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1ABBRMEANING
20Dobvious deed
31AMAir Mechanic 1st Class
41DOne-Dimensional
52AMAir Mechanic 2nd Class
62DTwo-dimensional
72LATwo Letter Acronym
82Lt2nd Lieutenant
93AMAir Mechanic 3rd Class
103DThree-Dimensional
113GThird-generation mobile telephone system
123iInvestors In Industry (venture capitalists)
133MMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
144GFourth-generation mobile telephone system
154WDFour-wheel drive
165DFive-Dimensional
176DSix-Dimensional
187DSeven-Dimensional
198DEight-Dimensional
209DNine-Dimensional
21AAmpere
22A/CAir Conditioned/Conditioning
23A10Atlantic 10 Conference
24A1CAirman First Class
25A4European standard office paper size
26aAAttoampere
27AAAadministration,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)
28AAASAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science
29AAAVAdvanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle
30AADACAlberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission
31AADDAdult attention deficit disorder
32AADTannual average daily traffic
33AAFESArmy and Air Force Exchange Service
34AAISadvanced airborne interceptor simulator
35AAMair-to-air missile
36AAMOFas a matter of fact
37AANAmerican Academy of Nursing
38AANEASAnglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
39AAODLAtmospheric Aerosols and Optics Data Library
40AAPCAccounting and Auditing Policy Committee
41AARPAmerican Association of Retired Persons (now officially known only by the initials)
42AASPEMadvanced air-to-air system performance evaluation model
43AATAustralian Antarctic Territory
44AAVAmphibious Assault Vehicle
45AAWCanti-air warfare commander
46ABAble Seaman (both the rank and the occupation),Alberta (postal symbol)
47ABBASEA Brown Boveri (Swiss-Swedish multinational company)
48ABBAAgnetha,Benny,Björn,Anni-Frid (Swedish pop group)
49ABCthe first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet
50ABCabstinence, be faithful, condoms
51ABCActive Body Control
52ABCairway, breathing, circulation
53ABCAlcoholic Beverage Commission
54ABCalien big cat
55ABCalways be careful
56ABCAmerican-born Chinese
57ABCanti-lock brake controller
58ABCatomic, biological, chemical
59ABCS(U.S.) Army Battle Command System
60ABETAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
61ABFISTAdvanced Bradley Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer
62ABGIAddington-Barker Group International
63ABINAgência Brasileira de Inteligência (Brazilian Intelligence Agency)
64ABLAmerican Basketball League
65ABLEAirBorne Law Enforcement (police air support unit)
66ABMCAmerican Battle Monuments Commission
67ABNAustralian Business Number (a number issued by the Australian government as registration of a business and used for taxation purposes)
68ABPIAssociation of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
69ABRSMAssociated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
70ABSanti-lock braking system
71ABSAAmalgamated Banks of South Africa
72ABSTRIPSabstraction-based STRIPS
73ABVAlcohol by volume
74ABWAruba (ISO 3166 trigram)
75AcActinium
76ACAdriamycin-Cyclophosphamide (chemotherapy),Air Conditioning,Aircraftman,Alternating Current,Altocumulus,ante Christum (Latin,'before Christ'; see BC),ante cibum (Latin,'before meals'),Associazione Calcio (Italian,'football (soccer) club')
77aCAttocoulomb
78AC1Aircraftman 1st Class
79AC2Aircraftman 2nd Class
80ACAAffordable Care Act,shorthand for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,commonly called 'Obamacare',Airspace Control Authority,Airspace Co-ordination Area,A Current Affair
81ACARSAircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System
82ACBAsociación de Clubes de Baloncesto (Spanish for 'Association of Basketball Clubs')
83ACCACAwdurdod Cymwysterau,Cwricwlwm ac Asesu Cymru (Qualifications,Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales)
84ACCDAmerican Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities
85ACCSAir Communications and Control Squadron
86ACDAArms Control & Disarmament Agency
87ACDCAlternating Current Direct Current,the name of an Australian rock music band,a term for a bisexual person,A/Cdre,Air Commodore
88ACDTApple Certified Desktop Technician,Australian Central Daylight Time
89ACESAerolíneas Centrales de Colombia (Spanish,'Central Colombian Airlines'),Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services of Alfred State College
90ACFAdministration for Children and Families,American Car and Foundry,American Culinary Federation
91ACHTAverage Call Hold Time
92ACINTAcoustic Intelligence
93ACKAcknowledge (telecommunications; cf. NAK)
94ACLAccess Control List,Anterior cruciate ligament; the initialism can also refer to an injury to this ligament.,Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
95ACLJAmerican Center for Law and Justice
96ACLOSAutomatic CLOS (missile control system)
97ACLSAmerican Council of Learned Societies
98ACLUAmerican Civil Liberties Union,American Communist Lawyers Union (pejorative slang for the above)
99ACMmany,including Association for Computing Machinery; see entry
100ACMC(U.S.) Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
101ACNAirborne Communications Node,Australian Company Number (number issued by the Australian government as registration of a limited liability company)
102ACNAAnglican Church in North America
103ACOAirspace Control Order
104ACOBAAdvisory Committee on Business Appointments
105ACOGAmerican College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
106ACOM(U.S.) Atlantic Command
107ACORNAssociation of Community Organizations for Reform Now
108ACPAfrican,Caribbean and Pacific Group of States,Air Control Point
109ACRAdvanced Concepts and Requirements
110ACRIAfrican Crisis Initiative
111ACRTAdvanced Concepts Research Tool simulator
112ACSAffiliated Computer Services (NYSE ACS),Alaska Communications Service,American Cancer Society,American Chemical Society,Association of Caribbean States,Australian Computer Society
113ACSCArmy Command and Staff College (various nations)
114ACSTAmerican Cooperative School of Tunis
115ACSTAustralian Central Standard Time
116ACTAdaptive Control of Thought (cognitive model),American College Test (ing Program),Australian Capital Territory (also postal symbol),ACT UP,AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
117ACTDAdvanced Concept Technology Demonstration
118ACTF(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)
119ACTUAustralian Council of Trade Unions
120ACUAmerican Conservative Union
121ACUFAdvisory Committee on Undersea Features,American Conservative Union Foundation
122ADAnno Domini (Latin for 'In the year of our Lord')
123ADAAir Defence Artillery,American Dental Association,Assistant District Attorney,Americans with Disabilities Act (see also the similar but non-acronymic Ada programming language)
124ADACAllgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (German for 'General German Automobile Club')
125ADAGEAir Defense Air to Ground Engagement (simulation)
126ADAPAIDS Drug Assistance Program
127ADASAsiago-DLR Asteroid Survey
128ADATAlesis Digital Audio Tape (recording format)
129ADATSAgricultural Development and Training Society,Air Defence Anti-Tank System,Australian Defence Air Traffic System
130ADBAsian Development Bank
131ADCAide De Camp,U.S. Air Defense Command (1946-1992),Apple Display Connector,Program Against Digital Counterfeiting of Currency
132ADDAnalog Digital Digital (CD quality),Attention-Deficit Disorder,Administration on Developmental Disabilities
133ADDIEAnalyze Design Develop Implement and Evaluate
134ADDNSAdvanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation
135ADGBAir Defence of Great Britain
136ADHDAttention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
137ADHSAttention-Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome
138ADIAcceptable/Allowable Daily Intake
139ADLAnti-Defamation League
140ADMAdministrative,,Admiral,and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,Archer Daniels Midland,Assistant Deputy Minister
141ADOAAir Defence Operations Area
142ADPAdenosine DiPhosphate,Army Doctrine Publication (UK,Canada,Australia),Automatic/Automated Data Processing
143ADRGArc-second Raster Chart (ARC) Digitized Raster Graphics
144ADSActive Denial System,Astrophysics Data System,Attention Deficit Syndrome
145ADSRAttack,Decay,Sustain,Release (sound envelope specification)
146ADTAtlantic Daylight Time (UTC3 hours)
147ADTBArmy Doctrine and Training Bulletin
148ADWAir Defence Warning
149AEArmed Forces Africa/Canada/Europe/Middle East (postal symbol),United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166 digram),Artix Entertainment,American Eagle,A&E, Arts & Entertainment Network,the original name for the U.S. TV channel now known as A&E Network
150AEDTAustralian Eastern Daylight Time
151AEFAmerican Expeditionary Force
152AEGISAirborne Early warning Ground environment Interface Segment (fake etymology)
153AESRAeronautical Equipment Service Record
154AESTAustralian Eastern Standard Time
155aetAfter extra time (Football)
156AEWAirborne Early Warning,Airborne Electronic Warfare
157AFAfghanistan (ISO 3166 digram),Air Force,As f*ck
158aFAttofarad
159AFAU.S. Air Force Academy,Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (Spanish for 'Argentine Football Association')
160AFAICAs Far As I'm Concerned
161AFAICTAs Far As I Can Tell
162AFAIKAs Far As I Know
163AFAIRAs Far As I Remember/Recall
164AFAMAssociazione 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
165AFATDSAdvanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
166AFCEAArmed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
167AFDBAfrican Development Bank
168AFESAutomatic Fire Extinguishing System
169AFGAfghanistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
170AFIFrench Territory of the Afars and Issas (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1977),'Agencia Federal de Investigaciónes' (México)
171AFISTAbrams Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer
172AFJApril Fool's Joke
173AFKAway From Keyboard (Internet chat abbreviation)
174AFLACAmerican Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus
175AFOAssociation of Field Ornithologists
176AFOSRU.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
177AFPAgence France-Presse (French,'French Press Agency'), Australian Federal Police
178AFQTArmed Forces Qualification Test
179AFRCAir Force Reserve Command
180AFRLAir Force Research Laboratory
181AFROTCAir Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
182AFRRI(U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
183AFRTSArmed Forces Radio and Television Service
184AFSCU.S. Air Force Staff College (obsolete; replaced with JFSC), U.S. Air Force Systems Command
185AFSCNU.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network
186AFSPCAir Force Space Command
187AFTAmerican Farmland Trust
188AFVarmoured fighting vehicle
189AGair gunner,Aktiengesellschaft (German,'incorporated'),Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 digram),Assemblies of God
190agAttogram
191AgSilver (Latin for 'argentum')
192AGAAB Gas-accumulator ('ah-gah',Swedish company),Advanced Graphics Architecture
193AGARDAdvisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development
194AGARDographAdvanced Guidance for Alliance Research and Development publication
195AGASAAkeno Giant Air Shower Array (cosmic ray detector)
196AGBInternal Nintendo initialism (Advanced Game Boy) for Game Boy Advance
197AGCAdjutant General's Corps (British Army)
198AGDCAustralian Game Developers' Conference
199AGIAuxiliary Group Intelligence
200AGMAnnual General Meeting
201AGNActive Galactic Nucleus
202AGOAngola (ISO 3166 trigram)
203AGPAccelerated Graphics Port
204AGRICOLAAgriculture Online Access
205AGSAlaska Ground Station (LandSat)
206AGTSAdvanced Gunnery Training System
207AGUAmerican Geophysical Union
208AGWAutonomous Guided Weapon
209AhAmpere-hour
210AHAttack Helicopter
211aHAttohenry
212AHAAmerican Heart Association
213AHCPRAgency for Health Care Policy and Research (obsolete; replaced with AHRQ)
214AHECAustralian Health Ethics Committee
215AHPCRCArmy High Performance Computing Research Center
216AHQAir Headquarters
217AHRQAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality
218AHSAmerican Housing Survey
219AIAir Interdiction,Amnesty International,Artificial Insemination,Artificial Intelligence,Anguilla (ISO 3166 digram)
220AIAAerospace Industries Association,American Institute of Architects,Anguilla (ISO 3166 trigram)
221AIAAAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
222AICAfrican Independent Church,Animal Identification Coordinator
223AICDAustralian Institute of Company Directors
224AICMFPAnd I Claim My Five Pounds
225AIDU.S. Agency for International Development
226AIDSAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
227AIMAustralian Institute of Management
228AIMPAurora Incremental Modernization Project
229AIPACAmerican Israel Public Affairs Committee
230AIRAircraft Inventory Record
231AIRFAAmerican Indian Religious Freedom Act
232AIRSAerometric Information Retrieval System (obsolete; replaced with AFS)
233AISAustralian Institute of Sport,Automatic Identification System
234AISB(British Society for the Study of) Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
235aJAttojoule
236AjaxAsynchronous JavaScript And XML
237AJDAstronomical Julian day
238AJPAllied Joint Publication
239AJPWAll Japan Pro Wrestling
240AKAlaska (postal symbol)
241aKAttokelvin
242AKAAbove knee amputation (orthopaedic usage)
243AKDTAlaska Standard Daylight Saving Time (UTC8 hours)
244AKPAdalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Turkish,'Justice and Development Party')
245AKSTAlaska Standard Time (UTC9 hours)
246ALAlabama (postal symbol),Albania (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)
247AlAluminium
248aLAttolitre
249ALAÅland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
250ALAPAs Long/Late As Possible
251ALARMAir-Launched Anti-Radar Missile
252ALBAlbania (ISO 3166 trigram)
253ALDAccounting Line Designator (nuclear weapon targeting)
254ALERTAdvanced Linked Extended Reconnaissance and Targeting,Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theatre
255ALFAfrica Leadership Forum,Alien Life Form (cf. ALF (TV series)),Animal Liberation Front
256ALGAlgeria (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
257ALGOLALGOrithmic Language
258ALPAAir Line Pilots Association
259ALSAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
260ALSHSAbraham Low Self-Help Systems
261ALSPAggregate Level Simulation Protocol
262ALTEAssociation of Language Testers in Europe
263AmAmericium
264AMAmplitude Modulation and Ante Meridiem; see entry,Armenia (ISO 3166 digram)
265AM1Airman 1st class
266AMCBU.S. Army/Marine Corps Board
267AMFOMAdvanced Missile Fly Out Model
268AMFRAge-specific Marital Fertility Rate,Amplitude Modulation Following Response
269AMFRSAdvanced Multi-Function Radio Frequency System,Automatic Multisensor Feature-based Recognition System
270AMLAcute Myeloid Leukaemia
271AMLCDActive Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
272AMLOAndrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexican politician),Anti-Money Laundering Office (Thailand government agency)
273AMOAtlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
274AMOLEDActive-matrix organic light-emitting diode
275AMOSAdvanced MOrtar System,Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory
276AMPAdenosine MonoPhosphate,Automated Mission Planner
277AMRAAMAdvanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile
278AMRDECU.S. Aviation & Missile Research,Development,& Engineering Center
279AMSAgriculture Marketing Service,American Mathematical Society
280AMSAAU.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity
281AMSOU.S. Army Model and Simulation Office
282AMSUAdvanced Microwave Sounding Unit
283AMTEUK Admiralty Marine Technology Establishment (1977-1984)
284ANNetherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 digram)
285aNAttonewton
286ANAAdministration for Native Americans,Afghan National Army,All Nippon Airways,Anti-Nuclear Anti-body,Australian National Airways,Australian Natives' Association
287ANCAfrican National Congress
288ANDAndorra (ISO 3166 trigram)
289ANFOAmmonium nitrate/fuel oil (explosive)
290ANGLiCoAir/Naval Gunfire Liaison Company
291ANLArgonne National Laboratory
292ANMAcoustic Noise Monitor
293ANOVAANalysis Of VAriance
294ANSApplied and Natural Sciences
295ANSIAmerican National Standards Institute
296ANTNetherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 trigram),Antigua and Barbuda (IOC trigram,but not ISO 3166 or FIFA)
297ANTMAmerica's Next Top Model
298ANTYAcronyms,No Thank You
299ANWRArctic National Wildlife Refuge /ˈænwɑr/
300ANZAustralia and New Zealand Banking Group
301ANZACAustralian and New Zealand Army Corps
302AOAngola (ISO 3166 digram),Approach Officer (submarine),Area of Operations
303AOCAir Operations Centre,Air Officer Commanding
304AODAdrenalin O.D. (punk rock band)
305AOIAngle Of Incidence (Arab Organization for Industrialization)
306AOLAmerica OnLine
307AORArea of Responsibility
308AOSTHAdventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
309AOTSAttack of the Show!
310AOUAmerican Ornithologists' Union
311APAdvanced Placement,Air Publication,Andhra Pradesh (Indian state code),Armed Forces Pacific (postal symbol),Associated Press,Auto Pilot
312APBAll Points Bulletin (police jargon)
313APECAsia Pacific Economic Cooperation
314APEDSAMSAA Performance Estimates Data System
315APEXApplied Physics Express
316APHAAmerican Public Health Association
317APHISAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service
318APLAcute Promyeloid Leukaemia,Anti-Personnel Landmine,Applied Physics Laboratory (Johns Hopkins University)
319APODAerial Port (Airport) Of Debarkation
320APOEAerial Port (Airport) Of Embarkation
321APOLLOApache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation
322APPAllied Procedural Publication
323APRAnnual Percentage Rate
324AQIMAl-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
325ARArgentina (ISO 3166 digram),Arkansas (postal symbol),Armour,Arunachal Pradesh (Indian state code)
326ArArgon
327ARAGAdvanced Research and Assessment Group
328ARBAdministrative Review Board
329ARBAArmy Review Boards Agency
330ARCAAutomobile Racing Club of America
331ARCENTUnited States Army Central Command
332ARDAAdvanced Research and Development Activity (became DTO 2006)
333ARFASEAN Regional Forum
334ARGArgentina (ISO 3166 trigram)
335ARHArmed Reconnaissance Helicopter
336ARNetAcquisition Reform Network
337ARPApplied Research Programme
338ARPAAdvanced Research Projects Agency
339ARRCACE Rapid Reaction Corps
340ARRFAllied Rapid Reaction Force
341ARRLAmerican Radio Relay League
342ARSCArctic Region Supercomputing Center
343ARSPACEU.S. Army Space Command
344ARTCCAir Route Traffic Control Center
345ARWGArmy Research Working Group
346ASActionScript
347ASAmerican Samoa (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram),Assam / Asom (Indian state code)
348AsArsenic
349aSAttosiemens
350ASAAcetylSalicylic Acid,American Standards Association,Army Security Agency,Atlantic Southeast Airlines
351ASAPAs Soon As Possible
352ASARSAdvanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System,Airborne Search and Rescue System
353asblassociation sans but lucratif (French 'Non-profit organisation')
354ASBOAnti-Social Behaviour Order
355ASCAPAmerican Society of Composers,Authors,and Publishers
356ASCCArmy Service Component Commander,Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator,Air Standardization Coordinating Committee
357ASCIIAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange
358ASD(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense,autism spectrum disorder
359ASDICAllied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (Sonar)
360ASEANAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations
361ASFARAmericans for a Society Free of Age Restrictions
362ASGArea Support Group
363ASICAustralian Securities and Investments Commission,Aviation Security Identification Card
364ASICSAnima sana in corpore sano (Latin for 'A sound mind in a sound body') (athletic shoe manufacturer)
365ASIOAustralian Security Intelligence Organisation,Audio stream input output
366ASIPAdvanced System Improvement Program,Army Stationing and Installation Plan,Application-specific instruction-set processor
367ASLAbove Sea Level,American Sign Language (also known as Ameslan),'Age,Sex,Location?' (Internet slang)
368ASMAir-to-Surface Missile,American Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram),American Society for Metals,American Society for Microbiology
369ASMBAmerican Society for Matrix Biology,Adult Swim Message Board
370ASMEAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers,American Society of Magazine ors
371ASMPAir-Sol Moyenne Portée missile (French 'Medium-range air to surface'),Asymmetric multiprocessing
372ASNAssociate of Science in Nursing
373ASOCAir 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
374ASPActive 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
375ASPIAustralian Strategic Policy Institute
376ASRAlkali-silica reaction,Anti Slip Regulation
377ASRAAMAdvanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile
378ASSCAssociation for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
379ASTAtlantic Standard Time (UTC4 hours)
380ASTIAArmed Services Technical Information Agency
381ASTMAmerican Society for Testing and Materials
382ASTREAAerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies (sheriff's air support unit)
383ASUWAntiSUrface Warfare
384ASVABArmed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery(taken by juniors in high school in the USA)
385ASVELAssociation Sportive Villeurbanne Éveil Lyonnais (Association Sportive is French for 'Sporting Association'; the club was founded through the merger of AS Villeurbanne and Éveil Lyonnais)
386ASWAntiSubmarine Warfare
387ASWORG(U.S.) AntiSubmarine Warfare Operations Research Group
388ASXAdvanced Stream Redirector,Australian Securities Exchange
389ATAnti-Tank,Austria (ISO 3166 digram),Advanced Technology (IBM Personal Computer/AT)
390AtAstatine
391aTAttotesla
392ATAAdvanced Technology Attachment (IBM Personal Computer),Afghan Transitional Authority,Allen Telescope Array,Antarctica (ISO 3166 trigram)
393ATACAir Transportable Acoustic Communications
394ATAPIAdvanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
395ATATAiken Tactical Airsoft Team / Star Wars vehicle
396ATBActive Time Battle,British Antarctic Territory (ISO 3166 trigram; merged with AQ in 1979)
397ATCAir Training Corps, U.S. Air Transport Command (1942-1948), Athletic Trainer,Certified
398ATESSAerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron
399ATFFrench Southern Territories (ISO 3166 trigram),(U.S.) Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives
400ATGAntigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 and FIFA trigram)
401ATGMAnti-Tank Guided Missile
402ATGWAnti-Tank Guided Weapon
403ATKAttack
404ATLAtlanta,Georgia,the largest city and capital of Georgia
405ATLASAll-Terrain Lifter Army System,Assessment Tool for LAnd Systems
406ATMAt The Moment
407ATNDronning Maud Land (ISO 3166 trigram; merged with AQ in 1983)
408ATOAir Tasking Order,Australian Taxation Office
409ATPAdenosine TriPhosphate,Allied Tactical Publication,Ammunition Transfer Point
410ATSD(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense
411ATSDRAgency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
412ATVAll-Terrain Vehicle
413ATWAAir,Trees,Water,Animals
414AUAfrican Union (was OAU before 2000),American University,Astronomical Unit,Australia (ISO 3166 digram)
415AuGold (Latin 'Aurum')
416AUCAb Urbe Condita / Anno Urbis Conditae (Latin for '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)
417AUSAustralia (ISO 3166 trigram)
418AUSCANNZUKUSAustralia,Canada,New Zealand,United Kingdom,United States (security designation)
419AuslanAustralian Sign Language
420AUTAustria (ISO 3166 trigram)
421AUTLArmy Universal Task List
422AVAudio-Visual,Aviation
423AvAperture value (photographic mode)
424aVAttovolt
425AVAAmerican Viticultural Area
426AVBAudio Video Bridging
427AVDLRAviation Depot Level Repair
428AVGPArmoured Vehicle, General Purpose
429AVIMAviation Intermediate Maintenance
430AVLBArmoured Vehicle Launched Body
431AVMAir Vice-Marshal, Arteriovenous malformation
432AVOApprehended Violence Order
433AVPArubaanse Volkspartij
434AVPAssociation of Volleyball Professionals
435AVREArmoured Vehicle Royal Engineers
436AVTBArmoured Vehicle Test Bed,Aviation Test Bed
437AVUMAviation Unit Maintenance
438AVVOAcute Vaginal Venereal Outbreak
439AWAruba (ISO 3166 digram)
440aWAttowatt
441AWAAmerican Wrestling Association
442AWCAir Warfare Centre
443AWDAll Wheel Drive
444AWEAdvanced Warfighting Experiment
445AWPAwaiting Parts (SM&R code)
446AWSIMAir Warfare SIMulation
447AWSTAustralian Western Standard Time
448AWWAbove Water Warfare
449AXÅland Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
450AXPAmbulance eXchange Point
451AYBABTUAll Your Base Are Belong To Us
452AYUAs Yet Unknown
453AZArizona (postal symbol),Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 digram),Alkmaar Zaanstreek (Dutch football club)
454AZEAzerbaijan (ISO 3166 trigram)
455AZURActions en zone urbaine (French for: Urban Operations)
456BARBarbados (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]
457BBBarbados (ISO 3166 digram),Boys' Brigade (Christian youth organization),Brigitte Bardot (actress),Bumblebee
458BBBBetter Business Bureau,Blood-brain barrier
459BBCBreeding Bird Census,British Broadcasting Corporation,Bumper to Back of Cab (trucking measurement)
460BBLBe Back Later,Bird Banding Laboratory,British Basketball League
461BBNBolt,Beranek and Newman
462BBQBarbecue
463BBSBreeding 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)
464BBYOB'nai B'rith Youth Organization
465BCBefore Christ,Blind Copy (in emailers),Boston College,British Columbia (postal symbol)
466BCABachelor of Computer Application,Black Coaches & Administrators
467BCCBlind Carbon Copy
468BCCIBank of Credit and Commerce International,Board of Control for Cricket in India,BCD , Binary-Coded Decimal
469BEABanque extérieure d'Algérie,British European Airways (ancestor of British Airways),British Electricity Authority,bel
470BELBelgium (ISO 3166 trigram)
471BENBenin (ISO 3166 trigram)
472BEOBanquet Event Order
473BERCBusiness Environmental Resource Center
474BERBit Error Rate
475BHBahrain (ISO 3166 digram)
476BHRBahrain (ISO 3166 trigram)
477BNFBackus-Naur Form (computing), British National Formulary
478BNICEBiological,Nuclear,Incendiary,Chemical,and Explosive Agents
479BNPBritish National Party,Banque Nationale de Paris,a predecessor to today's BNP Paribas
480BNSBank of Nova Scotia
481BNSFBurlington Northern Santa Fe (also AAR reporting mark)
482BOBack Orifice,Biarritz Olympique (French rugby union club),Bolivia (ISO 3166 digram),Body odor
483BOACBritish Overseas Airways Corporation (predecessor of British Airways)
484BoAMLBank of America Merrill Lynch
485BOCBritish Orthodontic Society, British Oxygen Company
486BÖCBlue Öyster Cult
487BODMASBrackets,Orders,Division,Multiplication,Addition,Subtraction
488BOFHBastard Operator From Hell
489BOGABend Over and Grab Ankles
490BOGOFBuy One,Get One Free
491BOGsBunch of Guys
492BOIBalance Of Investment,Basis Of Issue
493BOLBolivia (ISO 3166 trigram)
494BOMBase Object Model,Bill Of Materials,Block of the Month quilting term,Business opportunity meeting
495BOPDBarrel of Oil Per Day
496BOSBattlefield Operating System
497BOTBalance of Trade,Botswana (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166),Build Operate Transfer,Bank of Thailand,BP[edit]
498BPBattle Position,British Petroleum (today,BP does not officially stand for anything),Bp , Bishop,BPD , Bipolar Personality Disorder,BPM , Beats Per Minute,BPMo , Business Process Mobility
499BPVBattlefield Planning Visualization,Bovine papillomavirus
500BQBritish 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)
501BRBrazil (ISO 3166 digram) ,Bihar (Indian state code),British Rail,Break Ranks (marching band term)
502BRABrazil (ISO 3166 trigram)
503BRAGBicycle Ride Across Georgia
504BRASSBreathe,Relax,Aim,Sight,Squeeze (acronym for using a rifle)
505BRICBrazil, Russia, India, and China
506BRICSBrazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa
507BSABirmingham Small Arms (motorcycles company),Boy Scouts of America,Brigade Support Area
508BSatCoPBenjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins
509BSEBovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (better known as mad cow disease)
510BSNBaloncesto Superior Nacional (Spanish,'National Superior Basketball'; top Puerto Rican league),Bank Simpanan Nasional (Malay,'National Savings Bank'; government-owned Malaysian bank)
511BSNLBharat Sanchar Nigam Limited,Bachelor of Science in Nursing
512BSoDBlue Screen of Death (distinct from BSD)
513BSPBetween-Show Promotion,Binary Space Partitioning,Board Support Package,British Standard Pipe (screw thread),Business-sponsored,Bone sialoprotein
514BSTBinary search tree,Blended Sales Tax,Bovine somatotropin,British Summer Time
515BSWBritish Standard Whitworth (screw thread)
516BSXBendigo Stock Exchange
517BTBaal teshuva (Hebrew,'master of repentance') ,used to describe a Jew who adopts Orthodox Judaism as an adult,Bathythermograph,Bhutan (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
518BtBaronet,Bacillus thuringiensis
519BTOBuilt To Order
520BTPBritish Transport Police
521BTRBronetransporter (БТР = Бронетранспортер '(Heavy) Armoured (Personnel) Transporter')
522BTUBritish Thermal Unit
523BTWBy The Way
524BUBurma (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1989)
525BUAVBritish Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
526BUG-EBattlefield Universal Gateway Equipment ('buggy')
527BUNOBureau Number (aircraft serial number)
528BURBurma (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1989)
529BVBackground Vocals -,Battlefield Visualization ,,Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 digram)
530BVDBradley,Voorhees & Day (underwear manufacturer)
531BVRBeyond Visual Range
532BVTBouvet Island (ISO 3166 trigram)
533B&WBabcock & Wilcox, Black and White, Bowers & Wilkins
534BWBring Wedges (ISO digram)
535BWBotswana (ISO 3166 digram)
536BWABotswana (ISO 3166 trigram)
537BWARSBees,Wasps & Ants Recording Society
538BWCBiological and Toxin Weapons Convention
539BWRBoiling-Water Reactor
540BXBase eXchange
541BYBelarus (ISO 3166 digram), Bavaria
542BYOBBring Your Own Bottle (or beer, beverage, or booze) (multiple,but similar,meanings)
543BYOCBring Your Own Computer (play on BYOB)
544BYOFBring Your Own Flask
545BYSByelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1992)
546BYUBrigham Young University
547BZBelize (ISO 3166 digram)
548BZPBenzylpiperazine
549CCarbon, Coulomb, One Hundred (in Roman numerals)
550cCenti
551C2CConsumer-To-Consumer electronic commerce, Cam-To-Cam internet chat
552c2cthe British rail company formerly known as LTS Rail
553CaCalcium
554CACalifornia (postal symbol),Canada (ISO 3166 digram),Catalonia,Civil Affairs,Close Armour,Cocaine Anonymous,Computer Associates,Counter-Air,Cricket Australia
555CAACanadian 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
556CAATCampaign Against Arms Trade,Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
557CACCalifornia Association of Criminalists,Chronic Asymptomatic [Disease] Carrier
558CACMCentral American Common Market
559CACMCommunications of the ACM
560CADCAMComputer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing
561CADMIDConcept,Assessment,Demonstration,Manufacture,In service,Disposal (life cycle mnemonic)
562CADPATCAnadian Disruptive PATtern
563CAECanadian Aviation Electronics (originally),Certificate in Advanced English
564CAEnClose Action Engagement (constructive simulation)
565CAFCentral African Republic (ISO 3166 trigram),Confederation of African Football (or French Confédération Africaine de Football)
566CAFADCombined Arms For Air Defence
567CAFDECanadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters,Computer Aided Federation Development Environment
568CAFECorporate Average Fuel Economy standard
569CAIComputer Assisted Instruction
570CAIRCouncil on American-Islamic Relations
571CALABARZONA region in the Philippines: CAvite,LAguna,BAtangas,Rizal,queZON
572CALLCenter for Army Lessons Learned
573CALMCommunications,Air-interface,Long and Medium range
574CalPERSCalifornia Public Employees' Retirement System
575CaltransCalifornia Department of Transpotation
576CAMChemical Agent Monitor,Complementary and alternative medicine,Computer-Aided Manufacturing,Crassulacean acid metabolism (type of photosynthesis)
577CAMRACAMpaign for Real Ale
578CANCanada (ISO 3166 trigram)
579CANDUCANada Deuterium Uranium (nuclear reactor design)
580CanolaCanadian oil,low acid (referring to a specific cultivar of rapeseed bred to have a low erucic acid content)
581CAPESCAPability Evaluation System,Combined Arms Planning and Execution System
582CARECitizens 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)
583CARMONETTEComputerized Monte Carlo Simulation
584CARPComputed Air Release Point
585CARTChampionship Auto Racing Teams (now defunct)
586CASChemical Abstracts Service,Chief of the Air Staff,Close Air Support
587CASACivil Aviation Safety Authority
588CASECellular ammunition storage equipment,Computer-Aided Software Engineering
589CASSCommand Activated Sonobuoy System
590CASTFOREMCombined Arms and Support Task FORce Evaluation Model
591CASTORCanadian Automatic Small Telescopes for Orbital Research
592CATCommunity Acceptance Testing
593CATKCounterattack
594CATSComputer Active Technology Suspension
595CATTCombined Arms Tactical Trainer
596CAVCavalry
597CAVOKCeiling And Visibility OK ('Kav-okay')
598CAWCanadian Auto Workers (trade union)
599CBCitizens' Band radio
600CBASSECommission on Behavioral And Social Sciences and Education ('sea bass')
601CBCCanadian Broadcasting Corporation,Christmas Bird Count,Cipher-Block Chaining,Cornering Brake Control
602CBECommander of the Order of the British Empire,Cab Beside Engine (see truck)
603CBFConfederação Brasileira de Futebol (Portuguese,'Brazilian Football Confederation')
604CBGBCountry,Blue Grass,and Blues (former New York City nightclub)
605CBLAComparative bullet lead analysis
606CBMCanadian Baptist Ministries
607CBMCommodore Business Machines
608CBMLCoalition Battle Management Language
609CBNCardsApp Brand Number
610CBOLConsortium for the Barcode of Life
611CBOTChicago Board of Trade
612CBPCustoms and Border Protection
613CBRCase-Based Reasoning
614CBRNChemical,Biological,Radiological,or Nuclear (weapon or event)
615CBRNEChemical,Biological,Radiological,Nuclear or [high-yield] Explosive (weapon or event)
616CBSColumbia Broadcasting System,Corps Battle Simulation
617CBUSColumbus,Ohio
618CCcarbon copy
619CCACounter Command Activity
620CCCCanterbury Clothing Company,Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.,1930s and 1940s),Corpus Christi College,Oxford
621CCCPCentral Committee of the Communist Party,Cyrillic for SSSR (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik,Russian Союз Советских Социалистических Республик,Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
622CCDConfraternity of Christian Doctrine (Catechism)
623CCFCartoon Cartoon Fridays
624CCGCanadian Coast Guard,Collectible Card Game
625CCGCCanadian Coast Guard Cutter,Canadian Coast Guard College
626CCGHCanadian Coast Guard Hovercraft
627CCGSCanadian Coast Guard Ship,Christ Church Grammar School
628CCHComputer-Controlled Hostile
629CCIFComité consultatif international des communications téléphoniques à grande distance (French for International Telephone Consultative Committee,merged with the CCIT in 1956 to form the CCITT)
630CCIICommand and Control Information Infrastructure,Community Capital Investment Initiative
631CCIRComité 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
632CCITComité consultatif international télégraphique (French for International Telegraph Consultative Committee,merged with the CCIF in 1956 to form the CCITT)
633CCITTComité consultatif international téléphonique et télégraphique (French for International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee,became the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector,ITU-T,in 1992)
634CCKCholecystokinin,Cocos (Keeling) Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
635CCMCanada 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
636CCOCCanadian Children's Opera Chorus,Crosley Car Owners Club
637CCOPCoalition Common Operating/Operational Picture
638CCPCasualty Collection Point,Communications Checkpoint,Contingency Communications Package
639CCPAConsumer Credit Protection Act
640CCRCreedence Clearwater Revival
641CCRApCanadian Conservative Reform Alliance party
642CCRPCommand and Control Research Program
643CCRTSCommand and Control Research and Technology Symposium
644CCSCSConsultative Committee for Space Data Systems
645CCSCSCoordinadora de Centrales Sindicales del Cono Sur
646CCSILCommand and Control Simulation Interface Language ('cecil')
647CCSKCyclic Code Shift Keying
648CCTCurrent Commitments Team
649CdCadmium
650cdCandela
651CDCompact Disc
652CD1Cluster of Differentiation 1 (a small gene family)
653CDAUK Centre for Defence Analysis
654CDDCapabilities Development Document
655CDEChemical Defence Equipment
656CDIACCarbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center ('see-dee-ack')
657CDipAFCertified Diploma in Accounting and Finance
658CDLCommercial driver's license
659CDMClean Development Mechanism (Kyoto protocol), Cold Dark Matter (astronomy)
660CDMACode Division Multiple Access
661CDMSIICryogenic Dark Matter Search II
662CdrCommander
663CDTCentral Daylight Time (UTC5 hours)
664CdtCommandant
665CeCerium
666CEChristian/Common Era
667CEACampaign Effectiveness Analysis
668CECOMU.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command
669CEDEXCourrier d'entreprise à distribution exceptionnelle (French,'Company Mail with Exceptional Distribution'; 'exceptional' refers to the volume of mail)
670CEGEPCollège d'enseignement général et professionnel (French,'College of General and Vocational Education')
671CEICompetitive Enterprise Institute
672CENTCOMUnited States Central Command
673CENTOCentral Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact)
674CENZUBCentre d'entraînement aux actions en zone urbaine (French,'Urban Operations Training Centre')
675CEOChief Executive Officer
676CEPCircular Error Probable
677CEPTConférence européenne des administrations des postes et des télécommunications (French,'European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations')
678CERCLAU.S. Comprehensive Environmental Response,Compensation,and Liability Act (Superfund)
679CERDECU.S. Communications-Electronics Research,Development and Engineering Center
680CERGACentre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie (French,'Astrometry and Geodynamics Research Centre')
681CERNCentre européen pour la recherche nucléaire (French,'European Organization for Nuclear Research')
682CERTComputer Emergency Response Team
683CESSCentre for Earth Science Studies (India)
684CESTCentral European Summer Time
685CETCentral European Time
686CEWCCouncil for Education in World Citizenship
687CfCalifornium
688CFCanadian Forces,Central African Republic (ISO 3166 digram)
689CFACat Fanciers' Association,Chartered Financial Analyst,Colour Filtering Array,County Fire Authority,Covering Force Area
690CFARChristine's,Federal Acquisition Regulation
691CFCChloroFluoroCarbon,Canadian Fish Company
692CFESContinuous Flow Electrophoresis System
693CFFZCall For Fire Zone
694CFGContext-free grammar,Control flow graph
695CFHTCanada-France-Hawaii Telescope
696CFICenter for Inquiry (CSICOP)
697CFLCanadian Football League,Co-ordinated Fire Line
698CFLCCCoalition Forces Land Component Command
699CFMCertified Facilities Manager
700CFOChief Financial Officer
701CFPCall for papers, College Football Playoff, Common Fisheries Policy (EU)
702CFRCode of Federal Regulations,Căile Ferate Române (Romanian,'Romanian Railways')
703CFRPCarbon fibre reinforced plastic
704CFSChronic Fatigue Syndrome
705CFSPCommon Foreign and Security Policy
706CFUColony Forming Unit in Microbiology
707CFVCavalry Fighting Vehicle
708CFZCritical Friendly Zone
709CGClient Group,Computer Graphics,Controls Group,Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 digram)
710CGHComparative Genomic Hybridisation
711CGIGCross-Government Implementation Group
712CGORepublic of the Congo (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
713CGSChief of the General Staff
714CGTCapital Gains Tax
715chch(L) is used to denote the Chern character of a line bundle
716CHChieftain tank,Switzerland (ISO 3166 digram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica)
717CHAMPUS(U.S.) Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (now known as TRICARE)
718CHAOSCambridge Heart Anti-Oxidant Study
719CHAPSClearing House Automated Payment System
720CHDKCanon Hack Development Kit (Canon camera firmware hack)
721CHESwitzerland (ISO 3166 trigram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica)
722CHIColumbia Helicopters,Inc
723CHiPCalifornia Highway Patrol
724CHIPSCosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer
725CHLChile (ISO 3166 trigram)
726CHLACore Historical Literature of Agriculture
727CHNChina (ISO 3166 trigram)
728CHOGMCommonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
729CHPSOCalifornia Hospital Patient Safety Organization
730CHRSCanadian Heart Rhythm Society
731CHTCertified Hand Therapist
732CICôte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 digram),Counter-Intelligence,101 (in Roman numerals)
733CiCurie
734CIAU.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Cairo International Airport, Culinary Institute of America
735CIAOCritical Infrastructure Assurance Office,Component-Integrated ACE ORB
736CIBComplete In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
737CIBCCanadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
738CICSCustomer Information Control System (IBM mainframe software; 'kicks' or 'C-I-C-S')
739CIDCertified Interior Designer
740CIEFComité international d'enregistrement des fréquences (International Frequency Registration Board)
741CIFCost,Insurance,and Freight (Paid) (shipping)
742CIMMYTCentro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz Y Trigo (Spanish,'International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center')
743CINCCommander in Chief
744CINEOSCampo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey
745CIOChief information officer,Congress of Industrial Organizations
746CIPE(European) Centre for International Political Economy
747CIR(Commander's) Critical Information Requirements
748CIRCorotating Interaction Region
749CISCanadian Interuniversity Sport,Commonwealth of Independent States,Command and Information System,Communication and Information System
750CISA(U.S.) C4I Integration Support Activity
751CISBComplete In Sealed Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
752CISPRComité international spécial des perturbations radioélectriques (Special International Committee on Radio Interference)
753CISSPCertified Information Systems Security Professional
754CITESConvention on International Trade in Endangered Species (of Wild Fauna and Flora) ('sigh-tease')
755CIVCôte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 trigram)
756CIVETSColombia,Indonesia,Vietnam,Egypt,Turkey,South Africa (economics)
757CIVPOPCivilian Population
758CIWSClose-In Weapon System
759CJCriminal Justice
760CJCCanadian Jewish Congress,Cold Junction Compensation
761CJCSChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
762CJDChronological Julian Day,Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
763CJOChief of Joint Operations
764CJTFCombined Joint Task Force
765CKCook Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
766CKAcommonly known as, Canada Kicks Ass
767CKNDCodename: Kids Next Door
768CLChile (ISO 3166 digram),Co-ordination Line,One Hundred and Fifty (in Roman numerals)
769ClChlorine
770CLAClutterers Anonymous
771CLECCompetitive Local Exchange Carrier
772CLEMARSCalifornia Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System
773CLICCompact LInear Collider
774CLOCornell Lab of Ornithology
775CLOSCommand to Line-Of-Sight (missile control system)
776CLPFCCentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
777CLRPCollege Loan Repayment Program
778CMCameroon (ISO 3166 digram),Cruise Missile,Nine Hundred (in Roman numerals)
779CmCurium
780CMAU.S. Chemical Materials Agency,Country Music Association (also used to refer to the organization's annual awards),Crystal Meth Anonymous
781CMHCCanada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
782CMIIAWCorrect me if I am wrong
783CMISCommon management information service
784CMJChristopher Martin-Jenkins (BBC sports commentator)
785CMLLConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish,'Worldwide Wrestling Council'—Mexican professional wrestling promotion)
786CMMCapability Maturity Model
787CMMCCorps Materiel Management Centre
788CMMLChronic MyeloMonocytic Leukemia,Continuous Media Markup Language
789CMOSCanadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society,(The) Chicago Manual of Style,Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
790CMPCommon [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture
791CMPDCharlotte Mecklenburg Police Department
792CMPDChronic Myeloproliferative Disease
793CMRCameroon (ISO 3166 trigram),Coaxial Main Rotors (helicopter type)
794CMSCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services,The Chicago Manual of Style
795CMTCountry Music Television
796CMUCarnegie Mellon University,Central Michigan University,Concrete Masonry Unit
797CMWMarconi'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)
798CMYKCyan Magenta Yellow Key/blacK (colour model)
799CNCanadian National (railway; also the AAR reporting mark for said company),China (ISO 3166 digram)
800CNACenter 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
801CNBCConsumer News and Business Channel
802CNDCampaign for Nuclear Disarmament,Computer Network Defence
803CNECanadian National Exhibition,Computer Network Exploitation,Certified Network Engineer
804CNFCost and Freight
805CNIClinical Nursing Intern
806CNICommunications,Navigation and Identification
807CNNCable News Network,Cellular Nonlinear Network
808CNVCopy-Number Variable (genetics)
809CoCobalt
810COBClose Of Business [day]
811COBRAConsolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
812CODCash On Delivery,Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram)
813CoDACo-Dependents Anonymous
814COGENTCognitive Objects within a Graphical EnviroNmenT
815COILChemical Oxygen Iodine Laser
816COKCook Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
817COLColombia (ISO 3166 trigram)
818COLACost Of Living Adjustment
819CONADU.S. Continental Air Defense Command
820CONMEBOLConfederación Sudamericana de Fútbol or Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol (respectively Spanish and Portuguese for 'South American Football Confederation')
821CONUSContinental United States
822COOChief Operating Officer
823COPEU.K. Committee On Publication Ethics
824COPUSU.K. Committee on the Public Understanding of Science
825CORDCommon Operational Requirements Document
826COREConsortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
827COSCooper Ornithological Society
828COSERCOoperative SERvice
829CoTCar of Tomorrow (former NASCAR race car design)
830COTSCommercial Off The Shelf
831CPCanadian Pacific,Check Point,Command Post,Club Penguin
832CPACertified Public Accountant
833CPACConservative Political Action Conference,Cable Public Affairs Channel ('see-pack')
834CPCUCertified Property Casualty Underwriter
835CPDCapabilities Production Document
836CPECertificate of Proficiency in English
837CPECertified Professional Ergonomist
838CPFCalibration Parameter File,Canadian Patrol Frigate
839CPGClinical Practice Guideline
840CPIMCertification on Production and Inventory Management
841CPIRComputationally-Private Information Retrieval
842CPONCertified Pediatric Oncology Nurse
843CPPCCChinese People's Political Consultative Conference
844CPRCanadian Pacific Railway
845CPRCardiopulmonary resuscitation
846CPSMContinuous Phase Shift Modulation
847CPSUCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
848CPTContingency Planning Team
849CPUContract Postal Unit
850CPVCape Verde (ISO 3166 trigram)
851CPXCommand Post eXercise
852CQCarrier Qualification,Central Queensland,Charge of Quarters,Congressional Quarterly,Constellation Airlines (IATA airline designator)
853CQDClose Quarters Drill (Morse distress code preceding SOS: CQ 'calling all stations',D 'Distress'; often incorrectly interpreted as 'Come Quick,Distress')
854CrChromium
855CRCosta Rica (ISO 3166 digram)
856CRAMCombined Radiometric Correction Model
857CRDCapstone Requirements Document
858CREBCyclic AMP-response Element Binding (protein)
859CREEPCommittee for the Re-Election of the President,a pejorative nickname used by opponents
860CRENChristian Real Estate Network Real Estate Association
861CRIChina Radio International,Costa Rica (ISO 3166 trigram)
862CRIPLConsolidated Remain-In-Place List
863CRMCardiac Rhythm Management,Customer Relationship Management
864CROCroatia (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
865CRPCommittee for the Re-Election of the President,Control and Reporting Post
866CRTCardiac Resynchronization Therapy,Cathode Ray Tube,Chinese Remainder Theorem
867CRTCCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
868CsCaesium
869CSACanadian 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
870CSCClosed Spacelike Curve (relativity),Compact system camera,Computer Sciences Corporation,Computer Security Centre,CSCC Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists
871CSERIAC(U.S. DoD) Crew Systems Ergonomics Information Analysis Center
872CSGCorps Support Group
873CSIsee entry
874CSICOPCommittee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (became the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2006)
875CSIPCommercial Stable Image Platform (AMD)
876CSISCanadian Security Intelligence Service ('seessiss'),(U.S.) Center for Strategic & International Studies
877CSKCzechoslovakia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1993)
878CSLU.K. Central Science Laboratory
879CSPICenter for Science in the Public Interest
880CSRControl Supply Rate
881CSRCorporate Social Responsibility
882CSRCConflict Studies Research Centre
883CSRFCross-Site Request Forgery
884CSTCentral Standard Time (UTC6 hours)
885CTComputed 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)
886CTACentral 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')
887CTBTComprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty
888CTDBCompact Terrain Data Base (file format)
889CTECanton and Enderbury Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984),Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
890CTGFconnective tissue growth factor
891CTICo-operative Target Identification
892CTILCritical Tracked Items List
893CTISCentral Tire Inflation System
894CTMSClinical Trial Management System
895CTOChief Technical Officer,Chief Technology Officer
896CTSClear-To-Send,Collective Training Standards,Communications Technology Service,Contract Technical Services,Conversation Time Sharing,COSMIC Top Secret
897CTSSCompatible Time-Sharing System
898CTUCounter Terrorist Unit (fictional branch of the Central Intelligence Agency in the television action series 24)
899CTVTCanine Transmissible Venereal Tumour
900CUCarrie Underwood, Cuba (ISO 3166 digram)
901CuCopper (Latin 'Cuprum')
902CUBCuba (ISO 3166 trigram)
903CUCVCommercial Utility Cargo Vehicle
904CUNYCity University of New York ('CUE-knee')
905CUPECanadian Union of Public Employees ('CUE-pee')
906CUPSCommon Unix Printing System
907CUPWCanadian Union of Postal Workers
908CUREAConsortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy
909CuWCopper-tungsten pseudo-alloy (from the chemical symbols of the two component elements)
910CUWCuraçao (ISO 3166 trigram)
911CVcurriculum vitae (résumé)
912CVLLCrypto Variable Logic Label
913CVSDContinuous Variable Slope Delta (modulation)
914CVTContinuously Variable Transmission
915CWCalendar Week, or: Continuous Wave, or: Clothes Washer
916CWACommunications Workers of America
917CWCChemical Weapons Convention
918CWRUCase Western Reserve University
919CWSCanadian Wildlife Service
920CXChristmas Island (ISO 3166 digram),or: One Hundred and Ten (in Roman numerals)
921CXRChristmas Island (ISO 3166 trigram)
922CYCalendar year, or: Cyprus (ISO 3166 country code digram)
923CYMCayman Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
924CZECzech Republic (ISO 3166 trigram)
925CZF(Christian Zombie Fan)
926CZMA(US) Coastal Zone Management Act
927dDeci
928DDeuterium
929DADebtors Anonymous,U.S. Department of the Army,District Attorney
930DADVSILoi sur le droit dauteur et les droits voisins dans la société de linformation (French,'Law on copyrights and related rights in the information society')
931DAESDefence Acquisition Executive Summary,(UK MoD) Directorate of Analysis,Experimentation and Simulation
932DAFDissolved Air Flotation,a technique used in water treatment
933DAFIFDigital Aeronautical Flight Information File
934DAKDisney's Animal Kingdom
935DAODivision Ammunition Officer
936DAQData acquisition,Delivered Audio Quality
937DAREDrug Abuse Resistance Education
938DARO(U.S.) Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
939DARPAU.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
940DARTDisaster Assistance Response Team,Dublin Area Rapid Transit
941DASDefensive Aids Suite
942DASD(U.S.) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
943DASLDatapoint's Advanced Systems Language
944DAU(U.S.) Defense Acquisition University
945DAWN(U.S.) Drug Abuse Warning Network
946dBDecibel
947DBDeutsche Bahn
948DbDubnium
949DBADe Bellis Antiquitatis (miniature wargaming rules)
950DBBL(U.S. Army Simulation Center) Dismounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory
951DBDODesert BDO
952DBEDame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
953DBFDetection By Fire (weapon launch signature)
954DBRDe Bellis Renationis (miniature wargaming rules)
955DBRADavis-Bacon Related Acts
956DBSDirect Broadcast Services (television)
957DCda capo,Italian Democrazia Cristiana,Digital Compass,Direct Current,District of Columbia (postal symbol),Douglas Aircraft Company,Dublin Core,Duty Cycle
958DCADefensive Counter Air,Drum Corps Associates,DiChloroAcetate
959DCAA(U.S.) Defense Contract Audit Agency
960DCASDevon and Cornwall Archery Society
961DCCDallas Christian College
962DCD[Organ] Donation after Cardiac Death
963DCEData Communication Equipment
964DCFCDeath Cab for Cutie
965DCIDetection,Classification and Identification,Drum Corps International,Duellists' Convocation International,now known simply by the initials
966DCLDisney Cruise Line
967DCNDeacon
968DCOMDisney Channel Original Movie
969DCSOPSDeputy Chief of Staff for Operations and plans
970DCWDigital Chart of the World
971DCYSCDiscovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge
972DDdue diligence and dear daughter (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists,blogs,and bulletin boards)
973DDADeputy District Attorney
974DDNU.S. Defense Data Network
975DDSDoctor of Dental Surgery
976DDTDichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (insecticide),Dynamic Debugging Tool (computing),DE[edit]
977DEDelaware (postal symbol),Germany (ISO 3166 digram)
978DEADrug Enforcement Administration
979DEADrug Enforcement Agency
980DECDepartment of Environmental Conservation,Digital Equipment Corporation,Disasters Emergency Committee
981DeCA(U.S.) Defense Commissary Agency
982DEFCONDefence readiness condition
983DEFRA(UK) Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs
984DELTDual Ended Line Test (ing)
985DEMData Exchange Mechanism,Digital Elevation Model
986DENDenmark (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
987DEPSECDEF(U.S.) Deputy Secretary of Defense
988DERABritish Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (1995-2001)
989DESDeep Ecliptic Survey
990DEUGermany (ISO 3166 trigram)
991DFDirect Fire,Direction Finding,Distrito Federal (Spanish and Portuguese for 'federal district')
992DFAS(U.S.) Defense Finance and Accounting Service
993DFBDeutscher Fußball-Bund (German for 'German Football Association')
994DFCBData Format Control Book
995DfIDUK Department for International Development
996DFMDiscrete Field Model see Superluminal motion
997DFMDynamic Flowgraph Methodology
998DFSPDermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
999DfTUK Department for Transport
1000DFTBADon't Forget To Be Awesome,a term commonly used by the Vlogbrothers
1001DGDei gratia (Latin,'by the grace of God'),Director-General,Data General
1002DGADirection générale des armées (French 'Armed Forces General Directorate')
1003DGPSDifferential GPS
1004DGZDesired Ground Zero
1005DHADocosaHexaenoic Acid
1006DHHS(U.S.) Department of Health and Human Services
1007DHRA(U.S.) DoD Human Resources Activity
1008DHSU.S. Department of Homeland Security
1009DHSSUK Department of Health and Social Security
1010DHTFYSSU.S. Don't Have Time For You Silly S****
1011DHYDahomey (ISO 3166 trigram; became BEN for Benin in 1977)
1012DIAU.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
1013DIACDepartment of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia) [1]
1014DiCDesign Island Centre (computing usually used in a teaching situation)
1015DICASSDIrectional Command Activated Sonobuoy System
1016DIFARDIrectional Frequency Analysis and Recording
1017DIMEDense Inert Metal Explosive
1018DIPDual In-line Package (electronics)
1019DIPSDefense independent pitching statistics
1020DIRDefence Industrial Research
1021DISCOMDivision Support Command
1022DISEDeployable Intelligence Support Element
1023DISSTAFDIS Search and Target Acquisition Fidelity experiment
1024DITYDo-It-Yourself
1025DIVADDivision Air Defence
1026DIYDo It Yourself
1027DJIDjibouti (ISO 3166 trigram)
1028DKDenmark (ISO 3166 digram)
1029DLDexter's Laboratory
1030DLICDetachment Left-In-Contact
1031DLIRDepot-Level Inspection and Repair
1032DLPMCDorsoLateral PreMotor Cortex
1033DLRPData Link Reference Point
1034DLSDeep Lens Survey
1035DLSA(U.S.) Defense Legal Services Agency
1036DLScDiploma in Library Science
1037DLTBGYDDon't let the bastards grind you down
1038DMC(U.S.) Defense Management Council
1039DMCADigital Millennium Copyright Act
1040DMMDigital Multimeter
1041DMOCDistributed Mission Operations Centre
1042DMPA(U.S.) Defense Medical Programs Activity
1043DMPFCDorsoMedial PreFrontal Cortex
1044DMPKDrug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
1045DMRBDesign Manual for Roads and Bridges
1046DMSU.S. Defense Message System
1047DMSPU.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
1048DMTDimethyltryptamine
1049DMVDepartment of Motor Vehicles
1050DMZDeMilitarized Zone
1051DNDeacon
1052DNAWDay Night All Weather
1053DNDiDrugs for Neglected Diseases initiative
1054DNDOU.S. Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
1055DNKDenmark (ISO 3166 trigram)
1056DNMDefence Nuclear Material
1057DNRDo Not Resuscitate
1058DNSDomain Name System
1059DODominican Republic (ISO 3166 digram),Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
1060DOADead On Arrival,Dead or Alive
1061DOBDate Of Birth
1062DODU.S. Department of Defense
1063DODAFU.S. Department of Defense Architectural Framework
1064DoDDU.S. Department of Defense Directive
1065DoDEA(U.S.) Department of Defense Education Activity
1066DOEU.S. Department of Energy
1067DOHCDual-OverHead-Cam engine
1068DOIU.S. Department of the Interior
1069DORADefence of the Realm Act
1070DOSDensity of State
1071DOTAshort-form for DEFENSE OF THE ANCIENTS a popular online epic game
1072DotDDeal of the Day (marketing gimmick)
1073DOWDied of Wounds
1074DPDivision de production (Algerian petroleum company)
1075DPAUK Defence Procurement Agency
1076DPCODouble-Pole Change Over
1077DPDTDouble-Pole Double-Throw
1078DPIDots Per Inch
1079DPICMDual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition
1080DPKOUN Department for Peacekeeping Operations
1081DPMO(U.S.) Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
1082DPPDBDigital Point Positioning Database
1083DPRKDemocratic People's Republic of Korea
1084DPSTDouble-Pole Single-Throw
1085DQDairy Queen
1086DRDead Reckoning,Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
1087DRCDemocratic Republic of the Congo
1088DRDCDefence Research & Development Canada
1089DREADefence Research Establishment Atlantic (obsolete 2002)
1090DRESDefence Research Establishment Suffield (obsolete 2002)
1091DRETDefence Research Establishment Toronto (obsolete 2002)
1092DREVDefence Research Establishment Valcartier (obsolete 2002)
1093DRIC(U.S.) Defense Research Information Center
1094DRMS(U.S.) Defense Revitalization and Marketing Service
1095DRPRDrawing Practices
1096DRTDocument Related Technologies
1097DsDarmstadtium
1098DSASDisney Sing Along Songs
1099DSB(U.S.) Defense Science Board
1100DSCSU.S. Defense Satellite Communications System
1101DSCSOCDSCS Operations Center
1102DSEDry Sheep Equivalent
1103DSGDirect-Shift Gearbox
1104DSIDDismounted Soldier Identification System
1105DSLDigital Subscriber Line
1106DSLRDigital single-lens reflex (camera)
1107DSMDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
1108DSNDeep Space Network
1109DSPLDesign Specialists and Plans Language
1110DSRDeformed Special Relativity
1111DSTDaylight Saving Time
1112DSTLBritish Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
1113DSWA(U.S.) Defense Special Weapons Agency
1114DTADental Technologists Association
1115DTDDigital Terrain Data
1116DTGDate-Time Group
1117DTHDirect To Home (television)
1118DTIUK Department of Trade and Industry
1119DTIC(U.S.) Defense Technical Information Center
1120DTLDiode-Transistor Logic (electronics)
1121DTMFDual-tone multi-frequency signaling
1122DTODisruptive Technology Office (was ARDA)
1123DTRDetermine The Relationship
1124DTSA(U.S.) Defense Technology Security Administration
1125DUMBODown Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (Brooklyn neighborhood)
1126DUSD(U.S.) Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense
1127DVLCUK Driver and Vehicle Licencing Centre
1128DVMDoctor of Veterinary Medicine
1129DVODirect View Optics
1130DVOMDigital Volt-Ohm Meter
1131DVPvarious meanings (disambiguation page)
1132DWDrum Workshop
1133DWIMDo What I Mean
1134DWMDoctor Who Magazine
1135DWTSDancing with the Stars
1136DWWDown with Webster
1137DXADual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry
1138DXMDeXtroMethorphan
1139DYDahomey (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1977)
1140DyDysprosium
1141DZAAlgeria (ISO 3166 trigram)
1142EEast
1143EABUExplain Acronyms Before Use
1144EACEchelons Above Corps
1145EAPCEuro-Atlantic Partnership Council
1146EASTExperimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
1147EBDElectronic Brake Distribution
1148EBEExtraterrestrial Biological Entity
1149EBSAEmployee Benefits Security Administration
1150EBWElectron Beam Welding
1151EBWExploding BridgeWire
1152ECASSEuropean Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences [1]
1153ECBREuropean Coalition for Biomedical Research
1154ECCMElectronic Counter-Counter-Measures
1155ECFSElectronic Case Filing System
1156ECGElectrocardiogram
1157ECHREuropean Convention on Human Rights
1158ECJEuropean Court of Justice
1159ECLEmitter Coupled Logic (electronics)
1160ECommHREuropean Commission on Human Rights
1161ECSCEuropean Coal and Steel Community (distant ancestor of the EU)
1162ECTElectroConvulsive Therapy
1163ECtHREuropean Court of Human Rights
1164EDAEuropean Defence Agency
1165EDACError Detection And Correction
1166EDCSEnvironmental Data Coding Specification
1167EDHEastman Dental Hospital
1168EDSAEpifanio de los Santos Avenue (a major thoroughfare in Manila with great significance to post-1980 Philippines history)
1169EDTEastern Daylight Saving Time (UTC4 hours)
1170EECEuropean Economic Community (predecessor of the EU)
1171EEGElectroEncephaloGram
1172EENTEnd Evening Nautical Twilight
1173EEOEqual Employment Opportunity
1174EEOC(U.S.) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
1175EEZEconomic Exclusion Zone or Exclusive Economic Zone
1176EFFElectronic Frontier Foundation
1177EFLEnglish as a Foreign Language
1178EFMEnterprise Feedback Management
1179EFOAEuropean Fuel Oxygenates Association
1180EFSAEuropean Food Safety Authority
1181EFTElectronic Fund Transfer
1182EFVExpeditionary Fighting Vehicle
1183EGEgypt (ISO 3166 digram)
1184EGCGEpiGalloCatechin-3-Gallate
1185EGISErieye Ground Interface Segment
1186EGRETEnergetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope
1187EGYEgypt (ISO 3166 trigram)
1188EHFExtremely High Frequency
1189EHREquipment History Record
1190EiExbi
1191EIAEnvironmental Impact Assessment
1192EIAHEncyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History
1193EIAHEnvironnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain
1194EICEast India Company
1195EICSEast India Company's Service
1196eIDelectronic ID
1197EIRPEffective Isotropic Radiated Power
1198EISEnvironmental Impact Statement
1199EJExajoule
1200EKExakelvin
1201EKGElectrocardiogram (from German Elektrokardiogramm)
1202EKMSElectronic Key Management System
1203ELExalitre
1204ELINTElectronic Intelligence
1205ELLEnglish Language Learner
1206ELMEdge-Localised Mode (plasma physics)
1207ELOElectric Light Orchestra
1208ELSSEmergency Life Support Stores
1209EMElectroMagnetism/ElectroMagnetic
1210EmExametre
1211EMAEuropean Medicines Agency
1212EMCON(Electromagnetic) Emissions Control
1213EMDGEuro-Missile Dynamics Group
1214EMDREye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
1215EMEAEurope,Middle East and Africa
1216EMGElectroMyoGraph
1217EMPElectroMagnetic Pulse
1218EMSEmergency Medical Services
1219EMTEmergency Medical Technician
1220ENCorps of Engineers,Exanewton
1221ENCODEEncyclopedia of DNA Elements (human genome data project)
1222ENEEast North-East
1223ENGEngland (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram)
1224ENTECEuro NATO Training Engineer Centre
1225ENVLEnvelope
1226ENYEnemy
1227EODExplosive Ordnance Disposal
1228EOGElectroOculoGraphy
1229EOMEnd of Message
1230EOSATEarth Observation Satellite
1231EOSDISEarth Observation Satellite Data and Information System
1232EPEuropean Parliament
1233EPExtended play
1234EPCOTExperimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow
1235EPGSEOS Polar Ground Sites
1236EPIRBEmergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon
1237EPLEnglish Premier League
1238EPOSElectronic Point Of Sale
1239EPPAEmployee Polygraph Protection Act
1240EPREuropean Pressurised [Nuclear] Reactor
1241EQEmotional Quotient
1242ErErbium
1243ERCIMEuropean Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
1244ERIEritrea (ISO 3166 trigram)
1245ERLAWSEastern Ruapehu Lahar Alarm and Warning System
1246EROSEarth Resources Observation System
1247ERPEngineer Regulating Point
1248ERREesti Rahvusringhääling
1249ERSEarth Resources Survey
1250ERTSEarth Resources Technology Satellite (became Landsat)
1251ERVEndogenous RetroVirus
1252ESElectronic warfare Support,Exasiemens,Spain (ISO 3166 digram; from the country's native name of España)
1253ESDElectroStatic Discharge
1254ESDPEuropean Security and Defence Policy
1255ESEEast South-East
1256ESHWestern Sahara (ISO 3166 trigram)
1257ESLEnglish as a Second Language
1258ESMElectronic warfare Support Measures
1259ESOEuropean Southern Observatory
1260ESOLEnglish for Speakers of Other Languages
1261ESPNEntertainment and Sports Programming Network
1262ESUEmergency Services Unit
1263ESVEngineer Support Vehicle
1264ETEthiopia (ISO 3166 digram)
1265ETHEthiopia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1266ETIExtra-Terrestrial Intelligence
1267ETLAExtended TLA
1268ETTEmbedded Training Team
1269EUEuropean Union
1270EuEuropium
1271EUCOM(U.S.) European Command
1272EUUSAEuropean Union and United States of America
1273EVExavolt
1274EVILElectronic viewfinder (with) interchangeable lens (a type of digital camera)
1275EWTNEternal Word Television Network
1276ExateslaExtra Terrestrial
1277EXREPExpeditious Repair (SM&R code)
1278EZExtraction Zone
1279fFemto
1280fAFemtoampere
1281FAFood Addicts in Recovery Anonymous
1282FAAFinancial Aid Administrator,Fleet Air Arm,Functional Area Analysis
1283FAADForward Area Air Defence
1284FAADEZForward Area Air Defence Engagement Zone
1285FAAFPFellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians
1286FAANFellow of the American Academy of Neurology
1287FAANFellow of the American Academy of Nursing
1288FAAQFrequently Asked and Anticipated Questions
1289FAASVField Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle
1290FABFeline Advisory Bureau (UK feline charity)
1291FACA(US) Federal Advisory Committee Act
1292FACHFuerza Aérea de Chile
1293FACNFellow of the American College of Nutrition
1294FACPFellow of the American College of Physicians
1295FACTSFlexible Alternating Current Transmission System
1296FAMForeign Affairs Manual
1297FAOFood and Agriculture Organization
1298FAPAFellow of the American Psychological Association
1299FAPHAFellow of the American Public Health Association
1300FARPForward Arming and Refuelling Point / Forward Area Rearm/refuel Point
1301FASCAMFamily of Scatterable Mines[1]
1302FASDFetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
1303FASEBFederation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
1304FATField Artillery Tractor
1305FAVSFuture Armoured Vehicle System
1306FAWFootball Association of Wales
1307FBCSFellow of the British Computer Society
1308FBIDSTFellow of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists
1309FBISForeign Broadcast Information Service
1310FBMBoard foot
1311fCFemtocoulomb
1312FCCU.S. Federal Communications Commission
1313FCEFirst Certificate in English
1314FCFFinancial Free Cash Flow
1315FCLAFraud Claims Law Associate
1316FCOUK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1317FCWFlorida Championship Wrestling
1318FDFalun Dafa
1319FDAFood and Drug Administration (U.S.)
1320FDBK(I) Feedback
1321FeIron (Latin Ferrum)
1322FEASTForum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation
1323FEATSFestival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies link title
1324FEBAForward Edge of the Battle Area
1325FEDField Emission Display
1326FEDEPFederation Development Process (Simulation)
1327FEFFrontal Eye Field (neurophysiology)
1328FEMAFarm Equipment Manufacturers Association, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency,Fire Equipment Manufacturers' Association
1329FENSFederation of European Neuroscience Societies
1330FESFlywheel Energy Storage
1331FESTFrankfurt English Speaking Theatre link title
1332FETField-effect transistor
1333FEZFighter Engagement Zone
1334fFFemtofarad
1335FFFinal Fantasy
1336FFBFrum From Birth (referring to an observant Jew born into a religiously observant family)
1337FFCFree For Chat
1338FFEFukuoka Futures Exchange
1339FFFFédération française de football (French for: French Football Federation)
1340FFGGuided Missile Frigate (hull classification symbol)
1341FFOVForward Field Of View
1342FFRFédération française de rugby (French for: French Rugby (Union) Federation)
1343FFSFor Fuck's Sake
1344FFTFinal Fantasy Tactics
1345FGFalun Gong
1346fgFemtogram
1347FGFog (METAR Code)
1348FGOTUSFirst Gentleman of the United States
1349FGRFlickr Group Roulette
1350fHFemtohenry
1351FHFIFFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends
1352FHIFamily Health International, Fuji Heavy Industries,Ltd.
1353FIFinland (ISO 3166 digram)
1354FIATFabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian for: Italian Car Factory of Turin)
1355FIBFucking Illinois Bastard (Wisconsin slang, variants exist)
1356FIBUAFighting In Built-Up Areas
1357FICFellowship for Intentional Community
1358FIDForeign Internal Defence
1359FIEFly-In Echelon
1360FIFAFédération internationale de football association (French for: International Association Football Federation)
1361FIFeFédération internationale féline (French for: International Feline Federation)
1362FIFOFirst In, First Out
1363FIFRAFederal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
1364FIGJAMFuck I'm Good, Just Ask Me
1365FIMPTFellow of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
1366FINFinland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1367FINAFédération internationale de natation (French for: International Swimming Federation)
1368FIRESFever Induced Refractory Epilepsy Syndrome or Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome
1369FISFédération internationale de ski (French for: International Ski Federation)
1370FISAFédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (French for: International Federation of Rowing Associations)
1371FISHFluorescence In-Situ Hybridisation
1372FiSTFire Support Team
1373FITSFlexible Image Transport System
1374FIUFlorida International University
1375fJFemtojoule
1376FJFiji (ISO 3166 digram)
1377FJIFiji (ISO 3166 trigram)
1378FJNFinancial Job Network
1379FKFalkland Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
1380fKFemtokelvin
1381FKSMFort Knox Supplemental Manual
1382FKTFastest Known Time
1383fLFemtolitre
1384FLFlorida (postal symbol)
1385flfloruit (Latin for: living) (genealogy)
1386FLAFlorida,Front Line Assembly,Future Large Aircraft
1387FLABFour-letter abbreviation
1388FLACFree Legal Advice Centres
1389FLACFree Lossless Audio Codec
1390FLAKFlug-Abwehr-Kanone (German for: Anti-Aircraft Guns)
1391FLBForward Logistics Base
1392FLETForward Line of Enemy Troops
1393FLGFalun Gong
1394FLIPFlight Information Publication
1395FLIRForward Looking InfraRed (sensor)
1396FLKFalkland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1397FLOTForward Line of Own Troops
1398FLOTUSFirst Lady of the United States (the wife of the President of the United States)
1399FLQFree Legal Questions
1400FLQFront de libération du Québec (French for: Québec Liberation Front)
1401FLSAFair Labor Standards Act
1402FLTSATFleet Satellite
1403FLTSATCOMFleet Satellite Communication System
1404FLUBOSFat, Lazy, Useless, Bag Of Shit
1405FMFactory Mutual
1406FMFederal Magistrate (Australian post-nominal),Federated States of Micronesia (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram),Field Manual,Flight Manager,Frequency Modulation (electronics)
1407fmFemtometre
1408FmFermium
1409FMCFederal Magistrates' Court (an Australian federal court,formerly FMS),Food Machinery Corporation (original name of the company now known as FMC Corporation)
1410FMCAFederal Magistrates' Court of Australia (used for citing decisions of the FMC other than family law decisions)
1411FMCAfamFederal Magistrates' Court of Australia: family (used for citing family law decisions of the FMC)
1412FMCGFast Moving Consumer Goods
1413FMEFormal Methods Europe
1414FMECAFailure Modes and Effect Criticality Analysis
1415FMJDFédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames
1416FMLAFamily Medical Leave Act
1417FoEFriends of the Earth
1418FOGCFederal Oil and Gas Council
1419FOHFront Of House
1420FOIAFreedom of Information Act
1421FOMFederation Object Model
1422FONSIFinding of No Significant Impact
1423FOOForward Observation Officer
1424FOOPFriends Of Organ Pipes (Volunteer group)
1425FoSFamily of Systems
1426FOSEFallout 3 Script Extender
1427FOSEFederal Office Systems Expo
1428FOTFree on truck
1429FOTAFellow of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
1430FOTCFlight of the Conchords
1431FOUOFor Official Use Only
1432FPFFederação Portuguesa de Futebol (Portuguese for: Portuguese Football Federation), Final Protective Fire
1433FPSFire Prevention System
1434FQFrench Southern and Antarctic Territories (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1979)
1435FRFrance (ISO 3166 digram)
1436FrFrancium
1437FRAFederal Railroad Administration, France (ISO 3166 trigram)
1438FRANDFair,reasonable,and non-discriminatory (concept in standards-setting and intellectual property law)
1439FRCPFederal Rules of Civil Procedure,Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
1440FRICBMFull Range ICBM
1441FROFaroe Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1442FRSFellow of the Royal Society, U.S. Federal Reserve System
1443FRSAFellow of the Royal Society of Art
1444FRYFederal Republic of Yugoslavia
1445fsFemtosecond
1446fSFemtosiemens
1447FSAFire Support Area, UK Food Standards Agency, Functional Solution Analysis
1448FSCFederal Supply Classification, Forest Stewardship Council (ecological pressure group)
1449FSCLFire Support Co-ordination Line
1450FSEFire Support Element
1451FSFFree Software Foundation
1452FSHFollicle Stimulating Hormone
1453FSIFuel Stratified Injection
1454FSSFire Support Station
1455FSSPFamilies of Structurally Similar Proteins
1456FSTCForeign Science Technology Center (now NGIC)
1457fTFemtotesla
1458FTCFederal Trade Commission
1459FTEFull Time Equivalent
1460FTLFaster Than Light
1461FTSFlight Termination System used during some rocket launches
1462FTSFuck That Shit
1463FUSmoke (METAR Code)
1464FUBARFucked/Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair
1465fVFemtovolt
1466fWFemtowatt
1467FWForward
1468FWCFootball World Cup
1469FWFFixed Word Format
1470FWIFrench West Indies
1471FWIWFor What It's Worth
1472FWSU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1473FWTFresh Water Tank
1474FXXMetropolitan France (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1997)
1475FYAFor Your Agenda
1476FYDPFive-Year Defense Plan (U.S.)
1477FYIFor Your Information
1478FYROMFormer Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
1479FZDZFreezing Drizzle (METAR Code)
1480FZFGFreezing Fog (METAR Code)
1481FZRAFreezing Rain (METAR Code)
1482gGram
1483G3Heckler & Koch G3
1484GAARGeneral Anti-Avoidance Rule (tax evasion)
1485GABGabon (ISO 3166 trigram)
1486GABAGamma-AminoButyric Acid
1487GADGeneralized Anxiety Disorder
1488GAFGarfield and Friends
1489GAOU.S. Government Accountability Office
1490GAWGlobal Atmospheric Watch
1491GBUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 digram) [glamour boy 7-9/10]
1492GBBCGreat (Global) Backyard Bird Count
1493GBEKnight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
1494GBRUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1495GCAGraduate in Claims Administration
1496GCDsee entry
1497GCFGreatest Common Factor
1498GCIGround-controlled interception
1499GCNGamma-ray burst Coordination Network
1500GCSGlobal Coordinate System
1501GCSEGeneral Certificate of Secondary Education (UK)
1502GdGadolinium
1503GDGrenada (ISO 3166 digram)
1504GDLGame Definition Language
1505GDRGeneral Distribution Release (Microsoft Term for a software service release; between Hotfix and Service Pack)
1506GDRGerman Democratic Republic (cf. DDR)
1507GDWGame Designers Workshop
1508GeGermanium
1509GEBCOGeneral Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
1510GECGreat Engineering Challenge
1511GEDGeneral Educational Development (high school equivalency credential in the U.S. and Canada)
1512GEEPGeophysical Equipment Exploration Platform
1513GENFull General (four stars) in the U.S. Army
1514GeVGigaelectron-volt
1515GEVGround Effect Vehicle
1516GFCIGround Fault Circuit Interruptor (aka GFI)
1517GFIGround Fault Interruptor (aka GFCI)
1518GFLGerman Football League (Germany's Bundesliga for American football; the English-language name is used in German without translation)
1519GFNGlobal Footprint Network
1520GGKGood God Karma
1521GHAGhana (ISO 3166 trigram)
1522GHBgamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
1523GiGibi
1524GIBGibraltar (ISO 3166 trigram)
1525GIGGlobal Information Grid
1526GINOGodzilla In Name Only
1527GISSGeneral Impression of Size and Shape,Goddard Institute for Space Studies
1528GJGigajoule,Gujarat (Indian state code)
1529GJDGeocentric Julian Day
1530GKGigakelvin
1531GLAADGay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
1532GLACGeneral Ledger Accounting Code
1533GLASTGamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
1534GLBAGramm-Leach-Bliley Act
1535GLCGas-liquid chromatography
1536GLPGuadeloupe (ISO 3166 trigram)
1537GLVGained Life Value
1538GmGigametre
1539GMThe Gambia (ISO 3166 digram),GameMaster (role-playing),General Motors,Genetically Modified,Guru Meditation (computing)
1540GMACGeneral Motors Acceptance Corporation,the original name of the company now known as Ally Financial,Graduate Management Admission Council,G-MAC,Great Midwest Athletic Conference
1541GMBThe Gambia (ISO 3166 trigram),General,Municipal,Boilermakers (and Allied Trade Union)
1542GMFSCGround Mobile Forces Satellite Communications
1543GMOGenetically Modified Organism
1544GMPCSGlobal Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite
1545GNASGrand National Archery Society
1546GNBGuinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 trigram)
1547GNPGross National Product
1548GNQEquatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram)
1549GnRHGonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
1550GOAGeneral of the Army (United States only)
1551GOATGreatest Of All Time
1552GOCGeneral Officer Commanding
1553GOESGeostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
1554GOPGrand Old Party
1555gorpgranola,oats,raisins,peanuts (another name for trail mix),probably a backronym
1556GOSCGeneral Officer Steering Committee
1557GOSHGreat Ormond Street Hospital
1558GOSPGas/Oil Separation Plant
1559GOTSGovernment off-the-shelf
1560GOYADINGet Off Your Arse,Do It Now (anti-procrastination mantra)
1561GPGeneral Practitioner,General Purpose,Grand Prix,Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 digram)
1562GPAGrade Point Average
1563GPCGlobal Path Cache
1564GPIBGeneral-Purpose Instrumentation/Interface Bus
1565GPOGeneral Post Office
1566GPPCGenetics and Public Policy Center
1567GPRGround-Penetrating Radar
1568GPSGeneral Problem Solver,Global Positioning System
1569GPTGeneral Purpose Technology, Get paid to surf (an online business model)
1570GQEquatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 digram),Gentlemen's Quarterly (the original name of the magazine now known simply as GQ),GR[edit]
1571GRGreece (ISO 3166 digram),Hail (METAR Code)
1572GRAILGravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
1573GRASGenerally recognized as safe (FDA list)
1574GRBGamma-Ray Burst
1575GRCGreece (ISO 3166 trigram)
1576GRDGrenada (ISO 3166 trigram)
1577GREGraduate Record Examination,Greece (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
1578grep[search] Globally for Regular Expression,Print [lines]
1579GRIDGay-Related Immune Deficiency (original name of AIDS)
1580GRidGlobal Release Identifier,a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI
1581GriTGirl raised in Texas (Woman presenting firm southern traits/beliefs)
1582GRLGreenland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1583GRNGrenada (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166),Goods Received Note
1584GsGigasecond
1585GSAU.S. General Services Administration
1586GSDGraphical Situation Display
1587GSGB(God send glamour boy 9-10/10)
1588GSKGlaxoSmithKline [good sexual karma]
1589GSNGame Show Network
1590GSOGeneral Services Officer (U.S. Department of State)
1591GSOHGood Sense Of Humour
1592GSPGeorges St-Pierre (Canadian MMA fighter)
1593GSRGun Shot Residue
1594GSSGeneric Security Services
1595GSWGunshot wound
1596GTDGetting Things Done
1597GTGGot To Go (Internet chat)
1598GTGNGetty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
1599GTKGood To Know (Internet chat)
1600GTMGuatemala (ISO 3166 trigram)
1601GUGuam (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
1602GUFFrench Guiana (ISO 3166 trigram)
1603GUILTGangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin
1604GULCRGrupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica
1605GUTGrand Unification Theory
1606GVGigavolt
1607GWARSGround Warfare System (simulation)
1608GWASGrand Western Archery Society
1609GWOTGlobal War on Terrorism
1610GXEGene-enivronment interaction
1611GXMMatrox Graphics eXpansion Module
1612GYGuyana (ISO 3166 digram)
1613GZGround Zero
1614GZKGreisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off (cosmic ray energies)
1615hHecto
1616HHenry
1617H1First half of the year
1618H2Second half of the year
1619HAHigh Availability
1620HAARPHigh Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
1621HAARTHighly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy
1622HAIHuman Awareness Institute
1623HALHardware Abstraction Layer
1624HALOHigh Altitude Low Opening (parachute jump)
1625HAMAmateur radio operator
1626HANSHead And Neck Support (device used in many race cars)
1627HARMHigh-speed Anti-Radiation Missile
1628HAWHeavy Antitank Weapon
1629HAWKHoming All the Way Killer (air defence system)
1630HAZHeat-Affected Zone
1631HAZMATHazardous Materials
1632HBCDHexaBromoCycloDodecane
1633HBOHome Box Office
1634HBRHarvard Business Review
1635HBTHeterojunction Bipolar Transistor
1636HBVHepatitis B Virus
1637HCCIHomogeneous Charge Compression Ignition
1638HCFHighest Common Factor
1639HCSCHigher Command and Staff Course
1640HDLHigh-Density Lipoprotein
1641HDMHuman Decision-Making
1642HDRAHenry Doubleday Research Association
1643HeHelium
1644HEHigh Explosive
1645HEATHigh Explosive Anti-Tank (ammunition)
1646HEBAHellenic Basketball Clubs Association
1647HEERHigh-Explosive Extended Range (ammunition)
1648HEICHonourable East India Company
1649HEMPHigh-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse
1650HEOSSHigh Earth Orbit Space Surveillance
1651HEPHigh-Explosive Plastic (ammunition)
1652HEPAHigh-Efficiency Particulate Air (filter)
1653HESVHeavy Engineering Support Vehicle
1654HETTHeavy Equipment Transporting Truck / Heavy Equipment Truck Tractor
1655HEUHighly Enriched Uranium
1656HfHafnium
1657HFHigh Frequency
1658HFEHuman Fertilisation and Embryology (UK Act)
1659HFEThe common-emitter current gain in a BJT transistor (also represented by βF). See: BJT
1660HFEAHuman Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (UK)
1661HgMercury (Latin Hydrargyrum)
1662HGCUK Human Genetics Commission
1663HGFHuman Growth Factor
1664HGTVHome & Garden Television
1665HIHawaii (postal symbol)
1666HIHHis (or Her) Imperial Highness
1667HIMHis (or Her) Imperial Majesty
1668HIMADHigh to Medium Altitude Air Defence (see also H/MAD)
1669HIMEZHigh Altitude Missile Engagement Zone
1670HIMYMHow I Met Your Mother
1671HIPAAU.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
1672HipparcosHIgh Precision Parallax COllecting Satellite
1673HirdHurd of interfaces representing depth (cf. HURD)
1674HiRISEHigh Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
1675HITHealth Information Technology
1676HIVHuman Immunodeficiency Virus
1677HIWTHobart Institute of Welding Technology
1678HJDHeliocentric Julian Day
1679HKHong Kong (ISO 3166 digram)
1680HKGHong Kong (ISO 3166 trigram)
1681HKSHyperKinetic Syndrome
1682hLHectolitre
1683HLHolding Line
1684HLLHigh-Level Language
1685HLNHeadline News
1686HLOSHigh Level Output Specification
1687HMHeard Island and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
1688HMCEHer/His Majesty's Customs and Excise (former UK government department; succeeded by HM Revenue and Customs)
1689HMDHeard and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1690HMFHydroxyMethyl Furfural
1691HMOHealth maintenance organization
1692HMPHer Majesty's Prison
1693HMRCHer/His Majesty's Revenue and Customs
1694HMSOHer Majesty's Stationery Office
1695HMVHis Master's Voice
1696HNHonduras (ISO 3166 digram)
1697HNDHonduras (ISO 3166 trigram)
1698HoHolmium
1699HOLLANDHope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies
1700HOSTACHelicopter Operations from Ships Other Than Aircraft Carriers
1701HOTHighly Optimised Tolerance
1702HOTASHands on throttle-and-stick
1703HOVHigh Occupancy Vehicle
1704hphorse power
1705HPAUK Health Protection Agency
1706HPCLHindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
1707HPLCHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography
1708HPTHigh[er] Payoff Target
1709HPVHuman Papilloma Virus
1710HQHeadQuarters
1711HRBLHigh-level Representation of Behavior Language (original name of the Herbal language)
1712HRDHuman Resource Development
1713HRFHigh iness Forces
1714HRHHis (or Her) Royal Highness
1715HRMHis (or Her) Royal Majesty
1716HRMHuman Resource Management
1717HRTHormone Replacement Therapy
1718HsHassium
1719HSBCThe Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
1720HSCHigher School Certificate
1721HSMHigh School Musical
1722HSMADHuman Science/Modeling and Analysis Data
1723HSNHome Shopping Network
1724HSPHHarvard School of Public Health
1725HSSIHigh-Speed Serial Interface
1726HSTsee entry
1727HTAHyperText Application
1728HTFUHarden The Fuck Up
1729HTHHope That Helps
1730HTIHaiti (ISO 3166 trigram)
1731HTMLHyperText Markup Language
1732HTRHeated Towel Rail
1733HTSHigh-Temperature Superconducting wire
1734HTTPHyperText Transfer Protocol
1735HUHungary (ISO 3166 digram)
1736HUHAHead up his/her ass (Marine salute; probably a backcronym)
1737HUNHungary (ISO 3166 trigram)
1738HURDHird of Unix-Replacing Daemons (cf. Hird)
1739HVUpper Volta (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1984)
1740HVAPHigh Velocity Armour Piercing (ammunition)
1741HVHFHigh velocity human factors
1742HVMHigh Velocity Missile
1743HVOUpper Volta (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984)
1744HWMHardware morphing (computer graphics rendering)
1745HXBThe glycoprotein Tenascian C
1746HZHaze (METAR Code)
1747HzHertz
1748IAIowa (postal symbol)
1749IAALI Am A Lawyer
1750IABInternational Association for Biologicals
1751IADIon Assisted Deposition
1752IADSIntegrated Air Defence System
1753IAEAInternational Atomic Energy Agency
1754IAF{i} Industrial Areas Foundation
1755IAFGInformation Assurance Focus Group
1756IANAInternet Assigned Numbers Authority
1757IANALI Am Not A Lawyer
1758IASImage Assessment System
1759IASIPIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
1760IATAInternational Air Transport Association
1761IATFInternational Automotive Task Force
1762IATSEInternational Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
1763IAUCInternational Astronomical Union Circular
1764IAWIn Accordance With
1765IBInternational Baccalaureate
1766IBAImportant Bird Area
1767IBDInflammatory Bowel Disease
1768IBDMInformation Based Decision Making
1769IBMInternational Business Machines
1770IBRDInternational Bank for Reconstruction and Development (part of the World Bank)
1771IBSIrritable Bowel Syndrome
1772ICIce Crystals (METAR Code),Integrated Circuit,[inner circle]
1773ICANNInternet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
1774ICAOInternational Civil Aviation Organization
1775ICBMIntercontinental Ballistic Missile
1776ICBNInternational Code of Botanical Nomenclature
1777ICEIn case of emergency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
1778ICESInternational Council for the Exploration of the Sea
1779ICFIntelligent Community Forum
1780ICMPInternet Control Message Protocol
1781ICNAFInternational Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (became NAFO in 1978)
1782ICOIntermediate Circular Orbit
1783ICPEInternational Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology,the annual conference of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
1784ICRAFInternational Centre for Research in Agroforestry (a.k.a. World Agroforestry Centre since 2002)
1785ICRISATInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
1786ICRLIndividual Component Repair List
1787ICRSInternational Celestial Reference System
1788ICSIIntracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
1789ICTInformation and communication technologies
1790ICTHIsland Closest to Heaven/Hell Final Fantasy VIII
1791ICVInfantry Carrier Vehicle
1792ICYMIIn Case You Missed It
1793IDIdaho (postal symbol),Identity,Indonesia (ISO 3166 digram),Infantry Division,Intelligent Design,ID10T Error,Idiot User Error (IT help desk inside joke)
1794IDCInternational Data Corporation
1795IDDII don't do initialisms (see irony)
1796IDGAFI don't give a fuck
1797IDKI don't know
1798IDLInterface Definition Language
1799IDNIndonesia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1800IEAInternational Energy Agency
1801IECInternational Electrotechnical Commission
1802IEDImprovised Explosive Device
1803IELTSInternational English Language Testing System
1804IERInformation Exchange Requirement
1805IETInitial Entry Training
1806IETInstitution of Engineering and Technology
1807IETFInternet Engineering Task Force
1808IEWIntelligence and Electronic Warfare
1809IFABInternational Football Association Board
1810IFAHInternational Federation for Animal Health
1811IFAPInternational Federation of Agricultural Producers
1812IFOIdentified Flying Object (see also UFO)
1813IFOVInstantaneous Field of View
1814IFPIInternational Federation of Phonographic Industries
1815IFRBInternational Frequency Registration Board
1816IFVInfantry Fighting Vehicle
1817IGInspector General
1818IGNOUIndira Gandhi National Open University
1819IGSInternational Ground Station
1820IHHIdiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
1821IHOInternational Hydrographic Organization
1822IHRInstitute for Historical Review
1823IHSIInstitutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (Jesuit Historical Institute)
1824IITwo (in Roman numerals)
1825IICAInter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
1826IIEInnovative Interstellar Explorer
1827IIIThree (in Roman numerals)
1828IIRCIf I Recall/Remember Correctly
1829IISSInternational Institute for Strategic Studies
1830IJNImperial Japanese Navy (World War II)
1831IJWPInterim Joint Warfare Publication
1832ILDSImproved Landmine Detection System
1833ILOInternational Labour Organization
1834ILRIInternational Livestock Research Institute
1835ILYI Love You [pronounced ILL-LEE]
1836IMInstant Message (internet speech)
1837IMBDInternational Migratory Bird Day
1838IMDbInternet Movie Database
1839IMEIn My Experience
1840IMHOIn My Humble/Honest Opinion
1841IMLInternational Mister Leather
1842IMNSHOIn My Not So Humble Opinion
1843IMPACInternational Merchant Purchase Authorization Card
1844IMPACTInternational Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce
1845IMPATTIMPact Avalanche Transit Time diode
1846IMPTInstitute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
1847IMRLIndividual Material iness List
1848IMRO-Internal Macedonian Revolutionary OrganizationIrish Music Rights Organisation
1849IMsLInternational Ms. Leather
1850IMTIntegrated Management Tool
1851IMUInternational Mathematical Union
1852INIndia (ISO 3166 digram),Indiana (postal symbol),Infantry
1853InIndium
1854INAImmigration and Nationality Act
1855INASInternational Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
1856INCITSInterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
1857INDIndia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1858INDIGO(U.S.) INtelligence DIvision Gaming Operation
1859inetthe Internet
1860INFORMS(U.S.) Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
1861INFOSECInformation Security
1862INLAIrish National Liberation Army
1863INMARSATInternational Maritime Satellite organization
1864INRIAInstitut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
1865INSImmigration and Naturalization Service
1866InSARInterferometric synthetic aperture radar
1867INSTInformation Standards and Technology
1868INTERFETInternational Force for East Timor
1869INTSUMIntelligence Summary
1870IOBritish Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 digram)
1871IOTBritish Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 trigram)
1872IPBIntelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
1873IPLInferior Parietal Lobule
1874IPOInitial Public Offering
1875IPTIntegrated Product/Project Team
1876IPTSInstitute for Prospective Technological Studies
1877IPTVInternet Protocol TeleVision
1878IPWInterrogation of Prisoners of War
1879IrIridium
1880IRADInternal Research and Development
1881IRAN(I) Inspect and Repair As Necessary
1882IRASInfrared Astronomical Satellite
1883IRBInternational Rugby Board
1884IRBMIntermediate Range Ballistic Missile
1885IREAIntermountain Rural Electric Association
1886IRINNIslamic Republic of Iran News Network
1887IRLIreland (ISO 3166 trigram),Industrial Research Limited,Indy Racing League,In real life
1888IRNIran (ISO 3166 trigram)
1889IROInternational Refugee Organisation
1890IRQIraq (ISO 3166 trigram)
1891IRSU.S. Internal Revenue Service
1892IRSTInfra-red Search and Track
1893ISIceland (ISO 3166 digram)
1894ISAAAInternational Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications
1895ISARInverse SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)
1896ISBIntermediate Staging Base
1897ISBNInternational Standard Book Number (ISO 2108)
1898ISCCPInternational Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
1899ISCIIIndian Standard Code for Information Interchange
1900ISDNIntegrated Services Digital Network
1901ISEFIntel International Science and Engineering Fair
1902ISENInternet Search Environment Number
1903ISFInternal Security Force
1904ISILIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant
1905ISISInstitute for Science and International Security, or: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
1906ISLIceland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1907ISLNInternational Standard Lawyer Number (used initially by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell)
1908ISMBInternational Society of Matrix Biologists
1909ISMCIntelligent Sounding Meaningless Conversation
1910ISOGPIndian Society of Orthodontics for General Practitioners [2]
1911ISPEInternational Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
1912ISROIndian Space Research Organisation
1913ISSCRInternational Society for Stem Cell Research
1914ISSNInternational standard serial number (ISO 3297)
1915ISTCInstitute of Scientific and Technical Communications (UK)
1916ISTSIntel Science Talent Search
1917ITAItaly (ISO 3166 trigram)
1918ITAGInertial Terrain-Aided Guidance
1919ITALYI'll Truly Always Love You
1920ITASImproved Target Acquisition Sight
1921ITCInferoTemporal Cortex (neurophysiology)
1922ITCZIntertropical Convergence Zone
1923ITECInformation Technology Exposition & Conference
1924ITEMSInteractive Tactical Environment Management System
1925ITERInternational Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
1926ITFInternational Tennis Federation
1927ITKIn The Know
1928ITNIndependent Television News (British)
1929ITTInternational Telephone and Telegraph (U.S.)
1930ITTOInternational Tropical Timber Organization
1931IUCNInternational Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union)
1932IVFour (in Roman numerals),IntraVenous (as in intravenous drip or intravenous therapy)
1933IvecoIndustrial Vehicles Corporation
1934IVFIn Vitro Fertilisation
1935IVIInterchangeable Virtual Instrument
1936IVISInter-Vehicle Information System
1937IVLInter-Visibility Line
1938IVMIn Vitro [Oocyte] Maturation
1939IVOIn Vicinity Of
1940IWInformation Warfare
1941IWARSInfantry Warrior Simulation
1942IWCInternational Whaling Commission
1943IWWIndustrial Workers of the World
1944IXNine (in Roman numerals)
1945IXTIntraText digital library; IntraText lexical hypertext
1946JJoule
1947J1Joint [Manpower &] Personnel Directorate
1948J2Joint Intelligence Directorate
1949J3Joint Operations Directorate
1950J4Joint Logistics Directorate
1951J5Joint Strategic Plans & Policy Directorate
1952J7Joint Operational Plans & Interoperability Directorate
1953JAFTJust A Field Test
1954JALJapan Airlines
1955JALLCJoint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (NATO)
1956JAMJamaica (ISO 3166 trigram)
1957JAMAJournal of the American Medical Association
1958JANETJoint Academic Network
1959JATOJet-Assisted Take-Off
1960JBJail Bait
1961JBJunior Branch
1962JBFSAJoint Blue Force Situational Awareness
1963JCDBJoint Common Data Base
1964JCDSJoint Chiefs of the Defence Staff
1965JCIDSJoint Capabilities Integration and Development System
1966JCLJob Control Language
1967JCPJava Community Process
1968JCSJoint Chiefs of Staff
1969JCWJuggalo Championship Wrestling
1970JDBCJava Data Base Connectivity
1971JDEMJoint Dark Energy Mission
1972JDLJewish Defense League
1973JEFXJoint Expeditionary Force eXperiment
1974JETJoint European Torus
1975JEZJoint Engagement Zone
1976JFACCJoint Force Air Component Commander
1977JFACTSUU.S. Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standards Unit
1978JFCJoint Force Commander
1979JFKJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy or the airport named after him.
1980JFLCCJoint Force Land Component Commander
1981JFMCCJoint Force Maritime Component Commander
1982JFOJournal of Field Ornithology
1983JFSOCCJoint Force Special Operations Component Commander
1984JFTXJoint Field Training Exercise
1985JHJapan Highway Public Corporation
1986JHJharkhand (Indian state code)
1987JIJoint Implementation
1988JIBJoint Information Bureau
1989JICJoint Intelligence Centre
1990JINIJava Intelligent Network Infrastructure
1991JITCJoint Interoperability Test Command
1992JIVEJoint Institute for VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) in Europe
1993JJAPJapanese Journal of Applied Physics
1994JLJapan Airlines (IATA airline designator)
1995JLAJustice League of America
1996JMJamaica (ISO 3166 digram)
1997JMSJava Message Service
1998JNIJava Native Interface
1999JNLPJava Network Launch Protocol
2000JOJordan (ISO 3166 digram)
2001JOAJoint Operations Area
2002JOPESJoint Operations Planning and Execution System
2003JORJordan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2004JOTSJoint Operations Tactical System
2005JPLJet Propulsion Laboratory
2006JPNJapan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2007JPOWJoint Project Optic Windmill
2008JRDFJoint Rapid Deployment Forces
2009JREJava Runtime Environment
2010JREFJames Randi Educational Foundation
2011JROCJoint Requirements Oversight Council
2012JROCMJROC Memorandum
2013JRRFJoint Rapid Reaction Force
2014JRSAIJournal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
2015JSAPJapan Society of Applied Physics
2016JSCSCJoint Services Command and Staff College
2017JSEADJoint Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (see SEAD)
2018JSFJoint Strike Fighter
2019JSIMSJoint Simulation System
2020JSOAJoint Special Operations Area
2021JSOTFJoint Special Operations Task Force
2022JSPJavaServer Page
2023JSPJoint Services Publication
2024JSRJava Specification Request
2025JSSJoint Support Ship Project
2026JTCJoint Training Confederation
2027JTFJoint Task Force
2028JTFEXJoint Task Force Exercise
2029JTLSJoint Theater Level Simulation
2030JTMDJoint Theatre Missile Defence
2031JTNJohnston Atoll (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
2032JUGFETJUnction Gate Field-Effect Transistor
2033JUICEJUpiter ICy Moon Explorer
2034JUOJoint Urban Operations
2035JVJoint Venture,Junior Varsity
2036JWJehovah's Witnesses
2037JWARSJoint Warfare System (simulation)
2038JWPJoint Warfare Publication
2039JYJapanese Yen
2040JZJoint Zone
2041KKelvin,Potassium (Latin Kalium),Tanker (aircraft designation code)
2042kKilo-
2043Kpicokelvin
2044K9Canine Police Unit
2045KaKamov Design Bureau
2046kAKiloampere
2047KAKnowledge Acquisition,Karnataka (Indian state code)
2048KAFKandahar Air Field
2049KANUKOKAKalaallit Nunaanni Kommunit Kattuffiannit (Kalaallisut, Greenlandic Communities Association
2050KARNACKnowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context
2051KARRKnight Automated Roving Robot (Knight Rider character)
2052KATUSAKorean Augmentation To United States Army
2053KAZKazakhstan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2054KBEKnight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
2055KBOKuiper Belt Object
2056KBVBKoninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond (Dutch for Royal Belgian Football Association)
2057kCKilocoulomb
2058KCKKansas City,Kansas,Koma Civakên Kurdistan (Kurdish, Union of Communities in Kurdistan)
2059KCLKing's College London
2060KCMOKansas City,Missouri (pronounced: K-C-Moe)
2061KCSKansas City Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark)
2062KDKawasaki Disease,Kraft Dinner
2063KEKenya (ISO 3166 digram),Kinetic Energy,Knowledge Engineering
2064KEDOKorean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
2065KENKenya (ISO 3166 trigram)
2066KERAKentucky Education Reform Act (of 1990)
2067kermaKinetic Energy Released in MAterial / in MAtter / per unit MAss
2068KESRKent and East Sussex Railway.
2069KETKentucky Educational Television,Key English Test
2070kFKilofarad
2071KFCKentucky Fried Chicken
2072KFORUN Kosovo Force
2073KFUPMKing Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
2074KGKyrgyzstan (ISO 3166 digram)
2075KGOKnight of the Guelphic Order of Hanover
2076KGZKyrgyzstan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2077KHCambodia (ISO 3166 digram)
2078kHKilohenry
2079KHLKontinental Hockey League
2080KHMCambodia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2081KHzKilohertz
2082KiKibi
2083KIKiribati (ISO 3166 digram)
2084KIAKilled In Action
2085KIDSKnowledge-based Integrated Design System
2086KIRKiribati (ISO 3166 trigram)
2087KISSKeep It Simple,Stupid / Keep It Short and Simple,Korean Intelligence Support System
2088KITKeep In Touch
2089KITECHKorean Institute of Industrial Technology
2090KITTKnight Industries Two Thousand, Knight Industries Three Thousand
2091kJKilojoule
2092kKKilokelvin
2093KKKKu Klux Klan
2094kLKilolitre
2095KLENOTKLEť Observatory Near Earth and Other unusual objects observations Team and Telescope
2096KLOCKilo Lines Of Code
2097KMComoros,Knowledge Management
2098kNKilonewton
2099KNASaint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 trigram)
2100KNVBKoninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond (Dutch for Royal Dutch Football Association)
2101KOKnocked Out
2102KORRepublic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram)
2103KPKim Possible
2104KPMGKlynveld,Peat,Marwick,Goerdeler
2105KPNOKitt Peak National Observatory
2106KQKenya Airways (IATA airline designator)
2107KRKiribati (FIPS 10-4 country code), Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 digram)
2108KrKrypton
2109KSKansas (postal symbol)
2110kSKilosiemens
2111KSCKennedy Space Center
2112KSIKilled or Seriously Injured
2113KSUKansas State University
2114KTKnight of the Order of the Thistle, Knights Templar
2115kTKilotesla
2116KTSKnight of the Tower and Sword (of Portugal)
2117KUWKuwait (UNDP country code,IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
2118kVKilovolt
2119KVKosovo
2120kWKilowatt
2121KWKuwait (ISO 3166 digram)
2122KWBKids' WB!
2123KWTKuwait (ISO 3166 trigram)
2124KXCayman Airways (IATA airline designator)
2125KYCayman Islands (ISO 3166 digram), Kentucky (postal symbol)
2126KZKazakhstan (ISO 3166 digram)
2127KZNKwaZulu-Natal
2128LaLanthanum
2129LALaos (ISO 3166 digram), Louisiana (postal symbol), Los Angeles
2130LAASLocal Area Augmentation System, Los Angeles Astronomical Society
2131LABLogistics Assault Base
2132LabVIEWLaboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench
2133LACMALos Angeles County Museum of Art
2134LADLaser Aiming Device
2135LADWLocal Air Defence Warning
2136LAESILocal Authority & Emergency Service Information
2137LANLLos Alamos National Laboratory
2138LAOLaos (ISO 3166 trigram)
2139LARLight Armoured Reconnaissance, Logistics Assistance Representative
2140LARCLivermore Advanced Research Computer (cf. LLNL)
2141LARPLive-Action Role-Playing
2142LaserLight Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (cf. Maser)
2143LATLowest Astronomical Tide (nautical charts),Licensed Athletic Trainer (used in many of the United States; see www.oata.org)
2144LATALocal Access Transport Area
2145LATCHLower Anchors and Tethers for Children (U.S. standard for attachment points for child safety seats in passenger cars)
2146LAVLand Assault Vehicle, Light Armoured Vehicle, Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus
2147LAWLight Antitank Weapon
2148LAXLos Angeles International Airport, The Latin American Xchange (professional wrestling)
2149LBLebanon (ISO 3166 digram)
2150LBHLight Battlefield Helicopter, Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands
2151LBJLady Bird Johnson,LeBron James,Light Bulb Joke,Little Beagle Johnson (the dog owned by Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson),Lyndon Baines Johnson
2152LBNLebanon (ISO 3166 trigram)
2153LBNLLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2154LBRLiberia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2155LBSLocation-Based Services
2156LBTLarge Binocular Telescope
2157LBWLeg Before Wicket
2158LBYLibya (ISO 3166 trigram)
2159LCASaint Lucia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2160LCCLand Component Commander
2161LCCPLight Contingency Communications Package
2162LCDLiquid Crystal Display
2163LCMLeast/Lowest Common Multiple
2164LCSLeague of Legends Championship Series
2165LDALateral Drift Apparatus (paratroops)
2166LDCLesser Developing/Developed Country
2167LDLLow-Density Lipoprotein
2168LDVLocal Defence Volunteers (British Home Guard)
2169LDWLane Departure Warning (ADAS)
2170LECLocal Exchange Carrier
2171LEDLight-Emitting Diode
2172LEGADLegal Advice
2173Legslevel emotion gad speed
2174LEMOSSLong-Endurance MObile Submarine Simulator
2175LENLarge Extension Node
2176LEPLarge Electron-Positron collider
2177LERLoss-Exchange Ratio
2178LEULow-Enriched Uranium
2179LFLow Frequency
2180LFOLow Frequency Oscillation / Oscillator
2181LFTRLiquid fluoride thorium reactor
2182LGBLesbian,Gay,Bisexual
2183LGBTLesbian,Gay,Bisexual,Transgender
2184LGBTQLesbian,Gay,Bisexual,Transgender,Queer
2185LGLOLove God,Love Others
2186LGMLittle Green Men
2187LGSLandsat Ground Station
2188LHLuteinising Hormone
2189LHCLarge Hadron Collider
2190LHSLeft Hand Side
2191LIFifty-one (in Roman numerals),Liechtenstein (ISO 3166 digram)
2192LiLithium
2193LIBORLondon Interbank Offered Rate
2194LIBSLaser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
2195LIELiechtenstein (ISO 3166 trigram)
2196LIGOLaser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
2197LINEARLincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
2198LISALaser Interferometer Space Antenna
2199LIVELiquid Inertial Vibration Eliminator
2200LJJLord Justices of Appeal
2201LKSri Lanka (ISO 3166 digram)
2202LKASri Lanka (ISO 3166 trigram)
2203LKR4Linkwitz-Riley 4th order (audio crossover type)
2204LLADLow Level Air Defence
2205LLBLegum Baccalaureus (Latin: Bachelor of Laws)
2206LLCLimited Liability Company
2207LLLTVLow-Light Level Television
2208LLNLLawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2209LLPLimited Liability Partnership
2210LLTRLow-Level Transit Route
2211LMAOLaughing My Ass Off (Internet shorthand)
2212LMBLick My Balls
2213LMFAOLaughing My F**king Ass Off (Internet shorthand,electro-hop duo)
2214LMNLifetime Movie Network
2215LMSLike My Status (Internet shorthand)
2216LMV() Light Motor Vehicle
2217LNERLondon and North Eastern Railway
2218LNGLiquefied Natural Gas
2219LNOLiaison Officer
2220LNRLigue Nationale de Rugby (French for: 'National Rugby League')
2221LOALimit Of Advance
2222LOCLevel of Operational Capability, Limited Operational Capability
2223LODLimit of Detection,see Detection limit
2224LoDLines of Development (UK)
2225LOFARLow Frequency Analysis and Recording
2226LOGPACLogistics Package
2227LOLLaughing Out Loud (Internet shorthand)
2228LOMEZLow Altitude Missile Engagement Zone
2229LONEOSLowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search
2230LOOGYLefty One-Out GuY,a sometimes pejorative nickname for the left-handed specialist in baseball
2231LORTIDLOng Range Target IDentification
2232LOSLine Of Sight
2233LOSATLine-Of-Sight Anti-Tank (missile)
2234LOTALicentiate of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
2235LOTISLivermore Optical Transient Imaging System
2236LOTSLogistics Over-The-Shore
2237LPLinkin Park,Linkup Point,Listening Post,Long Playing record,Louisiana Pacific (cf. LP Field)
2238LPCLinear Predictive Coding
2239LPDLanding Platform Dock (Navy hull classification),Low Probability of Detection
2240LPGLiquefied Petroleum Gas (cf. LNG)
2241LPILow Probability of Intercept
2242LPSLandsat Processing System,LipoPolySaccharide
2243LrLawrencium
2244LRLiberia (ISO 3166 digram)
2245LRCLogistics iness Center
2246LRGWLong-Range Guided Weapon
2247LRICBMLimited Range ICBM
2248LRIPLow Rate Initial Production
2249LRPLogistics Release Point
2250LRPELong-Range Planning Element
2251LRSLong Range Surveillance
2252LRULine-Replaceable Unit
2253LSATLaw School Admission Test (often pronounced as 'el-SAT')
2254LSILarge-Scale Integration
2255LSIFLabour Sponsored Investment Fund
2256LSNDLiquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector
2257LSOLesotho (ISO 3166 trigram)
2258LSSTLarge Synoptic Survey Telescope
2259LSTLanding Ship,Tank (World War II; also known,not entirely affectionately,as 'Large Slow Target')
2260LSVWLight Support Vehicle,Wheeled
2261LTLithuania (ISO 3166 digram)
2262LtLieutenant
2263LtCLieutenant-Colonel (U.S.)
2264LTCLong-Term Costing
2265LtdLimited
2266LTDPLong-Term Defence Plan
2267LTGLieutenant General,Lightning (METAR Code)
2268LTILinear Time-Invariant
2269LTMAcronym for Laughing To Myself
2270LTPLong-Term Potentiation
2271LTULithuania (ISO 3166 trigram)
2272LUAcronym Love You
2273LULoonatics Unleashed
2274LuLutetium
2275LUCALast Universal Common Ancestor
2276LUGLinux User Group
2277LULULocally Unwanted Land Use (urbanism)
2278LUTLimited User Test (ing),Local User Terminal
2279LUVWLight Utility Vehicle,Wheeled
2280LUXLuxembourg (ISO 3166 trigram)
2281LVLas Vegas,Latvia (ISO 3166 digram),Launch Vehicle,Leading Vehicle,Leave,Left Ventricle,Level Valve,Linking Verb,Liverpool Victoria
2282LVALatvia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2283LVADLeft Ventricular Assist Device,Low-Velocity Airdrop
2284LVEFLeft Ventricular Ejection Fraction
2285LWLand Warrior,Low Water (nautical charts)
2286LwLawrencium (obsolete 1963)
2287LWRLaser warning receiver
2288LWRCLand Warfare Resources Corporation
2289LWSLand Warrior System
2290LXElectrics (theatrical term)
2291LXLuxembourg (amateur radio ITU prefix),Swiss International Air Lines (IATA code)
2292LYLibya (ISO 3166 digram),Lithuania (amateur radio ITU prefix)
2293LYAOLaugh Your Ass Off
2294LYLASLove You Like A Sister
2295LZBulgaria (amateur radio ITU prefix),Landing Zone
2296MMega-,One thousand (in Roman numerals)
2297mMetre,Milli
2298MAMarijuana Anonymous,Master of Arts,Massachusetts (postal symbol),Megaampere,Morocco (ISO 3166 digram)
2299MaMegaannum
2300mAMilliampere
2301MAAMathematical Association of America
2302MAACMetro Atlantic Athletic Conference
2303MACEMulti-Agent Computing Environment
2304MACHOMAssive Compact Halo Object
2305MADDMothers Against Drunk Driving,MyoAdenylate Deaminase Deficiency,Multiply-Add
2306MAFMaintenance Action Form
2307MAGICMajor Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (telescope)
2308MAGNETARMetaprogrammable AGent NETwork ARchitecture
2309MAGTFMarine Air-Ground Task Force
2310MahaszMagyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége (Hungarian for: 'Association of Hungarian Record Companies')
2311MALDMiniature Air-Launched Decoy
2312MANPADSMAN-Portable Air Defence System
2313MANPRINTMANpower and PeRsonnel INTegration
2314MAOMolėtų astronomijos observatorija (Moletai Astronomical Observatory),MonoAmine Oxidase
2315MAOIMonoamine oxidase inhibitor
2316MAPSMonitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship
2317MARMorocco (ISO 3166 trigram)
2318MarBEFMarine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
2319MARCENTUnited States Marine Forces Central Command
2320MARFORCCMarine Force Component Commander
2321MASASMonte Agliale Supernovae and Asteroid Survey
2322MaserMicrowave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
2323MASHMobile Army Surgical Hospital
2324MASINTMeasurement And Signature Intelligence
2325MAVSMobile Artillery Vehicle System
2326MBManitoba (postal symbol),Medal of Bravery (Canada)
2327MBAMain Battle Area,Main Belt Asteroid,Masters of Business Administration
2328MBBL(U.S. Armor Center) Mounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory
2329MBCCMigratory Bird Conservation Commission (U.S.)
2330MBCSMulti-Byte Character Set
2331MBIMoody Bible Institute
2332MBIDSTMember of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists
2333MBMMeat and Bone Meal
2334MBTMain Battle Tank
2335MBTIMyers-Briggs Type Indicator
2336mCMillicoulomb
2337MCDLModel Composition Definition Language
2338MCFTModified Compression Field Theory
2339MCGMelbourne Cricket Ground
2340MCISMellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
2341MCMMine Counter-Measures
2342MCMVMine Counter-Measure Vessel
2343MCRMy Chemical Romance
2344MCSFMarine Corps Security Forces
2345MCTMovement Control Team
2346MCTISMounted Co-operative Target Identification System
2347MdMendelevium
2348MDNAMadonna's 12th studio album title (2012)
2349MDOMembership Driven Organisation
2350MDPMarkov Decision Process
2351MDTMountain Daylight Time (UTC-6 hours)
2352MDVMaldives (ISO 3166 trigram)
2353MeMesserschmitt
2354MEACMid-Eastern Athletic Conference (ME-ac)
2355MECOMain engine cutoff (NASA code for point in Space Shuttle assent when three main engines are shut down prior to External Tank (ET) separation)
2356MEDEVACMedical evacuation
2357MEDSMission Essential Data Set
2358MEGMagnetoEncephaloGraphy
2359MELTMetallic Line/Loop Test (ing)
2360MEMSMicroelectromechanical System
2361MERMars Exploration Rover
2362MERLMitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
2363MESManufacturing Execution Systems
2364METAR[Meteorological] Aviation Routine weather report
2365METOCMeteorological and Oceanographic
2366MeVMegaelectronvolt
2367MEXMexico (ISO 3166 trigram)
2368MEZMissile Engagement Zone
2369MFMegafarad
2370mFMillifarad
2371MGMachine Gun,Madagascar (ISO 3166 digram),Major General,Morris Garage
2372MGPAMMy Gym Partner's a Monkey
2373MGSMobile Gun System
2374mHMillihenry
2375MHCMajor Histocompatibility Complex
2376MHHWMean Higher High Water (nautical charts)
2377MHLMarshall Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
2378MHLWMean Higher Low Water (nautical charts)
2379MHRA(UK) Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
2380MHWMean High Water (nautical charts)
2381MHWNMean High Water Neaps (nautical charts)
2382MHWSMean High Water Springs (nautical charts)
2383MHzMegahertz
2384MiMebi
2385MIAMissing In Action
2386MICLICMine Clearing Line Charge
2387MICOMMissile Command
2388MIDMidway Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
2389MIDASMan-machine Integration Design and Analysis System
2390MIDIMusical Instrument Digital Interface
2391MIDSMulti-Function Information Distribution System
2392MIFGShallow Fog (METAR Code)
2393MIKEMonitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants
2394MILMan-In-the-Loop
2395MILCMirrorless interchangeable-lens camera
2396MILFMother I'd Like to Fuck
2397MIMOSAMIcroMeasurements Of Satellite Acceleration
2398MIMPTMember of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
2399MIRAMILAN Infra-Red Acquisition (thermal sight)
2400MIRVMultiple Independent Reentry Vehicle
2401MISREPMission Report
2402MISSIMultilevel Information System Security Initiative
2403MITLMan-In-The-Loop
2404MITSsee entry
2405mJMillijoule
2406MJDModified Julian Day
2407mKMillikelvin
2408MKGMichael Kidd-Gilchrist (American basketball player)
2409MKSAMetre-Kilogram-Second-Ampere (system of units)
2410mLMillilitre
2411MLBMajor League Baseball
2412MLCMember of the Legislative Council (in India)
2413MLEMaximum likelihood estimation
2414MLHWMean Lower High Water (nautical charts)
2415MLIMali (ISO 3166 trigram)
2416MLLMajor League Lacrosse
2417MLLWMean Lower Low Water (nautical charts)
2418MLPMy Little Pony
2419MLRSMultiple-Launch Rocket System
2420MLTMalta (ISO 3166 trigram)
2421MLWMean Low Water (nautical charts)
2422MLWNMean Low Water Neaps (nautical charts)
2423MLWSMean Low Water Springs (nautical charts)
2424MmMegametre
2425mmMillimetre
2426MMEVMulti-Mission Effects Vehicle
2427MMIMagical MonkeyZ Inc.
2428MMIMan-Machine Interface
2429MMIMcLean Meditation Institute
2430MMICMcLean Meditation Institute Certified
2431MMOMassively Multiplayer Online (computer game)
2432MMORMaster of Management in Operations Research
2433MMORPGMassively multiplayer online role-playing game
2434MMPRMighty Morphin Power Rangers
2435MMSMultimission Modular Spacecraft
2436MnManganese
2437mNMillinewton
2438MNBMultinational Brigade
2439MNEMontenegro (ISO 3166 trigram)
2440MNMFMulti-National Maritime Force
2441MNPNorthern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
2442MNSMission Needs Statement
2443MoMolybdenum
2444MOAMuseum of Art (Brigham Young University)
2445MOCASMechanization Of Contract Administration Services
2446MoDMinistry of Defence (United Kingdom) and various other countries
2447modemModulator-Demodulator
2448MoeMarvel of entertainment
2449MOEMeasure Of Effectiveness
2450MOFMinistry of Finance (Japan)
2451MOFAMinistry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)
2452MOIDMinimum Orbital Intersection Distance
2453MOJWAMovement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa
2454MOLOMobile Other Licensed Operator (UK)
2455MOMMaster's Degree in Oriental medicine
2456MOMMessage Oriented Middleware
2457MoMMultiple of the median
2458MoMAMuseum of Modern Art (NYC)
2459MONDModified Newtonian Dynamics
2460MOOMeasure Of Outcome
2461MOPPMission-Oriented Protective Posture
2462MORPMeteorite Observation and Recovery Project
2463MOSFETMetal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
2464MOTMinistry of Transport (UK)
2465MOTAMember of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
2466MOTESSMoving Object and Transient Event Search System
2467MOUMemorandum Of Understanding
2468MOWMaintenance of way (also MW)
2469MOZMozambique (ISO 3166 trigram)
2470MPaMegapascal
2471mPaMillipascal
2472MPAAMotion Picture Association of America
2473MPECMinor Planet Electronic Circular
2474MPEGMotion Pictures (Coding) Experts Group
2475MPEVMulti-Purpose Engineering Vehicle
2476MPFMaritime Prepositioning Force
2477MPFCMedial PreFrontal Cortex
2478MPGMiles Per Gallon
2479MPMCMedial PreMotor Cortex
2480MPSIMember of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland
2481MPSoCMultiProcessor System-on-Chip
2482MPSRONMaritime Propositioning Ship Squadron
2483MRMauritania (ISO 3166 digram)
2484MRAVMulti-Role Armoured Vehicle
2485MRBMMedium Range Ballistic Missile
2486MRCMaintenance Requirements Card
2487MRDMotorized Rifle Division
2488MRGWMedium-Range Guided Weapon
2489MRIMagnetic Resonance Imaging
2490MRLMultiple Rocket Launcher
2491MRPharmSMember of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Great Britain)
2492MRSMagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
2493MRSAMethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
2494MRTFBU.S. Major Range and Test Facility Base
2495MsMegasecond
2496mSMillisiemens
2497MSDMinimum Safe Distance
2498MSDBMulti Source Data Base
2499MSEMultiple Subscriber Element
2500MSGMessage
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