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1Abbr,Description
20D,obvious deed
31AM,Air Mechanic 1st Class
41D,One-Dimensional
52AM,Air Mechanic 2nd Class
62D, Two-dimensional
72G, Second-generation mobile (cellular, wireless) telephone system
82LA,Two Letter Acronym
92Lt,2nd Lieutenant
103AM,Air Mechanic 3rd Class
113D, Three-Dimensional
123G, Third-generation mobile telephone system
133i, Investors In Industry (venture capitalists)
143M, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
154D, Four-Dimensional (usually three spatial plus one temporal dimension, sometimes four spatial ones)
164G, Fourth-generation mobile telephone system
174GL, Fourth-generation programming language
184WD, Four-wheel drive
195D,Five-Dimensional
206D,Six-Dimensional
217D,Seven-Dimensional
228D,Eight-Dimensional
239D,Nine-Dimensional
24\a, Atto-
25A, Ampere
26A1C,Airman First Class
27A4,many, including a European standard office paper size; see entry
28A10, Atlantic 10 Conference
29aa, Afar language (ISO 639-1 code)
30aA, Attoampere
31AA- achieved availability,Alcoholics Anonymous, Armed Forces Americas (postal symbol),Aruba (FIPS 10-4 territory code), assembly area,Automobile Association,avenue of approach
32AAAI, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, formerly American Association for Artificial Intelligence
33AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science
34AAAV, Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle
35AAC- American Athletic Conference,Army Air Corps (British Army)
36AAD- analogue-analogue-digital (CD quality),Australian Antarctic Division
37AADD,Adult attention deficit disorder
38AADT, annual average daily traffic
39AADAC, Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission
40AADC- area air defense commander, amino acid decarboxylase, aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase, Australian Antarctic Data Centre
41AAFC- U.S. Army Air Corps Ferrying Command (1941-1942),All-America Football Conference (1946-1949)
42AAFES, Army and Air Force Exchange Service
43AAI, applied artificial intelligence
44AAIS, advanced airborne interceptor simulator
45AAM, air-to-air missile
46AAMOF, as a matter of fact
47AAN, American Academy of Nursing
48AANEAS, Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
49AAODL, Atmospheric Aerosols and Optics Data Library
50AAP- advanced acquisition plan,Allied administrative publication,American Academy of Pediatrics
51AAPC, Accounting and Auditing Policy Committee
52aar, Afar language (ISO 639-2 code)
53AAR- after-action review,Association of American Railroads
54AARP,(i/s) American Association of Retired Persons (now officially known only by the initials)
55AASPEM, advanced air-to-air system performance evaluation model
56AAT, Australian Antarctic Territory
57AAV, Amphibious Assault Vehicle
58AAWC, anti-air warfare commander
59ab, Abkhaz language (ISO 639-1 code)
60AB- Able Seaman (both the rank and the occupation), Alberta (postal symbol)
61ABA- Adriatic Basketball Association,American Bar Association,American Basketball Association,American Beverage Association,American Bicycle Association,American Birding Association,Australian Broadcasting Authority
62ABB, ASEA Brown Boveri (Swiss-Swedish multinational company)
63ABBA, Agnetha, Benny, Björn, Anni-Frid (Swedish pop group)
64ABC- abstinence, be faithful, condoms,Active Body Control,airway, breathing, circulation (see CPR),Alcoholic Beverage Commission,alien big cat,always be careful,American Bird Conservancy,American-born Chinese,American Broadcasting Company,anti-lock brake controller,Associated British Corporation,Atanasoff-Berry Computer,Atlantic Baptist College,atomic, biological, chemical (see NBC),Australian Broadcasting Corporation
65ABCA- American, British and Canadian Armies (originally),Army Bureau of Current Affairs
66ABCS, (U.S.) Army Battle Command System
67ABET, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
68ABFIST, Advanced Bradley Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer
69ABGI, Addington-Barker Group International
70ABIN, Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (Brazilian Intelligence Agency)
71abk, Abkhaz language (ISO 639-2 code)
72ABL, American Basketball League
73ABLE, AirBorne Law Enforcement (police air support unit)
74ABM, anti-ballistic missile,Asynchronous Balanced Mode,automated banking machine
75ABMC, American Battle Monuments Commission
76ABN, Australian Business Number (a number issued by the Australian government as registration of a business and used for taxation purposes)
77ABPI, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
78ABRSM, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
79ABS- acrylonitrile butadiene styrene,anti-lock braking system
80ABSTRIPS, abstraction-based STRIPS
81ABV, Alcohol by volume
82ABW, Aruba (ISO 3166 trigram)
83aC, Attocoulomb
84Ac, Actinium
85AC1,Aircraftman 1st Class
86AC2,Aircraftman 2nd Class
87ACARS, Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System
88ACAS- Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society,Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
89ACC- U.S. Air Combat Command,Air Component Commander,Alpine Club of Canada,Altocumulus castellanus,Area Control Center,Atlantic Coast Conference,Automatic climate control
90ACCA- The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants,Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment
91ACCAC, Awdurdod Cymwysterau, Cwricwlwm ac Asesu Cymru (Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales)
92ACCD,American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities
93ACCS, Air Communications and Control Squadron
94ACDA, Arms Control & Disarmament Agency
95ACDC- Alternating Current Direct Current,the name of an Australian rock music band,a term for a bisexual person,A/Cdre,Air Commodore
96ACDT- Apple Certified Desktop Technician, Australian Central Daylight Time
97ACE- Air Combat Emulator (computer game),Allied Command Europe,Armored Combat Earthmover,Automatic Computing Engine
98ACF- Administration for Children and Families,American Car and Foundry,American Culinary Federation
99ACHT, Average Call Hold Time
100ACID, Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (in databases)
101ACINT, Acoustic Intelligence
102ACK, Acknowledge (telecommunications; cf. NAK)
103ACL- Access Control List,Anterior cruciate ligament; the initialism can also refer to an injury to this ligament.,Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
104ACLJ, American Center for Law and Justice
105ACLOS, Automatic CLOS (missile control system)
106ACLS, American Council of Learned Societies
107ACLU- American Civil Liberties Union,American Communist Lawyers Union (pejorative slang for the above)
108ACM,many, including Association for Computing Machinery; see entry
109ACMC, (U.S.) Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
110ACN- Airborne Communications Node,Australian Company Number (number issued by the Australian government as registration of a limited liability company)
111ACNA, Anglican Church in North America
112ACO, Airspace Control Order
113ACOBA, Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
114ACOG, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
115ACOM, (U.S.) Atlantic Command
116ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
117ACP- African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States,Air Control Point
118ACR, Advanced Concepts and Requirements
119ACRI, African Crisis Initiative
120ACRT, Advanced Concepts Research Tool simulator
121ACS- Affiliated Computer Services (NYSE ACS),Alaska Communications Service,American Cancer Society,American Chemical Society,Association of Caribbean States,Australian Computer Society
122ACSC, Army Command and Staff College (various nations)
123ACST, Australian Central Standard Time
124ACST, American Cooperative School of Tunis
125ACT- Adaptive Control of Thought (cognitive model),American College Test (ing Program),Australian Capital Territory (also postal symbol),ACT UP, AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
126ACTD, Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration
127ACTF- (U.S.) Army Constructive Training Federation,Australian Children's Television Foundation,ACT-R, ACT-Rational (cognitive model),ACT-R/PM, ACT-R/Perceptual-Motor (cognitive model)
128ACTU, Australian Council of Trade Unions
129ACU, American Conservative Union
130ACUF- BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features, American Conservative Union Foundation
131ACV, Armoured Combat Vehicle
132ADA, Air Defence Artillery,American Dental Association,Assistant District Attorney,Americans with Disabilities Act (see also the similar but non-acronymic Ada programming language)
133ADAGE, Air Defense Air to Ground Engagement (simulation)
134ADAP, AIDS Drug Assistance Program
135ADAS,(a/i) Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey
136ADAT, Alesis Digital Audio Tape (recording format)
137ADatP, Automated Data Processing
138ADATS, Agricultural Development and Training Society,Air Defence Anti-Tank System,Australian Defence Air Traffic System
139ADB, Asian Development Bank
140ADC, Aide De Camp,U.S. Air Defense Command (1946-1992),Apple Display Connector,Program Against Digital Counterfeiting of Currency
141ADCTS, Advanced Distributed Combat Training System
142ADD, Analog Digital Digital (CD quality),Attention-Deficit Disorder,Administration on Developmental Disabilities
143ADDIE, Analyze Design Develop Implement and Evaluate
144ADDNS, Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation
145ADF, Australian Defence Force,African Development Foundation
146ADGB,Air Defence of Great Britain
147ADHD, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
148ADHS, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome
149ADI, Acceptable/Allowable Daily Intake
150ADIZ,(a/i) Air Defence Identification Zone
151ADL, Anti-Defamation League
152ADM, Administrative,,Admiral, and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,Archer Daniels Midland,Assistant Deputy Minister
153ADOA,(a/i) Air Defence Operations Area
154ADP, Adenosine DiPhosphate,Army Doctrine Publication (UK, Canada, Australia),Automatic/Automated Data Processing
155ADRG, Arc-second Raster Chart (ARC) Digitized Raster Graphics
156ADS,(a/i) Active Denial System,Astrophysics Data System,Attention Deficit Syndrome
157ADSR, Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release (sound envelope specification)
158ADT, Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC3 hours)
159ADTB, Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin
160ADW, Air Defence Warning
161ae, Avestan language (ISO 639-1 code)
162AE- Armed Forces Africa/Canada/Europe/Middle East (postal symbol),United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code), Artix Entertainment,American Eagle,A&E,(a/i) Arts & Entertainment Network, the original name for the U.S. TV channel now known as A&E Network
163AED, United Arab Emirates dirham (ISO 4217 currency code)
164AEDT, Australian Eastern Daylight Time
165AEF, American Expeditionary Force
166AEGIS, Airborne Early warning Ground environment Interface Segment (fake etymology)
167AESR, Aeronautical Equipment Service Record
168AEST, Australian Eastern Standard Time
169aet, After extra time (Football)
170AEW, Airborne Early Warning,Airborne Electronic Warfare
171af, Afrikaans language (ISO 639-1 code)
172aF, Attofarad
173AF- Afghanistan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram), Air Force,As f*ck
174AFAIC, As Far As I'm Concerned
175AFAICT, As Far As I Can Tell
176AFAIK, As Far As I Know
177AFAIR, As Far As I Remember/Recall
178AFATDS, Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
179AFC- American Football Conference,Asian Football Confederation
180AFCEA, Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
181AFDB, African Development Bank
182AFES, Automatic Fire Extinguishing System
183AFG, Afghanistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
184AFIS- Automated Fingerprint Identification System,American Forces Information Service
185AFIST, Abrams Full Crew Interactive Skills Trainer
186AFJ, April Fool's Joke
187AFK, Away From Keyboard (Internet chat abbreviation)
188AFL- American Federation of Labor,American Football League — either the 1960s league that merged into the National Football League, or one of several other leagues of American football,Arena Football League,Australian Football League,AFL-CIO, American Federation of Labor,Congress of Industrial Organizations
189AFLAC, American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus
190AFM, Army Field Manual (UK; the U.S. more frequently uses just FM),Atomic Force Microscope,Aviation Fleet Maintenance
191AFN, Afghani (ISO 4217 currency code)
192AFO, Association of Field Ornithologists
193AFOSR, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
194AFQT, Armed Forces Qualification Test
195afr, Afrikaans language (ISO 639-2 code)
196AFRC, Air Force Reserve Command
197AFRL, Air Force Research Laboratory
198AFROTC, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
199AFRRI,(i, U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
200AFRTS, Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
201AFS- Active Front Steering,Air Facility Sub-System,Amniotic Fluid-derived Stem cell,AFS&A or AFSA, U.S. Air Force Studies and Analysis
202AFSC- U.S. Air Force Staff College (obsolete; replaced with JFSC),U.S. Air Force Systems Command
203AFSCN, U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network
204AFSPC, Air Force Space Command
205AFT,American Farmland Trust
206AFV, armoured fighting vehicle
207AFWA- Air Force Weather Agency,Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies,AG[edit]
208ag, Attogram
209Ag, Silver (Latin argentum)
210AGARD, Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development
211AGARDograph, Advanced Guidance for Alliance Research and Development publication
212AGASA, Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (cosmic ray detector)
213AGB, Internal Nintendo initialism (Advanced Game Boy) for Game Boy Advance
214AGC- Apollo Guidance Computer,Automatic Gain Control
215AGC, Adjutant General's Corps (British Army)
216AGDC, Australian Game Developers' Conference
217AGI, Auxiliary Group Intelligence
218AGL, Above Ground Level
219AGM, Annual General Meeting
220AGN, Active Galactic Nucleus
221AGO, Angola (ISO 3166 trigram)
222AGP, Accelerated Graphics Port
223AGRICOLA, Agriculture Online Access
224AGS, Alaska Ground Station (LandSat)
225AGTS, Advanced Gunnery Training System
226AGU, American Geophysical Union
227AGW, Autonomous Guided Weapon
228aH, Attohenry
229Ah, Ampere-hour
230AH, Attack Helicopter
231AHA, American Heart Association
232AHCPR, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (obsolete; replaced with AHRQ)
233AHEC, Australian Health Ethics Committee
234AHPCRC, Army High Performance Computing Research Center
235AHQ,Air Headquarters
236AHRQ, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
237AHS, American Housing Survey
238AI- Air Interdiction,Amnesty International,Artificial Insemination,Artificial Intelligence, Anguilla (ISO 3166 digram)
239AIA- Aerospace Industries Association,American Institute of Architects, Anguilla (ISO 3166 trigram)
240AIAA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
241AIC- African Independent Church,Animal Identification Coordinator
242AICD, Australian Institute of Company Directors
243AICMFP, And I Claim My Five Pounds
244AID, U.S. Agency for International Development
245AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
246AIM,many, including AOL Instant Messenger, Australian Institute of Management; see entry
247AIMP, Aurora Incremental Modernization Project
248AIPAC, American Israel Public Affairs Committee
249AIR, Aircraft Inventory Record
250AIRFA, American Indian Religious Freedom Act
251AIRS,(a/i) Aerometric Information Retrieval System (obsolete; replaced with AFS)
252AIS- Australian Institute of Sport,Automatic Identification System
253AISB, (British Society for the Study of) Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
254aJ, Attojoule
255AJ, Azerbaijan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
256Ajax, Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
257AJD, Astronomical Julian day
258AJP, Allied Joint Publication
259AJPW, All Japan Pro Wrestling
260ak, Akan languages (ISO 639-1 code)
261aK, Attokelvin
262AK, Alaska (postal symbol)
263aka, Akan languages (ISO 639-2 code)
264AKA, Above knee amputation (orthopaedic usage)
265AKDT, Alaska Standard Daylight Saving Time (UTC8 hours)
266AKST, Alaska Standard Time (UTC9 hours)
267aL, Attolitre
268Al, Aluminium
269ALA, Åland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
270ALAP, As Long/Late As Possible
271ALARM, Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missile
272ALB, Albania (ISO 3166 trigram)
273ALD, Accounting Line Designator (nuclear weapon targeting)
274ALERT, Advanced Linked Extended Reconnaissance and Targeting,Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theatre
275ALF- Africa Leadership Forum,Alien Life Form (cf. ALF (TV series)),Animal Liberation Front
276ALG, Algeria (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
277ALGOL, ALGOrithmic Language
278ALL, Albanian lek (ISO 4217 currency code)
279ALOA, Associated Locksmiths of America, Inc.
280ALOC- Air Lines Of Communication, Average Length of Calls
281ALPA, Air Line Pilots Association
282ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis,Automatic Landing System
283ALSHS, Abraham Low Self-Help Systems
284ALSP, Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol
285ALTE, Association of Language Testers in Europe
286ALTACS, Automated decision Logic Tactical Air Combat Simulation
287am- Amharic language (ISO 639-1 code),Attometre
288Am, Americium
289AM-many, including Amplitude Modulation and Ante Meridiem; see entry, Armenia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
290AM1,Airman 1st class
291AMA- American Medical Association,Australian Medical Association
292AMAPS, Aircraft, Missile, Avionics Performance Simulation
293AMC- Adaptive modulation and coding (digital communications),U.S. Air Mobility Command,American Motors Corporation,American Movie Classics (TV network; now known simply by the initials),U.S. Army Materiel Command
294AMCB, U.S. Army/Marine Corps Board
295AMD- Advanced Micro Devices,Age-related Macular Degeneration, Armenian dram (ISO 4217 currency code)
296AMF, Afghan Military Force
297AMFR- Age-specific Marital Fertility Rate,Amplitude Modulation Following Response
298AMFRS- Advanced Multi-Function Radio Frequency System,Automatic Multisensor Feature-based Recognition System
299amh, Amharic language (ISO 639-2 code)
300AML, Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
301AMLCD, Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
302AMLO- Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexican politician),Anti-Money Laundering Office (Thailand government agency)
303AMO, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
304AMOLED, Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode
305AMOS- Advanced MOrtar System,Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory
306AMP- Adenosine MonoPhosphate,Automated Mission Planner
307AMRAAM, Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile
308AMRDEC, U.S. Aviation & Missile Research, Development, & Engineering Center
309AMS- Agriculture Marketing Service,American Mathematical Society
310AMSAA,(i/a) U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity
311AMSO,(i/a) U.S. Army Model and Simulation Office
312AMSU,Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
313AMTE, UK Admiralty Marine Technology Establishment (1977-1984)
314an, Aragonese language (ISO 639-1 code)
315aN, Attonewton
316AN- Andorra (FIPS 10-4 country code),Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 digram)
317ANA- Administration for Native Americans,Afghan National Army,All Nippon Airways,Anti-Nuclear Anti-body, Australian National Airways,Australian Natives' Association
318ANC, African National Congress
319AND, Andorra (ISO 3166 trigram)
320ANFO, Ammonium nitrate/fuel oil (explosive)
321ANG- Air National Guard, Angola (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166), Netherlands Antillian guilder (ISO 4217 currency code)
322ANGLiCo, Air/Naval Gunfire Liaison Company
323ANL, Argonne National Laboratory
324ANM, Acoustic Noise Monitor
325ANOVA, ANalysis Of VAriance
326ANS, Applied and Natural Sciences
327ANSI, American National Standards Institute
328ANTM, America's Next Top Model
329ANT- Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166 trigram),Antigua and Barbuda (IOC trigram, but not ISO 3166 or FIFA)
330ANTY,Acronyms, No Thank You
331ANWR, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge /ˈænwɑr/
332ANZ, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
333ANZAC, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
334AO, Angola (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram), Approach Officer (submarine),Area of Operations
335AOA, Air Officer in charge of Administration,Argonne National Laboratory, Angolan kwanza (ISO 4217 currency code), Award Of Arms (heraldry)
336AOC, Air Operations Centre,Air Officer Commanding
337AOD, Adrenalin O.D. (punk rock band)
338AOI, Angle Of Incidence Arab Organization for Industrialization
339AOL, America OnLine
340AOR, Area of Responsibility
341AOSTH, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
342AOTS, Attack of the Show!
343AOU, American Ornithologists' Union
344AP- Advanced Placement,Air Publication, Andhra Pradesh (Indian state code), Armed Forces Pacific (postal symbol), Associated Press,Auto Pilot
345APA -
346APB, All Points Bulletin (police jargon)
347APC- Armoured Personnel Carrier,Armour Piercing Capped (ammunition)
348APEC, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
349APCNR, Armour-Piercing, Composite Non-Rigid (ammunition)
350APCR, Armour-Piercing, Composite Rigid (ammunition)
351APDS, Armour-Piercing, Discarding-Sabot (ammunition)
352APEDS, AMSAA Performance Estimates Data System
353APEX, Applied Physics Express
354APFSDS, Armour-Piercing, Fin-Stabilised, Discarding Sabot (ammunition)
355APHA, American Public Health Association
356APHE, Armour-Piercing, High Explosive (ammunition)
357APHIS, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
358API, Application Programming Interface
359APL- A Programming Language,Acute Promyeloid Leukaemia,Anti-Personnel Landmine,Applied Physics Laboratory (Johns Hopkins University)
360APM, Advanced Power Management
361APOD, Aerial Port (Airport) Of Debarkation
362APOE, Aerial Port (Airport) Of Embarkation
363APOLLO, Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation
364APP, Allied Procedural Publication
365APR, Annual Percentage Rate
366APS- Advanced Photo System (cf. APS-C, an image sensor format based on the size of the original APS film frame),American Physical Society,Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome,AQ[edit]
367AQ- AdventureQuest, American Samoa (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Antarctica (ISO 3166 digram), Automatic qualifier, a term used by U.S. sports media from 1998 to 2013 to refer to the six conferences whose champions automatically entered the now-defunct Bowl Championship Series of college football
368AQIM, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
369ar, Arabic language (ISO 639-1 code)
370Ar, Argon
371AR, Argentina (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Arkansas (postal symbol),Armour, Arunachal Pradesh (Indian state code)
372ara, Arabic language (ISO 639-2 code)
373ARAG, Advanced Research and Assessment Group
374ARB, Administrative Review Board
375ARBA,(a/i) Army Review Boards Agency
376ARC, Arc-second Raster Chart,Appalachian Regional Commission
377ARCA, Automobile Racing Club of America
378ARCENT, United States Army Central Command
379ARDA, Advanced Research and Development Activity (became DTO 2006)
380ARE, UK Admiralty Research Establishment (-1991), United Arab Emirates (ISO 3166 trigram)
381ARF, ASEAN Regional Forum
382arg, Aragonese language (ISO 639-2 code)
383ARG, Argentina (ISO 3166 trigram)
384ARH, Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter
385ARI, Acute Respiratory Infection,U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
386ARL, UK Admiralty Research Laboratory (1921-1977),U.S. Army Research Laboratory,UIUC Aviation Research Laboratory
387ARM, Anti-Radiation Missile,Adjustable-rate mortgage, Armenia (ISO 3166 trigram)
388ARNet, Acquisition Reform Network
389ARP, Address Resolution Protocol,Applied Research Programme
390ARPA, Advanced Research Projects Agency
391ARRC, ACE Rapid Reaction Corps
392ARRF, Allied Rapid Reaction Force
393ARRL, American Radio Relay League
394ARS, Agricultural Research Service, Argentine peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
395ARSC, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
396ARSPACE, U.S. Army Space Command
397ART, Adaptive Resonance Theory,Anti-Retroviral Therapy
398ARTCC, Air Route Traffic Control Center
399as, Adult swim, Assamese language (ISO 639-1 code),Attosecond
400aS, Attosiemens
401As, Arsenic
402AS, American Samoa (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram),Australia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Assam / Asom (Indian state code)
403AS, ActionScript
404ASA, AcetylSalicylic Acid,American Standards Association,Army Security Agency,Atlantic Southeast Airlines
405ASAP, As Soon As Possible
406ASARS, Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System,Airborne Search and Rescue System
407ASB, Associated Student Body,Alternative Service Book (Church of England)
408ASBO, Anti-Social Behaviour Order
409ASCAP, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
410ASCC, Army Service Component Commander,Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator,Air Standardization Coordinating Committee
411ASCIET, All Services Combat Identification Evaluation Team
412ASCII, American Standard Code for Information Interchange
413ASD, (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense,autism spectrum disorder
414ASDIC, Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (Sonar)
415ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations
416ASFAR, Americans for a Society Free of Age Restrictions
417ASG, Area Support Group
418ASIC, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Aviation Security Identification Card
419ASIO, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Audio stream input output
420ASIP, Advanced System Improvement Program,Army Stationing and Installation Plan,Application-specific instruction-set processor
421asm, Assamese language (ISO 639-2 code)
422ASM, Air-to-Surface Missile, American Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram), American Society for Metals, American Society for Microbiology
423ASMB, American Society for Matrix Biology,Adult Swim Message Board
424ASME, American Society of Mechanical Engineers,American Society of Magazine ors
425ASN, Associate of Science in Nursing
426ASOC,(a/i) Air Sovereignty Operations Centre,Air Support Operations Centre,Airport Security and Operations Centre,Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition,Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus,Australian Standard Offence Classification
427ASP, Active Server Pages,American Society of Primatologists,Ammunition Supply Point,Application Service Provider (cf internet service provider),Astronomical Society of the Pacific,Association of Surfing Professionals
428ASPI, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
429ASR, Alkali-silica reaction,Anti Slip Regulation
430ASRAAM, Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile
431ASSC, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
432AST, Atlantic Standard Time (UTC4 hours)
433ASTIA, Armed Services Technical Information Agency
434ASTM, American Society for Testing and Materials
435ASTREA, Aerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies (sheriff's air support unit)
436ASUW, AntiSUrface Warfare
437ASVAB,Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery(taken by juniors in high school in the USA)
438ASW, AntiSubmarine Warfare
439ASWORG, (U.S.) AntiSubmarine Warfare Operations Research Group
440ASX, Advanced Stream Redirector,Australian Securities Exchange
441aT, Attotesla
442At, Astatine
443AT, Anti-Tank, Ashmore and Cartier Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Austria (ISO 3166 digram), Advanced Technology (IBM Personal Computer/AT)
444ATA, Advanced Technology Attachment (IBM Personal Computer),Afghan Transitional Authority,Allen Telescope Array, Antarctica (ISO 3166 trigram)
445ATAC, Air Transportable Acoustic Communications
446ATACMS, Army TACtical Missile System
447ATAPI, Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
448ATAS, Air-To-Air Stinger (missile)
449ATAT, Aiken Tactical Airsoft Team / Star Wars vehicle
450ATB, Active Time Battle, British Antarctic Territory (ISO 3166 trigram; merged with AQ in 1979)
451ATC, Air Traffic Control,Air Training Corps,U.S. Air Transport Command (1942-1948)- Athletic Trainer, Certified (www.nata.org)
452ATCCIS, Army Tactical Command and Control Information System
453ATESS, Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron
454ATG, Antigua and Barbuda (ISO 3166 and FIFA trigram)
455ATGM, Anti-Tank Guided Missile
456ATGW, Anti-Tank Guided Weapon
457ATI, Allied Telesyn International, Inc., Array Technologies Incorporated. (ATI Technologies)
458Atisbo,a Local Government Area in Nigeria named for constituent communities (Ago-Are, Tede, Irawo, Sabe, Baasi, Ofiki and Owo)
459ATK, Attack
460ATL, Atlanta, Georgia, the largest city and capital of Georgia
461ATLAS, All-Terrain Lifter Army System, Assessment Tool for LAnd Systems
462ATM, Automated Teller Machine,Asynchronous Transfer Mode,At The Moment
463ATN, Dronning Maud Land (ISO 3166 trigram; merged with AQ in 1983)
464ATO, Air Tasking Order,Australian Taxation Office
465ATP, Adenosine TriPhosphate,Allied Tactical Publication,Ammunition Transfer Point
466ATSD, (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense
467ATSDR, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
468ATV, All-Terrain Vehicle
469ATWA, Air, Trees, Water, Animals
470Au, Gold (Latin Aurum)
471AU, African Union (was OAU before 2000),American University, Astronomical Unit,Australia (ISO 3166 digram),Austria (FIPS 10-4 country code)
472AUD, Australian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
473AUS, Australia (ISO 3166 trigram)
474AUSCANNZUKUS, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States (security designation)
475Auslan, Australian Sign Language
476AUT, Austria (ISO 3166 trigram)
477AUTL, Army Universal Task List
478av, Avar language (ISO 639-1 code)
479aV, Attovolt
480Av, Aperture value (photographic mode)
481AV- Anguilla (FIPS 10-4 territory code), Audio-Visual, Aviation
482ava, Avar language (ISO 639-2 code)
483AVA, American Viticultural Area
484AVB, Audio Video Bridging
485AVDLR, Aviation Depot Level Repair
486ave, Avestan language (ISO 639-2 code)
487AVGP, Armoured Vehicle, General Purpose
488AVI, Audio Video Interleave
489AVIM, Aviation Intermediate Maintenance
490AVLB, Armoured Vehicle Launched Body
491AVM- Air Vice-Marshal, Arteriovenous malformation
492AVO, Apprehended Violence Order
493AVP, Arubaanse Volkspartij
494AVP, Association of Volleyball Professionals
495AVRE, Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers
496AVTB- Armoured Vehicle Test Bed, Aviation Test Bed
497AVUM, Aviation Unit Maintenance
498AVVO, Acute Vaginal Venereal Outbreak
499aW, Attowatt
500AW, Aruba (ISO 3166 digram)
501AWA, American Wrestling Association
502AWACS, Airborne Warning And Control System
503AWC, Air Warfare Centre
504AWD,many, including All Wheel Drive; see entry
505AWE,(i/a) Advanced Warfighting Experiment
506AWG, Aruban guilder (ISO 4217 currency code)
507AWOL, Absent Without Official Leave / Absent WithOut Leave (military jargon)
508AWP, Awaiting Parts (SM&R code)
509AWSIM, Air Warfare SIMulation
510AWST, Australian Western Standard Time
511AWW, Above Water Warfare
512AX, Åland Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
513AXP, Ambulance eXchange Point
514ay, Aymara language (ISO 639-1 code)
515AY, Antarctica (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
516AYBABTU, All Your Base Are Belong To Us
517aym, Aymara language (ISO 639-2 code)
518AYU, As Yet Unknown
519az, Azerbaijani language (ISO 639-1 code)
520AZ- Arizona (postal symbol),Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 digram), Alkmaar Zaanstreek (Dutch football club)
521aze, Azerbaijani language (ISO 639-2 code)
522AZE, Azerbaijan (ISO 3166 trigram)
523AZN, Azerbaijani manat (ISO 4217 currency code)
524AZUR, Actions en zone urbaine (French, Urban Operations)
525BAR- Barbados (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166), British American Racing,Browning Automatic Rifle,Buy-American Restrictions,BARD - Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund (between the US and Israel),BARDA - Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency,BART - Bay Area Rapid Transit,BAS - Battalion Aid Station,BASE - Building, Antenna, Span, Earth (parachute from),BASF - Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (Baden Aniline and Soda Factory, a German chemicals company),BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (acronym was added later, originally it was simply Basic),BAT - (a/i) Basic Aid Training,BATF - U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms,BATS - Behavior Analysis Training System - Bradley Advanced Training System,BATTeRS - Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey,BB[edit]
526BB- Barbados (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code), Boys' Brigade (Christian youth organization),Brigitte Bardot (actress),Bumblebee
527BBB- Better Business Bureau,Blood-brain barrier
528BBC- Breeding Bird Census,British Broadcasting Corporation, Bumper to Back of Cab (trucking measurement)
529BBD- Barbadian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code), Bowel Bladder Dysfunction
530BBL- Be Back Later,Bird Banding Laboratory,British Basketball League,BBN - Bolt, Beranek and Newman,BBQ - Barbecue[1]
531BBS- Breeding Bird Survey (North America),Brigade/Battalion Battle Simulation,Bulletin Board System,BBSRC - U.K. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council,BBVA - Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (Spanish bank)
532BBYO,B'nai B'rith Youth Organization
533BC- Before Christ,Blind Copy (in emailers),Boston College, Botswana (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Bechuanaland),British Columbia (postal symbol)
534BCA- Bachelor of Computer Application,Black Coaches & Administrators,BCC - Blind Carbon Copy
535BCCI- Bank of Credit and Commerce International,Board of Control for Cricket in India,BCD - Binary-Coded Decimal
536BCS- Bachelor of Computer Science,Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer superconduction theory,Bowl Championship Series (US college football),BCT - Brigade Combat Team,BD[edit],BD - Bangladesh (ISO 3166 digram) - Bermuda (FIPS 10-4 territory code),BDA - British Dental Association,BDD - Body Dysmorphic Disorder - British Defence Doctrine,Bde - Brigade,BDFL - Benevolent Dictator For Life,BDI - Burundi (ISO 3166 trigram),BDNF - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor,BDO - Battle Dress Overgarment,BDOS - Basic Disk Operating System; part of CP/M,BDS -  - Bachelor of Dental Surgery,BDSM - Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission, Sadism and Masochism,BDT - Bangladeshi taka (ISO 4217 currency code) - Bureau de développement des télécommunications (Telecommunication Development Bureau, became ITU-D),BDTA - British Dental Trade Association,BDU - Battle-Dress Uniform,BE[edit],be - Belarusian language (ISO 639-1 code),Be - Beryllium,BE - Belgium (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
537BEA- Banque extérieure d'Algérie,British European Airways (ancestor of British Airways),British Electricity Authority,bel - Belarusian language (ISO 639-2 code),BEL - Belgium (ISO 3166 trigram),BEM - British Empire Medal - Bug-Eyed Monster,ben - Bengali language (ISO 639-2 code),BEN - Benin (ISO 3166 trigram),BEO - Banquet Event Order,BERC - Business Environmental Resource Center,BER - Bit Error Rate
538BH- Bahrain (ISO 3166 digram),Belize (FIPS 10-4 country code),BHD - Bahraini dinar (ISO 4217 currency code),BHR - Bahrain (ISO 3166 trigram)
539BNF- Backus-Naur Form (computing),British National Formulary,BNICE - Biological, Nuclear, Incendiary, Chemical, and Explosive Agents
540BNP- British National Party,Banque Nationale de Paris, a predecessor to today's BNP Paribas,BNS - Bank of Nova Scotia,BNSF - (i/s) Burlington Northern Santa Fe (also AAR reporting mark),BO[edit],bo - Tibetan language (ISO 639-1 code)
541BO- Back Orifice, Belarus (FIPS 10-4 country code), Biarritz Olympique (French rugby union club), Bolivia (ISO 3166 digram), Body odor,BO2k - Back Orifice 2000,BOAC - British Overseas Airways Corporation (predecessor of British Airways)
542BoAML,Bank of America Merrill Lynch
543BOC- British Orthodontic Society,British Oxygen Company,BÖC - Blue Öyster Cult,bod - Tibetan language (ISO 639-2 code),BOD - Biochemical Oxygen Demand,BODMAS - Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction,BOFH - Bastard Operator From Hell,BOGA - Bend Over and Grab Ankles,BOGOF - Buy One, Get One Free
544BOGs, Bunch of Guys
545BOI- Balance Of Investment,Basis Of Issue,BOL - Bolivia (ISO 3166 trigram)
546BOM- Base Object Model,Bill Of Materials,Block of the Month quilting term,Business opportunity meeting,BOP - Balance of Payments,BOPB - Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque (the complete name of the rugby club),BOPD - Barrel of Oil Per Day
547BOQ- Bill Of Quotations,Bachelor Officers' Quarters,Bank Of Queensland,bos - Bosnian language (ISO 639-2 code),BOS - Battlefield Operating System
548BOT- Balance of Trade, Botswana (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166), Build Operate Transfer, Bank of Thailand,BP[edit]
549BP- Battle Position,British Petroleum (today, BP does not officially stand for anything), Solomon Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code; from British Protectorate of the Solomon Islands),Bp - Bishop,BPD - Bipolar Personality Disorder,BPM - Beats Per Minute,BPMo - Business Process Mobility
550BPV- Battlefield Planning Visualization,Bovine papillomavirus,BQ[edit]
551BQ- British Antarctic Territory (former ISO 3166 digram; merged with AQ in 1979),Caribbean Netherlands (current ISO 3166 digram; based on the entity's alternate name of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba),Navassa Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),BR[edit],br - Breton language (ISO 639-1 code),Br - Bromine
552BR- Brazil (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) - Bihar (Indian state code), British Rail,Break Ranks (marching band term),BRA - Brazil (ISO 3166 trigram),BRAG - Bicycle Ride Across Georgia,BRASS - Breathe, Relax, Aim, Sight, Squeeze (Acronym for using a rifle)
553BRN- Bahrain (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166), Brunei (ISO 3166 trigram),BRSB - Battlefield Reasoning System Brianna,BRU - Brunei (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166),BS[edit],bs - Bosnian language (ISO 639-1 code)
554BS- The Bahamas (ISO 3166 digram),Bassas da India (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Bachelor of Science degree,British subject
555Bullshit-
556BSA- Birmingham Small Arms (motorcycles company),Boy Scouts of America,Brigade Support Area
557BSatCoP,Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins
558BSD- Bahamian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code), Berkeley Software Distribution (distinct from BSoD)
559BSE, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease
560BSNL-Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Bachelor of Science in Nursing,BSoD - Blue Screen of Death (distinct from BSD)
561BSP- Between-Show Promotion,Binary Space Partitioning,Board Support Package,British Standard Pipe (screw thread), Business-sponsored,Bone sialoprotein
562BST- Binary search tree,Blended Sales Tax, Bovine somatotropin, British Summer Time,BSW - British Standard Whitworth (screw thread),BSX - Bendigo Stock Exchange,BT[edit]
563Bt- Baronet,Bacillus thuringiensis
564c, Centi
565C, Carbon,Coulomb,One Hundred (in Roman numerals)
566c2c, the British rail company formerly known as LTS Rail
567C2C, Consumer-To-Consumer electronic commerce,Cam-To-Cam internet chat
568ca, Catalan language (ISO 639-1 code)
569Ca, Calcium
570CA- California (postal symbol),Canada (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Catalonia, Civil Affairs,Close Armour,Cocaine Anonymous,Computer Associates,Counter-Air,Cricket Australia
571CAA- Canadian Automobile Association,(NORAD) Center for Aerospace Analysis,(U.S.) Center for Army Analysis,(U.S.) Clean Air Act,(U.S. Army) Concepts Analysis Agency,Civil Aviation Authority,Colonial Athletic Association
572CAAT- or Campaign Against Arms Trade,Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
573CAC- California Association of Criminalists,Chronic Asymptomatic [Disease] Carrier,CACM Central American Common Market
574CACM, Communications of the ACM
575CAD- Canadian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code), Computer-Aided Design,Computer-Aided Dispatch,Cpplint Anxiety Disorder, Condition suffered by software developers who worry about whether they've left any whitespace on the end of a line
576CADCAM, Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing
577CADPAT, CAnadian Disruptive PATtern
578CADMID, Concept, Assessment, Demonstration, Manufacture, In service, Disposal (life cycle mnemonic)
579CAE- Canadian Aviation Electronics (originally),Certificate in Advanced English
580CAEn,(i/a) Close Action Engagement (constructive simulation)
581CAF- Central African Republic (ISO 3166 trigram), Confederation of African Football (or French Confédération Africaine de Football)
582CAFAD, Combined Arms For Air Defence
583CAFDE- Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters,Computer Aided Federation Development Environment
584CAFE, Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard
585CAI, Computer Assisted Instruction
586CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations
587CALABARZON, A region in the Philippines: CAvite, LAguna, BAtangas, Rizal, queZON
588CALL, (U.S.) Center for Army Lessons Learned
589CALM, Communications, Air-interface, Long and Medium range
590CalPERS, California Public Employees' Retirement System
591Caltrans, California Department of Transpotation
592CAM- Chemical Agent Monitor,Complementary and alternative medicine,Computer-Aided Manufacturing,Crassulacean acid metabolism (type of photosynthesis)
593CAMRA, CAMpaign for Real Ale
594CAN, Canada (ISO 3166 trigram)
595CANA, Convulsive Antidote, Nerve Agent
596CANDU, CANada Deuterium Uranium (nuclear reactor design)
597Canola, Canadian oil, low acid (referring to a specific cultivar of rapeseed bred to have a low erucic acid content)
598CAP- Combat Air Patrol,Civil Air Patrol,Common [Operating/Operational] Air Picture,Crisis Action Procedures,Common Agricultural Policy (European Union)
599CAPES- CAPability Evaluation System, Combined Arms Planning and Execution System
600CARE- Citizens Association for Racial Equality (former New Zealand organisation), Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe, Cooperative for Aid and Relief Everywhere (originally Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe)
601CARMONETTE, Computerized Monte Carlo Simulation
602CARP, Computed Air Release Point
603CART, Championship Auto Racing Teams (now defunct)
604CAS- Chemical Abstracts Service,Chief of the Air Staff,Close Air Support
605CASA, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
606CASE- Cellular ammunition storage equipment,Computer-Aided Software Engineering
607CASS, Command Activated Sonobuoy System
608CASTFOREM, Combined Arms and Support Task FORce Evaluation Model
609CASTOR, Canadian Automatic Small Telescopes for Orbital Research
610cat, Catalan language (ISO 639-2 code)
611CAT- Community Acceptance Testing,Computer-Assisted (or Axial) Tomography
612CATK, Counterattack
613CATS, Computer Active Technology Suspension
614CATT,(a/i) Combined Arms Tactical Trainer
615CAV, Cavalry
616CAW, Canadian Auto Workers (trade union)
617CB- Citizens' Band radio, Cambodia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
618CBC- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,Christmas Bird Count,Cipher-Block Chaining,Cornering Brake Control
619CBE- Commander of the Order of the British Empire,Cab Beside Engine (see truck)
620CBGB, Country, Blue Grass, and Blues (former New York City nightclub)
621CBLA, Comparative bullet lead analysis
622CBN,CardsApp Brand Number
623CBM,many, including Canadian Baptist Ministries and Commodore Business Machines; see entry
624CBML, Coalition Battle Management Language
625CBOL, Consortium for the Barcode of Life
626CBOT, Chicago Board of Trade
627CBR, Case-Based Reasoning
628CBRN, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear (weapon or event)
629CBRNE, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or [high-yield] Explosive (weapon or event)
630CBS- Columbia Broadcasting System,Corps Battle Simulation
631CBT- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Combat
632CBUS, Columbus, Ohio
633CC,many, including carbon copy; see entry
634CCA, Counter Command Activity
635CCC- Canterbury Clothing Company,Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S., 1930s and 1940s),Corpus Christi College, Oxford
636CCCP- Central Committee of the Communist Party,Cyrillic for SSSR (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, Russian Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
637CCD- Charge-Coupled Device,Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (Catechism)
638CCF, Cartoon Cartoon Fridays
639CCG- Canadian Coast Guard,Collectible Card Game
640CCGC- Canadian Coast Guard Cutter,Canadian Coast Guard College
641CCGH, Canadian Coast Guard Hovercraft
642CCGS- Canadian Coast Guard Ship,Christ Church Grammar School
643CCH, Computer-Controlled Hostile
644CCIF, Comité consultatif international des communications téléphoniques à grande distance (French for International Telephone Consultative Committee, merged with the CCIT in 1956 to form the CCITT)
645CCII- Command and Control Information Infrastructure,Community Capital Investment Initiative
646CCIR- Comité consultatif international pour la radio (French for Consultative Committee on International Radio, became the ITU Radiocommunication Sector, ITU-R, in 1992),Commander's Critical Information Requirements
647CCIT, Comité consultatif international télégraphique (French for International Telegraph Consultative Committee, merged with the CCIF in 1956 to form the CCITT)
648CCITT, Comité consultatif international téléphonique et télégraphique (French for International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee, became the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector, ITU-T, in 1992)
649CCK- Cholecystokinin, Cocos (Keeling) Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
650CCM- Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd. (now split into two separate companies bearing the CCM name, one manufacturing bicycles and the other ice hockey equipment),Contemporary Christian music
651CCOC- Canadian Children's Opera Chorus,Crosley Car Owners Club
652CCOP, Coalition Common Operating/Operational Picture
653CCP- Casualty Collection Point,Communications Checkpoint,Contingency Communications Package
654CCPA, Consumer Credit Protection Act
655CCR, Creedence Clearwater Revival
656CCRAp, Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance party
657CCRP, Command and Control Research Program
658CCRTS, Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium
659CCSCS, Coordinadora de Centrales Sindicales del Cono Sur
660CCSCS, Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
661CCSK, Cyclic Code Shift Keying
662CCT, Current Commitments Team
663CCTT, Close Combat Tactical Trainer
664cd, Candela
665Cd, Cadmium
666CD,many, including Compact Disc; see entry
667CD1, Cluster of Differentiation 1 (a small gene family)
668CDA, UK Centre for Defence Analysis
669CDC- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (originally (U.S.) Communicable Disease Center),Control Data Corporation,Cult of the Dead Cow
670CDD, Capabilities Development Document
671CDE, Chemical Defence Equipment
672CDEC, U.S. Combat Development Experimentation Center
673CDF- California Department of Forestry [and Fire Protection],Common Data Format, Democratic Republic of Congo franc congolais (ISO 4217 currency code)
674CDipAF, Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance
675CDL, Commercial driver's license
676CDM- Clean Development Mechanism (Kyoto protocol),Cold Dark Matter (astronomy)
677CDMA, Code Division Multiple Access
678CDMSII, Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II
679Cdr, Commander
680CDS- Chief of the Defence Staff,Credit default swap
681Cdt, Commandant
682CDT, Central Daylight Time (UTC5 hours)
683ce, Chechen language (ISO 639-1 code)
684Ce, Cerium
685CE,many, including Christian/Common Era (cf. AD); see entry
686CEA, Campaign Effectiveness Analysis
687CECOM, U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command
688CEI, Competitive Enterprise Institute
689CENTCOM, United States Central Command
690CENTO, Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact)
691CEO, Chief Executive Officer
692CEP, Circular Error Probable
693CERCLA, U.S. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund)
694CERDEC,U.S. Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center
695CERT, Computer Emergency Response Team
696ces, Czech language (ISO 639-2 code)
697CESS, Centre for Earth Science Studies (India)
698CEWC,(a/i) Council for Education in World Citizenship
699Cf, Californium
700CF- Canadian Forces, Central African Republic (ISO 3166 digram),Republic of the Congo (FIPS 10-4 country code)
701CFA- Cat Fanciers' Association,Chartered Financial Analyst,Colour Filtering Array,County Fire Authority,Covering Force Area
702CFAR- Christine's,Federal Acquisition Regulation
703CFC- ChloroFluoroCarbon,Canadian Fish Company
704CFES, Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System
705CFFZ, Call For Fire Zone
706CFG- Context-free grammar,Control flow graph
707CFHT, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
708CFI, Center for Inquiry (CSICOP)
709CFL- Canadian Football League,Co-ordinated Fire Line
710CFLCC, Coalition Forces Land Component Command
711CFM, Certified Facilities Manager [(IFMA)]http://www.ifma.org/
712CFO, Chief Financial Officer
713CFP- Call for papers,College Football Playoff,Common Fisheries Policy (EU)
714CFRP, Carbon fibre reinforced plastic
715CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
716CFSP, Common Foreign and Security Policy
717CFU, Colony Forming Unit in Microbiology
718CFV, Cavalry Fighting Vehicle
719CFZ, Critical Friendly Zone
720CG, Client Group,Computer Graphics,Controls Group, Democratic Republic of the Congo (FIPS 10-4 country code),Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 digram)
721CGDC, Computer Game Developers Conference (became GDC in 1998)
722CGF, Computer-Generated Forces (Simulation)
723CGH, Comparative Genomic Hybridisation
724CGIG, Cross-Government Implementation Group
725CGM, Computer Graphics Metafile
726CGO, Republic of the Congo (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
727CGS, Chief of the General Staff
728CGT, Capital Gains Tax
729ch, Chamorro language (ISO 639-1 code)
730ch,ch(L) is used to denote the Chern character of a line bundle
731CH, Chieftain tank, China (FIPS 10-4 country code),Switzerland (ISO 3166 digram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica)
732cha, Chamorro language (ISO 639-2 code)
733CHAMPUS, (U.S.) Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (now known as TRICARE)
734CHAOS, Cambridge Heart Anti-Oxidant Study
735CHAPS, Clearing House Automated Payment System
736CHDK, Canon Hack Development Kit (Canon camera firmware hack)
737che, Chechen language (ISO 639-2 code)
738CHE, Switzerland (ISO 3166 trigram; from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica)
739CHF, Swiss franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
740CHI, Columbia Helicopters, Inc
741CHI, Computer-Human Interaction
742CHiP, California Highway Patrol
743CHIPS, Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer
744CHL, Chile (ISO 3166 trigram)
745CHLA, Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
746CHN, China (ISO 3166 trigram)
747CHOGM, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
748CHP, California Highway Patrol,Combined Heat and Power
749CHPSO, California Hospital Patient Safety Organization
750CHS, Combat Health Support
751CHT, Certified Hand Therapist
752chu, Old Church Slavonic language (ISO 639-2 code)
753chv, Chuvash language (ISO 639-2 code)
754CREN, Christian Real Estate Network Real Estate Association
755Ci, Curie
756CI- Chile (FIPS 10-4 country code),Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 digram), Counter-Intelligence,101 (in Roman numerals)
757CIA- Cairo International Airport,Central Intelligence Agency,Culinary Institute of America
758CIAO- Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office,Component-Integrated ACE ORB
759CIB, Complete In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
760CIBC, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
761CID- Combat Identification, Criminal Investigation Division,Criminal Investigations Department
762CID,Certified Interior Designer,A Certified Interior Designer (CID) licensed in New York (USA) plans, designs, supervises and/or consults on various aspects of interior spaces.
763CIEF, Comité international d'enregistrement des fréquences (International Frequency Registration Board)
764CIF, Cost, Insurance, and Freight (Paid) (shipping)
765CIMIC, Civil-Military Co-operation
766CINC, Commander in Chief
767CINEOS, Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey
768CIO- Chief information officer,Congress of Industrial Organizations
769CIP, Combat Identification Panel
770CIPE, (European) Centre for International Political Economy
771CIR, (Commander's) Critical Information Requirements
772CIR, Corotating Interaction Region
773CIS- Canadian Interuniversity Sport,Commonwealth of Independent States,Command and Information System,Communication and Information System
774CISA, (U.S.) C4I Integration Support Activity
775CISB, Complete In Sealed Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
776CISPR, Comité international spécial des perturbations radioélectriques (Special International Committee on Radio Interference)
777CISSP, Certified Information Systems Security Professional
778CITS, Combat Identification Training System
779CIV, Côte d'Ivoire (ISO 3166 trigram)
780CIVETS, Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa (economics)
781CIVPOP, Civilian Population
782CIWS, Close-In Weapon System
783CHRS,Canadian Heart Rhythm Society
784CJ, Cayman Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code), Criminal Justice
785CJC, Canadian Jewish Congress,Cold Junction Compensation
786CJD, Chronological Julian Day,Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
787CJCS, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
788CJO, Chief of Joint Operations
789CJTF, Combined Joint Task Force
790CK, Cocos (Keeling) Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code),Cook Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
791CKA, commonly known as, Canada Kicks Ass
792CKND,Codename: Kids Next Door
793Cl, Chlorine
794CL, Chile (ISO 3166 digram), Co-ordination Line,One Hundred and Fifty (in Roman numerals)
795CLA, Clutterers Anonymous
796CLEC, Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
797CLEMARS, California Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System
798CLI, Command Line Interface/Interpreter
799CLIC, Compact LInear Collider
800CLO, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
801CLOB, Character Large OBject
802CLOS, Command to Line-Of-Sight (missile control system)
803CLOS, Common Lisp Object System
804CLP, Chilean peso (ISO 4217 currency code), Common [Operating/Operational] Land Picture
805CLPFC, CentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
806CLRP, College Loan Repayment Program
807Cm, Curium
808CM- Cameroon (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram), Cruise Missile, Nine Hundred (in Roman numerals)
809CMA- U.S. Chemical Materials Agency,Country Music Association (also used to refer to the organization's annual awards),Crystal Meth Anonymous
810CMB, Cosmic Microwave Background
811CMBR, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
812CME, Coronal Mass Ejection (usually Sun)
813CMHC, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
814CMIIAW, Correct me if I am wrong
815CMIS- Content Management Interoperability Services,Common management information service
816CMJ, Christopher Martin-Jenkins (BBC sports commentator)
817CML- Chemical, Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (formerly Chronic Myeloid Leukemia)
818CMM, Capability Maturity Model
819CMMC, Corps Materiel Management Centre
820CMML- Chronic MyeloMonocytic Leukemia,Continuous Media Markup Language
821CMO, Civil-Military Operations
822CMOC, Civil-Military Operations Centre
823CMOS- Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society,(The) Chicago Manual of Style,Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
824CMP, Common [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture
825CMP, Canadian Military Pattern truck (World War II)
826CMPD, Chronic Myeloproliferative Disease
827CMPD, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department
828CMR- Cameroon (ISO 3166 trigram), Coaxial Main Rotors (helicopter type)
829CMS- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,The Chicago Manual of Style
830CMT, Country Music Television
831CMU- Carnegie Mellon University,Central Michigan University,Concrete Masonry Unit
832CMW- Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada,Canadian Manufacturing Week,Canadian Music Week,Catherine McAuley Westmead (school in New South Wales, Australia),Chicago, Missouri and Western (Railway),Compartmented Mode Workstation,Compton's Most Wanted,Continuous Microwave (processing technology),Custom Maintenance Wizard (Microsoft Office Resource Kit)
833CMYK, Cyan Magenta Yellow Key/blacK (colour model)
834CN-(i/s) Canadian National (railway; also the AAR reporting mark for said company), China (ISO 3166 digram),Comoros (FIPS 10-4 country code)
835CNA- Center for Naval Analyses,Certified Network Administrator,Computer Network Attack,Continental (Casualty Company), National (Fire Insurance Company), and American (Casualty Company), the three companies that merged to form what is now known as CNA Financial
836CNBC,(a/i) Consumer News and Business Channel
837CND- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,Computer Network Defence
838CNE- Canadian National Exhibition,Computer Network Exploitation,Certified Network Engineer
839CNF, Cost and Freight
840CNI, Communications, Navigation and Identification
841CNI, Clinical Nursing Intern
842CNN- Cable News Network,Cellular Nonlinear Network
843CNO, Computer Network Operations
844CNR- Canadian National Railway,Combat Net Radio
845CNV, Copy-Number Variable (genetics)
846CNY, Chinese yuan renminbi (ISO 4217 currency code)
847co, Corsican language (ISO 639-1 code)
848Co, Cobalt
849CO,many, including Central Office (phone company); see entry, Colorado (postal symbol), Commanding Officer (military)
850COA, Certificate/Concept Of Analysis,Course Of Action (military)
851COB, Close Of Business [day]
852COBRA,Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
853COCOM, Combatant Command (military)
854COD, Cash On Delivery, Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram)
855CoDA, Co-Dependents Anonymous
856codec, Coder-Decoder / Compressor-Decompressor / Compression-Decompression algorithm
857COE, Cab Over Engine (see truck),Common Operating Environment (military)
858COEA, Cost Operational Effectiveness Analysis (military)
859COEIA, Combined Operational Effectiveness and Investment Appraisal (military)
860COFT, Conduct Of Fire Trainer (military)
861COG, Centre Of Gravity,Current Operations Group (military), Republic of the Congo (ISO 3166 trigram)
862COGENT, Cognitive Objects within a Graphical EnviroNmenT
863COIL, Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser
864COIN, Counter-Insurgency (military)
865COK, Cook Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
866COL, Colombia (ISO 3166 trigram)
867COLA, comp.os.linux.announce,Cost Of Living Adjustment
868COLT, Combat Observation and Lasing Team (military)
869COM, Comoros (ISO 3166 trigram), Component Object Model
870COMECON, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (economic counterpart of the Warsaw Pact, 1949-1991)
871COMMZ, Communications Zone (military)
872COMSEC, Communications Security (military)
873CONAD, U.S. Continental Air Defense Command
874CONCACAF, Confederation Of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football
875CONOPS, Concept of Operations (military)
876CONUS, Continental United States
877COO, Chief Operating Officer
878COP, Colombian peso (ISO 4217 currency code), Common Operating/Operational Picture
879COPE, U.K. Committee On Publication Ethics
880COPUS, U.K. Committee on the Public Understanding of Science
881cor, Cornish language (ISO 639-2 code)
882CORBA, Common Object Request Broker Architecture
883CORD,(i/a) Common Operational Requirements Document
884CORE, Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
885CORG, (U.S.) Combat Operations Research Group
886COROT, COnvection, ROtation and planetary Transits
887cos, Corsican language (ISO 639-2 code),Cosine
888COS, Cooper Ornithological Society
889COSCOM, Corps Support Command (military)
890COSER, COoperative SERvice
891CoT, Car of Tomorrow (former NASCAR race car design)
892COTS, Commercial Off The Shelf
893Coy, Company (military unit)Cow
894CP, Canadian Pacific,Check Point,Command Post,Club Penguin
895CPA, Certified Public Accountant
896CPCU,Certified Property Casualty Underwriter
897CPD, Capabilities Production Document
898CPE, Certificate of Proficiency in English
899CPE, Certified Professional Ergonomist
900CPF, Calibration Parameter File,Canadian Patrol Frigate
901CPG, Clinical Practice Guideline
902CPI, CERDEC Command, Power and Integration
903CPIM, Certification on Production and Inventory Management
904CPIR,Computationally-Private Information Retrieval
905CPON, Certified Pediatric Oncology Nurse
906CPPCC, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
907CPR, Canadian Pacific Railway
908CPR, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
909CPSM, Continuous Phase Shift Modulation
910CPSU, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
911CPT, Contingency Planning Team
912CPU, Central Processing Unit,Contract Postal Unit
913CPV, Cape Verde (ISO 3166 trigram)
914CPX, Command Post eXercise
915CQ, Carrier Qualification,Central Queensland,Charge of Quarters,Congressional Quarterly,Constellation Airlines (IATA airline designator),Northern Mariana Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
916cr, Cree language (ISO 639-1 code)
917Cr, Chromium
918CR- Coral Sea Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Costa Rica (ISO 3166 digram)
919CRAM, Combined Radiometric Correction Model
920CRC- Central RTI Component,Chemical Rubber Company,Christian Reformed Church,Control and Reporting Centre,Cyclic Redundancy Check, Costa Rican colón (ISO 4217 currency code),Costa Rica (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
921CRD, Capstone Requirements Document
922cre, Cree language (ISO 639-2 code)
923CREB, Cyclic AMP-response Element Binding (protein)
924CREEP, Committee for the Re-Election of the President, a pejorative nickname used by opponents
925CRI- China Radio International, Costa Rica (ISO 3166 trigram)
926CRIPL, Consolidated Remain-In-Place List
927CRM, Cardiac Rhythm Management,Customer Relationship Management
928CRO, Croatia (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
929CRP- Committee for the Re-Election of the President,Control and Reporting Post
930CRT- Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy,Cathode Ray Tube,Chinese Remainder Theorem
931CRTC, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
932cs, Czech language (ISO 639-1 code)
933Cs, Caesium
934CS- Combat Support,Computer Scientist, Costa Rica (FIPS 10-4 country code),Serbia and Montenegro (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 2006)
935CSA- Canadian Soccer Association,Canadian Space Agency,Canadian Standards Association,Child Support Agency,Command Staff Advisor,Community-supported agriculture,Confederate States of America,Corps Storage Area, Czech Airlines,C/S/A, CINC, Service, and Agency
936CSC- Closed Spacelike Curve (relativity),Compact system camera,Computer Sciences Corporation,Computer Security Centre,CSCC Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists
937CSERIAC, (U.S. DoD) Crew Systems Ergonomics Information Analysis Center
938CSG, Corps Support Group
939CSI,see entry
940CSICOP, Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (became the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2006)
941CSIP, Commercial Stable Image Platform (AMD)
942CSK, Czechoslovakia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1993)
943CSL, U.K. Central Science Laboratory
944CSPI, Center for Science in the Public Interest
945CSR, Control Supply Rate
946CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility [1]
947CSRC, Conflict Studies Research Centre
948CSRF, Cross-Site Request Forgery
949CSS- Cascading Style Sheets,Catalina Sky Survey,Central Security Service,Combat Service Support,Confederate States Ship,Content-scrambling system,Cross-site scripting
950CSSCS, Combat Service Support Control System
951CST, Central Standard Time (UTC6 hours)
952CT, Computed tomography (medical scan also known as a CAT scan),Central Time zone,Chrono Trigger (Computer/Video games), Connecticut (postal symbol),Canterbury (postal symbol),Chhattisgarh (Indian state code)
953CTBT, Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty
954CTC, Closed Timelike Curve (relativity),(U.S.) Combat Training Center
955CTDB, Compact Terrain Data Base (file format)
956CTE- Canton and Enderbury Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984), Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
957CTGF, connective tissue growth factor
958CTI, Co-operative Target Identification
959CTIL, Critical Tracked Items List
960CTIS, Central Tire Inflation System
961CTMS, Clinical Trial Management System
962CTO, Chief Technical Officer,Chief Technology Officer
963CTS, Clear-To-Send,Collective Training Standards,Communications Technology Service,Contract Technical Services,Conversation Time Sharing,COSMIC Top Secret
964CTSS, Compatible Time-Sharing System
965CTU, Counter Terrorist Unit (fictional branch of the Central Intelligence Agency in the television action series 24)
966CTVT, Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour
967cu, Old Church Slavonic language (ISO 639-1 code)
968Cu, Copper (Latin Cuprum)
969CU, Carrie Underwood,Cuba (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
970CUB, Cuba (ISO 3166 trigram)
971CUCV, Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle
972CUP, Cuban peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
973CUPS, Common Unix Printing System
974CUPW, Canadian Union of Postal Workers
975CUREA, Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy
976CuW, Copper-tungsten pseudo-alloy (from the chemical symbols of the two component elements)
977CUW, Curaçao (ISO 3166 trigram)
978cv, Chuvash language (ISO 639-1 code)
979CV,many, including curriculum vitae (résumé); see entry
980CVCC- Combat Vehicle Command and Control,Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion (1970s Honda automobile engine technology)
981CVE, Cape Verde escudo (ISO 4217 currency code)
982CVI, Combat Vehicle Identification
983CVLL, Crypto Variable Logic Label
984CVR, Cockpit Voice Recorder,Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance
985CVS, Concurrent Versions System
986CVSD, Continuous Variable Slope Delta (modulation)
987CVT, Continuously Variable Transmission
988CW, Continuous Wave,Clothes Washer, Cook Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
989CWC, Chemical Weapons Convention
990CWS, Canadian Wildlife Service
991CWRU, Case Western Reserve University
992CX, Christmas Island (ISO 3166 digram),One Hundred and Ten (in Roman numerals)
993CXR, Christmas Island (ISO 3166 trigram)
994cy, Welsh language (ISO 639-1 code)
995CY, Calendar year, Cyprus (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
996cym, Welsh language (ISO 639-2 code)
997CYM, Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
998CYP, Cyprus (ISO 3166 trigram),Cyprus pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
999CZ, Combat Zone, Czech Republic (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
1000CZE, Czech Republic (ISO 3166 trigram)
1001CZK, Czech koruna (ISO 4217 currency code)
1002CZF, (Christian Zombie Fan)
1003CZMA, (US) Coastal Zone Management Act
1004d, Deci
1005D, Deuterium
1006da, Danish language (ISO 639-1 code),deca
1007DA, Denmark (FIPS 10-4 country code), Debtors Anonymous, U.S. Department of the Army,District Attorney
1008DAB,Digital Audio Broadcasting
1009DACT, Data Automated Communications Terminal,Dissimilar Air Combat Training
1010DAES, Defence Acquisition Executive Summary,(UK MoD) Directorate of Analysis, Experimentation and Simulation
1011DAF, Dissolved Air Flotation, a technique used in water treatment
1012DAFIF, Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File
1013DAK, Disney's Animal Kingdom
1014dan, Danish language (ISO 639-2 code)
1015DAO, Division Ammunition Officer
1016DAQ, Data acquisition, Delivered Audio Quality
1017DARE, Drug Abuse Resistance Education
1018DARO,(i/a) (U.S.) Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
1019DARPA, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
1020DART, Disaster Assistance Response Team,Dublin Area Rapid Transit
1021DAS, Defensive Aids Suite
1022DASD, (U.S.) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
1023DASL, Datapoint's Advanced Systems Language
1024DAU, (U.S.) Defense Acquisition University
1025DAWN, (U.S.) Drug Abuse Warning Network
1026dB, Decibel
1027Db, Dubnium
1028DB, Database,Deutsche Bahn
1029DBA, De Bellis Antiquitatis (miniature wargaming rules)
1030DBBL, (U.S. Army Simulation Center) Dismounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory
1031DBCS, Double Byte Character Set
1032DBDO, Desert BDO
1033DBE, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
1034DBF, Detection By Fire (weapon launch signature)
1035DBM, De Bellis Multitudinis (miniature wargaming rules),Detection By Movement (military target)
1036DBR, De Bellis Renationis (miniature wargaming rules)
1037DBRA, Davis-Bacon Related Acts
1038DBS, Direct Broadcast Services (television)
1039DC, da capo,Italian Democrazia Cristiana,Digital Compass,Direct Current, District of Columbia (postal symbol), Douglas Aircraft Company,Dublin Core,Duty Cycle
1040DCA, Defensive Counter Air,Drum Corps Associates, DiChloroAcetate, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (IATA code)
1041DCAA, (U.S.) Defense Contract Audit Agency
1042DCAS, Devon and Cornwall Archery Society
1043DCC, Dallas Christian College
1044DCC, Digital Command Control (model railroading),Direct Client-to-Client (Internet Relay Chat),Dismounted Close Combat
1045DCCP, Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
1046DCD, [Organ] Donation after Cardiac Death
1047DCE, Data Communication Equipment
1048DCFC, Death Cab for Cutie
1049DCI, Detection, Classification and Identification,Drum Corps International,Duellists' Convocation International, now known simply by the initials
1050DCIM, Digital Camera Images
1051DCIMS, Dental Classification Information Management System,Dismounted Combat Identification Marking System
1052DCL,Disney Cruise Line
1053DCN,Deacon
1054DCOM,Disney Channel Original Movie
1055DCOP, Desktop Communication Protocol
1056DCSOPS, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and plans
1057DCW, Digital Chart of the World
1058DCYSC, Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge
1059DD,many, including due diligence and dear daughter (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists, blogs, and bulletin boards); see entry
1060DDA- Digital Differential Analyzer (graphics algorithm),Digital Differential Analyzer,Deputy District Attorney
1061DDD- Data Display Debugger,Digital Digital Digital (CD mastering)
1062DDL, Digital Data Link
1063DDN, U.S. Defense Data Network
1064DDoS, Distributed Denial of Service
1065DDS, Doctor of Dental Surgery
1066DDT- Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (insecticide),Dynamic Debugging Tool (computing),DE[edit]
1067de, German language (ISO 639-1 code)
1068DE, Delaware (postal symbol),Germany (ISO 3166 digram)
1069DEA, Drug Enforcement Administration
1070DEA, Drug Enforcement Agency
1071DEC,(a/i) Department of Environmental Conservation,Digital Equipment Corporation,Disasters Emergency Committee
1072DeCA, (U.S.) Defense Commissary Agency
1073DECSIM, Model DEComposition and SIMulation algorithm,Directed Energy Combat SIMulation
1074DECT, Digital European Cordless Telephone
1075DEFCON, Defence readiness condition
1076DEFRA, (UK) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
1077DELT, Dual Ended Line Test (ing)
1078DEM, Data Exchange Mechanism,Digital Elevation Model
1079DEN, Denmark (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
1080DEPSECDEF, (U.S.) Deputy Secretary of Defense
1081DERA, British Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (1995-2001)
1082DES, Deep Ecliptic Survey
1083deu, German language (ISO 639-2 code)
1084DEU, Germany (ISO 3166 trigram)
1085DFAS, (U.S.) Defense Finance and Accounting Service
1086DFCB, Data Format Control Book
1087DfID, UK Department for International Development
1088DFM, Dynamic Flowgraph Methodology
1089DFM,(ii) Discrete Field Model see Superluminal motion
1090DFSP, Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
1091DfT, UK Department for Transport
1092DFTBA, Don't Forget To Be Awesome- a term commonly used by the Vlogbrothers
1093DGPS, Differential GPS
1094DGZ, Desired Ground Zero
1095DH, dear husband (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists, blogs, and bulletin boards),Designated hitter
1096DHA, DocosaHexaenoic Acid
1097DHHS, (U.S.) Department of Health and Human Services
1098DHL, Dalsey, Hillblom, and Lynn (courier service)
1099DHRA, (U.S.) DoD Human Resources Activity
1100DHS, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
1101DHSS, UK Department of Health and Social Security
1102DHTFYSS, U.S. Don't Have Time For You Silly S****
1103DHY, Dahomey (ISO 3166 trigram; became BEN for Benin in 1977)
1104DIA, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
1105DIAC, Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia) [1]
1106DiC,Design Island Centre (computing usually used in a teaching situation)
1107DICASS, DIrectional Command Activated Sonobuoy System
1108DILLIGAD, Do I Look Like I Give A Damn? (military shorthand, slightly less offensive than the following)
1109DILLIGAF, Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck? (military shorthand)
1110DIF, Data Interchange Format
1111DIFAR, DIrectional Frequency Analysis and Recording
1112DIME, Dense Inert Metal Explosive
1113DIMM, Dual In-line Memory Module (computing)
1114DINKY, Double Income, No Kids Yet
1115DIP, Dual In-line Package (electronics)
1116DIPS, Defense independent pitching statistics
1117DIR, Defence Industrial Research
1118DIS- Defence Intelligence Staff,(U.S.) Defense Investigative Service,Distributed Interactive Simulation,Draft International Standard (ISO)
1119DISA- U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency,Distinguished Individual Service Award
1120DISCOM, Division Support Command
1121DISE, Deployable Intelligence Support Element
1122DISSTAF, DIS Search and Target Acquisition Fidelity experiment
1123DITY,(i/a) Do-It-Yourself
1124div, Dhivehi language (ISO 639-2 code)
1125DIVAD, Division Air Defence
1126DIY, Do It Yourself
1127DJ, Disc Jockey,Dinner Jacket, Djibouti (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1128DJD, Degenerative Joint Disease,Dublin Julian Day,Discoveries in the Judaean Desert
1129DJF, Djibouti franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
1130DJI, Djibouti (ISO 3166 trigram)
1131DJS, Director, Joint Staff
1132DK, Denmark (ISO 3166 digram)
1133DKK, Danish krone (ISO 4217 currency code)
1134DL,Dexter's Laboratory
1135DLA, U.S. Defense Logistics Agency, Dental Laboratories Association
1136DLIC, Detachment Left-In-Contact
1137DLIR, Depot-Level Inspection and Repair
1138DLL, Dynamic Link Library
1139DLPMC, DorsoLateral PreMotor Cortex
1140DLR, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German, German Aerospace Centre),Docklands Light Railway
1141DLRP, Data Link Reference Point
1142DLS, Deep Lens Survey
1143DLSA, (U.S.) Defense Legal Services Agency
1144DLSc, Diploma in Library Science
1145DLSC, U.S. Defense Logistics Services Center,U.S. Defense Logistics Support Command,Department of Library Special Collections (Western Kentucky University Libraries),Direct Loan Servicing Center,Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts (Canada),Dominican Lay Scholars Community
1146DLTBGYD,Don't let the bastards grind you down
1147DM- Dominica (ISO 3166 digram), Dungeon Master (role-playing games)
1148DMA- Designated market area (primarily a U.S. term),U.S. Defense Mapping Agency (became NIMA, then NGA),Direct Memory Access (computing), Dominica (ISO 3166 trigram)
1149DMC, (U.S.) Defense Management Council
1150DMCA,Digital Millennium Copyright Act
1151DMI, Desktop Management Interface (computing)
1152DMM,Digital Multimeter
1153DMOC, Distributed Mission Operations Centre
1154DMPA, (U.S.) Defense Medical Programs Activity
1155DMPFC, DorsoMedial PreFrontal Cortex
1156DMPK, Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
1157DMRB, Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
1158DMS, U.S. Defense Message System
1159DMSP, U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
1160DMT, Dimethyltryptamine
1161DMU, Diesel Multiple Unit, a method of connecting self-propelled railway vehicles together to form a train under the control of one driver.
1162DMV, Department of Motor Vehicles
1163DMZ, DeMilitarized Zone
1164DN, Deacon
1165DNA, U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency,DeoxyriboNucleic Acid,Douglas Noël Adams
1166DNAW, Day Night All Weather
1167DND, Department of National Defence (Canada),Do Not Disturb
1168DNDi, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative
1169DNDO, U.S. Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
1170DNM, Defence Nuclear Material
1171DNK, Denmark (ISO 3166 trigram)
1172DNR, Do Not Resuscitate
1173DNS, Domain Name System
1174DO, Dominica (FIPS 10-4 country code),Dominican Republic (ISO 3166 digram), Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
1175DOA, Dead On Arrival,Dead or Alive
1176DOB, Date Of Birth
1177DOD, U.S. Department of Defense
1178DODAF, U.S. Department of Defense Architectural Framework
1179DoDD, U.S. Department of Defense Directive
1180DoDEA, (U.S.) Department of Defense Education Activity
1181DOE,(i/a) U.S. Department of Energy
1182DOHC, Dual-OverHead-Cam engine
1183DOI, Digital Object Identifier,U.S. Department of the Interior
1184DOMS, (U.S.) Director of Military Support
1185DOP, Dominican peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
1186DORA, Defence of the Realm Act
1187DOS, Denial of Service (DoS, cf. DDoS),Density of State,Disk Operating System
1188DOT, Department of Transportation (U.S. federal or state),Damage Over Time (common in World of Warcraft)
1189DOTA,short-form for DEFENSE OF THE ANCIENTS a popular online epic game
1190DotD, Deal of the Day (marketing gimmick)
1191DOTMLPF, Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, Personnel, and Facilities (mnemonic)
1192DOW, Died of Wounds
1193DP, Division de production (Algerian petroleum company)
1194DP, Decision Point,Dynamic Programming
1195DPA, UK Defence Procurement Agency
1196DPCO, Double-Pole Change Over
1197DPDT, Double-Pole Double-Throw
1198DPICM, Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition
1199DPKO, UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations
1200DPMO, (U.S.) Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
1201DPPDB, Digital Point Positioning Database
1202DPRE, Displaced Person or Refugee (plural Displaced Persons and Refugees) (originally Displaced Persons, Refugees, Evacuees)
1203DPRK, Democratic People's Republic of Korea
1204DPST, Double-Pole Single-Throw
1205DQ, Dairy Queen, Jarvis Island (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1206DR, Dead Reckoning, Dominican Republic (FIPS 10-4 country code), Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
1207DRA, Defence Research Agency (UK, 1991-1995),Democratic Republic of America
1208DRC, Democratic Republic of the Congo
1209DRDC, Defence Research & Development Canada
1210DREA,(i/a) Defence Research Establishment Atlantic (obsolete 2002)
1211DRES,(i/a) Defence Research Establishment Suffield (obsolete 2002)
1212DRET,(i/a) Defence Research Establishment Toronto (obsolete 2002)
1213DREV,(i/a) Defence Research Establishment Valcartier (obsolete 2002)
1214DRI, Detection, Recognition, Identification,Dietary Reference Intake
1215DRIC,(i/a) (U.S.) Defense Research Information Center
1216DRL, Daytime Running Lights,Dorman Roberts Ltd.
1217DRM, Digital Rights Management
1218DRMS, (U.S.) Defense Revitalization and Marketing Service
1219DRPR, Drawing Practices
1220DRT, Document Related Technologies
1221Ds, Darmstadtium
1222DS- Dear son (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists, blogs, and bulletin boards),Defence Scientist,Direct Support, Dust Storm (METAR Code)
1223DSA- (U.S.) Defense Support Activities,Division Support Area
1224DSAA- (U.S.) Defense Security Assistance Agency,Driving Schools Association of the Americas,DECT Standard Authentication Algorithm
1225DSAS, Disney Sing Along Songs
1226DSB, (U.S.) Defense Science Board
1227DSC- Differential Scanning Calorimeter,Digital Selective Calling,Digital Still Camera,Distinguished Service Cross,Doctor of Surgical Chiropody (obsolete),Document structure convention (PostScript programming),Dynamic Stability Control
1228DSCS, U.S. Defense Satellite Communications System
1229DSCSOC, DSCS Operations Center
1230DSD, Defence Studies Department (King's College, London)
1231DSE, Dry Sheep Equivalent
1232DSG,Direct-Shift Gearbox
1233DSID, Dismounted Soldier Identification System
1234DSL, Digital Subscriber Line
1235DSLR, Digital single-lens reflex (camera)
1236DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
1237DSN, Deep Space Network
1238DSO, Distinguished Service Order (British military decoration)
1239DSP- Defense Standardization Program,Defense Support Program,Digital Signal Processing
1240DSPL, Design Specialists and Plans Language
1241DSR, Deformed Special Relativity
1242DSRV- Deaf Sports Recreation Victoria,Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle
1243DSS- Digitized Sky Survey,Discarding-Sabot Shell (ammunition)
1244DST, Daylight saving time
1245DSTL, British Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
1246DSWA, (U.S.) Defense Special Weapons Agency
1247DTA, Dental Technologists Association
1248DTD, Digital Terrain Data
1249DTE, Data Terminal Equipment,Down To Earth
1250DTG, Date-Time Group
1251DTH, Direct To Home (television)
1252DTI, UK Department of Trade and Industry
1253DTIC, (U.S.) Defense Technical Information Center
1254DTL, Diode-Transistor Logic (electronics)
1255DTMF, Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling
1256DTLOMS, Doctrine, Training, Leader development, Organization, Materiel, and Soldier (mnemonic)
1257DTO, Disruptive Technology Office (was ARDA)
1258DTOMLS, Doctrine, Training, Organization, Materiel, Leader and Soldier development (mnemonic)
1259DTR, Determine The Relationship
1260DTSA, (U.S.) Defense Technology Security Administration
1261DU- Depleted Uranium, Dust (METAR Code)
1262DUI- Data Use Identifier,Data Use Institute,Davis Unified Ignition,Diving Unlimited International,Documento Único de Identidad,Documento Unico de Importación,Driving Under the Influence,Duke University Improv
1263DUMBO, Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (Brooklyn neighborhood)
1264DUSD, (U.S.) Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense
1265dv, Dhivehi language (ISO 639-1 code)
1266DVD, Digital Versatile Disk (was Digital Video Disk)
1267DVLC, UK Driver and Vehicle Licencing Centre
1268DVM, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
1269DVO, Direct View Optics
1270DVOM,Digital Volt-Ohm Meter
1271DVP,various meanings (disambiguation page)
1272DW, Drum Workshop
1273DWG, Divisional Wargame (military simulation)
1274DWI, Dance With Intensity,Danish West Indies,Diffusion-weighted imaging,Direct water injection,Disaster Welfare Inquiry,Drinking Water Inspectorate,Driving While Intoxicated/Impaired
1275DWM, Doctor Who Magazine
1276DWIM, Do What I Mean
1277DWTS, Dancing with the Stars
1278DWW, Down with Webster
1279DX- Dexterity (role-playing games), DeXtrorphan,Distant (radio), D-Generation X (professional wrestling stable)
1280DXA, Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry
1281DXM, DeXtroMethorphan
1282Dy, Dysprosium
1283DY, Dahomey (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1977)
1284dz, Dzongkha language (ISO 639-1 code)
1285DZ, Algeria (ISO 3166 digram),Drizzle (METAR Code), Drop Zone
1286DZA, Algeria (ISO 3166 trigram)
1287DZD, Algerian dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
1288dzo, Dzongkha language (ISO 639-2 code)
1289E, East
1290EA, Electronic Attack,Emotions Anonymous,Engagement Area,Electronic Arts,Enrolled Agent,Environmental Assessment,Enterprise Architect, Exaampere
1291EABU, Explain Acronyms Before Use
1292EAC, Echelons Above Corps
1293EAPC, Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
1294EASA, European Aviation Safety Agency
1295EAST, Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
1296EBD, Electronic Brake Distribution
1297EBE, Extraterrestrial Biological Entity
1298EBO,(i/a) Effects Based Operations,Encyclopædia Britannica Online,European Board of Ophthalmology
1299EBSA, Employee Benefits Security Administration
1300EBW, Electron Beam Welding
1301EBW, Exploding BridgeWire
1302EC- Ecuador (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code), Electronic Combat,European Community (see EEC), Exacoulomb
1303ECB- England (and Wales) Cricket Board,European Central Bank
1304ECBR, European Coalition for Biomedical Research
1305ECASS, European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences [1]
1306ECCM, Electronic Counter-Counter-Measures
1307ECFS, Electronic Case Filing System
1308ECG, Electrocardiogram
1309ECHO- Each Community Helps Others (EPA programme),Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization,European Commission Host Organization,European Commission Humanitarian aid Office, Exchange Clearing House,Expanded Characteristic Option, Explanatory Coherence by Harmony Optimization
1310ECHR, European Convention on Human Rights
1311ECJ, European Court of Justice
1312ECL, Emitter Coupled Logic (electronics)
1313ECM- Electronic Counter-Measures,Enterprise Content Management
1314ECommHR, European Commission on Human Rights
1315ECS- Emergency Contact System,Enhanced Chip Set (computing),EOSDIS Core System,Extended Chip Set (computing)
1316ECSC, European Coal and Steel Community (distant ancestor of the EU)
1317ECT, ElectroConvulsive Therapy
1318ECtHR, European Court of Human Rights
1319ECU- Ecuador (ISO 3166 trigram), European Currency Unit (ancestor of the euro)
1320ECW- Eastern Championship Wrestling/Extreme Championship Wrestling,ED[edit]
1321EDA, European Defence Agency
1322EDAC, Error Detection And Correction
1323EDCS, Environmental Data Coding Specification
1324EDD- Earliest due date,Electron-detachment dissociation,Elena Delle Donne (American basketball player),Employment Development Department (California state agency),End-diastolic dimension,Expected Date of Delivery (pregnancy)
1325EDECSIM, Extended Directed Energy Combat Simulation
1326EDGAR, Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings database)
1327EDH, Eastman Dental Hospital
1328EDS- Electronic Data Systems,Electronic Differential System
1329EDSA, Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (a major thoroughfare in Manila with great significance to post-1980 Philippines history)
1330EDT, Eastern Daylight Saving Time (UTC4 hours)
1331EDTA- Electric Drive Transportation Association, EthyleneDiamineTetraAcetic acid,EE[edit]
1332ee, Ewe language (ISO 639-1 code)
1333EE- Estonia (ISO 3166 digram; from the country's native name of Eesti), Electrical engineering,Electrical Engineer,E&E, Escape and Evasion (training)
1334EEC, European Economic Community (predecessor of the EU)
1335EEG, ElectroEncephaloGram
1336EEK, Estonian kroon (ISO 4217 currency code)
1337EENT, End Evening Nautical Twilight
1338EEO, Equal Employment Opportunity
1339EEOC, (U.S.) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
1340EEZ, Economic Exclusion Zone or Exclusive Economic Zone
1341EF- Electro-focus (Canon lens mount),Entry Foyer, Exafarad
1342EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation
1343EFL,English as a Foreign Language
1344EFM, Enterprise Feedback Management
1345EFOA, European Fuel Oxygenates Association
1346EFSA, European Food Safety Authority
1347EFT, Electronic Fund Transfer
1348EFTA- European Free Trade Area, European Free Trade Association
1349EFV, Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle
1350EG, Egypt (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1351EGBUS, External Genitalia, Bartholin's glands, Urethra & Skene's glands
1352EGCG, EpiGalloCatechin-3-Gallate
1353EGIS, Erieye Ground Interface Segment
1354EGP, Egyptian pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
1355EGRET, Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope
1356EGY, Egypt (ISO 3166 trigram)
1357EH, Exahenry,Western Sahara (ISO 3166 digram)
1358EHA- Education for All Handicapped Children Act (U.S. federal legislation; since superseded by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), Emotional Health Anonymous
1359EHF, Extremely High Frequency
1360EHR, Equipment History Record
1361Ei, Exbi
1362EI, Ireland (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Éire)
1363EIA, Environmental Impact Assessment
1364EIAH,Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain
1365EIAH,Encyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History
1366EIC,East India Company
1367EICS,East India Company's Service
1368eID,electronic ID
1369EIRP, Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
1370EIS, Environmental Impact Statement
1371EJ, Exajoule
1372EK, Equatorial Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code),Exakelvin
1373EKG, Electrocardiogram (from German Elektrokardiogramm)
1374EKMS, Electronic Key Management System
1375el, Greek language (ISO 639-1 code)
1376EL, Exalitre
1377ELF-(a/i) Earth Liberation Front,Endangered Language Fund,Eritrean Liberation Front,Executable and Linkable Format,Extremely Low Frequency
1378ELINT, Electronic Intelligence
1379ell, Greek language (ISO 639-2 code)
1380ELL, English Language Learner
1381ELM, Edge-Localised Mode (plasma physics)
1382ELO, Electric Light Orchestra
1383ELP- Emerson, Lake & Palmer,European Left Party
1384ELSS, Emergency Life Support Stores
1385ELT, Emergency Locator Transmitter
1386Em, Exametre
1387EM, ElectroMagnetism/ElectroMagnetic
1388EMA,(i/a) European Medicines Agency
1389EMC- Electric Membership Corporation,Electromagnetic Compatibility,Electro-Motive Corporation,European Muon Collaboration,Evergreen Marine Corporation
1390EMCON, (Electromagnetic) Emissions Control
1391EMD- General Motors Electro-Motive Division,Engineering and Manufacturing Development,European Missile Defence
1392EMDG, Euro-Missile Dynamics Group
1393EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
1394EMEA, Europe, Middle East and Africa
1395EMF- Electromotive force,Epsom Mad Funkers (1990s-2000s indie dance band)
1396EMG, ElectroMyoGraph
1397EMO, Emergency Measures Organisation- Emotional
1398EMP, ElectroMagnetic Pulse
1399EMS, Emergency Medical Services
1400EMT, Emergency Medical Technician
1401EMU, Electric Multiple Unit,a method of connecting self-propelled railway vehicles together to form a train under the control of one driver.
1402en, English language (ISO 639-1 code)
1403EN- Corps of Engineers, Estonia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Exanewton
1404ENCODE, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (human genome data project)
1405ENE, East North-East
1406eng, English language (ISO 639-2 code)
1407ENG, England (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram)
1408ENT, Ear, Nose and Throat
1409ENTEC, Euro NATO Training Engineer Centre
1410ENVL, Envelope
1411ENY, Enemy
1412eo, Esperanto language (ISO 639-1 code)
1413EO- Electro-Optics,Engagement Operations
1414EOD, Explosive Ordnance Disposal
1415EOG, ElectroOculoGraphy
1416EOS- Earth Observation Satellite,(a/i) Electro-Optical System, Canon's autofocusing system for film and digital SLR cameras, Electrophoresis Operations in Space, a space manufacturing project of the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company
1417EOSAT, Earth Observation Satellite
1418EOSDIS,(a/i) Earth Observation Satellite Data and Information System
1419EOTS- Electro-Optical Tactical Sensor,(a/i) Eye Of The Storm (World of Warcraft)
1420EOM, End of Message
1421EP, European Parliament
1422EP, Extended play
1423EPA- EicosaPentaenoic Acid, Environmental Protection Agency
1424EPCOT, Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow
1425EPCR- Endothelial protein C receptor,European Professional Club Rugby
1426EPGS, EOS Polar Ground Sites
1427EPIRB,(a/i) Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon
1428EPL, English Premier League
1429epo, Esperanto language (ISO 639-2 code)
1430EPOS, Electronic Point Of Sale
1431EPPA, Employee Polygraph Protection Act
1432EPR, European Pressurised [Nuclear] Reactor
1433EPW- Earth Penetrator Weapon/Warhead,Economic and Political Weekly (Indian publication),Enemy Prisoner of War,EQ[edit]
1434EQ, Emotional Quotient
1435EQG, Equatorial Guinea (FIFA trigram, but not IOC or ISO 3166)
1436Er, Erbium
1437ER- Emergency Room, Eritrea (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1438ERA- Earned run average,Engineering Research Associates,Equal Rights Amendment,English Racing Automobiles,European Railway Agency
1439ERCIM,(a/i) European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
1440ERI, Eritrea (ISO 3166 trigram)
1441ERLAWS, Eastern Ruapehu Lahar Alarm and Warning System
1442ERN, Eritrean nakfa (ISO 4217 currency code)
1443EROS, Earth Resources Observation System
1444ERP, Engineer Regulating Point
1445ERR, Eesti Rahvusringhääling
1446ERS, Earth Resources Survey
1447ERTS, Earth Resources Technology Satellite (became Landsat)
1448ERV, Endogenous RetroVirus
1449es, Spanish language (ISO 639-1 code)
1450Es- Einsteinium,Exasecond
1451ES- El Salvador (FIPS 10-4 country code), Electronic warfare Support, Exasiemens,Spain (ISO 3166 digram; from the country's native name of España)
1452ESA- Electro-Spark Alloying,Endangered Species Act,European Space Agency
1453ESC- Embryonic Stem Cell,Electronic Stability Control
1454ESD, ElectroStatic Discharge
1455ESDP, European Security and Defence Policy
1456ESE, East South-East
1457ESH, Western Sahara (ISO 3166 trigram)
1458ESL, English as a Second Language
1459ESM, Electronic warfare Support Measures
1460ESO, European Southern Observatory
1461ESOL, English for Speakers of Other Languages
1462ESP- Electronic Stability Program,Extra-sensory perception, Spain (ISO 3166 trigram)
1463ESPGHAN,European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
1464ESPN, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
1465est, Estonian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1466EST- Eastern Standard Time (UTC5 hours), Estonia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1467ESU, Emergency Services Unit
1468ESV, Engineer Support Vehicle
1469et, Estonian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1470ET- Ethiopia (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1471Exatesla- Extra Terrestrial
1472ETB, Ethiopian Birr (ISO 4217 currency code)
1473ETF, Emergency Task Force (a special police unit, also jocularly said to stand for Extra-Thick Fuzz)
1474ETH, Ethiopia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1475ETI, Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
1476ETLA, Extended TLA
1477ETM- Electronic Technical Manual,Enhanced Thematic Mapper
1478ETOPS, Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards (aviation)
1479ETT, Embedded Training Team
1480eu, Basque language (ISO 639-1 code)
1481Eu, Europium
1482EU- Europa Island (FIPS 10-4 country code), European Union
1483EUCOM, (U.S.) European Command
1484EUR, euro (ISO 4217 currency code)
1485eus, Basque language (ISO 639-2 code)
1486EUUSA, European Union and United States of America
1487EV, Exavolt
1488EVA- Earned Value Analysis,Economic value added,Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate,Extra-Vehicular Activity
1489EVIL, Electronic viewfinder (with) interchangeable lens (a type of digital camera)
1490EW, Electronic Warfare, Exawatt
1491ewe, Ewe language (ISO 639-2 code)
1492EWR, Newark Liberty International Airport (IATA airport code)
1493EWTN, Eternal Word Television Network
1494EXFOR, Experimental Force (military)
1495EXREP, Expeditious Repair (SM&R code)
1496EZ, Czech Republic (FIPS 10-4 country code), Extraction Zone
1497f, Femto
1498F, Farad,Fluorine
1499fa, Persian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1500FA,Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous
1501fA, Femtoampere
1502FA, Field Artillery,Financial Aid,Football Association (England)
1503FAA, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration,Financial Aid Administrator,Fleet Air Arm,Functional Area Analysis
1504FAAD, Forward Area Air Defence
1505FAADEZ, Forward Area Air Defence Engagement Zone
1506FAAN, Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology
1507FAAFP,Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians
1508FAAN, Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
1509FAAQ,(a/i) Frequently Asked and Anticipated Questions (cf. FAQ)
1510FAASV, Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle
1511FAB, Feline Advisory Bureau (UK feline charity)
1512FAC, Forward Air Controller,Front of Allies for Change,Frontal Affinity Chromatography,Full Aperture Calibrator
1513FACA, (US) Federal Advisory Committee Act
1514FACH, Fuerza Aérea de Chile
1515FACN, Fellow of the American College of Nutrition
1516FACP, Fellow of the American College of Physicians
1517FACS, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Formal Aspects of Computing Science,Fluorescent-activated cell sorting
1518FACTS, Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System
1519FAD, Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide,Fuck A Duck, Funding Authorization Document
1520FAH, Federation of American Hospitals,Fine Arts and Humanities,Foreign Affairs Handbook
1521FAM, Foreign Affairs Manual
1522fao, Faroese language (ISO 639-2 code)
1523FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization
1524FAPA,Fellow of the American Psychological Association
1525FAPHA,Fellow of the American Public Health Association
1526FARP, Forward Arming and Refuelling Point / Forward Area Rearm/refuel Point
1527fas, Persian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1528FAS, Federation of American Scientists,Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
1529FASCAM, Family of Scatterable Mines[1]
1530FASD, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
1531FASEB,(a/i) Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
1532FAT, Field Artillery Tractor,File Allocation Table
1533FAVS, Future Armoured Vehicle System
1534FAW, Football Association of Wales
1535FB,Facebook, An on-line social network
1536FBCS, Fellow of the British Computer Society
1537FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
1538FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
1539FBIDST, Fellow of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists
1540FBM, Board foot
1541FBR- Fast Breeder Reactor,Foundation for Biomedical Research,Friedman, Billings, Ramsey (now known as Arlington Asset Investment)
1542FBS-Federal Bureau of Statistics (Pakistan),Fetal bovine serum,Football Bowl Subdivision (U.S. college football),Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation,FC[edit]
1543fC, Femtocoulomb
1544FC- Fire Control,Football Club, Funnel Cloud (METAR Code)
1545FCA- Fellowship of Christian Athletes,Fiat Chrysler Automobiles,Fraction of Combat Active forces
1546FCC, U.S. Federal Communications Commission
1547FCE, First Certificate in English
1548FCF, Financial Free Cash Flow
1549FCLA,Fraud Claims Law Associate
1550FCM- Federation of Canadian Municipalities,Fogarty's Cove Music
1551FCO, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1552FCS- Football Championship Subdivision (U.S. college football),Future Combat System
1553FCW, Florida Championship Wrestling
1554FCZ, Forward Combat Zone
1555FD, Falun Dafa
1556FDA, Food and Drug Administration (U.S.)
1557FDC, Federal Detention Center (U.S.),Fire Direction Centre
1558FDDI, Fibre Distributed Data Interface
1559FDBK,(I) Feedback
1560FDR, Flight Data Recorder,Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1561Fe, Iron (Latin Ferrum)
1562FE, Fully Exposed (armoured vehicle target, as opposed to Hull-Down)
1563FEAR, First Encounter Assault Recon,False Evidence Appears Real
1564FEAST,(a/i) Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation
1565FEATS, Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies link title
1566FEBA, Forward Edge of the Battle Area
1567FED,(a/i) Field emission display
1568FEDEP, Federation Development Process (Simulation)
1569FEF, Frontal Eye Field (neurophysiology)
1570FEMA-(a/i) Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association,(a/i) U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency,Fire Equipment Manufacturers' Association
1571FENS,(a/i) Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
1572FEP, Firepower Enhancement Program,Fleet satellite (FLTSAT) Extremely high frequency (EHF) Package
1573FES, Flywheel Energy Storage
1574FEST, Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre link title
1575FET, Field-effect transistor
1576FEZ,(a/i) Fighter Engagement Zone
1577ff, Fula language (ISO 639-1 code)
1578fF, Femtofarad
1579FF- Final Fantasy, Firefox (Web browser)
1580FFA- Football Federation Australia,Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency,Free-Fire Area,Fusiform Face Area,Future Farmers of America (today the National FFA Organization)
1581FFB, Frum From Birth (referring to an observant Jew born into a religiously observant family)
1582FFC, Free For Chat
1583FFE, Fukuoka Futures Exchange
1584FFG, Guided Missile Frigate (hull classification symbol)
1585FFOV, Forward Field Of View
1586FFS, For Fuck's Sake
1587FFT- Fast Fourier Transform,Final Fantasy Tactics,FG[edit]
1588FG, Falun Gong
1589fg, Femtogram
1590FG, Fog (METAR Code),French Guiana (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1591FGR, Flickr Group Roulette
1592fH, Femtohenry
1593FHFIF, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
1594FHI, Family Health International, Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd.
1595fi, Finnish language (ISO 639-1 code)
1596FI, Finland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1597FIB, Fucking Illinois Bastard (Wisconsin slang, variants exist)
1598FIBUA,(i/a) Fighting In Built-Up Areas
1599FIC, Fellowship for Intentional Community
1600FID, Foreign Internal Defence
1601FIE, Fly-In Echelon
1602FIFO, First In, First Out
1603FIFRA, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
1604FIGJAM, Fuck I'm Good, Just Ask Me
1605fij, Fijian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1606FILO, First In, Last Out (see also LIFO)
1607FIMPT, Fellow of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
1608fin, Finnish language (ISO 639-2 code)
1609FIN, Finland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1610FIPS, Federal Information Processing Standard
1611FIRES,Fever Induced Refractory Epilepsy Syndrome or Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome
1612FISH, Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridisation
1613FiST, Fire Support Team
1614FITS, Flexible Image Transport System
1615FIU, Florida International University
1616fj, Fijian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1617fJ, Femtojoule
1618FJ, Fiji (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
1619FJD, Fiji dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
1620FJI, Fiji (ISO 3166 trigram)
1621FJN, Financial Job Network
1622fK, Femtokelvin
1623FK, Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1624FKP, Falkland Islands pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
1625FKSM, Fort Knox Supplemental Manual
1626FKT, Fastest Known Time
1627fL, Femtolitre
1628FL, Florida (postal symbol)
1629FLA, Florida, Front Line Assembly,Future Large Aircraft
1630FLAB, Four-letter abbreviation
1631FLAC,(a/i) Free Lossless Audio Codec
1632FLAC,(a/i) Free Legal Advice Centres
1633FLB, Forward Logistics Base
1634FLET,(a/i) Forward Line of Enemy Troops
1635FLG, Falun Gong
1636FLIP, Flight Information Publication
1637FLIR, Forward Looking InfraRed (sensor)
1638FLK, Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1639FLOT,(a/i) Forward Line of Own Troops
1640FLSA, Fair Labor Standards Act
1641FLQ, Free Legal Questions
1642FLTSAT, Fleet Satellite
1643FLTSATCOM, Fleet Satellite Communication System
1644FLUBOS, Fat, Lazy, Useless, Bag Of Shit
1645FM, Factory Mutual http://fmglobal.com
1646fm, Femtometre
1647Fm, Fermium
1648FM- Federal Magistrate (Australian post-nominal), Federated States of Micronesia (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code), Field Manual,Flight Manager,Frequency Modulation (electronics)
1649FMC- Federal Magistrates' Court (an Australian federal court, formerly FMS),Food Machinery Corporation (original name of the company now known as FMC Corporation)
1650FMCA, Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia (used for citing decisions of the FMC other than family law decisions)
1651FMCAfam, Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia: family (used for citing family law decisions of the FMC)
1652FME, Formal Methods Europe
1653FMECA, Failure Modes and Effect Criticality Analysis
1654FMJD, Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames[2]
1655FMLA, Family Medical Leave Act
1656fMRI, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
1657FMS- Federal Magistrates Service (an Australian federal court, now FMC), Flight Management System,Foreign Military Sales
1658FMSF, False Memory Syndrome Foundation
1659FMTV, Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles
1660FMCG, (Fast Moving Consumer Goods)
1661fN, Femtonewton
1662FNA, Functional Needs Analysis
1663fo, Faroese language (ISO 639-1 code)
1664FO, Faroe Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code), Force Operations (military),Forward Observer,Frame Optional (military symbology)
1665FOAD, Fuck Off And Die
1666FOAF, Friend Of A friend
1667FoB, Free On Board (shipping)
1668FOB,(i/a) Forward Operating Base
1669FOC, Full Operational Capability,First of Class
1670FoE, Friends of the Earth
1671FOGC, Federal Oil and Gas Council
1672FOH, Front Of House
1673FOIA, Freedom of Information Act
1674FOM, Federation Object Model
1675FONSI, Finding of No Significant Impact
1676FOO, Forward Observation Officer
1677FOR, Field Of Regard,Frame Of Reference
1678Fortran, The IBM Mathematical FORmula TRANslating System (programming language)
1679FOS, Florida Ornithological Society,Full Operational Status
1680FoS, Family of Systems
1681FOSE, Fallout 3 Script Extender
1682FOSE, Federal Office Systems Expo
1683FOT, Free on truck
1684FOTA, Fellow of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
1685FOTC,Flight of the Conchords
1686FOUO, For Official Use Only
1687FOV, Field Of View
1688FP, French Polynesia (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1689fps, frames per second (motion pictures, television, computer graphics)
1690FPS- Fire Prevention System,First Person Shooter (computer/video games)
1691FOOP, Friends Of Organ Pipes (Volunteer group)
1692FQ, Baker Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code),French Southern and Antarctic Territories (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1979)
1693FQDN, Fully Qualified Domain Name
1694fr, French language (ISO 639-1 code)
1695Fr, Francium
1696FR, France (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
1697fra, French language (ISO 639-2 code)
1698FRA- Federal Railroad Administration, France (ISO 3166 trigram)
1699FRAGO, Fragmentary Order (military)
1700FRAND, Fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (concept in standards-setting and intellectual property law)
1701FRCP- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
1702FRICBM, Full Range ICBM
1703frr, North Frisian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1704FRO, Faroe Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
1705FRS- Fellow of the Royal Society,U.S. Federal Reserve System
1706FRSA, Fellow of the Royal Society of Art
1707fry, West Frisian language (ISO 639-2 code)
1708FRY, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1709fs, Femtosecond
1710fS, Femtosiemens
1711FS- Fire Support (military), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1712FSA- Fire Support Area,UK Food Standards Agency,Functional Solution Analysis
1713FSC- Federal Supply Classification, Forest Stewardship Council (ecological pressure group
1714FSCL, Fire Support Co-ordination Line
1715FSE, Fire Support Element
1716FSF, Free Software Foundation
1717FSH, Follicle Stimulating Hormone
1718FSI, Fuel Stratified Injection
1719FSM- Federated States of Micronesia (ISO 3166 trigram), Flying Spaghetti Monster (satirical religion)
1720FSO- Fire Support Officer,Flotilla Staff Officer,Foreign Service Officer
1721FSS, Fire Support Station
1722FSSP, Families of Structurally Similar Proteins
1723FST- Finance Support Team,Finlands Svenska Television (Finland's Swedish-language television),Future Soviet Tank (Cold War era)
1724FSTC, Foreign Science Technology Center (now NGIC)
1725fT, Femtotesla
1726FTC, Federal Trade Commission
1727FTE, Full Time Equivalent
1728FTL, Faster Than Light
1729FTP, File Transfer Protocol
1730FTW, For The Win (a commonly used phrase used online to indicate success) F@#K The World, Forever Together Where ever (gang slogan)
1731FTS, Flight Termination System used during some rocket launches
1732FTS, Fuck That Shit
1733FU, Smoke (METAR Code)
1734FUBAR, Fucked/Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair
1735FUCK, For, Unlawful, Carnal, Knowledge (Van Halen album title)
1736FUD, Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt (marketing strategy)
1737ful, Fula language (ISO 639-2 code)
1738fV, Femtovolt
1739fW, Femtowatt
1740FW, Forward
1741FWC, Football World Cup
1742FWF, Fixed Word Format
1743FWI, French West Indies
1744FWIW, For What It's Worth
1745FWS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1746FWT, Fresh Water Tank
1747FX, Firefox,Fox Extended, Metropolitan France (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1997),Special effect
1748FXX, Metropolitan France (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1997)
1749fy, West Frisian language (ISO 639-1 code)
1750FY, Fiscal Year, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (NATO country code)
1751FYA, For Your Agenda
1752FYDP, Five-Year Defense Plan (U.S.)
1753FYI, For Your Information
1754FYROM, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
1755FZDZ, Freezing Drizzle (METAR Code)
1756FZFG, Freezing Fog (METAR Code)
1757FZRA, Freezing Rain (METAR Code)
1758g, Gram
1759G, Gauss, General Audiences (movie rating)
1760G1, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Personnel
1761G2, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Intelligence
1762G3,many, including Heckler & Koch G3; see entry, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Operations and Plans
1763G4, Generation Four PowerPC microprocessor, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Logistics
1764G5, Generation Five PowerPC microprocessor, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Public Affairs
1765G6, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Information Technology, Group of 6 (France, Germany, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy) (1975)
1766G7, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Training, Group of 7 (G6 + Canada) (1976)
1767G8, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Finance, Group of 8 (G7 + Russia) (1998)
1768G9, Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC)
1769G10, Group of 10 (G7 + Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland; numbering 11 in fact)
1770G15, Group of 15 (subset of G77, formed 1989: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and Zimbabwe; currently numbers 17)
1771G20, Group of 20 (G8 + Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey + current European Union presiding country) (1999)
1772G24, Group of 24 (subset of G77, formed 1971: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Iran, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Syria, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela)
1773G77, Group of 77 (issued from the United Nations Conference on Commerce and Development, 1964; currently numbers 133)
1774Ga, Gallium,Gigaannum
1775GA, Gabon (ISO 3166 digram),The Gambia (FIPS 10-4 country code), Gamblers Anonymous,Georgia (postal symbol),Gigaampere,Goa (Indian state code)
1776GAAR, General Anti-Avoidance Rule (tax evasion)
1777GAB, Gabon (ISO 3166 trigram)
1778GABA, Gamma-AminoButyric Acid
1779GAD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
1780GAF, Garfield and Friends
1781GALCIT, Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
1782GAO, U.S. Government Accountability Office
1783GAW, Global Atmospheric Watch
1784GB, Gabon (FIPS 10-4 country code),United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 digram) [glamour boy 7-9/10]
1785GBBC, Great (Global) Backyard Bird Count
1786GBE, Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
1787GBH- Great Bash Heel (Japanese professional wrestling stable),Gregory Bonner Hale (British design and advertising agency),Grievous bodily harm
1788GBP, United Kingdom pound sterling (ISO 4217 currency code)
1789GBR, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1790GBU, Glide-Bomb Unit,Global Business Unit
1791GC- East Germany (NATO country code; obsolete 1990), General classification (cycling),General counsel,George Cross (British civil decoration), Gigacoulomb [Grindr cruise]
1792GCA, Graduate in Claims Administration
1793GCD,see entry
1794GCF, Greatest Common Factor
1795GCI, Ground-controlled interception
1796GCN, Gamma-ray burst Coordination Network
1797GCS, Global Coordinate System
1798GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education (UK)
1799gd, Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-1 code)
1800Gd, Gadolinium
1801GD, Grenada (ISO 3166 digram)
1802GDC, Game Developers Conference,General Dental Council
1803GDL, Game Definition Language
1804GDP, General Dental Practitioner (UK),Gross Domestic Product
1805GDR, German Democratic Republic (cf. DDR)
1806GDR, General Distribution Release (Microsoft Term for a software service release; between Hotfix and Service Pack)
1807GDW, Game Designers Workshop
1808Ge, Germanium
1809GE, General Electric,Genetic Engineering (cf. GM), Georgia (ISO 3166 digram)
1810GEBCO, General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
1811GEC, Great Engineering Challenge
1812GED, General Educational Development (high school equivalency credential in the U.S. and Canada)
1813GEEP, Geophysical Equipment Exploration Platform
1814GEL, Georgian lari (ISO 4217 currency code),Gilbert and Ellice Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1977)
1815GEMA, Gas and Electricity Markets Authority,Georgia Emergency Management Agency, Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (German performance rights organisation), Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance
1816GEN, Full General (four stars) in the U.S. Army
1817GEO, Geostationary Earth Orbit, Georgia (ISO 3166 trigram)
1818GEOS, Graphical Environment Operating System
1819GEQ, Equatorial Guinea (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
1820GER, Germany (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
1821GeV, Gigaelectron-volt
1822GEV, Ground Effect Vehicle
1823GF- French Guiana (ISO 3166 digram),Gigafarad
1824GFCF- Gluten-free, casein-free diet,Gross fixed capital formation
1825GFCI, Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor (aka GFI)
1826GFDL, GNU Free Documentation License
1827GFE- Girlfriend experience (used in escort services),Good Faith Estimate,Government Furnished Equipment
1828GFI, Ground Fault Interruptor (aka GFCI)
1829GFL, German Football League (Germany's Bundesliga for American football; the English-language name is used in German without translation)
1830GFN, Global Footprint Network
1831GG, Georgia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1832GGK,Good God Karma
1833GGP- General Game Playing,General Growth Properties (U.S. shopping center owner),GH[edit]
1834GH, Ghana (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code),Gigahenry
1835GHA, Ghana (ISO 3166 trigram)
1836GHB, gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
1837GHC, Ghanan cedi (ISO 4217 currency code)
1838Gi, Gibi
1839GI, Galvanised Iron,Gastro-Intestinal,General Issue, Gibraltar (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code), Government Issue
1840GIB, Gibraltar (ISO 3166 trigram)
1841GIF, Graphics Interchange Format
1842GIG, Global Information Grid
1843GIGO, Garbage In Garbage Out (computing)
1844GIMP, GNU Image Manipulation Program
1845GIN, Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram), Guidelines International Network
1846GINK,Going Insane Not Knowing,orig. Colorado 2010 M.Kalfas
1847GINO, Godzilla In Name Only
1848GIP, Gibraltar pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
1849GIS, Geographic Information System, Google Image Search
1850GISS,(a/i) General Impression of Size and Shape,Goddard Institute for Space Studies
1851GJ, Gigajoule,Grenada (FIPS 10-4 country code),Gujarat (Indian state code)
1852GJD, Geocentric Julian Day
1853GK, Gigakelvin,Guernsey (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1854gl, Galician language (ISO 639-1 code)
1855GL- Gigalitre, Graphics Language, Greenland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code), Grenade Launcher
1856gla, Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-2 code)
1857GLAAD, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
1858GLAC, General Ledger Accounting Code
1859GLAST, Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
1860GLBA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
1861GLC, Gas-liquid chromatography
1862gle, Irish language (ISO 639-2 code)
1863glg, Galician language (ISO 639-2 code)
1864GLINT- Gallium-arsenide Laser Illuminator for Night TV,Gated Laser Illuminator for Narrow Television, Gated Laser Intensifier (tape),Gospel Literature International,Graphical Linux Installation Tool
1865GLP, Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 trigram)
1866GLUT,(a/i) OpenGL Utility Toolkit
1867glv, Manx language (ISO 639-2 code)
1868GLV, Gained Life Value
1869Gm, Gigametre
1870GM- The Gambia (ISO 3166 digram), GameMaster (role-playing),General Motors,Genetically Modified, Germany (FIPS 10-4 country code), Guru Meditation (computing)
1871GMAC- General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the original name of the company now known as Ally Financial,Graduate Management Admission Council,G-MAC, Great Midwest Athletic Conference
1872GMB- The Gambia (ISO 3166 trigram), General, Municipal, Boilermakers (and Allied Trade Union)
1873GMC- U.K. General Medical Council,Gospel Music Channel
1874GMD, Gambian dalasi (ISO 4217 currency code)
1875GMFSC, Ground Mobile Forces Satellite Communications
1876GMI- Generic Model Interface,Geometry Model Instance
1877GML-Generalized Markup Language,Geography Markup Language,Game Maker Language,Graph Modelling Language,Graphical Motion Language,GUI Markup Language
1878GMO, Genetically Modified Organism
1879GMPCS, Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite
1880GMT- Giant Magellan Telescope,Greenwich Mean Time,GN[edit]
1881gn, Guaraní language (ISO 639-1 code)
1882GN- Giganewton,Guinea (ISO 3166 digram)
1883GNAS, Grand National Archery Society
1884GNB, Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 trigram)
1885GNF, Guinean franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
1886GNOME, GNU Network Object Model Environment
1887GNP, Gross National Product
1888GNQ, Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram)
1889GnRH, Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
1890GNU, GNU's Not Unix
1891GO, Glorioso Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1892GOA- General of the Army (United States only), Gun Owners of America
1893GOAT, Greatest of all time (LL Cool J album title)
1894GOC, General Officer Commanding
1895GOES, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
1896GOP, Grand Old Party
1897gorp, granola, oats, raisins, peanuts (another name for trail mix), probably a backronym
1898GOSC,(a/i) General Officer Steering Committee
1899GOSH, Great Ormond Street Hospital
1900GOSP, Gas/Oil Separation Plant
1901GOTS, Government off-the-shelf
1902GOYADIN, Get Off Your Arse, Do It Now (anti-procrastination mantra)
1903GP, General Practitioner,General Purpose,Grand Prix, Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
1904GPA, Grade Point Average
1905GPC, Global Path Cache
1906GPG, GNU Privacy Guard
1907GPIB, General-Purpose Instrumentation/Interface Bus
1908GPL, GNU General Public License
1909GPMP, General Purpose Macro Processor
1910GPO, General Post Office
1911GPPC, Genetics and Public Policy Center
1912GPR, Ground-Penetrating Radar
1913GPS, General Problem Solver,Global Positioning System
1914GPT, GEC-Plessey Telecommunications,General Purpose Technology,Get Paid To website
1915GQ- Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 digram), Gentlemen's Quarterly (the original name of the magazine now known simply as GQ), Guam (FIPS 10-4 territory code),GR[edit]
1916GR, Greece (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Hail (METAR Code)
1917GRAIL, Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
1918GRAS, Generally recognized as safe (FDA list)
1919GRB, Gamma-Ray Burst
1920GRC, Greece (ISO 3166 trigram)
1921GRD, Grenada (ISO 3166 trigram)
1922GRE- Graduate Record Examination, Greece (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
1923grep, [search] Globally for Regular Expression, Print [lines]
1924GRid,Global Release Identifier, a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI
1925GRID, Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (original name of AIDS)
1926GriT, Girl raised in Texas (Woman presenting firm southern traits/beliefs)
1927GRL, Greenland (ISO 3166 trigram)
1928GRN- Grenada (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166), Goods Received Note
1929grn, Guaraní language (ISO 639-2 code)
1930GRP, Graphite-reinforced plastic, see Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer
1931Gs, Gigasecond
1932GS- General Schedule (US civil service pay scale),General Support, Gigasiemens,South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
1933GSR, Gun Shot Residue
1934GSA, U.S. General Services Administration
1935GSD, Graphical Situation Display
1936GSGB,(God send glamour boy 9-10/10)
1937GSK, GlaxoSmithKline [good sexual karma]
1938GSN,(a/i) Game Show Network
1939GSO, General Services Officer (U.S. Department of State)
1940GSOH, Good Sense Of Humour
1941GSP,Georges St-Pierre (Canadian MMA fighter)
1942GSS, Generic Security Services
1943GST, Goods and Services Tax (Australia, Canada, and other countries)
1944GSW, Gunshot wound
1945GT, Gigatesla, Gran Turismo,Grand Touring, Guatemala (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
1946GTA, Grand Theft Auto
1947GTB, Get to bed, namely to get a new job after a long time of searching, usually following a phone call
1948GTC, Gran Telescopio Canarias (Spanish, Canaries Great Telescope)
1949GTD, Getting Things Done
1950GTG, Got To Go (Internet chat)
1951GTK, Good To Know (Internet chat)
1952GTGN, Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
1953GTM, Guatemala (ISO 3166 trigram)
1954GTQ, Guatemalan quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)
1955GTV, Gross Tumor Volume quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)
1956gu, Gujarati language (ISO 639-1 code)
1957GU, Guam (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
1958GUA, Guatemala (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
1959GUF, French Guiana (ISO 3166 trigram)
1960GUILT, Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin
1961guj, Gujarati language (ISO 639-2 code)
1962GULCR, Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica
1963GUT, Grand Unification Theory
1964gv, Manx language (ISO 639-1 code)
1965GV, Gigavolt,Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code)
1966GW, Games Workshop,Germ Warfare, Gigawatt, Guided Weapon, Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 digram)
1967GWARS, Ground Warfare System (simulation)
1968GWAS, Grand Western Archery Society
1969GWOT, Global War on Terrorism
1970GWS, Gulf War Syndrome,Greater Western Sydney
1971GXA, Global XML Web Services Architecture
1972GXE, Gene-enivronment interaction
1973GXF, General Exchange Format
1974GXH, IATA code of Gannan Xiahe Airport
1975GXL, Graph eXchange Language
1976GXM, Matrox Graphics eXpansion Module
1977GXP, Grid Exit Point, Global Xchange Programme, Indication of highest performance level on some Pontiac vehicles
1978GxP, Good X Practice (X can mean: clinical, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, etc.)
1979GXY, IATA code of Greeley-Weld County Airport
1980GY, Guyana (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
1981GYD, Guyana dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
1982GYY, Gary/Chicago International Airport (IATA Airport Code)
1983GZ, Gaza Strip (FIPS 10-4 territory code), Ground Zero
1984GZK, Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off (cosmic ray energies)
1985h, Hecto
1986H, Henry,Hydrogen
1987ha, Hausa language (ISO 639-1 code),Hectare
1988HA, Haiti (FIPS 10-4 country code), High Availability
1989HAARP, High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
1990HAART, Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy
1991HAI, Human Awareness Institute
1992HAL, Hardware Abstraction Layer
1993HALO, High Altitude Low Opening (parachute jump)
1994HALT- Highly Accelerated Life Test, Hungry Angry Lonely Tired
1995HAM, Amateur radio operator
1996HANS, Head And Neck Support (device used in many race cars)
1997HARM, High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile
1998hat, Haitian Creole language (ISO 639-2 code)
1999HAT,(i/a) Highest Astronomical Tide (nautical charts), Hungarian Automated Telescope
2000hau, Hausa language (ISO 639-2 code)
2001HAW, Heavy Antitank Weapon
2002HAWK, Homing All the Way Killer (air defence system)
2003HAZ, Heat-Affected Zone
2004HAZMAT, Hazardous Materials
2005HBCD, HexaBromoCycloDodecane
2006HBCI, Home Banking Computer Interface
2007HBO, Home Box Office
2008HBR, Harvard Business Review
2009HBT, Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
2010HBV, Hepatitis B Virus
2011HCCI, Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition
2012HCF, Highest Common Factor
2013HCI, Human-Computer Interaction/Interface
2014HCSC, Higher Command and Staff Course
2015HCT, Higher Colleges of Technology, tertiary education institution in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
2016HD- Henry Draper (star catalogue),Hull-Down (armoured vehicle target, as opposed to Fully Exposed),High Definition,Huntington's Disease
2017HDD- Hard Disk Drive,High-Density Disk
2018HDL, High-Density Lipoprotein
2019HDM, Human Decision-Making
2020HDMI,High Definition Multimedia Interface
2021HDR- Hard disk recorder,Henningson, Durham & Richardson (founders of the engineering and construction firm now known by their initials),High dynamic range, a term used in both digital imaging and 3D rendering,Hot Dry Rock (experimental geothermal technology),Human Development Report (UN publication)
2022HDRA, Henry Doubleday Research Association
2023HDTV, High-Definition Television
2024he, Hebrew language (ISO 639-1 code)
2025He, Helium
2026HE, High Explosive
2027HEAT, High Explosive Anti-Tank (ammunition)
2028heb, Hebrew language (ISO 639-2 code)
2029HEBA, Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association
2030HEER, High-Explosive Extended Range (ammunition)
2031HEIC, Honourable East India Company
2032HEMP, High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse
2033HEO- High Earth Orbit, Highly Elliptical Orbit
2034HEOSS, High Earth Orbit Space Surveillance
2035HEP, High-Explosive Plastic (ammunition)
2036HEPA,(a/i) High-Efficiency Particulate Air (filter)
2037her, Herero language (ISO 639-2 code)
2038HESH, High-Explosive, Squash-Head (ammunition)
2039HESV, Heavy Engineering Support Vehicle
2040HETT, Heavy Equipment Transporting Truck / Heavy Equipment Truck Tractor
2041HEU, Highly Enriched Uranium
2042Hewitts, Hills in England, Wales and Ireland over Two Thousand feet (with topographic prominence of at least 30 m)
2043Hf, Hafnium
2044HF, High Frequency
2045HFE, Human Fertilisation and Embryology (UK Act)
2046HFE, The common-emitter current gain in a BJT transistor (also represented by βF). See: BJT
2047HFEA, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (UK)
2048Hg, Mercury (Latin Hydrargyrum)
2049HGC, UK Human Genetics Commission
2050HGF, Human Growth Factor
2051HGTV, Home & Garden Television
2052HHB,Ha Ha Bonk,The noise made when you laugh your head off. Used instead of LOL...
2053hi, Hindi language (ISO 639-1 code)
2054HI, Hawaii (postal symbol)
2055HIH, His (or Her) Imperial Highness
2056HIM, His (or Her) Imperial Majesty
2057HIMAD, High to Medium Altitude Air Defence (see also H/MAD)
2058HIMEZ, High Altitude Missile Engagement Zone
2059HIMYM,How I Met Your Mother
2060hin, Hindi language (ISO 639-2 code)
2061HIPAA, U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
2062Hipparcos, HIgh Precision Parallax COllecting Satellite
2063Hird, Hurd of interfaces representing depth (cf. HURD)
2064HiRISE, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
2065HIT, Health Information Technology
2066HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
2067HIWT, Hobart Institute of Welding Technology
2068HJD, Heliocentric Julian Day
2069HK, Hong Kong (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2070HKD, Hong Kong dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2071HKG, Hong Kong (ISO 3166 trigram)
2072HKS, HyperKinetic Syndrome
2073hL, Hectolitre
2074HL, Holding Line
2075HLA, High Level Architecture (simulation),Human Leukocyte Antigen
2076HLL, High-Level Language
2077HLN, Headline News
2078HLOS, High Level Output Specification
2079HLVW, Heavy Logistics Vehicle, Wheeled
2080HM, Heard Island and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2081HMCE, Her/His Majesty's Customs and Excise (former UK government department; succeeded by HM Revenue and Customs)
2082HMCS- Her/His Majesty's Canadian Ship,Her Majesty's Courts Service (former UK agency; succeeded by Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service)
2083HMD, Heard and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
2084HMF, HydroxyMethyl Furfural
2085HMM, Hidden Markov model
2086hmo, Hiri Motu language (ISO 639-2 code)
2087HMO, Health maintenance organization
2088HMP, Her Majesty's Prison
2089HMRC, Her/His Majesty's Revenue and Customs
2090HMS- Helmet-mounted display,Her/His Majesty's Ship (Royal Navy)
2091HMSO, Her Majesty's Stationery Office
2092HMV, His Master's Voice
2093HN, Honduras (ISO 3166 digram)
2094HND, Honduras (ISO 3166 trigram)
2095HNL, Honduran lempira (ISO 4217 currency code)
2096ho, Hiri Motu language (ISO 639-1 code)
2097Ho, Holmium
2098HO, Honduras (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2099HOLLAND, Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies
2100HOMES,the Great Lakes; Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
2101HONY,Humans of New York, a photoblog.
2102HOPI, Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (see Internet2, Abilene Network)
2103HoReCa, Hotel, Restaurant and Catering
2104HORIZON, Hélicoptère d'observation radar et d'investigation sur zone (French, Zone Investigation and Radar Observation Helicopter)
2105HOSTAC, Helicopter Operations from Ships Other Than Aircraft Carriers
2106HOT, Highly Optimised Tolerance
2107HOTAS, Hands on throttle-and-stick
2108HOV, High Occupancy Vehicle
2109hp, horse power
2110HP, Hewlett-Packard,Hindustan Petroleum, Himachal Pradesh (Indian state code)
2111HPA, UK Health Protection Agency
2112HPCL, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
2113HPLC, High Performance Liquid Chromatography
2114HPT, High[er] Payoff Target
2115HPV, Human Papilloma Virus
2116HQ, HeadQuarters, Howland Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2117HQDA, HeadQuarters, Department of the Army
2118hr, Croatian language (ISO 639-1 code)
2119HR- Croatia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram,from the country's native name of Hrvatska), Haryana (Indian state code), Harvard Revised star catalogue,Human Resources
2120HRBL, High-level Representation of Behavior Language (original name of the Herbal language)
2121HRD, Human Resource Development
2122HRED, (U.S. Army Research Laboratory's) Human Research and Engineering Directorate (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland)
2123HRF, High iness Forces
2124HRH, His (or Her) Royal Highness
2125HRK, Croatian kuna (ISO 4217 currency code)
2126HRM, His (or Her) Royal Majesty
2127HRM, Human Resource Management
2128HRT, Hormone Replacement Therapy
2129hrv, Croatian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2130HRV- Croatia (ISO 3166 trigram), High Resolution Visible,HS[edit]
2131Hs, Hassium
2132HSBC, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
2133HSC, Higher School Certificate
2134HSM, High School Musical
2135HSMAD, Human Science/Modeling and Analysis Data
2136HSN, Home Shopping Network
2137HSPH, Harvard School of Public Health
2138HSS- Health Service Support, High-Speed Steel
2139HSSI, High-Speed Serial Interface
2140HST,see entry
2141HSV- Herpes Simplex Virus,Hue Saturation Value (colour model),HT[edit]
2142ht, Haitian Creole language (ISO 639-1 code)
2143HTA, HyperText Application
2144HTC-High Tech Computer Corporation, original name of the company now known simply as HTC,Horry Telephone Cooperative
2145HTFU, Harden The Fuck Up
2146HTG, Haitian gourde (ISO 4217 currency code)
2147HTH, Hope That Helps
2148HTI, Haiti (ISO 3166 trigram)
2149HTML, HyperText Markup Language
2150HTR, Heated Towel Rail
2151HTS, High-Temperature Superconducting wire
2152HTTP, HyperText Transfer Protocol
2153HU, Hungary (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
2154HUD,(i/a) Head-Up Display,Housing and Urban Development
2155HUF, Hungarian forint (ISO 4217 currency code)
2156HUHA, Head up his/her ass (Marine salute; probably a backcronym)
2157HUMINT, Human Intelligence (military parlance)
2158hun, Hungarian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2159HUN, Hungary (ISO 3166 trigram)
2160HURD, Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons (cf. Hird)
2161HVU, High Value Unit (military)
2162HV, Upper Volta (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1984)
2163HVAC, Heating, ventilation and air conditioning Used in architecture, business and marketing; refers to a building's entire system of heating, moving, or cooling air.
2164HVAP, High Velocity Armour Piercing (ammunition)
2165HVHF,High velocity human factors
2166HVM, High Velocity Missile
2167HVO, Upper Volta (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984)
2168HVP, HarborView Properties,High vacuum process,Hydrolyzed vegetable protein,Human Variome Project,High Velocity Protection,H.V.P. (rapper),High Voltage Protection,High Vapor Pressure,Hub Voice Processor,High-Velocity Projectile,High-Video Pass,High-Velocity Particle
2169HW, Hardware, High Water (nautical charts)
2170HWM, Hardware morphing (computer graphics rendering)
2171HX, IATA code of Hong Kong Airlines, Medical history, Hydrogen halide, Concept automobile by HUMMER
2172HXB, The glycoprotein Tenascian C
2173hy, Armenian language (ISO 639-1 code)
2174hye, Armenian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2175HYS, Harvard, Yale, Stanford (perennially named as the top three law schools in the U.S.)
2176hz, Herero language (ISO 639-1 code)
2177Hz, Hertz
2178HZ, Haze (METAR Code)
2179I, Iodine,One (in Roman numerals)
2180ia, Interlingua language (ISO 639-1 code)
2181IA, Iowa (postal symbol)
2182IAAL, I Am A Lawyer
2183IAB, International Association for Biologicals
2184IACREOT, International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials, and Treasurers
2185IAD, Ion Assisted Deposition
2186IADS, Integrated Air Defence System
2187IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency
2188IAF,{i} Industrial Areas Foundation
2189IAFG, Information Assurance Focus Group
2190IAI, International African Institute,Israel Aircraft Industries
2191IANA, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
2192IANAL, I Am Not A Lawyer
2193IAQ, Indoor air quality,Infrequently Asked Questions
2194IAS, Image Assessment System
2195IASIP, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2196IATA,(a/i) International Air Transport Association
2197IATF,International Automotive Task Force
2198IATSE,International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
2199IAU, International Association of Universities,International Astronomical Union
2200IAUC, International Astronomical Union Circular
2201IAW, In Accordance With
2202IB, International Baccalaureate
2203IBA, Important Bird Area
2204IBD, Inflammatory Bowel Disease
2205IBDM, Information Based Decision Making
2206IBDS, Integrated Biological Detection System,International Business Development Specialist
2207IBM, International Business Machines
2208ibo, Igbo language (ISO 639-2 code)
2209IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (part of the World Bank)
2210IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome
2211IC, Ice Crystals (METAR Code),Iceland (FIPS 10-4 country code), Integrated Circuit,[inner circle]
2212ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
2213ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization
2214ICBM, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
2215ICBN, International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
2216ICC, Integrated Command and Control,International Criminal Court,International Cricket Council,Interstate Commerce Commission,International Chamber of Commerce
2217ICD, Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator,Initial Capabilities Document,International Classification of Diseases
2218ICE,(i/a) In case of emergency
2219ICES,(a/i) International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
2220ICF, Intelligent Community Forum
2221ICM, Improved Conventional Munition,Integrated Collection Management,International Congress of Mathematicians,Iraq Campaign Medal
2222ICMP, Internet Control Message Protocol
2223ICNAF, International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (became NAFO in 1978)
2224ICNI, Integrated Communication, Navigation, and Identification
2225ICO, Intermediate Circular Orbit
2226ICP, Inductively coupled plasma,Insane Clown Posse
2227ICPE,(a/i) International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology, the annual conference of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
2228ICRAF, International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (a.k.a. World Agroforestry Centre since 2002)
2229ICRISAT,(i/a) International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
2230ICRL, Individual Component Repair List
2231ICRS, International Celestial Reference System
2232ICS, In-Country Support,Intelligence and Communications Systems,Interim Contractor Support
2233ICSI, Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
2234ICT, Information and communication technologies
2235ICTH, Island Closest to Heaven/Hell Final Fantasy VIII
2236ICV, Infantry Carrier Vehicle
2237ICW, In Co-ordination With,Indonesia Corruption Watch,Infectious and Chemotherapeutic Waste,Insulating Concrete Wall,Integral Crystalline Waterproofing, Interactive Courseware
2238ICYMI, In Case You Missed It
2239ICZN, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature,International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
2240id, Indonesian language (ISO 639-1 code)
2241ID- Idaho (postal symbol), Identity, Indonesia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram), Infantry Division,Intelligent Design,ID10T Error, Idiot User Error (IT help desk inside joke)
2242IDA- U.S. Institute for Defense Analyses,International Development Association (part of the World Bank
2243IDC, International Data Corporation
2244IDDI, I don't do initialisms (see irony)
2245IDE- Integrated Development Environment,Integrated Drive Electronics
2246IDeA, Improvement and Development Agency, the former name of Local Government Improvement and Development in the United Kingdom
2247IDEA- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (U.S.),International Data Encryption Algorithm,International Design Excellence Awards
2248IDF- Israel Defense Forces,Intel Development Forum,International Dairy Federation
2249IDGAF, I don't give a fuck
2250IDK, I don't know
2251IDKIBTI,I don't know, I'm black, that's it
2252IDL, Interface Definition Language
2253IDN, Indonesia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2254ido, Ido language (ISO 639-2 code)
2255IDR, Indonesian rupiah (ISO 4217 currency code)
2256ie, Interlingue language (ISO 639-1 code)
2257IE, Indo-European languages,Internet Explorer, Ireland (ISO 3166 digram),Iced Earth
2258IEA, International Energy Agency
2259IEC, International Electrotechnical Commission
2260IED, Improvised Explosive Device
2261IELTS, International English Language Testing System
2262IER, Information Exchange Requirement
2263IET, Institution of Engineering and Technology
2264IET,(ii) Initial Entry Training
2265IETF, Internet Engineering Task Force
2266IEW, Intelligence and Electronic Warfare
2267IFAB, International Football Association Board
2268IFAH, International Federation for Animal Health
2269IFAP, International Federation of Agricultural Producers
2270IFC, International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank), Independent Film Channel
2271IFF, Identification, Friend or Foe,Individually Fresh Frozen,International Flavors and Fragrances
2272IFFN, Identification, Friend, Foe, or Neutral
2273IFO, Identified Flying Object (see also UFO)
2274IFOR, UN Implementation Force, Institute for Operations Research,International Fellowship of Reconciliation
2275IFOV, Instantaneous Field of View
2276IFPI, International Federation of Phonographic Industries
2277IFR, Instrument Flight Rules
2278IFRB, International Frequency Registration Board
2279IFV, Infantry Fighting Vehicle
2280ig, Igbo language (ISO 639-1 code)
2281IG, Inspector General
2282IGNOU, Indira Gandhi National Open University
2283IGS, International Ground Station
2284IGY, Israeli Gay Youth,International Geophysical Year
2285IHH, Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
2286IHO,(i/a) International Hydrographic Organization
2287IHR, Institute for Historical Review
2288IHSI,Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (Jesuit Historical Institute)
2289ii, Sichuan Yi language (ISO 639-1 code)
2290II, Two (in Roman numerals)
2291IICA, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
2292IIE, Innovative Interstellar Explorer
2293iii, Sichuan Yi language (ISO 639-2 code)
2294III, Three (in Roman numerals)
2295IIRC, If I Recall/Remember Correctly
2296IISS, International Institute for Strategic Studies
2297IIT, Illinois Institute of Technology,Indian Institutes of Technology,Indiana Institute of Technology
2298IJN, Imperial Japanese Navy (World War II)
2299IJWP, Interim Joint Warfare Publication
2300ik, Inupiaq language (ISO 639-1 code)
2301IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad (the company's founder), Elmtaryd (the farm where he was born and raised), Agunnaryd (a village and parish near the farm)
2302iku, Inuktitut language (ISO 639-2 code)
2303IL, Illinois (postal symbol),Israel (ISO 3166 digram)
2304ILC, International Law Commission,International Linear Collider
2305ILDS, Improved Landmine Detection System
2306ile, Interlingue language (ISO 639-2 code)
2307ILO, International Labour Organization
2308ILRI, International Livestock Research Institute
2309ILS, Israeli shekel (ISO 4217 currency code)
2310ILY, IATA code for Islay Airport (Scotland), I Love You [pronounced ILL-LEE]
2311IM- Isle of Man (FIPS 10-4 territory code), Instant Message (internet speech)
2312IMA- Intermediate Maintenance Activity,Institute of Mathematics and Applications
2313IMBD, International Migratory Bird Day
2314IMDb,Internet Movie Database
2315IME, In My Experience
2316IMF- id music file/id's music format (audio file format),Impossible Missions Force, the protagonist organization in the Mission: Impossible media franchise,International Monetary Fund (the most common use for the initialism)
2317IMHO, In My Humble/Honest Opinion, cf. IMO
2318IML, International Mister Leather
2319IMLAST, International Movement for Leisure Activities in Science and Technology,see MILSET
2320IMNM,,Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy a rare, but serious ADR of statins [1]
2321IMNSHO, In My Not So Humble Opinion
2322IMPAC, International Merchant Purchase Authorization Card
2323IMPACT, International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce
2324IMPATT, IMPact Avalanche Transit Time diode
2325IMPT, Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
2326IMRO-Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization,Irish Music Rights Organisation
2327IMRL, Individual Material iness List
2328IMS- Information Management System,International Meat Secretariat,Ion Mobility Spectrometer
2329IMSA- Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy,International Mind Sports Association,International Motor Sports Association
2330IMsL, International Ms. Leather
2331IMT, Integrated Management Tool
2332IMU, International Mathematical Union
2333In, Indium
2334IN, India (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Indiana (postal symbol),Infantry
2335ina, Interlingua language (ISO 639-2 code)
2336INA, Immigration and Nationality Act
2337INAS, International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey
2338INCITS, InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
2339ind, Indonesian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2340IND, India (ISO 3166 trigram)
2341inet, the Internet
2342INDIGO, (U.S.) INtelligence DIvision Gaming Operation
2343INFORMS, (U.S.) Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
2344INFOSEC, Information Security
2345INLA, Irish National Liberation Army
2346INMARSAT, International Maritime Satellite organization
2347INR, Indian rupee (ISO 4217 currency code)
2348INRIA, Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
2349INS, Immigration and Naturalization Service
2350InSAR, Interferometric synthetic aperture radar
2351INST, Information Standards and Technology
2352INTSUM, Intelligence Summary
2353INTERFET, International Force for East Timor
2354io, Ido language (ISO 639-1 code)
2355IO, British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2356IOC- Initial Operational Capability,Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission,International Olympic Committee,International Ornithological Congress
2357IOLTA, Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (charitable funding mechanism, especially for legal aid)
2358IOM- Iowa, Ohio, Michigan (soybean origin),Institute of Medicine,International Organisation for Migration,Isle of Man
2359IONA, Islands of the North Atlantic (alternate name for Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and related islands)
2360IOT, British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO 3166 trigram)
2361IP, Clipperton Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code), Initial Point,Intellectual Property,Internet Protocol
2362IPA, India Pale Ale,International Phonetic Alphabet,Isopropyl alcohol
2363IPB, Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
2364IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,Independent Police Complaints Commission
2365ipk, Inupiaq language (ISO 639-2 code)
2366IPL, Inferior Parietal Lobule
2367IPO, Initial Public Offering
2368IPR, In Progress Review,Intellectual Property Rights,Intelligence Production Requirement
2369IPT, Integrated Product/Project Team
2370IPTS, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
2371IPTV, Internet Protocol TeleVision
2372IPW, Interrogation of Prisoners of War
2373IQ, Intelligence Quotient, Iraq (ISO 3166 digram)
2374IQD, Iraqi dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2375Ir, Iridium
2376IR, Infrared,Intelligence requirement (military), Iran (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Iran Air (IATA alpha code) see entry for more
2377IRA, Individual Retirement Account,Irish Republican Army (see also List of organisations known as the Irish Republican Army for groups claiming descent from this organisation)
2378IRAD, Internal Research and Development
2379IRAN,(I) Inspect and Repair As Necessary
2380IRAS, Infrared Astronomical Satellite
2381IRB, International Rugby Board
2382IRBM, Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
2383IRC, International Red Cross,International Reply Coupon,Internet Relay Chat
2384IREA, Intermountain Rural Electric Association
2385IRL, Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram),Industrial Research Limited,Indy Racing League,In real life
2386IRN, Iran (ISO 3166 trigram)
2387IRINN,Islamic Republic of Iran News Network
2388IRO, International Refugee Organisation
2389IRQ, Iraq (ISO 3166 trigram)
2390IRR, Iranian rial (ISO 4217 currency code)
2391IRS, U.S. Internal Revenue Service
2392IRST, Infra-red Search and Track
2393is, Icelandic language (ISO 639-1 code)
2394IS- Iceland (ISO 3166 digram),Israel (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2395ISA- Individual Savings Account,Industry Standard Architecture,Instruction Set Architecture,International Seabed Authority
2396ISAAA, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications
2397ISAF- International Sailing Federation,International Security Assistance Force
2398ISAR, Inverse SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)
2399ISB, Intermediate Staging Base
2400ISBN, International Standard Book Number (ISO 2108)
2401ISCCP, International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
2402ISCII, Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange
2403ISDN,Integrated Services Digital Network
2404ISEF, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
2405ISEN, Internet Search Environment Number
2406ISF, Internal Security Force
2407ISI-Indian Standards Institute, former name of the Bureau of Indian Standards,Inter-Services Intelligence (Pakistan),Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella organization for several Iraqi insurgent groups
2408ISIL,(i/a) Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
2409ISIS-(i/a) Institute for Science and International Security,Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
2410ISK, Icelandic krona (ISO 4217 currency code)
2411isl, Icelandic language (ISO 639-2 code)
2412ISL, Iceland (ISO 3166 trigram)
2413ISLN, International Standard Lawyer Number (used initially by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell)
2414ISM- Industrial, scientific or medical, Interstellar medium
2415ISMB, International Society of Matrix Biologists
2416ISMC, Intelligent Sounding Meaningless Conversation
2417ISOGP, Indian Society of Orthodontics for General Practitioners [2]
2418ISP- International Standardized Profile,Internet Service Provider,Information Systems Professional
2419ISPE,(a/i) International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology
2420ISR- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Israel (ISO 3166 trigram)
2421ISRO, Indian Space Research Organisation
2422ISS- International Shorebird Survey (North America),International Space Station
2423ISSCR, International Society for Stem Cell Research
2424ISSN, International standard serial number (ISO 3297)
2425IST- Information System Technology,UCF Institute for Simulation and Training
2426ISTAR, Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance
2427ISTC, Institute of Scientific and Technical Communications (UK)
2428ISTS, Intel Science Talent Search
2429ISU- Integrated Sight Unit,International Skating Union,IT[edit]
2430it, Italian language (ISO 639-1 code)
2431IT- InferoTemporal (neurophysiology),Information Technology, Italy (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2432ita, Italian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2433ITA, Italy (ISO 3166 trigram)
2434ITAG, Inertial Terrain-Aided Guidance
2435ITALY, I'll Truly Always Love You
2436ITAS, Improved Target Acquisition Sight
2437ITC, InferoTemporal Cortex (neurophysiology)
2438ITCZ,(i/p) Intertropical Convergence Zone
2439ITEC, Information Technology Exposition & Conference
2440ITEMS, Interactive Tactical Environment Management System
2441ITER, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
2442ITF, International Tennis Federation
2443ITK, In The Know
2444ITN, Independent Television News (British)
2445ITS- Incompatible Time-sharing System,Individual Training Standards
2446ITT, International Telephone and Telegraph (U.S.)
2447ITTO, International Tropical Timber Organization
2448ITU- Intent-to-Use,International Telecommunication Union (International Telegraph Union 1865-1932),IU[edit]
2449iu, Inuktitut language (ISO 639-1 code)
2450IUCN, International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union)
2451IUSS, Integrated Undersea Surveillance System,Integrated Unit Simulation System,International Union of Soil Sciences
2452IV, Côte d'Ivoire (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Ivory Coast),Four (in Roman numerals), IntraVenous (as in intravenous drip or intravenous therapy)
2453IVD, Internet Video Device, intra vas device
2454Iveco, Industrial Vehicles Corporation
2455IVF, In Vitro Fertilisation
2456IVI, Interchangeable Virtual Instrument
2457IVIS,(i/a) Inter-Vehicle Information System
2458IVL, Inter-Visibility Line
2459IVM, In Vitro [Oocyte] Maturation
2460IVO, In Vicinity Of
2461IW, Information Warfare
2462IWARS, Infantry Warrior Simulation
2463IWC, International Whaling Commission
2464IWW, Industrial Workers of the World
2465IX, Nine (in Roman numerals)
2466IXT, IntraText digital library; IntraText lexical hypertext
2467IY, Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone (FIPS 10-4 territory code; obsolete 1993)
2468IZ, Iraq (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2469J, Joule
2470J1, Joint [Manpower &] Personnel Directorate
2471J2, Joint Intelligence Directorate
2472J2EE, Java 2 Platform, Enterprise ion
2473J2ME, Java 2 Platform, Micro ion
2474J2SE, Java 2 Platform, Standard ion
2475J3, Joint Operations Directorate
2476J4, Joint Logistics Directorate
2477J5, Joint Strategic Plans & Policy Directorate
2478J6, Joint Information Technology Directorate (Command, Control, Communications & Computer Systems)
2479J7, Joint Operational Plans & Interoperability Directorate
2480J8, Joint Force Structure, Resources, & Assessment Directorate
2481J9, Joint Public Affairs Directorate (Civilian-Military Cooperation)
2482ja, Japanese language (ISO 639-1 code)
2483JA, Japan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2484JAFT, Just A Field Test
2485JAG, Judge Advocate General Corps (military law)
2486JAL, Japan Airlines
2487JALLC, Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (NATO)
2488JAM, Jamaica (ISO 3166 trigram)
2489JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association
2490JANET, Joint Academic Network
2491JANUS, Joint Academic Network Using Satellites (UK),Joint Army Navy Uniform Simulation, Joint Army-Navy Staff,Just ANother Useless Simulation (Note: The U.S. Army Janus simulation is not an acronym)
2492JATO, Jet-Assisted Take-Off
2493jav, Javanese language (ISO 639-2 code)
2494JB, Junior Branch
2495JB, Jail Bait
2496JBFSA, Joint Blue Force Situational Awareness
2497JCDB, Joint Common Data Base
2498JCDS, Joint Chiefs of the Defence Staff
2499JCIDS, Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System
2500JCIET, Joint Combat Identification Evaluation Team
2501JCL, Job Control Language
2502JCMOTF, Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force
2503JCP, Java Community Process
2504JCPM, Java Child Process Manager,Jesus Christ Prison Ministry
2505JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
2506JCW, Juggalo Championship Wrestling
2507JDBC, Java Data Base Connectivity
2508JDCC, UK Joint Doctrine and Concepts Centre, now the Development, Concepts, and Doctrine Centre, DCDC
2509JDEM, Joint Dark Energy Mission
2510JDK, Java Development Kit
2511JDL, Jewish Defense League
2512JDM- Japanese domestic market, referring specifically to automobiles and parts,Java Data Mining,Joint design manufacturing,JE[edit]
2513JE, Jersey (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2514JEB- James Ewell Brown (Stuart),John Ellis Bush
2515JEDP, Jahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist, Priestly (according to the documentary hypothesis, the sources of the Torah)
2516JEE, Java Platform, Enterprise ion
2517JEFX, Joint Expeditionary Force eXperiment
2518JEPD- Jahwist, Elohist, Priestly, Deuteronomist,Jointly Exhaustive, Pairwise Disjoint
2519JET, Joint European Torus
2520JEZ, Joint Engagement Zone
2521JFACC, Joint Force Air Component Commander
2522JFACTSU, U.S. Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standards Unit
2523JFC, Joint Force Commander
2524JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy or the airport named after him.
2525JFLCC, Joint Force Land Component Commander
2526JFMCC, Joint Force Maritime Component Commander
2527JFO, Journal of Field Ornithology
2528JFSOCC, Joint Force Special Operations Component Commander
2529JFTX, Joint Field Training Exercise
2530JH, Japan Highway Public Corporation
2531JH, Jharkhand (Indian state code)
2532JI, Joint Implementation
2533JIB, Joint Information Bureau
2534JIC, Joint Intelligence Centre
2535JINI, Java Intelligent Network Infrastructure
2536JITC, Joint Interoperability Test Command
2537JIVE, Joint Institute for VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) in Europe
2538JJAP, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
2539JK, Jedi Knight,Just Kidding, Spanair (IATA airline designator),Jammu & Kashmir (Indian state code)
2540JL, Japan Airlines (IATA airline designator)
2541JLA, Justice League of America
2542JM, Jamaica (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2543JMD, Jamaican dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2544JMS, Java Message Service
2545JN, Jan Mayen Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2546JNI, Java Native Interface
2547JNLP, Java Network Launch Protocol
2548JO, Jordan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2549JOA,(a/i) Joint Operations Area
2550JOD, Jordanian dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2551JOPES, Joint Operations Planning and Execution System
2552JOR, Jordan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2553JOTS, Joint Operations Tactical System
2554JSP, Joint Services Publication
2555JP, Japan (ISO 3166 digram), Justice of the Peace
2556JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2557jpn, Japanese language (ISO 639-2 code)
2558JPN, Japan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2559JPOW, Joint Project Optic Windmill
2560JPY, Japanese yen (ISO 4217 currency code)
2561JQ, Jetstar Airways (IATA airline designator), Johnny Quick, Johnston Atoll (FIPS 10-4 territory code), Jonny Quest,Joshua Quagmire
2562JRA, Japanese Red Army,Joint Rear Area
2563JRDF, Joint Rapid Deployment Forces
2564JRE, Java Runtime Environment
2565JREF, James Randi Educational Foundation
2566JROC, Joint Requirements Oversight Council
2567JROCM, JROC Memorandum
2568JRRF, Joint Rapid Reaction Force
2569JRSAI,Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
2570JSAP, Japan Society of Applied Physics
2571JSCSC, Joint Services Command and Staff College
2572JSEAD, Joint Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (see SEAD)
2573JSF, Joint Strike Fighter
2574JSIMS, Joint Simulation System
2575JSOA, Joint Special Operations Area
2576JSOTF, Joint Special Operations Task Force
2577JSP, JavaServer Page
2578JSR, Java Specification Request
2579JSS, Joint Support Ship Project
2580JT, Johnston Atoll (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1986), Junior Technician (RAF)
2581JTC, Joint Training Confederation
2582JTF, Joint Task Force
2583JTFEX, Joint Task Force Exercise
2584JTLS, Joint Theater Level Simulation
2585JTMD, Joint Theatre Missile Defence
2586JTN, Johnston Atoll (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
2587JU, Juan de Nova Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2588JUGFET, JUnction Gate Field-Effect Transistor
2589JUICE, JUpiter ICy Moon Explorer
2590JUO, Joint Urban Operations
2591jv, Javanese language (ISO 639-1 code)
2592JV, Joint Venture,Junior Varsity
2593JVM, Java Virtual Machine
2594JW, Jehovah's Witnesses
2595JWARS, Joint Warfare System (simulation)
2596JWP, Joint Warfare Publication
2597JWST, James Webb Space Telescope
2598JY, Japanese Yen
2599JZ, Joint Zone
2600k, Kilo-
2601K, Kelvin,Potassium (Latin Kalium),Tanker (aircraft designation code)
2602K9, Canine Police Unit
2603ka, Georgian language (ISO 639-1 code)
2604kA, Kiloampere
2605Ka, Kamov Design Bureau
2606KA, Knowledge Acquisition, Karnataka (Indian state code)
2607KAF,(i/a) Kandahar Air Field
2608kal, Kalaallisut language (ISO 639-2 code)
2609kan, Kannada language (ISO 639-2 code)
2610KARNAC, Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context
2611KARR, Knight Automated Roving Robot (Knight Rider character)
2612kas, Kashmiri language (ISO 639-2 code)
2613kat, Georgian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2614KATUSA, Korean Augmentation To United States Army
2615kau, Kanuri language (ISO 639-2 code)
2616kaz, Kazakh language (ISO 639-2 code)
2617KAZ, Kazakhstan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2618KBE, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
2619KBO, Kuiper Belt Object
2620KBVB, Koninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond (Dutch for Royal Belgian Football Association)
2621kC, Kilocoulomb
2622KCL, King's College London
2623KCS, Kansas City Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark)
2624KD, Kawasaki Disease,Kraft Dinner
2625KE- Kenya (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram), Kinetic Energy,Knowledge Engineering
2626KEDO, Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
2627KEN, Kenya (ISO 3166 trigram)
2628KERA, Kentucky Education Reform Act (of 1990)
2629kerma, Kinetic Energy Released in MAterial / in MAtter / per unit MAss
2630KES- Kenyan shilling (ISO 4217 currency code), Killer Elite Squad (Japanese professional wrestling stable)
2631KESR, Kent and East Sussex Railway.
2632KET- Kentucky Educational Television, Key English Test,KF[edit]
2633kF, Kilofarad
2634KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken
2635KFOR, UN Kosovo Force
2636KFUPM,King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
2637kg, Kilogram,Kongo language (ISO 639-1 code)
2638KG, Kyrgyzstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2639KGO,Knight of the Guelphic Order of Hanover
2640KGS, Kyrgyz som (ISO 4217 currency code)
2641KGZ, Kyrgyzstan (ISO 3166 trigram)
2642kH, Kilohenry
2643KH, Cambodia (ISO 3166 digram)
2644khm, Khmer language (ISO 639-2 code)
2645KHL, Kontinental Hockey League
2646KHM, Cambodia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2647KHR, Cambodian riel (ISO 4217 currency code)
2648KHz, Kilohertz
2649ki, Gikuyu language (ISO 639-1 code)
2650Ki, Kibi
2651KI, Kiribati (ISO 3166 digram)
2652KIA, Killed In Action
2653KIDS, Knowledge-based Integrated Design System
2654kik, Gikuyu language (ISO 639-2 code), common typo for LOL
2655kin, Kinyarwanda language (ISO 639-2 code)
2656kir, Kyrgyz language (ISO 639-2 code)
2657KIR, Kiribati (ISO 3166 trigram)
2658KISS, Keep It Simple, Stupid / Keep It Short and Simple,Korean Intelligence Support System
2659KITECH, Korean Institute of Industrial Technology
2660KITT, Knight Industries Two Thousand,Knight Industries Three Thousand
2661KIT,Keep In Touch
2662kj, Kuanyama language (ISO 639-1 code)
2663kJ, Kilojoule
2664kk, Kazakh language (ISO 639-1 code)
2665kK, Kilokelvin
2666KKK, Ku Klux Klan
2667kl, Kalaallisut language (ISO 639-1 code)
2668kL, Kilolitre
2669KL, Kuala Lumpur, Kerala (Indian state code)
2670KLENOT, KLEť Observatory Near Earth and Other unusual objects observations Team and Telescope
2671KLOC, Kilo Lines Of Code
2672km, Khmer language (ISO 639-1 code),Kilometre
2673KM, Comoros, Knowledge Management
2674KMF, Comoro franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
2675KMR, Kwajalein Missile Range
2676kn, Kannada language (ISO 639-1 code)
2677kN, Kilonewton
2678KN, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (FIPS 10-4 country code),Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 digram)
2679KNA, Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO 3166 trigram)
2680KNVB, Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond (Dutch for Royal Dutch Football Association)
2681ko, Korean language (ISO 639-1 code)
2682KO, Knocked Out
2683kom, Komi language (ISO 639-2 code)
2684kon, Kongo language (ISO 639-2 code)
2685kor, Korean language (ISO 639-2 code)
2686KOR, Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram)
2687KP, Kim Possible
2688KPMG, Klynveld, Peat, Marwick, Goerdeler
2689KPNO, Kitt Peak National Observatory
2690KPW, North Korean won (ISO 4217 currency code)
2691KQ, Kenya Airways (IATA airline designator),Kingman Reef (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2692kr, Kanuri language (ISO 639-1 code)
2693Kr, Krypton
2694KR, Kiribati (FIPS 10-4 country code),Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 digram)
2695KRW, South Korean won (ISO 4217 currency code)
2696ks- Kashmiri language (ISO 639-1 code),Kilosecond
2697kS, Kilosiemens
2698KS- Kansas (postal symbol),Republic of Korea (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2699KSC, Kennedy Space Center
2700KSI, Killed or Seriously Injured
2701KSM- Korean Service Medal,Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
2702KSU, Kansas State University
2703kT, Kilotesla
2704KT, Christmas Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code), Knight of the Order of the Thistle,Knights Templar
2705KTS, Knight of the Tower and Sword (of Portugal)
2706ku, Kurdish language (ISO 639-1 code)
2707KU, Kuwait (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2708kua, Kuanyama language (ISO 639-2 code)
2709KUL, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Flemish, Catholic University of Leuven)
2710kur, Kurdish language (ISO 639-2 code)
2711KUW, Kuwait (UNDP country code, IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
2712kv, Komi language (ISO 639-1 code)
2713kV, Kilovolt
2714KV, Kosovo
2715KVM, Keyboard, Video, Mouse switch
2716KVT, Killer-Victim Table (military simulations)
2717kw, Cornish language (ISO 639-1 code)
2718kW, Kilowatt
2719KW, Kuwait (ISO 3166 digram)
2720KWB,Kids' WB!
2721KWD, Kuwaiti dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2722KWT, Kuwait (ISO 3166 trigram)
2723KX, Cayman Airways (IATA airline designator)
2724ky, Kyrgyz language (ISO 639-1 code)
2725KY- Cayman Islands (ISO 3166 digram),Kentucky (postal symbol)
2726KYD, Cayman Islands dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2727KZ, Kazakhstan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
2728KZN, KwaZulu-Natal
2729KZT, Kazakh tenge (ISO 4217 currency code)
2730L, Fifty (in Roman numerals), Label,Lap,Large,Laser (US military aircraft basic mission designation),Latin,Left, Litre, Low (transmissions)
2731la, Latin language (ISO 639-1 code)
2732La, Lanthanum
2733LA- Laos (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Louisiana (postal symbol), Los Angeles
2734LAAS- Local Area Augmentation System,Los Angeles Astronomical Society
2735LAB, Logistics Assault Base
2736LabVIEW, Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench
2737LACMA,(a/i) Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2738LAD, Laser Aiming Device
2739LADW, Local Air Defence Warning
2740LAESI, Local Authority & Emergency Service Information
2741LAK, Laotian kip (ISO 4217 currency code)
2742LAMP,(multiple meanings)
2743LAN, Local Area Network
2744LANL, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2745lao, Lao language (ISO 639-2 code)
2746LAO, Laos (ISO 3166 trigram)
2747LAPD, Los Angeles Police Department
2748LAR- Light Armoured Reconnaissance,Logistics Assistance Representative
2749LARC, Livermore Advanced Research Computer (cf. LLNL)
2750LARP, Live-Action Role-Playing
2751LAS, McCarran International Airport (Las Vegas, Nevada)
2752Laser, Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (cf. Maser)
2753lat, Latin language (ISO 639-2 code)
2754LAT-(i/a) Lowest Astronomical Tide (nautical charts),Licensed Athletic Trainer (used in many of the United States; see www.oata.org)
2755LATA, Local Access Transport Area
2756LATCH, Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children (U.S. standard for attachment points for child safety seats in passenger cars)
2757lav, Latvian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2758LAV- Land Assault Vehicle,Light Armoured Vehicle,Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus
2759LAW, Light Antitank Weapon
2760LAX- Los Angeles International Airport, The Latin American Xchange (professional wrestling),LB[edit]
2761lb- pound (Latin librum),Luxembourgish language (ISO 639-1 code)
2762LB, Lebanon (ISO 3166 digram)
2763LBH- Light Battlefield Helicopter,Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands
2764LBJ- Lady Bird Johnson,LeBron James,Light Bulb Joke,Little Beagle Johnson (the dog owned by Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson),Lyndon Baines Johnson
2765LBN, Lebanon (ISO 3166 trigram)
2766LBNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2767LBP, Lebanese pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
2768LBR, Liberia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2769LBS, Location-Based Services
2770lbs, pounds (plural form of lb, see above)
2771LBT, Large Binocular Telescope
2772LBW, Leg Before Wicket
2773LBY, Libya (ISO 3166 trigram)
2774LC, Line of Contact, Saint Lucia (ISO 3166 digram)
2775LCA, Saint Lucia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2776LCC, Land Component Commander
2777LCCP, Light Contingency Communications Package
2778LCD, Liquid Crystal Display
2779LCE, Leaving Certificate Examination,Load Carrying Equipment,London Commodity Exchange
2780LCM, Least/Lowest Common Multiple
2781LCol, Lieutenant-Colonel (Canada, UK)
2782LCS,League of Legends Championship Series
2783LD- Laser Designator,Limited Deployment,Line of Departure
2784LDA, Lateral Drift Apparatus (paratroops)
2785LDC, Lesser Developing/Developed Country
2786LDL, Low-Density Lipoprotein
2787LDV, Local Defence Volunteers (British Home Guard)
2788LDW,Lane Departure Warning (ADAS)
2789LE, Lebanon (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2790LEC, Local Exchange Carrier
2791LED, Light-Emitting Diode
2792Legs, level emotion gad speed
2793LEGAD, Legal Advice
2794LEMOSS, Long-Endurance MObile Submarine Simulator
2795LEN, Large Extension Node
2796LEO, Low Earth orbit
2797LEP, Large Electron-Positron collider
2798LER, Loss-Exchange Ratio
2799LEU, Low-Enriched Uranium
2800LF, Low Frequency
2801LFO, Low Frequency Oscillation / Oscillator
2802LFTR, Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
2803lg, Luganda (ISO 639-1 code)
2804LG, Latvia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2805LGB- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,Laser-guided bomb, self-explanatory
2806LGBT, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
2807LGLO, Love God, Love Others
2808LGM, Little Green Men
2809LGS, Landsat Ground Station
2810LH, Lithuania (FIPS 10-4 country code), Luteinising Hormone
2811LHC, Large Hadron Collider
2812LHS, Left Hand Side
2813li, Limburgish language (ISO 639-1 code)
2814Li, Lithium
2815LI, Fifty-one (in Roman numerals), Liberia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Liechtenstein (ISO 3166 digram)
2816LIBOR, London Interbank Offered Rate
2817LIBS, Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
2818LIE, Liechtenstein (ISO 3166 trigram)
2819LIFO, Last In, First Out
2820LIGO, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
2821lim, Limburgish language (ISO 639-2 code)
2822lin, Lingala language (ISO 639-2 code)
2823LINEAR, Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
2824LISA, Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
2825lit, Lithuanian language (ISO 639-2 code)
2826LITAS, Low Intensity Two Colour Approach System (aviation)
2827LIVE, Liquid Inertial Vibration Eliminator
2828LJ- La Jolla,Larry Johnson (both the American football and basketball players of that name),LaserJet (HP printer brand),Library Journal,Linux Journal,LiveJournal,Ljubljana,Lord Justice of Appeal, Sierra National Airlines (IATA code)
2829LJJ, Lord Justices of Appeal
2830LK, Sri Lanka (ISO 3166 digram)
2831LKA, Sri Lanka (ISO 3166 trigram)
2832LKR, Sri Lanka rupee (ISO 4217 currency code)
2833LKR4, Linkwitz-Riley 4th order (audio crossover type)
2834LL, Land Line (telephone),Last Log,Late Latin,Left Limit,Lex Luthor (Superman character),Light Line,Limited Liability,Linked List,Little League
2835LLAD, Low Level Air Defence
2836LLB, Legum Baccalaureus (Latin: Bachelor of Laws)
2837LLC, Limited Liability Company
2838LLGC, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales),London Lesbian and Gay Centre
2839LLLTV, Low-Light Level Television
2840LLNL, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2841LLP, Limited Liability Partnership
2842LLTI, Limiting Long-Term Illness,Long Lead Time Item
2843LLTR, Low-Level Transit Route
2844LMAO, Laughing My Ass Off (Internet shorthand)
2845LMFAO, Laughing My F**king Ass Off (Internet shorthand, electro-hop duo)
2846LMB, Lick My Balls
2847LMN,(a/i) Lifetime Movie Network
2848LMS, London Mathematical Society,London, Midland and Scottish (Railway)
2849LMS, Like My Status (Internet shorthand)
2850LMV,() Light Motor Vehicle
2851ln- Lingala language (ISO 639-1 code),Natural logarithm
2852LNER, London and North Eastern Railway
2853LNG, Liquefied Natural Gas
2854LNO, Liaison Officer
2855lo, Lao language (ISO 639-1 code)
2856LO, Slovakia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
2857LOA, Limit Of Advance
2858LOC,(a/i) Level of Operational Capability,Limited Operational Capability,Lines Of Code,Lines Of Communication,see entry
2859LOD,Limit of Detection,see Detection limit
2860LoD, Lines of Development (UK)
2861LOFAR, Low Frequency Analysis and Recording
2862LOGPAC, Logistics Package
2863LOL, Laughing Out Loud (Internet shorthand)
2864LOMEZ, Low Altitude Missile Engagement Zone
2865LONEOS, Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search
2866LOOGY,(p/a) Lefty One-Out GuY, a sometimes pejorative nickname for the left-handed specialist in baseball
2867LORTID, LOng Range Target IDentification
2868LOS, Line Of Sight
2869LOSAT, Line-Of-Sight Anti-Tank (missile)
2870LOTA, Licentiate of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
2871LOTIS, Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System
2872LOTS, Logistics Over-The-Shore
2873LP, Linkin Park,Linkup Point,Listening Post,Long Playing record,Louisiana Pacific (cf. LP Field)
2874LPC, Linear Predictive Coding
2875LPD, Landing Platform Dock (Navy hull classification),Low Probability of Detection
2876LPG, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cf. LNG)
2877LPI, Low Probability of Intercept
2878LPS, Landsat Processing System, LipoPolySaccharide
2879LQ, Palmyra Atoll (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
2880Lr, Lawrencium
2881LR, Liberia (ISO 3166 digram)
2882LRC, Logistics iness Center
2883LRD, Liberian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2884LRF, Laser rangefinder, Low iness Forces
2885LRGW, Long-Range Guided Weapon
2886LRICBM, Limited Range ICBM
2887LRIP, Low Rate Initial Production
2888LRP, Logistics Release Point
2889LRPE, Long-Range Planning Element
2890LRS, Long Range Surveillance
2891LRU, Line-Replaceable Unit
2892LSE- Least Squares Estimate/Error,London School of Economics,London Stock Exchange
2893LSI, Large-Scale Integration
2894LSIF, Labour Sponsored Investment Fund
2895LSL, Lesotho loti (ISO 4217 currency code)
2896LSND, Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector
2897LSO, Lesotho (ISO 3166 trigram)
2898LSST, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
2899LSVW, Light Support Vehicle, Wheeled
2900lt, Lithuanian language (ISO 639-1 code)
2901Lt, Lieutenant
2902LtC, Lieutenant-Colonel (U.S.)
2903LT, Lesotho (FIPS 10-4 country code),Lithuania (ISO 3166 digram)
2904LTC, Long-Term Costing
2905Ltd, Limited
2906LTDP, Long-Term Defence Plan
2907LTG, Lieutenant General, Lightning (METAR Code)
2908LTI, Linear Time-Invariant
2909LTM,Acronym for Laughing To Myself
2910LTL, Lithuanian litas (ISO 4217 currency code)
2911LTP, Long-Term Potentiation
2912LTU, Lithuania (ISO 3166 trigram)
2913ltz, Luxembourgish language (ISO 639-2 code)
2914lu, Tshiluba language (ISO 639-1 code)
2915Lu, Lutetium
2916LU, Acronym Love You
2917LU,Loonatics Unleashed
2918lub, Tshiluba language (ISO 639-2 code)
2919LUCA, Last Universal Common Ancestor
2920lug, Luganda (ISO 639-2 code)
2921LUG, Linux User Group
2922LULU, Locally Unwanted Land Use (urbanism)
2923LUT, Limited User Test (ing),Local User Terminal
2924LUVW, Light Utility Vehicle, Wheeled
2925LUX, Luxembourg (ISO 3166 trigram)
2926lv, Latvian language (ISO 639-1 code)
2927LV- Las Vegas, Latvia (ISO 3166 digram), Launch Vehicle,Leading Vehicle, Leave, Left Ventricle,Level Valve,Linking Verb,Liverpool Victoria
2928LVA, Latvia (ISO 3166 trigram)
2929LVAD- Left Ventricular Assist Device, Low-Velocity Airdrop
2930LVEF, Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
2931LVL, Latvian lats (ISO 4217 currency code)
2932Lw, Lawrencium (obsolete 1963)
2933LW, Land Warrior,Low Water (nautical charts)
2934LWR, Laser warning receiver
2935LWRC, Land Warfare Resources Corporation
2936LWS, Land Warrior System
2937LX, Luxembourg (amateur radio ITU prefix),Swiss International Air Lines (IATA code)
2938LX, Electrics (theatrical term)
2939LY, Libya (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Lithuania (amateur radio ITU prefix)
2940LYAO,Laugh Your Ass Off
2941LYD, Libyan dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
2942LYLAS, Love You Like A Sister
2943LZ, Bulgaria (amateur radio ITU prefix), Landing Zone
2944m, Metre,Milli
2945M, Mega-,One thousand (in Roman numerals)
2946mA, Milliampere
2947Ma, Megaannum
2948MA- Madagascar (FIPS 10-4 country code), Marijuana Anonymous, Master of Arts,Massachusetts (postal symbol),Megaampere,Morocco (ISO 3166 digram)
2949MAA, Mathematical Association of America
2950MAAC, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
2951MAC- Macau (ISO 3166 trigram), U.S. Military Airlift Command (1966-1992),Mid-American Conference
2952MACA, Military Aid to the Civil Authorities
2953MACE, Multi-Agent Computing Environment
2954MACHO, MAssive Compact Halo Object
2955MAD- Magnetic Anomaly Detector, Moroccan dirham (ISO 4217 currency code), Mutual Assured Destruction
2956MADD- Mothers Against Drunk Driving,MyoAdenylate Deaminase Deficiency, Multiply-Add
2957MAF, Maintenance Action Form
2958MAFF, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (various countries)
2959MAGIC, Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (telescope)
2960MAGNETAR, Metaprogrammable AGent NETwork ARchitecture
2961MAGTF, Marine Air-Ground Task Force
2962mah, Marshallese language (ISO 639-2 code)
2963mal, Malayalam language (ISO 639-2 code)
2964MALD, Miniature Air-Launched Decoy
2965MANPADS, MAN-Portable Air Defence System
2966MANPRINT, MANpower and PeRsonnel INTegration
2967MAO-(i/a) Molėtų astronomijos observatorija (Moletai Astronomical Observatory), MonoAmine Oxidase
2968MAOI, Monoamine oxidase inhibitor
2969MAPS, Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship
2970mar, Marathi language (ISO 639-2 code)
2971MAR, Morocco (ISO 3166 trigram)
2972MarBEF, Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
2973MARC- MAchine able Cataloging (often also defined as MAchine able Code),Mailing list ARChive,Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition,Mid-America Regional Council
2974MARCENT, United States Marine Forces Central Command
2975MARFORCC, Marine Force Component Commander
2976MARRS, Martyn Young, Alex Ayuli, Rudy Tambala, Russell Smith, and Steve Young (British electronic music act)
2977MAS, NATO Military Agency for Standardization
2978MASAS, Monte Agliale Supernovae and Asteroid Survey
2979Maser, Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
2980MASH, Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
2981MASINT, Measurement And Signature Intelligence
2982MATREX, Modeling Architecture for Technology, Research & EXperimentation
2983MATS, U.S. Military Air Transport Service (1948-1966)
2984MAVS,(a/i) Mobile Artillery Vehicle System
2985MAW, Malawi (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
2986MB, Manitoba (postal symbol),Martinique (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Medal of Bravery (Canada)
2987MBA, Main Battle Area,Main Belt Asteroid,Masters of Business Administration
2988MBI, Moody Bible Institute
2989MBBL, (U.S. Armor Center) Mounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory
2990MBCC, Migratory Bird Conservation Commission (U.S.)
2991MBCS, Multi-Byte Character Set
2992MBE, Member of the Order of the British Empire, Multistate Bar Examination (U.S.)
2993MBIDST, Member of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists
2994MBM, Meat and Bone Meal
2995mbsf,metres below sea floor,[1][2] a depth convention used in paleontology and oceanography
2996MBT, Main Battle Tank
2997MBTA, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority,Migratory Bird Treaty Act (U.S.)
2998MBTI, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
2999mC, Millicoulomb
3000MC- Macau (FIPS 10-4 territory code), Master of Ceremonies, Megacoulomb, Military Cross (bravery award), Monaco (ISO 3166 digram), Mortar Carrier, Eleven Hundred (in Roman numerals)
3001MCA- Master of Computer Applications,Micro Channel Architecture,MultiChannel Analyzer,Music Corporation of America, the original name of the now-defunct MCA Inc.
3002MCC- Marylebone Cricket Club,Mission Control Center,Motor Control Center,Movement Control Centre
3003MCD- Minimal Cerebral Dysfunction,Minor civil division (U.S. Census term)
3004MCDL, Model Composition Definition Language
3005MCFT, Modified Compression Field Theory
3006MCG, Melbourne Cricket Ground
3007MCI, Microwave Communications, Inc.
3008MCIS, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
3009MCM, Mine Counter-Measures
3010MCMV, Mine Counter-Measure Vessel
3011MCNC- Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Mixing Condensation Nucleus Counter
3012MCO- Major Combat Operation, Monaco (ISO 3166 trigram), Movement Control Officer
3013MCP- Maintenance Collection Point,Male Chauvinist Pig
3014MCR, My Chemical Romance
3015MCSF, Marine Corps Security Forces
3016MCT, Movement Control Team
3017MCTIS, Mounted Co-operative Target Identification System
3018MCU- Marine Corps University,Marvel Cinematic Universe,Medium close-up (camera direction in British TV scripts), Microcontroller unit, Milk clotting units,Ming Chuan University,Minimum coded unit (digital imaging),Multipoint control unit,Municipal Credit Union (New York),MD[edit]
3019Md, Mendelevium
3020MD- Fifteen Hundred (in Roman numerals),Maryland (postal symbol), Medicinae Doctor (Doctor of Medicine/Medical Doctor),Mentioned in Dispatches (military), Moldova (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
3021MDA- Main Defensive Action/Area, Moldova (ISO 3166 trigram),Muscular Dystrophy Association
3022MDF- Main distribution frame,Medium-density fiberboard
3023MDG- Madagascar (ISO 3166 trigram), UN Millennium Development Goal
3024MDL, Moldovan leu (ISO 4217 currency code)
3025MDM- Michigan Dartmouth MIT telescope consortium,Master data management
3026MDNA, Madonna's 12th studio album title (2012)
3027MDO, Membership Driven Organisation
3028MDP, Markov Decision Process
3029MDT, Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-6 hours)
3030MDV, Maldives (ISO 3166 trigram)
3031MDW- Chicago Midway International Airport in Chicago (IATA airport code), Military District of Washington, Minnesota, Dakota and Western Railway (AAR reporting mark),ME[edit]
3032Me, Messerschmitt
3033ME, Maine (postal symbol), Mechanical engineer[ing],Medical examiner,Middle East, Middle East Airlines (IATA code), Memory Effect,Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
3034MEA, Maine Educational Assessment,Middle East Airlines,Millennium Ecosystem Assessment,Minimum en route altitude,Mono-ethanol Amine,Multilateral Environmental Agreement
3035MEAC, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (ME-ac)
3036MEC- Maine Central Railroad,Manta, Ecuador (IATA location identifier), Model European Council,Mountain East Conference,Mountain Equipment Co-op
3037MECC, Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (later Corporation, dissolved 1999)
3038MECCA, Milwaukee Exposition Convention Center and Arena, a former name for the sports venue now known as UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena
3039MECO, Main engine cutoff (NASA code for point in Space Shuttle assent when three main engines are shut down prior to External Tank (ET) separation)
3040MEDEVAC, Medical evacuation
3041MEDLI, Mars Science Laboratory Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrumentation, Medical & Scientific Libraries of Long Island, Model for Effluent Disposal using Land Irrigation
3042MEDS, Mission Essential Data Set
3043MEF, U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force,Minimum essential facility,Mission essential force
3044MEG, MagnetoEncephaloGraphy
3045MEI, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
3046MEK, Magyar Elektronikus Konyvtar,Message encryption key,Methyl ethyl ketone, Mujahideen al-Khalq
3047MEL, Maya Embedded Language,Michigan Electronic Library
3048MELT, Metallic Line/Loop Test (ing)
3049MEM, Message Exchange Mechanism, Microelectromechanical
3050MEMS, Microelectromechanical System
3051MEO, Medium earth orbit,Most efficient organization
3052MER, Mars Exploration Rover
3053MERL, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
3054MES, Marconi Electronic Systems,Medium Edison screw
3055MESSENGER, MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging
3056MET, Meteorological, Middle European Time
3057METAR, [Meteorological] Aviation Routine weather report
3058METOC, Meteorological and Oceanographic
3059MEU, U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit,Maximum Expected Utility
3060MeV, Megaelectronvolt
3061MEV, Medical Evacuation Vehicle,Musica Elettronica Viva
3062MEX, Mexico (ISO 3166 trigram)
3063MEZ, Missile Engagement Zone
3064MES, Manufacturing Execution Systems
3065mF, Millifarad
3066MF, Mayotte (FIPS 10-4 territory code),Megafarad
3067MFSB, Mother, Father, Sister, Brother (1970s Philadelphia studio musicians collective)
3068mg, Malagasy language (ISO 639-1 code),Milligram
3069Mg, Magnesium,Megagram
3070MG, Machine Gun, Madagascar (ISO 3166 digram), Major General, Mongolia (FIPS 10-4 country code), Morris Garage
3071MGA, Malagasy ariary (ISO 4217 currency code)
3072MGB, Medium Girder Bridge, Motor Gun Boat
3073MGM, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Montgomery, Alabama (Airport Code)
3074MGPAM,My Gym Partner's a Monkey
3075MGS, Mobile Gun System
3076mh, Marshallese language (ISO 639-1 code)
3077mH, Millihenry
3078MH, Marshall Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram),Megahenry,Montserrat (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
3079MHC, Major Histocompatibility Complex
3080MHHW, Mean Higher High Water (nautical charts)
3081MHL, Marshall Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
3082MHLW, Mean Higher Low Water (nautical charts)
3083MHRA, (UK) Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
3084MHW, Mean High Water (nautical charts)
3085MHWN, Mean High Water Neaps (nautical charts)
3086MHWS, Mean High Water Springs (nautical charts)
3087MHz, Megahertz
3088mi, Māori language (ISO 639-1 code)
3089Mi, Mebi
3090MI- Malawi (FIPS 10-4 country code),Michigan (postal symbol),Midway Islands (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1986), Military Intelligence
3091MIA, Missing In Action
3092MIAA- Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association,Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association,Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association,Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
3093MIB- Men In Black,Mint In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
3094MIC, Military Industrial Complex
3095MICLIC, Mine Clearing Line Charge
3096MICOM, Missile Command
3097MICV, Mechanised Infantry Combat Vehicle
3098MID, Midway Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
3099MIDI, Musical Instrument Digital Interface
3100MIDAS, Man-machine Integration Design and Analysis System
3101MIDS, Multi-Function Information Distribution System
3102MIFC, Military Industrial Financial Complex
3103MIFG, Shallow Fog (METAR Code)
3104MIFPC, Military Industrial Financial Pharmaceutical Complex
3105MIKE, Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants
3106MIL, Man-In-the-Loop
3107MILC, Mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera
3108MILES, Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (live combat simulation)
3109MILF- Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Mother I'd Like to Fuck
3110MILSATCOM, Military Satellite Communications
3111MILSTRIP, Military Standard Requisitioning and Issue Procedure DLMSO MILSTRIP Manual
3112MIMAROPA, Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan (a region in the Philippines)
3113MIMOSA, MIcroMeasurements Of Satellite Acceleration
3114MIMPT, Member of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
3115MIP- Multilateral Interoperability Programme,Multiple Identity Poster
3116MIPC, Military Industrial Pharmaceutical Complex
3117MIRA, MILAN Infra-Red Acquisition (thermal sight)
3118MIRV, Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle
3119MIS- Management Information Systems,Museum Information System
3120MISREP, Mission Report
3121MISSI, Multilevel Information System Security Initiative
3122MIT- Massachusetts Institute of Technology,methylisothiazoline,Milli Istihbarad Teskilati (Intelligence service of Turkey)
3123MITL, Man-In-The-Loop
3124MITS,see entry
3125mJ, Millijoule
3126MJ- Megajoule, Michael Jordan
3127MJD, Modified Julian Day
3128MJP, Military Judgement Panel
3129mk, Macedonian language (ISO 639-1 code)
3130mK, Millikelvin
3131MK- Air Mauritius (IATA code),Macedonia (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code), Mandalskameratene (Norwegian football club), Megakelvin, Milton Keynes,Missionary Kids,Mortal Kombat (1992 video game),Mortal Kombat (2011 video game)
3132mkd, Macedonian language (ISO 639-2 code)
3133MKD- Macedonian denar (ISO 4217 currency code),Republic of Macedonia (ISO 3166 trigram)
3134MKG, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (American basketball player)
3135MKS- Metre-Kilogram-Second (system of units), MKS Inc. software company
3136MKSA, Metre-Kilogram-Second-Ampere (system of units)
3137MKT- Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (1865-1989),Mortal Kombat Trilogy,ML[edit]
3138ml, Malayalam language (ISO 639-1 code)
3139mL, Millilitre
3140ML- Mali (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram), Maximum Likelihood, Megalitre
3141MLA- Martial Law Administration of Bangladesh,Master of Landscape Architecture,Medical Library Association,Member of Legislative Assembly,Modern Language Association,Mutual legal assistance treaty,Myelosis Leucemica Acuta
3142MLB, Major League Baseball
3143MLC, Member of the Legislative Council (in India)
3144MLE, Maximum likelihood estimation
3145mlg, Malagasy language (ISO 639-2 code)
3146MLHW, Mean Lower High Water (nautical charts)
3147MLI, Mali (ISO 3166 trigram)
3148MLK, Martin Luther King, Jr.
3149MLL, Major League Lacrosse
3150MLLW, Mean Lower Low Water (nautical charts)
3151MLP,My Little Pony
3152MLRS, Multiple-Launch Rocket System
3153MLS- Major League Soccer,Multiple Listing Service
3154MLSE- Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (owner of several Toronto-based sports teams),Maximum likelihood sequence estimation
3155MLSR, Missing, Lost or Stolen Report
3156mlt, Maltese language (ISO 639-2 code)
3157MLT, Malta (ISO 3166 trigram)
3158MLVW, Medium Logistics Vehicle, Wheeled
3159MLW, Mean Low Water (nautical charts)
3160MLWN, Mean Low Water Neaps (nautical charts)
3161MLWS, Mean Low Water Springs (nautical charts)
3162mm, Millimetre
3163Mm, Megametre
3164MM, Military Medal, Myanmar (ISO 3166 digram),Two Thousand (in Roman numerals)
3165MMA, Mixed martial arts,Moving Mechanical Assembly
3166MMC, Machinist's Mate, Chief (USN rating), Materiel Management Centre
3167MMCM, Machinist's Mate, Master Chief (USN rating), Magnetic Mine Counter Measure
3168MMCS, Machinist's Mate, Senior Chief (USN rating)
3169MMEV, Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle
3170MMI, Man-Machine Interface
3171MMI, McLean Meditation Institute
3172MMIC, Mindfulness & Meditation Instructor, Certified
3173MMIC, McLean Meditation Institute Certified
3174MMI, Magical MonkeyZ Inc.
3175MMK, Burmese kyat (ISO 4217 currency code)
3176MMO, Massively Multiplayer Online (computer game)
3177MMOR, Master of Management in Operations Research
3178MMORPG, Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
3179MMPR,Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
3180MMR, Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine, Myanmar (ISO 3166 trigram)
3181MMS, Multimission Modular Spacecraft
3182MMU, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manned Manoeuvring Unit
3183mn, Mongolian language (ISO 639-1 code)
3184mN, Millinewton
3185Mn, Manganese
3186MN, Meganewton,Minnesota (postal symbol),Monaco (FIPS 10-4 country code),Mongolia (ISO 3166 digram)
3187MNB, Multinational Brigade
3188MND, Motor Neurone Disease, Multinational Division
3189MNE, Montenegro (ISO 3166 trigram)
3190MNG, Multiple-image Network Graphics, Mongolia (ISO 3166 trigram)
3191MNMF, Multi-National Maritime Force
3192MNP, Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
3193MNS, Mission Needs Statement
3194MNT, Molecular nanotechnology, Mongolian tugrik (ISO 4217 currency code)
3195mo, Moldovan language (ISO 639-1 code)
3196Mo, Molybdenum
3197MOA,Museum of Art (Brigham Young University)
3198MOAB, Massive Ordnance Air Blast (official),Mother Of All Bombs (slang)
3199MOB, Man Over Board,Marching Owl Band,Movable Object Block
3200MOC, Macedonian Orthodox Church,Measure Of Capability,Mission Operations Centre,My Own Creation (Lego)
3201MOCAS, Mechanization Of Contract Administration Services
3202MoD, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) and various other countries
3203MOD, Magneto-optical disc,Masters of Deception,Minimum Object Distance,Multiple Organ Dysfunction
3204modem, Modulator-Demodulator
3205ModSAF, Modular Semi-Automated Forces (military simulation)
3206Moe, Marvel of entertainment
3207MOE, Measure Of Effectiveness
3208MOF,(a/i) Ministry of Finance (Japan)
3209MOFA,(a/i) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)
3210MOH,(a/i) Medal of Honor,Music On Hold
3211MOID, Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance
3212MOJWA, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa
3213mol, Moldovan language (ISO 639-2 code),mole (unit)
3214MOLO, Mobile Other Licensed Operator (UK)
3215MoM, Multiple of the median
3216MOM, Message Oriented Middleware
3217MOM, Master's Degree in Oriental medicine
3218MoMA, Museum of Modern Art (NYC)
3219mon, Mongolian language (ISO 639-2 code)
3220MOND, Modified Newtonian Dynamics
3221MOO, Measure Of Outcome
3222MOP, Macau pataca (ISO 4217 currency code), Measure Of Performance
3223MOPE, Ministry of Population and Environment (Nepal),Most Oppressed People Ever (politics)
3224MOPP,(i/a) Mission-Oriented Protective Posture
3225MORP, Meteorite Observation and Recovery Project
3226MORS, Military Operations Research Society
3227MOS, Military Occupational Specialty, Mit Out Sound / Motor Only Sync, Mobile Object System,Model Output Statistics,Multiplayer Online Services, Mean Opinion Score
3228MOSFET, Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
3229MOSS, MObile Submarine Simulator, Moving Object Support System
3230MOT, Ministry of Transport (UK)
3231MOTA, Member of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
3232MOTESS, Moving Object and Transient Event Search System
3233MOTO, Mail Order / Telephone Order,Master of the obvious
3234MOU, Memorandum Of Understanding
3235MOUT, Military Operations in Urban[ized] Terrain
3236MOVES, Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation Institute
3237MOW, Maintenance of way (also MW)
3238MOZ, Mozambique (ISO 3166 trigram)
3239MP, Magic points, Mauritius (FIPS 10-4 country code), Member of Parliament,Military Police,Missouri Pacific, Northern Mariana Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
3240mPa, Millipascal
3241MPa, Megapascal
3242MPA, Maritime Patrol Aircraft,Master of Public Administration
3243MPAA, Motion Picture Association of America
3244MPC, Minor Planet Center,Minor Planet Circular
3245MPC, Military Payment Certificate
3246MPEC, Minor Planet Electronic Circular
3247MPEG, Motion Pictures (Coding) Experts Group
3248MPEV, Multi-Purpose Engineering Vehicle
3249MPF, Maritime Prepositioning Force
3250MPFC, Medial PreFrontal Cortex
3251MPG, Miles Per Gallon
3252MPMC, Medial PreMotor Cortex
3253MPSI, Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland
3254MPSoC, MultiProcessor System-on-Chip
3255MPSRON, Maritime Propositioning Ship Squadron
3256MQ, Martinique (ISO 3166 digram),Midway Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
3257mr, Marathi language (ISO 639-1 code)
3258MR, Mauritania (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
3259MRAV, Multi-Role Armoured Vehicle
3260MRBM, Medium Range Ballistic Missile
3261MRC, Maintenance Requirements Card
3262MRD, Motorized Rifle Division
3263MRE, Meal y to Eat (U.S. military rations)
3264MRGW, Medium-Range Guided Weapon
3265mri, Māori language (ISO 639-2 code)
3266MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
3267MRL, Multiple Rocket Launcher
3268MRO- Maintenance, Repair and Operating,Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mauritanian ouguiya (ISO 4217 currency code)
3269MRPharmS, Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Great Britain)
3270MRR- Maximum Rock and Roll,Minimum-Risk Route,My Restaurant Rules
3271MRS, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
3272MRSA, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
3273MRT- Mass Rapid Transit — used as either an official or unofficial name for metro systems in Singapore, Kaoshiung, Bangkok, Taipei, Chennai, and Delhi, Mauritania (ISO 3166 trigram)
3274MRTFB, U.S. Major Range and Test Facility Base
3275ms- Malay language (ISO 639-1 code),Millisecond
3276mS, Millisiemens
3277Ms, Megasecond
3278msa, Malay language (ISO 639-2 code)
3279MSB- Main Support Battalion,Most Significant Bit (or Byte)
3280MSD, Minimum Safe Distance
3281MSDB, Multi Source Data Base
3282MSDE- Maryland State Department of Education, Microsoft Data[base] Engine,Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine, Military Scenario Development Environment,Mission Simulation Dynamic Engine
3283MSDL, Military Scenario Definition Language
3284MSE, Multiple Subscriber Element
3285MSG- MonoSodium Glutamate,Madison Square Garden (either the 1879, 1890, 1925, or current versions of the venue)
3286MSH- Medium Support Helicopter,Mount Saint Helens
3287MSI- Micro-Star International, Multispectral imagery
3288MSIE- Microsoft Internet Explorer,Master of Science in Industrial Engineering
3289MSL- Mars Science Laboratory,Mean Sea Level, Missile
3290MSLP, Mean Sea Level Pressure
3291MSM- Mainstream media, Men who have sex with men,Mount St Mary's School
3292MSN- Microsoft Network,Master of Science in Nursing
3293MSNBC, Microsoft National Broadcasting Company Cable news channel (see also msnbc.com)
3294MSO, Multiple System Operator
3295MSPA- Migrant and Seasonal worker Protection Act, MS Paint Adventures
3296MSPB, Merit Systems Protection Board
3297MSR- Main Supply Route,Module Service Record, Montserrat (ISO 3166 trigram), Motor Schlepp Regulung,Mountain Safety Research (outdoor supplies manufacturer)
3298MSSA, Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
3299MST- Madison Symmetric Torus,Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7 hours),MST3K or MST3k, Mystery Science Theater 3000
3300MSU- Michigan State University,Montana State University,Mountain State University,Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia, a.k.a. MGU),MT[edit]
3301mt, Maltese language (ISO 639-1 code)
3302mT, Millitesla
3303Mt, Meitnerium
3304MT- Malta (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Megatesla,Montana (postal symbol), Motor Transport (military)
3305MTA- Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Boston) (now Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority),Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York)
3306MTBF, Mean time between failures
3307MtF, Male-to-female transsexual
3308MTF- Magnetized target fusion,Medical Treatment Facility,Message Text Format,Modulation transfer function (optics)
3309MTG, Magic: The Gathering
3310MTL- Maltese lira (ISO 4217 currency code), Mean Tide Level (nautical charts)* MTM, Methods-Time Measurement
3311MTP- Maritime Tactical Publication,Materiel Transfer Plan,Mission Training Plan
3312MTQ, Martinique (ISO 3166 trigram)
3313MTR- Main and Tail Rotor (helicopter type),Mass Transit Railway (Hong Kong metro system),Military-Technological Revolution
3314MTS- Maintenance Training System,Manitoba Telecom Services,Michigan Terminal/Timesharing System,Movement Tracking System,Multichannel television sound,Multi-Technical Services
3315MTT, Methylthiazol tetrazolium (assay)
3316MTV- MainosTeleVisio (Finnish commercial TV company),Music TeleVision
3317MTVL, Mobile Tracked Vehicle, Light
3318MTWS, MAGTF Tactical Warfare System
3319MU, Mauritius (ISO 3166 digram),Oman (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Muscat)
3320MUA, Meritorious Unit Award,Military Utility Assessment
3321MUR, Mauritius rupee (ISO 4217 currency code)
3322MUS, Mauritius (ISO 3166 trigram)
3323mV, Millivolt
3324MV, Maldives (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram),Megavolt, Motor Vehicle,Motor Vessel
3325MVC, Missouri Valley Conference
3326MVFC, Missouri Valley Football Conference
3327MVNO, Mobile virtual network operator
3328MVR, Maldivian rufiyaa (ISO 4217 currency code)
3329mW, Milliwatt
3330MW- Maintenance of way (also MOW), Malawi (ISO 3166 digram), Medium Wave (radio), Megawatt, Mountain West (Conference) (formal initialism since July 2011)
3331MWESH, Machismo Wizards Extended SHelter (operating system)
3332MWI, Malawi (ISO 3166 trigram)
3333MWK, Malawian kwacha (ISO 4217 currency code)
3334MWOA, Mount Wilson Observatory Association
3335MWR, Morale, Welfare, and Recreation
3336MWTB, Mounted Warfare Test Bed
3337MX, Mail Exchange, Mexico (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram), Missile eXperimental
3338MXN, Mexican peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
3339my, Burmese language (ISO 639-1 code)
3340MY, Malaysia (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
3341mya, Burmese language (ISO 639-2 code), million years ago
3342MYOB, Mind Your Own Business
3343MYR, Malaysian ringgit (ISO 4217 currency code)
3344MYS, Malaysia (ISO 3166 trigram)
3345MYT, Mayotte (ISO 3166 trigram)
3346MZ, Mach-Zehnder (interferometer), Magnetic Azimuth, Move, Zig (Zero Wing), Mozambique (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
3347MZN, Mozambique metical (ISO 4217 currency code)
3348n, Nano
3349N, Newton,Nitrogen,North
3350N3F, National Fantasy Fan Federation
3351na, Nauruan language (ISO 639-1 code)
3352nA, Nanoampere
3353Na, Sodium (Latin Natrium)
3354NA, Namibia (ISO 3166 digram), Narcotics Anonymous, National Archives,Negative Acknowledge
3355NAA, N-Acetylaspartate
3356NAAD, North American Air Defense
3357NAAFI, Navy, Army and Air Force Institute (UK), No Ambition And Fuckall Interest (RSA army slang)
3358NAAK, Mark I NAAK, Nerve Agent Antidote Kit
3359NAAQS, National Ambient Air Quality Standards
3360NAAWS, NATO Anti-Air Warfare System
3361NAC,(i/a) National Agency Check,U.S. Naval Avionics Center,U.S. Navy Advanced Concepts,North Atlantic Council,Northern Area Command
3362NACA, (U.S.) National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1915-1958, became NASA)
3363NACC, North Atlantic Cooperation Council
3364NACISA, NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency
3365NACMA, NATO Air Command and Control System Management Agency
3366NACRA, North America Caribbean Rugby Association (more specifically rugby union)
3367NAD, Namibian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
3368NAEC, U.S. Naval Air Engineering Center
3369NAF, NATO Architecture Framework, Naval Air Facility
3370NAFLD, NonAlcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
3371NAFO, Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
3372NAFERA, Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act
3373NAFTA, North American Free Trade Agreement
3374NAGPRA, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
3375NAI, Named Area of Interest, Network Access Identifier
3376NAICS, North American Industry Classification System
3377NAIL, Neurotics Anonymous
3378NAILS, National Airspace Integrated Logistics System
3379NAIRU, Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment
3380NAK, Negative Acknowledge
3381NAM, Namibia (ISO 3166 trigram)
3382NAMBLA, North American Man-Boy Love Association
3383NAMRL, Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory
3384NaN, Not A Number (computing)
3385NAO, UK National Audit Office
3386NAPS, Navy Acquisition Procedures Supplement
3387NARA, (U.S.) National Archives and Records Administration
3388NARAL, National Abortion Rights Action League
3389NARDAC, Naval Regional Data Automation Center
3390NARDIC, U.S. Navy Acquisition Research and Development Information Center
3391NARPV, National Association for Remotely Piloted Vehicles
3392NAS, National Academy of Sciences,National Air Space,National Audubon Society,Naval Air Station,New Attack Submarine
3393NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
3394NASCAR, National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
3395NASDAQ, National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
3396NASED, National Association of State Election Directors [1][2]
3397NASH, Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
3398NASP, National Aerospace Plane
3399NASS, National Association of Secretaries of State [3]
3400NatGeo, National Geographic
3401NATO, National Association of Theatre Owners,North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
3402nau, Nauruan language (ISO 639-2 code)
3403NaUKMA, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
3404nav, Navajo language (ISO 639-2 code)
3405NAV, Navigation[al]
3406NAVCAMS, Naval Communications Area Master Station
3407NAVCC, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
3408NAVCENT, Naval Forces U.S. Central Command
3409NAVDAC, Naval Data Automation Command
3410NAVEUR, Naval Forces U.S. European Command
3411NAVFE, U.S. Naval Forces, Far East
3412NAVFOR, Naval Force
3413NAVMACS, Naval Modular Automatic Communication Subsystem
3414NAVNET, Navy Network
3415NAVS, Non-Cooperative Airborne Vector Scoring
3416NAVSAT, Navigation Satellite
3417NAVSPACECOM, U.S. Navy Space Command
3418NAVSPASUR, U.S. Naval Space Surveillance System
3419NAVSTAR, Navigation Satellite Timing And Ranging
3420NAVTACNET, Navy Tactical Network
3421NAWC, U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center
3422nb, Norwegian Bokmål language (ISO 639-1 code)
3423Nb, Niobium
3424NBA, National Basketball Association
3425NBC, National Broadcasting Corporation,Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical
3426NBCRS, NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) Reconnaissance System
3427NBIC, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, Cognitive Science
3428nbl, Southern Ndebele language (ISO 639-2 code)
3429NBL, National Basketball League (Australia)
3430NBT, Nitroblue tetrazolium (assay)
3431nC, Nanocoulomb
3432NC- Network Computer, New Caledonia (ISO 3166 digram), Node Centre,Non-Consensual,Normally Closed, North Carolina (postal symbol)
3433NCA, National Command Authority
3434NCAR, U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research
3435NCB, National Codification Bureau
3436NCCAM, U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
3437NCCUSL, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (U.S.)
3438NCDDR, U.S. National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research
3439NCES- U.S. National Center for Education Statistics,Net-Centric Enterprise Services
3440NCI, U.S. National Cancer Institute
3441NCIS- National Criminal Intelligence Service (British),Naval Criminal Investigative Service (U.S. Navy; see also NCIS, a U.S. TV series based on this unit)
3442NCL, New Caledonia (ISO 3166 trigram)
3443NCLR, National Council of La Raza
3444NCMO, No Commitment Make Out
3445NCND- Non Circumvention & Non Disclosure, Neither Confirm Nor Deny, New Concept New Design
3446NCO, Non-Commissioned Officer
3447NCP, Net Contracted Purchases
3448NCR, National Cash Register Co.
3449NCTR, Non-Co-operative Target Recognition
3450NCW, Network Centric Warfare
3451nd, Northern Ndebele language (ISO 639-1 code)
3452Nd, Neodymium
3453ND- Non-Disclosure, North Dakota (postal symbol)
3454NDAA, U.S. National Defense Authorization Act
3455NDBP, Non-Departmental Public Body (Scotland)
3456NDCC, New Directions Counseling Center (Concord, California)
3457nde, Northern Ndebele language (ISO 639-2 code)
3458ndo, Ndonga language (ISO 639-2 code)
3459NDP, New Democratic Party (Canada)
3460NDS,Nintendo DS
3461NDU, National Defense University (Washington, DC)
3462ne, Nepali language (ISO 639-1 code)
3463Ne, Neon
3464NE- Nebraska (postal symbol),Niger (ISO 3166 digram), North-East
3465NEA- National Education Association (U.S. labor union),Near-Earth Asteroid,Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD)
3466NEAT-Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking,,National Emergency Access Target (Au Health)
3467NED, Netherlands (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
3468NECTEC, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Thailand)
3469NEI, National Eye Institute,Not Enough Information,Nuclear Energy Institute
3470NEMS, National Energy Modeling System (USDOE-EIA)
3471NEO- Near-Earth Object,Non-combatant Evacuation Operations
3472nep, Nepali language (ISO 639-2 code)
3473NEPA, National Environmental Policy Act
3474NER, Niger (ISO 3166 trigram)
3475NERICA, New Rice for Africa
3476NESDIS, National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service
3477NESP, NSA/CSS Enterprise Standards Program
3478NET, National Educational Television
3479NETCU, (UK) National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit
3480NETL, (US) National Energy Technology Laboratory
3481NETWARS, Network Warfare Simulation
3482NEWS- Navy Electronic Warfare Simulator,North, East, West, South
3483NEX, Navy EXchange
3484nF, Nanofarad
3485NF, Norfolk Island (ISO 3166 digram)
3486NFA- (U.S.) National Firearms Act (often used to refer to the guns and accessories regulated under this law),No-Fire Area
3487NFC- National Football Conference,Near field communication
3488NFER, National Foundation for Educational Research
3489NFG, No Fucking Good
3490NFHS, National Federation of State High School Associations
3491NFI, Not F****** Interested
3492NFK, Norfolk Island (ISO 3166 trigram)
3493NFL- National Football League,No-Fire Line
3494Nfld, Newfoundland
3495NFPA, National Fluid Power Association (United States)
3496NFT, No Further Text
3497ng, Nanogram,Ndonga language (ISO 639-1 code)
3498NG- Natural Gas,Next Generation, Niger (FIPS 10-4 country code),Nigeria (ISO 3166 digram)
3499NGA- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Nigeria (ISO 3166 trigram)
3500NGH,Northern General Hospital
3501NGATS, New Generation Army Targetry System
3502NGN, Nigerian naira (ISO 4217 currency code)
3503NGO, non-governmental organization
3504NGR, Nigeria (IOC trigram, but not ISO 3166 or FIFA)
3505NGS, Naval Gunfire Support
3506nH, Nanohenry
3507NH, New Hampshire (postal symbol),New Hebrides (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1980),Vanuatu (FIPS 10-4 country code; from New Hebrides)
3508NHANES, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
3509NHB, New Hebrides (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)
3510NHB, No Holds Barred radio (Link)
3511NHL, National Hockey League
3512NHO, Næringslivets Hovedorganisasjon (Confederation of Norwegian Enterprises, a Norwegian employers' organisation)
3513NHRA, National Hot Rod Association
3514NHS, National Health Service (UK)
3515Ni, Nickel
3516NI- Nicaragua (ISO 3166 digram),Nigeria (FIPS 10-4 country code)
3517NIAAA, U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
3518NIAID, National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease
3519NIAG, NATO Industrial Advisory Group
3520NIAMD, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases
3521NIB, New In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
3522NIBP, Non-invasive blood pressure monitor
3523NIC- Network Interface Card, Nicaragua (ISO 3166 trigram)
3524NicA, Nicotine Anonymous
3525NICAP, National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena
3526NICE, UK. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
3527NICHD,National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [4]
3528NICP, National Inventory Control Point
3529NIDDK, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
3530NIDRR, National Institute on Disability Research and Rehabilitation
3531NIEHS, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
3532NIG, Niger (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
3533NIH- National Institutes of Health,Not Invented Here
3534NIIN, National Item Identification Number
3535NIMA, National Imagery and Mapping Agency (became NGA)
3536NIMBY, Not In My Back Yard (See NOME)
3537NIMG, Not In My Generation
3538NIMH- National Institute of Medical Herbalists,National Institute of Mental Health
3539NIN, Nine Inch Nails (band)
3540NIO, Nicaraguayan cordoba oro (ISO 4217 currency code)
3541NIPR, National Institute of Polar Research (Japan)
3542NIR, Northern Ireland (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram)
3543NISAC, U.S. National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center
3544NISCAP, NSA Information System Certification and Accreditation Program
3545NISER, National Institute of Science Education and Research
3546NIST,(a/i) National Institute of Standards and Technology
3547NIT- National Invitation Tournament (U.S. college basketball), National Institutes of Technology (India)
3548NITFS, National Imagery Transmission Format Standard
3549NIU, Niue (ISO 3166 trigram)
3550nJ, Nanojoule
3551NJ, New Jersey (postal symbol)
3552NJHS, National Junior Honor Society
3553NJPW, New Japan Pro Wrestling
3554nK, Nanokelvin
3555NKA,No Known Allergies
3556nl, Dutch language (ISO 639-1 code)
3557nL, Nanolitre
3558NL- Netherlands (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),Newfoundland and Labrador (postal symbol)
3559NLB, Non-Linear Battlefield
3560nld, Dutch language (ISO 639-2 code)
3561NLD, Netherlands (ISO 3166 trigram)
3562NLF, National Liberation Front (disambiguation)
3563NLL, National Lacrosse League
3564NLP- Natural Language Processing,Neuro-Linguistic Programming (pseudoscience)
3565NLW, Non-Lethal Weapon
3566nm, Nanometre
3567NM, New Mexico (postal symbol)
3568NMCI, Navy Marine Corps Intranet
3569NMCS, Not Mission Capable Supply (SM&R code)
3570NMD, U.S. National Missile Defense
3571NMN, No middle name
3572NMSG, NATO Modelling and Simulation Group
3573NMR, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
3574NMHNFG, Not Made Here, No Fucking Good
3575nn, Norwegian Nynorsk language (ISO 639-1 code)
3576nN, Nanonewton
3577NNE, North North-East
3578nno, Norwegian Nynorsk language (ISO 639-2 code)
3579NNSA, U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration
3580NNW, North North-West
3581no, Norwegian language (ISO 639-1 code)
3582No, Nobelium
3583NO- Nitric Oxide, Normally Open, Norway (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3584NOAA, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
3585NOAF, Norwegian Air Force
3586NOAO, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
3587nob, Norwegian Bokmål language (ISO 639-2 code)
3588NOC, UK. National Oceanography Centre
3589NODEF, NATO Oceanographic Data Exchange Format
3590NOK, Norwegian krone (ISO 4217 currency code)
3591NOLA, New Orleans, Louisiana (LA is the official postal code for Louisiana)
3592NOGI, New Orleans Grande Isle (award for diving)
3593NOLF, Navy OutLying Field
3594NOME,Not on Mars Either
3595NoMBO, Non-mine, Mine-like Bottom Object
3596NOME,Not on Mars Either (see NIMBY)
3597NOPA, National Office Products Alliance,National Office Products Association
3598nor, Norwegian language (ISO 639-2 code)
3599NOR, Norway (ISO 3166 trigram)
3600NORAD, North American Aerospace Defense Command
3601NORCECA, North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation
3602NORELPREF,No religious preference
3603NORTHAG, Northern Army Group
3604NOS- Network Operating System,New Old Stock (Internet auction/trading listings),Nitric Oxide Synthase (enzyme)
3605NOSA, NATO OSI Security Architecture
3606NOTAFLOF, No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds
3607NOTAM, Notice to Airmen
3608NOW, National Organization for Women
3609Np, Neap tide (nautical charts), Neptunium
3610NP, National Permit,A permit in India for trucks so they can go anywhere in the nation
3611NP, Nepal (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3612NPB, Nippon Professional Baseball
3613NPC, National Postgraduate Committee,National Provincial Championship (New Zealand rugby competition, now defunct),Navigation Planning Chart,Non-Player Character (role-playing games)
3614NPCS, Non-Passenger Coaching stock (in Railways)
3615NPD, Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (German)
3616NPDI, New Product Development and Introduction
3617NPG, Needline/Network Participation Group
3618NPH, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
3619NPL, National Priorities List, Nepal (ISO 3166 trigram)
3620NPOV, Neutral Point Of View
3621NPR, National Public Radio, Nepalese rupee (ISO 4217 currency code)
3622NQ, Dronning Maud Land (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1983)
3623NQOCD, Not Quite Our Class, Dear (or Darling). (Upper-class English slang)
3624NPO,nothing by mouth
3625nr, Southern Ndebele language (ISO 639-1 code)
3626NR, Nauru (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3627NRA, National Rifle Association
3628NRAO, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
3629NRC, National Research Council (U.S.),Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S.)
3630NRDC, (U.S.) Natural Resources Defense Council
3631NREL, U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
3632NRK, Norsk Rikskringkasting (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
3633NRMP, National Resident Matching Program (U.S. medicine)
3634NRO, U.S. National Reconnaissance Office
3635NRT, Near Real Time
3636NRTA, National Rat Terrier Association,National Retail Tenants Association,National Retired Teachers Association,Northwest Regional Transmission Association
3637NRU, Nauru (ISO 3166 trigram)
3638ns, Nanosecond
3639nS, Nanosiemens
3640NS- Norfolk Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark),Nova Scotia (postal symbol),Suriname (FIPS 10-4 country code)
3641NSA- U.S. National Security Agency,Naval Support Activity,No Strings Attached
3642NSABB, National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
3643NSAID, Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug
3644NSB, Norges Statsbaner (Norwegian State Railways)
3645NSC,National Security Council
3646NSDL, National Science Digital Library (US)
3647NSG, National System for Geospatial-Intelligence
3648NSN, National Stock Number
3649NSNA, National Student Nurses' Association
3650NSO, National Standardization Office (ABCA)
3651NSS, (U.S.) Naval Simulation System
3652NST, (UK) Nimrod Software Team
3653NSTAC, National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
3654NSW, New South Wales (postal symbol)
3655nT, Nanotesla
3656NT- 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)
3657NTC- National Training Center,Negative Temperature Coefficient (thermistor)
3658NTDS, Naval Tactical Data System
3659NTP, Network Time Protocol
3660NTR, Network Time Reference
3661NTRA, National Thoroughbred Racing Association
3662NTSB, National Transportation Safety Board
3663NTSC, National Television Standards Committee (colloquially, Never Twice the Same Color)
3664NTV, Non-Tactical Vehicle
3665NTY, (Internet Abbreviations:) Not Tested Yet; (Alternatively) No Thank You
3666NTZ, Iraq-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1993)
3667NU- Nicaragua (FIPS 10-4 country code),Niue (ISO 3166 digram),Nunavut (postal symbol)
3668NUL- Null character (ASCII code of control character),National Urban League
3669NUTS, Nuclear Utilization Target Selection
3670NUWC, U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center
3671nv, Navajo language (ISO 639-1 code)
3672nV, Nanovolt
3673NVEOL, Night Vision and Electro-Optics Laboratory
3674NVESD, CERDEC Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
3675NVG, Night Vision Goggles
3676NVL, Night Vision Laboratory
3677nW, Nanowatt
3678NW, North-West
3679NW, Nuclear Weapon
3680NWA, National Wrestling Alliance
3681NWF, National Wildlife Federation
3682NWFZ, Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
3683NWHN, U.S. National Women's Health Network
3684nWo, New World Order (see article for explanation of idiosyncratic capitalization)
3685NWOAHM, New Wave of American Heavy Metal
3686NWOBHM, New Wave of British Heavy Metal (sometimes pronounced /n.ˈwɒbm/ as if it were an acronym)
3687NWRA, National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association
3688NWSL, National Women's Soccer League (U.S.)
3689NWT, North-West Territories
3690NXA, 21st arcade game in the Pump It Up series
3691NXD, Native XML
3692NXE, New Xbox Experience
3693NXG, New Cross Gate station
3694NXL, National XBall League
3695NXN, Nike Cross Nationals
3696ny, Chichewa language (ISO 639-1 code)
3697NY, New York (postal symbol)
3698nya, Chichewa language (ISO 639-2 code)
3699NYHA, New York Heart Association
3700NYO, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
3701NYRA, National Youth Rights Association, New York Racing Association (horse racing)
3702NYSE, New York Stock Exchange
3703NZ, New Zealand (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
3704NZC, New Zealand Cricket
3705NZD, New Zealand dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
3706NZL, New Zealand (ISO 3166 trigram)
3707NzL,Noze looan (online/event listings)
3708NZOSS, New Zealand Open Source Society
3709NZRU, New Zealand Rugby Union
3710O, Oberst,Observer,Obstacle,Octal,Officer,Official,Oh,Operational,Operator,Oprah (magazine),Outstanding, Oxygen
3711OA, Operational Analysis, Overeaters Anonymous
3712OAC, On Approved Credit
3713OAP,Old Age Pensioner (UK)
3714OAS, Organization of American States
3715OARSI, Osteoarthritis Research Society International
3716OASIS, Objects and Agents for Information Systems and Simulation,Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
3717OASIS, Ontario Agencies Supporting Individuals with Special Needs
3718OASIS, Ontario Association of Sewage Industry Services
3719OASP, Operational Analysis Support Paper/Plan
3720OAU, Organization for African Unity
3721OB, Obedience,Obligation,Obligatory,Obsolete,Obstetrics, Ocean Beach (California),Off Break (cricket),Old Bryanstonian,Order of Battle,Outlet Box (electrical), Overbought (stock market), Oversight Board
3722OBE, Officer of the Order of the British Empire
3723OBJ, Objective (military parlance)
3724OBS, Observation/Observer,Obsolete,Obstacle, Off Balance Sheet,Optical Burst Switching (IEEE),Organic Brain Syndrome,Organization(al) Breakdown Structure
3725OBSS, Off Board Sensor Systems,Ordo Byantinus Sancti Sepulchri (Byzantine Order of the Holy Sepulchre),Orbiter Boom Sensor System (space shuttle),Origins Billion Star Survey
3726OBX, Outer Banks (North Carolina)
3727oc, Occitan language (ISO 639-1 code)
3728OC, Officer Commanding
3729OCA, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur,Offensive Counter-Air
3730OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
3731OCFS, Oracle Cluster File System
3732OCFS2, Oracle Cluster File System Release 2
3733oci, Occitan language (ISO 639-2 code)
3734OCIDS, Optical Combat Identification System
3735OCMCC, [2] Orchard County MCC
3736OCN, Oncology Certified Nurse
3737OCO, Oort Cloud Object
3738OCOKA, Observation, Cover and concealment, Obstacles, Key terrain, and Avenues of approach (mnemonic)
3739OCR, Optical Character Recognition
3740OCS,see entry
3741OD- Old Dragon,Ordnance Datum (nautical charts), Overdose
3742ODAS, OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey
3743ODB- Ol' Dirty Bastard (rapper), One Dirty B*tch/Broad/Babe (professional wrestler), Operational Data Base, Original David Baker (professional poker player; used to distinguish from another professional poker player of the same name), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
3744ODBC, Open DataBase Connectivity
3745ODI- Office for Disability Issues (UK government agency),One Day International (cricket),Open Data-Link Interface,Oracle Data Integrator,Overseas Development Institute (UK think tank),OE[edit]
3746OEA, (U.S.) Office of Economic Adjustment
3747OED, Oxford English Dictionary
3748OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (international)
3749OEG, Operation Exposure Guidance
3750OEIS, On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
3751OEM, Original Equipment Manufacturer
3752OFA, Occipital Face Area
3753OFDA, U.S Agency for International Development's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance
3754OGC, Open Geospatial Consortium
3755OGD, Other Government Department
3756OGO, Other Government Organization
3757OGX,OUARGLA,a petroleum state in the south of Algeria
3758OH, Ohio (postal symbol)
3759OHC, OverHead-Cam engine
3760OHHLA, Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive
3761OHIP, Ontario Health Insurance Plan
3762OHMS, On Her (or His) Majesty's Service (also written: O.H.M.S.)
3763OHP, Observatoire de Haute-Provence
3764OHSS, Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome
3765OIC, Officer In Charge
3766OIF, Operation Iraqi Freedom
3767OIOC, Oriental & India Office Collections (in the British Library)
3768oj, Anishinaabe language (Ojibwa) (ISO 639-1 code)
3769OJ, Orange Juice,O.J. Simpson
3770oji, Anishinaabe language (Ojibwa) (ISO 639-2 code)
3771OJT,On-the-Job Training
3772OKC, Oklahoma City
3773OLED, Organic Light-Emitting Diode
3774OLS, Operational Linescan System
3775om, Oromo language (ISO 639-1 code)
3776OM, Oman (ISO 3166 digram),Olympique de Marseille (French football club)
3777OMA, Open Mobile Alliance,Operations & Maintenance, Army
3778OMB, U.S. Office of Management and Budget,Ontario Municipal Board, Order of Mapungubwe in Bronze
3779OMD, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (1980s pop group)
3780OME, Osaka Mercantile Exchange
3781OMFG, Oh My Fucking God
3782OMG, Oh My God or Or My Gosh
3783OMN, Oman (ISO 3166 trigram)
3784OMNCS, U.S. Office of the Manager for the National Communications System
3785OMP, Order of Mapungubwe in Platinum
3786OMR, Omani rial (ISO 4217 currency code)
3787OMS, Order of Mapungubwe in Silver
3788OMT, Object Model Template
3789OMW, On My Way, Oh My Word
3790ON, Ontario (postal symbol)
3791Onna,Oniong, Nnung Ndem, and Awa, a Local Government Area in Nigeria
3792ONC, Orthopaedic Nurse Certified
3793ONG, Orthodontic National Group
3794ONI, (U.S.) Office of Naval Intelligence
3795ONS, Operational Needs Statement
3796OO, Object Oriented,Over & Out
3797OOO, Out Of the Office
3798OOAD, Object Oriented Analysis and Design
3799OOBE, Out-of-body experience
3800OOCL, Orient Overseas Container Line
3801OODA, Observation, Orientation, Decision, Action loop (a.k.a. Boyd's Loop)
3802OOMF, One Of My Followers
3803OOP, Object-Oriented Programming,Out Of Print
3804OOS, Occupational Overuse Syndrome,OneSAF Objective System,Open Operating System,Out Of Service
3805OOTW, Operations Other Than War
3806OP- 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
3807OPA, Other Procurement, Army
3808OPAC, Online Public Access Catalogue
3809OPCON, Operational control
3810OPCW, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
3811OPEC, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
3812OPFOR, Opposing force
3813OPI- Office of Primary Interest,Open Prepress Interface
3814OPINTEL, Operational Intelligence
3815OPLAN, Operation plan (also OpPlan)
3816OPORD, Operation order
3817OPP- Ontario Provincial Police,Operational Planning Process,Other People's Property/Pussy/Penis (song)
3818OPS- On-base plus slugging (baseball statistics), Operations
3819OPSEC- Operations security,Open Platform for Security
3820OPSI- Overwhelming post splenectomy infection,UK Office of Public Sector Information
3821OPTAR, Operational target
3822OPV, Offshore Patrol Vessel
3823OQ, 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)
3824or, Oriya language (ISO 639-1 code)
3825OR, 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
3826ORAU,(a/i) Oak Ridge Associated Universities
3827ORB,(a/i) Object Request Broker
3828ORBAT, Order of Battle
3829ORD, O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois (IATA Airport Code ORD)
3830ORD, Office of Research and Development,Operational Requirements Document
3831ORF, Operational iness Float
3832ori, Oriya language (ISO 639-2 code)
3833ORISE, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
3834orm, Oromo language (ISO 639-2 code)
3835ORNL, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3836ORR, 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
3837ORSA,Oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus,Operations Research Society of America
3838OS, Operating System
3839os, Ossetic language (ISO 639-1 code)
3840Os, Osmium
3841OSA, Order of St. Augustine
3842OSCE, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
3843OSD, U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense, On-screen Display
3844OSDL, Open Source Development Labs
3845OSE, Own Separate Entrance
3846OSERS, U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
3847OSETI, Optical SETI also Optical SETI
3848OSHA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration
3849OSI, Office of Strategic Influence,Ontario Swine Improvement,Open Source Initiative,Open Systems Interconnection
3850OSIA, (U.S.) On-Site Inspection Agency
3851OSL, Open Source License,Optically Stimulated Luminescence,Orbiting Solar Laboratory
3852OSIRIS- 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)
3853OSM, One Saturday Morning
3854OSOTPBOIAS, One Sec, On The Phone, Be Off In A Sec
3855OSPA, Operations Security Professional's Association site of OSPA
3856OSPA, Oregon School Psychologists Association [3]
3857OSRH, Oružane Snage Republike Hrvatske (en: Armed forces of the Republic of Croatia)
3858oss, Ossetic language (ISO 639-2 code)
3859OSS, Office of Strategic Services (1942-1945, forerunner of CIA)
3860OSU, Ohio State University,Oklahoma State University
3861OTA, Office of Technology Assessment,(a/i) Orthodontic Technicians Association
3862OTAC, Orthodontic Technicians Association Conference, Orthodontic Technicians Association Council
3863OTB, Off The Ball, Offtrack Betting, OneSAF Testbed (a descendant of ModSAF)
3864OTC, Over-The-Counter (drugs)
3865OTD, Off the derech (referring to an Orthodox Jew who has stopped practicing the tenets of his or her faith)
3866OTEA, (U.S. Army) Operational Test Evaluation Agency
3867OTI, Office of Transition Initiatives (United States Agency for International Development)
3868OTOH, On The Other Hand
3869OTS,Off the scale, sexually untouchable except for a lot of money.
3870OTSBH, Over The Shoulder Boulder Holder
3871OTW, On The Way
3872OTYBL, Over To You Blue Leader
3873OTYRL, Over To You Red Leader
3874OU, University of Oklahoma
3875OVC, Overcast (METAR Code), Ohio Valley Conference
3876OVV, Optically Visually Violent, or Optically Violently Variable,a type of quasar
3877OW, Old Wykehamist
3878OWN, Oprah Winfrey Network
3879OX, IATA code for Orient Thai Airlines
3880OXC, Optical cross-connect
3881OXF, IATA code for London Oxford Airport
3882OXM, Official Xbox Magazine
3883OXR, IATA code for Oxnard Airport
3884OXT, Oxytocin
3885OZ,(?) Australia
3886p, pico
3887P, Peta,Phosphorus
3888P2P, Peer-to-peer (networking)
3889pa, Punjabi language (ISO 639-1 code)
3890pA, picoampere
3891Pa- pascal,Protactinium
3892PA-(a/i) Pamela Anderson, Panama (ISO 3166 digram),Paraguay (FIPS 10-4 country code), Partial Agonist, Pennsylvania (postal symbol),petampere, PolyAmide (Nylon),Prince Albert piercing,Public Address (vocal amplification system),Public Affairs,PA 6, Nylon 6 (PolyAmide) (similarly for PA 11, 12, 46, 66, 610)
3893PAA, Position Area for Artillery
3894PAB, Panamanian balboa (ISO 4217 currency code)
3895PABX, Private Automated Branch eXchange (company phone system)
3896PAC- Pan Africanist Congress, Partial Solar Calibrator,Patriot Advanced Capabilities,Political action committee,(a/i) Primary Auditory Cortex
3897PACOM, (U.S.) Pacific Command
3898PADD- Personal Access Display Device (as seen in the Star Trek franchise),Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts, used for data collection in the U.S. petroleum industry
3899PADI, Professional Association of Diving Instructors
3900PAEK, PolyArylEtherKetone
3901PAFC, Plymouth Argyle Football Club
3902PAH, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
3903PAHO, Pan American Health Organization
3904PAI- PolyAmide Imide,Pre-Approval Inspection (pharma)
3905PAK, Pakistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
3906Pakistan, Punjab, Afghan states, Kashmir, sIndh, baluchiSTAN
3907PAL- Phase Alternating Line (TV standard), Philippine Airlines
3908PAM,(a/i) Precision Attack Missile
3909Pamida, Patrick, Michael, and David, sons of the department store chain's co-founder Jim Witherspoon
3910PAMELA- Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics, Pedestrian Accessibility and Movement Environment Laboratory
3911pan, Punjabi language (ISO 639-2 code)
3912PANS, Pretty Advanced/Awesome Network Services (cf. POTS)
3913PAPI, Precision Approach Path Indicator (aviation)
3914PAR, Paraguay (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
3915PARC, Palo Alto Research Center
3916PAROS, Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (treaty)
3917PARP, (NATO Partnership for Peace) Planning And Review Process
3918PARWIG, Power Augmented Ram Wing In Ground (aeroplane wing shape)
3919PAS,See entry
3920PASA, PolyAmide, Semi-Aromatic (Nylon)
3921PASGT, Personnel Armor System, Ground Troops
3922PASR, Personnel Accounting and Strength Reporting
3923PATH, Port Authority Trans-Hudson
3924PAWS- Phased Array Warning System,Progressive Animal Welfare Society
3925PAYD, Pay As You Drive
3926PAYE, Pay As You Earn
3927Pb, Lead (Latin Plumbum)
3928PB, PolyButylene
3929PBA- Philippine Basketball Association,Professional Bowlers Association
3930PBB, PolyBrominated Biphenyl
3931PBCK, Problem Between Chair and Keyboard (computer help desk in-joke)
3932PBD, PolyButaDiene
3933PBDE, PolyBrominated Diphenyl Ether
3934PBI, PolyBenzImidazole
3935PBN, PolyButylene Naphthalate
3936PBOH, Please Become Old History
3937PBR- Pabst Blue Ribbon (beer brand),Professional Bull Riders
3938PBS- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (Australia),Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),Public Broadcasting Services (Malta)
3939PBRT,may stand for: Physically Based Raytracing, an open source software rendering system for physically correct image synthesis.
3940PBT, PolyButylene Terephthalate
3941PBX, Private Branch eXchange (company phone system)
3942pC, picocoulomb
3943PCAS, Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
3944PCB,see entry
3945PCC- NATO Partnership Coordination Cell,Posterior Cingulate Cortex,Pre-Command Course,Presidents Conference Committee
3946PCCB, Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake
3947PCCIP, President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
3948PCE, PerChlorEthylene
3949PCI- U.S. Pacific Islands Trust Territory (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986), Peripheral Component Interconnect (computer bus)
3950PCIe, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (computer bus)
3951PCL, Passive Coherent Location
3952PCMCIA, Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (People Can't Memorise Computer-Industry Acronyms)
3953PCN, Pitcairn Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
3954PCP- phencyclidine,Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (formerly Pneumocystis carinii), Probabilistically Checkable Proof
3955PCPI,Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (AMA)
3956PCR, Polymerase chain reaction
3957PCSSD, Pulaski County Special School District
3958PCT- Pacific Crest Trail,Patent Cooperation Treaty
3959PCTE- Portable Common Tool Environment, Punjab College of Technical Education
3960PCZ, Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)
3961Pd, Palladium
3962PD, per diem (Latin: (calculated) by the day),Point of Departure,Police Department,Postal District,Potential Difference,Principal Deputy,Public Domain,Privatdozent
3963PD, Product Director—Example: CERDEC Product Director C4ISR and Network Modernization
3964PDA, Personal Digital Assistant,Predicted Drift Angle,Public Display of Affection,Push-Down Automaton
3965PDD, Past Due Date,Presidential Decision Directive
3966PDF, Panama[nian] Defense Forces (abolished 1990),Portable Document Format,Principal Direction of Fire
3967PDG, President Director General,Product Development Group
3968PDL, Pure Dumb Luck (Texan punk band)
3969PDN, Pull-Down Network
3970PDP, Programmable Data Processor,Performance Development Plan
3971PDQ, Pre-Defined Queries (Siebel packages),Pretty Damn Quick
3972PDRY, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (obsolete since 1990)
3973PDT, Pacific Daylight [Saving] Time (UTC-7 hours)
3974PDU, Police Dog Unit,Power Distribution Unit,Protocol Data Unit
3975PE,Professional Engineer
3976PE, Ice Pellets (old style METAR Code),Peru (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram), Physical Education,Premature Ejaculation, Prince Edward Island (postal code),Price to Earning ratio (used for equity shares),Plant Extract
3977PEBCAC, Problem Exists Between Chair and Computer (IT help desk in-joke)
3978PEBKAC, Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair (ditto)
3979PEEK, PolyEtherEtherKetone
3980PEET, Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy
3981PEI, Prince Edward Island,PolyEtherImide
3982PEK, PolyEtherKetone
3983PEN- Peruvian sol (ISO 4217 currency code), Poets, Essayists and Novelists, the original meaning of the initialism of the organization now known as PEN International,PolyEthylene Naphthalate
3984PEPFAR, President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief
3985PER, Peru (ISO 3166 trigram)
3986perl, usually lower case Practical Extraction and Report Language
3987PES, PolyEtherSulfone
3988PEST, UK Public Engagement with Science and Technology
3989PET,(a/i) Personal Electronic Transactor,Pierre Elliott Trudeau,Positron Emission Tomography (as in PET scan),PolyEthylene Terephthalate (plastic), Preliminary English Test
3990PETA,(a/i) pentaerythritol triacrylate,People Eating Tasty Animals,People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
3991PETE, PolyEthyleneTErephthalate
3992PETP, PolyEthyleneTerePhthalate
3993pF, picofarad
3994PF- French Polynesia (ISO 3166 digram),petafarad, Phenol Formaldehyde (resin),Power forward, a player position in Australian rules football, basketball, and ice hockey
3995PFD, Permanent Fund Dividend = personal flotation device
3996PFE, Permanent Forest Estate
3997PFO, Pissed, Fell Over (medical diagnosis in-joke)
3998PfP, Partnership for Peace
3999pg, picogram
4000Pg, petagram
4001PG -
4002PGCE, Postgraduate Certificate in Education
4003PGD, Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
4004PGENI, Pharmaco-Genetics for Every Nation Initiative
4005PGH, Pre-implantation Genetic Haplotyping
4006PGK, Papua New Guinea kina (ISO 4217 currency code)
4007PGM, Precision-Guided Munition
4008PGP, Pretty Good Privacy
4009pH, parts of hydrogen (acidity/alkalinity index),picohenry
4010PH, Passive Homing (missile guidance system), petahenry,Philippines (ISO 3166 digram), Probability of Hit,Public Health,Purple Heart
4011PHA, PolyHydroxyAlkanoate, Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
4012PHL, Philippines (ISO 3166 trigram)
4013PHQ,Patient Health Questionnaire
4014PHP, Philippine peso (ISO 4217 currency code), PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (originally Personal Home Page (Tools))
4015pi, Pāli language (ISO 639-1 code)
4016Pi, Pebi
4017PI, PolyImide,PolyIsoprene,Private Investigator
4018PIB, PolyIsoButylene
4019PIC, Person In Charge
4020PICNIC, Problem In Chair Not In Computer
4021PICS, Private Investment Capital Subscription
4022PID, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Plan Identification Number,Positive Identification,Procedural Identification, Procurement Identification Description
4023PIF,(a/i) Partners in Flight
4024PIG, Pipeline Inspection Gauge
4025PIM,(a/i) Parameterized Ionospheric Model,Path of Intended Motion,Pediatric Index of Mortality,Personal Information Manager/Management,Presence and Interworking Mobility,Processor-In-Memory,Program Integration Manager,Protocol Independent Multicast
4026PIN, Personal Identification Number
4027PINF, People In Need Foundation (Czech charitable organisation)
4028PIPA,(a/i) Program on International Policy Attitudes
4029PIR, Priority Intelligence Requirement
4030PIRA, Provisional Irish Republican Army
4031PIREPS, Pilot Reports
4032PITA, Pain In The Ass
4033pJ, picojoule
4034PJ, petajoule
4035PJHQ, Permanent Joint Headquarters
4036K, picokelvin
4037PKA, Previously Known As,Professionally Known As
4038PKE, Partnership of Kindermusik Educators [1] &[2] & [2]
4039PKI, Public Key Infrastructure (cryptography)
4040PKR, Pakistani rupee (ISO 4217 currency code)
4041PKU, Phenylketonuria
4042pl, Polish language (ISO 639-1 code)
4043pL, picolitre
4044PL, Ice Pellets (new style METAR Code), petalitre, Phase Line (Co-ordination Line), Poland (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4045PLAF,(a/i) People's Liberation Armed Forces,Pluggable look and feel,Product Line Architecture Framework
4046PLAID, Precision Location and Identification
4047PLB, Personal Locator Beacon
4048PLC, Public Limited Company (British)
4049PLCC, Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (electronics)
4050PLD, Probable Line of Deployment
4051PLEBS, People Lacking Everyday Basic Skills
4052PLF, Parachute Landing Fall
4053pli, Pāli language (ISO 639-2 code)
4054PLI, Position Location Information,Private Lands Initiative,Professional Liability Insurance
4055PLIF, Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence
4056PLL, Phase-Locked Loop (electronics)
4057PLM, Polarized Light Microscope/Microscopy
4058PLMBA, Phospholipid Bilayer Microarray
4059Pln, Platoon
4060PLN, Polish zloty (ISO 4217 currency code)
4061PLO, Palestine Liberation Organization
4062PLOKTA, Press Lots Of Keys To Abort
4063PLP, Platonic Life Partner
4064PLS, Palletized Loading System,Personal Locator System
4065PLUTO, Pipe Line Under The Ocean
4066PLW, Palau (ISO 3166 trigram)
4067pm, picometre
4068Pm, petametre,Promethium
4069PMC, Primary Motor Cortex
4070PMCS, Partial Mission Capable Supply (SM&R code),Power Management Control System,Professional Military Comptroller School
4071PME, Professional Military Education
4072PMI, Positive Material Identification
4073PMID, PubMed Identifier
4074PMMA, PolyMethylMethAcrylate
4075PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome
4076PMSC, NATO Political-Military Steering Committee on Partnership for Peace
4077PMSL, Piss Myself Laughing (Internet shorthand)
4078PMT,Premenstrual Tension (UK) (see Premenstrual Syndrome)
4079pN, piconewton
4080PN- petanewton,Pitcairn Islands (ISO 3166 diagram)
4081PNAC, Project for the New American Century
4082PNC- Palestinian National Council,Palmerston North City (cf. PNC, a New Zealand rapper from this city),Pittsburgh National Corporation, one of the two companies that merged into today's PNC Financial Services,Provident National Corporation, the other company that merged into PNC Financial Services
4083PNF, Pilot Not Flying (aviation)
4084PNG- Papua New Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram), Portable Network Graphics
4085PNP- Partido Nuevo Progresista,Plug 'N' Play/Pray,Positive Negative Positive
4086PNS, Pensacola, Florida (IATA airport code)
4087PNVS, Pilot Night Vision Sensor
4088Po, Polonium
4089PO, Post Office
4090PO, Purchase Order
4091POCD, Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction
4092pod, Plain Old Documentation
4093POD- Payable on Death (banking term, and the full name of American metal band P.O.D.),Point of divergence (alternate or counterfactual history),Port of Debarkation
4094POE, Perl Object Environment,(b) Port Of Embarkation (c) Polyol Ester (d) Power Over Ethernet
4095POETS, Portable Occultation, Eclipse, and Transit electronic-camera System
4096POFF, Plain Old Flat File
4097POG, Passionfruit, Orange and Guava
4098POGO, Project On Government Oversight
4099POI, Program Of Instruction
4100POK,(a/i) Plane Of Knowledge
4101pol, Polish language (ISO 639-2 code)
4102POL- Petroleum, Oils and Lubricants, Poland (ISO 3166 trigram)
4103POLAD, Political Advice
4104POM- Program Objective Memorandum,PolyOxyMethylene
4105POMDP, Partially observable Markov decision process
4106POP-(a/i) Point of Presence,Post Office Protocol,Progesterone Only Pill
4107por, Portuguese language (ISO 639-2 code)
4108POR- Portugal (FIFA and IOC trigram, but not ISO 3166), Proposed Operational Requirement
4109POS-(a/i) Point Of Sale terminal (retail industry transaction computers), Piece Of S**t
4110POSH, Port Outbound Starboard Home (alleged)
4111POSSLQ,Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
4112POT,(a/i) Plane Of Tranquility
4113POTS- Plain Old Telephone Service (cf. PANS),Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
4114POV, Point of view
4115POW, Prisoner of war
4116PPA- Parahippocampal Place Area,PolyPhthalAmide
4117PPASC, (U.S.) Plans and Program Analysis Support Center
4118PPCLI, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (regiment)
4119PPG- Pittsburgh Plate Glass (the original name of the company now known as PPG Industries),The Powerpuff Girls
4120PPLI, Precise Participant Location & Identification
4121ppm, Parts Per Million
4122PPM, Parts Per Million
4123PPM, Project Planning and Management
4124PPO, PolyPhenylene Oxide
4125PPP- Point-to-Point Protocol,Purchasing Power Parity
4126PPQ, Pulses Per Quarter (used in music programming, sequencers)
4127PPQN, Pulses Per Quarter Note (ditto)
4128PPQT, Pre-Production Qualification Test
4129PPS- post postscriptum,Precise/Precision Positioning Service (GPS),PolyPhenylene Sulfide
4130PPV, Pay-per-view
4131PQ- Province of Québec (obsolete postal code, replaced by QC), Parti Québécois,PR[edit]
4132Pr, Pastor or Priest
4133Pr, Praseodymium
4134PR- Public Relations, Puerto Rico (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
4135Prb, Presbyter
4136PRBO, Point Reyes Bird Observatory
4137PRC, People's Republic of China
4138PRD, CERDEC Product Realization Directorate
4139PRFG, Partial Fog (METAR Code)
4140PRI, Puerto Rico (ISO 3166 trigram)
4141PRK, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram)
4142PRM, Personnel iness Management
4143PRT- Portugal (ISO 3166 trigram), Provincial Reconstruction Team
4144PRY, Paraguay (ISO 3166 trigram)
4145ps- Pashto language (ISO 639-1 code),picosecond
4146pS, picosiemens
4147Ps, petasecond
4148PooS,Poo Sniffer (Internet shorthand)
4149PSA- Paralysis Society of America,Pharmaceutical Society of Australia,Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive,Production Services Association,Prostate Specific Antigen,Public Service Announcement,Public Service Association
4150PSC- Personal service corporation,Primary Somatosensory Cortex
4151PSE, Palestinian Territory, Occupied (ISO 3166 trigram)
4152PSG, Pacific Seabird Group
4153PSI, Pounds per square inch
4154PSI,(a/i) Portable Source Initiative
4155PSO- Peace Support Operations,Primary Standardisation Office (ABCA),Protocol Supporting Organization (of the ICANN)
4156PSS, Personnel System Support
4157PST, Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8 hours)
4158PSU, Pennsylvania State University
4159PsyOp, Psychological Operations
4160pt, Portuguese language (ISO 639-1 code)
4161pT, picotesla
4162Pt, Platinum
4163PT, petatesla, Physical Training (in the Army), Portugal (ISO 3166 digram)
4164PTA, Parent-Teacher Association
4165PTAL, Public Transport Accessibility Level
4166PTAN -
4167PTES, People's Trust for Endangered Species
4168PTFE, PolyTetraFluoroEthylene
4169PTI, Pardon the Interruption
4170PTL, Patrol, Primary Target Line
4171PTO, Patent and Trademark Office,Please Turn Over
4172PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
4173Pu, Plutonium
4174PU- Guinea-Bissau (FIPS 10-4 country code), Polyurethane, United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1986)
4175Pub, Publication
4176PUG,(a/i) PET Users Group
4177PUN,(a/i) Pull-Up Network
4178PUP,(a/i) Pull-Up Point
4179PUR, Puerto Rico (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
4180pus, Pashto language (ISO 639-2 code)
4181PUS, United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
4182pV, picovolt
4183PV, petavolt
4184PVC, Permanent Virtual Circuit,PolyVinyl Chloride,Premature Ventricular Contraction,Primary Visual Cortex
4185PvE, Player versus Environment
4186PvP, Player versus Player
4187PVR, Personal Video Recorder
4188PvZ, Plants vs. Zombies
4189pW, picowatt
4190PW- Palau (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
4191petawatt-
4192PWA, Pirates With Attitude
4193PWBA, Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration
4194PwC, PricewaterhouseCoopers (international accounting firm)
4195PWC, PieceWise Constant (describing a mathematical function)
4196PWL, PieceWise Linear (describing a mathematical function)
4197PWLC, PieceWise Linear and Concave/Convex (describing a mathematical function)
4198PWR, Pressurized Water Reactor
4199PWV, Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging, the original name for the South African province now known as Gauteng, and still used to refer to the metropolitan agglomeration at the core of the province
4200PX, Post eXchange
4201PY, Paraguay (ISO 3166 digram),Person-Year, Portsmouth yardstick
4202PYF, French Polynesia (ISO 3166 trigram)
4203PYG, Paraguayan guaraní (ISO 4217 currency code)
4204PYMWYMI, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
4205PZ, Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1980), Pickup Zone
4206Q1, First Quarter
4207Q2, Second Quarter
4208Q3, Third Quarter
4209Q4, Fourth Quarter
4210QA, Qatar (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
4211Qantas, Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services
4212QAR, Qatari rial (ISO 4217 currency code)
4213QAT, Qatar (ISO 3166 trigram)
4214QB, Quarterback (football)
4215QC, Quality Control, Québec (postal symbol), Queen's Counsel
4216QCA, Qualifications and Curriculum Authority,Quality Council of Alberta
4217QCD, Quantum ChromoDynamics
4218QDR, Quadrennial Defense Review
4219QEH, Queen Elizabeth's Hospital
4220QFE, Quoted For Emphasis, Local ground level atmospheric pressure (aeronautical Q code)
4221QK, Air Canada Jazz (IATA airline designator)
4222QLD, Queensland, (Australia) (postal symbol)
4223QM, Quality Management,Quantum Mechanics,Queen Mother
4224QNH, Regional mean sea level atmospheric pressure (aeronautical Q code)
4225QPR, Queens Park Rangers F.C. (English football team), Quality-Price Ratio (wine evaluation term)
4226QPS, Quark Publishing System
4227QR, Quake Rally,Qualitative Reasoning,Queensland Rail,Queen's Rangers,Quick Release,Quiet Riot, Qatar Airways (IATA airline designator)
4228QSCAT, Quick Scatterometer satellite
4229QSL, Québec Sign Language
4230QSO, Quasi-Stellar Object
4231QT, Quentin Tarantino,QuickTime,QuikTrip,QT (cute) Software
4232qu, Quechua language (ISO 639-1 code)
4233Quango, (British Commonwealth) QUasi Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation
4234Quasar, Quasi-stellar radio source
4235QUB,Queen's University Belfast
4236que, Quechua language (ISO 639-2 code)
4237QUIET, Q and U Imaging ExperimenT (Q and U are the Stokes parameters of the CMBR polarization)
4238QZ, Awair (IATA airline designator)
4239R, Reinforcing,Right, Röntgen, Restricted (movie rating)
4240R2I, Resistance to Interrogation
4241R3P, Rearm, Refuel, and Resupply Point
4242Ra, Radium
4243RA, Radio Australia
4244RA, Rain (METAR Code), Rear Area,Reinforced Alert,Republican Army,Right Ascension,Royal Artillery (UK),Royal Academy
4245RAA, Royal Automobile Association,South Australia, Rear Assembly Area
4246RAAF, Royal Australian Air Force
4247Rabobank, Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank (from the two banks that merged to form the modern company)
4248RAC, Royal Automobile Club (in the United Kingdom, renamed RAC plc in 2002)
4249RACK, Risk Aware Consensual Kink (SM phrase)
4250Racon, RAdar beaCON
4251RADA, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
4252Radar, Radio Detection And Ranging
4253RADB, Real America Database,Resource Assessment Database,Reunion Address DataBase,Rice Allelopathy Data Base,Routing Arbiter Database
4254RADb, Routing Assets Data Base
4255RadB, Rad51/Dmc1 homologous protein
4256RADC, Region Air Defence Commander
4257RAE, UK Royal Aircraft Establishment (-1991)
4258RAF, Red Army Faction,Royal Air Force
4259RAG, Raising and Giving,Rocket Antitank Grenade
4260RAGBRAI, Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa
4261RAM, Random Access Memory,Rolling Airframe Missile,Royal Air Maroc
4262Ramark, RAdar MARKer
4263RAOC, Rear Area Operation Centre
4264RAP,(a/i) Radio Access Point,Radiological Assistance Program (U.S. Department of Energy),Rear Area Protection,Recognised [Operating/Operational] Air Picture,Recurring Advance Payment,Relational Associative Processor,Reliable Acoustic Path,Rocket-Assisted Projectile,Rule Against Perpetuities
4265RARDE, UK Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (1962-1991)
4266RARE, Rapid Acquisition with Relaxation Enhancement (MRI technique)
4267RASC, Royal Army Service Corp,Former corps of British Army
4268RATELO, Radiotelephone Operator
4269Rb, Rubidium
4270RB, Running Back (football)
4271RBAR, Row By Agonizing Row,a derogatory way of describing a technique of scanning a set of records in a database to update or examine the contents of each one. This is the technique of last resort in most cases, since most database operations are optimized when using set based analysis instead of the RBAR method.
4272RBCI, Radio Based Combat Identification
4273RBI, Runs Batted In
4274RC,see entry
4275RCA- Radio Corporation of America,Root Cause Analysis,Royal Canadian Artillery,Royal City Avenue (famous entertainment zone in Thailand)
4276RCAF, Royal Canadian Air Force
4277RCC, Rescue Co-ordination Centre
4278RCCO, Royal Canadian College of Organists
4279RCHA, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (regiment)
4280RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
4281RCS- Radar Cross-Section,Reaction Control System,Revision Control System
4282RCZ, Rear Combat Zone
4283RD,Radio Disney
4284RDA- Research, Development, and Acquisition,Recommended Daily Allowance (Nutrition)
4285RDD, Radiological Dispersion Device
4286RDECOM, (U.S. Army) Research, Development and Engineering Command
4287RDM, Remotely Delivered/Deliverable Mine
4288RDO- Rapid, Decisive Operation,Regular Day Off,Remote Data Objects
4289RDT, Remote Digital Terminal
4290RDV, Remote Detection Vehicle
4291Re, Rhenium
4292RE, Royal Engineers
4293REACH, Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical Substances
4294REACT, Remote Electronically Activated Control Technology
4295REAM, Retired Educators Association of Minnesota
4296RECCE, Reconnaissance
4297REEF, Reef Environmental Education Foundation
4298REM,(i/a) Rapid Eye Movement (sleep phase),Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
4299REME, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
4300RERC, Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
4301RES, Radiation Exposure Status, Reserve
4302RESNA, Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
4303REU, Réunion (ISO 3166 trigram)
4304Rf, Rutherfordium
4305RF, Radio Frequency,Receptive Field (neurophysiology)
4306RFA, Restrictive Fire Area (military),Royal Field Artillery
4307RFC, Request for Comments,Royal Flying Corps (WWI precursor to RAF)
4308RFD, Request for Documentation
4309RFE, Request for Evaluation
4310RFEF, Real Federación Española de Fútbol (Spanish for Royal Spanish Football Federation)
4311RFF, Right of First Refusal (legal term)
4312RFI, y For Inspection,y For Issue,Request For Information,Radio Frequency Interference
4313RFID, Radio Frequency IDentification
4314RFL, Rugby Football League
4315RFL, Restrictive Fire Line (military)
4316RFP, Request for Proposal
4317RFQ, Request for Quotation
4318RFT, Request for Tender
4319RFU, Rugby Football Union
4320Rg, Roentgenium
4321RG, Republican Guard
4322RGB, Red Green Blue (colour model)
4323RGBI, Red Green Blue Intensity (ditto)
4324Rh, Rhodium
4325RH, Southern Rhodesia (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1980)
4326RHIC, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
4327RHLI, Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Canadian militia regiment)
4328RHO, Southern Rhodesia (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)
4329RHS, Right Hand Side,Redland High School, Royal Horticultural Society,London
4330RHU, Replacement Holding Unit
4331RI, Rex et Imperator, Regina et Imperatrix King-Emperor
4332RI, Rhode Island (postal symbol)
4333RIAA, Recording Industry Association of America
4334RIBA, Royal Institute of British Architects
4335RIF- Reduction In Force (layoffs),Resistance Index for Frostbite,ing Is Fundamental
4336RIFA, Red imported fire ant
4337RILA, Retail Industry Leaders Association
4338RIM- Remote integrated multiplexer, Australian term for a digital loop carrier,Research In Motion, former name of the BlackBerry company,Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (Maoist organization),Royal Indian Marine, former navy of British colonial India
4339RIMVS, Retinal Imaging Machine Vision System
4340RINO, Republican In Name Only[1]
4341RISC, Reduced Instruction Set Computer
4342RISTA, Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition (see also ISTAR)
4343RWH, Rain Water Harvesting
4344RJD, Reduced Julian Day
4345RKBA,Right to Keep and Bear Arms (Second Amendment to the United States Constitution)
4346RKI, Robert Koch Institute, German governmental research institute in Berlin
4347RKO, Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures
4348RL, Release Line,Real Life
4349RLP, Recognised [Operating/Operational] Land Picture
4350RLS, Restless Leg Syndrome
4351RLY, Rally Point
4352RM,see separate disambiguation page
4353rm, Raeto-Romansh language (ISO 639-1 code)
4354RMA, Return Mailing Authorization,Revolution in Military Affairs,Rachel McAdams
4355RMC, Robert Menzies College
4356RMC,(ii) Royal Military College (Australia, Canada, UK)
4357RMDA, Records Management and Declassification Agency
4358RMP, Recognised [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture
4359RMS, Rate-Monotonic Scheduling,Richard M. Stallman,Root-Mean-Square,Royal Mail Ship (e.g. RMS Titanic)
4360rn, Rundi language (Kirundi) (ISO 639-1 code)
4361Rn, Radon
4362RN, Radio Netherlands
4363RN, Royal Navy,Registered Nurse (US)
4364RNA, RiboNucleic Acid
4365RNAD,Royal Naval Armaments Depot (UK)
4366RNPS, Radio Network Planning System
4367RNZ, Radio New Zealand
4368RNZI, Radio New Zealand International
4369ro, Romanian language (ISO 639-1 code)
4370RO, Range Only,Red Orchestra, Romania (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4371ROA,(a/i) Rate Of Ascent
4372ROC,(i/a) Receiver Operating Characteristic (statistics),Regional Operations Centre,Republic Of China,Roc-A-Fella Records,Regional Organisations of Councils
4373ROD,(a/i) Rate Of Descent,Record Of Decisions,Report Of Discrepancy
4374ROE, Rules Of Engagement
4375roh, Raeto-Romansh language (ISO 639-2 code)
4376ROH, Ring of Honor
4377ROI, Return On Investment, Republic of Ireland.
4378ROFLOL, Rolling On the Floor Laughing Out Loud
4379ROK,(a/i) Republic of Korea
4380ROL, Romanian leu (ISO 4217 currency code)
4381ROM, -Only Memory,Refuel On the Move,Royal Ontario Museum
4382ron, Romanian language (ISO 639-2 code)
4383RON, Romanian new leu (ISO 4217 currency code)
4384ROP, Render Output Pipeline
4385ROPE,Research Opportunity and Performance Evidence
4386ROS, Reactive Oxygen Species
4387ROU, Romania (ISO 3166 trigram)
4388ROV, Remotely Operated Vehicle
4389ROW, Right Of Way,Rest Of the World
4390ROZ,(a/i) Restricted Operations Zone
4391RP- Philippines (FIPS 10-4 country code), Release Point,Role-Playing [relationship potential]
4392RPA, Regional Plan Association
4393RPD, Recognition-Primed Decision-making
4394RPF, Rwandan Patriotic Front
4395RPG- (US-CA) Regional Planning Group,Report Program Generator,Rocket Projectile Gun,Rocket-Propelled Grenade,Role-Playing Game
4396RPL, Reverse Polish Lisp
4397rpm, revolutions per minute
4398RPM- Records, Promotion, Music (expansion of the title of a former Canadian music magazine),Red Hat Package Manager
4399RPN, reverse Polish notation
4400rps, revolutions per second
4401RPV, Remotely Piloted Vehicle
4402RQ, Puerto Rico (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
4403RRB, Railroad Retirement Board
4404RRN, Recurrence Rate Number
4405RRP, Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis
4406RRS, Racing Rules of Sailing
4407RRSP, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (Canada; roughly equivalent to the IRA in the U.S.)
4408RS, Russia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
4409RSA- Regimental Support Area,Republic of South Africa,Rivest-Shamir-Adleman encryption, South Africa (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
4410RSD- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, Serbian dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
4411RSI, Repetitive Strain Injury
4412RSJ, Rolled Steel Joist (construction)
4413RSN, Real Soon Now (coined by author Jerry Pournelle)
4414RSPB, (UK) Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
4415RSPCA, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
4416RSR, Required Supply Rate
4417RSRE, UK Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (1976-1991)
4418RSRI, Red Sands Research Institute
4419RSS, Really Simple Syndication
4420RSTA, Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition
4421RT, Real Time,Radio Telephone, Return to duty
4422RTA, Road traffic accident (British)
4423RTBF, Radio-Télévision belge de la Communauté française
4424RTCA, RTCA, Inc.
4425RTF, Rich Text Format
4426RTFM, the Fucking/Fine Manual
4427RTG, Radio-isotope Thermoelectric Generator also used for Rubber Tyred Gantry crane
4428RTGS, Royal Thai General System of Transcription,Real Time Gross Settlement
4429RTI, Run-Time Infrastructure (Simulation)
4430RTL,see entry
4431RTLS, Return to Launch Site,period in NASA Space Shuttle assent profile where, during assent, shuttle aborts assent and turns and glides back to landing strip at launch site
4432RTP, Real-time Transport Protocol
4433RTS,see entry
4434RTT, Round Trip Timing
4435RTV, Rapid Terrain Visualization ACTD,Retro Television Network
4436ru, Russian language (ISO 639-1 code)
4437Ru, Ruthenium
4438RU, Russia (ISO 3166 digram)
4439RUB, Russian ruble (ISO 4217 currency code)
4440RUC, Royal Ulster Constabulary
4441run, Rundi language (Kirundi) (ISO 639-2 code)
4442rus, Russian language (ISO 639-2 code)
4443RUS, Russia (ISO 3166 trigram)
4444RUSI, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
4445RV- Reconnaissance Vehicle,Recreational Vehicle,Re-entry Vehicle,reciprocation void
4446rw, Rwanda language (Kinyarwanda) (ISO 639-1 code)
4447RW, Rwanda (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4448RWA, Rwanda (ISO 3166 trigram)
4449RWADA, Resident Weighted Average Daily Attendance (New York State term used in public education to indicate the size of a school district, i.e. its number of students)
4450RWF, Rwandan franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
4451RWR, Radar Warning Receiver
4452RWS, Remote Weapon Station
4453RX, Receive
4454SA- Sand (METAR Code),Saudi Arabia (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram), Sexaholics Anonymous, sine anno (Latin, “without year”),Situational awareness,South Africa,(i/s) South Australia (postal symbol), Standards Australia,Sturmabteilung (German, “Storm Detachment”, Nazi forerunner and rival of SS),S.A.,designation for a corporation in many European countries; see article for meanings
4455SAA- Saudi Arabian Airlines, former name of Saudia,Sex Addicts Anonymous,South African Airways,Southern Athletic Association,Standards Association of Australia, a former name of Standards Australia,SAAB — Svenska Aeroplan AB (Swedish aircraft manufacturer; also refers to its former auto manufacturing arm),SAAFR — (a/i) Standard use Army Aircraft Flight Route (“safer”),SAAMI — Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (“sammy”),SAARC — South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation,SAB — Soprano Alto Baritone,Sabena — Société anonyme belge d'exploitation de la navigation aérienne (French for “Belgian Company for Exploiting Aerial Navigation”, 1923-2001),SABIC — Saudi Basic Industries Corporation,SABR — Society for American Baseball Research
4456SAC- Standards Activity Committee (of SISO),U.S. Strategic Air Command (1946-1992),SACAT — Semi Attended Customer Activated Terminal (Supermarket checkout),SACEUR — Supreme Allied Commander EURope,SACLANT — Supreme Allied Commander atLANTic,SACLOS — Semi-Automatic Command to Line of Sight
4457SAD- Safford Regional Airport (IATA code), Seasonal Affective Disorder,Situational Awareness Display,SADD — originally Students Against Drunk Driving, now Students Against Destructive Decisions (U.S. national school-related group)
4458SADL- Situation Awareness Data Link (“saddle”),Structural Architecture Description Language
4459SAE- Society of Automotive Engineers[1],Stamped addressed envelope,SAFER — Steel And Foam Energy Reduction,SAFICT — Software Agents as Facilitators of Interoperability in Collective Training,sag — Sango language (ISO 639-2 code),SAG — Screen Actors Guild,SAGAT — Situation Awareness Global Assessment Technique,SAGE — Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (simulation),SAHB — Sensational Alex Harvey Band,SAIC — Science Applications International Corporation
4460SALT-(a/i) Save A Life Today (SALT) Alert; Emergency Contact System, Southern African Large Telescope,Strategic Arms Limitation s
4461SAM- Sequential-Access Memory,Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín,Surface-to-Air Missile
4462san- Sanskrit language (ISO 639-2 code), Storage Area Network
4463SAR- Saudi riyal (ISO 4217 currency code), Search And Rescue,Special Administrative Region,Synthetic Aperture Radar
4464SARA- Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy,Scientific Atlanta Resident Application,Scottish Amateur Rowing Association,Southern African Railway Association,State Administration for Religious Affairs,SARP — Search And Rescue Processor,SARR — (i/a) Search And Rescue Repeater,SARS — Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
4465SART- Search and Rescue Transponder,Situational Awareness Rating Technique,SARU — South African Rugby Union
4466SAS- Scandinavian Airlines System,Second Avenue Subway,Situational Awareness System,Special Air Service,Studies, Analysis and Simulation,Side Angle Side, Statistical Analysis System (original meaning; SAS Institute Inc. has evolved far beyond that scope),SASE — Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope,SASO — Stability and Support Operations,SASOL — Suid Afrikaanse Steenkool en Oli.e. (Afrikaans, “South African Coal and Oil”)
4467SAT- formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test; now known solely by the initials,Small Arms Trainer,SATB — Soprano Alto Tenor Bass,SATNAV — Satellite Navigation (Increasingly common GPS based system in new vehicles),SATs — Standard Assessment Tasks and other similar terms describing tests used in English schools; see National Curriculum assessment#Terminology,SAU — Saudi Arabia (ISO 3166 trigram),SAVAK — Sazamane Etelaat va Amniate Kechvar (Iranian “Security and Intelligence Service”)
4468SAW- Squad Automatic Weapon,Surface acoustic wave,SAWE — Society of Allied Weight Engineers,SB[edit],Sb — Antimony (Latin Stibium)
4469SB- Sexy Bitch,Sexy Bastard,Sexy Boy (disambiguation), Solomon Islands (ISO 3166 digram), Special Warfare Boat Operator
4470SBA- Santa Barbara Airport,Simulation-Based Acquisition,Sovereign Base Area,Student bar association,SBB — German for the Swiss Federal Railways
4471SBC- Sensotronic Brake Control,Single-Board Computer,Southern Baptist Convention,SBCCOM — U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (disbanded 2003),SBCS — Single-Byte Character Set,SBCT — Stryker Brigade Combat Team
4472SBD- Solomon Islands dollar (ISO 4217 currency code),Silent But Deadly
4473SBNO, Standing but not operating (in reference to amusement parks)
4474SBS- Special Boat Service,Special Broadcasting Service,Seoul Broadcasting System
4475SBW- Sonny Bill Williams (New Zealand dual-code rugby player),SC[edit],sc — Sardinian language (ISO 639-1 code),Sc — Scandium
4476SC- Cruiser Submarine (US Navy hull classification) c Saint Kitts and Nevis (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Saint Christopher),Seychelles (ISO 3166 digram),South Carolina (postal symbol)
4477SCO- Santa Cruz Operation (initials later used by SCO Group), Scotland (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram), Shanghai Cooperation Organization,SCOTUS — Supreme Court of the United States,SCR — Seychelles rupee (ISO 4217 currency code),SCRAM — Safety Control Rod Axe Man
4478SCS- Scan Correlated Shift,Soil Conservation Service
4479SCSI- Small Computer System Interface (“scuzzy”), Strategic and Combat Studies Institute,SCT — Scattered Sky (METAR Code),SCTP — Stream Control Transmission Protocol,Scuba — Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus,SCUF — Slow Continuous Ultrafiltration,SCUFN — Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (of GEBCO),SD[edit],sd — Sindhi language (ISO 639-1 code)
4480SD- Secure Digital (memory card format),Sheriff's department,Smoke/Decontamination, South Dakota (postal symbol),Sudan (ISO 3166 digram)
4481SDC- Shaft Driven Compressor,U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command (1985-1992),SDG — Sudanese pound (ISO 4217 currency code),SDG — Sum Dum Goy,greasy spoon chinese restaurant,SDH — Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
4482SDHC, Secure Digital High Capacity
4483SDXC, Secure Digital eXtended Capacity
4484SEC- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Security,Southeastern Conference,SECAM — Séquentiel couleur à mémoire (French for “Colour Sequential with Memory”; TV standard, cf. NTSC, PAL),SECDEF — (U.S.) Secretary of Defense,SED — CERDEC Software Engineering Directorate,SEDRIS — Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification,SEE — Small Emplacement Excavator,SEG — Society of Exploration Geophysicists,SEG — Special Escort Group,SEK — Swedish krona (ISO 4217 currency code),Selkent — South East London & Kent Bus Company,SELT — Single Ended Line Test (ing)
4485SEM-(i/a) Sensor Employment Manager,Switch to Email Mode, i.e. stop texting as it is more disruptive by making a sound or vibrating and email instead, for a given time
4486SEN- Senegal (ISO 3166 trigram), Small Extension Node
4487SEP- Somebody Elses Problem,Spherical Error Probable,System Enhancement Package,System Engineering Plan,SEPTA — Southeastern Pennsylvania Rapid-Transit Authority,SERE — Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape,SESSPE — Submarine Escape and Surface Survival Personnel Equipment,SET — Staphylococcal EnteroToxin,SETI — Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence,SETAC — Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
4488SEU- Single Event Upset (solid state physics),Slightly Enriched Uranium,Special Evidence Unit,SF[edit]
4489SF- Fleet Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification), San Francisco,Science fiction, South Africa (FIPS 10-4 country code), Speculative fiction,Special Forces
4490SFA- Sales force automation,Saturated fatty acid,Scottish Football Association,Stephen F. Austin (State University),Sudan Football Association
4491SFE- Supercritical fluid extraction,Sydney Futures Exchange,SFF — Standard File Format,sf&f — Science fiction & fantasy,SFM — Switch to Facebook Mode, i.e. to message someone on Facebook instead of texting as it is less disruptive in the sense of the phone not making sound or vibrating, for a period of time,SFOB — Special Forces Operations Base,SFOR — UN Stabilisation Force (in Bosnia and Herzegovina),SFU — Simon Fraser University (Canada),SG[edit],sg — Sango language (ISO 639-1 code),Sg — Seaborgium
4492SG- Senegal (FIPS 10-4 country code),Singapore (ISO 3166 digram),Snow Grains (METAR Code), Study Group
4493SGC- Server Gated Cryptography, Stargate Command,SGD — Singapore dollar (ISO 4217 currency code),SGML — Standard Generalized Markup Language,SGP — Singapore (ISO 3166 trigram)
4494SGS- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (ISO 3166 trigram), Svalbard Ground Station (Landsat),Société Générale de Surveillance,SH[edit],sh — Serbo-Croatian language (ISO 639-1 code)
4495SH- Saint Helena (ISO 3166 digram), SONATRACH (Algerian petroleum company)
4496SHAC- Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty,Student Health Action Coalition,SHAPE — Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe,SHF — Super High Frequency,SHN — Saint Helena (ISO 3166 trigram)
4497SHO, Showtime (see also sho.com)
4498SI- Slovenia (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram), Socialist International,Sports Illustrated,Système International (French, International System of Units),SIA — Singapore Airlines (ICAO code),SIA — Survivors of Incest Anonymous,SIAM — Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,SIC — Standard Industrial Classification,SICS — (a/i) Swedish Institute of Computer Science,SIDS — Sudden infant death syndrome,SIDU — select, insert, delete, update. See Create, read, update and delete,SIF — Selective Identification Feature,SIFF — Successor IFF
4499SIIT- Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies (Canadian university),Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (Thai university),Stateless IP/ICMP Translation algorithm,SIMAC — Semantic Interaction with Music Audio Contents,SIMLAS — Soldier Integrated Multipurpose Laser System,SIMM — Single In-line Memory Module,SIMNET — SIMulator NETwork, later SIMulation NETwork,SIMNET-D, SIMNET-Developmental,SIMP — Strongly Interacting Massive Particle
4500SIMPLE- Satellite Interactive Multimedia Platform for Low-cost Earth stations, Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (as used in SIMPLE IRA), Standard Interface for Multiple Platform Link Evaluation (NATO STANAG 5602),sin — Sinhalese language (ISO 639-2 code),SIN — Social Insurance Number (Canada),SINCGARS — SINgle Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System
4501SIP- Session Initiation Protocol,State Implementation Plan,System Improvement Program,Systematic Investment Plan,SIPP — Self-Invested Personal Pension
4502Siri, Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface (Apple iOS software)
4503SIRI, Service Interface for Real Time Information
4504SISO- Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization,Society of Independent Show Organizers,SIW — Simulation Interoperability Workshop,SIYSS — Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar,SJ[edit]
4505SJ- Svalbard and Jan Mayen (ISO 3166 digram), Societas Iesu (Latin: The Society of Jesus, the Jesuit order), Statens Järnvägar (Swedish State Railways),SJA — Staff Judge Advocate (military law),SJC — Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (note: the highest court in the state of Maine is also called the Supreme Judicial Court),SJM — Svalbard and Jan Mayen (ISO 3166 trigram),SK[edit],sk — Slovak language (ISO 639-1 code)
4506SK- Saskatchewan (postal symbol),Slovakia (ISO 3166 digram),SKC — Clear Sky (METAR Code),SKK — Slovak koruna (ISO 4217 currency code),SKM — Sikkim (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1975),SL[edit],sl — Slovene language (ISO 639-1 code)
4507SL- Sierra Leone (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram), Start Line
4508SLA- Service Level Agreement,Symbionese Liberation Army,SLAA — Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous,SLAC — Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,SLAN — sine loco, anno, nomine (Latin, “without place, year, or name”),SLAPP — Strategic lawsuit against public participation,SLB — Solomon Islands (ISO 3166 trigram),SLBM — Sea/Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile,SLC — Scan Line Corrector,SLE — Sierra Leone (ISO 3166 trigram),SLI/SLi,(i/s) Scan-Line Interleave,Scalable Link Interface,SLIT — SubLingual ImmunoTherapy,slk — Slovak language (ISO 639-2 code),SLL — Sierra Leone leone (ISO 4217 currency code),SLO — Slovenia (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
4509SLOC- Sea Lines Of Communication,Source Lines Of Code,SLORC — State Law and Order Restoration Council (of Burma)
4510SLP- Sea Level Pressure, Super Long Play,slph — Standard litre per hour (air flow),slpm — Standard litre per minute (air flow),slps — Standard litre per second (air flow),SLR — Single-Lens Reflex (camera)
4511SLT- Single Lens Translucent, Speech and language therapist, Solid Logic Technology (electronics),Swing Landing Trainer (paratroops),Secondary lymphoid tissue,slv — Slovenian language (ISO 639-2 code),SLV — El Salvador (ISO 3166 trigram),SM[edit],sm — Samoan language (ISO 639-1 code),Sm — Samarium
4512SM- Sado-Masochism, San Marino (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram), Soldier's Manual, Submarine Minelayer (US Navy hull classification),SMA — Scan Mirror Assembly,SMART — Subject Matter And Requirements Team,SMASS — Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey,SMCT — Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks,SMD — Surface Mount Device,SMDR — Station Message Detail Recording,sme — Northern Sami language (ISO 639-2 code)
4513SME- Scan Mirror Electronics,Subject Matter Expert
4514SMG- Sequential Motorsport Gearbox,SubMachine Gun,SMH — Shaking My Head,SMil — Sadomasochisterne i landet (Danish SM organisation),SMIL — Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language,smo — Samoan language (ISO 639-2 code),SMP — Standard Military Pattern,SM&R — Source, Maintenance, and Recoverability,SMR — San Marino (ISO 3166 trigram),SMS — many, including: Short message service; see entry,SMTP — Simple Mail Transfer Protocol,SMU — Southern Methodist University
4515SMX-many, including: Server Macro Expansion, Solaris MINIX, Spatial multiplexing, Sulfamethoxazole; see entry
4516SMZ-many, including: Silver Mt. Zion, Sulfamethazine, Sulfamethoxazole; see entry,SN[edit],sn — Shona language (ISO 639-1 code),Sn — Tin (Latin Stannum)
4517SN- Senegal (ISO 3166 digram),Singapore (FIPS 10-4 country code),Snow (METAR Code),SuperNova,Screen Name,sna — Shona language (ISO 639-2 code),SNAFU — “Situation Normal — All Fouled/Fucked Up”,SNAP — Supernova/Acceleration Probe,SNCB — Société nationale des chemins de fer de Belgique (French for “Belgian Railways National Society”, NMBS in Dutch),SNCF — Société nationale des chemins de fer français (French for “French Railways National Society”),snd — Sindhi language (ISO 639-2 code),SND — Standard Nomenclature Database,SNE — Synthetic Natural Environment,SNES — Super Nintendo Entertainment System,SNÉTA — Syndicat national pour l'étude des transports aériens (French for “Aerial transport Study National Syndicate”, 1919-1923),SNG — Satellite News Gathering (television)
4518SNL- Saturday Night Live (television), Società Navigazione del Lago di Lugano,SNM — Special Nuclear Material,SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol,SNOBOL — StriNg Oriented symBOlic Language,SNP — Single-nucleotide polymorphism
4519SNR- SuperNova Remnant,Signal-to-Noise Ratio,SNRI — Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor,SNS — Spallation Neutron Source,SNU — Solar Neutrino Unit,SO[edit],so — Somali language (ISO 639-1 code)
4520SO- Shared Object (Unix),Sheriff's Office,Significant other, Somalia (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4521SOA- service-oriented architecture, Society of Actuaries, State of the art
4522SOAP- Simple Object Access Protocol,Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (U.S. medical residency matching)
4523SOB- Son Of a Bitch,Same Old Bullshit,SOC — Sector Operations Centre,SOCCSKSARGEN — South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, General Santos City (a region in the Philippines; pronounced “sock-sar-gen”),SOCOM — (U.S.) Special Operations Command
4524SoCon, Southern Conference (U.S. college sports)
4525SOD-(i/a) School Of Dentistry,Statement Of Difference[s],Statement Of Direction,Statement Of Documentation,Statement Of Duty/Duties
4526SOE- Secret Of Evermore,Special Operations Executive (WWII British organization),State Of Emissions (EW)
4527SOF-(a/i) Special Operations Force,Status of Forces,SOFIA — Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy
4528SOGAT- Society of Graphical and Allied Trades,Former British printing union,SOHC — Single-OverHead-Cam engine,SOHO — Solar and Heliospheric Observatory,SOI — Signal Operating Instruction,SOL — Shit Out of Luck,SOLIS — Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun,som — Somali language (ISO 639-2 code)
4529SOM- Simulation Object Model, Somalia (ISO 3166 trigram),Sonar — SOund Navigation And Ranging
4530SOP- Standing/Standard Operating Procedure,State of Play
4531SOR- State Of iness,Statement Of Requirements
4532SOS- Somali shilling (ISO 4217 currency code),Save Our Souls,SOSTAR — Stand-Off Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar,sot — Sotho language (ISO 639-2 code),SOUTHAG — Southern Army Group,SOUTHCOM — (U.S.) Southern Command,SOV — Single Occupant Vehicle,SOW — Statement Of Work,SOWHAT — RESNA Subcommittee on Wheelchairs and Transportation,SOX — Sarbanes-Oxley Act,SP[edit]
4533Sp- Special,Spring tide (nautical charts), sine prole (Latin, “without offspring”)
4534SP- Security Police,Self-Propelled,Shore Patrol, Spain (FIPS 10-4 country code), Start Point,Strong Point,spa — Spanish language (ISO 639-2 code),SPAAG — Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun,SPACECOM — (U.S.) Space Command,Spaser — Surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation,SPC — Secretariat of the Pacific Community,SPCO — Single-Pole Change Over
4535SPD- Shimano Pedaling Dynamics,Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany),SPDT — Single-Pole Double-Throw,SPEAC — Stop Primate Experiments at Cambridge (later became SPEAK),SPECTRE — SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion,SPEED — Subsistence Preparation by Electronic Energy Diffusion (early military microwave oven),SPIE — originally the Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (“SPIE — The International Society for Optical Engineering” 1981-2007, “SPIE” since 2007)
4536SPL- Scottish Premier League,Superior Parietal Lobule,Sound Pressure Level,SPM — Saint Pierre and Miquelon (ISO 3166 trigram),SPOD — (a/i) Sea Port of Debarkation,SPOE — (a/i) Sea Port of Embarkation,SPOT — Satellite pour l'observation de la Terre (French, “Satellite for Earth Observation”),SPQR — Senatus Populusque Romanus (Latin “The Senate and the People of Rome”),sps — sine prole superstite (Latin, “without surviving issue”),SPS — Standard Positioning Service (GPS),SPST — Single-Pole Single-Throw,SQ[edit],sq — Albanian language (ISO 639-1 code),SQ — Sound Quality,SQ — Standard Quality,sqi — Albanian language (ISO 639-2 code),SQL — (i/a) Structured Query Language (“seek-well”),SQUID — Superconducting QUantum Interference Device,SR[edit],sr — Serbian language (ISO 639-1 code),Sr — Strontium
4537SR- Sound Reinforcement,Supply Route, Suriname (ISO 3166 digram), Sveriges Radio (Swedish Radio Ltd),SR — Sustained release of a drug
4538SRAM- Scott (King), Ray (Day), SAM (Patterson) — founders of bicycle component manufacturer SRAM Corporation, Static Random Access Memory (“ess-ram”),SR-ATGW — Short-Range Anti-Tank Guided Weapon,SRB — Solid Rocket Booster,SRBM — Short-Range Ballistic Missile (cf. IRBM, ICBM),SRC — Scheduled Removal Component,srd — Sardinian language (ISO 639-2 code)
4539SRD- Science Requirements Document, Surinam dollar (ISO 4217 currency code),SREL — Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
4540SRG- SACEUR Rover Group,Special Republican Guard,SRGW — Short-Range Guided Weapon
4541SRL- Savannah River Laboratory,Single Rocket Launcher,Survival Research Labs,SRM — Specified Risk Material,srp — Serbian language (ISO 639-2 code),SRS — Savannah River Site,SRSP — Science and Religion in Schools Project,SRTP — [Secure Real-time Transport Protocol],SS[edit],ss — Swati language (ISO 639-1 code)
4542SSA- Cargo Submarine (US Navy hull classification), Social Security Administration (U.S.),Statistics South Africa,SSB — Single-sideband modulation,SSB — Sacramento Sustainable Business,SSBN — Nuclear-Powered Ballistic Missile Submarine (US Navy hull classification)
4543SSC- 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)
4544SSD- Solid-state drive, South Sudan (ISO 3166 trigram),SSDC — U.S. Space and Strategic Defense Command
4545SSDD- Same Shit, Different Day,Single-Sided Double-Density (floppy disk)
4546SSE- South South-East, Streaming SIMD Extensions,SSG — Guided Missile Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification),SSGN — Nuclear-Powered Guided Missile Submarine (US Navy hull classification),SSH — Saffir-Simpson Hurricane scale,SSK — Hunter-Killer Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification),SSKP — Single-Shot Kill Probability,SSL — Secure Sockets Layer,SSM — Surface-to-Surface (Guided) Missile
4547SSN- Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarine (US Navy hull classification), SIM Serial Number,Social Security Number (U.S.),Socialist Solidarity Network,Subsystem number (SCCP, SS7),SSNW — Same Shit, New Wrapping,SSO — Submarine Oiler (retired US Navy hull classification),SSP — Submarine Transport (retired US Navy hull classification)
4548SSR- Radar Picket Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification), Solid State Recorder
4549SSRI- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor,Social Systems Research Institute
4550SSRN- Social Science Research Network, Nuclear-Powered Radar Picket Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification)
4551SSS- Siding Spring Survey,Side Side Side (an acronym for remembering congruent triangles), Sigue Sigue Sputnik (band),S/SSM — Surface-to-Subsurface Missile
4552SST- SuperSonic Transport, Training Submarine (US Navy hull classification),Saturated Suction Temperature (refrigeration cycles),SSTO — Single-Stage To Orbit,SSV — Soft-Skinned Vehicle (i.e., unarmoured),ssw — Swati language (ISO 639-2 code),SSW — South South-West,ST[edit],st — Sotho language (ISO 639-1 code)
4553ST- Saint Lucia (FIPS 10-4 country code),São Tomé and Príncipe (ISO 3166 digram)
4554STA- Scheduled Time of Arrival,Surveillance and Target Acquisition,STAG — (U.S.) Strategy and Tactics Group,STAGE — Scenario Toolkit And Generation Environment,STANAG — (NATO) Standardisation Agreement
4555STAR- Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (NASA),Simulation of Tactical Alternative Responses,Special Threat Analysis and Recognition
4556STAT- Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription (cell biology),Special Tertiary Admissions Test (Australia)
4557STB,Surface Transportation Board[2]
4558STD- São Tomé and Príncipe dobra (ISO 4217 currency code), Sexually Transmitted Disease,STDM — Statistical Time Division Multiplexing,STENTOR — Satellite de télécommunications pour expérimenter de nouvelles technologies en orbite (French, “Orbital New Technology Experimental Telecommunications Satellite”)
4559STFU- Southern Tenant Farmers Union,Stuff You[citation needed],STH — Sonic The Hedgehog
4560STI- Sexually Transmitted Infection,Subaru Tecnica International,STK — Satellite Tool Kit,STM — Short Term Memory,STOL — Short Take-Off and Landing,STOVL — Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing
4561STP- São Tomé and Príncipe (ISO 3166 trigram), Standard Temperature and Pressure,STR — Short Tandem Repeat (DNA analysis),STRATCOM — United States Strategic Command
4562STRICOM- U.S. Army Simulation, Training & Instrumentation Command (1992-),Strike Command (1962-1971),STRIVE — Synthetic Tactical Real-time Interactive Virtual Environment,STSM — Senior Technical Staff Member,Stuka — Sturzkampfflugzeug (German WWII dive bomber),SU[edit],su — Sundanese language (ISO 639-1 code)
4563SU- Soviet Union (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1992),Sudan (FIPS 10-4 country code),SUB — Student Union Building,SuD — Subject under Discussion,SUDC — Swedish United Dawah Center, a salafist Islamic organisation in Sweden
4564SUI- Sonic user interface, Switzerland (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166),SUK — Start Up Kit,sun — Sundanese language (ISO 639-2 code),SUN — ,Soviet Union (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1992),Stanford University Network that led to Sun Microsystems,SUNY — State University of New York (usually pronounced “sue-knee”),SUR — Suriname (ISO 3166 trigram),SURTASS — Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System,SUSAT — Sight Unit Small Arms, Trilux,SUV — Sport Utility Vehicle,SV[edit],sv — Swedish language (ISO 639-1 code)
4565SV- El Salvador (ISO 3166 digram), Sportverein (German for “Sport Association”, as in Hamburger SV and SV Werder Bremen),SVC — Secondary Visual Cortex,SvD — Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish newspaper)
4566SW- South-West ordinal direction,Sweden (FIPS 10-4 country code), Shortwave,swa — Swahili language (ISO 639-2 code)
4567SWA-(i/a) Secure Web Access,South-West Asia,SWAC — Southwestern Athletic Conference,SWALK — Sealed With A Loving Kiss,SWAN — System for Wearable Audio Navigation,SWAP — Surface Waters Acidification Programme,SWAPO — South-West Africa People's Organisation,SWAT — Special Weapons And Tactics,swe — Swedish language (ISO 639-2 code),SWE — Sweden (ISO 3166 trigram)
4568SWF- Shockwave Flash file (“swiff”),Single White Female
4569SWG- Surface Warfare Group,Symbology Working Group,SWHR — Society for Women's Health Research,SWIG — Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator,SWIR — (a/i) Short Wave InfraRed (“ss-why-are” or “swhirr”)
4570SWLABR- She Was Like A Bearded Rainbow,Cream song (Bruce, Clapton and Baker),SWORD — Subjective WORkload Dominance,SWORDS — Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System,SWOT — Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (mnemonic)
4571SWP- Special Working Party (“swipp”),Systematic Westing Plan (a plan of periodic westing of shares or mutual funds worth a fixed amount of money),Skill With Prizes (UK pub quiz machines — quality titles include: Pub Quiz, Quiz City, Frog in a Liquidizer, Who Wants To Win a Tenner?),SWT — Sea Water Tank,SWV — Sisters With Voices (American female R&B vocal group),SWZ — Swaziland (ISO 3166 trigram),SX[edit],SX — Sonic X
4572T, Tera,Tesla,Tritium
4573ta, Tamil language (ISO 639-1 code)
4574Ta, Tantalum
4575TA, Target Acquisition,Teaching Assistant, Tera-ampere, Territorial Army (UK), Tristan da Cunha (ISO 3166 digram)
4576TAA, Transparency Anti-Aliasing, Trans Australia Airlines
4577TAACOM, U.S. Theater Army Area Command
4578TAADCOORD, Theatre Army Air Defence Co-ordinator
4579TAAR, Trace Amine-Associated Receptor
4580TAC, U.S. Tactical Air Command (1946-1992)
4581TACAMO, Take Charge and Move Out (U.S. military)
4582TACAN, Tactical Air Navigation
4583TACC, Tactical Air Control Centre,(USAF) Tanker Airlift Control Center
4584TACCO, Tactical Coordinator
4585TACCSF, U.S. Theater Aerospace Command & Control Simulation Facility
4586TACDAR, Tactical Detection And Reporting
4587TACP, Tactical Air Control Party,Technology Applications Certification Program
4588TACSOP, Tactical SOP (Standing Operating Procedure)
4589TADIL, Tactical Digital Information Link
4590TADSS, Training Aids, Devices, Simulators, and Simulations
4591tah, Tahitian language (ISO 639-2 code)
4592TAI, Target[ed] Area of Interest
4593TAJ, Tom and Jerry
4594TAJT, Tom and Jerry Tales
4595TALES, Technical Advice and Lexicon for Enabling Simulation
4596tam, Tamil language (ISO 639-2 code)
4597TAN, Tanzania (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
4598TANJ, There Ain't No Justice (used as expletive in the Ringworld novels)
4599TANP, Terrain-Aware Network Planner
4600TANSTAAFL, There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (coined by author Robert A. Heinlein in his The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
4601TAPPS, Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools
4602TARDIS, Time And Relative Dimension In Space (from Doctor Who)
4603TARP, Transparency Accountability Rights for Parents (coined by Karen Plumridge, founder of Black Ribbon Gold Heart)
4604TAS,Tasmania (postal symbol)
4605TASER, Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle
4606TASM, Tactical Air-to-Surface Missile
4607tat, Tatar language (ISO 639-2 code)
4608TAT, Tourism Authority of Thailand
4609TATP, TriAcetone TriPeroxide
4610TATT, Tired All The Time (medical diagnosis in-joke)
4611Tb, Terbium
4612TB, Tuberculosis
4613TBA, to be announced
4614TBBPA, TetraBromoBisPhenol-A
4615TBC, to be confirmed, to be continued
4616TBD, Torpedo Boat Destroyer
4617TBF,to be fair
4618TBGRI, Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, India
4619TBH, To Be Honest
4620TBL, Turkish Basketball League
4621TBM, Tactical Ballistic Missile,Theatre Ballistic Missile
4622TBS, Turner Broadcasting System
4623TBT, Tributyltin
4624Tc, Technetium
4625TC, Teracoulomb,Turks and Caicos (ISO 3166 digram),United Arab Emirates (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Trucial Coast States)
4626TCA, Transformational Communications Architecture, Turks and Caicos (ISO 3166 trigram)
4627TCAS, Traffic Collision Avoidance System
4628TCAA, Top Counter-Assault Agents
4629TCD, Chad (ISO 3166 trigram)
4630TCG, Trusted Computing Group,Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Gemisi
4631TCHD, Truck Cargo Heavy Duty
4632TCL, Tool Command Language
4633TCM, Turner Classic Movies
4634TCP, Traffic Control Point,Transmission Control Protocol,Trichlorophenol
4635TCU, Texas Christian University
4636TCWMS, Tele-Center Workforce Management System
4637TCW, Tasty Coma Wife
4638TD- Territorial Decoration,Toon Disney,Toronto-Dominion (Bank); see also its U.S. subsidiary, TD Bank, N.A.,Touchdown,Tower Defence A game type, involves defending waves of enemies using tower
4639TDA,The Disney Afternoon
4640TDL, Tactical Data Link
4641TDM, Time-Division Multiplexing
4642TDMA, Time Division Multiple Access
4643TDP, Technology Demonstration Programme
4644TDRS, Tracking Data and Relay Satellite
4645te, Telugu language (ISO 639-1 code)
4646Te, Tellurium
4647TE, Tactical Exploitation, Testosterone to Epitestosterone ratio, Tight end (American football; position generally not used in modern Canadian football)
4648TEAL, Tasman Empire Airways Limited
4649Team, Together everyone achieves more
4650TEAMS, The East African Marine System (fiber optic cable)
4651TED, Technology Entertainment Design prize
4652TEETH, Tried Everything Else, Try Homeopathy (medical diagnosis in-joke)
4653tel, Telugu language (ISO 639-2 code)
4654TEL,(a/i) Transporter, Erector and Launcher
4655TELAR, Transporter, Erector, Launcher And Radar
4656TEMO, Training, Exercise, and Military Operations
4657TENCAP, Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities
4658TERS, Tactical Event Reporting System
4659TES, Tactical Event System
4660TEST, Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms
4661TEU, Twenty-foot equivalent unit (cargo capacity)
4662TeVeS, Tensor Vector Scalar theory
4663TF -
4664TFMPP, Trifluorophenylmethylpiperazine
4665TFR, Total Fertility Rate
4666TFT, Thin-Film Transistor
4667tg, Tajik language (ISO 639-1 code)
4668Tg, Teragram
4669TG, Togo (ISO 3166 digram)
4670TGA, Tonga (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
4671TGIF, Thank God It's Friday, Toes Go In First
4672tgk, Tajik language (ISO 639-2 code)
4673tgl, Tagalog language (ISO 639-2 code)
4674TGO, Togo (ISO 3166 trigram)
4675TGT- Target (also the ticker symbol for Target Corporation), Ticket Granting Ticket (computer security), Tyrese, Ginuwine, Tank,see TGT (group) for their collaboration
4676th, Thai language (ISO 639-1 code)
4677Th, Thorium
4678TH, Terahenry,Thailand (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4679tha, Thai language (ISO 639-2 code)
4680THA, Thailand (ISO 3166 trigram)
4681THAAD,(a/i) Terminal High Altitude Area Defence
4682THB, Thai baht (ISO 4217 currency code)
4683THEGENTRY, The High-End Group of Earth's New Technologies Research Yield
4684THEL, Tactical High Energy Laser ACTD
4685THG, Tetrahydrogestrinone
4686ti, Tigrinya language (ISO 639-1 code)
4687Ti, Tebi,Titanium
4688TI, Tajikistan (FIPS 10-4 country code), Thermal Imaging,Threat Identification,Training Instructor,Texas Instruments
4689TIA, Total Information Awareness initiative
4690TIA, Transient Ischemic Attack
4691TIALD, Thermal Imaging and Airborne Laser Designation
4692TIBS, Tactical Information Broadcast System
4693TIC, Troops In Contact
4694TIGERS, Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System
4695TIM, Technical Information Memorandum,Technical Interchange Meeting,Toxic Industrial Material,Telecom Italia Mobile
4696TIMS, Tactical Internet Management System,The Institute of Management Sciences,The International Molinological Society,Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner,Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry,Travel Information Management Services,Tuberculosis Information Management System
4697TINC, There Is No Cabal
4698TINY,That Is, Not You (internet slang)
4699TIP, Thermal Identification Panel
4700tir, Tigrinya language (ISO 639-2 code)
4701tits,Toes in the Sand
4702TJ, Tajikistan (ISO 3166 digram),Terajoule
4703TJD, Truncated Julian Day
4704TJK, Tajikistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
4705TJS, Tajik somoni (ISO 4217 currency code)
4706tk, Turkmen language (ISO 639-1 code)
4707TK, Terakelvin,Tokelau (ISO 3166 digram)
4708TKBL, Türkiye 1. Kadınlar Basketbol Ligi, the Turkish-language name of the Turkish Women's Basketball League
4709TKL, Tokelau (ISO 3166 trigram)
4710TKM, Turkmenistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
4711tl, Tagalog language (ISO 639-1 code)
4712Tl, Thallium
4713TLPM,T1 Line Performance Monitor
4714TL- Team Leader, Teralitre,Timor-Leste (ISO 3166 digram), ThermoLuminescence,TL;DR ,Too long; didnt read.
4715TLATOJL,The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
4716TLA, Three-Letter Abbreviation/Acronym
4717TLAM, Tomahawk Land Attack Missile
4718TLAR- That Looks About Right (chat shorthand),Transporter-Launcher And Radar
4719TLC- Tender Loving Care,The Learning Channel (now known strictly by the initials),Thin Layer Chromatography,T-Boz, Lefteye, Chilli,Tables, Ladders, and Chairs (type of professional wrestling match)
4720TLD- Thermoluminescent Dosimeter,Top-Level Domain
4721TLM- Traditional Latin Mass,Tridentine Latin Mass,Transaction Lifecycle Management
4722TLS- Timor-Leste (ISO 3166 trigram), Times Literary Supplement,TM[edit]
4723Tm- Terametre
4724Thulium-
4725TM- Technical Manual,Theatre Missile,Thematic Mapper, trademark (often written in small superscript type: TM or ™), Turing machine, Turkmenistan (ISO 3166 digram) Tympanic Membrane
4726TMAP,(a/i) Texas Medication Algorithm Project
4727TMC, The Movie Channel
4728TMD, Theatre Missile Defence
4729TMDK, The Mighty Don't Kneel (Australian professional wrestling stable also active in Japan)
4730TMI, Too Much Information
4731TMJ, TemporoMandibular Joint (syndrome)
4732TMM, Turkmen manat (ISO 4217 currency code)
4733TMNT, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4734TMO- Table Mountain Observatory,Television match official (rugby union)
4735TMP- East Timor (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 2002), Temporary
4736TMPG, Transparent Multi-Platform Gateway
4737TMR, Twin Main Rotors (helicopter type)
4738TMS, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
4739TMT, Thirty Meter Telescope
4740TMTOWTDI, There's Than One Way To Do It (from Perl)
4741tn, Tswana language (ISO 639-1 code)
4742TN- Tennessee (postal symbol),Teranewton,Tonga (FIPS 10-4 country code),Tunisia (ISO 3166 digram)
4743TNA, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
4744TND, Tunisian dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
4745TNO, Trans-Neptunian Object
4746TNT- Thomas Nationwide Transport, an Australian company that was one of the predecessors to the former TNT N.V. and the current TNT Express, TriNitroToluene,(a/i) Turner Network Television,TO[edit]
4747to, Tongan language (ISO 639-1 code)
4748TO- Togo (FIPS 10-4 country code),Tonga (ISO 3166 digram)
4749TOA- Table Of Authorities,Total Obligation Authority (accounting)
4750TOAD- Temporary, Obsolete, Abandoned, or Derelict site (urbanism),Towed Optical Assessment Device
4751TOBS, Time of OBServation
4752TOC-(a/i) Table Of Contents,Tactical Operations Centre, Temporo-Occipital transition Cortex,Top of Concrete,To-do, To-do-List
4753TOG, Togo (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
4754TOGS, Thermal Observation Gunnery Sight
4755TOMS, Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite instrument)
4756ton, Tongan language (ISO 639-2 code)
4757TON, Tonga (ISO 3166 trigram)
4758TOP, Tongan pa'anga (ISO 4217 currency code)
4759TOS- 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
4760TOT, Time On Target
4761TOW, Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided (anti-tank missile)
4762TP- East Timor (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 2002),São Tomé and Príncipe (FIPS 10-4 country code), Training Practice,Trident Ploughshares
4763TPE, Chinese Taipei (IOC and FIFA trigram for the country also known as Taiwan)
4764TPI, The point is
4765TPO, Thrombopoietin
4766TPS, The Pennington School
4767TPTB, The Powers That Be (often used to refer to the people responsible for the content of TV series or movies)
4768TQ, Top Qualifier (similar to Pole Position in car racing)
4769tr, Turkish language (ISO 639-1 code)
4770TR, Turkey (ISO 3166 digram)
4771TRA, Technology iness Assessment
4772TRAC, (U.S. Army) TRADOC Analysis Center
4773TRACON, Terminal Radar Approach Control
4774TRADOC, (U.S. Army) Training and Doctrine Command
4775TRAIN, Tourist Railway Association, Inc.
4776TRANSCOM, U.S. Transportation Command
4777TRAP, Tactical Receive equipment and related Applications
4778TRASANA, TRADOC Systems Analysis Agency
4779TRD, Towed Radar Decoy
4780TRIGAT, Third Generation Antitank (missile)
4781TRL, Technology readiness level
4782Trp, Troop
4783TRP, Target Reference Point, Time of Reporting
4784TRU, Transuranic
4785TRUEX, Training in Urban Environment Exercise
4786TRW, Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc.
4787TRY, Turkish lira (ISO 4217 currency code)
4788ts, Tsonga language (ISO 639-1 code)
4789Ts, Terasecond
4790TSA- Theatre Storage Area,Time Slot Allocation,Transportation Security Administration,The Salvation Army
4791TSEC, Transmission Security Encryption Code
4792TSL, Transportation Security Laboratory
4793tsn, Tswana language (ISO 639-2 code)
4794TSN- The Sporting News (historic name of the periodical now known as Sporting News),The Sports Network
4795tso, Tsonga language (ISO 639-2 code)
4796TSO- The Stationery Office (was HMSO until 1996),(U.S.) TRICARE Support Office, Trans-Siberian Orchestra (band)
4797TSOP- Tactical Standing Operation Procedure,The Sound of Philadelphia (classic 1970s R&B instrumental)
4798TSR,many, including Terminate and Stay Resident; see entry
4799TSSIA, The Subject Says It All
4800tt, Tatar language (ISO 639-1 code)
4801TT- Teratesla, Terrestrial Time,Tourist Trophy (Motorcycle sport), Trinidad and Tobago (ISO 3166 digram)
4802TTCT,Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
4803TTD, Trinidad and Tobago dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
4804TTO, Trinidad and Tobago (ISO 3166 trigram)
4805TTFN, Ta Ta For Now
4806TTL- Tax, Title, License, Through-the-lens (photography),Time 'till live,Time to live,Transistor-transistor logic
4807TTP- Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures,Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura,Trailer Transfer Point
4808TTTEAF,Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
4809TTY, TeleTYpewriter (Printer)
4810TTYL, To You Later (Internet slang)
4811TTZ, Tetrazolium
4812TUC, Trades Union Congress
4813TUG, TeX Users Group
4814TUI,(a/i) Text-based user interface (cf. CLI), among other uses
4815tuk, Turkmen language (ISO 639-2 code)
4816TUN, Tunisia (ISO 3166 trigram)
4817TUNS, Technical University of Nova Scotia
4818Tur, Turkish language (ISO 639-2 code)
4819TUR, Turkey (ISO 3166 trigram)
4820TUSK, Tank Urban Survival Kit
4821TUV, Tuvalu (ISO 3166 trigram)
4822Tv, Time value, a designation seen on some camera dials for shutter priority mode
4823TV- Television, Teravolt, Transvestite, Tuvalu (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4824TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority
4825TVG-(p/i) Television Games (Network), Tick, Very Good, Often used by School Teachers when marking homework etc. (Tick VG)[1][2]
4826TVR, TreVor (Wilkinson) Racing
4827TVS, Tornado vortex signature
4828tw, Twi language (ISO 639-1 code)
4829TW, Republic of China (Taiwan) (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram),Terawatt
4830TWAIN, Technology Without An Interesting Name
4831TWD, Taiwan dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
4832TWE, Trans World Entertainment
4833twi, Twi language (ISO 639-2 code)
4834TWI, The Welding Institute
4835TWN, Republic of China (Taiwan) (ISO 3166 trigram)
4836TWP, Technical Working Paper
4837TWS, Thermal Weapon Sight,Track While Scan
4838TWIP, 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
4839TX, Texas (postal symbol),Transmit,Turkmenistan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
4840TXV,Thermostatic Expansion Valve
4841ty, Tahitian language (ISO 639-1 code)
4842TYT,Take Your Time,Internet chat abbreviation
4843TZ, Tanzania (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4844TZA, Tanzania (ISO 3166 trigram)
4845TZC, Tetrazolium chloride
4846TZS, Tanzanian shilling (ISO 4217 currency code)
4847U, Uranium
4848UA, Ukraine (ISO 3166 digram) Unit of Action
4849UAAP, University Athletic Association of the Philippines
4850UAB, University of Alabama at Birmingham
4851UAE,(i/s) United Arab Emirates (also IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
4852UAH- Ukrainian hryvnia (ISO 4217 currency code), University of Alabama in Huntsville
4853UAV- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,Unprotected Anal and Vaginal sex,UB[edit]
4854UBC, United Baptist Church,University of British Columbia
4855UBIGEO, Ubicación Geografica (Spanish for Geographical Location)
4856UBS, Unbundled Bitstream Services,United Bank of Switzerland,United Banque Suisse
4857UCBSA, United Cricket Board of South Africa
4858UCAV,(a/i) Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle
4859UCF, University of Central Florida
4860UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles
4861UCLES, University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
4862UCR, University of Costa Rica,University of California, Riverside
4863UCS, Union of Concerned Scientists
4864UCSB, University of California, Santa Barbara
4865UCSD, University of California, San Diego
4866UDAS, Uppsala-DLR Asteroid Survey
4867UDDI, Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
4868UDP, User Datagram Protocol
4869UDT, Underwater Demolition Team
4870UDTS, Uppsala-DLR Trojan Survey
4871UE, Unit of Employment
4872UEFA, Union of European Football Associations
4873UEFI,(i/a) Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
4874UESAC, Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets
4875UFC, Ultimate Fighting Championship
4876UFO, Unidentified Flying Object,United Farmers of Ontario
4877ug, Uyghur language (ISO 639-1 code)
4878UG, Uganda (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4879UGA, Uganda (ISO 3166 trigram)
4880UGV, Unmanned Ground Vehicle
4881UGX, Ugandan shilling (ISO 4217 currency code)
4882UHF, Ultra High Frequency
4883UHMW, Ultra-High Molecular Weight
4884UHRB, Ultra-High Resolution Building (simulation)
4885UIC, University of Illinois at Chicago
4886UID, User ID
4887uig, Uyghur language (ISO 639-2 code)
4888UIL, University Interscholastic League (governing body for most interscholastic activities, notably sports, in Texas public high schools)
4889UIUC, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4890UJTL, Universal Joint Task List
4891uk, Ukrainian language (ISO 639-1 code)
4892UK, United Kingdom (also FIPS 10-4 country code),University of Kentucky
4893UKIP, United Kingdom Independence Party
4894ukr, Ukrainian language (ISO 639-2 code)
4895UKR, Ukraine (ISO 3166 trigram)
4896UL, Underwriters Laboratories
4897ULF, Ultra Low Frequency
4898UM, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
4899UMBC, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
4900UMC, United Microelectronics Corporation,University of Missouri-Columbia
4901UMCP, Unit Maintenance Collection Point
4902UMES, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
4903UMI, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
4904UMIST, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
4905UML, Unified Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Nepal,Unified Modeling Language,University of Massachusetts Lowell,User-Mode Linux
4906UMTS, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
4907UN, United Nations
4908UNABOM, University and airline bomber (FBI case name)
4909UNAIDS,(i/a) Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
4910UNAMSIL, United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
4911UNCF, United Negro College Fund
4912UNCLOS, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
4913UNCSGN, United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names
4914UNCTAD, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
4915UNDCP, United Nations Drug Control Programme
4916UNDE,(i/a) Union of National Defence Employees (Canada)
4917UNDP, United Nations Development Programme
4918UNEP, United Nations Environment Programme
4919UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
4920UNFCCC, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
4921UNFICYP, United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
4922UNGEGN, United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
4923UNHCR, United Nations High Commission (er) for Refugees
4924UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund (originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund)
4925UNICRI, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
4926UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization
4927UNIFEM, United Nations Development Fund for Women (from the French Fonds de développement des Nations unies pour la femme)
4928UNIS, University of Surrey, Guildford, England
4929UNLV, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4930UNMIK, United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
4931UNMOVIC, United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
4932UNOSOM, United Nations Operations in Somalia
4933UNPROFOR, United Nations Protection Force (in former Yugoslavia)
4934UNRISD, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
4935UNSM, Union of Nova Scotian Municipalities
4936UNTAC, United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
4937UNTAET,(i/a) United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor
4938UNU, United Nations University
4939UP- Ukraine (FIPS 10-4 country code),Union Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark), Upper Peninsula (of Michigan),Uttar Pradesh
4940UPC- United Pentecostal Church, Universal Product Code
4941UPdM, Università Popolare della Multimedialità
4942UPDM- Uganda People's Democratic Movement,Unified Modeling Language Profile for DoDAF and MoDAF,Unité de psychiatrie du développement mental,Universal Pattern Decomposition Method,Unix Power Device Management,Unpressurized Docking Mast,Urban Planning, Design and Management
4943UPI, United Press International
4944UPN, United Paramount Network
4945UPS- Uninterruptible Power Supply,United Parcel Service
4946UPTN- Universal Personal Telecommunications Number,Upper Peninsula Telehealth Network
4947UPU, Universal Postal Union
4948ur, Urdu language (ISO 639-1 code)
4949UR, Soviet Union (NATO country code, obsolete 1992)
4950URBSFA, Union royale belge des sociétés de football association (French for Royal Belgian Football Association)
4951urd, Urdu language (ISO 639-2 code)
4952URD, User Requirements Document
4953URI- Uniform Resource Identifier,University of Rhode Island
4954URU, Uruguay (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
4955URY, Uruguay (ISO 3166 trigram)
4956US, United States (also ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
4957USA- United States of America (also ISO 3166 trigram),United States Army
4958USAADAC, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center, Fort Bliss, Texas
4959USAARMC, U.S. Army ARMor Center, Fort Knox, Kentucky
4960USAAVNC, U.S. Army AViatioN Center, Fort Rucker, Alabama
4961USAF, United States Air Force
4962USAFSPC, U.S. Air Force Space Command
4963USAIC- U.S. Army Infantry Center,U.S. Army Intelligence Center
4964USAID,(a/i) United States Agency for International Development
4965USAP- Union Sportive des Arlequins Perpignanais, United States Antarctic Program
4966USAPATRIOT, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
4967USAREUR, United States Army Europe
4968USB, Universal Serial Bus
4969USC- United States Code,University of South Carolina,University of Southern California
4970USCG, United States Coast Guard
4971USCINCSPACE, United States Commander in Chief, Space Command
4972USD- (U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense* USD(A&T), (U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology), United States dollar (ISO 4217 currency code),USD(AT&L), (U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics,USD(C), (U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
4973USDA, United States Department of Agriculture
4974USDI, United States Department of the Interior
4975USDOE, United States Department of Energy
4976USDRE, (U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1978-1986)
4977USEC, United States Enrichment Corporation
4978USFL, United States Football League
4979USFWS, United States Fish and Wildlife Service
4980USGS, United States Geological Survey
4981USIA, United States Information Agency
4982USJFCOM, United States Joint Forces Command
4983USL- 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
4984USMC, United States Marine Corps
4985USMNT, United States men's national (soccer) team
4986USN, United States Navy
4987USNA, United States National Arboretum,United States Naval Academy
4988USNB, United States Naval Base
4989USNG, United States National Grid
4990USNH, United States Naval Hospital
4991USNI, United States Naval Institute
4992USNO, U.S. Naval Observatory
4993USNOFS, United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station
4994USNP, United States Newspaper Program
4995USNR, United States Navy Reserve
4996USNS, United States Naval Ship
4997USNZ, University Sport New Zealand
4998USPS, United States Postal Service
4999USPTO, United States Patent and Trademark Office
5000USR- Universal System Resources (/usr, directory in a *NIX filesystem), User
5001USS, United States ship (sometimes meaningless; see Star Trek)
5002USSPACECOM, United States Space Command
5003USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
5004UST, Underground Storage Tank
5005USTRANSCOM, United States Transportation Command
5006USWNT, United States women's national (soccer) team
5007UT, Universal Time
5008UTEP,(a/i) University of Texas at El Paso (pronounced you-tep)
5009UTM, Universal Transverse Mercator (geographical co-ordinate system)
5010UU, Unitarian Universalism,University of Utah,Unseen University
5011UUA, Unitarian Universalist Association
5012UUID, Universally Unique Identifier (see also GUID)
5013UUV, Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
5014UV, Burkina Faso (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Upper Volta), ultraviolet
5015UW, University of Washington
5016UWO, University of Western Ontario
5017UWT, Under Water Telephone
5018UWTG, Under Water Tug
5019UWW, United World Wrestling
5020UXO, Unexploded Ordnance
5021UY, Uruguay (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
5022UYU, Uruguayan peso uruguayo (ISO 4217 currency code)
5023uz, Uzbek language (ISO 639-1 code)
5024UZ, Uzbekistan (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
5025uzb, Uzbek language (ISO 639-2 code)
5026UZB, Uzbekistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
5027UZS, Uzbek som (ISO 4217 currency code)
5028V, 5 (in Roman numerals),Vanadium,Volt
5029VA, Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 digram), Veterans Affairs (U.S. Department of), Virginia (postal symbol), Various Artists
5030VACIS, Vehicle And Container Inspection System
5031VACIS, Victorian Ambulance Clinical Information System
5032VANOS, Variable Nockenwelle System
5033VAO, Vienna Art Orchestra
5034VASIS, Visual Approach Slope Indicator System (aviation)
5035VAT, Value-Added Tax, Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 trigram)
5036VB, Victoria Bitter (beer),Visual Basic
5037VBA, Visual Basic for Applications
5038VC, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram), Victoria Cross
5039VCDS, (Canada) Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, VAG-COM Diagnostic System
5040vCJD, Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
5041VCJCS, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
5042VCNO, (U.S.) Vice Chief of Naval Operations
5043VCR, Video cassette recorder
5044VCofS, Vice Chief of Staff
5045VCT, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO 3166 trigram)
5046VD, North Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram, obsolete 1977), Venereal Disease
5047VDFS, VisualSVN Distributed File System (VDFS)
5048VDR, North Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram, obsolete 1977)
5049ve, Venda language (ISO 639-1 code)
5050VE, Venezuela (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
5051VEB, Venezuelan bolívar (ISO 4217 currency code)
5052VEEGA, Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist manœuvre
5053ven, Venda language (ISO 639-2 code)
5054VEN, Venezuela (ISO 3166 trigram)
5055VERDI, Vittorio Emanuele Re D'Italia (Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy)
5056VERITAS, Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System
5057VFA- Victorian Football Association (historic Australian rules football league), Volatile Fatty Acid
5058VfD, s for deletion (used in Wikipedia)
5059VFL, Victorian Football League, the name of two distinct Australian rules football leagues:
5060VFM, Value For Money
5061VFMO, Very Fast Moving Object (astronomy)
5062VFR, Visual Flight Rules
5063VFT, Virtual Function Table
5064VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars
5065VG, British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
5066VGB, British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
5067VH1,(a/i) Video Hits One
5068VHF, Very High Frequency
5069vi, Vietnamese language (ISO 639-1 code)
5070VIA, Versatile Interface Adapter
5071VIC, Victoria, Australia (postal symbol), Video Interface Chip,Virginia Intermont College
5072VIDS, Visual Information Display System
5073vie, Vietnamese language (ISO 639-2 code)
5074VII, 7 (in Roman numerals)
5075VIII, 8 (in Roman numerals)
5076VIN,(i/a) Vehicle Identification Number (ISO 3779)
5077VIP, see entry
5078VIR, U.S. Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram),Virgin Atlantic Airways (ICAO code)
5079VIS, Vavoua International School,Vienna Independent Shorts,Viewable Image Size,Visual Instruction Set
5080VISCII, VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange
5081VIT, Vellore Institute of Technology
5082VIVO, Video In Video Out
5083VJ, Video Jockey
5084VK, Australia (ham radio code), Västerbottens-Kuriren, a Swedish daily newspaper
5085VLA, Very Large Array,(UK) Veterinary Laboratories Agency
5086VLAD,(a/i) Vertical Line Array DIFAR
5087VLBA, Very Long Baseline Array
5088VLF, Very Low Frequency
5089VLIW, Very Long Instruction Word
5090VLPFC, VentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
5091VLPMC, VentroLateral PreMotor Cortex
5092VLSF, Very Loud, Stink-Free
5093VLSI, Very-large-scale integration
5094VLVS, Very Loud, Very Stinky
5095VM, Vietnam (FIPS 10-4 country code)
5096VMF, Variable Message Format
5097VMF,Marine Fighting Squadron of the United States Marine Corps
5098VMN, VentroMedial Nucleus (neurophysiology)
5099VN, Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram)
5100VND, Vietnamese đồng (ISO 4217 currency code)
5101VNIR, Visible and Near InfraRed
5102VNM, Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram)
5103VNS,see entry
5104VOA, Voice of America
5105vo, Volapük language (ISO 639-1 code)
5106VOC, Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company),Volatile organic compounds
5107VOIP, Voice Over Internet Protocol
5108vol, Volapük language (ISO 639-2 code)
5109VOLT, Visual OpenType Layout Tool
5110VON, Victorian Order of Nurses
5111VOR, VHF Omnidirectional Ranging
5112VOR, Voice of Russia
5113VOX, Voice Operated oscillator
5114VPN, Virtual Private Network
5115VQ, Vector Quantization, U.S. Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
5116VR, Virtual Reality
5117VRSG, Virtual Reality Scene Generator
5118VSHORAD, Very Short Range Air Defence
5119VSO, Voluntary Services Overseas
5120VSR, Very Special Relativity
5121VT- Vatican City-State (FIPS 10-4 country code),Vermont (postal symbol), Video tape,Virginia Tech
5122VTC, Video Tele-Conference
5123VTEC, Variable valve Timing and Electronic lift Control
5124VTOL, Vertical Take-Off & Landing
5125VU, Vanuatu (ISO 3166 digram), Vedanta University
5126VUB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgian university)
5127VUT, Vanuatu (ISO 3166 trigram)
5128VUV, Vanuatu vatu (ISO 4217 currency code)
5129VV, Via Voice,Village Voice
5130VVAF, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
5131VW, Volkswagen
5132VZ, Verizon Communications (NYSE code)
5133W, Tungsten (from German Wolfram),Watt,West
5134W3C, World Wide Web Consortium
5135wa, Walloon language (ISO 639-1 code)
5136WA- Namibia (FIPS 10-4 country code; from West Africa),Washington state (postal symbol),Western Australia (postal symbol), World Archery (Federation)
5137WAAC, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (Britain) (World War I UK)
5138WAAF, Women's Auxiliary Air Force (World War II UK)
5139WAC- Western Athletic Conference, Women's Auxiliary Corps (World War II Canada),Women's Army Corps (World War II U.S.)
5140WACC, Weighted Average Cost of Capital (accounting)
5141WACS,What-A-Cartoon! Show
5142WAD, Weapons Alert Designator
5143WAGGGS, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
5144WAGs, Wives And Girlfriends (most notably of England national football team players at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, although the term existed earlier)
5145WAK, Wake Island (ISO 3166 trigram, obsolete 1986)
5146WAL,see entry
5147WAN, Wide area network
5148WAP, Wireless Application Protocol
5149WAPIMA, What a pain in my ass
5150WAR, With All Respect
5151WAsP, Short form of WAAAAP (Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program)
5152WASP- White Anglo-Saxon Protestant,Wide Angle Search for Planets,Women Airforce Service Pilots
5153WAYP, White And Yellow Pages
5154Wb, Weber
5155WB, Warner Bros.,Welcome Back (Internet shorthand)
5156WBA- Warner Bros. Animation,West Bromwich Albion (F.C.),World Boxing Association
5157WBC, World Boxing Council
5158WBE, Work Breakdown Element
5159WBO, World Boxing Organization
5160WC, Water Closet,Winston Churchill,World Cup (sports)
5161WCBO, World Chess Boxing Organisation
5162WCBP, World Center for Birds of Prey
5163WCL, World Confederation of Labour
5164WCS, Weapon Control Status,Wildlife Conservation Society
5165WCW, World Championship Wrestling
5166WDC, Western Design Center,World Data Center
5167WDWR,Walt Disney World Resort
5168WDIN,Wildlife Disease Information Node
5169WEBS, Weapon Effectiveness Battle Simulation
5170WEC, World Extreme Cagefighting
5171WEEE, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
5172WEF, World Economic Forum
5173WEM, West Edmonton Mall
5174WEU, Western European Union
5175WEZ,(a/i) Weapon Engagement Zone
5176WF, Wallis and Futuna Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
5177WFC, Women's Forage Corps (World War II UK)
5178WFD, Weapon of Focused Destruction
5179WFF, Wallops Flight Facility
5180WFP, World Food Program
5181WFZ, Weapons Free Zone
5182WFI,Water for Injection
5183WG, Working Group,Wade-Giles
5184WH, Wehrmacht Heer (German World War II army vehicle licence plate code)
5185WHAM, Wisconsin Hydrogen-Alpha Mapping (telescope)
5186WHI, Women's Health Initiative
5187WHIP, Walks plus hits per inning pitched
5188WHO, World Health Organisation
5189WHS, (U.S.) Washington Headquarters Services
5190WI, Western Sahara (FIPS 10-4 country code),Wisconsin (postal symbol),Women's Institute
5191WIA, Wounded In Action, Wireless Institute of Australia (Amateur Radio)
5192WIIFM, What's in it for me?
5193WIMP, Weakly Interacting Massive Particle,Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers
5194WIPO,(a/i) World Intellectual Property Organization
5195WIPP, [Nuclear] Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
5196WIYN, Wisconsin Indiana Yale NOAO telescope consortium
5197WK, Wake Island (ISO 3166 digram, obsolete 1986)
5198WKYP, Will Keep You Posted
5199WL, Wehrmacht Luftwaffe (German World War II air force vehicle licence plate code)
5200WLB, Women's Land Brigade (World War II Canada)
5201WLF, Wallis and Futuna Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
5202wln, Walloon language (ISO 639-2 code)
5203WLOG, Without Loss Of Generality (see WOLOG)
5204WM, Wehrmacht Marine (German World War II navy vehicle licence plate code)
5205WMANUS, West Midlands Area National Union of Students
5206WMD, Weapon[s] of Mass Destruction,World Movement for Democracy †
5207WMI, Wildlife Management Institute
5208WMO, World Meteorological Organization
5209WNA, World Nuclear Association
5210WNIT, Women's National Invitation Tournament
5211WNSD, What's New, Scooby-Doo?
5212WNW, West North-West
5213wo, Wolof language (ISO 639-1 code)
5214WO, Warrant Officer
5215WOF,Width of Fabric
5216WOFT, Waste Of Fucking Time
5217WOFTAM, Waste Of Fucking Time And Money
5218WOI,(a/i) Wheels Of Italy
5219wol, Wolof language (ISO 639-2 code)
5220WOM, Write Only Memory
5221WOS, Wilson Ornithological Society
5222WOSM- World Organization of the Scout Movement,Worldwide Oil Spill Model
5223WOT, Waste Of Time
5224WP, White Phosphorus (ammunition)
5225WPB, War Production Board during World War II
5226WPE, World Pork Expo
5227WPK, Wider Peacekeeping
5228WPT, World Poker Tour,World Premiere Toons
5229WR, Wide Receiver (football)
5230WRAC, Women's Royal Army Corps (World War II UK)
5231WRAIR, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
5232WRC, World Rally Championship
5233WRC,World Religions Conference
5234WRVS, Women's Royal Voluntary Service, now only known by the acronym (UK)
5235WRS, Worldwide Reference System
5236WRT, Writer Response Theory
5237WRT,World Rally Team
5238WRT,Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC (Urban Planning and Design)
5239WRT,Wireless Ronin Technologies (digital signage)
5240WRT,NHS Workforce Review Team
5241WRT,The Linksys routers whose model name start with 'WRT'
5242WRT,Wholesale, Trade, Retail sector, category in employment and economics statistics
5243WRT,Wireless Receiver/Transmitter ( computer networks/IT )
5244WRT,Third party firmware for the Linksys WRT routers and compatible models from other vendors.
5245WRT,Web Runtime (WRT) is a portable application framework developed by Nokia that allows the creation of widgets on the S60 Platform.
5246WS- 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)
5247WSC, Weapon System Catalogue
5248WSDL, Web Services Description Language
5249WSJ, (The) Wall Street Journal
5250WSL- 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)
5251WSM- Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram; from Western Samoa), Winchester Short Magnum (family of rifle cartridges)
5252WSROC, Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils
5253WSSM, Winchester Super Short Magnum (family of rifle cartridges)
5254WST- Water Soluble Tetrazolium (assay), Samoan tālā (ISO 4217 currency code)
5255WSTC, Women Signallers Territorial Corps (World War II UK)
5256WSW, West South-West
5257WTB, Wales Tourism Board,Warenterminbörse Hannover
5258WTC, World Trade Center
5259WTF, What the fuck?; also What a Terrible Failure (android)
5260WTFH, What The Fucking Hell
5261WTH, What the Hell
5262WTO, World Trade Organization
5263WU, 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)
5264WUU2,What you up to,Internet slang popular with teenagers.
5265WUBU2,What you been up to
5266WV, West Virginia (postal symbol)
5267WVA, World Veterinary Association
5268WVIAC, West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
5269WVR, Women's Volunteer Reserve (World War II UK)
5270WVSC, Women's Volunteer Service Corps (World War II Canada)
5271WVU, West Virginia University
5272WW,see entry
5273WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment
5274WWF- World Wide Fund for Nature, from its original name of World Wildlife Fund, which remains the legal name in the U.S. and Canada,World Wrestling Federation
5275WWI, World War I
5276WWII, World War II
5277WWIII, World War III
5278WWS, Wheaton Warrenville South High School
5279WWV, Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (catalog of the works of Richard Wagner, and callsign of NIST's shortwave radio station in Fort Collins, Colorado)
5280WWW, World Wide Web
5281WWWF, World Wide Wrestling Federation
5282WXO, Weather [Executive] Officer
5283WY, Wyoming (postal symbol)
5284WZ, Swaziland (FIPS 10-4 country code)
5285XAF, BEAC (Banque des états de l'Afrique centrale) Central Africa CFA (Coopération financière en Afrique centrale) franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
5286XAG, Silver Troy ounce (ISO 4217 currency code)
5287XAU, Gold Troy ounce (ISO 4217 currency code)
5288XBA, European Composite Unit (EURCO; Bonds market unit) (ISO 4217 currency code)
5289XBB, European Monetary Unit (E.M.U.; Bonds market unit) (ISO 4217 currency code)
5290XBML, eXtended Business Modelling Language
5291XC, Ninety (in Roman numerals)
5292XCBL, XML Common Business Library
5293XCD, East Caribbean dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
5294XD,Used in chatrooms or email for smiley face. X is the eyes; squinted D is the mouth; XD.
5295Xe, Xenon
5296XF, Automobile made by Jaguar, Truck made by DAF Trucks, IATA code for Vladivostok Air
5297XFA, XML Forms Architecture
5298XFC, Xtreme Fighting Championships
5299XFD, Fighter aircraft made by Douglas
5300Xfe, X File Explorer
5301XFF, X-Forwarded-For
5302XFG, Exfoliation glaucoma
5303XFH, 1932 rototype U.S. Navy fighter aircraft made by Hall, X-ray fluorescence holography
5304XFN, XHTML Friends Network, IATA code for Xiangyang Liuji Airport
5305XFR, Automobile made by Jaguar
5306XFT, X FreeType interface library
5307XFW, IATA code for Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport
5308XG, Automobile made by Hyundai
5309XGA, Extended Graphics Array
5310XGG, IATA code for Gorom Gorom Airport
5311XGN, IATA code for Xangongo Airport
5312XGP, Extreme Game Player
5313XGR, IATA code for Kangiqsualujjuag (Georges River) Airport
5314xh, Xhosa language (ISO 639-1 code)
5315xho, Xhosa language (ISO 639-2 code)
5316XHTML, eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
5317XHR, eXtra high Image resolution,XMLHTTPRequest
5318XI, Eleven (in Roman numerals)
5319XII, Twelve (in Roman numerals)
5320XIII, Thirteen (in Roman numerals)
5321XIV, Fourteen (in Roman numerals)
5322XIX, Nineteen (in Roman numerals)
5323XJ, Automobile made by Jaguar, Automobile made by Jeep
5324XJL, Amphibian aircraft made by Columbia, Automobile made by Jaguar
5325XJS, Automobile made by Jaguar
5326XK, Automobile made by Jaguar, Automobile made by Jeep, Kell blood group precursor
5327XKA, IATA code for Kantchari Airport
5328XKB, X keyboard extension
5329XKE, Automobile made by Jaguar
5330XKH, IATA code for Xieng Khouang Airport
5331XKR, Automobile made by Jaguar
5332XKS, IATA code for Kasabonika Airport
5333XKY, IATA code for Kaya Airport
5334XL, eXtra Large, Forty (in Roman numerals)
5335XML, eXtensible Markup Language
5336XMSF, eXtensible Modelling and Simulation Framework
5337XN, Christian, Nordic Patent Institute
5338XNA, IATA code for Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, X-No-Archive, Xeno Nucleic Acid
5339XNC, X Northern Captain
5340XNN, IATA code for Xining Caojiabao Airport
5341XNS, Xerox Network Systems, Extensible Name Service, Christians
5342XNU, X is Not Unix
5343XOF, BCÉAO (Banque centrale des états de l'Afrique de l'Ouest) West African CFA (Communauté financière d'Afrique) franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
5344XP, eXperience Point (role-playing games)
5345XPD, Palladium Troy ounce (ISO 4217 currency code)
5346XPF, CFP franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
5347XPT, Platinum Troy ounce (ISO 4217 currency code)
5348XQJ, XQuery API for Java™
5349XQP, IATA code for Quepos La Managua Airport
5350XQU, IATA code for Qualicum Beach Airport
5351XRML, eXtensible Rights Markup Language
5352XS, Xiaolin Showdown
5353XSL, eXtensible Style Language
5354XTMH,eXtreme Technology Multiprocessor Hyperlanguage
5355XUL, XML User Interface Language
5356XV, Fifteen (in Roman numerals)
5357XVI, Sixteen (in Roman numerals)
5358XVII, Seventeen (in Roman numerals)
5359XVIII, Eighteen (in Roman numerals)
5360XWF, Xcitement Wrestling Federation
5361XWM, X window manager
5362XWN, eXtended WordNet
5363XWS, X Window System
5364XX, Twenty (in Roman numerals)
5365XXX, Hardcore pornography (film rating),Thirty (in Roman numera
5366XYA, IATA code for Yandina Airport
5367Xyl, Xylobium
5368XZA, IATA code for Zabré Airport
5369XZN, Triple square screw driver
5370y, Yocto-
5371Y, Yotta,Yttrium
5372Y2K, Year Two Thousand
5373yA, Yoctoampere
5374Ya, Yottayear
5375YA, Yottaampere, Young Adult
5376YAC,(a/i) Youth-Adult Committee
5377YAFLA, Yet Another Five Letter Abbreviation
5378YAP, Young Aspiring Professional
5379YaBPr, Yet another Brother Pat rant
5380YABSLAG, Yet another boy singing like a girl
5381Yb, Ytterbium
5382YB, Youcef Benzouada (Southern Algerian name)
5383yC, Yoctocoulomb
5384YC, Yottacoulomb
5385YD, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (ISO 3166 digram, obsolete 1990)
5386YDS, Yosemite Decimal System (climbing)
5387YE, Yemen (ISO 3166 digram)
5388YEM, Yemen (ISO 3166 trigram),Manitowaning/Manitoulin East Municipal Airport IATA airport code
5389YER, Yemeni rial (ISO 4217 currency code)
5390yF, Yoctofarad
5391YF, Yottafarad
5392yg, Yoctogram
5393Yg, Yottagram
5394Ygo, Yu-Gi-Oh!
5395YGCO, Yamaneko Group of Comet Observers
5396yH, Yoctohenry
5397YH, Yottahenry
5398YHS,Ya Hoor sur!
5399YHBT, You Have Been Trolled
5400YHIH1, You Heard It Here First (lowercase: yhih1, pronounced yi-hi)
5401YHII,You Have It Inside
5402yi, Yiddish language (ISO 639-1 code)
5403Yi, Yobi
5404YI, Serbia and Montenegro (deprecated FIPS 10-4 country code, now RB (Serbia) and MJ (Montenegro))
5405yid, Yiddish language (ISO 639-2 code)
5406Yippie, Youth International Party + suffix
5407yJ, Yoctojoule
5408YJ, Yottajoule
5409yK, Yoctokelvin
5410YK, Yottakelvin
5411YKYFCW,You know you're from Christchurch when (post-earthquake joke)
5412yL, Yoctolitre
5413YL, Yottalitre
5414ym, Yoctometre
5415Ym, Yottametre
5416YM, Yemen (FIPS 10-4 country code), Your Magazine (originally Young Miss, later Young & Modern)
5417YMCA, Young Men's Christian Association
5418YMD, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (ISO 3166 trigram, obsolete 1990)
5419YMMD, You Make My Day
5420yN, Yoctonewton
5421YN, Yottanewton
5422yo, Yoruba language (ISO 639-1 code)
5423YO, former Yugoslavia (NATO country code, obsolete 1993)
5424YOLO, You Only Live Once
5425yor, Yoruba language (ISO 639-2 code)
5426YPA, Yards per Pass Attempt (football statistic)
5427YPIO, Your Problem Is Obvious
5428YPO, Young Presidents' Organization
5429ys, Yoctosecond
5430yS, Yoctosiemens
5431Ys, Yottasecond
5432YS, Yottasiemens
5433YSA- Single adult (LDS Church),Young Socialist Alliance,Youth Service America
5434YSI, Young Scots for Independence
5435yT, Yoctotesla
5436YT, Mayotte (ISO 3166 digram),Yottatesla,Yukon Territory (postal symbol)
5437YTD, Year-To-Date
5438YTM, Yield to Maturity
5439YTS, Youth Training Scheme
5440YTT,Yoshi Topsy-Turvy
5441YU, York University, former Yugoslavia (ISO 3166 digram, obsolete 2003)
5442YUG, former Yugoslavia (ISO 3166 trigram, obsolete 2003)
5443Yuppie, Young Urban Professional + suffix
5444yV, Yoctovolt
5445YV, Yottavolt
5446yW, Yoctowatt
5447YW, Yottawatt
5448YWCA, Young Women's Christian Association
5449YYH, YuYu Hakusho
5450z, Zepto
5451Z, Zetta
5452za, Zhuang languages (ISO 639-1 code)
5453zA, Zeptoampere
5454ZA, South Africa (ISO 3166 digram),Zambia (FIPS 10-4 country code),Zettaampere
5455ZAF, South Africa (ISO 3166 trigram)
5456ZAMS, Zero age main sequence
5457ZAR, South African rand (ISO 4217 currency code),Zaire (ISO 3166 trigram, obsolete 1997)
5458ZAS,(i/a) Zylinder Abschaltung System
5459ZBT, Zero-Balance Transfer (accounting)
5460zC, Zeptocoulomb
5461ZC, Zettacoulomb
5462ZCM,(n) ZENworks Configuration Management
5463ZCMK, Zone Control Master Key
5464ZCU, Zimbabwe Cricket Union