PowerShell/data/abbr/general.csv

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