List of initialisms This is a list of initialisms,
acronyms that are pronounced as a series of the names of the constituent letters (but, there is disagreement on some; eg RBOC as "are-bock").
AA - Alcoholics Anonymous / Automobile Association
AAA - American Automobile Association
AAD - analogue analogue digital - Australian Antarctic Division
AARP - American Association of Retired Persons
ABC - alcoholic-beverage commission - alien big cat - Always Be Careful - 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
ABM - anti-ballistic missile - Asynchronous Balanced Mode - automated banking machine
ABS - acrylonitrile butadiene styrene - anti-lock braking system
AC - adriamycin-cyclophosphamide (chemotherapy) - alternating current - Anonymous Coward - ante christum - air conditioning - Albert Champion
ACF - American Culinary Federation
ACL - Access Control List
ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union
ACM - see entry
ACS - Association of Caribbean States
AD - Latin "Anno Domini " (In the year of our Lord )
ADA - American Dental Association
ADD - analogue digital digital - attention-deficit disorder
ADHD - Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHS - attention-deficit hyperactivity syndrome
ADL - Anti-Defamation League
ADM - Archer Daniels Midland
ADS - attention-deficit syndrome
ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC-3 hours)
AFACT - As far as I can tell
AFAIC - As far as I'm concerned
AFAIK - As far as I know
AFAIR - As far as I remember/recall
AFJ - April Fool's Joke
AFK - Away from keyboard
AFL - American Federation of Labor - American Football League - Arena Football League - Australian Football League
AGA - Advanced Graphics Architecture
AGM - Annual General Meeting
AI - Amnesty International ; Artificial Intelligence
AIA - Aerospace Industry Association
AIC - African Independent Church
AIDS - Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AIM - AOL Instant Messenger , among others
AIPAC - American Israel Public Affairs Committee
aka - also known as
AKDT - Alaska Standard Daylight Saving Time (UTC-8 hours)
AKST - Alaska Standard Time (UTC-9 hours)
ALS - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
AM - see entry
AMA - American Medical Association
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
AMS - American Mathematical Society
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
AOL - America Online
AP - Associated Press
apm - Advanced Power Management
ASA - Acetesalicylic acid - American Standards Association - Army Security Agency - Atlantic Southeast Airlines
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASEAN - Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASIO - Australian Security Intelligence Service
ASL - American Sign Language
ASP - Application service provider
ASP - Active Server Pages
AST - Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-4 hours)
AT&T - American Telephone and Telegraph Company
ATM - automated teller machine - asynchronous transfer mode
ATV - All-Terrain Vehicle
AUC - 1. Latin "AB URBE CONDITA " (from the founding of the city (of Rome ) or "ANNO URBIS CONDITAE" (in the year from the founding of the city (of Rome ) 2. "area under the curve" in the concentration time curve (medicine )
AVO - Apprehended Violence Order
B&W - black and white - Babcock & Wilcox
B2B - Business to Business
B2C - Business to Customer
B2E - Business to Employee
BART - Bay Area Rapid Transit
BASF - Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik
BATF - Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
BB - Brigitte Bardot (actress ) / Boys' Brigade (Christian youth organisation)
BBB - blood-brain barrier - Better Business Bureau
BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation
BBQ - Barbeque
BC - Before Christ / Blind Copy (in emailers)
BCC - Blind Carbon Copy
BCE - Before Common Era - British Columbia Electric - Banque Centrale Européenne
BDA - British Dental Association
BDU - battle-dress uniform
BFE - Beyond/Butt F*****' Egypt (colloquial for "quite far away")
BJT - bipolar junction transistors
BMI - Broadcast Music Incorporated / Body mass index
BMW - Bayerische Motoren Werke/Bavarian motor-works
BMX - Bicycle Motor Cross
BNS - Bank of Nova Scotia
BO2K - Back Orifice 2000
BOAC - British Overseas Airways Corporation
BOFH - Bastard operator from hell
BP - British Petroleum (today, BP doesn't officially stand for everything)
bpm - Beats per minute
BRB - Internet chat abbreviation, "be right back"
BSA - Boy Scouts of America
BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution (distinct from BSoD)
BSE - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy , better known as Mad Cow disease
BSL - British Sign Language
BSoD - Blue screen of death (distinct from BSD)
BST - bovine somatatotrophin hormone - Blended Sales Tax - British Summer Time
BT - British Telecommunications plc
BTO - Built to Order
BTU - British thermal unit
BTW - By the way
BWR - boiling-water reactor
BYOB - Bring your own beverages/bottle
CAIR - Council on American-Islamic Relations
CB - citizens' band radio
CBC - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBM - Canadian Baptist Ministries - Commodore Business Machines
CC - carbon copy
CCCP - Cyrillic letters corresponding SSSR, see USSR
CCD - charge-coupled device
CD - Compact disc
CDC - Centre for Disease Control and prevention - Control Data Corporation
CE - Common (or Christian) Era (cf. AD)
CEO - Chief executive officer
CEPT - Conference Européenne des administration des Postes et des Télécommunications (European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations)
cf. - Latin confer (compare, or see also)
CFG - Context-free grammar , Control flow graph
CIA - Central Intelligence Agency - Culinary Institute of America
CID - Criminal Investigations Department
CIO - Chief information officer - Congress of Industrial Organisations
CIS - Commonwealth of Independent States (former Soviet Union
CJC - Canadian Jewish Congress
CLEC - Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
CLI - command line interfac/interpreter
CMM - Capability Maturity Model
CMOS - complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
CMR - Coaxial Main Rotors (helicopter type)
CMYK - cyan magenta yellow key (colour model)
CND - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
CNN - Cable News Network
CO - Central Office (Phone Company office or POP)
COD - cash on delivery
COLA - cost of living adjustment
CPA - Certified Practicing Accountant
CPPCC - Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
CPU - central processing unit
CQD - come quick, distress (?)
CRC - Christian Reformed Church - Cyclic redundancy check - Chemical Rubber Company
CRM - Customer Relationship Management
CRT - cathode ray tube - Chinese remainder theorem
CRTC - Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
CSA - Confederate States of America - Canadian Standards Association - Canadian Space Agency - Child Support Agency - Czech Airlines - Community Supported Agriculture
CSI - multiple meanings
CSICOP - Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
CSIS - Canadian Security Intelligence Service - Center For Strategic & International Studies
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets - content-scrambling system - cross site scripting
CTSS - Compatible Time-Sharing System
CUPE - Canadian Union of Public Employees
CUPW - Canadian Union of Postal Workers
CV - see entry
CVR - Cockpit voice recorder
CWC - Chemical Weapons Convention
d/b/a - doing business as
DC - da capo - Italian Democrazia Cristiana - direct current - District of Columbia - Douglas Aircraft Company - Dublin Core - duty cycle
DDD - digital digital digital - Data Display Debugger
DDR - Deutsche Demokratische Republik (East Germany)
DDS - Doctor of Dental Surgery
DDT - dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (insecticide)
DEA - Drug Enforcement Agency
DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation - Disasters Emergency Committee - Department of Environmental Conservation
DH, DD, DS - dear husband, dear daughter, dear son (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists, blogs, and bulletin boards)
DHSS - Department of Health and Social Security
DIMM - double in-line memory module
DIY - do it yourself
DMA - direct memory access
DMZ - demilitarized zone
DNA - DeoxyriboNucleic Acid - Douglas Adams
DND - Do Not Disturb - Department of National Defense
DOA - Dead On Arrival
DPCO - double-pole change over
DPDT - double-pole double-throw
DPRK - Democratic People's Republic of Korea
DPST - double-pole single-throw
DRA - Democratic Republic of America
DRAM - dynamic random access memory
DRC - Democratic Republic of the Congo
DREA - Defense Research Establishment Atlantic
DRL - daytime running lights - Dorman Roberts Ltd.
DTL - diode-transistor logic
DTRA - Defence Threat Reduction Agency
DUI - Driving Under the Influence - Data Use Identifier - Data Use Institute - Davis Unified Ignition - Diving Unlimited International - Documento Único de Identidad - Documento Unico de Importación - Duke University Improv
DVD - Digital Versatile Disk (was Digital Video Disk)
DWI - Driving While Intoxicated/Impaired - Dance With Intensity - Danish West Indies - Diffusion-weighted imaging - Direct water injection - Disaster Welfare Inquiry - Drinking Water Inspectorate
EAFUS - "Everything" Added to Food in the United States (FDA list)
EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBE - extraterrestrial biological entity
EBW - exploding bridgewire
ECL - emitter coupled logic
ECS - Extended Chip Set
EEC - European Economical Community
EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation
eg - example gratis (Latin, roughly "for example")
ELF - Earth Liberation Front - Endangered Language Fund - Eritrean Liberation Front - Executable and Linkable Format - Extremely Low Frequencies
EMF - electromotive force
EMO - emergency-measures organisation
EMP - electromagnetic pulse
ENE - east northeast
ERA - earned run average - Engineering Research Associates - Equal Rights Amendment
ERCIM - European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
ESA - European Space Agency
ESE - east southeast
ESP - Extra-Sensory Perception
ETA - estimated time of arrival; Euzkadi Ta Azkatasuna
etc - latin "et cetera" (and remaining)
ETLA - Extended TLA
EU - European Union
EULA - End-User License Agreement
EVA - extra-vehicular activity
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
FASEB - Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
FCM - Fogarty's Cove Music - Federation of Canadian Municipalities
FDR - Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Flight data recorder
FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency
FIU - Florida International University
FLIR - forward looking infrared
FLK - Funny-Looking Kid (medical diagnosis in-joke)
FM - frequency modulation
FMSF False Memory Syndrome Foundation
FPS - First person shooter
FSF - Free Software Foundation
FST - Finlands Svenska Television (Finland's Swedish-language television)
FTL - Faster Than Light
FUBAR - F****d Up Beyond All Repair/Recognition
FUD - Fear Uncertainty Doubt
FWIW - For What It's Worth
FYI - For Your Information
GCD - see entry
GCF - greatest common factor
GDP - gross domestic product
GDR - German Democratic Republic
GE - General Electric - Genetic Engineering (see GM)
GEOS - Graphical Environment Operating System
GEV - Ground Effect Vehicle
GFCI - ground fault circuit interrupter (aka GFI)
GFDL - GNU Free Documentation License
GFI - ground fault interrupter (aka GFCI)
GFY - Internet chat acronym, "good for you", or "go fuck yourself", depending on the context
GI - galvanised iron - government issue - gastro-intestinal
GL - Grenade Launcher
GM - GameMaster (role-playing terminology) / Genetically Modified / General Motors - Guru Meditation
GmbH - Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (German, roughy "Inc" or "Ltd")
GMO - Genetically modified organism
GPIB - General-Purpose Instrumentation/Interface Bus
GPS - Global Positioning System
GRAS - Generally Regarded as Safe (FDA list)
GT - Gran Turismo
GUI - graphical user interface
GUT - grand unification theory
HCF - highest common factor
HDD - hard disk drive - high-density disk
HEPA - High-efficiency particulate air (filter)
HKS - hyperkinetic syndrome
HMCE - Her/His Majesty's Customs and Excise
HMCS - Her/His Majesty's Canadian Ship
HMO - Health Management Organization
HMP - Her (or His) Majesty's Prison
HMS - Her (or His) Majesty's Ship (see Royal Navy )
HMSO - Her (or His) Majesty's Stationery Office
HPGL - Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
HPIB - Hewlett-Packard Instrumentation/Interface Bus
HPV - human papilloma virus
HQ - Headquarters
HRH - His/Her Royal Highness
HSS - High-Speed Steel
HST - see entry
HSV - herpes simplex virus - hue saturation value (colour model )
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
HVP - hydrolized vegetable protein - HarborView Properties - High Vacuum Process
IAAL - I am a lawyer
IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
IAI - International African Institute
IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IANAL - I am not a lawyer
IATA - International Air Transport Association
ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization
ICBM - intercontinental ballistic missile
ICC - International Criminal Court
IDF - Israeli Defence Force
ie - ?? (Latin, roughly "that is")
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IFO - Identified flying object
IHR - Institute for Historical Review
IIRC - If I recall correctly
ILC - International Law Commission
ILO - International Labour Organisation
IMF - International Monetary Fund
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IMO - International Maritime Organization - In My Opinion
IMRI - Industrial Membrane Research Institute - Information Management Research Institute - International Market Research Information - Institut pour le Management de la Recherche et de l'Innovation - intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging
INC - Iraqi National Congress
INLA - Irish National Liberation Army
INRI - Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudæorum (Latin, Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews)
IPN - Instytut Pamieci Narodowej (Institute for National Memory)
IQ - intelligence quotient
IR - infrared
IRA - Individual Retirement Account - Irish Republican Army
IRC - Internet relay chat
IRO - International Refugee Organisation
IRS - Internal Revenue Service
ISA - Individual Savings Account - industry standard architecture - Instruction Set Architecture - International Seabed Authority
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
ITN - Independent Television News (British TV news company)
ITU - International Telecommunication Union (yet to be established)
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
JCS - Joint Chiefs of Staff
JDL - Jewish Defense League
JFK - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
JRA - Japanese Red Army
JW - Jehovah's witness
KARNAC - Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context
KFC - Kentucky Fried Chicken
KGB - Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security - Soviet Intelligence Service
KIA - Killed In Action
KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid
KKK - Ku Klux Klan
LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory
LATA - Local Access Transport Area
LBGT - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
LBJ - Lyndon Johnson - "Lady Bird" Johnson - Lightbulb joke
LCM - least common multiple
LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDS - latter-day saints
LEC - Local Exchange Carrier
LED - Light Emiting Diode
LGB - Lesbian , Gay , Bisexual
LGM - little green men
LIFO - Last In First Out
LMAO - Laughing my a** off.
LMS - London Mathematical Society
LNG - liquefied natural gas
LOL - Laughing Out Loud
LPG - liquefied petroleum gas
LSE - London School of Economics - London Stock Exchange
LSI - Large-Scale Integration
MAA - Mathematical Association of America
MAD - magnetic anomaly detector - mutual assured destruction
MADD - Mothers Against Drunk Driving - Myoadenylate deaminase deficiency
MASH - Mobile army surgical hospital
MBTA - Massachussetts Bay Transit Authority
MCD - minimal cerebral dysfunction
MDF - main distribution frame - medium-density fibreboard
MG - Machine gun
MHz - Megahertz
MIA - Missing in action
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Milli Istihbarad Teskilati (Intelligence service of Turkey)
MITS - see entry
MLA - member of legislative assembly
MMU - Manned Maneuvering Unit
MND - Motor Neurone Disease
MO - modus operandi
MOAB - mother of all bombs
MOPE - Most Oppressed People Ever (politics)
MOSFET - metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors
MP - Member of Parliament - military police - magic points
MRI - magnetic resonance imaging
MS - Master of Science - Microsoft (sometimes M$) - Multiple sclerosis
MSG - Monosodium glutamate
MSIE - Microsoft Internet Explorer
MTR - Main and Tail Rotor (helicopter type)
MTS - Michigan Terminal/Timesharing System - multichannel television sound - Multi-Technical Services
MTV - Music TeleVision; MainosTeleVisio (Finnish commercial TV company)
n/a - not available / Not applicable
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAIRU - Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment
NAMBLA - North American Man-Boy Love Association - National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes
NASA - Nat'l Aeronautics and Space Administration - Never A Straight Answer
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NB - nota bene - New Brunswick
NBC - Nuclear/Biological/Chemical - National Broadcasting Corporation
NC - network computer - non-consensual - normally closed - North Carolina
NDP - New Democratic Party
NE - northeast
NET - National Educational Television
NFER - National Foundation for Educational Research
Nfld - Newfoundland
NG - natural gas - next generation
NGO - non-governmental organization
NHANES - National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
NIH - National Institutes of Health - Not Invented Here
NIMH - nickel metal hydride - National Institute of Medical Herbalists - National Institute of Mental Health
NLP - Natural Language Processing or Neuro Linguistic Programming
NNE - north northeast
NNW - north northwest
NO - normally open
NORML - National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
NPC - Non-Player Character (roleplaying terminology)
NPD - (German)
NPOV - Neutral point of view
NPR - National public radio
NRTA - National Retired Teachers Association - National Rat Terrier Association - Northwest Regional Transmission Association - National Retail Tenants Association
NSA - National Security Agency
NTSC - National Television Standards Committee
NW - northwest
NWFZ - Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone
NYSE - New York Stock Exchange
NZ - New Zealand
OAC - on approved credit
OAU - Organization for African Unity
OBE - Order of the British Empire
OCR - optical character recognition
OCS - see entry
OED - Oxford English Dictionary
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
OJ - orange juice
OO - object oriented - over & out
OOP - object-oriented programming
OSB - oriented-strand board
OSI - Office of Strategic Influence / Ontario Swine Improvement / Open Source Initiative / Open systems interconnect
OSS - Organization of Strategic Services (forerunner of CIA )
OTOH - On The Other Hand
PABX - Private Automated Branch Exchange (company phone system)
PARC - Palo Alto Research Center
PBS - Public Broadcasting Service
PBX - Private Branch Exchange (company phone system)
PC - Personal Computer ; Player Character (roleplaying terminology); Politically Correct(ness)
PCB - see entry
PCC - Presidents Conference Committee
PCMCIA - People Can't Memorise Computer-Industry Acronyms
PCP - phencyclidine - pneumocystis carinii pneumonia - Probabilistically Checkable Proof
PDA - Public display of affection - personal digital assistant - push-down automaton
PDF - portable document format
PDN - pull-down network
PDQ - pretty damn quick (?)
PDRY - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
PET - positron emission tomography - Personal Electronic Transactor
PETA - pentaerythritol triacrylate - People Eating Tasty Animals - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
PFO - Pissed, Fell Over (medical diagnosis in-joke)
PIN - Personal identication Number
PINF - People In Need Foundation (Czech charitable organization)
PIPA - Program on International Policy Attitudes
PLC - (British) public limited company
PLO - Palestine Liberation Organization
PM - post meridian - Prime Minister - phase modulation - Perry Mason
PNAC - Project for the New American Century
PNG - Portable Network Graphic
PNP - Partido Nuevo Progresista - plug 'n' play - positive negative positive
POP - Point of Presence - Post Office Protocol
POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service , also PANS - Pretty Advanced (or Awsome) Network Services
PPP - see entry
PRC - People's Republic of China
PSA - Prostate specific antigen - Production Services Association - Paralysis Society of America - Pharmaceutical Society of Australia - Public Service Association - Public Service Announcement - pressure-sensitive adhesive
PTA - parent-teacher association
PTUI - plain-text user interface
PUG - PET Users Group
PUN - pull-up network
PVC - permanent virtual circuit - polyvinyl chloride - premature ventricular contraction
PWP - Plot, What Plot? (in online fiction, especially fanfic or erotic fiction, to denote plotless, um, "feel-good" stories)
PWR - pressurized water reactor
QANTAS - Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service
QC - Queen's Counsel
QCA - Qualifications and Curriculum Authority - Quality Council of Alberta
QCD - quantum chromodynamics
QED - Latin "quid es demonstrata" (that proves it) - quantum electrodynamics
QSL - Québec sign language
qv - Latin "quod vide" (which see)
R&B - Rhythm and Blues
RA - right ascension
RAF - Royal Air Force ; Red Army Faction
RAM - random-access memory
Rap - Rhythm and poetry
RBOC - Regional Bell operating company ("Baby Bell")
RC - see entry
RCA - Radio Corporation of America
RCAF - Royal Canadian Air Force
RCCO - Royal Canadian College of Organists
RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Police
REACT - Remote Electronically Activated Control Technology
REAM - Retired Educators Association of Minnesota
RFC - request for comments
RGB - red green blue (colour model )
RIAA - Recording Industry Association of America
RIP - Rest in Peace (requiescant in pace)
RMS - Royal Mail Ship (eg RMS Titanic ) - Root-mean-square - Richard Stallman - Rate-monotonic scheduling
RNA - Ribonuclear Acid
ROFL(MAO) - Rolling On the Floor Laughing (My A** Off)
ROM - read-only memory
ROV - remotely operated vehicle
RP - role-playing
RPG - role-playing game ; Rocket Projectile Gun/Rocket Powered Grenade
rpm - Revolutions Per Minute; Red Hat Package Manager
RPN - Reverse Polish Notation
rps - Revolutions Per Second
RTF - Rich Text Format
RTL - resistor-transistor logic
RUC - Royal Ulster Constabulary
SA - Sturmabteilung (Storm Detachment, forerunner and rival of SS)
SAD - Seasonal Affective Disorder
SALT - Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
SAM - sequential-access memory - surface-to-air missile - Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín
SAR - Search and Rescue
SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SAS - Special Air Service ; Scandinavian Airline Systems
SATB - soprano alto tenor bass
SBS - Special Boat Service ; Special Broadcasting Service
SCRAM - safety control rod axe man
SCSI - small computer system interface
SDI - see entry
SDP - Social Democratic Party (European politics)
SE - southeast
SETI - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
SF - San Francisco - science fiction
SGML - Standard Generalised Markup Language
SI - Système International - Socialist International
SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
SIG - Special Interest Group
SIMM - single in-line memory module
SIS - Secret Intelligence Service (also known as MI6 )
SLA - Symbionese Liberation Army
SMDR - Station Message Detail Recording
SMG - Submachine Gun
SNAFU - Situation Normal (All Fouled Up)
SOE - Special Operations Executive (WW2 British organization)
SOL - S**t Out of Luck
SOV - Single occupant vehicle
SPCO - single-pole change over
SPDT - single-pole double-throw
SPQR - Senatus Populus Que Romanus
SPST - single-pole single-throw
SRAM - Static Random Access Memory
SRB - solid rocket booster
SS - Schutzstaffel (elite guard) - Secret Service - Spanish ship - stainless steel - Stockholm Skins - Super Sport
SSDD - same shit, different day - single-sided double-density
SSE - south southeast
SSRI - Social Systems Research Institute - Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
SSW - south southwest
STOL - Short Take Off and Landing
STOVL - Short Take Off and Vertical Landing
STP - standard temperature and pressure
SUB - student-union building
SVO - subject, verb, object
SW - southwest
SWAPO - South West African People's Organization
TATT - Tired All The Time (medical diagnosis in-joke)
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol - trichlorophenol
TGIF - Thank God it's Friday
TGV - Train à Grande Vitesse (high-speed train) - Tanjong Golden Village - Test Generation with Verification
TLA - Three-Letter Acronym
TLC - tender loving care - The Learning Channel
TLD - top-level domain
TM - trademark - Turing machine
TMR - Twin Main Rotors (helicopter type)
TSR - see entry
TTYL - Internet chat acryonym , "talk to you later"
TUG - TeX Users Group
TUI - text user interface
TUNS - Technical University of Nova Scotia
TWAT - The War Against Terror
UBC - united baptist church - University of British Columbia
UCK - acronym for two Albanian guerilla movements
UCLA - University of California Los Angeles
UFO - Unidentified Flying Object
UHF - ultra high frequency
UHMW - ultra-high molecular weight
UL - Underwriters Laboratories
UN - United Nations
UNCF - United Negro College Fund
UNHCR - United Nations High Commission for Refugees
UNSM - Union of Nova Scotian Municipalities
UNVL - University of Nevada, Las Vegas
UPI - United Press International
UPS - United Parcel Service - uninterruptible power supply
UPU - Universal Postal Union
URI - uniform resource identifier
URL - uniform resource locator
USA - United States of America
USAF - United States Air Force
USAPATRIOT - Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
USC - United States Code
USDOE - United States Department of Energy
USGS - United States Geological Survey
USS - United States ship
USSR - United Soviet Socialist Republics (ie. Soviet Union )
UV - ultraviolet
VAT - value-added tax
VHF - very high frequency
VIP - very important person
VLSI - Very-Large-Scale Integration
VNS - vagus nerve stimulation
VP - vice-president
VSO - Voluntary Services Overseas
VTOL - Vertical Takeoff & Landing
VV - Via Voice - Village Voice W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
WASP - white anglo-saxon protestant
WB - Warner Brothers
WC - Winston Churchill - water closet
WCL - World Confederation of Labour
WFP - World Food Program
WHO - World Health Organization
WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organization
WMO - World Meteorological Organization
WNW - west northwest
WOLOG - without loss of generality
WORM - write once read many
WRT - with respect to
WSJ - Wall Street Journal
WSW - west southwest
WTC - World Trade Center
WTO - World Trade Organization
WW1 (or WWI) - World War One
WW2 (or WWII) - World War Two
WWF - World Wildlife Fund ; World Wrestling Federation
WWW - World Wide Web
YMCA - Young Men's Christian Association
YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary
YWCA - Young Women's Christian Association
ZOPFAN - Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality
See also:
Abbreviations used in CIA World Factbook
Wikipedia:Disambiguation/Abbreviations
List of acronyms
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