PowerShell/data/dicts/general.csv

1	TERM	MEANING
2	e.g.	'exempli gratia' in Latin, meaning: 'for example'
3	0D	obvious deed
4	1AM	Air Mechanic 1st Class
5	1D	One-Dimensional
6	2AM	Air Mechanic 2nd Class
7	2D	Two-dimensional
8	2LA	Two Letter Acronym
9	2Lt	2nd Lieutenant
10	3AM	Air Mechanic 3rd Class
11	3D	Three-Dimensional
12	3G	Third-generation mobile telephone system
13	3i	Investors In Industry (venture capitalists)
14	3M	Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
15	4G	Fourth-generation mobile telephone system
16	4WD	Four-wheel drive
17	5D	Five-Dimensional
18	6D	Six-Dimensional
19	7D	Seven-Dimensional
20	8D	Eight-Dimensional
21	9D	Nine-Dimensional
22	A	Ampere
23	A/C	Air Conditioned/Conditioning
24	A10	Atlantic 10 Conference
25	A1C	Airman First Class
26	A4	European standard office paper size
27	aA	Attoampere
28	AAA	administration,authorization,and authentication,American Automobile Association ('Triple-A'),anti-aircraft artillery,Amateur Athletic Association (of England),Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (Spanish,'Assistance,Consulting,and Administration'—Mexican professional wrestling promotion)
29	AAAS	American Association for the Advancement of Science
30	AAAV	Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle
31	AADAC	Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission
32	AADD	Adult attention deficit disorder
33	AADT	annual average daily traffic
34	AAFES	Army and Air Force Exchange Service
35	AAIS	advanced airborne interceptor simulator
36	AAM	air-to-air missile
37	AAMOF	as a matter of fact
38	AAN	American Academy of Nursing
39	AANEAS	Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
40	AAODL	Atmospheric Aerosols and Optics Data Library
41	AAPC	Accounting and Auditing Policy Committee
42	AARP	American Association of Retired Persons (now officially known only by the initials)
43	AASPEM	advanced air-to-air system performance evaluation model
44	AAT	Australian Antarctic Territory
45	AAV	Amphibious Assault Vehicle
46	AAWC	anti-air warfare commander
47	AB	Able Seaman (both the rank and the occupation),Alberta (postal symbol)
48	ABB	ASEA Brown Boveri (Swiss-Swedish multinational company)
49	ABBA	Agnetha,Benny,Björn,Anni-Frid (Swedish pop group)
50	ABC	the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet
51	ABC	abstinence, be faithful, condoms
52	ABC	Active Body Control
53	ABC	airway, breathing, circulation
54	ABC	Alcoholic Beverage Commission
55	ABC	alien big cat
56	ABC	always be careful
57	ABC	American-born Chinese
58	ABC	anti-lock brake controller
59	ABC	atomic, biological, chemical
60	ABCS	(U.S.) Army Battle Command System
61	ABET	Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
62	ABFIST	Advanced Bradley Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer
63	ABGI	Addington-Barker Group International
64	ABIN	Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (Brazilian Intelligence Agency)
65	ABL	American Basketball League
66	ABLE	AirBorne Law Enforcement (police air support unit)
67	ABMC	American Battle Monuments Commission
68	ABN	Australian Business Number (a number issued by the Australian government as registration of a business and used for taxation purposes)
69	ABPI	Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
70	ABRSM	Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
71	ABS	anti-lock braking system
72	ABSA	Amalgamated Banks of South Africa
73	ABSTRIPS	abstraction-based STRIPS
74	ABV	Alcohol by volume
75	ABW	Aruba (ISO 3166 trigram)
76	Ac	Actinium
77	AC	Adriamycin-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')
78	aC	Attocoulomb
79	AC1	Aircraftman 1st Class
80	AC2	Aircraftman 2nd Class
81	ACA	Affordable Care Act,shorthand for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,commonly called 'Obamacare',Airspace Control Authority,Airspace Co-ordination Area,A Current Affair
82	ACAB	All cops are bastards
83	ACARS	Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System
84	ACB	Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto (Spanish for 'Association of Basketball Clubs')
85	ACCAC	Awdurdod Cymwysterau,Cwricwlwm ac Asesu Cymru (Qualifications,Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales)
86	ACCD	American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities
87	ACCS	Air Communications and Control Squadron
88	ACDA	Arms Control & Disarmament Agency
89	ACDC	Alternating Current Direct Current,the name of an Australian rock music band,a term for a bisexual person,A/Cdre,Air Commodore
90	ACDT	Apple Certified Desktop Technician,Australian Central Daylight Time
91	ACES	Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia (Spanish,'Central Colombian Airlines'),Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services of Alfred State College
92	ACF	Administration for Children and Families,American Car and Foundry,American Culinary Federation
93	ACHT	Average Call Hold Time
94	ACINT	Acoustic Intelligence
95	ACK	Acknowledge (telecommunications; cf. NAK)
96	ACL	Access Control List,Anterior cruciate ligament; the initialism can also refer to an injury to this ligament.,Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
97	ACLJ	American Center for Law and Justice
98	ACLOS	Automatic CLOS (missile control system)
99	ACLS	American Council of Learned Societies
100	ACLU	American Civil Liberties Union,American Communist Lawyers Union (pejorative slang for the above)
101	ACM	many,including Association for Computing Machinery; see entry
102	ACMC	(U.S.) Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
103	ACN	Airborne Communications Node,Australian Company Number (number issued by the Australian government as registration of a limited liability company)
104	ACNA	Anglican Church in North America
105	ACO	Airspace Control Order
106	ACOBA	Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
107	ACOG	American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
108	ACOM	(U.S.) Atlantic Command
109	ACORN	Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
110	ACP	African,Caribbean and Pacific Group of States,Air Control Point
111	ACR	Advanced Concepts and Requirements
112	ACRI	African Crisis Initiative
113	ACRT	Advanced Concepts Research Tool simulator
114	ACS	Affiliated Computer Services (NYSE ACS),Alaska Communications Service,American Cancer Society,American Chemical Society,Association of Caribbean States,Australian Computer Society
115	ACSC	Army Command and Staff College (various nations)
116	ACST	American Cooperative School of Tunis
117	ACST	Australian Central Standard Time
118	ACT	Adaptive Control of Thought (cognitive model),American College Test (ing Program),Australian Capital Territory (also postal symbol),ACT UP,AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
119	ACTD	Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration
120	ACTF	(U.S.) Army Constructive Training Federation,Australian Children's Television Foundation,ACT-R,ACT-Rational (cognitive model),ACT-R/PM,ACT-R/Perceptual-Motor (cognitive model)
121	ACTU	Australian Council of Trade Unions
122	ACU	American Conservative Union
123	ACUF	Advisory Committee on Undersea Features,American Conservative Union Foundation
124	AD	Anno Domini (Latin for 'In the year of our Lord')
125	ADA	Air Defence Artillery,American Dental Association,Assistant District Attorney,Americans with Disabilities Act (see also the similar but non-acronymic Ada programming language)
126	ADAC	Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (German for 'General German Automobile Club')
127	ADAGE	Air Defense Air to Ground Engagement (simulation)
128	ADAP	AIDS Drug Assistance Program
129	ADAS	Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey
130	ADAT	Alesis Digital Audio Tape (recording format)
131	ADATS	Agricultural Development and Training Society,Air Defence Anti-Tank System,Australian Defence Air Traffic System
132	ADB	Asian Development Bank
133	ADC	Aide De Camp,U.S. Air Defense Command (1946-1992),Apple Display Connector,Program Against Digital Counterfeiting of Currency
134	ADD	Analog Digital Digital (CD quality),Attention-Deficit Disorder,Administration on Developmental Disabilities
135	ADDIE	Analyze Design Develop Implement and Evaluate
136	ADDNS	Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation
137	ADGB	Air Defence of Great Britain
138	ADHD	Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
139	ADHS	Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome
140	ADI	Acceptable/Allowable Daily Intake
141	ADL	Anti-Defamation League
142	ADM	Administrative,,Admiral,and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,Archer Daniels Midland,Assistant Deputy Minister
143	ADOA	Air Defence Operations Area
144	ADP	Adenosine DiPhosphate,Army Doctrine Publication (UK,Canada,Australia),Automatic/Automated Data Processing
145	ADRG	Arc-second Raster Chart (ARC) Digitized Raster Graphics
146	ADS	Active Denial System, Astrophysics Data System, Attention Deficit Syndrome
147	ADSR	Attack,Decay,Sustain,Release (sound envelope specification)
148	ADT	Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC−3 hours)
149	ADTB	Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin
150	ADW	Air Defence Warning
151	AE	Armed 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
152	AEDT	Australian Eastern Daylight Time
153	AEF	American Expeditionary Force
154	AEGIS	Airborne Early warning Ground environment Interface Segment (fake etymology)
155	AESR	Aeronautical Equipment Service Record
156	AEST	Australian Eastern Standard Time
157	aet	After extra time (Football)
158	AEW	Airborne Early Warning,Airborne Electronic Warfare
159	AF	Afghanistan (ISO 3166 digram),Air Force,As f*ck
160	aF	Attofarad
161	AFA	U.S. Air Force Academy,Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (Spanish for 'Argentine Football Association')
162	AFAIC	As Far As I'm Concerned
163	AFAICT	As Far As I Can Tell
164	AFAIK	As Far As I Know
165	AFAIR	As Far As I Remember/Recall
166	AFAM	Associazione Friulana di Astronomia e Meteorologia (Italian,'Friuli Association of Astronomy and Meteorology'),Department of African and Afro-American Studies,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — notable for its links to the school's academic-athletic scandal in the 2010s
167	AFATDS	Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
168	AFCEA	Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
169	AFDB	African Development Bank
170	AFES	Automatic Fire Extinguishing System
171	AFG	Afghanistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
172	AFI	French Territory of the Afars and Issas (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1977),'Agencia Federal de Investigaciónes' (México)
173	AFIST	Abrams Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer
174	AFJ	April Fool's Joke
175	AFK	Away From Keyboard (Internet chat abbreviation)
176	AFLAC	American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus
177	AFO	Association of Field Ornithologists
178	AFOSR	U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
179	AFP	Agence France-Presse (French,'French Press Agency'), Australian Federal Police
180	AFQT	Armed Forces Qualification Test
181	AFRC	Air Force Reserve Command
182	AFRL	Air Force Research Laboratory
183	AFROTC	Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
184	AFRRI	(U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
185	AFRTS	Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
186	AFSC	U.S. Air Force Staff College (obsolete; replaced with JFSC), U.S. Air Force Systems Command
187	AFSCN	U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network
188	AFSPC	Air Force Space Command
189	AFT	American Farmland Trust
190	AFV	armoured fighting vehicle
191	AG	air gunner,Aktiengesellschaft (German,'incorporated'),Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 digram),Assemblies of God
192	ag	Attogram
193	Ag	Silver (Latin for 'argentum')
194	AGA	AB Gas-accumulator ('ah-gah',Swedish company),Advanced Graphics Architecture
195	AGARD	Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development
196	AGARDograph	Advanced Guidance for Alliance Research and Development publication
197	AGASA	Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (cosmic ray detector)
198	AGB	Internal Nintendo initialism (Advanced Game Boy) for Game Boy Advance
199	AGC	Adjutant General's Corps (British Army)
200	AGDC	Australian Game Developers' Conference
201	AGI	Auxiliary Group Intelligence
202	AGM	Annual General Meeting
203	AGN	Active Galactic Nucleus
204	AGO	Angola (ISO 3166 trigram)
205	AGP	Accelerated Graphics Port
206	AGRICOLA	Agriculture Online Access
207	AGS	Alaska Ground Station (LandSat)
208	AGTS	Advanced Gunnery Training System
209	AGU	American Geophysical Union
210	AGW	Autonomous Guided Weapon
211	Ah	Ampere-hour
212	AH	Attack Helicopter
213	aH	Attohenry
214	AHA	American Heart Association
215	AHCPR	Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (obsolete; replaced with AHRQ)
216	AHEC	Australian Health Ethics Committee
217	AHPCRC	Army High Performance Computing Research Center
218	AHQ	Air Headquarters
219	AHRQ	Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
220	AHS	American Housing Survey
221	AI	Air Interdiction,Amnesty International,Artificial Insemination,Artificial Intelligence,Anguilla (ISO 3166 digram)
222	AIA	Aerospace Industries Association,American Institute of Architects,Anguilla (ISO 3166 trigram)
223	AIAA	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
224	AIC	African Independent Church,Animal Identification Coordinator
225	AICD	Australian Institute of Company Directors
226	AICMFP	And I Claim My Five Pounds
227	AID	U.S. Agency for International Development
228	AIDS	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
229	AIM	Australian Institute of Management
230	AIMP	Aurora Incremental Modernization Project
231	AIPAC	American Israel Public Affairs Committee
232	AIR	Aircraft Inventory Record
233	AIRFA	American Indian Religious Freedom Act
234	AIRS	Aerometric Information Retrieval System (obsolete; replaced with AFS)
235	AIS	Australian Institute of Sport,Automatic Identification System
236	AISB	(British Society for the Study of) Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
237	aJ	Attojoule
238	Ajax	Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
239	AJD	Astronomical Julian day
240	AJP	Allied Joint Publication
241	AJPW	All Japan Pro Wrestling
242	AK	Alaska (postal symbol)
243	aK	Attokelvin
244	AKA	Above knee amputation (orthopaedic usage)
245	AKDT	Alaska Standard Daylight Saving Time (UTC−8 hours)
246	AKP	Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Turkish,'Justice and Development Party')
247	AKST	Alaska Standard Time (UTC−9 hours)
248	AL	Alabama (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)
249	Al	Aluminium
250	aL	Attolitre
251	ALA	Åland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
252	ALAP	As Long/Late As Possible
253	ALARM	Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missile
254	ALB	Albania (ISO 3166 trigram)
255	ALD	Accounting Line Designator (nuclear weapon targeting)
256	ALERT	Advanced Linked Extended Reconnaissance and Targeting,Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theatre
257	ALF	Africa Leadership Forum,Alien Life Form (cf. ALF (TV series)),Animal Liberation Front
258	ALG	Algeria (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
259	ALGOL	ALGOrithmic Language
260	ALPA	Air Line Pilots Association
261	ALS	Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
262	ALSHS	Abraham Low Self-Help Systems
263	ALSP	Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol
264	ALTE	Association of Language Testers in Europe
265	Am	Americium
266	AM	Amplitude Modulation and Ante Meridiem; see entry,Armenia (ISO 3166 digram)
267	AM1	Airman 1st class
268	AMCB	U.S. Army/Marine Corps Board
269	AMFOM	Advanced Missile Fly Out Model
270	AMFR	Age-specific Marital Fertility Rate,Amplitude Modulation Following Response
271	AMFRS	Advanced Multi-Function Radio Frequency System,Automatic Multisensor Feature-based Recognition System
272	AML	Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
273	AMLCD	Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
274	AMLO	Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexican politician),Anti-Money Laundering Office (Thailand government agency)
275	AMO	Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
276	AMOLED	Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode
277	AMOS	Advanced MOrtar System,Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory
278	AMP	Adenosine MonoPhosphate,Automated Mission Planner
279	AMRAAM	Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile
280	AMRDEC	U.S. Aviation & Missile Research,Development,& Engineering Center
281	AMS	Agriculture Marketing Service,American Mathematical Society
282	AMSAA	U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity
283	AMSO	U.S. Army Model and Simulation Office
284	AMSU	Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
285	AMTE	UK Admiralty Marine Technology Establishment (1977-1984)
286	AN	Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 digram)
287	aN	Attonewton
288	ANA	Administration for Native Americans,Afghan National Army,All Nippon Airways,Anti-Nuclear Anti-body,Australian National Airways,Australian Natives' Association
289	ANC	African National Congress
290	AND	Andorra (ISO 3166 trigram)
291	ANFO	Ammonium nitrate/fuel oil (explosive)
292	ANGLiCo	Air/Naval Gunfire Liaison Company
293	ANL	Argonne National Laboratory
294	ANM	Acoustic Noise Monitor
295	ANOVA	ANalysis Of VAriance
296	ANS	Applied and Natural Sciences
297	ANSI	American National Standards Institute
298	ANT	Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 trigram),Antigua and Barbuda (IOC trigram,but not ISO 3166 or FIFA)
299	ANTM	America's Next Top Model
300	ANTY	Acronyms,No Thank You
301	ANWR	Arctic National Wildlife Refuge /ˈænwɑr/
302	ANZ	Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
303	ANZAC	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
304	AO	Angola (ISO 3166 digram),Approach Officer (submarine),Area of Operations
305	AOC	Air Operations Centre,Air Officer Commanding
306	AOD	Adrenalin O.D. (punk rock band)
307	AOI	Angle Of Incidence (Arab Organization for Industrialization)
308	AOL	America OnLine
309	AOR	Area of Responsibility
310	AOSTH	Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
311	AOTS	Attack of the Show!
312	AOU	American Ornithologists' Union
313	AP	Advanced Placement,Air Publication,Andhra Pradesh (Indian state code),Armed Forces Pacific (postal symbol),Associated Press,Auto Pilot
314	APAC	Asia Pacific
315	APB	All Points Bulletin (police jargon)
316	APC	Armoured Personnel Carrier, Armour Piercing Capped (ammunition)
317	APCNR	Armour-Piercing,Composite Non-Rigid (ammunition)
318	APCR	Armour-Piercing,Composite Rigid (ammunition)
319	APDS	Armour-Piercing,Discarding-Sabot (ammunition)
320	APEC	Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
321	APEDS	AMSAA Performance Estimates Data System
322	APEX	Applied Physics Express
323	APFSDS	Armour-Piercing,Fin-Stabilised,Discarding Sabot (ammunition)
324	APHA	American Public Health Association
325	APHE	Armour-Piercing, High Explosive (ammunition)
326	APHIS	Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
327	APL	Acute Promyeloid Leukaemia,Anti-Personnel Landmine,Applied Physics Laboratory (Johns Hopkins University)
328	APOD	Aerial Port (Airport) Of Debarkation
329	APOE	Aerial Port (Airport) Of Embarkation
330	APOLLO	Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation
331	APP	Allied Procedural Publication
332	APR	Annual Percentage Rate
333	AQIM	Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
334	AR	Argentina (ISO 3166 digram),Arkansas (postal symbol),Armour,Arunachal Pradesh (Indian state code)
335	Ar	Argon
336	ARAG	Advanced Research and Assessment Group
337	ARB	Administrative Review Board
338	ARBA	Army Review Boards Agency
339	ARCA	Automobile Racing Club of America
340	ARCENT	United States Army Central Command
341	ARDA	Advanced Research and Development Activity (became DTO 2006)
342	ARE	UK Admiralty Research Establishment (-1991),United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166 trigram)
343	ARF	ASEAN Regional Forum
344	ARG	Argentina (ISO 3166 trigram)
345	ARH	Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter
346	ARI	Acute Respiratory Infection,U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
347	ARL	UK Admiralty Research Laboratory (1921-1977),U.S. Army Research Laboratory,UIUC Aviation Research Laboratory
348	ARM	Anti-Radiation Missile,Adjustable-rate mortgage,Armenia (ISO 3166 trigram)
349	ARNet	Acquisition Reform Network
350	ARP	Applied Research Programme
351	ARPA	Advanced Research Projects Agency
352	ARRC	ACE Rapid Reaction Corps
353	ARRF	Allied Rapid Reaction Force
354	ARRL	American Radio Relay League
355	ARSC	Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
356	ARSPACE	U.S. Army Space Command
357	ART	Adaptive Resonance Theory, Anti-Retroviral Therapy
358	ARTCC	Air Route Traffic Control Center
359	ARWG	Army Research Working Group
360	AS	ActionScript
361	AS	American Samoa (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram),Assam / Asom (Indian state code)
362	As	Arsenic
363	aS	Attosiemens
364	ASA	AcetylSalicylic Acid,American Standards Association,Army Security Agency,Atlantic Southeast Airlines
365	ASAP	As Soon As Possible
366	ASARS	Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System,Airborne Search and Rescue System
367	asbl	association sans but lucratif (French 'Non-profit organisation')
368	ASBO	Anti-Social Behaviour Order
369	ASCAP	American Society of Composers,Authors,and Publishers
370	ASCC	Army Service Component Commander,Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator,Air Standardization Coordinating Committee
371	ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
372	ASD	(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense,autism spectrum disorder
373	ASDIC	Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (Sonar)
374	ASEAN	Association of Southeast Asian Nations
375	ASFAR	Americans for a Society Free of Age Restrictions
376	ASG	Area Support Group
377	ASIC	Australian Securities and Investments Commission,Aviation Security Identification Card
378	ASICS	Anima sana in corpore sano (Latin for 'A sound mind in a sound body') (athletic shoe manufacturer)
379	ASIO	Australian Security Intelligence Organisation,Audio stream input output
380	ASIP	Advanced System Improvement Program,Army Stationing and Installation Plan,Application-specific instruction-set processor
381	ASL	Above Sea Level,American Sign Language (also known as Ameslan),'Age,Sex,Location?' (Internet slang)
382	ASM	Air-to-Surface Missile,American Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram),American Society for Metals,American Society for Microbiology
383	ASMB	American Society for Matrix Biology,Adult Swim Message Board
384	ASME	American Society of Mechanical Engineers,American Society of Magazine ors
385	ASMP	Air-Sol Moyenne Portée missile (French 'Medium-range air to surface'),Asymmetric multiprocessing
386	ASN	Associate of Science in Nursing
387	ASOC	Air Sovereignty Operations Centre,Air Support Operations Centre,Airport Security and Operations Centre,Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition,Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus,Australian Standard Offence Classification
388	ASP	Active Server Pages,American Society of Primatologists,Ammunition Supply Point,Application Service Provider (cf internet service provider),Astronomical Society of the Pacific,Association of Surfing Professionals
389	ASPI	Australian Strategic Policy Institute
390	ASR	Alkali-silica reaction,Anti Slip Regulation
391	ASRAAM	Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile
392	ASSC	Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
393	AST	Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4 hours)
394	ASTIA	Armed Services Technical Information Agency
395	ASTM	American Society for Testing and Materials
396	ASTREA	Aerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies (sheriff's air support unit)
397	ASUW	AntiSUrface Warfare
398	ASVAB	Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery(taken by juniors in high school in the USA)
399	ASVEL	Association Sportive Villeurbanne Éveil Lyonnais (Association Sportive is French for 'Sporting Association'; the club was founded through the merger of AS Villeurbanne and Éveil Lyonnais)
400	ASW	AntiSubmarine Warfare
401	ASWORG	(U.S.) AntiSubmarine Warfare Operations Research Group
402	ASX	Advanced Stream Redirector,Australian Securities Exchange
403	AT	Anti-Tank,Austria (ISO 3166 digram),Advanced Technology (IBM Personal Computer/AT)
404	At	Astatine
405	aT	Attotesla
406	ATA	Advanced Technology Attachment (IBM Personal Computer),Afghan Transitional Authority,Allen Telescope Array,Antarctica (ISO 3166 trigram)
407	ATAC	Air Transportable Acoustic Communications
408	ATAPI	Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
409	ATAT	Aiken Tactical Airsoft Team / Star Wars vehicle
410	ATB	Active Time Battle,British Antarctic Territory (ISO 3166 trigram; merged with AQ in 1979)
411	ATC	Air Training Corps, U.S. Air Transport Command (1942-1948), Athletic Trainer,Certified
412	ATESS	Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron
413	ATF	French Southern Territories (ISO 3166 trigram),(U.S.) Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives
414	ATG	Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 and FIFA trigram)
415	ATGM	Anti-Tank Guided Missile
416	ATGW	Anti-Tank Guided Weapon
417	ATK	Attack
418	ATL	Atlanta,Georgia,the largest city and capital of Georgia
419	ATLAS	All-Terrain Lifter Army System,Assessment Tool for LAnd Systems
420	ATM	At The Moment
421	ATN	Dronning Maud Land (ISO 3166 trigram; merged with AQ in 1983)
422	ATO	Air Tasking Order,Australian Taxation Office
423	ATP	Adenosine TriPhosphate,Allied Tactical Publication,Ammunition Transfer Point
424	ATSD	(U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense
425	ATSDR	Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
426	ATV	All-Terrain Vehicle
427	ATWA	Air,Trees,Water,Animals
428	AU	African Union (was OAU before 2000),American University,Astronomical Unit,Australia (ISO 3166 digram)
429	Au	Gold (Latin 'Aurum')
430	AUC	Ab 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)
431	AUS	Australia (ISO 3166 trigram)
432	AUSCANNZUKUS	Australia,Canada,New Zealand,United Kingdom,United States (security designation)
433	Auslan	Australian Sign Language
434	AUT	Austria (ISO 3166 trigram)
435	AUTL	Army Universal Task List
436	AV	Audio-Visual,Aviation
437	Av	Aperture value (photographic mode)
438	aV	Attovolt
439	AVA	American Viticultural Area
440	AVB	Audio Video Bridging
441	AVDLR	Aviation Depot Level Repair
442	AVGP	Armoured Vehicle, General Purpose
443	AVIM	Aviation Intermediate Maintenance
444	AVLB	Armoured Vehicle Launched Body
445	AVM	Air Vice-Marshal, Arteriovenous malformation
446	AVO	Apprehended Violence Order
447	AVP	Arubaanse Volkspartij
448	AVP	Association of Volleyball Professionals
449	AVRE	Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers
450	AVTB	Armoured Vehicle Test Bed,Aviation Test Bed
451	AVUM	Aviation Unit Maintenance
452	AVVO	Acute Vaginal Venereal Outbreak
453	AW	Aruba (ISO 3166 digram)
454	aW	Attowatt
455	AWA	American Wrestling Association
456	AWC	Air Warfare Centre
457	AWD	All Wheel Drive
458	AWE	Advanced Warfighting Experiment
459	AWP	Awaiting Parts (SM&R code)
460	AWSIM	Air Warfare SIMulation
461	AWST	Australian Western Standard Time
462	AWW	Above Water Warfare
463	AX	Åland Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
464	AXP	Ambulance eXchange Point
465	AYBABTU	All Your Base Are Belong To Us
466	AYU	As Yet Unknown
467	AZ	Arizona (postal symbol),Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 digram),Alkmaar Zaanstreek (Dutch football club)
468	AZE	Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 trigram)
469	AZUR	Actions en zone urbaine (French for: Urban Operations)
470	B2B	Business to Business
471	B2C	Business to Consumer
472	B2G	Business to Government
473	B2E	Business to Employee
474	BAR	Barbados (IOC trigram,but not FIFA or ISO 3166),British American Racing,Browning Automatic Rifle,Buy-American Restrictions,BARD , Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund (between the US and Israel),BARDA , Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency,BART , Bay Area Rapid Transit,BAS , Battalion Aid Station,BASE , Building,Antenna,Span,Earth (parachute from),BASF , Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (Baden Aniline and Soda Factory,a German chemicals company),BASIC , Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (acronym was added later,originally it was simply Basic),BAT , Basic Aid Training,BATF , U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,and Firearms,BATS , Behavior Analysis Training System ,Bradley Advanced Training System,BATTeRS , Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey,BB[edit]
475	BB	Barbados (ISO 3166 digram),Boys' Brigade (Christian youth organization),Brigitte Bardot (actress),Bumblebee
476	BBB	Better Business Bureau,Blood-brain barrier
477	BBC	Breeding Bird Census,British Broadcasting Corporation,Bumper to Back of Cab (trucking measurement)
478	BBL	Be Back Later,Bird Banding Laboratory,British Basketball League
479	BBN	Bolt,Beranek and Newman
480	BBQ	Barbecue
481	BBS	Breeding Bird Survey (North America),Brigade/Battalion Battle Simulation,Bulletin Board System,BBSRC , U.K. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council,BBVA , Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (Spanish bank)
482	BBYO	B'nai B'rith Youth Organization
483	BC	Before Christ,Blind Copy (in emailers),Boston College,British Columbia (postal symbol)
484	BCA	Bachelor of Computer Application,Black Coaches & Administrators
485	BCC	Blind Carbon Copy
486	BCCI	Bank of Credit and Commerce International,Board of Control for Cricket in India,BCD , Binary-Coded Decimal
487	BEA	Banque extérieure d'Algérie,British European Airways (ancestor of British Airways),British Electricity Authority,bel
488	BEL	Belgium (ISO 3166 trigram)
489	BEN	Benin (ISO 3166 trigram)
490	BEO	Banquet Event Order
491	BERC	Business Environmental Resource Center
492	BER	Bit Error Rate
493	BH	Bahrain (ISO 3166 digram)
494	BHR	Bahrain (ISO 3166 trigram)
495	BNF	Backus-Naur Form (computing), British National Formulary
496	BNICE	Biological,Nuclear,Incendiary,Chemical,and Explosive Agents
497	BNP	British National Party,Banque Nationale de Paris,a predecessor to today's BNP Paribas
498	BNS	Bank of Nova Scotia
499	BNSF	Burlington Northern Santa Fe (also AAR reporting mark)
500	BO	Back Orifice,Biarritz Olympique (French rugby union club),Bolivia (ISO 3166 digram),Body odor
501	BOAC	British Overseas Airways Corporation (predecessor of British Airways)
502	BoAML	Bank of America Merrill Lynch
503	BOC	British Orthodontic Society, British Oxygen Company
504	BÖC	Blue Öyster Cult
505	BODMAS	Brackets,Orders,Division,Multiplication,Addition,Subtraction
506	BOFH	Bastard Operator From Hell
507	BOGA	Bend Over and Grab Ankles
508	BOGOF	Buy One,Get One Free
509	BOGs	Bunch of Guys
510	BOI	Balance Of Investment,Basis Of Issue
511	BOL	Bolivia (ISO 3166 trigram)
512	BOM	Base Object Model,Bill Of Materials,Block of the Month quilting term,Business opportunity meeting
513	BOPD	Barrel of Oil Per Day
514	BOS	Battlefield Operating System
515	BOT	Balance of Trade,Botswana (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166),Build Operate Transfer,Bank of Thailand,BP[edit]
516	BP	Battle 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
517	BPV	Battlefield Planning Visualization,Bovine papillomavirus
518	BQ	British Antarctic Territory (former ISO 3166 digram; merged with AQ in 1979),Caribbean Netherlands (current ISO 3166 digram; based on the entity's alternate name of Bonaire,Sint Eustatius and Saba)
519	BR	Brazil (ISO 3166 digram) ,Bihar (Indian state code),British Rail,Break Ranks (marching band term)
520	BRA	Brazil (ISO 3166 trigram)
521	BRAG	Bicycle Ride Across Georgia
522	BRASS	Breathe,Relax,Aim,Sight,Squeeze (acronym for using a rifle)
523	BRIC	Brazil, Russia, India, and China
524	BRICS	Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa
525	BSA	Birmingham Small Arms (motorcycles company),Boy Scouts of America,Brigade Support Area
526	BSatCoP	Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins
527	BSE	Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (better known as mad cow disease)
528	BSN	Baloncesto Superior Nacional (Spanish,'National Superior Basketball'; top Puerto Rican league),Bank Simpanan Nasional (Malay,'National Savings Bank'; government-owned Malaysian bank)
529	BSNL	Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited,Bachelor of Science in Nursing
530	BSoD	Blue Screen of Death (distinct from BSD)
531	BSP	Between-Show Promotion,Binary Space Partitioning,Board Support Package,British Standard Pipe (screw thread),Business-sponsored,Bone sialoprotein
532	BST	Binary search tree,Blended Sales Tax,Bovine somatotropin,British Summer Time
533	BSW	British Standard Whitworth (screw thread)
534	BSX	Bendigo Stock Exchange
535	BT	Baal 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
536	Bt	Baronet,Bacillus thuringiensis
537	BTO	Built To Order
538	BTP	British Transport Police
539	BTR	Bronetransporter (БТР = Бронетранспортер '(Heavy) Armoured (Personnel) Transporter')
540	BTU	British Thermal Unit
541	BTW	By The Way
542	BU	Burma (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1989)
543	BUAV	British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
544	BUG-E	Battlefield Universal Gateway Equipment ('buggy')
545	BUNO	Bureau Number (aircraft serial number)
546	BUR	Burma (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1989)
547	BV	Background Vocals -,Battlefield Visualization ,,Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 digram)
548	BVD	Bradley,Voorhees & Day (underwear manufacturer)
549	BVR	Beyond Visual Range
550	BVT	Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 trigram)
551	B&W	Babcock & Wilcox, Black and White, Bowers & Wilkins
552	BW	Bring Wedges (ISO digram)
553	BW	Botswana (ISO 3166 digram)
554	BWA	Botswana (ISO 3166 trigram)
555	BWARS	Bees,Wasps & Ants Recording Society
556	BWC	Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
557	BWR	Boiling-Water Reactor
558	BX	Base eXchange
559	BY	Belarus (ISO 3166 digram), Bavaria
560	BYOB	Bring Your Own Bottle (or beer, beverage, or booze) (multiple,but similar,meanings)
561	BYOC	Bring Your Own Computer (play on BYOB)
562	BYOF	Bring Your Own Flask
563	BYS	Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1992)
564	BYU	Brigham Young University
565	BZ	Belize (ISO 3166 digram)
566	BZP	Benzylpiperazine
567	C	Carbon, Coulomb, One Hundred (in Roman numerals)
568	c	Centi
569	C2C	Consumer-To-Consumer electronic commerce, Cam-To-Cam internet chat
570	c2c	the British rail company formerly known as LTS Rail
571	Ca	Calcium
572	CA	California (postal symbol),Canada (ISO 3166 digram),Catalonia,Civil Affairs,Close Armour,Cocaine Anonymous,Computer Associates,Counter-Air,Cricket Australia
573	CAA	Canadian Automobile Association,(NORAD) Center for Aerospace Analysis,(U.S.) Center for Army Analysis,(U.S.) Clean Air Act,(U.S. Army) Concepts Analysis Agency,Civil Aviation Authority,Colonial Athletic Association
574	CAAT	Campaign Against Arms Trade,Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
575	CAC	California Association of Criminalists,Chronic Asymptomatic [Disease] Carrier
576	CACM	Central American Common Market
577	CACM	Communications of the ACM
578	CADCAM	Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing
579	CADMID	Concept,Assessment,Demonstration,Manufacture,In service,Disposal (life cycle mnemonic)
580	CADPAT	CAnadian Disruptive PATtern
581	CAE	Canadian Aviation Electronics (originally),Certificate in Advanced English
582	CAEn	Close Action Engagement (constructive simulation)
583	CAF	Central African Republic (ISO 3166 trigram),Confederation of African Football (or French Confédération Africaine de Football)
584	CAFAD	Combined Arms For Air Defence
585	CAFDE	Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters,Computer Aided Federation Development Environment
586	CAFE	Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard
587	CAI	Computer Assisted Instruction
588	CAIR	Council on American-Islamic Relations
589	CALABARZON	A region in the Philippines: CAvite,LAguna,BAtangas,Rizal,queZON
590	CALL	Center for Army Lessons Learned
591	CALM	Communications,Air-interface,Long and Medium range
592	CalPERS	California Public Employees' Retirement System
593	Caltrans	California Department of Transpotation
594	CAM	Chemical Agent Monitor,Complementary and alternative medicine,Computer-Aided Manufacturing,Crassulacean acid metabolism (type of photosynthesis)
595	CAMRA	CAMpaign for Real Ale
596	CAN	Canada (ISO 3166 trigram)
597	CANDU	CANada Deuterium Uranium (nuclear reactor design)
598	Canola	Canadian oil,low acid (referring to a specific cultivar of rapeseed bred to have a low erucic acid content)
599	CAPES	CAPability Evaluation System,Combined Arms Planning and Execution System
600	CARE	Citizens Association for Racial Equality (former New Zealand organisation),Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe,Cooperative for Aid and Relief Everywhere (originally Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe)
601	CARMONETTE	Computerized Monte Carlo Simulation
602	CARP	Computed Air Release Point
603	CART	Championship Auto Racing Teams (now defunct)
604	CAS	Chemical Abstracts Service,Chief of the Air Staff,Close Air Support
605	CASA	Civil Aviation Safety Authority
606	CASE	Cellular ammunition storage equipment,Computer-Aided Software Engineering
607	CASS	Command Activated Sonobuoy System
608	CASTFOREM	Combined Arms and Support Task FORce Evaluation Model
609	CASTOR	Canadian Automatic Small Telescopes for Orbital Research
610	CAT	Community Acceptance Testing
611	CATK	Counterattack
612	CATS	Computer Active Technology Suspension
613	CATT	Combined Arms Tactical Trainer
614	CAV	Cavalry
615	CAVOK	Ceiling And Visibility OK ('Kav-okay')
616	CAW	Canadian Auto Workers (trade union)
617	CB	Citizens' Band radio
618	CBASSE	Commission on Behavioral And Social Sciences and Education ('sea bass')
619	CBC	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,Christmas Bird Count,Cipher-Block Chaining,Cornering Brake Control
620	CBE	Commander of the Order of the British Empire,Cab Beside Engine (see truck)
621	CBF	Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (Portuguese,'Brazilian Football Confederation')
622	CBGB	Country,Blue Grass,and Blues (former New York City nightclub)
623	CBLA	Comparative bullet lead analysis
624	CBM	Canadian Baptist Ministries
625	CBM	Commodore Business Machines
626	CBML	Coalition Battle Management Language
627	CBN	CardsApp Brand Number
628	CBOL	Consortium for the Barcode of Life
629	CBOT	Chicago Board of Trade
630	CBP	Customs and Border Protection
631	CBR	Case-Based Reasoning
632	CBRN	Chemical,Biological,Radiological,or Nuclear (weapon or event)
633	CBRNE	Chemical,Biological,Radiological,Nuclear or [high-yield] Explosive (weapon or event)
634	CBS	Columbia Broadcasting System,Corps Battle Simulation
635	CBUS	Columbus,Ohio
636	CC	carbon copy
637	CCA	Counter Command Activity
638	CCC	Canterbury Clothing Company,Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.,1930s and 1940s),Corpus Christi College,Oxford
639	CCCP	Central Committee of the Communist Party,Cyrillic for SSSR (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik,Russian Союз Советских Социалистических Республик,Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
640	CCD	Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (Catechism)
641	CCF	Cartoon Cartoon Fridays
642	CCG	Canadian Coast Guard,Collectible Card Game
643	CCGC	Canadian Coast Guard Cutter,Canadian Coast Guard College
644	CCGH	Canadian Coast Guard Hovercraft
645	CCGS	Canadian Coast Guard Ship,Christ Church Grammar School
646	CCH	Computer-Controlled Hostile
647	CCIF	Comité consultatif international des communications téléphoniques à grande distance (French for International Telephone Consultative Committee,merged with the CCIT in 1956 to form the CCITT)
648	CCII	Command and Control Information Infrastructure,Community Capital Investment Initiative
649	CCIR	Comité consultatif international pour la radio (French for Consultative Committee on International Radio,became the ITU Radiocommunication Sector,ITU-R,in 1992),Commander's Critical Information Requirements
650	CCIT	Comité consultatif international télégraphique (French for International Telegraph Consultative Committee,merged with the CCIF in 1956 to form the CCITT)
651	CCITT	Comité consultatif international téléphonique et télégraphique (French for International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee,became the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector,ITU-T,in 1992)
652	CCK	Cholecystokinin,Cocos (Keeling) Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
653	CCM	Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd. (now split into two separate companies bearing the CCM name,one manufacturing bicycles and the other ice hockey equipment),Contemporary Christian music
654	CCOC	Canadian Children's Opera Chorus,Crosley Car Owners Club
655	CCOP	Coalition Common Operating/Operational Picture
656	CCP	Casualty Collection Point,Communications Checkpoint,Contingency Communications Package
657	CCPA	Consumer Credit Protection Act
658	CCR	Creedence Clearwater Revival
659	CCRAp	Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance party
660	CCRP	Command and Control Research Program
661	CCRTS	Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium
662	CCSCS	Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
663	CCSCS	Coordinadora de Centrales Sindicales del Cono Sur
664	CCSIL	Command and Control Simulation Interface Language ('cecil')
665	CCSK	Cyclic Code Shift Keying
666	CCT	Current Commitments Team
667	Cd	Cadmium
668	cd	Candela
669	CD	Compact Disc
670	CD1	Cluster of Differentiation 1 (a small gene family)
671	CDA	UK Centre for Defence Analysis
672	CDD	Capabilities Development Document
673	CDE	Chemical Defence Equipment
674	CDIAC	Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center ('see-dee-ack')
675	CDipAF	Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance
676	CDL	Commercial driver's license
677	CDM	Clean Development Mechanism (Kyoto protocol), Cold Dark Matter (astronomy)
678	CDMA	Code Division Multiple Access
679	CDMSII	Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II
680	Cdr	Commander
681	CDT	Central Daylight Time (UTC−5 hours)
682	Cdt	Commandant
683	Ce	Cerium
684	CE	Christian/Common Era
685	CEA	Campaign Effectiveness Analysis
686	CECOM	U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command
687	CEDEX	Courrier d'entreprise à distribution exceptionnelle (French,'Company Mail with Exceptional Distribution'; 'exceptional' refers to the volume of mail)
688	CEGEP	Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel (French,'College of General and Vocational Education')
689	CEI	Competitive Enterprise Institute
690	CENTCOM	United States Central Command
691	CENTO	Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact)
692	CENZUB	Centre d'entraînement aux actions en zone urbaine (French,'Urban Operations Training Centre')
693	CEO	Chief Executive Officer
694	CEP	Circular Error Probable
695	CEPT	Conférence européenne des administrations des postes et des télécommunications (French,'European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations')
696	CERCLA	U.S. Comprehensive Environmental Response,Compensation,and Liability Act (Superfund)
697	CERDEC	U.S. Communications-Electronics Research,Development and Engineering Center
698	CERGA	Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie (French,'Astrometry and Geodynamics Research Centre')
699	CERN	Centre européen pour la recherche nucléaire (French,'European Organization for Nuclear Research')
700	CERT	Computer Emergency Response Team
701	CESS	Centre for Earth Science Studies (India)
702	CEST	Central European Summer Time
703	CET	Central European Time
704	CEWC	Council for Education in World Citizenship
705	Cf	Californium
706	CF	Canadian Forces,Central African Republic (ISO 3166 digram)
707	CFA	Cat Fanciers' Association,Chartered Financial Analyst,Colour Filtering Array,County Fire Authority,Covering Force Area
708	CFAR	Christine's,Federal Acquisition Regulation
709	CFC	ChloroFluoroCarbon,Canadian Fish Company
710	CFES	Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System
711	CFFZ	Call For Fire Zone
712	CFG	Context-free grammar,Control flow graph
713	CFHT	Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
714	CFI	Center for Inquiry (CSICOP)
715	CFL	Canadian Football League,Co-ordinated Fire Line
716	CFLCC	Coalition Forces Land Component Command
717	CFM	Certified Facilities Manager
718	CFO	Chief Financial Officer
719	CFP	Call for papers, College Football Playoff, Common Fisheries Policy (EU)
720	CFR	Code of Federal Regulations,Căile Ferate Române (Romanian,'Romanian Railways')
721	CFRP	Carbon fibre reinforced plastic
722	CFS	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
723	CFSP	Common Foreign and Security Policy
724	CFU	Colony Forming Unit in Microbiology
725	CFV	Cavalry Fighting Vehicle
726	CFZ	Critical Friendly Zone
727	CG	Client Group,Computer Graphics,Controls Group,Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 digram)
728	CGH	Comparative Genomic Hybridisation
729	CGIG	Cross-Government Implementation Group
730	CGO	Republic of the Congo (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
731	CGS	Chief of the General Staff
732	CGT	Capital Gains Tax
733	ch	ch(L) is used to denote the Chern character of a line bundle
734	CH	Chieftain tank,Switzerland (ISO 3166 digram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica)
735	CHAMPUS	(U.S.) Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (now known as TRICARE)
736	CHAOS	Cambridge Heart Anti-Oxidant Study
737	CHAPS	Clearing House Automated Payment System
738	CHDK	Canon Hack Development Kit (Canon camera firmware hack)
739	CHE	Switzerland (ISO 3166 trigram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica)
740	CHI	Columbia Helicopters,Inc
741	CHiP	California Highway Patrol
742	CHIPS	Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer
743	CHL	Chile (ISO 3166 trigram)
744	CHLA	Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
745	CHN	China (ISO 3166 trigram)
746	CHOGM	Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
747	CHPSO	California Hospital Patient Safety Organization
748	CHRS	Canadian Heart Rhythm Society
749	CHT	Certified Hand Therapist
750	CI	Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 digram),Counter-Intelligence,101 (in Roman numerals)
751	Ci	Curie
752	CIA	Cairo International Airport, Culinary Institute of America
753	CIAO	Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office,Component-Integrated ACE ORB
754	CIB	Complete In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
755	CIBC	Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
756	CICS	Customer Information Control System (IBM mainframe software; 'kicks' or 'C-I-C-S')
757	CID	Certified Interior Designer
758	CIEF	Comité international d'enregistrement des fréquences (International Frequency Registration Board)
759	CIF	Cost,Insurance,and Freight (Paid) (shipping)
760	CIMMYT	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz Y Trigo (Spanish,'International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center')
761	CINC	Commander in Chief
762	CINEOS	Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey
763	CIO	Chief information officer,Congress of Industrial Organizations
764	CIPE	(European) Centre for International Political Economy
765	CIR	(Commander's) Critical Information Requirements
766	CIR	Corotating Interaction Region
767	CIS	Canadian Interuniversity Sport,Commonwealth of Independent States,Command and Information System,Communication and Information System
768	CISA	(U.S.) C4I Integration Support Activity
769	CISB	Complete In Sealed Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
770	CISPR	Comité international spécial des perturbations radioélectriques (Special International Committee on Radio Interference)
771	CISSP	Certified Information Systems Security Professional
772	CITES	Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (of Wild Fauna and Flora) ('sigh-tease')
773	CIV	Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 trigram)
774	CIVETS	Colombia,Indonesia,Vietnam,Egypt,Turkey,South Africa (economics)
775	CIVPOP	Civilian Population
776	CIWS	Close-In Weapon System
777	CJ	Criminal Justice
778	CJC	Canadian Jewish Congress,Cold Junction Compensation
779	CJCS	Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
780	CJD	Chronological Julian Day,Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
781	CJO	Chief of Joint Operations
782	CJTF	Combined Joint Task Force
783	CK	Cook Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
784	CKA	commonly known as, Canada Kicks Ass
785	CKND	Codename: Kids Next Door
786	CL	Chile (ISO 3166 digram),Co-ordination Line,One Hundred and Fifty (in Roman numerals)
787	Cl	Chlorine
788	CLA	Clutterers Anonymous
789	CLEC	Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
790	CLEMARS	California Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System
791	CLIC	Compact LInear Collider
792	CLO	Cornell Lab of Ornithology
793	CLOS	Command to Line-Of-Sight (missile control system)
794	CLPFC	CentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
795	CLRP	College Loan Repayment Program
796	CM	Cameroon (ISO 3166 digram),Cruise Missile,Nine Hundred (in Roman numerals)
797	Cm	Curium
798	CMA	U.S. Chemical Materials Agency,Country Music Association (also used to refer to the organization's annual awards),Crystal Meth Anonymous
799	CMHC	Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
800	CMIIAW	Correct me if I am wrong
801	CMIS	Common management information service
802	CMJ	Christopher Martin-Jenkins (BBC sports commentator)
803	CMLL	Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish,'Worldwide Wrestling Council'—Mexican professional wrestling promotion)
804	CMMC	Corps Materiel Management Centre
805	CMML	Chronic MyeloMonocytic Leukemia,Continuous Media Markup Language
806	CMOS	Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society,(The) Chicago Manual of Style,Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
807	CMP	Common [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture
808	CMPD	Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department
809	CMPD	Chronic Myeloproliferative Disease
810	CMR	Cameroon (ISO 3166 trigram),Coaxial Main Rotors (helicopter type)
811	CMS	Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,The Chicago Manual of Style
812	CMT	Country Music Television
813	CMU	Carnegie Mellon University,Central Michigan University,Concrete Masonry Unit
814	CMW	Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada,Canadian Manufacturing Week,Canadian Music Week,Catherine McAuley Westmead (school in New South Wales,Australia),Chicago,Missouri and Western (Railway),Compartmented Mode Workstation,Compton's Most Wanted,Continuous Microwave (processing technology),Custom Maintenance Wizard (Microsoft Office Resource Kit)
815	CMYK	Cyan Magenta Yellow Key/blacK (colour model)
816	CN	Canadian National (railway; also the AAR reporting mark for said company),China (ISO 3166 digram)
817	CNA	Center for Naval Analyses,Certified Network Administrator,Computer Network Attack,Continental (Casualty Company),National (Fire Insurance Company),and American (Casualty Company),the three companies that merged to form what is now known as CNA Financial
818	CNBC	Consumer News and Business Channel
819	CND	Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,Computer Network Defence
820	CNE	Canadian National Exhibition,Computer Network Exploitation,Certified Network Engineer
821	CNF	Cost and Freight
822	CNI	Clinical Nursing Intern
823	CNI	Communications,Navigation and Identification
824	CNN	Cable News Network,Cellular Nonlinear Network
825	CNV	Copy-Number Variable (genetics)
826	Co	Cobalt
827	COB	Close Of Business [day]
828	COBRA	Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
829	COD	Cash On Delivery,Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram)
830	CoDA	Co-Dependents Anonymous
831	COGENT	Cognitive Objects within a Graphical EnviroNmenT
832	COIL	Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser
833	COK	Cook Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
834	COL	Colombia (ISO 3166 trigram)
835	COLA	Cost Of Living Adjustment
836	CONAD	U.S. Continental Air Defense Command
837	CONMEBOL	Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol or Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol (respectively Spanish and Portuguese for 'South American Football Confederation')
838	CONUS	Continental United States
839	COO	Chief Operating Officer
840	COPE	U.K. Committee On Publication Ethics
841	COPUS	U.K. Committee on the Public Understanding of Science
842	CORD	Common Operational Requirements Document
843	CORE	Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
844	COS	Cooper Ornithological Society
845	COSER	COoperative SERvice
846	CoT	Car of Tomorrow (former NASCAR race car design)
847	COTS	Commercial Off The Shelf
848	CP	Canadian Pacific,Check Point,Command Post,Club Penguin
849	CPA	Certified Public Accountant
850	CPAC	Conservative Political Action Conference,Cable Public Affairs Channel ('see-pack')
851	CPCU	Certified Property Casualty Underwriter
852	CPD	Capabilities Production Document
853	CPE	Certificate of Proficiency in English
854	CPE	Certified Professional Ergonomist
855	CPF	Calibration Parameter File,Canadian Patrol Frigate
856	CPG	Clinical Practice Guideline
857	CPIM	Certification on Production and Inventory Management
858	CPIR	Computationally-Private Information Retrieval
859	CPON	Certified Pediatric Oncology Nurse
860	CPPCC	Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
861	CPR	Canadian Pacific Railway
862	CPR	Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
863	CPSM	Continuous Phase Shift Modulation
864	CPSU	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
865	CPT	Contingency Planning Team
866	CPU	Contract Postal Unit
867	CPV	Cape Verde (ISO 3166 trigram)
868	CPX	Command Post eXercise
869	CQ	Carrier Qualification,Central Queensland,Charge of Quarters,Congressional Quarterly,Constellation Airlines (IATA airline designator)
870	CQD	Close Quarters Drill (Morse distress code preceding SOS: CQ 'calling all stations',D 'Distress'; often incorrectly interpreted as 'Come Quick,Distress')
871	Cr	Chromium
872	CR	Costa Rica (ISO 3166 digram)
873	CRAM	Combined Radiometric Correction Model
874	CRD	Capstone Requirements Document
875	CREB	Cyclic AMP-response Element Binding (protein)
876	CREEP	Committee for the Re-Election of the President,a pejorative nickname used by opponents
877	CREN	Christian Real Estate Network Real Estate Association
878	CRI	China Radio International,Costa Rica (ISO 3166 trigram)
879	CRIPL	Consolidated Remain-In-Place List
880	CRM	Cardiac Rhythm Management,Customer Relationship Management
881	CRO	Croatia (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
882	CRP	Committee for the Re-Election of the President,Control and Reporting Post
883	CRT	Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy,Cathode Ray Tube,Chinese Remainder Theorem
884	CRTC	Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
885	Cs	Caesium
886	CSA	Canadian Soccer Association,Canadian Space Agency,Canadian Standards Association,Child Support Agency,Command Staff Advisor,Community-supported agriculture,Confederate States of America,Corps Storage Area,Czech Airlines,C/S/A,CINC,Service,and Agency
887	CSAM	Child Sexual Abuse Material
888	CSC	Closed Spacelike Curve (relativity),Compact system camera,Computer Sciences Corporation,Computer Security Centre,CSCC Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists
889	CSERIAC	(U.S. DoD) Crew Systems Ergonomics Information Analysis Center
890	CSG	Corps Support Group
891	CSI	see entry
892	CSICOP	Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (became the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2006)
893	CSIP	Commercial Stable Image Platform (AMD)
894	CSIS	Canadian Security Intelligence Service ('seessiss'),(U.S.) Center for Strategic & International Studies
895	CSK	Czechoslovakia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1993)
896	CSL	U.K. Central Science Laboratory
897	CSPI	Center for Science in the Public Interest
898	CSR	Control Supply Rate
899	CSR	Corporate Social Responsibility
900	CSRC	Conflict Studies Research Centre
901	CSRF	Cross-Site Request Forgery
902	CST	Central Standard Time (UTC−6 hours)
903	CT	Computed tomography (medical scan also known as a CAT scan),Central Time zone,Chrono Trigger (Computer/Video games),Connecticut (postal symbol),Canterbury (postal symbol),Chhattisgarh (Indian state code)
904	CTA	Central African Republic (FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166 or IOC),Chicago Transit Authority,Comando-Geral de Tecnologia Aerospacial (Portuguese,[Brazilian] 'General Command for Aerospace Technology')
905	CTBT	Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty
906	CTDB	Compact Terrain Data Base (file format)
907	CTE	Canton and Enderbury Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984),Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
908	CTGF	connective tissue growth factor
909	CTI	Co-operative Target Identification
910	CTIL	Critical Tracked Items List
911	CTIS	Central Tire Inflation System
912	CTMS	Clinical Trial Management System
913	CTO	Chief Technical Officer,Chief Technology Officer
914	CTS	Clear-To-Send,Collective Training Standards,Communications Technology Service,Contract Technical Services,Conversation Time Sharing,COSMIC Top Secret
915	CTSS	Compatible Time-Sharing System
916	CTU	Counter Terrorist Unit (fictional branch of the Central Intelligence Agency in the television action series 24)
917	CTVT	Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour
918	CU	Carrie Underwood, Cuba (ISO 3166 digram)
919	Cu	Copper (Latin 'Cuprum')
920	CUB	Cuba (ISO 3166 trigram)
921	CUCV	Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle
922	CUNY	City University of New York ('CUE-knee')
923	CUPE	Canadian Union of Public Employees ('CUE-pee')
924	CUPS	Common Unix Printing System
925	CUPW	Canadian Union of Postal Workers
926	CUREA	Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy
927	CuW	Copper-tungsten pseudo-alloy (from the chemical symbols of the two component elements)
928	CUW	Curaçao (ISO 3166 trigram)
929	CV	curriculum vitae (résumé)
930	CVLL	Crypto Variable Logic Label
931	CVSD	Continuous Variable Slope Delta (modulation)
932	CVT	Continuously Variable Transmission
933	CW	Calendar Week, or: Continuous Wave, or: Clothes Washer
934	CWA	Communications Workers of America
935	CWC	Chemical Weapons Convention
936	CWRU	Case Western Reserve University
937	CWS	Canadian Wildlife Service
938	CX	Christmas Island (ISO 3166 digram),or: One Hundred and Ten (in Roman numerals)
939	CXR	Christmas Island (ISO 3166 trigram)
940	CY	Calendar year, or: Cyprus (ISO 3166 country code digram)
941	CYM	Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
942	CZE	Czech Republic (ISO 3166 trigram)
943	CZF	(Christian Zombie Fan)
944	CZMA	(US) Coastal Zone Management Act
945	d	Deci
946	D	Deuterium
947	DA	Debtors Anonymous,U.S. Department of the Army,District Attorney
948	DADVSI	Loi sur le droit d’auteur et les droits voisins dans la société de l’information (French,'Law on copyrights and related rights in the information society')
949	DAES	Defence Acquisition Executive Summary,(UK MoD) Directorate of Analysis,Experimentation and Simulation
950	DAF	Dissolved Air Flotation,a technique used in water treatment
951	DAFIF	Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File
952	DAK	Disney's Animal Kingdom
953	DAO	Division Ammunition Officer
954	DAQ	Data acquisition,Delivered Audio Quality
955	DARE	Drug Abuse Resistance Education
956	DARO	(U.S.) Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
957	DARPA	U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
958	DART	Disaster Assistance Response Team,Dublin Area Rapid Transit
959	DAS	Defensive Aids Suite
960	DASD	(U.S.) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
961	DASL	Datapoint's Advanced Systems Language
962	DAU	(U.S.) Defense Acquisition University
963	DAWN	(U.S.) Drug Abuse Warning Network
964	dB	Decibel
965	DB	Deutsche Bahn
966	Db	Dubnium
967	DBA	De Bellis Antiquitatis (miniature wargaming rules)
968	DBBL	(U.S. Army Simulation Center) Dismounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory
969	DBDO	Desert BDO
970	DBE	Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
971	DBF	Detection By Fire (weapon launch signature)
972	DBR	De Bellis Renationis (miniature wargaming rules)
973	DBRA	Davis-Bacon Related Acts
974	DBS	Direct Broadcast Services (television)
975	DC	da capo,Italian Democrazia Cristiana,Digital Compass,Direct Current,District of Columbia (postal symbol),Douglas Aircraft Company,Dublin Core,Duty Cycle
976	DCA	Defensive Counter Air,Drum Corps Associates,DiChloroAcetate
977	DCAA	(U.S.) Defense Contract Audit Agency
978	DCAS	Devon and Cornwall Archery Society
979	DCC	Dallas Christian College
980	DCD	[Organ] Donation after Cardiac Death
981	DCE	Data Communication Equipment
982	DCFC	Death Cab for Cutie
983	DCI	Detection,Classification and Identification,Drum Corps International,Duellists' Convocation International,now known simply by the initials
984	DCL	Disney Cruise Line
985	DCN	Deacon
986	DCOM	Disney Channel Original Movie
987	DCSOPS	Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and plans
988	DCW	Digital Chart of the World
989	DCYSC	Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge
990	DD	due diligence and dear daughter (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists,blogs,and bulletin boards)
991	DDA	Deputy District Attorney
992	DDN	U.S. Defense Data Network
993	DDS	Doctor of Dental Surgery
994	DDT	Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (insecticide),Dynamic Debugging Tool (computing),DE[edit]
995	DE	Delaware (postal symbol),Germany (ISO 3166 digram)
996	DEA	Drug Enforcement Administration
997	DEA	Drug Enforcement Agency
998	DEC	Department of Environmental Conservation,Digital Equipment Corporation,Disasters Emergency Committee
999	DeCA	(U.S.) Defense Commissary Agency
1000	DEFCON	Defence readiness condition
1001	DEFRA	(UK) Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs
1002	DELT	Dual Ended Line Test (ing)
1003	DEM	Data Exchange Mechanism,Digital Elevation Model
1004	DEN	Denmark (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
1005	DEPSECDEF	(U.S.) Deputy Secretary of Defense
1006	DERA	British Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (1995-2001)
1007	DES	Deep Ecliptic Survey
1008	DEU	Germany (ISO 3166 trigram)
1009	DF	Direct Fire,Direction Finding,Distrito Federal (Spanish and Portuguese for 'federal district')
1010	DFAS	(U.S.) Defense Finance and Accounting Service
1011	DFB	Deutscher Fußball-Bund (German for 'German Football Association')
1012	DFCB	Data Format Control Book
1013	DfID	UK Department for International Development
1014	DFM	Discrete Field Model see Superluminal motion
1015	DFM	Dynamic Flowgraph Methodology
1016	DFSP	Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
1017	DfT	UK Department for Transport
1018	DFTBA	Don't Forget To Be Awesome,a term commonly used by the Vlogbrothers
1019	DG	Dei gratia (Latin,'by the grace of God'),Director-General,Data General
1020	DGA	Direction générale des armées (French 'Armed Forces General Directorate')
1021	DGPS	Differential GPS
1022	DGZ	Desired Ground Zero
1023	DHA	DocosaHexaenoic Acid
1024	DHHS	(U.S.) Department of Health and Human Services
1025	DHRA	(U.S.) DoD Human Resources Activity
1026	DHS	U.S. Department of Homeland Security
1027	DHSS	UK Department of Health and Social Security
1028	DHTFYSS	U.S. Don't Have Time For You Silly S****
1029	DHY	Dahomey (ISO 3166 trigram; became BEN for Benin in 1977)
1030	DIA	U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
1031	DIAC	Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia) [1]
1032	DiC	Design Island Centre (computing usually used in a teaching situation)
1033	DICASS	DIrectional Command Activated Sonobuoy System
1034	DIFAR	DIrectional Frequency Analysis and Recording
1035	DIME	Dense Inert Metal Explosive
1036	DIP	Dual In-line Package (electronics)
1037	DIPS	Defense independent pitching statistics
1038	DIR	Defence Industrial Research
1039	DISCOM	Division Support Command
1040	DISE	Deployable Intelligence Support Element
1041	DISSTAF	DIS Search and Target Acquisition Fidelity experiment
1042	DITY	Do-It-Yourself
1043	DIVAD	Division Air Defence
1044	DIY	Do It Yourself
1045	DJI	Djibouti (ISO 3166 trigram)
1046	DK	Denmark (ISO 3166 digram)
1047	DL	Dexter's Laboratory
1048	DLIC	Detachment Left-In-Contact
1049	DLIR	Depot-Level Inspection and Repair
1050	DLPMC	DorsoLateral PreMotor Cortex
1051	DLRP	Data Link Reference Point
1052	DLS	Deep Lens Survey
1053	DLSA	(U.S.) Defense Legal Services Agency
1054	DLSc	Diploma in Library Science
1055	DLTBGYD	Don't let the bastards grind you down
1056	DMC	(U.S.) Defense Management Council
1057	DMCA	Digital Millennium Copyright Act
1058	DMM	Digital Multimeter
1059	DMOC	Distributed Mission Operations Centre
1060	DMPA	(U.S.) Defense Medical Programs Activity
1061	DMPFC	DorsoMedial PreFrontal Cortex
1062	DMPK	Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
1063	DMRB	Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
1064	DMS	U.S. Defense Message System
1065	DMSP	U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
1066	DMT	Dimethyltryptamine
1067	DMV	Department of Motor Vehicles
1068	DMZ	DeMilitarized Zone
1069	DN	Deacon
1070	DNAW	Day Night All Weather
1071	DNDi	Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative
1072	DNDO	U.S. Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
1073	DNK	Denmark (ISO 3166 trigram)
1074	DNM	Defence Nuclear Material
1075	DNR	Do Not Resuscitate
1076	DNS	Domain Name System
1077	DO	Dominican Republic (ISO 3166 digram),Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
1078	DOA	Dead On Arrival,Dead or Alive
1079	DOB	Date Of Birth
1080	DOD	U.S. Department of Defense
1081	DODAF	U.S. Department of Defense Architectural Framework
1082	DoDD	U.S. Department of Defense Directive
1083	DoDEA	(U.S.) Department of Defense Education Activity
1084	DOE	U.S. Department of Energy
1085	DOHC	Dual-OverHead-Cam engine
1086	DOI	U.S. Department of the Interior
1087	DORA	Defence of the Realm Act
1088	DOS	Density of State
1089	DOTA	short-form for DEFENSE OF THE ANCIENTS a popular online epic game
1090	DotD	Deal of the Day (marketing gimmick)
1091	DOW	Died of Wounds
1092	DP	Division de production (Algerian petroleum company)
1093	DPA	UK Defence Procurement Agency
1094	DPCO	Double-Pole Change Over
1095	DPDT	Double-Pole Double-Throw
1096	DPI	Dots Per Inch
1097	DPICM	Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition
1098	DPKO	UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations
1099	DPMO	(U.S.) Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
1100	DPPDB	Digital Point Positioning Database
1101	DPRK	Democratic People's Republic of Korea
1102	DPST	Double-Pole Single-Throw
1103	DQ	Dairy Queen
1104	DR	Dead Reckoning,Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
1105	DRC	Democratic Republic of the Congo
1106	DRDC	Defence Research & Development Canada
1107	DREA	Defence Research Establishment Atlantic (obsolete 2002)
1108	DRES	Defence Research Establishment Suffield (obsolete 2002)
1109	DRET	Defence Research Establishment Toronto (obsolete 2002)
1110	DREV	Defence Research Establishment Valcartier (obsolete 2002)
1111	DRIC	(U.S.) Defense Research Information Center
1112	DRMS	(U.S.) Defense Revitalization and Marketing Service
1113	DRPR	Drawing Practices
1114	DRT	Document Related Technologies
1115	Ds	Darmstadtium
1116	DSAS	Disney Sing Along Songs
1117	DSB	(U.S.) Defense Science Board
1118	DSCS	U.S. Defense Satellite Communications System
1119	DSCSOC	DSCS Operations Center
1120	DSE	Dry Sheep Equivalent
1121	DSG	Direct-Shift Gearbox
1122	DSID	Dismounted Soldier Identification System
1123	DSL	Digital Subscriber Line
1124	DSLR	Digital single-lens reflex (camera)
1125	DSM	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
1126	DSN	Deep Space Network
1127	DSPL	Design Specialists and Plans Language
1128	DSR	Deformed Special Relativity
1129	DST	Daylight Saving Time
1130	DSTL	British Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
1131	DSWA	(U.S.) Defense Special Weapons Agency
1132	DTA	Dental Technologists Association
1133	DTD	Digital Terrain Data
1134	DTG	Date-Time Group
1135	DTH	Direct To Home (television)
1136	DTI	UK Department of Trade and Industry
1137	DTIC	(U.S.) Defense Technical Information Center
1138	DTL	Diode-Transistor Logic (electronics)
1139	DTMF	Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling
1140	DTO	Disruptive Technology Office (was ARDA)
1141	DTR	Determine The Relationship
1142	DTSA	(U.S.) Defense Technology Security Administration
1143	DUMBO	Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (Brooklyn neighborhood)
1144	DUSD	(U.S.) Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense
1145	DVLC	UK Driver and Vehicle Licencing Centre
1146	DVM	Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
1147	DVO	Direct View Optics
1148	DVOM	Digital Volt-Ohm Meter
1149	DVP	various meanings (disambiguation page)
1150	DW	Drum Workshop
1151	DWIM	Do What I Mean
1152	DWM	Doctor Who Magazine
1153	DWTS	Dancing with the Stars
1154	DWW	Down with Webster
1155	DXA	Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry
1156	DXM	DeXtroMethorphan
1157	DY	Dahomey (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1977)
1158	Dy	Dysprosium
1159	DZA	Algeria (ISO 3166 trigram)
1160	E	East
1161	EABU	Explain Acronyms Before Use
1162	EAC	Echelons Above Corps
1163	EAPC	Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
1164	EAST	Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
1165	EBD	Electronic Brake Distribution
1166	EBE	Extraterrestrial Biological Entity
1167	EBSA	Employee Benefits Security Administration
1168	EBW	Electron Beam Welding
1169	EBW	Exploding BridgeWire
1170	ECASS	European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences [1]
1171	ECBR	European Coalition for Biomedical Research
1172	ECCM	Electronic Counter-Counter-Measures
1173	ECFS	Electronic Case Filing System
1174	ECG	Electrocardiogram
1175	ECHR	European Court on Human Rights
1176	ECJ	European Court of Justice
1177	ECL	Emitter Coupled Logic (electronics)
1178	ECommHR	European Commission on Human Rights
1179	ECSC	European Coal and Steel Community (distant ancestor of the EU)
1180	ECT	ElectroConvulsive Therapy
1181	ECtHR	European Court of Human Rights
1182	EDA	European Defence Agency
1183	EDAC	Error Detection And Correction
1184	EDCS	Environmental Data Coding Specification
1185	EDH	Eastman Dental Hospital
1186	EDSA	Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (a major thoroughfare in Manila with great significance to post-1980 Philippines history)
1187	EDT	Eastern Daylight Saving Time (UTC−4 hours)
1188	EEC	European Economic Community (predecessor of the EU)
1189	EEG	ElectroEncephaloGram
1190	EENT	End Evening Nautical Twilight
1191	EEO	Equal Employment Opportunity
1192	EEOC	(U.S.) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
1193	EEZ	Economic Exclusion Zone or Exclusive Economic Zone
1194	EFF	Electronic Frontier Foundation
1195	EFL	English as a Foreign Language
1196	EFM	Enterprise Feedback Management
1197	EFOA	European Fuel Oxygenates Association
1198	EFSA	European Food Safety Authority
1199	EFT	Electronic Fund Transfer
1200	EFV	Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle
1201	EG	Egypt (ISO 3166 digram)
1202	EGCG	EpiGalloCatechin-3-Gallate
1203	EGIS	Erieye Ground Interface Segment
1204	EGRET	Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope
1205	EGY	Egypt (ISO 3166 trigram)
1206	EHF	Extremely High Frequency
1207	EHR	Equipment History Record
1208	Ei	Exbi
1209	EIA	Environmental Impact Assessment
1210	EIAH	Encyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History
1211	EIAH	Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain
1212	EIC	East India Company
1213	EICS	East India Company's Service
1214	eID	electronic ID
1215	EIRP	Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
1216	EIS	Environmental Impact Statement
1217	EJ	Exajoule
1218	EK	Exakelvin
1219	EKG	Electrocardiogram (from German Elektrokardiogramm)
1220	EKMS	Electronic Key Management System
1221	EL	Exalitre
1222	ELINT	Electronic Intelligence
1223	ELL	English Language Learner
1224	ELM	Edge-Localised Mode (plasma physics)
1225	ELO	Electric Light Orchestra
1226	ELSS	Emergency Life Support Stores
1227	EM	ElectroMagnetism/ElectroMagnetic
1228	Em	Exametre
1229	EMA	European Medicines Agency
1230	EMCON	(Electromagnetic) Emissions Control
1231	EMDG	Euro-Missile Dynamics Group
1232	EMDR	Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
1233	EMEA	Europe,Middle East and Africa
1234	EMG	ElectroMyoGraph
1235	EMP	ElectroMagnetic Pulse
1236	EMS	Emergency Medical Services
1237	EMT	Emergency Medical Technician
1238	EN	Corps of Engineers,Exanewton
1239	ENCODE	Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (human genome data project)
1240	ENE	East North-East
1241	ENG	England (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram)
1242	ENTEC	Euro NATO Training Engineer Centre
1243	ENVL	Envelope
1244	ENY	Enemy
1245	EOD	Explosive Ordnance Disposal
1246	EOG	ElectroOculoGraphy
1247	EOM	End of Message
1248	EOSAT	Earth Observation Satellite
1249	EOSDIS	Earth Observation Satellite Data and Information System
1250	EP	European Parliament
1251	EP	Extended play
1252	EPCOT	Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow
1253	EPGS	EOS Polar Ground Sites
1254	EPIRB	Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon
1255	EPL	English Premier League
1256	EPOS	Electronic Point Of Sale
1257	EPPA	Employee Polygraph Protection Act
1258	EPR	European Pressurised [Nuclear] Reactor
1259	EQ	Emotional Quotient
1260	Er	Erbium
1261	ERCIM	European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
1262	ERI	Eritrea (ISO 3166 trigram)
1263	ERLAWS	Eastern Ruapehu Lahar Alarm and Warning System
1264	EROS	Earth Resources Observation System
1265	ERP	Engineer Regulating Point
1266	ERR	Eesti Rahvusringhääling
1267	ERS	Earth Resources Survey
1268	ERTS	Earth Resources Technology Satellite (became Landsat)
1269	ERV	Endogenous RetroVirus
1270	ES	Electronic warfare Support,Exasiemens,Spain (ISO 3166 digram; from the country's native name of España)
1271	ESA	Electro-Spark Alloying, Endangered Species Act, European Space Agency
1272	ESC	Embryonic Stem Cell, Electronic Stability Control
1273	ESDP	European Security and Defence Policy
1274	ESE	East South-East
1275	ESH	Western Sahara (ISO 3166 trigram)
1276	ESL	English as a Second Language
1277	ESM	Electronic warfare Support Measures
1278	ESO	European Southern Observatory
1279	ESOL	English for Speakers of Other Languages
1280	ESPN	Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
1281	EST	Eastern Standard Time (UTC−5 hours), Estonia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1282	ESU	Emergency Services Unit
1283	ESV	Engineer Support Vehicle
1284	ET	Ethiopia (ISO 3166 digram)
1285	ETH	Ethiopia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1286	ETI	Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
1287	ETLA	Extended TLA
1288	ETM	Electronic Technical Manual, Enhanced Thematic Mapper
1289	ETT	Embedded Training Team
1290	EU	European Union
1291	Eu	Europium
1292	EUCOM	(U.S.) European Command
1293	EUUSA	European Union and United States of America
1294	EV	Exavolt
1295	EVA	Earned Value Analysis, Economic value added, Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate, Extra-Vehicular Activity
1296	EVIL	Electronic viewfinder (with) interchangeable lens (a type of digital camera)
1297	EWSD	Elektronisches Wählsystem Digital (German,'Electronic Digital Switching System')
1298	EWTN	Eternal Word Television Network
1299	Exatesla	Extra Terrestrial
1300	EXREP	Expeditious Repair (SM&R code)
1301	EZ	Extraction Zone
1302	f	Femto
1303	fA	Femtoampere
1304	FA	Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous
1305	FAA	Financial Aid Administrator,Fleet Air Arm,Functional Area Analysis
1306	FAAD	Forward Area Air Defence
1307	FAADEZ	Forward Area Air Defence Engagement Zone
1308	FAAFP	Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians
1309	FAAN	Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology
1310	FAAN	Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
1311	FAAQ	Frequently Asked and Anticipated Questions
1312	FAASV	Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle
1313	FAB	Feline Advisory Bureau (UK feline charity)
1314	FACA	(US) Federal Advisory Committee Act
1315	FACH	Fuerza Aérea de Chile
1316	FACN	Fellow of the American College of Nutrition
1317	FACP	Fellow of the American College of Physicians
1318	FACTS	Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System
1319	FAM	Foreign Affairs Manual
1320	FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization
1321	FAPA	Fellow of the American Psychological Association
1322	FAPHA	Fellow of the American Public Health Association
1323	FARP	Forward Arming and Refuelling Point / Forward Area Rearm/refuel Point
1324	FASCAM	Family of Scatterable Mines[1]
1325	FASD	Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
1326	FASEB	Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
1327	FAT	Field Artillery Tractor
1328	FAVS	Future Armoured Vehicle System
1329	FAW	Football Association of Wales
1330	FBCS	Fellow of the British Computer Society
1331	FBIDST	Fellow of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists
1332	FBIS	Foreign Broadcast Information Service
1333	FBM	Board foot
1334	fC	Femtocoulomb
1335	FCC	U.S. Federal Communications Commission
1336	FCE	First Certificate in English
1337	FCF	Financial Free Cash Flow
1338	FCLA	Fraud Claims Law Associate
1339	FCO	UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1340	FCW	Florida Championship Wrestling
1341	FD	Falun Dafa
1342	FDA	Food and Drug Administration (U.S.)
1343	FDBK	(I) Feedback
1344	Fe	Iron (Latin Ferrum)
1345	FEAST	Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation
1346	FEATS	Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies link title
1347	FEBA	Forward Edge of the Battle Area
1348	FED	Field Emission Display
1349	FEDEP	Federation Development Process (Simulation)
1350	FEF	Frontal Eye Field (neurophysiology)
1351	FEMA	Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency,Fire Equipment Manufacturers' Association
1352	FENS	Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
1353	FES	Flywheel Energy Storage
1354	FEST	Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre link title
1355	FET	Field-effect transistor
1356	FEZ	Fighter Engagement Zone
1357	fF	Femtofarad
1358	FF	Final Fantasy
1359	FFB	Frum From Birth (referring to an observant Jew born into a religiously observant family)
1360	FFC	Free For Chat
1361	FFE	Fukuoka Futures Exchange
1362	FFF	Fédération française de football (French for: French Football Federation)
1363	FFG	Guided Missile Frigate (hull classification symbol)
1364	FFOV	Forward Field Of View
1365	FFR	Fédération française de rugby (French for: French Rugby (Union) Federation)
1366	FFS	For Fuck's Sake
1367	FFT	Final Fantasy Tactics
1368	FG	Falun Gong
1369	fg	Femtogram
1370	FG	Fog (METAR Code)
1371	FGOTUS	First Gentleman of the United States
1372	FGR	Flickr Group Roulette
1373	fH	Femtohenry
1374	FHFIF	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
1375	FHI	Family Health International, Fuji Heavy Industries,Ltd.
1376	FI	Finland (ISO 3166 digram)
1377	FIAT	Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian for: Italian Car Factory of Turin)
1378	FIB	Fucking Illinois Bastard (Wisconsin slang, variants exist)
1379	FIBUA	Fighting In Built-Up Areas
1380	FIC	Fellowship for Intentional Community
1381	FID	Foreign Internal Defence
1382	FIE	Fly-In Echelon
1383	FIFA	Fédération internationale de football association (French for: International Association Football Federation)
1384	FIFe	Fédération internationale féline (French for: International Feline Federation)
1385	FIFO	First In, First Out
1386	FIFRA	Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
1387	FIGJAM	Fuck I'm Good, Just Ask Me
1388	FIMPT	Fellow of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
1389	FIN	Finland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1390	FINA	Fédération internationale de natation (French for: International Swimming Federation)
1391	FIRES	Fever Induced Refractory Epilepsy Syndrome or Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome
1392	FIS	Fédération internationale de ski (French for: International Ski Federation)
1393	FISA	Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (French for: International Federation of Rowing Associations)
1394	FISH	Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridisation
1395	FiST	Fire Support Team
1396	FITS	Flexible Image Transport System
1397	FIU	Florida International University
1398	fJ	Femtojoule
1399	FJ	Fiji (ISO 3166 digram)
1400	FJI	Fiji (ISO 3166 trigram)
1401	FJN	Financial Job Network
1402	FK	Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
1403	fK	Femtokelvin
1404	FKSM	Fort Knox Supplemental Manual
1405	FKT	Fastest Known Time
1406	fL	Femtolitre
1407	FL	Florida (postal symbol)
1408	fl	floruit (Latin for: living) (genealogy)
1409	FLA	Florida,Front Line Assembly,Future Large Aircraft
1410	FLAB	Four-letter abbreviation
1411	FLAC	Free Legal Advice Centres
1412	FLAC	Free Lossless Audio Codec
1413	FLAK	Flug-Abwehr-Kanone (German for: Anti-Aircraft Guns)
1414	FLB	Forward Logistics Base
1415	FLET	Forward Line of Enemy Troops
1416	FLG	Falun Gong
1417	FLIP	Flight Information Publication
1418	FLIR	Forward Looking InfraRed (sensor)
1419	FLK	Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1420	FLOT	Forward Line of Own Troops
1421	FLOTUS	First Lady of the United States (the wife of the President of the United States)
1422	FLQ	Free Legal Questions
1423	FLQ	Front de libération du Québec (French for: Québec Liberation Front)
1424	FLSA	Fair Labor Standards Act
1425	FLTSAT	Fleet Satellite
1426	FLTSATCOM	Fleet Satellite Communication System
1427	FLUBOS	Fat, Lazy, Useless, Bag Of Shit
1428	FM	Factory Mutual
1429	FM	Federal Magistrate (Australian post-nominal),Federated States of Micronesia (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram),Field Manual,Flight Manager,Frequency Modulation (electronics)
1430	fm	Femtometre
1431	Fm	Fermium
1432	FMC	Federal Magistrates' Court (an Australian federal court,formerly FMS),Food Machinery Corporation (original name of the company now known as FMC Corporation)
1433	FMCA	Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia (used for citing decisions of the FMC other than family law decisions)
1434	FMCAfam	Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia: family (used for citing family law decisions of the FMC)
1435	FMCG	Fast Moving Consumer Goods
1436	FME	Formal Methods Europe
1437	FMECA	Failure Modes and Effect Criticality Analysis
1438	FMJD	Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames
1439	FMLA	Family Medical Leave Act
1440	FoE	Friends of the Earth
1441	FOGC	Federal Oil and Gas Council
1442	FOH	Front Of House
1443	FOIA	Freedom of Information Act
1444	FOM	Federation Object Model
1445	FONSI	Finding of No Significant Impact
1446	FOO	Forward Observation Officer
1447	FOOP	Friends Of Organ Pipes (Volunteer group)
1448	FoS	Family of Systems
1449	FOSE	Fallout 3 Script Extender
1450	FOSE	Federal Office Systems Expo
1451	FOT	Free on truck
1452	FOTA	Fellow of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
1453	FOTC	Flight of the Conchords
1454	FOUO	For Official Use Only
1455	FPF	Federação Portuguesa de Futebol (Portuguese for: Portuguese Football Federation), Final Protective Fire
1456	FPS	Fire Prevention System
1457	FQ	French Southern and Antarctic Territories (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1979)
1458	FR	France (ISO 3166 digram)
1459	Fr	Francium
1460	FRA	Federal Railroad Administration, France (ISO 3166 trigram)
1461	FRAND	Fair,reasonable,and non-discriminatory (concept in standards-setting and intellectual property law)
1462	FRCP	Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
1463	FRICBM	Full Range ICBM
1464	FRO	Faroe Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1465	FRS	Fellow of the Royal Society, U.S. Federal Reserve System
1466	FRSA	Fellow of the Royal Society of Art
1467	FRY	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1468	fs	Femtosecond
1469	fS	Femtosiemens
1470	FSA	Fire Support Area, UK Food Standards Agency, Functional Solution Analysis
1471	FSC	Federal Supply Classification, Forest Stewardship Council (ecological pressure group)
1472	FSCL	Fire Support Co-ordination Line
1473	FSE	Fire Support Element
1474	FSF	Free Software Foundation
1475	FSH	Follicle Stimulating Hormone
1476	FSI	Fuel Stratified Injection
1477	FSS	Fire Support Station
1478	FSSP	Families of Structurally Similar Proteins
1479	FSTC	Foreign Science Technology Center (now NGIC)
1480	fT	Femtotesla
1481	FTC	Federal Trade Commission
1482	FTE	Full Time Equivalent
1483	FTL	Faster Than Light
1484	FTS	Flight Termination System used during some rocket launches
1485	FTS	Fuck That Shit
1486	FU	Smoke (METAR Code)
1487	FUBAR	Fucked/Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair
1488	fV	Femtovolt
1489	fW	Femtowatt
1490	FW	Forward
1491	FWC	Football World Cup
1492	FWF	Fixed Word Format
1493	FWI	French West Indies
1494	FWIW	For What It's Worth
1495	FWS	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1496	FWT	Fresh Water Tank
1497	FXX	Metropolitan France (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1997)
1498	FYA	For Your Agenda
1499	FYDP	Five-Year Defense Plan (U.S.)
1500	FYI	For Your Information
1501	FYROM	Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
1502	FZDZ	Freezing Drizzle (METAR Code)
1503	FZFG	Freezing Fog (METAR Code)
1504	FZRA	Freezing Rain (METAR Code)
1505	g	Gram
1506	G3	Heckler & Koch G3
1507	GAAR	General Anti-Avoidance Rule (tax evasion)
1508	GAB	Gabon (ISO 3166 trigram)
1509	GABA	Gamma-AminoButyric Acid
1510	GAD	Generalized Anxiety Disorder
1511	GAF	Garfield and Friends
1512	GAO	U.S. Government Accountability Office
1513	GAW	Global Atmospheric Watch
1514	GB	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 digram) [glamour boy 7-9/10]
1515	GBBC	Great (Global) Backyard Bird Count
1516	GBE	Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
1517	GBR	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1518	GCA	Graduate in Claims Administration
1519	GCD	see entry
1520	GCF	Greatest Common Factor
1521	GCI	Ground-controlled interception
1522	GCN	Gamma-ray burst Coordination Network
1523	GCS	Global Coordinate System
1524	GCSE	General Certificate of Secondary Education (UK)
1525	Gd	Gadolinium
1526	GD	Grenada (ISO 3166 digram)
1527	GDL	Game Definition Language
1528	GDR	General Distribution Release (Microsoft Term for a software service release; between Hotfix and Service Pack)
1529	GDR	German Democratic Republic (cf. DDR)
1530	GDW	Game Designers Workshop
1531	Ge	Germanium
1532	GEBCO	General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
1533	GEC	Great Engineering Challenge
1534	GED	General Educational Development (high school equivalency credential in the U.S. and Canada)
1535	GEEP	Geophysical Equipment Exploration Platform
1536	GEN	Full General (four stars) in the U.S. Army
1537	GeV	Gigaelectron-volt
1538	GEV	Ground Effect Vehicle
1539	GFCI	Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor (aka GFI)
1540	GFI	Ground Fault Interruptor (aka GFCI)
1541	GFL	German Football League (Germany's Bundesliga for American football; the English-language name is used in German without translation)
1542	GFN	Global Footprint Network
1543	GFY	'good for you' or 'go fuck yourself', depending on the context (Internet chat)
1544	GGK	Good God Karma
1545	GHA	Ghana (ISO 3166 trigram)
1546	GHB	gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
1547	Gi	Gibi
1548	GIB	Gibraltar (ISO 3166 trigram)
1549	GIG	Global Information Grid
1550	GINO	Godzilla In Name Only
1551	GISS	General Impression of Size and Shape,Goddard Institute for Space Studies
1552	GJ	Gigajoule,Gujarat (Indian state code)
1553	GJD	Geocentric Julian Day
1554	GK	Gigakelvin
1555	GLAAD	Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
1556	GLAC	General Ledger Accounting Code
1557	GLAST	Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
1558	GLBA	Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
1559	GLC	Gas-liquid chromatography
1560	GLP	Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 trigram)
1561	GLV	Gained Life Value
1562	Gm	Gigametre
1563	GM	The Gambia (ISO 3166 digram),GameMaster (role-playing),General Motors,Genetically Modified,Guru Meditation (computing)
1564	GMAC	General Motors Acceptance Corporation,the original name of the company now known as Ally Financial,Graduate Management Admission Council,G-MAC,Great Midwest Athletic Conference
1565	GMB	The Gambia (ISO 3166 trigram),General,Municipal,Boilermakers (and Allied Trade Union)
1566	GMFSC	Ground Mobile Forces Satellite Communications
1567	GMO	Genetically Modified Organism
1568	GMPCS	Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite
1569	GNAS	Grand National Archery Society
1570	GNB	Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 trigram)
1571	GNP	Gross National Product
1572	GNQ	Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram)
1573	GnRH	Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
1574	GOA	General of the Army (United States only)
1575	GOAT	Greatest Of All Time
1576	GOC	General Officer Commanding
1577	GOES	Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
1578	GOP	Grand Old Party
1579	gorp	granola,oats,raisins,peanuts (another name for trail mix),probably a backronym
1580	GOSC	General Officer Steering Committee
1581	GOSH	Great Ormond Street Hospital
1582	GOSP	Gas/Oil Separation Plant
1583	GOTS	Government off-the-shelf
1584	GOYADIN	Get Off Your Arse,Do It Now (anti-procrastination mantra)
1585	GP	General Practitioner,General Purpose,Grand Prix,Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 digram)
1586	GPA	Grade Point Average
1587	GPC	Global Path Cache
1588	GPIB	General-Purpose Instrumentation/Interface Bus
1589	GPO	General Post Office
1590	GPPC	Genetics and Public Policy Center
1591	GPR	Ground-Penetrating Radar
1592	GPS	General Problem Solver,Global Positioning System
1593	GPT	General Purpose Technology, Get paid to surf (an online business model)
1594	GQ	Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 digram),Gentlemen's Quarterly (the original name of the magazine now known simply as GQ),GR[edit]
1595	GR	Greece (ISO 3166 digram),Hail (METAR Code)
1596	GRAIL	Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
1597	GRAS	Generally recognized as safe (FDA list)
1598	GRB	Gamma-Ray Burst
1599	GRC	Greece (ISO 3166 trigram)
1600	GRD	Grenada (ISO 3166 trigram)
1601	GRE	Graduate Record Examination,Greece (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
1602	grep	[search] Globally for Regular Expression,Print [lines]
1603	GRID	Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (original name of AIDS)
1604	GRid	Global Release Identifier,a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI
1605	GriT	Girl raised in Texas (Woman presenting firm southern traits/beliefs)
1606	GRL	Greenland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1607	GRN	Grenada (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166),Goods Received Note
1608	Gs	Gigasecond
1609	GSA	U.S. General Services Administration
1610	GSD	Graphical Situation Display
1611	GSGB	(God send glamour boy 9-10/10)
1612	GSK	GlaxoSmithKline [good sexual karma]
1613	GSN	Game Show Network
1614	GSO	General Services Officer (U.S. Department of State)
1615	GSOH	Good Sense Of Humour
1616	GSP	Georges St-Pierre (Canadian MMA fighter)
1617	GSR	Gun Shot Residue
1618	GSS	Generic Security Services
1619	GSW	Gunshot wound
1620	GTD	Getting Things Done
1621	GTG	Got To Go (Internet chat)
1622	GTGN	Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
1623	GTK	Good To Know (Internet chat)
1624	GTM	Guatemala (ISO 3166 trigram)
1625	GU	Guam (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
1626	GUF	French Guiana (ISO 3166 trigram)
1627	GUILT	Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin
1628	GULCR	Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica
1629	GUT	Grand Unification Theory
1630	GV	Gigavolt
1631	GWARS	Ground Warfare System (simulation)
1632	GWAS	Grand Western Archery Society
1633	GWOT	Global War on Terrorism
1634	GXE	Gene-enivronment interaction
1635	GXM	Matrox Graphics eXpansion Module
1636	GY	Guyana (ISO 3166 digram)
1637	GZ	Ground Zero
1638	GZK	Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off (cosmic ray energies)
1639	h	Hecto
1640	H	Henry
1641	H1	First half of the year
1642	H2	Second half of the year
1643	HA	High Availability
1644	HAARP	High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
1645	HAART	Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy
1646	HAI	Human Awareness Institute
1647	HAL	Hardware Abstraction Layer
1648	HALO	High Altitude Low Opening (parachute jump)
1649	HAM	Amateur radio operator
1650	HANS	Head And Neck Support (device used in many race cars)
1651	HARM	High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile
1652	HAW	Heavy Antitank Weapon
1653	HAWK	Homing All the Way Killer (air defence system)
1654	HAZ	Heat-Affected Zone
1655	HAZMAT	Hazardous Materials
1656	HBCD	HexaBromoCycloDodecane
1657	HBO	Home Box Office
1658	HBR	Harvard Business Review
1659	HBT	Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
1660	HBV	Hepatitis B Virus
1661	HCCI	Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition
1662	HCF	Highest Common Factor
1663	HCSC	Higher Command and Staff Course
1664	HDL	High-Density Lipoprotein
1665	HDM	Human Decision-Making
1666	HDRA	Henry Doubleday Research Association
1667	He	Helium
1668	HE	High Explosive
1669	HEAT	High Explosive Anti-Tank (ammunition)
1670	HEBA	Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association
1671	HEER	High-Explosive Extended Range (ammunition)
1672	HEIC	Honourable East India Company
1673	HEMP	High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse
1674	HEOSS	High Earth Orbit Space Surveillance
1675	HEP	High-Explosive Plastic (ammunition)
1676	HEPA	High-Efficiency Particulate Air (filter)
1677	HESV	Heavy Engineering Support Vehicle
1678	HETT	Heavy Equipment Transporting Truck / Heavy Equipment Truck Tractor
1679	HEU	Highly Enriched Uranium
1680	Hf	Hafnium
1681	HF	High Frequency
1682	HFE	Human Fertilisation and Embryology (UK Act)
1683	HFE	The common-emitter current gain in a BJT transistor (also represented by βF). See: BJT
1684	HFEA	Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (UK)
1685	Hg	Mercury (Latin Hydrargyrum)
1686	HGC	UK Human Genetics Commission
1687	HGF	Human Growth Factor
1688	HGTV	Home & Garden Television
1689	HI	Hawaii (postal symbol)
1690	HIH	His (or Her) Imperial Highness
1691	HIM	His (or Her) Imperial Majesty
1692	HIMAD	High to Medium Altitude Air Defence (see also H/MAD)
1693	HIMEZ	High Altitude Missile Engagement Zone
1694	HIMYM	How I Met Your Mother
1695	HIPAA	U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
1696	Hipparcos	HIgh Precision Parallax COllecting Satellite
1697	Hird	Hurd of interfaces representing depth (cf. HURD)
1698	HiRISE	High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
1699	HIT	Health Information Technology
1700	HIV	Human Immunodeficiency Virus
1701	HIWT	Hobart Institute of Welding Technology
1702	HJD	Heliocentric Julian Day
1703	HK	Hong Kong (ISO 3166 digram)
1704	HKG	Hong Kong (ISO 3166 trigram)
1705	HKS	HyperKinetic Syndrome
1706	hL	Hectolitre
1707	HL	Holding Line
1708	HLL	High-Level Language
1709	HLN	Headline News
1710	HLOS	High Level Output Specification
1711	HM	Heard Island and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
1712	HMCE	Her/His Majesty's Customs and Excise (former UK government department; succeeded by HM Revenue and Customs)
1713	HMD	Heard and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1714	HMF	HydroxyMethyl Furfural
1715	HMO	Health maintenance organization
1716	HMP	Her Majesty's Prison
1717	HMRC	Her/His Majesty's Revenue and Customs
1718	HMSO	Her Majesty's Stationery Office
1719	HMV	His Master's Voice
1720	HN	Honduras (ISO 3166 digram)
1721	HND	Honduras (ISO 3166 trigram)
1722	Ho	Holmium
1723	HOLLAND	Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies
1724	HOSTAC	Helicopter Operations from Ships Other Than Aircraft Carriers
1725	HOT	Highly Optimised Tolerance
1726	HOTAS	Hands on throttle-and-stick
1727	HOV	High Occupancy Vehicle
1728	hp	horse power
1729	HPA	UK Health Protection Agency
1730	HPCL	Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
1731	HPLC	High Performance Liquid Chromatography
1732	HPT	High[er] Payoff Target
1733	HPV	Human Papilloma Virus
1734	HQ	HeadQuarters
1735	HRBL	High-level Representation of Behavior Language (original name of the Herbal language)
1736	HRD	Human Resource Development
1737	HRF	High iness Forces
1738	HRH	His (or Her) Royal Highness
1739	HRM	His (or Her) Royal Majesty
1740	HRM	Human Resource Management
1741	HRT	Hormone Replacement Therapy
1742	Hs	Hassium
1743	HSBC	The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
1744	HSC	Higher School Certificate
1745	HSM	High School Musical
1746	HSMAD	Human Science/Modeling and Analysis Data
1747	HSN	Home Shopping Network
1748	HSPH	Harvard School of Public Health
1749	HSSI	High-Speed Serial Interface
1750	HST	see entry
1751	HTA	HyperText Application
1752	HTFU	Harden The Fuck Up
1753	HTH	Hope That Helps
1754	HTI	Haiti (ISO 3166 trigram)
1755	HTR	Heated Towel Rail
1756	HTS	High-Temperature Superconducting wire
1757	HTTP	HyperText Transfer Protocol
1758	HU	Hungary (ISO 3166 digram)
1759	HUHA	Head up his/her ass (Marine salute; probably a backcronym)
1760	HUN	Hungary (ISO 3166 trigram)
1761	HURD	Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons (cf. Hird)
1762	HV	Upper Volta (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1984)
1763	HVAP	High Velocity Armour Piercing (ammunition)
1764	HVHF	High velocity human factors
1765	HVM	High Velocity Missile
1766	HVO	Upper Volta (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984)
1767	HWM	Hardware morphing (computer graphics rendering)
1768	HXB	The glycoprotein Tenascian C
1769	HZ	Haze (METAR Code)
1770	Hz	Hertz
1771	IA	Iowa (postal symbol)
1772	IAAL	I Am A Lawyer
1773	IAB	International Association for Biologicals
1774	IAD	Ion Assisted Deposition
1775	IADS	Integrated Air Defence System
1776	IAEA	International Atomic Energy Agency
1777	IAF	{i} Industrial Areas Foundation
1778	IAFG	Information Assurance Focus Group
1779	IANA	Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
1780	IANAL	I Am Not A Lawyer
1781	IAS	Image Assessment System
1782	IASIP	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
1783	IATA	International Air Transport Association
1784	IATF	International Automotive Task Force
1785	IATSE	International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
1786	IAUC	International Astronomical Union Circular
1787	IAW	In Accordance With
1788	IB	International Baccalaureate
1789	IBA	Important Bird Area
1790	IBD	Inflammatory Bowel Disease
1791	IBDM	Information Based Decision Making
1792	IBM	International Business Machines
1793	IBRD	International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (part of the World Bank)
1794	IBS	Irritable Bowel Syndrome
1795	IC	Ice Crystals (METAR Code),Integrated Circuit,[inner circle]
1796	ICANN	Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
1797	ICAO	International Civil Aviation Organization
1798	ICBM	Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
1799	ICBN	International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
1800	ICE	In case of emergency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
1801	ICES	International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
1802	ICF	Intelligent Community Forum
1803	ICMP	Internet Control Message Protocol
1804	ICNAF	International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (became NAFO in 1978)
1805	ICO	Intermediate Circular Orbit
1806	ICPE	International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology,the annual conference of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
1807	ICRAF	International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (a.k.a. World Agroforestry Centre since 2002)
1808	ICRISAT	International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
1809	ICRL	Individual Component Repair List
1810	ICRS	International Celestial Reference System
1811	ICSI	Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
1812	ICT	Information and communication technologies
1813	ICTH	Island Closest to Heaven/Hell Final Fantasy VIII
1814	ICV	Infantry Carrier Vehicle
1815	ICYMI	In Case You Missed It
1816	ID	Idaho (postal symbol),Identity,Indonesia (ISO 3166 digram),Infantry Division,Intelligent Design,ID10T Error,Idiot User Error (IT help desk inside joke)
1817	IDC	International Data Corporation
1818	IDDI	I don't do initialisms (see irony)
1819	IDGAF	I don't give a fuck
1820	IDK	I don't know
1821	IDL	Interface Definition Language
1822	IDN	Indonesia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1823	IEA	International Energy Agency
1824	IEC	International Electrotechnical Commission
1825	IED	Improvised Explosive Device
1826	IELTS	International English Language Testing System
1827	IER	Information Exchange Requirement
1828	IET	Initial Entry Training
1829	IET	Institution of Engineering and Technology
1830	IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
1831	IEW	Intelligence and Electronic Warfare
1832	IFAB	International Football Association Board
1833	IFAH	International Federation for Animal Health
1834	IFAP	International Federation of Agricultural Producers
1835	IFO	Identified Flying Object (see also UFO)
1836	IFOV	Instantaneous Field of View
1837	IFPI	International Federation of Phonographic Industries
1838	IFRB	International Frequency Registration Board
1839	IFV	Infantry Fighting Vehicle
1840	IG	Inspector General
1841	IGNOU	Indira Gandhi National Open University
1842	IGS	International Ground Station
1843	IHH	Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
1844	IHO	International Hydrographic Organization
1845	IHR	Institute for Historical Review
1846	IHSI	Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (Jesuit Historical Institute)
1847	II	Two (in Roman numerals)
1848	IICA	Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
1849	IIE	Innovative Interstellar Explorer
1850	III	Three (in Roman numerals)
1851	IIRC	If I Recall/Remember Correctly
1852	IISS	International Institute for Strategic Studies
1853	IJN	Imperial Japanese Navy (World War II)
1854	IJWP	Interim Joint Warfare Publication
1855	ILDS	Improved Landmine Detection System
1856	ILO	International Labour Organization
1857	ILRI	International Livestock Research Institute
1858	ILY	I Love You [pronounced ILL-LEE]
1859	IM	Instant Message (internet speech)
1860	IMBD	International Migratory Bird Day
1861	IMDb	Internet Movie Database
1862	IME	In My Experience
1863	IMHO	In My Humble/Honest Opinion
1864	IML	International Mister Leather
1865	IMNSHO	In My Not So Humble Opinion
1866	IMPAC	International Merchant Purchase Authorization Card
1867	IMPACT	International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce
1868	IMPATT	IMPact Avalanche Transit Time diode
1869	IMPT	Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
1870	IMRL	Individual Material iness List
1871	IMRO-Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization	Irish Music Rights Organisation
1872	IMsL	International Ms. Leather
1873	IMT	Integrated Management Tool
1874	IMU	International Mathematical Union
1875	IN	India (ISO 3166 digram),Indiana (postal symbol),Infantry
1876	In	Indium
1877	INA	Immigration and Nationality Act
1878	INAS	International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
1879	INCITS	InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
1880	IND	India (ISO 3166 trigram)
1881	INDIGO	(U.S.) INtelligence DIvision Gaming Operation
1882	inet	the Internet
1883	INFORMS	(U.S.) Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
1884	INFOSEC	Information Security
1885	INLA	Irish National Liberation Army
1886	INMARSAT	International Maritime Satellite organization
1887	INRIA	Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
1888	INS	Immigration and Naturalization Service
1889	InSAR	Interferometric synthetic aperture radar
1890	INST	Information Standards and Technology
1891	INTERFET	International Force for East Timor
1892	INTSUM	Intelligence Summary
1893	IO	British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 digram)
1894	IOT	British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 trigram)
1895	IPB	Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
1896	IPL	Inferior Parietal Lobule
1897	IPO	Initial Public Offering
1898	IPT	Integrated Product/Project Team
1899	IPTS	Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
1900	IPTV	Internet Protocol TeleVision
1901	IPW	Interrogation of Prisoners of War
1902	Ir	Iridium
1903	IRAD	Internal Research and Development
1904	IRAN	(I) Inspect and Repair As Necessary
1905	IRAS	Infrared Astronomical Satellite
1906	IRB	International Rugby Board
1907	IRBM	Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
1908	IREA	Intermountain Rural Electric Association
1909	IRINN	Islamic Republic of Iran News Network
1910	IRL	Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram),Industrial Research Limited,Indy Racing League,In real life
1911	IRN	Iran (ISO 3166 trigram)
1912	IRO	International Refugee Organisation
1913	IRQ	Iraq (ISO 3166 trigram)
1914	IRS	U.S. Internal Revenue Service
1915	IRST	Infra-red Search and Track
1916	IS	Islamic State, or: Iceland (ISO 3166 digram)
1917	ISAAA	International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications
1918	ISAR	Inverse SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)
1919	ISB	Intermediate Staging Base
1920	ISBN	International Standard Book Number (ISO 2108)
1921	ISCCP	International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
1922	ISCII	Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange
1923	ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
1924	ISEF	Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
1925	ISEN	Internet Search Environment Number
1926	ISF	Internal Security Force
1927	ISIL	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
1928	ISIS	Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or: Institute for Science and International Security
1929	ISL	Iceland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1930	ISLN	International Standard Lawyer Number (used initially by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell)
1931	ISMB	International Society of Matrix Biologists
1932	ISMC	Intelligent Sounding Meaningless Conversation
1933	ISOGP	Indian Society of Orthodontics for General Practitioners [2]
1934	ISPE	International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
1935	ISRO	Indian Space Research Organisation
1936	ISSCR	International Society for Stem Cell Research
1937	ISSN	International standard serial number (ISO 3297)
1938	ISTC	Institute of Scientific and Technical Communications (UK)
1939	ISTS	Intel Science Talent Search
1940	ITA	Italy (ISO 3166 trigram)
1941	ITAG	Inertial Terrain-Aided Guidance
1942	ITALY	I'll Truly Always Love You
1943	ITAS	Improved Target Acquisition Sight
1944	ITC	InferoTemporal Cortex (neurophysiology)
1945	ITCZ	Intertropical Convergence Zone
1946	ITEC	Information Technology Exposition & Conference
1947	ITEMS	Interactive Tactical Environment Management System
1948	ITER	International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
1949	ITF	International Tennis Federation
1950	ITK	In The Know
1951	ITN	Independent Television News (British)
1952	ITT	International Telephone and Telegraph (U.S.)
1953	ITTO	International Tropical Timber Organization
1954	IUCN	International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union)
1955	IV	Four (in Roman numerals),IntraVenous (as in intravenous drip or intravenous therapy)
1956	Iveco	Industrial Vehicles Corporation
1957	IVF	In Vitro Fertilisation
1958	IVI	Interchangeable Virtual Instrument
1959	IVIS	Inter-Vehicle Information System
1960	IVL	Inter-Visibility Line
1961	IVM	In Vitro [Oocyte] Maturation
1962	IVO	In Vicinity Of
1963	IW	Information Warfare
1964	IWARS	Infantry Warrior Simulation
1965	IWC	International Whaling Commission
1966	IWW	Industrial Workers of the World
1967	IX	Nine (in Roman numerals)
1968	IXT	IntraText digital library; IntraText lexical hypertext
1969	J	Joule
1970	J1	Joint [Manpower &] Personnel Directorate
1971	J2	Joint Intelligence Directorate
1972	J3	Joint Operations Directorate
1973	J4	Joint Logistics Directorate
1974	J5	Joint Strategic Plans & Policy Directorate
1975	J7	Joint Operational Plans & Interoperability Directorate
1976	JAFT	Just A Field Test
1977	JAL	Japan Airlines
1978	JALLC	Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (NATO)
1979	JAM	Jamaica (ISO 3166 trigram)
1980	JAMA	Journal of the American Medical Association
1981	JANET	Joint Academic Network
1982	JATO	Jet-Assisted Take-Off
1983	JB	Jail Bait
1984	JB	Junior Branch
1985	JBFSA	Joint Blue Force Situational Awareness
1986	JCDB	Joint Common Data Base
1987	JCDS	Joint Chiefs of the Defence Staff
1988	JCIDS	Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System
1989	JCL	Job Control Language
1990	JCP	Java Community Process
1991	JCS	Joint Chiefs of Staff
1992	JCW	Juggalo Championship Wrestling
1993	JDBC	Java Data Base Connectivity
1994	JDEM	Joint Dark Energy Mission
1995	JDL	Jewish Defense League
1996	JEFX	Joint Expeditionary Force eXperiment
1997	JET	Joint European Torus
1998	JEZ	Joint Engagement Zone
1999	JFACC	Joint Force Air Component Commander
2000	JFACTSU	U.S. Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standards Unit
2001	JFC	Joint Force Commander
2002	JFK	John Fitzgerald Kennedy or the airport named after him.
2003	JFLCC	Joint Force Land Component Commander
2004	JFMCC	Joint Force Maritime Component Commander
2005	JFO	Journal of Field Ornithology
2006	JFSOCC	Joint Force Special Operations Component Commander
2007	JFTX	Joint Field Training Exercise
2008	JH	Japan Highway Public Corporation
2009	JH	Jharkhand (Indian state code)
2010	JI	Joint Implementation
2011	JIB	Joint Information Bureau
2012	JIC	Joint Intelligence Centre
2013	JINI	Java Intelligent Network Infrastructure
2014	JITC	Joint Interoperability Test Command
2015	JIVE	Joint Institute for VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) in Europe
2016	JJAP	Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
2017	JL	Japan Airlines (IATA airline designator)
2018	JLA	Justice League of America
2019	JM	Jamaica (ISO 3166 digram)
2020	JMS	Java Message Service
2021	JO	Jordan (ISO 3166 digram)
2022	JOA	Joint Operations Area
2023	JOPES	Joint Operations Planning and Execution System
2024	JOR	Jordan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2025	JOTS	Joint Operations Tactical System
2026	JPL	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2027	JPN	Japan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2028	JPOW	Joint Project Optic Windmill
2029	JRDF	Joint Rapid Deployment Forces
2030	JRE	Java Runtime Environment
2031	JREF	James Randi Educational Foundation
2032	JROC	Joint Requirements Oversight Council
2033	JROCM	JROC Memorandum
2034	JRRF	Joint Rapid Reaction Force
2035	JRSAI	Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
2036	JSAP	Japan Society of Applied Physics
2037	JSCSC	Joint Services Command and Staff College
2038	JSEAD	Joint Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (see SEAD)
2039	JSF	Joint Strike Fighter
2040	JSIMS	Joint Simulation System
2041	JSOA	Joint Special Operations Area
2042	JSOTF	Joint Special Operations Task Force
2043	JSP	JavaServer Page
2044	JSP	Joint Services Publication
2045	JSR	Java Specification Request
2046	JSS	Joint Support Ship Project
2047	JTC	Joint Training Confederation
2048	JTF	Joint Task Force
2049	JTFEX	Joint Task Force Exercise
2050	JTLS	Joint Theater Level Simulation
2051	JTMD	Joint Theatre Missile Defence
2052	JTN	Johnston Atoll (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
2053	JUGFET	JUnction Gate Field-Effect Transistor
2054	JUICE	JUpiter ICy Moon Explorer
2055	JUO	Joint Urban Operations
2056	JV	Joint Venture,Junior Varsity
2057	JW	Jehovah's Witnesses
2058	JWARS	Joint Warfare System (simulation)
2059	JWP	Joint Warfare Publication
2060	JY	Japanese Yen
2061	JZ	Joint Zone
2062	K	Kelvin,Potassium (Latin Kalium),Tanker (aircraft designation code)
2063	k	Kilo-
2064	K	picokelvin
2065	K9	Canine Police Unit
2066	Ka	Kamov Design Bureau
2067	kA	Kiloampere
2068	KA	Knowledge Acquisition,Karnataka (Indian state code)
2069	KAF	Kandahar Air Field
2070	KANUKOKA	Kalaallit Nunaanni Kommunit Kattuffiannit (Kalaallisut, Greenlandic Communities Association
2071	KARNAC	Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context
2072	KARR	Knight Automated Roving Robot (Knight Rider character)
2073	KATUSA	Korean Augmentation To United States Army
2074	KAZ	Kazakhstan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2075	KBE	Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
2076	KBO	Kuiper Belt Object
2077	KBVB	Koninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond (Dutch for Royal Belgian Football Association)
2078	kC	Kilocoulomb
2079	KCK	Kansas City,Kansas,Koma Civakên Kurdistan (Kurdish, Union of Communities in Kurdistan)
2080	KCL	King's College London
2081	KCMO	Kansas City,Missouri (pronounced: K-C-Moe)
2082	KCS	Kansas City Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark)
2083	KD	Kawasaki Disease,Kraft Dinner
2084	KE	Kenya (ISO 3166 digram),Kinetic Energy,Knowledge Engineering
2085	KEDO	Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
2086	KEN	Kenya (ISO 3166 trigram)
2087	KERA	Kentucky Education Reform Act (of 1990)
2088	kerma	Kinetic Energy Released in MAterial / in MAtter / per unit MAss
2089	KESR	Kent and East Sussex Railway.
2090	KET	Kentucky Educational Television,Key English Test
2091	kF	Kilofarad
2092	KFC	Kentucky Fried Chicken
2093	KFOR	UN Kosovo Force
2094	KFUPM	King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
2095	KG	Kyrgyzstan (ISO 3166 digram)
2096	KGO	Knight of the Guelphic Order of Hanover
2097	KGZ	Kyrgyzstan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2098	KH	Cambodia (ISO 3166 digram)
2099	kH	Kilohenry
2100	KHL	Kontinental Hockey League
2101	KHM	Cambodia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2102	KHz	Kilohertz
2103	Ki	Kibi
2104	KI	Kiribati (ISO 3166 digram)
2105	KIA	Killed In Action
2106	KIDS	Knowledge-based Integrated Design System
2107	KIR	Kiribati (ISO 3166 trigram)
2108	KISS	Keep It Simple,Stupid / Keep It Short and Simple,Korean Intelligence Support System
2109	KIT	Keep In Touch
2110	KITECH	Korean Institute of Industrial Technology
2111	KITT	Knight Industries Two Thousand, Knight Industries Three Thousand
2112	kJ	Kilojoule
2113	kK	Kilokelvin
2114	KKK	Ku Klux Klan
2115	kL	Kilolitre
2116	KLENOT	KLEť Observatory Near Earth and Other unusual objects observations Team and Telescope
2117	KLOC	Kilo Lines Of Code
2118	KM	Comoros,Knowledge Management
2119	kN	Kilonewton
2120	KNA	Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 trigram)
2121	KNVB	Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond (Dutch for Royal Dutch Football Association)
2122	KO	Knocked Out
2123	KOR	Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram)
2124	KP	Kim Possible
2125	KPMG	Klynveld,Peat,Marwick,Goerdeler
2126	KPNO	Kitt Peak National Observatory
2127	KQ	Kenya Airways (IATA airline designator)
2128	KR	Kiribati (FIPS 10-4 country code), Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 digram)
2129	Kr	Krypton
2130	KS	Kansas (postal symbol)
2131	kS	Kilosiemens
2132	KSC	Kennedy Space Center
2133	KSI	Killed or Seriously Injured
2134	KSU	Kansas State University
2135	KT	Knight of the Order of the Thistle, Knights Templar
2136	kT	Kilotesla
2137	KTS	Knight of the Tower and Sword (of Portugal)
2138	KUW	Kuwait (UNDP country code,IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
2139	kV	Kilovolt
2140	KV	Kosovo
2141	kW	Kilowatt
2142	KW	Kuwait (ISO 3166 digram)
2143	KWB	Kids' WB!
2144	KWT	Kuwait (ISO 3166 trigram)
2145	KX	Cayman Airways (IATA airline designator)
2146	KY	Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 digram), Kentucky (postal symbol)
2147	KZ	Kazakhstan (ISO 3166 digram)
2148	KZN	KwaZulu-Natal
2149	La	Lanthanum
2150	LA	Laos (ISO 3166 digram), Louisiana (postal symbol), Los Angeles
2151	LAAS	Local Area Augmentation System, Los Angeles Astronomical Society
2152	LAB	Logistics Assault Base
2153	LabVIEW	Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench
2154	LACMA	Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2155	LAD	Laser Aiming Device
2156	LADW	Local Air Defence Warning
2157	LAESI	Local Authority & Emergency Service Information
2158	LANL	Los Alamos National Laboratory
2159	LAO	Laos (ISO 3166 trigram)
2160	LAR	Light Armoured Reconnaissance, Logistics Assistance Representative
2161	LARC	Livermore Advanced Research Computer (cf. LLNL)
2162	LARP	Live-Action Role-Playing
2163	Laser	Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (cf. Maser)
2164	LAT	Lowest Astronomical Tide (nautical charts),Licensed Athletic Trainer (used in many of the United States; see www.oata.org)
2165	LATA	Local Access Transport Area
2166	LATCH	Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children (U.S. standard for attachment points for child safety seats in passenger cars)
2167	LAV	Land Assault Vehicle, Light Armoured Vehicle, Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus
2168	LAW	Light Antitank Weapon
2169	LAX	Los Angeles International Airport, The Latin American Xchange (professional wrestling)
2170	LB	Lebanon (ISO 3166 digram)
2171	LBH	Light Battlefield Helicopter, Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands
2172	LBJ	Lady Bird Johnson,LeBron James,Light Bulb Joke,Little Beagle Johnson (the dog owned by Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson),Lyndon Baines Johnson
2173	LBN	Lebanon (ISO 3166 trigram)
2174	LBNL	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2175	LBR	Liberia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2176	LBS	Location-Based Services
2177	LBT	Large Binocular Telescope
2178	LBW	Leg Before Wicket
2179	LBY	Libya (ISO 3166 trigram)
2180	LCA	Saint Lucia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2181	LCC	Land Component Commander
2182	LCCP	Light Contingency Communications Package
2183	LCD	Liquid Crystal Display
2184	LCM	Least/Lowest Common Multiple
2185	LCS	League of Legends Championship Series
2186	LDA	Lateral Drift Apparatus (paratroops)
2187	LDC	Lesser Developing/Developed Country
2188	LDL	Low-Density Lipoprotein
2189	LDV	Local Defence Volunteers (British Home Guard)
2190	LDW	Lane Departure Warning (ADAS)
2191	LEC	Local Exchange Carrier
2192	LED	Light-Emitting Diode
2193	LEGAD	Legal Advice
2194	Legs	level emotion gad speed
2195	LEMOSS	Long-Endurance MObile Submarine Simulator
2196	LEN	Large Extension Node
2197	LEP	Large Electron-Positron collider
2198	LER	Loss-Exchange Ratio
2199	LEU	Low-Enriched Uranium
2200	LF	Low Frequency
2201	LFO	Low Frequency Oscillation / Oscillator
2202	LFTR	Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
2203	LGB	Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual
2204	LGBT	Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual,Transgender
2205	LGBTQ	Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual,Transgender,Queer
2206	LGLO	Love God,Love Others
2207	LGM	Little Green Men
2208	LGS	Landsat Ground Station
2209	LH	Luteinising Hormone
2210	LHC	Large Hadron Collider
2211	LHS	Left Hand Side
2212	LI	Fifty-one (in Roman numerals),Liechtenstein (ISO 3166 digram)
2213	Li	Lithium
2214	LIBOR	London Interbank Offered Rate
2215	LIBS	Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
2216	LIE	Liechtenstein (ISO 3166 trigram)
2217	LIGO	Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
2218	LINEAR	Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
2219	LISA	Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
2220	LIVE	Liquid Inertial Vibration Eliminator
2221	LJJ	Lord Justices of Appeal
2222	LK	Sri Lanka (ISO 3166 digram)
2223	LKA	Sri Lanka (ISO 3166 trigram)
2224	LKR4	Linkwitz-Riley 4th order (audio crossover type)
2225	LLAD	Low Level Air Defence
2226	LLB	Legum Baccalaureus (Latin: Bachelor of Laws)
2227	LLC	Limited Liability Company
2228	LLLTV	Low-Light Level Television
2229	LLNL	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2230	LLP	Limited Liability Partnership
2231	LLTR	Low-Level Transit Route
2232	LMAO	Laughing My Ass Off (Internet shorthand)
2233	LMB	Lick My Balls
2234	LMFAO	Laughing My F**king Ass Off (Internet shorthand,electro-hop duo)
2235	LMN	Lifetime Movie Network
2236	LMS	Like My Status (Internet shorthand)
2237	LMV	() Light Motor Vehicle
2238	LNER	London and North Eastern Railway
2239	LNG	Liquefied Natural Gas
2240	LNO	Liaison Officer
2241	LNR	Ligue Nationale de Rugby (French for: 'National Rugby League')
2242	LOA	Limit Of Advance
2243	LOC	Level of Operational Capability, Limited Operational Capability
2244	LOD	Limit of Detection,see Detection limit
2245	LoD	Lines of Development (UK)
2246	LOE	Level of Effort
2247	LOFAR	Low Frequency Analysis and Recording
2248	LOGPAC	Logistics Package
2249	LOL	Laughing Out Loud (Internet shorthand)
2250	LOMEZ	Low Altitude Missile Engagement Zone
2251	LONEOS	Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search
2252	LOOGY	Lefty One-Out GuY,a sometimes pejorative nickname for the left-handed specialist in baseball
2253	LORTID	LOng Range Target IDentification
2254	LOS	Line Of Sight
2255	LOSAT	Line-Of-Sight Anti-Tank (missile)
2256	LOTA	Licentiate of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
2257	LOTIS	Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System
2258	LOTS	Logistics Over-The-Shore
2259	LP	Linkin Park,Linkup Point,Listening Post,Long Playing record,Louisiana Pacific (cf. LP Field)
2260	LPC	Linear Predictive Coding
2261	LPD	Landing Platform Dock (Navy hull classification),Low Probability of Detection
2262	LPG	Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cf. LNG)
2263	LPI	Low Probability of Intercept
2264	LPS	Landsat Processing System,LipoPolySaccharide
2265	Lr	Lawrencium
2266	LR	Liberia (ISO 3166 digram)
2267	LRC	Logistics iness Center
2268	LRGW	Long-Range Guided Weapon
2269	LRICBM	Limited Range ICBM
2270	LRIP	Low Rate Initial Production
2271	LRP	Logistics Release Point
2272	LRPE	Long-Range Planning Element
2273	LRS	Long Range Surveillance
2274	LRU	Line-Replaceable Unit
2275	LSAT	Law School Admission Test (often pronounced as 'el-SAT')
2276	LSI	Large-Scale Integration
2277	LSIF	Labour Sponsored Investment Fund
2278	LSND	Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector
2279	LSO	Lesotho (ISO 3166 trigram)
2280	LSST	Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
2281	LST	Landing Ship,Tank (World War II; also known,not entirely affectionately,as 'Large Slow Target')
2282	LSVW	Light Support Vehicle,Wheeled
2283	LT	Lithuania (ISO 3166 digram)
2284	Lt	Lieutenant
2285	LtC	Lieutenant-Colonel (U.S.)
2286	LTC	Long-Term Costing
2287	Ltd	Limited
2288	LTDP	Long-Term Defence Plan
2289	LTG	Lieutenant General,Lightning (METAR Code)
2290	LTI	Linear Time-Invariant
2291	LTM	Acronym for Laughing To Myself
2292	LTP	Long-Term Potentiation
2293	LTU	Lithuania (ISO 3166 trigram)
2294	LU	Acronym Love You
2295	LU	Loonatics Unleashed
2296	Lu	Lutetium
2297	LUCA	Last Universal Common Ancestor
2298	LUG	Linux User Group
2299	LULU	Locally Unwanted Land Use (urbanism)
2300	LUT	Limited User Test (ing),Local User Terminal
2301	LUVW	Light Utility Vehicle,Wheeled
2302	LUX	Luxembourg (ISO 3166 trigram)
2303	LV	Las Vegas,Latvia (ISO 3166 digram),Launch Vehicle,Leading Vehicle,Leave,Left Ventricle,Level Valve,Linking Verb,Liverpool Victoria
2304	LVA	Latvia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2305	LVAD	Left Ventricular Assist Device,Low-Velocity Airdrop
2306	LVEF	Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
2307	LW	Land Warrior,Low Water (nautical charts)
2308	Lw	Lawrencium (obsolete 1963)
2309	LWR	Laser warning receiver
2310	LWRC	Land Warfare Resources Corporation
2311	LWS	Land Warrior System
2312	LX	Electrics (theatrical term)
2313	LX	Luxembourg (amateur radio ITU prefix),Swiss International Air Lines (IATA code)
2314	LY	Libya (ISO 3166 digram),Lithuania (amateur radio ITU prefix)
2315	LYAO	Laugh Your Ass Off
2316	LYLAS	Love You Like A Sister
2317	LZ	Bulgaria (amateur radio ITU prefix),Landing Zone
2318	M	Mega-,One thousand (in Roman numerals)
2319	m	Metre,Milli
2320	MA	Marijuana Anonymous,Master of Arts,Massachusetts (postal symbol),Megaampere,Morocco (ISO 3166 digram)
2321	Ma	Megaannum
2322	mA	Milliampere
2323	MAA	Mathematical Association of America
2324	MAAC	Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
2325	MACE	Multi-Agent Computing Environment
2326	MACHO	MAssive Compact Halo Object
2327	MADD	Mothers Against Drunk Driving,MyoAdenylate Deaminase Deficiency,Multiply-Add
2328	MAF	Maintenance Action Form
2329	MAGA	Make America Great Again
2330	MAGIC	Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (telescope)
2331	MAGNETAR	Metaprogrammable AGent NETwork ARchitecture
2332	MAGTF	Marine Air-Ground Task Force
2333	Mahasz	Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége (Hungarian for: 'Association of Hungarian Record Companies')
2334	MALD	Miniature Air-Launched Decoy
2335	MANPADS	MAN-Portable Air Defence System
2336	MANPRINT	MANpower and PeRsonnel INTegration
2337	MAO	Molėtų astronomijos observatorija (Moletai Astronomical Observatory),MonoAmine Oxidase
2338	MAOI	Monoamine oxidase inhibitor
2339	MAPS	Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship
2340	MAR	Morocco (ISO 3166 trigram)
2341	MarBEF	Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
2342	MARCENT	United States Marine Forces Central Command
2343	MARFORCC	Marine Force Component Commander
2344	MASAS	Monte Agliale Supernovae and Asteroid Survey
2345	Maser	Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
2346	MASH	Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
2347	MASINT	Measurement And Signature Intelligence
2348	MAVS	Mobile Artillery Vehicle System
2349	MB	Manitoba (postal symbol),Medal of Bravery (Canada)
2350	MBA	Main Battle Area,Main Belt Asteroid,Masters of Business Administration
2351	MBBL	(U.S. Armor Center) Mounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory
2352	MBCC	Migratory Bird Conservation Commission (U.S.)
2353	MBCS	Multi-Byte Character Set
2354	MBI	Moody Bible Institute
2355	MBIDST	Member of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists
2356	MBM	Meat and Bone Meal
2357	MBT	Main Battle Tank
2358	MBTI	Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
2359	mC	Millicoulomb
2360	MCDL	Model Composition Definition Language
2361	MCFT	Modified Compression Field Theory
2362	MCG	Melbourne Cricket Ground
2363	MCIS	Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
2364	MCM	Mine Counter-Measures
2365	MCMV	Mine Counter-Measure Vessel
2366	MCR	My Chemical Romance
2367	MCSF	Marine Corps Security Forces
2368	MCT	Movement Control Team
2369	MCTIS	Mounted Co-operative Target Identification System
2370	Md	Mendelevium
2371	MDNA	Madonna's 12th studio album title (2012)
2372	MDO	Membership Driven Organisation
2373	MDP	Markov Decision Process
2374	MDT	Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-6 hours)
2375	MDV	Maldives (ISO 3166 trigram)
2376	Me	Messerschmitt
2377	MEAC	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (ME-ac)
2378	MECO	Main engine cutoff (NASA code for point in Space Shuttle assent when three main engines are shut down prior to External Tank (ET) separation)
2379	MEDEVAC	Medical evacuation
2380	MEDS	Mission Essential Data Set
2381	MEG	MagnetoEncephaloGraphy
2382	MELT	Metallic Line/Loop Test (ing)
2383	MEMS	Microelectromechanical System
2384	MER	Mars Exploration Rover
2385	MERL	Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
2386	MES	Manufacturing Execution Systems
2387	METAR	[Meteorological] Aviation Routine weather report
2388	METOC	Meteorological and Oceanographic
2389	MeV	Megaelectronvolt
2390	MEX	Mexico (ISO 3166 trigram)
2391	MEZ	Missile Engagement Zone
2392	MF	Megafarad
2393	mF	Millifarad
2394	MG	Machine Gun,Madagascar (ISO 3166 digram),Major General,Morris Garage
2395	MGPAM	My Gym Partner's a Monkey
2396	MGS	Mobile Gun System
2397	mH	Millihenry
2398	MHC	Major Histocompatibility Complex
2399	MHHW	Mean Higher High Water (nautical charts)
2400	MHL	Marshall Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
2401	MHLW	Mean Higher Low Water (nautical charts)
2402	MHRA	(UK) Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
2403	MHW	Mean High Water (nautical charts)
2404	MHWN	Mean High Water Neaps (nautical charts)
2405	MHWS	Mean High Water Springs (nautical charts)
2406	MHz	Megahertz
2407	Mi	Mebi
2408	MIA	Missing In Action
2409	MICLIC	Mine Clearing Line Charge
2410	MICOM	Missile Command
2411	MID	Midway Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
2412	MIDAS	Man-machine Integration Design and Analysis System
2413	MIDI	Musical Instrument Digital Interface
2414	MIDS	Multi-Function Information Distribution System
2415	MIFG	Shallow Fog (METAR Code)
2416	MIKE	Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants
2417	MIL	Man-In-the-Loop
2418	MILC	Mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera
2419	MILF	Mother I'd Like to Fuck
2420	MIMOSA	MIcroMeasurements Of Satellite Acceleration
2421	MIMPT	Member of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
2422	MIRA	MILAN Infra-Red Acquisition (thermal sight)
2423	MIRV	Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle
2424	MISREP	Mission Report
2425	MISSI	Multilevel Information System Security Initiative
2426	MITL	Man-In-The-Loop
2427	MITS	see entry
2428	mJ	Millijoule
2429	MJD	Modified Julian Day
2430	mK	Millikelvin
2431	MKG	Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (American basketball player)
2432	MKSA	Metre-Kilogram-Second-Ampere (system of units)
2433	mL	Millilitre
2434	MLB	Major League Baseball
2435	MLC	Member of the Legislative Council (in India)
2436	MLE	Maximum likelihood estimation
2437	MLHW	Mean Lower High Water (nautical charts)
2438	MLI	Mali (ISO 3166 trigram)
2439	MLL	Major League Lacrosse
2440	MLLW	Mean Lower Low Water (nautical charts)
2441	MLP	My Little Pony
2442	MLT	Malta (ISO 3166 trigram)
2443	MLW	Mean Low Water (nautical charts)
2444	MLWN	Mean Low Water Neaps (nautical charts)
2445	MLWS	Mean Low Water Springs (nautical charts)
2446	Mm	Megametre
2447	mm	Millimetre
2448	MMEV	Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle
2449	MMI	Magical MonkeyZ Inc.
2450	MMI	Man-Machine Interface
2451	MMI	McLean Meditation Institute
2452	MMIC	McLean Meditation Institute Certified
2453	MMO	Massively Multiplayer Online (computer game)
2454	MMOR	Master of Management in Operations Research
2455	MMORPG	Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
2456	MMPR	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
2457	MMS	Multimission Modular Spacecraft
2458	Mn	Manganese
2459	mN	Millinewton
2460	MNB	Multinational Brigade
2461	MNE	Montenegro (ISO 3166 trigram)
2462	MNMF	Multi-National Maritime Force
2463	MNP	Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
2464	MNS	Mission Needs Statement
2465	Mo	Molybdenum
2466	MOA	Museum of Art (Brigham Young University)
2467	MOCAS	Mechanization Of Contract Administration Services
2468	MoD	Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) and various other countries
2469	modem	Modulator-Demodulator
2470	Moe	Marvel of entertainment
2471	MOE	Measure Of Effectiveness
2472	MOF	Ministry of Finance (Japan)
2473	MOFA	Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)
2474	MOID	Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance
2475	MOJWA	Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa
2476	MOLO	Mobile Other Licensed Operator (UK)
2477	MOM	Master's Degree in Oriental medicine
2478	MOM	Message Oriented Middleware
2479	MoM	Multiple of the median
2480	MoMA	Museum of Modern Art (NYC)
2481	MOND	Modified Newtonian Dynamics
2482	MOO	Measure Of Outcome
2483	MOPP	Mission-Oriented Protective Posture
2484	MORP	Meteorite Observation and Recovery Project
2485	MOSFET	Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
2486	MOT	Ministry of Transport (UK)
2487	MOTA	Member of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
2488	MOTESS	Moving Object and Transient Event Search System
2489	MOU	Memorandum Of Understanding
2490	MOW	Maintenance of way (also MW)
2491	MOZ	Mozambique (ISO 3166 trigram)
2492	MPa	Megapascal
2493	mPa	Millipascal
2494	MPAA	Motion Picture Association of America
2495	MPEC	Minor Planet Electronic Circular
2496	MPEG	Motion Pictures (Coding) Experts Group
2497	MPEV	Multi-Purpose Engineering Vehicle
2498	MPF	Maritime Prepositioning Force
2499	MPFC	Medial PreFrontal Cortex
2500	MPG	Miles Per Gallon
2501	MPMC	Medial PreMotor Cortex
2502	MPSI	Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland
2503	MPSoC	MultiProcessor System-on-Chip
2504	MPSRON	Maritime Propositioning Ship Squadron
2505	MR	Mauritania (ISO 3166 digram)
2506	MRAV	Multi-Role Armoured Vehicle
2507	MRBM	Medium Range Ballistic Missile
2508	MRC	Maintenance Requirements Card
2509	MRD	Motorized Rifle Division
2510	MRGW	Medium-Range Guided Weapon
2511	MRI	Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2512	MRL	Multiple Rocket Launcher
2513	MRPharmS	Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Great Britain)
2514	MRS	Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
2515	MRSA	Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
2516	MRTFB	U.S. Major Range and Test Facility Base
2517	Ms	Megasecond
2518	mS	Millisiemens
2519	MSD	Minimum Safe Distance
2520	MSDB	Multi Source Data Base
2521	MSE	Multiple Subscriber Element
2522	MSG	Message
2523	MSLP	Mean Sea Level Pressure
2524	MSNBC	Microsoft National Broadcasting Company Cable news channel (see also msnbc.com)
2525	MSO	Multiple System Operator
2526	MSPB	Merit Systems Protection Board
2527	MSSA	Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
2528	Mt	Meitnerium
2529	mT	Millitesla
2530	MTBF	Mean Time Between Failures
2531	MtF	Male-to-female transsexual
2532	MTG	Magic: The Gathering
2533	MTQ	Martinique (ISO 3166 trigram)
2534	MTT	Methylthiazol tetrazolium (assay)
2535	MTTF	Mean Time To Failure
2536	MTTR	Mean Time To Recover
2537	MTWS	MAGTF Tactical Warfare System
2538	MUS	Mauritius (ISO 3166 trigram)
2539	mV	Millivolt
2540	MVC	Missouri Valley Conference
2541	MVFC	Missouri Valley Football Conference
2542	MVNO	Mobile virtual network operator
2543	mW	Milliwatt
2544	MWESH	Machismo Wizards Extended SHelter (operating system)
2545	MWI	Malawi (ISO 3166 trigram)
2546	MWOA	Mount Wilson Observatory Association
2547	MWTB	Mounted Warfare Test Bed
2548	MY	Malaysia (ISO 3166 digram)
2549	MYOB	Mind Your Own Business
2550	MYS	Malaysia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2551	MYT	Mayotte (ISO 3166 trigram)
2552	n	Nano
2553	N/A	Not Available, Not Applicable, or: No Answer
2554	N3F	National Fantasy Fan Federation
2555	nA	Nanoampere
2556	Na	Sodium (Latin Natrium)
2557	NAA	N-Acetylaspartate
2558	NAAD	North American Air Defense
2559	NAAQS	National Ambient Air Quality Standards
2560	NAAWS	NATO Anti-Air Warfare System
2561	NAC	National Agency Check,U.S. Naval Avionics Center,U.S. Navy Advanced Concepts,North Atlantic Council,Northern Area Command
2562	NACC	North Atlantic Cooperation Council
2563	NACISA	NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency
2564	NACMA	NATO Air Command and Control System Management Agency
2565	NACRA	North America Caribbean Rugby Association (more specifically rugby union)
2566	NAEC	U.S. Naval Air Engineering Center
2567	NAFERA	Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act
2568	NAFLD	NonAlcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
2569	NAFO	Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
2570	NAFTA	North American Free Trade Agreement
2571	NAGPRA	Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
2572	NAICS	North American Industry Classification System
2573	NAIL	Neurotics Anonymous
2574	NAILS	National Airspace Integrated Logistics System
2575	NAIRU	Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment
2576	NAK	Negative Acknowledge
2577	NAM	Namibia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2578	NAMBLA	North American Man-Boy Love Association
2579	NAMRL	Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory
2580	NaN	Not A Number (computing)
2581	NAO	UK National Audit Office
2582	NAPS	Navy Acquisition Procedures Supplement
2583	NARA	(U.S.) National Archives and Records Administration
2584	NARAL	National Abortion Rights Action League
2585	NARDAC	Naval Regional Data Automation Center
2586	NARDIC	U.S. Navy Acquisition Research and Development Information Center
2587	NARPV	National Association for Remotely Piloted Vehicles
2588	NASCAR	National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
2589	NASDAQ	National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
2590	NASED	National Association of State Election Directors [1][2]
2591	NASH	Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
2592	NASP	National Aerospace Plane
2593	NASS	National Association of Secretaries of State [3]
2594	NatGeo	National Geographic
2595	NaUKMA	National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
2596	NAV	Navigation[al]
2597	NAVCAMS	Naval Communications Area Master Station
2598	NAVCC	National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
2599	NAVCENT	Naval Forces U.S. Central Command
2600	NAVDAC	Naval Data Automation Command
2601	NAVEUR	Naval Forces U.S. European Command
2602	NAVFOR	Naval Force
2603	NAVMACS	Naval Modular Automatic Communication Subsystem
2604	NAVNET	Navy Network
2605	NAVS	Non-Cooperative Airborne Vector Scoring
2606	NAVSAT	Navigation Satellite
2607	NAVSPACECOM	U.S. Navy Space Command
2608	NAVSPASUR	U.S. Naval Space Surveillance System
2609	NAVSTAR	Navigation Satellite Timing And Ranging
2610	NAVTACNET	Navy Tactical Network
2611	NAWC	U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center
2612	Nb	Niobium
2613	NBA	National Basketball Association
2614	NBL	National Basketball League (Australia)
2615	NBT	Nitroblue tetrazolium (assay)
2616	nC	Nanocoulomb
2617	NCA	National Command Authority
2618	NCAR	U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research
2619	NCB	National Codification Bureau
2620	NCCAM	U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2621	NCCUSL	National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (U.S.)
2622	NCDDR	U.S. National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research
2623	NCI	U.S. National Cancer Institute
2624	NCL	New Caledonia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2625	NCLR	National Council of La Raza
2626	NCMO	No Commitment Make Out
2627	NCO	Non-Commissioned Officer
2628	NCP	Net Contracted Purchases
2629	NCR	National Cash Register Co.
2630	NCTR	Non-Co-operative Target Recognition
2631	NCW	Network Centric Warfare
2632	Nd	Neodymium
2633	NDAA	U.S. National Defense Authorization Act
2634	NDBP	Non-Departmental Public Body (Scotland)
2635	NDP	New Democratic Party (Canada)
2636	NDS	Nintendo DS
2637	Ne	Neon
2638	NECTEC	National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Thailand)
2639	NEMS	National Energy Modeling System (USDOE-EIA)
2640	NEPA	National Environmental Policy Act
2641	NER	Niger (ISO 3166 trigram)
2642	NERICA	New Rice for Africa
2643	NESP	NSA/CSS Enterprise Standards Program
2644	NET	National Educational Television
2645	NETCU	(UK) National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit
2646	NETL	(US) National Energy Technology Laboratory
2647	NETWARS	Network Warfare Simulation
2648	NEX	Navy EXchange
2649	nF	Nanofarad
2650	NF	Norfolk Island (ISO 3166 digram)
2651	NFER	National Foundation for Educational Research
2652	NFG	No Fucking Good
2653	NFHS	National Federation of State High School Associations
2654	NFI	Not F****** Interested
2655	NFK	Norfolk Island (ISO 3166 trigram)
2656	Nfld	Newfoundland
2657	NFPA	National Fluid Power Association (United States)
2658	NFT	No Further Text
2659	NGA	U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Nigeria (ISO 3166 trigram)
2660	NGATS	New Generation Army Targetry System
2661	NGH	Northern General Hospital
2662	NGO	non-governmental organization
2663	NGS	Naval Gunfire Support
2664	nH	Nanohenry
2665	NHANES	National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
2666	NHB	New Hebrides (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)
2667	NHB	No Holds Barred radio (Link)
2668	NHL	National Hockey League
2669	NHRA	National Hot Rod Association
2670	NHS	National Health Service (UK)
2671	Ni	Nickel
2672	NIAAA	U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
2673	NIAG	NATO Industrial Advisory Group
2674	NIAID	National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease
2675	NIAMD	National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases
2676	NIB	New In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
2677	NIBP	Non-invasive blood pressure monitor
2678	NicA	Nicotine Anonymous
2679	NICAP	National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena
2680	NICE	UK. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
2681	NICHD	National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [4]
2682	NICP	National Inventory Control Point
2683	NIDDK	National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
2684	NIDRR	National Institute on Disability Research and Rehabilitation
2685	NIEHS	National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
2686	NIIN	National Item Identification Number
2687	NIMA	National Imagery and Mapping Agency (became NGA)
2688	NIMBY	Not In My Back Yard (See NOME)
2689	NIMG	Not In My Generation
2690	NIN	Nine Inch Nails (band)
2691	NIPR	National Institute of Polar Research (Japan)
2692	NIR	Northern Ireland (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram)
2693	NISAC	U.S. National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center
2694	NISCAP	NSA Information System Certification and Accreditation Program
2695	NISER	National Institute of Science Education and Research
2696	NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology
2697	NITFS	National Imagery Transmission Format Standard
2698	NIU	Niue (ISO 3166 trigram)
2699	nJ	Nanojoule
2700	NJ	New Jersey (postal symbol)
2701	NJHS	National Junior Honor Society
2702	NJPW	New Japan Pro Wrestling
2703	nK	Nanokelvin
2704	NKA	No Known Allergies
2705	nL	Nanolitre
2706	NLB	Non-Linear Battlefield
2707	NLD	Netherlands (ISO 3166 trigram)
2708	NLF	National Liberation Front (disambiguation)
2709	NLL	National Lacrosse League
2710	NLP	Natural Language Processing,Neuro-Linguistic Programming (pseudoscience)
2711	NLRB	National Labor Relations Board
2712	NLW	Non-Lethal Weapon
2713	nm	Nanometre
2714	NM	New Mexico (postal symbol)
2715	NMCI	Navy Marine Corps Intranet
2716	NMCS	Not Mission Capable Supply (SM&R code)
2717	NMD	U.S. National Missile Defense
2718	NMHNFG	Not Made Here,No Fucking Good
2719	NMN	No middle name
2720	NMR	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
2721	NMSG	NATO Modelling and Simulation Group
2722	nN	Nanonewton
2723	NNE	North North-East
2724	NNSA	U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration
2725	NNW	North North-West
2726	NO	Nitric Oxide,Normally Open,Norway (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
2727	No	Nobelium
2728	NOAA	U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2729	NOAF	Norwegian Air Force
2730	NOAO	National Optical Astronomy Observatory
2731	NOC	UK. National Oceanography Centre
2732	NODEF	NATO Oceanographic Data Exchange Format
2733	NOGI	New Orleans Grande Isle (award for diving)
2734	NOLA	New Orleans,Louisiana (LA is the official postal code for Louisiana)
2735	NOLF	Navy OutLying Field
2736	NoMBO	Non-mine,Mine-like Bottom Object
2737	NOME	Not on Mars Either
2738	NOME	Not on Mars Either (see NIMBY)
2739	NOPA	National Office Products Alliance,National Office Products Association
2740	NOR	Norway (ISO 3166 trigram)
2741	NORELPREF	No religious preference
2742	NORTHAG	Northern Army Group
2743	NOS	Network Operating System,New Old Stock (Internet auction/trading listings),Nitric Oxide Synthase (enzyme)
2744	NOSA	NATO OSI Security Architecture
2745	NOTAFLOF	No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds
2746	NOW	National Organization for Women
2747	NP	National Permit,A permit in India for trucks so they can go anywhere in the nation
2748	Np	Neap tide (nautical charts),Neptunium
2749	NP	Nepal (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
2750	NPB	Nippon Professional Baseball
2751	NPC	National Postgraduate Committee,National Provincial Championship (New Zealand rugby competition,now defunct),Navigation Planning Chart
2752	NPCS	Non-Passenger Coaching stock (in Railways)
2753	NPD	Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (German)
2754	NPDI	New Product Development and Introduction
2755	NPG	Needline/Network Participation Group
2756	NPH	Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
2757	NPL	National Priorities List,Nepal (ISO 3166 trigram)
2758	NPO	nothing by mouth
2759	NPOV	Neutral Point Of View
2760	NQ	Dronning Maud Land (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1983)
2761	NQOCD	Not Quite Our Class,Dear (or Darling). (Upper-class English slang)
2762	NR	Nauru (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
2763	NRA	National Rifle Association
2764	NRAO	National Radio Astronomy Observatory
2765	NRC	(U.S.) National Research Council,Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S.)
2766	NRDC	(U.S.) Natural Resources Defense Council
2767	NREL	(U.S.) National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2768	NRK	Norsk Rikskringkasting (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
2769	NRMP	National Resident Matching Program (U.S. medicine)
2770	NRO	(U.S.) National Reconnaissance Office
2771	NRT	Near Real Time
2772	NRTA	National Rat Terrier Association,National Retail Tenants Association,National Retired Teachers Association,Northwest Regional Transmission Association
2773	NRU	Nauru (ISO 3166 trigram)
2774	ns	Nanosecond
2775	nS	Nanosiemens
2776	NS	Norfolk Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark),Nova Scotia (postal symbol),Suriname (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2777	NSA	Naval Support Activity,No Strings Attached
2778	NSABB	National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
2779	NSAID	Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug
2780	NSB	Norges Statsbaner (Norwegian State Railways)
2781	NSC	National Security Council
2782	NSDAP	Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German: 'German National Socialist Workers Party',the formal name of the Nazi Party)
2783	NSDL	National Science Digital Library (US)
2784	NSG	National System for Geospatial-Intelligence
2785	NSN	National Stock Number
2786	NSNA	National Student Nurses' Association
2787	NSO	National Standardization Office (ABCA)
2788	NSS	(U.S.) Naval Simulation System
2789	NST	(UK) Nimrod Software Team
2790	NSTAC	National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
2791	NSV	Nikitin-Sokolov-Volkov heavy machine gun (Russian НСВ Никитина-Соколова-Волкова) ru:ПулеметНСВ-12,7 'Утес'
2792	NSW	New South Wales (postal symbol)
2793	nT	Nanotesla
2794	NT	National Trust (UK),Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1993),New Technology (Windows NT),Northern Territory (Australia) (postal symbol),Northwest Territories (Canada) (postal symbol)
2795	NTC	National Training Center,Negative Temperature Coefficient (thermistor)
2796	NTDS	Naval Tactical Data System
2797	NTP	Network Time Protocol
2798	NTR	Network Time Reference
2799	NTRA	National Thoroughbred Racing Association
2800	NTSB	National Transportation Safety Board
2801	NTSC	National Television Standards Committee (colloquially,Never Twice the Same Color)
2802	NTV	Non-Tactical Vehicle
2803	NTY	(Internet Abbreviations:) Not Tested Yet; (Alternatively) No Thank You
2804	NTZ	Iraq-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1993)
2805	NU	Nicaragua (FIPS 10-4 country code),Niue (ISO 3166 digram),Nunavut (postal symbol)
2806	NUL	Null character (ASCII code of control character),National Urban League
2807	NUTS	Nuclear Utilization Target Selection
2808	NUWC	U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center
2809	nV	Nanovolt
2810	NVEOL	Night Vision and Electro-Optics Laboratory
2811	NVESD	CERDEC Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate,Fort Belvoir,Virginia
2812	NVG	Night Vision Goggles
2813	NVL	Night Vision Laboratory
2814	nW	Nanowatt
2815	NW	North-West
2816	NW	Nuclear Weapon
2817	NWA	National Wrestling Alliance
2818	NWF	National Wildlife Federation
2819	NWFZ	Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
2820	NWHN	U.S. National Women's Health Network
2821	nWo	New World Order (see article for explanation of idiosyncratic capitalization)
2822	NWOAHM	New Wave of American Heavy Metal
2823	NWOBHM	New Wave of British Heavy Metal (sometimes pronounced /n.ˈwɒbm/ as if it were an acronym)
2824	NWRA	National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association
2825	NWSL	National Women's Soccer League (U.S.)
2826	NWT	North-West Territories
2827	NXA	21st arcade game in the Pump It Up series
2828	NXD	Native XML
2829	NXE	New Xbox Experience
2830	NXG	New Cross Gate station
2831	NXL	National XBall League
2832	NXN	Nike Cross Nationals
2833	NY	New York (postal symbol)
2834	NYC	New York City
2835	NYT	New York Times
2836	NYHA	New York Heart Association
2837	NYO	National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
2838	NYSE	New York Stock Exchange
2839	NZ	New Zealand (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
2840	NZC	New Zealand Cricket
2841	NZL	New Zealand (ISO 3166 trigram)
2842	NzL	Noze looan (online/event listings)
2843	NZOSS	New Zealand Open Source Society
2844	NZRU	New Zealand Rugby Union
2845	OAC	On Approved Credit
2846	OAP	Old Age Pensioner (UK)
2847	OARSI	Osteoarthritis Research Society International
2848	OAS	Organization of American States
2849	OASIS	Ontario Agencies Supporting Individuals with Special Needs
2850	OASIS	Ontario Association of Sewage Industry Services
2851	OASP	Operational Analysis Support Paper/Plan
2852	OAU	Organization for African Unity
2853	OBE	Officer of the Order of the British Empire
2854	OBX	Outer Banks (North Carolina)
2855	OC	Officer Commanding
2856	OCD	Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
2857	OCFS	Oracle Cluster File System
2858	OCFS2	Oracle Cluster File System Release 2
2859	OCMCC	[2] Orchard County MCC
2860	OCN	Oncology Certified Nurse
2861	OCO	Oort Cloud Object
2862	OCR	Optical Character Recognition
2863	OCS	see entry
2864	ODAS	OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey
2865	ODBC	Open DataBase Connectivity
2866	OEA	(U.S.) Office of Economic Adjustment
2867	OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (international)
2868	OED	Oxford English Dictionary
2869	OEG	Operation Exposure Guidance
2870	OEIS	On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
2871	OEM	Original Equipment Manufacturer
2872	OFA	Occipital Face Area
2873	OFDA	U.S Agency for International Development's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance
2874	OGC	Open Geospatial Consortium
2875	OGD	Other Government Department
2876	OGO	Other Government Organization
2877	OH	Ohio (postal symbol)
2878	OHC	OverHead-Cam engine
2879	OHHLA	Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive
2880	OHIP	Ontario Health Insurance Plan
2881	OHMS	On Her (or His) Majesty's Service (also written: O.H.M.S.)
2882	OHP	Observatoire de Haute-Provence
2883	OHSS	Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome
2884	OIC	Officer In Charge
2885	OIF	Operation Iraqi Freedom
2886	OIOC	Oriental & India Office Collections (in the British Library)
2887	OJT	On-the-Job Training
2888	OKC	Oklahoma City
2889	OLED	Organic Light-Emitting Diode
2890	OLS	Operational Linescan System
2891	OMD	Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (1980s pop group)
2892	OME	Osaka Mercantile Exchange
2893	OMFG	Oh My Fucking God
2894	OMG	Oh My God or Or My Gosh
2895	OMGW	Oh My Gosh it's Windy
2896	OMN	Oman (ISO 3166 trigram)
2897	OMNCS	U.S. Office of the Manager for the National Communications System
2898	OMP	Order of Mapungubwe in Platinum
2899	OMS	Order of Mapungubwe in Silver
2900	OMT	Object Model Template
2901	ON	Ontario (postal symbol)
2902	ONC	Orthopaedic Nurse Certified
2903	ONG	Orthodontic National Group
2904	ONI	(U.S.) Office of Naval Intelligence
2905	ONS	Operational Needs Statement
2906	OOAD	Object Oriented Analysis and Design
2907	OOBE	Out-of-body experience
2908	OOCL	Orient Overseas Container Line
2909	OODA	Observation,Orientation,Decision,Action loop (a.k.a. Boyd's Loop)
2910	OOF	Out of Facility
2911	OOMF	One Of My Followers
2912	OOO	Out Of the Office
2913	OOTW	Operations Other Than War
2914	OP	Observation Point/Post,Ocean Pacific (surfwear and swimwear brand),Original Poster (internet),Order Point,in inventory management; the inventory state at which more items should be ordered. Often expressed as a part of OP/OQ (when quantity OP is reached,order OQ new items),Overpowered,often used to refer to fictional characters (e.g. Superman) or game mechanics (e.g. the Black Lotus in Magic: the Gathering) that are considered disproportionately strong
2915	OPAC	Online Public Access Catalogue
2916	OPCON	Operational control
2917	OPCW	Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
2918	OPEC	Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
2919	OPFOR	Opposing force
2920	OPINTEL	Operational Intelligence
2921	OPLAN	Operation plan (also OpPlan)
2922	OPORD	Operation order
2923	OPSEC	Operations security,Open Platform for Security
2924	OPSI	Overwhelming post splenectomy infection,UK Office of Public Sector Information
2925	OPTAR	Operational target
2926	OPV	Offshore Patrol Vessel
2927	OQ	Order Quantity,in inventory management; the quantity of new items to be ordered. Often expressed as a part of OP/OQ (when quantity OP is reached,order OQ new items)
2928	OR	Operating Room (surgery),Operational/Operations Research,Oregon (postal symbol),overreciprocation,when the leader of an inner circle friendship contacts a friend more than is wanted or reasonable
2929	ORAU	Oak Ridge Associated Universities
2930	ORB	Object Request Broker
2931	ORBAT	Order of Battle
2932	ORD	Office of Research and Development,Operational Requirements Document
2933	ORF	Operational iness Float
2934	ORISE	Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
2935	ORNL	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2936	ORR	Oak Ridge Reservation (U.S. DOE),Office of Rail Regulation (UK government),Office of Refugee Resettlement,(CIA) Office of Research and Reports,Operational iness Rate,Operational iness Review
2937	ORSA	Oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus,Operations Research Society of America
2938	OS	Operating System
2939	Os	Osmium
2940	OSA	Order of St. Augustine
2941	OSCE	Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
2942	OSD	U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense,On-screen Display
2943	OSDL	Open Source Development Labs
2944	OSE	Own Separate Entrance
2945	OSERS	U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
2946	OSETI	Optical SETI also Optical SETI
2947	OSHA	Occupational Safety and Health Administration
2948	OSI	Office of Strategic Influence,Ontario Swine Improvement,Open Source Initiative,Open Systems Interconnection
2949	OSIA	(U.S.) On-Site Inspection Agency
2950	OSIRIS	Optical,Spectroscopic,and Infrared Remote Imaging System (astronomical system on the Rosetta spacecraft),Optical System for Imaging and low Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy (astronomical system on the land-based Gran Telescopio Canarias)
2951	OSL	Open Source License, Optically Stimulated Luminescence, Orbiting Solar Laboratory
2952	OSM	One Saturday Morning
2953	OSOTPBOIAS	One Sec,On The Phone,Be Off In A Sec
2954	OSPA	Operations Security Professional's Association site of OSPA
2955	OSPA	Oregon School Psychologists Association [3]
2956	OSRH	Oružane Snage Republike Hrvatske (en: Armed forces of the Republic of Croatia)
2957	OSS	Office of Strategic Services (1942-1945, forerunner of CIA)
2958	OSU	Ohio State University,Oklahoma State University
2959	OTA	Office of Technology Assessment, Orthodontic Technicians Association
2960	OTAC	Orthodontic Technicians Association Conference,Orthodontic Technicians Association Council
2961	OTC	Over-The-Counter (drugs)
2962	OTD	Off the derech (referring to an Orthodox Jew who has stopped practicing the tenets of his or her faith)
2963	OTEA	(U.S. Army) Operational Test Evaluation Agency
2964	OTI	Office of Transition Initiatives (United States Agency for International Development)
2965	OTOH	On The Other Hand
2966	OTS	Off the scale,sexually untouchable except for a lot of money
2967	OTSBH	Over The Shoulder Boulder Holder
2968	OTW	On The Way
2969	OTYBL	Over To You Blue Leader
2970	OTYRL	Over To You Red Leader
2971	OU	University of Oklahoma
2972	OW	Old Wykehamist
2973	OWN	Oprah Winfrey Network
2974	OX	IATA code for Orient Thai Airlines
2975	OXC	Optical cross-connect
2976	OXM	Official Xbox Magazine
2977	OXT	Oxytocin
2978	OZ	(?) Australia
2979	p	pico
2980	P2P	Peer-to-peer (networking)
2981	pA	picoampere
2982	PAA	Position Area for Artillery
2983	PABX	Private Automated Branch eXchange (company phone system)
2984	PACOM	(U.S.) Pacific Command
2985	PADI	Professional Association of Diving Instructors
2986	PAEK	PolyArylEtherKetone
2987	PAFC	Plymouth Argyle Football Club
2988	PAH	Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
2989	PAHO	Pan American Health Organization
2990	PAK	Pakistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2991	PAM	Precision Attack Missile
2992	PANS	Pretty Advanced/Awesome Network Services (cf. POTS)
2993	PARC	Palo Alto Research Center
2994	PAROS	Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (treaty)
2995	PARP	(NATO Partnership for Peace) Planning And Review Process
2996	PARWIG	Power Augmented Ram Wing In Ground (aeroplane wing shape)
2997	PAS	See entry
2998	PASR	Personnel Accounting and Strength Reporting
2999	PATH	Port Authority Trans-Hudson
3000	PAYD	Pay As You Drive
3001	PAYE	Pay As You Earn
3002	Pb	Lead (Latin Plumbum)
3003	PB	PolyButylene
3004	PBB	PolyBrominated Biphenyl
3005	PBCK	Problem Between Chair and Keyboard (computer help desk in-joke)
3006	PBD	PolyButaDiene
3007	PBDE	PolyBrominated Diphenyl Ether
3008	PBI	PolyBenzImidazole
3009	PBN	PolyButylene Naphthalate
3010	PBOH	Please Become Old History
3011	PBT	PolyButylene Terephthalate
3012	PBX	Private Branch eXchange (company phone system)
3013	pC	picocoulomb
3014	PCAS	Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
3015	PCB	see entry
3016	PCCB	Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake
3017	PCCIP	President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
3018	PCE	PerChlorEthylene
3019	PCIe	Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (computer bus)
3020	PCL	Passive Coherent Location
3021	PCMCIA	Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (People Can't Memorise Computer-Industry Acronyms)
3022	PCN	Pitcairn Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
3023	PCPI	Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (AMA)
3024	PCR	Polymerase chain reaction
3025	PCSSD	Pulaski County Special School District
3026	PCZ	Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)
3027	Pd	Palladium
3028	PD	Product Director—Example: CERDEC Product Director C4ISR and Network Modernization
3029	PDL	Pure Dumb Luck (Texan punk band)
3030	PDN	Pull-Down Network
3031	PDRY	People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (obsolete since 1990)
3032	PDT	Pacific Daylight [Saving] Time (UTC-7 hours)
3033	PE	Professional Engineer
3034	PEBCAC	Problem Exists Between Chair and Computer (IT help desk in-joke)
3035	PEBKAC	Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair (ditto)
3036	PEEK	PolyEtherEtherKetone
3037	PEET	Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy
3038	PEK	PolyEtherKetone
3039	PEPFAR	President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief
3040	PER	Peru (ISO 3166 trigram)
3041	perl	usually lower case Practical Extraction and Report Language
3042	PES	PolyEtherSulfone
3043	PEST	UK Public Engagement with Science and Technology
3044	PETE	PolyEthyleneTErephthalate
3045	PETP	PolyEthyleneTerePhthalate
3046	pF	picofarad
3047	PFD	Permanent Fund Dividend = personal flotation device
3048	PFE	Permanent Forest Estate
3049	PfP	Partnership for Peace
3050	Pg	petagram
3051	pg	picogram
3052	PGCE	Postgraduate Certificate in Education
3053	PGD	Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
3054	PGENI	Pharmaco-Genetics for Every Nation Initiative
3055	PGH	Pre-implantation Genetic Haplotyping
3056	PGM	Precision-Guided Munition
3057	PGP	Pretty Good Privacy
3058	PHL	Philippines (ISO 3166 trigram)
3059	PHQ	Patient Health Questionnaire
3060	Pi	Pebi
3061	PIB	PolyIsoButylene
3062	PIC	Person In Charge
3063	PICNIC	Problem In Chair Not In Computer
3064	PICS	Private Investment Capital Subscription
3065	PIF	Partners in Flight
3066	PIG	Pipeline Inspection Gauge
3067	PIN	Personal Identification Number
3068	PINF	People In Need Foundation (Czech charitable organisation)
3069	PIPA	Program on International Policy Attitudes
3070	PIR	Priority Intelligence Requirement
3071	PIRA	Provisional Irish Republican Army
3072	PIREPS	Pilot Reports
3073	PITA	Pain In The Ass
3074	PJ	petajoule
3075	pJ	picojoule
3076	PJHQ	Permanent Joint Headquarters
3077	PKE	Partnership of Kindermusik Educators [1] &[2] & [2]
3078	PKI	Public Key Infrastructure (cryptography)
3079	PKU	Phenylketonuria
3080	pL	picolitre
3081	PLAID	Precision Location and Identification
3082	PLB	Personal Locator Beacon
3083	PLC	Public Limited Company (British)
3084	PLCC	Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (electronics)
3085	PLD	Probable Line of Deployment
3086	PLEBS	People Lacking Everyday Basic Skills
3087	PLF	Parachute Landing Fall
3088	PLIF	Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence
3089	PLL	Phase-Locked Loop (electronics)
3090	PLM	Polarized Light Microscope/Microscopy
3091	PLMBA	Phospholipid Bilayer Microarray
3092	Pln	Platoon
3093	PLO	Palestine Liberation Organization
3094	PLOKTA	Press Lots Of Keys To Abort
3095	PLP	Platonic Life Partner
3096	PLUTO	Pipe Line Under The Ocean
3097	PLW	Palau (ISO 3166 trigram)
3098	pm	picometre
3099	PMC	Primary Motor Cortex
3100	PMI	Positive Material Identification
3101	PMID	PubMed Identifier
3102	PMMA	PolyMethylMethAcrylate
3103	PMS	Premenstrual Syndrome
3104	PMSL	Piss Myself Laughing (Internet shorthand)
3105	PMT	Premenstrual Tension (UK) (see Premenstrual Syndrome)
3106	pN	piconewton
3107	PNAC	Project for the New American Century
3108	PNVS	Pilot Night Vision Sensor
3109	Po	Polonium
3110	PO	Post Office
3111	PO	Purchase Order
3112	POCD	Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction
3113	pod	Plain Old Documentation
3114	POFF	Plain Old Flat File
3115	POGO	Project On Government Oversight
3116	POI	Program Of Instruction
3117	POK	Plane Of Knowledge
3118	POLAD	Political Advice
3119	POMDP	Partially observable Markov decision process
3120	PooS	Poo Sniffer (Internet shorthand)
3121	POS- Point Of Sale terminal (retail industry transaction computers)	Piece Of S**t
3122	POSH	Port Outbound Starboard Home (alleged)
3123	POSSLQ	Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
3124	POT	Plane Of Tranquility
3125	POTS	Plain Old Telephone Service (cf. PANS),Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
3126	POTUS	President of the United States
3127	POV	Point of view
3128	POW	Prisoner of war
3129	PPASC	(U.S.) Plans and Program Analysis Support Center
3130	PPCLI	Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (regiment)
3131	PPLI	Precise Participant Location & Identification
3132	PPM	Project Planning and Management
3133	PPO	PolyPhenylene Oxide
3134	PPQN	Pulses Per Quarter Note (ditto)
3135	PPQT	Pre-Production Qualification Test
3136	PPV	Pay-per-view
3137	Pr	Pastor, Priest
3138	PR	Public Relations, Personal Record
3139	Prb	Presbyter
3140	PRBO	Point Reyes Bird Observatory
3141	PRC	People's Republic of China
3142	PRD	CERDEC Product Realization Directorate
3143	PRFG	Partial Fog (METAR Code)
3144	PRI	Puerto Rico (ISO 3166 trigram)
3145	PRK	Democratic People's Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram)
3146	PRM	Personnel iness Management
3147	PRY	Paraguay (ISO 3166 trigram)
3148	Ps	petasecond
3149	pS	picosiemens
3150	PSG	Pacific Seabird Group
3151	PSI	Portable Source Initiative
3152	PSI	Pounds per square inch
3153	PSS	Personnel System Support
3154	PST	Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8 hours)
3155	PSU	Pennsylvania State University
3156	PsyOp	Psychological Operations
3157	pT	picotesla
3158	Pt	Platinum
3159	PTA	Parent-Teacher Association
3160	PTAL	Public Transport Accessibility Level
3161	PTES	People's Trust for Endangered Species
3162	PTFE	PolyTetraFluoroEthylene
3163	PTI	Pardon the Interruption
3164	PTSD	Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
3165	Pu	Plutonium
3166	Pub	Publication
3167	PUG	PET Users Group
3168	PUN	Pull-Up Network
3169	PUP	Pull-Up Point
3170	PUS	United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
3171	PV	petavolt
3172	pV	picovolt
3173	PvE	Player versus Environment
3174	PvP	Player versus Player
3175	PVR	Personal Video Recorder
3176	PvZ	Plants vs. Zombies
3177	PW	Palau (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
3178	pW	picowatt
3179	PWA	Pirates With Attitude
3180	PWBA	Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration
3181	PWC	PieceWise Constant (describing a mathematical function)
3182	PwC	PricewaterhouseCoopers (international accounting firm)
3183	PWL	PieceWise Linear (describing a mathematical function)
3184	PWLC	PieceWise Linear and Concave/Convex (describing a mathematical function)
3185	PWR	Pressurized Water Reactor
3186	PX	Post eXchange
3187	PYF	French Polynesia (ISO 3166 trigram)
3188	PYMWYMI	Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
3189	Q1	First quarter of the year
3190	Q2	Second quarter of the year
3191	Q3	Third quarter of the year
3192	Q4	Fourth quarter of the year
3193	QA	Qatar (ISO 3166 digram)
3194	Qantas	Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services
3195	QAT	Qatar (ISO 3166 trigram)
3196	QB	Quarterback (football)
3197	QCD	Quantum ChromoDynamics
3198	QD	quaque die (Latin for 'daily')
3199	QDR	Quadrennial Defense Review
3200	QEH	Queen Elizabeth's Hospital
3201	QK	Air Canada Jazz (IATA airline designator)
3202	QNH	Regional mean sea level atmospheric pressure (aeronautical Q code)
3203	QPS	Quark Publishing System
3204	QS	quantum sufficit (Latin, 'as much as suffices')
3205	QSCAT	Quick Scatterometer satellite
3206	QSL	Québec Sign Language
3207	QSO	Quasi-Stellar Object
3208	Quango	(British Commonwealth) QUasi Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation
3209	Quasar	Quasi-stellar radio source
3210	QUB	Queen's University Belfast
3211	QUIET	Q and U Imaging ExperimenT (Q and U are the Stokes parameters of the CMBR polarization)
3212	qv	quod vide (Latin, 'which see')
3213	QZ	Awair (IATA airline designator)
3214	R2I	Resistance to Interrogation
3215	RA	Radio Australia
3216	Ra	Radium
3217	RAAF	Royal Australian Air Force
3218	Rabobank	Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank (from the two banks that merged to form the modern company)
3219	RACK	Risk Aware Consensual Kink (SM phrase)
3220	Racon	RAdar beaCON
3221	RADA	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
3222	Radar	Radio Detection And Ranging
3223	RadB	Rad51/Dmc1 homologous protein
3224	RADb	Routing Assets Data Base
3225	RADC	Region Air Defence Commander
3226	RAE	UK Royal Aircraft Establishment (-1991)
3227	RAGBRAI	Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa
3228	Ramark	RAdar MARKer
3229	RAOC	Rear Area Operation Centre
3230	RARDE	UK Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (1962-1991)
3231	RARE	Rapid Acquisition with Relaxation Enhancement (MRI technique)
3232	RATELO	Radiotelephone Operator
3233	Rb	Rubidium
3234	RB	Running Back (football)
3235	RBI	Runs Batted In
3236	RC	see entry
3237	RCAF	Royal Canadian Air Force
3238	RCC	Rescue Co-ordination Centre
3239	RCCO	Royal Canadian College of Organists
3240	RCHA	Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (regiment)
3241	RCMP	Royal Canadian Mounted Police
3242	RD	Radio Disney
3243	RDD	Radiological Dispersion Device
3244	RDM	Remotely Delivered/Deliverable Mine
3245	RDT	Remote Digital Terminal
3246	RDV	Remote Detection Vehicle
3247	Re	Rhenium
3248	RE	Royal Engineers
3249	REACT	Remote Electronically Activated Control Technology
3250	REAM	Retired Educators Association of Minnesota
3251	RECCE	Reconnaissance
3252	REEF	Reef Environmental Education Foundation
3253	REM	Rapid Eye Movement (sleep phase),Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
3254	REME	Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
3255	RERC	Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
3256	RESNA	Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
3257	REU	Réunion (ISO 3166 trigram)
3258	Rf	Rutherfordium
3259	RFD	Request for Documentation
3260	RFE	Request for Evaluation
3261	RFEF	Real Federación Española de Fútbol (Spanish for Royal Spanish Football Federation)
3262	RFF	Right of First Refusal (legal term)
3263	RFID	Radio Frequency IDentification
3264	RFL	Rugby Football League
3265	RFP	Request for Proposal
3266	RFQ	Request for Quotation
3267	RFT	Request for Tender
3268	RFU	Rugby Football Union
3269	RG	Republican Guard
3270	Rg	Roentgenium
3271	RGB	Red Green Blue (colour model)
3272	RGBI	Red Green Blue Intensity (ditto)
3273	Rh	Rhodium
3274	RH	Southern Rhodesia (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1980)
3275	RHIC	Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
3276	RHLI	Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Canadian militia regiment)
3277	RHO	Southern Rhodesia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)
3278	RHU	Replacement Holding Unit
3279	RI	Rhode Island (postal symbol)
3280	RIAA	Recording Industry Association of America
3281	RIBA	Royal Institute of British Architects
3282	RIFA	Red imported fire ant
3283	RILA	Retail Industry Leaders Association
3284	RIMVS	Retinal Imaging Machine Vision System
3285	RINO	Republican In Name Only[1]
3286	RIP	Relief In Place,requiesca[n]t in pace (Latin for 'may he/she/they rest in peace')
3287	RISC	Reduced Instruction Set Computer
3288	RJD	Reduced Julian Day
3289	RKBA	Right to Keep and Bear Arms (Second Amendment to the United States Constitution)
3290	RKO	Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures
3291	RLP	Recognised [Operating/Operational] Land Picture
3292	RLS	Restless Leg Syndrome
3293	RLY	Rally Point
3294	RM	see separate disambiguation page
3295	RMC	Robert Menzies College
3296	RMDA	Records Management and Declassification Agency
3297	RMP	Recognised [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture
3298	RN	Radio Netherlands
3299	Rn	Radon
3300	RNA	RiboNucleic Acid
3301	RNAD	Royal Naval Armaments Depot (UK)
3302	RNPS	Radio Network Planning System
3303	RNZ	Radio New Zealand
3304	RNZI	Radio New Zealand International
3305	ROA	Rate Of Ascent
3306	ROE	Rules Of Engagement
3307	ROFLOL	Rolling On the Floor Laughing Out Loud
3308	ROH	Ring of Honor
3309	ROK	Republic of Korea
3310	ROP	Render Output Pipeline
3311	ROPE	Research Opportunity and Performance Evidence
3312	ROS	Reactive Oxygen Species
3313	ROU	Romania (ISO 3166 trigram)
3314	ROV	Remotely Operated Vehicle
3315	ROZ	Restricted Operations Zone
3316	RPA	Regional Plan Association
3317	RPD	Recognition-Primed Decision-making
3318	RPF	Rwandan Patriotic Front
3319	RPL	Reverse Polish Lisp
3320	RPM	Revolutions Per Minute
3321	RPN	reverse Polish notation
3322	rps	revolutions per second
3323	RPV	Remotely Piloted Vehicle
3324	RQ	Puerto Rico (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
3325	RRB	Railroad Retirement Board
3326	RRN	Recurrence Rate Number
3327	RRP	Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis
3328	RRS	Racing Rules of Sailing
3329	RRSP	Registered Retirement Savings Plan (Canada; roughly equivalent to the IRA in the U.S.)
3330	RS	Russia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
3331	RSI	Repetitive Strain Injury
3332	RSJ	Rolled Steel Joist (construction)
3333	RSN	Real Soon Now (coined by author Jerry Pournelle)
3334	RSPB	(UK) Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
3335	RSPCA	Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
3336	RSR	Required Supply Rate
3337	RSRE	UK Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (1976-1991)
3338	RSRI	Red Sands Research Institute
3339	RTA	Road traffic accident (British)
3340	RTBF	Radio-Télévision belge de la Communauté française
3341	RTF	Rich Text Format
3342	RTFM	the Fucking/Fine Manual
3343	RTG	Radio-isotope Thermoelectric Generator also used for Rubber Tyred Gantry crane
3344	RTI	Run-Time Infrastructure (Simulation)
3345	RTL	see entry
3346	RTP	Real-time Transport Protocol
3347	RTS	see entry
3348	RTT	Round Trip Timing
3349	RU	Russia (ISO 3166 digram)
3350	Ru	Ruthenium
3351	RUC	Royal Ulster Constabulary
3352	RUS	Russia (ISO 3166 trigram)
3353	RUSI	Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
3354	RW	Rwanda (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3355	RWA	Rwanda (ISO 3166 trigram)
3356	RWH	Rain Water Harvesting
3357	RWR	Radar Warning Receiver
3358	RWS	Remote Weapon Station
3359	Rx	Medical prescription (possibly from Latin 'recipere','to take': see entry)
3360	RX	Receive
3361	SARS	Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
3362	SBNO	Standing but not operating (in reference to amusement parks)
3363	SCOTUS	Supreme Court of the United States
3364	SCROTUS	So-called Ruler of the United States
3365	SDHC	Secure Digital High Capacity
3366	SDXC	Secure Digital eXtended Capacity
3367	SG	Senegal (FIPS 10-4 country code), Singapore (ISO 3166 digram), Snow Grains (METAR Code), Study Group
3368	SGOTUS	Second Gentleman of the United States
3369	SHO	Showtime (see also sho.com)
3370	sic	sic erat scriptum (Latin for 'thus was it written')
3371	SIRI	Service Interface for Real Time Information
3372	Siri	Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface (Apple iOS software)
3373	SLOTUS	Second Lady of the United States (the vice president's wife)
3374	SoCon	Southern Conference (U.S. college sports)
3375	SSC	Safe,Sane,Consensual (SM phrase),Secondary Somatosensory Cortex,Smaller-Scale Contingency,U.S. Army Soldiers System Center (Natick,Massachusetts),Superconducting Super Collider,SSCCATAGAPP — Singles,Seniors,Childless Couples,And Teens And Gays Against Parasitic Parents (fictional organization from The Simpsons)
3376	SSD	South Sudan (ISO 3166 trigram)
3377	SSDC	U.S. Space and Strategic Defense Command
3378	STB	Surface Transportation Board[2]
3379	SWAC	Southwestern Athletic Conference
3380	SWAN	System for Wearable Audio Navigation
3381	SWAT	Special Weapons And Tactics
3382	SWF	Single White Female
3383	Ta	Tantalum
3384	TAACOM	U.S. Theater Army Area Command
3385	TAADCOORD	Theatre Army Air Defence Co-ordinator
3386	TAAR	Trace Amine-Associated Receptor
3387	TAC	U.S. Tactical Air Command (1946-1992)
3388	TACAN	Tactical Air Navigation
3389	TACCO	Tactical Coordinator
3390	TACCSF	U.S. Theater Aerospace Command & Control Simulation Facility
3391	TACDAR	Tactical Detection And Reporting
3392	TACSOP	Tactical SOP (Standing Operating Procedure)
3393	TADIL	Tactical Digital Information Link
3394	TAI	Target[ed] Area of Interest
3395	TAJ	Tom and Jerry
3396	TAJT	Tom and Jerry Tales
3397	TALES	Technical Advice and Lexicon for Enabling Simulation
3398	TANJ	There Ain't No Justice (used as expletive in the Ringworld novels)
3399	TANP	Terrain-Aware Network Planner
3400	TANSTAAFL	There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (coined by author Robert A. Heinlein in his The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
3401	TAPPS	Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools
3402	TARDIS	Time And Relative Dimension In Space (from Doctor Who)
3403	TAS	Tasmania (postal symbol)
3404	TASER	Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle
3405	TASM	Tactical Air-to-Surface Missile
3406	TAT	Tourism Authority of Thailand
3407	TATP	TriAcetone TriPeroxide
3408	TATT	Tired All The Time (medical diagnosis in-joke)
3409	Tb	Terbium
3410	TB	Tuberculosis
3411	TBA	to be announced
3412	TBBPA	TetraBromoBisPhenol-A
3413	TBD	to be done, or: to be documented, or: to be determined, or: to be decided
3414	TBF	to be fair
3415	TBH	To Be Honest
3416	TBL	Turkish Basketball League
3417	TBS	Turner Broadcasting System
3418	TBT	Tributyltin
3419	Tc	Technetium
3420	TCAA	Top Counter-Assault Agents
3421	TCAS	Traffic Collision Avoidance System
3422	TCCCS	Tactical Command,Control and Communication System
3423	TCD	Chad (ISO 3166 trigram)
3424	TCHD	Truck Cargo Heavy Duty
3425	TCL	Tool Command Language
3426	TCM	Turner Classic Movies
3427	TCU	Texas Christian University
3428	TCW	Tasty Coma Wife
3429	TCWMS	Tele-Center Workforce Management System
3430	TDA	The Disney Afternoon
3431	TDL	Tactical Data Link
3432	TDM	Time-Division Multiplexing
3433	TDMA	Time Division Multiple Access
3434	TDP	Technology Demonstration Programme
3435	TDRS	Tracking Data and Relay Satellite
3436	Te	Tellurium
3437	TEAL	Tasman Empire Airways Limited
3438	Team	Together everyone achieves more
3439	TEAMS	The East African Marine System (fiber optic cable)
3440	TED	Technology Entertainment Design prize
3441	TENCAP	Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities
3442	TERS	Tactical Event Reporting System
3443	TES	Tactical Event System
3444	TEST	Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms
3445	TEU	Twenty-foot equivalent unit (cargo capacity)
3446	TeVeS	Tensor Vector Scalar theory
3447	TFMPP	Trifluorophenylmethylpiperazine
3448	TFR	Total Fertility Rate
3449	TFT	Thin-Film Transistor
3450	Tg	Teragram
3451	TG	Togo (ISO 3166 digram)
3452	TGO	Togo (ISO 3166 trigram)
3453	Th	Thorium
3454	THA	Thailand (ISO 3166 trigram)
3455	THAAD	Terminal High Altitude Area Defence
3456	THEGENTRY	The High-End Group of Earth's New Technologies Research Yield
3457	THEL	Tactical High Energy Laser ACTD
3458	THG	Tetrahydrogestrinone
3459	TIA	Total Information Awareness initiative
3460	TIA	Transient Ischemic Attack
3461	TIALD	Thermal Imaging and Airborne Laser Designation
3462	TIBS	Tactical Information Broadcast System
3463	TIC	Troops In Contact
3464	TIGERS	Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System
3465	TINC	There Is No Cabal
3466	TIP	Thermal Identification Panel
3467	tits	Toes in the Sand
3468	TJD	Truncated Julian Day
3469	TJK	Tajikistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
3470	TKL	Tokelau (ISO 3166 trigram)
3471	TKM	Turkmenistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
3472	Tl	Thallium
3473	TLA	Three-Letter Abbreviation/Acronym
3474	TLAM	Tomahawk Land Attack Missile
3475	TLATOJL	The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
3476	TLPM	T1 Line Performance Monitor
3477	Tm	Terametre
3478	TMAP	Texas Medication Algorithm Project
3479	TMC	The Movie Channel
3480	TMD	Theatre Missile Defence
3481	TMDK	The Mighty Don't Kneel (Australian professional wrestling stable also active in Japan)
3482	TMI	Too Much Information
3483	TMJ	TemporoMandibular Joint (syndrome)
3484	TMNT	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
3485	TMPG	Transparent Multi-Platform Gateway
3486	TMR	Twin Main Rotors (helicopter type)
3487	TMS	Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
3488	TMT	Thirty Meter Telescope
3489	TMTOWTDI	There's Than One Way To Do It (from Perl)
3490	TNA	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
3491	TNO	Trans-Neptunian Object
3492	TOBS	Time of OBServation
3493	TOC	Table Of Contents, Tactical Operations Centre, Temporo-Occipital transition Cortex, Top of Concrete
3494	TOG	Togo (IOC and FIFA trigram,but not ISO 3166)
3495	TOGS	Thermal Observation Gunnery Sight
3496	TOMS	Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite instrument)
3497	TON	Tonga (ISO 3166 trigram)
3498	TOS	Tape Operating System,Terms of service,The Original Series,used to distinguish the first Star Trek TV series from other parts of the media franchise,Tramiel Operating System
3499	TOT	Time On Target
3500	TOW	Tube-launched,Optically tracked,Wire-guided (anti-tank missile)
3501	TP	East Timor (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 2002),São Tomé and Príncipe (FIPS 10-4 country code),Training Practice,Trident Ploughshares
3502	TPE	Chinese Taipei (IOC and FIFA trigram for the country also known as Taiwan)
3503	TPI	The point is
3504	TPO	Thrombopoietin
3505	TPS	The Pennington School
3506	TPTB	The Powers That Be (often used to refer to the people responsible for the content of TV series or movies)
3507	TQ	Top Qualifier (similar to Pole Position in car racing)
3508	TRA	Technology iness Assessment
3509	TRAC	(U.S. Army) TRADOC Analysis Center
3510	TRACON	Terminal Radar Approach Control
3511	TRADOC	(U.S. Army) Training and Doctrine Command
3512	TRANSCOM	U.S. Transportation Command
3513	TRAP	Tactical Receive equipment and related Applications
3514	TRASANA	TRADOC Systems Analysis Agency
3515	TRD	Towed Radar Decoy
3516	TRIGAT	Third Generation Antitank (missile)
3517	TRL	Technology readiness level
3518	Trp	Troop
3519	TRU	Transuranic
3520	TRUEX	Training in Urban Environment Exercise
3521	TRW	Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc.
3522	Ts	Terasecond
3523	TS	Terasiemens,Thunderstorm (METAR code),Tunisia (FIPS 10-4 country code),TinySex,Transsexual, Tough Sh*t
3524	TSA	Theatre Storage Area,Time Slot Allocation,Transportation Security Administration,The Salvation Army
3525	TSEC	Transmission Security Encryption Code
3526	TSL	Transportation Security Laboratory
3527	TSN	The Sporting News (historic name of the periodical now known as Sporting News),The Sports Network
3528	TSO	The Stationery Office (was HMSO until 1996),(U.S.) TRICARE Support Office,Trans-Siberian Orchestra (band)
3529	TSOP	Tactical Standing Operation Procedure,The Sound of Philadelphia (classic 1970s R&B instrumental)
3530	TSR	Terminate and Stay Resident
3531	TSSIA	The Subject Says It All
3532	TT	Teratesla,Terrestrial Time,Tourist Trophy (Motorcycle sport),Trinidad and Tobago (ISO 3166 digram)
3533	TTCT	Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
3534	TTFN	Ta Ta For Now
3535	TTL	Tax,Title,License,Through-the-lens (photography),Time 'till live,Time to live,Transistor-transistor logic
3536	TTO	Trinidad and Tobago (ISO 3166 trigram)
3537	TTP	Tactics,Techniques,and Procedures,Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura,Trailer Transfer Point
3538	TTTEAF	Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
3539	TTY	TeleTYpewriter (Printer)
3540	TTYL	To You Later (Internet slang)
3541	TTZ	Tetrazolium
3542	TU	Technische Universität (German for 'Technical University'),Thammasat University (Thailand),Turkey (FIPS 10-4 country code)
3543	TUC	Trades Union Congress
3544	TUG	TeX Users Group
3545	TUI	Text-based user interface (cf. CLI),among other uses
3546	TUM	Technische Universität München (Germany)
3547	TUN	Tunisia (ISO 3166 trigram)
3548	TUNS	Technical University of Nova Scotia
3549	TUR	Turkey (ISO 3166 trigram)
3550	TUSK	Tank Urban Survival Kit
3551	TUV	Tuvalu (ISO 3166 trigram)
3552	TV	Television,Teravolt,Transvestite,Tuvalu (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3553	Tv	Time value,a designation seen on some camera dials for shutter priority mode
3554	TVA	Tennessee Valley Authority
3555	TVG	Television Games (Network),Tick,Very Good,Often used by School Teachers when marking homework etc. (Tick VG)[1][2]
3556	TVR	TreVor (Wilkinson) Racing
3557	TVS	Tornado vortex signature
3558	TW	Republic of China (Taiwan) (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),Terawatt
3559	TWAIN	Technology Without An Interesting Name
3560	TWE	Trans World Entertainment
3561	TWI	The Welding Institute
3562	TWIP	Take What Insurance Pays,When a surgeon agrees to accept a lower payment than he ordinarily would for a procedure and not charge the patient the difference
3563	TWN	Republic of China (Taiwan) (ISO 3166 trigram)
3564	TWP	Technical Working Paper
3565	TWS	Thermal Weapon Sight,Track While Scan
3566	TX	Texas (postal symbol),Transmit,Turkmenistan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
3567	TXV	Thermostatic Expansion Valve
3568	TYT	Take Your Time,Internet chat abbreviation
3569	TZ	Tanzania (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3570	TZA	Tanzania (ISO 3166 trigram)
3571	TZC	Tetrazolium chloride
3572	U	Uranium
3573	UA	Unit of Action
3574	UAAP	University Athletic Association of the Philippines
3575	UAB	University of Alabama at Birmingham
3576	UAP	Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
3577	UAV	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,Unprotected Anal and Vaginal sex,UB[edit]
3578	UBC	United Baptist Church,University of British Columbia
3579	UBI	Universal Basic Income
3580	UBIGEO	Ubicación Geografica (Spanish for Geographical Location)
3581	UBS	Unbundled Bitstream Services,United Bank of Switzerland,United Banque Suisse
3582	UCBSA	United Cricket Board of South Africa
3583	UCF	University of Central Florida
3584	UCLA	University of California at Los Angeles
3585	UCLES	University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
3586	UCR	University of California at Riverside
3587	UCR	University of Costa Rica
3588	UCS	Union of Concerned Scientists
3589	UCSB	University of California at Santa Barbara
3590	UCSD	University of California at San Diego
3591	UDAS	Uppsala-DLR Asteroid Survey
3592	UDDI	Universal Description,Discovery and Integration
3593	UDTS	Uppsala-DLR Trojan Survey
3594	UE	Unit of Employment
3595	UEFA	Union of European Football Associations
3596	UESAC	Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets
3597	UFC	Ultimate Fighting Championship
3598	UFO	Unidentified Flying Object, or: United Farmers of Ontario
3599	UGV	Unmanned Ground Vehicle
3600	UHF	Ultra High Frequency
3601	UHMW	Ultra-High Molecular Weight
3602	UHRB	Ultra-High Resolution Building (simulation)
3603	UIC	University of Illinois at Chicago
3604	UID	User ID
3605	UIUC	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3606	UJTL	Universal Joint Task List
3607	UKIP	United Kingdom Independence Party
3608	UKR	Ukraine (ISO 3166 trigram)
3609	UL	Underwriters Laboratories
3610	ULF	Ultra Low Frequency
3611	UM	U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
3612	UMCP	Unit Maintenance Collection Point
3613	UMES	University of Maryland Eastern Shore
3614	UMI	U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
3615	UMIST	University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
3616	UMTS	Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
3617	UN	United Nations
3618	UNABOM	University and airline bomber (FBI case name)
3619	UNAIDS	Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
3620	UNAMSIL	United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
3621	UNCF	United Negro College Fund
3622	UNCLOS	United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
3623	UNCSGN	United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names
3624	UNCTAD	United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
3625	UNDCP	United Nations Drug Control Programme
3626	UNDE	Union of National Defence Employees (Canada)
3627	UNDP	United Nations Development Programme
3628	UNEP	United Nations Environment Programme
3629	UNFCCC	United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
3630	UNFICYP	United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
3631	UNGEGN	United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
3632	UNHCR	United Nations High Commission (er) for Refugees
3633	UNICEF	United Nations Children's Fund (originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund)
3634	UNICRI	United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
3635	UNIDO	United Nations Industrial Development Organization
3636	UNIFEM	United Nations Development Fund for Women (from the French Fonds de développement des Nations unies pour la femme)
3637	UNLV	University of Nevada,Las Vegas
3638	UNMIK	United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
3639	UNOSOM	United Nations Operations in Somalia
3640	UNPROFOR	United Nations Protection Force (in former Yugoslavia)
3641	UNRISD	United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
3642	UNSM	Union of Nova Scotian Municipalities
3643	UNTAC	United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
3644	UNTAET	United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor
3645	UNU	United Nations University
3646	UPdM	Università Popolare della Multimedialità
3647	UPF	Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Catalan for: 'Pompeu Fabra University')
3648	UPI	United Press International
3649	UPN	United Paramount Network
3650	UPU	Universal Postal Union
3651	UR	Soviet Union (NATO country code,obsolete 1992)
3652	URBSFA	Union royale belge des sociétés de football association (French for Royal Belgian Football Association)
3653	URD	User Requirements Document
3654	URI	University of Rhode Island
3655	URU	Uruguay (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
3656	URY	Uruguay (ISO 3166 trigram)
3657	US	United States (also ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3658	USA	United States of America (also ISO 3166 trigram), United States Army
3659	USAADAC	U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center,Fort Bliss,Texas
3660	USAARMC	U.S. Army ARMor Center,Fort Knox,Kentucky
3661	USAAVNC	U.S. Army AViatioN Center,Fort Rucker,Alabama
3662	USAFSPC	U.S. Air Force Space Command
3663	USAIC	U.S. Army Infantry Center,U.S. Army Intelligence Center
3664	USAID	United States Agency for International Development
3665	USAP	Union Sportive des Arlequins Perpignanais,United States Antarctic Program
3666	USAPATRIOT	Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
3667	USAREUR	United States Army Europe
3668	USB	Universal Serial Bus
3669	USC	United States Code,University of South Carolina,University of Southern California
3670	USCG	United States Coast Guard
3671	USCINCSPACE	United States Commander in Chief,Space Command
3672	USDA	United States Department of Agriculture
3673	USDI	United States Department of the Interior
3674	USDOE	United States Department of Energy
3675	USDRE	(U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1978-1986)
3676	USEC	United States Enrichment Corporation
3677	USFL	United States Football League
3678	USFWS	United States Fish and Wildlife Service
3679	USGS	United States Geological Survey
3680	USIA	United States Information Agency
3681	USJFCOM	United States Joint Forces Command
3682	USL	United Soccer League,a third-level U.S. league. Not to be confused with an earlier league of the same name.,United Soccer Leagues,the organization that operates the above league,plus several other lower-level leagues,University of Southwestern Louisiana,a former name for the school now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
3683	USMNT	United States men's national (soccer) team
3684	USNA	United States National Arboretum,United States Naval Academy
3685	USNB	United States Naval Base
3686	USNG	United States National Grid
3687	USNH	United States Naval Hospital
3688	USNI	United States Naval Institute
3689	USNO	U.S. Naval Observatory
3690	USNOFS	United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station
3691	USNP	United States Newspaper Program
3692	USNR	United States Navy Reserve
3693	USNS	United States Naval Ship
3694	USNY	University of the State of New York (usually pronounced 'use-knee')
3695	USNZ	University Sport New Zealand
3696	USPS	United States Postal Service
3697	USPTO	United States Patent and Trademark Office
3698	USR	User
3699	USS	United States ship (sometimes meaningless; see Star Trek)
3700	USSPACECOM	United States Space Command
3701	USSR	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
3702	UST	Underground Storage Tank
3703	USTRANSCOM	United States Transportation Command
3704	USWNT	United States women's national (soccer) team
3705	UT	Universal Time
3706	UTC	Coordinated Universal Time
3707	UTEP	University of Texas at El Paso (pronounced you-tep)
3708	UTM	Universal Transverse Mercator (geographical co-ordinate system)
3709	UUA	Unitarian Universalist Association
3710	UUV	Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
3711	UW	University of Washington
3712	UWO	University of Western Ontario
3713	UWT	Under Water Telephone
3714	UWTG	Under Water Tug
3715	UWW	United World Wrestling
3716	UXO	Unexploded Ordnance
3717	UY	Uruguay (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3718	UZ	Uzbekistan (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3719	UZB	Uzbekistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
3720	VACIS	Vehicle And Container Inspection System
3721	VACIS	Victorian Ambulance Clinical Information System
3722	VANOS	Variable Nockenwelle System
3723	VAO	Vienna Art Orchestra
3724	VAT	Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 trigram)
3725	VBA	Visual Basic for Applications
3726	vCJD	Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
3727	VCNO	(U.S.) Vice Chief of Naval Operations
3728	VCofS	Vice Chief of Staff
3729	VCR	Video cassette recorder
3730	VCT	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO 3166 trigram)
3731	VDFS	VisualSVN Distributed File System (VDFS)
3732	VE	Venezuela (ISO 3166 digram)
3733	VEEGA	Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist manœuvre
3734	VEN	Venezuela (ISO 3166 trigram)
3735	VERITAS	Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System
3736	VfD	s for deletion (used in Wikipedia)
3737	VFM	Value For Money
3738	VFMO	Very Fast Moving Object (astronomy)
3739	VFT	Virtual Function Table
3740	VFW	Veterans of Foreign Wars
3741	VG	British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
3742	VGB	British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
3743	VH1	Video Hits One
3744	VHF	Very High Frequency
3745	VIA	Versatile Interface Adapter
3746	VIDS	Visual Information Display System
3747	VII	7 (in Roman numerals)
3748	VIII	8 (in Roman numerals)
3749	VIN	Vehicle Identification Number (ISO 3779)
3750	VIP	Very Important Person
3751	VISCII	VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange
3752	VIT	Vellore Institute of Technology
3753	VIVO	Video In Video Out
3754	VJ	Video Jockey
3755	VLAD	Vertical Line Array DIFAR
3756	VLBA	Very Long Baseline Array
3757	VLF	Very Low Frequency
3758	VLIW	Very Long Instruction Word
3759	VLPFC	VentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
3760	VLPMC	VentroLateral PreMotor Cortex
3761	VLSI	Very-large-scale integration
3762	VM	Vietnam (FIPS 10-4 country code)
3763	VMF	Marine Fighting Squadron of the United States Marine Corps
3764	VMF	Variable Message Format
3765	VMN	VentroMedial Nucleus (neurophysiology)
3766	VN	Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram)
3767	VNIR	Visible and Near InfraRed
3768	VNM	Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram)
3769	VNS	see entry
3770	VOA	Voice of America
3771	VOIP	Voice Over Internet Protocol
3772	VOLT	Visual OpenType Layout Tool
3773	VON	Victorian Order of Nurses
3774	VOR	Voice of Russia
3775	VOX	Voice Operated oscillator
3776	VPOTUS	Vice President of the United States
3777	VR	Virtual Reality
3778	VRSG	Virtual Reality Scene Generator
3779	VSAT	Very Small Aperture Terminal ('vee-satt')
3780	VSHORAD	Very Short Range Air Defence
3781	VSO	Voluntary Services Overseas
3782	VSR	Very Special Relativity
3783	VTC	Video Tele-Conference
3784	VTEC	Variable valve Timing and Electronic lift Control
3785	VU	Vanuatu (ISO 3166 digram), Vedanta University
3786	VUB	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgian university)
3787	VUT	Vanuatu (ISO 3166 trigram)
3788	VV	Via Voice,Village Voice
3789	VVAF	Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
3790	VW	Volkswagen
3791	VZ	Verizon Communications (NYSE code)
3792	W	Tungsten (from German Wolfram),Watt,West
3793	W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
3794	WA	Namibia (from West Africa),Washington state (postal symbol),Western Australia (postal symbol),World Archery (Federation)
3795	WAAC	Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (Britain) (World War I UK)
3796	WAAF	Women's Auxiliary Air Force (World War II UK)
3797	WAC	Western Athletic Conference,Women's Auxiliary Corps (World War II Canada),Women's Army Corps (World War II U.S.)
3798	WACC	Weighted Average Cost of Capital (accounting)
3799	WACS	What-A-Cartoon! Show
3800	WAD	Weapons Alert Designator
3801	WAGGGS	World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
3802	WAGs	Wives And Girlfriends (most notably of England national football team players at the 2006 FIFA World Cup,although the term existed earlier)
3803	WAL	see entry
3804	WAPIMA	What a pain in my ass
3805	WAR	With All Respect
3806	WAsP	Short form of WAAAAP (Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program)
3807	WAYP	White And Yellow Pages
3808	WB	Warner Bros.,Welcome Back (Internet shorthand)
3809	Wb	Weber
3810	WBA	Warner Bros. Animation,West Bromwich Albion (F.C.),World Boxing Association
3811	WBC	World Boxing Council
3812	WBE	Work Breakdown Element
3813	WBO	World Boxing Organization
3814	WC	Water Closet,Winston Churchill,World Cup (sports)
3815	WCBO	World Chess Boxing Organisation
3816	WCBP	World Center for Birds of Prey
3817	WCL	World Confederation of Labour
3818	WCS	Weapon Control Status,Wildlife Conservation Society
3819	WCW	World Championship Wrestling
3820	WDC	Western Design Center,World Data Center
3821	WDIN	Wildlife Disease Information Node
3822	WDWR	Walt Disney World Resort
3823	WEBS	Weapon Effectiveness Battle Simulation
3824	WEC	World Extreme Cagefighting
3825	WEEE	Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
3826	WEF	World Economic Forum
3827	WEM	West Edmonton Mall
3828	WEU	Western European Union
3829	WEZ	Weapon Engagement Zone
3830	WF	Wallis and Futuna Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
3831	WFC	Women's Forage Corps (World War II UK)
3832	WFD	Weapon of Focused Destruction
3833	WFF	Wallops Flight Facility
3834	WFI	Water for Injection
3835	WFH	Working from home
3836	WFP	World Food Program
3837	WFZ	Weapons Free Zone
3838	WH	Wehrmacht Heer (German World War II army vehicle licence plate code)
3839	WHAM	Wisconsin Hydrogen-Alpha Mapping (telescope)
3840	WHI	Women's Health Initiative
3841	WHIP	Walks plus hits per inning pitched
3842	WHO	World Health Organisation
3843	WHS	(U.S.) Washington Headquarters Services
3844	WI	Western Sahara (FIPS 10-4 country code),Wisconsin (postal symbol),Women's Institute
3845	WIA	Wounded In Action,Wireless Institute of Australia (Amateur Radio)
3846	WIIFM	What's in it for me?
3847	WIMP	Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, Windows,Icons,Menus,Pointers
3848	WIP	Work In Progress
3849	WIPO	World Intellectual Property Organization
3850	WIPP	[Nuclear] Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
3851	WIYN	Wisconsin Indiana Yale NOAO telescope consortium
3852	WK	Wake Island (ISO 3166 digram,obsolete 1986)
3853	WKYP	Will Keep You Posted
3854	WL	Wehrmacht Luftwaffe (German World War II air force vehicle licence plate code)
3855	WLB	Women's Land Brigade (World War II Canada)
3856	WLF	Wallis and Futuna Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
3857	WLOG	Without Loss Of Generality (see WOLOG)
3858	WLTP	Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedure
3859	WM	Wehrmacht Marine (German World War II navy vehicle licence plate code)
3860	WMANUS	West Midlands Area National Union of Students
3861	WMD	World Movement for Democracy
3862	WMI	Wildlife Management Institute
3863	WMO	World Meteorological Organization
3864	WNA	World Nuclear Association
3865	WNF	Will Not Fix
3866	WNIT	Women's National Invitation Tournament
3867	WNSD	What's New,Scooby-Doo?
3868	WNW	West North-West
3869	WO	Warrant Officer
3870	WOF	Width of Fabric
3871	WOFT	Waste Of Fucking Time
3872	WOFTAM	Waste Of Fucking Time And Money
3873	WOI	Wheels Of Italy
3874	WOM	Write Only Memory
3875	WOS	Wilson Ornithological Society
3876	WOSM	World Organization of the Scout Movement, Worldwide Oil Spill Model
3877	WOT	Waste Of Time
3878	WP	White Phosphorus (ammunition)
3879	WPB	War Production Board during World War II
3880	WPE	World Pork Expo
3881	WPK	Wider Peacekeeping
3882	WPT	World Poker Tour,World Premiere Toons
3883	WR	Wide Receiver (football)
3884	WRAC	Women's Royal Army Corps (World War II UK)
3885	WRAIR	Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
3886	WRBWWRM	We Best What We Most
3887	WRC	World Rally Championship
3888	WRC	World Religions Conference
3889	WRNG	Warning
3890	WRS	Worldwide Reference System
3891	WRT	With respect to (especially in fields such as Mathematics)
3892	WRT	NHS Workforce Review Team
3893	WRT	The Linksys routers whose model name start with 'WRT'
3894	WRT	Third party firmware for the Linksys WRT routers and compatible models from other vendors.
3895	WRT	Wallace Roberts & Todd,LLC (Urban Planning and Design)
3896	WRT	Web Runtime (WRT) is a portable application framework developed by Nokia that allows the creation of widgets on the S60 Platform.
3897	WRT	Wholesale,Trade,Retail sector,category in employment and economics statistics
3898	WRT	Wireless Receiver/Transmitter (computer networks/IT)
3899	WRT	Wireless Ronin Technologies (digital signage)
3900	WRT	World Rally Team
3901	WRT	Writer Response Theory
3902	WRVS	Women's Royal Voluntary Service,now only known by the acronym (UK)
3903	WS	Samoa (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram; from the country's former name of Western Samoa),Writer to the Signet (a Scottish solicitor)
3904	WSC	Weapon System Catalogue
3905	WSDL	Web Services Description Language
3906	WSJ	(The) Wall Street Journal
3907	WSL	White Star Line (shipping company),Women's Super League,used to describe England's top women's association football league and top women's rugby union competition,Workers' Socialist League (UK political party)
3908	WSROC	Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils
3909	WSSM	Winchester Super Short Magnum (family of rifle cartridges)
3910	WSTC	Women Signallers Territorial Corps (World War II UK)
3911	WSW	West South-West
3912	WTB	Wales Tourism Board,Warenterminbörse Hannover
3913	WTC	World Trade Center
3914	WTF	What the fuck?; also What a Terrible Failure (android)
3915	WTFH	What The Fucking Hell
3916	WTH	What the Hell
3917	WTO	World Trade Organization
3918	WU	Wabash University,Washington University in St. Louis,Western Union,Windows Update,Work unit,WU Wien (German Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien,Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration)
3919	WUBU2	What you been up to
3920	WUU2	What you up to (Internet slang popular with teenagers)
3921	WV	West Virginia (postal symbol)
3922	WVA	World Veterinary Association
3923	WVIAC	West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
3924	WVR	Women's Volunteer Reserve (World War II UK)
3925	WVSC	Women's Volunteer Service Corps (World War II Canada)
3926	WVU	West Virginia University
3927	WW	see entry
3928	WWE	World Wrestling Entertainment
3929	WWI	World War I
3930	WWII	World War II
3931	WWIII	World War III
3932	WWJD	What would Jesus do?
3933	WWS	Wheaton Warrenville South High School
3934	WWWF	World Wide Wrestling Federation
3935	WXO	Weather [Executive] Officer
3936	WY	Wyoming (postal symbol)
3937	WZ	Swaziland (FIPS 10-4 country code)
3938	XBML	eXtended Business Modelling Language
3939	XC	Ninety (in Roman numerals)
3940	XCBL	XML Common Business Library
3941	XD	Used in chatrooms or email for smiley face. X is the eyes; squinted D is the mouth; XD.
3942	Xe	Xenon
3943	XFA	XML Forms Architecture
3944	XFC	Xtreme Fighting Championships
3945	XFD	Fighter aircraft made by Douglas
3946	Xfe	X File Explorer
3947	XFF	X-Forwarded-For
3948	XFG	Exfoliation glaucoma
3949	XFR	Automobile made by Jaguar
3950	XFT	X FreeType interface library
3951	XG	Automobile made by Hyundai
3952	XGA	Extended Graphics Array
3953	XGP	Extreme Game Player
3954	XHTML	eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
3955	XI	Eleven (in Roman numerals)
3956	XII	Twelve (in Roman numerals)
3957	XIII	Thirteen (in Roman numerals)
3958	XIV	Fourteen (in Roman numerals)
3959	XIX	Nineteen (in Roman numerals)
3960	XJS	Automobile made by Jaguar
3961	XKB	X keyboard extension
3962	XKE	Automobile made by Jaguar
3963	XKR	Automobile made by Jaguar
3964	XML	eXtensible Markup Language
3965	XMSF	eXtensible Modelling and Simulation Framework
3966	XNA	X-No-Archive,Xeno Nucleic Acid
3967	XNC	X Northern Captain
3968	XNU	X is Not Unix
3969	XP	eXperience Point (role-playing games)
3970	XQJ	XQuery API for Java™
3971	XRAY	X-Ray
3972	XRML	eXtensible Rights Markup Language
3973	XS	Xiaolin Showdown
3974	XSL	eXtensible Style Language
3975	XTMH	eXtreme Technology Multiprocessor Hyperlanguage
3976	XUL	XML User Interface Language
3977	XV	Fifteen (in Roman numerals)
3978	XVI	Sixteen (in Roman numerals)
3979	XVII	Seventeen (in Roman numerals)
3980	XVIII	Eighteen (in Roman numerals)
3981	XWF	Xcitement Wrestling Federation
3982	XX	Twenty (in Roman numerals)
3983	Xyl	Xylobium
3984	XZN	Triple square screw driver
3985	y	Yocto-
3986	Y2K	Year Two Thousand
3987	yA	Yoctoampere
3988	Ya	Yottayear
3989	YaBPr	Yet another Brother Pat rant
3990	YABSLAG	Yet another boy singing like a girl
3991	YAC	Youth-Adult Committee
3992	YAFLA	Yet Another Five Letter Abbreviation
3993	YAP	Young Aspiring Professional
3994	YB	Youcef Benzouada (Southern Algerian name)
3995	Yb	Ytterbium
3996	yC	Yoctocoulomb
3997	YC	Yottacoulomb
3998	YDS	Yosemite Decimal System (climbing)
3999	YE	Yemen (ISO 3166 digram)
4000	YEM	Yemen (ISO 3166 trigram)
4001	yF	Yoctofarad
4002	YF	Yottafarad
4003	yg	Yoctogram
4004	Yg	Yottagram
4005	YGCO	Yamaneko Group of Comet Observers
4006	Ygo	Yu-Gi-Oh!
4007	yH	Yoctohenry
4008	YH	Yottahenry
4009	YHBT	You Have Been Trolled
4010	YHII	You Have It Inside
4011	YHS	Ya Hoor sur!
4012	Yi	Yobi
4013	Yippie	Youth International Party + suffix
4014	yJ	Yoctojoule
4015	YJ	Yottajoule
4016	yK	Yoctokelvin
4017	YK	Yottakelvin
4018	YKYFCW	You know you're from Christchurch when (post-earthquake joke)
4019	yL	Yoctolitre
4020	YL	Yottalitre
4021	ym	Yoctometre
4022	Ym	Yottametre
4023	YMMD	You Make My Day
4024	yN	Yoctonewton
4025	YN	Yottanewton
4026	YOLO	You Only Live Once
4027	YPA	Yards per Pass Attempt (football statistic)
4028	YPIO	Your Problem Is Obvious
4029	YPO	Young Presidents' Organization
4030	ys	Yoctosecond
4031	yS	Yoctosiemens
4032	Ys	Yottasecond
4033	YS	Yottasiemens
4034	YSI	Young Scots for Independence
4035	yT	Yoctotesla
4036	YTD	Year-To-Date
4037	YTM	Yield to Maturity
4038	YTS	Youth Training Scheme
4039	YTT	Yoshi Topsy-Turvy
4040	Yuppie	Young Urban Professional + suffix
4041	yV	Yoctovolt
4042	YV	Yottavolt
4043	yW	Yoctowatt
4044	YW	Yottawatt
4045	YYH	YuYu Hakusho
4046	z	Zepto
4047	Z	Zetta
4048	zA	Zeptoampere
4049	ZAF	South Africa (ISO 3166 trigram)
4050	ZAMS	Zero age main sequence
4051	ZAS	Zylinder Abschaltung System
4052	ZBT	Zero-Balance Transfer (accounting)
4053	zC	Zeptocoulomb
4054	ZC	Zettacoulomb
4055	ZCM	(n) ZENworks Configuration Management
4056	ZCMK	Zone Control Master Key
4057	ZCU	Zimbabwe Cricket Union