Acronyms Before Use |
1137 | EAC | Echelons Above Corps |
1138 | EAPC | Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council |
1139 | EAST | Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak |
1140 | EBD | Electronic Brake Distribution |
1141 | EBE | Extraterrestrial Biological Entity |
1142 | EBSA | Employee Benefits Security Administration |
1143 | EBW | Electron Beam Welding |
1144 | EBW | Exploding BridgeWire |
1145 | ECASS | European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences [1] |
1146 | ECBR | European Coalition for Biomedical Research |
1147 | ECCM | Electronic Counter-Counter-Measures |
1148 | ECFS | Electronic Case Filing System |
1149 | ECG | Electrocardiogram |
1150 | ECHR | European Convention on Human Rights |
1151 | ECJ | European Court of Justice |
1152 | ECL | Emitter Coupled Logic (electronics) |
1153 | ECommHR | European Commission on Human Rights |
1154 | ECSC | European Coal and Steel Community (distant ancestor of the EU) |
1155 | ECT | ElectroConvulsive Therapy |
1156 | ECtHR | European Court of Human Rights |
1157 | EDA | European Defence Agency |
1158 | EDAC | Error Detection And Correction |
1159 | EDCS | Environmental Data Coding Specification |
1160 | EDH | Eastman Dental Hospital |
1161 | EDSA | Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (a major thoroughfare in Manila with great significance to post-1980 Philippines history) |
1162 | EDT | Eastern Daylight Saving Time (UTC−4 hours) |
1163 | EEC | European Economic Community (predecessor of the EU) |
1164 | EEG | ElectroEncephaloGram |
1165 | EENT | End Evening Nautical Twilight |
1166 | EEO | Equal Employment Opportunity |
1167 | EEOC | (U.S.) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
1168 | EEZ | Economic Exclusion Zone or Exclusive Economic Zone |
1169 | EFF | Electronic Frontier Foundation |
1170 | EFL | English as a Foreign Language |
1171 | EFM | Enterprise Feedback Management |
1172 | EFOA | European Fuel Oxygenates Association |
1173 | EFSA | European Food Safety Authority |
1174 | EFT | Electronic Fund Transfer |
1175 | EFV | Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle |
1176 | EG | Egypt (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) |
1177 | EGCG | EpiGalloCatechin-3-Gallate |
1178 | EGIS | Erieye Ground Interface Segment |
1179 | EGRET | Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope |
1180 | EGY | Egypt (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1181 | EHF | Extremely High Frequency |
1182 | EHR | Equipment History Record |
1183 | Ei | Exbi |
1184 | EI | Ireland (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Éire) |
1185 | EIA | Environmental Impact Assessment |
1186 | EIAH | Encyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History |
1187 | EIAH | Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain |
1188 | EIC | East India Company |
1189 | EICS | East India Company's Service |
1190 | eID | electronic ID |
1191 | EIRP | Effective Isotropic Radiated Power |
1192 | EIS | Environmental Impact Statement |
1193 | EJ | Exajoule |
1194 | EKG | Electrocardiogram (from German Elektrokardiogramm) |
1195 | EKMS | Electronic Key Management System |
1196 | EL | Exalitre |
1197 | ELINT | Electronic Intelligence |
1198 | ELL | English Language Learner |
1199 | ELM | Edge-Localised Mode (plasma physics) |
1200 | ELO | Electric Light Orchestra |
1201 | ELSS | Emergency Life Support Stores |
1202 | EM | ElectroMagnetism/ElectroMagnetic |
1203 | Em | Exametre |
1204 | EMA | European Medicines Agency |
1205 | EMCON | (Electromagnetic) Emissions Control |
1206 | EMDG | Euro-Missile Dynamics Group |
1207 | EMDR | Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing |
1208 | EMEA | Europe,Middle East and Africa |
1209 | EMG | ElectroMyoGraph |
1210 | EMP | ElectroMagnetic Pulse |
1211 | EMS | Emergency Medical Services |
1212 | EMT | Emergency Medical Technician |
1213 | ENCODE | Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (human genome data project) |
1214 | ENE | East North-East |
1215 | ENG | England (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram) |
1216 | ENTEC | Euro NATO Training Engineer Centre |
1217 | ENVL | Envelope |
1218 | ENY | Enemy |
1219 | EOD | Explosive Ordnance Disposal |
1220 | EOG | ElectroOculoGraphy |
1221 | EOM | End of Message |
1222 | EOSAT | Earth Observation Satellite |
1223 | EOSDIS | Earth Observation Satellite Data and Information System |
1224 | EP | European Parliament |
1225 | EP | Extended play |
1226 | EPCOT | Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow |
1227 | EPGS | EOS Polar Ground Sites |
1228 | EPIRB | Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon |
1229 | EPL | English Premier League |
1230 | EPOS | Electronic Point Of Sale |
1231 | EPPA | Employee Polygraph Protection Act |
1232 | EPR | European Pressurised [Nuclear] Reactor |
1233 | EQ | Emotional Quotient |
1234 | Er | Erbium |
1235 | ERCIM | European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics |
1236 | ERI | Eritrea (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1237 | ERLAWS | Eastern Ruapehu Lahar Alarm and Warning System |
1238 | EROS | Earth Resources Observation System |
1239 | ERP | Engineer Regulating Point |
1240 | ERR | Eesti Rahvusringhääling |
1241 | ERS | Earth Resources Survey |
1242 | ERTS | Earth Resources Technology Satellite (became Landsat) |
1243 | ERV | Endogenous RetroVirus |
1244 | ESD | ElectroStatic Discharge |
1245 | ESDP | European Security and Defence Policy |
1246 | ESE | East South-East |
1247 | ESH | Western Sahara (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1248 | ESL | English as a Second Language |
1249 | ESM | Electronic warfare Support Measures |
1250 | ESO | European Southern Observatory |
1251 | ESOL | English for Speakers of Other Languages |
1252 | ESPN | Entertainment and Sports Programming Network |
1253 | ESU | Emergency Services Unit |
1254 | ESV | Engineer Support Vehicle |
1255 | ET | Ethiopia (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) |
1256 | ETH | Ethiopia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1257 | ETI | Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence |
1258 | ETLA | Extended TLA |
1259 | ETT | Embedded Training Team |
1260 | Eu | Europium |
1261 | EUCOM | (U.S.) European Command |
1262 | EUUSA | European Union and United States of America |
1263 | EV | Exavolt |
1264 | EVIL | Electronic viewfinder (with) interchangeable lens (a type of digital camera) |
1265 | EWTN | Eternal Word Television Network |
1266 | Exatesla | Extra Terrestrial |
1267 | EXREP | Expeditious Repair (SM&R code) |
1268 | f | Femto |
1269 | fA | Femtoampere |
1270 | FA | Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous |
1271 | FAA | Financial Aid Administrator,Fleet Air Arm,Functional Area Analysis |
1272 | FAAD | Forward Area Air Defence |
1273 | FAADEZ | Forward Area Air Defence Engagement Zone |
1274 | FAAFP | Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians |
1275 | FAAN | Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology |
1276 | FAAN | Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing |
1277 | FAAQ | Frequently Asked and Anticipated Questions |
1278 | FAASV | Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle |
1279 | FAB | Feline Advisory Bureau (UK feline charity) |
1280 | FACA | (US) Federal Advisory Committee Act |
1281 | FACH | Fuerza Aérea de Chile |
1282 | FACN | Fellow of the American College of Nutrition |
1283 | FACP | Fellow of the American College of Physicians |
1284 | FACTS | Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System |
1285 | FAM | Foreign Affairs Manual |
1286 | FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization |
1287 | FAPA | Fellow of the American Psychological Association |
1288 | FAPHA | Fellow of the American Public Health Association |
1289 | FARP | Forward Arming and Refuelling Point / Forward Area Rearm/refuel Point |
1290 | FASCAM | Family of Scatterable Mines[1] |
1291 | FASD | Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder |
1292 | FASEB | Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology |
1293 | FAT | Field Artillery Tractor |
1294 | FAVS | Future Armoured Vehicle System |
1295 | FAW | Football Association of Wales |
1296 | FBCS | Fellow of the British Computer Society |
1297 | FBIDST | Fellow of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists |
1298 | FBIS | Foreign Broadcast Information Service |
1299 | FBM | Board foot |
1300 | fC | Femtocoulomb |
1301 | FCC | U.S. Federal Communications Commission |
1302 | FCE | First Certificate in English |
1303 | FCF | Financial Free Cash Flow |
1304 | FCLA | Fraud Claims Law Associate |
1305 | FCO | UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
1306 | FCW | Florida Championship Wrestling |
1307 | FD | Falun Dafa |
1308 | FDA | Food and Drug Administration (U.S.) |
1309 | FDBK | (I) Feedback |
1310 | Fe | Iron (Latin Ferrum) |
1311 | FEAST | Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation |
1312 | FEATS | Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies link title |
1313 | FEBA | Forward Edge of the Battle Area |
1314 | FED | Field Emission Display |
1315 | FEDEP | Federation Development Process (Simulation) |
1316 | FEF | Frontal Eye Field (neurophysiology) |
1317 | FEMA | Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency,Fire Equipment Manufacturers' Association |
1318 | FENS | Federation of European Neuroscience Societies |
1319 | FES | Flywheel Energy Storage |
1320 | FEST | Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre link title |
1321 | FET | Field-effect transistor |
1322 | FEZ | Fighter Engagement Zone |
1323 | fF | Femtofarad |
1324 | FF | Final Fantasy |
1325 | FFB | Frum From Birth (referring to an observant Jew born into a religiously observant family) |
1326 | FFC | Free For Chat |
1327 | FFE | Fukuoka Futures Exchange |
1328 | FFF | Fédération française de football (French for: French Football Federation) |
1329 | FFG | Guided Missile Frigate (hull classification symbol) |
1330 | FFOV | Forward Field Of View |
1331 | FFR | Fédération française de rugby (French for: French Rugby (Union) Federation) |
1332 | FFS | For Fuck's Sake |
1333 | FFT | Final Fantasy Tactics |
1334 | FG | Falun Gong |
1335 | fg | Femtogram |
1336 | FG | Fog (METAR Code), French Guiana (FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
1337 | FGOTUS | First Gentleman of the United States |
1338 | FGR | Flickr Group Roulette |
1339 | fH | Femtohenry |
1340 | FHFIF | Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends |
1341 | FHI | Family Health International, Fuji Heavy Industries,Ltd. |
1342 | FI | Finland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) |
1343 | FIAT | Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian for: Italian Car Factory of Turin) |
1344 | FIB | Fucking Illinois Bastard (Wisconsin slang, variants exist) |
1345 | FIBUA | Fighting In Built-Up Areas |
1346 | FIC | Fellowship for Intentional Community |
1347 | FID | Foreign Internal Defence |
1348 | FIE | Fly-In Echelon |
1349 | FIFA | Fédération internationale de football association (French for: International Association Football Federation) |
1350 | FIFe | Fédération internationale féline (French for: International Feline Federation) |
1351 | FIFO | First In, First Out |
1352 | FIFRA | Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act |
1353 | FIGJAM | Fuck I'm Good, Just Ask Me |
1354 | FIMPT | Fellow of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists |
1355 | FIN | Finland (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1356 | FINA | Fédération internationale de natation (French for: International Swimming Federation) |
1357 | FIRES | Fever Induced Refractory Epilepsy Syndrome or Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome |
1358 | FIS | Fédération internationale de ski (French for: International Ski Federation) |
1359 | FISA | Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (French for: International Federation of Rowing Associations) |
1360 | FISH | Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridisation |
1361 | FiST | Fire Support Team |
1362 | FITS | Flexible Image Transport System |
1363 | FIU | Florida International University |
1364 | fJ | Femtojoule |
1365 | FJ | Fiji (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) |
1366 | FJI | Fiji (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1367 | FJN | Financial Job Network |
1368 | FK | Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
1369 | fK | Femtokelvin |
1370 | FKSM | Fort Knox Supplemental Manual |
1371 | FKT | Fastest Known Time |
1372 | fL | Femtolitre |
1373 | FL | Florida (postal symbol) |
1374 | fl | floruit (Latin for: living) (genealogy) |
1375 | FLA | Florida,Front Line Assembly,Future Large Aircraft |
1376 | FLAB | Four-letter abbreviation |
1377 | FLAC | Free Legal Advice Centres |
1378 | FLAC | Free Lossless Audio Codec |
1379 | FLAK | Flug-Abwehr-Kanone (German for: Anti-Aircraft Guns) |
1380 | FLB | Forward Logistics Base |
1381 | FLET | Forward Line of Enemy Troops |
1382 | FLG | Falun Gong |
1383 | FLIP | Flight Information Publication |
1384 | FLIR | Forward Looking InfraRed (sensor) |
1385 | FLK | Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1386 | FLOT | Forward Line of Own Troops |
1387 | FLOTUS | First Lady of the United States (the wife of the President of the United States) |
1388 | FLQ | Free Legal Questions |
1389 | FLQ | Front de libération du Québec (French for: Québec Liberation Front) |
1390 | FLSA | Fair Labor Standards Act |
1391 | FLTSAT | Fleet Satellite |
1392 | FLTSATCOM | Fleet Satellite Communication System |
1393 | FLUBOS | Fat, Lazy, Useless, Bag Of Shit |
1394 | FM | Factory Mutual |
1395 | FM | Federal Magistrate (Australian post-nominal),Federated States of Micronesia (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code),Field Manual,Flight Manager,Frequency Modulation (electronics) |
1396 | fm | Femtometre |
1397 | Fm | Fermium |
1398 | FMC | Federal Magistrates' Court (an Australian federal court,formerly FMS),Food Machinery Corporation (original name of the company now known as FMC Corporation) |
1399 | FMCA | Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia (used for citing decisions of the FMC other than family law decisions) |
1400 | FMCAfam | Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia: family (used for citing family law decisions of the FMC) |
1401 | FMCG | Fast Moving Consumer Goods |
1402 | FME | Formal Methods Europe |
1403 | FMECA | Failure Modes and Effect Criticality Analysis |
1404 | FMJD | Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames |
1405 | FMLA | Family Medical Leave Act |
1406 | FoE | Friends of the Earth |
1407 | FOGC | Federal Oil and Gas Council |
1408 | FOH | Front Of House |
1409 | FOIA | Freedom of Information Act |
1410 | FOM | Federation Object Model |
1411 | FONSI | Finding of No Significant Impact |
1412 | FOO | Forward Observation Officer |
1413 | FOOP | Friends Of Organ Pipes (Volunteer group) |
1414 | FoS | Family of Systems |
1415 | FOSE | Fallout 3 Script Extender |
1416 | FOSE | Federal Office Systems Expo |
1417 | FOT | Free on truck |
1418 | FOTA | Fellow of the Orthodontic Technicians Association |
1419 | FOTC | Flight of the Conchords |
1420 | FOUO | For Official Use Only |
1421 | FP | French Polynesia (FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
1422 | FPF | Federação Portuguesa de Futebol (Portuguese for: Portuguese Football Federation), Final Protective Fire |
1423 | FPS | Fire Prevention System |
1424 | FQ | Baker Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),French Southern and Antarctic Territories (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1979) |
1425 | FR | France (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) |
1426 | Fr | Francium |
1427 | FRA | Federal Railroad Administration, France (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1428 | FRAND | Fair,reasonable,and non-discriminatory (concept in standards-setting and intellectual property law) |
1429 | FRCP | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians |
1430 | FRICBM | Full Range ICBM |
1431 | FRO | Faroe Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1432 | FRS | Fellow of the Royal Society, U.S. Federal Reserve System |
1433 | FRSA | Fellow of the Royal Society of Art |
1434 | FRY | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
1435 | fs | Femtosecond |
1436 | fS | Femtosiemens |
1437 | FSA | Fire Support Area, UK Food Standards Agency, Functional Solution Analysis |
1438 | FSC | Federal Supply Classification, Forest Stewardship Council (ecological pressure group) |
1439 | FSCL | Fire Support Co-ordination Line |
1440 | FSE | Fire Support Element |
1441 | FSF | Free Software Foundation |
1442 | FSH | Follicle Stimulating Hormone |
1443 | FSI | Fuel Stratified Injection |
1444 | FSS | Fire Support Station |
1445 | FSSP | Families of Structurally Similar Proteins |
1446 | FSTC | Foreign Science Technology Center (now NGIC) |
1447 | fT | Femtotesla |
1448 | FTC | Federal Trade Commission |
1449 | FTE | Full Time Equivalent |
1450 | FTL | Faster Than Light |
1451 | FTS | Flight Termination System used during some rocket launches |
1452 | FTS | Fuck That Shit |
1453 | FU | Smoke (METAR Code) |
1454 | FUBAR | Fucked/Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair |
1455 | fV | Femtovolt |
1456 | fW | Femtowatt |
1457 | FW | Forward |
1458 | FWC | Football World Cup |
1459 | FWF | Fixed Word Format |
1460 | FWI | French West Indies |
1461 | FWIW | For What It's Worth |
1462 | FWS | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
1463 | FWT | Fresh Water Tank |
1464 | FXX | Metropolitan France (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1997) |
1465 | FYA | For Your Agenda |
1466 | FYDP | Five-Year Defense Plan (U.S.) |
1467 | FYI | For Your Information |
1468 | FYROM | Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
1469 | FZDZ | Freezing Drizzle (METAR Code) |
1470 | FZFG | Freezing Fog (METAR Code) |
1471 | FZRA | Freezing Rain (METAR Code) |
1472 | g | Gram |
1473 | G3 | Heckler & Koch G3 |
1474 | GAAR | General Anti-Avoidance Rule (tax evasion) |
1475 | GAB | Gabon (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1476 | GABA | Gamma-AminoButyric Acid |
1477 | GAD | Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
1478 | GAF | Garfield and Friends |
1479 | GAO | U.S. Government Accountability Office |
1480 | GAW | Global Atmospheric Watch |
1481 | GBBC | Great (Global) Backyard Bird Count |
1482 | GBE | Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire |
1483 | GBR | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1484 | GCA | Graduate in Claims Administration |
1485 | GCD | see entry |
1486 | GCF | Greatest Common Factor |
1487 | GCI | Ground-controlled interception |
1488 | GCN | Gamma-ray burst Coordination Network |
1489 | GCS | Global Coordinate System |
1490 | GCSE | General Certificate of Secondary Education (UK) |
1491 | Gd | Gadolinium |
1492 | GD | Grenada (ISO 3166 digram) |
1493 | GDL | Game Definition Language |
1494 | GDR | General Distribution Release (Microsoft Term for a software service release; between Hotfix and Service Pack) |
1495 | GDR | German Democratic Republic (cf. DDR) |
1496 | GDW | Game Designers Workshop |
1497 | Ge | Germanium |
1498 | GEBCO | General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans |
1499 | GEC | Great Engineering Challenge |
1500 | GED | General Educational Development (high school equivalency credential in the U.S. and Canada) |
1501 | GEEP | Geophysical Equipment Exploration Platform |
1502 | GEN | Full General (four stars) in the U.S. Army |
1503 | GeV | Gigaelectron-volt |
1504 | GEV | Ground Effect Vehicle |
1505 | GFCI | Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor (aka GFI) |
1506 | GFI | Ground Fault Interruptor (aka GFCI) |
1507 | GFL | German Football League (Germany's Bundesliga for American football; the English-language name is used in German without translation) |
1508 | GFN | Global Footprint Network |
1509 | GG | Georgia (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
1510 | GGK | Good God Karma |
1511 | GHA | Ghana (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1512 | GHB | gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid |
1513 | Gi | Gibi |
1514 | GIB | Gibraltar (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1515 | GIG | Global Information Grid |
1516 | GINO | Godzilla In Name Only |
1517 | GISS | General Impression of Size and Shape,Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
1518 | GJD | Geocentric Julian Day |
1519 | GLAAD | Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation |
1520 | GLAC | General Ledger Accounting Code |
1521 | GLAST | Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope |
1522 | GLBA | Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act |
1523 | GLC | Gas-liquid chromatography |
1524 | GLP | Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1525 | GLV | Gained Life Value |
1526 | Gm | Gigametre |
1527 | GM | The Gambia (ISO 3166 digram),GameMaster (role-playing),General Motors,Genetically Modified,Germany (FIPS 10-4 country code),Guru Meditation (computing) |
1528 | GMAC | General Motors Acceptance Corporation,the original name of the company now known as Ally Financial,Graduate Management Admission Council,G-MAC,Great Midwest Athletic Conference |
1529 | GMB | The Gambia (ISO 3166 trigram),General,Municipal,Boilermakers (and Allied Trade Union) |
1530 | GMFSC | Ground Mobile Forces Satellite Communications |
1531 | GMO | Genetically Modified Organism |
1532 | GMPCS | Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite |
1533 | GNAS | Grand National Archery Society |
1534 | GNB | Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1535 | GNP | Gross National Product |
1536 | GNQ | Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1537 | GnRH | Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone |
1538 | GO | Glorioso Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
1539 | GOA | General of the Army (United States only) |
1540 | GOAT | Greatest Of All Time |
1541 | GOC | General Officer Commanding |
1542 | GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
1543 | GOP | Grand Old Party |
1544 | gorp | granola,oats,raisins,peanuts (another name for trail mix),probably a backronym |
1545 | GOSC | General Officer Steering Committee |
1546 | GOSH | Great Ormond Street Hospital |
1547 | GOSP | Gas/Oil Separation Plant |
1548 | GOTS | Government off-the-shelf |
1549 | GOYADIN | Get Off Your Arse,Do It Now (anti-procrastination mantra) |
1550 | GP | General Practitioner,General Purpose,Grand Prix,Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
1551 | GPA | Grade Point Average |
1552 | GPC | Global Path Cache |
1553 | GPIB | General-Purpose Instrumentation/Interface Bus |
1554 | GPO | General Post Office |
1555 | GPPC | Genetics and Public Policy Center |
1556 | GPR | Ground-Penetrating Radar |
1557 | GPS | General Problem Solver,Global Positioning System |
1558 | GPT | General Purpose Technology, Get paid to surf (an online business model) |
1559 | GQ | Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 digram),Gentlemen's Quarterly (the original name of the magazine now known simply as GQ),Guam (FIPS 10-4 territory code),GR[edit] |
1560 | GR | Greece (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Hail (METAR Code) |
1561 | GRAIL | Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory |
1562 | GRAS | Generally recognized as safe (FDA list) |
1563 | GRB | Gamma-Ray Burst |
1564 | GRC | Greece (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1565 | GRD | Grenada (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1566 | GRE | Graduate Record Examination,Greece (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166) |
1567 | grep | [search] Globally for Regular Expression,Print [lines] |
1568 | GRID | Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (original name of AIDS) |
1569 | GRid | Global Release Identifier,a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI |
1570 | GriT | Girl raised in Texas (Woman presenting firm southern traits/beliefs) |
1571 | GRL | Greenland (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1572 | GRN | Grenada (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166),Goods Received Note |
1573 | Gs | Gigasecond |
1574 | GSA | U.S. General Services Administration |
1575 | GSD | Graphical Situation Display |
1576 | GSGB | (God send glamour boy 9-10/10) |
1577 | GSK | GlaxoSmithKline [good sexual karma] |
1578 | GSN | Game Show Network |
1579 | GSO | General Services Officer (U.S. Department of State) |
1580 | GSOH | Good Sense Of Humour |
1581 | GSP | Georges St-Pierre (Canadian MMA fighter) |
1582 | GSR | Gun Shot Residue |
1583 | GSS | Generic Security Services |
1584 | GSW | Gunshot wound |
1585 | GTD | Getting Things Done |
1586 | GTG | Got To Go (Internet chat) |
1587 | GTGN | Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names |
1588 | GTK | Good To Know (Internet chat) |
1589 | GTM | Guatemala (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1590 | GU | Guam (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram) |
1591 | GUF | French Guiana (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1592 | GUILT | Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin |
1593 | GULCR | Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica |
1594 | GUT | Grand Unification Theory |
1595 | GWARS | Ground Warfare System (simulation) |
1596 | GWAS | Grand Western Archery Society |
1597 | GWOT | Global War on Terrorism |
1598 | GXE | Gene-enivronment interaction |
1599 | GXM | Matrox Graphics eXpansion Module |
1600 | GY | Guyana (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) |
1601 | GZK | Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off (cosmic ray energies) |
1602 | h | Hecto |
1603 | H | Henry |
1604 | H1 | First half of the year |
1605 | H2 | Second half of the year |
1606 | HAARP | High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program |
1607 | HAART | Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy |
1608 | HAI | Human Awareness Institute |
1609 | HAL | Hardware Abstraction Layer |
1610 | HALO | High Altitude Low Opening (parachute jump) |
1611 | HAM | Amateur radio operator |
1612 | HANS | Head And Neck Support (device used in many race cars) |
1613 | HARM | High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile |
1614 | HAW | Heavy Antitank Weapon |
1615 | HAWK | Homing All the Way Killer (air defence system) |
1616 | HAZ | Heat-Affected Zone |
1617 | HAZMAT | Hazardous Materials |
1618 | HBCD | HexaBromoCycloDodecane |
1619 | HBO | Home Box Office |
1620 | HBR | Harvard Business Review |
1621 | HBT | Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor |
1622 | HBV | Hepatitis B Virus |
1623 | HCCI | Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition |
1624 | HCF | Highest Common Factor |
1625 | HCSC | Higher Command and Staff Course |
1626 | HDL | High-Density Lipoprotein |
1627 | HDM | Human Decision-Making |
1628 | HDRA | Henry Doubleday Research Association |
1629 | He | Helium |
1630 | HE | High Explosive |
1631 | HEAT | High Explosive Anti-Tank (ammunition) |
1632 | HEBA | Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association |
1633 | HEER | High-Explosive Extended Range (ammunition) |
1634 | HEIC | Honourable East India Company |
1635 | HEMP | High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse |
1636 | HEOSS | High Earth Orbit Space Surveillance |
1637 | HEP | High-Explosive Plastic (ammunition) |
1638 | HEPA | High-Efficiency Particulate Air (filter) |
1639 | HESV | Heavy Engineering Support Vehicle |
1640 | HETT | Heavy Equipment Transporting Truck / Heavy Equipment Truck Tractor |
1641 | HEU | Highly Enriched Uranium |
1642 | Hf | Hafnium |
1643 | HF | High Frequency |
1644 | HFE | Human Fertilisation and Embryology (UK Act) |
1645 | HFE | The common-emitter current gain in a BJT transistor (also represented by βF). See: BJT |
1646 | HFEA | Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (UK) |
1647 | Hg | Mercury (Latin Hydrargyrum) |
1648 | HGC | UK Human Genetics Commission |
1649 | HGF | Human Growth Factor |
1650 | HGTV | Home & Garden Television |
1651 | HI | Hawaii (postal symbol) |
1652 | HIH | His (or Her) Imperial Highness |
1653 | HIM | His (or Her) Imperial Majesty |
1654 | HIMAD | High to Medium Altitude Air Defence (see also H/MAD) |
1655 | HIMEZ | High Altitude Missile Engagement Zone |
1656 | HIMYM | How I Met Your Mother |
1657 | HIPAA | U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
1658 | Hipparcos | HIgh Precision Parallax COllecting Satellite |
1659 | Hird | Hurd of interfaces representing depth (cf. HURD) |
1660 | HiRISE | High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment |
1661 | HIT | Health Information Technology |
1662 | HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
1663 | HIWT | Hobart Institute of Welding Technology |
1664 | HJD | Heliocentric Julian Day |
1665 | HK | Hong Kong (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
1666 | HKG | Hong Kong (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1667 | HKS | HyperKinetic Syndrome |
1668 | hL | Hectolitre |
1669 | HL | Holding Line |
1670 | HLL | High-Level Language |
1671 | HLN | Headline News |
1672 | HLOS | High Level Output Specification |
1673 | HM | Heard Island and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
1674 | HMCE | Her/His Majesty's Customs and Excise (former UK government department; succeeded by HM Revenue and Customs) |
1675 | HMD | Heard and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1676 | HMF | HydroxyMethyl Furfural |
1677 | HMO | Health maintenance organization |
1678 | HMP | Her Majesty's Prison |
1679 | HMRC | Her/His Majesty's Revenue and Customs |
1680 | HMSO | Her Majesty's Stationery Office |
1681 | HMV | His Master's Voice |
1682 | HN | Honduras (ISO 3166 digram) |
1683 | HND | Honduras (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1684 | Ho | Holmium |
1685 | HO | Honduras (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
1686 | HOLLAND | Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies |
1687 | HOSTAC | Helicopter Operations from Ships Other Than Aircraft Carriers |
1688 | HOT | Highly Optimised Tolerance |
1689 | HOTAS | Hands on throttle-and-stick |
1690 | HOV | High Occupancy Vehicle |
1691 | hp | horse power |
1692 | HPA | UK Health Protection Agency |
1693 | HPCL | Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited |
1694 | HPLC | High Performance Liquid Chromatography |
1695 | HPT | High[er] Payoff Target |
1696 | HPV | Human Papilloma Virus |
1697 | HRBL | High-level Representation of Behavior Language (original name of the Herbal language) |
1698 | HRD | Human Resource Development |
1699 | HRF | High iness Forces |
1700 | HRH | His (or Her) Royal Highness |
1701 | HRM | His (or Her) Royal Majesty |
1702 | HRM | Human Resource Management |
1703 | HRT | Hormone Replacement Therapy |
1704 | Hs | Hassium |
1705 | HSBC | The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |
1706 | HSC | Higher School Certificate |
1707 | HSM | High School Musical |
1708 | HSMAD | Human Science/Modeling and Analysis Data |
1709 | HSN | Home Shopping Network |
1710 | HSPH | Harvard School of Public Health |
1711 | HSSI | High-Speed Serial Interface |
1712 | HST | see entry |
1713 | HTA | HyperText Application |
1714 | HTFU | Harden The Fuck Up |
1715 | HTH | Hope That Helps |
1716 | HTI | Haiti (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1717 | HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
1718 | HTR | Heated Towel Rail |
1719 | HTS | High-Temperature Superconducting wire |
1720 | HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol |
1721 | HU | Hungary (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) |
1722 | HUHA | Head up his/her ass (Marine salute; probably a backcronym) |
1723 | HUN | Hungary (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1724 | HURD | Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons (cf. Hird) |
1725 | HV | Upper Volta (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1984) |
1726 | HVAP | High Velocity Armour Piercing (ammunition) |
1727 | HVHF | High velocity human factors |
1728 | HVM | High Velocity Missile |
1729 | HVO | Upper Volta (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984) |
1730 | HWM | Hardware morphing (computer graphics rendering) |
1731 | HXB | The glycoprotein Tenascian C |
1732 | HZ | Haze (METAR Code) |
1733 | Hz | Hertz |
1734 | IA | Iowa (postal symbol) |
1735 | IAAL | I Am A Lawyer |
1736 | IAB | International Association for Biologicals |
1737 | IAD | Ion Assisted Deposition |
1738 | IADS | Integrated Air Defence System |
1739 | IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
1740 | IAF | {i} Industrial Areas Foundation |
1741 | IAFG | Information Assurance Focus Group |
1742 | IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
1743 | IANAL | I Am Not A Lawyer |
1744 | IAS | Image Assessment System |
1745 | IASIP | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
1746 | IATA | International Air Transport Association |
1747 | IATF | International Automotive Task Force |
1748 | IATSE | International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees |
1749 | IAUC | International Astronomical Union Circular |
1750 | IAW | In Accordance With |
1751 | IB | International Baccalaureate |
1752 | IBA | Important Bird Area |
1753 | IBD | Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
1754 | IBDM | Information Based Decision Making |
1755 | IBM | International Business Machines |
1756 | IBRD | International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (part of the World Bank) |
1757 | IBS | Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
1758 | ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
1759 | ICAO | International Civil Aviation Organization |
1760 | ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
1761 | ICBN | International Code of Botanical Nomenclature |
1762 | ICE | In case of emergency |
1763 | ICES | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea |
1764 | ICF | Intelligent Community Forum |
1765 | ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
1766 | ICNAF | International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (became NAFO in 1978) |
1767 | ICO | Intermediate Circular Orbit |
1768 | ICPE | International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology,the annual conference of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology |
1769 | ICRAF | International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (a.k.a. World Agroforestry Centre since 2002) |
1770 | ICRISAT | International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics |
1771 | ICRL | Individual Component Repair List |
1772 | ICRS | International Celestial Reference System |
1773 | ICSI | Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection |
1774 | ICT | Information and communication technologies |
1775 | ICTH | Island Closest to Heaven/Hell Final Fantasy VIII |
1776 | ICV | Infantry Carrier Vehicle |
1777 | ICYMI | In Case You Missed It |
1778 | IDC | International Data Corporation |
1779 | IDDI | I don't do initialisms (see irony) |
1780 | IDGAF | I don't give a fuck |
1781 | IDK | I don't know |
1782 | IDL | Interface Definition Language |
1783 | IDN | Indonesia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1784 | IEA | International Energy Agency |
1785 | IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
1786 | IED | Improvised Explosive Device |
1787 | IELTS | International English Language Testing System |
1788 | IER | Information Exchange Requirement |
1789 | IET | Initial Entry Training |
1790 | IET | Institution of Engineering and Technology |
1791 | IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
1792 | IEW | Intelligence and Electronic Warfare |
1793 | IFAB | International Football Association Board |
1794 | IFAH | International Federation for Animal Health |
1795 | IFAP | International Federation of Agricultural Producers |
1796 | IFO | Identified Flying Object (see also UFO) |
1797 | IFOV | Instantaneous Field of View |
1798 | IFPI | International Federation of Phonographic Industries |
1799 | IFRB | International Frequency Registration Board |
1800 | IFV | Infantry Fighting Vehicle |
1801 | IG | Inspector General |
1802 | IGNOU | Indira Gandhi National Open University |
1803 | IGS | International Ground Station |
1804 | IHH | Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism |
1805 | IHO | International Hydrographic Organization |
1806 | IHR | Institute for Historical Review |
1807 | IHSI | Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (Jesuit Historical Institute) |
1808 | II | Two (in Roman numerals) |
1809 | IICA | Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture |
1810 | IIE | Innovative Interstellar Explorer |
1811 | III | Three (in Roman numerals) |
1812 | IIRC | If I Recall/Remember Correctly |
1813 | IISS | International Institute for Strategic Studies |
1814 | IJN | Imperial Japanese Navy (World War II) |
1815 | IJWP | Interim Joint Warfare Publication |
1816 | ILDS | Improved Landmine Detection System |
1817 | ILO | International Labour Organization |
1818 | ILRI | International Livestock Research Institute |
1819 | ILY | I Love You [pronounced ILL-LEE] |
1820 | IMBD | International Migratory Bird Day |
1821 | IMDb | Internet Movie Database |
1822 | IME | In My Experience |
1823 | IMHO | In My Humble/Honest Opinion |
1824 | IML | International Mister Leather |
1825 | IMNSHO | In My Not So Humble Opinion |
1826 | IMPAC | International Merchant Purchase Authorization Card |
1827 | IMPACT | International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce |
1828 | IMPATT | IMPact Avalanche Transit Time diode |
1829 | IMPT | Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists |
1830 | IMRL | Individual Material iness List |
1831 | IMRO-Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization | Irish Music Rights Organisation |
1832 | IMsL | International Ms. Leather |
1833 | IMT | Integrated Management Tool |
1834 | IMU | International Mathematical Union |
1835 | In | Indium |
1836 | INA | Immigration and Nationality Act |
1837 | INAS | International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey |
1838 | INCITS | InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards |
1839 | IND | India (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1840 | INDIGO | (U.S.) INtelligence DIvision Gaming Operation |
1841 | inet | the Internet |
1842 | INFORMS | (U.S.) Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences |
1843 | INFOSEC | Information Security |
1844 | INLA | Irish National Liberation Army |
1845 | INMARSAT | International Maritime Satellite organization |
1846 | INRIA | Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique |
1847 | INS | Immigration and Naturalization Service |
1848 | InSAR | Interferometric synthetic aperture radar |
1849 | INST | Information Standards and Technology |
1850 | INTERFET | International Force for East Timor |
1851 | INTSUM | Intelligence Summary |
1852 | IO | British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
1853 | IOT | British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1854 | IPB | Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield |
1855 | IPL | Inferior Parietal Lobule |
1856 | IPO | Initial Public Offering |
1857 | IPT | Integrated Product/Project Team |
1858 | IPTS | Institute for Prospective Technological Studies |
1859 | IPTV | Internet Protocol TeleVision |
1860 | IPW | Interrogation of Prisoners of War |
1861 | Ir | Iridium |
1862 | IRAD | Internal Research and Development |
1863 | IRAN | (I) Inspect and Repair As Necessary |
1864 | IRAS | Infrared Astronomical Satellite |
1865 | IRB | International Rugby Board |
1866 | IRBM | Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile |
1867 | IREA | Intermountain Rural Electric Association |
1868 | IRINN | Islamic Republic of Iran News Network |
1869 | IRL | Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram),Industrial Research Limited,Indy Racing League,In real life |
1870 | IRN | Iran (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1871 | IRO | International Refugee Organisation |
1872 | IRQ | Iraq (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1873 | IRS | U.S. Internal Revenue Service |
1874 | IRST | Infra-red Search and Track |
1875 | ISAAA | International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications |
1876 | ISAR | Inverse SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) |
1877 | ISB | Intermediate Staging Base |
1878 | ISBN | International Standard Book Number (ISO 2108) |
1879 | ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
1880 | ISCII | Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange |
1881 | ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
1882 | ISEF | Intel International Science and Engineering Fair |
1883 | ISEN | Internet Search Environment Number |
1884 | ISF | Internal Security Force |
1885 | ISIL | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
1886 | ISIS | Institute for Science and International Security, or: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria |
1887 | ISL | Iceland (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1888 | ISLN | International Standard Lawyer Number (used initially by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell) |
1889 | ISMB | International Society of Matrix Biologists |
1890 | ISMC | Intelligent Sounding Meaningless Conversation |
1891 | ISOGP | Indian Society of Orthodontics for General Practitioners [2] |
1892 | ISPE | International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology |
1893 | ISRO | Indian Space Research Organisation |
1894 | ISSCR | International Society for Stem Cell Research |
1895 | ISSN | International standard serial number (ISO 3297) |
1896 | ISTC | Institute of Scientific and Technical Communications (UK) |
1897 | ISTS | Intel Science Talent Search |
1898 | ITA | Italy (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1899 | ITAG | Inertial Terrain-Aided Guidance |
1900 | ITALY | I'll Truly Always Love You |
1901 | ITAS | Improved Target Acquisition Sight |
1902 | ITC | InferoTemporal Cortex (neurophysiology) |
1903 | ITCZ | Intertropical Convergence Zone |
1904 | ITEC | Information Technology Exposition & Conference |
1905 | ITEMS | Interactive Tactical Environment Management System |
1906 | ITER | International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor |
1907 | ITF | International Tennis Federation |
1908 | ITK | In The Know |
1909 | ITN | Independent Television News (British) |
1910 | ITT | International Telephone and Telegraph (U.S.) |
1911 | ITTO | International Tropical Timber Organization |
1912 | IUCN | International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union) |
1913 | Iveco | Industrial Vehicles Corporation |
1914 | IVF | In Vitro Fertilisation |
1915 | IVI | Interchangeable Virtual Instrument |
1916 | IVIS | Inter-Vehicle Information System |
1917 | IVL | Inter-Visibility Line |
1918 | IVM | In Vitro [Oocyte] Maturation |
1919 | IVO | In Vicinity Of |
1920 | IW | Information Warfare |
1921 | IWARS | Infantry Warrior Simulation |
1922 | IWC | International Whaling Commission |
1923 | IWW | Industrial Workers of the World |
1924 | IX | Nine (in Roman numerals) |
1925 | IXT | IntraText digital library; IntraText lexical hypertext |
1926 | IY | Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone (FIPS 10-4 territory code; obsolete 1993) |
1927 | IZ | Iraq (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
1928 | J | Joule |
1929 | J1 | Joint [Manpower &] Personnel Directorate |
1930 | J2 | Joint Intelligence Directorate |
1931 | J3 | Joint Operations Directorate |
1932 | J4 | Joint Logistics Directorate |
1933 | J5 | Joint Strategic Plans & Policy Directorate |
1934 | J7 | Joint Operational Plans & Interoperability Directorate |
1935 | JA | Japan (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
1936 | JAFT | Just A Field Test |
1937 | JAL | Japan Airlines |
1938 | JALLC | Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (NATO) |
1939 | JAM | Jamaica (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1940 | JAMA | Journal of the American Medical Association |
1941 | JANET | Joint Academic Network |
1942 | JATO | Jet-Assisted Take-Off |
1943 | JB | Jail Bait |
1944 | JB | Junior Branch |
1945 | JBFSA | Joint Blue Force Situational Awareness |
1946 | JCDB | Joint Common Data Base |
1947 | JCDS | Joint Chiefs of the Defence Staff |
1948 | JCIDS | Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System |
1949 | JCL | Job Control Language |
1950 | JCP | Java Community Process |
1951 | JCS | Joint Chiefs of Staff |
1952 | JCW | Juggalo Championship Wrestling |
1953 | JDBC | Java Data Base Connectivity |
1954 | JDEM | Joint Dark Energy Mission |
1955 | JDL | Jewish Defense League |
1956 | JE | Jersey (FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
1957 | JEFX | Joint Expeditionary Force eXperiment |
1958 | JET | Joint European Torus |
1959 | JEZ | Joint Engagement Zone |
1960 | JFACC | Joint Force Air Component Commander |
1961 | JFACTSU | U.S. Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standards Unit |
1962 | JFC | Joint Force Commander |
1963 | JFK | John Fitzgerald Kennedy or the airport named after him. |
1964 | JFLCC | Joint Force Land Component Commander |
1965 | JFMCC | Joint Force Maritime Component Commander |
1966 | JFO | Journal of Field Ornithology |
1967 | JFSOCC | Joint Force Special Operations Component Commander |
1968 | JFTX | Joint Field Training Exercise |
1969 | JH | Japan Highway Public Corporation |
1970 | JH | Jharkhand (Indian state code) |
1971 | JI | Joint Implementation |
1972 | JIB | Joint Information Bureau |
1973 | JIC | Joint Intelligence Centre |
1974 | JINI | Java Intelligent Network Infrastructure |
1975 | JITC | Joint Interoperability Test Command |
1976 | JIVE | Joint Institute for VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) in Europe |
1977 | JJAP | Japanese Journal of Applied Physics |
1978 | JL | Japan Airlines (IATA airline designator) |
1979 | JLA | Justice League of America |
1980 | JM | Jamaica (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) |
1981 | JMS | Java Message Service |
1982 | JN | Jan Mayen Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
1983 | JNI | Java Native Interface |
1984 | JNLP | Java Network Launch Protocol |
1985 | JO | Jordan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) |
1986 | JOA | Joint Operations Area |
1987 | JOPES | Joint Operations Planning and Execution System |
1988 | JOR | Jordan (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1989 | JOTS | Joint Operations Tactical System |
1990 | JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
1991 | JPN | Japan (ISO 3166 trigram) |
1992 | JPOW | Joint Project Optic Windmill |
1993 | JRDF | Joint Rapid Deployment Forces |
1994 | JRE | Java Runtime Environment |
1995 | JREF | James Randi Educational Foundation |
1996 | JROC | Joint Requirements Oversight Council |
1997 | JROCM | JROC Memorandum |
1998 | JRRF | Joint Rapid Reaction Force |
1999 | JRSAI | Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland |
2000 | JSAP | Japan Society of Applied Physics |
2001 | JSCSC | Joint Services Command and Staff College |
2002 | JSEAD | Joint Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (see SEAD) |
2003 | JSF | Joint Strike Fighter |
2004 | JSIMS | Joint Simulation System |
2005 | JSOA | Joint Special Operations Area |
2006 | JSOTF | Joint Special Operations Task Force |
2007 | JSP | JavaServer Page |
2008 | JSP | Joint Services Publication |
2009 | JSR | Java Specification Request |
2010 | JSS | Joint Support Ship Project |
2011 | JTC | Joint Training Confederation |
2012 | JTF | Joint Task Force |
2013 | JTFEX | Joint Task Force Exercise |
2014 | JTLS | Joint Theater Level Simulation |
2015 | JTMD | Joint Theatre Missile Defence |
2016 | JTN | Johnston Atoll (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986) |
2017 | JU | Juan de Nova Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
2018 | JUGFET | JUnction Gate Field-Effect Transistor |
2019 | JUICE | JUpiter ICy Moon Explorer |
2020 | JUO | Joint Urban Operations |
2021 | JV | Joint Venture,Junior Varsity |
2022 | JW | Jehovah's Witnesses |
2023 | JWARS | Joint Warfare System (simulation) |
2024 | JWP | Joint Warfare Publication |
2025 | JY | Japanese Yen |
2026 | JZ | Joint Zone |
2027 | K | Kelvin,Potassium (Latin Kalium),Tanker (aircraft designation code) |
2028 | k | Kilo- |
2029 | K | picokelvin |
2030 | K9 | Canine Police Unit |
2031 | Ka | Kamov Design Bureau |
2032 | kA | Kiloampere |
2033 | KA | Knowledge Acquisition,Karnataka (Indian state code) |
2034 | KAF | Kandahar Air Field |
2035 | KANUKOKA | Kalaallit Nunaanni Kommunit Kattuffiannit (Kalaallisut, Greenlandic Communities Association |
2036 | KARNAC | Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context |
2037 | KARR | Knight Automated Roving Robot (Knight Rider character) |
2038 | KATUSA | Korean Augmentation To United States Army |
2039 | KAZ | Kazakhstan (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2040 | KBE | Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
2041 | KBO | Kuiper Belt Object |
2042 | KBVB | Koninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond (Dutch for Royal Belgian Football Association) |
2043 | kC | Kilocoulomb |
2044 | KCK | Kansas City,Kansas,Koma Civakên Kurdistan (Kurdish, Union of Communities in Kurdistan) |
2045 | KCL | King's College London |
2046 | KCMO | Kansas City,Missouri (pronounced: K-C-Moe) |
2047 | KCS | Kansas City Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark) |
2048 | KD | Kawasaki Disease,Kraft Dinner |
2049 | KE | Kenya (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Kinetic Energy,Knowledge Engineering |
2050 | KEDO | Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization |
2051 | KEN | Kenya (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2052 | KERA | Kentucky Education Reform Act (of 1990) |
2053 | kerma | Kinetic Energy Released in MAterial / in MAtter / per unit MAss |
2054 | KESR | Kent and East Sussex Railway. |
2055 | KET | Kentucky Educational Television,Key English Test |
2056 | kF | Kilofarad |
2057 | KFC | Kentucky Fried Chicken |
2058 | KFOR | UN Kosovo Force |
2059 | KFUPM | King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals |
2060 | KG | Kyrgyzstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) |
2061 | KGO | Knight of the Guelphic Order of Hanover |
2062 | KGZ | Kyrgyzstan (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2063 | KH | Cambodia (ISO 3166 digram) |
2064 | kH | Kilohenry |
2065 | KHL | Kontinental Hockey League |
2066 | KHM | Cambodia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2067 | KHz | Kilohertz |
2068 | Ki | Kibi |
2069 | KI | Kiribati (ISO 3166 digram) |
2070 | KIA | Killed In Action |
2071 | KIDS | Knowledge-based Integrated Design System |
2072 | KIR | Kiribati (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2073 | KISS | Keep It Simple,Stupid / Keep It Short and Simple,Korean Intelligence Support System |
2074 | KIT | Keep In Touch |
2075 | KITECH | Korean Institute of Industrial Technology |
2076 | KITT | Knight Industries Two Thousand, Knight Industries Three Thousand |
2077 | kJ | Kilojoule |
2078 | kK | Kilokelvin |
2079 | KKK | Ku Klux Klan |
2080 | kL | Kilolitre |
2081 | KLENOT | KLEť Observatory Near Earth and Other unusual objects observations Team and Telescope |
2082 | KLOC | Kilo Lines Of Code |
2083 | KM | Comoros,Knowledge Management |
2084 | kN | Kilonewton |
2085 | KNA | Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2086 | KNVB | Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond (Dutch for Royal Dutch Football Association) |
2087 | KO | Knocked Out |
2088 | KOR | Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2089 | KP | Kim Possible |
2090 | KPMG | Klynveld,Peat,Marwick,Goerdeler |
2091 | KPNO | Kitt Peak National Observatory |
2092 | KQ | Kenya Airways (IATA airline designator), Kingman Reef (FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
2093 | KR | Kiribati (FIPS 10-4 country code), Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 digram) |
2094 | Kr | Krypton |
2095 | KS | Kansas (postal symbol), Republic of Korea (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
2096 | kS | Kilosiemens |
2097 | KSC | Kennedy Space Center |
2098 | KSI | Killed or Seriously Injured |
2099 | KSU | Kansas State University |
2100 | KT | Christmas Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code), Knight of the Order of the Thistle, Knights Templar |
2101 | kT | Kilotesla |
2102 | KTS | Knight of the Tower and Sword (of Portugal) |
2103 | KU | Kuwait (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
2104 | KUW | Kuwait (UNDP country code,IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166) |
2105 | kV | Kilovolt |
2106 | KV | Kosovo |
2107 | kW | Kilowatt |
2108 | KW | Kuwait (ISO 3166 digram) |
2109 | KWB | Kids' WB! |
2110 | KWT | Kuwait (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2111 | KX | Cayman Airways (IATA airline designator) |
2112 | KY | Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 digram), Kentucky (postal symbol) |
2113 | KZ | Kazakhstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) |
2114 | KZN | KwaZulu-Natal |
2115 | La | Lanthanum |
2116 | LA | Laos (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram), Louisiana (postal symbol), Los Angeles |
2117 | LAAS | Local Area Augmentation System, Los Angeles Astronomical Society |
2118 | LAB | Logistics Assault Base |
2119 | LabVIEW | Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench |
2120 | LACMA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
2121 | LAD | Laser Aiming Device |
2122 | LADW | Local Air Defence Warning |
2123 | LAESI | Local Authority & Emergency Service Information |
2124 | LAN | Local Area Network |
2125 | LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
2126 | LAO | Laos (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2127 | LAR | Light Armoured Reconnaissance, Logistics Assistance Representative |
2128 | LARC | Livermore Advanced Research Computer (cf. LLNL) |
2129 | LARP | Live-Action Role-Playing |
2130 | Laser | Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (cf. Maser) |
2131 | LAT | Lowest Astronomical Tide (nautical charts),Licensed Athletic Trainer (used in many of the United States; see www.oata.org) |
2132 | LATA | Local Access Transport Area |
2133 | LATCH | Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children (U.S. standard for attachment points for child safety seats in passenger cars) |
2134 | LAV | Land Assault Vehicle, Light Armoured Vehicle, Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus |
2135 | LAW | Light Antitank Weapon |
2136 | LAX | Los Angeles International Airport, The Latin American Xchange (professional wrestling) |
2137 | LB | Lebanon (ISO 3166 digram) |
2138 | LBH | Light Battlefield Helicopter, Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands |
2139 | LBJ | Lady Bird Johnson,LeBron James,Light Bulb Joke,Little Beagle Johnson (the dog owned by Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson),Lyndon Baines Johnson |
2140 | LBN | Lebanon (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2141 | LBNL | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
2142 | LBR | Liberia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2143 | LBS | Location-Based Services |
2144 | LBT | Large Binocular Telescope |
2145 | LBW | Leg Before Wicket |
2146 | LBY | Libya (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2147 | LCA | Saint Lucia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2148 | LCC | Land Component Commander |
2149 | LCCP | Light Contingency Communications Package |
2150 | LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
2151 | LCM | Least/Lowest Common Multiple |
2152 | LCS | League of Legends Championship Series |
2153 | LDA | Lateral Drift Apparatus (paratroops) |
2154 | LDC | Lesser Developing/Developed Country |
2155 | LDL | Low-Density Lipoprotein |
2156 | LDV | Local Defence Volunteers (British Home Guard) |
2157 | LDW | Lane Departure Warning (ADAS) |
2158 | LE | Lebanon (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
2159 | LEC | Local Exchange Carrier |
2160 | LED | Light-Emitting Diode |
2161 | LEGAD | Legal Advice |
2162 | Legs | level emotion gad speed |
2163 | LEMOSS | Long-Endurance MObile Submarine Simulator |
2164 | LEN | Large Extension Node |
2165 | LEP | Large Electron-Positron collider |
2166 | LER | Loss-Exchange Ratio |
2167 | LEU | Low-Enriched Uranium |
2168 | LF | Low Frequency |
2169 | LFO | Low Frequency Oscillation / Oscillator |
2170 | LFTR | Liquid fluoride thorium reactor |
2171 | LG | Latvia (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
2172 | LGM | Little Green Men |
2173 | LGS | Landsat Ground Station |
2174 | LHC | Large Hadron Collider |
2175 | LHS | Left Hand Side |
2176 | Li | Lithium |
2177 | LIBOR | London Interbank Offered Rate |
2178 | LIBS | Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy |
2179 | LIE | Liechtenstein (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2180 | LIGO | Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory |
2181 | LINEAR | Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research |
2182 | LISA | Laser Interferometer Space Antenna |
2183 | LIVE | Liquid Inertial Vibration Eliminator |
2184 | LJJ | Lord Justices of Appeal |
2185 | LK | Sri Lanka (ISO 3166 digram) |
2186 | LKA | Sri Lanka (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2187 | LKR4 | Linkwitz-Riley 4th order (audio crossover type) |
2188 | LLAD | Low Level Air Defence |
2189 | LLB | Legum Baccalaureus (Latin: Bachelor of Laws) |
2190 | LLC | Limited Liability Company |
2191 | LLLTV | Low-Light Level Television |
2192 | LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
2193 | LLP | Limited Liability Partnership |
2194 | LLTR | Low-Level Transit Route |
2195 | LMAO | Laughing My Ass Off (Internet shorthand) |
2196 | LMB | Lick My Balls |
2197 | LMFAO | Laughing My F**king Ass Off (Internet shorthand,electro-hop duo) |
2198 | LMN | Lifetime Movie Network |
2199 | LMS | Like My Status (Internet shorthand) |
2200 | LMV | () Light Motor Vehicle |
2201 | LNER | London and North Eastern Railway |
2202 | LNG | Liquefied Natural Gas |
2203 | LNO | Liaison Officer |
2204 | LO | Slovakia (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
2205 | LOA | Limit Of Advance |
2206 | LOC | Level of Operational Capability,Limited Operational Capability,Lines Of Code,Lines Of Communication,see entry |
2207 | LoD | Lines of Development (UK) |
2208 | LOFAR | Low Frequency Analysis and Recording |
2209 | LOGPAC | Logistics Package |
2210 | LOL | Laughing Out Loud (Internet shorthand) |
2211 | LOMEZ | Low Altitude Missile Engagement Zone |
2212 | LONEOS | Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search |
2213 | LORTID | LOng Range Target IDentification |
2214 | LOS | Line Of Sight |
2215 | LOSAT | Line-Of-Sight Anti-Tank (missile) |
2216 | LOTA | Licentiate of the Orthodontic Technicians Association |
2217 | LOTIS | Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System |
2218 | LOTS | Logistics Over-The-Shore |
2219 | LPC | Linear Predictive Coding |
2220 | LPG | Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cf. LNG) |
2221 | LPI | Low Probability of Intercept |
2222 | LQ | Palmyra Atoll (FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
2223 | Lr | Lawrencium |
2224 | LR | Liberia (ISO 3166 digram) |
2225 | LRC | Logistics iness Center |
2226 | LRGW | Long-Range Guided Weapon |
2227 | LRICBM | Limited Range ICBM |
2228 | LRIP | Low Rate Initial Production |
2229 | LRP | Logistics Release Point |
2230 | LRPE | Long-Range Planning Element |
2231 | LRS | Long Range Surveillance |
2232 | LRU | Line-Replaceable Unit |
2233 | LSI | Large-Scale Integration |
2234 | LSIF | Labour Sponsored Investment Fund |
2235 | LSND | Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector |
2236 | LSO | Lesotho (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2237 | LSST | Large Synoptic Survey Telescope |
2238 | Lt | Lieutenant |
2239 | LtC | Lieutenant-Colonel (U.S.) |
2240 | LTC | Long-Term Costing |
2241 | Ltd | Limited |
2242 | LTDP | Long-Term Defence Plan |
2243 | LTI | Linear Time-Invariant |
2244 | LTM | Acronym for Laughing To Myself |
2245 | LTP | Long-Term Potentiation |
2246 | LTU | Lithuania (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2247 | LU | Acronym Love You |
2248 | LU | Loonatics Unleashed |
2249 | Lu | Lutetium |
2250 | LUCA | Last Universal Common Ancestor |
2251 | LUG | Linux User Group |
2252 | LULU | Locally Unwanted Land Use (urbanism) |
2253 | LUX | Luxembourg (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2254 | LVA | Latvia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2255 | LVEF | Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction |
2256 | Lw | Lawrencium (obsolete 1963) |
2257 | LWR | Laser warning receiver |
2258 | LWRC | Land Warfare Resources Corporation |
2259 | LWS | Land Warrior System |
2260 | LX | Electrics (theatrical term) |
2261 | LYAO | Laugh Your Ass Off |
2262 | LYLAS | Love You Like A Sister |
2263 | Ma | Megaannum |
2264 | mA | Milliampere |
2265 | MAA | Mathematical Association of America |
2266 | MAAC | Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference |
2267 | MACE | Multi-Agent Computing Environment |
2268 | MACHO | MAssive Compact Halo Object |
2269 | MAF | Maintenance Action Form |
2270 | MAGIC | Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (telescope) |
2271 | MAGNETAR | Metaprogrammable AGent NETwork ARchitecture |
2272 | MAGTF | Marine Air-Ground Task Force |
2273 | MALD | Miniature Air-Launched Decoy |
2274 | MANPADS | MAN-Portable Air Defence System |
2275 | MANPRINT | MANpower and PeRsonnel INTegration |
2276 | MAO | Molėtų astronomijos observatorija (Moletai Astronomical Observatory),MonoAmine Oxidase |
2277 | MAOI | Monoamine oxidase inhibitor |
2278 | MAPS | Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship |
2279 | MAR | Morocco (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2280 | MarBEF | Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning |
2281 | MARCENT | United States Marine Forces Central Command |
2282 | MARFORCC | Marine Force Component Commander |
2283 | MASAS | Monte Agliale Supernovae and Asteroid Survey |
2284 | Maser | Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
2285 | MASH | Mobile Army Surgical Hospital |
2286 | MASINT | Measurement And Signature Intelligence |
2287 | MAVS | Mobile Artillery Vehicle System |
2288 | MBBL | (U.S. Armor Center) Mounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory |
2289 | MBCC | Migratory Bird Conservation Commission (U.S.) |
2290 | MBCS | Multi-Byte Character Set |
2291 | MBI | Moody Bible Institute |
2292 | MBIDST | Member of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists |
2293 | MBM | Meat and Bone Meal |
2294 | MBT | Main Battle Tank |
2295 | MBTI | Myers-Briggs Type Indicator |
2296 | mC | Millicoulomb |
2297 | MCDL | Model Composition Definition Language |
2298 | MCFT | Modified Compression Field Theory |
2299 | MCG | Melbourne Cricket Ground |
2300 | MCIS | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
2301 | MCM | Mine Counter-Measures |
2302 | MCMV | Mine Counter-Measure Vessel |
2303 | MCR | My Chemical Romance |
2304 | MCSF | Marine Corps Security Forces |
2305 | MCT | Movement Control Team |
2306 | MCTIS | Mounted Co-operative Target Identification System |
2307 | Md | Mendelevium |
2308 | MDNA | Madonna's 12th studio album title (2012) |
2309 | MDO | Membership Driven Organisation |
2310 | MDP | Markov Decision Process |
2311 | MDT | Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-6 hours) |
2312 | MDV | Maldives (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2313 | Me | Messerschmitt |
2314 | MEAC | Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (ME-ac) |
2315 | MECO | Main engine cutoff (NASA code for point in Space Shuttle assent when three main engines are shut down prior to External Tank (ET) separation) |
2316 | MEDEVAC | Medical evacuation |
2317 | MEDS | Mission Essential Data Set |
2318 | MEG | MagnetoEncephaloGraphy |
2319 | MELT | Metallic Line/Loop Test (ing) |
2320 | MEMS | Microelectromechanical System |
2321 | MER | Mars Exploration Rover |
2322 | MERL | Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories |
2323 | MES | Manufacturing Execution Systems |
2324 | METAR | [Meteorological] Aviation Routine weather report |
2325 | METOC | Meteorological and Oceanographic |
2326 | MeV | Megaelectronvolt |
2327 | MEX | Mexico (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2328 | MEZ | Missile Engagement Zone |
2329 | mF | Millifarad |
2330 | MGPAM | My Gym Partner's a Monkey |
2331 | MGS | Mobile Gun System |
2332 | mH | Millihenry |
2333 | MHC | Major Histocompatibility Complex |
2334 | MHHW | Mean Higher High Water (nautical charts) |
2335 | MHL | Marshall Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2336 | MHLW | Mean Higher Low Water (nautical charts) |
2337 | MHRA | (UK) Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency |
2338 | MHW | Mean High Water (nautical charts) |
2339 | MHWN | Mean High Water Neaps (nautical charts) |
2340 | MHWS | Mean High Water Springs (nautical charts) |
2341 | MHz | Megahertz |
2342 | Mi | Mebi |
2343 | MIA | Missing In Action |
2344 | MICLIC | Mine Clearing Line Charge |
2345 | MICOM | Missile Command |
2346 | MID | Midway Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986) |
2347 | MIDAS | Man-machine Integration Design and Analysis System |
2348 | MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
2349 | MIDS | Multi-Function Information Distribution System |
2350 | MIFG | Shallow Fog (METAR Code) |
2351 | MIKE | Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants |
2352 | MIL | Man-In-the-Loop |
2353 | MILC | Mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera |
2354 | MILF | Mother I'd Like to Fuck |
2355 | MIMOSA | MIcroMeasurements Of Satellite Acceleration |
2356 | MIMPT | Member of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists |
2357 | MIRA | MILAN Infra-Red Acquisition (thermal sight) |
2358 | MIRV | Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle |
2359 | MISREP | Mission Report |
2360 | MISSI | Multilevel Information System Security Initiative |
2361 | MITL | Man-In-The-Loop |
2362 | MITS | see entry |
2363 | mJ | Millijoule |
2364 | MJD | Modified Julian Day |
2365 | mK | Millikelvin |
2366 | MKG | Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (American basketball player) |
2367 | MKSA | Metre-Kilogram-Second-Ampere (system of units) |
2368 | mL | Millilitre |
2369 | MLB | Major League Baseball |
2370 | MLC | Member of the Legislative Council (in India) |
2371 | MLE | Maximum likelihood estimation |
2372 | MLHW | Mean Lower High Water (nautical charts) |
2373 | MLI | Mali (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2374 | MLL | Major League Lacrosse |
2375 | MLLW | Mean Lower Low Water (nautical charts) |
2376 | MLP | My Little Pony |
2377 | MLRS | Multiple-Launch Rocket System |
2378 | MLT | Malta (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2379 | MLW | Mean Low Water (nautical charts) |
2380 | MLWN | Mean Low Water Neaps (nautical charts) |
2381 | MLWS | Mean Low Water Springs (nautical charts) |
2382 | Mm | Megametre |
2383 | mm | Millimetre |
2384 | MMEV | Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle |
2385 | MMI | Magical MonkeyZ Inc. |
2386 | MMI | Man-Machine Interface |
2387 | MMI | McLean Meditation Institute |
2388 | MMIC | McLean Meditation Institute Certified |
2389 | MMO | Massively Multiplayer Online (computer game) |
2390 | MMOR | Master of Management in Operations Research |
2391 | MMORPG | Massively multiplayer online role-playing game |
2392 | MMPR | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers |
2393 | MMS | Multimission Modular Spacecraft |
2394 | Mn | Manganese |
2395 | mN | Millinewton |
2396 | MNB | Multinational Brigade |
2397 | MNE | Montenegro (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2398 | MNMF | Multi-National Maritime Force |
2399 | MNP | Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2400 | MNS | Mission Needs Statement |
2401 | Mo | Molybdenum |
2402 | MOA | Museum of Art (Brigham Young University) |
2403 | MOCAS | Mechanization Of Contract Administration Services |
2404 | MoD | Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) and various other countries |
2405 | modem | Modulator-Demodulator |
2406 | Moe | Marvel of entertainment |
2407 | MOE | Measure Of Effectiveness |
2408 | MOF | Ministry of Finance (Japan) |
2409 | MOFA | Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan) |
2410 | MOID | Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance |
2411 | MOJWA | Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa |
2412 | MOLO | Mobile Other Licensed Operator (UK) |
2413 | MOM | Master's Degree in Oriental medicine |
2414 | MOM | Message Oriented Middleware |
2415 | MoM | Multiple of the median |
2416 | MoMA | Museum of Modern Art (NYC) |
2417 | MOND | Modified Newtonian Dynamics |
2418 | MOO | Measure Of Outcome |
2419 | MOPP | Mission-Oriented Protective Posture |
2420 | MORP | Meteorite Observation and Recovery Project |
2421 | MOSFET | Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor |
2422 | MOT | Ministry of Transport (UK) |
2423 | MOTA | Member of the Orthodontic Technicians Association |
2424 | MOTESS | Moving Object and Transient Event Search System |
2425 | MOU | Memorandum Of Understanding |
2426 | MOW | Maintenance of way (also MW) |
2427 | MOZ | Mozambique (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2428 | MPa | Megapascal |
2429 | mPa | Millipascal |
2430 | MPAA | Motion Picture Association of America |
2431 | MPEC | Minor Planet Electronic Circular |
2432 | MPEG | Motion Pictures (Coding) Experts Group |
2433 | MPEV | Multi-Purpose Engineering Vehicle |
2434 | MPF | Maritime Prepositioning Force |
2435 | MPFC | Medial PreFrontal Cortex |
2436 | MPG | Miles Per Gallon |
2437 | MPMC | Medial PreMotor Cortex |
2438 | MPSI | Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland |
2439 | MPSoC | MultiProcessor System-on-Chip |
2440 | MPSRON | Maritime Propositioning Ship Squadron |
2441 | MR | Mauritania (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) |
2442 | MRAV | Multi-Role Armoured Vehicle |
2443 | MRBM | Medium Range Ballistic Missile |
2444 | MRC | Maintenance Requirements Card |
2445 | MRD | Motorized Rifle Division |
2446 | MRGW | Medium-Range Guided Weapon |
2447 | MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
2448 | MRL | Multiple Rocket Launcher |
2449 | MRPharmS | Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Great Britain) |
2450 | MRS | Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy |
2451 | MRSA | Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus |
2452 | MRTFB | U.S. Major Range and Test Facility Base |
2453 | Ms | Megasecond |
2454 | mS | Millisiemens |
2455 | MSD | Minimum Safe Distance |
2456 | MSDB | Multi Source Data Base |
2457 | MSE | Multiple Subscriber Element |
2458 | MSG | Message |
2459 | MSLP | Mean Sea Level Pressure |
2460 | MSNBC | Microsoft National Broadcasting Company Cable news channel (see also msnbc.com) |
2461 | MSO | Multiple System Operator |
2462 | MSPB | Merit Systems Protection Board |
2463 | MSSA | Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus |
2464 | Mt | Meitnerium |
2465 | mT | Millitesla |
2466 | MTBF | Mean Time Between Failures |
2467 | MtF | Male-to-female transsexual |
2468 | MTG | Magic: The Gathering |
2469 | MTQ | Martinique (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2470 | MTT | Methylthiazol tetrazolium (assay) |
2471 | MTTF | Mean Time To Failure |
2472 | MTTR | Mean Time To Recover |
2473 | MTWS | MAGTF Tactical Warfare System |
2474 | MUS | Mauritius (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2475 | mV | Millivolt |
2476 | MVC | Missouri Valley Conference |
2477 | MVFC | Missouri Valley Football Conference |
2478 | MVNO | Mobile virtual network operator |
2479 | mW | Milliwatt |
2480 | MWESH | Machismo Wizards Extended SHelter (operating system) |
2481 | MWI | Malawi (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2482 | MWOA | Mount Wilson Observatory Association |
2483 | MWTB | Mounted Warfare Test Bed |
2484 | MY | Malaysia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) |
2485 | MYOB | Mind Your Own Business |
2486 | MYS | Malaysia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2487 | MYT | Mayotte (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2488 | n | Nano |
2489 | N3F | National Fantasy Fan Federation |
2490 | nA | Nanoampere |
2491 | Na | Sodium (Latin Natrium) |
2492 | NAA | N-Acetylaspartate |
2493 | NAAD | North American Air Defense |
2494 | NAAQS | National Ambient Air Quality Standards |
2495 | NAAWS | NATO Anti-Air Warfare System |
2496 | NAC | National Agency Check,U.S. Naval Avionics Center,U.S. Navy Advanced Concepts,North Atlantic Council,Northern Area Command |
2497 | NACC | North Atlantic Cooperation Council |
2498 | NACISA | NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency |
2499 | NACMA | NATO Air Command and Control System Management Agency |
2500 | NACRA | North America Caribbean Rugby Association (more specifically rugby union) |
2501 | NAEC | U.S. Naval Air Engineering Center |
2502 | NAFERA | Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act |
2503 | NAFLD | NonAlcoholic Fatty Liver Disease |
2504 | NAFO | Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization |
2505 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |
2506 | NAGPRA | Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act |
2507 | NAICS | North American Industry Classification System |
2508 | NAIL | Neurotics Anonymous |
2509 | NAILS | National Airspace Integrated Logistics System |
2510 | NAIRU | Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment |
2511 | NAK | Negative Acknowledge |
2512 | NAM | Namibia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2513 | NAMBLA | North American Man-Boy Love Association |
2514 | NAMRL | Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory |
2515 | NaN | Not A Number (computing) |
2516 | NAO | UK National Audit Office |
2517 | NAPS | Navy Acquisition Procedures Supplement |
2518 | NARA | (U.S.) National Archives and Records Administration |
2519 | NARAL | National Abortion Rights Action League |
2520 | NARDAC | Naval Regional Data Automation Center |
2521 | NARDIC | U.S. Navy Acquisition Research and Development Information Center |
2522 | NARPV | National Association for Remotely Piloted Vehicles |
2523 | NASCAR | National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing |
2524 | NASDAQ | National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations |
2525 | NASED | National Association of State Election Directors [1][2] |
2526 | NASH | Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis |
2527 | NASP | National Aerospace Plane |
2528 | NASS | National Association of Secretaries of State [3] |
2529 | NatGeo | National Geographic |
2530 | NaUKMA | National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy |
2531 | NAV | Navigation[al] |
2532 | NAVCAMS | Naval Communications Area Master Station |
2533 | NAVCC | National Audio-Visual Conservation Center |
2534 | NAVCENT | Naval Forces U.S. Central Command |
2535 | NAVDAC | Naval Data Automation Command |
2536 | NAVEUR | Naval Forces U.S. European Command |
2537 | NAVFOR | Naval Force |
2538 | NAVMACS | Naval Modular Automatic Communication Subsystem |
2539 | NAVNET | Navy Network |
2540 | NAVS | Non-Cooperative Airborne Vector Scoring |
2541 | NAVSAT | Navigation Satellite |
2542 | NAVSPACECOM | U.S. Navy Space Command |
2543 | NAVSPASUR | U.S. Naval Space Surveillance System |
2544 | NAVSTAR | Navigation Satellite Timing And Ranging |
2545 | NAVTACNET | Navy Tactical Network |
2546 | NAWC | U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center |
2547 | Nb | Niobium |
2548 | NBA | National Basketball Association |
2549 | NBL | National Basketball League (Australia) |
2550 | NBT | Nitroblue tetrazolium (assay) |
2551 | nC | Nanocoulomb |
2552 | NCA | National Command Authority |
2553 | NCAR | U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research |
2554 | NCB | National Codification Bureau |
2555 | NCCAM | U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
2556 | NCCUSL | National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (U.S.) |
2557 | NCDDR | U.S. National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research |
2558 | NCI | U.S. National Cancer Institute |
2559 | NCL | New Caledonia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2560 | NCLR | National Council of La Raza |
2561 | NCMO | No Commitment Make Out |
2562 | NCO | Non-Commissioned Officer |
2563 | NCP | Net Contracted Purchases |
2564 | NCR | National Cash Register Co. |
2565 | NCTR | Non-Co-operative Target Recognition |
2566 | NCW | Network Centric Warfare |
2567 | Nd | Neodymium |
2568 | NDAA | U.S. National Defense Authorization Act |
2569 | NDBP | Non-Departmental Public Body (Scotland) |
2570 | NDP | New Democratic Party (Canada) |
2571 | NDS | Nintendo DS |
2572 | Ne | Neon |
2573 | NECTEC | National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Thailand) |
2574 | NEMS | National Energy Modeling System (USDOE-EIA) |
2575 | NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act |
2576 | NER | Niger (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2577 | NERICA | New Rice for Africa |
2578 | NESP | NSA/CSS Enterprise Standards Program |
2579 | NET | National Educational Television |
2580 | NETCU | (UK) National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit |
2581 | NETL | (US) National Energy Technology Laboratory |
2582 | NETWARS | Network Warfare Simulation |
2583 | NEX | Navy EXchange |
2584 | nF | Nanofarad |
2585 | NF | Norfolk Island (ISO 3166 digram) |
2586 | NFER | National Foundation for Educational Research |
2587 | NFG | No Fucking Good |
2588 | NFHS | National Federation of State High School Associations |
2589 | NFI | Not F****** Interested |
2590 | NFK | Norfolk Island (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2591 | Nfld | Newfoundland |
2592 | NFPA | National Fluid Power Association (United States) |
2593 | NFT | No Further Text |
2594 | NGA | U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Nigeria (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2595 | NGATS | New Generation Army Targetry System |
2596 | NGH | Northern General Hospital |
2597 | NGO | non-governmental organization |
2598 | NGS | Naval Gunfire Support |
2599 | nH | Nanohenry |
2600 | NHANES | National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey |
2601 | NHB | New Hebrides (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980) |
2602 | NHB | No Holds Barred radio (Link) |
2603 | NHL | National Hockey League |
2604 | NHRA | National Hot Rod Association |
2605 | NHS | National Health Service (UK) |
2606 | Ni | Nickel |
2607 | NIAAA | U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism |
2608 | NIAG | NATO Industrial Advisory Group |
2609 | NIAID | National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease |
2610 | NIAMD | National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases |
2611 | NIB | New In Box (Internet auction/trading listings) |
2612 | NIBP | Non-invasive blood pressure monitor |
2613 | NicA | Nicotine Anonymous |
2614 | NICAP | National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena |
2615 | NICE | UK. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence |
2616 | NICHD | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [4] |
2617 | NICP | National Inventory Control Point |
2618 | NIDDK | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases |
2619 | NIDRR | National Institute on Disability Research and Rehabilitation |
2620 | NIEHS | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
2621 | NIIN | National Item Identification Number |
2622 | NIMA | National Imagery and Mapping Agency (became NGA) |
2623 | NIMBY | Not In My Back Yard (See NOME) |
2624 | NIMG | Not In My Generation |
2625 | NIN | Nine Inch Nails (band) |
2626 | NIPR | National Institute of Polar Research (Japan) |
2627 | NIR | Northern Ireland (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram) |
2628 | NISAC | U.S. National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center |
2629 | NISCAP | NSA Information System Certification and Accreditation Program |
2630 | NISER | National Institute of Science Education and Research |
2631 | NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
2632 | NITFS | National Imagery Transmission Format Standard |
2633 | NIU | Niue (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2634 | nJ | Nanojoule |
2635 | NJ | New Jersey (postal symbol) |
2636 | NJHS | National Junior Honor Society |
2637 | NJPW | New Japan Pro Wrestling |
2638 | nK | Nanokelvin |
2639 | NKA | No Known Allergies |
2640 | nL | Nanolitre |
2641 | NLB | Non-Linear Battlefield |
2642 | NLD | Netherlands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2643 | NLF | National Liberation Front (disambiguation) |
2644 | NLL | National Lacrosse League |
2645 | NLW | Non-Lethal Weapon |
2646 | nm | Nanometre |
2647 | NM | New Mexico (postal symbol) |
2648 | NMCI | Navy Marine Corps Intranet |
2649 | NMCS | Not Mission Capable Supply (SM&R code) |
2650 | NMD | U.S. National Missile Defense |
2651 | NMN | No middle name |
2652 | NMR | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
2653 | NMSG | NATO Modelling and Simulation Group |
2654 | nN | Nanonewton |
2655 | NNE | North North-East |
2656 | NNSA | U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration |
2657 | NNW | North North-West |
2658 | No | Nobelium |
2659 | NOAA | U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
2660 | NOAF | Norwegian Air Force |
2661 | NOAO | National Optical Astronomy Observatory |
2662 | NOC | UK. National Oceanography Centre |
2663 | NODEF | NATO Oceanographic Data Exchange Format |
2664 | NOGI | New Orleans Grande Isle (award for diving) |
2665 | NOLF | Navy OutLying Field |
2666 | NOME | Not on Mars Either |
2667 | NOME | Not on Mars Either (see NIMBY) |
2668 | NOR | Norway (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2669 | NORELPREF | No religious preference |
2670 | NORTHAG | Northern Army Group |
2671 | NOSA | NATO OSI Security Architecture |
2672 | NOTAFLOF | No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds |
2673 | NOW | National Organization for Women |
2674 | NP | Nepal (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram) |
2675 | NPB | Nippon Professional Baseball |
2676 | NPCS | Non-Passenger Coaching stock (in Railways) |
2677 | NPD | Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (German) |
2678 | NPDI | New Product Development and Introduction |
2679 | NPG | Needline/Network Participation Group |
2680 | NPH | Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus |
2681 | NPO | nothing by mouth |
2682 | NPOV | Neutral Point Of View |
2683 | NQ | Dronning Maud Land (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1983) |
2684 | NR | Nauru (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram) |
2685 | NRA | National Rifle Association |
2686 | NRAO | National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
2687 | NRDC | (U.S.) Natural Resources Defense Council |
2688 | NREL | U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
2689 | NRK | Norsk Rikskringkasting (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) |
2690 | NRMP | National Resident Matching Program (U.S. medicine) |
2691 | NRO | U.S. National Reconnaissance Office |
2692 | NRT | Near Real Time |
2693 | NRU | Nauru (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2694 | ns | Nanosecond |
2695 | nS | Nanosiemens |
2696 | NSABB | National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity |
2697 | NSAID | Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug |
2698 | NSB | Norges Statsbaner (Norwegian State Railways) |
2699 | NSC | National Security Council |
2700 | NSDL | National Science Digital Library (US) |
2701 | NSG | National System for Geospatial-Intelligence |
2702 | NSN | National Stock Number |
2703 | NSNA | National Student Nurses' Association |
2704 | NSO | National Standardization Office (ABCA) |
2705 | NSS | (U.S.) Naval Simulation System |
2706 | NST | (UK) Nimrod Software Team |
2707 | NSTAC | National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee |
2708 | NSW | New South Wales (postal symbol) |
2709 | nT | Nanotesla |
2710 | NTDS | Naval Tactical Data System |
2711 | NTP | Network Time Protocol |
2712 | NTR | Network Time Reference |
2713 | NTRA | National Thoroughbred Racing Association |
2714 | NTSB | National Transportation Safety Board |
2715 | NTV | Non-Tactical Vehicle |
2716 | NTY | (Internet Abbreviations:) Not Tested Yet; (Alternatively) No Thank You |
2717 | NTZ | Iraq-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1993) |
2718 | NUTS | Nuclear Utilization Target Selection |
2719 | NUWC | U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center |
2720 | nV | Nanovolt |
2721 | NVEOL | Night Vision and Electro-Optics Laboratory |
2722 | NVG | Night Vision Goggles |
2723 | NVL | Night Vision Laboratory |
2724 | nW | Nanowatt |
2725 | NW | North-West |
2726 | NW | Nuclear Weapon |
2727 | NWA | National Wrestling Alliance |
2728 | NWF | National Wildlife Federation |
2729 | NWFZ | Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone |
2730 | NWHN | U.S. National Women's Health Network |
2731 | nWo | New World Order (see article for explanation of idiosyncratic capitalization) |
2732 | NWOAHM | New Wave of American Heavy Metal |
2733 | NWOBHM | New Wave of British Heavy Metal (sometimes pronounced /n.ˈwɒbm/ as if it were an acronym) |
2734 | NWRA | National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association |
2735 | NWSL | National Women's Soccer League (U.S.) |
2736 | NWT | North-West Territories |
2737 | NXA | 21st arcade game in the Pump It Up series |
2738 | NXD | Native XML |
2739 | NXE | New Xbox Experience |
2740 | NXG | New Cross Gate station |
2741 | NXL | National XBall League |
2742 | NXN | Nike Cross Nationals |
2743 | NY | New York (postal symbol) |
2744 | NYC | New York City |
2745 | NYHA | New York Heart Association |
2746 | NYO | National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain |
2747 | NYSE | New York Stock Exchange |
2748 | NZ | New Zealand (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram) |
2749 | NZC | New Zealand Cricket |
2750 | NZL | New Zealand (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2751 | NzL | Noze looan (online/event listings) |
2752 | NZOSS | New Zealand Open Source Society |
2753 | NZRU | New Zealand Rugby Union |
2754 | OAC | On Approved Credit |
2755 | OAP | Old Age Pensioner (UK) |
2756 | OARSI | Osteoarthritis Research Society International |
2757 | OAS | Organization of American States |
2758 | OASIS | Ontario Agencies Supporting Individuals with Special Needs |
2759 | OASIS | Ontario Association of Sewage Industry Services |
2760 | OASP | Operational Analysis Support Paper/Plan |
2761 | OAU | Organization for African Unity |
2762 | OBE | Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
2763 | OBX | Outer Banks (North Carolina) |
2764 | OC | Officer Commanding |
2765 | OCD | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder |
2766 | OCFS | Oracle Cluster File System |
2767 | OCFS2 | Oracle Cluster File System Release 2 |
2768 | OCMCC | [2] Orchard County MCC |
2769 | OCN | Oncology Certified Nurse |
2770 | OCO | Oort Cloud Object |
2771 | OCR | Optical Character Recognition |
2772 | OCS | see entry |
2773 | ODAS | OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey |
2774 | ODBC | Open DataBase Connectivity |
2775 | OEA | (U.S.) Office of Economic Adjustment |
2776 | OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (international) |
2777 | OED | Oxford English Dictionary |
2778 | OEG | Operation Exposure Guidance |
2779 | OEIS | On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences |
2780 | OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
2781 | OFA | Occipital Face Area |
2782 | OFDA | U.S Agency for International Development's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance |
2783 | OGC | Open Geospatial Consortium |
2784 | OGD | Other Government Department |
2785 | OGO | Other Government Organization |
2786 | OH | Ohio (postal symbol) |
2787 | OHC | OverHead-Cam engine |
2788 | OHHLA | Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive |
2789 | OHIP | Ontario Health Insurance Plan |
2790 | OHMS | On Her (or His) Majesty's Service (also written: O.H.M.S.) |
2791 | OHP | Observatoire de Haute-Provence |
2792 | OHSS | Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome |
2793 | OIC | Officer In Charge |
2794 | OIF | Operation Iraqi Freedom |
2795 | OIOC | Oriental & India Office Collections (in the British Library) |
2796 | OJT | On-the-Job Training |
2797 | OKC | Oklahoma City |
2798 | OLED | Organic Light-Emitting Diode |
2799 | OLS | Operational Linescan System |
2800 | OMD | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (1980s pop group) |
2801 | OME | Osaka Mercantile Exchange |
2802 | OMFG | Oh My Fucking God |
2803 | OMG | Oh My God or Or My Gosh |
2804 | OMGW | Oh My Gosh it's Windy |
2805 | OMN | Oman (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2806 | OMNCS | U.S. Office of the Manager for the National Communications System |
2807 | OMP | Order of Mapungubwe in Platinum |
2808 | OMS | Order of Mapungubwe in Silver |
2809 | OMT | Object Model Template |
2810 | ON | Ontario (postal symbol) |
2811 | ONC | Orthopaedic Nurse Certified |
2812 | ONG | Orthodontic National Group |
2813 | ONI | (U.S.) Office of Naval Intelligence |
2814 | ONS | Operational Needs Statement |
2815 | OOAD | Object Oriented Analysis and Design |
2816 | OOBE | Out-of-body experience |
2817 | OOCL | Orient Overseas Container Line |
2818 | OODA | Observation,Orientation,Decision,Action loop (a.k.a. Boyd's Loop) |
2819 | OOF | Out of Facility |
2820 | OOMF | One Of My Followers |
2821 | OOO | Out Of the Office |
2822 | OOTW | Operations Other Than War |
2823 | OP | Observation Point/Post,Ocean Pacific (surfwear and swimwear brand),Original Poster (internet),Order Point,in inventory management; the inventory state at which more items should be ordered. Often expressed as a part of OP/OQ (when quantity OP is reached,order OQ new items),Overpowered,often used to refer to fictional characters (e.g. Superman) or game mechanics (e.g. the Black Lotus in Magic: the Gathering) that are considered disproportionately strong |
2824 | OPAC | Online Public Access Catalogue |
2825 | OPCON | Operational control |
2826 | OPCW | Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons |
2827 | OPEC | Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries |
2828 | OPFOR | Opposing force |
2829 | OPINTEL | Operational Intelligence |
2830 | OPLAN | Operation plan (also OpPlan) |
2831 | OPORD | Operation order |
2832 | OPSEC | Operations security,Open Platform for Security |
2833 | OPSI | Overwhelming post splenectomy infection,UK Office of Public Sector Information |
2834 | OPTAR | Operational target |
2835 | OPV | Offshore Patrol Vessel |
2836 | OQ | Order Quantity,in inventory management; the quantity of new items to be ordered. Often expressed as a part of OP/OQ (when quantity OP is reached,order OQ new items) |
2837 | OR | Operating Room (surgery),Operational/Operations Research,Oregon (postal symbol),overreciprocation,when the leader of an inner circle friendship contacts a friend more than is wanted or reasonable |
2838 | ORAU | Oak Ridge Associated Universities |
2839 | ORB | Object Request Broker |
2840 | ORBAT | Order of Battle |
2841 | ORD | Office of Research and Development,Operational Requirements Document |
2842 | ORF | Operational iness Float |
2843 | ORISE | Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education |
2844 | ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
2845 | ORR | Oak Ridge Reservation (U.S. DOE),Office of Rail Regulation (UK government),Office of Refugee Resettlement,(CIA) Office of Research and Reports,Operational iness Rate,Operational iness Review |
2846 | ORSA | Oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus,Operations Research Society of America |
2847 | OS | Operating System |
2848 | Os | Osmium |
2849 | OSA | Order of St. Augustine |
2850 | OSCE | Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
2851 | OSD | U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense,On-screen Display |
2852 | OSDL | Open Source Development Labs |
2853 | OSE | Own Separate Entrance |
2854 | OSERS | U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services |
2855 | OSETI | Optical SETI also Optical SETI |
2856 | OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
2857 | OSI | Office of Strategic Influence,Ontario Swine Improvement,Open Source Initiative,Open Systems Interconnection |
2858 | OSIA | (U.S.) On-Site Inspection Agency |
2859 | OSIRIS | Optical,Spectroscopic,and Infrared Remote Imaging System (astronomical system on the Rosetta spacecraft),Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy (astronomical system on the land-based Gran Telescopio Canarias) |
2860 | OSL | Open Source License, Optically Stimulated Luminescence, Orbiting Solar Laboratory |
2861 | OSM | One Saturday Morning |
2862 | OSOTPBOIAS | One Sec,On The Phone,Be Off In A Sec |
2863 | OSPA | Operations Security Professional's Association site of OSPA |
2864 | OSPA | Oregon School Psychologists Association [3] |
2865 | OSRH | Oružane Snage Republike Hrvatske (en: Armed forces of the Republic of Croatia) |
2866 | OSU | Ohio State University,Oklahoma State University |
2867 | OTA | Office of Technology Assessment, Orthodontic Technicians Association |
2868 | OTAC | Orthodontic Technicians Association Conference,Orthodontic Technicians Association Council |
2869 | OTC | Over-The-Counter (drugs) |
2870 | OTD | Off the derech (referring to an Orthodox Jew who has stopped practicing the tenets of his or her faith) |
2871 | OTEA | (U.S. Army) Operational Test Evaluation Agency |
2872 | OTI | Office of Transition Initiatives (United States Agency for International Development) |
2873 | OTOH | On The Other Hand |
2874 | OTS | Off the scale,sexually untouchable except for a lot of money |
2875 | OTSBH | Over The Shoulder Boulder Holder |
2876 | OTW | On The Way |
2877 | OTYBL | Over To You Blue Leader |
2878 | OTYRL | Over To You Red Leader |
2879 | OU | University of Oklahoma |
2880 | OW | Old Wykehamist |
2881 | OWN | Oprah Winfrey Network |
2882 | OX | IATA code for Orient Thai Airlines |
2883 | OXC | Optical cross-connect |
2884 | OXM | Official Xbox Magazine |
2885 | OXT | Oxytocin |
2886 | OZ | (?) Australia |
2887 | p | pico |
2888 | P2P | Peer-to-peer (networking) |
2889 | pA | picoampere |
2890 | PAA | Position Area for Artillery |
2891 | PABX | Private Automated Branch eXchange (company phone system) |
2892 | PACOM | (U.S.) Pacific Command |
2893 | PADI | Professional Association of Diving Instructors |
2894 | PAEK | PolyArylEtherKetone |
2895 | PAFC | Plymouth Argyle Football Club |
2896 | PAH | Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon |
2897 | PAHO | Pan American Health Organization |
2898 | PAK | Pakistan (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2899 | PAM | Precision Attack Missile |
2900 | PANS | Pretty Advanced/Awesome Network Services (cf. POTS) |
2901 | PARC | Palo Alto Research Center |
2902 | PAROS | Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (treaty) |
2903 | PARP | (NATO Partnership for Peace) Planning And Review Process |
2904 | PARWIG | Power Augmented Ram Wing In Ground (aeroplane wing shape) |
2905 | PAS | See entry |
2906 | PASR | Personnel Accounting and Strength Reporting |
2907 | PATH | Port Authority Trans-Hudson |
2908 | PAYD | Pay As You Drive |
2909 | PAYE | Pay As You Earn |
2910 | Pb | Lead (Latin Plumbum) |
2911 | PB | PolyButylene |
2912 | PBB | PolyBrominated Biphenyl |
2913 | PBCK | Problem Between Chair and Keyboard (computer help desk in-joke) |
2914 | PBD | PolyButaDiene |
2915 | PBDE | PolyBrominated Diphenyl Ether |
2916 | PBI | PolyBenzImidazole |
2917 | PBN | PolyButylene Naphthalate |
2918 | PBOH | Please Become Old History |
2919 | PBT | PolyButylene Terephthalate |
2920 | PBX | Private Branch eXchange (company phone system) |
2921 | pC | picocoulomb |
2922 | PCAS | Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey |
2923 | PCB | see entry |
2924 | PCCB | Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake |
2925 | PCCIP | President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection |
2926 | PCE | PerChlorEthylene |
2927 | PCIe | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (computer bus) |
2928 | PCL | Passive Coherent Location |
2929 | PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (People Can't Memorise Computer-Industry Acronyms) |
2930 | PCN | Pitcairn Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2931 | PCPI | Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (AMA) |
2932 | PCR | Polymerase chain reaction |
2933 | PCSSD | Pulaski County Special School District |
2934 | PCZ | Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980) |
2935 | Pd | Palladium |
2936 | PD | Product Director—Example: CERDEC Product Director C4ISR and Network Modernization |
2937 | PDL | Pure Dumb Luck (Texan punk band) |
2938 | PDN | Pull-Down Network |
2939 | PDRY | People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (obsolete since 1990) |
2940 | PDT | Pacific Daylight [Saving] Time (UTC-7 hours) |
2941 | PE | Professional Engineer |
2942 | PEBCAC | Problem Exists Between Chair and Computer (IT help desk in-joke) |
2943 | PEBKAC | Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair (ditto) |
2944 | PEEK | PolyEtherEtherKetone |
2945 | PEET | Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy |
2946 | PEK | PolyEtherKetone |
2947 | PEPFAR | President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief |
2948 | PER | Peru (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2949 | perl | usually lower case Practical Extraction and Report Language |
2950 | PES | PolyEtherSulfone |
2951 | PEST | UK Public Engagement with Science and Technology |
2952 | PETE | PolyEthyleneTErephthalate |
2953 | PETP | PolyEthyleneTerePhthalate |
2954 | pF | picofarad |
2955 | PFD | Permanent Fund Dividend = personal flotation device |
2956 | PFE | Permanent Forest Estate |
2957 | PfP | Partnership for Peace |
2958 | Pg | petagram |
2959 | pg | picogram |
2960 | PGCE | Postgraduate Certificate in Education |
2961 | PGD | Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis |
2962 | PGENI | Pharmaco-Genetics for Every Nation Initiative |
2963 | PGH | Pre-implantation Genetic Haplotyping |
2964 | PGM | Precision-Guided Munition |
2965 | PGP | Pretty Good Privacy |
2966 | PHL | Philippines (ISO 3166 trigram) |
2967 | PHQ | Patient Health Questionnaire |
2968 | Pi | Pebi |
2969 | PIB | PolyIsoButylene |
2970 | PIC | Person In Charge |
2971 | PICNIC | Problem In Chair Not In Computer |
2972 | PICS | Private Investment Capital Subscription |
2973 | PIF | Partners in Flight |
2974 | PIG | Pipeline Inspection Gauge |
2975 | PIN | Personal Identification Number |
2976 | PINF | People In Need Foundation (Czech charitable organisation) |
2977 | PIPA | Program on International Policy Attitudes |
2978 | PIR | Priority Intelligence Requirement |
2979 | PIRA | Provisional Irish Republican Army |
2980 | PIREPS | Pilot Reports |
2981 | PITA | Pain In The Ass |
2982 | PJ | petajoule |
2983 | pJ | picojoule |
2984 | PJHQ | Permanent Joint Headquarters |
2985 | PKE | Partnership of Kindermusik Educators [1] &[2] & [2] |
2986 | PKI | Public Key Infrastructure (cryptography) |
2987 | PKU | Phenylketonuria |
2988 | pL | picolitre |
2989 | PLAID | Precision Location and Identification |
2990 | PLB | Personal Locator Beacon |
2991 | PLC | Public Limited Company (British) |
2992 | PLCC | Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (electronics) |
2993 | PLD | Probable Line of Deployment |
2994 | PLEBS | People Lacking Everyday Basic Skills |
2995 | PLF | Parachute Landing Fall |
2996 | PLIF | Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence |
2997 | PLL | Phase-Locked Loop (electronics) |
2998 | PLM | Polarized Light Microscope/Microscopy |
2999 | PLMBA | Phospholipid Bilayer Microarray |
3000 | Pln | Platoon |
3001 | PLO | Palestine Liberation Organization |
3002 | PLOKTA | Press Lots Of Keys To Abort |
3003 | PLP | Platonic Life Partner |
3004 | PLUTO | Pipe Line Under The Ocean |
3005 | PLW | Palau (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3006 | pm | picometre |
3007 | PMC | Primary Motor Cortex |
3008 | PMI | Positive Material Identification |
3009 | PMID | PubMed Identifier |
3010 | PMMA | PolyMethylMethAcrylate |
3011 | PMS | Premenstrual Syndrome |
3012 | PMSL | Piss Myself Laughing (Internet shorthand) |
3013 | PMT | Premenstrual Tension (UK) (see Premenstrual Syndrome) |
3014 | pN | piconewton |
3015 | PNAC | Project for the New American Century |
3016 | PNVS | Pilot Night Vision Sensor |
3017 | Po | Polonium |
3018 | PO | Post Office |
3019 | PO | Purchase Order |
3020 | POCD | Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction |
3021 | pod | Plain Old Documentation |
3022 | POFF | Plain Old Flat File |
3023 | POGO | Project On Government Oversight |
3024 | POI | Program Of Instruction |
3025 | POK | Plane Of Knowledge |
3026 | POLAD | Political Advice |
3027 | POMDP | Partially observable Markov decision process |
3028 | PooS | Poo Sniffer (Internet shorthand) |
3029 | POS- Point Of Sale terminal (retail industry transaction computers) | Piece Of S**t |
3030 | POSH | Port Outbound Starboard Home (alleged) |
3031 | POSSLQ | Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters |
3032 | POT | Plane Of Tranquility |
3033 | POTS | Plain Old Telephone Service (cf. PANS),Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome |
3034 | POTUS | President of the United States |
3035 | POV | Point of view |
3036 | POW | Prisoner of war |
3037 | PPASC | (U.S.) Plans and Program Analysis Support Center |
3038 | PPCLI | Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (regiment) |
3039 | PPLI | Precise Participant Location & Identification |
3040 | PPM | Project Planning and Management |
3041 | PPO | PolyPhenylene Oxide |
3042 | PPQN | Pulses Per Quarter Note (ditto) |
3043 | PPQT | Pre-Production Qualification Test |
3044 | PPV | Pay-per-view |
3045 | Pr | Pastor, Priest |
3046 | PR | Public Relations |
3047 | Prb | Presbyter |
3048 | PRBO | Point Reyes Bird Observatory |
3049 | PRC | People's Republic of China |
3050 | PRD | CERDEC Product Realization Directorate |
3051 | PRFG | Partial Fog (METAR Code) |
3052 | PRI | Puerto Rico (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3053 | PRK | Democratic People's Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3054 | PRM | Personnel iness Management |
3055 | PRY | Paraguay (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3056 | Ps | petasecond |
3057 | pS | picosiemens |
3058 | PSG | Pacific Seabird Group |
3059 | PSI | Portable Source Initiative |
3060 | PSI | Pounds per square inch |
3061 | PSS | Personnel System Support |
3062 | PST | Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8 hours) |
3063 | PSU | Pennsylvania State University |
3064 | PsyOp | Psychological Operations |
3065 | pT | picotesla |
3066 | Pt | Platinum |
3067 | PTA | Parent-Teacher Association |
3068 | PTAL | Public Transport Accessibility Level |
3069 | PTES | People's Trust for Endangered Species |
3070 | PTFE | PolyTetraFluoroEthylene |
3071 | PTI | Pardon the Interruption |
3072 | PTSD | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
3073 | Pu | Plutonium |
3074 | Pub | Publication |
3075 | PUG | PET Users Group |
3076 | PUN | Pull-Up Network |
3077 | PUP | Pull-Up Point |
3078 | PUS | United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986) |
3079 | PV | petavolt |
3080 | pV | picovolt |
3081 | PvE | Player versus Environment |
3082 | PvP | Player versus Player |
3083 | PVR | Personal Video Recorder |
3084 | PvZ | Plants vs. Zombies |
3085 | PW | Palau (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram) |
3086 | pW | picowatt |
3087 | PWA | Pirates With Attitude |
3088 | PWBA | Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration |
3089 | PWC | PieceWise Constant (describing a mathematical function) |
3090 | PwC | PricewaterhouseCoopers (international accounting firm) |
3091 | PWL | PieceWise Linear (describing a mathematical function) |
3092 | PWLC | PieceWise Linear and Concave/Convex (describing a mathematical function) |
3093 | PWR | Pressurized Water Reactor |
3094 | PX | Post eXchange |
3095 | PYF | French Polynesia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3096 | PYMWYMI | Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is |
3097 | Q1 | First quarter of the year |
3098 | Q2 | Second quarter of the year |
3099 | Q3 | Third quarter of the year |
3100 | Q4 | Fourth quarter of the year |
3101 | QA | Qatar (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) |
3102 | Qantas | Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services |
3103 | QAT | Qatar (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3104 | QB | Quarterback (football) |
3105 | QCD | Quantum ChromoDynamics |
3106 | QDR | Quadrennial Defense Review |
3107 | QEH | Queen Elizabeth's Hospital |
3108 | QK | Air Canada Jazz (IATA airline designator) |
3109 | QNH | Regional mean sea level atmospheric pressure (aeronautical Q code) |
3110 | QPS | Quark Publishing System |
3111 | QSCAT | Quick Scatterometer satellite |
3112 | QSL | Québec Sign Language |
3113 | QSO | Quasi-Stellar Object |
3114 | Quango | (British Commonwealth) QUasi Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation |
3115 | Quasar | Quasi-stellar radio source |
3116 | QUB | Queen's University Belfast |
3117 | QUIET | Q and U Imaging ExperimenT (Q and U are the Stokes parameters of the CMBR polarization) |
3118 | QZ | Awair (IATA airline designator) |
3119 | R2I | Resistance to Interrogation |
3120 | RA | Radio Australia |
3121 | Ra | Radium |
3122 | RAAF | Royal Australian Air Force |
3123 | Rabobank | Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank (from the two banks that merged to form the modern company) |
3124 | RACK | Risk Aware Consensual Kink (SM phrase) |
3125 | Racon | RAdar beaCON |
3126 | RADA | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
3127 | Radar | Radio Detection And Ranging |
3128 | RadB | Rad51/Dmc1 homologous protein |
3129 | RADb | Routing Assets Data Base |
3130 | RADC | Region Air Defence Commander |
3131 | RAE | UK Royal Aircraft Establishment (-1991) |
3132 | RAGBRAI | Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa |
3133 | RAM | Royal Air Maroc |
3134 | Ramark | RAdar MARKer |
3135 | RAOC | Rear Area Operation Centre |
3136 | RARDE | UK Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (1962-1991) |
3137 | RARE | Rapid Acquisition with Relaxation Enhancement (MRI technique) |
3138 | RATELO | Radiotelephone Operator |
3139 | Rb | Rubidium |
3140 | RB | Running Back (football) |
3141 | RBI | Runs Batted In |
3142 | RC | see entry |
3143 | RCAF | Royal Canadian Air Force |
3144 | RCC | Rescue Co-ordination Centre |
3145 | RCCO | Royal Canadian College of Organists |
3146 | RCHA | Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (regiment) |
3147 | RCMP | Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
3148 | RD | Radio Disney |
3149 | RDD | Radiological Dispersion Device |
3150 | RDM | Remotely Delivered/Deliverable Mine |
3151 | RDT | Remote Digital Terminal |
3152 | RDV | Remote Detection Vehicle |
3153 | Re | Rhenium |
3154 | RE | Royal Engineers |
3155 | REACT | Remote Electronically Activated Control Technology |
3156 | REAM | Retired Educators Association of Minnesota |
3157 | RECCE | Reconnaissance |
3158 | REEF | Reef Environmental Education Foundation |
3159 | REM | Rapid Eye Movement (sleep phase),Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum |
3160 | REME | Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
3161 | RERC | Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center |
3162 | RESNA | Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America |
3163 | REU | Réunion (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3164 | Rf | Rutherfordium |
3165 | RFD | Request for Documentation |
3166 | RFE | Request for Evaluation |
3167 | RFEF | Real Federación Española de Fútbol (Spanish for Royal Spanish Football Federation) |
3168 | RFF | Right of First Refusal (legal term) |
3169 | RFID | Radio Frequency IDentification |
3170 | RFL | Rugby Football League |
3171 | RFP | Request for Proposal |
3172 | RFQ | Request for Quotation |
3173 | RFT | Request for Tender |
3174 | RFU | Rugby Football Union |
3175 | RG | Republican Guard |
3176 | Rg | Roentgenium |
3177 | RGB | Red Green Blue (colour model) |
3178 | RGBI | Red Green Blue Intensity (ditto) |
3179 | Rh | Rhodium |
3180 | RH | Southern Rhodesia (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1980) |
3181 | RHIC | Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider |
3182 | RHLI | Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Canadian militia regiment) |
3183 | RHO | Southern Rhodesia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980) |
3184 | RHU | Replacement Holding Unit |
3185 | RI | Rhode Island (postal symbol) |
3186 | RIAA | Recording Industry Association of America |
3187 | RIBA | Royal Institute of British Architects |
3188 | RIFA | Red imported fire ant |
3189 | RILA | Retail Industry Leaders Association |
3190 | RIMVS | Retinal Imaging Machine Vision System |
3191 | RINO | Republican In Name Only[1] |
3192 | RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
3193 | RJD | Reduced Julian Day |
3194 | RKBA | Right to Keep and Bear Arms (Second Amendment to the United States Constitution) |
3195 | RKO | Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures |
3196 | RLP | Recognised [Operating/Operational] Land Picture |
3197 | RLS | Restless Leg Syndrome |
3198 | RLY | Rally Point |
3199 | RM | see separate disambiguation page |
3200 | RMC | Robert Menzies College |
3201 | RMDA | Records Management and Declassification Agency |
3202 | RMP | Recognised [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture |
3203 | RN | Radio Netherlands |
3204 | Rn | Radon |
3205 | RNA | RiboNucleic Acid |
3206 | RNAD | Royal Naval Armaments Depot (UK) |
3207 | RNPS | Radio Network Planning System |
3208 | RNZ | Radio New Zealand |
3209 | RNZI | Radio New Zealand International |
3210 | ROA | Rate Of Ascent |
3211 | ROE | Rules Of Engagement |
3212 | ROFLOL | Rolling On the Floor Laughing Out Loud |
3213 | ROH | Ring of Honor |
3214 | ROK | Republic of Korea |
3215 | ROP | Render Output Pipeline |
3216 | ROPE | Research Opportunity and Performance Evidence |
3217 | ROS | Reactive Oxygen Species |
3218 | ROU | Romania (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3219 | ROV | Remotely Operated Vehicle |
3220 | ROZ | Restricted Operations Zone |
3221 | RPA | Regional Plan Association |
3222 | RPD | Recognition-Primed Decision-making |
3223 | RPF | Rwandan Patriotic Front |
3224 | RPL | Reverse Polish Lisp |
3225 | rpm | revolutions per minute |
3226 | RPN | reverse Polish notation |
3227 | rps | revolutions per second |
3228 | RPV | Remotely Piloted Vehicle |
3229 | RQ | Puerto Rico (FIPS 10-4 territory code) |
3230 | RRB | Railroad Retirement Board |
3231 | RRN | Recurrence Rate Number |
3232 | RRP | Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis |
3233 | RRS | Racing Rules of Sailing |
3234 | RRSP | Registered Retirement Savings Plan (Canada; roughly equivalent to the IRA in the U.S.) |
3235 | RS | Russia (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
3236 | RSI | Repetitive Strain Injury |
3237 | RSJ | Rolled Steel Joist (construction) |
3238 | RSN | Real Soon Now (coined by author Jerry Pournelle) |
3239 | RSPB | (UK) Royal Society for the Protection of Birds |
3240 | RSPCA | Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals |
3241 | RSR | Required Supply Rate |
3242 | RSRE | UK Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (1976-1991) |
3243 | RSRI | Red Sands Research Institute |
3244 | RSS | Really Simple Syndication |
3245 | RTA | Road traffic accident (British) |
3246 | RTBF | Radio-Télévision belge de la Communauté française |
3247 | RTF | Rich Text Format |
3248 | RTFM | the Fucking/Fine Manual |
3249 | RTG | Radio-isotope Thermoelectric Generator also used for Rubber Tyred Gantry crane |
3250 | RTI | Run-Time Infrastructure (Simulation) |
3251 | RTL | see entry |
3252 | RTP | Real-time Transport Protocol |
3253 | RTS | see entry |
3254 | RTT | Round Trip Timing |
3255 | RU | Russia (ISO 3166 digram) |
3256 | Ru | Ruthenium |
3257 | RUC | Royal Ulster Constabulary |
3258 | RUS | Russia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3259 | RUSI | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies |
3260 | RW | Rwanda (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram) |
3261 | RWA | Rwanda (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3262 | RWH | Rain Water Harvesting |
3263 | RWR | Radar Warning Receiver |
3264 | RWS | Remote Weapon Station |
3265 | RX | Receive |
3266 | SBNO | Standing but not operating (in reference to amusement parks) |
3267 | SCOTUS | Supreme Court of the United States |
3268 | SCROTUS | So-called Ruler of the United States |
3269 | SDHC | Secure Digital High Capacity |
3270 | SDXC | Secure Digital eXtended Capacity |
3271 | SG | Senegal (FIPS 10-4 country code), Singapore (ISO 3166 digram), Snow Grains (METAR Code), Study Group |
3272 | SGOTUS | Second Gentleman of the United States |
3273 | SHO | Showtime (see also sho.com) |
3274 | SIRI | Service Interface for Real Time Information |
3275 | Siri | Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface (Apple iOS software) |
3276 | SLOTUS | Second Lady of the United States (the vice president's wife) |
3277 | SoCon | Southern Conference (U.S. college sports) |
3278 | STB | Surface Transportation Board[2] |
3279 | SWAC | Southwestern Athletic Conference |
3280 | SWAN | System for Wearable Audio Navigation |
3281 | SWAT | Special Weapons And Tactics |
3282 | SWF | Single White Female |
3283 | Ta | Tantalum |
3284 | TAACOM | U.S. Theater Army Area Command |
3285 | TAADCOORD | Theatre Army Air Defence Co-ordinator |
3286 | TAAR | Trace Amine-Associated Receptor |
3287 | TAC | U.S. Tactical Air Command (1946-1992) |
3288 | TACAN | Tactical Air Navigation |
3289 | TACCO | Tactical Coordinator |
3290 | TACCSF | U.S. Theater Aerospace Command & Control Simulation Facility |
3291 | TACDAR | Tactical Detection And Reporting |
3292 | TACSOP | Tactical SOP (Standing Operating Procedure) |
3293 | TADIL | Tactical Digital Information Link |
3294 | TAI | Target[ed] Area of Interest |
3295 | TAJ | Tom and Jerry |
3296 | TAJT | Tom and Jerry Tales |
3297 | TALES | Technical Advice and Lexicon for Enabling Simulation |
3298 | TANJ | There Ain't No Justice (used as expletive in the Ringworld novels) |
3299 | TANP | Terrain-Aware Network Planner |
3300 | TANSTAAFL | There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (coined by author Robert A. Heinlein in his The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress) |
3301 | TAPPS | Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools |
3302 | TARDIS | Time And Relative Dimension In Space (from Doctor Who) |
3303 | TAS | Tasmania (postal symbol) |
3304 | TASER | Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle |
3305 | TASM | Tactical Air-to-Surface Missile |
3306 | TAT | Tourism Authority of Thailand |
3307 | TATP | TriAcetone TriPeroxide |
3308 | TATT | Tired All The Time (medical diagnosis in-joke) |
3309 | Tb | Terbium |
3310 | TB | Tuberculosis |
3311 | TBA | to be announced |
3312 | TBBPA | TetraBromoBisPhenol-A |
3313 | TBD | to be done, or: to be documented, or: to be determined, or: to be decided |
3314 | TBF | to be fair |
3315 | TBH | To Be Honest |
3316 | TBL | Turkish Basketball League |
3317 | TBS | Turner Broadcasting System |
3318 | TBT | Tributyltin |
3319 | Tc | Technetium |
3320 | TCAA | Top Counter-Assault Agents |
3321 | TCAS | Traffic Collision Avoidance System |
3322 | TCCCS | Tactical Command,Control and Communication System |
3323 | TCD | Chad (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3324 | TCHD | Truck Cargo Heavy Duty |
3325 | TCL | Tool Command Language |
3326 | TCM | Turner Classic Movies |
3327 | TCU | Texas Christian University |
3328 | TCW | Tasty Coma Wife |
3329 | TCWMS | Tele-Center Workforce Management System |
3330 | TDA | The Disney Afternoon |
3331 | TDL | Tactical Data Link |
3332 | TDM | Time-Division Multiplexing |
3333 | TDMA | Time Division Multiple Access |
3334 | TDP | Technology Demonstration Programme |
3335 | TDRS | Tracking Data and Relay Satellite |
3336 | Te | Tellurium |
3337 | TEAL | Tasman Empire Airways Limited |
3338 | Team | Together everyone achieves more |
3339 | TEAMS | The East African Marine System (fiber optic cable) |
3340 | TED | Technology Entertainment Design prize |
3341 | TENCAP | Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities |
3342 | TERS | Tactical Event Reporting System |
3343 | TES | Tactical Event System |
3344 | TEST | Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms |
3345 | TEU | Twenty-foot equivalent unit (cargo capacity) |
3346 | TeVeS | Tensor Vector Scalar theory |
3347 | TFMPP | Trifluorophenylmethylpiperazine |
3348 | TFR | Total Fertility Rate |
3349 | TFT | Thin-Film Transistor |
3350 | Tg | Teragram |
3351 | TG | Togo (ISO 3166 digram) |
3352 | TGO | Togo (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3353 | Th | Thorium |
3354 | THA | Thailand (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3355 | THAAD | Terminal High Altitude Area Defence |
3356 | THEGENTRY | The High-End Group of Earth's New Technologies Research Yield |
3357 | THEL | Tactical High Energy Laser ACTD |
3358 | THG | Tetrahydrogestrinone |
3359 | TIA | Total Information Awareness initiative |
3360 | TIA | Transient Ischemic Attack |
3361 | TIALD | Thermal Imaging and Airborne Laser Designation |
3362 | TIBS | Tactical Information Broadcast System |
3363 | TIC | Troops In Contact |
3364 | TIGERS | Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System |
3365 | TINC | There Is No Cabal |
3366 | TIP | Thermal Identification Panel |
3367 | tits | Toes in the Sand |
3368 | TJD | Truncated Julian Day |
3369 | TJK | Tajikistan (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3370 | TKL | Tokelau (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3371 | TKM | Turkmenistan (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3372 | Tl | Thallium |
3373 | TLA | Three-Letter Abbreviation/Acronym |
3374 | TLAM | Tomahawk Land Attack Missile |
3375 | TLATOJL | The Life and Times of Juniper Lee |
3376 | TLPM | T1 Line Performance Monitor |
3377 | Tm | Terametre |
3378 | TMAP | Texas Medication Algorithm Project |
3379 | TMC | The Movie Channel |
3380 | TMD | Theatre Missile Defence |
3381 | TMDK | The Mighty Don't Kneel (Australian professional wrestling stable also active in Japan) |
3382 | TMI | Too Much Information |
3383 | TMJ | TemporoMandibular Joint (syndrome) |
3384 | TMNT | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
3385 | TMPG | Transparent Multi-Platform Gateway |
3386 | TMR | Twin Main Rotors (helicopter type) |
3387 | TMS | Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation |
3388 | TMT | Thirty Meter Telescope |
3389 | TMTOWTDI | There's Than One Way To Do It (from Perl) |
3390 | TNA | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling |
3391 | TNO | Trans-Neptunian Object |
3392 | TOBS | Time of OBServation |
3393 | TOC | Table Of Contents, Tactical Operations Centre, Temporo-Occipital transition Cortex, Top of Concrete |
3394 | TOG | Togo (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166) |
3395 | TOGS | Thermal Observation Gunnery Sight |
3396 | TOMS | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite instrument) |
3397 | TON | Tonga (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3398 | TOS | Tape Operating System,Terms of service,The Original Series,used to distinguish the first Star Trek TV series from other parts of the media franchise,Tramiel Operating System |
3399 | TOT | Time On Target |
3400 | TOW | Tube-launched,Optically tracked,Wire-guided (anti-tank missile) |
3401 | TP | East Timor (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 2002),São Tomé and Príncipe (FIPS 10-4 country code),Training Practice,Trident Ploughshares |
3402 | TPE | Chinese Taipei (IOC and FIFA trigram for the country also known as Taiwan) |
3403 | TPI | The point is |
3404 | TPO | Thrombopoietin |
3405 | TPS | The Pennington School |
3406 | TPTB | The Powers That Be (often used to refer to the people responsible for the content of TV series or movies) |
3407 | TQ | Top Qualifier (similar to Pole Position in car racing) |
3408 | TRA | Technology iness Assessment |
3409 | TRAC | (U.S. Army) TRADOC Analysis Center |
3410 | TRACON | Terminal Radar Approach Control |
3411 | TRADOC | (U.S. Army) Training and Doctrine Command |
3412 | TRANSCOM | U.S. Transportation Command |
3413 | TRAP | Tactical Receive equipment and related Applications |
3414 | TRASANA | TRADOC Systems Analysis Agency |
3415 | TRD | Towed Radar Decoy |
3416 | TRIGAT | Third Generation Antitank (missile) |
3417 | TRL | Technology readiness level |
3418 | Trp | Troop |
3419 | TRU | Transuranic |
3420 | TRUEX | Training in Urban Environment Exercise |
3421 | TRW | Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. |
3422 | Ts | Terasecond |
3423 | TS | Terasiemens,Thunderstorm (METAR code),Tunisia (FIPS 10-4 country code),TinySex,Transsexual, Tough Sh*t |
3424 | TSA | Theatre Storage Area,Time Slot Allocation,Transportation Security Administration,The Salvation Army |
3425 | TSEC | Transmission Security Encryption Code |
3426 | TSL | Transportation Security Laboratory |
3427 | TSN | The Sporting News (historic name of the periodical now known as Sporting News),The Sports Network |
3428 | TSO | The Stationery Office (was HMSO until 1996),(U.S.) TRICARE Support Office,Trans-Siberian Orchestra (band) |
3429 | TSOP | Tactical Standing Operation Procedure,The Sound of Philadelphia (classic 1970s R&B instrumental) |
3430 | TSR | Terminate and Stay Resident |
3431 | TSSIA | The Subject Says It All |
3432 | TT | Teratesla,Terrestrial Time,Tourist Trophy (Motorcycle sport),Trinidad and Tobago (ISO 3166 digram) |
3433 | TTCT | Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking |
3434 | TTFN | Ta Ta For Now |
3435 | TTL | Tax,Title,License,Through-the-lens (photography),Time 'till live,Time to live,Transistor-transistor logic |
3436 | TTO | Trinidad and Tobago (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3437 | TTP | Tactics,Techniques,and Procedures,Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura,Trailer Transfer Point |
3438 | TTTEAF | Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends |
3439 | TTY | TeleTYpewriter (Printer) |
3440 | TTYL | To You Later (Internet slang) |
3441 | TTZ | Tetrazolium |
3442 | TU | Technische Universität (German for 'Technical University'),Thammasat University (Thailand),Turkey (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
3443 | TUC | Trades Union Congress |
3444 | TUG | TeX Users Group |
3445 | TUI | Text-based user interface (cf. CLI),among other uses |
3446 | TUM | Technische Universität München (Germany) |
3447 | TUN | Tunisia (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3448 | TUNS | Technical University of Nova Scotia |
3449 | TUR | Turkey (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3450 | TUSK | Tank Urban Survival Kit |
3451 | TUV | Tuvalu (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3452 | TV | Television,Teravolt,Transvestite,Tuvalu (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram) |
3453 | Tv | Time value,a designation seen on some camera dials for shutter priority mode |
3454 | TVA | Tennessee Valley Authority |
3455 | TVG | Television Games (Network),Tick,Very Good,Often used by School Teachers when marking homework etc. (Tick VG)[1][2] |
3456 | TVR | TreVor (Wilkinson) Racing |
3457 | TVS | Tornado vortex signature |
3458 | TW | Republic of China (Taiwan) (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),Terawatt |
3459 | TWAIN | Technology Without An Interesting Name |
3460 | TWE | Trans World Entertainment |
3461 | TWI | The Welding Institute |
3462 | TWIP | Take What Insurance Pays,When a surgeon agrees to accept a lower payment than he ordinarily would for a procedure and not charge the patient the difference |
3463 | TWN | Republic of China (Taiwan) (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3464 | TWP | Technical Working Paper |
3465 | TWS | Thermal Weapon Sight,Track While Scan |
3466 | TX | Texas (postal symbol),Transmit,Turkmenistan (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
3467 | TXV | Thermostatic Expansion Valve |
3468 | TYT | Take Your Time,Internet chat abbreviation |
3469 | TZ | Tanzania (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram) |
3470 | TZA | Tanzania (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3471 | TZC | Tetrazolium chloride |
3472 | U | Uranium |
3473 | UA | Unit of Action |
3474 | UAAP | University Athletic Association of the Philippines |
3475 | UAB | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
3476 | UAP | Unidentified Areal Phenomana |
3477 | UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,Unprotected Anal and Vaginal sex,UB[edit] |
3478 | UBC | United Baptist Church,University of British Columbia |
3479 | UBI | Universal Basic Income |
3480 | UBIGEO | Ubicación Geografica (Spanish for Geographical Location) |
3481 | UBS | Unbundled Bitstream Services,United Bank of Switzerland,United Banque Suisse |
3482 | UCBSA | United Cricket Board of South Africa |
3483 | UCF | University of Central Florida |
3484 | UCLA | University of California at Los Angeles |
3485 | UCLES | University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate |
3486 | UCR | University of California at Riverside |
3487 | UCR | University of Costa Rica |
3488 | UCS | Union of Concerned Scientists |
3489 | UCSB | University of California at Santa Barbara |
3490 | UCSD | University of California at San Diego |
3491 | UDAS | Uppsala-DLR Asteroid Survey |
3492 | UDDI | Universal Description,Discovery and Integration |
3493 | UDTS | Uppsala-DLR Trojan Survey |
3494 | UE | Unit of Employment |
3495 | UEFA | Union of European Football Associations |
3496 | UESAC | Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets |
3497 | UFC | Ultimate Fighting Championship |
3498 | UFO | Unidentified Flying Object, or: United Farmers of Ontario |
3499 | UGV | Unmanned Ground Vehicle |
3500 | UHF | Ultra High Frequency |
3501 | UHMW | Ultra-High Molecular Weight |
3502 | UHRB | Ultra-High Resolution Building (simulation) |
3503 | UIC | University of Illinois at Chicago |
3504 | UID | User ID |
3505 | UIUC | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
3506 | UJTL | Universal Joint Task List |
3507 | UKIP | United Kingdom Independence Party |
3508 | UKR | Ukraine (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3509 | UL | Underwriters Laboratories |
3510 | ULF | Ultra Low Frequency |
3511 | UM | U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram) |
3512 | UMCP | Unit Maintenance Collection Point |
3513 | UMES | University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
3514 | UMI | U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3515 | UMIST | University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology |
3516 | UMTS | Universal Mobile Telecommunications System |
3517 | UN | United Nations |
3518 | UNABOM | University and airline bomber (FBI case name) |
3519 | UNAIDS | (i/a) Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS |
3520 | UNAMSIL | United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone |
3521 | UNCF | United Negro College Fund |
3522 | UNCLOS | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea |
3523 | UNCSGN | United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names |
3524 | UNCTAD | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
3525 | UNDCP | United Nations Drug Control Programme |
3526 | UNDE | (i/a) Union of National Defence Employees (Canada) |
3527 | UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
3528 | UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme |
3529 | UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
3530 | UNFICYP | United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus |
3531 | UNGEGN | United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names |
3532 | UNHCR | United Nations High Commission (er) for Refugees |
3533 | UNICEF | United Nations Children's Fund (originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) |
3534 | UNICRI | United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute |
3535 | UNIDO | United Nations Industrial Development Organization |
3536 | UNIFEM | United Nations Development Fund for Women (from the French Fonds de développement des Nations unies pour la femme) |
3537 | UNMIK | United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo |
3538 | UNOSOM | United Nations Operations in Somalia |
3539 | UNPROFOR | United Nations Protection Force (in former Yugoslavia) |
3540 | UNRISD | United Nations Research Institute for Social Development |
3541 | UNSM | Union of Nova Scotian Municipalities |
3542 | UNTAC | United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia |
3543 | UNTAET | (i/a) United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor |
3544 | UNU | United Nations University |
3545 | UPdM | Università Popolare della Multimedialità |
3546 | UPI | United Press International |
3547 | UPN | United Paramount Network |
3548 | UPU | Universal Postal Union |
3549 | URBSFA | Union royale belge des sociétés de football association (French for Royal Belgian Football Association) |
3550 | URD | User Requirements Document |
3551 | URY | Uruguay (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3552 | US | United States (also ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram) |
3553 | USA | United States of America (also ISO 3166 trigram), United States Army |
3554 | USAADAC | U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center,Fort Bliss,Texas |
3555 | USAARMC | U.S. Army ARMor Center,Fort Knox,Kentucky |
3556 | USAAVNC | U.S. Army AViatioN Center,Fort Rucker,Alabama |
3557 | USAF | United States Air Force |
3558 | USAFSPC | U.S. Air Force Space Command |
3559 | USAIC | U.S. Army Infantry Center,U.S. Army Intelligence Center |
3560 | USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
3561 | USAP | Union Sportive des Arlequins Perpignanais,United States Antarctic Program |
3562 | USAPATRIOT | Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism |
3563 | USAREUR | United States Army Europe |
3564 | USB | Universal Serial Bus |
3565 | USC | United States Code,University of South Carolina,University of Southern California |
3566 | USCG | United States Coast Guard |
3567 | USCINCSPACE | United States Commander in Chief,Space Command |
3568 | USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
3569 | USDI | United States Department of the Interior |
3570 | USDOE | United States Department of Energy |
3571 | USDRE | (U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1978-1986) |
3572 | USEC | United States Enrichment Corporation |
3573 | USFL | United States Football League |
3574 | USFWS | United States Fish and Wildlife Service |
3575 | USGS | United States Geological Survey |
3576 | USIA | United States Information Agency |
3577 | USJFCOM | United States Joint Forces Command |
3578 | USL | United Soccer League,a third-level U.S. league. Not to be confused with an earlier league of the same name.,United Soccer Leagues,the organization that operates the above league,plus several other lower-level leagues,University of Southwestern Louisiana,a former name for the school now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
3579 | USMC | United States Marine Corps |
3580 | USMNT | United States men's national (soccer) team |
3581 | USN | United States Navy |
3582 | USNA | United States National Arboretum,United States Naval Academy |
3583 | USNB | United States Naval Base |
3584 | USNG | United States National Grid |
3585 | USNH | United States Naval Hospital |
3586 | USNI | United States Naval Institute |
3587 | USNO | U.S. Naval Observatory |
3588 | USNOFS | United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station |
3589 | USNP | United States Newspaper Program |
3590 | USNR | United States Navy Reserve |
3591 | USNS | United States Naval Ship |
3592 | USNY | University of the State of New York (usually pronounced 'use-knee') |
3593 | USNZ | University Sport New Zealand |
3594 | USPS | United States Postal Service |
3595 | USPTO | United States Patent and Trademark Office |
3596 | USR | User |
3597 | USS | United States ship (sometimes meaningless; see Star Trek) |
3598 | USSPACECOM | United States Space Command |
3599 | USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
3600 | UST | Underground Storage Tank |
3601 | USTRANSCOM | United States Transportation Command |
3602 | USWNT | United States women's national (soccer) team |
3603 | UT | Universal Time |
3604 | UTEP | University of Texas at El Paso (pronounced you-tep) |
3605 | UTM | Universal Transverse Mercator (geographical co-ordinate system) |
3606 | UUA | Unitarian Universalist Association |
3607 | UUID | Universally Unique Identifier (see also GUID) |
3608 | UUV | Unmanned Underwater Vehicle |
3609 | UW | University of Washington |
3610 | UWO | University of Western Ontario |
3611 | UWT | Under Water Telephone |
3612 | UWTG | Under Water Tug |
3613 | UWW | United World Wrestling |
3614 | UXO | Unexploded Ordnance |
3615 | UY | Uruguay (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram) |
3616 | UZ | Uzbekistan (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram) |
3617 | UZB | Uzbekistan (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3618 | VACIS | Vehicle And Container Inspection System |
3619 | VACIS | Victorian Ambulance Clinical Information System |
3620 | VANOS | Variable Nockenwelle System |
3621 | VAO | Vienna Art Orchestra |
3622 | VAT | Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3623 | VBA | Visual Basic for Applications |
3624 | vCJD | Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
3625 | VCNO | (U.S.) Vice Chief of Naval Operations |
3626 | VCofS | Vice Chief of Staff |
3627 | VCR | Video cassette recorder |
3628 | VCT | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3629 | VDFS | VisualSVN Distributed File System (VDFS) |
3630 | VE | Venezuela (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) |
3631 | VEEGA | Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist manœuvre |
3632 | VEN | Venezuela (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3633 | VERITAS | Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System |
3634 | VfD | s for deletion (used in Wikipedia) |
3635 | VFM | Value For Money |
3636 | VFMO | Very Fast Moving Object (astronomy) |
3637 | VFT | Virtual Function Table |
3638 | VFW | Veterans of Foreign Wars |
3639 | VG | British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 digram) |
3640 | VGB | British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3641 | VH1 | Video Hits One |
3642 | VHF | Very High Frequency |
3643 | VIA | Versatile Interface Adapter |
3644 | VIDS | Visual Information Display System |
3645 | VII | 7 (in Roman numerals) |
3646 | VIII | 8 (in Roman numerals) |
3647 | VIN | (i/a) Vehicle Identification Number (ISO 3779) |
3648 | VIP | Very Important Person |
3649 | VISCII | VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange |
3650 | VIT | Vellore Institute of Technology |
3651 | VIVO | Video In Video Out |
3652 | VJ | Video Jockey |
3653 | VLAD | Vertical Line Array DIFAR |
3654 | VLBA | Very Long Baseline Array |
3655 | VLF | Very Low Frequency |
3656 | VLIW | Very Long Instruction Word |
3657 | VLPFC | VentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex |
3658 | VLPMC | VentroLateral PreMotor Cortex |
3659 | VLSI | Very-large-scale integration |
3660 | VM | Vietnam (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
3661 | VMF | Marine Fighting Squadron of the United States Marine Corps |
3662 | VMF | Variable Message Format |
3663 | VMN | VentroMedial Nucleus (neurophysiology) |
3664 | VN | Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram) |
3665 | VNIR | Visible and Near InfraRed |
3666 | VNM | Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3667 | VNS | see entry |
3668 | VOA | Voice of America |
3669 | VOIP | Voice Over Internet Protocol |
3670 | VOLT | Visual OpenType Layout Tool |
3671 | VON | Victorian Order of Nurses |
3672 | VOR | Voice of Russia |
3673 | VOX | Voice Operated oscillator |
3674 | VPOTUS | Vice President of the United States |
3675 | VPN | Virtual Private Network |
3676 | VR | Virtual Reality |
3677 | VRSG | Virtual Reality Scene Generator |
3678 | VSHORAD | Very Short Range Air Defence |
3679 | VSO | Voluntary Services Overseas |
3680 | VSR | Very Special Relativity |
3681 | VTC | Video Tele-Conference |
3682 | VTEC | Variable valve Timing and Electronic lift Control |
3683 | VTOL | Vertical Take-Off & Landing |
3684 | VUB | Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgian university) |
3685 | VUT | Vanuatu (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3686 | VVAF | Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation |
3687 | VW | Volkswagen |
3688 | VZ | Verizon Communications (NYSE code) |
3689 | W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
3690 | WAAC | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (Britain) (World War I UK) |
3691 | WAAF | Women's Auxiliary Air Force (World War II UK) |
3692 | WACC | Weighted Average Cost of Capital (accounting) |
3693 | WACS | What-A-Cartoon! Show |
3694 | WAD | Weapons Alert Designator |
3695 | WAGGGS | World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts |
3696 | WAL | see entry |
3697 | WAN | Wide area network |
3698 | WAP | Wireless Application Protocol |
3699 | WAPIMA | What a pain in my ass |
3700 | WAR | With All Respect |
3701 | WAsP | Short form of WAAAAP (Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program) |
3702 | WAYP | White And Yellow Pages |
3703 | Wb | Weber |
3704 | WBC | World Boxing Council |
3705 | WBE | Work Breakdown Element |
3706 | WBO | World Boxing Organization |
3707 | WCBO | World Chess Boxing Organisation |
3708 | WCBP | World Center for Birds of Prey |
3709 | WCL | World Confederation of Labour |
3710 | WCW | World Championship Wrestling |
3711 | WDIN | Wildlife Disease Information Node |
3712 | WDWR | Walt Disney World Resort |
3713 | WEBS | Weapon Effectiveness Battle Simulation |
3714 | WEC | World Extreme Cagefighting |
3715 | WEEE | Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment |
3716 | WEF | World Economic Forum |
3717 | WEM | West Edmonton Mall |
3718 | WEU | Western European Union |
3719 | WEZ | Weapon Engagement Zone |
3720 | WF | Wallis and Futuna Islands (ISO 3166 digram) |
3721 | WFC | Women's Forage Corps (World War II UK) |
3722 | WFD | Weapon of Focused Destruction |
3723 | WFF | Wallops Flight Facility |
3724 | WFI | Water for Injection |
3725 | WFH | Working from home |
3726 | WFP | World Food Program |
3727 | WFZ | Weapons Free Zone |
3728 | WH | Wehrmacht Heer (German World War II army vehicle licence plate code) |
3729 | WHAM | Wisconsin Hydrogen-Alpha Mapping (telescope) |
3730 | WHI | Women's Health Initiative |
3731 | WHIP | Walks plus hits per inning pitched |
3732 | WHO | World Health Organisation |
3733 | WHS | (U.S.) Washington Headquarters Services |
3734 | WIIFM | What's in it for me? |
3735 | WIP | Work In Progress |
3736 | WIPO | World Intellectual Property Organization |
3737 | WIPP | [Nuclear] Waste Isolation Pilot Plant |
3738 | WIYN | Wisconsin Indiana Yale NOAO telescope consortium |
3739 | WKYP | Will Keep You Posted |
3740 | WL | Wehrmacht Luftwaffe (German World War II air force vehicle licence plate code) |
3741 | WLB | Women's Land Brigade (World War II Canada) |
3742 | WLF | Wallis and Futuna Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3743 | WLOG | Without Loss Of Generality (see WOLOG) |
3744 | WM | Wehrmacht Marine (German World War II navy vehicle licence plate code) |
3745 | WMANUS | West Midlands Area National Union of Students |
3746 | WMD | World Movement for Democracy |
3747 | WMI | Wildlife Management Institute |
3748 | WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
3749 | WNA | World Nuclear Association |
3750 | WNF | Will Not Fix |
3751 | WNIT | Women's National Invitation Tournament |
3752 | WNW | West North-West |
3753 | WO | Warrant Officer |
3754 | WOF | Width of Fabric |
3755 | WOFT | Waste Of Fucking Time |
3756 | WOFTAM | Waste Of Fucking Time And Money |
3757 | WOI | Wheels Of Italy |
3758 | WOM | Write Only Memory |
3759 | WOS | Wilson Ornithological Society |
3760 | WOT | Waste Of Time |
3761 | WP | White Phosphorus (ammunition) |
3762 | WPB | War Production Board during World War II |
3763 | WPE | World Pork Expo |
3764 | WPK | Wider Peacekeeping |
3765 | WR | Wide Receiver (football) |
3766 | WRAC | Women's Royal Army Corps (World War II UK) |
3767 | WRAIR | Walter Reed Army Institute of Research |
3768 | WRBWWRM | We Best What We Most |
3769 | WRC | World Rally Championship |
3770 | WRC | World Religions Conference |
3771 | WRNG | Warning |
3772 | WRS | Worldwide Reference System |
3773 | WRT | NHS Workforce Review Team |
3774 | WRT | The Linksys routers whose model name start with 'WRT' |
3775 | WRT | Third party firmware for the Linksys WRT routers and compatible models from other vendors. |
3776 | WRT | Web Runtime (WRT) is a portable application framework developed by Nokia that allows the creation of widgets on the S60 Platform. |
3777 | WRT | Wireless Receiver/Transmitter ( computer networks/IT ) |
3778 | WRT | Wireless Ronin Technologies (digital signage) |
3779 | WRT | World Rally Team |
3780 | WRT | Writer Response Theory |
3781 | WSC | Weapon System Catalogue |
3782 | WSDL | Web Services Description Language |
3783 | WSJ | (The) Wall Street Journal |
3784 | WSROC | Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils |
3785 | WSSM | Winchester Super Short Magnum (family of rifle cartridges) |
3786 | WSTC | Women Signallers Territorial Corps (World War II UK) |
3787 | WSW | West South-West |
3788 | WTC | World Trade Center |
3789 | WTF | What the fuck?; also What a Terrible Failure (android) |
3790 | WTFH | What The Fucking Hell |
3791 | WTH | What the Hell |
3792 | WTO | World Trade Organization |
3793 | WUBU2 | What you been up to |
3794 | WV | West Virginia (postal symbol) |
3795 | WVA | World Veterinary Association |
3796 | WVIAC | West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
3797 | WVR | Women's Volunteer Reserve (World War II UK) |
3798 | WVSC | Women's Volunteer Service Corps (World War II Canada) |
3799 | WVU | West Virginia University |
3800 | WW | see entry |
3801 | WWE | World Wrestling Entertainment |
3802 | WWI | World War I |
3803 | WWII | World War II |
3804 | WWIII | World War III |
3805 | WWJD | What would Jesus do? |
3806 | WWS | Wheaton Warrenville South High School |
3807 | WWWF | World Wide Wrestling Federation |
3808 | WXO | Weather [Executive] Officer |
3809 | WY | Wyoming (postal symbol) |
3810 | WZ | Swaziland (FIPS 10-4 country code) |
3811 | XBML | eXtended Business Modelling Language |
3812 | XC | Ninety (in Roman numerals) |
3813 | XCBL | XML Common Business Library |
3814 | XD | Used in chatrooms or email for smiley face. X is the eyes; squinted D is the mouth; XD. |
3815 | Xe | Xenon |
3816 | XFA | XML Forms Architecture |
3817 | XFC | Xtreme Fighting Championships |
3818 | XFD | Fighter aircraft made by Douglas |
3819 | Xfe | X File Explorer |
3820 | XFF | X-Forwarded-For |
3821 | XFG | Exfoliation glaucoma |
3822 | XFR | Automobile made by Jaguar |
3823 | XFT | X FreeType interface library |
3824 | XG | Automobile made by Hyundai |
3825 | XGA | Extended Graphics Array |
3826 | XGP | Extreme Game Player |
3827 | XHTML | eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language |
3828 | XI | Eleven (in Roman numerals) |
3829 | XII | Twelve (in Roman numerals) |
3830 | XIII | Thirteen (in Roman numerals) |
3831 | XIV | Fourteen (in Roman numerals) |
3832 | XIX | Nineteen (in Roman numerals) |
3833 | XJS | Automobile made by Jaguar |
3834 | XKB | X keyboard extension |
3835 | XKE | Automobile made by Jaguar |
3836 | XKR | Automobile made by Jaguar |
3837 | XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
3838 | XMSF | eXtensible Modelling and Simulation Framework |
3839 | XNA | X-No-Archive,Xeno Nucleic Acid |
3840 | XNC | X Northern Captain |
3841 | XNU | X is Not Unix |
3842 | XP | eXperience Point (role-playing games) |
3843 | XQJ | XQuery API for Java™ |
3844 | XRAY | X-Ray |
3845 | XRML | eXtensible Rights Markup Language |
3846 | XS | Xiaolin Showdown |
3847 | XSL | eXtensible Style Language |
3848 | XTMH | eXtreme Technology Multiprocessor Hyperlanguage |
3849 | XUL | XML User Interface Language |
3850 | XV | Fifteen (in Roman numerals) |
3851 | XVI | Sixteen (in Roman numerals) |
3852 | XVII | Seventeen (in Roman numerals) |
3853 | XVIII | Eighteen (in Roman numerals) |
3854 | XWF | Xcitement Wrestling Federation |
3855 | XX | Twenty (in Roman numerals) |
3856 | Xyl | Xylobium |
3857 | XZN | Triple square screw driver |
3858 | y | Yocto- |
3859 | Y2K | Year Two Thousand |
3860 | yA | Yoctoampere |
3861 | Ya | Yottayear |
3862 | YaBPr | Yet another Brother Pat rant |
3863 | YABSLAG | Yet another boy singing like a girl |
3864 | YAC | Youth-Adult Committee |
3865 | YAFLA | Yet Another Five Letter Abbreviation |
3866 | YAP | Young Aspiring Professional |
3867 | YB | Youcef Benzouada (Southern Algerian name) |
3868 | Yb | Ytterbium |
3869 | yC | Yoctocoulomb |
3870 | YC | Yottacoulomb |
3871 | YDS | Yosemite Decimal System (climbing) |
3872 | YE | Yemen (ISO 3166 digram) |
3873 | YEM | Yemen (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3874 | yF | Yoctofarad |
3875 | YF | Yottafarad |
3876 | yg | Yoctogram |
3877 | Yg | Yottagram |
3878 | YGCO | Yamaneko Group of Comet Observers |
3879 | Ygo | Yu-Gi-Oh! |
3880 | yH | Yoctohenry |
3881 | YH | Yottahenry |
3882 | YHBT | You Have Been Trolled |
3883 | YHII | You Have It Inside |
3884 | YHS | Ya Hoor sur! |
3885 | Yi | Yobi |
3886 | Yippie | Youth International Party + suffix |
3887 | yJ | Yoctojoule |
3888 | YJ | Yottajoule |
3889 | yK | Yoctokelvin |
3890 | YK | Yottakelvin |
3891 | YKYFCW | You know you're from Christchurch when (post-earthquake joke) |
3892 | yL | Yoctolitre |
3893 | YL | Yottalitre |
3894 | ym | Yoctometre |
3895 | Ym | Yottametre |
3896 | YMMD | You Make My Day |
3897 | yN | Yoctonewton |
3898 | YN | Yottanewton |
3899 | YOLO | You Only Live Once |
3900 | YPA | Yards per Pass Attempt (football statistic) |
3901 | YPIO | Your Problem Is Obvious |
3902 | YPO | Young Presidents' Organization |
3903 | ys | Yoctosecond |
3904 | yS | Yoctosiemens |
3905 | Ys | Yottasecond |
3906 | YS | Yottasiemens |
3907 | YSI | Young Scots for Independence |
3908 | yT | Yoctotesla |
3909 | YTD | Year-To-Date |
3910 | YTM | Yield to Maturity |
3911 | YTS | Youth Training Scheme |
3912 | YTT | Yoshi Topsy-Turvy |
3913 | Yuppie | Young Urban Professional + suffix |
3914 | yV | Yoctovolt |
3915 | YV | Yottavolt |
3916 | yW | Yoctowatt |
3917 | YW | Yottawatt |
3918 | YYH | YuYu Hakusho |
3919 | z | Zepto |
3920 | Z | Zetta |
3921 | zA | Zeptoampere |
3922 | ZAF | South Africa (ISO 3166 trigram) |
3923 | ZAMS | Zero age main sequence |
3924 | ZAS | Zylinder Abschaltung System |
3925 | ZBT | Zero-Balance Transfer (accounting) |
3926 | zC | Zeptocoulomb |
3927 | ZC | Zettacoulomb |
3928 | ZCM | (n) ZENworks Configuration Management |
3929 | ZCMK | Zone Control Master Key |
3930 | ZCU | Zimbabwe Cricket Union |
3931 | \a | Atto- |