Index: Vienna/acronyms.lst ================================================================== --- Vienna/acronyms.lst +++ Vienna/acronyms.lst @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Ý -[Acronyms.Lst Version 3.00 20/3/2011 +[Acronyms.Lst Version 3.03 2012-03-18 [Compiled by p_elphick@cix.co.uk aka cotal@cotal.co.uk, and gidds@cix.co.uk] [This file is copyright and may not be re-distributed outside the CIX conferencing system without permission] [topic info] ameol @@ -10,15 +10,161 @@ chatter Ý [common] 1-D-R (I) wonder +10-0 caution +10-1 signal weak +10-10 negative / fight in progress +10-100 toilet break +10-11 (name) on duty / dog case +10-12 stand by (stop) +10-13 existing conditions / weather report +10-14 message/information / prowler report +10-15 message delivered / civil disturbance +10-16 reply to message / domestic disturbance +10-17 en route +10-18 urgent +10-19 (in) contact / return (to) +10-2 signal good +10-20 location +10-200 police needed +10-21 call (name) by phone +10-22 disregard +10-23 arrived at scene +10-24 assignment completed +10-25 report to (meet) +10-26 estimated arrival time / detaining subject +10-27 licence/permit information +10-28 ownership information +10-29 records check +10-3 stop transmitting +10-30 danger/caution +10-31 pick up / crime in progress +10-32 (number) units needed / man with gun +10-33 help me quick (emergency) +10-34 time / riot +10-35 confidential info / major crime alert +10-36 correct time +10-37 wrecker needed / suspicious vehicle +10-38 ambulance needed / stopping suspicious vehicle +10-39 your message delivered / urgent (use light, siren) +10-4 affirmative +10-40 out for meal / silent run (no light, siren) +10-5 relay (to) +10-6 busy +10-7 out of service +10-8 in service +10-9 say again (repeat) +1000BASE-BX10 1 Gbit/sec Baseband fibre-optic 10km (Ethernet) +1000BASE-CX 1 Gbit/sec Baseband Copper (Ethernet) +1000BASE-LX 1 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-Reach fibre-optic (Ethernet) +1000BASE-LX10 1 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-Reach fibre-optic 10km (Ethernet) +1000BASE-SX 1 Gbit/sec Baseband Short-Range fibre-optic (Ethernet) +1000BASE-T 1 Gbit/sec Baseband Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +1000BASE-TX 1 Gbit/sec Baseband Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +1000BASE-X 1 Gbit/sec Baseband fibre-optic (Ethernet) +1000BASE-ZX 1 Gbit/sec Baseband fibre-optic 70km (Ethernet) +1000BaseBX10 1 Gbit/sec Baseband fibre-optic 10km (Ethernet) +1000BaseCX 1 Gbit/sec Baseband Copper (Ethernet) +1000BaseLX 1 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-Reach fibre-optic (Ethernet) +1000BaseLX10 1 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-Reach fibre-optic 10km (Ethernet) +1000BaseSX 1 Gbit/sec Baseband Short-Range fibre-optic (Ethernet) +1000BaseT 1 Gbit/sec Baseband Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +1000BaseTX 1 Gbit/sec Baseband Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +1000BaseX 1 Gbit/sec Baseband fibre-optic (Ethernet) +1000BaseZX 1 Gbit/sec Baseband fibre-optic 70km (Ethernet) +100BASE-BX 100 Mbit/sec Baseband fibre-optic (Ethernet) +100BASE-FX 100 Mbit/sec Baseband Fibre-optic pair (Ethernet) +100BASE-LX10 100 Mbit/sec Baseband Long-reach 2× fibre-optic 10km (Ethernet) +100BASE-SX 100 Mbit/sec Baseband Short-wavelength fibre-optic pair (Ethernet) +100BASE-T 100 Mbit/sec Baseband Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +100BASE-T2 100 Mbit/sec Baseband 2× Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +100BASE-T4 100 Mbit/sec Baseband 4× Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +100BASE-TX 100 Mbit/sec Baseband 2× Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +100BaseBX 100 Mbit/sec Baseband fibre-optic (Ethernet) +100BaseFX 100 Mbit/sec Baseband Fibre-optic pair (Ethernet) +100BaseLX10 100 Mbit/sec Baseband Long-reach 2× fibre-optic 10km (Ethernet) +100BaseSX 100 Mbit/sec Baseband Short-wavelength fibre-optic pair (Ethernet) +100BaseT 100 Mbit/sec Baseband Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +100BaseT2 100 Mbit/sec Baseband 2× Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +100BaseT4 100 Mbit/sec Baseband 4× Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +100BaseTX 100 Mbit/sec Baseband 2× Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +100GbE 100 Gbit/sec Ethernet +1040ST = Atari ST with 1MB RAM +1040STE = Atari STE with 1MB RAM +1040STF = Atari ST with 1MB RAM and FDD +1040STFM = Atari ST with 1MB RAM, FDD, and TV modulator +1040STM = Atari ST with 1MB RAM and TV modulator +10BASE-F 10 Mbit/sec Baseband Fibre-optic (Ethernet) +10BASE-FB 10 Mbit/sec Baseband Fibre Backbone (Ethernet) +10BASE-FL 10 Mbit/sec Baseband Fibre-optic Link (Ethernet) +10BASE-T 10 Mbit/sec Baseband Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +10BASE2 10 Mbit/sec Baseband 200m (Ethernet) +10BASE5 10 Mbit/sec Baseband 500m (Ethernet) +10BaseF 10 Mbit/sec Baseband Fibre-optic (Ethernet) +10BaseFB 10 Mbit/sec Baseband Fibre Backbone (Ethernet) +10BaseFL 10 Mbit/sec Baseband Fibre-optic Link (Ethernet) +10BaseT 10 Mbit/sec Baseband Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +10BROAD36 10 Mbit/sec Broadband 3600m (Ethernet) +10G-PON 10 Gbit/sec Passive Optical Network +10GBASE-CR 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Copper (Ethernet) +10GBASE-CX1 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Copper (Ethernet) +10GBASE-CX4 10 Gbit/sec Baseband 4× Copper (Ethernet) +10GBASE-E 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Extended-reach (Ethernet) +10GBASE-ER 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Extended-Reach fibre-optic (Ethernet) +10GBASE-EW 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Extended-reach WAN (Ethernet) +10GBASE-KR 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Backplane (Ethernet) +10GBASE-KX4 10 Gbit/sec Baseband 4× Backplanes (Ethernet) +10GBASE-L 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-reach (Ethernet) +10GBASE-LR 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-Reach fibre-optic (Ethernet) +10GBASE-LRM 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-Reach Multi-mode fibre-optic (Ethernet) +10GBASE-LW 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-Reach WAN (Ethernet) +10GBASE-LX4 10 Gbit/sec Baseband 4× Laser fibre-optic (Ethernet) +10GBASE-S 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Short-range (Ethernet) +10GBASE-SR 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Short-Range fibre-optic (Ethernet) +10GBASE-SW 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Short-range WAN (Ethernet) +10GBASE-T 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +10GBASE-W 10 Gbit/sec Baseband WAN (Ethernet) +10GBASE-ZR 10 Gbit/sec Baseband fibre-optic 80km (Ethernet) +10GBASE-ZW 10 Gbit/sec Baseband WAN 80km (Ethernet) +10GBaseCR 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Copper (Ethernet) +10GBaseCX1 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Copper (Ethernet) +10GBaseCX4 10 Gbit/sec Baseband 4× Copper (Ethernet) +10GBaseE 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Extended-reach (Ethernet) +10GBaseER 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Extended-Reach fibre-optic (Ethernet) +10GBaseEW 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Extended-reach WAN (Ethernet) +10GBaseKR 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Backplane (Ethernet) +10GBaseKX4 10 Gbit/sec Baseband 4× Backplanes (Ethernet) +10GBaseL 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-reach (Ethernet) +10GBaseLR 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-Reach fibre-optic (Ethernet) +10GBaseLRM 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-Reach Multi-mode fibre-optic (Ethernet) +10GBaseLW 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-Reach WAN (Ethernet) +10GBaseLX4 10 Gbit/sec Baseband 4× Laser fibre-optic (Ethernet) +10GBaseS 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Short-range (Ethernet) +10GBaseSR 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Short-Range fibre-optic (Ethernet) +10GBaseSW 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Short-range WAN (Ethernet) +10GBaseT 10 Gbit/sec Baseband Twisted-pair (Ethernet) +10GBaseW 10 Gbit/sec Baseband WAN (Ethernet) +10GBaseZR 10 Gbit/sec Baseband fibre-optic 80km (Ethernet) +10GBaseZW 10 Gbit/sec Baseband WAN 80km (Ethernet) +10GbE 10 Gbit/sec Ethernet +10GE 10 Gbit/sec Ethernet +10GigE 10 Gbit/sec Ethernet +10PASS-TS 10 Mbit/sec Passband Copper (Ethernet) +10x thanks +12 No viewing, rental, or purchase by children under 12 (UK movie rating) 121 One-To-One +12A No children under 12 unless accompanied by an adult (UK movie rating) +13W3 D-subminiature 13-pin connector with 3 wide pins (Sun/SGI/IBM monitors &c) 143 I Love You +14344 I Love You Very Much 14A&A41 One For All And All For One 14AA41 One For All And All For One 14AAA41 One For All And All For One +15 No children under 15 admitted (UK movie rating) +18 No children under 18 admitted (UK movie rating) 1D One-Dimensional 1DMPWC One Day My Prince Will Come 1DR (I) wonder 1FTR One For The Road 1G First-Generation @@ -26,59 +172,93 @@ 1L&L One Lives And Learns 1LAL One Lives And Learns 1M&HD ‘One Man And His Dog’ 1MAHD ‘One Man And His Dog’ 1NF First Normal Form (databases) -1OTD One Of These Days -1OTT One Of Those Things +1oTD One Of These Days +1oTT One Of Those Things 1P&TD One Person And Their Dog 1PATD One Person And Their Dog 1SAAT One Step At A Time 1TBS One True Brace Style 1VHB One Very Happy Bunny 24/7 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 2B very black (pencils) +2BASE-TL Full-duplex Baseband Copper (Ethernet) 2D Two-Dimensional 2G Second-Generation 2GL Second-Generation Language 2H very hard (pencils) +2M Too Much +2MFM Too Much For Me +2MI Too Much Information 2NF Second Normal Form (databases) +2U to you +2U2 to you, too +2VSB 2-state Vestigial Side-Band modulation 3D Three-Dimensional 3DES Triple Data Encryption Standard 3G Third-Generation 3GL Third-Generation Language 3GPP Third-Generation Partnership Project (telecoms) 3I Investors In Industry 3M Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. -3NL Third Normal Form (databases) +3NF Third Normal Form (databases) 3WC Three-Way Call +40GBASE-CR4 40 Gbit/sec Baseband Copper (Ethernet) +40GBASE-KR4 40 Gbit/sec Baseband Backplane (Ethernet) +40GBASE-LR4 40 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-reach fibre-optic (Ethernet) +40GBASE-SR4 40 Gbit/sec Baseband Short-Range fibre-optic (Ethernet) +40GBaseCR4 40 Gbit/sec Baseband Copper (Ethernet) +40GBaseKR4 40 Gbit/sec Baseband Backplane (Ethernet) +40GBaseLR4 40 Gbit/sec Baseband Long-reach fibre-optic (Ethernet) +40GBaseSR4 40 Gbit/sec Baseband Short-Range fibre-optic (Ethernet) +40GbE 40 Gbit/sec Ethernet +4AYK For All You Know +4COL For Crying Out Loud 4D Four-Dimensional 4G Fourth-Generation 4GL Fourth-Generation Language 4MTA 4-Methylthioamphetamine -4NL Fourth Normal Form (databases) +4NF Fourth Normal Form (databases) 4S Super Safe, Small, and Simple (Toshiba reactor) +4VSB 4-state Vestigial Side-Band modulation 4WD Four-Wheel Drive +520ST = Atari ST with 512KB RAM +520STE = Atari STE with 512KB RAM +520STF = Atari ST with 512KB RAM and FDD +520STFM = Atari ST with 512KB RAM, FDD, and TV modulator +520STM = Atari ST with 512KB RAM and TV modulator 5D Five-dimensional 5G Fifth-Generation 5GL Fifth-Generation Language -5NL Fifth Normal Form (databases) +5NF Fifth Normal Form (databases) 5PT Piss-Poor Protoplasm, Poorly Put Together 6NF Sixth Normal Form (databases) +73 best wishes 7DAW Seven Days A Week 86 stop -9TOO10 Nine Times Out Of Ten +88 love and kisses +8BITMIME = SMTP extension for 8-bit data in email +8PSK 8-state Phase-Shift Keying +8VSB 8-state Vestigial Side-Band modulation +9Too10 Nine Times out of Ten A ampere -A&E Accident & Emergency / Arts & Entertainment +A&AEE Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment +A&B Assault and Battery +A&E Accident and Emergency / Arts and Entertainment A&K Alive and Kicking -A&M Armstrong & Miller / ‘Hymns Ancient and Modern’ / Agricultural & Mechanical +A&M Armstrong & Miller / ‘Hymns Ancient and Modern’ / Agricultural and Mechanical A&P The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company -A&R Artist and Repertoire division +A&R Artistes and Repertoire A&S Alive and Smiling +A&SH Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders A-FLT Advanced Forward-Link Trilateration (telecoms) +A-G Adjutant-General A/C Air Conditioning -A/D Analog/Digital +A/Cdre Air Commodore +A/D Analogue/Digital A/S Age/Sex A/S/L Age, Sex, Location A/S/L/M/H Age, Sex, Location, Music, Hobbies A0 841×1189mm (paper size) A1 Ameol v1 / Great North Road from London to Edinburgh / 594×841mm (paper size) @@ -97,11 +277,11 @@ A20 road from London to Dover A205 South Circular Road (London) A21 road from London to Hastings A22 road from Purley to Eastbourne A23 road from London to Brighton -A24 road from Clapham to Worthing & Littlehampton +A24 road from Clapham to Worthing and Littlehampton A25 road from Wrotham Heath to Guildford A26 road from Maidstone to Newhaven A27 road from Whiteparish to Pevensey A28 road from Margate to Baldslow A29 road from Capel to Bognor Regis @@ -182,640 +362,960 @@ A95 road from Aviemore to Banff A96 road from Aberdeen to Inverness A97 road from Banff to Dinnet A98 road from Fraserburgh to Fochabers A99 road from Latheron to John o'Groats -AA Alcoholics Anonymous / Automobile Association / Adiós, Amigo / Always Allowed / Attendee Allowance / Anti-Aliasing / Acceptable Acronym +AA Alcoholics Anonymous / Automobile Association / Adiós, Amigo / Anti-Aircraft / Always Allowed / Attendee Allowance / Anti-Aliasing / Acceptable Acronym / Architectural Association aA attoampere (10^-18 amperes) -AAA Amateur Athletic Association / Any Advice Appreciated / As An Aside / Activates Acronym Add-on / Ars Antiqua Austria / American Accounting Association / Administration, Authorisation, and Authentication +AA&QMG Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General +AAA Amateur Athletic Association (now BAF) / Any Advice Appreciated / As An Aside / Activates Acronym Add-on / Ars Antiqua Austria / American Automobile/Accounting/Ambulance/Anthropological Association / Administration, Authorisation, and Authentication / Accurate, Adequate, and Appropriate AAAAA American Association Against Acronym Abuse AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science / American Academy of Arts and Sciences AAATIIASOAIIA Aiding And Abetting The Introduction Into A Sentence Of An Illegal Immigrant Apostrophe AAAV Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle AAB As A Bonus AABB Axis-Aligned Bounding Box +AABC Architect Accredited in Building Conservation AABIAR As A Bug In A Rug AAC Advanced Audio Coding / Assistant Area Commissioner / (UK) Army Air Corps +AACCA Associate of the Association of Certified Corporate Accountants AACS Advanced Access Content System AAD Analogue–Analogue–Digital mastering +AADipl Diploma of the Architectural Association AADT Annual Average Daily Traffic -AAF Arse About Face / As A Friend +AAF Arse About Face / As A Friend / Auxiliary Air Force +AAFCE Allied Air Forces, Central Europe +AAFM American Academy of Financial Management +AAG Assistant Adjutant-General +AAGBI Associate of the Anæsthetists of Great Britain and Ireland AAGR Average Annual Growth Rate -AAI Alliance of American Insurers / Applied Artificial Intelligence +AAI Alliance of American Insurers / Applied Artificial Intelligence / Associate of the Chartered Auctioneers' and Estate Agents' Institute AAIB (UK) Air Accidents Investigation Branch AAIDK Another Acronym I Didn't Know +AAIM Associate of the Australian Institute of Management AAIR Anyway, As I Recall -AAK Alive And Kicking +AaK Alive and Kicking AAL ATM Adaptation Layer AALC ATM Adaptation Layer Connection -AAM Academy of Ancient Music / Air-to-Air Missile -AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact -AAMOI As A Matter Of Interest +AALPA Association of Incorporated Auctioneers and Landed Property +AAM Academy of Ancient Music / Air-to-Air Missile / Association of Assistant Mistresses in Secondary Schools +AAMC Australian Army Medical Corps +AaMoF As a Matter of Fact +AaMoI As a Matter of Interest AANEAS Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey -AAPOI As A Point Of Interest +AAPG American Association of Petroleum Geologists +AaPoI As a Point of Interest AAR At Any Rate / As A Rule / Average Annual Return AARP AppleTalk Address-Resolution Protocol / American Association of Retired Persons AAS Alive And Smiling / Advanced Automation System -AAT Average Access Time +AASA Associate of the Australian Society of Accountants +AAT Average Access Time / Apple Advanced Typography / Association of Accounting Technicians AATJ And All That Jazz AATK Always At The Keyboard AAV Amphibious Assault Vehicle AAWBRA Any Assistance Would Be Really Appreciated AAWMV And Always Wear My Vest AAYF As Always, Your Friend -AB Arse-Backwards / Absolute Bollocks / Able seaman / Aktiebolag (= Ltd co. in Sweden &c) / Akcine bendrove (= PLC in Lithuania) -ABA American Bankers/Baptist/Bar/Booksellers/Bus/Basketball/Bicycle/BRidge Association / Australian Broadcasting Authority / Amateur Boxing Association of England / Applied Behaviour Analysis +AB Arse-Backwards / Absolute Bollocks / Able-Bodied seaman / Bachelor of Arts (USA) / Aktiebolag (= Ltd co. in Sweden &c) / Akcine bendrove (= PLC in Lithuania) +ABA American Bankers/Baptist/Bar/Booksellers/Bus/Basketball/Bicycle/Bridge Association / Australian Broadcasting Authority / Amateur Boxing Association of England / Applied Behaviour Analysis / Associate of the British Archæological Association ABB Age Before Beauty / Activity-Based Budgeting ABBA Agnetha (Fältskog), Björn (Ulvaeus), Benny (Andersson), Anni-Frid (Lyngstad) -ABC Airways, Breathing, Circulation (first aid) / Active Body Control / Anti-lock Brake Controller / Acceptable Behaviour Contracts / Already Been Chewed / American Broadcasting Company +ABC alphabet / Airways, Breathing, Circulation (first aid) / Active Body Control / Anti-lock Brake Controller / Acceptable Behaviour Contracts / Archbishop of Canterbury / Already Been Chewed / American Broadcasting Company / Abacavir / Atomic, Biological, and Chemical weapons +ABCA Army Bureau of Current Affairs +ABCC Association of British Chambers of Commerce ABCD Any Bozo Can Do ABCL Actor-Based Concurrent Language +ABCM Associate of the British College of Music ABCP Asset-Backed Commercial Paper -ABD All But Dissertation +ABD All But Dissertation / Association of British Drivers ABEE Anonimi Biomixaniki Emporiki Eteria (= co. in Greece) -ABI Application Binary Interface / Absolute Breadth Index +ABH Actual Bodily Harm +ABI Application Binary Interface / Absolute Breadth Index / Association of British Insurers +ABIA Associate of the Bankers' Institute of Australia +ABIBA Associate of the British Institute of Brokers Association +ABIM Associate of the British Institute of Management (now ACMI) +ABIPP Associate of the British Institute of Professional Photographers ABITHIWTITB A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush ABL American Basketball League ABLE AirBorne Law Enforcement ABM Anti-Ballistic Missile / Asynchronous Balanced Mode (HDLC) / Automated Banking Machine / Activity-Based Management ABNF Augmented Backus-Naur Form -ABOF&L ‘A Bit Of Fry And Laurie’ -ABOFAL ‘A Bit Of Fry And Laurie’ +ABoF&L ‘A Bit of Fry and Laurie’ +ABoFaL ‘A Bit of Fry and Laurie’ +ABP Associated British Ports (was BTDB) ABPI Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry +ABPS Associate of the British Psychological Society aBq attobequerel (10^-18 bequerels) ABR Average Bit-Rate (MP3 encoding) / Auto Baud-Rate detection / Area Border Router +ABRC Advisory Board for the Research Councils ABRSM Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music ABS Anti-lock Braking System / Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (plastic) / Automated Bond System +ABSA Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts ABSL Assistant Beaver Scout Leader ABT about / A Bad Thing ABT2 About To -ABV Alcohol By Volume +ABTA Association of British Travel Agents +AbV Alcohol by Volume +ABWR Advanced Boiling-Water Reactor ABZ Aberdeen Airport +AC Alternating Current / Air Conditioning / Access Control / Area Commissioner / Acoustic Coupler / Ascension Island (ISO code, reserved) / Companion of the Order of Australia Ac actinium -AC Alternating Current / Air Conditioning / Access Control / Area Commissioner / Acoustic Coupler aC attocoulomb (10^-18 coulombs) AC/DC Alternating Current/Direct Current -ACA American Canine Association +ACA Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants / American Canine Association +ACAA Associate of the Australian Institute of Cost Accountants ACACOAFTAL Assistant Curator And Collector Of Acronyms For The Acronyms List +ACARD Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development ACARS Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System -ACAS The Advisory, Conciliation, and Arbitration Service +ACAS Advisory, Conciliation, and Arbitration Service ACATS Automated Customer Account Transfer Service -ACB Any Colour But… / Adjusted Cost Base / Australian Classification Board +ACB Any Colour But... / Adjusted Cost Base / Australian Classification Board ACBB Any Colour But Black/Blue ACBG Any Colour But Green/Grey ACBO Any Colour But Orange ACBR Any Colour But Red +ACBSI Associate of the Chartered Building Societies Institute ACBW Any Colour But White ACBY Any Colour But Yellow -ACC Assistant County Commissioner / Automatic Climate Control / Arthur C. Clarke -ACCA The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants / Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment +ACC Assistant County Commissioner / Automatic Climate Control / Arthur Charles Clarke / Association of County Councils +ACCA Association of Chartered Certified Accountants / Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment / Associate of the Association of Certified Accountants ACCAC Awdurdod Cymwysterau, Cwricwlwm ac Asesu Cymru (= Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales) +ACCM Advisory Council for the Church's Ministry +ACCS Associate of the Corporation of Secretaries ACD Alt+Control+Delete / Asia Co-operation Dialogue / Automatic Call Distributor acd attocandela (10^-18 candelas) ACDC Alternating Current, Direct Current +AcDipEd Academic Diploma in Education +ACDS Assistant Chief of Defence Staff ACDT Apple Certified Desktop Technician / Australian Central Daylight Time (= UTC+10:30) -ACE Access Control Entity / Allied Command Europe / Automatic Computing Engine / Advanced Computing Environment +ACE Access Control Entity / Allied Command, Europe / Automatic Computing Engine / Advanced Computing Environment / American Council on Education / Association of Consulting Engineers / Artificial Conversational Entity ACELP Algebraic Code-Excited Linear Prediction -ACF Advanced Communications Function +ACENVO Association of Chief Executives of National Voluntary Organisation +ACEVO Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations +ACF Advanced Communications Function / Army Cadet Force ACF-NCP Advanced Communications Function — Network Control Program +ACFA Army Cadet Forces Association ACFNCP Advanced Communications Function — Network Control Program +ACG Assistant Chaplain-General +ACGI Associate of the City and Guilds of London Institute +ACGS Assistant Chief of General Staff ACH (US) Automated Clearing House ACHPR African Commission/Charter/Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ACHT Average Call Hold Time ACI Alderney Airport -ACID Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (in databases) +ACIArb Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators +ACIB Associate of the Corporation of Insurance Brokers +ACID Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (in databases) / Anti-Copying In Design (UK pressure group) +ACII Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institution +ACInstT Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (was AInstT) ACINT Acoustic Intelligence +ACIOB Associate of the Chartered Institute of Building +ACIS Associate of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators +ACIT Associate of the Chartered Institute of Transport ACK Acknowledge(d) / Amsterdam Compiler Kit ACL Access Control List / Active Current Loop +ACLB Anthony Charles Lyton Blair (= ex-Prime Minster Tony Blair) ACLU American Civil Liberties Union -ACM Association for Computing Machinery +ACM Association for Computing Machinery / Air Chief Marshal / Air Combat Manœuvring +ACMA Associate of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants ACMD (UK) Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs ACME Automated Classification of Medical Entities -ACP Airline Control Program / Algebra of Communicating Processes +ACMI Associate of the Chartered Management Institute +ACNS Assistant Chief of Naval Staff +ACORD Advisory Committee on Research and Development +ACOS A Communications Operating System / Assistant Chief of Staff +ACOST Advisory Council on Science and Technology +ACP Airline Control Program / Algebra of Communicating Processes / Association of Clinical Pathologists ACPF Arithmetically-Challenged; Possibly Fibbing ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPO Association of Chief Police Officers +ACPOS Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland ACR Anonymous Call Rejection / Allowed Cell Rate / Attenuation-to-Crosstalk Ratio ACRB Australian Classification Review Board +ACRE Action with Rural Communities in England ACRONYM Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning / A Contrived Reduction Of Nouns, Yielding Mnemonics ACRS Accelerated Cost-Recovery System +ACS American Chemical Society +ACSEA Allied Command South East Asia ACSL Assistant Cub Scout Leader ACST Australian Central Standard Time (= UTC+9:30) -ACT Australian Capital Territory / Automated Confirmation Transaction service / ASEAN Common Time (= UTC+8) +ACT Australian Capital Territory / Automated Confirmation Transaction service / American College Test / ASEAN Common Time (= UTC+8) / Australian College of Theology ACTA Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement +ACTT Association of Cinematograph, Television, and Allied Technicians ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions ACU American Conservative Union / Asian Currency Unit ACV Armoured Combat Vehicle -ACW American Civil War -AD Anno Domini (= year of our Lord) / MS Active Directory / Administrative Domain / = PLC in Serbia &c +ACVO Assistant Chief Veterinary Officer +ACW American Civil War / Ain't CIX Wonderful? +ACWA Associate of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants +AD Anno Domini (= year of our Lord) / MS Active Directory / Administrative Domain / Anti-Depressant / Army Dental Corps / Dame of the Order of Australia / = PLC in Serbia &c AD&D Accidental Death and Dismemberment (insurance) / Advanced Dungeons And Dragons ADA Acceptable Daily Amount / Assistant District Attorney ADAD Another Day, Another Dollar -ADB Apple Desktop Bus / African/Asian Development Bank / Absolute Debugger / Advanced Digital Broadcast / Android Debug Bridge +ADAS Agricultural Development and Advisory Service (MAFF) +ADAT Alesis Digital Audio Tape (8 tracks on S-VHS) +ADB Apple Desktop Bus / African/Asian Development Bank / Absolute Debugger / Advanced Digital Broadcast / Android Debug Bridge / Associate of the Drama Board ADBB All Done — Bye-Bye! -ADC Analogue-to-Digital Converter / Assistant District Commissioner / Apple Display Connector +ADC Analogue-to-Digital Converter / Assistant District Commissioner / Apple Display Connector / Aide-de-Camp +ADC(P) Personal Aide-de-Camp (to HM The Queen) ADCCP Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures +ADCM Associate Diploma in Church Music ADCMS And Don't Call Me ‘Shirley’ -ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC Administrative Command, Subordinate Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet AdComSubordComPhibsPac Administrative Command, Subordinate Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet ADD Attention-Deficit Disorder / Analogue–Digital–Digital mastering ADDIE Analyse, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate -ADF Adapter Definition File (see MCA) +ADEL Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language +ADEME Assistant Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering +ADF Adapter Definition File (see MCA) / Audio Distribution Frame (cabling) ADFS Active Directory Federation Services / Advanced Disk Filing System / Advanced Distributed File-System / Apple DOS File-System ADGB Air Defence of Great Britain ADGR All Donations Gratefully Received ADHD Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHS Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome ADHSR Attack, Decay, Hold, Sustain, Release ADI Acceptable Daily Intake ADIH Another Day In Hell ADIP Address In Pre-groove (DVD+R) / Another Day In Paradise -ADL Anti-Defamation League +ADIRS Air Data Inertial Reference System +ADIRU Air Data Inertial Reference Unit +Adj-Gen Adjutant-General +ADL Anti-Defamation League / Advance/Decline Line (finance) ADM Annual Divisional Meeting / Assistant Deputy Minister +ADME Assistant Director of Mechanical Engineering +ADMS Assistant Director of Medical Services +ADMT Associate Diploma in Music Teaching ADN Any Day Now +ADNI Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence ADO ActiveX Data Objects (Windows) ADOA Air Defence Operations Area +ADOS Assistant Director of Ordnance Service / Attention Defici... Oooh, Shiny! ADP Automated Data Processing / Adenosine diphosphate -ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (audio compression based on PCM) -ADR Additional/Automated Dialogue Recording/Replacement / Accident Data Recorder / Adverse Drug Reaction / American Depository Receipt / Alternative Dispute Resolution / Advanced Digital Ratio Testing Service / Artificial Disc Replacement / Australian Design Rules / Average Daily Rate / Analogue-to-Digital Recorder / Accord européen relatif au transport international des marchandises Dangereuses par Route (= EACDGR) -ADS Attack, Decay, Sustain / Alternate Data Streams +ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse-Code Modulation (audio compression based on PCM) +ADPR Assistant Director of Public Relations +ADR Additional/Automated Dialogue Recording/Replacement / Accident Data Recorder / Adverse Drug Reaction / American Depository Receipt / Alternative Dispute Resolution / Advanced Digital Ratio Testing Service / Artificial Disc Replacement / Australian Design Rules / Average Daily Rate / Analogue-to-Digital Recorder +ADS Attack, Decay, Sustain / Alternate Data Streams (NTFS) / Advance Direction Sign +ADS&T Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport ADSHR Attack, Decay, Sustain, Hold, Release ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ADSR Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release ADSSR Attack, Decay, Slope, Sustain, Release ADSTIZ Aktsionerno Druzhestvo Sus Spetsialna Investitsionna Tsel (= real-estate investment trust in Bulgaria) ADT Abstract Data Type / Atlantic Daylight Time (= UTC-3) ADTS Audio Data Transport Stream ADTV Average Daily Trading Volume -AE Adaptive Equaliser / Anonimi Eteria (= PLC in Greece) +Adv-Gen Advocate-General +ADVS Assistant Director of Veterinary Services +ADX Average Directional Index (finance) +AE Adaptive Equaliser / Anonimi Eteria (= PLC in Greece) / United Arab Emirates (ISO code) +AEA Atomic Energy Authority / Air Efficiency Award +AEAD Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (cryptography mode) +AEAF Allied Expeditionary Air Force AEAP As Early As Possible -AEC (US) Atomic Energy Commission -AED United Arab Emirates Dirhams (ccy) +AEC (US) Atomic Energy Commission / Army Educational Corps (now RAEC) +AED Air Efficiency Decoration / United Arab Emirates Dirhams (ccy) AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time (= UTC+11) -AER Annual Equivalent Rate -AES Advanced Encryption Standard +AEEU Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (now AMICUS) +AEF Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers +AEGIS Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions +AEM Air Efficiency Medal +AER Annual Equivalent Rate / Army/Air Emergency Reserve +AERE Atomic Energy Research Establishment +AES Advanced Encryption Standard / Acoustic Echo Suppressor / Audio Engineering Society / Application Environment Services (Atari TOS) +AES-128 Advanced Encryption Standard with 128-bit key +AES-192 Advanced Encryption Standard with 192-bit key +AES-256 Advanced Encryption Standard with 256-bit key +AES10 Audio Engineering Society standard 10 (= MADI) +AES128 Advanced Encryption Standard with 128-bit key +AES192 Advanced Encryption Standard with 192-bit key +AES256 Advanced Encryption Standard with 256-bit key AESL Assistant Explorer Scout Leader AEST Australian Eastern Standard Time (= UTC+10) -aeV atto electron volt (10^-18 electron volts) +AEU Amalgamated Engineering Union +aeV atto-electron volt (10^-18 electron volts) AEW Airborne Early Warning / Airborne Electronic Warfare +AF Auto-Focus / Audio Frequency / Air Force / Anisotropic Filtering / Afghanistan (ISO code) aF attofarad (10^-18 farads) -AF Auto-Focus / Audio Frequency / Anisotropic Filtering AFA (UK) Association of Flight Attendants AFACT Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft +AFAEP Association of Fashion, Advertising, and Editorial Photographers AFAGAY A Friend As Good As You -AFAHMASP A Fool And His Money Are Soon Parted +AFahMaSP A Fool and his Money are Soon Parted AFAIAA As Far As I Am Aware AFAIAC As Far As I Am Concerned AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned AFAICR As Far As I Can Recall AFAICS As Far As I Can See AFAICT As Far As I Can Tell AFAICWO As Far As I Can Work Out AFAIK As Far As I Know +AFAIM Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management AFAIR As Far As I Remember/Recall AFAIU As Far As I Understand AFAIUI As Far As I Understand It AFAP As Far As Possible AFATAC As Far As They Are Concerned AFAWCT As Far As We Can Tell AFAYC As Far As You're Concerned AFAYK As Far As You Know -AFB Away From Brain -AFC Away From Computer / Air Force Cross +AFB Away From Brain / Air Force Base (USA) +AFBPsS Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society +AFC Away From Computer / Air Force Cross / Association Football Club +AFCENT Allied Forces Central Europe +AFCIA Associate Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautical Institute AFCPS Any Fool Can Plainly See AFD April Fool's Day / Active Format Description (digital TV) AFDA A Few Days Ago -AFDB A Few Days Back +AFDB A Few Days Back / African Development Bank +AfDB African Development Bank AFDN Any F***ing Day Now AFFE Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses -AFI American Film Institute +AFGI Associate Fellow of the Grocers' Institute +AFHQ Allied Forces Headquarters +AFI Associate of the Faculty of Insurance / American Film Institute +AFIMA Associate Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications AFINIAFI A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed AFJ April Fool's Joke AFK Away From Keyboard -AFL Academic Free Licence / Australian Football League +AFL Academic Free Licence / Australian Football League / American Federation of Labour +AFM Air Force Medal AFN All For Now / American Forces Network / Afghan Afghanis (ccy) -AFOAL A F*** Of A Lot +AFNOR Association Française de Normalisation (= French standards association) +AFoaL A F*** of a Lot +AFOM Associate of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine AFP Ameol File Protocol / Apple Filing Protocol / Adobe Flash Player / IBM Advanced Function Printing / Agence France-Presse (news agency) / American Free Press (newspaper) / Advertiser-Funded Programming (TV) / Australian/Argentine/Alaska Federal Police +AFRAeS Associate Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society +AFRC Agricultural and Food Research Council (now BBSRC) +AFS Auxiliary Fire Service AFT Apart From Then/That / Afghanistan Time (= UTC+4:30) -AFTLOTM Apologies For The Length Of This Message -AFTLOTMAW Apologies For The Length Of This Message As Well +AFTB Angus Finely-Textured Beef (recovered meat) +AftLotM Apologies for the Length of this Message +AftLotMaW Apologies for the Length of this Message as Well AFTP Anonymous FTP AFU All F***ed-Up +AFV Armoured Fighting Vehicles +AFVPA Advertising, Film, and Video Producers' Association AFZ Acronym-Free Zone -AG Appreciative Groan / Attorney General / Auditor General / Aktiengesellschaft (= PLC in Germany &c) / Artificial Gravity / Acoustic Guitar / Assemblies of God -ag attogram (10^-18 grams) +AG Appreciative Groan / Attorney-General / Auditor-General / Aktiengesellschaft (= PLC in Germany &c) / Artificial Gravity / Acoustic Guitar / Assemblies of God / Antigua and Barbuda (ISO code) Ag silver +ag attogram (10^-18 grams) AGAN As Good As New AGC Automatic Gain Control AGCHTMEG A Girl Can't Have Too Many E-Groats AGCR Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor / Asymptotic Global Confidence Region AGD Attorney-General's Department -AGI Adjusted Gross Income +AGI Adjusted Gross Income / Alliance Graphique Internationale (= international alliance of graphic artists and designers) / Associate Member of the Grocers' Institute AGICOA Association de Gestion Internationale Collective des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles (= Association of International Collective Management of Audiovisual Works) -AGKWE And God Knows What Else -AGL Above Ground Level +AGKWE And God/Goodness Knows What Else +AGL Above Ground-Level AGM Annual General Meeting +AGN again AGNB Age/Gender No Bar -AGO Attorney General's Office +AGO Attorney-General's Office AGP Accelerated Graphics Port AGPL Affero General Public Licence +AGPS Assisted Global Positioning System +AGR Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor +AGRA Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives AGRNB Age/Gender/Race No Bar -AGS (UK) HM Advocate General for Scotland +AGS (UK) HM Advocate-General for Scotland AGSL Assistant Group Scout Leader -AGT A Good Thing +AGSM Associate of the Guildhall School of Music / Australian Graduate School of Management +AGT A Good Thing / Automated Guideway Transit AGTN Altes Global Communications Network +AGW Anthropogenic (= man-made) Global Warming / Actual Gold Weight aGy attogray (10^-18 grays) -AH Alternate History / After Hours / Active Hub +AH Alternate History / After Hours / Active Hub / Anno Hegiræ (= after the Hijra, i.e. Muslim date) aH attohenry (10^-18 henrys) -AHA Ammunition Holding Area +AHA Area Health Authority / Ammunition Holding Area / American Humanist Association +AHA(T) Area Health Authority (Teaching) +AHD ‘The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language’ AHDSR Attack, Hold, Decay, Sustain, Release AHMP At Her Majesty's Pleasure +AHQ Army Headquarters +AHRB Arts and Humanities Research Board (now AHRC) +AHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council (was AHRB) +AHSM Associate of the Institute of Health Services Management AHT After-Hours Trading AHWBA Any Help Would Be Appreciated aHz attohertz (10^-18 hertz) -AI As If / Artificial Intelligence / Amnesty International -AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics +AI As If / Artificial Intelligence / Amnesty International / Anguilla (ISO code) / French Afar and Issas (ISO code) (obs.) +AIA American Institute of Architects / Associate of the Institute of Actuaries +AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics / Associate of the Institute of Administrative Accountants +AIAC Associate of the Institute of Company Accountants AIAMU And I'm A Monkey's Uncle -AIB American Institute of Banking -AIBO Am I Better Off -AICM And I Claim My… +AIB American Institute of Banking / Associate of the Institute of Bankers +AIBD Associate of the Institute of British Decorators +AIBO Am I Better Off? +AIBU Am I Being Unreasonable? +AICA Associate Member of the Commonwealth Institute of Accountants / Member of the Internationale des Critiques d'Art +AICE Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers +AIChor Associate of the Institute of Choreography +AICM And I Claim My... AICM5P And I Claim My 5 Pounds AICMFP And I Claim My Five Pounds AICM£5 And I Claim My £5 +AICS Associate of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers +AICTM Associate of the Imperial College of Tropical Medicine AiDA Award in Digital Applications AIDK Acronym I Didn't Know AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome +AIEE Associate of the Institution of Electrical Engineers +AIF Australian Imperial Forces AIFC Audio Interchange File format, Compressed AIFF Audio Interchange File Format +AIG American International Group, Inc. / Adjutant-Inspector-General AIH As It Happens AIHSB As I Have Said Before +AIIA Associate of the Institute of Industrial Administration AIIC As If I Care -AIL&L As I Live And Learn -AILAL As I Live And Learn -AIM AOL Instant Messenger +AIIMR Associate of the Institute of Investment Management and Research +AIL Associate of the Institute of Linguists +AIL&L As I Live and Learn +AILaL As I Live and Learn +AIM AOL Instant Messenger / Associate of the Institute of Metallurgists (now see MIM) / (LSE) Alternative Investment Market / Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance +AIMarE Associate of the Institute of Marine Engineers +AIMarEst Associate of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science, and Technology AIMB As I Mentioned Before +AIMgt Associate of the Institute of Management (now ACMI) +AIMM Associate of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy AIMP Always In My Prayers +AIMSW Associate of the Institute of Medical Social Workers +AINA Associate of the Institute of Naval Architects +AINEC And It's Not Even Close +AInstM Associate Member of the Institute of Marketing +AInstP Associate of the Institute of Physics +AInstT Associate of the Institute of Taxation (now ACInstT) +AInstTport Associate of the Institute of Transport AINW All Is Not Well -AIP Automatic Investment Plan +AIOB Associate of the Institute of Building +AIP Automatic Investment Plan / Association of Independent Producers +AIPAC American Israel Public Affairs Committee +AIPM Associate of the Institute of Personnel Management AIR As I Remember/Recall / Assumed Interest Rate +AIRC Association of Independent Radio Contractors AIRI As I Recall It +AIRMET Airmen's Meteorological Information +AIRMIC Associate of the Insurance and Risk Managers in Industry and Commerce AIS As I Said / Accounting Information System AISB As I Said Before AISE As I Said Earlier AISI As I See It AISTR As I Seem To Recall +AISVA Associate of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers +AITO As It Turned Out AIUBTUBA And If You Believe That You'll Believe Anything AIUI As I Understand It AIW And I Wish / As It Were / As I Would +AIWSP Associate of the Institute of Work Study Practitioners AIX Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM's Unix) AIYBTYBA And If You Believe That, You'll Believe Anything aJ attojoule (10^-18 joules) -AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript And XML -AK Alaska +AJaX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML +AK Alaska / Knight of the Order of Australia aK attoKelvin (10^-18 Kelvin) -AKA Also Known As +aka Also Known As akat attokatal (10^-18 katals) AKC Associate of King's College (London) AKDT Alaska Daylight Time (= UTC-8) AKST Alaska Standard Time (= UTC-9) -AL Acronym List / Active Link / Access List / Alabama +AL Acronym List / Active Link / Access List / Alabama / Albania (ISO code) Al aluminium Al(OH)3 aluminium hydroxide Al2(SO4)2 aluminium sulphate -Al2O3 aluminium oxide -ALA As Long As / Abandoned Long Ago / Aliter Lex Ait (= the law says something different) +Al2O3 aluminium oxide (aka corundum) +ALA As Long As / Abandoned Long Ago / Aliter Lex Ait (= the law says something different) / Associate of the Library Association / American Library Association / Alpha-Lipoic Acid / All Letters Answered (personal ads) ALAC Apple Lossless Audio CODEC +ALAM Associate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ALAP As Late As Possible ALARM Advanced Lightweight Anti-Radar Missile / Air-Launched Anti-Radar Missile +ALAS Associate Member of the Chartered Land Agents' Society +ALAWP All Letters Answered With Photo (personal ads) +ALCD Associate of the London College of Divinity +ALCM Associate of the London College of Music +ALCS Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society +ALDI Albrecht Discount Einkauf GmbH +ALESCO Arab League Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organisation +ALF Animal Liberation Front +ALFSEA Allied Land Forces South East Asia ALG Ain't Love Grand ALGOL Algorithmic Language +ALI Argyll Light Infantry / Associate of the Landscape Institute +ALIA Associate of the Life Insurance Association ALICE All-purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment -ALL Albanian Leks (ccy) +ALL Association of Language Learning / Albanian Leks (ccy) +ALLC Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing alm attolumen (10^-18 lumens) +ALMA Atacama Large Millimetre Array (radio-telescope) +ALMR Advanced Liquid-Metal Reactor +ALoB A Load of Bollocks ALOL Actually Laughing Out Loud -ALOTA A Lot Of Them About +ALoOB A Load of Old Bollocks +ALoTA A Lot of Them About ALOTBSOL Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life! ALRC Australian Law Review Commission +ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (aka Lou Gehrig's disease) / Advanced Lossless Coding (audio codec) / Advanced Life Support / Approach Lighting System (aviation) / Advanced Low-power Schottky (electronics) / Ammonium Lauryl Sulphate / Automatic Train Signalling ALSA Advanced Linux Sound Architecture +ALT1948S ‘At Last The 1948 Show’ ALTG Act Locally, Think Globally -ALU Arithmetic and Logical Unit +ALTNFES ‘At Last The 1948 Show’ +ALU Arithmetic and Logic Unit ALW Andrew Lloyd Webber alx attolux (10^-18 lux) +AM Amplitude Modulation / (Welsh) Assembly Member / Ante Meridiem / Active Matrix / Access Method / Active Monitor / solvable in polynomial-time by an Arthur-Merlin protocol (complexity) / Armenia (ISO code) / Albert Medal (now GM) / Member of the Order of Australia / Alpes Maritimes (France) / Master of Arts (USA) Am americium -AM Amplitude Modulation / Assembly Member / Ante Meridiem / Active Matrix / Access Method / Active Monitor am attometre (10^-18 metres) / Ante Meridiem +AMA Associate of the Museum Association / Australian Medical Association AMAP As Much/Many As Possible AMBA Andelsselskab Med Begrænset Ansvar (= Ltd co-operative in Denmark) +AMBIM Associate Member of the British Institute of Management AMBW All My Best Wishes -AMC Asset Management Company +AMC Asset Management Company / Australian Medical Council / Army Medical Corps/College +AMCT Associate of the Manchester College of Science and Technology AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. / Age-related Macular Degeneration AMD64 AMD x86-64 (instruction set) AMDG Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam (= for the greater glory of God) +AMEC Association of Management Education for Clinicians +AMEI Associate Member of the Energy Institute +AMEME Association of Mining, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineers AMEOL A Most Excellent Off-Line Reader +AMet Associate of Metallurgy (Sheffield University) AMEX American Express / American Stock Exchange -AMF All My Fault / Adiós, My Friend/Mother-F***er +AMF All My Fault / Adiós, My Friend/Mother-F***er / Australian Military Forces +AMG All Media Guide / Angel Music Group (record label) / Academy Music Group (music venue operator) / Aufrecht, Melcher and Großaspach (motor racing co.) / Algebraic Multi-Grid method (for solving DEs) +AMI Association of Media Independents / Amazon Machine Image +AMIA Associate Member of the Institute of Almoners AMICE Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers +AMIChemE Associate Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers +AMICUS Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (was AEEU) +AMIEA Associate Member of the Institute of Engineers, Australia +AMIEE Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now see MIEE) +AMIERE Associate Member of the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers AMIGA A Merely-Insignificant Game Addiction +AMIMechE Associate Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (now see MIMechE) +AMIMinE Associate Member of the Institution of Mining Engineers +AMIMunE Associate Member of the Institution of Municipal Engineers +AMInstPet Associate Member of the Institute of Petroleum +AMInstW Associate Member of the Institute of Welding +AMINucE Associate Member of the Institution of Nuclear Engineers +AMIPE Associate Member of the Institution of Production Engineers +AMIPM Associate Member of the Institute of Personnel Management +AMIRSE Associate Member of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers +AMIStructE Associate Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers AML All My Love / Anti-Money-Laundering laws AMLF Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Fund Liquidity Facility amol attomole (10^-18 moles) AMOW All My Own Work -AMP Adenosine monophosphate +AMP amplifier / Advanced Management Programme / Air Ministry Personnel / Adenosine monophosphate / Accelerated Massive Parallelism AMPS Auction Market Preferred Stock AMPU Average Margin Per User -AMR Audio MODEM Riser -AMS Acute Mountain Sickness / Amsterdam Airport +AMR Audio MODEM Riser / Adaptive Multi-Rate encoding / Advanced Meat Recovery +AMR-WB Adaptive Multi-Rate Wide-Band encoding +AMR-WB+ Extended Adaptive Multi-Rate Wide-Band encoding +AMRAeS Associate Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society +AMREF African Medical and Research Foundation +AMRINA Associate Member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects +AMRTS Associate Member of the Royal Television Society +AMS Additional Member System (voting) / Acute Mountain Sickness / Amsterdam Airport / American Mathematical Society / Army Medical Service / Assistant Military Secretary +AMSE Associate Member of the Society of Engineers +AMSI Associate Member of the Securities Institute +AMSO Air Member for Supply and Organisation AMSPCEDA Ankh-Morpork Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Extra-Discal Animals AMST Armenia Summer Time (= UTC+5) AMT Alan Mathison Turing / Alternative Minimum Tax / Armenia Time (= UTC+4) +AMTPI Associate of the Town Planning Institute AMTS Advanced Mobile Telephone System / Abbreviated Mental Test Score / Automated Maritime Telecommunications System +AMusD Doctor of Musical Arts +AN Netherlands Antilles (ISO code) (obs.) aN attonewton (10^-18 newtons) +ANA (US) Assocation of National Advertisers / Australian National Airways / Afghan/Albanian National Army / Army and Navy Academy (California) +AnalaR Analytical Reagents ANB Age No Bar ANC Absolutely No Comment / African National Congress -ANCOT A Nice Cup Of Tea -ANCOTAASD A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Sit-Down +ANCoT A Nice Cup of Tea +ANCoTaaSD A Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit-Down AND Any Day Now / Architecture-Neutral Distribution ANFAWFOS And Now For A Word From Our Sponsors ANFO Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil ANFSCD And Now For Something Completely Different ANG Netherlands Antillean guilders (ccy) ANGLICO Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company +ANH ‘Star Wars ep.4: A New Hope’ ANI Automatic Number Identification ANN Artificial Neural Network ANPR Automatic Number-Plate Recognition ANPRS Automatic Number-Plate Recognition System ANS Ansvarlig Selskap (= mutual partnership in Norway) ANSI American National Standards Institute -ANT Another Neat Tool (Java-based build tool) +ANSP Air Navigation Service Provider +ANT Another Neat Tool (Java-based build tool) / antenna ANTLR Another Tool for Language Recognition (parser generator) ANU Australian National University +ANZAAS Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science ANZAC Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -AO Alpha, Omega -AOA Angle of Arrival (telecoms) / Angolan Kwanzas (ccy) -AOAS All Of A Sudden -AOB Any Other Business / Abuse of Bandwidth -AOC Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (= controlled designation of origin) / Age of Consent / Area of Concern +AO Air Officer / Officer of the Order of Australia / Alpha, Omega / Angola (ISO code) +AOA Air Officer in Charge of Administration / Angle of Arrival (telecoms) / Angolan Kwanzas (ccy) +AoA Angle of Arrival (telecoms) +AoaS All of a Sudden +AOB Any Other Business / Abuse Of Bandwidth +AOC Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (= controlled designation of origin) / Age Of Consent / Area Of Concern / Air Officer Commanding AoC Age of Consent / Area of Concern -AOE ATA over Ethernet +AOC-in-C Air Officer Commander-in-Chief +AOD Army Ordnance Department / ‘Australian Oxford Dictionary’ AoE ATA over Ethernet +AOEng Air Officer Engineering +AoG Act of God AOK All Okay AOL America On-Line (= me too) / Away On Leave AOLOSQ Asker Of Lots Of Stupid Questions -AOM Arthur Or Mather -AON All Or None / The Art of Noise -AOP Aspect-Oriented Programming -AOS Any Other Suggestions… +AOM Arthur Or Mather / Air Officer Maintenance +AoN All or None / The Art of Noise +AOP Aspect-Oriented Programming / (UK) Association of Photographers / Air Observation Post / Annual Operating Plan / Appellation d'Origine Protégée (= Protected Designation of Origin) +AOS Any Other Suggestions... AOT Any Other Time -AOTA All Of The Above -AOW ‘The Art of War’ (by Sun Tzu) -AP Associated Press / Atmospheric Pressure / Access Point / Accounts PAyable / Apple Pie +AotA All of the Above +AotC ‘Star Wars ep.2: Attack of the Clones’ +AoW ‘The Art of War’ (by Sun Tzu) +AP Associated Press / Atmospheric Pressure / Access Point / Accounts Payable / Apple Pie / Absolute (aka Perfect) Pitch / Armour-Piercing AP&C All Praise And Credit aPa attopascal (10^-18 pascals) APAC All Praise And Credit / Asia and Pacific -APC Aspirin, Phenacetin, Caffeine (pill) +APAS Androgynous Peripheral Attach/Assembly System (spacecraft docking) +APC Aspirin, Phenacetin, Caffeine (pill) / Armoured Personnel Carrier / Assessment of Professional Competence / Asynchronous Procedure Call (Windows NT) / Approach Control (aviation) / Adaptive Predictive Coding / Automatic Process Control / Alternative Parcels Co Ltd (aka All Parcels Crushed) / Armour-Piercing Capped (ammunition) APCI Application-layer Protocol Control Information +APCO Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International +APCR Armour-Piercing Composite Rigid (ammunition) +APD Air Passenger Duty +APDS Armour-Piercing Discarding-Sabot (ammunition) / Androgynous Peripheral Docking System +APEA Affiliate Physical Education Association APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation -APFSDS Armour-Piercing Fin-Stabilised Discarding-Sabot +APEX Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical, and Computer Staff +APFSDS Armour-Piercing Fin-Stabilised Discarding-Sabot (ammunition) APFU As Per F***ing Usual API Application Programming Interface -APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller +APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller / Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the (International Criminal) Court / Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference / Additional Paid In Capital (finance) APIPA Automatic Private IP Addressing -APITEWASS A Poke In The Eye With A Sharp Stick +APitEwaSS A Poke in the Eye with a Sharp Stick APJ Asia, Pacific, and Japan +APK (Android) Application Package file / Authenticated Public-Key (cryptography) / Amplitude Phase-shift Keying APKAS Augmented Password-Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme APL A Programming Language / Adaptive/AROS/Arphic Public Licence / Applied Physics Laboratory (at John Hopkins University) / Association of Pension Lawyers / Address Prefix List / Accreditation of Prior Learning +APM Assistant Provost Marshal APNIC Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre -APOTS All Part Of The Service -APP Acronymous Preenly Pride -APR Annualised Percentage Rate / American Public Radio / Apache Portable Runtime / April -APS Active-Pixel Sensor / Advanced Photo System / Alt-preset-standard (LAME setting) / Active Protection System / Acoustic Parking System / Advanced Planning and Scheduling / Annual Population Survey / Asset Protection Scheme / Audio Production Studio / Anpartsselskab (= Ltd co. in Denmark) +APotS All Part of the Service +APP Acronymous Preenly Pride / Associate of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy +APR Annualised Percentage Rate / American Public Radio / Apache Portable Runtime / April / Accredited Public Relations Practitioner +APRA Association of Political Risks Analysts +APRS Automatic Position Reporting System +APS Active-Pixel Sensor / Advanced Photo System / Alt-preset-standard (LAME) / Active Protection System / Acoustic Parking System / Advanced Planning and Scheduling / Annual Population Survey / Asset Protection Scheme / Audio Production Studio / American Physical Society / Anpartsselskab (= Ltd co. in Denmark) +APSK Amplitude Phase-Shift Keying APSL Apple Public Source Licence -APT Advanced Packaging Tool (Debian) / Arbitrage Pricing Theory / Advanced Passenger Train / American Public Television / Applied Probability Trust / Automatic Programmed Tool / Almost Plain Text (Maven) -APU Auxiliary Power Unit / As Per Usual / Audio Processing Unit / Accelerated Processing Unit (AMD Fusion) +APT Advanced Packaging Tool (Debian) / Arbitrage Pricing Theory / Advanced Passenger Train / American Public Television / Applied Probability Trust / Automatic Programmed Tool / Almost Plain Text (Maven) / Automated Payment Transaction (tax) / Advanced Persistent Threat +APTC Army Physical Training Corps +APU Auxiliary Power/Propulsion Unit / As Per Usual / Audio/Arithmetic Processing/Playback Unit / Accelerated Processing Unit (AMD Fusion) / Anglia Polytechnic University (Chelmsford) APV Adjusted Present Value APWR Advanced Pressurised-Water Reactor +APX Approximable in polynomial-time (complexity) APY Annual Percentage Yield APYR As Per Your Request -AQ Al-Qaeda / As Quoted / Aqueous +AQ Al-Qaeda / As Quoted / Aqueous / Antarctica (ISO code) / Administration and Quartering +AQH Association of Quality Assurance in Healthcare +AQM Assistant Quartermaster / Active Queue Management +AQMG Assistant Quartermaster-General AQO Average Qualitative Option -AR Accounts Receivable / Arkansas +AR Accounts Receivable / Arkansas / Argentina (ISO code) Ar argon -ARA Amateur Rowing Association / Associated of the Royal Academy -ARC Advanced RISC Computer / Automatically-Renewable Contract / Adaptive Replacement Cache +ARA Associate of the Royal Academy / Amateur Rowing Association +ARAD Associate of the Royal Academy of Dancing +ARAeS Associate of the Royal Aeronautical Society +ARAgS Associate of the Royal Agricultural Societies +ARAIA Associate of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects +ARAM Associate of the Royal Academy of Music / Analog Random-Access Memory / Adaptive Resource Allocation and Management +ARB Architects' Registration Board (was ARCUK) +ARBA Associate of the Royal Society of British Artists +ARBS Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors +ARC Advanced RISC Computer / Automatically-Renewable Contract / Adaptive Replacement Cache / Agricultural Research Council ARCA Associate of the Royal College of Art ARCM Associate of the Royal College of Music ARCO Associate of the Royal College of Organists -ARE Acronym-Rich Environment +ARCS Associate of the Royal College of Science +ARCST Associate of the Royal College of Science and Technology +ARCT Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music +ARCUK Architects' Registration Council of the UK (now ARB) +ARCVS Associate of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons +ARD Apple Remote Desktop +ARE Acronym-Rich Environment / Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers +ARELS Association of Recognised English Language Schools ARGB Alpha, Red, Green, Blue +ARIAS Associate of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland ARIBA Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects +ARIC Associate of the Royal Institute of Chemistry +ARICS Associate of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ARIN American Registry for Internet Numbers -ARM Advanced RISC Machine / Adjustable-Rate Mortgage +ARINA Associate of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects +ARM Advanced RISC Machine / Adjustable-Rate Mortgage / Animal Rights Militia +ARMCM Associate of the Royal Manchester College of Music AROS Amiga Research Operating System ARP Address Resolution Protocol / Air-Raid Precautions ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency (later DARPA) / Address and Routing Parameter Area ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network +ARPS Associate of the Royal Photographic Society ARPU Average Revenue Per User +ARQ Automatic Repeat Request (comms) ARR Accounting Rate of Return +ARRC Associate of the Royal Red Cross ARRL American Radio Relay League ARS Argentine Pesos +ARSA Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy ARSE Acronyms Really Shouldn't Exist +ARSM Associate of the Royal School of Mines ART Annual Renewable Term assurance / Argentina Time (= UTC-3) +ARTC Associate of the Royal Technical College (Glasgow) ARTFMF Always Read The F***ing Manual First -ARV Armed Response Vehicle/Vicar -AS Access Server / Alaska / American Samoa / Auto Sport / = PLC in Denmark &c +ARTS Associate of the Royal Television Society +ARU Armed Response Unit +ARV Armed Response Vehicle/Vicar / Anti-Retroviral drug +ARWS Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours +AS Access Server / Asperger's Syndrome / Alaska / American Samoa / Auto Sport / = PLC in Denmark &c / American Samoa (ISO code) As arsenic -as attosecond (10^-18 seconds) aS attosiemens (10^-18 siemens) -ASA (UK) Advertising Standards Authority / American Statistical Association / Another Stupid Acronym / Amateur Swimming Association / Adaptive Security Appliance (Cisco) / Allmennaksjeselskap (= PLC in Norway) +as attosecond (10^-18 seconds) +ASA (UK) Advertising Standards Authority / American Statistical Association / Another Stupid Acronym / Amateur Swimming Association / Adaptive Security Appliance (Cisco) / Associate of the Society of Actuaries / Allmennaksjeselskap (= PLC in Norway) +ASAA Associate of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors ASAFP As Soon As F***ing Possible ASAHP As Soon As Humanly Possible ASAIC As Soon As I Can -ASAP As Soon As Possible +ASAP As Soon As Possible / Always Say A Prayer ASAR alt.sexual.abuse.recovery ASB Advertising Standards Bureau (Australia) ASBO Anti-Social Behaviour Order -ASC Army Service Corps +ASC Army Service Corps / Altered State of Consciousness ASCAP American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers ASCC IBM Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator (aka Harvard Mark I) ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange -ASCL Association of School and College Leaders +ASCII-IPA American Standard Code for Information Interchange — International Phonetic Alphabet (= Kirshenbaum) +ASCL Association of School and College Leaders (was SHA) ASCOT Asset Swapped Convertible Option Transaction +ASD Armament Supply Department / Autism Spectrum Disorder +ASDA Asquith Dairies (merger of Asquith supermarkets with Associated Dairies & Farm Stores Ltd) Stores Ltd / Associate of Speech and Drama, Australia +AsDB Asian Development Bank ASEAN Association of South-East Asian Nations ASF And So Forth / Apache Software Foundation / Advanced/Active Systems/Streaming Format (Windows Media) +ASFA Associate of the Institute of Shipping and Forwarding Agents ASG Abstract Semantic Graph +ASH Anti-Smoking and Health +AsH3 arsine ASHPF Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device ASI Asynchronous Serial Interface / Accumulative Swing Index +ASIA Associate of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers +ASIAD Associate of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit ASIMO Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility ASIO Audio Stream Input/Output / Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation -ASIP Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processor -ASITW Already Spotted In The Wild -ASL Age, Sex, Location? / Above Sea Level / American Sign Language / Advanced Stop Line / Assistant Scout/Section Leader +ASIP Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processor / Associate of the Society of Investment Professionals +ASitW Already Spotted in the Wild +ASL Age, Sex, Location? / Above Sea-Level / American Sign Language / Apache Software Licence / Advanced Stop Line / Assistant Scout/Section Leader ASLEF (UK) Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen +ASLIB Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux ASLMH Age, Sex, Location, Music, Hobbies? ASLR Address-Space Layout Randomisation -ASM Air-to-Surface Missile / Algorithmic State Machine +ASM Air-to-Surface Missile / Assistant Stage Manager / Algorithmic State Machine / Association of Senior Members / Artificer Sergeant Major +ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers / Association for the Study of Medical Education ASMP Asymmetric Multi-Processing ASN Abstract Syntax Notation / Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (= Nuclear Safety Authority) ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation 1 ASNA A Sorely-Needed Acronym / Area Scout Network Administrator ASNC Area Scout Network Commissioner ASNL Area Scout Network Leader -ASO And So On / Address Supporting Organisation +ASO And So On / Address Supporting Organisation / Air Staff Officer ASOASF And So On, And So Forth ASOP Assistant System Operator ASOSHTMGD A Spoonful Of Sugar Helps The Medicine Go Down -ASP Application Service Provider / Active Server Pages (Microsoft web server technology) / Ammunition Supply Point +ASP Application Service Provider / Active Server Pages (Microsoft web server technology) / Average Selling Price / Act of the Scottish Parliament / Analogue Signal Processing / Apple System Profiler / AppleTalk Session Protocol / Assistant Superintendent of Police / Ammunition Supply Point / Advanced Sound-ranging Programme / Association of Shareware Professionals +ASPCA American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ASPI Advanced/Adaptec SCSI Programming Interface -ASR Air-Sea Rescue / Accelerated Share Repurchase / Asynchronous Signal Routine -ASSOL Anti Synthetic Smell Organisation Limited +ASPX Active Server Page Extended (file) +ASR Air-Sea Rescue / Accelerated Share Repurchase / Asynchronous Signal Routine / Airport Surveillance Radar +ASRAAM Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile +ASSC Accounting Standards Steering Committee +AssocICE Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers +ASSOL Anti-Synthetic-Smell Organisation Limited ASSP Application-Specific Standard Product AST Abstract Syntax Tree / Assured Short-hold Tenancy / Atlantic Standard Time (= UTC-4) / Arab Standard Time (= UTC+3) / Arabian Standard Time (= UTC+4) / Arabic Standard Time (= UTC+3) -ASTMS Association of Scientific, Technical, and Managerial Staffs +ASTA American Spice Trade Association (pungency unit, ~1/15 Scoville) +ASTD Associate Member of the Society of Typographic Designers +ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials +ASTMS Association of Scientific, Technical, and Managerial Staff (now MSF) ASV American Standard Version (of the Bible) aSv attosievert (10^-18 sieverts) ASVI Ah, So Very Interesting +ASWE Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment ASX Australian Securities Exchange -AT After Thatcher / Automatic Transmission / Acceptance Test / Anti-Terrorism / Audit Trail / Anti-Tank / Assistive Technology / Algorithmic Trading / Advanced Technology (PC/AT; 305×350mm form factor) / Access Time / Active Terminator / Attention (Hayes modem commands) / Alton Towers / Aphex Twin / = joint-stock co. in Ukraine +AT After Thatcher / Automatic Transmission / Acceptance Test / Anti-Terrorism / Audit Trail / Anti-Tank / Assistive Technology / Algorithmic Trading / Advanced Technology (PC/AT; 305×350mm form factor) / Access Time / Active Terminator / Attention (Hayes modem commands) / Alton Towers / Aphex Twin / = joint-stock co. in Ukraine / Austria (ISO code) At astatine aT attotesla (10^-18 teslas) AT&T American Telephone & Telegraph Company AT-AA All-Terrain Anti-Aircraft AT-AP All-Terrain Attack Pod -AT-AR All-Terrain Advance RAider +AT-AR All-Terrain Advance Raider AT-AT All-Terrain Armoured Transport AT-OT All-Terrain Open Transport AT-PT All-Terrain Personal Transport AT-RT All-Terrain Reconnaissance Transport AT-ST All-Terrain Scout Transport AT-TE All-Terrain Tactical Enforcer AT-XT All-Terrain Experimental Transport -ATA Another Three-letter Acronym / Advanced Technology Attachment / Ask The Audience / Actual Time of Arrival / Atlantic Treaty Association / (US) Air Transport Association / Air Transport Auxiliary (RAF) / Analogue Telephone Adapter +ATA Another Three-letter Acronym / Advanced Technology Attachment / Ask The Audience / Actual Time of Arrival / Atlantic Treaty Association / (US) Air Transport Association / Air Transport Auxiliary (RAF) / Analogue Telephone Adapter / Air-to-Air ATAEGL Are There Any E-Groats Left? +ATAF Allied Tactical Air Force ATAG Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines ATAPI Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface -ATASTTB As The Actress Said To The Bishop -ATATVC As Tough As The Vampire's Cooking +ATASCII Atari Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII variant) +AtASttB As The Actress Said To The Bishop +ATatVC As Tough As The Vampire's Cooking ATAVABBF A Thought As Valuable As Belly-Button Fluff ATB All The Best / Anti-Terrorist Branch / Alto, Tenor, Bass -ATBSTTA As The Bishop Said To The Actress -ATC Air Traffic Control -ATCF As The Crow Flies +AtBSttA As The Bishop Said To The Actress +ATC Air Traffic Control / Air Training Corps / Art Teachers' Certificate +AtCF As The Crow Flies +ATCL Associate of Trinity College of Music (London) ATCMB As The Case May Be -ATEOTD At The End Of The Day +ATCO Air Traffic Control / Alberta Trailer Company +ATD Art Teachers' Diploma +AtEotD At the End of the Day ATEOTLYWBAT At The End Of This Lesson You Will Be Able To -ATEOTU At The End Of The Universe +AtEotU At the End of the Universe +ATF (US Bureau of) Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives +ATGM Anti-Tank Guided Missile ATHEX Athens Stock Exchange ATHYRIO And The Horse You Rode In On +ATI Associate of the Textile Institute +ATII Associate Member of the Institute of Taxation ATIS Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions ATK At The Keyboard -ATKOL Administers The Kiss Of Life +AtKoL Administers the Kiss of Life ATL (UK) Association of Teachers and Lecturers / Alternate Time-Line / ActiveX Template Library / Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ATLA Another Three-Letter Acronym -ATM At The Moment / Adobe Type Manager / Automated Teller Machine / Asynchronous Transfer Mode / Another Technical Miracle/Mistake +ATM At The Moment / Adobe Type Manager / Automated Teller Machine / Asynchronous Transfer Mode / Another Technical Miracle/Mistake / Active Traffic Management (motorways) ATMA Amateur Telescope Makers Association -ATMIMOGC And The Moon Is Made Of Green Cheese +AtMiMoGC And The Moon Is Made Of Green Cheese ATMIT At This Moment In Time ATN Any Time Now -ATOI ASCII-to-integer / After Tax Operating Income +ATO Alternative Trading Organisation / Ammunitions Technical Officer +ATOC Association of Train-Operating Companies +ATOI ASCII-To-Integer / After-Tax Operating Income ATP Adenosine-5'-triphosphate / Association of Tennis Professionals / All Tomorrow's Parties / Airline Transport Pilot Licence / Automatic Train Protection / Automatic Theorem Proving / Arbitrate Trading Program -ATR Army Training Regiment / Advanced Test Reactor / Automatic Target Recognition / Average True Rate / Alton Towers Resort -ATRAC Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (digital audio compression in MiniDiscs) -ATROTT All The Rest Of The Time -ATROTTOC All The Rest Of The Time Of Course -ATS Air Traffic Service / Anti-Terrorist Squad / Automated/Alternative Trading System / Applicant Tracking System / Auxiliary Territorial Service / Automatic Train Stop / Austrian schilling (ccy) +ATR Army Training Regiment / Advanced Test Reactor / Automatic Target Recognition / Average True Range (finance) / Alton Towers Resort +ATRAC Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (MiniDisc) +AtRotT All the Rest of the Time +AtRotToC All the Rest of the Time, of Course +ATS Air Traffic Service / Anti-Terrorist Squad / Automated/Alternative Trading System / Applicant Tracking System / Auxiliary Territorial Service / Automatic Train Stop / Air-to-Surface / Austrian schilling (ccy) ATSC Advanced Television Systems Committee -ATSL Along The Same Lines -ATST At The Same Time +AtSL Along The Same Lines +AtST At The Same Time ATSTYWKO And The Same To You With Knobs On ATT All The Time / Arms Trade Treaty ATTN attention -ATTOC All The Time Of Course +AtToC All The Time, of Course ATTYOB Anything That Turns You On, Baby -ATU Accumulated Thermal Unit / ADSL Transceiver Unit +ATU Antenna Tuner Unit / Accumulated Thermal Unit / ADSL Transceiver Unit ATV Associated/Amateur/Analogue/Apple Television / All-Terrain Vehicle / Automated Transfer Vehicle -ATVB All The Very Best +AtVB All The Very Best ATVM At This Very Moment -ATW At The Web +AtW At The Web ATWKY About Time — What Kept You? ATX Advanced Technology Extended (12×9.6" PC form factor) / Austrian Traded Index / Ford Automatic Trans-Axle (transmission) -AU Astronomical Unit / African Union +AU Astronomical Unit (earth–sun distance) / African Union / Audio Unit (Mac plug-in) / Australia (ISO code) Au gold AUC Ab Urbe Contida (= from the founding of the city (of Rome)) / Anno Urbis Conditæ (= in the year since the founding of the city (of Rome)) AUD Australian Dollars AUDI Accelerates Under Demonic Influence -AUDIT Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test +AUDIT Alcohol-Use Disorders Identification Test +AUEW Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers AUG August AUGUR A Universal Generic User Repository AUI Attachment Unit Interface AUM Assets Under Management AUP Acceptable Usage Policy -AV Anti Virus / Audio-Visual / Alternative Vote / Authorised (King James) Version (of the Bible) +AUT Association of University Teachers +AV Anti-Virus / Audio-Visual / Alternative Vote / Authorised (King James) Version (of the Bible) aV attovolt (10^-18 volts) +AV-M Air Vice-Marshal AVBT A Very Bad Thing AVC Additional Voluntary Contribution (to a pension scheme) / Advanced Video Coding / Application View Controller / Automatic Volume Control AVGPTS A Very Good Place To Start AVGT A Very Good Thing AVHBI A Very Happy Bunny Indeed! AVI Audio/Video Interleaved AVL Automatic Vehicle Location AVP Associate/Assistant Vice President -AVR Audio/Video Receiver / Automated Voice Response / Automatic Voltage Regulator / Automatic Vehicle Recognition +AVR Audio/Video Receiver / Automated Voice Response / Automatic Voltage Regulator / Automatic Vehicle Recognition / Army Volunteer Reserve / Avril (= April) / Advance Vendor Replacement / Aviator / Alf and Vegard's RISC processor +AVRCP Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (Bluetooth) AVSL Assistant Venture Scout Leader AVV And Vice Versa +AW Aruba (ISO code) aW attowatt (10^-18 watts) AWA As Well As -AWACS Airborne Warnings And Control System +AWaCS Airborne Warnings and Control System aWb attoweber (10^-18 webers) AWBA Any Way But Always AWCIGO And Where Can I Get One? AWDT Australian Western Daylight Time (= UTC+9) +AWeldI Associate of the Welding Institute AWG American Wire Gauge / Aruban florins (ccy) AWGN Additive White Gaussian Noise AWGTHTGTATA Are We Going To Have To Go Through All This Again? AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again? AWHFY Are We Having Fun Yet? AWITNR And When Is The Next Release? -AWK Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan (programming language) Awk Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan (programming language) AWL Advanced Wizarding Level AWLS Advanced Wizarding Levels AWOL Absent Without Leave +AWRE Atomic Weapons Research Establishment AWS As We Speak AWST Australian Western Standard Time (= UTC+8) -AWT Abstract Window Toolkit (Java) +AWT Abstract Window Toolkit (Java) / Anthony Worrall Thompson (chef) AWYR Awaiting Your Reply +AX Åland Islands (ISO code) AY Avoin Yhtiö (= partnership co. in Finland) -AYAMOTC And You A Man Of The Cloth! +AYaMotC And You a Man of the Cloth! AYBABTU All Your Base Are Belong To Us AYBS ‘Are You Being Served?’ AYCOOYM Are You Completely Out Of Your Mind? AYF All Your Fault AYK As You Know AYM And You, Matey AYMT As You May Think / Aberdeen Youth Music Theatre AYMTS As You Meant To Say AYOR At Your Own Risk -AYPI And Your Point Is…? +AYPI And Your Point Is...? AYS Are You Sure? AYSOS Are You Stupid Or Something? +AYSTAF Are You Smarter Than A Fifth-grader? +AYSTAFG Are You Smarter Than A Fifth-Grader? AYSTL Are You Sure That's Legal? AYT Are You There? -AYTMTB And You're Telling Me This Because…? +AYTMTB And You're Telling Me This Because...? +AYTTM Are You Talking To Me? +AYW As You Wish AYYB Ac Yn Y Blaen (= and in the front) -AZ Arizona +AZ Arizona / Azerbaijan (ISO code) +AZERTY (= French and Belgian keyboard layouts) AZN Azerbaijani Manats (ccy) AZOST Azores Standard Time (= UTC-1) -AZT Azerbaijan Time (= UTC+4) +AZT Azidothymidine / Azerbaijan Time (= UTC+4) AZW Amazon Whispernet (Kindle ebook format) B black (pencils) / boron -B&B Bed & Breakfast +B&B Bed and Breakfast / Bread and Butter +B&BP Bread-and-Butter Pudding B&K Bodybuilding & Kraftsport (magazine) B&O Bang & Olufsen / (US) Business and Occupation (tax) B&Q Block & Quayle (DIY store) -B&W Black and White / Bowers & Wilkins (loudspeaker co.) / Blues & White Power Macintosh G3 +B&W Black and White / Bowers & Wilkins (loudspeaker co.) / Blue-and-White Power Macintosh G3 B-P (Robert) Baden-Powell +B.A. Bachelor of Arts +B.Sc. Bachelor of Science B/C because B/D Barrels per Day B/P Binge/Purge B0 1000×1414mm (paper size) B1 707×1000mm (paper size) @@ -826,487 +1326,713 @@ B2C Business-to-Consumer B2E Business-to-Employee B3 Blah, Blah, Blah / 353×707mm (paper size) B4 before / 250×353mm (paper size) B4N Bye for Now -B5 Babylon 5 / 176×250mm (paper size) +B5 ‘Babylon 5’ / 176×250mm (paper size) B6 125×176mm (paper size) -B7 88×125mm (paper size) +B7 ‘Blake's Seven’ / 88×125mm (paper size) B8 62×88mm (paper size) B9 44×62mm (paper size) -BA Bachelor of Arts / British Airways / British Academy / Brilliantly-Acronymmed / Bugger-All / Selskap med Begrenset Ansvar (= co-operative co. in Norway) / Banker's Acceptance +BA Bachelor of Arts / British Airways/Academy/Army / Business Analyst / Brilliantly-Acronymmed / Bugger-All / Bad-Ass / Bank of America / Selskap med Begrenset Ansvar (= co-operative co. in Norway) / Banker's Acceptance / Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO code) Ba barium BAA British Airports Authority +BAAB British Amateur Athletics Board +BAAL British Association for Applied Linguistics BAALT Been Around A Long Time +BAAS British Association for the Advancement of Science BAB Build A Bridge -BAC By Any Chance / Back At Computer / Blood Alcohol Content / Born-Again Christian +BAC By Any Chance / Back At Computer / Blood Alcohol Content / Born-Again Christian / Bacterial Artificial Chromosome / British Aircraft Corporation / Battersea Arts Centre +BAc Bachelor in Acupuncture +BACB British Association of Communicators in Business (was BAIE) +BACC (UK) Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre (obs.) / Bachelor of Accountancy +BAcc Bachelor of Accountancy BACM-TEAM British Association of Colliery Management — Technical, Energy, and Administrative Management BaCO3 barium carbonate BACS Bankers' Automated Clearing System BAD Broken As Designed +BADA British Antique Dealers' Association BADD Bikers Against Drunk Drivers -BAF Brain Already Fried +BAEM British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine +BAF Brain Already Fried / British Athletic Federation (was AAA) +BAFO British Air Forces Occupation BAFS British Academy for Forensic Sciences +BAFSEA British Air Forces South East Asia BAFTA British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAG Busting A Gut +BAgr Bachelor of Agriculture +BAgric Bachelor of Agriculture BAH Basic Allowance for Housing +BAI Baccalarius in Arte Ingeniaria (= Bachelor of Engineering) BAIC Boy, Am I Confused +BAIE British Association of Industrial Editors (now BACB) BAK Back At Keyboard -BAL Basic Assembly Language +BAL Basic Assembly Language / British Anti-Lewisite (= disulphanylpropanol) BALPA British Air-Line Pilots' Association BAM Bricks And Mortar / Bosnia and Herzegovina Convertible Marks (ccy) BAMC British Airways Maintenance, Cardiff BAMF Bad-Assed Mother-F***er BAN Bond Anticipation Note BANANA Built Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody -BANES Bath And North-East Somerset -BAO Both At Once +BaNES Bath and North-East Somerset +BaO Both at Once / Bachelor of Obstetrics +BAOL British Association of Otolaryngologists +BAOMS British Association of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgeons +BAOR British Army of the Rhine BAP Bishops Advisory Panel(s) +BAPTA 1,2-bis(o-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid +BARB Broadcasters' Audience Research Board +BARC British Automobile Racing Club +BArch Bachelor of Architecture BARE Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics -BAS Big-Ass Smile / Battalion Aid Station +BARR British Association of Rheumatology Rehabilitation (now BSR) +BART Bay Area Rapid Transit (San Francisco Bay railway) +BAS Big-Ass Smile / Battalion Aid Station / Bachelor of Architectural Studies BASC British Association of Shooting and Conservation +BASc Bachelor of Applied Science +BASCA British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors BASE Building, Antenna, Span, Earth (jumping) +Base64 6-bit encoding for binary data (MIME) BASF Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik GmbH -BASH Bourne-Again Shell Bash Bourne-Again Shell BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code / Banking And Securities Industry Committee BaSO4 barium sulphate BAT Bugger-All, Twice +BATF (US) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives BATST Both At The Same Time BAU Business As Usual -BB Broadband / Be Back / Big Brother / Ball-Bearing / Big Bang / Bum Bandit / Bathroom Break +BB Broadband / Be Back / Big Brother / Ball-Bearing / Big Bang / Bum Bandit / Bathroom Break / Bollinger Bands (finance) / Barbados (ISO code) +BBA Bachelor of Business Administration / British Bankers' Association BBATST But Both At The Same Time BBB Blood-Brain Barrier / Better Business Bureau BBBG Bye-Bye — Be Good! BBC British Broadcasting Corporation BBCCO BBC Concert Orchestra BBCNDO BBC Northern Dance Orchestra BBCNOW BBC National Orchestra of Wales BBCSO BBC Symphony Orchestra BBCSSO BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra +BBCWS BBC World Service BBD Barbados Dollars BBDC Big Boys Don't Cry +BBDL Bucket-Brigade Delay Line +BBE Black British English (dialect) / Bible in Basic English / Broadband Equivalent (comms) / Best Before End date BBFBBM Body By Fisher, Brains By Mattel BBFC British Board of Film Classification BBFN Bye-Bye For Now BBIAB Be Back In A Bit BBIAF Be Back In A Few BBIAS Be Back In A Sec BBIAW Be Back In A While BBIWY Big Brother Is Watching You BBL Be Back Later +BBM Blackberry Messenger / Bachelor of Business Management / ‘Brokeback Mountain’ BBML Be Back Much Later BBN Bye-Bye, Now BBP Base-Band Processor BBQ Barbecue BBR Burnt Beyond Repair -BBS Bulletin Board System / Be Back Soon +BBS Bulletin Board System / Be Back Soon / Bachelor of Business Studies BBSD Be Back Soon, Darling BBSL Be Back Sooner or Later +BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBSS Broker Booth Support System (NYSE) BBSY Bank Bill Swap Bid Rate BBT Big Bang Theory / Be Back Tomorrow -BBW Big Beautiful Women -BC because / Before Christ / Boozy Clergy / Barmy Castille / Basket Case / Bayonet Cap +BBW Big Beautiful/Big-Breasted Woman +BC because / Before Christ / Boozy Clergy / Barmy Castille / Basket Case / Bayonet Cap / Borough Council / British Columbia BCA British Caving/Cheerleading/Crystallographic Association / British Chiropractic Association / Business Centre Association / British Comedy Awards BCAPF Barnard Castle Association for the Prosecution of Felons BCBS Big Company, Big School -BCC Blind Carbon Copy / Borland C Compiler +BCC Blind Carbon Copy / Borland C Compiler / British Council of Churches / Body-Centred Cubic (crystal structure) BCD Binary-Coded Decimal / Bad Conduct Discharge (aka Big Chicken Dinner) -BCE Before Common Era / Bachelor of Civil Engineering / Board Certified in Estate Planning +BCE Before Common Era / Bachelor of Civil Engineering / Board Certified in Estate Planning / Boundary Commission for England BCFH Bastard Client From Hell BCG Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin / Big Cheesy Grin -BCL Bachelor of Civil Law +BCh Bachelor of Surgery +BChir Bachelor of Surgery +BCL Bachelor of Civil Law / Base Class Library (.NET) +BCM Band Corporal Major BCMSIT But Contents May Settle In Transit BCNF Boyce-Codd Normal Form (databases) BCNU Be Seeing You! -BCP Book of Common Prayer +BCom Bachelor of Commerce +BComm Bachelor of Commerce +BComp Bachelor of Computer Science +BComSc Bachelor of Commercial Science +BCP Book of Common Prayer / Best Current Practice BCPL Basic Combined Programming Language BCR Benefit-Cost Ratio / Bay City Rollers -BCS British Computer Society +BCS British Computer Society / Bengal Civil Service BCT Broadcast Communications Technology BCU British Canoeing Union -BD Big Deal / Bachelor of Divinity / Blu-Ray Disc +BD Big Deal / Bachelor of Divinity / Blu-Ray Disc / Boxing Day / Bangladesh (ISO code) BD-J Blu-ray Disc Java BD-R Blu-Ray Disc, Recordable BD-RE Blu-Ray Disc, Rewritable -BDA Broadcast Driver Architecture / British Dental/Dietetic/Dyslexia/Deaf Association / Blu-ray Disc Association / Bomb Damage Assessment / Bi-Directional Amplifier +BDA Broadcast Driver Architecture / British Dental/Dietetic/Dyslexia/Deaf Association / Blu-ray Disc Association / Bomb Damage Assessment / Bi-Directional Amplifier / Broadcasting Design Association +BDB British Digital Broadcasting (= ONdigital, later ITV Digital) BDC Backup Domain Controller / Business Development Company / Big Dumb Company / Big Dot-Com +BDD Behaviour-Driven Development / Body Dysmorphic Disorder BDDIA But Don't Do It Again +BDes Bachelor of Design +BDF Building Distribution Frame (cabling) BDFL Benevolent Dictator For Life BDI Baltic Dry Index BDL Berkeley Database Licence +BDMA British Direct Marketing Association (now DMA) BDMV Blu-ray Disc Movie mode BDN Big Damned Number +BDNF Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor +BDO British Darts Organisation BDR Blu-Ray Disc, Recordable +BDS Bachelor of Dental Surgery BDSM Bondage, Domination, Sado-Masochism BDST British Double Summer Time (= UTC+2, used 1941–5 and 1947) BDT Bangladeshi Takas (ccy) / Brunei Time (= UTC+8) +BE British Empire / Brilliantly-Expanded / Business English / Bachelor of Engineering / Belgium (ISO code) Be beryllium -BE British Empire / Brilliantly-Expanded / Business English -BEA British European Airways -BEBOBAW Baby-Eating Bishop Of Bath And Wells +BEA British European Airways / Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile (= Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety) +BEAMA (Federation of) British Electrotechnical and Allied Manufacturers +BEBoBaW Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells +BEC Business Education Council (now BTEC) +BEc Bachelor of Economics (Australia) +BEcon Bachelor of Economics BECTU (UK) Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph, and Theatre Union +BEd Bachelor of Education +BEE Bachelor of Electrical Engineering BEEP Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol -BEER Bond Equity Earnings Yield Ratio +BEER Bond Equity Earnings yield Ratio BEF British Expeditionary Force (WW2) BEG Big Evil Grin / Bonus E-Groat / Billion E-Groats +BeIA BeOS for Internet Appliances +BELOD Booming Evil Laugh Of Doom BELT Bacon, Egg, Lettuce, Tomato (sandwich) BEM Bug-Eyed Monster / British Empire Medal +BEng Bachelor of Engineering +BeOS Be Inc. Operating System BEQ Bachelor Enlisted Quarters BER Bit Error Rate / Beyond Economic Repair -BES Bonus E-Shilling +BERA British Educational Research Association +BES Bonus E-Shilling / Blackberry Enterprise Server / Bachelor of Environmental Studies +BESO British Executive Services Overseas BETT British Education, Training, and Technology (show) +BeV billion electron volts (= GeV) BEY Bond Equivalent Yield -BF boyfriend +BF boyfriend / Best Friend / Burkina Faso (ISO code) BF&I Brute Force And Ignorance -BF4E Best Friends For Ever -BFAI Brute Force And Ignorance +BF4E Best Friends for Ever +BF4L Best Friends for Life +BFA Bachelor of Fine Arts / British Fencing/Finswimming/Fireworks/Florist/Flyball/Football/Footwear/Fragrance/Franchise/Freediving Association / British Fashion Awards +BFaI Brute Force and Ignorance BFAWU (UK) Bakers, Food, and Allied Workers' Union BFBI Brute Force and Bloody Ignorance +BFBS British Forces Broadcasting Service BFD Big F***ing Deal / Binary File Descriptor BFF Best Friends Forever +BFFE Best Friends For Ever BFFL Best Friends For Life BFG Big Friendly Giant / Big F***ing Grin/Gun / Black Forest Gateau BFH Big F***ing Hammer BFI Brute Force and Ignorance / British Film Institute / Bunch of F***ing Idiots BfIS Bank for International Settlements BFM Big F***ing Magic +BFME British Forces Middle East BFMI Brute Force and Massive Ignorance BFN Bye For Now -BFO Big F***-Off -BFOG Blouse Full Of Goodies +BFO Big F***-Off / Beat Frequency Oscillator +BFoG Blouse Full of Goodies +BFP Big Fat Positive BFPO British Forces Post Office -BFS Big F***ing Screwdriver / Breadth-First Search / Belfast International Airport +BFS Big F***ing Screwdriver / Breadth-First Search / Be File-System / Belfast International Airport +BFSS British Field Sports Society +BFTF Beef Trimmings, Finely-Textured (recovered meat) BFW Big F***ing Whoopee -BG Big Grin / background / ‘Battlestar Galactica’ -BGA British Go Association (FTTT discussed in cix:go_players) -BGB Bloody Good Bloke +BFWG British Federation of Women Graduates +BG Big Grin / Be Good / background / ‘Battlestar Galactica’ / Bulgaria (ISO code) +BGA Ball Grid Array (IC package) / British Go Association (see cix:go_players) +BGB Bloody Good Bloke / Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (= German civil code) +BGC Bank Giro Credit +BGGS Brigadier-General, General Staff BGI Bloody Good Idea BGL Bloody Good Lad BGN Bulgarian levs (ccy) BGP Border Gateway Protocol (routing protocol) BGR Blue, Green, Red BGRA Blue, Green, Red, Alpha -BGS British Geological Survey +BGS British Geological Survey / Bachelor of General Studies / Brigadier, General Staff BGT ‘Britain's Got Talent’ BGUTI Better Get Used To It BGWM Be Gentle With Me -BH Bloody Hell / Better Half / Business Highway / Black Horse +BH Bloody Hell / Better Half / Business Highway / Black Horse / Bahrain (ISO code) Bh bohrium +BHA British Hoteliers' Association (was BHRCA) BHB Big Hairy Bollocks BHD Bad Hair Day / Bahraini dinars / George Best Belfast City Airport +BHF British Heart Foundation +BHG Better Homes and Gardens (US magazine, Australian TV series) / Big Huge Gut / Black-Headed Gull / Blown Head-Gasket / Brain, Heart, and Gut / Big-Hearted Guy/Girl BHI British Horological Institute Ltd BHL Bleeding-Heart Liberals BHLCS Bless His/Her Little Cotton Socks BHO Browser Host Object / Barack Hussein Obama II BHOF Bald-Headed Old Fart BHOW Bangs Head On Wall +BHRA British Hydromechanics Research Association +BHRCA British Hotel, Restaurant, and Catering Association (now BHA) +BHS British Horse Society BHSS Because He Said So BHWAY Bwrw Hen Wragedd Ac Ysgubellau (= raining old women and besoms) BHX Birmingham Airport +BI Breidbart Index (of spam) / Beginning Inventory / Business Information/Intelligence / Burundi (ISO code) Bi bismuth -BI Breidbart Index (of spam) / Beginning Inventory / Business Information/Intelligence +BIBA British Insurance Brokers' Association BIBO Beer In, Beer Out BIBTB Before I Break The Bank BIC Back In Character / Best In Class / Bank Investment Contract BICBW But I Could Be Wrong -BIDI Bi-Directional +BICC British Insulated Callender's Cables +BiCMOS Bipolar and Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductors BiDi Bi-Directional +BIEE British Institute of Energy Economics BIEM Bureau International des Sociétés Gérant les Droits d'Enregistrement et de Reproduction Mécanique (= international organisation of mechanical reproduction rights societies) BIF Before I Forget / Basis In Fact / Behave In Future / Burundian francs +BIFU Banking, Insurance, and Finance Union +Big-2003 = encoding for CJK characters (named for Taiwan's 5 largest IT firms) +Big-5 = encoding for CJK characters (named for Taiwan's 5 largest IT firms) +Big-5E = encoding for CJK characters (named for Taiwan's 5 largest IT firms) +Big5 = encoding for CJK characters (named for Taiwan's 5 largest IT firms) +Big5+ = encoding for CJK characters (named for Taiwan's 5 largest IT firms) +BIIBA British Insurance and Investment Brokers' Association +BIID British Institute of Interior Design BIIK Buggered If I Know BIK Benefit In Kind BIL Brother-In-Law +BIM British Institute of Management BIMBO Buy-In Management Buy-Out BIN Buy It Now / Bank Identification Number BINAC Binary Automatic Computer BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS server) +BInfTech Bachelor of Information Technology BION Believe It Or Not BIOS Basic Input/Output System BIOT British Indian Ocean Time (= UTC+6) BIOYA Blow It Out Your Arse BIOYIOP Blow It Out Your I/O Port BIOYN Blow It Out Your Nose BIPM Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (= International Bureau of Weights and Measures) -BIS Business Information Systems / (UK) Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills / Bank for International Settlements +BIPP British Institute of Professional Photographers +BIR British Institute of Radiology +BIS Business Information Systems/Server / Business Intelligence Software/Solution / (UK) Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills / Best In Show / Blackberry Internet Service / (US) Bureau of Industry and Security / Bank for International Settlements / British Interplanetary/Interlingua Society BISS Because I Say So BIT Baker Island Time (= UTC-12) -BITD Beaten It To Death / Back In The Day -BITMT But In The Mean-Time… -BITOD Back In The Old Days -BITPA Been In The Pub Again +BitD Beaten it to Death / Back in the Day +BitMT But in the Mean-Time... +BitOD Back in the Old Days +BitPA Been in the Pub Again BITS Background Intelligent Transfer Service (Windows) BIWDIA But I Won't Do It Again BIWL But I Wasn't Listening BIWSTWI But I Would Say That, Wouldn't I? BIX Byte Information Exchange -BJ Big Jobs / Blow Job +BJ Big Jobs / Blow Job / Benin (ISO code) +BJSM British Joint Service Mission BJT Bipolar Junction Transistor -BK because / Beslote Korporasie (closed co. in South Africa) +BJur Bachelor in Jurisprudence +BJuris Bachelor in Jurisprudence +BK because / break / Beslote Korporasie (closed co. in South Africa) Bk berkelium BK&M Between Keyboard and Monitor BKA Better Known As -BKAM Between Keyboard And Monitor -BL Belly Laughing / British Library / Blessed Loei / Bachelor of Law / Borettslah (= housing share co. in Norway) -BLA Been Led Astray +BKaM Between Keyboard and Monitor +BL Belly Laughing / British Library / Blessed Loei / Bachelor of Law / British Leyland / Borettslah (= housing share co. in Norway) / Saint Barthélemy (ISO code) +BLA Been Led Astray / British Army of Liberation BLAS Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms BLC Battalion Lance-Corporal +BLESMA British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association BLEVE Boiling-Liquid Expanding-Vapour Explosion +BLF Billboard Liberation Front +BLitt Bachelor of Letters BLOB Binary Large Object BLPES British Library of Political and Economic Science BLT Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato (sandwich) / Block Transfer / Battalion Landing Team BLTN Better Late Than Never -BM Bloody Marvellous / Bite Me / Bugger Me / Bachelor of Medicine / British Museum / Be'eravon Mugbal (= Ltd co. in Israel) +BLU Bomb, Live Unit +BM Bloody Marvellous / Bite Me / Bugger Me / Bachelor of Medicine / British Museum / Birth Mother / Brigade Major / Bandmaster / Be'eravon Mugbal (= Ltd co. in Israel) / Bermuda (ISO code) BM&K Between Monitor and Keyboard BMA British Medical Association / Bank Marketing Association / Bond Market Association -BMAK Between Monitor And Keyboard +BMaK Between Monitor and Keyboard +BMath Bachelor of Mathematics BMB Bite My Bum BMC British Mountaineering Council BMD Births, Marriages, and Deaths / Bermudian dollars BMDO (US) Ballistic Missile Defense Organization +BME Bachelor of Mining Engineering +BMedBiol Bachelor of Medical Biology +BMedSci Bachelor of Medical Science +BMet Bachelor of Metallurgy +BMEWS Ballistic Missile Early Warning System BMF Bad Mother-F***er / British Motorcycle Federation BMFA British Model Flying Association BMG Bertelsmann Music Group +BMH British Military Hospital BMI Body Mass Index / Broadcast Music, Inc. -BMJ ‘British Medical Journal’ +BMJ British Medical Journal BMOC Big Man On Campus BMOTA Bite Me On The Arse BMP Bitmap (file) / Basic Multilingual Plane (Unicode) +BMRC British Motorcycle Racing Club BMS Bright Mild Steel / Bless My Soul / Baptist Missionary Society BMSN Bloody Microsoft Network messenger BMT Before My Time BMTIPG Brilliant Minds Think In Parallel Gutters +BMus Bachelor of Music +BMV Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (= Mexican Stock Exchange) BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Bavarian Motor Works) / Be My Wife / Big Money Wasted / Bikes Made Wonderful BMWM Big Mean Windows Machine BMX Bicycle Motor-Cross +BN Bachelor of Nursing / Brunei (ISO code) +BNA British Neuroscience Association +BNAF British North Africa Force BNBATST But Not Both At The Same Time -BNC Bayonet Neill-Concelman (connector) +BNC Bayonet Neill-Concelman (connector) / Brasenose College (Oxford) / British National Corpus +BNCT Boron Neutron Capture Therapy BND Brunei dollars -BNF Backus-Naur Form (grammar) / Big-Name Fan -BNFL British Nuclear Fuels PLC +BNEC British National Export Council +BNES British Nuclear Energy Society +BNF Backus-Naur Form (grammar) / Big-Name Fan / British National Formulary / British Nutrition Foundation / British Nuclear Fuels Ltd +BNFL British Nuclear Fuels Ltd BNI Batteries Not Included BNIM But Not In Mine BNL Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories BNP British National Party -BO Best Offer / Body Odour / Bugger Off / Business Objects +BNSC British National Space Centre +BNW Brave New World +BO Best Offer / Body Odour / Bugger Off / Business Objects / Bolivia (ISO code) +BOA British Olympic Association / Bank Of America +BoA Bank of America BOAC British Overseas Airways Corporation +BoaF Birds of a Feather +BOAG British Overseas Aid Group BOAT Bordering On A Tart / Byway Open to All Traffic BOB Bolivianos (ccy) BOBFOC Body Off ‘Baywatch’, Face Off ‘Crimewatch’ BOBTG Bog Off Back To Greenland -BOC But Of Course / Bell Operating Company (US telecomms) -BOD Bonding On Demand / Board of Directors +BOC But Of Course / Bell Operating Company (US telecoms) +BOCU Binary Ordered Compression for Unicode +BOCU-1 Binary Ordered Compression for Unicode +BOD Bonding on Demand / Board of Directors / Biochemical Oxygen Demand BODD Bugger Oi Down Dead! BODMAS Brackets, Of, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction BOE Bank Of England / Barrel-of-Oil Equivalent -BOF Birds Of A Feather / Boring Old Fart +BoE Bank of England +BOF Birds Of a Feather / Boring Old Fart +BofA Bank of America +BofE Bank of England BOFFO Boring Old Fart, F*** Off! BOFH Bastard Operator From Hell -BOGOF Buy One Get One Free +BofJ Bank of Japan +BofS Bank of Scotland +BOGOF Buy One, Get One Free BOHICA Bend Over, Here It Comes Again! BOINC Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing -BOJ Bank of Japan +BoJ Bank of Japan BOK Breakfast On Keyboard / Beyond Our Ken / Bollocks On Keyboard -BOL Best Of Luck / Book Of Lies +BOL Best Of Luck / Bent Over, Laughing / Back Online / Be On the Look-out / Bill Of Lading / Book Of Lies BOLI Bank-Owned Life Insurance +BOLO Be On the Look-Out BOLTOP Better On Lips Than On Paper BOM Beginning Of Message / Byte-Order Mark (Unicode) BONSH But Oh No She Hasn't BOOMFM Bored Out Of My F***ing Mind BOOOGL By Order Of Our Great Leader BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol BOOYFM Bored Out Of Your F***ing Mind -BOP Balance of Payments +BoP Balance of Payments BOQ Bachelor Officer Quarters -BOR Bringer Of Rain / (UK) Bill of Rights 1689 +BoR Bringer of Rain / (UK) Bill of Rights 1689 BOS Big Orange Switch / Bank Of Scotland -BOT Back On Topic / Board of Trustees / Balance of Trade / Beans On Toast / Bend Over, Then / Bolivia Time (= UTC-4) -BOTB Boil On The Bum -BOTE Back Of The Envelope -BOTEC Back Of The Envelope Calculation -BOTP ‘Battle of the Planets’ -BOWTH But Oh What The Heck +BOT Back On Topic / Board Of Trustees/Trade / Balance Of Trade / Beans On Toast / Bend Over, Then / Bolivia Time (= UTC-4) +BOTB British Overseas Trade Board +BotB Boil on the Bum +BotC Beware of the Cat +BotD Beware of the Dog +BotE Back of the Envelope +BotEC Back-of-the-Envelope Calculation +BotL Beware of the Leopard +BotP ‘Battle of the Planets’ +BOTU Board-Of-Trade Unit (1 kW-hour) +BotW Book of the Week +BOWTH But, Oh, What The Heck BOYD Bring Out Your Dead -BP British Petroleum / Blood Pressure / Boiling Point / Before Present / British Pharmacopœia / (Robert) Baden-Powell / Basis Point / Base Pointer / Boarding Pass / Benzoyl Peroxide / Base Pair / Bell's Palsy / Bipolar (disorder) / Bletchley Park / ‘Blue Peter’ -BPA Business Process Automation / US Border Protection Agency +BP British Petroleum / Blood Pressure / Boiling Point / Before Present / British Pharmacopoeia / (Robert) Baden-Powell / Basis Point / Base Pointer / Boarding Pass / Benzoyl Peroxide / Base Pair / Bell's Palsy / Bipolar (disorder) / Bletchley Park / ‘Blue Peter’ / Brownie Point +BPA Business Process Automation / US Border Protection Agency / British Pædiatric Association BPB BIOS Parameter Block -BPD Barrels Per Day +BPD Barrels Per Day / Borderline Personality Disorder BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit +BPE Bachelor of Physical Education +BPEd Bachelor of Physical Education BPEL Business Process Execution Language BPF Band-Pass Filter +BPG Broadcasting Press Guild +BPharm Bachelor of Pharmacy +BPhil Bachelor of Philosophy BPI British Phonographic Industry +BPIF British Printing Industries' Federation BPKAS Balanced Password-Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme BPL Broadband over Power Lines BPM Beats Per Minute / Business Process/Performance Management/Modelling +BPMF British Postgraduate Medical Federation +BPNA British Pædiatric Neurology Association BPO Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Business Process Outsourcing / Broker Price Option +BPP Bounded-error, Probabilistic, Polynomial-time (complexity) / Black Panther Party +BPR Balls Pond Road BPS Bits Per Second BPSA Baden-Powell Scout Association BPSK Binary Phase-Shift Keying -BR Best Regards / British Rail +BQ Bonaire, Saint Eustatius, and Saba (ISO code) / British Antarctic Territory (ISO code) (obs.) +BQP Bounded-error, Quantum, Polynomial-time (complexity) +BR Best Regards / British Rail / Brazil (ISO code) Br bromine -BRAD British Rate And Data +BRaD British Rate and Data BRAS Broadband Remote-Access Server BRB Be Right Back BRBCTA2S Be Right Back, Can't Think of Anything to Say BRBDGA Be Right Back, Don't Go Away BRBGTGP Be Right Back — Got To Go Pee -BRE Building Research Establishment +BRBM Battlefield-Range Ballistic Missile +BRCS British Red Cross Society +BRDC British Racing Drivers' Club +BRE Basic Regular Expression / Building Research Establishment / Bachelor of Religious Education BRGDS Best Regards BRH Be Right Here BRI Basic Rate Interface (ISDN) +BRIC Brazil, Russia, India, and China +BRICS Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa BRIZE Be Ready In Zealous Anticipation BRL Brazilian reals (ccy) BRM Bridge Resource Management +BRNC Britannia Royal Naval College BRR Business Readiness Rating BRS Big Red Switch / Bristol Airport / Business Radio Service BRT Be Right There / Brasilia Time (= UTC-3) -BS Big Smile / bulls*** / Bachelor of Science/Surgery / Big Society / British Standard -BSA Birmingham Small Arms / Bloody Stupid Acronym / Business Software Alliance / Bill Shankly Applies (“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death… It is much, much more important than that.”) +BS Big Smile / bulls*** / Bachelor of Science (USA) / Bachelor of Surgery / Big Society / British Standard / Bahamas (ISO code) +BSA Birmingham Small Arms / Bloody Stupid Acronym / Business Software Alliance / Building Societies Association / Bill Shankly Applies (“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death... It is much, much more important than that.”) BSAA British South American Airways +BSAC British Screen Advisory Council / British Sub-Aqua Club +BSACI British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology BSB British Satellite Broadcasting / Back-Side Bus / the Backstreet Boys -BSC Bachelor of Science +BSC British Steel Corporation / British Society of Cinematographers / British Standard Cycle (screw thread standard) +BSc Bachelor of Science +BSCC British-Soviet Chamber of Commerce +BSCy British Standard Cycle (screw thread standard) BSD Berkeley Software Distribution (of Unix) / Bahamian dollars -BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis +BSDA British Soft Drinks Association +BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis / Bachelor of Science in Engineering / Bombay Stock Exchange +BSEE Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering BSEG Big S***-Eating Grin -BSF But Seriously, Folks / Building Schools for the Future +BSF But Seriously, Folks / Building Schools for the Future / Bachelor of Science in Forestry / British Standard Fine (screw thread standard) BSFA British Science Fiction Association BSG Broad Sweeping Generalisation / Big Smiling Grin +BSI British Standards Institution / British Society for Immunology +BSJ Bachelor of Science in Journalism BSL British Sign Language / Beaver Scout Leader / Biological Safety Levels -BSOD Blue Screen Of Death +BSM British School of Motoring / Blind-Spot Monitor / Band/Battery Sergeant Major / Britain's Strongest Man / Business Service/Semantics Management / Bell State Measurement (quantum physics) +BSME British Society of Magazine Editors +BSocSc Bachelor of Social Science +BSocSci Bachelor of Social Science BSoD Blue Screen of Death BSOM Beats the S*** Out of Me BSON Binary JSON (data format) -BSS Basic Service Set (Wi-Fi) / Block Started by Symbol +BSP Binary Space Partitioning / Blog/Business Service Provider / British Standard Pipe thread / Business Sustainability Programme / Board Support Package (computing) / Bulk Synchronous Parallel (computing model) / Bug-Squashing Party / Byte-Stream Protocol (PUP) / British Society of Periodontology/Parasitology/Perfumers/Phenomenology/Painters / Blue Square Premier (UK football league) / Billing and Settlement Plan (IATA) +BSPF British Standard Parallel Fixed (screw thread standard, = BSP) +BSPP British Standard Parallel Pipe (screw thread standard, = BSP) +BSR British Society of Rheumatology (was BARR) +BSS Basic Service Set (Wi-Fi) / Block Started by Symbol / Bachelor of Social Sciences (USA) BSSS Because She Said So BST British Summer Time (= UTC+1) / Bangladesh Standard Time (= UTC+6) / But Seriously, Though +BSTP British Standard Taper Pipe (screw thread standard) BSU (UK) Britannia Staff Union BSV Boot Sector Virus +BSW British Standard Whitworth (screw thread standard) BSWIS Bruce Says What I Say -BT British Telecom / Bluetooth / Bittorrent / Blues and Twos / Before Thatcher / Betéti Társaság (= partnership co. in Hungary) -BTA But Then Again / But Thanks Anyway / By That Account +BT British Telecom / Bluetooth / Bittorrent / Blues and Twos / Before Thatcher / Betéti Társaság (= partnership co. in Hungary) / Bhutan (ISO code) +Bt Baronet +Bt-Col Brevet-Colonel +BTA But Then Again / But Thanks Anyway / By That Account / British Troops in Austria / British Tourist Authority / British Theatre Association BTAICBW But Then Again I Could Be Wrong -BTAIM Be That As It May… +BTAIM Be That As It May... BTAM Basic Telecommunications Access Method -BTC Biting The Carpet +BTC Biting The Carpet / Bitcoin BTCC British Touring Car Championship BTCV British Trust for Conservation Volunteers +BTDB British Transport Docks Board (now ABP) BTDT Been There, Done That BTDTBTTS Been There, Done That, Bought The T-Shirt BTDTDTRI Been There, Done That, Done The Re-Install BTDTDWTTS Been There, Done That, Don't Wear The T-Shirt BTDTGTS Been There, Done That, Got the T-Shirt BTDTGTTS Been There, Done That, Got The T-Shirt BTDTKWYM Been There, Done That, Know What You Mean -BTDTSTVBTTS Been There, Done That, Seen The Video, Bought The T Shirt -BTDTSTVGTTS Been There, Done That, Seen The Video, Got The T Shirt +BTDTSTVBTTS Been There, Done That, Seen The Video, Bought The T-Shirt +BTDTSTVGTTS Been There, Done That, Seen The Video, Got The T-Shirt BTDTWTB Been There, Done That, Wrote The Blog -BTEC (UK) Business and Technician Education Council +BTEC (UK) Business and Technician Education Council (was BEC) +BTech Bachelor of Technology BTFT Been There, Fixed That -BTGTTS Been There, Got The T Shirt -BTH Burn The Heretic! +BTGTTS Been There, Got The T-Shirt +BTH Bachelor of Theology / Burn The Heretic! +BTh Bachelor of Theology +BtH Burn the Heretic! BTHOM Beats The Hell Outta Me -BTHOOM Beats The Hell Out Of Me -BTHS Burn The Heretic Scum! +BtHooM Beats the Hell out of Me +BtHS Burn the Heretic Scum! BTHTDTMHTTATTS Been There, Had That Done To Me, Had To Throw Away The Tee-Shirt -BTK Back To Keyboard +BTK Back To Keyboard / Bind, Torture, Kill BTL Buy To Let BTLSOM Beats The Living S*** Out of Me +BTM Beef Tikka Masala BTN Bhutanese ngultrums (ccy) -BTO BT Openworld / British Trust for Ornithology / Bachman-Turner Overdrive +BTO BT Openworld / British Trust for Ornithology / Bachman-Turner Overdrive (band) +BTOBART Bee There Orr Bee A Rectangular Thyng BTOBD Be There Or Be Dead BTOBS Be There Or Be Square BTOW BT OpenWorld +BTP British Transport Police BTPA British Transport Police Authority BTSC (US) Broadcast Television Systems Committee BTSOOM Beats The S*** Out Of Me +Btss Baronetess BTT Bhutan Time (= UTC+6) -BTTF ‘Back to the Future’ -BTU Back To You / British Thermal Unit +BTTF ‘Back To The Future’ +BTU Back To You / British Thermal Unit (~1.055 kJ) BTVN By The Very Nature BTW By The Way BTWAKT But Then We All Knew That BTWBO Be There With Bells On +BTWC Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (1972) / Better Than Worst Case BTWMIDTR But That Would Make It Difficult To Read BTX Balanced Technology Extended (12¾×10½" PC form factor) BTYG But There You Go -BU Business Unit / backup / Bangor/Birmingham/Bournemouth University +BU Business Unit / backup / Bangor/Birmingham/Bournemouth University / Burma (ISO code) (now MM) +BU2M Been Up To Much? BUAF Big Ugly ASCII Font BUAG Big Ugly ASCII Graphic BUD Bad Uncle Dick +BUFF Big, Ugly, Fat Fellow +BUGB Baptist Union of Great Britain BUGS Bloody User-Generated Symptoms BUM Breakthrough Urban Ministries BUPA British United Provident Association -BURMA Be Undressed Ready My Angel -BURP Be Undressed Ready Pet +BURMA Be Undressed Ready, My Angel +BURP Be Undressed Ready, Pet BUTGC Banned Under The Geneva Convention -BV Blessed Virgin / Boozy Vicars / Backing Vocal / Buena Vista / Bacterial Vaginosis / Binocular Vision / Blood Vessel / Besloten Vennootschap (= Ltd co. in Belgium) +BuxWV Buxtehude-Werke-Verzeichnis (= Buxtehude Works Catalogue) +BV Blessed Virgin / Boozy Vicars / Backing Vocal / Buena Vista / Bacterial Vaginosis / Binocular Vision / Blood Vessel / Besloten Vennootschap (= Ltd co. in Belgium) / Bouvet Island (ISO code) +BVA British Veterinary Association BVBA Besloten Vennootschap met Beperkte Aansparkelijkheid (= Ltd co. in Belgium) +BVetMed Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine BVM Blessed Virgin Mary/Manda -BW Bridleway / Best Wishes / bandwidth +BVMS Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery +BVR Beyond Visual Range +BVSc Bachelor of Veterinary Science +BW Bridleway / Best Wishes / bandwidth / Botswana (ISO code) BWB British Waterways Board -BWC But Who Cares? +BWC But Who Cares? / Biological Weapons Convention BWDIK But What Do I Know? BWFH Bastard Webmaster From Hell -BWK Big Wet Kiss / Brian W. Kernighan +BWFS Beaufort Wind-Force Scale +BWI British West Indies +BWK Big Wet Kiss / Brian Wilson Kernighan BWL Bursting With Laughter +BWM British War Medal BWO Black/White/Other BWP Botswana pulas (ccy) BWQ Buzz-Word Quotient BWR Boiling-Water Reactor +BWS (Member of) the British Watercolour Society BWSF British Water Ski Federation -BWTF But What The F*** +BWTF But What/Why The F*** BWTHDIK But What The Heck Do I Know BWTMIDTR But Would That Make It Difficult To Read? -BY Busy / Creative Commons licence with attribution -BY-NC Creative Commons licence with attribution, non-commercial -BY-NC-ND Creative Commons licence with attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives -BY-NC-SA Creative Commons licence with attribution, non-commercial, share-alike -BY-ND Creative Commons licence with attribution, no derivatives -BY-SA Creative Commons licence with attribution, share-alike +BWV Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (= Bach Works catalogue) +BY Busy / Creative Commons licence with attribution / Belarus (ISO code) +BY-NC Creative Commons licence with attribution, Non-Commercial +BY-NC-ND Creative Commons licence with attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives +BY-NC-SA Creative Commons licence with attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike +BY-ND Creative Commons licence with attribution, No Derivatives +BY-SA Creative Commons licence with attribution, Share-Alike +BYAKT But You Already Know That BYCB But You Can't Be/Bruce BYJD But You Just Did -BYKT But You Knew That -BYKTA But You Knew That Already +BYKT But You Know That +BYKTA But You Know That Already BYKWIM But You Know What I Mean BYMMV But Your Mileage May Vary BYN But You're Not BYO Buy/Bring Your Own BYOB Bring Your Own Bottle/Booze +BYOD Bring Your Own Device BYOH Bat You Onna Head +BYOP Bring Your Own Pencil BYORL Bring Your Own Rocket Launcher BYP Beg Your Pardon BYR Belarusian rubles BYU Bob's Your Uncle +BZ Belize (ISO code) / 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate (incapacitating agent) BZD Belize dollars -C cool / carbon +BZT bendrofluazide / Beyond Zero Tolerance +BZW Barclays de Zoete Wedd / beziehungsweise (German, = or/also) / Blizzard Warning / Bank Zachodni WBK SA +BÉPO (= French ergonomic keyboard layout) +C cool / carbon / 100 (Roman numeral) C&A Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer (clothing store) -C&B Callard & Bowser +C&B Callard & Bowser / Crash and Burn C&C Coffee and Cats (= liable to cause spat coffee and startled cats) / Command & Conquer (game) / Command and Control / Cantrell and Cochrane Group PLC / Contraction and Convergence C&D Cease and Desist -C&G Chuckle and Grin / Cheltenham & Gloucester PLC / City & Guilds +C&G Chuckle and Grin / Cheltenham & Gloucester PLC / City and Guilds of London Institute (was CGLI) C&H Calvin and Hobbes (comic strip) C&MA Christian and Ministry Alliance +C&P Cut/Copy-and-Paste C&S Clean and Sober C&W Country and Western (music genre) +C-in-C Commander-in-Chief +C-of-C Chamber of Commerce +C-of-E Church of England +C-SPAN Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (US cable TV) +C-UWB Continuous-Pulse Ultra-Wide-Band (radio) C/O in Care Of / Commanding Officer C/P/S City or Country / Profession / marital Status -C-SPAN Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (US cable TV) C0 917×1297mm (paper size) -C1 648×917mm (paper size) -C10 28×40mm (paper size) +C1 648×917mm (paper size) / first century (1–100 AD) +C10 28×40mm (paper size) / tenth century (901–1000 AD) C10H16O camphor C10H8 naphthalene +C11 eleventh century (1001–1100 AD) +C12 twelfth century (1101–1200 AD) C12H22O11 sucrose +C13 thirteenth century (1201–1300 AD) +C14 fourteenth century (1301–1400 AD) C14H10O4 benzoyl peroxide +C15 fifteenth century (1401–1500 AD) +C16 sixteenth century (1501–1600 AD) C16H18ClN3S methylene blue +C17 seventeenth century (1601–1700 AD) C17H35CO2H stearic acid +C18 eighteenth century (1701–1800 AD) +C18H27NO3 capsaicin +C19 nineteenth century (1801–1900 AD) C19H19SO5 phenol red -C2 Command and Control / 458×648mm (paper size) +C2 Command and Control / 458×648mm (paper size) / second century (101–200 AD) +C20 twentieth century (1901–2000 AD) C20H14O4 phenolphthalein +C21 twenty-first century (2001–2100 AD) +C21D ‘Chambers 21st-Century Dictionary’ +C22 twenty-second century (2101–2200 AD) +C23 twenty-third century (2201–2300 AD) +C24 twenty-fourth century (2301–2400 AD) +C25 twenty-fifth century (2401–2500 AD) C28H30O4 thymolphthalein (aka disappearing ink) -C2C C2C Rail (London & Essex) / Customer-to-Customer +C2C C2C Rail (London and Essex) / Customer-to-Customer C2Cl4 tetrachloroethene C2F4 tetrafluoroethene (aka carbon tetrafluoride, tetrafluoroethylene) C2H2 ethyne (aka acetylene) C2H2O4 oxalic acid C2H3OH ethenol (aka vinyl alcohol) @@ -1320,11 +2046,11 @@ C2H5OH ethanol (aka ethyl alcohol) C2H6 ethane C2H6O ethanol (aka ethyl alcohol) C2H6O2 ethane diol (aka ethylene glycol) C2H7N ethanamine (aka ethylamine) -C3 324×458mm (paper size) +C3 324×458mm (paper size) / third century (201–300 AD) C3H3N3O3 cyanuric acid C3H6 propene C3H6O propanal (aka propionaldehyde) C3H6O3 hydroxypropanoic acid (aka lactic acid) C3H7COH butanal @@ -1335,257 +2061,319 @@ C3H7OH propanol C3H8 propane C3H8O propanol C3I Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence / Cambridge Centre for Ceramic Immobilisation C3PO the tall robot from Star Wars -C4 229×324mm (paper size) +C4 229×324mm (paper size) / fourth century (301–400 AD) C4H10 butane C4H10O butanol (aka butyl alcohol) / ether (aka ethoxyethane, diethyl ether) C4H6O6 dihydroxybutanedioic acid (aka tartaric acid) -C4H8 butene +C4H8 butene (aka butylene) C4H8O butanal C4H8O2 butanoic acid (aka butyric acid) C4H9OH butanol (aka butyl alcohol) C4N Ciao For Now -C5 162×229mm (paper size) +C5 162×229mm (paper size) / fifth century (401–500 AD) C5H8NNaO4 sodium aminopentanedioate (aka monosodium glutamate) -C6 114×162mm (paper size) +C6 114×162mm (paper size) / sixth century (501–600 AD) C6H12O6 glucose / dextrose / fructose C6H4(OH)COOCH3 methyl hydroxybenzoate (aka methyl salicylate, oil of wintergreen) C6H4Cl2 dichlorobenzene C6H5CH3 methylbenzene (aka toluene) C6H5OH phenol C6H6O2 benzene diol (hydroquinone) C6H8O6 ascorbic acid (aka vitamin C) C6H8O7 citric acid -C7 81×114mm (paper size) +C7 81×114mm (paper size) / seventh century (601–700 AD) C76H52O46 tannic acid C7H5BiO4 bismuth subsalicylate (in Pepto-Bismol) -C8 57×81mm (paper size) +C8 57×81mm (paper size) / eighth century (701–800 AD) C8H10 dimethylbenzene (aka xylene) C8H10N4O2 caffeine C8H16O4 methyl ethyl ketone peroxide -C9 40×57mm (paper size) +C9 40×57mm (paper size) / ninth century (801–900 AD) C9H8O4 acetylsalicylic acid (aka aspirin) +CA Conference Archivist / Certificate Authority / California / Canada (ISO code) / Cellular Automaton / Colony Assistant / Court of Appeal / Countryside Alliance / Chartered Accountant / cyanoacrylate (glue) / Computer Associates Inc. (now CA Technologies) / County Alderman / Y Compañía (= Co. in Colombia) Ca calcium cA centiampere (1/100 amperes) -CA Conference Archivist / Certificate Authority / California / Cellular Automaton/a / Constant Acquisitions / Colony Assistant / Court of Appeal / Computer Associates / Countryside Alliance / Chartered Accountant / Y Compañía (= Co. in Colombia) Ca(ClO)2 calcium hypochlorite -Ca(OH)2 calcium hydroxide -CAA Constant Angular Acceleration -CAB Cymru Am Byth! (= Wales for ever) / Citizens Advice Bureau +Ca(OH)2 calcium hydroxide (aka slaked lime) +Ca3P2 calcium phosphide +CAA Constant Angular Acceleration / Civil Aviation Authority +CAABU Council for the Advancement of Arab and British Understanding +CAAV Central Association of Agricultural Valuers +CAB Cymru Am Byth! (= Wales for ever) / Citizens Advice Bureau / Canadian Association of Broadcasters CABAC Context-Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding -CAC Common Access Card +CAC Common Access Card / Cotation Assistée en Continu (= Continuous Assisted Quotation, French stock-market index) / (UK) Campaign Against Censorship / Central Advisory Commission (PRC) / Central Arbitration Commission (UK unions) / Common Access Card / Carbon-Arc Cutting +CaC2 calcium carbide CaC2 calcium carbide +CAC40 Cotation Assistée en Continu (= Continuous Assisted Quotation, French stock-market index of 40 top shares) +CACA Chartered Association of Certified Accountants CaCl2 calcium chloride CACM ‘Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery’ CACO Casualty Assistance Calls/Counselling Officer -CaCO3 calcium carbonate +CaCO3 calcium carbonate (aka calcite, chalk) CAD Computer-Aided Design / Ctrl+Alt+Delete / Canadian dollars / Coronary Artery Disease CADET Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try CADS Can A Duck Swim? / Cash Available for Debt Service CAE Chief Audit Executive / Computer-Aided Engineering CAES Compressed-Air Energy Storage +CAEU Council of Arab Economic Unity CAF Currency Adjustment Factor -CAG Chuckle And Grin +CAFOD Catholic Agency for Overseas Development +CaG Chuckle and Grin CAGR Compound Annual Growth Rate CAI Computer-Aided Instruction CAIA Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst CAID Computer-Aided Industrial Design -CAL Computer-Assisted Learning -CAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Content-Addressable Memory / camera / Conditional Access Module / Computer-Aided Manufacturing / Content Assembly Mechanism / Categorical Abstract Machine / Central Attacking Midfielder +CAIRO Consulted, Accountable, Informed, Responsible, Omitted (project rôles) +CAL Computer-Assisted Learning / Client Access Licence / Cakewalk Application Language / Capital Allocation Line (finance) / Chronic Airway Limitation (aka chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) +CALD Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary +CALEA (US) Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, 1994 / (US) Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies +CAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Content-Addressable Memory / camera / Conditional-Access Module / Computer-Aided Manufacturing / Content-Assembly Mechanism / Categorical Abstract Machine / Communications, Advertising, and Marketing CAMRA Campaign for Real Ale CAN Customer Access Node CANDU Canada Deuterium-Uranium (reactor) CANE Conference Agony Niece Extraordinaire CANFU Combined Army-Navy F***-Up +CanOD ‘Canadian Oxford Dictionary’ CANR Chemically-Assisted Nuclear Reactions (= cold fusion) +CANSO Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation CANX Cancelled -CaO calcium oxide CAO Chief Administrative Officer +CaO calcium oxide (aka quicklime, burnt lime) +CAP Common Agricultural Policy / Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance +CaPD Clear and Present Danger CAPEX Capital Expenditure +CAPS CESG Assisted Products Scheme CAPSTAN Can A Prick Stand Twice A Night CAPTCHA Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart CAQ Computer-Aided Quality Assurance CAQA Computer-Aided Quality Assurance CAR Central African Republic / Causal Analysis / Contents of the Address part of Register number (LISP) CARDS Custom Adjustable-Rate Debt Structure +CaRE Cottage and Rural Enterprises CARP Campaign for Real Pedantry / Common Address Redundancy Protocol -CAS Column Address Strobe (RAM signal) / Close Air Support / Certified Annuity Specialist +CaRP Campaign for Real Pedantry +CAS Column Address Strobe (RAM signal) / Close Air Support / Certified Annuity Specialist / Chief of Air Staff / Compare-And-Swap CASBA Clean Air Smoke Break Agreement CASE Computer-Aided Software Engineering CaSO4 calcium sulphate +CAST Computer-Aided Self-Teaching / Cell-Array Stress Test (RAM) / Commercial Aviation Safety Team CAT Computer-Assisted Translation / Computerised Axial Tomography / Category (of cable) / UN Convention Against Torture / Central Africa Time (= UTC+2) -Cat1 Category 1 cable (aka Level 1, = unshielded twisted-pair, voice-grade) -Cat2 Category 2 cable (aka Level 2, = unshielded twisted-pair up to 5MHz) -Cat3 Category 3 cable (= 4 unshielded twisted pairs up to 16MHz) -Cat4 Category 4 cable (= 4 unshielded twisted pairs up to 20MHz) -Cat5 Category 5 cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 100MHz) -Cat5e Category 5e cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 100MHz) -Cat6 Category 6 cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 250MHz) -Cat6a Category 6a cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 500MHz) -Cat7 Category 7 cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 1GHz) -CAT1 Category 1 cable (aka Level 1, = unshielded twisted-pair, voice-grade) -CAT2 Category 2 cable (aka Level 2, = unshielded twisted-pair up to 5MHz) -CAT3 Category 3 cable (= 4 unshielded twisted pairs up to 16MHz) -CAT4 Category 4 cable (= 4 unshielded twisted pairs up to 20MHz) -CAT5 Category 5 cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 100MHz) -CAT5E Category 5e cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 100MHz) -CAT6 Category 6 cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 250MHz) -CAT6A Category 6a cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 500MHz) -CAT7 Category 7 cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 1GHz) CAT-1 Category 1 cable (aka Level 1, = unshielded twisted-pair, voice-grade) CAT-2 Category 2 cable (aka Level 2, = unshielded twisted-pair up to 5MHz) CAT-3 Category 3 cable (= 4 unshielded twisted pairs up to 16MHz) CAT-4 Category 4 cable (= 4 unshielded twisted pairs up to 20MHz) CAT-5 Category 5 cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 100MHz) CAT-5E Category 5e cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 100MHz) CAT-6 Category 6 cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 250MHz) CAT-6A Category 6a cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 500MHz) CAT-7 Category 7 cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 1GHz) +Cat1 Category 1 cable (aka Level 1, = unshielded twisted-pair, voice-grade) +Cat2 Category 2 cable (aka Level 2, = unshielded twisted-pair up to 5MHz) +Cat3 Category 3 cable (= 4 unshielded twisted pairs up to 16MHz) +Cat4 Category 4 cable (= 4 unshielded twisted pairs up to 20MHz) +Cat5 Category 5 cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 100MHz) +Cat5e Category 5e cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 100MHz) +Cat6 Category 6 cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 250MHz) +Cat6a Category 6a cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 500MHz) +Cat7 Category 7 cable (= 4 twisted pairs up to 1GHz) CATCH Come Again? That Can't Help CATID Category Identifier -CATV Community Antenna Television (i.e. cable) -CAUL Complete And Utter Laziness +CATS Computer-Assisted Trading System +CATV Community Antenna Television (= cable) +CaUL Complete and Utter Laziness CAV Constant Angular Velocity / Compound Accreted Value CAVLC Context-Adaptive Variable-Length Coding CAX Combined Arms Exercise -CB Call Back / Chat Brat / Citizen's Band (radio) / Companion of the Bath -CBA Can't Be Arsed -CBC Cipher-Block Chaining / Canadian Broadcasting Corp. +CB Call Back / Chat Brat / Citizen's Band (radio) / Companion of the Order of the Bath +CBA Can't Be Arsed / Council for British Archæology +CBAC Context-Based Access Control +CBC Cipher-Block Chaining / Canadian Broadcasting Corp. / County Borough Council +CBC-MAC Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code (cryptography) +CBCMAC Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code (cryptography) CBD Convention on Biological Diversity CBDO Chief Business Development Officer CBDTPA (US) Consumer Broadband and Digital TV Promotion Act (never enacted) -CBE Companion of the Order of the British Empire +CBE Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBGYBMABILYAEFAM Cor Blimey, Guvn'r, You're Breakin' Me Arm, But I'll Let You 'Ave 'Em For A Monkey CBI Confederation of British Industry +CBIM Companion of the British Institute of Marketing / Companion of the British Institute of Management (now CIMgt) +CBiol Chartered Biologist +CBIREE Companion of the British Institute of Radio and Electronic Engineers CBL Come Back Later / Computer-Based Learning CBM Commodore Business Machines inc. CBMS Central Bank Money Stock CBO Community-Based Order/Organisation / Chief Business/Brand Officer / (US) Congressional Budget Office / Collateralised Bond Obligation / Cost-Based Optimiser (Oracle) CBOE Chicago Board Options Exchange +CBOT Chicago Board Of Trade (futures and options exchange) CBP (US) Customs and Border Protection cBq centibequerel (1/100 bequerels) -CBR Constant Bit-Rate (MP3 encoding) +CBR Constant Bit-Rate (MP3 encoding) / Cosmic Background Radiation CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear CBS CIX Barbie Survivor / Columbia Broadcasting System CBSO City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra -CBT Computer Based Training / Cognitive Behavioural Therapy +CBT Computer-Based Training/Test / Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy / Can't Be Touched / Current Big Thing / Closed Beta Test / Complete Binary Tree / Change Block Tracking (VM) +CC Closed Conference / Closed Confidential conference / C Compiler / Conference Chaplain/Curmudgeon / Cruise Control / County Court / County Council/lor / Carbon/Courtesy Copy / Creative Commons / (UK) Charity Commission / Close Corporation (in South Africa) / Cocos Islands (Australia) (ISO code) / 200 (Roman numeral) / Companion of the Order of Canada cC centicoulomb (1/100 coulombs) -CC Closed Conference / C Compiler / Conference Curmudgeon / Cruise Control / County Court / County Council / Conference Chaplain / Carbon Copy / Courtesy Copy / Creative Commons / (UK) Charity Commission / Close Corporation (in South Africa) / Cocos Islands (Australia) CC-BY Creative Commons licence with attribution -CC-BY-NC Creative Commons licence with attribution, non-commercial -CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons licence with attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives -CC-BY-NC-SA Creative Commons licence with attribution, non-commercial, share-alike -CC-BY-ND Creative Commons licence with attribution, no derivatives -CC-BY-SA Creative Commons licence with attribution, share-alike -CCA Capital Cost Allowance / (UK) Consumer Credit Act 2006 +CC-BY-NC Creative Commons licence with attribution, Non-Commercial +CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons licence with attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives +CC-BY-NC-SA Creative Commons licence with attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike +CC-BY-ND Creative Commons licence with attribution, No Derivatives +CC-BY-SA Creative Commons licence with attribution, Share-Alike +CCA Capital Cost Allowance / (UK) Consumer Credit Act 2006 / County Councils' Association +CCAB Consultative Committee of Accounting Bodies +CCAD Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary CCAPM Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model CCASG Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf CCAT Cambridge College of Arts and Technology -CCC Clever Chaps Club / Closed Confidential Conference / Corpus Christi College, Cambridge / Central Counterparty Clearing / Cwmni Cyfyngedig Cyhoeddus (= PLC in Wales) / Cash Conversion Cycle -CCCC Corpus Christi College, Cambridge -CCCP CIX Conferencing Complaint Process +CCBE Consultative Council of European Bars and Law Societies +CCBI Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland +CCC Closed Confidential Conference / Corpus Christi College (Oxford, Cambridge) / County Cricket Club / Central Counterparty Clearing / Cwmni Cyfyngedig Cyhoeddus (= PLC in Wales) / Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru (= National Assembly for Wales) / Cash Conversion Cycle / 300 (Roman numeral) +CCCC Corpus Christi College, Cambridge / 400 (Roman numeral) +CCCP CIX Conferencing Complaint Process / Soyuz Sovietskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (= Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR) / Central Committee of the Communist Party / Combined Community Codec Pack (Windows) +CCD Charge-Coupled Device / Compulsory Convertible Debenture / (bee) Colony Collapse Disorder ccd centicandela (1/100 candelas) -CCD Charge-Coupled Device / Compulsory Convertible Debenture CCDA Cisco Certified Design Associate CCDL Clean Current Driving Licence CCDS Certified Consumer Debt Specialist CCEA Council for the Curriculum, Examinations, and Assessment (Northern Ireland) CCENT Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician CCEW Charity Commission for England and Wales -CCF Microsoft Customer Care Framework -CCI Consumer Confidence Index +CCF Microsoft Customer Care Framework / Combined Cadet Force +CCG(BE) Control Commission, Germany (British Element) +CChem Chartered Chemist +CCHMS Central Committee for Hospital and Medical Services +CCI Consumer Confidence Index / Commodity Channel Index (finance) / 201 (Roman numeral) +CCIA Computer Communication Industry Association +CCIBS Companion of the Chartered Institute of Building Services CCIP Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional +CCIPD Companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development CCIR International Radiotelephony Consultative Committee -CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telephony & Telegraphy -CCL Creative Commons Licence / Church Copyright Licence / Climate Change Levy / Combined Counties League / (US) Concealed Carry License -CCl3CH3 trichoroethane +CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telephony & Telegraphy (now ITU-T) +CCJ County Court Judgement +CCL Creative Commons Licence / Church Copyright Licence / Climate Change Levy / Combined Counties League / (US) Concealed Carry License / 250 (Roman numeral) +CCl3CH3 trichloroethane +CCM Counter with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code (cryptography) CCMA Canadian Capital Markets Association +CCMD Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders +CCMI Companion of the Chartered Management Institute CCMJ Christian Council for Monetary Justice CcMmYK Cyan, light cyan, Magenta, light magenta, Yellow, Key (black) +CCMP Counter mode with Cipher block chaining Message authentication code Protocol (WiFi encryption) +CCN Credit Card Number / Cyclomatic Complexity Number (programming) / County Councils Network / Cloud Condensation Nucleus CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate / Certification of Nurse Anæsthetists +CCncllr County Councillor CCNP Cisco Certified Network Professional -CCO CIX Conferencing-Only (account) / Chief Commercial/Communications/Credit Officer +ccNUMA Cache-Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Architecture +CCO CIX Conferencing-Only (account) / Chief Commercial/Communications/Credit Officer / Conservative Central Office +CCP Chinese Communist Party / Cubic Close-Packed (crystal structure) / Certified Computing/Credit/Compensation Professional / Carbonless Copy Paper / Central Counterparty / Code of Civil Procedure / (US) Concealed Carry Permit +CCPR Central Council of Physical Recreation +CCRA Commander of the Corps of the Royal Artillery +CCRE Commander of the Corps of the Royal Engineers CCREL Creative Commons Rights Expression Language -CCS Current Cost of Supplies / Calculus of Communicating Systems -CCT Cocos Islands Time (= UTC+6:30) +CCRSigs Commander of the Corps of Royal Signals +CCS Current Cost of Supplies / Calculus of Communicating Systems / Casualty Clearing Station +CCSC Central Consultants and Specialists Committee +CCSID Coded Character Set Identifier (IBM) +CCT Continuous Cosine Transform / Cocos Islands Time (= UTC+6:30) +CCTA (UK) Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency ccTLD Country Code Top-Level Domain CCTV Closed-Circuit Television -CCU Correctional Custody Unit +CCU Correctional Custody Unit / Critical/Coronary Care Unit / Camera Control Unit CCUG Church Computers User Group CCUR Conference Charioteer in cix:wur +CCW Carrying a Concealed Weapon CCY Can't, Can You / currency +CD Compact Disc / Creative Director / Certificate of Deposit / Christian Democrat / Christmas Day / Canadian Forces Decoration / 400 (Roman numeral) / Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISO code) Cd cadmium -CD Compact Disc / Creative Director / Certificate of Deposit CD+V Compact Disc Video CD-MO Compact Disc — Magneto-Optical CD-R Compact Disc — Recordable CD-ROM Compact Disc — Read-Only Medium CD-RW Compact Disc — ReWritable CD-V Compact Disc Video -CDA (US) Communications Decency Act (1996) / Capital Dividend Account +CDA (US) Communications Decency Act, 1996 / Capital Dividend Account / College Diploma of Agriculture CDC (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Control Data Corp. / California Department of Corrections / Congress for Democratic Change / Community Development Corp. / Cult of the Dead Cow / Connected Device Configuration (Java ME) / Communications Device Class (USB) / Communications Daughter Card (mobile phones) / Combat Direction Centre (on an aircraft carrier) CDCA (UK) Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000 CDDA Compact Disc Digital Audio CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interchange CDDL Common Development and Distribution Licence (from Sun) CDDMWUR Conference Decolyte and Director of Music To cix:wur CDE Common Desktop Environment (Unix) -CDF Congolese francs +CDF Cumulative Distribution Function / Collider Detector at Fermilab / Combined Distribution Frame (cabling) / Clostridium Difficile / Channel Definition Format (XML) / Composite Document File (MS Office) / Compound Document Format (W3C) / Common Data Format (NASA) / Computational Document Format (Wolfram) / Congolese francs CDFA Certified Divorce Financial Analyst CDFI Community Development Financial Institution CDFS Compact Disc File-System (ISO9660) CDG Charles De Gaulle +CDI Can't Do It / 401 (Roman numeral) CDIC Canadian Deposit Insurance Corp. -CDI Can't Do It +CDipAF Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance +CDir Chartered Director CDIWY Couldn't Do It Without You -CDM Cadbury's Dairy Milk (chocolate) / Ceramic Discharge Metal Halide (lamp) / Clean Development Mechanism / Code-Division Multiplexing / Cold Dark Matter / College of Dental Medicine / Combining Diacritic Marks / Compact Disc Maxi-single / Conceptual Data Model / (UK) Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 +CDL Career Development Loan / Chicken Dance Licence / Compiler Description Language / Chinese Character Description Language / (US) Christian Defense League / Common Data Link (US mil.) / Choreography Description Language / candlestick / 450 (Roman numeral) +CDM Cadbury's Dairy Milk (chocolate) / Ceramic Discharge Metal-halide (lamp) / Clean Development Mechanism / Code-Division Multiplexing / Cold Dark Matter / College of Dental Medicine / Combining Diacritic Marks / Compact Disc Maxi-single / Conceptual Data Model / (UK) Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 CDMA Code-Division Multiple Access CDMA2000 Code-Division Multiple Access 2000 CDMO Compact Disc — Magneto-Optical CDMR (UK) Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 CDN Content Delivery Network / Cellular Data Number / Change Detection and Notification / Crédit du Nord (French bank) +cDNA Complementary Deoxyribonucleic Acid CDO Chief Data Officer / Collateralised Debt Obligation / Chief Data/Dental Officer / Continuous Duty Overnight / Collaboration Data Objects (Microsoft API) / Connected Data Object (Eclipse) -CDONTS Collaboration Data Objects for NT Server -CDP Cisco Discovery Protocol / Continuous Data Protection +CDONTS Collaboration Data Objects for (Windows) NT Server +CDP Cisco Discovery Protocol / Continuous Data Protection / Calm Down, Please CDPA (UK) Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 CDPU Cash Distribution Per Unit CDR Compact Disc — Recordable / commander / Climate Data Record / Call Detail Record / Crude Death Rate / Chinese Depositary Receipt / Contents of the Decrement part of Register number (LISP) / Constant Default Rate CDROM Compact Disc — Read-Only Medium / Consumer Device Rendered Obsolete In Months CDRW Compact Disc — ReWritable +CDS Chief of Defence Staff / Credit Default Swap CdS cadmium sulphide CDSA Common Data Security Architecture CDSC Contingent Deferred Sales Charge CDT Central Daylight Time (North America) (= UTC-5) CDTTB Come Down To The Basement -CDV Compact Disc Video +CDU Control/Counter/Customer Display Unit / Christian Democratic Union (Germany, Ukraine) +CDV Compact Disc Video / 405 (Roman numeral) +CE Conference Exists / Common Era / Conformité Européene (EU safety inspection) / Covers Ears / Creative Editing / Crown Estate / Close Enough / Church of England / Civil Engineer / Chief Engineer Ce cerium -CE Conference Exists / Common Era / Covers Ears / Creative Editing / Crown Estate / Close Enough CEA (US) Council of Economic Advisers / (US) Consumer Electronics Association CEC Crown Estate Commissioners CECB Cewch E-Clec Bonws (= have a bonus e-clerk [?]) +CED Collins English Dictionary CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women +CEDEP Centre Européen d'Education Permanente CEDR Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution CEDT Central European Daylight Time (= UTC+2) +CEFIC Conseil Européen des Federations de l'Industrie Chimique CEFJ Close Enough For Jazz CEG Cewch E-Groat (= have an e-groat) CEGB Central Electricity Generating Board CEGH Cewch E-Groat Hwn (= have this e-groat) CEGY Cewch E-Groat Ychwanegol (= have a bonus e-groat) +CEI Council of Engineering Institutions CELP Code-Excited Linear Prediction +CEN European Committee for Standardisation CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation -CEO Chief Executive Officer +CEng Chartered Engineer +CENTO Central Treaty Organisation +CEnv Chartered Environmentalist (Society for the Environment) +CEO Chief Executive/Education Officer CEOA (UK) Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004 CEP Circular Error Probability CEPS Cash Earnings Per Share / Centre for European Policy Studies CER Coupon Equivalent Rate CERD Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination +CERI Centre d'Études et de Recherches Internationales (Paris) CERL Central Electricity Research Laboratory (Leatherhead) -CERN European Organisation for Nuclear Research +CERN Conseil (now Organisation) Européenne pour la Recherche (= European Organisation for Nuclear Research) CERO Computer Entertainment Rating Organisation (Japan) -CERT Computer Emergency Response Team +CERT Computer/Community Emergency Response Team +CertEd Certificate of Education +CertTheol Certificate of Theology CES Consumer Electronics Show CESB Cewch E-Swllt Bonws (= have a bonus e-shilling) CESFC Currently Ex-Stock From Components maker CESFD Claims of Ex-Stock Fictitious Deceitful / Currently Ex-Stock From Distributor CESFI Currently Ex-Stock From Inventor @@ -1593,55 +2381,71 @@ CESFN Currently Ex-Stock From Nowhere CESFS Currently Ex-Stock From Supplier / Chance of Ex-Stock Fairly Slim CESFV Chance of Ex-Stock Frankly Vapourware / Currently Ex-Stock From Vendor CESG Canada Education Savings Grant / Communications-Electronics Security Group (part of GCHQ) CEST Central European Summer Time (= UTC+2) +CESU Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-bit +CESU-8 Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16 CESY Cewch E-Swllt Ychwanegol (= have a bonus e-shilling) CET Central European Time (= UTC+1) -ceV centi electron volt (1/100 electron volts) CEV Contemporary English Version (of the Bible) +ceV centi-electron volt (1/100 electron volts) +CF CompactFlash (memory card) / Conference Fool / Charlie Foxtrot / Clusterf*** / Cystic Fibrosis / Carbon Fibre / Carry Flag / ColdFusion / Cash Flow / Central African Republic (ISO code) / Chaplain to the Forces Cf californium cF centifarad (1/100 farads) -CF CompactFlash (memory card) / Conference Fool / Charlie Foxtrot / Clusterf*** / Cystic Fibrosis / Carbon Fibre / Carry Flag / ColdFusion / Cash Flow CF3CH2F tetrafluoroethane CFA Chartered Financial Analyst CFAT Cash Flow After Taxes -CFB Cipher Feedback +CFB Cipher Feedback (cryptography) +CFBOA Companion Fellow of the British Orthopædic Association CFC Chlorofluorocarbon / Chartered Financial Consultant / (US) Controlled Foreign Corporation CFD Call For Discussion / Computational Fluid Dynamics / Contract For Difference CFDD Christmas Falling-Down Do CFDP Certified Financial Divorce Practitioner CFG Context-Free Grammar / Control-Flow Graph +CFIT Controlled Flight Into Terrain CFL Compact Fluorescent Lamp / Context-Free Language +CFM Classic FM / Canadian Forces Medal +CFMS Canadian Forces Medical Services CFNM Clothed Female, Naked Male CFO Chief Financial Officer -CFP Certified Financial Planner / Common Fisheries Policy / Canada FRee Press / Centre for Freedom and Prosperity / Computers, Freedom, and Privacy / Contention-Free Period +CFP Certified Financial Planner / Common Fisheries Policy / Canada Free Press / Centre for Freedom and Prosperity / Computers, Freedom, and Privacy / Contention-Free Period CFPB (US) Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CFPS Cash Flow Per Share CFPT CIX Fish-Pun Thread -CFQ Completely Fair Queuing / Corporate Finance Qualification / Centre for Quality / Chaoyi Fanhuan Qigong (healing art) / ‘Cinefantastique’ (magazine) -CFR Cost and Freight +CFQ Completely Fair Queuing / Corporate Finance Qualification / Centre For Quality / Chaoyi Fanhuan Qigong (healing art) / ‘Cinefantastique’ (magazine) +CFR Cost and Freight (delivery terms: seller pays carriage to destination port) / (US) Council on Foreign Relations / Case Fatality Rate / Certified First Responder (= first aider) / Commander of the Order of Federal Republic of Nigeria CFREU Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union CFROI Cash Flow Return On Investment -CFS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Certified Fund Specialist +CFS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Certified Fund Specialist / Central Flying School / Clustered File System CFSP Common Foreign and Security Policy +CFT Continuous Fourier Transform +CFTC Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation CFV Call For Vote +CG Conference Grammarian / Computer Graphics / Centre of Gravity / Commonwealth Games / Congo (ISO code) cg centigram (1/100 grams) -CG Conference Grammarian / Computer Graphics -CGA Colour Graphics Array/Adapter (320×200) / Computer Games Authoring -CGC Customer Gets Customer +CGA Colour Graphics Array/Adapter (320×200) / Computer Games Authoring / Country Gentlemen's Association +CGAP Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (consortium) +CGC Customer Gets Customer / Conspicuous Gallantry Cross CGE Capital Gains tax Exposure +CGeog Chartered Geographer +CGeol Chartered Geologist +CGF Commonwealth Games Federation CGI Common Gateway Interface / Computer-Generated Imagery / Consultative Group on Indonesia +CGIA City and Guilds of London Insignia Award +CGLI City and Guilds of London Institute (now C&G) +CGM Conspicuous Gallantry Medal CGMS Copy Generation Management System CGMS-A Copy Generation Management System — Analogue CGPM Conférence générale des poids et mesures (= General Conference on Weights and Measures) CGQ Corporate Governance Quotient +CGS Chief of General Staff CGSM Consignment of Geriatric Shoe Manufacturers (= load of old cobblers) CGT Capital Gains Tax / Computational Graph Theory cGy centigray (1/100 grays) +CH Central Heating / Colony Helper / Conference Heresiarch / Conference Hound / Companion of Honour / Continuum Hypothesis / Switzerland (ISO code) cH centihenry (1/100 henrys) -CH Colony Helper / Conference Heresiarch / Conference Hound / Companion of Honour / Continuum Hypothesis CH2CH2 ethene (aka ethylene) CH2CHOH ethenol (aka vinyl alcohol) CH2Cl2 dichloromethane (aka methylene chloride) CH2O methanal (aka formaldehyde) CH2O2 methanoic acid (aka formic acid) @@ -1657,397 +2461,530 @@ CH3CH2NH2 ethanamine (aka ethylamine) CH3CH2OH ethanol (aka ethyl alcohol) CH3CH3 ethane CH3CHCH2 propene CH3COC2H5 butanone (aka methyl ethyl ketone) -CH3COCH3 pronanone (aka acetone) +CH3COCH3 propanone (aka acetone) CH3COH ethanal (aka acetaldehyde) CH3COOH ethanoic acid (aka acetic acid) CH3OCH3O ethane diol (aka ethylene glycol) CH3OH methanol (aka methyl alcohol) CH4 methane CH4O methanol (aka methyl alcohol) CHAP Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (PPP) CHAST Chatham Standard Time (= UTC+12:45) +CHB Companion of Honour, Barbados +ChB Bachelor of Surgery +CHC Community Health Council CHClCCl2 trichloroethane CHD Coronary Heart Disease CHDLC Cisco High-level Data Link Control CHE Certificate of Higher Education +ChemFRSC Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry CHESS Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (ASX) CHF Swiss francs +CHI Computer-Human Interaction CHIS Covert Human Intelligence Source +ChM Master in Surgery CHN Community of the Holy Name CHOP Channel Op (on IRC) -CHOWUR See How You Are -CHP Combined Heat and Power / California Highway Patrol / Coal Handling Plant +CHowUR See How You Are +CHP Combined Heat and Power / California Highway Patrol / Coal-Handling Plant +CHR Constraint-Handling Rules / Chain Home Radar / Contemporary Hit Radio / Chatham House Rule / charisma +CHRG Chicken-Head Rubber Glove / charge CHRO Chief Human Resources Officer CHS Cylinder, Head, Sector (HD) CHST Chamorro Standard Time (= UTC+10) +ChStJ Chaplain of the Order of St John of Jerusalem CHUR See How You Are CHWOTBAKOTG Conference Hound, Watchdog Of The Boastery, And Keeper Of The Gatepost +CHX Chicago Stock Exchange cHz centihertz (1/100 hertz) -CI Cook Islands / Christmas Island +CI Channel Islands / Cook Islands / Christmas Island / Order of the Crown of India / Côte d'Ivoire (ISO code) / 101 (Roman numeral) CI$ Compuserve Information Service -CIA (US) Central Intelligence Agency / Curse of the Inscrutable Acronyms +CIA (US) Central Intelligence Agency / Curse of the Inscrutable Acronyms / Confidentiality, Integrity, and Authenticity/Availability / Community Impact Assessment / Captured In Action / Christ Is Alive / Cost-Impact Analysis / Chemical Industries Assoc. +CIAgrE Companion of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers CIAH Collapses In A Heap +CIArb Chartered Institute of Arbitrators CIATA Can I Ask The Audience? CIAWT CIX Is A Wonderful Thing -CIC Christ, I'm Confused / Commander-in-Chief / Community-Interest Company / Chartered Investment Counsellor / China Investment Corp. +CIBS Chartered Institute of Building Services +CIBSE Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers +CIC Christ, I'm Confused / Commander-In-Chief / Community-Interest Company / Chartered Investment Counsellor / China Investment Corp. / Construction Industry Council / 199 (Roman numeral) +CICAP Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeal Panel +CICeram Companion of the Institute of Ceramics +CICHE Committee for International Co-operation in Higher Education CICO Coffee In, Coffee Out CICS Customer Information Control System (transaction manager for IBM mainframes) CID Crying In Disgrace / Criminal Investigation Department / Causality Identifier (RPC) / Consider It Done CiDA Certificate in Digital Applications CiDA+ Certificate in Digital Applications Plus CIDCWIISALAIGIWINI Currently I Don't Care Where It Is Stock As Long As I Get It When I Need It +CIDE Collaborative International Dictionary of English CIDKJGMTM Currently I Don't Know, Just Give Me The Money CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing -CIE Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage (= International Commission on Illumination +CIE Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage (= International Commission on Illumination) / Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire CIECAM02 CIE Colour Appearance Model 02 +CIEE Companion of the Institution of Electrical Engineers CIELUV CIE Lightness, U (red), V (blue) (colour model) -CIF Consolidated Issue Facility / Cost, Insurance, and Freight +CIF Consolidated Issue Facility / Cost, Insurance, and Freight (delivery terms: seller pays carriage & insurance) CIFAF Can I Phone A Friend? CIFOR Centre for International Forestry Research -CIFS Common Internet File-system +CIFS Common Internet File-System +CIGasE Companion of the Institution of Gas Engineers +CIGE Companion of the Institute of Gas Engineers CIGFF Can I Go Fifty-Fifty? +CIGRE Conference Internationale des Grands Résaux Electriques +CIGS Chief of Imperial General Staff CIHAEG Can I Have An E-Groat? CIHAEGP Can I Have An E-Groat, Please? CIHBM2 Could I Have BinMail Too? CIHBM2P Could I Have BinMail Too, Please? CIHBMTP Can I Have BinMail Too, Please? +CIHM Companion of the Institute of Healthcare Management CIHM2 Could I Have Mail Too? CIHM2P Could I Have Mail Too, Please? CIHMT Could I Have Mail Too? CIHMTP Could I Have Mail Too, Please? -CIL Common Intermediate Language (.NET bytecode) -CIM Compuserve Information Manager / Computer-Integrated Manufacturing / Common Information Model +CII Chartered Insurance Institute / 102 (Roman numeral) +CIL Common Intermediate Language (.NET bytecode) / 149 (Roman numeral) +CILIP Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals +CILT Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (was CIT) +CIM Compuserve Information Manager / Computer-Integrated Manufacturing / Common Information Model / Chartered Institute of Marketing +CIMA Chartered Institute of Management Accountants +CIMarE Companion of the Institute of Marine Engineers +CIMarEst Companion of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science, and Technology CIMC Certified Investment Management Consultant +CIMechE Companion of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers +CIMgt Companion of the Institute of Management CIMS Certified Investment Management Specialist +CIMSS Co-operative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies +CInstE Companion of the Institute of Energy +CInstMC Companion of the Institute of Measurement and Control +CInstSMM Companion of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management CIO Cut It Out / Chief Information/International/Investment Officer +CIOB Chartered Institute of Building +CIOJ Chartered Institute of Journalists +CIOS Comité International de l'Organisation Scientifique (= International Committee for Scientific Management) +CIP Carriage and Insurance Paid to (delivery terms: seller pays carriage and insurance) CIPA Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (UK) CIPAF Can I Phone A Friend? +CIPD Companion of the Institute of Personnel and Development (was IPD) CIPF Canadian Investor Protection Fund -CIPM Comité international des poids et mesures (= International Committee for Weights and Measures) +CIPFA Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy +CIPM Comité International des Poids et Mesures (= International Committee for Weights and Measures) / Companion of the Institute of Personnel Management (now CIPD) CIPO Chief Intellectual Property Officer +CIPR Chartered Institute of Public Relations (was IPR) CIR Committed Information Rate (Frame Relay) CIRA Continuity Irish Republican Army +CIRIA Construction Industry Research and Information Association CIS Compuserve Information System / Currently In Stock / Continuous Inking System / Co-operative Insurance Society CISAC Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs (= International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers) CISAD Currently In Stock At Distributor CISAS Currently In Stock At Supplier CISAV Currently In Stock At Vendor CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer/Chip CISO Chief Information Security Officer CIST Clipperton Island Standard Time (= UTC-8) -CIT Contradiction In Terms +CIT Contradiction In Terms / Chartered Institute of Transport (now CILT) CITA Case Is Towed Away -CITAAC Case Is Towed Away And Crushed -CITAAO Case Is Towed Away And Opened -CITAATO Case Is Towed Away And Then Opened -CITAORTC Case Is Towed Away Opened, Raided, and Then Crushed -CITAOTC Case Is Towed Away Opened, Then Crushed -CITO Case Is Thrown Out +CITAaC Case Is Towed Away and Crushed +CITAaO Case Is Towed Away and Opened +CITAatO Case Is Towed Away and then Opened +CITAORTC Case Is Towed Away, Opened, Raided, and Then Crushed +CITAOTC Case Is Towed Away, Opened, Then Crushed +CitC Care in the Community +CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora +CITO Case Is Thrown Out / Cache In, Trash Out CITP Chartered Information-Technology Professional -CIV Calculated Intangible Value +CIV Calculated Intangible Value / 104 (Roman numeral) CIVS Condorcet Internet Voting Service / Centre for International Voluntary Service (Kenya) -CIX Compulink Information Exchange +CIX Compulink Information Exchange / 109 (Roman numeral) CIXIP Compulink Information Exchange Internet Provision -CIXOL CIX Online -cJ centijoule (1/100 joules) +CIXOL CIX On-Line CJ Criminal Justice -CJK Chinese, Japanese, Korean -CJKV Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese +cJ centijoule (1/100 joules) +CJK Chinese, Japanese, and Korean +CJKV Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese +CK Cook Islands (ISO code) cK centiKelvin (1/100 Kelvin) ckat centikatal (1/100 katals) CKC Canadian Kennel Club CKD Count Key Data CKO Chief Knowledge Officer CKT Cook Island Time (= UTC-10) +CL Chile (ISO code) / 150 (Roman numeral) Cl chlorine +CLA Country Landowners' Association CLAB Crying Like A Baby -CLAIT Computer Literacy And Information Technology +CLaIT Computer Literacy and Information Technology CLD Culturally- and Linguistically-Diverse -CLI Command-Line Interpreter/Interface / Caller Line Identification / Common Language Infrastructure (.NET) +CLDC Connected Limited Device Configuration (Java ME) +CLI Command-Line Interpreter/Interface / Caller Line Identification / Common Language Infrastructure (.NET) / 151 (Roman numeral) CLIP Calling Line Identity Presentation CLIT Centrally-Located Input Tool +CLit Companion of the Royal Society of Literature CLM Career-Limiting Move clm centilumen (1/100 lumens) CLN Credit-Linked Note +CLNP Connectionless Network Protocol (OSI) +CLNS Connectionless Network Service (OSI) CLO Chief Legal Officer / Collateralised Loan Obligation CLOAKA Canonical List Of All Known Acronyms -CLP Chilean pesos / Cleaner, Lubricant, Preservative +CLP Chilean pesos / Cleaner, Lubricant, Preservative / Constituency Labour Party CLR Common Language Runtime (.NET) CLS City of London Sinfonia CLSID Class Identifier CLSP Cheap Little Sex Poodle CLST Chile Summer Time (= UTC-3) CLT Central Limit Theorem / Chile Standard Time (= UTC-4) CLTV Combined Loan-To-Value Ratio CLU Chartered Life Underwriter -CLV C'est La Vie / Constant Linear Velocity / Close Location Value +CLUI Command-Line User Interface +CLV C'est La Vie / Constant Linear Velocity / Close Location Value / 155 (Roman numeral) clx centilux (1/100 lux) -cm centimetre (1/100 metres) -CM Configuration/Change Management +CM Configuration/Change Management / Cable Modem / 900 (Roman numeral) / Cameroon (ISO code) / Master in Surgery / Member of the Order of Canada Cm curium -CMA (UK) Computer Misuse Act 1990 / Certified Management Accountant / Chinese Martial Arts / Country Music Association/Awards / Computer-Marked Assignment +cm centimetre (1/100 metres) +CMA (UK) Computer Misuse Act 1990 / Certified Management Accountant / Chinese Martial Arts / Country Music Association/Awards / Computer-Marked Assignment / Cost and Management Accountant (NZ) +CMAC Cipher-based Message Authentication Code (cryptography) CMat Chartered Mathematician -CMB (US) Cash Management Bill +CMath Chartered Mathematician +CMB Cosmic Microwave Background radiation / (US) Cash Management Bill +CMBR Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation CMBS Commercial Mortgage-Backed Security +CMC Certified Management Consultant / Constant Mean Curvature / Carboxymethyl Cellulose / Cuban Missile Crisis / CBC, Mask, CBC (disk encryption mode) CMCA Confusing May Cause Anxiety +CMD ‘Call Me Dave’ Cameron / Conceptual Data Model / Chairman and Managing Director / Command (key) / Congenital Muscular Dystrophy +CMDB Configuration Management Database CMDM County Media Development Manager -CME Core Managed Environment -CMF Count My Fingers +CME Core Managed Environment / Chicago Mercantile Exchange / Coronal Mass Ejection +CMF Count My Fingers / Commonwealth Military Forces / Central Mediterranean Force CMG Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George CMHC Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp. -CMI Computer Musical Instrument +CMI Chartered Management Institute / Computer Musical Instrument (Fairlight) / Copyright Management Information / 901 (Roman numeral) CMIIW Correct Me If I'm Wrong -CML Computer-Managed Learning / Capital Market Line -CMM Capability Maturity Model +CMIOSH Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health +CMIP Common Management Information Protocol (OSI) +CMIS Common Management Information Service +CML Computer-Managed Learning / Capital Market Line / 950 (Roman numeral) +CMM Capability Maturity Model / Commander of the Order of Military Merit CMMI Capability-Maturity Model Integration CMNR CIX Mail Not Read CMO Cash/Money Order / Chief Marketing/Medical Officer / Collateralised Mortgage Obligation cmol centimole (1/100 moles) -CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor +CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor CMOT Cut Me Own Throat -CMOTD Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler -CMP Civil Money Penalty +CMOTD Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler +CMP Civil Money Penalty / Corps of Military Police / Chip-level Multi-Processing CMPS Centre for Management and Policy Studies (now NSG) -CMS Content Management System +CMS Content Management System / Church Missionary Society CMSIT Contents May Settle In Transit CMT Contingent Management Team / Chartered Market Technician CMTS Cable Modem Termination Shelf/System -CMU (UK) Commercial Medicines Unit +CMU (UK) Commercial Medicines Unit / Carnegie Mellon University CMY Cyan, Magenta, Yellow CMYK Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (black) CMYKLcLm Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (black), Light cyan, Light magenta -CN Canonical/Common Name -cN centinewton (1/100 newtons) +CMZS Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society +CN Canonical/Common Name / China (ISO code) Cn Copernicium +cN centinewton (1/100 newtons) +CNAA Council for National Academic Awards CNBC (US) Consumer News and Business Channel CNC Computer Numerical Control CND Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament CNE Certified Novell Engineer CNF Chomsky Normal Form (grammar) -CNG Chuckle And Grin +CNFET Carbon-Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor +CNG Chuckle And Grin / Compressed Natural Gas CNN Cable News Network -CNO Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen / Chief Networking Officer +CNO Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen / Chief Networking Officer / Chief of Navy Operations CNP Cardholder Not Present / Continued Next Post CNQ Canada's New Stock Exchange CNR Communications and Networking Riser +CNRS Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique +CNS Central Nervous System / Chief of Naval Staff +CNSX Canadian National Stock Exchange +CNT Carbon Nanotube +CNTFET Carbon-Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor CNY Chinese yuan (ccy) +CNZM Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit +CO conference / company / Care Of / Commanding Officer / Certificate of Origin / Cabinet Office / Cache Owner / Colorado / Colombia (ISO code) Co cobalt -CO conference / company / Care Of / Commanding Officer / Colorado / Certificate of Origin / Cabinet Office +Co-op Co-operative CO2 carbon dioxide CO3 carbon trioxide -COA Certificate Of Authenticity -COAM Customer-Owned and -Maintained +CoA Certificate of Authenticity +COaM Customer-Owned and -Maintained COAX CO-Axial -COB Close of Business +CoB Close of Business +COBE Cosmic Background Explorer (satellite) / Code of Business Ethics COBOL Common Business-Oriented Language / Completely-Obsolete Burdensome Old Language -COBRA (US) Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (1985) +COBR Cabinet Office Briefing Room +COBRA Cabinet Office Briefing Room ‘A’ / (US) Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, 1985 / Counter-Battery Radar COBUILD Collins Birmingham University International Language Database -COC Committee of the Council / Circle of Confusion -COD Cash on Delivery / Concise Oxford English Dictionary / Certificate of Deposit / Cancellation of Debt / Call of Duty (game) +CoC Committee of the Council / Circle of Confusion +COCA Corpus of Contemporary American English +COCl2 carbonyl dichloride (aka phosgene) +COD Cash On Delivery / Concise Oxford English Dictionary / Certificate Of Deposit / Cancellation Of Debt / Call Of Duty (game) / Communications and Operations Department (FO) CODATA Committee on Data for Science and Technology -COE Church of England +CoE Church of England +COED Concise Oxford English Dictionary COFDM Coded Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing COFF Common Object File Format -COG Centre of Gravity -COGS Cost of Goods Sold -COHSE Confederation of Health Service Employees -COHYACUANGAA Congratulations On Having Yet Another Completely-Unusable And Non-General Acronym Accepted… -COI Come On In / (UK) Central Office of Information +CoG Centre of Gravity +COGR Council On Governmental Relations +CoGS Cost of Goods Sold / Chief of General Staff +COHSE Confederation Of Health Service Employees +COHYACUANGAA Congratulations On Having Yet Another Completely-Unusable And Non-General Acronym Accepted... +COI Come On In / (UK) Central Office of Information / Conflict of Interest / Certificate of Insurance / Country-of-Origin Information / Composition Over Inheritance COIDS CIX Oracle In Denial Syndrome (pathological inability to admit ignorance) -COINS Combined Online Information System (UK HM Treasury) +COINS Combined On-line Information System (UK HM Treasury) +CoIntelPro Counter-Intelligence Programme COK Coffee On Keyboard +COKE Coffee On Keyboard Error +CoL Coalition Liberal +CoLC City of London Corporation +ColdmGds Coldstream Guards COLI Company-Owned Life Insurance -COLP Connected Line Presentation +CoLP Connected Line Presentation COLS City Of London Sinfonia COLT City Of London Telecommunications COM Communication Port / Component Object Model (Windows) / Computer-On-Module -COMCRUDESPAC Commander, cruisers destroyers Pacific +COMA Cached-Only Memory Access +COMAL Common Algorithmic Language ComCruDesPac Commander, cruisers destroyers Pacific -COMNAVSEACOMBATSYSENGSTA Commander, Naval Sea Systems Combat Engineering Station +COMEX Commodity Exchange, Inc. ComNavSeaCombatSysEngSta Commander, Naval Sea Systems Combat Engineering Station +CompIEE Companion of the Institution of Electrical Engineers +CompIERE Companion of the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers +CON Commander of the Order of the Niger (Nigeria) COND Condemned -CONS Connection-Oriented Network Service +CONP Connection-Oriented Network Protocol (X.25) +CONS Connection-Oriented Network Service (OSI) CONUS Continental United States (of America) COO Come On Over / Chief Operating Officer / Certificate Of Origin -COP Colombian pesos / Certificate of Participation -COR Church of Rome +COP Colombian pesos / Certificate Of Participation +COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease +CoR Church of Rome +CORAL Computer On-line Real-time Applications Language CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture CORGI Children Over-Reach Gross Income CORWO Other Way Round Of Course (the other way round) -COS Church Of Scotland / Chief Of Staff / ‘Church’ of Scientology +CoS Church of Scotland / Chief of Staff / ‘Church’ of Scientology +COSHH Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health +COSIRA Council for Smaller Industries in Rural Areas Council (was ISJC) COST Colombia Summer Time (= UTC-4) COSTWUR Collector Of the Salt Tax in cix:wur CoSy Conferencing System / Collaboration System / Co-operative Synergy -COT Colombia Time (= UTC-5) +COT Cup Of Tea / Colombia Time (= UTC-5) COTAL Custodian Of The Acronym List (p_elphick@cix aka cotal@cotal.co.uk) COTC Court Of The COTAL COTFL Crawling On The Floor Laughing COTFLGOHAHA Crawling On The Floor Laughing Guts Out and Having A Heart Attack COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf -COTY Creep Of The Year -COUGR (US) Certificate of Government Receipts +CotY Creep of the Year +COUGR (US) Certificate Of Government Receipt +CoW Clusters of Workstations COYU Congratulations On Your Unanimity -CP Copy Protection / Chat Post / Cross-Post / Communist Party / Corporal Punishment / Crime Prevention / Capital Punishment / Civil Partnership +CP Copy Protection / Chat Post / Cross-Post / Communist Party / Capital/Corporal Punishment / Civil Partnership / Child Pornography / Crime Prevention / Chemically-Pure / Charge and Parity / Cerebral Palsy / Clipperton Island (ISO code, reserved) / Captain of a Parish (IOM) / Cape Province (S Africa) / calcium phosphide CP/M Control Program for Microcomputers (OS) +CPA Chartered/Certified Public Accountant / Cell Processor Architecture / Critical Path Analysis / Converged Packet Access / Christian People's Alliance (UK) / Canadian Police/Payments/Payroll/Poolplayers Association / Comprehensive Performance Assessment / Chosen-Plaintext Attack / Commercial Product Assurance / Cost Per Action/Acquisition / Closest Point of Approach / Commonwealth Parliamentary Association cPa centipascal (1/100 pascals) -CPA Certified Public Accountant / Cell Processor Architecture / Converged Packet Access CPAC Cable Public Affairs Channel (Canada) CPAL Common Public Attribution Licence CPAN Comprehensive Perl Archive Network CPAP Constant Positive Airway Pressure CPB Communist Party of Britain/Burma / Cardiopulmonary Bypass / Coded Picture Buffer / (US) Corporation for Public Broadcasting / Campbell Soup Company -CPC Cost Per Click / (Driver) Certificate of Professional Competence / Community Patent Convention / Communist Party of Canada/Chile/China/Cuba/Czechoslovakia +CPC Cost Per Click / (Driver) Certificate of Professional Competence / Community Patent Convention / Communist Party of Canada/Chile/China/Cuba/Czechoslovakia / Conservative Political Centre CPD Continuing Professional Development CPDO Constant-Proportion Debt Obligation -CPE Customer Premises Equipment +CPE Customer Premises Equipment / Common Professional Examination (of the Law Society) CPF Can Pigs Fly? / Central Provident Fund (Singapore) +CPFA Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy CPFF Commercial Paper Funding Facility CPG Consumer Packaged Goods CPGB Communist Party of Great Britain CPGNWDRTOHC Chrome-Plated Grease Nipples With Double-Reverse Twin-Overhead Camshafts CPGNWDRTOHDH Chrome-Plated Grease Nipples With Double-Reverse Twin-Overhead Door Handles CPGNWDRTOHF Chrome-Plated Grease Nipples With Double-Reverse Twin-Overhead Foxtails +CPGPS Carrier-Phase Enhanced Global Positioning System +CPhys Chartered Physicist CPI Consumer Price Index / Characters Per Inch CPI-W Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers -CPL Common Public Licence +CPL Common Public Licence / Chief of Personnel & Logistics / Cats Protection League / Combined Programming Language CPLD Complex Programmable Logic Device -CPM Control Program for Microcomputers (OS) / Cost Per Mile/Mille / Critical Path Method / Certified Professional Midwife / Continuous Phase Modulation / Compressed Pattern Matching +CPM Control Program for Microcomputers (OS) / Cost Per Mile/Mille / Critical Path Method / Certified Professional Midwife / Continuous Phase Modulation / Compressed Pattern Matching / Characters/Cycles Per Minute / Colonial Police Medal CPN Community Psychiatric Nurse -CPO Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra / Chief Process/Procurement/Product/Promotions Officer / Comparison of Pairs of Outcomes +CPO Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra / Chief Process/Procurement/Product/Promotions/Petty Officer / Comparison of Pairs of Outcomes / Close Protection Officer (aka bodyguard) CPO-STV Comparison of Pairs of Outcomes by the Single Transferable Vote CPP Calling Party Pays / Canada Pension Plan / Capital Purchase Programme CPPCC Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference CPPI Constant-Proportion Portfolio Insurance CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Communist Party of Russia / Cubase Project (file) / Conditional Prepayment Rate / (UK) Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 +CPRE Council for the Protection of Rural England CPRI Common Public Radio Interface CPRM Content Protection for Recordable Media +CPRS Central Policy Review Staff CPRs (UK) Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 -CPS Characters Per Second / Crown Prosecution Service / Centre for Policy Studies -CPSA Clay Pigeon Shooting Association +CPS Characters/Cycles Per Second / Crown Prosecution Service / Centre for Policy Studies / Canadian Pacific Steamships +CPSA Civil and Public Services Association / Clay Pigeon Shooting Association CPSC (US) Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSS Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems -CPT Committee for the Prevention of Torture -CPU Central Processing Unit +CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union / Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit (UK) / Configurable Processor System Unit / Combined Primary Storage Unit / Community and Public Sector Union (Australia) / Civil and Public Services Union (Ireland) +CPsychol Chartered Psychologist +CPT Committee for the Prevention of Torture / Charge, Parity, and Time / Current Procedural Terminology / Carriage Paid To (delivery terms: seller pays carriage) +CPU Central Processing Unit / Commonwealth Press Union +CPVC Chlorinated Poly-Vinyl Chloride CPW Carphone Warehouse PLC -CPWA (UK) Countryside and Right of Way Act 2000 CPWP Can't Pay, Won't Pay +CPX Control Panel Extension (Atari TOS) +CPY copy CQ Cadit Quæstio (= the question falls, i.e. the issue is resolved) / Seek You (= please respond) CQB Close-Quarters Battle CQC Close-Quarters Combat CQD all stations: distress (early Morse signal) -CR Carriage Return / Change Request / Czech Republic / Costa Rica / Caloric Restriction / Compression Ratio / credit / Credit Rating +CQSW Certificate of Qualification in Social Work +CQT Control Question Test (polygraph) +CR Carriage Return / Change Request / Czech Republic / Costa Rica (ISO code) / Caloric Restriction / Compression Ratio / credit / Credit Rating Cr chromium CR/LF Carriage Return/Line Feed Cr2O3 chromium oxide -CRA Canadian Revenue Agency / (US) Community Reinvestment Act (1977) / (UK) Constitutional Reform Act 2005 +CRA Canadian Revenue Agency / (US) Community Reinvestment Act, 1977 / (UK) Constitutional Reform Act 2005 / Commander of the Royal Artillery +CRAC Careers Research and Advisory Council / Commander of the Royal Armoured Corps +CRAeS Companion of the Royal Aeronautical Society CRAFT Can't Remember A F***ing Thing CRAN Comprehensive R Archive Network CRAP Cheap, Redundant, Assorted Products +CRASC Commander of the Royal Army Service Corps CRB Criminal Records Bureau (check) / Controlled-Risk Bet / Commodity Research Bureau (index) CRBT Crying Real Big Tears -CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check / Chemical Rubber Company (handbook) / Costa Rican colóns (ccy) / UN Convention on the Rights of the Child +CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check / Chemical Rubber Company (handbook) / Costa Rican colóns (ccy) / UN Convention on the Rights of the Child / Community Relations Commission CRC-16-CCITT Cyclical Redundancy Check (X.25, HDLC) CRCSPF Co-operative Research Centre for Sustainable Production Forestry -CRE Commission for Racial Equality +CRD Conservative Research Department +CRE Commission for Racial Equality / Commander of the Royal Engineers +CREME Commander of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineering CREN Corporation for Research and Education -CRIMM Continuity Rambus Inline Memory Module +CRI Colour Rendering Index +CRIMM Continuity Rambus In-line Memory Module CRL Cooperativa de Responsabilidade Limitada (= Ltd co-operative in Portugal) CRLF Carriage-Return/Line-Feed CRM Customer Relationship Management / Courtesy Reply Mail / Certified Risk Manager / Civil Rights Movement / Crew/Cockpit Resource Management +CRMP Corps of the Royal Military Police CRND (UK) Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt -CRO Cathode Ray Oscilloscope / Chief Revenue/Risk Officer -CROC UN Convention on the Rights of the Child +CRO Cathode Ray Oscilloscope / Chief Revenue/Risk Officer / Commonwealth Relations Office +CROC UN Convention on the Rights Of the Child CROGI Cash Return On Gross Investment -CROW (UK) Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 +CROW (UK) Countryside and Rights Of Way Act 2000 CRPD Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities CRPG Computer/Character Role-Playing Game CRS Can't Remember S*** / Computer Reservations System / Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité CRSA (UK) Carers (Recognition & Services) Act 1995 CRSO City of Rochester Symphony Orchestra CRSP (US) Center for Research in Security Prices CRT Cathode-Ray Tube CRTC Cathode-Ray Tube Controller / Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission CRTLA Can't Remember the Three-Letter Acronym -CRUD Create, Read, Update, Delete +CRUD Create, Read, Update, Delete (DB functions) CRUMBS Conference (Really Unbelievably Most Beneficial) Snack for cix:wur +CRWA (UK) Countryside and Right of Way Act 2000 CRYPTREC Cryptography Research and Evaluation Committees (Japan) +CS Computer Science / Cop Shop / Cable Select / 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile (tear gas) / Serbia and Montenegro (ISO code) (now ME and RS) / Clerk to the Signet Cs cæsium -cs centisecond (1/100 seconds) cS centisiemens (1/100 siemens) -CS Computer Science / Cop Shop / Cable Select / 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile (tear gas) +cs centisecond (1/100 seconds) CS2 carbon disulphide -CSA Context-Sensitive Acronym / Child Support Agency / Customer Service Adviser / Community-Supported Agriculture / Child Sexual Abuse / Cub Scouts of America / Common Scrambling Algorithm / Cross-Sectional Area / Chemical Safety Assessment -CSC Certified Senior Consultant +CSA Context-Sensitive Acronym / Child Support Agency / Customer Service Adviser / Community-Supported Agriculture / Child Sexual Abuse / Cub Scouts of America / Common Scrambling Algorithm / Cross-Sectional Area / Chemical Safety Assessment / Commonwealth Society of Artists / Chair of the Schools Association / Chief Scientific Adviser +CSC Certified Senior Consultant / Conspicuous Service Cross +CSCE Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe CSci Chartered Scientist CSCS Construction Skills Certificate Scheme / Contingency Shuttle Crew Support / Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance -CSD Corrective Service Disk / Circuit-Switched Data / Catastrophic Self-Disassembly / Central Securities Depository +CSD Corrective Service Disk / Circuit-Switched Data / Catastrophic Self-Disassembly / Central Securities Depository / Chartered Society of Designers CSDC Contextualised Self-Defining Colloquialism CSE Certificate of Secondary Education / Computer Science and Engineering +CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA (= Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology) / Controlled-Source Electromagnetic / Center for the Study of Energy Markets (Berkeley) / Center for Space Environment Modeling (Michigan) +CSERB Computer Systems and Electronics Requirements Board CSF Microsoft Connected Services Framework -CSG Chuckle, Snicker, Grin -CSI Crime Scene Investigation / Church of Scientology International / Companion of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India / Current Source Inverter / Common System/Software Interface / Crime Stoppers International / Commodity Selection Index / Computer Security Institute +CSG Chuckle, Snicker, Grin / Constructive Solid Geometry +CSI Crime Scene Investigation / Church of Scientology International / Companion of the Star of India / Current Source Inverter / Common System/Software Interface / Crime-Stoppers International / Commodity Selection Index / Computer Security Institute / Cisco Systems, Inc. / Committee for Skeptical Inquiry +CSICOP Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal +CSIR Council for Scientific and Industrial Research CSIRAC Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer -CSL Can't Stop Laughing / Cub Scout Leader / C. S. Lewis / Central Science Laboratory / Chinese Sign Language / Context-Sensitive Language +CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation +CSL Can't Stop Laughing / Cub Scout Leader / Clive Staples Lewis / Central Science Laboratory / Chinese Sign Language / Context-Sensitive Language CSLIP Corrective Serial Line Interface Protocol CSM Customer Service Manager / Christian Science Monitor -CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance -CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection +CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance +CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection CSNA County Scout Network Administrator CSNC County Scout Network Commissioner CSNL County Scout Network Leader -CSO Central Statistical Office / Chief Sales/Science/Security/Strategy Officer / Community Support Officer / Court Security Officer / Chicago/Christchurch/Cincinnati/Columbus Symphony Orchestra / Contract Sales Organisation / Colour-Separation Overlay / Counter-Strike Online +CSO Central Statistical Office / Chief Sales/Science/Security/Signal/Staff/Strategy Officer / Community Support Officer / Court Security Officer / Chicago/Christchurch/Cincinnati/Columbus Symphony Orchestra / Colour-Separation Overlay / Counter-Strike On-line / Central Statistical Office +CSOC Cyber Security Operations Centre (GCHQ) CSOS Composite Signals Organisation Station -CSP (UK) Chartered Society of Physiotherapy / Communicating Sequential Processes +CSP (UK) Chartered Society of Physiotherapy / Communicating Sequential Processes / Cryptographic/Content/Community/Customer/Commerce Service Provider / Constraint-Satisfaction Problem / Corrugated Steel Pipe / Casual Sex Partner / Certified Sales/Safety/Systems/Surveillance/Speaking Professional +CSPRNG Cryptographically-Secure Pseudo-Random Number Generator CSQE Certified Software Quality Engineer -CSR Customer Sales/Service Representative / Cab Secure Radio / Combat Stress Reaction +CSR Customer Sales/Service Representative / Cab Secure Radio / Combat Stress Reaction / Corporate Social Responsibility / Comprehensive Spending Review / Control/Status Register / Certificate Signing Request / Centre for Software Reliability CSRC China Securities Regulatory Commission CSRF Cross-Site Request Forgery -CSS Cascading Style Sheets / Content-Scrambling System / Closed-Source Software / Cross-Site Scripting / Can't Stop Smiling +CSS Cascading Style Sheets / Content-Scrambling System / Closed-Source Software / Cross-Site Scripting / Can't Stop Smiling / Council for Science and Society CSSA Conference Sybarite, Self-Appointed CSSD Central Sterile Services Department CSSR Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (obs.) / (UK) Council with Social Services Responsibilities CST Central Standard Time (North America) (= UTC-6) / China Standard Time (= UTC+8) / Contingent Support Team +CStat Chartered Statistician (was FSS) +CSTI Council of Science and Technology Institutes +CStJ Commander of the Order of St John of Jerusalem CSTP CoSy Transfer Protocol -CSU/DSU Channel Service Unit / Data Service Unit +CSU Christlich-Soziale Union (= Christian Social Union, Bavaria) / Channel Service Unit (WAN) +CSU/DSU Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit +CSV Comma-Separated Values (data format) / Community Service Volunteers cSv centisievert (1/100 sieverts) -CSV Comma-Separated Values (data format) CSW Can't See Why CSWS Can't Say, Won't Say CSY Can't Stop Yawning +CT Council Tax / Computed Tomography / Conjuring Trick / Canon Treasurer / Connecticut / Colour Temperature / Canton and Enderbury Islands (ISO code) (obs.) cT centitesla (1/100 teslas) -CT Council Tax / Conjuring Trick / Canon Treasurer / Computerised Tomography / Connecticut -CTA Commodity Trading Adviser / (UK) Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 / (US) Children's Television Act (1990) / British Common Travel Area +CTA Commodity Trading Adviser / (UK) Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 / (US) Children's Television Act, 1990 / British Common Travel Area / Chartered Tax Adviser CTAN Comprehensive TeX Archive Network -CTC Child Tax Credit / Choking The Chicken +CTBI Churches Together in Britain and Ireland +CTC Child Tax Credit / Choking The Chicken / City Technology College / Crush, Tear, Curl (tea processing) / Cyclists' Touring Club (UK) / Circulating Tumour Cell / Carbon Tetrachloride / Centralised Traffic Control / Closed Timelike Curve (general relativity) / Computed Tomographic Colonography CTCP Client-To-Client Protocol / = joint-stock co. in Vietnam CTD Cheapest To Deliver +CText Chartered Textile Technologist CTF CIX Toll Free (obs.) CTFC (US) Commodity Futures Trading Commission CTFPT CIX Travelling Fish-Pun Thread CTI Computer-to-Telephony Interface / Customer Type Indicator -CTL Computational Tree Logic +CTIA Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (now The Wireless Association) +CTL Computational Tree Logic / Complex Text Layout CTM Chicken Tikka Masala / Close-To-Metal / Chinese Traditional Medicine / Community TradeMark / Computational Theory of Mind / Counter-Terrorism Measure / County Training Manager CTN Can't Talk Now / Confectionary, Tobacco, and News (retailers) / (US) Christian Television Network / Cartoon Network (TV) / Cellular Telephone Number CTO Cut That Out / Chief Technical/Technology/Tax Officer CTOAGAATM Can't Think Of A Good Acronym At The Moment CTOOE Cut That Out, Or Else! -CTR Click-Through Rate / Cost, Time, and Resource / Current Transfer Ratio / Clinical Trials Registry / Choose The Right (Mormon motto) / (US) Currency Transaction Report -CTS Changing The Subject / Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / Clear To Send / Catholic Truth Society / Cosmic Top Secret (NATO rating) / Career & Technology Studies / Cracked Tooth Syndrome / Cardio-Thoracic Surgery / Cipher-Text Stealing / Common Type System (.NET) / ‘The Catherine Tate Show’ +CTP Community Technology Preview +CTR Click-Through Rate / Cost, Time, and Resource / Current Transfer Ratio / Clinical Trials Registry / Choose The Right (Mormon motto) / (US) Currency Transaction Report / Counter (cryptography) +CTS Changing The Subject / Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / Clear To Send / Catholic Truth Society / Cosmic Top Secret (NATO rating) / Career and Technology Studies / Cracked-Tooth Syndrome / Cardio-Thoracic Surgery / Cipher-Text Stealing / Common Type System (.NET) / ‘The Catherine Tate Show’ CTSS Compatible Time-Sharing System CTTD Cute Things They Do CTTS Cute Things They Say +CTW Context Tree Weighting / Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) CTWB Conjuring Trick With Bones +CU See You / Cracks Up / Credit Union / Cuba (ISO code) Cu copper -CU See You CU2 See You, Too CUA Common User Access / Commonly-Used Acronym +CUAGN See You Again CUBA Counties that Used to Be Avon +CUBC Cambridge University Boat Club CUC Cuban convertible pesos -CUDA Compute Unified Device Architecture +CUDA Compute Unified Device Architecture (Nvidia) +CUF Common University Fund CUIAL See You In Another Life CUIC See You In Church CUL Catch You Later / Cambridge University Library CUL8ER See You Later CUL8R See You Later @@ -2061,73 +2998,103 @@ CUS See You Soon CUSIP (US) Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures (code number) CuSO4 copper sulphate CUTLASS Consequential Uniformed Tasteless Loudest Anglo-Saxon Sergeant on the Shift CUZ because +CV Conference Vexillologist / Curriculum Vitæ / Cape Verde (ISO code) / Constant Velocity / Control Voltage / Coefficient of Variation / Commercial Vehicle / Copyright Violation / Consonant-Vowel / Cross of Valour / 105 (Roman numeral) / Commanditaire Vennootschap (= Ltd partnership co. in the Netherlands) cV centivolt (1/100 volts) -CV Conference Vexillologist / Curriculum Vitæ / Cape Verde / Constant Velocity / Control Voltage / Coefficient of Variation / Commercial Vehicle / Copyright Violation / Consonant-Vowel / Commanditaire Vennootschap (= Ltd partnership co. in the Netherlands) CVB Conference Verbal Burbler CVBA Coöperatieve Vennootschap met Beperkte Aansprakelijkheid (= limited-liability co-operative in Belgium) +CVCP Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the UK CVD China Video Disc CVE Cape Verde escudos (ccy) -CVI Cumulative Volume Index +CVI Cumulative Volume Index / 106 (Roman numeral) +CVL Central Veterinary Laboratory / 145 (Roman numeral) CVO Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVOA Coöperatieve Vennootschap met Onbeperkte Aansprakelijkheid (= unlimited-liability co-operative in Belgium) CVR Cockpit Voice Recorder / Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance / Conversion Rate / Contingent Value Rights CVS Concurrent Versioning System / Council for Voluntary Service / Computer Vision Systems/Syndrome -CVT Continuously-Variable Transmissiona / Cape Verde Time (= UTC-1) +CVT Continuously-Variable Transmission / Cape Verde Time (= UTC-1) +CW Complete Wank / Current Weight / Continuous Wave (Morse Code) / Curaçao (ISO code) cW centiwatt (1/100 watts) -CW Complete Wank / Current Weight / Continuous Wave (Morse Code) +CWA Crime Writers' Association cWb centiweber (1/100 webers) +CWBAFT Chance Would Be A Fine Thing +CWC Carter-Wegman + Counter (cryptography mode) CWL Cardiff Airport +CWO Chief Warrant Officer CWOT Complete Waste Of Time +CWT Continuous Wavelet Transform CWU (UK) Communication Workers Union CWURSES cix:wur Regional Scatomancer Extraordinaire but Seasonal CWYL Chat With You Later -CX Christmas Island (Australia) +CX Christmas Island (Australia) (ISO code) / 110 (Roman numeral) CXT Christmas Island Time (= UTC+7) -CY Calm Yourself +CY Calm Yourself / Cyprus (ISO code) CYA Cover Your Arse / See You All CYAL8R See Ya Later / See You All Later CYB Count Your Blessings CYK Cocke-Younger-Kasami (algorithm) CYL See You Later CYM Check Your Mail -CYO See You Online +CYO See You On-line / Choose Your Own / Christian/Catholic Youth Organisation / County/Civic/Contemporary/Cheshire/Cornwall/Coventry/Congleton Youth Orchestra CYPUWIPD Can You Pick-Up What I'm Putting Down CYT See You Tomorrow +CZ Czech Republic (ISO code) CZI Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries CZK Czech koruna (ccy) -D deuterium +D deuterium / 500 (Roman numeral) +D&AD Designers & Art Directors' Association +D&B Dandelion and Burdock D&C Duck and Cover / Doctrine and Covenants (Mormonism) / Dilation and Curettage D&D Drunk and Disorderly / Dungeons and Dragons D&RFC Duck and Run For Cover D&S Domination and Submission D&T Derry & Tom's D-G Director-General D-H Diffie-Hellman (key exchange) D-VHS Digital Video Home System +D.Sc. Doctor of Science (aka Scientiæ Doctor) +D/D Drug- and Disease-free (personal ads) D/L download D2O deuterium oxide (= heavy water) D2V Direct-to-video +DA District Attorney / Doctor of Arts / Deputy Advocate / Diploma in Art/Anæsthesia / Selskap med Delt Ansvar (= Ltd partnership co. in Norway) dA deciampere (1/10 amperes) -DA District Attorney / Selskap med Delt Ansvar (= Ltd partnership co. in Norway) +DA&QMG Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster-General +DA-15 D-subminiature 15-pin connector +DA-15F D-subminiature 15-pin connector (Mac video &c) +DA15 D-subminiature 15-pin connector +DA15F D-subminiature 15-pin connector (Mac video &c) +DaA Detect and Avoid (radio interference) daA decaampere (10 amperes) +DAA&QMG Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General +DAAG Deputy Assistant-Adjutant-General DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting daBq decabequerel (10 bequerels) -daC decacoulomb (10 coulombs) +DABR Diploma of American Board of Radiology DAC Digital-to-Analogue Converter / Duck And Cover / Discretionary Access Control / Development Assistance Committee +daC decacoulomb (10 coulombs) dacd decacandela (10 candelas) +DACG Deputy Assistant Chaplain-General +DACI Driver, Approver, Contributors, Informed (project rôles) +DACOS Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff DACS Digital Access Concentrator System -DAD Digital Audio Disc / Duplicate Address Detection / Diode Array Detector / ‘Die Another Day’ / Disinhibited Attachment Disorder +DAD Digital Audio Disc / Duplicate Address Detection / Diode Array Detector / ‘Die Another Day’ / Disinhibited Attachment Disorder / Deputy Assistant Director +DADGMS Deputy Assistant Director-General of Medical Services +DADMS Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services +DADOS Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services +DADR Deputy Assistant Director of Remounts DADSR Delay, Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release +DADST Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport DADT Don't Ask, Don't Tell -daeV deca electron volt (10 electron volts) +DAE ‘A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles’ +daeV deca-electron volt (10 electron volts) +DAF Divorced Asian Female / Delivered At Frontier (delivery terms: seller pays carriage to border) daF decafarad (10 farads) -DAF Divorced Asian Female +DAG Deputy Adjutant-General / Deputy Attorney-General dag decagram (10 grams) -DAG Deputy Attorney General daGy decagray (10 grays) daH decahenry (10 henrys) DAHDSR Delay, Attack, Hold, Decay, Sustain, Release daHz decahertz (10 hertz) DAI Digital Aerial Imagery @@ -2135,42 +3102,64 @@ daK decaKelvin (10 Kelvin) dakat decakatal (10 katals) DAL Dedicated Access Line dalm decalumen (10 lumens) dalx decalux (10 lux) -dam decametre (10 metres) +DALY Disability-Adjusted Life Year DAM Divorced Asian Male +dam decametre (10 metres) DAMHIKIJKOK Don't Ask Me How I Know — I Just Know, OK? damol decamole (10 moles) +DAMS Deputy Assistant Military Secretary daN decanewton (10 newtons) DAO Data Access Objects / Disc-At-Once (CD burning) -DAP Directory Access Protocol / Parents Against Dyslexia +DAP Directory Access Protocol / Digital Audio Player / Digital Archive Project / Dog-Appeasing Pheromone / Parents Against Dyslexia / Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (= German Workers' Party) / Delivered At Place (delivery terms: seller pays carriage and takes risk) daPa decapascal (10 pascals) -DARFC Ducks And Runs For Cover +DAPM Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal +DAPS Director of Army Postal Services +DAQMG Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General +DArch Doctor of Architecture +DARE ‘Dictionary of American Regional English’ +DaRfC Ducks and Runs for Cover DARPA (US) Defense Advanced Research Program Agency -das decasecond (10 seconds) +DAS Doctor of Applied Science daS decasiemens (10 siemens) +das decasecond (10 seconds) DASD Direct-Access Storage Device +DASH7 ISO/IEC 18000-7:2004 (wireless networking) daSv decasievert (10 sieverts) +DAT Digital Audio Tape / = PLC in Ukraine / Deliver At Terminal (delivery terms: seller pays carriage to terminal) daT decatesla (10 teslas) -DAT Digital Audio Tape / = PLC in Ukraine DAU Dümmster Anzunehmender User (= dumbest imaginable user) daV decavolt (10 volts) -DAVID Digital Audio Video Council (1994–9) +DAVIC Digital Audio/Video Council (1994–9) +DAVID Digital Audio/Video Interactive Decoder / Data And Voice Integration over DWDM / Driver And Vehicle Information Database (Florida) +DAvMed Diploma in Aviation Medicine +DAW Digital Audio Workstation / Division for the Advancement of Women (now part of UN Women) daW decawatt (10 watts) -DAW Digital Audio Workstation daWb decaweber (10 webers) DAX Deutscher Aktien Index (= German stock index) DAYATFO Do As You Are Told For Once DAYEG Diolch Am Yr E-Grot (= thanks for the e-groat) -dB decibel +DAYWBDB Do As You Would Be Done By DB Decibel / Dogs' Bollocks / Database / Deutsche Bank Db dubnium -DBA Database Administrator / Doing Business As +dB decibel +DB-13W3 D-subminiature 13-pin connector with 3 wide pins (Sun/SGI/IBM monitors &c) +DB-15 D-subminiature 15-pin connector (VGA &c) +DB-23 D-subminiature 23-pin connector (Amiga video) +DB-25 D-subminiature 25-pin connector (serial port &c) +DB-9 D-subminiature 9-pin connector (joysticks &c) +DB13W3 D-subminiature 13-pin connector with 3 wide pins (Sun/SGI/IBM monitors &c) +DB15 D-subminiature 15-pin connector (VGA &c) +DB23 D-subminiature 23-pin connector (Amiga video) +DB25 D-subminiature 25-pin connector (serial port, printer port, &c) +DB9 D-subminiature 9-pin connector (joysticks &c) +DBA Database Administrator / Doing Business As / Doctor of Business Administration / Design Business Association DBAG Don't Blow A Gasket DBAI Designed By An Idiot -DBAN Darik's Boot And Nuke +DBaN Darik's Boot and Nuke DBAU Doing Business As Usual DBBO Difficult Bits By Others DBC Design By Contract DBCM Deleted By Conference Moderator DBCS Double-Byte Character Set @@ -2181,51 +3170,79 @@ DBIS (UK) Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills DBL Dros Ben Llestri (= over the dishes, i.e. OTT) DBM Divorced Black Male DBMS Database Management System DBN Doing Business — Not +DBO Diploma of British Orthoptics DBP Ducks Behind Parapet +DBPC Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled (medical trial) dBq decibequerel (1/10 bequerels) DBS Don't Be Silly -DBSITW Do Bears S*** In The Woods? +DBSitW Do Bears S*** in the Woods? DBSL District Beaver Scout Leader DBSM Deleted By System Manager DBSSIF Don't Be So Silly In Future +DBT Dialectical Behaviour Therapy DBWYCAM Don't Bite What You Can't Afford, Matey DBYL Dros Ben Y Llestri (= over the dishes, i.e. over the top) DBZ ‘Dragon Ball Z’ (anime) +DC Direct Current / Detective Constable / District of Colombia (USA) / District Commissioner / Da Capo / District Council / Douglas Commercial (aircraft) / Doctor of Chiropractic / 600 (Roman numeral) dC decicoulomb (1/10 coulombs) -DC Direct Current / Detective Constable / District of Colombia / District Commissioner / Da Capo / Douglas Commercial (aircraft) +DC-37 D-subminiature 37-pin connector +DC37 D-subminiature 37-pin connector DCA Distributed Computing Architecture / Dynamic Channel Allocation / Debt Collection Agency / Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport / District Court of Appeal / (UK) Department for Constitutional Affairs / Digitally-Controlled Amplifier +DCAe Diploma of the College of Aeronautics +DCAS Deputy Chief of Air Staff / Double Compare-And-Swap DCB Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath / Data Control Block (IBM) / dichlorobenzene / Data-Centre Bridging / Digital Control Bus (Roland) / Dead Cat Bounce (finance) -DCC Deputy County Commissioner / Direct Client-to-Client +DCC Deputy County Commissioner / Direct Client-to-Client / 700 (Roman numeral) / Digital Compact Cassette DCCA Debian Common Core Alliance +DCCC 800 (Roman numeral) +DCCCC 900 (Roman numeral) DCCP Datagram Congestion Control Protocol dcd decicandela (1/10 candelas) DCDM Digital Cinema Distribution Master +DCDS Deputy Chief of Defence Staff DCE Data Communications Equipment / Distributed Computing Environment DCELLS Department for Children, Education, Life-long Learning, and Skills (Wales) DCF Digitally-Controlled Filter +DCGS Deputy Chief of General Staff +DCH Diploma in Child Health +DChem Doctor of Chemistry DCHS Don't Call Him ‘Shirley’ -DCI Digital Cinema Initiatives -DCL Doctor of Civil Law / Data Control Language +DCI Digital Cinema Initiatives / 601 (Roman numeral) +DCJ Doctor of Criminal Justice +DCL Doctor of Comparative/Civil Law / Data Control Language / 650 (Roman numeral) DCLG (UK) Department for Communities and Local Government -DCM Digital Clock Management +DCLI Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry / 651 (Roman numeral) +DCM Digital Clock Management / Distinguished Conduct Medal +DCMG Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George DCMI Dublin Core Metadata Initiative -DCMS Don't Call Me ‘Shirley’ / (UK) Department for Culture, Media, and Sport +DCMS Don't Call Me ‘Shirley’ / (UK) Department for Culture, Media, and Sport / Deputy Commissioner of Medical Services DCO Digitally-Controlled Oscillator DCOL Doesn't Count On Location DCOM Distributed Component Object Model (Windows) +DCom Doctor of Communications DCOT Doesn't Count On Tour -DCP Digital Cinema Package +DCP Digital Cinema Package / Diploma in Clinical Pathology +DCrim Doctor of Criminology +DCS Doctor of Computer Science +DCSc Doctor of Commercial Science DCSF (UK) Department for Children, Schools, and Families (obs.) DCSL District Cub Scout Leader +DCSNet Digital Collection System Network (FBI) +DCSO Deputy Chief Scientific Officer DCT Discrete Cosine Transform +DCTL Direct-Coupled Transistor Logic DCVO Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order -DCX Delta Clipper Experimental -DD Direct Debit / Doesn't Decode / Due Diligence / Dear Daughter / Divinitatis Doctor (= Doctor of Divinity) / Double Density / Dreaded Disease / = PLC in Slovenia -DDA (UK) Disability Discrimination Act 1995 / (Australia) Disability Discrimination Act 1992 / Deputy District Attorney / Demand Deposit Account / Depletion Deprecation Amortisation/ Digital Differential Analyser / (UK) Defence Diversification Agency / ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ +DCVS Distributed Concurrent Versions System +DCX Delta Clipper Experimental / 610 (Roman numeral) +DD Direct Debit / Doesn't Decode / Due Diligence / Darling/Dear Daughter / Divinitatis Doctor (= Doctor of Divinity) / Double Density / Dreaded Disease / = PLC in Slovenia / East Germany (ISO code) (obs.) +DD-50 D-subminiature 50-pin connector (SCSI &c) +DD/MM/YY Day Month Year (UK date) +DD/MM/YYYY Day Month Year (UK date) +DD50 D-subminiature 50-pin connector (SCSI &c) +DDA Disability Discrimination Act (UK 1995, Australia 1992) / Deputy District Attorney / Demand Deposit Account / Depletion Deprecation Amortisation / Digital Differential Analyser / (UK) Defence Diversification Agency / ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ DDC Direct-Dial Connection DDCA Direct-Dial Conferencing Account DDCD Double-Density Compact Disc DDCD-R Double-Density Compact Disc — Recordable DDCD-ROM Double-Density Compact Disc — Read-Only Medium @@ -2232,357 +3249,565 @@ DDCD-RW Double-Density Compact Disc — ReWritable DDCDR Double-Density Compact Disc — Recordable DDCDROM Double-Density Compact Disc — Read-Only Medium DDCDRW Double-Density Compact Disc — ReWritable DDD Deliberate Design Decision / Direct Distance Dial / Digital–Digital–Digital (mastering) / Data Display Debugger +DDDS Deputy Director of Dental Services DDE Dynamic Data Exchange (Windows) -DDG Deputy Director General +DDEME Deputy Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering +DDes Doctor of Design +DDF Digital Distribution Frame (cabling) +DDG Deputy Director-General DDIA Don't Do It Again DDIAOE Don't Do It Again Or Else DDIEA Don't Do It Ever Again DDL Data Definition Language DDM Dumbledore's Man +DDME Deputy Director of Mechanical Engineering +DDMMYY Day Month Year (UK date) +DDMMYYYY Day Month Year (UK date) +DDMS Deputy Director of Medical Services +DDO Diploma in Dental Orthopædics +DDOS Deputy Director of Ordnance Services DDoS Distributed Denial-of-Service (attack) -DDOS Distributed Denial-Of-Service (attack) -DDR Double Data Rate (SDRAM) / Deutsche Demokratishe Republik (= former East Germany) +DDP Delivered, Duty Paid (delivery terms: seller pays all costs) +DDPS Deputy Director of Personal Services +DDQ 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone +DDR Double Data Rate (SDRAM) / Deputy Director of Remounts / Deutsche Demokratishe Republik (= former East Germany) DDR2 Double Data Rate ×2 (SDRAM) DDR3 Double Data Rate ×4 (SDRAM) DDRAM Double Data-rate Random-Access Memory -DDS Digital Data Service -DDT para-Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloethene / Didn't/Don't Do That +DDS Digital Data Service / Doctor of Dental Surgery / Director of Dental Services +DDS&T Deputy Director Supplies and Transport +DDSc Doctor of Dental Science +DDSD Deputy Director of Staff Duties +DDST Deputy Director of Supplies and Transport +DDT para-Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethene / Didn't/Don't Do That DDTB Don't Disturb The Baby DDTOE Don't Do That Or Else DDTP Day, Date, Time, Place DDTT Don't Do That, Then -DE Delaware +DDU Delivered, Duty Unpaid (delivery terms: seller delivers, buyer unloads and clears for import) +DDVS Deputy Director of Veterinary Services +DDWE&M Deputy Director of Works, Electrical and Mechanical +DE Differential Equation / Delaware / Doctor of Engineering (USA) / Germany (ISO code) +DE-15 D-subminiature 15-pin connector (VGA video &c) +DE-9 D-subminiature 9-pin connector (joysticks &c) +DE15 D-subminiature 15-pin connector (VGA video &c) +DE9 D-subminiature 9-pin connector (joysticks &c) DEA (US) Drug Enforcement Administration / (UK) Department of Economic Affairs (obs.) / Data Encryption Algorithm / Disposable Email Address / (UK) Digital Economy Act 2010 +DEB Don't Even Bother / Dynamic Energy Budget / Digital European Backbone / Dietary Electrolyte Balance / Diethyl Benzene / Data Extent Block (IBM) DEBE Does Everything But Eat DEC Digital Equipment Corporation / Disasters Emergency Committee / December / decimal DECC (UK) Department of Energy and Climate Change +DECE Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (consortium) DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications -DED Dark-Emitting Diode (i.e. a burned-out LED) / Disability Equality Duty +DED Dark-Emitting Diode (= a burned-out LED) / Disability Equality Duty / Doctor of Environmental Design +DEd Doctor of Education DEFRA (UK) Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs DEGT Don't Even Go There -DEK Donald E. Knuth +DEK Donald Ervin Knuth +DEM Diploma in Education Management +DEME Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering +DEng Doctor of Engineering DENR Department of Environment and Natural Resources (Philippines) +DEnv Doctor of Environment DEP Data Execution Prevention -DES Data Encryption Standard (obs.) / (UK) Department for Education and Skills (obs.) +DEQ Delivered Ex-Quay (delivery terms: seller pays carriage & insurance to destination quayside) +DES Data Encryption Standard (obs.) / (UK) Department for Education and Skills (obs.) / Delivered Ex-Ship (delivery terms: seller pays carriage & insurance to named port) +DES-X Data Encryption Standard with key whitening DESA District Explorer Scout Administrator DESC District Explorer Scout Commissioner +DESc Doctor of Engineering Science DESL District Explorer Scout Leader +DesRCA Designer of the Royal College of Art DETI Don't Even Think about It / (NI) Department of Enterprise, Trade, and Investment DETR (UK) Department of Environment, Transport, and the Regions DEU Dumb End-User -deV deci electron volt (1/10 electron volts) DEV development -DF Dear Friend / Direction Finding +deV deci-electron volt (1/10 electron volts) +DF Dear Friend / Direction Finding / Doctor of Forestry dF decifarad (1/10 farads) -DFA Deterministic Finite-state Automaton +DFA Deterministic Finite-state Automaton / Doctor of Fine Arts DfBIS (UK) Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills DFC Distinguished Flying Cross DfCA (UK) Department for Constitutional Affairs DfCLG (UK) Department for Communities and Local Government DfCMS (UK) Department for Culture, Media, and Sport DfCSF (UK) Department for Children, Schools, and Families (obs.) DFD Data-Flow Diagram DFE (UK) Department For Education +DfEE Department for Education and Employment DfEFRA (UK) Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs DfES (UK) Department for Education and Skills (obs.) +DFFP Diploma from the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health +DFH Diploma of Faraday House Engineering College DFI Dumb F***ing Idea DFID (UK) Department For International Development DfIUS (UK) Department for Innovation, Universities, and Skills (obs.) DFLA Disenhanced Four-Letter Acronym (= a TLA) -DFM Deputy First Minister +DFM Deputy First Minister / Distinguished Flying Medal / Diploma in Forensic Medicine +DFP Digital Flat Panel (20-pin connector) +DFR Document Filing and Retrieval (OSI) DFRA Decreasing Failure Rate, Average / Department of Forest, Resources, and Agrifoods (Canada) DFRH Differ From Real History DFS Disk Filing System / Distributed File-System / Depth-First Search DFSG Debian Free Software Guidelines DFT (UK) Department For Transport / Discrete Fourier Transform / (= Central European Time, UTC+1) +DfT (UK) Department For Transport DfTLGR (UK) Department for Transport, Local Government, and the Regions DfTLR (UK) Department for Transport, Local Government, and the Regions DFTTOM Don't Forget To Think Of Me -DFU Don't Forget Units +DFU Don't Forget Units / Direct Firmware Update DfWP (UK) Department for Work and Pensions +DG Director-General / Data General / Dead Granny / Dei Gratia (= by the grace of God) / Deutsche Grammophon / Dolce & Gabbana / Diego Garcia (ISO code, reserved) dg decigram (1/10 grams) -DG Director General / Data General / Dead Granny / Dei Gratia (= by the grace of God) -DGA Don't Go Anywhere +DGA Don't Go Anywhere / Digital Guardian Angel DGAF Don't Give A F*** DGAFF Don't Give A Flying F*** +DGAMS Director-General of Army Medical Services +DGARA Don't Give A Rat's Arse +DGCStJ Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem DGD Dworkin's Game Driver +DGDP Diploma in General Dental Practice +DGMS Director-General of Medical Services +DGO Diploma in Gynæcology and Obstetrics +DGPS Differential Global Positioning System +DGS Diploma in Graduate Studies / Doctor of Geological Science / Deutsche Gebärdensprache (= German Sign Language) +DGStJ Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem DGT Don't Go There DGUTDJ Don't Give Up The Day Job dGy decigray (1/10 grays) -DH Dear/Deaf/Dumb Husband / dick-head / (UK) Department of Health / Diffie-Hellman (key exchange) +DH Darling/Dear/Deaf/Dumb Husband / dick-head / (UK) Department of Health / Diffie-Hellman (key exchange) / Doctor of Humanities dH decihenry (1/10 henrys) DH-EKE Diffie-Hellman Encrypted Key Exchange +DHA District Health Authority DHAFC Don't Have A F***ing Clue DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol / Die, Heretic Conference Preacher! +DHEA Dehydroepiandrosterone DHGDA ‘Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency’ -DHL Dalsey, Hillblom, Lynn (now part of Deutsche Post AG) +DHIATENSOR (= keyboard layout for Blickensderfer Typewriters) +DHL Dalsey, Hillblom, Lynn (now part of Deutsche Post AG, aha Drop it, Hide it, Lose it) / Doctor of Hebrew Literature / Doctor of Humane Letters +DHLA Dihydrolipoic Acid DHM Diffie-Hellman-Merkle (key exchange) DHMO Dihydrogen Monoxide -DHS Die, Heretic Scum! / (US) Department of Homeland Security +DHMSA Diploma in the History of Medicine (Society of Apothecaries) +DHQ District Headquarters +DHS Die, Heretic Scum! / (US) Department of Homeland Security / Doctor of Health and Safety / Doctor of Hebrew Studies DHSS (UK) Department of Health and Social Security (obs.) -DHT Discrete Hartley Transform +DHT Distributed Hash Table / Discrete Hartley Transform / dihydrotestosterone DHTIIDWT Don't Have To If I Don't Want To -DHTML Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language +DHTML Dynamic Hypertext Mark-up Language +DHX Diffie-Hellman Exchange (Apple authentication protocol) / Dual-Path Heat Exchange +DHy Doctor of Hygiene DHYB Don't Hold Your Breath dHz decihertz (1/10 hertz) -DI Detective Inspector / Drill Instructor +DI Detective Inspector / Drill Instructor / 501 (Roman numeral) DIA (US) Defense Intelligence Agency / Do/Does It Again +DIAF Die In A Fire +DIAFYO Did I Ask For Your Opinion? +DIAGF Die In A Grease Fire +DIC Diploma of the Imperial College / 509 (Roman numeral) DICOAPWLA Drunk In Charge Of A Poor Wee Lad Again? DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine DID ‘Desert Island Discs’ DiDA Diploma in Digital Applications DIET Deep Infiltration and Extraction Team DIF Data Integrity Field +DIH Diploma in Industrial Health DIHTEEITATY Do I Have To Explain Everything Including The Acronym To You? DIIK Damned If I Know DIIN Damned If I Know DIKA Do I Know Any DIKU Do I Know You? -DIL Daughter-In-Law / Days In Lieu +DIL Daughter-In-Law / Days In Lieu / 549 (Roman numeral) DILLIC Do I Look Like I Care? DILLIGAD Do I Look Like I Give A Damn? DILLIGAF Do I Look Like I Give A F***? DILLIGAFF Do I Look Like I Give A Flying F***? DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module -DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung +DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung (= German Standards Institute) DINK Dual Income, No Kids DINKY Dual Income, No Kids Yet -DINS Dual Income, No Sex +DINS Dual Income, No Sex / (US) Defense Information Systems Network DIOLCH = thanks DIP Dual In-line Package +DipAD Diploma in Art and Design +DipAg Diploma in Agriculture +DipArch Diploma in Architecture +DipAvMed Diploma in Aviation Medicine +DipBA Diploma in Business Administration +DipCAM Diploma in Communications, Advertising, and Marketing +DipCD Diploma in Civic Design +DipCTh&M Diploma in Christian Theology and Ministry +DipEd Diploma in Education +DipEE Diploma in Electrical Engineering +DipESL Diploma in English as a Second Language DipFE Diploma of Further Education +DipFM Diploma in Forensic Medicine +DipHA Diploma in Hospital Administration DipHE Diploma of Higher Education +DipHSM Diploma in Health Services Management +DipLA Diploma in Landscape Architecture +DiplArch Diploma in Architecture +DipLD Diploma in Landscape Design +DiplINSEAD Diploma in European Institute of Business Administration (L'Institut European d'administration des affaires) +DipLP Diploma in Legal Practice +DipM Diploma in Marketing +DipMRS Diploma of the Market Research Society +DipMus Diploma in Music +DipMusEd Diploma in Music Education +DipN Diploma in Nursing +DipOrthMed Diploma in Orthopædic Medicine +DipRAM Diploma of the Royal Academy of Music +DipTh Diploma in Theology +DipTP Diploma of Town Planning DIRA Disclaimer In Résumé Applies +DIRTFT Do It Right The First Time DIS (UK) Defence Intelligence Staff DISA (US) Defense Information System Agency +DIT Doctor of Industrial/Information Technology +DitF Door in the Face DITUIHIBMSL Did I Tell You I Hate IBMs Lately? DITUILIBMSL Did I Tell You I Love IBMs Lately? DITYID Did I Tell You I'm Distressed? DIUS (UK) Department for Innovation, Universities, and Skills (obs.) DIVX Digital Video Express DIWWNW4 Does It Work With NetWare 4? DIY Do-It-Yourself +DJ Disc Jockey / Dinner Jacket / Diploma in Journalism / District Judge / Divorce Judge / Doctor Juris (Doctor of Laws) / Dow Jones / Dust Jacket / Djibouti (ISO code) dJ decijoule (1/10 joules) -DJ Disc Jockey / Dinner Jacket / Diploma in Journalism / District Judge / Divorce Judge / Doctor Juris (Doctor of Laws) / Dow Jones / Dust Jacket +DJAG Deputy Judge Advocate-General DJF Divorced Jewish Female / Djiboutian francs +DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average DJM Divorced Jewish Male +DJStJ Dame of Justice of the Order of St John of Jerusalem +DK Don't Know / Denmark (ISO code) / Darjah Kerabat Laila/Seri Utama Yang Amat Dihormati (The Most Esteemed Family Order Laila/Seri Utama of Brunei) dK deciKelvin (1/10 Kelvin) -DK Don't Know dkat decikatal (1/10 katals) DKDC Don't Know, Don't Care DKIM DomainKeys Identified Mail DKK Danish krone (ccy) +DKMB Darjah Kerabat Mahkota Brunei (The Royal Family Order of the Crown of Brunei) DKU Drop-Kick Ugly DKUATB Do Keep Up At The Back DKW Dampf-Kraft-Wagen / Don't Know What DKWYM Don't Know What You Mean -DL download / Dual-Layer / Dead Link / Dies Laughing / Deputy Lieutenant / 110×220mm (paper size) +DL download / Dual-Layer / Dead Link / Dies Laughing / Deputy Lieutenant / Direct Line (insurance) / 110×220mm (paper size) / 550 (Roman numeral) DLA Disability Living Allowance / Dental Laboratories Association / Digital Logic Analyser DLAC Driving Like A C*** DLB Dowager Lady Bodge -DLC Downloadable Content +DLC Downloadable Content / Diploma from Loughborough College DLCI Data-Link Circuit Identifier (Frame Relay) DLE 110×220mm (envelope size) DLG Devilish Little Grin +DLI Durham Light Infantry / 551 (Roman numeral) DLIES Discrete Logarithm Integrated Encryption Scheme DLIGTYH Don't Let It Go To Your Head -DLL Dynamic Link Library +DLit Litterarum Doctor (= Doctor of Letters) +DLitt Litterarum Doctor (= Doctor of Letters) +DLL Dynamic Link Library / Data Link Layer (Ethernet) dlm decilumen (1/10 lumens) DLN Don't Leave Now DLNA Digital Living Network Alliance -DLP Digital Light Processing +DLO Diploma in Laryngology and Otology/Otorhinolaryngology +DLP Digital Light Processing / Data-Loss Prevention / Data-Level Parallelism / Discrete Logarithm Problem / Disneyland Paris DLR Docklands Light Railway / Dynamic Language Runtime +DLS Doctor of Liberal Studies / Doctor of Library Science DLT Digital Linear Tape / Direct Linear Transformation / Dave Lee Travis DLTBBB Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite +DLTBBY Don't Let The Bugger Bite You DLTBGYD Don't Let The Buggers Grind You Down DLTDHYWTGLSY Don't Let The Door Hit Ya Where The Good Lord Split Ya DLTM Don't Lie To Me dlx decilux (1/10 lux) +DM Direct Message / Doesn't Matter / Deutschmark / Dr Martens (boots) / ‘Daily Mail’ / ‘Daily Mirror’ / Dungeon Master / Doctor Medicinæ (= Doctor of Medicine) / Doctor of Music / Doctor of Ministry / Dominica (ISO code) dm decimetre (1/10 metres) -DM Direct Message / Doesn't Matter / Deutschmark / Dr Martens (boots) / ‘Daily Mail’ / ‘Daily Mirror’ / Dungeon Master / Doctor Medicinæ (= Doctor of Medicine) -DMA Direct Memory Access +DMA Direct Memory Access / Doctor of Musical Arts / Direct Marketing Association (was BDMA) / Direct Market Access DMAF Do Me A Favour DMAPI Data Management Application Programming Interface DMB Digital Multimedia Broadcasting -DMCA (US) Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1998) -DMD Doctor of Dental Medicine +DMCA (US) Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 1998 +DMD Doctor of Dental Medicine / Differential Mode Delay DMDM District Media Development Manager -DMI Don't Mention It / Digital Media Initiative (BBC) / Direct Media Interface / (UK) Directorate of Military Intelligence (obs.) +DME Director of Mechanical Engineering / Doctor of Musical Education / Distance-Measuring Equipment +DMI Don't Mention It / Digital Media Initiative (BBC) / Direct Media Interface / (UK) Director/ate of Military Intelligence (obs.) DMIBDDIA Don't Mention It, But Don't Do It Again DMIBDDIAOYVGTJFAVVVLT Don't Mention It, But Don't Do It Again Or You Will Go To Jail For A Very Very Very Long Time DMIID Don't Mind If I Do -DML Data Manipulation Language +DMilSc Doctor of Military Science +DMin Doctor of Ministry +DMJ Diploma in Medical Jurisprudence +DML Data Manipulation Language / Doctor of Modern Languages +DMM Doctor of Music Ministry +DMMGH Don't Make Me Get Hostile DMML Don't Make Me Laugh +DMMM Don't Make Me Mad DMMO Definitive Map Modification Order DMO UK Debt Management Office +DMO&I Director Military Operations and Intelligence dmol decimole (1/10 moles) -DMR Dennis M. Ritchie / Digital Media Remastering -DMS Dead Man's Switch -DMT Discrete Multi-tone Modulation +DMPS 2,3-dimercapto-1-propanesulphonic acid +DMR Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie / Digital Media Remastering +DMRD Diploma in Medical Radiological Diagnosis +DMRE Diploma in Medical Radiology and Electrology +DMRT Diploma in Medical Radiotherapy +DMS Dead Man's Switch / Diploma in Management Studies / Director of Medical Services / Dimethyl sulphide +DMS-59 59-pin connector (dual-link DVI or VGA) +DMSA Dimercaptosuccinic acid +DMSc Doctor of Medical Science +DMSI Director of Management and Support Intelligence +DMSO Dimethyl sulphoxide +DMSP Dimethylsulphoniopropanoate +DMSR Dance, Music, Sex, Romance (Prince song) +DMT Discrete Multi-tone Modulation / Dimethyl Tryptamine / Director of Military Training DMTW Don't Mention The War +DMus Doctor of Music (aka Musicæ Doctor) DMV (US) Department of Motor Vehicles / Dynamic Management Views / Deserted Mediæval Village DMW Dead Man Walking +DMX Digital Multiplex (stage lighting &c) +DMX512 Digital Multiplex with 512 channels (stage lighting &c) +DMX512-A Digital Multiplex with 512 channels, ANSI standard (stage lighting &c) +DMX512A Digital Multiplex with 512 channels, ANSI standard (stage lighting &c) DMZ Demilitarised Zone +DN Distinguished Name / Domain Name dN decinewton (1/10 newtons) -DN Distinguished Name DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid / Douglas Noel Adams / Donkey Not Ass / Did Not Answer DNAA District Nights Away Adviser +DNAFET DNA Field-Effect Transistor DNAYS Do Not Adjust Your Set +DNB Dictionary of National Biography DNC Definitely No Comment / Does Not Compute DND Do Not Disturb / drag'n'drop / Department of National Defence DNE Does Not Exist -DNF Digital Noise Filters / Disjunctive Normal Form (boolean logic) / Duke Nukem Forever / Did Not Finish/Find +DNF Digital Noise Filters / Disjunctive Normal Form (grammar) / Duke Nukem Forever / Did Not Finish/Find DNFS Domino Network File Store / Disk/Network Filing System DNG Digital Negative (Adobe image file format) +DNI Director of Naval Intelligence +DNIF Duties Not Including Flying (= grounded) DNMS Does Not Make Sense -DNO = unlimited co. in Slovenia +DNO Director of Naval Ordnance / = unlimited co. in Slovenia +DNP Distributed Network Protocol / Do Not Post / Doctor of Nursing Practice / Duty Not Paid / Do Not Place (PCB design) / Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation (NMR spectroscopy) / Did Not Play / 2,4-Dinitrophenol / 2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazine (aka Brady's reagent) DNPGDNCTHP Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect Two Hundred Pounds DNPM Damn Near Pissed Myself DNQ Do Not Quote DNR Domain Name Registration DNRWWA Domain Name Registration With Web Aliasing DNS Domain Name System/Server DNSBL DNS Black-List -DNSO Domain Name Supporting Organisation of ICANN +DNSc Doctor of Nursing Science +DNSO Domain Name Supporting Organisation (ICANN) DNSSEC Domain Name System Security Extensions -DNT Did Not, Too +DNT Did Not, Too / Do Not Track (HTTP) DNW Do Not Want +DO Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine / Diploma in Ophthalmology / Divisional Officer / Dominican Republic (ISO code) / Denominación de Origen (= Protected Designation of Origin) DOA Dead On Arrival +DOAE Defence Operational Analysis Establishment DOB Date Of Birth / Daft Old Bat/Bastard/Bitch +DObstRCOG Diploma Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynæcologists +DOC District Officer Commanding / Denominazione di origine controllata/Denominação de Origem Controlada (= Protected Designation of Origin) DOCSIS Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specification DOD (US) Department Of Defense -DOE (US) Department Of Energy / Duke Of Edinburgh +DOE (US) Department Of Energy / Duke Of Edinburgh / Department of the Environment +DoE Department of the Environment DOEG Dispenser Of E-Groats -DOF Depth of Focus/Field -DOH (UK) Department of Health -DOI Digital Object Identifier -DOJ (US) Department of Justice +DOF Depth Of Focus/Field +DOG Digital On-screen Graphic (TV logo) +DOH (UK) Department Of Health +DOI Digital Object Identifier / Department of Industry +DOJ (US) Department Of Justice DOL Doctor of Oriental Learning DOM Dirty Old Man / Document Object Model (browser API) / Domain Object Model +DOMS Diploma in Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery DOO = Ltd co. in Serbia &c DOP Dominican pesos +DOR Director of Operational Requirements +DOrthRCS Diploma in Orthodontics Royal College of Surgeons +DOS Disk Operating System / Denial Of Service / Dozing Off Soon / Dozy Old Sod / Director of Ordnance Services DoS Denial of Service -DOS Disk Operating System / Denial Of Service / Dozing Off Soon / Dozy Old Sod -DOT Department of Transportation / Delivery On Time -DOTMDOO Denizen of the Murky Depths of the Order Omega -DOTMDWKO Denizen of the Murky Depths (of the Order Omega) With Knobs On -DOTW Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells -DOTY Dumb-ass of the Year -DOY Dumb-ass of the Year -DP Data Processing / Dissociated Press / Dot Pitch -DPA (UK) Data Protection Act 1998 / Dover Port Authority +DOT (US) Department Of Transportation / Delivery On Time +DOTMDOO Denizen Of The Murky Depths of the Order Omega +DOTMDWKO Denizen Of The Murky Depths (of the Order Omega) With Knobs On +DOTW Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells +DOTY Dumb-ass Of The Year +DOY Dumb-ass Of the Year +DP Data Processing / DisplayPort / Dissociated Press / Dot Pitch / Darling/Dear Partner +DPA (UK) Data Protection Act 1998 / Dover Port Authority / Doctor/Diploma in Public Administration / Document Printing Application (OSI) dPa decipascal (1/10 pascals) DPC Deferred Procedure Call DPCM Differential Pulse-Code Modulation DPCO Double-Pole Change-Over (switch) +DPCP Department of Prices and Consumer Protection DPDT Double-Pole Double-Throw (switch) -DPH Diploma in Public Health +DPE Doctor of Physical Education +DPH Doctor/Diploma in Public Health +DPhil Doctor of Philosophy DPI Dots Per Inch / Deep Packet Inspection DPICM Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions +DPL Director of Pioneers and Labour +DPM Data Processing Manager / Doctor of Podiatric Medicine / Deputy Provost Marshal / Diploma in Psychological Medicine / Disruptive-Patterned Material DPMI DOS Protected-Mode Interface +DPMO Deputy Principal Medical Officer / Defects Per Million Opportunities DPMS Display Power Management Signalling DPP Director of Public Prosecutions -DPR Data Protection Registrar +DPR Data Protection Registrar / Director of Public Relations DPRK Democratic People's Republic of Korea -DPS Double-Page Spread +DPRM Diploma in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine +DPS Double-Page Spread / Doctor of Professional Studies / Director of Personal Services DPST Double-Pole Single-Throw (switch) +DPT Doctor of Physical Therapy +DQC Data Quality Campaign / (UK) Driver Qualification Card +DQF Data Quality Framework / Delivering Quality First (BBC) DQM Don't Quote Me / Data Quality Management/Manager/Monitoring / Dynamic Queue Manager / Dragon Quest Monsters / Driver Quality Monitor/ing / Deep Query Manager +DQMG Deputy Quartermaster-General DQMOT Don't Quote Me On That/This -DR Disaster Recovery / Dominican Republic / doctor / Dynamic Range +DR Disaster Recovery / Dominican Republic / doctor / Dynamic Range / Doctor of Recreation / Digital Research, Inc. DR-DOS Digital Research — Disk Operating System -DRA Don't Recognise Acronyms +DRA Don't Recognise Acronyms / Defence Research Agency / Director of the Royal Artillery DRAM Dynamic Random-Access Memory -DRC Democratic Republic of the Congo / UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child -DRCOG Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynæcology +DRC Democratic Republic of the Congo / UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child / Diploma of the Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow +DRCOG Doctor/Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynæcology DRCS Distributed Revision Control System -DRI Direct Rendering Infrastructure -DRL Daytime Running Lights +DRD Department of Redundancy Department / Diploma in Restorative Dentistry +DrDES Doctor of Design +DRE Doctor of Religious Education +DRec Doctor of Recreation +DRG Dorsal Root Ganglia +DRI Direct Rendering Infrastructure / Dietary Reference Intake / Dopamine Re-uptake Inhibitor / Digital Research, Inc. +DrJur Doctor of Laws +DRL Daytime Running Lights / David Rowland Langford DRM Digital Rights Management / Digital Radio Mondial / Direct Rendering Manager +DRMS Digital Rights Management System DROFL Double Roll On Floor Laughing +DrPA Doctor of Public Administration (USA) +DRSAMD Diploma of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama +DrScNat Doctor of Natural Sciences +DrUniv Doctor of University +DRVO Deputy Regional Veterinary Officer DRYHTH Don't Raise Your Hopes Too High +DS Darling/Dear Son / Detective Sergeant / Directing Staff Ds darmstadtium -DS Dear Son / Detective Sergeant -ds decisecond (1/10 seconds) dS decisiemens (1/10 siemens) +ds decisecond (1/10 seconds) +DS&T Director of Supplies and Transport DS-CDMA Direct-Sequence Code-Division Multiple Access DS3D DirectSound3D (DirectX) -DS9 Deep Space Nine -DSA (UK) Driving Standards Agency / Digital Signature Algorithm / (US) Direct Selling Association +DS9 ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ +DSA (UK) Driving Standards Agency / Digital Signature Algorithm / (US) Direct Selling Association / Diploma in Social Administration +DSAC Defence Scientist Advisory Committee +DSAO Diplomatic Service Administration Office DSB Dame Shirley Bassey / Double-Sideband (transmission) / Dictionary of Scientific Biography / Dispute Settlement Body (WTO) / Dutch Safety Board / Deep Sand Bed / (US) Defense Science Board -DSB-SC Double-Sideband, Suppressed-Carrier (transmission) +DSB-AM Double-Sideband Amplitude Modulation DSB-RC Double-Sideband, Reduced-Carrier (transmission) +DSB-SC Double-Sideband, Suppressed-Carrier (transmission) +DSBP Digital Set-top Box Profile (Java CLDC) +DSBRC Double-Sideband, Reduced-Carrier (transmission) +DSBSC Double-Sideband, Suppressed-Carrier (transmission) DSC Distinguished Service Cross / Digital Selective Calling +DSc Doctor of Science (aka Scientiæ Doctor) +DScD Doctor of Science in Dentistry +DScH Doctor of Science and Hygiene +DSCHE Diploma of the Scottish Council for Health Education DSCOTCGIWUR Dominatrix Supreme and Commandante Of The Chain Gang In cix:wur -DSD Direct Stream Digital (SACD encoding) +DScVM Doctor of Science in Veterinary Medicine +DSD Direct Stream Digital (SACD encoding) / Director of Staff Duties / Darling/Dear Step-Daughter DSD-CD Direct Stream Digital Compact Disc DSDL Document Schema Definition Languages DSDM Dynamic Systems Development Method DSH Desperately Seeking Help DSIF Deep Space Instrumentation Facility +DSIR Department of Scientific and Industrial Research +DSK Dvorak Simplified Keyboard DSL Digital Subscriber Line / Domain-Specific Language / District Scout Leader DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer -DSM Distinguished Service Medal / Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders +DSLitt Doctor of Sacred Letters +DSLR Digital Single-Lens Reflex camera +DSM Distinguished Service Medal / Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders / Doctor of Sacred Music +DSM-4 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition +DSM-5 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition DSM-IV Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition -DSN Don't Stop Now / Database Source Name / Data-Set Name / Deep Space Net -DSO companion of the Distinguished Service Order / Digital Switch-Over (UK TV) -DSP Digital Signal Processor +DSM-V Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition +DSM4 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition +DSM5 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition +DSMAC Digital Scene-Mapping Area Correlator +DSMLT Distributed Split Multi-Link Trunking (networking) +DSN Don't Stop Now / Database Source Name / Data-Set Name / Deep Space Net / Delivery Status Notification (ESMTP) +DSO (Companion of) the Distinguished Service Order / Digital Switch-Over (UK TV) +DSocSc Doctor of Social Sciences +DSP Digital Signal Processor / Docteur en Sciences Politiques (Montréal) +DSPACE Deterministic, in the given Space (complexity) DSPS Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome -DSR Data Set Ready -DSS (UK) Department of Social Security (obs.) / Digital Signature Standard / Decision-Support System +DSR Distance Selling Regulations / Detailed Seller Ratings (eBay) / Dynamic Source Routing / Data Set Ready (serial protocol) / Dynamic Steering Response / Doubly-Special Relativity / Donor Sibling Registry +DSS (UK) Department of Social Security (obs.) / Digital Signature Standard / Decision-Support System / Darling/Dear Step-Son +DSSc Doctor of Social Sciences DSSCTM Don't Stand So Close To Me DSSI Disposable Soft-Synth Interface -DSSS Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum (modulation) +DSSS Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum (modulation) / Doctor of Science in Social Sciences DSSSL Document Style Semantics and Specification Language -DST Daylight-Saving Time / Data Storage Technology (tape format) / Direct Stream Transfer (SACD compression) / Discrete Sine Transform / Double Summer Time / Did So To / Don't Say That / Developmental/Dynamical Systems Theory / Desktop Support Technician +DST Daylight-Saving Time / Data Storage Technology (tape format) / Direct Stream Transfer (SACD) / Discrete Sine Transform / Double Summer Time / Did So, Too / Don't Say That / Developmental/Dynamical Systems Theory / Desktop Support Technician / Director of Supplies and Transport +DStJ Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem +DSU Data Service Unit dSv decisievert (1/10 sieverts) -DSW Dick-Size War +DSW Dick-Size War / Doctor of Social Work +DT Delirium Tremens dT decitesla (1/10 teslas) DTA Don't Trust Anybody -DTB Downloading This Blink +DTaM Document Transfer and Manipulation (OSI) +DTB Downloading This Blink / Dead-Tree Book +DTC Damn This Computer! DTCP Digital Transmission Content Protection -DTD Document Type Definition / Drop To DOS +DTD Document Type Definition / Drop To DOS / Dekoratie voor Trouwe Dienst (= Decoration for Devoted Service) DTE Data Terminal Equipment / Down-To-Earth +DTech Doctor of Technology DTG Date/Time Group / (UK) Digital Terrestrial Group -DTGTTS Done That, Got The T Shirt +DTGTTS Done That, Got The T-Shirt +DTh Doctor of Theology DTHT Delighted To Hear That DTI (UK) Department of Trade & Industry (obs.) / Desperate Times Indeed +DTIME Deterministic, in the given Time (complexity) DTL Diode-Transistor Logic DTLGR (UK) Department for Transport, Local Government, and the Regions DTLOI Due To Lack Of Interest DTLR (UK) Department for Transport, Local Government, and the Regions +DTM Diploma in Tropical Medicine / Duck Tikka Masala +DTM&H Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene DTMB Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast DTMF Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency -DTOA Differential Time of Arrival (telecoms) -DTOKAB Drop To One Knee And Blow +DToA Differential Time of Arrival (telecoms) +DtOKaB Drop to One Knee and Blow DTP Desktop Publishing +DTPA Diethylene Triamine Penta-Acetic acid DTR Data Terminal Ready DTRT Do The Right Thing DTS Digital Theatre Systems, Inc. DTT Digital Terrestrial Television DTTBOWTBW Don't Throw The Baby Out With The Bath Water +DTTR Do The Thing Right DTTV Digital Terrestrial Television -DTTYNB Don't Tell Them Your Name Bruce -DTTYNP Don't Tell Them Your Name Pike +DTTYNB Don't Tell Them Your Name, Bruce +DTTYNP Don't Tell Them Your Name, Pike DTV Digital Television / Direct-To-Video DTW Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells DTX (8×9.6" PC form factor) -DU Down Under +DU Down Under / Depleted Uranium DUAL Diffusing Update Algorithm (EIGRP) DUCT Did You See That? DUCWIC Do You See What I See? +DUCWIM Do You See What I Mean? +DUHWIH Do You Hear What I Hear? DUI Driving Under the Influence / Data Use Identifier/Institute DUK Dead Upon Keyboard DUN Dial-Up Networking +DUniv Doctor of the University +DUOAYWHTDUY Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You DUOAYWTTWDUY Do Unto Others As You Would That They Would Do Unto You +DUOBTDUY Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto You DUP Democratic Unionist Party (of NI) DUST Did You See That? DUYBOC Don't Understand Your Banter Old Chap +DV Digital Video / Desktop Virtualisation / Deo Volente (= God willing) / DESQview / Déjà Vu / 505 (Roman numeral) dV decivolt (1/10 volts) -DV Digital Video / Desktop Virtualisation / Deo Volente (= God willing) / DESQview DVB Digital Video Broadcasting DVB-C Digital Video Broadcasting over Cable DVB-CA Digital Video Broadcasting — Conditional Access DVB-CI Digital Video Broadcasting — Common Interface (for scrambled content) DVB-CPCM Digital Video Broadcasting — Content Protection & Copy Management @@ -2617,47 +3842,62 @@ DVDD Digital Versatile Disc — Disposable DVDR Digital Versatile Disc — Recordable DVDRAM Digital Versatile Disc — Random-Access Memory DVDRW Digital Versatile Disc — ReWritable DVDVR Digital Versatile Disc — Video Recording +DVFS Director of Veterinary Field Services DVHD Disc Versatile High Density (= VCDHD) DVHS Digital Video Home System -DVI Digital Video Interface +DVI Digital Video Interface / Device-Independent (file format) / 506 (Roman numeral) DVLA (UK) Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency DVLC (UK) Driver & Vehicle Licensing Centre (now DVLA) DVLR Dart Valley Light Railway DVM Doctor of Veterinary Medicine DVMA Device Virtual Memory Access +DVMS Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery +DVO Divisional Veterinary Officer DVP Delivery Versus Payment DVR Digital Video Recorder +DVS Director of Veterinary Services +DVSc Doctor of Veterinary Science DVSL District Venture Scout Leader +DVSM Diploma of Veterinary State Medicine +DW ‘Doctor Who’ / ‘Discworld’ / Dream Weaver / Don't Worry / Darling/Dear Wife dW deciwatt (1/10 watts) -DW Doctor Who / Discworld / Dream Weaver / Don't Worry / Dear Wife DWAF Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (South Africa) -DWAI Don't Worry About It / Driving While Ability Impaired +DWAI Don't Worry About It / Driving While Ability-Impaired DWARF Debug With Attributed Record Format dWb deciweber (1/10 webers) +DWBH Don't Worry, Be Happy +DWDM Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing DWF Divorced White Female DWG Digital Waveguide (synthesis) -DWI Driving While Intoxicated / Drinking Water Inspectorate / Direct Water Injection / Disaster Welfare Inquitry +DWI Deal With It / Driving While Intoxicated / Drinking Water Inspectorate / Direct Water Injection / Disaster Welfare Inquiry DWIM Do What I Mean DWIMC Do What I Mean, Correctly DWIMNWIS Do What I Mean, Not What I Say DWIS Do What I Say DWISNWID Do What I Say, Not What I Do -DWKOTA Deep Wet Kiss On The Arse -DWKOTL Deep Wet Kiss On The Lips +DWKotA Deep, Wet Kiss on the Arse +DWKotL Deep, Wet Kiss on the Lips DWL Dying With Laughter DWM Divorced White Male -DWOL Drunk While Online +DWOL Drunk While On-line DWP (UK) Department for Work and Pensions -DWYATOE Do What You Are Told Or Else +DWT Discrete Wavelet Transform / Don't Want To +DWTSOT Down With This Sort Of Thing! +DWTTAI Don't Want To Talk About It +DWYATOE Do What You Are Told, Or Else! DWYM Does What You Mean +DX Document Exchange / DirectX / long-distance / 510 (Roman numeral) DXB Dubai International Airport DXD Digital Extreme Definition (audio encoding) DXGI DirectX Graphics Infrastructure +DXM dextromethorphan +DY Dahomey (ISO code) (now Benin, BJ) Dy dysprosium +DYAC Damn You, Auto-Correct! DYE Damn Your Eyes! DYFAYEG Diolch Yn Fawr Am Y E-Grot! (= thanks very much for the e-groat) DYFAYES Diolch Yn Fawr Am Y E-swllt (= thanks very much for the e-shilling) DYFCS Diolch Yn Fawr Caredig Syr DYFI Diolch Yn Fawr Iawn (= thank you very much) @@ -2666,208 +3906,783 @@ DYHAGF Do You Have A Girlfriend? DYHASFI Do You Have A Software Firewall Installed DYHWIH Do You Hear What I Hear? DYJHASA Don't You Just Hate A Smart-Arse? DYJHI Don't You Just Hate It? -DYJHIW Don't You Just Hate It When…? +DYJHIW Don't You Just Hate It When...? DYJHIWTH Don't You Just Hate It When That Happens? +DYJLI Don't You Just Love It? +DYK Do You Know...? DYLM Do You Like Me? -DYM Do You Mean…? +DYM Do You Mean...? DYMIGMC Don't You Mean I'll Get My Coat DYODW Do Your Own Dirty Work DYOFDW Do Your Own F***ing Dirty Work +DYST Did You See That? DYSTSOTT Did You See The Size Of That Thing?! DYSWIM Do You See What I Mean? DYSWIS Do You See What I See? -DYT Don't You Think…? +DYT Don't You Think...? DYTS Don't You Think So? +DZ Algeria (ISO code) DZD Algerian dinars (ccy) -E East (90°) +DèsL Docteur ès Lettres +E East (90°) / Exempt from classification (UK movie symbol) / Exponential-time (complexity) E&M Ear and mouth (telecoms) +E&OE Errors and Omissions Excepted E-OTD Enhanced Observed Time Difference (telecoms) E-UTRA Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (network) -E123 Easy as One, Two, Three +E100 curcumin/turmeric (yellow-orange food colour) +E1000 cholic acid (emulsifier) +E1001 choline salts (emulsifier) +E101 riboflavin (yellow-orange food colour) +E102 tartrazine (yellow-orange food colour) +E103 alkannin (red-brown food colour) +E104 quinoline yellow (food colour) +E105 fast yellow (food colour) +E106 riboflavin-5-sodium phosphate (yellow food colour) +E107 yellow 2G (food colour) +E110 sunset yellow (yellow-orange food colour) +E1100 amylase (stabiliser, flavour enhancer) +E1101 proteases (stabiliser, flavour enhancer) +E1102 glucose oxidase (antioxidant) +E1103 invertase (stabiliser) +E1104 lipases (enzyme, emulsifier, flavour enhancer, improver) +E1105 lysozyme (preservative) +E111 orange GGN (food colour) +E120 cochineal/carmine (crimson food colour) +E1200 polydextrose (stabiliser, thickener, humectant) +E1201 polyvinylpyrrolidone (stabiliser) +E1202 polyvinylpolypyrrolidone (stabiliser) +E1203 polyvinyl alcohol (emulsifier, stabiliser) +E1204 pullulan (edible film) +E121 citrus red 2 (dark red food colour) +E122 carmoisine/azorubine (maroon food colour) +E123 Easy as One, Two, Three / amaranth (dark red food colour) +E124 ponceau 4R (red food colour) +E125 ponceau SX (red food colour) +E126 ponceau 6R (red food colour) +E127 erythrosine (red food colour) +E128 red 2G (food colour) +E129 allura red AC (food colour) +E130 indanthrene blue RS (food colour) +E131 patent blue V (food colour) +E132 indigo carmine (food colour) +E133 brilliant blue FCF (reddish blue food colour) +E140 chlorophyll (green food colour) +E1400 dextrin (stabiliser, thickener) +E1401 modified starch (stabiliser, thickener) +E1402 alkaline modified starch (stabiliser, thickener) +E1403 bleached starch (stabiliser, thickener) +E1404 oxidised starch (emulsifier, thickener) +E1405 enzyme-treated starch (stabiliser, thickener) +E141 copper complexes of chlorophylls (green food colour) +E1410 monostarch phosphate (stabiliser, thickener) +E1411 distarch glycerol (emulsifier, thickener) +E1412 distarch phosphate ester (stabiliser, thickener) +E1413 phosphated distarch phosphate (stabiliser, thickener) +E1414 acetylated distarch phosphate (emulsifier, thickener) +E142 green S (food colour) +E1420 starch ethanoate esterified with ethanoic anhydride (stabiliser, thickener) +E1421 starch ethanoate esterified with vinyl ethanoate (stabiliser, thickener) +E1422 acetylated distarch adipate (stabiliser, thickener) +E1423 acetylated distarch glycerol (thickener) +E143 fast green FCF (sea-green food colour) +E1430 distarch glycerine (stabiliser, thickener) +E1440 hydroxy propyl starch (emulsifier, thickener) +E1441 hydroxy propyl distarch glycerine (stabiliser, thickener) +E1442 hydroxy propyl distarch phosphate (stabiliser, thickener) +E1443 hydroxy propyl distarch glycerol (stabiliser, thickener, emulsifier) +E1450 starch sodium octenyl succinate (emulsifier, stabiliser, thickener) +E1451 acetylated oxidised starch (emulsifier, thickener) +E1452 starch aluminium octenyl succinate +E1501 benzylated hydrocarbons (flavouring, solvent) +E1502 butane-1,3-diol (flavour solvent) +E1503 castor oil (resolving agent) +E1504 ethyl ethanoate (flavour solvent) +E1505 triethyl citrate (foam stabiliser) +E150a caramel (brown food colour) +E150b caustic sulphite caramel (brown food colour) +E150c ammonia caramel (brown food colour) +E150d sulphite ammonia caramel (brown food colour) +E151 brilliant black PN (food colour) +E1510 ethanol (solvent, intoxicant) +E1516 glyceryl monoethanoate (flavour solvent) +E1517 glyceryl diethanoate (flavour solvent) +E1518 glyceryl triethanoate (humectant) +E1519 benzyl alcohol (= phenylmethanol, preservative) +E152 black 7984 (food colour) +E1520 propane diol (humectant) +E1521 polyethene diol (dispersant) +E1525 hydroxyethyl cellulose (thickener) +E153 carbon black (food colour) +E154 brown FK (food colour) +E155 brown HT (food colour) +E160a carotene (yellow-orange food colour) +E160b annatto (orange food colour) +E160c capsanthin (red food colour) +E160d lycopene (red food colour) +E160e beta-apo-8'-carotenal (orange food colour) +E160f ethyl ester of beta-apo-8'-carotenic acid (orange food colour) +E161a flavoxanthin (golden-yellow food colour) +E161b lutein (orange food colour) +E161c cryptoxanthin (orange-red food colour) +E161d rubixanthin (orange-red food colour) +E161e violaxanthin (orange food colour) +E161f rhodoxanthin (purple food colour) +E161g canthaxanthin (violet food colour) +E161h zeaxanthin (orange-red food colour) +E161i citranaxanthin (deep violet food colour) +E161j astaxanthin (red food colour) +E162 beetroot red (food colour) +E163 anthocyanin (food colour) +E164 saffron (orange-red food colour) +E170 calcium carbonate/chalk (white food colour) +E171 titanium dioxide (white food colour) +E172 iron oxide, iron hydroxide (brown food colour) +E173 aluminium (silver food colour) +E174 silver (food colour) +E175 gold (food colour) +E180 pigment rubine (red food colour) +E181 tannin (brown food colour) +E182 orcein (purple food colour) +E200 sorbic acid (food preservative) +E201 sodium sorbate (food preservative) +E202 potassium sorbate (food preservative) +E203 calcium sorbate (food preservative) +E209 heptyl p-hydroxybenzoate (food preservative) +E210 benzoic acid (food preservative) +E211 sodium benzoate (food preservative) +E212 potassium benzoate (food preservative) +E213 calcium benzoate (food preservative) +E214 ethyl para-hydroxybenzoate (food preservative) +E215 sodium ethyl para-hydroxybenzoate (food preservative) +E216 propyl para-hydroxybenzoate (food preservative) +E217 sodium propyl para-hydroxybenzoate (food preservative) +E218 methyl para-hydroxybenzoate (food preservative) +E219 sodium methyl para-hydroxybenzoate (food preservative) +E220 sulphur dioxide (food preservative) +E221 sodium sulphite (food preservative) +E222 sodium bisulphite (food preservative) +E223 sodium metabisulphite (food preservative) +E224 potassium metabisulphite (food preservative) +E225 potassium sulphite (food preservative) +E226 calcium sulphite (food preservative) +E227 calcium hydrogen sulphite (food firming agent) +E228 potassium hydrogen sulphite (food preservative) +E230 biphenyl (food preservative) +E231 orthophenyl phenol (food preservative) +E232 sodium orthophenyl phenol (food preservative) +E233 thiabendazole (food preservative) +E234 nisin (food preservative) +E235 natamycin, pimaracin (food preservative) +E236 methanoic acid (aka formic acid, food preservative) +E237 sodium methanoate (food preservative) +E238 calcium methanoate (food preservative) +E239 hexamine (food preservative) +E240 methanal (aka formaldehyde, food preservative) +E242 dimethyl dicarbonate (food preservative) +E249 potassium nitrite (food preservative) +E250 sodium nitrite (food preservative) +E251 sodium nitrate (aka Chile saltpetre, food preservative) +E252 potassium nitrate (aka saltpetre, food preservative) +E260 ethanoic acid (preservative, acidity regulator) +E261 potassium ethanoate (acidity regulator) +E262 sodium ethanoate (food preservative and acidity regulator) +E263 calcium ethanoate (acidity regulator) +E264 ammonium ethanoate (food preservative) +E265 dehydroethanoic acid (food preservative) +E266 sodium dehydroethanoate (food preservative) +E270 lactic acid (antioxidant) +E280 propanoic acid (food preservative) +E281 sodium propanoate (food preservative) +E282 calcium propanoate (food preservative) +E283 potassium propanoate (food preservative) +E284 boric acid (food preservative) +E285 sodium tetraborate (aka borax, food preservative) +E290 carbon dioxide (acidity regulator) +E296 malic acid (acidity regulator) +E297 fumaric acid (acidity regulator) E2EG Ear-to-Ear Grin E3 280×400mm (envelope size) -EA Environmental Agency / exaampere (10^18 amperes) -EAD Ednolichno Aktsionerno Druzhestvo (= single-member PLC in Bulgaria) +E300 ascorbic acid (aka Vitamin C, antioxidant) +E301 sodium ascorbate (antioxidant) +E302 calcium ascorbate (antioxidant) +E303 potassium ascorbate (antioxidant) +E304 fatty acid esters of ascorbic acid (antioxidant) +E305 ascorbyl stearate (antioxidant) +E306 tocopherols (antioxidant) +E307 alpha-tocopherol (antioxidant) +E308 gamma-tocopherol (antioxidant) +E309 delta-tocopherol (antioxidant) +E310 propyl gallate (antioxidant) +E311 octyl gallate (antioxidant) +E312 dodecyl gallate (antioxidant) +E313 ethyl gallate (antioxidant) +E314 guaiac resin (antioxidant) +E315 erythorbic acid (antioxidant) +E316 sodium erythorbate (antioxidant) +E317 erythorbin acid (antioxidant) +E318 sodium erythorbin (antioxidant) +E319 tert-butylhydroquinone (antioxidant) +E320 butylated hydroxyanisole (antioxidant) +E321 butylated hydroxytoluene (antioxidant) +E322 lecithin (emulsifier) +E323 anoxomer (antioxidant) +E324 ethoxyquin (antioxidant) +E325 sodium lactate (acidity regulator) +E326 potassium lactate (acidity regulator) +E327 calcium lactate (acidity regulator) +E328 ammonium lactate (acidity regulator) +E329 magnesium lactate (acidity regulator) +E330 citric acid (acidity regulator) +E331 sodium citrates (acidity regulator) +E332 potassium citrates (acidity regulator) +E333 calcium citrates (acidity regulator, firming agent, sequestrant) +E334 tartaric acid (antioxidant, acidity regulator, preservative) +E335 sodium tartrates (acidity regulator) +E336 potassium tartrates (acidity regulator) +E337 sodium potassium tartrate (acidity regulator) +E338 phosphoric acid (acid) +E339 sodium phosphates (acidity regulator) +E340 potassium phosphates (acidity regulator) +E341 calcium phosphates (anti-caking and firming agent) +E342 ammonium phosphates (acidity regulator) +E343 magnesium phosphates (anti-caking agent) +E344 lecitin citrate (acidity regulator) +E345 magnesium citrate (acidity regulator) +E349 ammonium malate (acidity regulator) +E350 sodium malates (acidity regulator) +E351 potassium malate (acidity regulator) +E352 calcium malates (acidity regulator) +E353 metatartaric acid (emulsifier) +E354 calcium tartrate (emulsifier) +E355 adipic acid (acidity regulator) +E356 sodium adipate (acidity regulator) +E357 potassium adipate (acidity regulator) +E359 ammonium adipate (acidity regulator) +E363 succinic acid (acidity regulator) +E365 sodium fumarate (acidity regulator) +E366 potassium fumarate (acidity regulator) +E367 calcium fumarate (acidity regulator) +E368 ammonium fumarate (acidity regulator) +E370 heptonolactone (acidity regulator) +E375 niacin, nicotinamide (colour-retention agent) +E380 triammonium citrate (acidity regulator) +E381 ammonium ferric citrate (acidity regulator) +E383 calcium glycerylphosphate (acidity regulator) +E384 isopropyl citrate (acidity regulator) +E385 calcium disodium ethene diamine tetraethanoate (sequestrant) +E386 disodium ethene diamine tetraethanoate (sequestrant) +E387 oxystearin (stabiliser) +E388 thiodipropanoic acid (antioxidant) +E389 dilauryl thiodipropanoate (antioxidant) +E390 distearyl thiodipropanoate (antioxidant) +E391 phytic acid (preservative, antioxidant) +E392 rosemary extract (antioxidant) +E399 calcium lactobionate (antioxidant, stabiliser, firming agent) +E400 alginic acid (emulsifier, thickener, stabiliser) +E401 sodium alginate (emulsifier, thickener, stabiliser) +E402 potassium alginate (emulsifier, thickener, stabiliser) +E403 ammonium alginate (emulsifier, thickener, stabiliser) +E404 calcium alginate (emulsifier, thickener, stabiliser) +E405 propane diol alginate (emulsifier, thickener, stabiliser) +E406 agar (thickener, stabiliser) +E407 carrageenan (emulsifier, thickener, stabiliser) +E408 baker's yeast glycan (thickener, stabiliser, gelling agent) +E409 arabinogalactan (thickener) +E410 locust bean gum (emulsifier, thickener, stabiliser) +E411 oat gum (thickener, stabiliser) +E412 guar gum (thickener, stabiliser) +E413 tragacanth (emulsifier, thickener, stabiliser) +E414 acacia gum (emulsifier, thickener, stabiliser) +E415 xanthan gum (thickener, stabiliser) +E416 karaya gum (emulsifier, thickener, stabiliser) +E417 tara gum (thickener, stabiliser) +E418 gellan gum (emulsifier, thickener, stabiliser) +E419 gum ghatti (emulsifier, thickener, stabiliser) +E420 sorbitol (emulsifier, sweetener, humectant) +E421 mannitol (sweetener, anti-caking agent) +E422 glycerol (emulsifier, sweetener) +E424 curdlan (thickener, sweetener, stabiliser, gelling agent) +E425 konjac (emulsifier) +E426 soybean hemicellulose (emulsifier, thickener, anti-caking agent, stabiliser) +E427 cassia gum (emulsifier, thickener, gelling agent) +E429 peptones (emulsifier) +E430 polyoxyethene (8) stearate (emulsifier, stabiliser) +E431 polyoxyethene (40) stearate (emulsifier) +E432 polyoxyethene (20) sorbitan monolaurate (emulsifier) +E433 polyoxyethene (20) sorbitan monooleate (emulsifier) +E434 polyoxyethene (20) sorbitan monopalmitate (emulsifier) +E435 polyoxyethene (20) sorbitan monostearate (emulsifier) +E436 polyoxyethene (20) sorbitan tristearate (emulsifier) +E440 pectin (emulsifier) +E441 gelatine (emulsifier, gelling agent) +E442 ammonium phosphatides (emulsifier) +E443 brominated vegetable oil (emulsifier, stabiliser) +E444 sucrose ethanoate isobutanoate (emulsifier) +E445 glycerol esters of wood rosins (emulsifier) +E446 succistearin (emulsifier) +E450 diphosphates (emulsifier) +E451 triphosphates (emulsifier) +E452 polyphosphates (emulsifier) +E459 beta-cyclodextrin (emulsifier) +E460 cellulose (emulsifier) +E461 methyl cellulose (emulsifier) +E463 ethyl cellulose (emulsifier) +E464 hydroxypropyl cellulose (emulsifier) +E465 ethyl methyl cellulose (emulsifier) +E466 carboxymethyl cellulose (emulsifier) +E467 ethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose (emulsifier) +E468 cross-linked sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (emulsifier) +E469 enzymically-hydrolysed carobyxmethylcellulose (emulsifier) +E470a sodium, potassium, and calcium salts of fatty acids (anti-caking agent) +E470b magnesium salts of fatty acids (anti-caking agent) +E471 glyceryl mono- and distearate (emulsifier) +E472a ethanoic acid esters of glyceryl mono- and distearate (emulsifier) +E472b lactic acid esters of glyceryl mono- and distearate (emulsifier) +E472c citric acid esters of glyceryl mono- and distearate (emulsifier) +E472d tartaric acid esters of glyceryl mono- and distearate (emulsifier) +E472e mono- and diethanoyl tartaric acid esters of glyceryl mono- and distearate (emulsifier) +E472f ethanoic and tartaric acid esters of glyceryl mono- and distearate (emulsifier) +E472g succinylated monoglycerides (emulsifier) +E473 sucrose esters of fatty acids (emulsifier) +E474 sucroglycerides (emulsifier) +E475 polyglycerol esters of fatty acids (emulsifier) +E476 polyglycerol polyricinoleate (emulsifier) +E477 propane diol esters of fatty acids (emulsifier) +E478 lactylated fatty acid esters of glycerol and propane (emulsifier) +E479b thermally-oxidised soya bean oil interacted with mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids (emulsifier) +E480 dioctyl sodium sulphosuccinate (emulsifier) +E481 sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate (emulsifier) +E482 calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate (emulsifier) +E483 stearyl tartrate (emulsifier) +E484 stearyl citrate (emulsifier) +E485 sodium stearoyl fumarate (emulsifier) +E486 calcium stearoyl fumarate (emulsifier) +E487 sodium lauryl sulphate (emulsifier) +E488 ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides (emulsifier) +E489 methyl glucoside-coconut oil ester (emulsifier) +E490 propane diol (emulsifier) +E491 sorbitan monostearate (emulsifier) +E492 sorbitan tristearate (emulsifier) +E493 sorbitan monolaurate (emulsifier) +E494 sorbitan monooleate (emulsifier) +E495 sorbitan monopalmitate (emulsifier) +E496 sorbitan trioleate (emulsifier) +E497 polyoxypropene-polyoxyethene polymers (emulsifier) +E498 partial polyglycerol esters of polycondensed fatty acids of castor oil (emulsifier) +E500 sodium carbonates (raising agent) +E501 potassium carbonates (acidity regulator) +E503 ammonium carbonates (acidity regulator) +E504 magnesium carbonates (acidity regulator, anti-caking agent) +E505 ferrous carbonate (acidity regulator) +E507 hydrochloric acid (acidity regulator) +E508 potassium chloride (gelling agent, seasoning) +E509 calcium chloride (sequestrant, forming agent) +E510 ammonium chloride (acidity regulator, improving agent) +E511 magnesium chloride (firming agent) +E512 stannous chloride (antioxidant) +E513 sulphuric acid (acidity regulator) +E514 sodium sulphate (anti-caking agent) +E515 potassium sulphate (anti-caking agent, acidity regulator) +E516 calcium sulphate (acidity regulator, sequestrant, firming agent, improver, bleach) +E517 ammonium sulphate (improving agent) +E518 magnesium sulphate (aka Epsom salt, firming agent) +E519 copper (II) sulphate (preservative) +E520 aluminium sulphate (firming agent) +E521 aluminium sodium sulphate (firming agent) +E522 aluminium potassium sulphate (acidity regulator) +E523 aluminium ammonium sulphate (acidity regulator) +E524 sodium hydroxide (acidity regulator) +E525 potassium hydroxide (acidity regulator) +E526 calcium hydroxide (acidity regulator, firming agent) +E527 ammonium hydroxide (acidity regulator) +E528 magnesium hydroxide (acidity regulator) +E529 calcium oxide (acidity regulator, improving agent) +E530 magnesium oxide (acidity regulator, anti-caking agent) +E535 sodium ferrocyanide (acidity regulator) +E536 potassium ferrocyanide (anti-caking agent) +E537 ferrous hexacyanomanganate (anti-caking agent) +E538 calcium ferrocyanide (anti-caking agent) +E539 sodium thiosulphate (antioxidant) +E540 dicalcium diphosphate (acidity regulator, emulsifier) +E541 sodium aluminium phosphate (emulsifier) +E542 calcium phosphate (anti-caking agent) +E543 calcium sodium polyphosphate (emulsifier) +E544 calcium polyphosphate (emulsifier) +E545 ammonium polyphosphate (emulsifier) +E550 sodium silicates (anti-caking agent) +E551 silicon dioxide (anti-caking agent) +E552 calcium silicate (anti-caking agent) +E553a magnesium silicates (anti-caking agent) +E553b talc (anti-caking agent) +E554 sodium aluminium silicate (anti-caking agent) +E555 potassium aluminium silicate (anti-caking agent) +E556 calcium aluminium silicate (anti-caking agent) +E557 zinc silicate (anti-caking agent) +E558 aluminium phyllosilicate (anti-caking agent) +E559 aluminium silicate (anti-caking agent) +E560 potassium silicate (anti-caking agent) +E561 vermiculite (binder, anti-caking agent, coagulant) +E562 sepiolite (binder, anti-caking agent) +E563 sepiolitic clay +E565 4-hexylresorcinol (anæsthetic, antiseptic) +E566 natrolite-phonolite (binder, anti-caking agent, coagulant) +E570 stearic acid (anti-caking agent) +E572 magnesium and calcium stearates (anti-caking agent) +E574 gluconic acid (acidity regulator) +E575 glucono delta-lactone (acidity regulator, sequestrant) +E576 sodium gluconate (sequestrant) +E577 potassium gluconate (sequestrant) +E578 calcium gluconate (firming agent) +E579 ferrous gluconate (colouring) +E580 magnesium gluconate (vitamin, firming agent, acidity regulator) +E585 ferrous lactate (colouring) +E586 4-hexylresorcinol (antioxidant) +E598 calcium aluminates (anti-caking agent) +E599 perlite (bulking agent) +E620 glutamic acid (flavour enhancer) +E621 monosodium glutamate (flavour enhancer) +E622 monopotassium glutamate (flavour enhancer) +E623 calcium diglutamate (flavour enhancer) +E624 monoammonium glutamate (flavour enhancer) +E625 magnesium diglutamate (flavour enhancer) +E626 guanylic acid (flavour enhancer) +E627 disodium guanylate (flavour enhancer) +E628 dipotassium guanylate (flavour enhancer) +E629 calcium guanylate (flavour enhancer) +E630 inosinic acid (flavour enhancer) +E631 disodium inosinate (flavour enhancer) +E632 dipotassium inosinate (flavour enhancer) +E633 calcium inosinate (flavour enhancer) +E634 calcium 5'-ribonucleotides (flavour enhancer) +E635 disodium 5'-ribonucleotides (flavour enhancer) +E636 maltol (flavour enhancer) +E637 ethyl maltol (flavour enhancer) +E640 glycine (flavour enhancer) +E641 L-leucine (flavour enhancer) +E642 lysine hydrochloride (flavour enhancer) +E650 zinc ethanoate (flavour enhancer) +E700 bacitracin (antibiotic) +E701 tetracyclines (antibiotic) +E702 chlortetracycline (antibiotic) +E703 oxytetracycline (antibiotic) +E704 oleandomycin (antibiotic) +E705 penicillin-G-potassium (antibiotic) +E706 penicillin-G-sodium (antibiotic) +E707 penicillin-G-procaine (antibiotic) +E708 penicillin-G-benzathyne (antibiotic) +E710 spiramycins (antibiotic) +E711 virginiamicins (antibiotic) +E712 flavophospholipol (antibiotic) +E713 tylosin (antibiotic) +E714 monensin (antibiotic) +E715 avoparcin (antibiotic) +E716 salinomycin (antibiotic) +E717 avilamycin (antibiotic) +E900 dimethyl polysiloxane (anti-foaming agent) +E901 beeswax (glazing agent) +E902 candelilla wax (glazing agent) +E903 carnauba wax (glazing agent) +E904 shellac (glazing agent) +E905 paraffins (glazing agent) +E905a mineral oil (glazing agent, anti-foaming agent) +E905b petrolatum (gelling agent) +E905c petroleum wax, microcrystalline wax, paraffin wax (glazing agent) +E906 gum benzoic (flavour enhancer) +E907 crystalline wax (glazing agent) +E908 rice bran wax (glazing agent) +E909 spermaceti wax (glazing agent) +E910 wax esters (glazing agent) +E911 methyl esters of fatty acids (glazing agent) / Enhanced 9-1-1 (US emergency caller location) +E912 montan acid esters (glazing agent) +E913 lanolin (glazing agent) +E914 oxidised polyethene wax (glazing agent) +E915 esters of colophony (glazing agent) +E916 calcium iodate (improving agent) +E917 potassium iodate (improving agent) +E918 nitrogen oxides (foaming agent, antioxidant, propellant, packaging gas) +E919 nitrosyl chloride (bleach, improving agent) +E920 L-cysteine (improving agent) +E921 L-cystine (improving agent) +E922 potassium persulphate (improving agent) +E923 ammonium persulphate (improving agent) +E924 potassium bromate (improving agent) +E924b calcium bromate (improving agent) +E925 chlorine (preservative, bleach, improving agent) +E926 chlorine dioxide (preservative, bleach) +E927a azodicarbonamide (improving agent) +E927b carbamide (aka urea, improving agent) +E928 benzoyl peroxide (improving agent, bleach) +E929 propanone peroxide (improving agent, bleach, raising agent) +E930 calcium peroxide (improving agent, bleach) +E938 argon (packaging gas) +E939 helium (packaging gas) +E940 dichlorodifluoromethane (packaging gas) +E941 nitrogen (packaging gas, propellant) +E942 nitrous oxide (propellant) +E943a butane (propellant) +E943b isobutane (propellant) +E944 propane (propellant) +E945 chloropentafluoroethane (propellant) +E946 octafluorocyclobutane (propellant) +E948 oxygen (packaging gas) +E949 hydrogen (packaging gas) +E950 acesulphame potassium (sweetener) +E951 aspartame (sweetener) +E952 cylcamates (sweetener) +E953 isomaltitol (sweetener) +E954 saccharin, sodium/potassium/calcium saccharin (sweetener) +E955 sucralose (sweetener) +E956 alitame (sweetener) +E957 thaumatin (sweetener, flavour enhancer) +E958 glycyrrhizin (sweetener, flavour enhancer) +E959 neohesperidine dihydrochalcone (sweetener, flavour enhancer) +E960 stevioside (sweetener) +E961 neotame (sweetener) +E962 aspartame-acesulphame salt (sweetener, stabiliser) +E965 maltitol (sweetener, stabiliser, humectant) +E966 lactitol (sweetener) +E967 xylitol (sweetener) +E968 erythritol (humectant) +E999 quillaia extract (foaming agent) +EA Environmental Agency / exaampere (10^18 amperes) / Ceuta, Melilla (ISO code, reserved) +EACEM European Association of Consumer Electronics Manufacturers +EAD Ethetner-Anschlussdose (= Ethernet wiring box) / Ednolichno Aktsionerno Druzhestvo (= single-member PLC in Bulgaria) EADS European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. EAI Enterprise Application Integration EAICDGR European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (= ADR) EAK Eating At Keyboard EAL English as an Additional Language -EALL Ecclesiastical And Liturgical Language +EaLL Ecclesiastical and Liturgical Language +EAMBES European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol / English for Academic Purposes EAR Everything's All Right EARN European Academic Research Network EAS End of Active Service +EASA Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors' Association EASHW European Agency for Safety and Health at Work EAST Easter Island Standard Time (= UTC-6) -EAT Excellence And Taste (sandwich chain) / East Africa Time (= UTC+3) +EAT Estimated Arrival Time / Excellence And Taste (sandwich chain) / East Africa Time (= UTC+3) EATX Extended ATX (12×13" PC form factor) +EAW European Arrest Warrant EAX Environmental Audio Extensions EB Encyclopædia Britannica / exabyte (10^18 bytes) EBA English Basketball Association EBBB Engage Brain Before Blinking +EBC European Brewery Convention EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code +EBCOT Embedded Block Coding with Optimal Truncation (JPEG 2000) EBE Extra-terrestrial Biological Entity EBM Electronic Body Music / Evidence-Based Medicine / Event-Based Marketing / Environmentally-Biodegradable Materials / Electron Beam Melting EBML Extensible Binary Meta Language -EBN East by North (78¾°) +EBN Evidence-Based Nursing / Emergency Broadcast Network / European Business News / East by North (78¾°) +EbN East by North (78¾°) EBNF Extended Backus-Naur Form EBP Evidence-Based Practice / Education/Business Partnership / Efficiency Bandwidth Product EBq exabequerel (10^18 bequerels) -EBS East by South (101¼°) / Errant Brain Syndrome -EBU European Broadcasting Union +EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development +EBS Errant Brain Syndrome / European Business School / Windows Essential Business Server / Electronic Broking Services / E-Business Suite (Oracle) / Emergency Broadcast System +EbS East by South (101¼°) +EBU European Broadcasting Union (aka Eurovision) EBVBA Eenpersoons Besloten Vennootschap Met Beperkte Aansprakelijkheid (= single-member company in Belgium) EBX Embedded Board Expandable (8×5¾" PC form factor) -EC European Community / exacoulomb (10^18 coulombs) / Egyéni Cég (= sole proprietorship co. in Hungary) +EC European Community / European Commission / exacoulomb (10^18 coulombs) / Egyéni Cég (= sole proprietorship co. in Hungary) / Ecuador (ISO code) +EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon) ECA Export Credit Agency / (UK) European Communities Act 1972 / (UK) Electronic Communications Act 2000 -ECB European Central Bank +ECB European Central Bank / England and Wales Cricket Board (was TCCB) / Electronic Codebook (cryptography) ECBO Ex Cathedra Baroque Orchestra -ECC E-Contact Centre / Error Checking & Correction / Error-Correcting Code / Elliptic Curve Cryptography +ECC E-Contact Centre / Error Checking and Correction / Error-Correcting Code / Elliptic Curve Cryptography / Essex County Council ECD Enhanced CD / East Caribbean dollar (= XCD) / Eastern Continental Divide / Electron-Capture Detector/Dissociation / Electronic Civil Disobedience / English Country Dance Ecd exacandela (10^18 candelas) ECDH Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (key exchange) ECDSA Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm +ECFMG Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates +ECG Electro-Cardiogram ECGD (UK) Export Credits Guarantee Department +ECH Ear-Canal Headphones ECHR European Court of/Convention on Human Rights +ECI Earth-Centred Inertial (co-ordinates) ECIES Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme ECJ European Court of Justice ECL Emitter-Coupled Logic -ECM Electronic Counter Measure +ECM European Common Market / Electronic Counter Measure / Engine/Electronic Control Module / Enterprise Content Management / Error Correction Mode (fax) / Electret Condenser Microphone / Every Child Matters (UK gov. initiative) / Edition of Contemporary Music (record label) ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association ECML East-Coast Main Line ECMQV Elliptic Curve Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (key agreement protocol) -ECN Explicit Congestion Notification -ECO English Chamber Orchestra +ECN Explicit Congestion Notification / Electronic Communication Network +ECO English Chamber Orchestra / Economic Co-operation Organisation (Eurasia) ECOFF Extended Common Object File Format +ECoG Electrocorticography ECOS Embedded Configurable Operating System ECP Enhanced Capability Port / Excessive Cross-Posting / Entry Control Point / Emergency Contraceptive Pill / European Committed for the Prevention of Torture / Eye-Care Professional / Emergency Care Practitioner / End Credits Promotion ECR Electronic Cash Register / Engine Control Room / Earnings Credit Rate / East Cross Route / El Camino Real / US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution ECRML European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages ECS Economy-Class Syndrome / Enhanced Chip Set / East China Sea / Environmental Control System / East Coast Swing ECSTR Efficient and Compact Subgroup Trace Representation ECT Electroconvulsive Therapy / Edge Crush Test / Electronically-Controlled Transmission / European Credit Transfer / European Central Time (= UTC+1) / Eastern Caribbean Time (= UTC-4) / Ecuador Time (= UTC-5) -ECU European Currency Unit / Electronic/Engine Control Unit / Extreme Close-Up +ECU European Currency Unit / Electronic/Engine Control Unit / Extreme Close-Up / English Church Union ECV Effective Circulating Volume / Electoral College Votes / Expected Commercial Value / Exhaust Control Valve ECW Extreme Cold Weather / English Civil War / Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (file format) / Electronic Counter-Warfare / Extreme Championship Wrestling ECX European Climate Exchange -ED Eating Disorder / Emotionally-Disturbed / Executive Director / Erectile Dysfunction +ED Eating Disorder / Emotionally-Disturbed / Executive Director / Erectile Dysfunction / European Democratic (Group) / Efficiency Decoration EDA Electronic Design Automation +EDC Economic Development Committee +EdD Doctor of Education +EDDS Ethenediamine-N,N'-disuccinic acid +EDG European Democratic Group (UK Conservative Group) EDGE Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution EDI Electronic Data Interchange / Edinburgh Airport +EDL Edit Decision List (off-line editing) / English Defence League / Enhanced Driver's Licence / Entry, Descent, Landing / Event-Driven Language EDM Early Day Motion (in parliament, rarely leading to legislation) EDO Extended Data Out (memory) EDP Emotionally-Disturbed Person EDPS European Data Protection Supervisor EDS Electronic Data Systems EDSAC Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator EDT Eastern Daylight Time (North America) (= UTC-4) +EDTA Ethylene-Diamine-Tetra-Acetic acid EDTV Enhanced-Definition Television EDVAC Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer -EE Eterorithmos Eteria (= Ltd partnership co. in Greece) +EE Electrical Engineering / Early English / Evil Empire / ‘EastEnders’ / Experts-Exchange.com / Eterorithmos Eteria (= Ltd partnership co. in Greece) / Estonia (ISO code) EEA European Economic Area EEATX Enhanced Extended ATX (13.68×13" PC form factor) EEC European Economic Community (now EC) EEDT Eastern European Daylight Time (= UTC+3) +EEE Embrace, Extend, Extinguish +EEF Engineering Employers' Federation EEG Electroencephalogram/graphy EEIG European Economic Interest Grouping EEK Estonian kroons (ccy) +EELT European Extremely-Large Telescope EEPROM Electrically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory EER Effective Exchange Rate EEROM Electrically-Erasable Read-Only Memory EEST Eastern European Summer Time (= UTC+3) EET Eastern European Time (= UTC+2) -EeV exa electron volt (10^18 electron volts) +EETPU Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications, and Plumbing Union +EeV exa-electron volt (10^18 electron volts) EF exafarad (10^18 farads) EFA Electronic Frontiers Australia EFCC Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation EFI Extensible Firmware Interface +EFIS Electronic Flight Instrument System EFL English as a Foreign Language EFM Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation (CD) -EFS Errant Finger Syndrome +EFR Ethernet Fabric Routing / Enhanced Full Rate (speech coding) / Emergency First Response / European Fast Reactor +EFS Errant Finger Syndrome / Encrypting File-System (NTFS) +EFSA European Food Safety Authority EFTA European Free-Trade Association -EG Evil Grin / Exempli Gratio (= for example) / Equatorial Guinea / Envelope Generator / Eingetragene Genossenschaft (= co-operative co. in Germany) +EFTP Easy/Ether/Experimental File Transfer Protocol +EG Evil Grin / Exempli Gratio (= for example) / Equatorial Guinea / Egypt (ISO code) / Envelope Generator / Eingetragene Genossenschaft (= co-operative co. in Germany) Eg exagram (10^18 grams) EGA Enhanced Graphics Array/Adapter (640×350) +EGBDF Every Good Boy Deserves Favour/Fruit (music notation) EGBOK Everything's Going To Be Okay EGC Extremely-Gruntled Customer +EGCG epigallocatechin gallate EGDTTPB E-Groat Diverted To The Poor Box EGDTTPBTPF E-Groat Diverted To The Poor Box To Pay Fines EGDTTPBTPOF E-Groat Diverted To The Poor Box To Pay Outstanding Fines +EGDTTPBTPOOF E-Groat Diverted To The Poor Box To Pay Overdue Outstanding Fines EGM Extraordinary General Meeting EGNOS European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol EGPRS Enhanced General Packet Radio Service (aka EDGE) +EGPWS Enhanced Ground-Proximity Warning System +EGR Exhaust Gas Recirculation EGRP Exterior Gateway Routing Protocol EGSIIE E-Groat Supply Is In-Exhaustible +EGTA Ethylene Glycol Tetra-Acetic acid EGWMT Extremely Generous With My Time EGy exagray (10^18 grays) -EH Eastern Hemisphere / English Heritage / exahenry (10^18 henrys) +EH Eastern Hemisphere / English Heritage / exahenry (10^18 henrys) / Western Sahara (ISO code) EHA Ethernet Hardware Address (MAC address) EHF Extremely-High Frequency / European Handball/Hockey/Humanist Federation / Extremely Hairy Football / Einkahlutafélag (= Ltd co. in Iceland) +EHR Electronic Health Record EHT Extra-High Tension EHz exahertz (10^18 hertz) EI Education International / Entreprise Individuelle (= sole proprietorship co. in France) EIA Electronic Industries Alliance EIAJ Electronic Industries Association of Japan -EID electronic ID card +EIB European Investment Bank +EICTA European Information, Communications, and Consumer Electronics Technology Industry Associations eID electronic ID card EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics -EIF Exercise In Futility +EIE Enough Is Enough +EIEIO Enforce In-order Execution of Input/Output (PowerPC instruction) +EiF Exercise in Futility EIGRP Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol EIL English as an International Language EIRL Empresa Individual de Responsabilidad Limitada (= Ltd co. in Chile) EIS Educational Institute of Scotland EISA Extended Industry-Standard Architecture EISPACK software library for eigenvalues and eigenvectors -EITNR Expected In The Next Release -EITR Elephant In The Room +EitNR Expected in the Next Release +EitR Elephant in the Room +EIU Economist Intelligence Unit EJ exajoule (10^18 joules) +EJP Enhanced Joystick Port EK exaKelvin (10^18 Kelvin) Ekat exakatal (10^18 katals) EKE Encrypted Key Exchange +EKG Electrocardiogram EL Evil Laugh -ELCB Earth-Leakage Circuit Breaker +ELCB Earth-Leakage Circuit-Breaker +ELEMENTARY exponential hierarchy (complexity) ELF Executable and Linkable Format / Extremely-Low Frequency / Earth Liberation Front / Endangered Language Fund / English as a Lingua Franca ELL English-Language Learner -ELM ELectronic Mail +ELM Electronic Mail Elm exalumen (10^18 lumens) -ELO Electric Light Orchestra +ELO Electric Light Orchestra (band) ELP Euro-Linguistic Programming / Emerson, Lake, & Palmer ELT English-Language Teaching Elx exalux (10^18 lux) +EM Excuse Me / Electromagnetism/ic / Electro-Mechanical / Electronic Music / Electron Microscope / Expectation-Maximisation (algorithm) / Emerging Markets / Emergency Medicine / Electrician's Mate / Emergency/Environmental Management / End of Medium Em exametre (10^18 metres) -EM Excuse Me / Electromagnetism/-ic / Electro-Mechanical / Electronic Music / Electron Microscope / Expectation-Maximisation (algorithm) / Extreme Makeover / Emerging Markets / Emergency Medicine / Electrician's Mate / Emergency/Environmental Management / End of Medium -EMA what is your Email address? / East Midlands Airport +EMA what is your Email address? / East Midlands Airport / Education Maintenance Allowance / European Medicines Agency / Exponential Moving Average EMACS Editor Macros +EMAS Edinburgh Multiple Access System EMB Expressed Breast Milk +EMBL European Molecular Biology Laboratory +EMBO European Molecular Biology Organisation EMDW “Elementary, my dear Watson!” +EME ECB, Mask, ECB (disk encryption mode) EMEA Europe, Middle East, and Africa EMF Electro-Motive Force / Eclipse Modelling Framework EMFBI Excuse Me For Butting In EMFJI Excuse Me For Jumping In -EMI Electromagnetic Interference/Induction / European Monetary Institute / Electrical and Mechanical Industries ltd. / External Memory Interface / Electric & Musical Industries Ltd / Equal Monthly Instalments / Electronic Message Interface / Extramarital Intercourse +EMI Electromagnetic Interference/Induction / European Monetary Institute / Electrical and Mechanical/Musical Industries Ltd / External Memory Interface / Equal Monthly Instalments / Electronic Message Interface / Extra-Marital Intercourse EMM Expanded Memory Manager EMML Email Me Later EMO Emergency Measures Organisation Emol examole (10^18 moles) EMP Electro-Magnetic Pulse / Excessive Multi-Posting EMPORSIL Empresa Portuguesa de Silvicultura, Ltda +EMR Emergency Medical Response EMRU Error Message Replace User -EMS Expanded Memory Specification / Expanded Memory System / European Monetary System / Email Shorthand +EMS Expanded Memory Specification / Expanded Memory System / Engine Management System / European Monetary System / Email Shorthand / Emergency Medical Service EMSG Email Message +EMT Emergency Medical Technician / Efficient Market Theory / East Midlands Trains Ltd EMU European Monetary Union / Economic and Monetary Union / English Metric Unit (OOXML) EMV Europay, MasterCard, and VISA (standard for chip cards) EN exanewton (10^18 newtons) +EN(G) Enrolled Nurse (General) ENC Emperor's New Clothes ENE East-North-East (67½°) / Eastern New England +EngD Doctor of Engineering ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer +ENISA European Network and Information Security Agency +ENO English National Opera ENQ enquire -ENSA Entertainments National Service Association +ENS École Normale Supérieure (Paris) +ENSA Entertainments National Services Association +ENT Ear, Nose, and Throat +ENTREE European Network for Training and Research in Electrical Engineering +ENWFC England North West Film Commission EO Electro-Optical EOB End Of Business EOC End Of Civilisation EOCAWKI End Of Civilisation As We Know It EOD End Of Debate/Discussion/Day / Explosive Ordnance Disposal @@ -2874,513 +4689,1096 @@ EOF End Of File/Frame EOL End Of Lecture/Line/Life EOM End Of Message EOOR Ednolichno Druzhestvo S Ogranichena Otgovornost (= single-member Ltd co. in Bulgaria) EOP Executive Office of the President (of the United States) / Earth Orientation Parameter -EOQ End Of Question/Quote -EOR End Of Rant/Report / Exclusive Or (logic gate) -EOS End Of Show/Story -EOT End Of Thread/Text/Tape/Transmission -EOTBT End Of The Bloody Thread -EOTIAMAE End Of The Internet Announced, Movie At Eight -EOTNAMAE End Of The Net Announced, Movie At Eight -EOTU End Of The Universe -EOTUAWKI End Of The Universe As We Know It -EOTW End Of The World -EOTWAWKI End Of The World As We Know It +EoPDH Ethernet over PDH +EoQ End Of Question/Quote +EOR End Of Rant/Report/Record / Exclusive Or (logic gate) +EOS End Of Show/Story/Sale/Screen/String/Shift/Set/Sequence/Session/Selection / Equation(s) of State / Electronic Order System / Ethernet Over SONET / Economy of Scale / Electro-Optical Sensor / Emergency Operations Staff / Embedded/Enterprise Operating System +EoT End Of Thread/Text/Tape/Transmission +EotBT End Of The Bloody Thread +EotIAMaE End Of The Internet Announced, Movie At Eight +EotNAMaE End Of The Net Announced, Movie At Eight +EotU End Of The Universe +EotUaWKI End Of The Universe As We Know It +EotW End Of The World +EotWaWKI End Of The World As We Know It EP European Parliament / Electric Piano / Extended Play / Eyepiece / En Passant / Executive Producer / Evolutionary Psychology -EPA Enduring Power of Attorney / Environmental Protection Agency / (UK) Environmental Protection Act 1990 / European Patent Attorney/Agency / Economic Partnership Agreement / eicosapentanoic acid +EPA Enduring Power of Attorney / (US) Environmental Protection Agency / (UK) Environmental Protection Act 1990 / European Patent Attorney/Agency / Economic Partnership Agreement / eicosapentanoic acid EPa exapascal (10^18 pascals) EPBK&C Error Persists Between Keyboard and Chair -EPBKAC Error Persists Between Keyboard And Chair +EPBKaC Error Persists Between Keyboard and Chair EPCOT Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow EPD Extra Punitive Duties EPE Eteria Periorismenis Euthinis (= Ltd co. in Greece) EPF Eclipse Process Framework -EPFL École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne +EPFL École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (= Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne) EPG Electronic Programme Guide -EPIC Electronic Privacy Information Centre / Explicitly-Parallel-Instruction Computing / Embedded Programmable Interrupt Controller / Exchange Price Information Computer (code) / Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing (6½×4½" PC form factor) +EPIC Electronic Privacy Information Centre / Explicitly-Parallel-Instruction Computing / Embedded Programmable Interrupt Controller / Exchange Price Information Computer (stock code) / Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing (6½×4½" PC form factor) EPIRB Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon EPL Eclipse Public Licence / English Premier League +EPLP European Parliamentary Labour Party EPN Electronic Payments Network -EPOA Enduring Power of Attorney +EPOA Enduring Power Of Attorney EPOC Efficient Probabilistic Public-Key Encryption / Electronic Piece Of Cheese -EPP Enhanced Performance Profile (for DIMMs) / Enhanced Printer Port +EPP Enhanced Performance Profile (for DIMMs) / Enhanced Printer Port / European People's Party +EPR European Pressurised Reactor (aka Evolutionary Power Reactor) EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory -EPS Electric Power Steering / Encapsulated PostScript / Expanded Polystyrene / Earnings Per Share / European Passenger Services +EPS Encapsulated PostScript file / Expanded Polystyrene / Earnings Per Share / External Power Supply / Electric Power Steering / European Passenger Services / NHS Electronic Prescription Service / European Physical Society EPSRC (UK) Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EPU Evil Parallel Universe +EPUB Electronic Publication (ebook format) EPW Enemy Prisoner-of-War +EQ equal/isation EQF European Qualifications Framework -ER Emergency Room / Elizabeth Regina (= Queen Elizabeth) +EQMM ‘Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine’ +ER Emergency Room / Elizabeth Regina (= Queen Elizabeth) / Eritrea (ISO code) Er erbium -ERA Earned Run Average / Equal Rights Amendment (US, proposed) +ERA Earned Run Average / Equal Rights Amendment (US, proposed) / Electrical Research Association ERCIM European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics -ERD Entity Relationship Diagram / Eligible Rollover Distribution / Emergency Repair Disk +ERD Entity Relationship Diagram / Eligible Rollover Distribution / Emergency Repair Disk / (Army) Emergency Reserve Decoration +ERE Extended Regular Expression ERIC Education Resources Information Centre / Estates Return Information Collection (NHS) -ERM Exchange Rate Mechanism +ERM (European) Exchange Rate Mechanism +ERMA Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting ERN Eritrean nakfa (ccy) +EROEI Energy Returned On Energy Invested +EROI Energy Return On Investment ERP Enterprise Resource Planning ERU Error Replace User +ES Evil Smirk / Explorer Scout / exasiemens (10^18 siemens) / Spain (ISO code) Es einsteinium / exasecond (10^18 seconds) -ES Evil Smirk / Explorer Scout / exasiemens (10^18 siemens) ES&D Eat S*** And Die ES&DMF Eat S*** And Die, Mother-F***er ES&L Eat S*** And Live ES<HI Eat S*** And Live To Hate It +ES-IS End System to Intermediate System Routing Exchange Protocol (OSI) ESA European Space Agency ESAA English Schools' Athletic Association -ESAD Eat S*** And Die -ESADMF Eat S*** And Die, Mother-F***er -ESAL Eats, Shoots And Leaves / Eat S*** And Live -ESALTHI Eat S*** And Live To Hate It -ESBAM Eat S***, Bark At Moon +ESaD Eat S*** and Die +ESaDMF Eat S*** and Die, Mother-F***er +ESaL Eats, Shoots and Leaves / Eat S*** and Live +ESaLtHI Eat S*** and Live to Hate It +eSATA External Serial ATA +ESB ‘Star Wars ep.5: The Empire Strikes Back’ +ESBaM Eat S***, Bark at Moon +ESBL Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactam ESC European Social Charter +ESCC East Sussex County Council ESCD Extended System Configuration Data ESCON Enterprise Systems Connection ESD Electrostatic Discharge ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface ESE East-South-East (112½°) / Ever-So-Evil ESFD Ex-Stock From Distributor ESFM Ex-Stock From Manufacturer ESFS Ex-Stock From Supplier ESFV Ex-Stock From Vendor -ESL English as a Second Language / Explorer Scout Leader +ESL English as a Second Language / Explorer Scout Leader / Electron-Stimulated Luminance ESM Extended Senior Moment / Embedded System Module (149×71mm PC form factor) -ESO Equipment Smarter than Operator +ESMTP Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol +ESO Equipment Smarter than Operator / European Southern Observatory ESOL English for Speakers of Other Languages ESOSL Endless Snorts Of Stupid Laughter ESP especially / Enhanced Serial Port / Extra-Sensory Perception / English for Special Purposes -ESR Eric Steven Raymond +ESPACE Exponential-Space (complexity) +ESR Eric Steven Raymond / Extended Support Release ESRB Entertainment Software Rating Board +ESRC Economic and Social Research Council +ESRO European Space Research Organisation ESS Ex-Stock Supplier / Extended Service Set (Wi-Fi group) -EST Eastern Standard Time (North America) (= UTC-5) / Electric Shock Therapy -ESTA Electronic System for Travel Authorization (US) -ESU Explorer Scout Unit +ESSIV Encrypted Salt-Sector Initialisation Vector (disk encryption) +EST Eastern Standard Time (North America) (= UTC-5) / Electric Shock Therapy / Energy Savings Trust +ESTA Electronic System for Travel Authorization (US) / Entertainment Services and Technology Association +ESTS Electronic Surveillance Technology Section (FBI) +ESU English-Speaking Union / Explorer Scout Unit ESV English Standard Version (of the Bible) ESv exasievert (10^18 sieverts) -ET Extra-Terrestrial / Euro Tunnel / exatesla (10^18 teslas) / Ednolichen Turgovetz (= sole proprietorship co. in Bulgaria) -ETA Estimated Time of Arrival/Apocalypse / Edited To Add / Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque separatists) / (AUS) Electronic Travel Authority +ET Extra-Terrestrial / Euro Tunnel / exatesla (10^18 teslas) / Ednolichen Turgovetz (= sole proprietorship co. in Bulgaria) / Ethiopia (ISO code) +ETA Estimated Time of Arrival/Apocalypse / Edited To Add / Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque separatists) / (AUS) Electronic Travel Authority / Extra-Terrestrial Activity/Artefact/Alien ETB End of Transmission Block / Ethiopian birr (ccy) ETD Estimated Time of Departure/Delivery ETE Estimated Time En-route ETF Exchange-Traded Fund +ETH Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETL Extract, Transform, Load ETLA Extended Three-Letter Acronym ETN Exchange-Traded Note ETOD Expected Time Of Delivery +ETS Expiration of Term of Service (military discharge) ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute ETTO Each To Their Own ETX End of Text / Embedded Technology Extended (3.7×4.9" PC form factor) -EU European Union +EU European Union (was European Community) / Enriched Uranium Eu europium EUC Extended Unix Code +EUC-JP Extended Unix Code — Japanese (JIS X 0208, 0212, 0201) +EUC-KR Extended Unix Code — Korean (KS X 1001, 1003) +EUC-TW Extended Unix Code — Taiwanese (CNS 11643) EUL Enhanced Uplink EULA End-User Licence Agreement +EULAR European League Against Rheumatism EUPL European Union Public Licence EUR Euros +EurGeol European Geologist +EurIng European Engineer EURL Entreprise Unipersonnelle à Responsabilité Limitée (= single-member co. in France) EV Electric Vehicle / exavolt (10^18 volts) / Egyéni Vállalkozó (= sole proprietorship co. in Hungary) eV electron-volt EV-DO Evolution-Data Optimised (CDMA2000) -EVA Extra-Vehicular Activity +EVA Extra-Vehicular Activity / Ethene vinyl acetate +EVC (VESA) Enhanced Video Connector EVD Enhanced Versatile Disc EVP Executive Vice President -EW exawatt (10^18 watts) +EW exawatt (10^18 watts) / Estonia (ISO code) (now EE) EWb exaweber (10^18 webers) EWCB England and Wales Cricket Board -EWD Edsger W. Dijkstra +EWD Edsger Wybe Dijkstra EWI Emailing While Intoxicated EWIT Exactly What I Thought EWK Enters Without Knocking / Especially-Wicked Knock +EWO Executive Warrant Officer EWTB Ex-Wife-To-Be EXCH exchange EXE Executable (file) -EXT EXTended file-system +EXIF Exchangeable Image File Format +EXP Exponential-time (complexity) +EXPSPACE Exponential-Space (complexity) +EXPTIME Exponential-Time (complexity) +EXT Extended file-system +EXW Ex-Works (delivery terms: collect from seller) +EYC Excitable, Yet Calm EZ easy F fluorine -F&L Fry & Laurie -F&S Flanders & Swann / French & Saunders -F&SF The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction +F&C Fish and Chips +F&L Fry and Laurie +F&M Foot-and-Mouth (disease) +F&MD Foot-and-Mouth Disease +F&S Flanders and Swann / French and Saunders +F&SF ‘The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction’ F&TMAEP Fools And Their Money Are Easily Parted +F/O Flying Officer F/OSS Free/Open-Source Software +F/RAND Fair, Reasonable, And Non-Discriminatory F1EG Fined One E-Groat F1ES Fined One E-Shilling/E-Smack F2EG Fined Two E-Groats F2ES Fined Two E-Shillings -F2F Face-To-Face / Flesh-To-Flesh +F2F Face-to-Face / Flesh-to-Flesh +F2P Free-to-Play F2T Free to Talk F4 210×330mm (paper size) F4F Female for Female F4M Female for Male F4T Food For Thought -fA femtoampere (10^-15 amperes) FA Football Association / F***-All / Firma (= partnership co. in Indonesia) -FAA F***-All Available / (US) Federal Aviation Administration / (UK) Fatal Accidents Act 1846/1864/1959/1976 / Fleet Air Arm (of the Royal Navy) / Fetch-and-add (CPU instruction) +fA femtoampere (10^-15 amperes) +FAA F***-All Available / (US) Federal Aviation Administration / (UK) Fatal Accidents Act 1846/1864/1959/1976 / Fleet Air Arm (of the Royal Navy) / Fetch-And-Add (CPU instruction) / Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science +FAAAS Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences +FAAH Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities FAAK Falling Asleep At Keyboard +FAAO Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry +FAAP Fellow of the American Academy of Pædiatrics FAAQ Frequently Asked and Anticipated Questions +FAAV Fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers FAB Features, Attributes, Benefits FABIA First Day, And Broken It Already +FABRP Fellow of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals FAC Feminists Against Censorship / Foreign Affairs Committee +FACC Fellow of the American College of Cardiology +FACCA Fellow of the Association of Certified and Corporate Accountants +FACD Fellow of the American College of Dentistry +FACE Fellow of the Australian College of Education +FACM Fellow of the Association of Computing Machines +FACMA Fellow of the Australian College of Medical Administrators +FACOG Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynæcologists +FACP Fellow of the American College of Physicians +FACS Fellow of the American College of Surgeons +FACST Fellow of the Australian College of Speech Therapists +FACT Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers FACTOR Facile Acronyms Create Totally-Obscure Reminders +FACVT Fellow of the American College of Veterinary Toxicology +FAE Fellow of the Academy of Experts (was FBAE) FAEG Forfeit An E-Groat +FAES Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society FAF Phone A Friend FAFSA Free Application for Federal Student Aid (US) FAFWOA For A Friend Without Access -FAI Frequently-Argued Issue -FAIB Free As In Beer +FAHA Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities +FAI Frequently-Argued Issue / Fellow of the Chartered Auctioneers' and Estate Agents' Institute / Football Association of Ireland +FAIA Fellow of the American Institute of Architects +FAIAA Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics +FAIAS Fellow of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science +FAIB Free As In Beer / Fellow of the Australian Institute of Building +FAIE Fellow of the British Association of Industrial Editors (now FCB) +FAIM Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management +FAIP Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics +FAIRE Fellow of the Australian Institute of Radio Engineers +FAJ Fellow of the Chartered Auctioneers and Estate Agents Institute +FAM Foot And Mouth (disease) / Fellow of the Academy of Marketing +FaMD Foot-and-Mouth Disease +FAMGP Fellow of the Association of Managers in General Practice +FAMS Fellow of the Ancient Monuments Society FANY First-Aid Nursing Yeomanry -FAO For Attention Of / UN Food and Agriculture Organisation +FANZCA Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anæsthetists +FANZCP Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists +FAO For Attention Of / (UN) Food and Agriculture Organisation FAP FORTRAN Assembly Program +FAPA Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association +FAPDS Frangible Armour-Piercing Discarding-Sabot (ammunition) +FAPHA Fellow of the American Public Health Association +FAPI Fellow of the Australian Planning Institute +FAPM Fellow of the Association of Project Managers FAQ Frequently-Asked Question(s) FAQL Frequently-Asked Questions List +FAQMC Fellow of the Association of Quality Management Consultants FAR Frequently-Asked Request +FARELF Far East Land Forces FARP Forward Area Refuelling/Rearming Point +FAS Fellow of the Antiquarian Society / Free Alongside Ship (delivery terms: seller delivers to quayside) +FASA Fellow of the Australian Society of Accountants FASC Foreign Affairs Select Committee +FASCE Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers +FASI Fellow of the Architects and Surveyors' Institute FASM Flat Assembler +FASME Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers FAST Federation Against Software Theft FAT File Allocation Table (file-system) FAT12 File Allocation Table, 12-bit (file-system) FAT16 File Allocation Table, 16-bit (file-system) FAT32 File Allocation Table, 32-bit (file-system) -FATMAEP Fools And Their Money Are Easily Parted +FatMaEP Fools and their Money are Easily Parted FAU F***-All Use FAVRD Favoured (used for casting a vote on textism) FAW Football Association of Wales / Frequently-Asked Wish FAWC For Anyone Who Cares FAWWRC First Against the Wall When the Revolution Comes FB Facebook / Files Busy / Fine Business FBA Fellow of the British Academy / Fixed Block Architecture +FBAA Fellow of the British Acupuncture Association +FBAE Fellow of the British Academy of Experts (now FAE) +FBAM Fellow of the British Academy of Management +FBCO Fellow of the British College of Opticians (now FCOptom) +FBCS Fellow of the British Computer Society FBDIMM Fully-Buffered Dual-In-line Memory Module -FBH Federal Bureau of Hackers / F***ing Butter Heads -FBI (US) Federal Bureau of Investigation / Full-Blown Idiot / Female Body Inspector / Federation of British Industries +FBEC(S) Fellow of the Business Education Council (Scotland) +FBEng Fellow of the Association of Building Engineers +FBH Federal Bureau of Hackers / F***ing Butter-Heads +FBHI Fellow of the British Horological Institute +FBI (US) Federal Bureau of Investigation / Full-Blown Idiot / Female Body Inspector / Federation of British Industries / Fourier-Bros-Iagolnitzer (transform) +FBIAC Fellow of the British Institute of Agricultural Consultants +FBIBA Fellow of the British Insurance Brokers' Association +FBID Fellow of the British Institute of Interior Design +FBIEE Fellow of the British Institute of Energy Economists FBIFM Far Be It From Me +FBII Fellow of the British Institute of Inn-keeping +FBIM Fellow of the British Institute of Management +FBIPP Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photographers +FBIS Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society +FBISA Fellow of the British Institute of Sports Administration FBKS Failure Between Keyboard and Seat -FBOW For Better or Worse +FBKSTS Fellow of the British Kinematograph, Sound, and Television Society +FBLT Fine, Be Like That +FBO Frame Buffer Object (OpenGL) +FBOA Fellow of the British Optical Association +FBOW For Better Or Worse +FBPsS Fellow of the British Psychological Society fBq femtobequerel (10^-15 bequerels) +FBS Fellow of the Building Societies Institute +FBSI Fellow of the Boot and Shoe Industry FBTT Far Busier Than Thou +FBTW Fine, Be That Way FBU (UK) Fire Brigades Union -fC femtocoulomb (10^-15 coulombs) FC Fingers Crossed / Football Club / Fibre Channel / Fight Club / Flying Carpet / Forestry Commission +fC femtocoulomb (10^-15 coulombs) FC-AL Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop -FCB File Control Block -FCC (US) Federal Communications Commission +FCA Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants / Free Carrier (delivery terms: seller pays carriage) +FCAA Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Cost Accountants +FCAI Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautical Institute +FCAM Fellow of the Communications Advertising and Marketing Educational +FCAnaes Fellow of the College of Anæsthetists +FCANZ Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in New Zealand +FCASI Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute +FCB File Control Block / Fellow of the British Association of Communicators in Business +FCBA Fellow of the Canadian Bankers Association +FCBSI Fellow of the Chartered Building Societies Institute +FCC (US) Federal Communications Commission / Face-Centred Cubic (crystal structure) +FCCA Fellow of the Association of Certified Accountants FCCOEG Fines Conference Chaplain One E-Groat -fcd femtocandela (10^-15 candelas) +FCCP Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians +FCCS Fellow of the Corporation of Secretaries FCD Final Committee Draft / Floating Car/Cellular Data / Fleck Corneal Dystrophy / First Chief Directorate / Flow Chart Diagram / Fuel-Consumption Display +fcd femtocandela (10^-15 candelas) FCE Final Cut Express / Form Control Extension / Full Course/Credit Equivalent +FCEC Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors +FCEM Fellow of the College of Emergency Medicine +FCFA Fellow of the Cookery and Food Association +FCFI Fellow of the Clothing and Footwear Institute FCFS First Come, First Served +FCGI Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute +FCIA Fellow of the Corporation of Insurance Agents +FCIArb Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators +FCIB Fellow of the Corporation of Insurance Brokers +FCIBS Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services +FCIBSE Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers +FCII Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute +FCILT Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport +FCIM Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (was FInstM) +FCInstT Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (was FInstT) +FCIOB Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building +FCIPA Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (now CPA) +FCIPD Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development +FCIPR Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations +FCIPS Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply +FCIS Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators +FCIT Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport +FCIV Fellow of the Commonwealth Institute of Valuers (Australia) +FCIWEM Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental +FCIWM Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management +FCMA Fellow of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants +FCMI Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (was FIMgt) +FCMSA Fellow of the College of Medicine of South Africa +FCNA Fellow of the College of Nursing, Australia FCO (UK) Foreign and Commonwealth Office / Financial Control Officer / Leonardo da Vinci Airport (Fiumicino, Rome) +FCOG Fellow of the College of Gynæcologists FCOL For Crying Out Loud -FCP Fibre Channel Protocol / Fonds Commun de Placement (= unincorporated investment fund in France) -FCS For Christ's Sake / Frame Check Sequence (Ethernet) / Fellow of the Chemical Society +FCollP Ordinary Fellow of the College of Preceptors +FConsE Fellow of the Association of Consulting Engineers +FCOphth Fellow of the College of Ophthalmology (now FRCOphth) +FCOptom Fellow of the College of Optometrists (was FBCO) +FCOS Flight-Control Operating System / Formation Continue Obligatoire de Sécurité (= Continuing Education Mandatory Safety, French HGV test) +FCP Fibre Channel Protocol / Final Cut Pro (video editing software) / Fellow of the College of Preceptors / Fonds Commun de Placement (= unincorporated investment fund in France) +FCPA Fellow of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants +FCPS Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons +FCRA Fellow of the College of Radiologists of Australia +FCS For Christ's Sake / Frame Check Sequence (Ethernet) / Fellow of the College of Surgeons / Fellow of the Chemical Society / First Customer Shipment / Federation of Conservative Students +FCSD Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers +FCSI Fellow of the Chartered Securities Institute (was FSI) +FCT Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Treasurers FCU (US) Federal Credit Union -FD First Direct / Finance Director / Floppy Disk / Flying Donkey / Fidei Defensor (= defender of the faith) / F*** Dat +FCW French Civil War +FCWA Fellow of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants +FD First Direct (bank) / Finance Director / Floppy Disk / Flying Donkey / Fidei Defensor (= defender of the faith) / F*** Dat FDA (US) Food & Drug Administration / F***ing Dumb-Ass / First Division Association (prev. The Association of First-Division Civil Servants) FDC Floppy Disk Controller FDD Feature-Driven Development / Frequency-Division Duplexing / Floppy Disk Drive FDDI Fibre Distributed Data Interface +FDI Fédération Dentaire Internationale FDL Free Documentation Licence FDM Frequency-Division Multiplexing FDMA Frequency-Division Multiple Access FDO Field Development Officer FDP Free Democratic Party (Germany, Switzerland) -FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Flight Data Recorder +FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Flight Data Recorder / False Discovery Rate / Family Dispute Resolution FDROTFL Falling Down Rolling On The Floor Laughing -FDS Fedora Directory Server +FDS Fedora Directory Server / Fellow in Dental Surgery FDSD Falls Down, Stone Dead -FE First Edition / Further Education / Fatal Error +FDSRCPS Fellow in Dental Surgery, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow +FDSRCS Fellow in Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England +FDSRCSE Fellow in Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh +FDSRCSI Fellow in Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland +FE Further Education / First Edition / Fatal Error / Front-End Fe iron FE&EA For Ever And Ever, Amen -Fe2O3 ferric oxide (aka rust) -Fe3O4 ferrous oxide (aka magnetite) -FEAEA For Ever And Ever, Amen +Fe(OH)2 iron (II) hydroxide +Fe(OH)3 iron (III) hydroxide (aka bernalite) +Fe2O3 ferric oxide (aka iron (III) oxide, rust, hæmatite) +Fe3O4 ferrous oxide (aka iron (II,III) oxide, magnetite) +FEaEA For Ever and Ever, Amen +FEAF Far East Air Force +FEAL Fast data Encipherment Algorithm +FEAL-4 Fast data Encipherment Algorithm with 4 rounds +FEAL-6 Fast data Encipherment Algorithm with 6 rounds +FEAL-8 Fast data Encipherment Algorithm with 8 rounds +FEAL-N Fast data Encipherment Algorithm with N rounds +FEAL-NX Fast data Encipherment Algorithm with N rounds and a 128-bit key FEB February FEBA Forward Edge of Battle Area +FEBU Fellowship of European Boards of Urology FEC Forward Error Correction FeCl3 ferric chloride -FECUR Font Explorer for cix:wur FED Field-Effect Display -FEI For Everyone's Information -FEIYD Forever In Your Debt +FEFC Further Education Funding Council +FEI For Everyone's Information / International Equestrian Federation / Fellow of the Energy Institute +FEIS Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland +FEIYD For Ever In Your Debt +FEM Finite Element Method (for solving PDEs) FEMA (US) Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMB Front-End Motherboard -FERA (UK) Food and Environment Research Agency / (UK) Further Educational Research Association / (US) Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (2009) / (US) Federal Emergency Relief Administration (obs.) +FEng Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering +FeO iron (II) oxide (aka wüstite) +FERA (UK) Food and Environment Research Agency / (UK) Further Educational Research Association / (US) Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, 2009 / (US) Federal Emergency Relief Administration (obs.) +FeS2 iron sulphide (aka pyrite) +FESC Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology FeSO4 iron sulphate FET Field-Effect Transistor -feV fempto electron volt (10^-15 electron volts) +feV fempto-electron volt (10^-15 electron volts) +FEWUR Font Explorer for cix:wur +FF Mozilla Firefox / Fast-Forward / Form-Feed / Fifty-Fifty / Fortissimo / Front-Facing / Female-Female / French Fry / Friends Forever / Fianna Fáil / Fan Fiction / Force Field / Final Fantasy (video game) / Font Fluid fF femtofarad (10^-15 farads) -FF Firefox / Fifty-Fifty / Font Fluid / French Fry / Friends Forever +FF3 Mozilla Firefox v3 +FF4 Mozilla Firefox v4 +FFA Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries (Scotland) +FFa Final Fantasy (video game) +FFA(SA) Fellow of the Faculty of Anæsthetists, South Africa +FFA,RACS Fellow of the Faculty of Anæsthetists, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons +FFA,RCS Fellow of the Faculty of Anæsthetists, Royal College of Surgeons +FFA,RCSI Fellow of the Faculty of Anæsthetists, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland FFADO Free FireWire Audio Drivers +FFAEM Fellow of the Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine +FFARACS Fellow of the Faculty of Anæsthetists Royal Australasian College of Surgeons +FFARCS Fellow of the Faculty of Anæsthetists, Royal College of Surgeons +FFAS Fellow of the Faculty of Architects and Surveyors FFATB Fangs For All The Blood +FFB Fellow of the Faculty of Building FFC F***ing Fast Comms +FFCM Fellow of the Faculty of Community Medicine (now FFPH) +FFCS Founding Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary Scotland FFD Feral Flying Donkey +FFD,RCS Fellow of the Faculty of Dentistry, Royal College of Surgeons +FFDRCSI Fellow of the Faculty of Dentistry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland FFE Final Front Ear +FFF Female-Female-Female FFFC Feral Flying Font Creatures +FFFP Fellow of the Faculty of Family Planning (of the RCOG) +FFGDP Fellow of the Faculty of General Dental Practice +FFHom Fellow of the Faculty of Homeopathy +FFi Final Fight (video game) +FFII Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure e.V. FFJ Florence Foster Jenkins +FFM Female-Female-Male FFO Finger Food Only +FFOHM Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Health Medicine +FFOM Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine +FFP Free For Postage +FFPathRCPI Fellow of the Faculty of Pathology Royal College of Physicians of Ireland +FFPH Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (was FFPHM) +FFPHM Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine +FFPM Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine FFPN Fresh Fields and Pastures New -FFR Fitness For Rôle +FFR Fitness For Rôle / Fellow of the Faculty of Radiologists FFRD (I don't give a) Flying F*** in a Rolling Doughnut FFS For F***'s Sake / Full-Frame Sensor / Berkeley Fast File-System (aka UFS) +FFSEM Fellow of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine FFT Food For Thought / Fast Fourier Transform -FFTPACK package of Fortran subroutines for Fast Fourier transforms FFTB Feel Free To Butt +FFTBI Feel Free To Butt In +FFTPACK package of Fortran subroutines for Fast Fourier transforms FFTW Fastest Fourier Transform in the West (software library) +FFu Fatal Fury (video game) FFWF Fight Fire With Fire -fg femtogram (10^-15 grams) +FFY Fife and Forfar Yeomanry FG foreground / French Guiana +fg femtogram (10^-15 grams) +FGA Fellow of the Gemmological Association +FGCM Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians +FGDP Faculty of General Dental Practitioners FGG F***ing Good Guess -FGI F***ing Google It +FGI F***ing Google It / Fellow of the Grocers' Institute +FGIY F***ing Google It Yourself FGJ For Great Justice! FGK&C For God, King, And Country -FGKAC For God, King, And Country -FGQ&C For God, Queen, And Country -FGQAC For God, Queen, And Country +FGKaC For God, King, And Country +FGQ&C For God, Queen, and Country +FGQaC For God, Queen, and Country FGS For God's/Goodness' Sake / Fellow of the Geological Society +FGSM Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama fGy femtogray (10^-15 grays) -fH femtohenry (10^-15 henrys) FH Floating Head +fH femtohenry (10^-15 henrys) +FHA Fellow of the Institute of Hospital Administrators FHC Finsbury Health Centre +FHCIMA Fellow of the Hotel Catering and Institutional Management Association +FHEA Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEQ Framework for Higher Education Qualifications FHFHFH F*** Him, Feed Him Fish-Heads -FHS File-system Hierarchy Standard +FHG Fellow in Heraldry and Genealogy +FHKCPath Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Pathologists +FHKIE Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers +FHS File-system Hierarchy Standard / Fellow of the Heraldry Society / Forces Help Society +FHSA Family Health Services Authority +FHSM Fellow of the Institute of Health Services Management fHz femtohertz (10^-15 hertz) -FI For Instance / Falkland Islands / Faroe Islands +FI For Instance / Falkland Islands / Faroe Islands / Finland (ISO code) / Force Index (finance) +FIA Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries / Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (= International Automobile Federation) +FIAA Fellow of the Institute of Administrative Accountants +FIAC Fellow of the Institute of Company Accountants +FIAcadE Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering +FIAeS Fellow of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences +FIAgrE Fellow of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers +FIAgrM Fellow of the Institution of Agricultural Management +FIAL Fellow of the International Institute of Arts and Letters +FIAM Fellow of the International Academy of Management +FIAP Fellow of the Institute of Analysts and Programmers FIAPF Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films (= International Federation of Film Producers Associations) -FIC Father In Charge -FICA (US) Federal Insurance Contributions Act (1935) (tax) +FIArb Fellow of the Institute of Arbitrators +FIAS Fellow of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences (US) +FIB Fellow of the Institute of Bankers (now FCIB) +FIBA Fellow of the Institute of Business Advisers (was FIBC) +FIBC Fellow of the Institute of Business Counsellors (now FIBA) +FIBF Fellow of the Institute of British Foundrymen +FIBiol Fellow of the Institute of Biology (now FSB) +FIBM Fellow of the Institute of Builders' Merchants +FIBMS Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science (was FIMLS) +FIBrew Fellow of the Institute of Brewing +FIBScot Fellow of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland +FIC Father In Charge / Fellow of Imperial College (London) +FICA Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales / (US) Federal Insurance Contributions Act, 1935 (tax) +FICAI Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland +FICAS Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland FICCL Frankly, I Couldn't Care Less +FICD Fellow of the Institute of Civil Defence +FICE Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers +FICeram Fellow of the Institute of Ceramics +FICFor Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Foresters +FIChemE Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers +FICM Fellow of the Institute of Credit Management +FICMA Fellow of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants FICO Fair Isaac Corp. (provider of credit scores) -FICON Fibre Connectivity FiCon Fibre Connectivity +FICorrST Fellow of the Institute of Corrosion Science and Technology +FICPD Fellow of the Institute of Continuing Professional Development +FICS Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers +FICSA Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators FIDE Fédération Internationale des Échecs (= World Chess Federation) -FIE Füüsilisest isikust ettevõtja (= sole proprietorship co. in Estonia) +FIDM Fellow of the Institute of Direct Marketing +FIDO Forget It, Drive On / Freaks, Irregular, Defects, Oddities (coin collecting) / Flight Inspection District Office +FIDPM Fellow of the Institute of Data Processing Management +FIE Fellow of the Institution of Engineers / Füüsilisest isikust ettevõtja (= sole proprietorship co. in Estonia) +FIEA Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia FIEC Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches +FIED Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Design +FIEE Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers +FIEEE Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA) +FIEI Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Inspection / Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland +FIElecIE Fellow of the Institution of Electronic Incorporated Engineers +FIERE Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Radio Engineers +FIET Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology +FIEx Fellow of the Institute of Export FIFA Fédération Internationale de Football Association +FIFF Fellow of the Institute of Freight Forwarders (now FIFP) +FIFireE Fellow of the Institute of Fire Engineers +FIFM Fellow of the Institute of Fisheries Management FIFO First-In, First-Out +FIFor Fellow of the Institute of Forestry +FIFP Fellow of the Institute of Freight Professionals +FIFST Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology +FIGasE Fellow of the Institution of Gas Engineers +FIGD Fellow of the Institute of Grocery Distribution +FIGE Fellow of the Institute of Gas Engineers +FIGeol Fellow of the Institute of Geology FIGJAM F*** I'm Good, Just Ask Me FIGMO F*** It, Got My Orders +FIHE Fellow of the Institute of Health Education +FIHM Fellow of the Institute of Housing Managers +FIHort Fellow of the Institute of Horticulture +FIHospE Fellow of the Institute of Hospital Engineering +FIHSM Fellow of the Institute of Health Service Managers +FIHT Fellow of the Institute of Highways and Transportation +FIHVE Fellow of the Institution of Heating and Ventilation Engineers +FIIA Fellow of the Institute of Internal Auditors +FIIB Fellow of the International Institute of Biotechnology +FIIE Fellow of the Institution of Incorporated Engineers FIIK F***ed If I Know! +FIIM Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Managers FIIN F***ed If I Know! -FIL Father-In-Law +FIInfSc Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists (now FCLIP) +FIInst Fellow of the Imperial Institute +FIIP Fellow of the Institute of Incorporated Photographers +FIL Father-In-Law / Fellow of the Institute of Linguists +FILA Fellow of the Institute of Landscape Architects +FILDM Fellow of the Institute of Logistics and Distribution Management +FilDr Doctor of Philosophy FILO First In, Last Out +FILog Fellow of the Institute of Logistics +FILPA Fellow of the Institute of Life and Pension Advisers +FILT Fellow of the Institute of Logistics and Transport +FIM Fellow of the Institute of Materials (was Metals) +FIMA Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications +FIMarE Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineers +FIMarEst Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science, and Technology +FIMBRA Financial Intermediaries, Managers, and Brokers Regulatory Association Ltd +FIMC Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants +FIMechE Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers +FIMF Fellow of the Institute of Metal Finishing +FIMfgE Fellow of the Institution of Manufacturing Engineers +FIMFT Fellow of the Institute of Maxillo-Facial Technology +FIMgt Fellow of the Institute of Management +FIMH Fellow of the Institute of Material Handling / Fellow of the Institute of Military History +FIMI Fellow of the Institute of Motor Industry +FIMinE Fellow of the Institution of Mining Engineers +FIMIT Fellow of the Institute of Musical Instrument Technology +FIMLS Fellow of the Institute of Medical and Laboratory Sciences (now FIBMS) +FIMM Fellow of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy +FIMMM Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining +FIMO Forget It, Move On / F*** it, I'm Out / Formation Initiale Minimum Obligatoire (= Initial Mandatory Minimum Training for driving passenger vehicles) +FIMS Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics +FIMT Fellow of the Institute of the Motor Trade +FIMTA Fellow of the Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants +FIMunE Fellow of the Institution of Municipal Engineers +FInstAA Fellow of the Institute of Administrative Accountants +FInstAM Fellow of the Institute of Administrative Management +FInstCES Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors +FInstCS Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries +FInstD Fellow of the Institute of Directors (now FIoD) +FInstE Fellow of the Institute of Energy (was FInstF) +FInstF Fellow of the Institute of Fuel (now FInstE) +FInstFF Fellow of the Institute of Freight Forwarders +FInstGasE Fellow of the Institution of Gas Engineers +FInstGeol Fellow of the Institute of Geologists +FInstHE Fellow of the Institute of Highways Engineers +FInstLEx Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives +FInstM Fellow of the Institute of Marketing (now FCIM) +FInstMC Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control +FInstMet Fellow of the Institute of Metals +FInstMSM Fellow of the Institute of Marketing and Sales Management +FInstNav Fellow of the Institute of Navigation +FInstNDT Fellow of the Institute of Non-Destructive Testing +FInstP Fellow of the Institute of Physics +FInstPet Fellow of the Institute of Petroleum +FInstPS Fellow of the Institute of Purchasing and Supply (now FCIPS) +FInstSMM Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management +FInstT Fellow of the Institute of Taxation (now FCInstT) +FInstTT Fellow of the Institute of Travel and Tourism +FInstW Fellow of the Institute of Welding +FINucE Fellow of the Institute of Nuclear Engineers +FIO Fellow of the Institute of Ophthalmology +FIOA Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics +FIOB Fellow of the Institute of Building +FIoD Fellow of the Institute of Directors (was FInstD) FIOFY Figure It Out For Yourself FIOFYF Figure It Out For Yourself, F***er +FIOP Fellow of the Institute of Printing +FIOSc Fellow of the Institute of Optical Science +FIOSH Fellow of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health +FIP Feline Infectious Peritonitis / Federation of International Polo / Forum for Independent Psychotherapists / Fellow of the Institute of Packaging +FIPA Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration +FIPD Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development (now FCIPD) +FIPG Fellow of the Institute of Professional Goldsmiths +FIPHE Fellow of the Institution of Public Health Engineers +FIPI Fellow of the Institute of Professional Investigators +FIPlantE Fellow of the Institution of Plant Engineers +FIPM Fellow of the Institute of Personnel Management (now FCIPD) FIPP Family Income Protection Policy -FIPS (US) Federal Information Processing Standard -FIQ Fast Interrupt Request -FISH First In, Still Here/Hope +FIPR Fellow of the Institute of Public Relations +FIProdE Fellow of the Institution of Production Engineers +FIPS (US) Federal Information Processing Standard / Fellow of the Institute of Purchasing and Supply +FIPSM Fellow of the Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine +FIQ Fast Interrupt Request / Fellow of the Institute of Quarrying +FIQA Fellow of the Institute of Quality Insurance +FIR Finite Impulse Response (filter) +FIRE Fellow of the Institution of Radio Engineers +FIREE Fellow of the Institution of Radio and Electronics Engineers (Australia) +FIRI Fellow of the Institution of the Rubber Industry +FIRM Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management +FIRSE Fellow of the Institute of Railway Signalling Engineers +FIRTE Fellow of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers +FIS Fellow of the Institute of Stationers +FISA (US) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 1978, amended 2008 / Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (= International Rowing Federation) +FISD Financial Information Service Division (of the SIAA) / Forecast In-Service Date / Financial Instrument Short Description / First Imperial Stormtrooper Academy (Star Wars) +FISE Fellow of the Institute of Sanitary Engineers +FISH F*** It, S*** Happens / First In, Still Here/Hope / File transfer over Shell protocol FISHDO F*** It, S*** Happens, Drive On +FISM Fellow of the Institute of Supervisory Managers +FISP Fellow of the Institute of Sales Promotion +FISTC Fellow of the Institute of 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Institute of Agricultural Botany +FNICHAMAW Fear Not; It Can Have Another Meaning As Well FNIMN ‘Friday Night Is Music Night’ -FNS Front Near Side -FO F*** Off / Foreign Office -FO&D F*** Off And Die -FOAD F*** Off And Die / Fuse Off And Diode -FOAF Friend Of A Friend -FOAFOAG Father Of A Friend Of A Girlfriend -FOAG Father Of A Girlfriend -FOB Forward Operating Base / Family-Owned Business -FOC Free Of Charge +FNP Function problem, Non-deterministic, Polynomial-time (complexity) +FNS Front Near-Side +FNX thanks +FNZIE Fellow of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers +FNZIM Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management +FNZSA Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Accountants +FO F*** Off / Foreign Office / Faroe Islands (ISO code) +FO&D F*** Off and Die +FOaD F*** Off and Die / Fuse Off and Diode +FoaF Friend of a Friend +FoaFoaG Father of a Friend of a Girlfriend +FoaG Father of a Girlfriend +FOB Forward Operating Base / Family-Owned Business / Fresh Out of the Box / Free On Board (delivery terms: seller delivers onto buyer's vessel) +FoC Free of Charge FOCBMTPAT Falls Off Chair, But Minds The Poor Almost-Toddler FOCBMTPB Falls Off Chair, But Minds The Poor Baby FOCBMTPFYL Falls Off Chair, But Minds The Poor Fine Young Lady FOCBMTPFYLFO Falls Off Chair, But Minds The Poor Fine Young Lady For Once FOCBMTPT Falls Off Chair, But Minds The Poor Toddler FOCL Falls Off Chair Laughing +FOCLB Falls Off Chair Laughing, Bruce FOCLMAO Falls Off Chair Laughing My Arse Off FOCLWTSDMF Falls Off Chair Laughing With Tears Streaming Down My Face -FOCWAU Falls Off Chair, World, And Universe -FOD Finger Of Death / Foreign Object Debris/Damage/Detection / Free Online Dating / Forgiveness Of Debt / F*** Off and Die +FOCWaU Falls Off Chair, World, and Universe +FOD Finger Of Death / Foreign Object Debris/Damage/Detection / Free On-line Dating / Forgiveness Of Debt / F*** Off and Die +FODA Fellow of the Overseas Doctors' Association FOEG Fined One E-Groat FOEGFGAIA Forfeit One 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Mobile/Multimedia Access (3G W-CDMA) +FOMC Federal Open-Market Committee FOMCL Falling Off My Chair Laughing FOOBAR F***ed-Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair FOP Falls Off Pew / = sole proprietorship co. in Ukraine -FOPALITA Falls Off Pew And Lands In The Apse -FOR For Obvious Reasons +FOPaLitA Falls Off Pew and Lands in the Apse +FOR For Obvious Reasons / Fellowship of Operational Research Foundation FORCE Frequently-Obvious Restricted Collection Exposed FORD Fix Or Repair Daily -FORFOR Forum Formulatrix +FOREST Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco +ForFor Forum Formulatrix FOS Front Off-Side / Freedom Of Speech / Full Of S*** FOSDEM Free and Open-source Software Developers' European Meeting FOSI Formatted Output Specification Instance FOSS Free/Open-Source Software -FOT Full Of Tripe +FoT Full of Tripe FOTCL Falling Off The Chair, Laughing FOTCLOL Falling Off The Chair, Laughing Out Loud FOTFL Falling On The Floor, Laughing FOTFLOL Falling On The Floor, Laughing Out Loud FOTM Flavour Of The Month FOTP Fresh Off The Press FOTPA Fallen Off The Planet Again -FOTR ‘The Fellowship Of The Ring’ +FotR ‘The Fellowship Of The Ring’ FOTS For Old Times' Sake -FOV Field of View -FP Functional Programming / (Microsoft) FrontPage / Free Parking / Fixed-Pitch / footpath / Ford Prefect +FOU For Official Use / Freedom/Field Of Use +FOUO For Official Use Only +FoV Field of View +FP Functional Programming / (Microsoft) FrontPage / Free Parking / Fixed-Pitch / footpath / Ford Prefect / Function problem, Polynomial-time (complexity) +FPA Franklin Pierce Adams / Family Practitioners' Association fPa femtopascal (10^-15 pascals) -FPA Franklin Pierce Adams -FPAA Field-Programmable Analogue Array -FPGA Field-Programmable Gate Array -FPS First-Person Shooter / For Pete's/Pity's Sake / Frames Per Second / Floating-Point Systems +FPAA Field-Programmable Analogue Array (IC) +FPANZ Fellow Public Accountant of New Zealand +FPC Family Practitioner Committee +FPCA Fellow of Practising and Commercial Accountants +FPCS Fellow of the Property Consultants' Society +FPEA Fellow of the Physical Education Association +FPGA Field-Programmable Gate Array (IC) +FPhS Fellow of the Philosophical Society of England +FPhysS Fellow of the Physical Society +FPI Fellow of the Plastics Institute +FPMI Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute +FPRI Fellow of the Plastics and Rubber Institute +FPS First-Person Shooter / For Pete's/Pity's Sake / Frames Per Second / Floating-Point Systems / Fellow of the Pharmaceutical/Philological Society +FPT Fixed-Parameter, Tractable (complexity) FPTP First Past The Post FPU Floating-Point Unit +FPWI Fellow of the Permanent Way Institution +FQ French Southern and Antarctic Territories (ISO code) (obs.) FQDN Fully-Qualified Domain Name +FR France (ISO code) / Full-Rate encoding Fr francium FRA File Read All / Frankfurt Airport +FRACDS Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Dental Surgeons +FRACGP Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners +FRACI Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute +FRACMA Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators +FRACO Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists +FRACP Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians +FRACR Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Radiologists +FRACS Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons +FRAD Fellow of the Royal Academy of Dancing +FRAeS Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society +FRAgS Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies of Great Britain +FRAI Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute +FRAIA Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects +FRAIC Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada FRAM Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music -FRAS Fellow the Royal Astronomical Society +FRAND Fair, Reasonable, And Non-Discriminatory +FRANZCP Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists +FRANZCR Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists +FRAP Frangible Armour-Piercing (ammunition) +FRAPI Fellow of the Royal Australian Planning Institute +FRAS Fellow of the Royal Astronomical/Asiatic Society +FRASE Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society of England +FRB Federal Reserve Bank (US, China) / Fractional-Reserve Banking +FRBS Fellow of the Royal Botanic Society / Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors FRC Family Record Centre +FRCA Fellow of the Royal College of Art/Anæsthetists +FRCD(C) Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada +FRCGP Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners FRCM Fellow of the Royal College of Music +FRCN Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing FRCO Fellow of the Royal College of Organists FRCOG Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynæcologists -FRCS Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons +FRCOphth Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (was FCOphth) +FRCP Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians +FRCP(C) Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada +FRCPA Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia +FRCPath Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists +FRCPC Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (was FRCSCan) +FRCPCH Fellow of the Royal College of Pædiatrics and Child Health +FRCPE Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh +FRCPEd Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh +FRCPGlas Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow +FRCPI Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland +FRCPS Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (of Glasgow) +FRCPsych Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists +FRCR Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists +FRCS Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons / Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society +FRCSC Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada +FRCSEd Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh +FRCSGlas Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow +FRCSI Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland +FRCVS Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons FRE Frequently-Requested Enhancement +FREconS Fellow of the Royal Economic Society FRED F***ing Ridiculous Electronic Device +FREDFET Fast Reverse/Recovery Epitaxial Diode Field-Effect Transistor +FREng Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering +FRES Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London +FRFPS Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons +FRG Federal Republic of Germany FRGS Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society +FRHistS Fellow of the Royal Historical Society +FRHS Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society +FRIA Fellow of the Royal Institute of Arbitrators FRIACO Flat-Rate Internet-Access Call Origination +FRIAS Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland FRIBA Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects +FRIC Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry (now FRSC) +FRICS Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors +FRIH Fellow of the Royal Institute of Horticulture (NZ) +FRIN Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation +FRINA Fellow of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects +FRIPH Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health +FRIPHH Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene +FRMCM Fellow of the Royal Manchester College of Music +FRMetS Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society +FRMS Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society +FRNCM Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music +FRNS Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society FRO F*** Right Off +FRPharmS Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society +FRPI Fellow of the Institute of Rubber and Plastics Industry +FRPMS Fellow of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School +FRPS Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society +FRPSL Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society (London) FRS Freely-Redistributable Software / Fellow of the Royal Society / Federal Security Service (Russia) / (UK) Forensic Science Service / Fixed-Service Satellite / Flight Service Station FRSA Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts +FRSAIre Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland +FRSAMD Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama +FRSBS Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors +FRSC Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada +FRSCM Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music FRSE Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh +FRSGS Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society +FRSH Fellow of the Royal Society for Promotion of Health FRSL Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature +FRSM Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine +FRSNZ Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand +FRSS Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society +FRSSA Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa / Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts (Science and Technology) +FRSTM&H Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Health +FRTPI Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute +FRTS Fellow of the Royal Television Society FRU Field-Replaceable Unit +FRV Field-Removed Video +FRVA Fellow of the Rating and Valuation Association +FRVC Fellow of the Royal Veterinary College +FRVCM Fellow of the Royal Victorian Coll of Music FRZ F***ing Religious Zealot -fs femtosecond (10^-15 seconds) -fS femtosiemens (10^-15 siemens) +FRZS Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society FS File-System / For Sale / Friendster / Full-scale / Full-screen / Flight Simulator/Surgeon/Sergeant / Fourier Series / Free Skating / Fine Structure / Field Separator +fS femtosiemens (10^-15 siemens) +fs femtosecond (10^-15 seconds) FSA (UK) Financial Services Authority / (UK) Food Standards Agency / Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries -FSB Front-Side Bus / (US) Federal Savings Bank / Financial Spread Bet / Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii (= Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) -FSC Free Speech Coalition +FSAA Fellow of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors +FSAE Fellow of the National Society for Art Education +FSAI Fellow of the Society of Architectural Illustrators +FSALS Fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies +FSB Front-Side Bus / (US) Federal Savings Bank / Financial Spread Bet / (UK) Federation of Small Businesses / Fellow of the Society of Biology (was FIBiol) / Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii (= Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) +FSC (UK) Forest Stewardship Council / Free Speech Coalition / Fast Scala Compiler / (UK) Forest School Camps / Fine-Structure Constant / Forward Schedule of Change (ITIL) +FSCA Fellow of the Society of Company and Commercial Accountants FSCK File-System Check +FScotvec Fellow of the Scottish Vocational Educational Council FSD Fools Seldom Differ +FSDC Fellow of the Society of Dyers and Colourists FSDT Four-Sprung Duck Technique -FSF Free Software Foundation +FSE Fellow of the Society of Engineers +FSF Free Software Foundation / Fellow of the Institute of Shipping and Forwarding Agents / Francis Scott Fitzgerald FSFIS Fellow of the S***/Fan Interface Society +FSFor Fellow of the Society of Foresters of Great Britain +FSG Fellow of the Society of Genealogists +FSGD Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers +FSI Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (see also FRICS) +FSIA Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists +FSIAD Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers (now FCSD) +FSIS (US) Food Safety and Inspection Service FSJ Frequently-Said Jokes FSK Frequency-Shift Keying / Federalnaya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki (= Federal Counterintelligence Service) -FSM Finite State Machine / Federated States of Micronesia / Flying Spaghetti Monster -FSMA (UK) Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 +FSLAET Fellow of the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers and Technologists +FSLGD Fellow of the Society for Landscape and Garden Designs +FSM Finite State Machine / Federated States of Micronesia / Flying Spaghetti Monster / Font Scaling Module (Atari TOS) +FSMA (UK) Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 / Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloy +FSMPTE Fellow of the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers (USA) +FSNAME Fellow of the American Society of Naval Architects and Marine +FSO Free-Space Optics +FSPI Fellow of the Society of Practitioners of Insolvency (now FABRP) FSR For Some Reason -FSS First-Stage Separation / Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society +FSRP Fellow of the Society for Radiological Protection +FSS First-Stage Separation / Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (now CStat) +FSSP Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri (= Priestly Fraternity of St Peter) FST Flatter, Squarer Tube / Field Sobriety Test / Finlands Svenska Television +FSTD Fellow of the Society of 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Say FTBTTY Far Too Busy To Tease You FTBYPIFM Far Too Busy; You Prove It For Me -FTC (US) Federal Trade Commission +FTC (US) Federal Trade Commission / Fair-Trade Certified / Flying Training Command FTCCOEG Fines The Chaplain One E-Groat +FTCL Fellow of Trinity College of Music (London) FTDS F*** The Dumb S*** +FTE Full-Time Equivalent FTEG Fined Two E-Groats FTES Fined Two E-Shillings -FTF Face-To-Face +FTF Face-To-Face / First To Find FTFF For The Foreseeable Future FTFY Fixed That For You -FTI Far Too Idle +FTI Far Too Idle / Fellow of the Textile Institute +FTIA Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia FTIFTT Far Too Innocent For This Topic -FTITM First Thing In The Morning +FTII Fellow of the Institute of Taxation +FTitM First Thing in the Morning FTL Far Too Lazy/Late / Faster-Than-Light / For The Loss/Lulz FTLOG For The Love Of God FTLTR Far Too Lazy To Reply FTM For That Matter -FTMA Far Too Many Acronyms +FTMA Far Too Many Acronyms / Fellow of the Telecommunications Managers' Association (now FCMA) FTOYWDK For Those Of You Who Don't Know -FTP File Transfer Protocol +FTP File Transfer Protocol / Free-To-Play / F*** The Pope FTPBI Failed To Put Brain In FTPO For The Price Of FTPS FTP Secure FTR For The Record -FTS Full-Text Search / Fixin' To Start +FTS Full-Text Search / Fixin' To Start / Fellow of the Tourism Society / Free The Slaves FTSAATSFDNORUAOTDA F*** These Stupid-Ass Acronyms, They're So F***in' Dumb, No One Really Uses Any Of Them, Dumb-Ass -FTSE Financial Times Stock Exchange -FTSME Financial Times Smoke & Mirrors Exchange +FTSE Financial Times/Stock Exchange +FTSE100 Financial Times/Stock Exchange index of 100 top companies +FTSE250 Financial Times/Stock Exchange index of the 101st–350th top companies +FTSE350 Financial Times/Stock Exchange index of 350 top companies +FTSME Financial Times Smoke-and-Mirrors Exchange FTT Financial Transaction Tax FTTB For The Time Being / Fibre To The Basement FTTC Fibre To The Cabinet FTTE Fibre To the 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Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group fWb femtoweber (10^-15 webers) +FWCMD Fellow of the Welsh College of Music and Drama FWD Four/Front-Wheel Drive / Food Waste Disposal +FWeldI Fellow of the Welding Institute FWGYN Flattery Will Get You Nowhere FWI French West Indies FWICR From What I Can Recall -FWIR From What I Recall -FWIW For What It's Worth +FWICT From What I Can Tell +FWIF Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation +FWIH From What I Hear +FWIIW For What It Is Worth +FWIK From What I Know +FWIMBW For Whatever It May Be Worth +FWIR From What I Recall/Remember/Read +FWIS From Where I Stand/Sit / Four-Wheel Independent Suspension +FWISA From Where I Stand/Sit, Anyway +FWIU From What I Understand +FWIW For What It's Worth / For Whoever Is Wondering +FWLB Firewall Load-Balancing +FWLIW For What Little It's Worth +FWM Fine With Me FWMAYOR F*** With Me At Your Own Risk +FWO Full Working Order / Fleet Watch Officer / Facility and Waste Operations FWOT F***ing Waste Of Time FWS Folding White Space FWTBT For Whom The Bell Tolls FWTQ F*** Was That Quick -FX sound effects / Foreign Exchange +FX sound effects / Foreign Exchange / Metropolitan France (ISO code, reserved) +Fx Mozilla Firefox FXP File Exchange Protocol FY Faithfully Yours / F*** You / Four Yorkshiremen FY&THYRIO F*** You And The Horse You Rode In On FY&TSYRIO F*** You And The Sysop You Rode In On -FYA For Your Amusement -FYAP Fallen Youth And Ardent Punster -FYATHYRIO F*** You, And The Horse You Rode In On -FYATSYRIO F*** You, And The Sysop You Rode In On -FYDITM F*** You Directly In The Mouth +FYA For Your Amusement/Action +FYaD F*** You and Die +FYAP Fallen Youth and Ardent Punster +FYatHYRIO F*** You, and the Horse You Rode In On +FYatSYRIO F*** You, and the Sysop You Rode In On +FYDitM F*** You Directly in the Mouth FYE For Your Entertainment FYEO For Your Eyes/Ears Only FYG For Your Guidance FYI For Your Information FYIFV F*** You, I'm Fully Vested FYIV F*** You, I'm Vested FYM For Your Misinformation +FYO 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USA, Canada) +G8 Group of 8 leading industrialised nations (France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA, Canada, Russia) +GA Go Ahead / Good Afternoon / General Anæsthesia/Aviation/Assembly / Genetic Algorithm / Georgia / Gabon (ISO code) / The Gambia / Gamblers Anonymous / Graduate Assistant / gigaampere (10^9 amperes) / General Assembly / Global Arrays (library) / Geologists' Association / General Availability Ga gallium -GA Go Ahead / General Anæsthesia / Genetic Algorithm / Gamblers Anonymous / Georgia / gigaampere (10^9 amperes) GAC Get A Clue -GAD (UK) Government Actuary's Department +GAD (UK) Government Actuary's Department / Generalised Anxiety Disorder GAF Give A F*** GAFIA Get Away From It All GAFM Get Away From Me GAFU God-Almighty F***-Up GAG Graphical Adventure Game +GAGAN GPS-Aided Geo-Augmented Navigation GAIM GTK+ AOL Instant Messenger GAK God Alone Knows GAL Get A Life GALL Get A Life, Loser GALT Galapagos Time (= UTC-6) -GAMSACT Great And Mighty Self Appointed Conference Theologian +GaMSACT Great and Mighty Self-Appointed Conference Theologian GANDOLF Generating Advanced Nowcasts for Deployment in Operational Land-based flood Forecasts +GANTT = chart named after Henry Gantt (1861–1919) GAO (US) Government Accountability Office GAP Girls Against Pregnancy +GAPAN Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators GAPP Global Awareness Partnership Project +GAS Greetings And Salutations / Global Address Space Gas GNU Assembler -GASP Go Away, Silly Person +GASP Go Away, Silly Person / Gay And Straight People / Games Adolescents Shouldn't Play / Gas Plasma display / Grip, Aim, Stance, Posture (golf swing) / Generally-Accepted Security Principles GATSO = speed camera made by Gatsometer BV / Groat-Activated Titillating Snap Observatory GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GAYE Give As You Earn +GB gigabyte / Great Britain (ISO code) / goodbye / God Bless / Guantánamo Bay / Gordon Bennett Gb Gigabit -GB gigabyte / Great Britain / God Bless / Guantánamo Bay / Gordon Bennett GB&KU God Bless and Keep You -GBE knight or dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire +GB&KY God Bless and Keep You +GB18030 Guojia Biaozhun (= National Standard) for Chinese language support +GB2312 Guojia Biaozhun (= National Standard) for simplified Chinese characters +GBA Governing Bodies Association +GBAS Ground-Based Augmentation System +GBE Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire +GbE Gigabit Ethernet +GBF Gay Best Friend GBH Great Big Hug / Grievous Bodily Harm / Great British Holiday GBH&K Great Big Hugs and Kisses GBH&KB Great Big Hugs and Kisses Back GBIC Gigabit Interface Converter +GBK Guojia Biaozhun (= National Standard) Extension (simplified Chinese character set) GBKU God Bless and Keep You -GBOR Guinness Book Of Records -GBP Great British Pounds sterling / Geese Behind Parapet / Great British Public +GBKY God Bless and Keep You +GBL gamma-butyrolactone / Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian / Game Boy Light (handheld game console) +GBLT Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian, Trans-gendered +GBLTI Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian, Trans-gendered, Intersex +GBoR Guinness Book of Records +GBP Great Britain Pounds sterling / Geese Behind Parapet / Great British Public +GBp Great Britain pence sterling GBPS Gigabits Per Second GBq gigabequerel (10^9 bequerels) GBR Guinness Book of Records / Gesellschaft Bürgerlichen Rechts (= partnership co. in Germany) -GBS Get Better Soon +GBS Get Better Soon / George Bernard Shaw GBTM Get Back To Me GBTW Get Back To Work -GBU God Bless You +GBU God Bless You / Guided Bomb Unit +GBX Great Britain pence sterling GBY God Bless You -GC Garbage Collection / Group Chairman / General Counsel / gigacoulomb (10^9 coulombs) +GC Garbage Collection / Group Chairman / General Counsel / gigacoulomb (10^9 coulombs) / George Cross GC&CS (UK) Government Code & Cypher School (later GCHQ) -GCA Gratuitous Cruelty to an Apostrophe -GCB knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath -GCC GNU Compiler Collection (prev. GNU C Compiler) -Gcd gigacandela (10^9 candelas) +GCA Gratuitous Cruelty to an Apostrophe / Ground-Controlled Approach (aviation) +GCB Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath +GCBS General Council of British Shipping +GCC GNU Compiler Collection (prev. GNU C Compiler) / Gulf Co-operation Council / Global Climate Change/Coalition / Global Carbon Cycle / (UK) General Chiropractic Council / Global Corporate Challenge / Glasgow City Council / Goodwood Cricket Club +GCCS Global Command-and-Control System GCD Greatest Common Divisor / Great-Circle Distance +Gcd gigacandela (10^9 candelas) GCE General Certificate of Education GCF Greatest Common Factor -GCH knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order +GCFR Grand Commander of the Order of Federal Republic of Nigeria / Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor +GCGI Graduate of the City and Guilds of London Institute +GCH Knight Grand Cross of the Hanoverian/Royal Guelphic Order GCHQ (UK) Government Communications Headquarters GCI Guernsey Airport -GCIE knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire +GCIE Knight/Dame Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire GCJ GNU Compiler for Java GCK Great Calamity Kittens -GCMG knight or dame Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George +GCLJ Grand Cross of St Lazarus of Jerusalem +GCM Galois/Counter Mode (cryptography) +GCMG Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George +GCON Grand Commander of the Order of Niger (Nigeria) GCR Great/Grand Central Railway / Gas-Cooled Reactor / Galactic Cosmic Ray / Ghost-Cancelling Reference (TV subsignal) / Group Code Recording GCSE General Certificate of Secondary Education -GCSI knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India +GCSG Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Gregory the Great +GCSI Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India +GCSJ Knight Grand Cross of Justice of the Order of St John of Jerusalem +GCStJ Bailiff/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem GCTF Great CIX Travelling Fish-pun thread GCTFPRK Great cix:gourmet Travelling Fish-Pun Resource Kit GCTFPT Great CIX Travelling Fish-Pun Thread -GCVO knight or dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order +GCVO Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order +GD Good Day / good / Grenada (ISO code) Gd gadolinium GD&H Grinning, Ducking, And Hiding GD&R Grinning, Ducking, And Running GD&RF Grinning, Ducking, And Running Fast GD&RVF Grinning, Ducking, And Running Very Fast GD&RVVF Grinning, Ducking, And Running Very Very Fast GD&W Grinning, Ducking, And Weaving GD&WVVF Grinning, Ducking, And Walking Very Very Fast GD-ROM Giga Disk Read-Only Memory -GDAH Grinning, Ducking, And Hiding -GDAR Grinning, Ducking, And Running -GDARF Grinning, Ducking, And Running Fast -GDARVF Grinning, Ducking, And Running Very Fast -GDARVVF Grinning, Ducking, And Running Very Very Fast +GDA Guideline Daily Amount +GDaH Grinning, Ducking, and Hiding +GDaR Grinning, Ducking, and Running +GDaRF Grinning, Ducking, and Running Fast +GDaRVF Grinning, Ducking, and Running Very Fast +GDaRVVF Grinning, Ducking, and Running Very Very Fast GDB GNU Debugger +GDBA Guide Dogs for the Blind Association +GDC General Dental Council GDDR3 Graphics Double Data Rate 3 GDI Graphics Device Interface / Gross Domestic Income +GDM GNOME Display Manager +gDNA Genomic Deoxyribonucleic Acid GDNR Grinning, Ducking, And Running GDNRVVF Grinning, Ducking, And Running Very Very Fast +GDOS Graphics Device Operating System (Atari TOS) GDP Gross Domestic Product +GDPA General Dental Practitioners' Association GDR Grins, Ducks, Runs / German Democratic Republic (= former East Germany) GDROM Giga Disk Read-Only Memory +GDS Global Distribution System +GDST Girls' Day School Trust (was GPDST) GDTJDNPGDNCTHP Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect Two Hundred Pounds GDV Global Development Village GDW Grinning, Ducking, and Weaving -GE General Electric Company +GE General Electric Company / Good Evening / Greater than or Equal to / Georgia (ISO code) / Gilbert and Ellice Islands (ISO code) (obs.) Ge germanium GEB ‘Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid’ GEC General Electric Company / Group Executive Committee -GED Gender Equality Duty +GECOS General Comprehensive Operating System +GED Gender Equality Duty / Generalised Error Distribution / General Educational Development (tests, US/Canada) +GEICO (US) Government Employees Insurance Company GEL Georgian laris (ccy) GEM Graphical Environment Manager GEMA (UK) Gas and Electricity Markets Authority / Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (= Society for Musical Performing and Mechanical Reproduction Rights, Germany) +GEMDOS Graphical Environment Manager Disk Operating System GEO Geosynchronous Earth Orbit / (UK) Government Equalities Office / Genetically-Engineered Organism GEOS Graphical Environment Operating System GEP Grieve-Elphick Pun-fest GEPF Grieve-Elphick Pun-fest +GERD Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease GET Georgia Standard Time (= UTC+4) -GeV giga electron volt (10^9 electron volts) -GEV Ground-Effect Vehicle -GF girlfriend / Gluten-Free / gigafarad (10^9 farads) -GFAK Go Fly A Kite -GFAS Going For A Song -GFC Going For Coffee +GEV Ground-Effect Vehicle / Grid-Enabled Vehicle / Generalised Extreme Value (distribution) +GeV giga-electron volt (10^9 electron volts) +GF girlfriend / Gluten-Free / gigafarad (10^9 farads) / French Guiana (ISO code) +GFaK Go Fly a Kite +GfaS Going for a Song +GfC Going for Coffee GFCI Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter GFDL GNU Free Documentation Licence GFETE Grinning From Ear To Ear GFF Go Fifty-Fifty GFI Go For It / Ground Fault Interrupter GFID Generic Format Identifier -GFN Gone For Now -GFOC Great Firewall of China -GFR Grim File Reaper +GFN Gone For Now / Good For Nothing +GFoC Great Firewall of China +GFP Generic Framing Procedure (networking) +GFR Grim File Reaper / Gas-cooled Fast Reactor GFT French Guiana Time (= UTC-3) GFTU (UK) General Federation of Trade Unions GFU General F***-Up / Good For You +GFWoC Great Firewall of China GFY Go F*** Yourself / Good For You GFYS Go F*** Yourself +GG Good Game/Going / Gotta Go / Go, Girl / Google Groups / Governor-General / Guernsey (ISO code) Gg gigagram (10^9 grams) -GG Good Game/Going / Gotta Go / Go, Girl GGC Goo Goo Cluster GGG giggle GGN Gotta Go Now +GGO Genetisch Gemodificeerd Organisme (= Genetically-Modified Organism) / Galaxy Games On-line / Ground Glass Opacity GGOH Got to Get Out of Here -GGP Gateway-Gateway Protocol / Gotta Go Piss +GGP Gateway-Gateway Protocol / Gotta Go Piss / Guernsey pound +GGSM Graduate in Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama GGUK Girl Guiding UK GGy gigagray (10^9 grays) -GH Getting Hard / gigahenry (10^9 henrys) -GHB gamma-hydroxybutyrate +GH Getting Hard / gigahenry (10^9 henrys) / Ghana (ISO code) +GHB gamma-hydroxybutanoic acid GHP Good Hand, Partner GHQ General Headquarters GHS Ghanaian cedis (ccy) -GHWB George H. W. Bush +GHWB George Herbert Walker Bush GHz gigahertz (10^9 hertz) -GI Glycæmic Index / Gastro-Intestinal / Galvanised Iron / Government-Issue (hence US armed forces) +GI Glycæmic Index / Gastro-Intestinal / Geographical Indication / Government-Issue (hence US armed forces) / Galvanised Iron / Gibraltar (ISO code) GIAWUR Grandmother In Absentia to cix:wur GIF Graphics Interchange Format +GIFireE Graduate of the Institute of Fire Engineers GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out / Garbage In, Gospel Out GII1 Got It In One GIIO Got It In One GILT Gilbert Island Time (= UTC+12) GIM Great Idea, Man +GIMechE Graduate of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers GIMME Gringotts Interbank Muggle Middle Exchange-rate GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program GIMPS Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search GIP Gibraltar pounds GIPS Giga-Instructions Per Second GIRFO Get It Right For Once -GIRO Garbage In, Rubbish Out +GIRO General Interbank Recurring Order / Garbage In, Rubbish Out GIS Geographical Information System GIT Gambier Island Time (= UTC-9) GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That +GIWYL Guard It With Your Life GIYF Google Is Your Friend GJ Good Job / gigajoule (10^9 joules) GK gigaKelvin (10^9 Kelvin) / Godo Kaisha (= Ltd co. in Japan) Gkat gigakatal (10^9 katals) GKC Gilbert Keith Chesterton GKN Guest, Keen, and Nettlefolds PLC +GKT Guy's, King's College, and St Thomas' Hospitals Medical and Dental Schools GKW God/Goodness Knows What -GL Good Luck / Grenade Launcher +GL Good Luck / Grenade Launcher / Greenland (ISO code) GL&GH Good Luck and Good Hunting -GLA Greater London Authority / Glasgow International Airport / General Lighthouse Authority / (UK) Gangmasters Licensing Authority / Global Liberation Army / Grand Larceny Auto +GL;HF Good Luck; Have Fun +GLA Greater London Authority / Glasgow International Airport / Gamma-Linoleic Acid / General Lighthouse Authority / (UK) Gangmasters Licensing Authority / Global Liberation Army / Grand Larceny Auto +GLAA Greater London Arts Association (now GLAB) +GLAB Greater London Arts Board (was GLAA) GLASS Green Lanes Association GLAT ‘Gussets Live’ Acronyms Translator +GLB Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual +GLBP Gateway Load-Balancing Protocol (Cisco) +GLBT Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-gendered +GLBTI Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-gendered, Intersex GLC Greater London Council (obs.) GLF Go Like F*** GLG Good-Looking Girl / Goofy Little Grin GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting Glm gigalumen (10^9 lumens) GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite System -GLR Generalised Left-to-right Rightmost-derivation (parser) / Greater London Radio -GLS Guy L. Steele, Jr / General Lighting Service +GLR Generalised Left-to-right Rightmost-derivation (parser) / Greater London Radio (now BBC London) +GLS Guy Lewis Steele, Jr / General Lighting Service (lamp fitting) +GLTB Gay, Lesbian, Trans-gendered, Bisexual GLUT OpenGL Utility Toolkit GLW Good Little Woman / Good Lady Wife GLWT Good Luck With That Glx gigalux (10^9 lux) -GM Genetically-Modified / Good Morning / Gun-metal / George Medal / GamesMaster / General Maintenance / General Manager / General Motor Co. / General MIDI / Got Milk? / Guru Meditation +GM Genetically-Modified / Good Morning/Move/Match / Gun-metal / George Medal / GamesMaster / General Maintenance / General Manager / General Motor Co. / Golden Master / General MIDI / Got Milk? / Guru Meditation / Gambia (ISO code) Gm gigametre (10^9 metres) GMAB Give Me A Break GMAC Give Me A Chance GMAFB Give Me A F***ing Break -GMB (UK) General, Municipal, Boilermakers, and Allied Trade Union +GMAO Giggling My Arse Off +GMB (UK) General, Municipal, Boilermakers, and Allied Trade Union / Great Master of the Bath +GMBATU General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trade Unions GMBH Gesellschaft mit beshränkter Haftung (= Ltd co. in Germany &c) GMBO Giggling My Butt Off GMC (UK) General Medical Council / General Motor Co. / Gotta Mechanic Coming? GMD Gambian dalasi (ccy) GMDSS Global Maritime Distress Safety System +GME General Ministerial Examination +GMIE Grand Master of the Order of the Indian Empire GMK Gomei Kaisha (= partnership co. in Japan) -GML Geography Markup Language +GML Geography Mark-up Language +GMMG Grand Master of the Order of St Michael and St George GMO Genetically-Modified Organism Gmol gigamole (10^9 moles) +GMP disodium 5'-guanosine monophosphate GMPI Generalised Music Plug-in Interface GMR Giant Magneto-Resistive / Goldwasser, Micali, Rivest (digital signature algorithm) GMS Grant-Maintained School +GMSI Grand Master of the Order of the Star of India GMSK Gaussian Minimum-Shift Keying GMT Greenwich Mean Time (= UTC) GMTA Great Minds Think Alike / Gillian Margaret Tennant Again GMTABFSD Great Minds Think Alike, But Fools Seldom Differ -GN Good Night / giganewton (10^9 newtons) +GMWU General and Municipal Workers' Union (now GMB) +GN Good Night / giganewton (10^9 newtons) / Guinea (ISO code) +GNA Glycol Nucleic Acid GNAS Grand National Archery Society GNB Good News Bible GNDN Goes Nowhere Does Nothing GNER Great North Eastern Railway GNF Guinean francs GNI Gross National Income / Global Network Initiative GNOME GNU Network Object Model Environment GNP Gross National Product +GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System GNU GNU's Not Unix GNVQ General National Vocational Qualification -GO Get Out +GO Get Out / Grand Officier (de la Légion d'Honneur) GOAT Go Away, Troll! GOB Good Old Boy -GOC God's Own Country (Yorkshire) -GOF Gang Of Four +GOBO Goes Before Optics (stage lighting) +GOC Good Old CIX / God's Own Country (Yorkshire) / General Officer Commanding +GOC-in-C General Officer Commanding-in-Chief +GOD Good Old Days +GoF Gang of Four GOI Get Over It GOK God/Goodness Only Knows GOL Giggling Out Loud GOM Grumpy Old Man +GOMF Get Outta My Face +GOML Get Outta My Life GOMMD Go Ahead: Make My Day GOMS Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules GOOH Get Out Of Here GOOMF Get Out Of My Face GOOML Get Out Of My Life GOOT Get Out Of Town GOP Grand Old Party (US Republican Party) / Graphic Output Protocol +GOSIP (US) Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile GOT Go On, Then GOTFIA Groaning On The Floor In Agony -GOWA (UK) Government of Wales Act 1998/2006 +GotY Game of the Year +GOWA (UK) Government Of Wales Act 1998/2006 GOWI Get On With It -GP General Practitioner / Grand Prix / Grand Piano / Girl Power / General Principle / General Partnership co. +GP General Practice/Practitioner / Grand Prix / Grand Piano / General-Purpose / Girl Power / General Principle / General Partnership co. / Guadeloupe (ISO code) +GPA Grade Point Average / Gnu Privacy Assistant / Government Procurement Agreement (WTO) / Gallons Per Acre / Graphics Performance Accelerator / Government Property Administrator / Gas Purchase Agreement / Governmental and Public Affairs / General Partitioning Algorithm / Group Personal Accident (insurance) GPa gigapascal (10^9 pascals) -GPASM GNU PIC ASseMbler +GPASM GNU PIC Assembler +GPDST Girls' Public Day School Trust (now GDST) GPF General Protection Fault / Go Puke, Fast GPFS General Parallel File-System (IBM) GPG GNU Privacy Guard / Global Public Good GPGP General-Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units GPGPU General-Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units @@ -3703,71 +6213,100 @@ GPL (GNU) General Public Licence / General-Purpose Language GPL2 (GNU) General Public Licence, version 2 GPL3 (GNU) General Public Licence, version 3 GPLv2 (GNU) General Public Licence, version 2 GPLv3 (GNU) General Public Licence, version 3 +GPMU Graphical, Paper, and Media Union GPO General Post Office GPRS General Packet Radio Service -GPS Global Positioning System +GPS Global Positioning System / Great Portland Street +GPS/INS Global Positioning System with Inertial Navigation System +GPSr GPS Receiver +GPST Global Positioning System Time GPT GUID Partition Table GPU Graphics Processing Unit GPV General Public Virus +GPWM Good Point, Well Made +GPWS Ground-Proximity Warning System GPY grumpy -GQ ‘Gentlemen's Quarterly’ +GQ ‘Gentlemen's Quarterly’ / Equatorial Guinea (ISO code) GQT ‘Gardener's Question Time’ -GR Get Real / Got to Run +GR Get Real / Got to Run / General Radio (connector) / Greece (ISO code) GR&D Grinning, Running, And Ducking GR8 great -GRAD Grinning, Running, And Ducking +GRA Go Right Ahead / Graduate Research Assistant / Guaranteed/Government Retirement Account / Gamma-Ray Astronomy/Astrophysics / Geographical Routing Algorithm / General Risk Assessment / Gas Regulatory Authority +GRaD Grinning, Running, and Ducking +GradDipEd Graduate Diploma in Education GRAS Generally Regarded As Safe GRC Government, Risk, and Compliance +GRCM Graduate of the Royal College of Music +GRE Generalised Regular Expression / (US) Graduate Record Examination / Generic Routing Encapsulation (Cisco) +GrenGds Grenadier Guards +GRHS God Rest His/Her Soul +GRNCM Graduate Royal Northern Coll of Music +GRNSM Graduate of the Royal Northern School of Music +GRO General Register Office GRRRR growling +GRSM Graduate of the Royal School of Music +GRU Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye (= Russian Main Intelligence Directorate) GRUB GNU Grand Unified Boot-loader GRUIT Get Real, You Impudent Thing GRYIT Get Real, You Impudent Thing +GS General Staff / Grammar School / Government Service / gigasiemens (10^9 siemens) / South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (ISO code) Gs gigasecond (10^9 seconds) -GS Government Service / gigasiemens (10^9 siemens) +GSA Girls' Schools Association +GSAE (UK) Government Secure Application Environment GSC Global Standards Collaboration GSEM Great Steaming Enormous Melons GSHIWMP Giggling So Hard I Wet My Pants -GSK Goshi Kaisha (= Ltd partnership co. in Japan) +GSJ Grade-Separated Junction +GSK GlaxoSmithKline plc / Goshi Kaisha (= Ltd partnership co. in Japan) GSL Group Scout Leader -GSM Global System for Mobile (communication) / Group Scouters' Meeting +GSM Global System for Mobile (communication) / Group Scouters' Meeting / Grams per Square Metre / General Service Medal / Guildhall School of Music and Drama / Garrison Sergeant Major GSO General Staff Officer GSOAS Go Sit On A Snake +GSoC Google Summer of Code (programme) GSOH Good Sense Of Humour / Good Salary, Own Home GSP Groovy Server Pages (web server technology) / Generalised System of Preferences (WTO exemption) / Good Safety Practice / Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation -GST Geoff Standard Tenner / Goods and Services Tax (Canada) / South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (= UTC-2) +GST Geoff Standard Tenner / Goods and Services Tax (Canada, Australia) / Ground System Test / South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (= UTC-2) GSv gigasievert (10^9 sieverts) -GT Group Treasurer / Gill Tennant / Good Thinking / Go There / Gin & Tonic / G'wan Then / Gran Tourismo / Gross Tonnage / gigatesla (10^9 teslas) +GT Group Treasurer / Gill Tennant / Good Thinking / Go There / Greater Than / Gin and Tonic / G'wan Then / Gran Tourismo / Gross Tonnage / gigatesla (10^9 teslas) / Guatenaka (ISO code) GTA Grand Theft Auto / Golden Toggle Award GTABO Get That Arse Back On -GTB Go To Bed +GtB Go to Bed GTBAOTIOTO Got The Butter All Over The Inside Of The Oven -GTBOS Glad To Be Of Service -GTBOSAAT Glad To Be Of Service And Any Time +GTBM Get Thee Behind Me +GTBMS Get Thee Behind Me, Satan +GtBoS Glad to Be of Service +GtBoSaAT Glad to Be of Service and Any Time +GTCFPT Great Travelling CIX Fish-Pun Thread +GTCL Graduate of Trinity College of Music (London) GTFA Get The F***ing Address GTFI Get The F***ing Idea GTFO Get The F*** Out GTFOOMF Get The F*** Out Of My Face +GTFS General Transit Feed Specification GTG Got To Go / Good To Go GTGB Got To Go — Bye! GTGP Got To Go Pee GTH Go To Hell GTHBA Good Times Had By All GTHI Glad To Hear It GTJ Go To Jail GTJGDTJDNPGDNCTHP Go To Jail, Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect Two Hundred Pounds GTK+ GIMP Toolkit +GTL Gunning Transceiver Logic +gTLD Generic Top-Level Domain +GTM Goat Tikka Masala GTP Gone To Pee / Graduate Teacher Programme / Guanosine Triphosphate / Go Text Protocol / GPRS Tunnelling Protocol GTQ Guatemalan quetzals (ccy) GTR Got To Run / guitar / General Theory of Relativity GTRM Going To Read Mail GTS Going To Starbucks GTSY Glad To See You GTSYOTB Glad To See You're On The Ball -GTT Gone To Texas (i.e. left) +GTT Gone To Texas (= left) GTTB Gee, That's Too Bad / Go To The Boastery/Basement GTTBOTC Go To The Back Of The Class GTTBOTQ Go To The Back Of The Queue GTTBRA Go To The Boastery Right Away GTTC Go To The Confessional @@ -3776,471 +6315,619 @@ GTWURB Go To Wicked Uncle Richard's Basement GTYB Go To Your Bed/Basket GTYC Go To Your Cell GTYD Go To Your Dungeon GTYR Go To Your Room +GTYRRA Go To Your Room, Right Away GTYRTFN Go To Your Room Till Further Notice -GU Guam -GUDDWAS Galloping Up Diarrhœa Drive Without A Saddle +GU Guam (ISO code) +GUDDWAS Galloping Up Diarrhoea Drive Without A Saddle GUI Graphical User Interface GUID Globally-Unique Identifier GUP Gosudarstvennoye Unitarnoye Predpriyatie (= state co. in Russia) GURP Great Uncle Robert Powell GUT Going Underground Tomorrow / Grand Unified Theory GV gigavolt (10^9 volts) GVIF Gigabit Video Interface -GW Goal Weight / Getting Wet / God Willing / gigawatt (10^9 watts) -GW&TCDR God Willing And The Creek Don't Rise -GWATCDR God Willing And The Creek Don't Rise -GWB George W. Bush +GW Goal Weight / Getting Wet / God Willing / Global Warming / gigawatt (10^9 watts) / Guinea-Bissau (ISO code) +GW&tCDR God Willing and the Creek Don't Rise +GWatCDR God Willing and the Creek Don't Rise +GWB George Walker Bush GWb gigaweber (10^9 webers) GWF Goober With Firewall -GWP Gilwell Park -GWR Great Western Railway +GWO Good Working Order / Google Website Optimiser / General Watch Officer +GWoB Gratuitous Waste of Bandwidth +GWoC Great Wall of China +GWoS Goes Without Saying +GWoT Global War on Terror +GWP Gross World Product / Gilwell Park / German Wirehaired Pointer +GWR Great Western Railway / Gateway Router / Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway / Great Whipsnade Railway / Guinness World Records GWS Get Well Soon GWT Google Web Toolkit +GWTF Go With The Flow +GWTP Get With The Programme +GWTW ‘Gone With The Wind’ GWUR knight Grand double cross of the order of cix:wur +GWVS Get Well Very Soon GXN GX Networks +GY Guyana (ISO code) GYD Guyanese dollars +GYG Good Young Gentlewoman GYLI Glad You Liked It GYPO Get Your Pants Off GYSACOPGPARTFM Get Yourself A Copy Of PGP And Read The F***ing Manual GYSACOPGPARTM Get Yourself A Copy Of PGP And Read The Manual GYT Guyana Time (= UTC-4) +GZ Ground Zero / Geozone H hug / hard (pencils) / hour / hydrogen H&K Hugs And Kisses / Heckler und Koch GmbH (gun maker) H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB (clothing co.) -H&S Health & Safety +H&S Health and Safety H1IME Here's One I Made Earlier H1IPE Here's One I Prepared Earlier H2 How To / hydrogen gas H2BEG Have Two Bonus E-Groats -H2C2O4 ethanedioic acid +H2C2O4 ethanedioic acid (aka oxalic acid) H2CO3 carbonic acid H2EG Have Two E-Groats H2NCONH2 urea H2O water H2O2 hydrogen peroxide +H2S hydrogen sulphide H2SO4 sulphuric acid (aka oil of vitriol) H3BO3 boric acid H3PO4 phosphoric acid H8 hate +HA Hello Again / (UK) Highways Agency / Health Authority / Historical Association hA hectoampere (100 amperes) -HA Hello Again / (UK) Highways Agency +HAA Heavy Anti-Aircraft +HAARP High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Project (US) +HAART Highly-Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy HAB Hot Asian Babe HABEF Have A Bonus E-Florin HABEG Have A Bonus E-Groat HABES Have A Bonus E-Shilling (3 e-groats to the shilling)/E-Smack HABT Have A Bonus Thwack! HABU Have A Better 'Un +HAC Human Artificial Chromosome / Honourable Artillery Company HACOC Have A Cup Of Chocolate/Coffee HACOT Have A Cup Of Tea HADT Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time (= UTC-9) HAEF Have An E-Florin HAEG Have An E-Groat -HAEOTIOR Holder And Exponent Of The Instruments Of Remorse +HaEotIoR Holder and Exponent of the Instruments of Remorse HAES Have An E-Shilling (3 e-groats to the shilling)/E-Smack HAF Habitually-Attired Female HAFPV Have A Funeral Pre-payment Voucher HAGD Have A Good/Great Day HAGN Have A Good Night HAGO Have A Good One HAGOD Have A Glass Of Demonade -HAGS Have A Gobstopper +HAGS Have A Gobstopper / Have A Good Summer HAGU Have A Good 'Un -HAK Hugs And Kisses +HAHA Having A Heart Attack +HaK Hugs and Kisses HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer / see HAL9000 / Hackers At Large HAL9000 Heuristically-programmed Algorithmic computer (in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’) HALO High-Altitude, Low-Opening (parachute jump) HAM Amateur radio enthusiast HAMF Have A Mouth-filler (aka gobstopper) HAND Have A Nice Day +HanGlyph = Chinese-character description language based on TeX HAOC Have An Of Course HARM Hit-And-Run Maniac HART Highway Addressable Remote Transducer +HaS Health and Safety HAST Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (= UTC-10) +HATO Highways Agency Traffic Officer HB Happy Birthday / hard, black (pencils) / Hug Back / Hurry Back / Honeyball / Honey Bee / Handelsbolag (= partnership co. in Sweden) HB2U Happy Birthday To You! HBA Host Bus Adapter HBBTEA Hogs Back Brewery Traditional English Ale -HBO Home Box Office Inc. +HbbTV Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Television +HBCIB How Bad Could It Be? +HBCIG How Bad Could It Get? +HBD Happy Birthday +HBM His/Her Britannic Majesty / Human Body Model +HBO Home Box Office, Inc. +HBOS Halifax Bank of Scotland hBq hectobequerel (100 bequerels) +HBr hydrogen bromide/hydrobromic acid +HBrO3 bromic acid +HBrO4 perbromic acid HBTU Happy Birthday To You! HBTY Happy Birthday To You! -hC hectocoulomb (100 coulombs) HC Holy Communion / Highway Code / Home Contact / hydrocarbon +hC hectocoulomb (100 coulombs) HCA Hans Christian Andersen HCATSOTD Html Counters Are The Spawn Of The Devil HCB Hot Cross Bun / Holy Cow, Batman! hcd hectocandela (100 candelas) -HCF Halt and Catch Fire / Highest Common Factor +HCESAR (= obs. Portuguese keyboard layout) +HCF Halt and Catch Fire / Highest Common Factor / Honorary Chaplain to the Forces HCFC Hydrochlorofluorocarbon HCI Human-Computer Interaction +HCIMA Hotel, Catering, and Institutional Management Association +HCITB Hotel and Catering Industry Training Board +HCJ Higher Court Judgement HCL Hardware Compatibility List -HCl hydrogen chloride / hydrochloric acid +HCl hydrogen chloride/hydrochloric acid HClO hypochlorous acid (aka bleach) +HClO2 chlorous acid +HClO3 chloric acid +HClO4 perchloric acid HCN hydrogen cyanide +HCP Hexagonal Close-Packed (crystal structure) HCR Health Care Reform / High Commission/er for Refugees HCSA (UK) Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association HCV Heavy Commercial Vehicle -HD Hard Disk / High Definition / High Density / Homeopathic ‘doctor’ / Hybrid Drive / Higher Diploma / Hyperactivity Disorder / Home Depot / Huntingdon's Disease / Holocaust Denial / Harley-Davidson +HD Hard Disk / High Definition / High Density / Homeopathic ‘doctor’ / Hybrid Drive / Higher Diploma / Hyperactivity Disorder / Home Depot / Huntingdon's Disease / Holocaust Denial / Harley-Davidson / Highland Division / Home Defence / Honourable Discharge HD-DVD High-Definition/Density Digital Versatile Disc +HD-SDI High-Definition Serial Digital Interface +HDAS Historical Dictionary of American Slang +HDBaseT High-Definition video, audio, 100BaseT Ethernet, and power connection HDCD High-Definition Compatible Digital HDCP High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection -HDD Hard Disk Drive +HDD Hard Disk Drive / Higher Dental Diploma +HDE Higher Diploma in Education +HDipEd Higher Diploma in Education HDL High-Density Lipoprotein (‘good’ cholesterol) / Hardware Description Language HDLC High-level Data Link Control HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface HDMV High-Definition Movie mode +HDPE High-Density Polyethene HDR High Dynamic Range / Hard Disk Recorder / High Dose Rate / UN Human Development Report / Humanitarian Daily Ration HDRA Henry Doubleday Research Association +HDSDI High-Definition Serial Digital Interface HDTV High-Definition Television HDU High-Dependency Unit HDV High-Definition Video cassette HDY How Dare You! +HDYWTDT How Do You Work This Dratted Thing? +HE Higher Education / His/Her Excellency/Eminence / High Explosive He helium -HE High Explosive HE-AAC High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding -HEAT High-Explosive Anti-Tank round +HEAP High-Explosive Armour-Piercing (ammunition) +HEAT High-Explosive Anti-Tank (ammunition) HEDP High-Explosive Dual-Purpose (ammunition) +HEFC Higher Education Funding Council HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England -HEI Higher Education Institution / High-Efficiency Incandescent / High-Explosive Incendiary +HEI Higher Education Institution / High-Efficiency Incandescent / High-Explosive Incendiary (ammunition) +HEIAP High-Explosive Incendiary Armour-Piercing (ammunition) +HEICS Honourable East India Company's Service +HEMT High-Electron-Mobility Transistor HEO High Earth Orbit / Highly-Elliptical Orbit HEPA High-Efficiency Particulate Air filter +HEQC Higher Education Quality Council HESH High-Explosive Squashed-Head -heV hecto electron volt (100 electron volts) +HESIN Higher Education Support for Industry in the North +heV hecto-electron volt (100 electron volts) HEX hexadecimal / Helsinki Stock Exchange HEY Help Yourself +HF Have Fun / High-Frequency / Hello, Friend / Hlutafélag (= PLC in Iceland) / Helseforetak (= health co. in Norway) / hydrogen fluoride/hydrofluoric acid / Heart Failure Hf hafnium -HF Have Fun / High-Frequency / Hello, Friend / Hlutafélag (= PLC in Iceland) / Helseforetak (= health co. in Norway) / hydrogen fluoride / hydrofluoric acid / Heart Failure hF hectofarad (100 farads) -HF&D Hell Fire & Damnation +HF&D Hell-Fire and Damnation HFC Hydrofluorocarbons / Home Finance Company / High-Fructose Corn Syrup / High-Frequency Content (measure) / Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial HFCS High-Fructose Corn Syrup -HFD Hell Fire & Damnation +HFD Hell-Fire and Damnation HFE Hidden Fields Equations HFEA (UK) Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority/Act HFICOC Help File Is Crap Of Course -HFITW He's Fallen In The Water -HFS Hierarchical File-System (used by Apple) / Hi-Performance File-System (used by HP-UX) / Holy F***ing S*** +HFitW He's Fallen in the Water +HFS Hierarchical File-System (used by Apple) / High-Performance File-System (used by HP-UX) / Holy F***ing S*** HFT High-Frequency Trading HFTB He's Far Too Busy -HFW Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall / High-Frequency Words / Housing for Women (UK) / Handwriting for Windows / ‘Hi-Fi World Magazine’ / Holman Fenwick Willan (law firm) -hg hectogram (100 grams) -HG Mercury +HFW Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall / High-Frequency Words / Housing For Women (UK) / Handwriting For Windows / ‘Hi-Fi World Magazine’ / Holman Fenwick Willan (law firm) +HG Home Guard Hg mercury +hg hectogram (100 grams) HGAC Haven't Got A Clue HGAFC Haven't Got A F***ing Clue HGC (UK) Human Genetics Commission / Hercules Graphics Card -HGEAW Hello, Good Evening, And Welcome +HGDH His or Her Grand Ducal Highness +HGEaW Hello, Good Evening, and Welcome +HGH Human Growth Hormone +HGTAC Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee HGTV (US) Home & Garden Television HGV Heavy Goods Vehicle hGy hectogray (100 grays) -hH hectohenry (100 henrys) HH Home Highway / Hear Hear / Horn's House / His/Her Highness / His Holiness / Harry's Happy / Holding Hands +hH hectohenry (100 henrys) +HH:MM Hour Minute (time format) +HH:MM:SS Hour Minute Second (time format) +HHA Historic Houses Association HHAEG Have Half An E-Groat HHB Hah, Hah Bonk HHCIB How Hard Can/Could It Be? HHD Hybrid Hard Drive HHGTTG The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy HHIS Hanging Head In Shame +HHJK Ha Ha, Just Kidding HHM He Has Mail +HHMM Hour Minute (time format) +HHMMSS Hour Minute Second (time format) HHO1/2K Ha Ha, Only Half-Kidding HHOJ Ha Ha, Only Joking HHOK Ha Ha, Only Kidding HHOS Ha Ha, Only Serious HHO½K Ha Ha, Only Half-Kidding HHS US Department of Health and Human Services -HHTYAY Happy Holidays To You And Yours +HHtYaY Happy Holidays to You and Yours HHVFNGABYBIAVHB Ha Ha, Very Funny, Now Go And Boil Your Bum In A Very Hot Bath hHz hectohertz (100 hertz) -HI Her Indoors / Hawai'i -HIB Have I Been…? -HID Human Interface Device +HI Her Indoors / Hawaii / hydrogen iodide/hydroiodic acid +HI&RH His or Her Imperial and Royal Highness +HIA Health Impact Assessment +HIAB Hydrauliska Industri AB (Finnish maker of cranes &c) +HIB Have I Been...? +HID Human Interface Device / High-Intensity Discharge lamp +HiFi high-fidelity HIG How's It Going? / Human Interface Guidelines +HighCmmr High Commissioner HIGNFY Have I Got News For You -HIH Hope It Helps -HILIACACLO Help, I Lapsed Into A Coma And Can't Log Off! +HIH Hope It Helps / His or Her Imperial Highness +HILIaCaCLO Help, I Lapsed Into a Coma and Can't Log Off! +HIllH His or Her Illustrious Highness +HIM His/Her Imperial Majesty HIMARS High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System HIMAU Have I Missed An Update? HIMO House In Multiple Occupation +HIO3 iodic acid +HIO4 per-iodic acid HIOOC Help! I'm Out Of Coffee! -HIPAA (US) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 1996 +HIPAA (US) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, 1996 HIRD Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth HIRTA Hereinafter Referred To As -HIT Have I Thinned? +HIT Have I Thinned? / Health Information Technology / Human Intelligence Task / Henson International Television / High-Impulse Thermobaric weapon HIUI How I Understand It HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus +HiVis high-visibility HIWHTCE He In Whose Honour This Conference Exists HIWTH Hate It When That Happens HIYOW Have It Your Own Way hJ hectojoule (100 joules) HJPWB Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book HJT Hijack This +HK Hong Kong (ISO code) hK hectoKelvin (100 Kelvin) -HK Hong Kong hkat hectokatal (100 katals) -HKCU HKEY_CURRENT_USER +HKCU HKEY_CURRENT_USER (Windows registry) HKD Hong Kong dollars +HKEX Hong Kong Stock Exchange HKG Hong Kong International Airport -HKLM HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE +HKIA (Member of) the Hong Kong Institute of Architects +HKLM HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (Windows registry) HKS Hyperkinetic Syndrome +HKSCS Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set HKSE Hong Kong Stock Exchange HKT Hong Kong Time (= UTC+8) HL Half-Life / high/low -HLA Human Leukocyte Antigen -HLASM High Level Assembler +HLA Human Leukocyte Antigen / Hot Lesbian Action +HLASM High-Level Assembler HLAYK Here's Looking At You, Kid! +HLD High-Level Design +HLI Highland Light Infantry HLL High-Level Language +HLM He Loves Me / Habitation à Loyer Modéré (= rent-controlled housing) hlm hectolumen (100 lumens) HLOL Hysterically Laughing Out Loud HLOLARAWCHAWMP Hysterically Laughing Out Loud And Rolling Around While Clapping Hands And Wetting My Pants HLV Hasta La Vista HLVB Hasta La Vista, Baby +HLW High-Level (nuclear) Waste hlx hectolux (100 lux) +HM His/Her Majesty('s) / Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Australia) (ISO code) hm hectometre (100 metres) -HM His/Her Majesty's / Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Australia) HMA High Memory Area -HMAGS (UK) Her Majesty's Advocate General for Scotland +HMAGS (UK) Her Majesty's Advocate-General for Scotland HMAS His/Her Majesty's Australian Ship -HMC Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference / Historical Manuscripts Commission (now TNA) +HMC Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference / Hospital Management Committee / Historical Manuscripts Commission (now TNA) HMCE Her Majesty's Customs and Excise (now HMRC) HMCI Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools In England HMCPSI Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate HMCS Her Majesty's Canadian Ship -HMD Hatches, Matches & Despatches +HMD Hatches, Matches, and Despatches / Helmet-Mounted Display HME Honeyball Machine Equivalent -HMEGITW How Many Egroats Is That Worth? +HMEGITW How Many E-groats Is That Worth? +HMEH His/Her Most Eminent Highness HMFG Holy Mother of F***ing God HMFIC Head Mother-F***er In Charge HMFWIC Head Mother-F***er What's In Charge HMFWRIC Head Mother-F***er What are In Charge HMG His/Her Majesty's Government -HMI Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools +HMHS His/Her Majesty's Hospital Ship +HMI His/Her Majesty's Inspectorate (of Schools) HMLR Her Majesty's Land Registry +HMMTB His/Her Majesty's Motor Torpedo Boat HMMWV High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle (‘hummvee’) HMNH Hah Me No Hahs HMNZS His/Her Majesty's New Zealand Ship HMO House in Multiple Occupancy / Health Maintenance/Management Organisation +HMOCS His/Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service HMOFG Holy Mother Of F***ing God hmol hectomole (100 moles) -HMP Help Me, Please! / Her Majesty's Pleasure/Prison +HMP Help Me, Please! / His/Her Majesty's Pleasure/Prison HMQ Her Majesty the Queen / Health/Hospital Management Quarterly / Health/Medical Questionnaire +HMR&C Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs HMRC Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs -HMS Her Majesty's Ship -HMSO Her Majesty's Stationery Office (now TNA) +HMS His/Her Majesty's Ship / Home-Made Smiley +HMSO His/Her Majesty's Stationery Office (now TNA) HMT Her Majesty's Treasury / Here's My Try / Heard and McDonald Islands Time (= UTC+5) HMV His Master's Voice +HMY His/Her Majesty's Yacht +HN Honduras (ISO code) hN hectonewton (100 newtons) HNBWNB Has Never Been, Will Never Be HNC Higher National Certificate HND Higher National Diploma / Tokyo International (Haneda) Airport HNG Horny Net Geek HNL Honduran lempira (ccy) +HNO3 nitric acid (aka aqua fortis, spirit of nitre) HNONA Hot Nerd-on-Nerd Action -Ho holmium +HNY Happy New Year / Hotel New York / Hot Nude Yoga HO Home Office +Ho holmium HO2CCHNH2CH2OH serine HO2CCHNH2CH2SH cysteine -HOA Home-Owners' Association / Habitual Offender Laws / Horn of Africa +HOA Home-Owners' Association / Habitual Offender Laws / Horn Of Africa HOAS Hold On A Sec -HOC House Of Commons -HOF Hell Of Funny +HoC House of Commons +HoF Hell of Funny HOIME Here's One I Made Earlier HOIPE Here's One I Prepared Earlier -HOL House Of Lords -HOLLAND Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies +HOL House Of Lords / Higher-Order Logic +HOLLaND Hope Our Love Lasts and Never Dies HOMPR Hang On, Mobile Phone's Ringing +HonD Honorary Doctorate HONDA Had One, Never Did Again +HonGSM Honorary Guildhall School of Music HORU How Old Are You? -HOS Head Of State +HoS Head of State HOSTYDS Hollow Spike Tyre Deflation System -HOTOL Horizontal Take-Off and Landing +HoTOL Horizontal Take-Off and Landing HOTP Hot Off The Press -HP Hewlett-Packard Co. / Horse Power / Houses of Parliament / = sauce brand / Home Page / Happy Pills +HP Hewlett-Packard Co. / Horse Power / Hire-Purchase / Houses of Parliament / = sauce brand / Home Page / Happy Pills / Hocus Pocus HP-UX Hewlett-Packard Unix -hPa hectopascal (100 pascals) HPA High Performance Addressing +hPa hectopascal (100 pascals) HPB High-Ping Bastard -HPC High-Performance Computing +HPC High-Performance Computing / Hyde Park Corner +HPE hope / holoprosencephaly / High-Performance Estate (Lancia) / High-Power Effects / Health Professional Education HPET High-Precision Event Timer HPF High-Pass Filter HPFS High-Performance File-System HPGL Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language HPIB Hewlett-Packard Instrumentation/Interface Bus -HPL Hewlett-Packard Language (for calculators) / High-Pressure Laminate / H. P. Lovecraft +HPL Hewlett-Packard Language (for calculators) / High-Pressure Laminate / Howard Phillips Lovecraft HPND Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer HPO Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra +HPS High-Pressure Sodium (vapour lamp) HPSS High-Performance Storage System (IBM) HPT Hazard Perception Test +HPUX Hewlett-Packard Unix HPV Human Papilloma Virus HQ Headquarters / High-Quality HQ-VCD High-Quality Video Compact Disc -HR Human Resources (personnel) / High Risk / High Resolution / Human Rights / Home Run / hour +HR Human Resources (aka Personnel) / High Risk / High Resolution / Human Rights / Home Run / hour / here / Half-Rate encoding / Croatia (ISO code) HRA (UK) Human Rights Act 1998 HRCA (UK) Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001 +HRE Holy Roman Empire +HRH His or Her Royal Highness +HRHA Honorary Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy HRHD High-Resolution High-Definition (960×540) HRHDTV High-Resolution High-Definition Television (960×540) HRHM Hopalong Red-Hot Momma +HRI Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours HRK Croatian kuna (ccy) HRM Heart-Rate Monitor -HRT Hormone Replacement Therapy +HRSA Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy +HRT Hormone-Replacement Therapy +HRTEM High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope HRTF Head-Related Transfer Function HRW Human Rights Watch HRYA How Right You Are! +HS Health and Safety / High School Hs hassium -hs hectosecond (100 seconds) hS hectosiemens (100 siemens) +hs hectosecond (100 seconds) +HS1 High Speed One (railway from London to the Channel Tunnel) +HS2 High Speed Two (railway from London to Birmingham) HSB Horizontal Scroll Bar / Hue, Saturation, Brightness -HSBC Hong-kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation -HSCSD High-Speed Circuit Switched Data -HSDPA High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (3GPP WCDMA) -HSE Health & Safety Executive +HSBC Hong-Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation +HSCSD High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data +HSDPA High-Speed Down-link Packet Access (3GPP WCDMA) +HSE Health and Safety Executive / Hardware and Software Environment HSENI Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland -HSI Hue, Saturation, Intensity +HSF Human Spaceflight / Home Service Force (British Army) / High Sierra Format (CD-ROM) / Heat-Sink Fan / Heat Shock Factor +HSGPS High-Sensitivity Global Positioning System +HSH His or Her Serene Highness +HSI Hue, Saturation, Intensity / Hang Seng Index (of top Hong Kong companies) HSIBHHUB Holy S***, It's Batman Holding His Utility Belt! HSIK How Should I Know? HSL Hue, Saturation, Lightness -HSM Hierarchical Storage Management +HSM Hierarchical Storage Management / Health Service Management HSP Host Signal Processor / Highly-Sensitive Person HSPA High-Speed Packet Access HSPA+ Evolved High-Speed Packet Access +HSQ ‘Holy Shit’ Quotient HSRP Hot-Standby Redundancy Protocol (Cisco) HSS High-Speed Steel HSSI High-Speed Serial Interface HST High-Speed Technology/Train/Transfer / Hawaii Standard Time (= UTC-10) / Hubble Space Telescope / Harry S. Truman / Health Sciences and Technology / Harmonised Sales Tax +HSTS HTTP Strict Transport Security HSUPA High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (3G HSPA) -hSv hectosievert (100 sieverts) HSV Hue, Saturation, Value / Herpes Simplex Virus +hSv hectosievert (100 sieverts) HSWIS He Says What I Say +HT High Tension / Hyper Threading / Hat Tip / Home Time / Handheld Transceiver / Haiti (ISO code) hT hectotesla (100 teslas) -HT High Tension / Hyper Threading HT&E Here, There, And Everywhere HTA (UK) Human Tissue Authority/Act 2004 -HTAE Here, There, And Everywhere +HTaE Here, There, and Everywhere HTAMP Hijacked To A Moister Place HTB Heavens To Betsy! HTBAAWIBA Have There Been Any Acronyms While I've Been Away? HTBEG Have Two Bonus E-Groats -HTC Heat-Transfer Compound +HTC Heat-Transfer Compound / High Tech Computer corp. HTEG Have Two E-Groats HTES Have Two E-Shillings (3 e-groats to the shilling) -HTF How The F***…? +HTF How The F***...? HTFSIK How The F*** Should I Know? +HTFU Harden The F*** Up HTFWISTKT How The F*** Was I Supposed To Know That? HTG Haitian gourde (ccy) -HTH Hope This Helps / Happy To Help / How The Hell…? +HTGR High-Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor +HTH Hope This Helps / Happy To Help / How The Hell...? +HTHBE Hope This Has Been Enlightening HTI Heads, Teachers, and Industry (UK) / Hutan Tanaman Industri (Industrial Timber Plantation Concession) (Indonesia) HTLATRYL Have This Liquorice Allsort To Reward Your Loyalty HTM Hyper-Text Mark-up / Hierarchical Temporal Memory -HTML Hyper-Text Markup Language -HTMLCATSOTD Hyper-Text Markup Language Counters Are The Spawn Of The Devil +HtMF&IP How to Make Friends and Influence People +HtMFaIP How to Make Friends and Influence People +HTML Hyper-Text Mark-up Language +HTMLCATSOTD Hyper-Text Mark-up Language Counters Are The Spawn Of The Devil +HTR High-Temperature Reactor HTSI Hope That Sinks In -HTT Holier Than Thou +HTT Holier Than Thou / Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel) HTTP Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol HTTPd Hypertext Transport Protocol Daemon HTTPS Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol Secure HTTTHINA He's Telling The Truth, He Is Not Able -HTWF&IP How To Win Friends And Influence People -HTWFAIP How To Win Friends And Influence People +HtWF&IP How to Win Friends and Influence People +HtWFaIP How to Win Friends and Influence People HTX HyperTransport Expansion +HU Hydroxyurea / Hungary (ISO code) HUA Heard, Understood, Acknowledged / Head Up Arse HUAC (US) House Un-American Activities Commission (1938–75) HUB Head Up Butt -HUD How You Doing? +HUD How You Doing? / Head-Up Display HUF Horny Unattached Female / Hungarian forints (ccy) / Hindu Undivided Family (= co. in India) HUM Horny Unattached Male HUMINT Human Intelligence gathering HURD Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons +HUS Hæmolytic-Uræmic Syndrome HUYA Head Up Your Arse +HV High-Voltage / Health Visitor / Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) (ISO code) hV hectovolt (100 volts) HVAC Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning / High-Voltage Alternating Current +HVCert Health Visitors' Certificate HVD High-Definition Versatile Disc / Holographic Versatile Disc +HVDC High-Voltage Direct Current HVJ High Visibility Jacket -HVP Hydrolised Vegetable Protein +HVP Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein HVV High Visibility Vest -HW hardware +HW hardware / how hW hectowatt (100 watts) -hWb hectoweber (100 webers) HWB Hot-Water Bottle +hWb hectoweber (100 webers) HWBMBB He Whose Books Must Be Bought (aka Terry Pratchett) +HWHAP Houston, We Have A Problem HWISTKT How Was I Supposed To Know That? HWM Hopeless With Money HWMBI He Who Must Be Ignored HWMNBN He Who Must Not Be Named HWOTOMBD He Who Ought To Obey Me But Doesn't HWP Height/Weight Proportional HWS(PEST) Husband Wants Sex (Please Excuse Slow Typing) HWSTWH He Would Say That, Wouldn't He HWUA Head Way Up Arse +HWV Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis (= Handel Works Catalogue) HWY Highway HWYK How Would You Know? HYD How Ya Doing? -HYSLAAWUR Hyper-Smirker, Leerer, & Assistant Acronymist to cix:wur -HYTFAUR Have You Tried Forcing An Unexpected Reboot? -HYTTIOAOA Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again? +HYLMS Hate You Like My Sister +HYSLAAWUR Hyper-Smirker, Leerer, and Assistant Acronymist to cix:wur +HYTFaUR Have You Tried Forcing an Unexpected Reboot? +HYTTIOaOA Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again? HYW Hundred Years' War +HZ Hanzi (character encoding) Hz Hertz -I iodine +I iodine / 1 (Roman numeral) +i/c In Charge of I/O Input/Output I18N internationalisation I2 iodine solid I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit +I2L Integrated Injection Logic I32LP64 32-bit Integers, 64-bit Long Integers and Pointers (data model) -IA I Assume / Iowa / Intel Architecture +IA I Assume / Iowa / Intel Architecture / Impact Assessment / Indian Army IA-32 Intel Architecture, 32-bit (x86) IA-64 Intel Architecture, 64-bit (Itanium) IA32 Intel Architecture, 32-bit (x86) IA64 Intel Architecture, 64-bit (Itanium) +IAA International Advertising Association IAAA I Am An Accountant -IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations +IAAF International Amateur Athletics Federation / International Association of Athletics Federations IAAL I Am A Lawyer -IAAMWE I Am At My Wits End -IAB Internet Architecture Board -IAC In Any Case +IAAMWE I Am At My Wits' End +IaaS Infrastructure as a Service +IAB Internet Architecture Board / Brazilian Institute of Architects +IABSE International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering +IAC In Any Case / Indian Armoured Corps / Institute of Amateur Cinematographers IACHR Inter-American Commission/Court on Human Rights -IACS Information Assurance & Consultancy Services +IACP International Association of Chiefs of Police (USA) +IACS Information Assurance and Consultancy Services IAD I Am Disappoint / Internet Acronyms Dictionary IADNLHGF I Always Do Not Like Her Godfather IADNLY I Always Do Not Like You +IADR International Association for Dental Research IADWA It All Depends Who's Asking IAE In Any Event / I Am Enlightened IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency -IAF Is A Fact / I'm Afraid / In Actual Fact +IAF Is A Fact / I'm Afraid / In Actual Fact / Indian Air Force / Indian Auxiliary Force IAFA In As Far As IAFAIG In As Far As It Goes IAFS It's All right For Some +IAG It's All Good / I Am Gay IAGU It's A Good 'Un +IAGW In A Good Way IAH In All Honesty IAICDTD I'm Afraid I Can't Do That, Dave IAIL I Am In Love -IAITS It's All In The Subject +IAIM In An Irish Minute +IAitS It's All in the Subject IAIYH It's All In Your Head IAL In Acronyms List IALF It's All Leslie's Fault -IAM Institute of Advanced Motorists / Institute of Applied Mathematics -IANA I Am Not A… / Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -IANAA I Am Not An Accountant / I Am Not An Acronym +IAM Institute of Advanced Motorists / Institute of Applied Mathematics / Institute of Aviation Medicine +IAMC Indian Army Medical Corps +IAMFI I Ask Merely For Information +IANA I Am Not A... / Internet Assigned Numbers Authority +IANAA I Am Not An Accountant/Acronym IANAC I Am Not A Crook IANAD I Am Not A Doctor IANAE I Am Not An Expert -IANAEB I Am Not An Expert, But… +IANAEB I Am Not An Expert, But... IANAEITA I Am Not An Expert In This Area IANAFA I Am Not A Financial Adviser IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer IANALBIPOOTV I Am Not A Lawyer, But I Play One On TV IANAM I Am Not A Mod +IANAN I Am Not A Number! +IANANIAAFM I Am Not A Number! I Am A Free Man! IANAP I Am Not A Programmer IANAV I Am Not A Vet +IANS It Ain't Necessarily So IANYM In A New York Minute +IAO Information Awareness Office (DARPA) +IAOC Indian Army Ordnance Corps +IAOMS International Association of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgeons IAOTTFLS It Ain't Over Till The Fat Lady Sings +IAP Internet Access Provider / In-Application Programming / International Airport / Instrument Approach Procedure (aviation) / Initial Approach Fix (aviation) / Institute of Analysts and Programmers / Independent Activities Period / Incident Action Plan / Information Age Publishing / International Academic Projects / Inhibitor of Apoptosis / ‘I'm Alan Partridge’ +IAPM Integrity-Aware Parallelisable Mode (cryptography) +IAPS Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools +IAPSO International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer +IARO Indian Army Reserve of Officers IARTPFWTSIOWIM I Am Repeating This Parrot-Fashion Without The Slightest Idea Of What It Means IARU International Amateur Radio Union -IAS It's Acronym Syndrome / Institute for Advanced Study +IAS It's Acronym Syndrome / Institute for Advanced Study / Indicated Air-Speed / Indian Administrative Service IASB I'm A Stroppy Bastard/Bitch IASBTBDO I Only Said Blow The Bloody Doors Off +IASC Indian Army Service Corps +IASFM ‘Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine’ IASH I Am So Horny IASYCWIM I Am Sure You See What I Mean IASYKWIM I Am Sure You Know What I Mean IASYSWIM I Am Sure You See What I Mean IASYUWIM I Am Sure You Understand What I Mean @@ -4249,126 +6936,168 @@ IATEFL International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language IAU International Astronomical Union IAW In Accordance With IAWALSCD It's Amazing What A Little Squirt Can Do IAWG International Affiliation of Writers' Guilds +IAWTC I Agree With This Comment +IAWTCSM I Agree With This Comment So Much IAWTP I Agree With This Post +IAWTPSM I Agree With This Post So Much IAYCWIM I Assume You See What I Mean IAYKWIM I Assume You Know What I Mean IAYSWIM I Assume You See What I Mean IAYUWIM I Assume You Understand What I Mean IB I'm Back +IBA Independent Broadcasting Authority IBB I'll Be Back IBBV Impossible Bits By Vendor IBC Inside Back Cover / Inadequate, But Cute -IBCS Intel Binary Compatibility Standard iBCS Intel Binary Compatibility Standard +IBERLANT Iberia Atlantic Area +IBEX Iberia Index of top Spanish companies +IBEX35 Iberia Index of 35 top Spanish companies +IBF International Boxing Federation +IBG Institute of British Geographers IBHR International Bill of Human Rights IBHY Illegitimate Brats Hate Yuletide IBIOTP I Blame It On The Parents IBIWISI I'll Believe It When I See It -IBM International Business Machines / Inadequate, But Marketable / Inshallah, Bukra, Malesh (= God willing, tomorrow, sorry) +IBM International Business Machines (aka Inadequate, But Marketable) / Inshallah, Bukra, Malesh (= God willing, tomorrow, sorry) IBN I'm Buck Naked -IBP Inside Back Page +IBP Inside Back Page / Institute of British Photographers +IBPA International Bridge Players' Association IBRB I'll Be Right Back +IBRC Insurance Brokers' Registration Council IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) -IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome / International Bulb Society +IBRO International Brain Research Organisation +IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome / International Bible Society IBTD I Beg To Differ IBTJOT I'll Be The Judge Of That IBTP I Blame The Parents IBTYSK I Bow To Your Superior Knowledge IBWIF I'll Be Worse In Future IBY It's Behind You IBYITBOCTTIPTYMBM I Beseech You In The Bowels Of Christ To Think It Possible That You Might Be Mistaken (Cromwell to the Covenanters) IBYP I Beg Your Pardon -IC I See / Integrated Circuit / Intensive Care +IC I See / Integrated Circuit / Intensive Care / 99 (Roman numeral) / Canary Islands (ISO code, reserved) IC2 I See, Too -ICA Internet Conferencing Account / Institute of Contemporary Arts / (UK) Identity Cards Act 2006 +ICA Internet Conferencing Account / Institute of Contemporary Arts / (UK) Identity Cards Act 2006 / Institute of Chartered Accountants ICA-OUT Internet Conferencing Account, Occasional User Tariff ICA-SUT Internet Conferencing Account, Standard User Tariff +ICAA Invalid Children's Aid Association +ICAEW Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales ICAM Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation -ICB I Care Because +ICAO (UN) International Civil Aviation Organisation +ICAP Internet Content Adaptation Protocol +ICAS Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland +ICB I Care Because / I Can't Believe ICBA I Can't Be Arsed / It Could Be Arranged ICBALOTBNT I Can Believe A Lot Of Things, But Not That ICBFD Intercontinental Ballistic Flying Donkeys ICBI I Can't Believe It +ICBINB ‘I Can't Believe It's Not Butter’ ICBL International Campaign to Ban Landmines ICBM Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile ICBW I Could Be Wrong ICC International Criminal Court / International Chamber of Commerce ICCID Integrated Circuit Card ID -ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights +ICCPR UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights +ICCROM International Centre for Conservation at Rome +ICD International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems +ICD-10 International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, tenth edition +ICD-10-CM International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, tenth edition, Clinical Modification +ICD-11 International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, eleventh edition +ICD-6 International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, sixth edition +ICD-9 International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, ninth edition +ICD-9-CM International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, ninth edition, Clinical Modification ICDI I Can't Do It ICDIWY I Couldn't Do It Without You -ICE In-Car Entertainment / (US) Immigration and Customs Enforcement / In-Circuit Emulator / In Case of Emergency / Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics -ICESCR International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights -ICF Internet Connection Firewall +ICE In-Car Entertainment / (US) Immigration and Customs Enforcement / In-Circuit Emulator / In Case of Emergency / Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics / Institution of Civil Engineers / InterCity Express +ICER Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio / (UK) Industry Council for Electronic equipment Recycling +ICESCR UN International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights +ICF Internet Connection Firewall / International Canoe Federation ICFBI I Can't F***ing Believe It! +ICFC Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation +ICGA International Computer Games Association / Independent Craft Galleries Association / International Chewing-Gun Association / International Conference on Genetic Algorithms ICGAD I Can't Give A Damn -ICHC I Can Has Cheezburger? +ICHC ‘I Can Has Cheezburger?’ +IChemE Institution of Chemical Engineering ICHY I Can't Hear You -ICI Imperial Chemical Industries ltd. +ICI Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd ICIHICPCL I Can't Imagine How I Could Possibly Care Less ICIIWT I Can If I Want To -ICL Imperial College, London / International Computers Limited -ICM Image Colour Management / Institute of Commercial/Credit Management / (UK) Institute for Complementary Medicine / Integrated Climate Model / Indian Classical Music +ICJ International Commission of Jurists +ICL Imperial College, London / International Computers Ltd +ICM Image Colour Management / Institute of Commercial/Credit Management / (UK) Institute for Complementary Medicine / Integrated Climate Model / Indian Classical Music / International Congress of Mathematicians ICM5P I Claim My 5 Pounds ICM5UKP I Claim My 5 UK Pounds +ICMA Institute of Cost and Management Accountants (now CIMA) ICMC International Computer Music Conference -ICME I Claim My Egroat +ICME I Claim My E-groat ICMFP I Claim My Five Pounds ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol ICNAM I Could Not Agree More ICND Introducing Cisco Network Design ICO (UK) Icon image file (Windows) / Information Commissioner's Office / (UK) Independent Cinema Office / International Coffee Organisation / International Congress on Obesity / Intermediate Circular Orbit (= MEO) +ICOCBW I Could Of Course Be Wrong +ICOM International Council Of Museums ICP Internet Cache Protocol / Insane Clown Posse -ICPC I Couldn't Possibly Comment +ICPC I Couldn't Possibly Comment / International Classification of Primary Care +ICPO International Criminal Police Organisation (= Interpol) ICPS I Couldn't Possibly Say ICQ I Seek You (an Instant Messaging service) +ICRA International Centre for Research in Accounting ICRAF International Centre for Research in Agroforestry ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross +ICRF Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) ICRMW International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families ICRP International Commission on Radiological Protection ICRS International Celestial Reference System -ICS Internet Connection Sharing +ICS Internet Connection Sharing / Indian Civil Service +ICSA Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators ICSE International Conference on Software Engineering +ICSID International Council of Societies of Industrial Design ICSTIS Independent Committee for Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Service -ICT Information and Communication Technology / Inverse Cosine Transform / Intra-Company Transfer / Image Constraint Token +ICSTM Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine (London) +ICT Information and Communication Technology / Inverse Cosine Transform / Intra-Company Transfer / Image Constraint Token / Ivy-Covered Tree ICTD In Computer Terms Dictionary ICTU Irish Congress of Trade Unions ICTYBTIHTKY I Could Tell You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You ICU Intensive Care Unit ICUR I See You Are ICVFT I Can Vouch For That +ICW Interrupted Continuous Wave (= CW, Morse code) ICYB I Call Your Bluff ICYDK In Case You Didn't Know ICYI In Case You're Interested -ID Identification / In Dictionary / Idaho +ID Identification / In Dictionary / ‘Intelligent Design’ / Idaho / Indonesia (ISO code) / 499 (Roman numeral) ID10T idiot ID3 (metadata tag, e.g. for MP3 files) +IDB Inter-American Development Bank IDBI I Don't Believe It! IDBY I Don't Believe You! -IDC In Due Course / I Don't Care / Insulation-Displacement Connector -IDCAYDM I Don't Care And You Don't Matter +IDC In Due Course / I Don't Care / Insulation-Displacement Connector / Imperial Defence College +IDCaYDM I Don't Care and You Don't Matter IDD indeed IDDI I Didn't Do It IDE Integrated Drive Electronics / Integrated Development Environment / Identity file (AV software) +IDEA International Data Encryption Algorithm IDEF Integration Definition / International Defence Industry Fair -IDF Intermediate Distribution Frame / Intel Developer Forum / Israel Defence Forces +IDF Intermediate/Intra-building Distribution Frame (cabling) / Intel Developer Forum / Israel/Irish/Iceland Defence Forces IDGAD I Don't Give A Damn IDGAF I Don't Give A F*** IDGAFF I Don't Give A Flying F*** +IDGARA I Don't Give A Rat's Arse IDGAS I Don't Give A S*** IDGATC I Don't Give A Tinker's Curse IDGI I Don't Get It IDGWIAT I Didn't Get Where I Am Today IDGWIATBLIUM I Didn't Get Where I Am Today By Liking It Up Me -IDGWIATW I Didn't Get Where I Am Today Without… +IDGWIATW I Didn't Get Where I Am Today Without... IDHM I Don't Have Mail -IDI I Do Indeed +IDI I Do Indeed / I Doubt It IDIFTL I Did It For The Lulz IDIL I'll Do It Later IDIPCATDIPS Iechyd Da I Pob Cymro Ac Tyllau Din I Pob Sais (= good health to every Welshman and arseholes to every Englishman) IDITIWU I Dunno, I Think I Was Unconscious IDK I Don't/Didn't Know @@ -4381,27 +7110,30 @@ IDKWTS I Don't Know What To Say IDKY I Don't Know You/why IDL Interactive Data Language / Interface Definition Language IDLM I Don't Like Mondays IDLY I Don't Like You -IDM It Doesn't Matter / Intelligent Dance Music -IDMB I Don't Mind Bruce / I Do My Best -IDMIYD I Don't Mind If You Don't +IDM It Doesn't Matter / Intelligent Dance Music / Institute of Direct Marketing +IDMAT It Don't Mean A Thing +IDMB I Don't Mind, Bruce / I Do My Best +IDMIYD I Don't Mind If You Do/Don't IDMM It Doesn't Matter to Me IDMTM It Doesn't Matter To Me IDN Internationalised Domain Name IDNA I Do Not Agree/Approve / Internationalising Domain Names in Applications IDNKT I Did Not Know That IDNRTCOTC I Do Not Recognise The Competence Of The Court IDNSWYM I Do/Did Not See What You Mean/Meant IDNT I Don't Need This! -IDOAWC I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas -IDOFH Impressive Display Of Facial Hair +IDNU I Do Not Understand +IDoaWC I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas +IDoFH Impressive Display of Facial Hair IDP Internet Death Penalty +IDPF International Digital Publishing Forum IDR Intelligent Disaster Recovery / I Don't Remember/Recall / Indonesian rupiahs (ccy) IDRC I Don't Really Care -IDS In Deep S*** / Iain Duncan Smith / Intrusion Detection System +IDS In Deep S*** / Iain Duncan Smith / Intrusion Detection System / Institute of Development Studies IDSWYM I Do/Don't See What You Mean IDT I Don't Think IDTO I Did That Once IDTS I Don't Think So IDTT I Did That Too / I'll Drink To That! @@ -4414,123 +7146,160 @@ IDVFHOM I Demand Verification From Horse Or Mouth IDW I Don't Want IDWT I Don't Want To IDWTTAI I Don't Want To Talk About It IDWY I Did Warn You -IE Id Est (= that is) / MS Internet Explorer / Info Evolution +IE Id Est (= that is) / MS Internet Explorer / Info Evolution / Ireland (ISO code) IE1 MS Internet Explorer v1 IE2 MS Internet Explorer v2 IE3 MS Internet Explorer v3 IE4 MS Internet Explorer v4 IE5 MS Internet Explorer v5 IE6 MS Internet Explorer v6 IE7 MS Internet Explorer v7 IE8 MS Internet Explorer v8 IE9 MS Internet Explorer v9 -IEA International Energy Authority +IEA International Energy Authority / Institute of Economic Affairs IEAK Internet Explorer Administration Kit IEC International Electrotechnical Commission IED Improvised Explosive Device IEE Institute of Electrical Engineers -IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers +IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (USA) +IEF Indian Expeditionary Force +IEM In-Ear Monitors/ing +IEng Incorporated Engineer IENLYFB I Eat Noobs Like You For Breakfast IENS Info Evolution's NearSite IEO In Everyone's Opinion +IEP Individual Educational Plan +IERE Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers (now part of IEE) IERS International Earth Rotation (and Reference Systems) Service IES Integrated Encryption Scheme IETF Internet Engineering Task Force IF Interactive Fiction / Intermediate Frequency / Ipso Facto +IFA Independent Financial Adviser IFAB I Found A Bug +IFAC International Federation of Automatic Control +IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development (UN) IFALPA International Federation of Air-Line Pilots' Associations IFAPIFAP In For A Penny In For A Pound +IFAW International Fund for Animal Welfare IFBIT It's Funny Because It's True -IFC Inside Front Cover +IFC Inside Front Cover / International Finance Corp. IFCC International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine IFD Inflatable Flying Donkey(s) IFEH Insert Favourite Expletive Here IFF If and only If / Interchange File Format / Identification Friend or Foe -IFFOR International Foundation for Online Responsibility +IFFOR International Foundation For On-line Responsibility IFGET Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor IFIP International Federation for Information Processing IFIYGD I Fart In Your General Direction IFJ International Federation of Journalists IFL Integrated Facility for Linux +IFLA International Federation of Library Associations IFO Identified Flying Object IFOL In Fits Of Laughter IFP Inside Front Page +IFPA Industrial Fire Protection Association IFPI International Federation of the Phonographic Industry -IFR Instrument Flight Rules +IFR Instrument Flight Rules (aviation) / Integral Fast Reactor IFS Irish Free State / (UK) Institute for Fiscal Studies / International Food Standard / Independent Front Suspension / Internal Field Separator / Iterated Function System IFTB I'm Far Too Busy IFTBTR I'm Far Too Busy To Reply IFTL I'm Far Too Lazy IFTLTR I'm Far Too Lazy To Reply IFU I Forgive You / I F***ed Up -IG Imbibes Graciously / Inspector General +IFVB I Feel Very Bad +IG Imbibes Graciously / Inspector-General / Irish Guards / Instructor in Gunnery IGABW I've Got A Bigger Willy -IGCSE International General Certificate of Secondary Education +IGasE Institution of Gas Engineers +IGBT Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor iGCSE International General Certificate of Secondary Education +IGD Institute of Grocery Distribution IGF Internet Governance Forum IGG I Gotta Go IGGNLTL I Gotta Go Now; Let's Talk Later IGGP I Gotta Go Pee IGGTOT I Gotta Go To Other Things IGI International Genealogical Index (LDS) IGMC I'll Get My Coat IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol +IGO Inter-Governmental Organisation IGP I Gotta Pee / Interior Gateway Protocol IGRP Interior Gateway Routing Protocol IGRTI I Get Round To It IGTHAAS It's Great To Have An Automatic Signature / I'm Glad The Hogfather Annihilated Automatic Says -IGTP I Get The Point -IHA I Hate Acronyms -IHACP I Have A Cunning Plan -IHAD “I Have A Dream” -IHAG I'd Hazard A Guess +IGtP I Get the Point +IGWP I Gurgle With Pleasure +IHA I Hate Acronyms / Institute of Health Service Administrators / Irene Handl Applies (“I think you've mistaken me for someone who gives a fuck”) +IHaC I Haven't a Clue +IHaCP I Have a Cunning Plan +IHaD “I Have a Dream” +IHaG I'd Hazard a Guess IHAIM I Have An(other) Instant Message IHATCFYB I Have A Terrible Craving For Your Body +IHBC Institute of Historic Building Conservation IHG Inclines Head Graciously -IHGAC I Haven't Got A Clue +IHGaC I Haven't Got a Clue IHL International Humanitarian Law IHNFI I Have No F***ing Idea IHNI I Have No Idea IHNIWTM I Have No Idea What That Means IHNJIJLS I Have No Joke, I Just Like Saying IHNO I Have No Opinion IHOP International House Of Pancakes IHR (US) Institute for Historical Review (Holocaust denier) -IHTA I Have To Admit +IHSM Institute of Health Services Management +IHtA I Have to Admit IHTBS It Has To Be Shown IHTFP I Hate This F***ing Place / I Have Truly Found Paradise -IHTG I Have/Hate To Go -IHTS I Have/Hate To Say +IHtG I Have/Hate to Go +IHtS I Have/Hate to Say IHV Independent Hardware Vendor IHWYS I Hear/Heard What You Say/Said +IHY I Hate You +IHYSM I Hate You So Much IHYTFT I Heard You The First Time IHYUWIM I Hope You Understand What I Mean -IIA Internet Industry Association +II I'm Impressed / 2 (Roman numeral) +IIA Internet Industry Association (Australia) / Information Industry Association (US; now SIAA) IIABDFI If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It IIABFIUII If It Ain't Broke, Fix It Until It Is +IIC International Institute of Communicators +IICRS Iraq Inquiry Coverage Rebuttal Service IID Interface Identifier IIDKB If I Didn't Know Better IIED International Institute for Environment and Development +IIEP International Institute for Educational Planning +III 3 (Roman numeral) +IIII 4 (Roman numeral) IIIO Intel Inside, Idiot Outside +IIIrd third (Roman numeral) IIITAL It Is/It Is In The Acronym List IIJM Is It Just Me -IIJMO Is It Just Me, Or… +IIJMO Is It Just Me, Or... +IIL Integrated Injection Logic +IIM Institution of Industrial Managers IIMAD If It Makes Any Difference IIMBSB If I May Be So Bold +IIMCOT It Is My Considered Opinion That IIML It's In My List +IIMR Institute of Investment Management and Research IIMSS If I May Say So -IIN Is It Not ? +IIN Is It Not? +IInd second (Roman numeral) IINFN It Is Not For Nothing IINM If I'm Not Mistaken IIOP Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (CORBA) +IIP Institute of Incorporated Photographers IIPA International Intellectual Property Alliance -IIR If I Remember/Recall +IIR If I Remember/Recall / Infinite Impulse Response (filter) IIRC If I Remember/Recall Correctly IIS Internet Information Services (Microsoft web server) +IISI International Iron and Steel Institute +IISS International Institute of Strategic Studies +IIT I'm Impressed Too / Indian Institute of Technology IITIR I Insist That I'm Right IITP It's In The Pot IITYWIMIWHTKY If I Tell You What It Means, I Will Have To Kill You IITYWIMWYBMAD If I Tell You What It Means, Will You Buy Me A Drink? IITYWIMWYBMAP If I Tell You What It Means, Will You Buy Me A Pint @@ -4548,29 +7317,43 @@ IJCDIWY I Just Couldn't Do It Without You IJDK I Just Don't Know IJDKAM I Just Don't Know Any More IJLS I Just Like Saying IJST I Just Said That +IJWTK I Just Want To Know +IJWTS I Just Want To Say IK I Know IKBA I Know Bugger All +IKEA Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd (the founder, his farm, and paris) IKEWYM I Know Exactly What You Mean +IKG Inedible Kitchen Grease IKIBFTAWR I Know It's Bad Form To Agree With Roman IKICCOY I Know/Knew I Can/Could Count On You IKIWAJ I Know It Was A Job IKIWAJAW I Know It Was A Job As Well IKN I Know Nothing IKS Interkommunalt Selskap (= inter-municipal co. in Norway) IKT I Know That IKTF I Know That Feeling +IKTIKT I Know That, I Know That! IKWYL I Know Where You Live IKWYM I Know What You Mean IKYABWAI I Know You Are, But What Am I? IKYBYUWYTISBINSYRTWYHINWIM I Know You Believe You Understand What You Think I Said, But I'm Not Sure You Realise That What You Heard Is Not What I Meant IKYN I Kid You Not -IL Intermediate Language (.NET bytecode) / Illinois +IKYP I'll Keep You Posted +IL Intermediate Language (.NET bytecode) / Impact Level / Illinois / Israel (ISO code) / 49 (Roman numeral) +IL1 Impact Level 1 (= unclassified) +IL2 Impact Level 2 (= protected) +IL3 Impact Level 3 (= restricted) IL32P64 32-bit Integers and Long Integers, 64-bit Pointers (data model) +IL4 Impact Level 4 (= confidential) +IL5 Impact Level 5 (= secret) +IL6 Impact Level 6 (= top secret) ILAC International Laboratory Accreditation Co-operation +ILAM Institution of Landscape and Amenity Management +ILAP Inter-library Loan Application Protocol (OSI) ILBE Improved Load-Bearing Equipment ILC International Law Commission ILEA Inner London Education Authority (obs.) ILI I Like Ike ILIC I Laughed, I Cried @@ -4579,94 +7362,120 @@ ILIWTPCT I Love It When The Plan Comes Together ILJBNAWKI It's Life, Jim, But Not As We Know It ILLIAC Illinois Automatic Computer ILM Industrial Light and Magic / Information Lifecycle Management ILN It Looks Nice -ILO International Labour Organisation +ILO (UN) International Labour Organisation +ILP Independent Labour Party ILP64 64-bit Integers, Long Integers, and Pointers (data model) -ILS Imaginary Lat Syndrome / Israeli new sheqels (ccy) +ILR Independent Local Radio +ILS Instrument Landing System / Internet Locator Server (VoIP) / Imaginary Lat Syndrome / Israeli new sheqels (ccy) ILSHIBAMF I Laughed So Hard I Broke All My Furniture! ILSHIBATF I Laughed So Hard I Broke All The Furniture! +ILT Institute of Logistics and Transport ILTATA I'd Like To Ask The Audience ILTGFF I'd Like To Go Fifty-Fifty +ILTM Institute of Learning and Teaching ILTNMMAMOTCHYCFAPMSFTJ I'd Like To Nominate Mike Meyers As Moderator Of This Conference — Honestly, You Couldn't Find A Person More Suited For The Job +ILTPAF I'd Like To Phone A Friend ILTPIA I Like To Pretend I Am ILU I Love You ILY I Love You +ILYFaE I Love You Forever and Ever +ILYFEaE I Love You For Ever and Ever ILYOTTBDDIA I'll Let You Off This Time, But Don't Do It Again ILYOTTBDDIAOYPAFIEGF I'll Let You Off This Time, But Don't Do It Again, Or You'll Pay A Fortune In E-Groat Fines +ILYSM I Love You So Much ILYVM I Love You Very Much ILYVVM I Love You Very Very Much ILYVVVM I Love You Very Very Very Much ILYVVVVM I Love You Very Very Very Very Much -IM Instant Message / IntelliMouse -IMA I Must Admit +IM Instant Message / IntelliMouse / Isle of Man (ISO code) / 999 (Roman numeral) +IMA I Must Admit / International Music Association / Institute of Mathematics and its Applications IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion IMAP Internet Message-Access Protocol -IMBO In My Biased/Boastful Opinion +IMarE Institute of Marine Engineers (now IMarEst) +IMarEst Institute of Marine Engineering, Science, and Technology +IMB Integrated Mobile Broadcast +IMBO In My Biased/Boastful/Bloody Opinion +IMBP I Might Be Pregnant IMBW I May Be Wrong +IMC Instrument Meteorological Conditions (aviation) IMCAO In My Completely Arrogant Opinion +IMCB International Management Centre, Buckingham IMCDO In My Conceited, Dogmatic Opinion -IMCO In My Considered/Conceited Opinion +IMCO In My Considered/Conceited Opinion / (UN) Inter-governmental Maritime Consultative Organisation (now IMO) IMCWN I Most Certainly Will Not IMD In Medical Dictionary / In My Day / Intermodulation Distortion IMDB Internet Movie Database IME In My Estimation/Experience / Input Method Editor +IMechE Institution of Mechanical Engineers +IMEDE Institut pour l'Étude des Méthodes de Direction de l'Entreprise (= International Management Development Institute, Lausanne) IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identification (ID in a mobile phone) +IMER Institute of Marine Environmental Research IMF International Monetary Fund +IMFAO In My F***ing Arrogant Opinion IMHA In My Humble Analysis IMHAOHCR I'll Make Him An Offer He Can't Refuse IMHBCO In My Humble-But-Correct Opinion IMHE In My Humble Estimation/Experience IMHO In My Humble/Honest Opinion IMING Instant Messaging IMINT Imagery Intelligence gathering IMLE In My Limited Experience +IMLTHO In My Less-Than-Humble Opinion +IMM Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (now IMMM) IMMD It Made My Day IMMDNDM If My Memory Does Not Deceive Me +IMMM Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining IMMOR I Make My Own Rules IMMSMC If My Memory Serves Me Correctly IMNHO In My Not so Humble Opinion IMNSCO In My Not-So-Considered Opinion IMNSHO In My Not-So-Humble Opinion IMNSVHO In My Not-So-Very-Humble Opinion IMNVHO In My Not-Very-Humble Opinion -IMO In My Opinion +IMO In My Opinion / (UN) International Maritime Organisation IMOBIHO In My Occasionally-But-Infrequently-Humble Opinion IMOBO In My Own Biased Opinion IMOHO In My Occasionally-Humble Opinion IMOPV In My Own Personal View IMOT In My Own Time IMOW In My Own Words -IMP Internet Messaging Program (webmail client) / Interception Modernisation Programme (UK, proposed) / Interface Message Processor (ARPANET) / Interactive Mathematics Programme / Injection-Moulded Plastic / Integrated Master Plan / Information Module Profile / Interactive Media Player (now BBC iPlayer) / International Music Publications +IMP Internet Messaging Program (webmail client) / Interception Modernisation Programme (UK, proposed) / Interface Message Processor (ARPANET) / Interactive Mathematics Programme / Injection-Moulded Plastic / Integrated Master Plan / Information Module Profile (Java CLDC) / Interactive Media Player (now BBC iPlayer) / International Music Publications / Isle of Man pound / disodium 5'-inosine monophosphate IMPE In My Personal/Previous Experience IMPO In My Personal Opinion IMPOV In My Point Of View IMR Infant Mortality Rate -IMRI Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Industrial Membrane Research Institute / Information Management Research Institute / International Market Research Information / Institut pour le Management de la Recherche et de l'Innovation +IMRI Intra-operative Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Industrial Membrane Research Institute / Information Management Research Institute / International Market Research Information / Institut pour le Management de la Recherche et de l'Innovation IMRMPBC I Must Read Messages Properly Before Commenting -IMS I Am Sorry / I Must Say / IP Multimedia Subsystem / IBM Information Management System / Institute of Management Services / International Motor Sports / Institute for Medical/Mathematical/Metabolic Sciences +IMRO Investment Management Regulatory Organisation +IMS I Am Sorry / I Must Say / IP Multimedia Subsystem / IBM Information Management System / Institute of Management Services / International Motor Sports / Institute for Medical/Mathematical/Metabolic Sciences / International Military Services / Indian Medical Service IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identification (ID in the SIM) IMT International Mobile Telecommunications 2000 (aka 3G) IMT-2000 International Mobile Telecommunications 2000 (aka 3G) IMT-MC International Mobile Telecommunications 2000 — Multi-Carrier (aka CDMA2000) IMT-SC International Mobile Telecommunications 2000 — Single Carrier (aka EDGE) -IMU I Miss You +IMU I Miss You / International Mathematical Union / Inertial Measurement Unit IMV In My View IMVHO In My Very Humble Opinion +IMY I Miss You IMYAOYCR I'll Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse -IN Indiana +IMYSM I Miss You So Much +IMYVM I Miss You Very Much +IN Indiana / India (ISO code) In indium INAL I'm Not A Lawyer INC Iraqi National Congress IND I Never Do / I'm Not Dead / Immigration & Nationality Directorate (Home Office) INDY I'm Not Dead Yet INES International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale -INFOSEC Information Systems Security InfoSec Information Systems Security INGSI I'm Not Gonna Say It INGTPAATY I'm Not Going To Pay Any Attention To You +INGTSNA I'm Not Going To Say “Never Again” +InHg Inches of Mercury (pressure) INHW If Not Here, Where? INKSPE I Never Knew Such Poverty Existed INKT I Never Knew That INL I'm Not Laughing INLA Irish National Liberation Army @@ -4673,91 +7482,114 @@ INMP It's Not My Problem INPKIAM Irritating New-Parent Know-It-All Mode INPO In No Particular Order INR Indian rupees INRI Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudæorum (= Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews) -INS Inertial Navigation System +INRIA Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (= National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, near Paris) +INS Inertial Navigation System / (US) Immigration and Naturalisation Service (now part of DHS) +INSEAD Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires INSTID I'm Not Sure That I Do +INSTRAW International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (now part of UN Women) INT I'll Never Tell +IntCorps Intelligence Corps INTERCAL Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym -INTMARSEC International Maritime Security IntMarSec International Maritime Security INTSAT I'm Not Totally Sure About This INV Inverness Airport -IOC International Olympic Committee -IOD Institute of Directors +IO British Indian Ocean Territory (ISO code) +IOB Institute of Bankers +IOC International Olympic Committee / International Oil Company IoD Institute of Directors IOE In Our Experience IOH I'm Outta Here +IOIT I'm On Irish Time IOKIYAR It's OK If You Are Republican -IOL Intra-Ocular Lens / Institute for Outdoor Learning / Chartered Institute of Linguists / Ireland On-Line -IOM Isle of Man +IOL Intra-Ocular Lens / Institute for Outdoor Learning / Chartered Institute Of Linguists / Ireland On-Line IoM Isle of Man IOMMU Input/Output Memory-Management Unit +IOPS Input/Output Operations per Second IOR Interoperable Object Reference (CORBA) IOS Internetwork Operating System (CISCO) IOSE I Only Speak English -IOT In, Out, Through (MIDI) / Internet of Things / Initial Officer Training (RAF) / ‘In Our Time’ (BBC Radio 4) +IOT In, Out, Through (MIDI) / Internet Of Things / Initial Officer Training (RAF) / ‘In Our Time’ (BBC Radio 4) IOTTMCO Intuitively Obvious To The Most Casual Observer IOU I Owe You IOUAB I Owe You A Beer IOW In Other Words / Isle Of Wight IOWTBT I Only Want To Be Told IOYAB I Owe You A Beer -IP Internet Protocol / Intellectual Property / Individualny Predprinimatel (= sole proprietorship co. in Russia) -IPA India Pale Ale / Isopropyl Alcohol -IPC Inter-Process Communication +IP Internet Protocol / Intellectual Property / polynomial-time with an Interactive Proof system (complexity) / Individualny Predprinimatel (= sole proprietorship co. in Russia) +IPA India Pale Ale / Isopropyl Alcohol / International Phonetic Alphabet / Institute of Practitioners in Advertising +IPC Inter-Process Communication / International Publishing Corporation IPCC Independent Police Complaints Commission / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCP Internet Protocol Control Protocol -IPCS International Programme on Chemical Safety +IPCS Institution of Professional Civil Servants (IPCS) / International Programme on Chemical Safety IPD Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma / In Places Dictionary +IPE International Petroleum Exchange +IPES Improved Proposed Encryption Standard IPF Windows 95 GPF -IPG Interactive Programme Guide +IPFA International Payments Framework Association / International Project Finance Association +IPG Interactive Programme Guide / Independent Publishers' Guild / Industrial Painters' Group +IPHE Institution of Public Health Engineers +IPI Institute of Patentees and Inventors IPID Interface Pointer Identifier (RPC) IPL IBM Public Licence / Initial Program Load / Invisible Panty-Line / Interrupt Priority Level / Intense Pulsed Light IPLO Irish People's Liberation Organisation IPM Inquisition Post-Mortem / Institute of Personnel Management -IPMP Intellectual PRoperty Management and Protection +IPMP Intellectual Property Management and Protection +IPMS Institute of Professionals, Managers, and Specialists (now part of Prospect) IPN I'm Posting Naked / Instytut Pamieci Narodowej (Poland, = Institute of National Memory) IPO Initial Public Offering / UK Intellectual Property Office / Inter-Procedural Optimisation IPOF In Point Of Fact IPOYG I Pee On Your Gate IPP Internet Printing Protocol +IPPA Independent Programme Producers' Association +IPPF International Planned Parenthood Federation IPPR (UK) Institute for Public Policy Research -IPR Intellectual Property Rights -IPS Intrusion Prevention System / Industrial and Provident Society -IPSA (UK) Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority -IPSEC Internet Protocol Security +IPR Intellectual Property Rights / Institute of Public Relations (now CIPR) +IPRA International Public Relations Association +IProdE Institute of Production Engineers +IPS (UK) Identity and Passport Service (Home Office) / Intrusion Prevention System / In-Plane Switching (LCD) / Internet Provider Security / Inter Press Service / Inches/Instructions Per Second / Industrial and Provident Society / Indian Political Service / International Peace/Planetarium/Primatological Society / Israel Prison Service / Iraqi Police Service / Investment Policy Statement +IPSA (UK) Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority / International Political Science Association IPsec Internet Protocol Security -IPT Incipient Pun Thread +IPT Incipient Pun Thread / Industry and Parliament Trust / Is Partial To +IPTBBW Is Partial To Big-Breasted Women (personal ads) IPTHTAMP Incipient Pun Thread Hijacked To A Moister Place IPTV Internet-Protocol Television +IPU Inter-Parliamentary Union IPv4 Internet Protocol, version 4 IPv6 Internet Protocol, version 6 IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange (Novell) -IQ Intelligence Quotient +IQ Intelligence Quotient / Iraq (ISO code) +IQA Institute of Quality Assurance IQD Iraqi dinars (ccy) -IR Infra-Red / Infernal Revenue / I'm Rich +IR Infra-Red / Inland Revenue / I'm Rich / Iran (ISO code) Ir iridium +IR35 = UK legislation against tax avoidance IRA Irish Republican Army / Individual Retirement Account -IRBM Intra-Regional Ballistic Missile -IRC Internet Relay Chat +IRAS Integrated Research Application System / Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite +IRBM Intra-Regional/Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile +IRC Internet Relay Chat / Industrial Re-organisation Corporation IRCAM Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique -IRDA Infra-red Data Association IrDA Infra-red Data Association +IRE Indian Corps of Royal Engineers / Institute of Radio Engineers IRGTHKUDOAFC I'd Rather Go To Hong Kong Upside Down On A Flying Carpet IRGTHKUDUAFC I'd Rather Go To Hong Kong Upside Down Under A Flying Carpet +IRIF Involuntary Reduction In Force (= redundancies, firings) IRIX (Silicon Graphics' Unix) IRKT Irkutsk Time (= UTC+8) IRL In Real Life IRMC I Rest My Case IRMFI I Reply Merely For Information +IRN Independent Radio News +IRNSS Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System IRO International Refugee Organisation IROOC I've Run Out Of Cigarettes IRP I/O Request Packet IRQ Interrupt Request IRR Iranian rials (ccy) / Individual Ready Reserve +IRRV Institute of Revenues, Rating, and Valuation IRS (US) Internal Revenue Service IRST Iran Standard Time (= UTC+3:30) IRSTBO It Really Sucks The Big One IRTFM I Read The F***ing Manual IRTHG I Refer The Honourable Gentleman @@ -4769,113 +7601,164 @@ IRTHLTTAIGSMA I Refer The Honourable Lady To The Answer I Gave Some Moments Ago IRTHLTTRIGHAMA I Refer The Honourable Lady To The Reply I Gave Him/Her A Moment Ago IRTHLTTRIGSMA I Refer The Honourable Lady To The Reply I Gave Some Moments Ago IRTM I Read The Manual / I Remember That Much IRV Instant-Runoff Voting -IS Information Systems / In Stock -IS-IS Intermediate System to Intermediate System (routing protocol) +IS Information Systems / In Stock / I'm Sorry / Iceland (ISO code) +IS-IS Intermediate System to Intermediate System Intra-Domain Routing Protocol (OSI) ISA Industry Standard Architecture / Instruction Set Architecture / Individual Savings Account / International Sea-bed Authority ISAD In Stock At Distributor ISAGN I See A Great Need ISAM Indexed Sequential Access Method ISAN International Standard Audiovisual Number ISAN-IA International Standard Audiovisual Number — International Agency ISAS In Stock At Supplier ISAV In Stock At Vendor +ISBA Incorporated Society of British Advertisers ISBAB I Should have Bought A Book -ISBIDUOAOTOTEU I'm Sorry But I Don't Understand Obscure Acronyms, Only Those Ones That Everybody Uses +ISBD International Standard Bibliographic Description +ISBIDUOAOTOTEU I'm Sorry, But I Don't Understand Obscure Acronyms, Only Those Ones That Everybody Uses ISBN International Standard Book Number -ISC I Stand Corrected / Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. / Internet Storm Centre +ISBW I Should Be Working/Writing +ISC I Stand Corrected / Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. / Internet Storm Centre / Imperial Service College / Indian Staff Corps ISCC I Should Co-Co ISCC-NBS Inter-Society Colour Council – National Bureau of Standards (US colour naming scheme) +ISCII Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange +ISCO Independent Schools Careers Organisation iSCSI Internet Small Computer System Interface -ISCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface +ISDA International Swaps and Derivatives Association ISDB Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting ISDB-T International Sistema Brasilieiro de Televisão Digital (= Brazilian Digital Television System) ISDBI I Still/Simply Don't Believe It ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network / It Still Does Nothing ISDNBY I Still Do Not Believe You ISDNKWYM I Still Do Not Know What You Mean -ISE Institute of Software Engineers / Irish Stock Exchange / International Standard English +ISE Institute of Software Engineers / Irish Stock Exchange / International Standard English / Indian Service of Engineers / International Securities Exchange Holdings, Inc. +ISEN Internet Search Environment Number ISFE I Speak From Experience! +ISFET Ion-Sensitive Field-Effect Transistor ISHG I Should Have Guessed -ISI Independent Schools Inspectorate / Islamic State of Iraq +ISI Independent Schools Inspectorate / Islamic State of Iraq / International Statistical Institute +ISID International Society of Interior Design +ISIFARD I'll Save It For A Rainy Day ISIHAC ‘I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue’ ISIHGAC I'm Sorry, I Haven't Got A Clue ISIN International Securities Identifying Number ISIRTA ‘I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again’ -ISITNOTL Irish Stew In The Name Of The Loh +ISIS Independent Schools Information Service +ISitNotL Irish Stew in the Name of the Loh ISIWRTA I'm Sorry, I Will Read That Again -ISK Icelandic króna (ccy) / Interstellar Kredits (Eve Online) +ISJC Independent Schools Joint Council (now ISC) +ISK Icelandic króna (ccy) / Interstellar Kredits (Eve On-line) +ISL Irish Sign Language ISLAGIATT It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time +ISM Imperial Service Medal ISMN International Standard Music Number ISN Initial Sequence Number / I'll Stop Now ISND I Saw No Dots ISNI International Standard Name Identifier -ISNS Internet Storage Name Service iSNS Internet Storage Name Service -ISO In Search/Support Of / International Standards Organisation -ISO9660 Compact Disc File-System +ISO In Search/Support Of / International Standards Organisation / Imperial Service Order +ISO1000 International Standard for SI units +ISO10006 International Standard for project management +ISO10007 International Standard for configuration management +ISO10646 Universal Character Set (~ Unicode) +ISO10957 International Standard Music Number (ISMN) +ISO10962 International Standard for Classification of Financial Instruments (CFI code) +ISO16 International Standard Tuning Frequency +ISO2108 International Standard Book Numbering (ISBN) +ISO2145 International Standard for numbering (sub)divisions in documents +ISO216 International Standard for paper sizes +ISO3103 International Standard for brewing tea +ISO3166 International Standard for country codes +ISO3297 International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) +ISO3901 International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) +ISO4074 International Standard for natural latex rubber condoms +ISO4217 International Standard for currency codes +ISO5800 International Standard for colour film speed +ISO6 International Standard for B&W film speed +ISO6166 International Securities Identification Numbering system (ISIN) +ISO8000 International Standard for data quality +ISO8601 International Standard for date and time formats +ISO9000 International Standard for quality management in production environments +ISO9001 International Standard for quality management +ISO9660 Compact Disc file-system +ISO9899 International Standard for the C programming language +ISOCARP International Society of City and Regional Planning ISOYF I Spit On Your Fine(s) -ISP Internet Service Provider / I'm Staying Put +ISP Internet Service Provider / I'm Staying Put / Institute of Sales Promotion / International Study Programme / Inside Plant (cabling) ISPF Interactive System Productivity Facility (editor for IBM mainframes) +ISPP International Society of Political Psychology ISR In Soviet Russia / Interrupt Service Routine ISRC International Standard Recording Code +ISRO Indian Space Research Organisation ISS Internet Security Systems / International Space Station / I Said So +ISSC International Social Science Council ISSN International Standard Serial Number IST International Service Team / Irish Summer Time (= UTC+1) / Indian Standard Time (= UTC+5:30) / Israel Standard Time (= UTC+2) +Ist first (Roman numeral) ISTBC I Stand To Be Corrected ISTC International Standard Text Code ISTM It Seems To Me ISTMIWCR I'll Send The Men In White Coats Round ISTMT It Seems To Me That ISTR I Seem To Remember/Recall +IStructE Institution of Structural Engineers ISTST I Should Think So, Too ISV Independent Software Vendor +ISVA Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers ISWBNI It Still Would Be Nice If ISWC International Standard Musical Work Code +ISWIM If you See What I Mean (programming language) ISWYDT I See What You Did There ISWYM I See What You Mean ISYCWIM I'm Sure You See What I Mean ISYKWIM I'm Sure You Know What I Mean ISYSWIM I'm Sure You See What I Mean ISYUWIM I'm Sure You Understand What I Mean -IT Information Technology +IT Information Technology / Italy (ISO code) IT1TK1 It Takes One To Know One ITA I Totally Agree / Independent Television Authority -ITAAISBM Is That An Acronym I See Before Me? -ITABOAF Is This A Bug Or A Feature? -ITAC Is That A Challenge? -ITADISBM Is That A Dagger I See Before Me? +ITaAISBM Is That an Acronym I See Before Me? +ITaBOAF Is This a Bug Or A Feature? +ITaC Is That a Challenge? +ITaDISBM Is That a Dagger I See Before Me? ITAH Is There Anybody Here? -ITALY I Trust And Love You +ITAL In The Acronyms List +ITaLY I Trust and Love You ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations -ITBBPT In The Best Blue Peter Tradition +ITAT Is There Anybody There? +ITBBPT In The Best ‘Blue Peter’ Tradition ITBOF Is This a Bug Or a Feature? ITBUYSIFY Impossible To Believe Unless You See It For Yourself -ITC In That Case / (UK) Independent Television Commission +ITC In That Case / (UK) Independent Television Commission / International Typeface Corporation +ITCA Independent Television Companies Association ITCFWI If The Cap Fits, Wear It ITD In The Dark ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ITFA In The Final Analysis -ITGLW&TCDR If The Good Lord's Willin' and The Creek Don't Rise -ITGLWATCDR If The Good Lord's Willin' And The Creek Don't Rise +ItGLW&tCDR If the Good Lord's Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise +ItGLWatCDR If the Good Lord's Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise ITIAIL I Think I Am In Love +ITIAILWY I Think I Am In Love With You ITIGTHOTN I Think I'm Getting The Hang Of This Now ITIIL I Think I'm In Love +ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITJLAO Isn't That Just Life All Over ITL Interval Temporal Logic ITM In The Meantime / In The Money ITMA It's That Man Again ITMT In The Meantime ITN (UK) Independent Television News ITNOTL In The Name Of The Law ITNR In The Next Release ITOTKO It Takes One To Know One +ITP In The Post / Intensive Training Programme / Integrated/Inspection Test Plan/Programme / Individual Training Plan / Information Technology Professional/Practice / Interactive Terminal Protocol / Invitation To Propose / Integrated Technology Process / Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura / In-Target Probe / International Third Position ITPAC Is The Pope A Catholic? ITR Income-Tax Return / Information Technology Research / Internet Traffic Report / Internet Talk Radio / Issue-Tracking Request / Inspection and Test Records ITRO In The Region Of +ITRON Industrial TRON (The Real-time Operating system Nucleus) ITRS International Terrestrial Reference System / International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors ITRW In The Real World ITSF If The Shoe Fits ITSFWI If The Shoe Fits, Wear It ITSM IT Service Management @@ -4885,10 +7768,11 @@ ITTO International Tropical Timber Organisation ITU International Telecommunications Union ITU-R International Telecommunications Union, Radio sector ITU-T International Telecommunications Union, Telecommunications sector ITV Independent Television / Interactive Television +ITVA Independent Television Association ITW In The Wild ITWSBT I Think We Should Be Told! ITYA I Think You Are ITYF I Think You'll Find ITYFT I Think You'll Find That @@ -4897,35 +7781,44 @@ ITYMST I Thought You Might Say That ITYNT I Told You Not To ITYP I Take Your Point ITYR I Think You're Right ITYWFI I'll Take Your Word For It -IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources +IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources +IUD Insert Usual Disclaimers / Intra-Uterine Device IUIATT I Use It All The Time IUM If You Must IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry IUPAP International Union of Pure and Applied Physics IUSS If You Say So +IUSWIM If You See What I Mean +IUT I Understand/stood That +IUTAM International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics IUTHALORFH I Used To Have A Lot Of Respect For Him/Her IUTKATS I Used To Know All That Stuff +IV Intravenous / 4 (Roman numeral) / Initialisation Vector (cryptography) IVF In-Vitro Fertilisation IVR Interactive Voice Response IVSTHT I'm Very Sorry To Hear That -IVSTHTOGL I'm Very Sorry To Hear That, Oh Great Leader -IW I/It Will/Won't/Was/Wasn't +IVSTHTOGL I'm Very Sorry To Hear That, O Great Leader +IVth fourth (Roman numeral) +IW I/It Will/Won't/Was/Wasn't / I Wonder IWALU I Will Always Love You +IWALY I Will Always Love You IWAP It Was A Pleasure IWAPTBOA It Was A Pleasure To Be Of Assistance IWB I/It Will/Would Be +IWBAP It Will Be A Pleasure IWBB It Would Be Better IWBBI It Would Be Better If IWBITNAL It Will Be In The Next Acronyms List IWBIWISI I Will Believe It When I See It IWBN It Would Be Nice IWBNI It Would Be Nice If IWBS I Was Being Stupid IWDIA I Won't Do It Again +IWEM Institution of Water and Environmental Management IWET I Would/n't Expect That IWFM It Works For Me IWHAGT I Would Hazard A Guess That IWHGTIAMOS I Wouldn't Have Guessed That In A Month Of Sundays IWHT I Would Hope That / I Would Have Thought @@ -4933,23 +7826,31 @@ IWHTST I Would Have To Say That IWHTT I would Have Thought That IWIICBIANA I Would If I Could, But I Am Not Able IWIICBIC I Would If I Could, But I Can't IWIICBICSIW I Would If I Could, But I Can't, So I Won't +IWIIWT I Will If I Want To IWIK I Wish I Knew IWK I Wouldn't Know +IWLGB Izzy, Wizzy, Let's Get Busy IWM I Wouldn't Mind / Imperial War Museum -IWOT I Would Of Thought -IWOTT I Would Of Thought That +IWOT I Would Of (s/b Have) Thought +IWOTT I Would Of (s/b Have) Thought That IWPWSUPAUA I Wish People Would Stop Using Pointless And Unnecessary Acronyms IWR I Will Return +IWS Image Web Server / International Wool Secretariat +IWSBNI It Would Still Be Nice If IWSN I Want Sex Now IWSTM It Would Seem To Me -IWW I Wonder Why +IWW I Wonder Why/Whether +IX 9 (Roman numeral) +IXth ninth (Roman numeral) +IY Imperial Yeomanry IYAL It's Your Acronym List IYAM If You Ask Me IYANC If You Are Not Careful +IYC In Your Case IYD In Your Dreams IYDM If You Don't Mind IYDMMA If You Don't Mind Me/My Asking IYDSWIM If You Do See What I Mean IYF It's Your Fault @@ -4961,33 +7862,38 @@ IYL If You Like IYM If You Must IYNVHO In Your Not Very Humble Opinion IYO In Your Opinion IYOT In Your Own Time +IYRU International Yacht Racing Union IYSS If You Say So IYSWIM If You See What I Mean IYW If You Wish IYWBSK If You Would Be So Kind +IYWMO If You Want My Opinion +I²L Integrated Injection Logic J/K Just Kidding J2EE Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition J2ME Java 2 platform, Micro Edition J2SE Java 2 platform, Standard Edition J4F Just For Fun J4G Just For Grins J4S&G Just For S*** And Grins J4SAG Just For S*** And Grins J6P Joe 6-Pack +JA Jamaica (ISO code) (now JM) JAAFU Joint Anglo-American F***-Up JAAMOI Just As A Matter Of Interest JAAS Java Authentication and Authorisation Service JACK JACK Audio Connection Kit (Linux sound server) +JACT Joint Association of Classical Teachers JACTEAEG Jumps At Chance To Earn An E-Groat JAD Joint Applications Design / Just Another Day -JAFEICA Just Another Flaming Expense I Can't Afford… +JAFEICA Just Another Flaming Expense I Can't Afford... JAFO Just Another F***ing Observer JAFU Just Another F***-Up -JAG Judge Advocate General +JAG Judge Advocate-General JAIT Just As I Thought JAM Just A Minute/Moment JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association JAN January / Journal of Advanced Nursing JANET Joint Academic Network @@ -5001,90 +7907,117 @@ JAWS Just Another Windows Shell JAX-RPC Java XML for Remote Procedure Calls JAXB Java Architecture for XML Binding JAXP Java API for XML Processing JAXRPC Java XML for Remote Procedure Calls +JB Jiffy Bag JBF Just Been F***ing JBL Junk But Loud JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks JBT Jervis Bay Territory JC Just Checking / Jesus Christ JCB Just Come Back / Joseph Charles Bamford (and his big yellow digging machines) JCBT Just Come Back Today +JCD Juris Canonici Doctor (= Doctor of Canon Law) JCE Java Cryptography Extension -JCL Job Control Language +JCL Job Control Language / Java Class Library / Johnny-Come-Lately / Juris Canonici Licentia (= Licentiate of Canon Law) JCLIA Just Can't Leave It Alone JCOPC Judicial Committee Of the Privy Council JCP Java Community Process JCR Junior Common Room JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff +JCUKEN (= USSR keyboard layout) JD Juris Doctor (= teacher of law) +JDAM Joint Direct Attack Munition JDBC Java Database Connectivity JDDIA Just Don't Do It Again +JDipMA Joint Diploma in Management Accounting Services JDK Java Development Kit JDL Jewish Defence League JDS Java Desktop System +JE Jersey (ISO code) JECFA Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives JEDEC Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council +JEF Japanese processing Extended Feature (Fujitsu character encoding based on EBCDIC) JEITIA Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association +JEP Jersey pound JER Jersey Airport JES Job Entry Subsystem JETDS Joint Electronics Type Designation System +JETRO Japan External Trade Organisation JFA Just F***ing Around +JFACC Joint Forces Air Component Commander JFC Java Foundation Classes / Jesus F***ing Christ JFDI Just F***ing Do It JFET Junction Field-Effect Transistor JFF Just For Fun JFG Just For Grins JFGI Just F***ing Google It +JFGIY Just F***ing Google It Yourself JFIF JPEG File Interchange Format JFK John Fitzgerald Kennedy -JFS IBM Journaling File-System +JFS (IBM) Journaling File-System / Jewish Free School (Kenton) JFTR Just For The Record JFYI Just For Your Information JG Jolly Good / starling@cix JGS Jolly Good Show JHC Just Horizontally Challenged / Jesus H. Christ JHDL Just Another Hardware Description Language JHU John Hopkins University (Washington, DC, USA) -JIC Just In Case / (UK) Joint Intelligence Committee +JIC Just In Case / (UK) Joint Intelligence Committee / Joint Industrial Council JICA Japan International Co-operation Agency +JIMI Java Image Management Interface JINI = network architecture (aka ‘JINI Is Not Initials’) JIS Japanese Industrial Standard +JIS-X-0201 Japanese Industrial Standard 7/8-bit character set +JIS-X-0208 Japanese Industrial Standard 2-byte character set +JIS-X-0212 Japanese Industrial Standard supplementary character set JIT Just-In-Time JJ&E Judge, Jury, and Executioner JJE Judge, Jury, and Executioner -JJECOTC Judge, Jury, and Executioner Court Of The COTAL +JJECOTC Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Court Of The COTAL +JJWY Just Joking With You JK Just Kidding -JKR J. K. Rowling +JKR Joanne K. Rowling +JL John Lewis (stores) JLMK Just Let Me Know JLMMTM Just Like My Mother Taught Me +JLP John Lewis Partnership JLSTMT Just Like She Taught Me, Too JLT Just Like That JLY Just Like You +JM Jamaica (ISO code) JM2C Just My Two Cents +JMB Joint Matriculation Board +JMC Jupiter Mining Corporation JMD Jamaican dollars JMF Java Media Framework JMHFOOC Just My Humble F***ing Opinion Of Course +JMHO Just My Humble Opinion JMJ Jean-Michel Jarre JMK John Maynard Keynes +JMN Johan Mangku Negara (Malaysia) JMO Just My Opinion JMOOC Just My Opinion, Of Course JMPR Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues -JMS Java Message Service / J. Michael Straczynski +JMS Java Message Service / Joseph Michael Straczynski JMX Java Management Extensions JNDI Java Naming and Directory Interface JNI Java Native Invocation JNT John Nathan-Turner JNZ Jump if Non-Zero +JO Jordan (ISO code) JOATMON Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None (said with a Jamaican accent) JOD Jordanian dinars (ccy) JOOI Just Out Of Interest JOOTT Just One Of Those Things -JP Justice of the Peace -JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group -JPG JPEG file +JP Justice of the Peace / Just Playing / Judicial Punishment / Japan (ISO code) +JP2 JPEG 2000 (image format) +JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group (image format) +JPF Judæan People's Front / Java Plug-in Framework +JPG JPEG (image format) +JPIP JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPW Just Plain Weird JPY Japanese yen JPYL Just Pulling Your Leg JRA Japanese Red Army @@ -5091,186 +8024,272 @@ JRE Java Run-time Environment JRTCC cix:jrt Conference Chaplain JS JavaScript JSA Job-Seeker's Allowance JSC Joint Stock Company +JSD Scientiæ Juridicæ Doctor (= Doctor of Juridical Science) +JSDC Joint Services Defence College +JSL Japanese Sign Language / Journal of Symbolic Logic / Japanese as a Second Language / ‘Japanese: The Spoken Language’ (textbook) +JSM Johan Seita Mahkota (Malaysia) JSNM Just Stark, Naked Magic JSON JavaScript Object Notation (data format) JSP JavaServer Pages (web server technology) / Jackson Structured Programming +JSR Java Specification Request JSRF Jet Set Radio Future (game) +JSSC Joint Services Staff College JSSE Java Secure Socket Extension JST Japan Standard Time (= UTC+9) -JT Just Teasing / John Thomas +JT Just Teasing / John Thomas / Johnston Island (ISO code) (obs.) JTAG Joint Test Action Group (access/debug port) JTAS Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society JTC Joint Technical Committee JTF Joint Task Force -JTFM Just The Facts, Ma'am/Man +JTFM Just The Facts, Ma'am JTLYK Just To Let You Know JTS Java Transaction Service JTYWLTKT Just Thought You Would Like To Know That JTYWTK Just Thought You Wanted To Know JUG Java Users Group JUL July JUN June JUNET Japanese Unix Network JV Joint Venture -JVC Victor Company of Japan ltd. +JVC Victor Company of Japan Ltd JVM Java Virtual Machine JW Just Wondering / Jehovah's Witness +JWICS Joint World-wide Intelligence Communications System JWZ Jamie W. Zawinski JYYC Just Yanking Your Chain K okay / kiss / potassium K&M Kaolin and Morphine K&R Kernighan & Ritchie (‘The C Programming Language’ book) +K-i-H Kaisar-i-Hind (medal, lit. Emperor of India) +K-LoC kilo-Lines of Code +K-T Cretaceous–Tertiary (geological boundary) K2CO3 potassium carbonate (aka potash) K2Cr2O7 potassium dichromate +K2O potassium oxide K2S3O5 potassium metabisulphite KA Kansas / Kings Arms kA kiloampere (1000 amperes) +KanjiVG = Chinese character description language based on SVG +KAR King's African Rifles KARNAC Knowledge-Aided Retrieval in Activity Context (= terrorist profiling) +KASG Knightly Association of St George the Martyr +KB Kilobyte / keyboard / Knowledge Base / Kiss Back / Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath / Kommanditbolag (= Ltd partnership co. in Sweden) Kb Kilobit -KB Kilobyte / keyboard / Knowledge Base / Kiss Back / Knight commander of the Order of the Bath / Kommanditbolag (= Ltd partnership co. in Sweden) KBD keyboard -KBE Knight commander of the Order of the British Empire -KBO Keep Buggering On +KBE Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire +KBO Keep Buggering On / Kuiper Belt Object KBPS Kilobits Per Second kBq kilobequerel (1000 bequerels) KBr potassium bromide -kC kilocoulomb (1000 coulombs) KC King's Counsel +kC kilocoulomb (1000 coulombs) +KC4H5O6 potassium hydrogen tartrate (aka cream of tartar) KCB Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCBIWIYWI Keep Coming Back, It Works If You Work It kcd kilocandela (1000 candelas) -KCH Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order -KCIE Knight Commander of Order of the Indian Empire +KCH King's College Hospital / Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic/Hanoverian Order +KCHS Knight Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre +KCIE Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire KCK Kansas City, Kansas +KCL King's College London KCl potassium chloride KCMG Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George KCMO Kansas City, Missouri KCO Kings Chamber Orchestra +KCS King's College School +KCSG Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great KCSI Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India +KCSS Knight Commander of the Order of St Sylvester KCVO Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order KD = Ltd partnership in Serbia &c KDA Komanditno Druzhestvo S Aktzii (= Ltd partnership co. with shares in Bulgaria) KDE K Desktop Environment +KDG King's Dragoon Guards +KDM KDE Display Manager KDW Keep Digging, Watson -KE Kentucky +KE Kentucky / Kenya (ISO code) KEAH Kill Everyone After Hours +KEH King Edward's Horse (Regiment) +KEIS Kanji processing Extended Information System (Hitachi character encoding based on EBCDIC) +KEO King Edward's Own +KERS Kinetic Energy Recovery System (= regenerative braking) KES Kenyan shillings -keV kilo electron volt (1000 electron volts) +KEV Key/Encoded-Value +keV kilo-electron volt (1000 electron volts) KEWL cool -kF kilofarad (1000 farads) KF Kommunalt Foretak (= municipal co. in Norway) +kF kilofarad (1000 farads) +KF8 Kindle Format 8 (ebook format) KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken +KFM Key Feedback Mode (cryptography) KFT Korlátolt Felelösségü Társaság (= Ltd co. in Hungary) KFY Kiss For You +KG Knight of the Order of the Garter / Kommanditgesellschaft (= Ltd partnership co. in Germany &c) / Kyrgyzstan (ISO code) kg kilogram (1000 grams) -KG Knight of the Order of the Garter / Kommanditgesellschaft (= Ltd partnership co. in Germany &c) -KGAA Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (= master limited partnership co. in Germany) +KGaA Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (= master limited partnership co. in Germany) KGB Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (= Committee for State Security) +KGFS King George's Fund for Sailors KGS Kyrgyzstani soms (ccy) +KGStJ Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem +KGVO King George V's Own kGy kilogray (1000 grays) +KH Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order / Cambodia (ISO code) kH kilohenry (1000 henrys) -KH Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order +KHC Honorary Chaplain to the King KHC4H4O6 potassium bitartrate (aka cream of tartar) +KHDS Honorary Dental Surgeon to the King +KHP Honorary Physician to the King KHR Cambodian riels (ccy) +KHS Honorary Surgeon to the King / Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre/Spirit KHT Közhasznú Társaság (= community-interest Ltd co. in Hungary) +KHTML KDE Hyper-Text Mark-up Language (layout engine) KHUF Know How You Feel KHYF Know How You Feel kHz kilohertz (1000 hertz) -KI potassium iodide +KI potassium iodide / Kiribati (ISO code) KIA Killed In Action +KIAD Kent Institute of Art and Design KIBO Knowledge In, Bulls*** Out +KIO KDE Input/Output +KIPI KDE Image Plug-in Interface KIPPERS Kids In Parents' Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings KIPS Thousands of Instructions Per Second KIQ Keep It Quiet KIR Keep It Real KISS Keep It Simple, Stupid KIT Keep In Touch -KITA Kick In The Arse -KITB Kick In The Butt +KitA Kick in the Arse +KitB Kick in the Butt kJ kilojoule (1000 joules) +KJS KDE JavaScript (engine) +KJStJ Knight of Justice of the Order of St John of Jerusalem KJV King James (Authorised) Version (of the Bible) KK Kabushika Kaisha (= Ltd co. in Japan) kK kiloKelvin (1000 Kelvin) kkat kilokatal (1000 katals) KKK Ku Klux Klan KKT Közkereseti Társaság (= partnership co. in Hungary) KLB Known Lazy Bastard KLF Kopyright Liberation Front +KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (= Royal Dutch Air Lines) klm kilolumen (1000 lumens) -KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Air Lines) +KLoC kilo-Lines of Code klx kilolux (1000 lux) +KM Knowledge Machine / Comoros (ISO code) / Knight of Malta km kilometre (1000 metres) -KM Knowledge Machine KMA Kiss My Arse +KMB Kiss My Butt KMDF Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (Windows) KMF Comoro francs KMG Kiss My Grits KMI Keep Me Informed +KMN Kesatria Mangku Negara (Malaysian decoration) KMnO4 potassium permanganate kmol kilomole (1000 moles) +KMP Keep Me Posted +KMSMA Kiss My Shiny Metal Ass KMYF Kiss Me, You Fool +KN Saint Kitts and Nevis (ISO code) kN kilonewton (1000 newtons) KNO3 potassium nitrate (aka saltpetre) KO Knobs On / Knock-Out -KOC Kiss On Cheek +KoC Kiss on Cheek KOH potassium hydroxide (aka caustic potash) -KOL Kiss On Lips +KOI Kod Obmena Informatsiey (= Code for Information Exchange) +KOI-8 Kod Obmena Informatsiey (= Code for Information Exchange), 8-bit +KOI7 Kod Obmena Informatsiey (= Code for Information Exchange), 7-bit +KOI8 Kod Obmena Informatsiey (= Code for Information Exchange), 8-bit +KOI8-CS Kod Obmena Informatsiey (= Code for Information Exchange), 8-bit, for Czech and Slovakian +KOI8-O Kod Obmena Informatsiey (= Code for Information Exchange), 8-bit, for Old Russian +KOI8-R Kod Obmena Informatsiey (= Code for Information Exchange), 8-bit, for Russian and Bulgarian +KOI8-T Kod Obmena Informatsiey (= Code for Information Exchange), 8-bit, for Tajik +KOI8-U Kod Obmena Informatsiey (= Code for Information Exchange), 8-bit, for Ukrainian and Belorussian +KoL Kiss on Lips KONP Keep Our NHS Public (campaign) -KOSM Keeper of Sasha's Memory -KOTC Kiss On The Cheek -KOTL Kiss On The Lips -KP Knight of the Order of St Patrick +KORBR King's Own Royal Border Regiment +KORR King's Own Royal Regiment +KOSB King's Own Scottish Borderers +KOSM Keeper Of Sasha's Memory +KotC Kiss on the Cheek +KotL Kiss on the Lips +KOYLI King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry +KP Knight of the Order of St Patrick / North Korea (ISO code) / Kiddie Porn / Kernel Panic kPa kilopascal (1000 pascals) +KPFSM King's Police and Fire Service Medal KPG Kilometres Per Gallon -KPH Kilometres Per Hour +KPH Kilometres Per Hour / Keystrokes Per Hour KPI Key Performance Indicator +KPM King's Police Medal +KPN Koninklijke PTT Nederland (Dutch telecomms provider) +KPS Kilometres Per Second KPW North Korean won (ccy) +KR South Korea (ISO code) Kr krypton KRAT Krasnoyarsk Time (= UTC+7) +KRDC KDE Remote Desktop Connection +KRI King's Royal Irish KRL Knowledge Representation Language +KRRC King's Royal Rifle Corps KRW South Korean won (ccy) -KS Kansas / = Ltd partnership co. in Denmark &c -ks kilosecond (1000 seconds) +KS Kansas / King's Scholar (Eton College) / = Ltd partnership co. in Denmark &c kS kilosiemens (1000 siemens) +ks kilosecond (1000 seconds) +KS-X-1001 Korean Graphic Character Set for Information Interchange KSA Key-Scheduling Algorithm +KSG Knight of the Order of St Gregory the Great KSHV Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpes Virus -KST Korea Standard Time (= UTC+9) +KSLI King's Shropshire Light Infantry +KSS Knight of the Order of St Sylvester / Kinetic Style Sheets +KST Korea Standard Time (= UTC+9) / Know Sure Thing oscillator (finance) +KStJ Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem kSv kilosievert (1000 sieverts) +KT Knight of the Order of the Thistle / Knowledge Transfer / Kensington Temple / Korea Telecom / = Ltd partnership co. in Ukraine +Kt Knight Bachelor / carat kT kilotesla (1000 teslas) -KT Knight of the Order of the Thistle / = Ltd partnership co. in Ukraine +kt kiloton (1000 tons) +KTB Okay, Thanks, Bye KTCOOTN Keep This Crap Out Of This Newsgroup -KTHX Okay, thanks. -KTHXBAI Okay, thanks. Bye. +KTHNX Okay, Thanks +KTHNXBAI Okay, Thanks. Bye. +KTHNXBI Okay, Thanks. Bye. +KTHX Okay, Thanks +KTHXBAI Okay, Thanks. Bye. +KTHXBI Okay, Thanks. Bye. KUATB Keep Up At The Back KUB Komanditine ukine bendrija (= Ltd partnership co. in Lithuania) -KUTA Kick Up The Arse -KUTGSAWYAD Keep Up The Good Spirit And Whatever You Are Doing -KUTGW Keep Up The Good Work +KUtA Kick Up the Arse +KUtGSaWYAD Keep Up the Good Spirit and Whatever You Are Doing +KUtGW Keep Up the Good Work +KV Köchel-Verzeichnis (= Köchel Catalogue of works by Mozart) / Közös Vállalat (= joint venture co. in Hungary) kV kilovolt (1000 volts) -KV Közös Vállalat (= joint venture co. in Hungary) KVCD K Video Compression Dynamics KVM Keyboard, Video, Mouse +KVP Key-Value Pair +KW Kuwait (ISO code) kW kilowatt (1000 watts) kWb kiloweber (1000 webers) KWD Kuwaiti dinars (ccy) KWIM Know What I Mean? KWIMH Know What I Mean, Henry? -KY Kentucky / KY Jelly / Kommandiittiyhtiö (= Ltd partnership co. in Finland) +KY K-Y Jelly / Kentucky / Cayman Islands (ISO code) / Kommandiittiyhtiö (= Ltd partnership co. in Finland) KYA Know Your Audience KYC Know Your Customer KYD Cayman Islands dollars KYHO Keep Your Hair On KYHOOYA Keep Your Head Out Of Your Arse KYHOWYCA Keep Your Hands Off What You Can't Afford KYPO Keep Your Pants On +KZ Kazakhstan (ISO code) KZT Kazakhstani tenge (ccy) -L laugh / large +L laugh / large / Logarithmic-space (complexity) / 50 (Roman numeral) L&B Lo and Behold L&G Legal & General Group PLC +L&H Love and Hugs +L&K Love and Kisses L1 Lagrangian point 1 (directly between two masses) L10N Localisation L2 Lagrangian point 2 (directly beyond the smaller mass) L2BS Licence To BS L2M Listening To Music @@ -5280,319 +8299,450 @@ L3 Lagrangian point 3 (directly beyond the larger mass) L4 Lagrangian point 4 (60° ahead of the smaller mass) L5 Lagrangian point 5 (60° behind the smaller mass) L8R later L8RG8R Later, 'Gater +LA Los Angeles / Local Authority / Low Alcohol / London Assembly / Lab Assistant / Lower Ancoats / Louisiana / Laos (ISO code) La lanthanum -LA Los Angeles / Local Authority / Low Alcohol / Lower Ancoats / Louisiana -LAA Local Area Agreement -LAB Lo And Behold -LAB&TYD Life's A Bitch, And Then You Die -LABATYD Life's A Bitch, And Then You Die -LABTYD Life's A Bitch, and Then You Die -LAC Latin America and Caribbean +LAA Local-Area Agreement / Light Anti-Aircraft +LAAS Local-Area Augmentation System +LAB Lo And Behold / Life's A Bitch / Licentiate of the Associated Board (of the Royal Schools of Music) +LaB&TYD Life's a Bitch, and Then You Die +LaBaTYD Life's a Bitch, and Then You Die +LaBTYD Life's a Bitch, and Then You Die +LAC Latin America and Caribbean / Leading Aircraftsman +LACOTS Local Authorities' Co-ordination of Trading Standards Committee +LACSAB Local Authorities' Conditions of Service Advisory Board LADSPA Linux Audio Developers Simple Plug-in API LADWAB Like A Dog With A Bone -LAGNAF Let's All Get Naked And F*** -LAK Lao kips (ccy) +LAGNaF Let's All Get Naked and F*** +LAH Love And Hugs / Licentiate of the Apothecaries Hall, Dublin +LAK Love And Kisses / Lao kips (ccy) LALR Look-Ahead, Left-to-right, Rightmost-derivation (parser) +LALR(1) Look-Ahead, Left-to-right, Rightmost-derivation, with one look-ahead symbol (parser) +LAM Leave A Message +LAMDA London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art LAMDILLIGAF Look At Me, Do I Look Like I Give A F***? LAME LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder LAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python +LAMSAC Local Authorities' Management Services and Computer +LAMTPI Legal Association Member of the Town Planning Institute (now LMRTPI) LAN Local-Area Network LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory -LAP Local Area Partnership +LAP Local-Area Partnership LAPACK software library for linear algebra -LAPB Link-Access Procedure, Balanced (x.25) +LaPADA London and Provincial Antique Dealers' Association +LAPB Link-Access Procedure, Balanced (X.25) LAPD Los Angeles Police Department LAPF Link-Access Procedure for Frame relay LAQ Lame-Arsed Quote LARA Land Access and Recreation Association LARP Live-Action Role-Playing (game) LART Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool LAS London Ambulance Service / League of Arab States LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation -LATA Local-Access Transport Area (US telecomms) +LAT ‘Los Angeles Times’ / latitude / Local Area Transport (DEC) +LATA Local-Access Transport Area (US telecoms) LATIN Lembaga Alam Tropika Indonesia (= Indonesian Institute of Tropical Nature) +LAV Light Armoured Vehicle / Leisure Activity Vehicle / Load Average LAX Los Angeles International Airport LAY Looking At You -LB Living Bible +LB Living Bible / Lebanon (ISO code) LBA Logical Block Address / Leeds Bradford International Airport / Late Bronze Age LBB Little Black Box -LBC London's Biggest Conversation (radio station) +LBC London's Biggest Conversation (radio station) / London Broadcasting Company LBD Little Black Dress -LBGT Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Trans-gender +LBGT Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Trans-gendered +LBGTI Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Trans-gendered, Intersex LBICPHAGAS Leans Back In Chair, Pours Him/Herself Another Glass, And Sulks -LBJ Lyndon Baines Johnson / Ligh-Bulb Joke +LBIPP Licentiate of the British Institute of Professional Photographers +LBJ Lyndon Baines Johnson / Light-Bulb Joke +LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory +LBoJ Little Bundle of Joy LBP Lebanese pounds +LBR Little Boy's Room LBS London Business School / Local Bike Shop / London Bus Syndrome LBSB Little Blue Smoke Box -LBT Linus B. Torvalds (Linux creator) +LBSR London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway +LBT Linus Benedict Torvalds (Linux creator) LBV Load-Bearing Vest LBW Leg Before Wicket -LC Inductor-Capacitor +LC Inductor-Capacitor / Saint Lucia (ISO code) / 90 (Roman numeral) +LCARS Library Computer Access/Retrieval System (Star Trek) +LCAS Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme +LCB Lying, Cheating Bastard / Lower Confidence Bound / Low-Carbon Building / London City Bond / Lancashire Cricket Board / London College of Business / London Children's Ballet / Line/Link/Log/Logic Control Block / Longitudinal Centre of Buoyancy LCC London County Council (obs.) / Little C Compiler LCD Liquid-Crystal Display / Lord Chancellor's Department (obs.) / Lowest Common Denominator -LCFR Liquid Chloride Fast Reactor +LCDS London Contemporary Dance Studio +LCDT London Contemporary Dance Theatre +LCF Logic for Computable Functions (theorem prover) +LCFR Liquid-Chloride Fast Reactor / Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor LCG Linear Congruential Generator (of random numbers) / Lord's Cricket Ground / London Computer Group (now BCS) +LCGI Licentiate of the City and Guilds of London Institute +LCh Licentiate in Surgery +LCJ Lord Chief Justice LCM Least Common Multiple LCOS Liquid-Crystal On Silicon -LCP London Classical Players +LCP Liquid Crystal Polymer / Licentiate of the College of Preceptors / London Classical Players LCPK London Communities' Priestess of Kink (= Mme Tytania) LCR Light Carpet Rules (no staining substances, no shoes) +LCST Licentiate of the College of Speech Therapists LCV Light Commercial Vehicle LCY London City Airport -LD Later, Dude / Liberal Democrat / LaserDisc / Long-Distance +LD Later, Dude / Liberal Democrat / LaserDisc / Long-Distance / 450 (Roman numeral) LD-CELP Low-Delay Code-Excited Linear Prediction LD50 Lethal Dose, 50% LDA London Development Agency LDAP Lightweight Directory-Access Protocol LDC Less-Developed Country LDD Lah-Dee-Dah +LDDC London Docklands Development Corporation LDL Low-Density Lipoprotein (‘bad’ cholesterol) LDL&S Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics -LDLAS Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics +LDLaS Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics LDM Logical Data Model -LDR Long-Distance Relationship -LDS Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (= Mormons) / Licence in Dental Surgery +LDO Like, Duhhhh, Obviously! +LDOCE Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English +LDPE Low-Density Polyethene +LDR Long-Distance Relationship / Low Data Rate +LDR-UWB Low-Data-Rate Ultra-Wide-Band (radio) +LDS Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (= Mormons) / Licentiate of Dental Surgery +LDSRCS Licentiate in Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons LDTTWA Let's Do The Time Warp Again LDTV Low-Definition Television -LDV Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard) -LE Logical Extents +LDV Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard) / Laser Doppler Vibrometry / 455 (Roman numeral) +LE Logical Extents / Less than or Equal to LEA Local Education Authority +LEAA (US) Law Enforcement Assistance Administration LEAF LSC Employees Accessibility Forum +LEB London Electricity Board LEC Local Exchange Carrier / Light-Emitting Capacitor / Levelised Energy Cost / LucasArts Entertainment Company / Levy Exemption Certificate (UK Climate-Change Levy) LED Light-Emitting Diode -LENR Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (= cold fusion) +LEL Lower Explosive Limit +LEM Lunar Excursion Module (= LM) +LENR Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (aka cold fusion) LEO Low Earth Orbit / Lyons Electronic Office / Law Enforcement Officer -LEP Light-Emitting Polymer / Large Electron-positron Collider / Limited English Proficiency +LEP Light-Emitting Polymer / Large Electron-Positron Collider (CERN) / Limited English Proficiency +LEPRA Leprosy Relief Association LETS Local Exchange Trading System LEU Lightly-Enriched Uranium -LF Low-Frequency / Line Feed +LEZ Low-Emission Zone +LF Low-Frequency / Line Feed / Left-Facing / Land Forces / Libya Fezzan (ISO code) (now LY) LFB London Fire Brigade LFD Large-Format Display / Licensed Funeral Director / Late For Dinner / Login Failure Daemon LFE Low-Frequency Effects LFF London Fetish Fair +LFH Low-Force Helix (60-pin connector, dual-link VGA or DVI &c) +LFL Lower Flammable Limit +LFM Linear Frequency Modulation LFMF Learn From My Fail LFN Long Filename -LFNs Long Filenames LFO Low-Frequency Oscillator / London Festival Orchestra LFOD Live Free Or Die! +LFR Lead-cooled Fast Reactor LFS Log-Structured/Live/Logic/Local File-System / Large File Support / London Film School / Linux From Scratch -LFT Life Functions Terminated +LFT Liver Function Test / Limited Functional Test / Low-Frequency Transmitter / Life Functions Terminated +LFTB Lean Finely-Textured Beef (recovered meat) LFTR Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor -LG Let's Go +LG Let's Go / Life Guards / Lovely Greetings / Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter LGA (UK) Local Government Act 2000 LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans-gendered -LBGT Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Trans-gendered -LGTB Lesbian, Gay, Trans-gendered, Bisexual -GLBP Gateway Load-Balancing Protocol (Cisco) -GLBT Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-gendered -GBLT Gay, Lesbian, Lesbian, Trans-gendered -GLTB Gay, Lesbian, Trans-gendered, Bisexual +LGBTI Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans-gendered, Intersex LGI Leeds General Infirmary / Local Government Institute LGM Little Green Men LGPL (GNU) Lesser General Public Licence +LGR Little Girl's Room +LGSM Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama LGT Link Goes To +LGTB Lesbian, Gay, Trans-gendered, Bisexual LGV Light Goods Vehicle LGW Gatwick Airport -LH Left-Hand -LHC Large Hadron Collider / Leader of the House of Commons +LH Left-Hand(ed) / Light Horse +LHC Large Hadron Collider (CERN) / Leader of the House of Commons +LHD Litterarum Humaniorum Doctor (= Doctor of Humane Letters) LHL Leader of the House of Lords LHM Lord, Help Me LHO Laughing Head Off +LHP Left-Hand Page LHR Left-Hand Rule / Laser Hair Removal / London Heathrow Airport LHS Left-Hand Side LHSF Let's Have Some Fun +LHSM Licentiate of the Institute of Health Services Management LHST Lord Howe Standard Time (= UTC+10:30) LHU Lord, Help Us +LI Light Infantry / Liechtenstein (ISO code) / 51 (Roman numeral) Li lithium -LI-ION Lithium Ion Li-Ion Lithium Ion LIA Lost In Action +LIBC Lloyd's Insurance Brokers' Committee +LibDem Liberal Democrat LIBID Type Library Identifier LIBOR London Inter-Bank Offered Rate LIC Licensed Internal Code +LICC London Institute for Contemporary Christianity LICGAF Like I Could Give A F*** -LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging +LIDaR Light Detection and Ranging +Lieut-Col Lieutenant-Colonel LIF Low Insertion Force LIFER Lazy Incompetent F***er Evading Responsibility +LIFFE London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange LIFO Last-In, First-Out LIHOP Let It Happen On Purpose -LIION Lithium Ion +LII 52 (Roman numeral) +LIII 53 (Roman numeral) +LIIII 54 (Roman numeral) LiIon Lithium Ion LILO Last In, Last Out / Left In, Left Out / Linux Loader LIM Lotus Intel Microsoft Expanded-Memory Specification +LIMH Laughing In My Head LINPACK software library for linear algebra LINT Line Islands Time (= UTC+14) +LIOB Licentiate of the Institute of Building LIRGAS Like I Really Give A S*** LIS Lost In Space / Location Information Server / Laboratory/Local Information System / Language-Independent Specification / Laser Isotope Separation / Life Insurance Settlement / Locked-In Syndrome / Library and Information Science LISP List Processing (language) LIT Local Income Tax / Long Island Iced Tea +LitHum Literæ Humaniores (= Advanced Studies) LITSFA Life Is Too Short For Acronyms +LittD Doctor of Letters (Cambridge and Dublin) +LIV 54 (Roman numeral) LIW Long Instruction Word / Low-Intensity Warfare +LIX 59 (Roman numeral) LJ Little Jobs / LiveJournal / LaserJet LJBF Let's Just Be Friends +LK Sri Lanka (ISO code) LKML Linux Kernel Mailing List +LKQCP Licentiate of the King and Queen's College of Physicians (Ireland) LKR Sri Lanka rupees -LL Leased Line / Left-to-right, Leftmost-derivation (parser) +LL Leased Line / Lower Left / Left-to-right, Leftmost-derivation (parser) LL&P Live Long and Prosper -LLA Lady Literate in Arts -LLAD Laughs Like A Drain -LLAL Laughing Like A Lunatic -LLAM Laughs Like A Maniac -LLAP Live Long And Prosper -LLB Legum Baccalaureus (= bachelor of laws) -LLC Logical Link Control / Limited-Liability Company -LLD doctor of laws -LLL Low-Level Language +LL/SC Load-Link/Store-Conditional (machine instructions) +LLA Link-Local Address / Latitude, Longitude, Altitude / Lady Literate in Arts +LLaD Laughs Like a Drain +LLaL Laughing Like a Lunatic +LLAM Laughs Like a Maniac +LLaP Live Long and Prosper +LLB Legum Baccalaureus (= Bachelor of Laws) +LLC Logical Link Control (Ethernet) / Limited-Liability Company +LLCM Licentiate of the London College of Music +LLCM(TD) Licentiate of the London College of Music (Teacher's Diploma) +LLD Legum Doctor (= Doctor of Laws) / Low-Level Design / Ladder Logic Diagram +LLF Low-Level Format / Line Loss Factor +LLFP Long-Lived Fission Product +LLI Leg-Length Inequality +LLL Low-Level programming Language / Life-Long Learning / Low-Level Lighting / Lurk, Listen, Learn / Licentiate in Laws LLLP Limited-Liability Limited Partnership -LLM master of laws +LLM Master of Laws +LLN Language, Literacy, and Numeracy / Life-long Learning Network / Law of Large Numbers (trial mean -> expected value) LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLOR Library Load Order Randomisation LLP Limited-Liability Partnership LLP64 64-bit Long-Long Integers and Pointers (data model) +LLQ Lower-Left Quadrant LLS Laughs Like S*** / ‘The Late Late Show’ / Leukæmia & Lymphoma Society / Lateral Line System (fish) / Linear Least-Squares (optimisation) / Licensed Land Surveyor / Liquid-Level Sensor / Low-Level Support / Learning and Life Skills LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous Applause LLU Local Loop Unbundling -LM LAN Manager -LMA Leave Me Alone +LLW Low-Level (nuclear) Waste +LM LAN Manager / Licentiate in Midwifery / Lunar Module / 950 (Roman numeral) +LMA Leave Me Alone / League Managers' Association +LMABO Laughing My Arse Back On LMAO Laughing My Arse Off LMAOROTF Laughing My Arse Off Rolling On The Floor +LMAP Leave Me Alone, Please LMB Left Mouse Button +LMBC Lady Margaret Boat Club (St John's College, Cambridge) +LMBO Laughing My Butt Off LMC Let Me See / Lost My Connection +LMCC Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada +LMCFR Liquid-Metal-Cooled Fast Reactor LMCOA Lost My Connection Once Again LMFAO Laughing My Fat Arse Off +LMFBR Liquid-Metal-cooled Fast-Breeder Reactor +LMFR Liquid-Metal-cooled Fast Reactor +LMGTFY Let Me Google That For You +LMH Lady Margaret Hall (Oxford) LMHO Laughing My Head Off LMIRL Let's Meet In Real Life LMK Let Me Know +LML Lazy ML (computer language) +LMMS Linux Multi-Media Studio LMMWUR Loyal Master Mariner in cix:wur LMP London Mozart Players +LMRTPI Legal Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute LMS Let Me See / London Mathematical Society / Long, Medium, Short (colour space) LMSO Laughing My Socks Off +LMSSA Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery of the Society of Apothecaries LMTFA Leave Me The F*** Alone LMTM Like Me (Trademark) LMTO Laughing My Tits Off / Tampon Out LMWIS Lick Me Where I Sweat +LN Left Nothing +LNA Locked Nucleic Acid +LNat&U Liberal National and Unionist LNB Low Noise Block (downconverter) +LNC Leszynski Naming Convention LNER London and North Eastern Railway LNG Liquefied Natural Gas -LOA List Of Acronyms / Love On Arrival +LNH Love 'n' Hugs +LNK Love 'n' Kisses +LO hello / Log Off/Out / Law and Order / Liquid Oxygen / Local Oscillator / Liaison/Loan Officer / Left/Lights Out / Lunar Orbit/er / Laser Optics / Local Optimisation / Learning Objective / Leader of the Opposition / London Overground / Legal/Law Office/r +LoA List of Acronyms / Love on Arrival LOAEL Lowest-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level -LOC Lines of Code -LOCA Loss-of-Coolant Accident +LoB Load of Bollocks +LoC Lines of Code / Loss of Consciousness +LoCA Loss-of-Coolant Accident +LOCO Low-Complexity Lossless Compression LOCOG London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games -LOFAR Low-Frequency Array (radio-telescope) -LoFAr Low-Frequency Array (radio-telescope) +LoEG League of Extraordinary Gentlemen +LoFAr Low-Frequency Array (radio-telescope in Europe) LOFT Line-Oriented Flight Training -LOG League Of Gentlemen +LoG League of Gentlemen LOHICA Look Out, Here It Comes Again -LOI Lack Of Interest -LOIS Laughing On The Inside +LoI Lack of Interest +LOIS Laughing On the Inside LOL Laughing Out Loud / Lots Of Luck/Love / Little Old Lady LOLA Laughing Out Loud Again -LOLAROTG Laughing Out Loud And Rolling On The Ground +LOLaRotG Laughing Out Loud and Rolling on the Ground LOLOL Lots Of Laughing Out Loud / Laughing Out Loud On-Line LOLS Laughs Out Loud -LOMBARD Load Of Money But A Right Dick-head -LOMF Lack of Moral Fibre -LOML Light Of My Life -LOOB Load Of Old Bollocks +LOMBARD Load Of Money, But A Right Dick-head +LoMF Lack of Moral Fibre +LoML Light/Love of My Life +LOMLILY Light Of My Life, I Love You +LoOB Load of Old Bollocks LOOL Laughing Out Outrageously Loud -LOPA Loss-of-Pumping Accident / Layer-of-Protection Analysis +LOPA Loss-Of-Pumping Accident / Layer-Of-Protection Analysis LOPSOD Long On Promises, Short On Delivery LOQ Laughing Out Quietly -LORAN Long-Range Navigation -LoRaN Long-Range Navigation +LoRaN Long-Range Navigation (radio system) LOTA Lot Of Them About -LOTOS Language of Temporal Ordering Specification -LOTR J.R.R.Tolkien's ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ -LOTSW ‘Last Of The Summer Wine’ +LotI Laughing on the Inside +LoTOS Language of Temporal Ordering Specification +LotR J.R.R.Tolkien's ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ +LotSW ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ LOTUS Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious -LOW Laugh Out Wickedly +LoUC Law of Unintended Consequences +LOW Laughs Out Wickedly LOWNBTD Laid Off With Nothing Better To Do +LOx Liquid Oxygen LP Labour Party / Low Pressure / Long-Playing (record) / Linear Prediction / Limited Partnership LP64 64-bit Long Integers and Pointers (data model) LPB Low-Ping Bastard -LPC Linear Predictive Coding / Low Pin Count (bus) / Lars Pensjö C (programming language) -LPCM Linear Pulse Code Modulation +LPC Linear Predictive Coding / Low Pin Count (bus) / Lamppost Cache / Lars Pensjö C (programming language) +LPCM Linear Pulse-Code Modulation +LPEA Licentiate Physical Education Association LPF Lijst Pim Fortuyn / Low-Pass Filter LPG Liquified Petroleum Gas +LPh Licentiate in Philosophy LPI Linux Professional Institute LPL Liverpool John Lennon Airport LPO London Philharmonic Orchestra LPPL LaTeX Project Public Licence -LPS Litres/Lines Per Second / Linear Power Supply / Long-Playing records / Low-Pressure Sodium (vapour lamps) +LPS Litres/Lines Per Second / Linear Power Supply / Long-Playing records / Low-Pressure Sodium (vapour lamp) / Live Pricing System / Lightweight Portable Security (Linux distro) LPT Line Print Terminal +LPTB London Passenger Transport Board LPX Low Profile Extension (13×9" PC form factor) +LQG Loop Quantum Gravity LQTM Laughing Quietly To Myself -LR Land Registry +LR Lower Right / Long-Range / Land Registry / Land Rover / Light Rail / Living Room / Largest Remainder (voting) / Left-to-right, Rightmost-derivation (parser) / Liberia (ISO code) Lr lawrencium -LRAM Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music +LR(0) Left-to-right, Rightmost-derivation, with no look-ahead (parser) +LR(1) Left-to-right, Rightmost-derivation, with one look-ahead symbol (parser) +LR-WPAN Low-Rate Wireless Personal-Area Network +LRAC Long-Run Average Cost +LRAM Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music / Long-Range Attack Missile / Local/Low-power Random-Access Memory LRB Liquid Rocket Booster / London Review of Books +LRC Linear Responsibility Chart +LRCM Licentiate of the Royal College/Conservatory of Music / Long-Range Cruise Missile LRCP Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians -LRCS Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons +LRCPE Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh +LRCPI Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland +LRCPS Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons +LRCS Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons (of England) +LRCSE Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh +LRCSI Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland LRD Liberian dollars LRF Little Rubber Feet +LRFPS Licentiate of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow +LRIBA Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects +LRPS Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society +LRQ Lower-Right Quadrant +LRSC Licentiate of the Royal Society of Chemistry +LRT London Regional Transport +LRU Line-Replaceable Unit +LRV Lunar Roving Vehicle +LRW Liskov, Rivest, and Wagner (disk encryption mode) +LS Low-power Schottky (electronics) / Lesotho (ISO code) LS&B Lock, Stock, and Barrel LSA Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries / Laser Surface Authentication LSATVB Let's Start At The Very Beginning -LSB Least-Significant Bit/Byte / Lock, Stock, and Barrel / London School Board (obs.) / Linux Standard Base +LSB Least-Significant Bit/Byte / Lock, Stock, and Barrel / Linux Standard Base / Lower Sideband / London School Board (obs.) LSC Learning and Skills Council +LSCA London Society of Chartered Accountants +LScD Doctor of the Science of Law LSD Lysergic Acid Diethylamide / Lighting Solutions and Design / Libræ, Solidii, Denarii (= pounds, shillings, pence) LSDL Let Sleeping Dogs Lie LSE London School of Economics / London Stock Exchange +LSF Load-Sharing Facility / Langue des Signes Française (= French Sign Language) LSFIAB Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel -LSHIPMP Laughing So Hard I Peed My Pants +LSHIPMP Laughing So Hard I Pissed My Pants LSHMBB Laughing So Hard My Belly is Bouncing LSHMBH Laughing So Hard My Belly Hurts LSHMBIB Laughing So Hard My Belly Is Bouncing LSHMCIS Laughing So Hard My Computer Is Shaking LSHMSH Laughing So Hard My Side Hurts +LSHTM London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine LSHTTARDML Laughing So The Tears Are Running Down My Leg LSI Large-Scale Integration +LSIA Licentiate of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers LSL Link Support Layer / Lesotho loti (ccy) LSO London Symphony Orchestra / Local Shared Object LSP Less-Sensitive Person +LSQ Langue des Signes Québécoise (= Quebec Sign Language) LSU Leslie's Surrogate/Second Uncle LSV Language, Sex, Violence -LT Like That / Language, Timothy / lieutenant / Low Tension +LT Like That / “Language, Timothy!” / lieutenant / Low Tension / Less Than / Local Time / London Transport / Lady of the Thistle / Lithuania (ISO code) / Libya Tripoli (ISO code) (now LY) +Lt-Cdr Lieutenant-Commander +Lt-Col Lieutenant-Colonel +Lt-Gen Lieutenant-General LTA Lawn Tennis Association LTAN Last Thing At Night LTBALTY Let That Be A Lesson To You LTBF Learn To Be Funny LTBW Let The Buggers Wait -LTC Linear Time-Code (SMPTE) -LTD Limited company +LTC Linear Time-Code (SMPTE) / Lawn Tennis Club +LTCL Licentiate of Trinity College of Music, London +Ltd Limited company LTDA Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada (= Ltd co. in Chile) -LTE 3GPP Long-Term Evolution (telecoms network) / Line Terminating Equipment +LTE London Transport Executive (now TfL) / 3GPP Long-Term Evolution (telecoms network) / Line-Terminating Equipment +LTh Licentiate in Theology LTIC Laughing Till I Cry LTIP Laughing Till I Puke LTL Linear Temporal Logic / Lithuanian litas (ccy) -LTM Laughing To Myself / Local Training Manager +LTM Laughing To Myself / Local Training Manager / Long-Term Memory / Lamb Tikka Masala LTMSH Laughing Till My Sides Hurt LTN London Luton Airport LTNC Long Time, No See LTNS Long Time, No See LTNT Long Time, No Talk/Type LTO Linear Tape-Open LTP Learn To Play LTPWL Like The Poor Wee Lad -LTR Left-to-Right / Learn To Read / Long-Term Relationship / later +LTR Left-To-Right / Learn To Read / Long-Term Relationship / later LTRU Let The Reader Understand -LTS Laughing To Self / Life's Too Short +LTS Laughing To Self / Life's Too Short / Long-Term Support / London, Tilbury, and Southend (railway) LTU&E Life, The Universe, and Everything -LTUAE Life, The Universe, And Everything -LU London Underground +LTUaE Life, The Universe, and Everything +LU London Underground / Liberal Unionist / Luxembourg (ISO code) Lu lutetium LU4E&A Love You For Ever And Always LU4EAA Love You For Ever And Always LUA Least User Access / Least-Privileged User Account / (programming language) LUB Laughing Under Breath LUCA Last Universal Common Ancestor -LUF&A Love You Forever And Always -LUFAA Love You Forever And Always +LUF&A Love You Forever and Always +LUFaA Love You Forever and Always LUG Linux User Group LUL London Underground Limited / London University Library LULAB Love You Like A Brother LULAS Love You Like A Sister LULU Locally-Unwanted Land Use @@ -5599,43 +8749,107 @@ LUN Logical Unit Number LUSER Loser User LUSHOTHD Leave Undone Something He Ought To Have Done LUT Look-Up Table LUWAMH Love You With All My Heart -LV Logical Volume +LV Logical Volume / 55 (Roman numeral) / Latvia (ISO code) +LV-ROM LaserVision Read-Only Memory +LV2 Linux Audio Developers Simple Plug-in API, version 2 +LVCM Licentiate of the Victoria College of Music LVD Low Voltage Differential +LVEM Low-Voltage Electron Microscope +LVI 56 (Roman numeral) +LVII 57 (Roman numeral) +LVIII 58 (Roman numeral) +LVIIII 59 (Roman numeral) LVL Latvian lats (ccy) LVM Logical Volume Manager -LVO Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order +LVO Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (was MVO Fourth Class) +LVROM LaserVision Read-Only Memory +LW Long-Wave (radio) +LWB Long Wheel-Base (vehicle) / Large Wide-Body (aircraft) LWH Light-Weight Helmet -LWR Launch When Ready +LWR Launch When Ready / Light-Water Reactor LWT Look Who's Talking / London Weekend Television / Light-Weight Tank +LX 60 (Roman numeral) LXDE Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment -LY Love You +LXI 61 (Roman numeral) +LXII 62 (Roman numeral) +LXIII 63 (Roman numeral) +LXIIII 64 (Roman numeral) +LXIV 64 (Roman numeral) +LXIX 69 (Roman numeral) +LXV 65 (Roman numeral) +LXVI 66 (Roman numeral) +LXVII 67 (Roman numeral) +LXVIII 68 (Roman numeral) +LXVIIII 69 (Roman numeral) +LXX 70 (Roman numeral) +LXXI 71 (Roman numeral) +LXXII 72 (Roman numeral) +LXXIII 73 (Roman numeral) +LXXIIII 74 (Roman numeral) +LXXIV 74 (Roman numeral) +LXXIX 79 (Roman numeral) +LXXV 75 (Roman numeral) +LXXVI 76 (Roman numeral) +LXXVII 77 (Roman numeral) +LXXVIII 78 (Roman numeral) +LXXVIIII 79 (Roman numeral) +LXXX 80 (Roman numeral) +LXXXI 81 (Roman numeral) +LXXXII 82 (Roman numeral) +LXXXIII 83 (Roman numeral) +LXXXIIII 84 (Roman numeral) +LXXXIV 84 (Roman numeral) +LXXXIX 89 (Roman numeral) +LXXXV 85 (Roman numeral) +LXXXVI 86 (Roman numeral) +LXXXVII 87 (Roman numeral) +LXXXVIII 88 (Roman numeral) +LXXXVIIII 89 (Roman numeral) +LXXXX 90 (Roman numeral) +LXXXXI 91 (Roman numeral) +LXXXXII 92 (Roman numeral) +LXXXXIII 93 (Roman numeral) +LXXXXIIII 94 (Roman numeral) +LXXXXIV 94 (Roman numeral) +LXXXXIX 99 (Roman numeral) +LXXXXV 95 (Roman numeral) +LXXXXVI 96 (Roman numeral) +LXXXXVII 97 (Roman numeral) +LXXXXVIII 98 (Roman numeral) +LXXXXVIIII 99 (Roman numeral) +LY Love You / Libya (ISO code) LY&LY Love You and Leave You LYC Like Your Cooking / Like You Could LYD Libyan dinars (ccy) LYL Love You Lots LYLAB Love You Like A Brother LYLAS Love You Like A Sister LYLY Love You and Leave You LYMI Love You — Mean It +LYSM Love You So Much LYVM Love You Very Much LYVVM Love You Very Very Much LYVVVM Love You Very Very Very Much LYVVVVM Love You Very Very Very Very Much +LYWAMH Love You With All My Heart LZ Lempel-Ziv (compression algorithm) / loser / Landing Zone LZ77 Lempel-Ziv 1977 (sliding-window compression algorithm) LZ78 Lempel-Ziv 1978 (dictionary-based compression algorithm) LZO Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (sliding-window compression algorithm with fast decode) LZW Lempel-Ziv-Welch (compression algorithm based on LZ78) -M medium (size) / minute +LèsL Licencié ès Lettres +M medium (size) / minute / Mature audiences (US movie rating, now PG) / 1000 (Roman numeral) M$ Microsoft M&A Mergers and Acquisitions M&S Marks & Spencer M&T Mother and Toddler M&W Mitchell and Webb +M.A. Magister Artium (= Master of Arts) +M.Sc. Master of Science M/F Male/Female M1 motorway from London to Leeds A1 M11 motorway from London to Cambridge M18 motorway in Yorkshire from Rotherham to Goole M180 motorway from Thorne M18 to A15/A180 @@ -5646,10 +8860,11 @@ M25 orbital motorway around London M26 motorway link in Kent from Sevenoaks M25 to Maidstone M20 M27 south coast motorway in Hampshire from near Southampton to Portsmouth M271 motorway spur from M27 to Romsey and Totton M275 motorway spur from Horsea Island M27 to Portsmouth +M2M Machine-to-Machine M3 motorway from London to Southampton M32 motorway spur from Winterbourne M4 to Bristol M4 motorway from London to South Wales M40 motorway from Uxbridge to Solihull M42 M42 orbital motorway around Birmingham from Bromsgrove M5 to Measham @@ -5684,166 +8899,699 @@ M80 motorway from Glasgow M7 to Stirling M9 M876 motorway from Falkirk M80 to Kincardine Bridge A876 M898 motorway spur from Erskine M8 to Erskine Bridge A898 M9 motorway from Edinburgh M8 via Stirling and Falkirk to Dunblane M90 motorway from the Forth Road Bridge to Perth -MA Mature Audience / Magister Artium (= Master of Arts) / Massachusetts / Martial Arts / Mature Audience (TV rating) / (UK) Museums Association / Measurement and Analysis / megaampere (10^6 amperes) +MA Magister Artium (= Master of Arts) / Massachusetts / Morocco (ISO code) / Martial Arts / Mature Audience (TV rating) / Moving Average / (UK) Museums Association / Measurement and Analysis / polynomial-time with a Merlin-Arthur protocol (complexity) / megaampere (10^6 amperes) mA milliampere (1/1000 amperes) MAA Multi-Area Agreement / Missed As Always / Mathematical Association of America MAABOS Mad As A Bunch Of Spiders -MAAF MadAsAFish -MAC Media Access Control / Mandatory Access Control / Multiplexed Analogue Components (unused satellite TV) +MAAEM Member of the American Association of Electro-diagnostic Medicine +MAAF MadAsAFish / Mediterranean Allied Air Forces +MAAT Member of the Association of Accounting Technicians +MABRP Member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals +MAC Media Access Control / Mandatory Access Control / Multiplexed Analogue Components (unused satellite TV) / Message Authentication Code (cryptography) +MACC Member of the American College of Cardiology +MACD Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (finance) +MACE Member of the Association of Conference Executives / Member of the Australian College of Education MACHO Massive Compact Halo Object MACINTOSH Most Applications Crash If Not The Operating System Hangs +MACM Member of the Association of Computing Machines +MACP Member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists +MACR Member of the American College of Radiology +MACS Member of the American Chemical Society MAD Mutually-Assured Destruction / Moroccan dirhams (ccy) / Magnetic Anomaly Detector MADD Mothers Against Drunk Driving +MADI Multichannel Audio Digital Interface (aka AES10) +MAE Member of the Academy of Experts (was MBAE) MAF MadAsAFish MAFF (UK) Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (now DEFRA) MAFL Manual of Air Force Law +MAgr Master of Agriculture MAGT Magadan Time (= UTC+11) MAGTF Marine Air-Ground Task Force +MAH Monocyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon MAHN Mobile Ad-Hoc Network -MAMBA Miles And Miles of Bugger All -MAN Metropolitan Area Network / Manchester Airport +MAI Master of Engineering +MAIAA Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics +MAIE Member of the British Association of Industrial Editors (now MCB) +MAIME Member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers +Maj-Gen Major-General +MAMBA Mobile Artillery Monitoring Battlefield Asset / Miles And Miles of Bugger-All +MAN Metropolitan-Area Network / Manchester Airport +MANZCP Member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists +MAO Master of Obstetric Art +MAOI Mono-Amine Oxidase Inhibitor (antidepressant) +MAP Ministry of Aircraft Production MAPI Messaging Application Programming Interface +MAPM Member of the Association of Project Managers +MaPS Member of the Association of Planning Services +MAPsS Member of the Australian Psychological Society MAR March / Master of Arts in Religion / Memory Address Register / Mid-Atlantic Ridge / Modified Aspect Ratio / Mozilla Archive Format +MArch Master of Architecture MARINE My Arse Riding In Navy Equipment +MaRV Manoeuvrable Re-entry Vehicle MARVEL Machine-Assisted Realisation of the Virtual Electronic Library +MASAE Member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers +MASc Master of Applied Science +MASCE Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers MASER Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation MASH Mobile Army Surgical Hospital -MASINT Measurement and Signature Intelligence gathering -MAT Mother And Toddler +MASINT Measurement And Signature Intelligence gathering +MASME Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers +MAT Mother And Toddler / Master of Arts in Teaching MATLAB Matrix Laboratory MATYCSASA More Acronyms Than You Can Shake A Stick At MAU Media/Multi-station Access Unit +MAusIMM Member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy MAW Model, Actress, Whatever MAY Mad About You / May MAYB Mad About You, Baby +MB megabyte / Merci Beaucoup (= thanks) / Bachelor of Medicine / Medal of Bravery / maybe / Myers-Briggs / MacBook Mb megabit -MB megabyte / Merci Beaucoup (= thanks) / bachelor of medicine MBA Master of Business Administration +MBAC Member of the British Association of Chemists +MBAE Member of the British Academy of Experts (now MAE) +MBAOT Member of the British Association of Occupational Therapists +MBC Metropolitan/Municipal Borough Council MBCS Member of the British Computer Society / Multi-Byte Character Set MBE Member of the Order of the British Empire -MBITM Much Binding In The Marsh +MBEDA Member of the Bureau of European Design +MBFR Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions +MBHI Member of the British Horological Institute +MBI Market-Based Instrument +MBIM Member of the British Institute of Management +MBIPP Member of the British Institute of Professional Photography +MBISC Member of the British Institute of Sports Coaches +MBitM Much Binding in the Marsh +MBKS Member of the British Kinematograph Society MBMNB May Be, May Not Be MBMNBWITY Might Be, Might Not Be; What's It To You? MBO Management Buy-Out / Must Be Obeyed +MBORC Matter Beyond Our Reasonable Control +MBOU Member of the British Ornithologists' Union +MBP MacBook Pro MBPS Megabits Per Second +MBPsS Member of the British Psychological Society MBq megabequerel (10^6 bequerels) mBq millibequerel (1/1000 bequerels) -MBR Master Boot Record +MBR Master Boot Record / Microwave Background Radiation +MBS Mortgage-Backed Security +MBSFN Multicast Broadcast Single-Frequency Network +MBSG Member of the British Society of Gastroenterology MBT Main Battle Tank +MBTI Myers-Briggs Type Indicator +MBTU Thousand British Thermal Units (~1.055 MJ) MBUC Mind-Bogglingly Unlikely Coincidence +MC Multiple Choice / Measurable Cardinal / Military Cross / Member of Congress / megacoulomb (10^6 coulombs) / 1100 (Roman numeral) / Monaco (ISO code) mC millicoulomb (1/1000 coulombs) -MC Multiple Choice / Measurable Cardinal / Military Cross / Member of Congress / megacoulomb (10^6 coulombs) -MCA Micro Channel Architecture / Microsoft Certified Architect / Music Corporation of America / Monetary Compensatory Amounts (the Green Pound) / (UK) Maritime and Coastguard Agency +MCA Micro Channel Architecture / Master of Creative Arts / Microsoft-Certified Architect / Music Corporation of America / Monetary Compensatory Amounts (the Green Pound) / (UK) Maritime and Coastguard Agency MCAD Microsoft Certified Application Developer +MCAM Member of the Institute of Communications, Advertising, and Marketing MCAS Microsoft Certified Application Specialist -MCB Miniature Circuit Breaker -MCC Marylebone Cricket Club +MCB Master of Clinical Biochemistry / Miniature Circuit-Breaker +MCBTY My Computer's Better Than Yours +MCBTYSN My Computer's Better Than Yours, So Nerr +MCC Marylebone Cricket Club / Metropolitan County Council / 1200 (Roman numeral) +MCCC 1300 (Roman numeral) +MCCCC 1400 (Roman numeral) +MCCCCL 1450 (Roman numeral) +MCCCL 1350 (Roman numeral) +MCCI Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Industry / 1201 (Roman 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MIHAP May I Have your Attention, Please? MIHBM May I Have BinMail? MIHBMP May I Have BinMail, Please? MIHBMT May I Have BinMail, Too? MIHBMTP May I Have BinMail, Too, Please? +MIHE Member of the Institute of Health Education +MIHort Member of the Institute of Horticulture +MIHT Member of the Institute of Highways and Transportation MIHYA May I Have Your Attention? MIHYAP May I Have Your Attention, Please? -MIL Mother-In-Law +MIIA Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors +MIIExE Member of the Institute of Incorporated Executive Engineers +MIIM Mobile Item Identification and Management / Member of the Institute of Industrial Management +MIInfSc Member of the Institute of Information Sciences (now MCLIP) +MIJI Meaconing, Intrusion, Jamming, Interference +MIL Mother-In-Law / Member of the Institute of Linguists / 1049 (Roman numeral) +MILDM Member of the Institute of Logistics and Distribution Management +MILE Member of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers MILF Mother I'd Like to F*** / Moro Islamic Liberation Front / Multi-purpose Interactive Logic Framework MILG Make It Look Good MILK Made Inside Lime-scaled Kettle +MILog Member of the Institute of Logistics MILYB May I Lick Your Boots? MILYBA May I Lick Your Boots Again? +MIM Member of the Institute of Materials (was Metals) / 1999 (Roman numeral) MIMA Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications +MIMarE Member of the Institute of Marine Engineers (now MIMarEst) +MIMarEst Member of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science, and Technology +MIMC Member of the Institute of Management Consultants +MIMCE Member of the Institute of Municipal and County Engineers MIMD Multiple-Instruction, Multiple-Data MIME Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions -MIMO Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output -MIN Mind In Neutral +MIMechE Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers +MIMfgE Member of the Institution of Manufacturing Engineers +MIMgt Member of the Institute of Management +MIMI Member of the Institute of Motor Industry +MIMinE Member of the Institution of Mining Engineers +MIMM Member of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy +MIMO Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (comms) +MIMSM Member of the Scottish Institute of Mining and Metallurgy +MIMTA Member of the Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants +MIMunE Member of the Institution of Municipal Engineers +MIMx Member of the Institute of Export +MIN Mind In Neutral / Member of the Institute of Navigation +MIngF Member of the Danish Engineers' Association MINIX Mini Unix +MInstAM Member of the Institute of Administrative Management +MInstB Member of the Institute of Bankers +MInstD Member of the Institute of Directors +MInstE Member of the Institute of Energy +MInstEnvSci Member of the Institute of Environmental Sciences +MInstF Member of the Institution of Fuel / Member of the Institute of Fundraising +MInstGasE Member of the Institution of Gas Engineers +MInstHE Member of the Institute of Highway Engineers +MInstM Member of the Institute of Marketing +MInstMC Member of the Institute of Measurement and Control +MInstMet Member of the Institute of Metals +MInstNav Member of the Institute of Navigation +MInstP Member of the Institute of Physics +MInstPet Member of the Institute of Petroleum +MInstPI Member of the Institute of Patentees and Inventors +MInstPS Member of the Institute of Purchasing and Supply (now MCIPS) +MInstR Member of the Institute of Refrigeration +MInstTT Member of the Institute of Travel and Tourism +MInstW Member of the Institute of Welding +MiNT MiNT is Now TOS (was MiNT is Not TOS) +MINucE Member of the Institution of Nuclear Engineers +MIOB Member of the Institute of Building +MIOSH Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health +MIPA Member of the Institute of Public Administration / Member of the Institution of Practitioners in Advertising +MIPD Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development +MIPDANIO Mayday, Identify, Position, Distress, Assistance, Number of crew, Information, Over (mayday signal) +MIPharmM Member of the Institute of Pharmacy Management +MIPHE Member of the Institute of Public Health Engineers +MIPlantE Member of the Institution of Plant Engineers +MIPM Member of the Institute of Personnel Management +MIPR Member of the Institute of Public Relations +MIProdE Member of the Institute of Production Engineers (now MIMfgE) MIPS Millions of Instructions Per Second / Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages +MIQ Member of the Institute of Quarrying +MIR Mail-In Rebate / Master of Industrial Relations / Mid-Infrared MIRA Motor Industry Research Association +MIRE Member of the Institution of Royal Engineers MIRL Meet In Real Life +miRNA Micro Ribonucleic Acid +MIRS Member of the Investor Relations Society +MIRSE Member of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers MIRV Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles -MIS Management Information Systems +MIS Management Information Systems / Member of the Institute of Statisticians MISD Multiple-Instruction, Single-Data +MISI Member of the Iron and Steel Institute +MISM Member of the Institute of Supervisory Management MISRA Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (and its C/C++ standards) +MIStructE Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers +MISTY Mitsubishi Improved Secure Technology (cryptography) MISYH May I Sniff Your Hat? MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Marquesas Islands Time (= UTC-9:30) +MITD Member of the Institute of Training and Development (now MIPD) +MITI Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting +MITM Man-In-The-Middle (cryptographic attack) +MITO Member of the Institution of Training Officers MITS Maritime Information Technology Standard / Michigan Information Transfer Source -MIYMBNIYH Melts In Your Mouth But Not In Your Hand +MIU Make It Up +MIUAYGA Make It Up As You Go Along +MIWE Member of the Institution of Water Engineers +MIWEM Member of the Institution of Water and Environmental Management +MIWSP Member of the Institution of Work Study Practitioners +MIYMBNIYH Melts In Your Mouth, But Not In Your Hand MJ Marijuana / megajoule (10^6 joules) mJ millijoule (1/1000 joules) -MK megaKelvin (10^6 Kelvin) +MK megaKelvin (10^6 Kelvin) / Milton Keynes / Macedonia (ISO code) mK milliKelvin (1/1000 Kelvin) Mkat megakatal (10^6 katals) mkat millikatal (1/1000 katals) MKD Macedonian denars (ccy) +MKH Magnetic Key-Holder MKOP My Kind Of Place -ML More Later / Master of Laws / licentiate of medicine / Member of the Legislature +ML More Later / Much Love / Master of Laws / licentiate of medicine / Member of the Legislature / Machine Language / MetaLanguage (computer language) / Mediæval Latin / Merrill Lynch (investment bank) / Multiple Locations / 1050 (Roman numeral) / Mali (ISO code) MLA Multiple-Letter Acronym / Member of the Legislative Assembly MLAGB Muzzle Loaders' Association of Great Britain MLB (US) Major-League Baseball +MLC Multi-Level Cell (flash) / Member of the Legislative Council +MLD 1450 (Roman numeral) +MLI Member of the Landscape Institute / 1051 (Roman numeral) +MLIA Member of the Life Insurance Association +MLib Master of Library Science +MLitt Master of Letters MLK Martin Luther King Jr +MLLW Mixed Low-Level (nuclear) Waste +MLM Multi-Level Marketing / 1950 (Roman numeral) Mlm megalumen (10^6 lumens) mlm millilumen (1/1000 lumens) 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Myanmar (aka Burma) (ISO code) Mm megametre (10^6 metres) mm millimetre (1/1000 metres) +MM/DD/YY Month Day Year (US date) +MM/DD/YYYY Month Day Year (US date) MMA Mixed Martial Arts +MMath Master of Mathematics MMB Middle Mouse Button +MMBTU Million British Thermal Units (~1.055 GJ) MMBTY My Mum's Bigger Than You -MMC Multi-Media Card / Microsoft Management Console / MIDI Machine Control -MMD Make/Made My Day / Molecular Mass Distribution +MMC MultiMedia Card / Microsoft Management Console / Multi-Member Constituency / MIDI Machine Control / (UK) Monopolies and Mergers Commission (obs.) / Member of the Magic Circle / Mobile-to-Mobile Convergence / Mitsubishi Motors Corp. / Morris Motor Co. / 2100 (Roman numeral) +MMD Make/Made My Day / Molecular Mass Distribution / 2500 (Roman numeral) +MMDDYY Month Day Year (US date) +MMDDYYYY Month Day Year (US date) MMDS Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service (now BRS) / Mortality Medical Data System -MMF Make Money Fast +MME Master of Mining Engineering +MMet Master of Metallurgy +MMF Make Money Fast / Magnetomotive Force / Male-Male-Female / Multi-Mode Fibre-optic MMFY My Mate Fancies You +MMGI Master Member of the Grocers' Institute MMHATY My Most Humble Apologies To You +mmHg milimetres of mercury (pressure) MMHS Make My Heart Sing -MMI Man-Machine Interface +MMI Man-Machine Interface / 2001 (Roman numeral) MMIF My Mouth Is Full +MMII 2002 (Roman numeral) +MMIII 2003 (Roman numeral) +MMIIII 2004 (Roman numeral) +MMIM Member of the Malaysian Institute of Management +MMin Master of Ministry MMIO Memory-Mapped Input/Output +MMIV 2004 (Roman numeral) +MMIX 2009 (Roman numeral) MMIYCWIVMD Make Me If You Can (Which I Very Much Doubt) -MMK Myanma kyats (ccy) -MMO Massively-Multiplayer Online (game) / (UK) Marine Management Organisation +MMJ Modified Modular Jack (connector) +MMK Myanmar kyats (ccy) +MML 2050 (Roman numeral) +MMLI 2051 (Roman numeral) +MMLII 2052 (Roman numeral) +MMLIII 2053 (Roman numeral) +MMLIIII 2054 (Roman numeral) +MMLIV 2054 (Roman numeral) +MMLIX 2059 (Roman numeral) +MMLV 2055 (Roman numeral) +MMLVI 2056 (Roman numeral) +MMLVII 2057 (Roman numeral) +MMLVIII 2058 (Roman numeral) +MMLVIIII 2059 (Roman numeral) +MMLX 2060 (Roman numeral) +MMLXI 2061 (Roman numeral) +MMLXII 2062 (Roman numeral) +MMLXIII 2063 (Roman numeral) +MMLXIIII 2064 (Roman numeral) +MMLXIV 2064 (Roman numeral) +MMLXIX 2069 (Roman numeral) +MMLXV 2065 (Roman numeral) +MMLXVI 2066 (Roman numeral) +MMLXVII 2067 (Roman numeral) +MMLXVIII 2068 (Roman numeral) +MMLXVIIII 2069 (Roman numeral) +MMLXX 2070 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXI 2071 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXII 2072 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXIII 2073 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXIIII 2074 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXIV 2074 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXIX 2079 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXV 2075 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXVI 2076 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXVII 2077 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXVIII 2078 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXVIIII 2079 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXX 2080 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXI 2081 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXII 2082 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXIII 2083 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXIIII 2084 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXIV 2084 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXIX 2089 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXV 2085 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXVI 2086 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXVII 2087 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXVIII 2088 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXVIIII 2089 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXX 2090 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXXI 2091 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXXII 2092 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXXIII 2093 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXXIIII 2094 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXXIV 2094 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXXIX 2099 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXXV 2095 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXXVI 2096 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXXVII 2097 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXXVIII 2098 (Roman numeral) +MMLXXXXVIIII 2099 (Roman numeral) +MMM Member of the Order of Military Merit / 3000 (Roman numeral) / Male-Male-Male +MMO Massively-Multiplayer On-line (game) / (UK) Marine Management Organisation MMOB Mind My Own Business +MMOD Micrometeoroids and Orbital Debris / Mobile Multimedia On Demand Mmol megamole (10^6 moles) mmol millimole (1/1000 moles) -MMORPG Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game +MMORG Massively-Multiplayer On-line Role-playing Game +MMORPG Massively-Multiplayer On-line Role-Playing Game +MMP Massively Multi-Player (online game) / Massive Multiprocessing / Mixed-Member Proportional (voting) / Mass-Market Paperback / Millennium Mathematics Project (Cambridge) / Miss Moneypenny +MMPC Microsoft Malware Protection Centre MMR Measles, Mumps, Rubella (vaccination) -MMS Multimedia Messaging Service / My Mother Said / Microsoft Media Server / Master of Medical Science / Master of Management Studies / Moment Magnitude Scale / Methodology Management System / Mandatory Minimum Sentencing -MMU Memory Management Unit / Manned Manœuvring Unit +MMRS Member of the Market Research Society +MMS Multimedia Messaging Service / My Mother Said / Microsoft Media Server / Master of Medical Science / Master of Management Studies / Moment Magnitude Scale (seismology) / Methodology Management System / Mandatory Minimum Sentencing +MMSA Master of Midwifery of Society of Apothecaries +MMTG Makes My Teeth Grate +MMTI Makes My Teeth Itch +MMU Memory Management Unit / Manned Manoeuvring Unit +MMus Master of Music +MMV 2005 (Roman numeral) +MMVI 2006 (Roman numeral) +MMVII 2007 (Roman numeral) +MMVIII 2008 (Roman numeral) +MMVIIII 2009 (Roman numeral) MMWUR Master Mariner in cix:wur -MMX Multi-Media Extension (Intel instruction set) +MMX Multi-Media Extension (Intel instruction set) / 2010 (Roman numeral) +MMXC 2090 (Roman numeral) +MMXCI 2091 (Roman numeral) +MMXCII 2092 (Roman numeral) +MMXCIII 2093 (Roman numeral) +MMXCIIII 2094 (Roman numeral) +MMXCIV 2094 (Roman numeral) +MMXCIX 2099 (Roman numeral) +MMXCV 2095 (Roman numeral) +MMXCVI 2096 (Roman numeral) +MMXCVII 2097 (Roman numeral) +MMXCVIII 2098 (Roman numeral) +MMXCVIIII 2099 (Roman numeral) +MMXI 2011 (Roman numeral) +MMXII 2012 (Roman numeral) +MMXIII 2013 (Roman numeral) +MMXIIII 2014 (Roman numeral) +MMXIV 2014 (Roman numeral) +MMXIX 2019 (Roman numeral) +MMXL 2040 (Roman numeral) +MMXLI 2041 (Roman numeral) +MMXLII 2042 (Roman numeral) +MMXLIII 2043 (Roman numeral) +MMXLIIII 2044 (Roman numeral) +MMXLIV 2044 (Roman numeral) +MMXLIX 2049 (Roman numeral) +MMXLV 2045 (Roman numeral) +MMXLVI 2046 (Roman numeral) +MMXLVII 2047 (Roman numeral) +MMXLVIII 2048 (Roman numeral) +MMXLVIIII 2049 (Roman numeral) +MMXV 2015 (Roman numeral) +MMXVI 2016 (Roman numeral) +MMXVII 2017 (Roman numeral) +MMXVIII 2018 (Roman numeral) +MMXVIIII 2019 (Roman numeral) +MMXX 2020 (Roman numeral) +MMXXI 2021 (Roman numeral) +MMXXII 2022 (Roman numeral) +MMXXIII 2023 (Roman numeral) +MMXXIIII 2024 (Roman numeral) +MMXXIV 2024 (Roman numeral) +MMXXIX 2029 (Roman numeral) +MMXXV 2025 (Roman numeral) +MMXXVI 2026 (Roman numeral) +MMXXVII 2027 (Roman numeral) +MMXXVIII 2028 (Roman numeral) +MMXXVIIII 2029 (Roman numeral) +MMXXX 2030 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXI 2031 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXII 2032 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXIII 2033 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXIIII 2034 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXIV 2034 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXIX 2039 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXV 2035 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXVI 2036 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXVII 2037 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXVIII 2038 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXVIIII 2039 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXX 2040 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXXI 2041 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXXII 2042 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXXIII 2043 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXXIIII 2044 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXXIV 2044 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXXIX 2049 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXXV 2045 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXXVI 2046 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXXVII 2047 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXXVIII 2048 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXXVIIII 2049 (Roman numeral) +MMXXXXX 2050 (Roman numeral) +MN Merchant Navy / Minnesota / Mongolia (ISO code) / meganewton (10^6 newtons) Mn manganese mN millinewton (1/1000 newtons) -MN Minnesota / meganewton (10^6 newtons) MNC Multi-National Corporation -MND Motor-Neurone Disease +MND Motor-Neurone Disease / A Midsummer-Night's Dream +MNECInst Member of the North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders MNF My Noble Friend MNG Multiple-image Network Graphics +MNI Member of the Nautical Institute / many MNIAP My Name Is Angus Prune MNIMC My Name Is Michael Caine +MNIMH Member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists MnO2 manganese dioxide MNP Microcom Network Protocol MNT Medical Nutrition Therapy / Mongolian tugriks (ccy) -MO Modus Operandi (= method of operating) / Magneto-Optical / Missouri +MO Modus Operandi (= method of operating) / My Opinion / Magneto-Optical / Medial Officer / Missouri / Macao (ISO code) Mo molybdenum -MOA Ministry of Agriculture -MOAB Mother Of All Bombs / Massive Ordnance Air Blast -MOAHFD Mother Of All Hell Fire & Damnation -MOAS Moon On A Stick +MOA Ministry of Agriculture / Military Operations Area +MoA Ministry of Agriculture +MoAB Mother of All Bombs / Massive Ordnance Air Blast +MoAHFD Mother of All Hell-Fire and Damnation +MoaS Moon on a Stick MOB Mad Old Bat/Bastard/Bitch / Main Operating Base -MoBo motherboard MOBO motherboard / Music of Black Origin +MoBo motherboard MOC Me Old Chum -MOD (UK) Ministry of Defence +MoD (UK) Ministry Of Defence MODEM Modulator/Demodulator +MODFET Modulation-Doped Field-Effect Transistor MOF Matter Of Fact / Male Or Female / Meta-Object Facility -MOG Mad Old Git +MOG Mad/Miserable Old Git MOGMOH Mad Old Gits' Minister Of Health (= marciaill@cix) -MOH Music On Hold -MOJ (UK) Ministry of Justice +MOH Medical Officer of Health / Music On Hold +MoI Ministry of Information / Ministry of the Interior +MoJ (UK) Ministry of Justice MOLLE Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment -MOM Message-Oriented Middleware a/ Mind Over Matter +MOM Message-Oriented Middleware / Mind Over Matter +MoMA Museum of Modern Art +MOND Modified Newtonian Dynamics +MONIAC Monetary National Income Analogue Computer MOO Matter Of Opinion / MUD, Object-Oriented MOOAMH Mountain Out Of A Mole Hill -MOOS Member Of the Opposite Sex -MOP Macanese pataca (ccy) +MoOS Member of the Opposite Sex +MOP Ministry of Power / Macanese pataca (ccy) MOPE Most-Oppressed People Ever -MOPM Minutes of Previous Meeting +MoPM Minutes of Previous Meeting MOPP Mission-Oriented Protective Posture -MOR Middle Of the Road -MORF Male Or Female? -MOS Member of the Opposite Sex / Metal-Oxide Semiconductor / Machine Operating System / Microsoft Office Specialist +MoR Middle of the Road +MorF Male or Female? +MORIS Mobile Offender Recognition and Identification System (US law enforcement) +MOS Member of the Opposite Sex / Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor / Machine Operating System / Microsoft Office Specialist / Ministry of Supply MOS-FET Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor MOSFET Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor -MOSS Member Of the Same Sex -MOT Mug Of Tea / Moment Of Truth / Ministry of Transport (and its vehicle test) -MOTAS Member(s) Of The Appropriate Sex -MOTD Message Of The Day / ‘Match of the Day’ / More on the Door -MOTM Member Of The Month -MOTO Master Of The Obvious -MOTOS Member(s) Of The Opposite Sex -MOTS More Of The Same -MOTSS Member(s) Of The Same Sex -MOTW Movie/Monster/Member/Mix/Murder of the Week / Men of the West / Mark of the Wolves/Web/Wild / More on the Way / Missions Other Than War +MoSS Member of the Same Sex +MOT Mug Of Tea / Moment Of Truth / Ministry Of Transport (and its vehicle test) +MotAS Member(s) of the Appropriate Sex +MotD Message of the Day / ‘Match of the Day’ / More on the Door +MotM Member of the Month +MotO Master of the Obvious +MotOS Member(s) of the Opposite Sex +MotS More of the Same +MotSS Member(s) of the Same Sex +MOTW Movie/Monster/Member/Mix/Murder Of The Week / Men Of The West / Mark Of The Wolves/Web/Wild / More On The Way / Missions Other Than War MOTWYW Make Of That What You Will -MOU Memorandum Of Understanding +MoU Memorandum of Understanding MOUS Microsoft Office User Specialist MOUT Military Operation in Urban Terrain MOUY Make One Up Yourself -MOWA Member Of Welsh Assembly -MOX Mixed Oxide (nuclear fuel) -MP Member of Parliament / My Pleasure / Military Police(man) / Message Passing / Northern Mariana Islands / Magic Points +MoWA Member of Welsh Assembly +MOx Mixed Oxide (nuclear fuel) +MP Member of Parliament / My Pleasure / Military Police(man) / Message Passing / Mac Pro / Northern Mariana Islands (ISO code) / Magic Points MP2 MPEG-1 Audio Layer II MP3 MPEG-1 Layer 3 (audio file) MP4 MPEG-4 Part 14 (audio/video file format) +MPA Master of Public Administration / Metropolitan Police Authority / Music Publishers Association / Master Photographers Association / Marine Protected Area MPa megapascal (10^6 pascals) mPa millipascal (1/1000 pascals) MPAA Motion Picture Association of America -MPC Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England / Media Player Classic / Media PC / Music Production Centre / the Moving Picture Company +MPBW Ministry of Public Building Works +MPC Monetary Policy Committee (of the Bank of England) / Media Player Classic / Media PC / Music Production Centre / the Moving Picture Company +MPCV Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle +MPDU Medium access control Protocol Data Unit +MPEA Member of the Physical Education Association MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group MPFC Monty Python's Flying Circus MPG Miles Per Gallon -MPH Miles Per Hour +MPH Miles Per Hour / Master of Public Health +MPhil Master of Philosophy +MPhys Master of Physics MPI Message-Passing Interface +MPICH Message-Passing Interface Chameleon MPL Mozilla Public Licence / Microsoft Public Licence MPLS Multi-Protocol Label Switching +MPMD Multiple-Program, Multiple-Data +MPO Management and Personnel Office +MPP Massively-Parallel Processors MPPDA Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (now MPAA) +MPS Metres Per Second / Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain / Metropolitan Police Service MPSCSL Metropolitan Police Service, Computer Systems Laboratory MPTY More Power To You -MPU Microprocessor Unit +MPU Microprocessor Unit / Memory Protection Unit (ARM) / Multi-Purpose/Mid-Page Unit (web ad) / Mobile/Main Power Unit MPV Multi-Purpose/Mechanically-Propelled Vehicle -MQ Message Queue / Multivariate Quadratic (equations) +MQ Message Queue / Multivariate Quadratic (equations) / Martinique (ISO code) MQV Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (key agreement protocol) -MRC Medical Research Council -MRCGP Member of the Royal College of GPs +MR Master of the Rolls / Mauritania (ISO code) +MRAC Member of the Royal Agricultural College +MRAD Member of the Royal Academy of Dancing +MRad Master of Radiology +MRAeS Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society +MRAS Member of the Royal Asiatic Society +MRBM Medium-Range Ballistic Missile +MRC (UK) Medical Research Council +MRCGP Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners +MRCOG Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynæcologists MRCP Member of the Royal College of Physicians +MRCPA Member of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia +MRCPath Member of the Royal College of Pathologists +MRCPEd Member of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh +MRCPGlas Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow +MRCPI Member of the Royal College of Physicians, Ireland +MRCPsych Member of the Royal College of Psychiatry +MRCR Member of the Royal College of Radiologists MRCS Member of the Royal College of Surgeons MRCVS Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons -MRDA Mandy Rice-Davies Applies (“Well he would, wouldn't he?”) +MRD Mandy Rice-Davies +MRDA Mandy Rice-Davies Applies (“Well he would [say that], wouldn't he?”) MRE Meal, Ready-to-Eat +MRes Master of Research MRGC Maritime Radiocommunications General Certificate -MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging +MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Member of the Royal Institution +MRIA Member of the Royal Irish Academy +MRIAI Member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland +MRIC Member of the Royal Institute of Chemistry +MRICS Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors +MRIN Member of the Royal Institute of Navigation +MRINA Member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects +MRIPHH Member of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene MRL Microsoft Reciprocal Licence MRLP Monster Raving Loony Party (c/o The Dog and Partridge, Yateley, Hants) -MRM Maintenance Resource Management -MRO Mauritanian ouguiya (ccy) +MRM Maintenance Resource Management / Mechanically-Recovered/Reclaimed Meat +mRNA Messenger Ribonucleic Acid +MRO Member of the Register of Osteopaths / Medical Review Officer / Military Response Option / Mauritanian ouguiya (ccy) MROK Moderators Rule, OK +MROS MIDI Real-time Operating System (Cubase) / Maintenance, Repair, and Operating Supplies / Material Requirements and Operating Standards +MRPharmS Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society +MRS Market/Medical Research Society MRSA Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus +MRSC Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry +MRSH Member of the Royal Society for Promotion of Health MRSL Microsoft Reference Source Licence +MRST Member of the 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Relay Protocol MSRT Malicious Software Removal Tool MSS Member(s) of the Same Sex / manuscripts +MSSCC Member of the Scottish Society of Contamination Control MSSCLI Microsoft Shared-Source Common Language Infrastructure -MST Minimal Spanning Tree / Mountain Standard Time (North America) (= UTC-7) / Malaysian Standard Time (= UTC+8) / Myanmar Standard Time (= UTC+6:30) +MSSM Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model +MSST Member of the Society of Surveying Technicians (now RICS (Tech)) +MST Minimal Spanning-Tree / Master of Sacred Theology / Mountain Standard Time (North America) (= UTC-7) / Malaysian Standard Time (= UTC+8) / Myanmar Standard Time (= UTC+6:30) +MSt Master of Studies +MSTD Member of the Society of Typographic Designers +MStJ Member of St John of Jerusalem MSTO Main Screen Turn On MSv megasievert (10^6 sieverts) mSv millisievert (1/1000 sieverts) MSVC Microsoft Visual C +MSW Master of Social Work (Canada) MSXML Microsoft XML Core Services -MT empty / Motor Transport / Machine Translation / Montana / megatesla (10^6 teslas) +MT empty / Motor Transport / Machine Translation / Montana / Malta (ISO code) / megatesla (10^6 teslas) Mt meitnerium mT millitesla (1/1000 teslas) -MT&ACW Many Thanks And Ain't CIX Wonderful +MT&ACW Many Thanks and Ain't CIX Wonderful MTA Mail Transfer Agent / Microsoft Technology Associate -MTAACW Many Thanks And Ain't CIX Wonderful +MTaACW Many Thanks and Ain't CIX Wonderful MTADP Moved To A Darker Place +MTAI Member of the Institute of Travel Agents MTALL Miracles Take A Little Longer MTAMP Moved To A Moister Place MTB Mind The Baby / Motor Torpedo Boat MTBF Mean Time Between Failures MTBMW May The Best Man Win MTC MIDI Time Code MTCO Measure Twice, Cut Once +mtDNA Mitochondrial Deoxyribonucleic Acid MTE My Thoughts Exactly MTF More To Follow MTFBWY May The Force Be With You MTFT Many Thanks For That MTFYL Mind The Formidable/Fine Young Lady MTFYLFO Mind The Formidable/Fine Young Lady For Once MTG Mind The Gap +MTh Master of 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Order MVP Most Valuable Professional MVR Maldivian rufiyaa (ccy) MVS Multiple Virtual Storage (IBM mainframe OS) +MVSc Master of Veterinary Science +MW Medium-Wave (radio) / Minimum Wage / My Way / megawatt (10^6 watts) / Midwife / Master of Wine / Malawi (ISO code) mW milliwatt (1/1000 watts) -MW Minimum Wage / megawatt (10^6 watts) MWAP Microsoft Windows Academic Programme +MWB Metropolitan Water Board MWb megaweber (10^6 webers) mWb milliweber (1/1000 webers) MWBRL More Will Be Revealed Later MWCNT Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes MWD Military Working Dog +MWeldI Member of the Welding Institute +MWHAP May We Have A Picture? MWK Malawian kwacha (ccy) MWTFDTSF Martin, What The Fluff Does That Stand For? -MX Mail exchange (record) +MX Mail exchange (record) / Mexico (ISO code) / 1010 (Roman numeral) MXF Material Exchange Format +MXM 1990 (Roman numeral) +MXMI 1991 (Roman numeral) +MXMII 1992 (Roman numeral) +MXMIII 1993 (Roman numeral) +MXMIV 1994 (Roman numeral) +MXMIX 1999 (Roman numeral) +MXMVI 1996 (Roman numeral) +MXMVII 1997 (Roman numeral) +MXMVIII 1998 (Roman numeral) MXN Mexican pesos +MY Motor Yacht / Miss You / Malaysia (ISO code) +MYA Missing You Already / Million Years Ago MYMU Make Your Mind Up MYOB Mind Your Own Business MYR Malaysian ringgit (ccy) MYSM Miss You So Much +MYVM Miss You Very Much +MZ Mozambique (ISO code) MZN Mozambican metical (ccy) N North (0°) / nitrogen N&PMW New and Prospective Members Welcome N-E-1 Anyone N-E-1ER Anyone Here? N/A Not Applicable/Acceptable/Available -N/M Never Mind +N/C Not Cool +N/M Never Mind / Nothing Much N/P No Problem N1 Nice One N2 nitrogen gas -N2M Not to Mention +N2H4 hydrazine +N2M Not to Mention / Not Too Much N2O nitrous oxide N2S Needless to Say -nA nanoampere (10^-9 amperes) -NA Never Again / Not Applicable / Neither Apply / (US) National Association +NA Never Again / Not Applicable / Neither Apply / (US) National Association / Namibia (ISO code) Na sodium +nA nanoampere (10^-9 amperes) Na2B4O710H2O sodium borate -NA2CO3 sodium carbonate -Na2CO3 sodium carbonate +Na2CO3 sodium carbonate (aka soda, washing soda, soda ash) Na2HPO4 sodium biphosphate +Na2O sodium oxide Na2S2O3 sodium thiosulphate (aka hypo) Na2S2O5 sodium metabisulphite Na2SiO3 sodium silicate (aka water glass) Na2SO3 sodium sulphite Na2SO4 sodium sulphate Na3PO4 sodium phosphate -NAA None/Not At All +NAA None/Not At All / Not Another Acronym! NAACP (US) National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People -NAAFI Navy, Army, and Air Force Institute (service canteen & shop) +NAAFI Navy, Army, and Air Force Institute (service canteen and shop) +NAB (US) National Association of Broadcasters +NABC National Association of Boys' Clubs NaBr sodium bromide NABU Non-Adjusting Balls-Up -NAC Network Access/Admission Control +NAC Network Access/Admission Control / National Agriculture Centre / Not A Chance NaC2H3O2 sodium ethanoate (aka sodium acetate) -NACK Negative Acknowledgement +NACF National Art Collectors' Fund +NaCiH Not a Chance in Hell +NACK Negative Acknowledgement (comms) NaCl table salt +NACLC (US) National Agency Check with Local Agency Check and Credit Check NaClO sodium hypochloride (aka bleach) NaClO3 sodium chlorate NACO (UK) National Association of Co-operative Officials NACODS (UK) National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies, and Shotfirers +NACRO National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders NAD Namibian dollars +NADFAS National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies NADT Not A Darn Thing +NAEB National Association of Educational Broadcasters NaF sodium fluoride +NAFAIA Not As Far As I'm Aware NAFAIAA Not As Far As I Am Aware NAFAIAC Not As Far As I Am Concerned NAFAIC Not As Far As I'm Concerned NAFAICS Not As Far As I Can See NAFAICT Not As Far As I Can Tell NAFAIK Not As Far As I Know -NAGI Not A Good Idea -NAH Not A Hope +NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement +NAG Northern Army Group +NAGC (UK) National Association for Gifted Children / (US) National Association of Government Contractors / National American Greek Council +NaGI Not a Good Idea +NaH Not a Hope +NAHAT National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts NAhCO3 sodium bicarbonate NaHCo3 sodium bicarbonate (aka baking soda) -NAHM Not A Happy Man -NAHP Not A Happy Person +NaHiH Not a Hope in Hell +NaHM Not a Happy Man +NaHP Not a Happy Person NaHSo4 sodium bisulphate -NAHW Not A Happy Woman +NAHT National Association of Head Teachers +NaHW Not a Happy Woman +NAID Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug NAIRU Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment NAJASC Not Affiliated, Just Another Satisfied Customer NAJASCYYY Not Affiliated, Just Another Satisfied Customer, Yadda Yadda Yadda NAK Not Acknowledged / Nursing At Keyboard -NALOPK Not a Lot of People Know +NaLGO National and Local Government Officers' Association +NALOPK Not A Lot Of People Know NALOPKAT Not A Lot Of People Know About That NALOPKT Not A Lot Of People Know That NALOPNTKT Not A Lot Of People Need To Know That NALOPSTKT Not A Lot Of People Seem To Know That +NAM Non-Aligned Movement (of developing nations) NAMBLA North American Man-Boy Love Association / National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes +NAMH National Association for Mental Health NAMM (UK) National Association of Music Merchandisers NAN Nights Away Notification / Not A Number NaN Not a Number NAND Not-And (logic gate) NANEG No Acronym, No E-Groat @@ -6242,195 +10415,271 @@ NaNO3 sodium nitrate NANP North American Numbering Plan (telecoms) NAO (UK) National Audit Office NaOH sodium hydroxide NAP Name, Address, Postcode +NAPE National Association of Primary Education NAPO (UK) National Association of Probation Officers -NAS Network-Attached Storage / National Archives of Scotland +NARTI Nucleoside-Analogue Reverse-Transcriptase Inhibitor +NAS Network-Attached Storage / National Archives of Scotland / Naval Air Squadron NAS/UWT (UK) National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers NASA (US) National Aeronautics and Space Administration -NASAY Not As Silly As You / Not As Sexy As Yoghurt +NaSaY Not as Silly as You / Not as Sexy as Yoghurt NASB New American Standard Bible +NASCAR (US) National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing NASDAQ (US) National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Systems NASM Net-wide Assembler NASS (UK) National Association of Stable Staff NASUWT (UK) National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers NAT Network Address Translation / Not All There +NATCS National Air Traffic Control Services NATECLA (UK) National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults +NATFHE National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education +NatLib National Liberal NATM New Acronym To Me / Not At The Moment NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation / (US) National Association of Theatre Owners -NATWSIJ Not a Truer Word Spoken In Jest +NATWSIJ Not A Truer Word Spoken In Jest NAV Norton Anti-Virus NAVY Never Again Volunteer Yourself NAW National Assembly for Wales +NAWT (UK) National Animal Welfare Trust NAY Nobody Asked You NAYYY Not Affiliated, Yadda Yadda Yadda NAZ Name, Address, Zip code +NB Nota Bene (= note well) / Not Bad / New Brunswick Nb niobium -NB Nota Bene (= note well) / New Brunswick -NBA (US) National Basketball Association -NBARPWUR Nile Boatman And River Pilot to cix:wur +NBA (US) National 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Arts / (UK) National Care/Courier/Cricket/Caving Association / (UK) National Council on Archives / (US) National Cheerleaders Association / (US) National Command Authority / (US) National Conservation Area / New Classical Adventure (record label) / National Certificate of Agriculture NCAA (US) National Collegiate Athletic Association -NCB No-Claims Bonus / (UK) National Coal Board / (UK) National Children's Bureau / (US) National Co-operative Bank +NCB No-Claims Bonus / (UK) National Coal Board / National Central Bank / (UK) National Children's Bureau / (US) National Co-operative Bank +NCC (UK) National Computing Centre / Network Control Centre / (UK) National Consumer Council (now part of Consumer Focus) / (Irish) National Chamber Choir / Norfolk/Northamptonshire/Northumberland/Nottinghamshire County Council +NCCI (UK) National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants +NCCL (UK) National Council for Civil Liberties ncd nanocandela (10^-9 candelas) NCIS Naval Criminal Investigative Service NCL Newcastle International Airport +NCLB No Child Left Behind +NCLC National Council of Labour Colleges NCO Non-Commissioned Officer NCOIC Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge -NCOT Nice Cup Of Tea -NCOTAASD Nice Cup Of Tea And A Sit-Down +NCoT Nice Cup of Tea +NCoTaaSD Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit-Down NCP NetWare Core Protocol / Network Control Protocol NCQ Native Command Queuing NCR North Circular Road (A406, London) / National Cash Register corp. / (UK) National Cycle Route / Numeric Character Reference +NCRI National Cancer Research Institute (was UKCCCR) NCS Natural Colour System NCSA (US) National Centre for Supercomputing Applications / (US) National Computer Security Agency NCT No Change There / (UK) National Childbirth Trust +NCTJ National Council for the Training of Journalists NCV New Century Version (of the Bible) +NCVCCO National Council for Voluntary Child Care Organisations +NCVO National Council for Voluntary Organisations +NCVQ National Council for Vocational Qualifications NCYHT Nasty Cough You Have There +ND No Doubt / Nil Desperandum / Not Determined/Detected / No Date / North Dakota / Diploma in Naturopathy Nd neodymium -ND Nil Desperandum / North Dakota -NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement +NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement / National Diploma in Agriculture +NDAGB National Darts Association of Great Britain +NDak North Dakota NDB Non-Directional Beacon +NDC National Defence College +NDD National Diploma in Design +NDE Near-Death Experience NDF Nodding-Dog Free +NDH National Diploma of Horticulture NDIB Nobody Does It Better NDIS Network Drive Interface Specification +NDK Native Development Kit NDLWSMB Nearly Died Laughing While Shaving My Butt -NDN Next Door Neighbour +NDN Next-Door Neighbour NDNAD (UK) National DNA Database NDNEG No Definition, No E-Groat NDO BBC Northern Dance Orchestra NDP Neighbour Discovery Protocol / New Democratic Party (Canada) NDPB Non-Departmental Public Body (= QUANGO) NDPS Novell Distributed Print Services +NDR Non-Delivery Report / Network Data Representation / (US) National Drive Register / Neighbourhood Deformation Retract (topology) / National Data Repository / Naming and Design Rules +NDRI Norepinephrine-Dopamine Re-uptake Inhibitor NDS Novell Directory Services NDT Newfoundland Daylight Time (= UTC-2:30) NDW Norton Desktop for Windows +NE North-East (45°) / Near Enough / Nebraska / Niger (ISO code) / Non-deterministic, Exponential-time (complexity) Ne neon -NE North-East (45°) / Near Enough / Nebraska NE1 anyone -NEBE North-East by East (56¼°) -NEBN North-East by North (33¾°) -NEC Not Even Considered +NEAC New English Art Club +NEAF Near East Air Force +NEbE North-East by East (56¼°) +NEbN North-East by North (33¾°) +NEC Not Even Considered / Not Elsewhere Classified / National Exhibition Centre (Birmingham) / Nippon Electric Company Ltd / (UK) National Economic Council / National Executive Committee (of the UK Labour Party) NED Non-Executive Director +NEDC National Economic Development Council +NEDO National Economic Development Office +NEET Not in Education, Employment, or Training NEFJ Near Enough For Jazz -NEITBAL Not Even In The Basement Acronym List -NEITNAL Not Even In The New Acronym List +NEitBAL Not Even in the Basement Acronym List +NEitNAL Not Even in the New Acronym List NEM Nothing Else Matters +NEMA (US) National Electrical Manufacturers Association +NEO Near-Earth Object NEP Network Equipment Provider +NEPOMUK Networked Environment for Personal, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge NERC (UK) Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 / (UK) Natural Environment Research Council NERD National Establishment for Real Dorks -NES National Elf Service +NES Nintendo Entertainment System / National Elf Service / NHS Education for Scotland / Netscape Enterprise Server (now Java Web Server) / ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ / Night Eating Syndrome +NESPACE Non-deterministic, Exponential-Space (complexity) NESSIE New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity, and Encryption +NESTA National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts +NESW North, East, South, West (aka Never Eat Shredded Wheat) NET (US) National Educational Television -NETBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System +NETCU (UK) National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit NETDE Nobody Expects The Demonette Exquisition NETDI Nobody Expects The Demonette Inquisition NETPI Nobody Expects The Portuguese Inquisition NETSA Nobody Expects The Spanish Acquisition NETSI Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition NETTW Nobody Expects The Traffic Warden(s) -neV nano electron volt (10^-9 electron volts) +NETUA Nobody Ever Tells Us Anything +neV nano-electron volt (10^-9 electron volts) NEW-HIP Network Enabled by Wavelength-division multiplexing Highly-Integrated Photonics +NewMex New Mexico (USA) +NEXP Non-deterministic, Exponential-time (complexity) +NEXPSPACE Non-deterministic, Exponential-Space (complexity) +NEXPTIME Non-deterministic, Exponential-Time (complexity) NEXT Near-End CrossTalk +NF Norfolk Island (Australia) (ISO code) nF nanofarad (10^-9 farads) -NF Norfolk Island (Australia) -NFA Non-deterministic Finite-state Automaton / National Fraud Authority +NFA No Flaming Allowed / Non-deterministic Finite-state Automaton / National Fraud Authority NFB (US) National Federation of the Blind NFC No F***ing Clue / Near-Field Communications / (US) National Football Conference NFER (UK) National Foundation for Educational Research +NFET Negative-channel Field-Effect Transistor +NFF No Fault Found NFFR Noted For Future Reference NFG No F***ing Good +NFH Neighbours From Hell NFI No F***ing Idea NFIAA No F***ing Idea At All +NFK No F***ing Kidding NFL No Free Lunch / (US) National Football League NFMTS Not For Me To Say NFN Normal For Norfolk +NFO Naval Flight Officer (US Navy) / Next Flight Out / info (file) / (US) National Farmers Organization NFOA (UK) National Federation Of Anglers NFP Not-For-Profit / Natural Family Planning / Non-Farm Payrolls +NFQ National Framework of Qualifications (Ireland) / No Further Questions / Not Fully-Qualified +NFR Non-Functional Requirements / Not For Resale / (US) National Film Registry / Not For Resuscitation / Natural Fission Reactor NFS Network File-System/Server / (UK) National Fire Service / Need For Speed NFSCD Now For Something Completely Different -NFT Norfolk Island Time (= UTC+11:30) +NFT Non-Functional Test / (UK) National Film Theatre / Network Fault Tolerance / Norfolk Island Time (= UTC+11:30) NFU (UK) National Farmers' Union +NFV Net Future Value NFW No F***ing Way/Worries +NFWI National Federation of Women's Institutes NFWM No F***ing Way, Man -NFY No, F*** You -NFZ No-Fly Zone +NFY Not For You / No, F*** You / Next Fiscal Year / Never Forget You / Nylon Filament Yarn +NFZ No-Fly Zone / Nuclear-Free Zone +NG newsgroup / Natural Gas / New Game / Nods Graciously / No Good / New Guy / Nigeria (ISO code) ng nanogram (10^-9 grams) -NG newsgroup / Natural Gas / New Game / Nods Graciously / No Good / New Guy +NGA Non-Governmental Agency / Next-Generation Access (fibre-optic broadband) / National Governors/Golf/Greyhound Association / (US) National Gallery of Art NGB National Governing Body +NGC New General Catalogue (astronomy) / National Geographic Channel / Nintendo GameCube / National Grid plc (now National Grid Electricity Transmission plc) +NGD Non-Good Delivery +NGDGU No Good Deed Goes Unpunished NGEAA Normal Granny Eggs Apologies Applies -NGL Angel (programming language) -NGM News Group Members -NGN Nigerian naira (ccy) +NGF Nerve Growth Factor / (US) National Golf Foundation +NGH Natural Gas Hydrate +NGI Next-Generation Internet +NGL Angel (programming language) / Not Gonna Lie / Next-Generation Lithography / National Gaming League +NGM News Group Members / National Geographic Magazine / Nested Grid Model +NGN Next-Generation Networking / Non-Geographical Number (UK telephone) / Nigerian naira (ccy) NGO Non-Governmental Organisation +NGP Next-Generation Portable (Sony game console) +NGRI Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity +NGS (UK) National Gardens Scheme / (US) National Geographic/Genealogical Society / (UK) National Grid Service (academic computing) / Nitrogen Generation System (aircraft) / (US) National Geodetic Survey NGSCB Next-Generation Secure Computing Base NGSU (UK) National Group Staff Union +NGT Nedelandse Gebarentaal (= Dutch Sign Language) +NGU Non-Gonococcal Urethritis (aka NSU) +NGV Natural-Gas Vehicle nGy nanogray (10^-9 grays) +NH Northern Hemisphere / New Hampshire / Nice Hand / New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) (ISO code) nH nanohenry (10^-9 henrys) -NH Northern Hemisphere / New Hampshire / Nice Hand NH2CH2COOH glycine NH3 ammonia NH4Cl ammonium chloride NH4NO3 ammonium nitrate NH4OH ammonium hydroxide -NHANES (US) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey +NHaNES (US) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHD No He Didn't NHK Nippon Housou Kyoukai (= Japan Broadcasting Corporation) NHL (North American) National Hockey League -NHM Natural History Museum, London +NHM Natural History Museum (London) NHN Nearly Headless Nick NHNW Never Have, Never Will NHOH Never Heard Of Him/Her NHS (UK) National Health Service NHTOB Never Heard That One Before NHTSA (US) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration nHz nanohertz (10^-9 hertz) +NI Not Invited / Northern Ireland / Nicaragua (ISO code) / National Insurance / National Instruments Co. Ni nickel -NI Not Invited / Northern Ireland / National Insurance / National Instruments Co. -NI-CAD Nickel-Cadmium Ni-Cad Nickel-Cadmium +NIA Northern Ireland Assembly / National Intelligence Agency (US, SA, Nigeria) NIAA No Idea At All NIAL Not In Acronyms List NIAM Now I Am Mad / Never In A Million +NIAMY Never In A Million Years NIAR Now I Am Rich +NIBMAR No Independence Before Majority Rule NIC Network Information Centre / Network Interface Card/Controller / National Insurance Contribution -NICAD Nickel-Cadmium NiCad Nickel-Cadmium NICAM Near-Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplex -NICBD&T Nothing Is Certain But Death And Taxes -NICBDAT Nothing Is Certain But Death And Taxes +NICBD&T Nothing Is Certain But Death and Taxes +NICBDaT Nothing Is Certain But Death and Taxes NICD Not In Computing Dictionary NICE (UK) National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence +NICS Northern Ireland Civil Service NICTD Not In Computer Terms Dictionary -NID Not In Dictionary -NIDA (US) National Institute of Drug Abuse -NIDWTC No I Don't Want To Chat +NID Not In Dictionary / Naval Intelligence Department +NIDA (US) National Institute of Drug Abuse / National Institute of Dramatic Art (Australia) +NIDWTC No, I Don't Want To Chat +NIE Northern Ireland Executive NIEHS (US) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences NIEO New International Economic Order +NIESR National Institute of Economic and Social Research +NIF (US) National Ignition Facility NIFOC Nude In Front Of Computer -NIH Not Invented Here / (US) National Institutes of Health +NIH Not Invented Here / (US) National Institute of Health NIITLTID Not If It's The Last Thing I Do +NILP Northern Ireland Labour Party NIM No Instant/Internal Message NIMBY Not In My Back Yard NIMBYIIRTVOMPSICTUNM Not In My Back Yard If It Reduces The Value Of My Property So I Can't Trade Up Next Move NIMBYS Not In My Back Yards NIMCD Not In My Current Dictionary @@ -6440,380 +10689,498 @@ NIMH Nickel Metal Hydride NIMHO Not In My Humble Opinion NIMO Not In My Opinion NIMTO Not In My Term of Office NIMVHO Not In My Very Humble Opinion -NIN No It's Not +NIN No It's Not / National Identification Number / Nine Inch Nails (band) NINJA No Income, No Job, or Assets -NINJY No It's Not Just You +NINJY No, It's Not Just You NINO Nothing In, Nothing Out NIO (UK) Northern Ireland Office / New Input/Output (Java) / Cordoba oro (ccy) NIOED Not In the Oxford English Dictionary NIP Not In Public NIPD Not In Places Dictionary NIPR (US) Non-classified Internet Protocol Router network / National Institute of Polar Research (Japan) / (US) National Insurance Producer Registry +NIPRNet Unclassified but Sensitive Internet Protocol Router Network +NIR Near-Infra-Red NIRV New International Reader's Version (of the Bible) NIST (US) National Institute of Standards and Technology NIT Not In Therapy NITAAL Not In The Ameol Acronyms List NITAL Not In The Acronym List NITD Not In The Dictionary +NiTi Nickel-Titanium NITRO Not In The Region Of NITS Nervous In The Service NIV New International Version (of the Bible) NIW No, It Wasn't -nJ nanojoule (10^-9 joules) NJ New Jersey +nJ nanojoule (10^-9 joules) +NJIC National Joint Industrial Council NJP Non-Judicial Punishment +NJTH Not Just Thinking Here +NK New Kid / No Kids / North Korea / Ni n i Kumiai (= partnership co. in Japan) nK nanoKelvin (10^-9 Kelvin) -NK New Kid / North Korea / Ni n i Kumiai (= partnership co. in Japan) nkat nanokatal (10^-9 katals) +NKATA Not Known At This Address NKJV New King James Version (of the Bible) NKOTB New Kids On The Block -NL Not Likely / No-Liability (company in Australia) +NKVD Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (= People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, Russia) +NL Not Likely / National Liberal / Non-deterministic, Logarithmic-space (complexity) / Non-Linear / No-Liability (company in Australia) / Netherlands (ISO code) NLACGB Never Let A Chance Go By NLACGBOL Never Let A Chance Go By, O Lord +NLAE Non-Linear Audio Editing +NLE Non-Linear Editing +NLF National Liberal Federation NLI Not Logged In +NLM No Laughing Matter / NetWare Loadable Module / Network Lock Manager (NFS) / National Liberation Movement / (US) National Library of Medicine nlm nanolumen (10^-9 lumens) NLOS Never Leave Out Sasha / Not Lewd Or Suggestive NLP Neuro-Linguistic Programming / Natural-Language Processing / Northern Line Project NLS Native Language Support NLT Not Like That / New Living Translation (of the Bible) -nlx nanolux (10^-9 lux) +NLVE Non-Linear Video Editing NLX New Low-Profile Extended (10×9" PC form factor) +nlx nanolux (10^-9 lux) NLY Not Like You +NM Never Mind / Not Much / New Mexico / Nautical Mile nm nanometre (10^-9 metres) -NM Never Mind / Not Much / New Mexico +NMCOT Not My Cup Of Tea +NMCU National Meteorological Co-ordinating Unit Committee NMFJ Not My F***ing Job -NMI No Middle Initial / Non-Maskable Interrupt +NMH Not Much Here +NMI No Middle Initial / Non-Maskable Interrupt / Nautical Mile NMJ Not My Job -NMM National Maritime Museum, London +NMJC Nothing Much, Just Chillin' +NMM National Maritime Museum (London) NMN No Middle Name nmol nanomole (10^-9 moles) +NMOS Negative-channel Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor NMP Not My Problem NMR No Moves Received / Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (imaging) +NMU Not Much, You? +NMW National Minimum Wage +NMY Not Much, You? +NN Neural Net / Night-Night / The Niadh Nask (Military Order of the Golden Chain) nN nanonewton (10^-9 newtons) -NN Neural Net / Night-Night -NNAGT Not Necessarily A Good Thing… +NNAGT Not Necessarily A Good Thing... NNCP Nextra Net Connect Professional (account) NNCS Nextra Net Connect Starter (account) NNE North-North-East (22½°) NNNNCCCN New Norwegian Nextra Net CIX Conferencing Consulting Nut NNON Neo-Natal Outreach Nurse NNOS Neo-Natal Outreach Sister +NNRTI Non-Nucleoside Reverse-Transcriptase Inhibitor NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol NNW North-North-West (337½°) NNWW Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink NNWWSNM Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink, Say No More +NO Normally-Open / Norway (ISO code) No nobelium -NO Normally-Open NOAA (US) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration +NOAD New Oxford American Dictionary +NOAD2 New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd edition (2005) NOAEL No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level -NOC Network Operations Centre / (UK) National Oceanography Centre / Network On Chip / No Overall Control +NOC Network Operations Centre / (UK) National Oceanography Centre / Network On Chip / No Overall Control / National Oil Company +NOCB Narcotics and Organised Crime Bureau NOCN No, Of Course Not NOCNHSS No, Of Course Not, He Says Sarcastically +NODE New Oxford Dictionary of English +NOED New Oxford English Dictionary NOG Nosy Old Git -NOK Next Of Kin / Norwegian krone (ccy) -NOKO Next Of Kin Officer -NONA Nerd-on-Nerd Action -NONYA None of Ya Business +NOI No Offence Intended +NOIC Naval Officer in Charge +NoK Next Of Kin / Norwegian krone (ccy) +NoKO Next Of Kin Officer +NOLA New Orleans, Louisiana +NOM No Offence Meant +NOMFET Nanoparticle Organic Memory Field-Effect Transistor +NOMS Not On My System +NoNA Nerd-On-Nerd Action NOP No Operation -NOPE Not On Planet Earth +NoPE Not On Planet Earth NOR Not-Or (logic gate) NORAD North American Aerospace Defence Command NORML (US) National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws NORTON Knickers Off Ready To Open Knees NORWICH Knickers Off Ready When I Come Home NOS Network Operating System -NOTA None Of The Above +NotA None Of The Above NOTAFLOF No-One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds -NOTAR No Tail Rotor (helicopter) -NOTT None Of The Time -NOTW ‘News Of The World’ +NoTaR No Tail Rotor (helicopter) +NotT None Of The Time +NOTTOMH Not Off The Top Of My Head +NotW ‘News Of The World’ NOUN Not Old Uncle Nick NOV November -NOX nitrogen oxides +NOx nitrogen oxides NOYB None Of Your Business +NOYDB None Of Your Damn Business +NOYFB None Of Your F***ing Business NOYN Not On Your Nellie +NP No Problem / New Programme / Nosy Parents / Non-deterministic, Polynomial-time (complexity) / Nepal (ISO code) / Notary Public Np neptunium -NP No Problem / New Programme / Nosy Parents / Non-deterministic Polynomial-Time -nPa nanopascal (10^-9 pascals) NPA Non-Performing Assets -NPAA No Problem At All / (US) Noise Pollution and Abatement Act (1972) +nPa nanopascal (10^-9 pascals) +NPAA No Problem At All / (US) Noise Pollution and Abatement Act, 1972 NPARU (UK) National Pollen and Aerobiology Research Unit NPB Non-paying Bidder NPBT Net Payment Before Tax -NPC Non-Playing Character +NPC Non-Player Character NPD No Problem, Dude / Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (= National Democratic Party) +NPE Null-Pointer Exception / National Party of Europe / Non-Paternity Event / Net Premium Earned / Negative Play Experience / Non-Permissive Environment / Non-Production Environment / Non-Personnel Expense / Non-Practising Entity (aka patent troll) NPF No Problem Found / Notch-Pass Filter NPFS Named Pipes Filing System -NPG National Portrait Gallery, London +NPG National Portrait Gallery (London) NPI No Pun Intended NPIA (UK) National Police Improvement Agency NPL Netscape Public Licence / (UK) National Physical Laboratory / National Premier League / (US) National Puzzlers' League / Non-Performing Loan NPLU Not People Like Us NPMW New and Prospective Members Welcome +NPN Negative-Positive-Negative NPNG No Pain, No Gain -NPOV Neutral Point of View +NPOV Neutral Point Of View +NPQH National Professional Qualification for Headship NPR (US) National Public Radio / Nepalese rupees +NPS No Problem, Sweetie / Non-Penetrative Sex / (UK) National Probation Service / (US) National Park Service / Net Publisher's Share / National Pension Service (Korea) NPT Nepal Time (= UTC+5:45) NPTL Native POSIX Thread Library NPU Network Processing Unit NPV Net Present Value +NQ Dronning Maud Land (ISO code) (obs.) NQA No Questions Asked -NQDP Not Quite Dead Punvic +NQDP Not-Quite-Dead Punvic NQF (UK) National Qualifications Framework NQOCD Not Quite Our Class, Dear NQOS Not Quite Our Sort NQWI Not Quite With It +NR Not Rated (US movie label) / number / near / Nauru (ISO code) NRA (US) National Rifle Association NRAAOTLD No Reticular Activity Allowed On The Lord's Day +NRAO (US) National Radio Astronomy Observatory NRC Not Recommended for Children +NRDC National Research Development Corporation +NREM Non-Rapid Eye Movement (sleep) +NRES (UK) National Research Ethics Service +NRI Norepinephrine Re-uptake Inhibitor NRL (Australia) National Rugby League NRN No Reply Necessary / (US) National Radio Network +NRPB National Radiological Protection Board NRPN Non-Registered Parameter Number (MIDI) NRSV New Revised Standard Version (of the Bible) NRTA (US) National Retired Teachers Association (now AARP) / National Retail Tenants Association +NRTI Nucleoside-analogue Reverse-Transcriptase Inhibitor NRZ Non-Return to Zero NRZI Non-Return to Zero, Inverted -ns nanosecond (10^-9 seconds) +NS Netscape / Non-Smoking / Non-Sequitur / Not Saying / ‘New Scientist’ / No, Sir / Nova Scotia nS nanosiemens (10^-9 siemens) -NS Netscape / Non-Smoking / Non-Sequitur / Not Saying / ‘New Scientist’ -NSA (US) National Security Agency / No Such Acronym +ns nanosecond (10^-9 seconds) +NS&I National Savings and Investments +NSA (US) National Security Agency / No Such Acronym / No Strings Attached +NSAID Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug NSD NearSite Dial -NSDAP National Socialist German Workers' Party (aka Nazi Party) +NSDAP Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (= National Socialist German Workers' Party, aka Nazi Party) NSE Network Search Engine / Navier-Stokes Equations (fluid dynamics) / Non-Speaking Extra (actor) / Nmap Scripting Engine / (UK) National Society for Epilepsy / Network SouthEast (former British Rail sector) / National Student Exchange (US, Canada) / Nagoya/Nairobi/Nigerian/National Stock Exchange -NSF (US) National Science Foundation +NSF (US) National Science Foundation / (Lotus) Notes Storage Format NSFAIK Not So Far As I Know NSFNET (US) National Science Foundation Network NSFW Not Suitable/Safe For Work NSG (UK) National School of Government +NsgMD Nursing Management Diploma NSL National Speed Limit -NSN NearSite Network +NSN NearSite Network / Never Say ‘Never’ / NATO Stock Number NSNA Never Say Never Again NSOED New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary -NSP Nextra Sensory Perception / Network Service Provider +NSP Nextra-Sensory Perception / Network Service Provider / Network Storage Processor +NSPACE Non-deterministic, in given Space (complexity) +NSPCC National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children NSPR Netscape Portable Runtime NSPWB No Sex, Please, We're British NSR No Smiley Required NSRA (UK) National Small Bore Rifle Association NSS Network Security Services / Novell Storage Service / Name Service Switch / No S***, Sherlock NSSTD No Sooner Said Than Done NST Newfoundland Standard Time (= UTC-3:30) +NSU Non-Specific Urethritis +NSV Non-Specific Vaginitis nSv nanosievert (10^-9 sieverts) -NSW New South Wales (Australia) +NSW New South Wales (Australia) / No Such Word +NSWAN No Such Word As ‘Never’ NSWBEASAP Norman Service Will Be Exhumed As Soon As Possible NSWBRASAP Normal Service Will Be Resumed As Soon As Possible -NSWOHOA No!, She Went Of Her Own Accord -NSX National Stock Exchange of Australia +NSWOHOA No, She Went Of Her Own Accord +NSX National Stock Exchange (of Australia/Chicago/India) +NT No, Thanks / New Testament (of the Bible) / (UK) National Trust / No Text / Neurotypical / (MS Windows) New Technology / National Theatre / Northern Territory (Australia) / Nutritional Therapist / Newfoundland Time (= UTC-3:30) / Neutral Zone (ISO code) (obs.) nT nanotesla (10^-9 teslas) -NT No Thanks / New Testament (of the Bible) / National Trust / No Text / (MS Windows) New Technology / National Theatre / Northern Territory (Australia) / Newfoundland Time (= UTC-3:30) NT&SA (US) National Trust and Savings Association +NTA Non-Technical Acronym +NtARTI Nucleotide-Analogue Reverse-Transcriptase Inhibitor +NTDA National Trade Development Association NTDW Nothing To Do With NTDWI Nothing To Do With It NTDWM Nothing To Do With Me NTFDF Not Too Far Distant Future NTFP Non-Timber Forest Product -NTFS NT File-system (Windows) +NTFS (Windows) NT File-System NTG Not Too Good NTH No Therapy Helpful NTIA (US) National Telecommunications and Information Administration NTIAA Not That I Am Aware NTIAAO Not That I Am Aware Of NTIBOA Not That I'm Bitter Or Anything NTIIAO Not That I Is Aware Of NTIM Not That It Matters +NTIME Non-deterministic, in given Time (complexity) NTIMM Not That It Matters Much NTIMMD Not That It Makes Much Difference NTIMMOAD Not That It Makes Much Of A Difference NTK Need To Know / Nice To Know -NTL nonetheless / nevertheless / No Telephone Line / (US) National Transportation Library -NTLDR Windows NT Loader -NTLM NT LAN Manager (Windows) -NTM Not That Much / Not To Mention +NTL nonetheless / nevertheless / No Telephone Line / National Transcommunications Ltd / (US) National Transportation Library +NTLDR (Windows) NT Loader +NTLM (Windows) NT LAN Manager +NTM Not Too Much / Not To Mention +NTN No Thanks Needed NTNOCN Not The Nine O'Clock News +NTO National Training Organisation NTOOT Nine Times Out Of Ten NTP Network Time Protocol / Not The Point / Nothing To Pay -NTS NT Server +NtRTI Nucleotide-analogue Reverse-Transcriptase Inhibitor +NTS (Windows) NT Server NTSB (US) National Transport Safety Board NTSC (US) National Television Standards Committee (US colour TV standard) NTSC-J = Japanese TV standard -NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. +NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. / Name That Tune NTTAWWT Not That There's Anything Wrong With That NTTFLS Not Till The Fat Lady Sings -NTTP Network Test & Termination Point +NTTP Network Test and Termination Point NTU Nephelometric Turbidity Unit -NTW NT Workstation -NTY No Thank You -NTYMI Now That You Mention It… -NU Number Unobtainable / Norton Utilities +NTW (Windows) NT Workstation +NTWR No Taxation Without Representation +NTY No, Thank You +NTYMI Now That You Mention It... +NU Number Unobtainable / Norton Utilities / Niue (ISO code) +NUBE National Union of Bank Employees (now BIFU) NUF Norskregistrert Utenlandsk Foretak (= foreign co. reg. in Norway) NUFF enough said -NUI Network User Identification +NUGE Numero Uno Good Egg +NUGMW National Union of General and Municipal Workers +NUI Network User Identification / National University of Ireland NUJ (UK) National Union of Journalists NUM number / (UK) National Union of Mineworkers / New Ulster Movement NUMA Non-Uniform Memory Access +NUMAST National Union of Marine, Aviation, and Shipping Transport +NUNP No Users, No Problems +NUPE National Union of Public Employees +NUR National Union of Railwaymen NURBS Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline +NURPA Net Users' Rights Protection Association NUS (UK) National Union of Students NUSRE Never Underestimate Sally Rowan Elphick NUT (UK) National Union of Teachers NUTFYL Never Underestimate The Fine Young Lady NUTGAUA Not Unless You Get An Unknown Acronym +NV Non-Volatile / Nvidia / Nausea and Vomiting / Nuclear Vessel / Non-Vintage / Naamloze Vennootschap (= PLC in the Netherlands &c) / Nevada nV nanovolt (10^-9 volts) -NV Non-Volatile / Nvidia / Nausea & Vomiting / Nuclear Vessel / Non-Vintage / Naamloze Vennootschap (= PLC in the Netherlands &c) / Nevada NVD (US) National Vulnerability Database +NVDI New Virtual Device Interface (Atari TOS) +NVI No Value Indicator (postage stamps) / Negative Volume Index (finance) +NVM Never Mind NVQ (UK) National Vocational Qualification NVR Network Video Recorder / Non-Volatile RAM NVRAM Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory +NW Next Week / No Way / North-West (315°) / New World / Nuclear Weapons / Neighbourhood Watch / now nW nanowatt (10^-9 watts) -NW Next Week / No Way / North-West (315°) / New World / Nuclear Weapons +NWA Northwest Airlines, Inc. nWb nanoweber (10^-9 webers) -NWBN North-West by North (326¼°) -NWBW North-West by West (303¾°) +NWbN North-West by North (326¼°) +NWbW North-West by West (303¾°) NWCDP Nothing We Could Do Partner NWF No W***ing Furries +NWFP North West Frontier Province NWFZ Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone NWH No Worries Here NWIW Not What It Was NWOBHM New Wave Of British Heavy Metal +NWOC Nanny With Own Child / Not Worth One Comment +NWOV Not Wanted On Voyage / Not Working; On Vacation / Not Without Our Visas NWPTSOP Nobody Will Pay That Sort Of Price NWWIHP No Willy-Waving In Here, Please -NX No-Execute (bit) +NX No-Execute (bit) / National Express NY New York / New Year +NYC New York City NYCTMI Now You Come To Mention It NYD New Year's Day NYE New Year's Eve NYITAL Not Yet In The Acronyms List NYM New York Minute +NYMEX New York Mercantile Exchange NYMI Now You Mention It NYOGB National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain NYOS National Youth Orchestra of Scotland NYOW National Youth Orchestra of Wales -NYP Not Your Problem +NYP Not Your Problem / ‘New York Post’ NYPD New York Police Department NYPL New York Public Library NYRB ‘New York Review of Books’ NYRT Nyilvánosan müködö Részvénytársaság (= PLC in Hungary) NYSE New York Stock Exchange -NYT ‘New York Times’ -NZ New Zealand +NYT ‘The New York Times’ +NYU New York University +NZ New Zealand (ISO code) NZD New Zealand dollars +NZEF New Zealand Expeditionary Force NZX New Zealand Exchange Ltd -O over (to you) / oxygen -O&M Operations and Maintenance -O&O Over and Out +O Over (to you) / oxygen +O&M Operations and Maintenance / Organisation and Method +O&O Over and Out / Oriental and Occidental Steamship Company O2 oxygen gas +OA Officier d'Académie OAC On Approved Credit OACB Offensive As Can Be -OACFJRT Official Acronyms Custodian for cix:jrt -OACFWUR Official Acronyms Custodian for cix:wur +OACFJRT Official Acronyms Custodian For cix:jrt +OACFWUR Official Acronyms Custodian For cix:wur OAE Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment OAEP Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding -OAM Operations And Maintenance +OALD Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary +OAM Operations And Maintenance / Medal of the Order of Australia OAO Over And Out / Otkrytoye Aktsionernoye Obshchestvo (= PLC in Russia) OAP Old-Aged Pensioner +OARS On A Related Subject OAS On A Stick / Organisation of American States / Oracle Application Server / Option-Adjusted Spread OASIS Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards OAT Operational Acceptance Testing / Outside Air Temperature OATUS On A Totally-Unrelated Subject -OAU Organisation for African Unity +OAU Organisation for African Unity (now AU) OAUS On An Unrelated Subject +OAV Original Animated Video (OAV) OAW Microsoft Office Activation Wizard -OB obligatory / Outside Broadcast +OB obligatory / Outside Broadcast / Old Boy / Order of Barbados +OBA Online Behavioural Advertising / Optical Brightening Agent / Oxygen Breathing Apparatus / Out-of-Band Agreement (comms) / (MS) Office Business Applications OBC On Back Cover -OBE Order of the British Empire / Overtaken By Events +OBE Officer of the Order of the British Empire / Overtaken By Events / Out-of-Body Experience OBEE Omorithmi Biomixaniki Emporiki Eteria (= co. in Greece) -OBGL Oh Beneficent Great Leader +OBGL O Beneficent Great Leader OBH Official Birthday Honours +OBHF One Big Happy Family OBIDIA Oh Bugger, I've Done It Again OBL Osama Bin Laden / Ordnance, Breech Loading OBMOOTOT Oh Bugger! Missed Out On That One, Then OBN Order of the Brown Nose OBO Or Best Offer / On Behalf Of OBP On Back Page OBR (UK) Office for Budget Responsibility / Outbasket Recovery OBSAI Open Base Station Architecture Initiative +OBStJ Officer Brother of the Order of St John of Jerusalem OBTW Oh, By The Way -OC Of Course -OCD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder +OBV On-Balance Volume (finance) +OC Of Course / Officer Commanding / Officer of the Order of Canada +OCaml Objective Categorical Abstract Machine Language +OCB Offset Codebook (block cipher mode) / Ordinary Course of Business / Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviour / Organised Crime Bureau / Orange Catholic Bible (Dune) +OCC Options Clearing Corporation +OCD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Operational Concept Demonstration +OCF Officiating Chaplain to the Forces OCICBIFTB Of Course I Can, But I'm Far Too Busy OCII Of Course It Is OCN Open College Network -OCONUS Outside the Continental United States of America +OCONUS Outside the Continental United States (of America) OCP Over-Current Protection -OCR Optical Character Recognition -OCS Open-Crotch Shot / Official Conference Smirker +OCR Optical Character Recognition / Oxford and Cambridge and RSA Examination Board +OCS Open-Crotch Shot / Official Conference Smirker / Officer Cadet School +OCSP On-line Certificate Status Protocol OCT October / octal / Overseas Countries and Territories -OD overdose / Oh Dear / OpenDoc / = partnership co. in Serbia +OCTU Officer Cadet Training Unit +OCX OLE Control Extension +OD overdose / Oh Dear / OpenDoc / Doctor of Optometry / = partnership co. in Serbia +ODA Overseas Development Administration ODAPI Open Database Application Programming Interface ODBC Open Database Connectivity -ODD Oppositional Defiant Disorder -ODE Ordinary Differential Equation +ODD Optical Disk Drive / Oppositional Defiant Disorder +ODE Ordinary Differential Equation / Oxford Dictionary of English (prev. NODE; not OED) +ODF Open Document Format / Optical-fibre Distribution Frame (cabling) ODI Open Data-link Interface / Overseas Development Institute -ODM Oh, Dearie Me +ODM Oh, Dearie Me / Ministry of Overseas Development ODMPWC One Day My Prince Will Come +ODO Oxford Dictionaries On-line ODPM Office of the Deputy Prime Minister -ODQ Oxford Dictionary of Quotations +ODQ ‘Oxford Dictionary of Quotations’ ODTAA One Damned Thing After Another -OE Old English / Omorithmos Eteria (= partnership co. in Greece) +OE Old English / Order of Excellence (Guyana) / Omorithmos Eteria (= partnership co. in Greece) +OEBPS Open eBook Publication Structure (file format, replaced by EPUB) OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -OECF Overseas Economic Co-operation Fund of Japan +OECF Overseas Economic Co-operation Fund (of Japan) OED Oxford English Dictionary +OED1 Oxford English Dictionary, 1st edition (1933) +OED2 Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989) +OED3 Oxford English Dictionary, 3nd edition (expected 2037) +OEEC Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (now OECD) OEIC Open-Ended Investment Company OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer OEO Organisational Email Option +OER Officers' Emergency Reserve +OER&TC Old Etonian Racquet and Tennis Club OES Open Enterprise Server / Organisational Email Service OEW Or Else What? -OF Old Fart +OF Old Fart / On Fire +OFB Output Feedback (cryptography) OFC Of Course +OFDF Optical-Fibre Distribution Frame (cabling) OFDM Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access +OFET Organic Field-Effect Transistor OFFER (UK) Office of Electricity Regulation OFFM (US) Office of Federal Financial Management OFFOB Office For Old Berks OFFS Oh, For F***'s Sake OFGAS (UK) Office of Gas Supply OFGEM (UK) Office of Gas and Electricity Markets OFH Order of the Flying Hedgehog / One For Himself +OFIS On Floor, In Stitches OFLC Office of Film and Literature Classification (Australia, New Zealand) OFM Order of Friars Minor (= Franciscans) +OFMCap Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Franciscans) +OFMConv Order of Friars Minor Conventual (Franciscans) OFO Open File Option / Oh, F*** Off / Out F***ing Off OFS One-Finger Salute / Orange Free State / Output Field Separator -OFSTED (UK) Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services, and Skills +OFSTED (UK) Office For Standards in Education, Children's Services, and Skills OFT (UK) Office of Fair Trading / Operator Finger Trouble OFTC Open and Free Technology Community OFTWOAD Oh For The Wings Of A Dove OFWAT (UK) Water Services Regulation Authority OG Offene Gesellschaft (= partnership co. in Austria) -OGAWHW O Great And Wicked Hat Wearer -OGC Open Geospatial Consortium +OGaWHW O Great and Wicked Hat Wearer +OGC Open Geospatial Consortium / (UK) Office of Government Commerce OGDL Ordered Graph Data Language OGL O/Our Great Leader / Open Gaming Licence OGLAT Order of the ‘Gussets Live’ Acronyms Translator OGM O Great Moderator OGR Optimal Goulomb Ruler -OH Over Here / Overhead / Ohio +OGS Order of the Good Shepherd +OH Other Half / Over Here / Overhead / Ohio +OHCHR (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights OHF Opinbert Hlutafélag (= government-owned co. in Iceland) OHG Offene Handelsgesellschaft (= partnership co. in Germany) -OHMIGAWD Oh my God -OIC Oh, I See / Officer In Charge +OHMIGAWD Oh my God/Gosh/Goodness +OIC Oh, I See / Officer In Charge / Organisation of Islamic Co-operation / Options Industry Council OICWYM Oh, I See What You Mean OICWYMN Oh, I See What You Mean Now OID Object Identifier +OIE World Organisation for Animal Health OIML Organisation Internationale de Métrologie Légale (= International Organisation of Legal Metrology) OIRA Official Irish Republican Army / (US) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs OIRTR Oi! I Resent That Remark -OITRO Offers In The Region Of -OJ Only Joking / Obligatory Joke / Orange Juice +OISC One-Instruction-Set Computer +OitRO Offers in the Region Of +OJ Only Joking / Obligatory Joke / Orange Juice / Order of Jamaica OJT On-the-Job Training -OK Orl Korrect / Oklahoma / Osuuskunta (= co-operative co. in Finland) +OK Oll Korrect (= all correct) / Oklahoma / Osuuskunta (= co-operative co. in Finland) OKA Off Key Again +OKR Old Kent Road OKWGYW OK, Wise Guy, You Win OL Old Lady OL&L One Lives and Learns OLA (US) Office of Legislative Affairs -OLAL One Lives And Learns +OLaL One Lives and Learns OLAP On-Line Analytical Processing OLE Object Linking and Embedding (Windows) OLED Organic Light-Emitting Diode OLHC Office of the Leader of the House of Commons OLHL Office of the Leader of the House of Lords @@ -6821,41 +11188,51 @@ OLO Other Licensed Operators OLOS Other Licensed Operators OLPC One Laptop Per Child OLR Off-Line Reader OLTP On-Line Transaction Processing -OM Old Man / Order of Merit / On the Move / Odyssey of the Mind / Organic Matter / Operating Margin -OM&HD One Man And His Dog -OMAHD One Man And His Dog +OM Old Man / (Member of) the Order of Merit / On the Move / Odyssey of the Mind / Organic Matter / Operating Margin / Oman (ISO code) +OM&HD One Man and His Dog +OMAC One-key Message Authentication Code (cryptography) +OMaHD One Man and His Dog OMB (US) Office of Management and Budget -OMD Orchestral Manœuvres in the Dark (band) +OMC Oxford Military College +OMD Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (band) OMDB Over My Dead Body OMF Object Module Format OMFG Oh My F***ing God! -OMG Oh My God/Goodness! / Object Management Group +OMG Oh My God/Gosh/Goodness! / Object Management Group OMGIFOS “Oh My God, It's Full Of Stars!” OMIK Open Mouth, Insert Keyboard OMKC On My Knees, Crying OMKP On My Knees, Praying +OMM Officer of the Order of Military Merit +OMNO Opinions Mean Nothing On-line +OMO Open-Market Operation (finance) OMPF Official Military Personnel File OMR Omani rials (ccy) +OMRI Order of Merit of the Italian Republic OMRLP Official Monster Raving Looney Party -OMS Over My Shoulder / Oracle Management Server / Open Media Commons / Open Music System / Orbital Manœuvring System / Order Management System +OMS Over My Shoulder / Oracle Management Server / Open Media Commons / Open Music System / Orbital Manoeuvring System / Order Management System OMST Omsk Time (= UTC+6) OMT Object-Modelling Technique OMVI Operating a Motor Vehicle while Intoxicated OMW On My Way +OMX Aktiebolaget Optionsmäklarna/Helsinki Stock Exchange +ON Order of the Nation (Jamaica) ONA Open Network Architecture +ONC Ordinary National Certificate +OND Ordinary National Diploma ONIAN Oh No I Am Not -ONID Oh No I Didn't -ONIDN Oh No I Did Not +ONID Oh No I/It Didn't +ONIDN Oh No I/It Did Not ONII Oh No It Isn't ONIIN Oh No It Is Not -ONIN Oh No I'm Not -ONION Oh No I'm Obviously/Outstandingly/Overwhelmingly Not -ONIW Oh No It Wasn't -ONIWN Oh No It Was Not +ONIN Oh No I'm/It's Not +ONION Oh No I'm/It's Obviously/Outstandingly/Overwhelmingly Not +ONIW Oh No I/It Wasn't +ONIWN Oh No I/It Was Not ONNA Oh No, Not Again ONNTA Oh No, Not This Again ONNTAOA Oh No, Not This All Over Again ONNTOA Oh No, Not This Over Again ONO Or Near Offer @@ -6875,182 +11252,222 @@ ONYAN Oh No You Are Not ONYD Oh No You Don't/Didn't ONYDN Oh No You Do/Did Not ONYN Oh No You're Not ONYW Oh No You Won't +ONZ Order of New Zealand OO Object-Oriented / Over and Out / Openoffice.org OOA Out Of Action / Object-Oriented Architecture/Analysis -OOB Out Of Band -OOC Out Of Character -OOD Officer of the Deck / Object-Oriented Design / Drujestvo S Ogranichena Otgovornost (= Ltd co. in Bulgaria) -OODAL Out Of Date Acronyms List +OoB Out Of Band +OoBE Out-Of-Body Experience +OoC Out Of Character +OOD Out Of Date / Officer Of the Deck / Object-Oriented Design / Drujestvo S Ogranichena Otgovornost (= Ltd co. in Bulgaria) +OODAL Out-Of-Date Acronyms List OOE Out-of-Order Execution -OOI Out Of Interest +OoI Out Of Interest OOK On/Off Keying -OOL Out Of Line +OoL Out Of Line OOM Out Of Memory / Object-Oriented Methodology -OOMPR Out Of My Price Range -OOo OpenOffice.org +OoMPR Out Of My Price Range OOO Out Of Order/Office / Ogi Ogi Ogi / Openoffice.org / Obshchestvo s Ogranichennoy Otvetstvennostyu (= Ltd co. in Russia) -OOOE Out-of-Order Execution +OOo OpenOffice.org OoOE Out-of-Order Execution OOOOOA Out Of One, Out Of All -OOP Out Of Production / Object-Oriented Programming -OOS Out Of Sight/Stock +OOP Out Of Production/Print / Object-Oriented Programming +OoS Out Of Sight/Stock OOSE Object-Oriented Software Engineering OOSOOM Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind -OOT Out Of Town -OOTB Out Of The Box/Blue +OoT Out Of Town +OotB Out Of The Box/Blue OOTC Obligatory On-Topic Comment -OOTCT Out Of The Coffin, Thinking +OotCT Out Of The Coffin, Thinking OOTD One Of These Days -OOTGUMOTU One Of The Great Unsolved Mysteries Of The Universe -OOTQ Out Of The Question +OotGUMotU One Of The Great Unsolved Mysteries Of The Universe +OotQ Out Of The Question OOTT One Of Those Things OOTW Out Of The Window / Out Of This World OOXML Microsoft Office ‘Open’ XML (format) -OP Original Post(er) / operator / Operating Procedure/Profit / Out of Print / Opposite Prompt (= stage right) / Observation Post / Order of Preachers (= Dominicans) +OP Original Post(er) / operator / Operating Procedure/Profit / Out of Print / Opposite Prompt (= stage right) / Observation Post / Ordinis Prædicatorum (= Order of Preachers, aka Dominicans) OP&TD One Person And Their Dog OPA (UK) Obscene Publications Act 1857/1959/1964 -OPATD One Person And Their Dog +OPaTD One Person and Their Dog +OPB Occupational Pensions Board OPC (UK) Office of the Parliamentary Counsel / Open Packaging Conventions (Microsoft XML container format) +OPCW Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons OPD Organisational Process Definition OPEC Organisation of Petroleum-Exporting Countries +OpenCL Open Computing Language +OpenGL Open Graphics Library +OpenMP Open Multi-Processing (API) +OpenMPI Open Message-Passing Interface (library) +OpenPGP Open version of Pretty Good Privacy (encryption) +OPES Open Pluggable Edge Services (protocol) +OPG Oriental Press Group Ltd (Hong Kong, and its CJK character encoding) OPL Obvious Panty-Line / Organiser Programming Language -OPM Other People's Money -OPML Outline Processor Markup Language +OPM Other People's Money / (US) Office of Personnel Management +OPML Outline Processor Mark-up Language OPP Other People's Problems / Over-Power Protection OPSEC Operational Security OPSI Office of Public Sector Information (now TNA) OQF Ordnance, Quick Firing +OQL Object Query Language OQR Officer Qualification Record -OR Oregon +OR Oregon / Order of Roraima (Guyana) ORB Object Request Broker (CORBA) ORD Chicago O'Hare International Airport ORLY oh really? ORM Object-Relational Mapping ORN Oh Really, Now? ORR (UK) Office of Rail Regulation +ORS Operational Research Society +ORT Organisation for Rehabilitation by Training / Oral Rehydration Therapy OS Operating System / Open Source / Ordnance Survey / Old Style/School Os osmium OS/2 Operating System 2 / Obsolete Soon, Too OS2 Obsolete Soon, Too -OSA Obstructive Sleep Apnœa / (UK) Official Secrets Act 1889/1911/1920/1939/1989 / Online Savings Account / Open Systems Architecture -OSA-UCS Optical Society of America Uniform Colour Scale +OSA Obstructive Sleep Apnoea / (UK) Official Secrets Act 1889/1911/1920/1939/1989 / On-line Savings Account / Open Systems Architecture +OSA-UCS Optical Society of America — Uniform Colour Scale OSAAT One Step At A Time -OSB Order of St Benedict / Oriented-Strand Board -OSC Open Sound Control +OSAGI Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues (now part of UN Women) +OSB Order of St Benedict (aka Benedictines) / Oriented-Strand Board +OSC Open Sound Control / (Graduate of) the Overseas Staff College +OSCE Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe OSCON O'Reilly Open Source Convention OSDN Open Source Developer Network OSF Open Software Federation +OSGi Open Services Gateway Initiative (Java module system) OSGR Ordnance Survey Grid Reference OSHA (US) Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSI Open Source Initiative / Open Systems Interconnection (ISO/ITU standard) OSIF Oh S***, I Forgot! OSIM Oh S***, It's Monday OSISTM Or So It Seems To Me OSLT Or Something Like That +OSNC Orient Steam Navigation Company OSNI Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland OSOM Out of Sight, Out of Mind +OSP Outside Plant (cabling) OSPF Open Shortest Path First (routing protocol) OSR OEM Service Release +OSRD Office of Scientific Research and Development OSS Open-Source Software / Office of Strategic Services (now CIA) / Open Sound System / Operations Support System OST Official Soundtrack / Office of Science and Technology OSTG Open Source Technology Group +OStJ Officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem OSU Officially-Sanctioned User -OSW On-Site Warranty -OT On-Topic / Off-Topic / Old Testament (of the Bible) +OSW On-Site Warranty / Official Scrabble Words lexicon +OT On-Topic / Off-Topic / Old Testament (of the Bible) / OpenType (font) / Old-Timer / Occupational Therapy/ist OT1H On The One Hand OTA Off Topic Again / Over-The-Air OTB Over The Board OTBE Overtaken By Events OTC On The Contrary / Over-The-Counter / Officers' Training Corps OTD Off The Day / Out The Door +OTEC Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion OTF On The Floor/Phone +OTG On-The-Go (USB) / On/Off The Grid/Ground / Older Than God / Operations and Technology Group (Microsoft) / Over The Glasses OTGH On The Gripping Hand -OTH Off The Hook +OTH Off The Hook / Other Than Honourable (military discharge) OTK Over The Knee OTL Out To Lunch / Our Time-Line -OTN Oracle Techology Network / Optical Transport Network / Open Transport Network +OTN Oracle Technology Network / Optical Transport Network / Open Transport Network OTOH On The Other Hand/Hat OTOOH On The Other Other Hand OTOS On The Other Side OTOTT On Top Of The Tree OTP One True Pairing / On The Phone / Over-Temperature Protection / One-Time Pad OTPBDH “Open The Pod Bay Doors, Hal.” -OTR Over The Rainbow -OTT Over The Top +OTR Over The Rainbow / Old-Time Radio +OTT Over The Top / Overseas-Trained Teacher OTTH On The Third Hand / Only Trying To Help -OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head -OTTOMHAROO Off The Top Of My Head And Rolling Out Of Bounds -OTTOMHAROOB Off The Top Of My Head And Rolling Out Of Bounds +OtTomH Off the Top of my Head +OtTomHaROo Off the Top of my Head and Rolling Out of Bounds +OtTomHaROoB Off the Top of my Head and Rolling Out of Bounds OTV Outer Tactical Vest OTW On The Way / On The Whole OTYCDWYN One Thing You Can Do With Your Nose OU Open University +OUAC Oxford University Athletics Club +OUBC Oxford University Boat Club +OUCA Oxford University Conservative Association +OUDS Oxford University Dramatic Society OUI Organisationally-Unique Identifier / Operating Under the Influence OUM Oracle Unified Method OUP Oxford University Press / Open Unified Process OURS (UK) One Union of Regional Staff OUSU Oh, You Shut Up OUT Occasional User Tariff OV HP OpenView / Orbiting Vehicle / Original Voice / Orange Volunteers / Old Vienna (beer) +OVA Original Video Animation (anime) OVHB One Very Happy Bunny OVI Operating a Vehicle while Impaired OVNO Or Very Near Offer OVP Orange Value Promise / Over-Voltage Protection OVSN Out Very Soon Now OW Oh Well / Old Wycombiensian/Wellingtonian/Westminster/Wykehamist / Open Wheels / Old World -OW&HD One Woman And Her Dog -OWAHD One Woman And Her Dog +OW&hD One Woman and her Dog +OWA (MS) Outlook Web Access/App +OWahD One Woman and her Dog +OWC (MS) Office Web Components / Other World Computing (Mac dealer) / Open-Wheel Car / Oil-Water Contact / Original Wood Case / Obstruction Warning and Cueing OWCLIL One Who Cannot Let It Lie -OWGOOO One Who Goes On and On and On… +OWGOOO One Who Goes On and On and On... OWI Operating While Intoxicated OWIBNI Oh Wouldn't It Be Nice If OWIL Only When I Laugh OWL Object Windows Library / Ordinary Wizarding Level OWLS Ordinary Wizarding Levels OWP Official Wheesht Photographer / Official Wibble Pessimist OWR Other Way Round OWROC Other Way Round, Of Course! +OWS Oracle Web Server / Occupy Wall Street (political protest) / Order of World Scouts / Outdoor Wireless System / Ocean Weather Station / Obstacle/Overload Warning System / Owner Will Ship OWTTE Or Words To That Effect OWYH Off With Your Head OXID Object Export Identifier (RPC) OY Osakeyhtiö (= Ltd co. in Finland) OYIA Oh Yes I Am -OYIC Oh yes I Can +OYIC Oh Yes I/It Can OYID Oh Yes I Do/Did / Oh Yes It Does/Did OYII Oh Yes It Is -OYIW Oh Yes It Was/Will +OYIW Oh Yes I/It Was/Will OYJ Julkinen Osakeyhtiö (= Ltd co. in Finland) OYKKAA On Your Knees, Kissing Arse Again OYLLT Oh, You Little Liar, Tommy OYSD Oh Yes She Does/Did OYSI Oh Yes She Is -OYTA Oh Yes They Are +OYTA Oh Yes They/There Are OYTC Oh Yes They Can OYTD Oh Yes They Do/Did OYTI Oh Yes There Is -OYTW Oh Yes They Were/Will +OYTW Oh Yes They/There Were/Will OYW On Your Way OYWA Oh Yes We Are OYWD Oh Yes We Do/Did OYYA Oh Yes You Are OYYAATT Oh Yes You Are, All The Time OYYD Oh Yes You Do/Did OÜ Osaühing (= Ltd co. in Estonia) -P phosphorus / Polynomial-Time / pence +P phosphorus / Polynomial-time (complexity) / pence +P&D (VESA) Plug and Display (video connector) P&G Procter & Gamble Co. -P&I Protection & Indemnity -P&Q Peace & Quiet +P&I Protection and Indemnity +P&L Profit and Loss +P&O Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company +P&OSNCo Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company +P&P Postage and Packing / Plug-and-Play / ‘Pride and Prejudice’ / Pen and Paper / Principles and Practices / Policies and Procedures / Privatisation and Partnership +P&Q Peace and Quiet +P&S Point-and-Shoot (cameras) P&T Penn & Teller P&W Pratt & Whitney +P/O Pilot Officer P2P Peer-To-Peer +P2PTV Peer-To-Peer Television P911 My parents are coming! -PA Personal Assistant / Pack Assistant / Pennsylvania / Parent Alert / Program Area (CD-RW) / petaampere (10^15 amperes) -pA picoampere (10¯¹² amperes) +P@H Parent(s) at Home +PA Personal Assistant / Pack Assistant / Pennsylvania / polyamide / Panama (ISO code) / Parent Alert / Program Area (CD-RW) / petaampere (10^15 amperes) Pa protactinium +pA picoampere (10¯¹² amperes) +PA-RISC Precision Architecture — Reduced Instruction Set Computer (HP) PA0 840×1120mm (paper size) PA1 560×840mm (paper size) PA10 26×35mm (paper size) PA2 420×560mm (paper size) PA3 280×420mm (paper size) @@ -7059,1123 +11476,1723 @@ PA6 105×140mm (paper size) PA7 70×105mm (paper size) PA8 52×70mm (paper size) PA9 35×52mm (paper size) PAAF Pissed As A Fart +PaaS Platform as a Service PAB Panamanian balboa (ccy) PABG Packing A Big Gun PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange -PAC Political Action Committee / Public Accounts Committee (UK parliament) / Performing Arts Centre / Perceptual Audio Coding / Porting Authorisation Code / Programmable Automation Controller / Presentation-Abstraction-Control / Pin Array Cartridge -PAD Packet Assembler/Disassembler (X.25) +PAC Political Action Committee / Public Accounts Committee (UK parliament) / Performing Arts Centre / Perceptual Audio Coding / Porting Authorisation Code / Programmable Automation Controller / Presentation-Abstraction-Control / Pin Array Cartridge (IC package) +PACT Producers' Alliance for Cinema and Television +PAD Packet Assembler/Disassembler (X.25) / Peripheral Arterial Disease +PADD Personal Access Display Device (Star Trek) PAE Physical Address Extension -PAF Phone A Friend / Postal Address File / Pigeons Are Faster +PAF Phone A Friend / Postal Address File / Pigeons Are Faster / PME Aggregation Function (Ethernet) +PAH Parent(s) at Home / Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon +PAIS Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome PAK Pakistan-Administered Kashmir PAL Phase Alternation Line (UK TV colour standard) / Parents Are Listening PAL-M Phase Alternation Line applied to system M (TV colour standard in Brazil) PAL-N Phase Alternation Line applied to NTSC (TV colour standard in Japan) PALS Pouch Attachment Ladder System -PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation +PAM Pulse-Amplitude Modulation PAN Personal-Area Network PANB Parents Are Nearby PANS Pretty Awesome/Annoying New Stuff -PAO Phased-Array Optics / US Public Affairs Office +PAO Phased-Array Optics / US Public Affairs Office / Prince Albert's Own +PAOD Peripheral Artery Occlusive Disease PAP Plug-And-Play / Password Authentication Protocol (PPP) / Push Access Protocol (WAP) / People's Action Party / Positive Airway Pressure / Pre-Authorised Payment -PAR Parabolic Aluminiumised Reflector / Pixel/Picture Aspect Ratio / Page Address Register / Positive Acknowledgement with Re-transmission / Perl Archive Toolkit / Phased-Array Radar / Participatory Action Research / Possible Allergic Reaction / Peak-to-Average Ratio / Post-Anæsthesia Recovery +PAR Parabolic Aluminiumised Reflector / Pixel/Picture Aspect Ratio / Page Address Register / Positive Acknowledgement with Re-transmission / Perl Archive Toolkit / Phased-Array Radar / Participatory Action Research / Possible Allergic Reaction / Peak-to-Average Ratio / Post-Anæsthesia Recovery / Precision Approach Radar PARC (Xerox) Palo Alto Research Center PAS Power-Assisted Steering / Physician-Assisted Suicide / Percussive Arts Society +PASADENA Perfect All-Singing All-Dancing Editorial and Notation Application +PASC Precision Adaptive Sub-band Coding (DCC) +PASCII Perso-Arabic Script Code for Information Interchange PASU Post-Alcohol Sexual Urge -PAT Portable Appliance Test / Port Address Translation / Photographic Activity Test / Picture And Text / Photo-Acoustic Tomography / Page Attribute Table / Performance Acceleration Technology +PAT Portable Appliance Test / Port Address Translation / Photographic Activity Test / Picture And Text / Photo-Acoustic Tomography / Page Attribute Table / Performance Acceleration Technology / Personal Automated Transport PATA Parallel ATA PATRICIA Practical Algorithm To Retrieve Information Coded In Alphanumeric +PATRIOT ‘Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism’ Act, 2001 PAW Parents Are Watching PAWN Personal Area Wireless Networking (= Bluetooth) PAYE Pay As You Earn PAYG Pay As You Go +PB petabyte (10^15 bytes) / polybutene Pb lead -PB petabyte (10^15 bytes) +PBA Physical Block Address +PBAFTB Premium Black Angus Finely-Textured Beef (recovered meat) PBD Programmer Brain Damage +PBDE Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether +PBEM Play By Email (game) PBM Play By Mail +PBQ Please Be Quiet PBq petabequerel (10^15 bequerels) pBq picobequerel (10¯¹² bequerels) +PBR Pebble-Bed Reactor / Partition Boot Record (aka VBR) / Policy-Based Routing / Pre-Budget Report / Point-Blank Range / Pabst Blue Ribbon beer / Plastic Baton Round / Public Borrowing Requirement PBS (US) Public Broadcasting Service +PBT polybutene terephthalate PBUH Peace Be Upon Him PBUI Peace Be Upon It / Push-Based User Interface +PBWS President of the British Watercolour Society PBX Private Branch Exchange -PC Personal Computer / Price Check / Politically Correct / Police Constable / Parish Council / Professional Corporation / petacoulomb (10^15 coulombs) +PC Personal Computer / Politically Correct / Police Constable / Parish Council / Privy Counsellor / Price Check / polycarbonate / Professional Corporation / petacoulomb (10^15 coulombs) / Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (ISO code) (obs.) pC picocoulomb (10¯¹² coulombs) PC-DOS Personal Computer — Disk Operating System -PCA Police Complaints Authority / Power Calibration Area (CD-RW) / Professional Chess Association -PCB Please Call Back / Printed Circuit Board / Para-di-Chloro-Benzoate / Poly-Chlorinated Biphenyl / Process Control Block -PCBC Propagating Cipher-Block Chaining -PCC Press Complaints Commission / Power Computing Corp. / Printed Circuit Corp. / Patents County Court, London / Poison Control Centre / Pen-Centric Computing / Parochial Church Council +PCA Police Complaints Authority / Power Calibration Area (CD-RW) / Professional Chess Association / Principal Component Analysis (statistics) +PCAOB (US) Public Company Accounting Oversight Board +PCB Please Call/Come Back / Printed Circuit Board / Polychlorinated Biphenyl / Para-di-Chloro-Benzoate / Process Control Block / Power Circuit Breaker / Police Complaints Board +PCBC Propagating Cipher-Block Chaining (cryptography) +PCC Press Complaints Commission / Power Computing Corp. / Printed Circuit Corp. / Patents County Court (London) / Poison Control Centre / Pen-Centric Computing / Parochial Church Council +PCCW Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd Pcd petacandela (10^15 candelas) pcd picocandela (10¯¹² candelas) PCE Professional Certificate in Education +PCFC Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council +PCG (UK) Professional Contractors Group +PCH Pacific Coast Highway PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect PCI-E Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (bus) PCI-X Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended (bus) -PCIe PCI Express PCIE Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (bus) +PCIe PCI Express +PCIP (US) Protecting Children form Internet Pornographers Act (proposed) PCIX Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended (bus) PCKBA Pot Calling Kettle Black Alert -PCL Printer Command Language +PCL Printer Command Language / Polytechnic of Central London PCM Pulse-Code Modulation / Please Call Me / Phase-Change Memory PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association / People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms PCMIIR Please Correct Me If I'm Wrong -PCMIIRB Please Correct Me If I'm Wrong, But… +PCMIIRB Please Correct Me If I'm Wrong, But... PCN Personal Communications Network PCO Please Carry On -PCP Parliamentary Conservative Party / Primary Care Physician / Phencyclidine / Probabilistically-Checkable Proof / Personal Contract Purchase / Physical Conditioning Programme -PCRE Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions -PCS (UK) Public and Commercial Services (union) / Permanent Change of Station +PCP Parliamentary Conservative Party / Primary Care Physician / Phencyclidine / Probabilistically-Checkable Proof (complexity) / Personal Contract Purchase / Physical Conditioning Programme +PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction / Put/Call Ratio (finance) / Post-Consumer Recycled / Patient Care Report / Program Clock Reference (DVB) / Program/Project/Product Change Request / Port Control Register / Post-Completion Review / Packet Channel Request / ‘Personal Computer Review’ / Per-Copy Royalty / Peripheral Curve Radius (contact lenses) +PCRE Perl-Compatible Regular Expression +PCS (UK) Public and Commercial Services (union) / Permanent Change of Station / Physical Coding Sublayer (Ethernet) PCSO Police Community Support Officer / Police Custody and Security Officer PCT Primary Care Trust / Patent Co-operation Treaty PCTFPT Permanent CIX Travelling Fish-Pun Thread PCTKB Pot Calling The Kettle Black PCTW PC Tools for Windows PCV Passenger-Carrying Vehicle / Pressure Control Valve / Product Category Volume / Police Community Volunteer / Positive Crankcase Ventilation PCW ‘Personal Computer World’ PCYLIHOONL Please Cross Your Legs, I Have Only One Nail Left -Pd palladium PD Public Domain / Potential Difference (voltage) / Parkinson's Disease / Personal/Professional Development / Police Department / Phase Distortion (synthesis) / Production Diary +Pd palladium PDA Personal Digital Assistant / Public Display of Affection / Public Disservice Announcement / Push-Down Automaton PDB Protein Data Bank / Chess Problem Database Server / President's Daily Brief / Palm Database format (esp. containing ebook text) +PDBAJ Please Don't Be A Jerk +PDBAZ Please Don't Be A Zombie PDC Programme Delivery Control (TV) / Primary Domain Controller / (UK) Public Data Corporation +PDCA Plan-Do-Check-Act +PDCB Partially-Defatted Chopped Beef (recovered meat) +PDD Pervasive Developmental Disorder +PDD-NOS Pervasive Developmental Disorder — Not Otherwise Specified PDE Puppy-Dog-Eyed / Partial Differential Equation / Present-Day English / Program/Portable/Plug-in Development Environment / Printing Dialog Extensions -PDF Portable Document Format +PDF Portable Document Format / Probability Density Function PDG Pretty Damned Good +PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (telecoms) PDM POST Display Manager +PDMI Portable Digital Media Interface PDN Public Data Network / Pull-Down Network +PDO Protected Designation of Origin PDOMA Pulled Directly Out of My Arse PDOOMA Pulled Directly Out Of My Arse -PDP Programmed Data Processor +PDP Programmed Data Processor (DEC) / Packet Data Protocol (GPRS/HSDPA) / Parallel Distributed Processing / Plasma Display Panel / Portable DVD Player / Popular/People's/Progressive Democratic Party +PDP-1 Programmed Data Processor model 1 (DEC) +PDP-10 Programmed Data Processor model 10 (DEC) +PDP-11 Programmed Data Processor model 11 (DEC) +PDP-6 Programmed Data Processor model 6 (DEC) +PDP-8 Programmed Data Processor model 8 (DEC) PDPT Patient-Delivered Partner Therapy PDQ Pretty Damned Quick PDR Permitted Development Rights / Program Defect Report / Personal Development Review / Power Distribution Rack / Pedestrian Dead Reckoning / People's Democratic Republic PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen PDS Pretty Damn Sure / Please Don't Shoot / Partitioned Data Set / Parkinson's Disease Society of the UK / Planetary Data System / Product Design Specification / Public Distribution System +PDSA People's Dispensary for Sick Animals PDT Pay Down Then / Patient-Delivered Partner Therapy / Pacific Daylight Time (North America) (= UTC-7) +PDTC Professional Dancers' Training Course Diploma PDTTTYGTSE Please Don't Try To Teach Your Grandmother To Suck Eggs PDU Protocol Data Unit (IEEE) -PE Physical Education / Private Equity / Professional Engineer / ‘Private Eye’ / Premature Ejaculation / Pulmonary Embolism / Portable Executable (Windows file format) / Physical Extents -PEBC&K Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard -PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard -PEBK&C Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair -PEBKAC Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair +PE Physical Education / Private Equity / Professional Engineer / ‘Private Eye’ / Premature Ejaculation / Pulmonary Embolism / Portable Executable (Windows file format) / Physical Extents / polyethene (aka polythene) / Peru (ISO code) / Procurement Executive +PEA Phenethylamine +PEBC&K Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard +PEBCaK Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard +PEBK&C Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair +PEBKaC Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair +PEC Photoelectrochemical +PED Penguin English Dictionary PEEC Public Establishment with Economic Characteristics (co. in Cambodia) -PEG Parsing Expression Grammar +PEG Price/Earnings/Growth (stock metric) / Parsing Expression Grammar / poly-ethylene glycol (= poly-ethene diol) PEGI Pan-European Game Information PEGIR Places E-Groat In Reticule +PEI Prince Edward Island PELA Pour Encourager Les Autres (= to encourage the others) -PEN Peruvian nuevo sol (ccy) +PEN International Association of Poets, Essayists, and Novelists / Peruvian nuevo sol (ccy) +PEng Registered Professional Engineer (Canada) PENTIUM Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics PEO Personal Email Option -PEP Personal Equity Plan +PEP Personal Equity Plan / Political and Economic Planning PEPA Performance Evaluation Process Algebra PEPC Prospective European Parliamentary Candidate PER Price/Earnings Ratio PERL Practical Extracting and Reporting Language (aka Pathologically-Eclectic Rubbish Lister) Perl Practical Extracting and Reporting Language / Pathologically-Eclectic Rubbish Lister +PERT Programme/Project Evaluation and Review Technique (chart) +PES Proposed Encryption Standard PEST Please Excuse Slow Typing -PET Positron Emission Tomography / Polyethylene Terephthalate / Personal Electronic Transactor (Commodore computer) +PET Positron Emission Tomography / polyethene terephthalate (aka polyester) / Personal Electronic Transactor (Commodore computer) PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals +PETE polyethene terephthalate PETL Please Enlighten The Lurkers PETN Pentaerythritol tetranitrate +PETSCII PET Standard Code for Information Interchange (aka CBM ASCII) PETT Kamchatka Time (= UTC+12) -PeV peta electron volt (10^15 electron volts) -peV pico electron volt (10¯¹² electron volts) +PEV Plug-in Electric Vehicle +PeV peta-electron volt (10^15 electron volts) +peV pico-electron volt (10¯¹² electron volts) +PEX Cross-linked Polyethene / Peer Exchange (protocol) +PF Political Fund / Personal Firewall / Parcelforce / petafarad (10^15 farads) / French Polynesia (ISO code) pF picofarad (10¯¹² farads) -PF Political Fund / Personal Firewall / Parcelforce / petafarad (10^15 farads) -PF&HOMW Printed, Framed, And Hanging On My Wall -PFA (UK) Professional Footballers' Association -PFAHOMW Printed, Framed, And Hanging On My Wall -PFC Private, First Class +PF&HomW Printed, Framed, and Hanging on my Wall +PFA Please Find Attached / (UK) Professional Footballers' Association +PFaHomW Printed, Framed, and Hanging on my Wall +PFB Please Find Below / Precious First-Born +PFC Private, First Class / Pre-Frontal Cortex (of the brain) +PFD Primary Flight Display PFE Programmer's File Editor -PFI Private Finance Initiative +PFET Positive-channel Field-Effect Transistor +PFI Private Finance Initiative / Press Freedom Index PFIF People Finder Interchange Format -PFM Pure F***ing Magic +PFJ People's Front of Judæa +PFM Please Forgive Me / Pure F***ing Magic PFMFJI Please Forgive Me For Jumping In -PFO Pissed, Fell Over +PFO Please F*** Off / Pissed, Fell Over PFT Pause For Thought / Physical Fitness Test PFTC Par For The Course PFY Pimply-Faced Youth -PG ParkGlobe / Parental Guidance / Pretty Good +PG ParkGlobe / Parental Guidance (US & UK movie rating) / Pretty Good / Papua New Guinea (ISO code) Pg petagram (10^15 grams) pg picogram (10¯¹² grams) -PGA Pure Grain Alcohol / Professional Golfers Association / Pin Grid Array +PG-13 Parental Guidance; unsuitable for children under 13 (US movie rating) +PGA Pure Grain Alcohol / Professional Golfers Association / Pin Grid Array (IC package) +PGAS Partitioned Global Address Space PGC Professional Graphics Controller -PGCert Post-Graduate Certificate -PGCERT Post-Graduate Certificate +PGCAS Predictive Ground-Collision Avoidance System PGCE Post-Graduate Certificate in Education -PGDIP Post-Graduate Diploma +PGCert Post-Graduate Certificate PGDip Post-Graduate Diploma +PGF Probability-Generating Function / Progressive Graphics File PGI Protected Geographical Indication PGK Papua New Guinean kina (ccy) +PGM Precision-Guided Missile +PGNCS Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System (LM) PGO Profile-Guided Optimisation PGP Pretty Good Privacy +PGS Protected Geographical Status +PGY Post-Graduate Year PGy petagray (10^15 grays) pGy picogray (10¯¹² grays) -PGY Post-Graduate Year -PH Pack Helper / Potenz Hydrat / petahenry (10^15 henrys) +PH Pack Helper / Potenz Hydrat / Polynomial Hierarchy (complexity) / petahenry (10^15 henrys) / Philippines (ISO code) pH Potenz Hydrat / picohenry (10¯¹² henrys) +Ph.D. Philosophiæ Doctor (= Doctor of Philosophy) +Ph.L. Licentiate of Philosophy +PH3 phosphine PHA Perfectly-Hopeless Ass +PHAB Physically-Handicapped and Able-Bodied PHAP Puts Head Above Parapet PHAPAGISO Puts Head Above Parapet And Gets It Shot Off -PHAT Pretty Hot And Tempting +PharmD Doctor of Pharmacy +PHaT Pretty Hot and Tempting PHB Pointy-Haired Boss +PhC Pharmaceutical Chemist PHCTB Pedro Has Ceased To Be -PHD Push Here, Dummy / Philosophiæ Doctor (= doctor of philosophy) / Piled Higher and Deeper -PHITC Put Her In The Crèche +PHD Push Here, Dummy / Philosophiæ Doctor (= Doctor of Philosophy) / Piled Higher and Deeper +PhD Philosophiæ Doctor (= Doctor of Philosophy) +PHitC Put Her in the Crèche +PhL Licentiate of Philosophy PHOT Phoenix Island Time (= UTC+13) PHP PHP Hypertext Preprocessor / Philippine pesos PHPBB PHP Bulletin Board +PhRMA Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America PHWR Pressurised Heavy-Water Reactor PHz petahertz (10^15 hertz) pHz picohertz (10¯¹² hertz) -PI Private Investigator / 3.1415926535 / Prove It -PIA Peripheral Interface Adapter +PI Private Investigator / 3.14159265 / Prove It / Politically Incorrect / Public Information / Personal Injury / Protease Inhibitor / Philippines (ISO code) (now PH) +PIA Public Information Announcement / Peripheral Interface Adapter / Privacy Impact Assessment / Personal Investment Authority +PIAO Prove It At Once +PIAOOE Prove It At Once Or Else +PIARC Permanent International Association of Road Congresses PIAS Play It Again, Sam -PIBC&K Problem Is Between Chair And Keyboard -PIBCAK Problem Is Between Chair And Keyboard -PIBK&C Problem Is Between Keyboard And Chair -PIBKAC Problem Is Between Keyboard And Chair +PIBC&K Problem Is Between Chair and Keyboard +PIBCaK Problem Is Between Chair and Keyboard +PIBK&C Problem Is Between Keyboard and Chair +PIBKaC Problem Is Between Keyboard and Chair PIC Peripheral Interface Controller / Programmable Interrupt Controller / Position-Independent Code PICMG PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group PICNIC Problem In Chair, Not In Computer -PICOP Paper Industries Corporation of the Philippines +PICOP Paper Industries Corporation Of the Philippines PICS Platform for Internet Content Selection -PID Process/Program Identifier / Proportional-Integral-Derivative / Pelvic Inflammatory Disease -PIE Position-Independent Executable +PID Process/Program Identifier / Physical Interface Device / Proportional-Integral-Derivative / Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / Political Intelligence Department +PIE Position-Independent Executable / Proto-Indo-European PIFOP Punishment Is For Other People +PII Personally-Identifiable Information PIK Glasgow Prestwick Airport +PIL Parent(s)-In-Law PILON Pay In Lieu Of Notice PIM Personal Information Manager PIMP Peeing In My Pants PIN Personal Identification Number PINE Program for Internet News and Email PINF People In Need Foundation (Czech) PING Packet Internet Gopher PIO Programmed Input/Output -PIPA Programme on International Policy Attitudes +PIPA Programme on International Policy Attitudes / (US) Protect IP Act (proposed) PIPI Producer Input Price Indices -PIR Passive Infra-Red / Post-Implementation Review / Periodic Inspection Report / Program Incident Report / Protocol-Independent Routing / Parent In Room -PIRA Provisional Irish Republican Army -PITA Pain In The Arse -PITB Pain In The Bum +PIR Passive Infra-Red / Post-Implementation Review / Periodic Inspection Report / Program Incident Report / Protocol-Independent Routing / Parent(s) In Room +PIRA Provisional Irish Republican Army / Paper Industries Research Association +PiRep Pilot Report +piRNA Piwi-Interacting Ribonucleic Acid +PiT Property is Theft +PitA Pain in the Arse +PitB Pain in the Bum PITBY Put It in Their Back Yard PITFU Pick It The F*** Up -PITN Pain In The Neck +PitN Pain in the Neck PIX Private Internet Exchange (Cisco, obs.) PJ petajoule (10^15 joules) pJ picojoule (10¯¹² joules) PJW Please Just Wait -PK petaKelvin (10^15 Kelvin) / Persekutuan Komanditer (= Ltd partnership co. in Indonesia) +PK petaKelvin (10^15 Kelvin) / Persekutuan Komanditer (= Ltd partnership co. in Indonesia) / Pakistan (ISO code) pK picoKelvin (10¯¹² Kelvin) Pkat petakatal (10^15 katals) pkat picokatal (10¯¹² katals) PKB Pot, Kettle, Black! PKCS Public-Key Cryptography Standards -PKD Philip K. Dick +PKD Philip Kindred Dick / Polycystic Kidney Disease PKE Public-Key Encryption PKI Public-Key Infrastructure +PKIT Please Keep In Touch PKR Pakistani rupees PKRS Password-Authenticated Key Retrieval Scheme PKT Pakistan Standard Time (= UTC+5) PKU Phenylketonuria PKZIP Phil Katz ZIP (file compression program) +PL Poland (ISO code) PL/I Programming Language One PL/M Programming Language for Microcomputers PL/P Programming Language for Prime -PLBC&K Problem Lies Between Chair And Keyboard -PLBCAK Problem Lies Between Chair And Keyboard -PLBK&C Problem Lies Between Keyboard And Chair -PLBKAC Problem Lies Between Keyboard And Chair -PLC Public Limited Company / Programmable Logic Controller / Power-Line Communication / Patrol Leaders Council +PLA Principle of Least Astonishment (UI design) / Programmable Logic Array (IC) / Port of London Authority / People's Liberation Army / Palestinian Liberation Army / (UK) Pre-school Learning Alliance / Product Licensing Application / Pro-Life Alliance +PLB Personal Locator Beacon +PLBC&K Problem Lies Between Chair and Keyboard +PLBCaK Problem Lies Between Chair and Keyboard +PLBK&C Problem Lies Between Keyboard and Chair +PLBKaC Problem Lies Between Keyboard and Chair +PLC Public Limited Company / Programmable Logic Controller / Power-Line Communication / Patrol Leaders Council / Parking-Lot Cache +plc Public Limited Company PLD Programmable Logic Device PLDM Periodic Limb Movement Disorder PLLC Professional Limited-Liability Company +PLM Product Lifecycle Management Plm petalumen (10^15 lumens) plm picolumen (10¯¹² lumens) -PLM Product Lifecycle Management PLMK Please Let Me Know PLMKO Please Let Me Know, Okay? PLN Polish zloty (ccy) PLO Palestine Liberation Organisation PLOKTA Press Lots Of Keys To Abort PLONK Please Leave Our Newsgroup. Killfiled! PLOTOA Please Lay Off The Obscure Acronyms PLP Packet Layer Protocol / Parliamentary Labour Party / Physical Layer Pipe (DVB-T2) / Platonic Life-Partner / Principle of Least Privilege +PLR Private Label Rights PLS please PLT Power-Line Telecommunications PLUR Peace, Love, Unity, Respect PLUTO Pipeline Under The Ocean Plx petalux (10^15 lux) plx picolux (10¯¹² lux) -PLZ please -pm picometre (10¯¹² metres) -PM Private Message / Personal Mail / Post Meridiem / Post Mortem / Prime Minister / Presentation Manager / Past Master / Postmaster / Provost-Marshal / Phase Modulation / Preventative Maintenance / Performance Management +plz please +PM Private Message / Personal Mail / Post Meridiem/Mortem / Prime Minister / Pardon Me / Presentation Manager / Past Master / Postmaster / Provost-Marshal / Phase Modulation / Preventative Maintenance / Performance Management / Saint Pierre and Miquelon (ISO code) Pm promethium / petametre (10^15 metres) -PMA Program Memory Area (CD-RW) +pm picometre (10¯¹² metres) +PMA Program Memory Area (CD-RW) / Physical Medium Attachment sublayer (Ethernet) +PMAC Parallelisable Message Authentication Code (cryptography) PMB Private Member's Bill / Private Mailbox / Picture Motion Browser PMBI Pardon My Butting In +PMBOK Project Management Body Of Knowledge PMBX Private Manual Branch Exchange PMC Project Monitoring and Control / Private Military Company/Contractor / Parrot Magic Cookie / Portable Media Centre / Pre-Motor Cortex -PMD Pudding of Mass Destruction -PME Protective Multiple Earthing -PMETC Pardon Me, Etc. +PMD Pudding of Mass Destruction / Physical Medium Dependent sublayer (Ethernet) / Programming Mistake Detector / Programme for Management Development (USA) / Pre-Millennial Dispensationalism / PageMaker Document (file format) +PME Protective Multiple Earthing / Pardon Me, Etc. / Physical Medium Entity (Ethernet) +PMEtc Pardon Me, Etc. +PMF Probability Mass Function / Proton-Motive Force PMFB Pardon Me For Breathing PMFBI Pardon Me For Butting In PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In -PMFJIB Pardon Me For Jumping In, But… +PMFJIB Pardon Me For Jumping In, But... PMFJIH Pardon Me For Jumping In Here -PMI Pardon My Ignorance / Practice Makes Imperfect +PMG Postmaster-General +PMI Pardon My Ignorance / Practice Makes Imperfect / Private Medical Insurance PMIGBOM Put Mind In Gear Before Opening Mouth PMJI Pardon My Jumping In -PMJIB Pardon My Jumping In, But… +PMJIB Pardon My Jumping In, But... PMK Pot, Meet Kettle PMKA Pot-Meet-Kettle Alert PML Pissed Myself Laughing PMLCF Pete McLeod Lemon Chicken Friday PMM POST Memory Manager +PMMA Poly-methyl methacrylate (aka Perspex, Plexiglas) +PMN Panglima Mangku Negara (Malaysia) +PMO Principal Medical Officer Pmol petamole (10^15 moles) pmol picomole (10¯¹² moles) +PMOS Positive-channel Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor PMP Practice Makes Perfect / Peeing My Pants PMPF Piss-My-Pants Funny PMPO Peak Music Power Output (not standardised) PMQ Prime Minister's Questions +PMR Patient Medical Record / Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation / Polymyalgia Rheumatica / Progressive Muscle Relaxation / Perpendicular Magnetic Recording / Power, Money, Respect / Professional Mobile Radio / Proton Magnetic Resonance +PMRAFNS Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service PMS Pre-Menstrual Syndrome / Pretty Much Sucks PMSE Programme Making and Special Events PMSL Pissing Myself Laughing PMTDI Provisional Maximum Tolerable Daily Intake +PMU Power Management Unit / Phasor Measurement Unit PMYMHMMFSWGAD Pardon Me, You Must Have Mistaken Me For Someone Who Gives A Damn PMYMHMMFSWGAS Pardon Me, You Must Have Mistaken Me For Someone Who Gives A S*** -PN petanewton (10^15 newtons) +PN petanewton (10^15 newtons) / Pitcairn (ISO code) pN piconewton (10¯¹² newtons) -PNAC Project for the New American Century (neo-Conservative think tank) +PNA Peptide Nucleic Acid +PNAC Project for the New American Century (neo-Conservative think-tank) +PNBS Panglima Negara Bintang Sarawak PNC Positively No Comment / (UK) Police National Computer -PND Post-Natal Depression / (UK) Police National Database +PND Post-Natal Depression / (UK) Police National Database / Personal Navigation Device +PNEU Parents' National Educational Union PNG Portable Network Graphics (file format) / Papua New Guinea PNID Plural Not In Dictionary -PNP Plug-and-Play +PNP Plug-and-Play / Positive-Negative-Positive PnP Plug-and-Play PNR Passenger Name Record +PNS Peripheral Nervous System PNWTOC Play Nicely With The Other Children +PO Post Office / Piss Off / Pilot Officer Po polonium -PO Post Office / Piss Off! -POA Power of Attorney / (UK) Prison Officers' Association (now The Professional Trades Union for Prison, Correctional, and Secure Psychiatric Workers) +POA Power Of Attorney / Price On Application / Purchase Order Authorisation/Acknowledgement / Programme Of Activities / (UK) Public Order Act 1936/63/86 / (UK) Prison Officers' Association (now The Professional Trades Union for Prison, Correctional, and Secure Psychiatric Workers) / Portable Object Adapter (CORBA) POAHF Put On A Happy Face -POC Piece Of Cake / Prisoner Of Chat / Peeping Other Chatters / Point Of Contact +POC Piece of Cake / Prisoner of Conscience/Chat / Peeping Other Chatters / Point of Contact POCD Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction -POD Point Of Divergence / Plain Old Data -POE Power over Ethernet +POD Print On Demand / Point Of Divergence / Plain Old Data / Personnel Operations Department PoE Power over Ethernet POETS Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday -POI Point of Interest / Point of Impact / Person of Interest / Parallel Optical Interface / Point of Inflection +POEU Post Office Engineering Union +POGE Principle of Good Enough +POI Point Of Interest / Point Of Impact / Person Of Interest / Parallel Optical Interface / Point Of Inflection POID Persistent Object Identifier +POIDH Pics, Or It Didn't Happen POITS Piss On It, Tomorrow's Saturday -POLA Principle Of Least Astonishment/Authority -POLP Principle Of Least Privilege +PoLA Principle of Least Astonishment/Authority +PoLP Principle of Least Privilege POM Phase Of the Moon / Prescription/Pharmacist-Only Medicine / Project Object Model -POME Prisoner Of Mother England -PONA Person Of No Account -POP Point Of Presence / Post Office Protocol / Piece Of Piss +PoME Prisoner of Mother England +POMO Post-Modern / Primary/Permanent Open-Market Operation (finance) / Point/Position Of Maximum Opportunity +PoMo Post-Modern +PoNA Person of No Account +POP Point Of Presence / Post Office Protocol / Piece Of Pie/Piss / Protect Our People/Planet/Privacy / Point Of Purchase / population / Proof Of Purchase/Product/Performance/Principle/Pudding POP3 Post Office Protocol, version 3 POQ Piss Off Quickly -POQADCB Piss Off Quickly And Don't Come Back! -POR Policy, Organisation & Rules -POS Point Of Sale / Piece Of S*** / Parent Over Shoulder +POQaDCB Piss Off Quickly and Don't Come Back! +POR Policy, Organisation, and Rules / Pile Of Rocks +POS Point Of Sale / Piece Of S*** / Pile of Sticks/Stones / Parent(s) Over Shoulder POSIX Portable Operating System Interface (for Unix) POSSLQ Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters -POST (UK) Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology / Power-On Self-Test -POTA (UK) Prevention of Terrorism Act 1974/1976/1984/1989/2005 -POTAM Panel of Takeovers and Mergers -POTC Peck On The Cheek +POST Power-On Self-Test / (UK) Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology +PoTA (UK) Prevention Of Terrorism Act 1974/1976/1984/1989/2005 +PoTaM Panel of Takeovers and Mergers +PotB Pat on the Back +PotC Peck on the Cheek / ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ POTS Plain Old Telephone System/Service -POTUS President of the United States of America -POTW Part Of The World -POV Point Of View / Protector Of Vampires -POW Prisoner of War -PP Per Procurationem / Parish Priest / Past President / Present Pupil / Prize Prick / Project Planning / Przedsiebiorstwo Panstwowe (= state co. in Poland) / = Ltd co. in Ukraine +PotUS President of the United States (of America) +PotW Part of the World +PotY Post/Photo(grapher)/Pub/Player of the Year +POUNC Post Office Users' National Council +PoV Point of View / Protector of Vampires +PoW Prisoner of War / Prince of Wales +POWDER Protocol for Web Description Resources +PP Per Procurationem / Parish Priest / Past President / Present Pupil / Prize Prick / Project Planning / polypropene (aka polypropylene) / Probabilistically Polynomial (complexity) / Przedsiebiorstwo Panstwowe (= state co. in Poland) / = Ltd co. in Ukraine +PPA Periodical Publishers Association PPa petapascal (10^15 pascals) pPa picopascal (10¯¹² pascals) +PPARC Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council PPB Parts Per Billion / Party Political Broadcast PPC Prospective Parliamentary Candidate / PowerPC / Pocket PC PPCOE Punning Priest Church Of England PPD Prepaid -PPE Philosophy, Politics, and Economics / Personal Protective Equipment / Piss-Poor Executives / Porcine Proliferative Enteropathy / Purple People-Eater +PPE Philosophy, Politics, and Economics / Personal Protective Equipment / Piss-Poor Executives / Porcine Proliferative Enteropathy / Purple People-Eater / Power Processor Element (Cell) / Power Plant, Electric PPERA (UK) Political Parties, Elections, and Referendums Act 2000 -PPI Pixels Per Inch / Producer-input Price Indices +PPFM Principles and Practices of Financial Management +PPI Pixels Per Inch / Payment Protection Insurance / Producer-input Price Indices PPL people / Public Performance Licence / Private Pilot's Licence / Plane-Polarised Light / Pre-Paid Legal (services) / Phonographic Performance Ltd (UK) / Pink Panther Land -PPM Pulse Position Modulation / Parts Per Million +PPM Pulse-Position Modulation / Parts Per Million / Pages Per Minute / Public Performance Measure PPN Programmer Project Number PPOSTFU Post Proof Or Shut The F*** Up PPP Point-To-Point Protocol / Petty Pet Peeve / Piss-Poor Protoplasm / Purchasing Power Parity -PPPOA Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM PPPoA Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM -PPPOE Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet PPPoE Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet PPPP Previous Paragraph was Polemical Position PPPPPT Piss-Poor Protoplasm, Poorly Put Together PPQA Process and Product Quality Assurance +PPRA Past President of the Royal Academy +PPRIBA (Immediate) Past President of the Royal Institute of British Architects +PPRSA Past President of the Royal Scottish Academy +PPS Parliamentary Private Secretary PPT Parts Per Trillion +PPTM Probabilistic Polynomial-Time Turing Machine PPTP Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol -PPTSPAHS Please Pass The Salt, Pepper, And Hot Sauce -PPU Price Per Unit +PPtSPaHS Please Pass the Salt, Pepper, and Hot Sauce +PPU Price Per Unit / Please Pick Up +PQ Province of Québec +PQM Please Quote Me PQMF Please Quote Me For +PR Public Relations / Proportional Representation / Puerto Rico (ISO code) / Planet Rock Pr praseodymium -PR Public Relations / Proportional Representation / Puerto Rico / Planet Rock -PRA Participatory Rural Appraisal +PR-STV Proportional Representation through the Single Transferable Vote +PRA Participatory Rural Appraisal / President of the Royal Academy PRAM Parameter Random-Access Memory (Mac) / Phase-Change Random-Access Memory / Parallel Random-Access Machine PRAT Please Register Acronym(s) Today (in cix:acronyms/ameol) PRBS Pseudo-Random Binary Sequence -PRC People's Republic of China / Palm Resource (file) / Post Romam Conditam / Popular Resistance Committee / Presbyterian Reformed Church / Protestant Reformed Churches in America / Practical Reserve Capacity / Process File-System +PRC People's Republic of China / Palm Resource (file) / Post Romam Conditam (= since the founding of the city (of Rome)) / Popular Resistance Committee / Presbyterian Reformed Church / Protestant Reformed Churches in America / Practical Reserve Capacity / Process file-system +PRCA Public Relations Consultants Association +PRCS President of the Royal College of Surgeons +PRE Perl-derived Regular Expression / President of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers, and Engravers PRESL Please Read ‘Eats, Shoots and Leaves’ PRESLEY Please Read ‘Eats, Shoots and Leaves’ Eventually PRGA Pseudo-Random Generation Algorithm -PRI Primary Rate Interface (ISDN) / Programme Review Implementation +PRI Primary Rate Interface (ISDN) / Programme Review Implementation / Plastics and Rubber Institute (now part of Institute of Materials) PRM Partner Relationship Management PRN Pro Re Nata (= as needed) / Pseudo-Random Number PRNG Pseudo-Random Number Generator -PRO Public Record Office (now TNA) / Performance Rights Organisation +PRO Public Record Office (now TNA) / Performance Rights Organisation / Public Relations Officer PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory PRONI Public Records Office of Northern Ireland PROW Public/Private Right Of Way -PRS Performing Rights Society / Proceedings of the Royal Society -PRT Please Re-Tweet +PRS Performing Rights Society / Proceedings/President of the Royal Society +PRT Please Re-Tweet / Personal Rapid Transit PRW Parents Are Watching +PRWS President of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours +PS PostScript / Permanent Secretary / Police Sergeant / polystyrene / Pit Stop / Public School / Parametric Stereo / Pastel Society / Port, Starboard / petasiemens (10^15 siemens) / Palestine (ISO code) Ps petasecond (10^15 seconds) -ps picosecond (10¯¹² seconds) pS picosiemens (10¯¹² siemens) -PS PostScript / Permanent Secretary / Police Sergeant / Pit Stop / Public School / Parametric Stereo / petasiemens (10^15 siemens) +ps picosecond (10¯¹² seconds) PS/2 Personal System/2 -PSA Public Service Announcement / Prostate-Specific Antigen / Property Services Agency / (UK) Postal Services Act 2000 / Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive / Professional Services Automation +PS2 PlayStation 2 +PSA Public-Service Announcement / Public Show of Affection / Prostate-Specific Antigen / Property Services Agency / (UK) Postal Services Act 2000 / Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive / Professional Services Automation / President of the Society of Antiquaries PSAP Public-Safety Answering Point +PSB The Pet Shop Boys (band) PSC Personal Services Company / (UK) Postal Services Commission PSCSI Parallel SCSI -PSITS Penny Sticks In The Slot -PSK Phase-Shift Keying +PSD Petty Session Division +PSE Packet-Switching Exchange / please +PSI Policy Studies Institute +PSitS Penny Sticks in the Slot +PSK Phase-Shift Keying / Pre-Shared Key (aka personal mode, WiFi authentication) PSL Private-Sector Liquidity +PSM President of the Society of Miniaturists +PSN PlayStation Network / Packet-Switching Node/Network / Processor Serial Number +PSNC Pacific Steam Navigation Company +PSNI Police Service of Northern Ireland +PSO Principal Staff Officer PSP PlayStation Portable / Paint Shop Pro / Personal Software Process / Pit Signal Processing (SACD) +PSPA Professional Sports Photographers' Association +PSPACE Polynomial-Space (complexity) PSPC Prospective Scottish Parliamentary Candidate +PSR Project/Personnel Status Report / Product Sales/Support Representative / Photic Sneeze Reflex / Packet Success Rate / Pre-Sentence Report / Personal Savings Rate / Please Stop Requesting PST Pacific Standard Time (North America) (= UTC-8) / Philippine Standard Time (= UTC+8) PSTN Public Switched Telecom Network PSU Power Supply Unit / Public Sector Unit (= co. in India) +PSV Public-Service Vehicle / Police Support Volunteer / Pressure Support Ventilation PSv petasievert (10^15 sieverts) pSv picosievert (10¯¹² sieverts) -PSV Public Service Vehicle / Police Support Volunteer / Pressure Support Ventilation PSVI Post-Schema-Validation Info-set -pT picotesla (10¯¹² teslas) +PsyD Doctor of Psychology +PT Public/Private Transport / Physical Training / Plain Text / petatesla (10^15 teslas) / Perseroan Terbatas (= Ltd co. in Indonesia) / = partnership co. in Ukraine / Portugal (ISO code) Pt platinum -PT Public/Private Transport / Physical Training / Plain Text / petatesla (10^15 teslas) / Perseroan Terbatas (= Ltd co. in Indonesia) / = partnership co. in Ukraine +pT picotesla (10¯¹² teslas) PTA Parent-Teacher Association / (UK) Passenger Transport Authority / Post-Traumatic Amnesia / Physical Therapist Assistant / (UK) Prevention of Terrorism Act 1974/1976/1984/1989/2005 PTARNOE Put That Away Right Now, Or Else! -PTB Powers That Be / Pregnant Tea-Bringer / Please Text Back +PTB Powers That Be / Pregnant Tea-Bringer / Pass The Buck / Please Text Back +PTC phenylthiocarbamide PTCW Poet To cix:wur +PTE Passenger Transport Executive +PTFE Polytetrafluoroethene (aka Teflon) PTH Plated-Through Hole / Parathyroid Hormone PTI Physical Training Instructor -PTIYP&SI Put That In Your Pipe And Smoke It -PTIYPASI Put That In Your Pipe And Smoke It +PTIT Proper Tea Is Theft +PTIYP&SI Put That In Your Pipe and Smoke It +PTIYPaSI Put That In Your Pipe and Smoke It PTL Please Try Later / Praise The Lord! PTLO Put That Light Out -PTM Please Tell Me +PTM Please Tell Me / Pork Tikka Masala +PTMIAPWL Proper Tea, Made In A Pot With Leaves PTMM Please Tell Me More PTO Please Turn Over / (US) Patent and Trademark Office PTO1 Pull The Other One PTO1IGBO Pull The Other One, It's Got Bells On PTOO Pull The Other One PTOOIGBO Pull The Other One, It's Got Bells On +PTPD Post-Traumatic Personality Disorganisation PTPO Play(ing) The Pink Oboe +PTR Pointer Record (DNS) / Professional Technical Reference / Pay-to-Read / Pupil/Teacher Ratio / Proven Track Record / Portfolio Turnover Rate / Problem/Program Tracking/Trouble/Technical Report/Record / Packet Transmission Rate / Property Tax Relief / Professional Tax Receipt PTS Preliminary Training School PTS-DOS PhysTechSoft — Disk Operating System PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder / Port Townsend School District -PTT Public Telephone and Telegraph / Push To Talk +PTT Public Telephone and Telegraph / Push-To-Talk (aka Press-To-Transmit) / Photothermal Therapy / Prince's Trust Team / Petronas Twin Towers (Kuala Lumpur) PTTPTB Praise To The Powers That Be :-) PTUI Plain-Text User Interface PTW Posts This Week PTWI Provisional Tolerable Weekly Intake +PU Priority Unread / polyurethane / Perusahaan Umum (= state-owned co. in Indonesia) / US Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (ISO code) (obs.) Pu plutonium -PU Priority Unread / Perusahaan Umum (= state-owned co. in Indonesia) PUN Pull-Up Network PUNTS People of Utterly No Tactical Significance PUNVIC Punning Vicar -PUP Progressive Unionist Party (of NI) +PUP Progressive Unionist Party (of NI) / PARC Universal Packet (network protocol) +PUR polyurethane +PUREX Plutonium-Uranium Extraction +PUWP Polish United Workers' Party PV Photo-Voltaic / Present Value / Physical Volume / petavolt (10^15 volts) pV picovolt (10¯¹² volts) +PVA polyvinyl acetate / polyvinyl alcohol +PVAl polyvinyl alcohol PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit (X.25) / Poly-Vinyl Chloride -PVD Post-Viral Depression +PVCS Polytron Version Control System +PVD Post-Viral Depression / Peripheral Vascular Disease PVG Physical Volume Group +PVI Positive Volume Index (finance) PVM Parallel Virtual Machine +PVOH polyvinyl alcohol PVR Personal Video Recorder -PVST Per-VLAN Spanning Tree +PVS Persistent Vegetative State +PVSM Param Vishishc Seva Medal (India) +PVST Per-VLAN Spanning-Tree +PW Pow-Wow / password / Pathetic Wanker / Palau (ISO code) / Pacific Western Transportation / Publishers Weekly / Philadelphia Weekly / pennyweight / Professional Wrestling / petawatt (10^15 watts) pW picowatt (10¯¹² watts) -PW Pow-Wow / password / Pathetic Wanker / Palau / Pacific Western Transportation / Publishers Weekly / Philadelphia Weekly / pennyweight / Professional Wrestling / petawatt (10^15 watts) PWA Perception Without Awareness PWb petaweber (10^15 webers) pWb picoweber (10¯¹² webers) +PWD Public Works Department / Portuguese Water Dog PWL Poor Wee Lad PWLB (UK) Public Works Loan Board PWLC Public Works Loan Commissioners PWM Pulse-Width Modulation PWN own +PWO Prince of Wales' Own PWP Plot, What Plot? -PWR Pressurised Water Reactor +PWR Pressurised-Water Reactor PWTFB Patrick, Write The F***ing Book! PWUR Phoenix to cix:wur PXE Pre-boot Execution Environment PXI PCI Extensions for Instrumentation +PY Paraguay (ISO code) +PYBT Prince's Youth Business Trust PYG Paraguayan guaraní (ccy) +PYO Pick Your Own PYS Pack Your Stuff PYT Pull Yourself Together PYU Pick Yourself Up -Q Qué? -Q&A Questions & Answers +PZ Panama Canal Zone (ISO code) (now PA) +Q Question / Qué? +Q&A Questions and Answers Q&D Quick and Dirty -QA Quality Assurance -QAD Quick And Dirty +Q4U Question for you +QA Quality Assurance / Qatar (ISO code) +QaD Quick and Dirty +QAIMNS Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service +QALAS Qualified Associate of the Land Agents' Society QALOPDKT Quite A Lot Of People Don't Know That QALOPKT Quite A Lot Of People Know That -QAM Quality Assurance Management / Quadrature Amplitude Modulation +QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation / Quality Assurance Management +QANTAS Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service QAR Qatari rials (ccy) +QARANC Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps +QARNNS Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service QC Quality Control / Queen's Counsel / (sherry brand) QCA (UK) Qualifications and Curriculum Authority +QCB Queen's Commendation for Bravery QCD Quantum Chromodynamics +QCVS Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service +QCVSA Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air QD Quaque Die (= every day) +QDM magnetic heading to (aviation radio code) QDPSH Quick and Dirty Perl Solution Hacker -QDR Quad Data Rate +QDR Quad Data Rate / Qualified Dispute Resolver / magnetic bearing from (aviation radio code) QDSM Quick and Dirty Solution Manager -QE Queen Elizabeth +QE Queen Elizabeth / Quantitative Easing QE2 Queen Elizabeth the Second QEC Quod Erat Construendum (= which was to be constructed) QED Quod Erat Demonstrandum (= which was to be shown) / Quantum Electrodynamics -QEF Quot Erat Faciendum (= which was to be done) +QEF Quod Erat Faciendum (= which was to be done) QEII Queen Elizabeth the Second QEMM Quarterdeck Expanded-Memory Manager +QFE atmospheric pressure and altitude (aviation radio code) / Quick Fix Engineering / Quad Fast Ethernet / Quoted For Emphasis +QFF barometric pressure (aviation radio code) QFP Quad Flat Package QFS Quick File-System (Sun) -QFT Quoted For Truth +QFSM Queen's Fire Service Medal for Distinguished Service +QFT Quoted For Truth / Quantum Field Theory +QFU magnetic bearing of runway (aviation radio code) +QGM Queen's Gallantry Medal +QHC Honorary Chaplain to The Queen +QHDS Honorary Dental Surgeon to The Queen +QHNS Honorary Nursing Sister to The Queen +QHP Honorary Physician to The Queen +QHS Honorary Surgeon to The Queen +QHVS Queen's Honorary Veterinary Surgeon QI ‘Quite Interesting’ QIC Quarter Inch Cartridge QL Quantum Leap / Quit Laughing! QLD Queensland (Australia) -QM Quantum Mechanics / Queen Mary / Quartermaster +QLF Qu'est-ce Le Foque? / Quebec Liberation Front / Quebec-Labrador Foundation / Quantitative Light-Induced Fluorescence / sending with left foot (radio code) +QM Quantum Mechanics / Queen Mary / Quartermaster / Quality Management +QMAAC Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps +QMC Queen Mary College (London) +QMG Quartermaster-General +QNB 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate (incapacitating agent) +QNE atmospheric pressure at sea level (aviation radio code) +QNH barometric pressure adjusted to sea-level (aviation radio code) QNI Quiet Night In QNX (a Unix-like real-time OS) +QO Qualified Officer QOF Quality and Outcomes Framework (UK NHS) -QOS Quality Of Service +QOH Queen's Own Hussars QoS Quality of Service -QOTD Quote of the Day +QOTD Quote Of The Day +QOY Queen's Own Yeomanry QPL Q Public Licence (Qt) +QPM Queen's Police Medal QPSK Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying -QRF Quick Reaction Force -QRK do you understand? -QRM interference man-made -QRP very quietly / low power -QRT Quit Receiving/Transmitting -QRX wait for a short time -QRZ who are you? -QS Quit Scrolling -QSL (please) reply / Québec Sign Language -QSO conversation -QSY change frequency/topic -Qt Quasar Toolkit +QQ cry +QRA name/call sign (radio code) +QRB distance between us (radio code) +QRE estimated time of arrival (radio code) +QRF Quick Reaction Force / returning to (radio code) +QRG frequency (radio code) +QRH frequency varies (radio code) +QRI tone of transmission (radio code) +QRIH Queen's Royal Irish Hussars +QRK readability / understand (radio code) +QRL frequency busy (radio code) +QRM have interference (radio code) +QRN troubled by static (radio code) +QRO increase power (radio code) +QRP decrease power / very quiet (radio code) +QRQ send faster (radio code) +QRS send slower (radio code) +QRT stop sending (radio code) +QRU nothing for you (radio code) +QRV ready (radio code) +QRW please inform (radio code) +QRX call again (radio code) +QRY your turn is number (radio code) +QRZ who are you? 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Right-Hand Page +RHR Royal Highland Regiment RHS Right-Hand Side / Rocking-Horse S*** / Royal Horticultural Society / Rectangular Hollow Section -RI Rhode Island / Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours +RI Royal Institution / Reference Implementation / Referential Integrity / Rhode Island / Rotary International / Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours / Indonesia (ISO code) (now ID) RI1 Right In One RIA Rich Internet Application / (UK) Rail Industry Association / Registered Investment Adviser RIAA Recording Industry Association of America +RIAC Royal Irish Automobile Club +RIAI Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland RIAJ Recording Industry Association of Japan +RIAS Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland +RIASC Royal Indian Army Service Corps RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects -RIC Reuters Instrument Code / Regulated Investment Company / Rapid Intervention Crew / Remanded In Custody -RIF Resistance Is Futile! / Realistic Imitation Firearm / Royal Irish Fusiliers +RIC Reuters Instrument Code / Regulated Investment Company / Rapid Intervention Crew / Remanded In Custody / Royal Irish Constabulary +RICS Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors +RIF Resistance Is Futile! / Realistic Imitation Firearm / Royal Irish Fusiliers / Reduction in Force (= redundancies, firings) RIFF Resource Interchange File Format +RIG Rest In God / Regional/Related/Railway Interest Group / Real Internal Growth (finance) / Reduction In Grade / Radar Image Generator / Remote IP Gateway +RIIA Royal Institute of International Affairs RIL Res Ipsa Loquitur (= the thing speaks for itself) -RIMM Rambus Inline Memory Module +RIM Research In Motion Ltd / Royal Indian Marine +RIMA Reversible Inhibitor of Monoamine oxidase A +RIMM Rambus In-line Memory Module RIN Royal Indian Navy +RINA Royal Institute of Naval Architects +RINVR Royal Indian Navy Volunteer Reserve RIO Right In One -RIP Routing Information Protocol / Raster Image Processor / Requiescat In Pace (= Rest In Peace) -RIPA (UK) Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 -RIR Regional Internet Registry +RIOP Royal Institute of Oil Painters +RIP Routing Information Protocol / Raster Image Processor / Requiescat In Pace (= Rest In Peace) / Remote Imaging Protocol (BBS) / Recovery Is Possible (Linux distribution) +RIPA (UK) Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 / Royal Institute of Public Administration +RIPEMD RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest (hash algorithm) +RIPEMD-128 RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest, 128-bit (hash algorithm) +RIPEMD-192 RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest, 192-bit (hash algorithm) +RIPEMD-256 RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest, 256-bit (hash algorithm) +RIPEMD-320 RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest, 320-bit (hash algorithm) +RIPH Royal Institute of Public Health +RIPHH Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene +RIR Regional Internet Registry / Royal Irish Rangers RIRA Real Irish Republican Army +RIrR Royal Irish Rifles RISC Reduced-Instruction-Set Chip/Computer RISC-OS Reduced-Instruction-Set Computer Operating System RISKS Forum On Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems RIU Resistance Is Useless! +RIV Radio Interference Voltage / Regolamento Internazionale Veicoli (= International Wagon Regulations) +RJ Rubber Johnny / Radio Jockey / Registered Jack +RJ11 Registered Jack 11 (6 pins, 2 wired, for 1 phone line) +RJ14 Registered Jack 14 (6 pins, 4 wired, for 2 phone lines) +RJ21 Registered Jack 21 (50 pins, all wired, for SCSI or bulk Ethernet) +RJ25 Registered Jack 25 (6 pins, all wired, for 3 phone lines) +RJ45 Registered Jack 45 (8 pins; 2 wired for phone/data, or all for Ethernet) +RJ48 Registered Jack 48 (8 pins, all wired, for T1 or ISDN) +RJ61 Registered Jack 61 (8 pins, all wired, for 4 phone lines) RKBA Right to Keep and Bear Arms -RL Real Life / Red Lion / resistor-inductor / Rugby League -RLC Resistor-Inductor-Capacitor +RL Real Life / Red Lion / resistor-inductor / Rugby League / Retired List / Randomised, Logarithmic-space (complexity) / Lebanon (ISO code) (now LB) +RLC Resistor-Inductor-Capacitor / Royal Logistic Corps RLCO Real-Life Conference RLE Run-Length Encoding RLF Real-Life Friend +RLFC Rugby League Football Club +RLG Ring Laser Gyroscope RLL Run-Length Limited +RLP Randomised, Logarithmic-space, Polynomial-time (complexity) RLPO Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra +RLSS Royal Life Saving Society RLV Reusable Launch Vehicle RLY really? -RM Royal Mail / Research Machines / Reichsmark -RMA Return Merchandise Authorisation / Refusal of Medical Assistance / Royal Military Academy +RM Royal Mail / Royal Marines / Research Machines / Reichsmark / Registered Midwife / Madagascar (ISO code) (now MG) +RMA Return Merchandise Authorisation / Refusal of Medical Assistance / Royal Military Academy / Royal Marine Artillery +RMAS Royal Military Academy of Science RMB Right Mouse Button -RMC Right Mouse Click -RMI Remote Method Invocation (Java) +RMC Right Mouse Click / Royal Military College, Sandhurst (now RMA) +RMCS Royal Military College of Science +RME Rolling My Eyes / Rich Media Environment (OMA) / Rack-Mounted Equipment / Religious and Moral Education +RMF Rich Music Format +RMFVR Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve +RMI Remote Method Invocation (Java) / Rights Management Information +RMIT Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology RML Read My Lips / Ray Mallock Ltd RMLB Read My Lips, Baby +RMLI Royal Marine Light Infantry RMM Read My Mail RMMM Read My Mail, Man +RMN Registered Mental Nurse +RMO Resident Medical Officer +RMP Royal Military Police +RMPA Royal Medico-Psychological Association +RMPS Religious, Moral, and Philosophical Studies +RMR Royal Marine Reserve RMS Root-Mean-Square / Record Management System / Richard Matthew Stallman / Rights Management Services (Windows 2003) / Royal Medical/Meteorological/Microscopical Society / Royal Mail Ship/Steamer RMT (UK) National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers +RMW Read-Modify-Write +RN Right Now / Royal Navy / Random Number / Niger (ISO code) (now NE) Rn radon -RN Right Now / Royal Navy / Random Number RNA Ribonucleic Acid / Ring, No Answer +RNAi Ribonucleic Acid Interference therapy RNARS Royal Navy Amateur Radio Society -RNAS Royal Naval Air Service +RNAS Royal Naval Air Service/Station +RNC Royal Naval/Nautical College +RNCM Royal Northern College of Music +RND Royal Naval Division +RNDIS Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (USB, Microsoft) +RNEC Royal Naval Engineering College RNG Random Number Generator +RNH Royal Naval Hospital RNIB Royal National Institute of Blind People RNID Royal National Institute for Deaf People RNLI Royal National Lifeboat Institution RNR Ringing No Reply / Royal Naval Reserve -RNS Rear Near Side +RNS Rear Near-Side / Regulatory News Service +RNSA Royal Naval Sailing Association +RNSD Royal Naval Store Department +RNSM Royal Northern School of Music +RNT Royal National Theatre / Registered Nurse Tutor RNTUSMAITT Remember Not To Use So Many Acronyms In This Topic RNVR Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve -RO Record Office +RNVSR Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve +RNXS Royal Naval Auxiliary Service +RNZAC Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps +RNZADC Royal New Zealand Army Dental Corps +RNZAF Royal New Zealand Air Force +RNZAMC Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps +RNZN Royal New Zealand Navy +RNZNVR Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve +RO Read-Only / Record Office / Romania (ISO code) ROAR Rotary Operated Airborne Rickshaw (Helicopter) / Radio Operated Automobile Racing / Reservoirs Of Antibiotic Resistance network / Responsible Organisation Action Request / Right Of Admission Refused/Reserved ROAST RAM On A Stick -ROC Republic Of China (= Taiwan) -ROE Rules Of Engagement +RoC Republic of China (= Taiwan) / Royal Observer Corps +RoCE Return on Capital Employed +RoE Rules of Engagement ROFC Rolls On Floor Crying ROFFNAR Rolling On the Floor For No Apparent Reason ROFIFOG Rolls On Floor In Fits Of Giggles ROFL Rolling On the Floor, Laughing -ROFLABAOTP Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, And Barfing All Over The Place -ROFLAHMS Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, And Holding My Sides -ROFLAHMSL Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, And Holding My Sides Laughing +ROFLaBAOTP Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, and Barfing All Over The Place +ROFLaHMS Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, and Holding My Sides +ROFLaHMSL Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, and Holding My Sides Laughing ROFLAO Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Arse Off -ROFLASC Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, And Scaring The Cat -ROFLASSO Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, And Splitting Sides Open -ROFLASTC Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, And Scaring The Cat +ROFLaSC Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, and Scaring the Cat +ROFLaSSO Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, and Splitting Sides Open +ROFLaStC Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, and Scaring the Cat ROFLBSAOTP Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, Blowing Snot All Over The Place ROFLBTC Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, Biting The Carpet ROFLBTCUTS Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, Biting The Carpet, Unable To Stop ROFLCOPTER Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, Can't Operate Properly Till Eyes Refocus ROFLGO Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Guts Out! ROFLHOLCBF Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Hysterically Out Loud, Collecting Bird Feathers ROFLHOLCCF Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Hysterically Out Loud, Collecting Cat Fur ROFLHOLCDF Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Hysterically Out Loud, Collecting Dog Fur ROFLMAO Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off -ROFLMAOAAPMP Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, And Almost Pissing My Pants -ROFLMAOAPMP Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, And Peeing My Pants +ROFLMAOaAPMP Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, and Almost Pissing My Pants +ROFLMAOaPMP Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, and Peeing My Pants ROFLMAOAY Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off At You ROFLMAOOL Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off Out Loud ROFLMAOPIMP Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, Peeing In My Pants ROFLMAOWPIMP Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, While Peeing In My Pants ROFLMAOWTIME Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, With Tears In My Eyes ROFLMBO Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Butt Off ROFLMHO Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Head Off ROFLOL Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Out Loud +ROFLOLAY Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Out Loud At You ROFLOLPIMP Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Out Loud, Peeing In My Pants +ROFLOLTSDMC Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Out Load, Tears Streaming Down My Cheeks ROFLOLVH Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Out Loud Very Hard ROFLOLWS Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Out Loud Without Stopping +ROFLOLWTIME Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Out Loud With Tears In My Eyes +ROFLOLWTSDMF Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Out Loud With Tears Streaming Down My Face ROFLSHIPMP Rolling On the Floor, Laughing So Hard I Peed My Pants ROFLSTC Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, Scaring The Cat ROFLSTCIIHO Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, Scaring The Cat If I Had One ROFLTC Rolling On the Floor, Licking The Glue -ROFLUTS Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, Unable to Speak +ROFLUTS Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, Unable To Speak ROFLWMK Rolling On the Floor, Laughing; Wet My Knickers ROFLWTROMF Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, With Tears Running Off My Face ROFLWTSDF Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, With Tears Streaming Down Face ROFLWTSDMF Rolling On the Floor, Laughing, With Tears Streaming Down My Face ROFPML Rolling On the Floor, Pissing Myself Laughing ROFTTPOF Rolling On the Floor, Trying To Put Out Flames -ROH Royal Opera House, Covent Garden -ROHS (EU) Restriction of Hazardous Substances directive 2006 -ROI Return On Investment / Republic of Ireland +ROH Royal Opera House (Covent Garden) +ROHS (EU) Restriction Of Hazardous Substances directive 2006 +ROI Return On Investment / Republic Of Ireland / (Member of) the Royal Institute of Painters in Oils ROL Raffing Out Loud ROM Read-Only Memory ROM-DOS Read Only Memory — Disk Operating System ROMB Raid On MotherBoard RON Romanian new leu (ccy) +RONJA Reasonable Optical Near Joint Access ROOP Run Out Of Paper -ROP Run Of Paper +ROP Run Out of Paper ROR Raffing Out Roud +RORC Royal Ocean Racing Club RORO Roll-On, Roll-Off (ferry) -ROS Rear Off Side -ROSPA Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents +ROS Rear Off-Side +RoSPA Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents +ROSSD Read-Only Solid-State Disk ROT13 EBG13 +RotB Right off the Bat / Running of the Bulls ROTBA Reality On The Blink Again -ROTF Rolling On The Floor -ROTFFNAR Rolling On The Floor For No Apparent Reason -ROTFL Rolling On The Floor, Laughing -ROTFLABAOTP Rolling On The Floor, Laughing, And Barfing All Over The Place -ROTFLACGU Rolling On The Floor, And Can't Get Up -ROTFLAHMS Rolling On The Floor, Laughing, And Holding My Sides -ROTFLAPMP Rolling On The Floor, And Peeing My Pants -ROTFLASTC Rolling On The Floor, Laughing, And Scaring The Cat -ROTFLBSAOTP Rolling On The Floor, Laughing, Blowing Snot All Over The Place -ROTFLBTC Rolling On The Floor, Laughing, Biting The Carpet -ROTFLBTCASTC Rolling On The Floor, Biting The Carpet, And Scaring The Cat -ROTFLBTCASTCIIHO Rolling On The Floor, Biting The Carpet, And Scaring The Cat If I Had One -ROTFLBTCUTS Rolling On The Floor, Laughing, Biting The Carpet, Unable To Stop -ROTFLGO Rolling On The Floor, Laughing Guts Out -ROTFLHOLCBF Rolling On The Floor, Laughing Hysterically Out Loud, Collecting Bird Feathers -ROTFLHOLCCF Rolling On The Floor, Laughing Hysterically Out Loud, Collecting Cat Fur -ROTFLHOLCDF Rolling On The Floor, Laughing Hysterically Out Loud, Collecting Dog Fur -ROTFLMAAOBPO Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My Arse And Other Body Parts Off -ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My Arse Off -ROTFLMAOAPMP Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, And Peeing My Pants -ROTFLMAOAY Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My Arse Off At You -ROTFLMAOPIMP Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, Peeing In My Pants -ROTFLMAOWPIMP Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, While Peeing In My Pants -ROTFLMAOWTIME Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, With Tears In My Eyes -ROTFLMBO Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My Butt Off -ROTFLMHO Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My Head Off -ROTFLMTO Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My Tail Off -ROTFLOL Rolling On The Floor, Laughing Out Loud -ROTFLOLPIMP Rolling On The Floor, Laughing Out Loud, Peeing In My Pants -ROTFLOLWS Rolling On The Floor, Laughing Out Loud Without Stopping -ROTFLSHIPMP Rolling On The Floor, Laughing So Hard I Peed My Pants -ROTFLSTC Rolling On The Floor, Laughing, Scaring The Cat -ROTFLSTCIIHO Rolling On The Floor, Laughing, Scaring The Cat If I Had One -ROTFLTC Rolling On The Floor, Licking The Glue -ROTFLUTS Rolling On The Floor, Laughing, Unable to Speak -ROTFSTCLMAAOBPO Rolling On The Floor, Scaring The Cat, Laughing My Arse And Other Body Parts Off -ROTK ‘The Return Of The King’ -ROTLC Raider Of The Lost Case +ROTC Reserve Officers’ Training Corps / Return On Total Capital / Record of Telephone Conversation +RotF Rolling on the Floor +RotFFNAR Rolling on the Floor For No Apparent Reason +RotFL Rolling on the Floor, Laughing +RotFLaBAOtP Rolling on the Floor, Laughing, and Barfing All Over the Place +RotFLaCGU Rolling on the Floor, and Can't Get Up +RotFLaHMS Rolling on the Floor, Laughing, and Holding My Sides +RotFLaPMP Rolling on the Floor, Laughing and Peeing My Pants +RotFLaSTC Rolling on the Floor, Laughing, and Scaring the Cat +RotFLBSAOtP Rolling on the Floor, Laughing, Blowing Snot All Over the Place +RotFLBtC Rolling on the Floor, Laughing, Biting the Carpet +RotFLBtCaStC Rolling on the Floor, Biting the Carpet, and Scaring the Cat +RotFLBtCaStCIIHO Rolling on the Floor, Biting the Carpet, and Scaring the Cat If I Had One +RotFLBTCUTS Rolling on the Floor, Laughing, Biting The Carpet, Unable To Stop +RotFLGO Rolling on the Floor, Laughing Guts Out +RotFLHOLCBF Rolling on the Floor, Laughing Hysterically Out Loud, Collecting Bird Feathers +RotFLHOLCCF Rolling on the Floor, Laughing Hysterically Out Loud, Collecting Cat Fur +RotFLHOLCDF Rolling on the Floor, Laughing Hysterically Out Loud, Collecting Dog Fur +RotFLMAaOBPO Rolling on the Floor, Laughing My Arse and Other Body Parts Off +RotFLMAO Rolling on the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off +RotFLMAOaPMP Rolling on the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, and Peeing My Pants +RotFLMAOAY Rolling on the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off At You +RotFLMAOPimP Rolling on the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, Peeing in my Pants +RotFLMAOWPimP Rolling on the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, While Peeing in my Pants +RotFLMAOwTimE Rolling on the Floor, Laughing My Arse Off, with Tears in my Eyes +RotFLMBO Rolling on the Floor, Laughing My Butt Off +RotFLMHO Rolling on the Floor, Laughing My Head Off +RotFLMTO Rolling on the Floor, Laughing My Tail Off +RotFLOL Rolling on the Floor, Laughing Out Loud +RotFLOLPimP Rolling on the Floor, Laughing Out Loud, Peeing in my Pants +RotFLOLWS Rolling on the Floor, Laughing Out Loud Without Stopping +RotFLSHIPMP Rolling on the Floor, Laughing So Hard I Peed My Pants +RotFLStC Rolling on the Floor, Laughing, Scaring the Cat +RotFLStCIIHO Rolling on the Floor, Laughing, Scaring the Cat If I Had One +RotFLtC Rolling on the Floor, Licking the Glue +RotFLUtS Rolling on the Floor, Laughing, Unable to Speak +RotFStCLMAaOBPO Rolling on the Floor, Scaring the Cat, Laughing My Arse and Other Body Parts Off +RotJ ‘Star Wars ep.6: The Return of the Jedi’ +RotK ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ +RotLA Raiders of the Lost Ark +RotLC Raider of the Lost Case ROTM Right On The Money ROTNR Roll On The Next Release +RotS ‘Star Wars ep.3: Revenge of the Sith’ ROUGOL RISC OS User Group Of London -ROUS Rodents Of Unusual Size (I don't believe they exist) +RoUS Rodents of Unusual Size (I don't believe they exist) ROV Remotely-Operated Vehicle -ROW Right Of Way / Rest Of World +RoW Right of Way / Rest of World ROYGBIV Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet -RP Received Pronunciation / Rekisteröity Puolue (= registered political party in Finland) -RPB Romanian Phrase Book -RPC Remote Procedure Call +RP Received Pronunciation / Role-Playing / Recommended Practice / Rapid Prototyping / Randomised, Polynomial-time (complexity) / Rekisteröity Puolue (= registered political party in Finland) / Philippines (ISO code) (now PH) / Royal Society of Portrait Painters +RPA Remotely-Piloted Aircraft +RPB Romanian Phrase-Book +RPC Remote Procedure Call / Royal Pioneer Corps RPG Role-Playing Game / Rocket-Propelled Grenade / Really Pathetic Gamer / Report Program Generator RPI Retail Price Index -RPITA Real/Royal Pain In The Arse +RPitA Real/Royal Pain in the Arse RPM Revolutions Per Minute / RPM Package Manager +RPMS Royal Postgraduate Medical School RPN Reverse Polish Notation / Registered Parameter Number (MIDI) RPO Royal Philharmonic Orchestra +RPS Royal Photographic Society +RPSGB Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain RPSL RealNetworks Public Source Licence -RR Return Receipt +RPT report +RPV Reactor Pressure Vessel / Remotely-Piloted Vehicle +RQMS Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant +RR Return Receipt / Rolls-Royce / Range Rover / Royal Regiment RRA (UK) Race Relations Act 1965/1968/1976 RRAA (UK) Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 +RRC Royal Red Cross +RRE Reduced Regular Expression / Royal Radar Establishment / Rise-and-Run-length Encoding +RRF Royal Regiment of Fusiliers RRHA (UK) Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 +rRNA Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid RROOEG Rapidly Running Out Of E-Groats RRP Recommended Retail Price RRS Royal Research Ship RRSP Registered Retirement Savings Plan (Canada) -RS Arse / Rats*** / Royal Society, London / Record Separator +RRV Rapid-Response Vehicle +RRW Royal Regiment of Wales +RS Arse / Rats*** / Royal Society (London) / Record Separator / Serbia (ISO code) RSA Republic of South Africa / Rivest, Shamir, Adleman (cryptography algorithm) / Royal Society of Arts / Royal Scottish Academician +RSAA Royal Society for Asian Affairs +RSAC Royal Scottish Automobile Club +RSAMD Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama RSARS Royal Signals Amateur Radio Society -RSC Royal Shakespeare Company +RSBA Royal Society of British Artists +RSBS Royal Society of British Sculptors +RSC Royal Shakespeare Company / Royal Society of Canada +RSCM Royal Society of Church Music +RSCN Registered Sick Children's Nurse RSD Serbian dinars (ccy) -RSF Right Said Fred +RSE Royal Society of Edinburgh +RSF Right Said Fred / Royal Scots Fusiliers / Reporters Sans Frontières (= RWB) +RSFQ Rapid Single-Flux Quantum (electronics) RSGB Radio Society of Great Britain +RSGS Royal Scottish Geographical Society RSHA Reichssicherheitshauptamt (= Reich Security Main Office, WW2) -RSI Repetitive Strain Injury / Rodent Stroking Injury +RSI Repetitive Strain Injury / Relative Strength Index (finance) / Rodent-Stroking Injury RSJ Rolled-Steel Joist -RSM Regimental Sergeant Major -RSN Real Soon Now +RSL Royal Society of Literature / Returned Services League (Australia) / Russian Sign Language +RSM Royal Society of Medicine / Royal Society of Music / Regimental Sergeant-Major +RSMA Royal Society of Marine Artists +RSME Royal School of Military Engineers +RSMLT Routed Split Multi-Link Trunking (networking) +RSN Real Soon Now / Robust Security Network +RSNC Royal Society for Nature Conservation RSNO Royal Scottish National Orchestra +RSOD Red Screen Of Death RSP Recommended Selling Price / Retail Service Provider RSPB Royal Society for the Protection of Birds RSPCA Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals -RSS Really Simple Syndication (aka Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary) / Radio Service Software / Radio Security Service (later MI8) +RSPP Royal Society of Portrait Painters +RSRE Royal Signals and Radar Establishment +RSS Really Simple Syndication (aka Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary) / Radio Service Software / Radio Security Service (later MI8) / Royal Statistical Society +RSSA Royal Scottish Society of Arts RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator -RSTB1 Really Sucks The Big One -RSTBO Really Sucks The Big One -RSTP Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol +RSSPCC Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children +RStB1 Really Sucks the Big One +RStBO Really Sucks the Big One +RSTP Rapid Spanning-Tree Protocol RSV Revised Standard Version (of the Bible) RSVCD RoBa Super Video Compact Disc RSVP Répondez, S'il Vous Plaît (= please reply) -RT Real-Time / Re-Tweet / ‘Radio Times’ (magazine) / Részvénytársaság (= Ltd co. in Hungary) +RSW (Member of) the Scottish Royal Society of Painters in Water-colours +RT Real-Time / Re-Tweet / ‘Radio Times’ (magazine) / Reverse Transcriptase / Részvénytársaság (= Ltd co. in Hungary) RTA Road-Traffic Accident / (UK) Road Traffic Act 1930/1934/1988/1991 RTAI Real-Time Application Interface -RTB Return To Base / Right To Buy +RTAS Real-Time AudioSuite +RTB Return To Base / Right To Buy / Rich Tea Biscuit RTBI Round Tables of great Britain -RTBM Read The Bloody Manual +RtBM Read the Bloody Manual RTBS Reason To Be Single -RTBW Return To Base Warranty -RTC Real-Time Clock +RtBW Return-to-Base Warranty +RTC Real-Time Clock / Royal Tank Corps RTCP Real-Time Control Protocol -RTD Read The Documentation / Russell T. Davies / Remember The Day / Roll The Dice / Ready-To-Drink -RTE Real-Time Enterprise +RTD Read The Documentation / Russell T. Davies / Round-Trip Delay time / Remember The Day / Roll The Dice / Ready-To-Drink +RTE Raidió Teilifís Éireann (= Radio and Television of Ireland) / Real-Time Enterprise RTEMS Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems (real-time OS) -RTF Read The F***ing / Rich Text Format -RTFA Read The F***ing Article -RTFAQ Read The Frequently-Asked Questions (list) -RTFB Read The F***ing Bulletin/Binary -RTFF Read The F***ing FAQ -RTFFAQ Read The F***ing FAQ -RTFH Read The F***ing Help -RTFHF Read The F***ing Help Files -RTFI Read The F***ing Instructions -RTFM Read The F***ing Manual/Message -RTFMS Read The F***ing Manual, Sir -RTFQ Read The F***ing Question -RTFRN Read The F***ing Release Notes -RTFS Read The F***ing Source/Standard -RTH ‘Round The Horne’ -RTI Real-Time Interruption / Return from Interrupt -RTK Real-Time Kinematic -RTL Right-to-Left / Register Transfer Level / Resistor-Transistor Logic +RtF Read the F***ing / Rich Text Format +RtFA Read the F***ing Article +RtFAQ Read the Frequently-Asked Questions (list) +RtFB Read the F***ing Bulletin/Binary +RTFD Rich Text Format Directory (= RTF with attachments) / Read The F**ing Dictionary/Documentation/Directions +RtFE Read the F***ing Email +RtFF Read the F***ing FAQ +RtFFAQ Read the F***ing FAQ +RtFG Read the F***ing Google +RtFH Read the F***ing Help +RtFHF Read the F***ing Help Files +RtFI Read the F***ing Instructions +RtFIM Read the F***ing Instant Message/Imaginary Manual +RtFM Read the F***ing Manual/Message +RtFMS Read the F***ing Manual, Sir +RtFN Right the F*** Now +RtFO Read the F***ing On-line/Owner's Manual +RtFP Read the Fine Print / Read the F***ing Post/Profile +RtFQ Read the F***ing Question +RtFRN Read the F***ing Release Notes +RtFS Read the F***ing Source/Standard/Screen / Real-Time Forecasting/File System +RtFT Read the F***ing Thread/Topic +RtFW Read the F***ing Web/Wiki +RtFWA Read the F***ing Wikipedia Article +RtFWS Read the F***ing Website +RTG Ready To Go / rating / Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator +RTH ‘Round The Horne’ / Rire Tout Haut (= Laugh Out Loud) / Regular Trading Hours +RTHB Read The Holy Bible +RtHon Right Honourable +RTI Real-Time Interruption / Return from Interrupt / Reverse-Transcriptase Inhibitor +RTIS Regional/Remote Traffic Information System/Services / Real-Time Intelligence Services / Real-Time Inventory Status +RTK Real-Time Kinematics +RTKBA Right To Keep and Bear Arms (US constitution, 2nd amendment) +RTL Right-To-Left / Register Transfer Level / Resistor-Transistor Logic RTLS Real-Time Locating Systems (telecoms) RTM Read The Manual/Message / Released To Manufacturing RTMP Routing and Management Protocol (Apple) RTNR Ring Tone, No Reply -RTOLH Read The Online Help +RTO Railway Transport Officer +RTOLH Read The On-line Help RTOS Real-Time Operating System -RTP Real-time Transport Protocol / Routing Update Protocol / Room Temperature and Pressure -RTRN Read The Release Notes -RTROTT Read The Rest Of The Thread +RTP Real-time Transport Protocol / Routing Update Protocol / Room Temperature and Pressure / Release To Production / Rendezvous and Termination Protocol (PUP) / Real-Time Processor/ing / Reliable Transport Protocol (Cisco) / Reference Test Platform +RTPI Royal Town Planning Institute +RTR Royal Tank Regiment +RtRev Right Reverend +RtRN Read the Release Notes +RtRotT Read the Rest of the Thread RTS Read The Screen / Real-Time Strategy (game) / Return To Sender / Request To Send / Royal Television Society / Return from Subroutine / Run-Time System RTSA (UK) Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 -RTSM Read The Stupid Manual/Message +RtSM Read the Stupid Manual/Message RTSP Real-Time Streaming Protocol -RTT Read The Thread -RTTC Report To The Confessional -RTTEOTM Read To The End Of The Manual/Message -RTTEOTT Read To The End Of The Thread +RTT Read The Thread / Round-Trip Time / Real-Time Timer / Real-Time Tactics (wargame) / Reverse Turing Test +RttC Report to the Confessional +RttEotM Read to the End of the Manual/Message +RttEotT Read to the End of the Thread RTTI Run-Time Type Identification +RttM Regression to the Mean RTTY Radio Teletype -RTÉ Radío Teilifís Éireann -RU Are You…? +RTÉ Raidió Teilifís Éireann (= Radio and Television of Ireland) +RU Are You...? / Russia (ISO code) / Burundi (ISO code) (now BI) Ru ruthenium +RUA Royal Ulster Academy RUB Russian roubles RUC Royal Ulster Constabulary RUD Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly +RUI Royal University of Ireland +RUKBA Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association RULAC Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts (project) -RUMF Are You Male Or Female? +RUMF Are You Male or Female? RUMOF Are You Male Or Female? RUMORF Are You Male Or Female? RUOK Are You OK? RUP Rational Unified Process RUPP Road Used as a Public Path -RUR ‘Rossum's Universal Robots’ +RUR Royal Ulster Regiment / ‘Rossum's Universal Robots’ +RUSI Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies +RUTTM Are You Talking To Me? RUUP4IT Are You Up For It? -RV Range Voting +RV Range Voting / Research Vessel / rendezvous / Ryom-Verzeichnis (= Ryom's Catalogue of works by Vivaldi) / Resveratrol +RVC Royal Veterinary College +RVD Really Very Dumb +RVO Regional Veterinary Officer +RVR Runway Visual Range +RW Read/Write / Real World / Rwanda (ISO code) +RWAFF Royal West African Frontier Force +RWAR Royal West African Regiment +RWB Reporters Without Borders +RWC Rugby World Cup +RWD Rear-Wheel Drive RWE Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG (= Rhine-Westphalian Electricity Station PLC) -RWF Rwandan francs +RWEA Royal West of England Academy +RWF Royal Welsh Fusiliers / Rwandan francs RWH Red Wine Headache +RWS Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours RWT Repeat Whole Thing +RWW Read/Write Web / Rear Wash-Wipe / Remote Web Workplace (Windows 2003 Server) / Read While Write / ‘Radio & Wireless Week’ RX Receive / regards RY Rekisteröity Yhdistys (= voluntary association in Finland) -RYA The Royal Yachting Association +RYA Royal Yachting Association RYB Red, Yellow, Blue RYFM Read Your F***ing Manual RYO Roll Your Own +RYS Royal Yacht Squadron +RZS Royal Zoological Society S smile / sigh / South (180°) / small / sulphur S&H Sperry and Hutchinson co. / Sample and Hold S&L Savings and Loan (association) +S< Speech and Language Therapy S&M Slave and Master/Sadism and Masochism / Serbia and Montenegro / Sign and Magnitude S&N Smile And Nod / Scottish & Newcastle PLC S&P Standard & Poor's (global equity index) +S&P500 Standard & Poor's index of 500 top US stocks S&S Sense and Sensibility / Sample and Synthesis S&SB Sobs and Sniffs Bitterly S&T Science and Technology / ‘Strategy & Tactics’ (magazine) -S&W Smith & Wesson +S&W Smith & Wesson / Scotch and Water S-DMB Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting +S-GPS Simultaneous Global Positioning System S-VHS Super Video Home System S/MIME Secure, Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions S/NS Smoking and Non-Smoking S/O someone S/PDIF Sony/Phillips Digital Interface S/TH something S2BX Soon-To-Be-Ex +S2R Send to Receive +S3 Simple Storage Service (Amazon) S4C Sianel Pedwar Cymru (= Channel 4 Wales) / Sorry For Caps S4L Spam for Life -SA Scout Association / Smart Alec / South Australia / = PLC in France, Spain, &c / Sturmabteilung (= Storm Detachment) +S660A Section 660A of the UK Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 +SA Scout Association / Smart Alec / Selective Availability (GPS) / South Africa / Saudi Arabia (ISO code) / South Australia / = PLC in France, Spain, &c / Sturmabteilung (= Storm Detachment) / Société Anonyme SAA Systems Application Architecture / South African Airways +SAAB Svenska Aeroplan AB (= Swedish Aeroplane Co. Ltd) SAABIAR Snug As A Bug In A Rug +SAAF South African Air Force SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation -SAAS Software as a Service +SAARU Secondary Attitude Air Data Reference Unit SaaS Software as a Service SAATB Soprano, Alto, Alto, Tenor, Bass SAB Soprano, Alto, Baritone/Bass / Socidedad Anónima Bursátil (= co. in Mexico) -SABENA Such A Bloody Experience, Never Again +SABAM Société d'Auteurs Belge — Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij (= Belgian Society of Authors) +SABENA Société Anonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aérienne (= Belgian company for exploiting aerial navigation) / Such A Bloody Experience, Never Again +SABRE Semi-Automatic Business-Related Environment (computer reservation system) / Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts SABU Self-Adjusting Balls-Up -SAC Strategic Air Command (USAF) / Supreme Allied Commander / Such A Creep / (EU) Special Area of Conservation / Songwriters Association of Canada / Spatial Audio Coding (MPEG Surround) +SAC Strategic Air Command (USAF) / Supreme Allied Commander / Such A Creep / (EU) Special Area of Conservation / Songwriters Association of Canada / Spatial Audio Coding (MPEG Surround) / Senior Aircraftsman / Scientific Advisory Committee SACD Super Audio Compact Disc +SACEUR Supreme Allied Commander, Europe +SACK Selective Acknowledgement (comms) +SACLANT Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic SACO Substance Abuse Control Officer +SACRO Scottish Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders +SACSEA Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia SACT Self-Appointed Conference Theologian -SAD Seasonal Affective Disorder -SADBAAA Subtleties And Differences Between Acronyms And Abbreviations -SAE Standard/Southern American/African English / Society of Automotive Engineers / Serious Adverse Event / Self-Addressed Envelope / Sharikat Al-Mossahamah (= PLC in Egypt) +SAD Seasonal Affective Disorder / Social/Separation Anxiety Disorder / Schizo-Affective Disorder / Seek And Destroy / Supply And Demand / Sum of Absolute Differences / System Activity Display +SaDBAaA Subtleties and Differences Between Acronyms and Abbreviations +SADG Société des Architectes Diplômés par le Gouvernement (= Graduate Society of Government Architects) +SAE Share And Enjoy! / Standard/Southern American/African English / Society of Automotive Engineers / Serious Adverse Event / Self-Addressed Envelope / Sharikat Al-Mossahamah (= PLC in Egypt) SAF Single Asian Female SAFE Security, Automatic weapons, Fields of fire, Entrenchment +SaFER Secure and Fast Encryption Routine SAFI Sociedad Anónima Financiera de Inversión (= co. in Uruguay) SAFP Sufficiently Accurate For Poetry SAFU Self-Adjusting F***-Up -SAGGA Scout And Guide Graduate Association +SAG (US) Screen Actors Guild +SAGE Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (military tracking and intercepting computers, obs.) +SaGGA Scout and Guide Graduate Association SAH Sure As Hell -SAHM Stay-At-Home Mom +SAHM Stay-At-Home Mother SAIL Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory SAJB Self-Addressed Jiffy Bag SAK Swiss Army Knife SAL see SAL9000 SAL9000 the computer in ‘2010: Odyssey Two’ -SALT Single Alternate Lane Traffic / Strategic Arms-Limitation Treaty +SALT Single Alternate Lane Traffic / Strategic Arms-Limitation Treaty / Speech And Language Therapy/ist SALUTE Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment (in a situation report) -SAM Single Asian Male / Storage and Archive Manager (Sun) / Surface-to-Air Missile +SAM Single Asian Male / Storage and Archive Manager (Sun) / Surface-to-Air Missile / Software Asset Management SAM-QFS Storage and Archive Manager — Quick File-System (Sun) +SAMaGaL Stop Annoying Me and Get a Life SAMF Sad-Ass Mother-F***er SAMFU Self-Adjusting Military F***-Up SAMFUTU Situation Abnormal: More F***ed-Up Than Usual +SAMPA Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet SAMT Samara Time (= UTC+4) -SAN Storage-Area Network -SAP Standard Assessment Procedure / Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing (German software co.) / Structural Adjustment Programme / Service Access Point / Service Advertising Protocol (IPX) / Session Announcement Protocol / Secondary Audio Programming +SAN Storage-Area Network / styrene acrylonitrile (resin) +SANE Schizophrenia: A National Emergency (charity) +SAP Standard Assessment Procedure / Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing (German software co.) / Structural Adjustment Programme / Service Access Point / Service Advertising Protocol (IPX) / Session Announcement Protocol / Secondary Audio Programming / Special-Access Programme SAPA Società in Accomandita Per Azioni (= Ltd partnership in Italy) SAPFU Surpassing All Previous F***-Ups SAPI Socidedad Anónima Promotora de Inversion (= co. in Mexico) -SAR Smart-Arse Remark / Saudi riyals (ccy) -SARAH Search And Rescue And Homing (beacon) +SAR Specific Absorption Rate / Smart-Arse Remark / Some Assembly Required / Saudi riyals (ccy) +SaRaH Search and Rescue and Homing (beacon) SARL Société à Responsabilité Limitée (= Ltd co. in France &c) SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome -SAS Special Air Service / Sociedades Anónimas Simplificadas (= co. in Colombia) / Société par Actions Simplifiée (= simplified joint-stock co. in France) / Società in Accomandita Semplice (= Ltd partnership co. in Italy) -SASB Sobs And Sniffs Bitterly +SAS Special Air Service / Serial-Attached SCSI / Stand-Alone Server / Secure Attention Sequence / Statistical Analysis System / School for Advanced Study (UoL) / Space Access Society / Surfers Against Sewage / South African Ship / Sociedades Anónimas Simplificadas (= co. in Colombia) / Société par Actions Simplifiée (= simplified joint-stock co. in France) / Società in Accomandita Semplice (= Ltd partnership co. in Italy) +SaSB Sobs and Sniffs Bitterly SASE Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope +SASL St Andrews Static/Standard Language +SASO Senior Air Staff Officer SASRE Surrogate Aunty to Sally Rowan Elphick SAST South African Standard Time (= UTC+2) SASU Société par Actions Simplifiée Unipersonnelle (= single-member simplified joint-stock co. in France) -SAT Standard Attainment Test / Scholastic Aptitude/Assessment Test / Soprano, Alto, Tenor +SAT Standard Attainment Test / Scholastic Aptitude/Assessment Test / Soprano, Alto, Tenor / Senior Member of the Association of Accounting Technicians SATA Serial ATA SATB Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass SATBB Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone/Bass, Bass -SATOAQTZSN Saints A To O And Q to Z Say “No” -SATOAQTZSY Saints A To O And Q to Z Say “Yes” +SATC Software Assurance Technology Center (NASA) +SatCom Satellite Communication +SatNav Satellite Navigation +SAtOaQtZSN Saints A to O and Q to Z Say “No” +SAtOaQtZSY Saints A to O and Q to Z Say “Yes” +SaTRO Science and Technology Regional Organisation SATTB Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Tenor, Bass -SATTC Shake Ambridge To The Core (‘Archers’ plot-line, New Year 2011) +SAttC Shake Ambridge to the Core (‘Archers’ plot-line, New Year 2011) SAV Sophos Anti-Virus SAW Sallallahou Alayhi Wasallam (= peace be upon him) SAX Simple API for XML parsing SAYE Save As You Earn SAYOR Speak At Your Own Risk +SB ScoutBase / Silly Boy / Smiles Back / Solomon Islands (ISO code) Sb antimony -SB ScoutBase / Silly Boy / Smiles Back SBA Squashed-Baby Alert +SBAC Society of British Aircraft Constructors +SBAS Satellite-Based Augmentation System SBB Stupid Beyond Belief +SBBoD Spinning Beach Ball of Death SBC Small Bayonet Cap +SBCD Single-Byte Character Set SBCN Sitting Behind Computer, Naked -SBD Silent But Deadly / Solomon Islands dollars -SBE South by East (168¾°) +SBD Silent, But Deadly / Spinning Beachball of Death / Solomon Islands dollars +SbE South by East (168¾°) SBF Single Black Female SBIA Stands Back In Amazement SBID S***ty, But It'll Do +SBLT Single, But Living Together SBM Single Black Male / Super Bit Mapping -SBOD Spinning Beachball of Death +SBNO Senior British Naval Officer +SBoD Spinning Beachball of Death SBP Sticky Banana Pudding / Sticky-Back Plastic SBP-2 Serial Bus Protocol 2 SBR Spectral Band Replication -SBS Special Boat Service / Special Broadcasting Service -SBT Sad But True / Solomon Islands Time (= UTC+11) +SBS Special Boat Service / Special Broadcasting Service / Windows Small Business Server +SBStJ Serving Brother of the Order of St John of Jerusalem +SBT Sad, But True / Solomon Islands Time (= UTC+11) SBTA Sorry; Being Thick Again +SBTD Society of British Theatre Designers SBTS S*** Before The Shovel SBTVD Sistema Brasilieiro de Televisão Digital (= Brazilian Digital Television System) SBU Standard Build Unit SBUK ScoutBase UK -SBW South by West (191¼°) +SbW South by West (191¼°) +SC South Carolina / Software Compilation / Senior Counsel / Star of Courage / Simple Cubic (crystal structure) / Seychelles (ISO code) / Spólka Cywilna (= voluntary ass. in Poland) / Sociedad Colectiva (= partnership co. in Spain) Sc scandium -SC South Carolina / Spólka Cywilna (= voluntary ass. in Poland) / Sociedad Colectiva (= partnership co. in Spain) SC-FDMA Single-Carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access -SCA ex RedHotAnt / = Ltd partnership co. in France &c -SCADA Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition +SCA Sickle-Cell Anæmia / Society for Creative Anachronism / Service Component Architecture / Static Code Analysis / Soviet Central Asia / Sudden Cardiac Death / Sony Corporation of America / Side-Channel Attack (cryptography) / ex RedHotAnt / = Ltd partnership co. in France &c +SCaDA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition SCAM SCSI Configure Automagically SCAP Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (= Gen. Douglas MacArthur) / Security Content Automation Protocol +SCAR Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research / Salisbury Coalition Against Racism / Sub-Calibre Aircraft Rocket / Super-Cheap Auto Racing / SOF Combat Assault Rifle / Spur Central Apparatus Room (BBC news) SCART Syndicat français des Constructeurs d'Appareils Radiorécepteurs et Téléviseurs -SCC Small Claims Court / Sirius Cybernetics Corporation / Shropshire/Somerset/Stafforshire/Suffolk/Surrey County Council / Sheffield/Southampton/Swansea City Council / ‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ / Small, Cheap Computer / Serial Communication Controller / Société Commerciale Canadienne (= PLC in Canada) +SCC Small Claims Court / Serial Communication Controller / Sirius Cybernetics Corporation / Shropshire/Somerset/Staffordshire/Suffolk/Surrey County Council / Sheffield/Southampton/Swansea City Council / ‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ / Small, Cheap Computer / Société Commerciale Canadienne (= PLC in Canada) +SCCS Source Code Control System +SCD Sickle-Cell Disease / Doctor of Science +ScD Doctor of Science +ScDE Doctor of Engineering Science SCE Societas Cooperativa Europaea (= European Co-operative Society) -SCID Source Code in Database +SCF Senior Chaplain to the Forces +SCFR Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor +SCGB Ski Club of Great Britain +SCI Spinal Cord Injury / Sensitive Compartmented Information / Society of Chemical Industry +SCiD Source Code in Database SCIF Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility SCJD Sun Certified Java Developer SCJP Sun Certified Java Programmer -SCM Software Configuration Management / Source Code Management / Supply-Chain Management +SCL Student in Civil Law +SCLI Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry +SCM Software Configuration Management / Source Code Management / Supply-Chain Management / State-Certified Midwife / Student Christian Movement +SCML Structural Character Modelling Language +SCMS Serial Copyright Management System SCNR Sorry, Could Not Resist SCO Santa Cruz Operation / Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Shanghai Co-operation Organisation +SCoNUL Standing Conference of National and University Libraries SCOP Société Coopérative de Production (= co-operative co. in France) -SCOTUS Supreme Court of the United States of America +SCotUS Supreme Court of the United States (of America) SCP Secure Copy / Seattle Computer Products / Secure Control Point / Service Class Provider / Scottish Christian Party / Sun Certified Professional / Society of Catholic Priests / Short-Circuit Protection +SCPD Single-Channel Per-Carrier SCPI Standard Commands for Programmable Instrumentation +SCPO Senior Chief Petty Officer SCQF Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework -SCR Senior Common Room / South Circular Road (A205, London) / Seychelles rupees +SCR Senior Common Room / Senior Combination Room (Cambridge) / South Circular Road (A205, London) / Silicon-Controlled Rectifier / Seychelles rupees SCRAM Safety Control Rod Axe Man SCRAMJET Supersonic Combustion Ramjet -SCRGB Standard expanded RGB (colour space) scRGB Standard expanded RGB (colour space) SCRI Société Coopérative à Responsabilité Illimitée (= unlimited-liability co-operative in Belgium) SCRL = limited-liability co-operative in Italy &c SCS = Ltd partnership co. in France -SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface +SCSI Small Computer System Interface +SCSU Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode SCT Social Choice Theory / Seychelles Time (= UTC+4) SCTBUC Sufficiently Computable To Be Utterly Confusing SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol +SCUA Scottish Conservative Unionist Association SCUBA Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus -SD Secure Digital (memory card) / Standard Deviation / South Dakota / Social Disease / Subiratelno Druzhestvo (= general partnership co. in Bulgaria) -SDA (UK) Sex Discrimination Act 1975 +SCWR Supercritical-Water Reactor +SD Secure Digital (memory card) / Standard Deviation / South Dakota / Sudan (ISO code) / Social Disease / Scientiæ Doctor (= Doctor of Science) / Subiratelno Druzhestvo (= general partnership co. in Bulgaria) +SDA (UK) Sex Discrimination Act 1975 / Scottish Diploma in Agriculture / Seventh-Day Adventism/ist SDDL Security Descriptor Definition Language SDG Sudanese pounds +SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (telecoms) SDHC Secure Digital High-Capacity (memory card) -SDI Single Document Interface / Strategic Defence Initiative (‘star wars’) / Serial Digital Interface / Senior Drill Instructor +SDI Single Document Interface / Strategic Defence Initiative (aka Star Wars) / Serial Digital Interface / Senior Drill Instructor SDIHTT Some Day I'll Have The Time SDII Sound Designer II (audio file format) SDIO Secure Digital Input/Output (device in SD form factor) SDK Software Development Kit SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer @@ -8189,238 +13206,295 @@ SDQ Stupid Dumb Question SDR Software-Defined Radio SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory SDS Software-Defined Silicon / Software Design Specification SDSL Synchronous/Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line +SDTI Serial Data Transport Interface SDTV Standard-Definition Television SDXC Secure Digital Extended-Capacity (memory card) SDY So Do You -SE Second Edition / Search Engine / South-East (135°) / Single-Ended / Societas Europaea (= PLC in the EU) +SE Second Edition / Search Engine / South-East (135°) / Single-Ended / Sweden (ISO code) / Societas Europæa (= PLC in the EU) Se selenium SEA Self-Extracting Archive +SEAC South East Asia Command SEAL Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language SEAN Association of South East Asian Nations +SEATAG South East Asia Trade Advisory Group +SEATO South East Asia Treaty Organisation SEATWOTD Shell Extensions Are The Work Of The Devil -SEBE South-East by East (123¾°) -SEBS South-East by South (146¼°) -SEC Securities and Exchange Commission / second / Solar Energy Conversion / Single Error Correction / Samsung Electronics Corporation +SEbE South-East by East (123¾°) +SEbS South-East by South (146¼°) +SEC (US) Securities and Exchange Commission / second / Solar Energy Conversion / Single Error Correction / Samsung Electronics Corporation +sec-gen secretary-general SECAM Séquentiel Couleur À Mémoire (= Sequential Colour with Memory, French colour TV standard) SECC Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre SED Said Enough, Dear / Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display / Smoke-Emitting Diode SEDOL Stock Exchange Daily Official List (code) -SEE Signing Exact English +SEE Signing Exact English / Some Enchanted Evening SEG S***-Eating Grin SEI Software Engineering Institute SEK Swedish krona/kronor (ccy) SEL Security-Enhanced Linux -SEM Société d'Économie Mixte (= semi-public co. in France) -SEN London Southend Airport +SEM Scanning Electron Microscope / Société d'Économie Mixte (= semi-public co. in France) +SEN London Southend Airport / State Enrolled Nurse +SENCO Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator SEO Search Engine Optimisation SEP Search Engine Professional / Somebody Else's Problem / September / Symantec Endpoint Protection / South Ecliptic Pole SEPF Somebody-Else's-Problem Field +SERC Science and Engineering Research Council (now EPSRC and SERC) SERE Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape SERPS State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme -SES Small Edison Screw / School of Economic Science / Sjálfseignarstofnun (= non-profit co. in Iceland) +SERT Society of Electronic and Radio Technicians +SES Small Edison Screw (lamp fitting) / School of Economic Science / Sjálfseignarstofnun (= non-profit co. in Iceland) SESAC Society of European Stage Authors & Composers SET Secure Electronic Transaction SETE Smiling Ear-To-Ear SETI Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence SETID Ping Set Identifier -SF Science Fiction / Speculative Fiction / Surfer-Friendly / San Francisco / Sameignarfélag (= partnership co. in Iceland) / Statsforetak (= state co. in Norway) / Sociedade Fechada (= private co. in Portugal) +SF Science/Speculative Fiction / Surfer-Friendly / San Francisco / Sinn Féin / SourceForge / Street Fighter (video game) / Special Forces / Sameignarfélag (= partnership co. in Iceland) / Statsforetak (= state co. in Norway) / Sociedade Fechada (= private co. in Portugal) / Finland (ISO code) (now FI) SF&F Science Fiction and Fantasy -SFA Scottish Football Association / Sweet Fanny Adams / Sweet F***-All +SFA Scottish Football Association / Sweet Fanny Adams / Sweet F***-All / Securities and Futures Authority SFAIAA So Far As I Am Aware SFAICT So Far As I Can Tell SFAIK So Far As I Know SFAIR So Far As I Recall SFC Sorry For Caps -SFD Start-of-Frame Delimiter (Ethernet, HDLC, etc.) +SFD Start-of-Frame Delimiter (Ethernet, HDLC, &c) +SFE Sydney Futures Exchange SFETE Smiling From Ear To Ear SFF Small Form-Factor (computer) / Science Fiction and Fantasy / Strawberry Fields Forever / Space Frontier Foundation +SFInstE Senior Fellow of the Institute of Energy SfL Skills for Life -SFL Skills for Life SFLA Stupid Four-Letter Acronym -SFLOC Stony Faced Look Of Contempt +SFLC Software Freedom Law Center +SFLOC Stony-Faced Look Of Contempt SFM Sustainable Forest Management SFO (UK) Serious Fraud Office SFP Small Form-factor Pluggable SFPD San Francisco Police Department +SFR Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor SFSG So Far, So Good SFT Sorry For That +SFTA Society of Film and Television Arts SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol / Simple File Transfer Protocol SFW Safe/Suitable For Work SFX Sound effects SFY Speak For Yourself -SG Scottish Government / Silly Girl / South Georgia +SG Scots Guards / Solicitor-General / Scottish Government / Silly Girl / South Georgia / Singapore (ISO code) Sg seaborgium SGD Singapore dollars SGHWR Steam-Generating Heavy-Water Reactor SGI Silicon Graphics, Inc. / Silicon Graphics Image (file format) SGL Software Generation Ltd / Subsidiary General Ledger / Skia Graphics Library / Scene Graph Library / Same-Gender Loving -SGM Second-Generation Multiplex (DNA profile) / Shareholders' General Meeting / Shiny Golden Medal -SGML Standard Generalised Markup Language +SGM Second-Generation Multiplex (DNA profile) / Shareholders' General Meeting / Shiny Golden Medal / Sea Gallantry Medal +SGML Standard Generalised Mark-up Language SGOTI Some Guy On The Internet -SGPS Sociedade Gestora de Participações Sociais (= holding corp. in Portugal) +SGPS Simultaneous Global Positioning System / Sociedade Gestora de Participações Sociais (= holding corp. in Portugal) SGR Sustainable Growth Rate +SGT Sergeant / Surrounding Gate Transistor / Small/Siemens Gas Turbine / Satellite Ground Terminal SGX Singapore Stock Exchange -SH Same Here / S*** Happens / Smeg-Head / Southern Hemisphere -SHA Secure Hash Algorithm / Shanghai Hongquiao International Airport +SH Same Here / S*** Happens / Smeg-Head / Southern Hemisphere / So Hot / Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha (ISO code) +SHA Secure Hash Algorithm / Shanghai Hongquiao International Airport / Secondary Heads Association (now ASCL) SHA-0 Secure Hash Algorithm 0 SHA-1 Secure Hash Algorithm 1 SHA-2 Secure Hash Algorithm 2 +SHA-3 Secure Hash Algorithm 3 +SHAEF Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force SHAPE Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe SHARK Society for the Harassment of Anally-Retentive Know-alls SHBM She Has BinMail SHBMA She Has BinMail Also SHBMAW She Has BinMail As Well SHBMT She Has BinMail Too SHCOON Shoots Hot Coffee Out Of Nose SHDSL Single-pair High-speed Digital Subscriber Line +SHF Single Hispanic Female +SHHD Scottish Home and Health Department +SHICPMP So Happy I Could Piss My Pants SHID Slaps Head In Disgust +Shift-JIS = Japanese character encoding +Shift_JIS = Japanese character encoding SHIN So Have I Now SHIT Sure Happy It's Tuesday/Thursday SHLH Sitting Here Laughing Hysterically -SHM S*** Happens, Mate / She Has Mail -SHP Shock Horror Probe / Saint Helena pounds +SHM S*** Happens, Mate / She Has Mail / Single Hispanic Male +SHMILY See How Much I Love You? +SHMIS Society of Headmasters and Headmistresses of Independent Schools +SHO Senior House Officer +SHP Shock! Horror! Probe! / Saint Helena pounds +SHPYA Shock! Horror! Probe! You Agree! SHQ Scottish Headquarters SHTS S*** Hits The Fan SHTSI Somebody Had To Say It SHTTP Secure HTTP SHY So Have You +SI Système international d'unités (= International System of Units) / Skills Instructor / Slovenia (ISO code) Si silicon -SI Système international d'unités (= International System of Units) / Skills Instructor SI&S Suck It and See Si2 silicon solid SIA Sabiedriba ar ierobezotu atbildibu (= Ltd co. in Latvia) -SIAD Son, I Am Disappoint +SIAA (US) Software and Information Industry Association +SIAD Son, I Am Disappoint / Society of Industrial Artists and Designers SIADIADRMOI Seen It All, Done It All, Don't Remember Most Of It SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics -SIAS Suck It And See -SIAT Storm In A Teacup / So I Am Told -SIATC Storm In A Tea Cup +SIaS Suck It and See +SIaT Storm in a Teacup / So I am Told +SiaTC Storm in a Tea-Cup +SIB Securities and Investments Board (now FSA) SIBI Slip It Back In SiC silicon carbide (aka carborundum) SICAF Société d'Investissement à Capital Fixe (= closed-end investment fund in France) SICAV Société d'Investissement à Capital Variable (= unit trust in France) +SICOT Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique SICS Sitting In Chair Snickering SID So I Do / So It Does / Sound Interface Device (chip) / Security/System/Session Identifier / Silence Insertion Descriptor (VOIP) / Sudden Infant Death SIDM Stepwise Incrementation Design Methodology SIDS Sudden Infant Death Syndrome +SIFT Scale-Invariant Feature Transform SIG Special Interest Group / Spectrum Is Green SIGCAT Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications and Technology SIGGRAPH Special Interest Group on Graphics SIGINT Signals Intelligence gathering +SIGMET Significant Meteorological Information SIGSOFT Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM) SII So It Is SIIC See If I Care SIIN Stuffed If I Know! SIL Sister-In-Law / Son-In-Law SILLIAC Sydney version of the Illinois Automatic Computer SILOP Sorry I'm Late On Parade SILP64 64-bit Shorts, Integers, Long Integers, and Pointers (data model) SILYMI Say It Like You Mean It -SIM Subscriber Identity Module -SIMALTO Simultaneous Multi-Attribute Level Trade-Off +SIM Subscriber Identity Module / S***, It's Monday / Scientific Instrumentation Module SiMALTO Simultaneous Multi-Attribute Level Trade-Off SIMCA Sitting In My Chair Amused SIMD Single-Instruction, Multiple-Data SIMM Single In-line Memory Module SIMPLE Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions SIN Singapore Changi Airport -SINAD Signal-to-Noise-and-Distortion -SiO2 silicon dioxide (aka quartz, sand) -SIOB Sharp Intake Of Breath +SINAD Signal-to-Noise-And-Distortion +SiO2 silicon dioxide (aka silica, quartz, sand) +SIoB Sharp Intake of Breath SIP Session Initiation Protocol (VOIP) / Single In-line Package / Supplementary Ideographic Plane (Unicode) / Scottish Independence Party / Sales Incentive Plan / Soft Input Panel (Pocket PC) / System Idle Process (Windows NT) / System In Package -SIPS Screening and Intervention Programme for Sensible Drinking +SIPRNet Secure Internet Protocol Router Network +SIPS Side-Impact Protection System / Simple Internet Publishing System / Secure Internet Payment Service / Session Initiation Protocol, Secure / Screening and Intervention Programme for Sensible Drinking +siRNA Small Interfering Ribonucleic Acid SIS Secret Intelligence Service (later MI6) SISD Single Instruction, Single Data SISO Single-Input, Single-Output +SISSL Sun Industry Standards Source Licence SITCOM Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage -SITD Still In The Dark -SITRO Something In The Region Of +SitD Still in the Dark +SitRep Situation Report +SitRO Something in the Region Of +SITWB Sorry, In The Wrong Box SIU Suck It Up SIUYAS Stick It Up Your Arse Sideways +SIV Simian Immunodeficiency Virus SIWTSDS Stick It Where The Sun Doesn't Shine SIYH Sooner If You Help -SJ Society of Jesus +SJ Society of Jesus (aka Jesuits) / Svalbard and Jan Mayen (ISO code) +SJA St John Ambulance / ‘The Sarah Jane Adventures’ (TV) +SJD Scientiæ Juridicæ Doctor (= Doctor of Juridical Science) SJF Single Jewish Female +SJIS Shift JIS (character encoding) SJM Single Jewish Male -SK Shirley Knot / South Korea +SK Shirley Knot / South Korea / Slovakia (ISO code) / Sikkim (ISO code) (obs.) SKA Spólka Komandytowo-Akcyjna (= Ltd partnership in Poland) +SKED schedule SKI Spending the Kids' Inheritance SKIER Spending Kids' Inheritance +SKKE Symmetric-Key Key Exchange SKP Some Kind Person SKS Some Kind Soul -SL Single-Layer / Scout Leader / Section Leader / Sociedad Limitado (= Ltd co. in Spain) +SKU Stock-Keeping Unit +SL Single-Layer / Scout Leader / Section Leader / Signed Log / Symmetric, Logarithmic-space (complexity) / Sierra Leone (ISO code) / Sociedad Limitado (= Ltd co. in Spain) SL&TFATF So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish SLA Service-Level Agreement / Software Licence Agreement / Second-Level Acronym / Sealed Lead-Acid (battery) / Second Language Acquisition / Single Life Annuity / (US) Savings and Loan Association +SLAET Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers and Technologists +SLAM Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping / Stand-off Land-Attack Missile SLARP Serial Line Address Resolution Protocol -SLATFATF So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish +SLaTfAtF So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish SLBM Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile +SLC Single-Level Cell (flash) SLCM Submarine-Launched Cruise Missile SLD Scottish Liberal Democrats / Social and Liberal Democrats (obs.) / (UK) Statute Law Database +SLDP Social, Liberal, and Democratic Party SLED SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise Server -SLI Scalable Link Interface (video) -SLIP Serial-Line Internet Protocol / Something twixt Lip & cup +SLI Scalable Link Interface (video) / Somerset Light Infantry +SLIP Serial-Line Internet Protocol / Something twixt Lip and cup SLIRK Smart Little Rich Kid SLJ S***ty Little Job SLJO S***ty Little Job Officer SLL Sierra Leonean leone (ccy) / Sociedad Limitada Laboral (= labour limited co. in Spain) -SLM Service Level Management +SLM Service-Level Management +SLN Sign Language of the Netherlands (= NGT) SLNE Sociedad Limitada Nueva Empresa (= Ltd co. in Spain) SLOAP Space Left Over After Planning -SLOC Software/Source Lines of Code / Secured Line of Credit / Sea Lines of Communication +SLOC Software/Source Lines Of Code / Secured Line Of Credit / Sea Lines Of Communication SLOT Singular Lack Of Trains -SLR Single-Lens Reflex (camera) / Simple LR (parser) -SLRK Smart Little Rich Kid +SLR Single-Lens Reflex (camera) / Simple Left-to-right, Rightmost-derivation (parser) +SLR(1) Simple Left-to-right, Rightmost-derivation, with one look-head symbol (parser) +SLRK Smart Little Rich Kid / Sling Link Rescue Kit +SLS Service-Level Specification / Second-Level Support / Sodium Lauryl Sulphate / Selective Laser Sintering / Space Launch System (NASA) / Signalling Link Selection (MTP) / Single-Level Store (AS/400) / Softlanding Linux System / Secured LAN Segment / Scalable to Lossless (MPEG-4) SLT Something Like That / Sri Lanka Time (= UTC+5:30) SLUT South Lake Union Trolley SLV C'est La Vie +SM SmartMedia (memory card) / Secure Messaging / Status Message / Software Maintenance / Standard Model / Spider-Man / San Marino (ISO code) / San Mateo / Santa Maria / Santa Monica / sadomasochism / Service Medal of the Order of Canada / Master of Science (USA) Sm samarium -SM SmartMedia (memory card) / Secure Messaging / Status Message / Software Maintenance / Standard Model / Spider-Man / San Marino / San Mateo / Santa Maria / Santa Monica / sadomasochism -SMA SubMiniature version A (connector) +SM124 = 12" monochrome Atari monitor +SMA SubMiniature version A (connector) / Shape Memory Alloy / styrene maleic anhydride SMAEM Send Me An Email SMAIM Send Me An Instant Message SMAK Smoke Me A Kipper SMAKIBBFB Smoke Me A Kipper; I'll Be Back For Breakfast SMAO Showing My Arse Off SMAR Suck My Arse Raw -SMART Self Monitoring And Reporting Technology +SMaRT Self-Monitoring and Reporting Technology SMB System Management Bus / Server Message Block (CIFS) SMBIOS System Management Basic Input/Output System SMD Surface-Mount Device -SMDP System Monitoring Display Protocol +SMDP System Monitoring Display Protocol / Single-Member District Plurality (voting system) SMDR Station Message Detail Recording -SME Small-to-Medium Enterprise / Subject Matter Expert +SME Small-to-Medium Enterprise / Subject-Matter Expert / School of Military Engineering SMEF Serious Massive Existence Failure SMEM Send Me an Email -SMF Standard MIDI File -SMG Sub-Machine Gun +SMF Standard MIDI File / Single-Mode Fibre-optic +SMG Sub-Machine Gun / Senior Management Group (UN) / Sequential Manual Gearbox (BMW) / Sarah Michelle Gellar SMH ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ -SMIDSY Sorry Mate I Didn't See You +SMI Sergeant Major Instructor +SMIDSY Sorry, Mate, I Didn't See You +SMIEEE Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers SMIL Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language SMIM Send Me an Instant Message SMIME Secure, Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions +SML Standard ML (computer language) +SMLT Split Multi-Link Trunking (networking) SMM System Management Mode SMME Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprise +SMMT Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders SMMWO Shut My Mouth Wide Open -SMO Serious Mode: On +SMN Seri Maharaja Mangku Negara (Malaysia) +SMO Serious Mode: On / Senior Medical Officer / Sovereign Military Order SMOF Secret Master(s) Of Fandom SMOFF Serious Mode: Off +SMOM Sovereign Military Order of Malta SMOP Small Matter Of Programming SMP Symmetric Multi-Processing / S*** My Pants / Statutory Maternity Pay / Supplementary Multilingual Plane (Unicode) SMPF S***-My-Pants Funny SMPS Switch-Mode Power Supply SMPSU Switch-Mode Power Supply Unit SMPTE Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers +SMR Small, Modular Reactor SMS Short Message Service / System Management Server SMT Simultaneous Multi-Threading / Shiver My Timbers / Surface-Mount Technology SMTH Sorry Must Try Harder SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol +SMTP-AUTH Authenticated Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SMWS Scotch Malt Whisky Society -SN Screen Name / Scout Network +SN Screen Name / Special Needs / Scout Network / Senegal (ISO code) Sn tin SNA Systems Network Architecture (IBM) SNAC Sitting Naked At Computer SNAFU Situation Normal: All F***ed-Up SNAG Sensitive New-Age Guy @@ -8427,318 +13501,441 @@ SNAP SubNet Access Protocol SNC = partnership co. in France &c SNCF Société National des Chemins de Fer Français SNCO Staff Non-Commissioned Officer SNCOIC Staff Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge +SNDRI Serotonin-Norepinephrine-Dopamine Re-uptake Inhibitor (antidepressant) SNEP Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique SNERT Snotty-Nosed Egotistical Rude Teenager +SNES Super Nintendo Entertainment System SNF Spent Nuclear Fuel SNFIAA Still No F***ing Idea At All SNID Still/Singular Not In Dictionary SNIDE Singular Not In Dictionary Either SNM Say No More SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol +SNO Senior Naval Officer SNOBOL String-Oriented Symbolic Language -SNP Scottish National Party / Secure Network Programming +SNOMED Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine +SNP Scottish Nationalist Party / Secure Network Programming SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio +SNRI Serotonin-Norepinephrine Re-update Inhibitor (antidepressant) +snRNA Small Nuclear Ribonucleic Acid SNTP Simple Network Time Protocol +SNTS Society for New Testament Studies SNTV Single Non-Transferable Vote -SO Significant Other / Second Operator / Smoking Outdoors / Special Operations / Scotland Office +SO Significant Other / Second Operator / Smoking Outdoors / Special Operations / Scotland Office / Staff Officer / Stack Overflow / Somalia (ISO code) SO-DIMM Small-Outline Dual In-line Memory Module SO2 sulphur dioxide +SO3 sulphur trioxide SOA Service-Oriented Architecture / Single-Occupancy Accommodation SOAP Seems Okay At Present / Simple Object-Access Protocol -SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies, London -SOB Son Of a Bitch -SOBOH Slap On Back Of Head -SOC Save Our Curate / System on a Chip -SoC System-on-a-Chip +SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies (London) +SOB Son of a Bitch / Standard Operational Bullshit / Sexually-Oriented Business +SoBoH Slap on Back of Head +SOC Save Our Curate / System-On-a-Chip / State of Charge +SoC System-on-a-Chip / State of Charge SOCA (UK) Serious Organised Crime Agency +SoCal Southern California SOCO Scenes Of Crime Officer +SOCOM US Special Operations Command SOD Save Our Deacon / Sudden Oak Death SODIMM Small-Outline Dual In-line Memory Module SOE Standard Operating Environment / Special Operations Executive (UK WW2) SOED Shorter Oxford English Dictionary -SOF Silly Old Fart/Fool / Start Of Frame +SOF Silly Old Fart/Fool / Start Of Frame / Special Operations Forces +SOFC Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell +SOG Sad Old Git SOGA (UK) Sale Of Goods Act 1893/1979 +SOGAT Society of Graphical and Allied Trades +SOGOHL Sets Off Gales Of Hilarious Laughter SOH Sense Of Humour SOHF Sense-Of-Humour Failure SOHO Small Office/Home Office -SOI Stink On Ice / Silicon on Insulator +SoI Stink on Ice / Silicon on Insulator SOL Short Of Luck / Smiling Out Loud / S*** Outta Luck -SOLAS Safety Of Life At Sea +SOLACE Society of Local Authority Chief Executives +SoLaS Safety of Life at Sea SOLDELET Selective On-Line Delete SOLRLA Serious Off-Line Reader Lag Alert +SoLT Society of London Theatres (was SWET) SOM System Object Model / Sound Of Music SOML Story Of My Life -SOMY Sick Of Me Yet -SONAR Sound Navigation And Ranging +SomLI Somerset Light Infantry +SOMY Sick Of Me Yet? +SON Self-Optimising Network +SONaR Sound Navigation and Ranging +SONET Synchronous Optical Network SOP Standard Operating Procedure -SOPABE Scourge Of Pipex And Bastinatrix Extraordinaire +SOPA (US) Stop Online Piracy Act (proposed) +SoPaBE Scourge of Pipex and Bastinatrix Extraordinaire SOPORCEL Sociedade Portuguesa de Papel, S.A. (Portuguese Pulp and Paper Manufacturer) +SOR Sex Offenders' Register / Sale or Return / State of Readiness / Specific Operational Requirement / Start of Record SoR (UK) Society of Radiographers -SOR Sex Offenders' Register -SORG Straight or Gay? -SORN Statutory Off Road Notification -SOS Same Old Story/S*** / Someone Special / Sibling Over Shoulder / Someone Special / Save Our Souls / Sound Of Spitting / Somali shillings +SORG Straight Or Gay? +SORN Statutory Off-Road Notification +SOS emergency (aka Save Our Souls) / Same Old Story/S*** / Someone Special / Sibling Over Shoulder / Sound Of Spitting / Somali shillings / Stars Organisation for Spastics SOSDD Same Old S***, Different Day SOSO Same Old, Same Old -SOT Short Of Time -SOTA State Of The Art -SOTD Spawn Of The Devil +SoT Short of Time +SotA State of the Art +SotD Spawn of the Devil SOTG Special Operations Training Group SOTMC Shuffled Off This Mortal Coil SOTMG Short Of Time; Must Go SOTMNBA Some Of These May Not Be Acronyms +SotP Slip of the Pen SOTR Somewhere Over The Rainbow +SOTS Society for Old Testament Studies +SotT Slip of the Tongue SOV Single-Occupancy Vehicle SOVS Someone Very Special -SOW Speaking Of Which -SOWS Students of Women Studies +SoW Speaking of Which +SoWS Students of Women Studies +SOX Simple Outline XML / (US) Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2002 / Sound Exchange (audio editor) / Schema for Object-Oriented XML +SOx (US) Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2002 / Sulphur Oxides +SoX Sound Exchange (audio editor) SP Service Pack / Starting Price (Information, Gen) / Service Policeman / sorry for bad Spelling / Sole Proprietorship co. / Scottish Parliament / sub-prime -SPA Secure Password Authentication / Single-Page Application / Sales and/Share/Special Purchase Agreement / Special Protection Area / Sales Per Admission / Società per Azioni (= PLC in Italy) +SP1 Service Pack 1 +SP2 Service Pack 2 +SP3 Service Pack 3 +SP4 Service Pack 4 +SP5 Service Pack 5 +SP6 Service Pack 6 +SP7 Service Pack 7 +SP8 Service Pack 8 +SP9 Service Pack 9 +SPA Secure Password Authentication / Single-Page Application / Sales and/Share/Special Purchase Agreement / Special Protection Area / Sales Per Admission / Software Publishers Association (now SIAA) / Società per Azioni (= PLC in Italy) +SPAB Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings SPAD Signal Passed At Danger SPAM spiced ham / Unsolicited Commercial Email -SPARC Scalable Processing Architecture -SPCA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Acronyms/Animals +SPARC Scalable Processing Architecture (Sun) +SPC Single Point of Contact +SPCA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals/Acronyms SPCK Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge SPCO Single-Pole Change-Over (switch) -SPD Serial Presence Detect (for DIMMs) +SPD Serial Presence Detect (for DIMMs) / Spinning Pizza of Death / Sozialdemokratische Partei (Germany, = Social Democratic Party) SPDIF Sony/Phillips Digital Interface SPDT Single-Pole Dual-Throw (switch) SPE Societas Privata Europaea (= European Private Ltd Co.) +SPECT Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography SPECTRE Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion SPEKE Simple Password Exponential Key Exchange SPEWS Spam Prevention Early-Warning System SPF Sender Permitted From / Sender Policy Framework / Shortest Path First (protocol) SPFM Sustainable Plantation Forestry Management -SPG Special Patrol Group -SPI Serial Peripheral Interface / Stateful Packet Inspection / SCSI/Synchronous Parallel Interface +SPG Special Patrol Group / Society for the Propagation of the Gospel +SPI Serial Peripheral Interface / Stateful Packet Inspection / SCSI/Synchronous Parallel Interface / Swiss Performance Index +SPICE Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering SPIT Spam over IP Telephony SPJ Spólka Jawna (= partnership co. in Poland) SPK Spólka Komandytowa (= Ltd partnership co. in Poland) SPL Sound Pressure Level / Scottish Premier League / Sun Public Licence / Standard PHP Library / Structured Product Labelling / Sentence Plan Language +SPLHCB ‘Sergeant Pepper's Lonely-Hearts Club Band’ SPMD Single-Program, Multiple-Data -SPOF Single Point Of Failure +SPNM Society for the Promotion of New Music +SPoC Single Point Of Contact +SPoD Spinning Pizza Of Death +SPoF Single Point Of Failure SPP Spólka Partnerska (= Ltd partnership in Poland) SPQR Senatus Populusque Romanus (= the Senate and the people of Rome) +SPR Symmetric Phase Recording SPRL Société Privée à Responsabilité Limitée (= Ltd co. in Belgium) SPRLU Société Privée à Responsabilité Limitée Unipersonnelle (= single-member company in Belgium) +SPSO Senior Personnel Staff Officer SPST Same Place, Same Time / Single-Pole, Single-Throw (switch) SPT Signal Post Telephone +SPTL Society of Public Teaching of Law +SPU Seattle Pacific University / Synergistic Processing Unit (cell) / Sound Processing Unit (aka sound card) / Stream Processing Unit (SPARC) / Signal Processing Unit +SPUC Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child SPV Special-Purpose Vehicle SPWIOAP Some People Want It On A Plate SPX Sequential Packet Exchange SPZOO Spólka Z Ograniczona Odpowiedzialnoscia (= Ltd co. in Poland) SQA Software Quality Assurance +Sqdn-Ldr Squadron Leader SQL Structured Query Language (relational databases) +SR Special Reserve / Southern Railway / Southern Region / Service Release / Suriname (ISO code) Sr strontium SR0 900×1280mm (paper size) SR1 640×900mm (paper size) SR2 450×640mm (paper size) SR3 320×450mm (paper size) SR4 225×320mm (paper size) SRA Self-Referential Acronym / Strategic Rail Authority SRAM Static Random-Access Memory +SRATC Short-Run Average Total Cost SRB Solid Rocket Booster / Smiling Really Big / Spoiled Rotten Brat / Union of Russia and Belarus / Software Review Board / SCSI Request Block / Service Record Book / Sex Ratio at Birth / Storage Resource Broker -SRC Sound Rate Conversion / source -SRD Surinamese dollars +SRBM Short-Range Ballistic Missil +SRC Sound Rate Conversion / source / Science Research Council +SRD Short-Range Device / Surinamese dollars +SRDE Signals Research and Development Establishment +SRE Simple Regular Expression SREWUR Sally Rowan Elphick's Wicked Uncle Richard -SRGB Standard RGB (colour space) sRGB Standard RGB (colour space) -SRL = Ltd co. in Italy, &c -SRM Solid Rocket Motor / Storage Resource Management / Supplier Relationship Management -SRO Standing-Room Only / Self-Regulatory Organisation / Service Request Order / Single-Room Occupancy / = Ltd co. in Slovakia -SRP Secure Remote Password (protocol) +SRHE Society for Research in Higher Education +SRI Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitor +SRL = Ltd co. in Italy &c +SRM Solid Rocket Motor / Storage Resource Management / Supplier Relationship Management / Specified Risk Material (of BSE in animal tissues) +SRN State-Registered Nurse +SRO Standing-Room Only / Self-Regulatory Organisation / Service Request Order / Single-Room Occupancy / Supplementary Reserve of Officers / = Ltd co. in Slovakia +SROT State-Registered Occupational Therapist +SRP Secure Remote Password (protocol) / State-Registered Physiotherapist +SRR State-Registered Radiographer / (UK) Special Reconnaissance Regiment SRS Sex-Reassignment Surgery / Software Requirements Specification SRSA (UK) Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 SRTCP Secure Real-Time Control Protocol SRTP Secure Real-time Transport Protocol -SS Silver/Stainless Steel / [department of] Social Security / Steam Ship / Security Service / SchutzStaffel (= elite guard) / State Secret / Smiling Sweetly / Saints / Stay Sexy / So Sleepy / Square Sausage / Santissimi / Società semplice (= partnership co. in Italy) +SRY sorry +SS Silver/Stainless Steel / Social Services/Security / Steam Ship / Security Service / SchutzStaffel (= elite guard) / State Secret / Smiling Sweetly / Saints / Stay Sexy / So Sleepy / Santissimi / Società semplice (= partnership co. in Italy) +SSA Static Single Assignment form (compilers) / Software Security Assurance / (US) Social Security Administration / Social Security Agency (NI) / Serial Storage Architecture (IBM) / Semantic Structure Analysis / Society of Scottish Artists SSADM Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method SSAE Stamped, Self-Addressed Envelope -SSAGO Student Scout And Guide Organisation +SSAFA Soldiers', Sailors', and Airmen's Families' Association +SSaGO Student Scout and Guide Organisation SSAJB Stamped Self-Addressed Jiffy Bag SSATB Soprano, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass -SSB Smiling Sweetly Back / Secret Service Bureau (later MI5) -SSC Same-Sex Couple +SSB Smiling Sweetly Back / Single-Sideband (transmission) / Secret Service Bureau (later MI5) +SSBI Single-Scope Background Investigation +SSC Same-Sex Couple / Solicitor of the Supreme Court (Scotland) / Short Service Commission SSD Solid-State Drive / Software Specification Document SSDD Same S***, Different Day +SSDDBS Same S***, Different Day, Bigger Shovel SSDM Same S***, Different Millennium SSDW Same S***, Different Week SSDY Same S***, Different Year SSE South-South-East (157½°) / Streaming SIMD Extensions / Sign Supported English +SSEES School of Slavonic and East European Studies SSEWBA Some day Soon, Everything Will Be Acronyms SSF Sulks, Stamps Foot +SSG Staff Sergeant +SSgt Staff Sergeant SSH Secure Shell (protocol) +SSHFS Secure Shell File-System SSI Server-Side Includes / Single-System Image / Small-Scale Integration / Synchronous Serial Interface / South Sandwich Islands SSIA Subject Says It All SSID Service Set Identifier (Wi-Fi) +SSIM Structural Similarity index SSL Secure Sockets Layer -SSM Same-Sex Marriage +SSM Same-Sex Marriage / Staff Sergeant Major SSME Space Shuttle Main Engine / Service Science, Management, and Engineering -SSO Single Sign-On / Sheffield/Sunderland Symphony Orchestra +SSMLL Society for the Study of Modern Languages and Literature +SSN (US) Social Security Number +SSO Single Sign-On / Sheffield/Sunderland Symphony Orchestra / Senior Supply Officer SSP Supplementary Special-purpose Plane (Unicode) / Same-Sex Partnership +SSR The Stainless Steel Rat +SSRA Selective Serotonin Releasing Agent SSRB Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus (obs.) / (UK) Senior Salaries Review Body +SSRC Social Science Research Council +SSRE Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Enhancer (antidepressant) +SSRI Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitor (antidepressant) +SSRN Social Science Research Network (website) SSS Short, Sharp Shock / Square Sausage Sandwich +SSSB Small Solar-System Body SSSE Supplementary Streaming SIMD Extensions SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest SSSRB Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster -SSSSS Sheep Shearing Sharpening Service Shop -SST So She Thinks / Supersonic Transport / Space Ship Two / ‘Starship Troopers’ / School of Science and Technology / Social Skills Training / Shortest Spanning Tree / Singapore Standard Time (= UTC+8) / Samoa Standard Time (= UTC-11) -SSTAR Smal, Sealed, Transportable, Autonomous Reactor +SSSSS Sheep-Shearing Sharpening Service Shop +SSStJ Serving Sister of the Order of St John of Jerusalem +SST So She Thinks / Supersonic Transport / Space Ship Two / ‘Starship Troopers’ / School of Science and Technology / Social Skills Training / Shortest Spanning-Tree / Singapore Standard Time (= UTC+8) / Samoa Standard Time (= UTC-11) +SSTAR Small, Sealed, Transportable, Autonomous Reactor SSU Same-Sex Union SSW South-South-West (202½°) SSWL Splits Sides With Laughter -ST So There / Such That / Star Trek / Starting Weight / ‘Sunday Times’ / ‘Sunday Telegraph’ / System Test -ST-DS9 Star Trek: Deep Space 9 -ST-SFS Star Trek 3: The Search For Spock -ST-TFF Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier -ST-TMP Star Trek: The Motion Picture -ST-TNG Star Trek: The Next Generation -ST-TOS Star Trek: The Original Series -ST-TUC Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country -ST-TVH Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home -ST-VOY Star Trek: Voyager -ST-WOK Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan -ST1 Star Trek: The Motion Picture -ST2 Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan -ST3 Star Trek 3: The Search For Spock -ST4 Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home -ST5 Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier -ST6 Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country -ST:DS9 Star Trek: Deep Space 9 -ST:TNG Star Trek: The Next Generation -ST:TOS Star Trek: The Original Series -ST:VOY Star Trek: Voyager -STAFF Smart Target Activated Fire and Forget -STB Simply The Best / Set-Top Box / Spin The Bottle / Sacræ Theologiæ Baccalaureus (= Bachelor of Sacred Theology) / Soprano, Tenor, Bass -STBN&L Some Time Between Now And Later -STBNAL Some Time Between Now And Later / St Boniface's Nativity At Latest +ST So There / Such That / Star Trek / Starting Weight / ‘Sunday Times’ / ‘Sunday Telegraph’ / System Test / Sixteen/Thirty-two (Atari computer) / São Tome and Principe (ISO code) +ST-DS9 ‘Star Trek: Deep Space 9’ +ST-SFS ‘Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock’ +ST-TFF ‘Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier’ +ST-TMP ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’ +ST-TNG ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ +ST-TOS ‘Star Trek: The Original Series’ +ST-TUC ‘Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country’ +ST-TVH ‘Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home’ +ST-VOY ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ +ST-WOK ‘Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan’ +ST1 ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’ +ST2 ‘Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan’ +ST3 ‘Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock’ +ST4 ‘Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home’ +ST5 ‘Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier’ +ST6 ‘Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country’ +ST:DS9 ‘Star Trek: Deep Space 9’ +ST:TNG ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ +ST:TOS ‘Star Trek: The Original Series’ +ST:VOY ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ +STA Scheduled Time of Arrival / Short-hold Tenancy Agreement / Society of Technical Analysts / Swimming Teachers Association / Stage Technicians' Association / Senior Technical Adviser / Surface-to-Air / St Thomas Aquinas / Spanning-Tree Algorithm / Specialist Training Authority / Security Threat Assessment +STacy = Atari portable computer +STAFF Smart Target-Activated Fire-and-Forget +START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty +STASI Staatssicherheitsdienst (GDR, = State Security, aka MfS) +STB Simply The Best / Set-Top Box / Spin The Bottle / Sacræ Theologiæ Baccalaureus (= Bachelor of Sacred Theology) / Soprano, Tenor, Bass / Should That Be +STBC Space-Time Block Code / ‘Star Trek: Bridge Commander’ (game) / Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council +STBN&L Some Time Between Now and Later +STBNaL Some Time Between Now and Later / St Boniface's Nativity at Latest STBY Sucks To Be You -STC Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Standard Telephones & Cables -STD Sexually-Transmitted Disease / Subscriber Trunk Dialling / standard / São Tomé and Príncipe dobra (ccy) +STC Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Standard Telephones & Cables / Senior Training Corps +STD Sexually-Transmitted Disease / Subscriber Trunk Dialling / standard / Scheduled Time of Departure / Doctor of Sacred Theology / São Tomé and Príncipe dobra (ccy) STDS9 Star Trek: Deep Space 9 -STEM Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics +STE Sixteen/Thirty-two, Enhanced (Atari computer) +STEM Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics / Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope STF Search The Forum STFAGOS Stuff That For A Game Of Soldiers +STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council STFRIACO Single Tandem Fixed-Rate Internet-Access Call Origination +STFT Short-Time Fourier Transform STFU Shut The F*** Up STFW Search The F***ing Web STGM Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (= Thus passes the glory of the world) -STI Star Trek: The Motion Picture / Sexually-Transmitted Infection +STh Scholar in Theology +STI Star Trek: The Motion Picture / Sexually-Transmitted Infection / Sticking To It STII Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan STIII Star Trek 3: The Search For Spock STIV Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home -STM Seems To Me / master of theology / Scanning Tunnelling Microscope / Spank The Monkey +STL Licentiate of Sacred Theology +STM Seems To Me / master of theology / Scanning Tunnelling Microscope / Spank The Monkey / Short-Term Memory / Master of Sacred Theology STN Stop This Nonsense / London Stansted Airport STOD Standard Thread Or Debate STOL Short Take-Off and Landing STOVL Short Take-Off, Vertical Landing -STP Spanning Tree Protocol / Shielded Twisted Pair / Sticky Toffee Pudding / Standard Temperature and Pressure / doctor of theology -STR Spot The Reference / string / Short Tandem Repeat (in DNA testing) / Special Theory of Relativity / Steps To Reproduce / Short-Term Relationship +STP Spanning-Tree Protocol / Shielded Twisted Pair / Sticky Toffee Pudding / Standard Temperature and Pressure / Sacræ Theologiæ Professor (= Processor of Sacred Theology) / Straight-Through Processing / St Pancras/Peter / Scalar Triple Product +STR Seem To Remember/Recall / Spot The Reference / string / Short Tandem Repeat (in DNA testing) / Special Theory of Relativity / Steps To Reproduce / Short-Term Relationship STR8 straight -STS So To Speak / Science and Technology Studies / Scanning Tunnelling Spectroscopy / Space Transportation System (i.e. Space Shuttle) / Space Tourism Society / Station-To-Station (protocol) / SharePoint Team Services / Strict Transport Security / Synchronous Transport Signal +STS So To Speak / Science and Technology Studies / Scanning Tunnelling Spectroscopy / Space Transportation System (= Space Shuttle) / Space Tourism Society / Station-To-Station (protocol) / SharePoint Team Services / Strict Transport Security / Synchronous Transport Signal +STSO Senior Technical Staff Officer STSPCA Support The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Acronyms STTL Sit Tibi Terra Levis (= may the earth rest lightly on you) STTNG Star Trek: The Next Generation STTOS Star Trek: The Original Series STUC Scottish Trades Union Congress STV Single Transferable Vote / Single Transvestite Virgin / Sexually-Transmitted Virus / Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier STVI Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country STVOY Star Trek: Voyager -STW Search The Web -STWSTBAS Sorry That Was Supposed To Be A Say +StW Search the Web / ‘Start the Week’ (BBC Radio 4) +STWSTBAS Sorry, That Was Supposed To Be A ‘Say’ STYS Speak To You Soon -SU Shut Up / superuser +SU Shut Up / superuser / USSR (ISO code, reserved) SUA System User Area (CD-RW) SUB Students Union Building SUCDIC Situation Under Control, Dickheads In Charge SUFID Screwing Up Face In Disgust SUL Stiff Upper Lip SUNOILTY Shut Up, No-One Is Listening To You +SUNY State University of New York SUP what'S UP? SUQ Stupid User Question(s) SUS Single UNIX Specification SUSE Software und System-Entwicklung mbH SUSFU Situation Unchanged: Still F***ed-Up +SUSY Supersymmetry SUT Standard User Tariff SUTBA Stop Using Those Bloody Acronyms SUYF Shut Up, You Fool SUYP Shut Up, You Pervert +SV El Salvador (ISO code) SVAGC Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel SVC Scalable Video Coding SVCD Super Video Compact Disc SVD Structured VLSI Design SVDD Speed Violation Detection Deterrent +SVF Spam and Virus Filter / Simple/Serial Vector Format / State Variable Filter SVG Scalable Vector Graphics SVGA Super Video Graphics Array (800×600 and up) +SVGMD Scalable Vector Graphics for Mobile Domain SVHS Super Video Home System SVN Subversion (Apache RCS) / Social Venture Network / Student Video Network / South Vietnam SVOC Saint Vidicon Of Cathode SVOD Stacked Volumetric Optical Disc -SVP Senior Vice President +SVP Senior Vice President / S'il Vous Plaît (= please) SVQ Scottish Vocational Qualification SVR1 Unix System V Release 1 SVR2 Unix System V Release 2 SVR3 Unix System V Release 3 SVR4 Unix System V Release 4 -SW software / So What? / Says Who? / Star Wars / South-West (225°) / sub-woofer -SW-SE Star Wars Special Edition +SW software / So What? / Says Who? / Star Wars / South-West (225°) / Sub-Woofer / Short-Wave (radio) +SW-SE ‘Star Wars’ Special Edition +SW1 ‘Star Wars ep.1: The Phantom Menace’ +SW2 ‘Star Wars ep.2: Attack of the Clones’ +SW3 ‘Star Wars ep.3: Revenge of the Sith’ +SW4 ‘Star Wars ep.4: A New Hope’ +SW5 ‘Star Wars ep.5: The Empire Strikes Back’ +SW6 ‘Star Wars ep.6: Return of the Jedi’ +SW:ANH ‘Star Wars ep.4: A New Hope’ +SW:AotC ‘Star Wars ep.2: Attack of the Clones’ +SW:ESB ‘Star Wars ep.5: The Empire Strikes Back’ +SW:KotOR ‘Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic’ (RPG) +SW:RotJ ‘Star Wars ep.6: Return of the Jedi’ +SW:RotS ‘Star Wars ep.3: Revenge of the Sith’ +SW:TESB ‘Star Wars ep.5: The Empire Strikes Back’ +SW:TOR ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ (MMORPG) +SW:TPM ‘Star Wars ep.1: The Phantom Menace’ +SWA Sports Writers' Association SWAG Simple/Scientific Wild-Ass Guess SWAK Sealed With A Kiss SWALK Sealed With A Loving Kiss SWAPO South-West African People's Organisation -SWAT Special Weapons And Tactics -SWBS South-West by South (213¾°) -SWBW South-East by West (236¼°) +SWaT Special Weapons and Tactics +SWB South Wales Borderers +SWbS South-West by South (213¾°) +SWbW South-East by West (236¼°) SWCOC Special Wishes, Comments, Or Corrections SWDY So What Do You SWDYRTW Since When Do You Rule The Web? -SWDYT So What Do You Think…? +SWDYT So What Do You Think...? +SWEB South Western Electricity Board +SWET Society of West End Theatres (now SOLT) SWF Single White Female / ShockWave Flash -SWG Scientific Wild Guess +SWG Scientific Wild Guess / ‘Star Wars Galaxies’ (MMORPG) +SWI Shagging With Intent (to conceive) +SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication +SWIG Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator SWIM See What I Mean SWL Screaming With Laughter / Short-Wave Listener SWM Single White Male SWMBLT She Who Must Be Listened To SWMBO She Who Must Be Obeyed SWN She Was Not +SWOAC Scottish Woodland Owners Association (Commercial) +SWOI Shagging Without Intent (to conceive) SWOT Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats / Sheer Weight Of Traffic SWOTOMBD She Who Ought To Obey Me But Doesn't SWP Socialist Workers' Party / Scientific Workplace (LaTeX) / Single Wire Protocol / South-West Pacific SWPL Stuff White People Like +SWR Standing Wave Ratio SWSTWS She Would Say That, Wouldn't She? SWT Standard Widget Toolkit (Java) / Scottish/Surrey Wildlife Trust / South West Trains / Salem Witch Trials / Stationary Wavelet Transform SWTSMBO She Who Thinks She Must Be Obeyed +SWV Schütz-Werke-Verzeichnis (= Schütz Works Catalogue) SWW Shorter Working Week SWWPACUWELA Still Wondering Why People Are Coming Up With Eleven-Letter Acronyms SWYM See What You Mean SWYMMD See What You Made Me Do SWYP So What's Your Problem? +SX Sint Maarten (Dutch part) (ISO code) SXGA Super Extended Graphics Array (1280×1024) SXGA+ Super Extended Graphics Array Plus (1400×1050) -SY Steam Yacht +SY Steam Yacht / Syria (ISO code) +SYaGaD Sack Yourself and Get a Dishwasher SYDWBY See Ya, Don't Wanna Be Ya SYIC See You In Cyberspace -SYITFP See You In The Funny Pages +SYitFP See You in the Funny Pages SYL See You Later SYN Synchronisation (TCP) SYP Syrian pounds SYS See You Soon SYSB So You Should Be -SYSOP System Operator -SysOp System Operator (person who runs the BBS/Forum) -Sysop System Operator (person who runs the BBS/Forum) +SysOp System Operator SYT See You Tonight / Sweet Young Thing +SZ Swaziland (ISO code) SZL Lilangeni (ccy) SÉCAM Séquentiel Couleur À Mémoire (= Sequential Colour with Memory, TV standard) T&A Tits and Arse / Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy +T&AFA Territorial and Auxiliary Forces' Association +T&AVR Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve T&C Terms and Conditions T&E European Federation for Transport and Environment T&G Transport and General Workers Union -T&O Tripe & Onions +T&O Tripe and Onions T&T Trinidad and Tobago T-DMB Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting T0 Terrain 0 (scouting) T1 Terrain 1 (scouting) T1CR&R This One Could Run and Run @@ -8745,97 +13942,121 @@ T1CRAR This One Could Run And Run T2 Terrain Two (scouting) T2T The Two Towers T2Y Talk to You T2YL Talk To You Later +T4P Thanks For Posting +T4T Tit-For-Tat / Thanks For Trade T9 Text on Nine keys (mobile phone predictive text) +TA Thanks Again / Teaching Assistant / Troop Assistant / Territorial Army / (UK) Terrorism Act 2000 / Transactional Analysis / ‘Thinking Allowed’ (BBC Radio 4) / teraampere (10¹² amperes) / Tristan da Cunha (ISO code, reserved) Ta tantalum -TA Thanks Again / Teaching Assistant / Troop Assistant / Territorial Army / (UK) Terrorism Act 2000 / Transactional Analysis / ‘Thinking Allowed’ (BBC Radio 4) / teraampere (10¹² amperes) +TAA Territorial Army Association / Tropical Agriculture Association TAAA There's Always Another Acronym TAAFT There's Always A First Time TAAFTBTINI There's Always A First Time, But This Is Not It +TAC Terminal Access Controller / Type Allocation Code (part of IMEI) / Triacetyl Cellulose / Technical Assistance Centre / Traditional Anglican Communion / Technical Advisory Council (of FCC) / Total Allowable Catch +TacAN Tactical Air Navigation System +TACIS Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States TACO Telnet Access, Conferencing-Only (tariff) TAD Temporary Additional Duty TADT They All Do That -TAF That's All, Folks! +TAF That's All, Folks! / Tactical Air Force TAFN That's All For Now TAFT That's A Frightening Thought TAFT4E There's A First Time For Everything TAFTFE There's A First Time For Everything TAH Take A Hike TAHT Tahiti Time (= UTC-10) TAI Temps Atomique International (= International Atomic Time) -TAIAITL That Acronym Is Actually/Already In The List -TAIISAT Take An Interest In Sex And Travel -TAL Thanks A Lot / The Acronyms List +TAiAitL That Acronym is Actually/Already in the List +TaIiSaT Take an Interest in Sex and Travel +TAINS TERCOM-Aided Inertial Navigation System +TAL Thanks A Lot / Try Again Later / The Acronyms List TALOC The Acronym List, Of Course TAM Tenner A Month (now Demon Internet) / Telephone Answering Machine / Television Audience Monitoring TAMESAD Typical Armed Maniac Eccentric Scooter And Driver TAMO Then A Miracle Occurs TANABEM There's A New Acronym Born Every Minute TANATAH That Acronym Never Applies To Anyone Here TANJ There Ain't No Justice +TANS Territorial Army Nursing Service TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch TANSTAASQ There Ain't No Such Thing As A Stupid Question TANSTAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As a Free Lunch +TANSTAGI There Ain't No Such Thing As Government Interference TAO Track-At-Once (disc burning) +TAOCP ‘The Art of Computer Programming’ TAPI Telephony Application Programming Interface TAQ The African Queen -TAQAVM The African Queen And Vampire's Mother +TAQaVM The African Queen and Vampire's Mother TAR Taken As Read -TARDIS Time And Relative Dimensions In Space +TARDIS Time And Relative Dimension In Space (Doctor Who) TARFU Things Are Really F***ed-Up +TARO Territorial Army Reserve of Officers TAROM Transporturile Aeriene Române (= Romanian Air Transport) -TAS Taking A Shower / Tasmania +TAS Taking A Shower / Tasmania / Torpedo and Anti-Submarine Course TASBEM Theres A Sucker Born Every Minute +TASER Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle TASM Turbo Assembler -TATAABOTO This And That And A Bit Of The Other +TaTaaBotO This and That and a Bit of the Other TATT Tired All The Time TATVC Tough As The Vampire's Cooking -TAUWAA Totally And Utterly Wrong As Always +TAU Tactical Assault Unit / Terminal Access Unit / Teller Assist Unit / Tel Aviv University / Temporary Authorised Upgrade / Thinking About You / Terrible Acronym Usage +TaUWaA Totally and Utterly Wrong as Always +TAVRA Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association TAW Teachers Are Watching +TAWS Terrain Awareness and Warning System TB terabyte (10¹² bytes) / Tuberculosis / The Bat / Toilet Break / Text Back Tb terbium TBA To Be Added/Announced/Advised +TBBH To Be Brutally Honest TBC To Be Continued TBD To Be Done TBDL To Be Discussed Later TBDML To Be Discussed Much Later TBE To Be Expected +TBF To Be Fair TBH To Be Honest TBHNA Touched By His Noodly Appendage TBIB The Bitch Is Back +TBM Tactical/Theatre Ballistic Missile +TBMCS Theatre Battle Management Core Systems TBNT Thanks, But No Thanks TBONTB To Be Or Not To Be TBPC To Be Politically Correct TBq terabequerel (10¹² bequerels) TBQH To Be Quite Honest +TBR To Be Recorded/Read/Released/Reviewed/Resolved/Revised/Renamed/Recommended/Rescinded / Token Bucket Regulator (algorithm) / Technology Business Research / The Back/Boiler Room / Total-Body Radiation / Thorium Breeder Reactor / This Board Rocks TBS To Be Serious / Telenor Business Solutions TBSF To Be Signed For -TBT Technology Based Training +TBT Technology-Based Training TBW That Blasted Woman / ‘The Burkiss Way’ TBWI That Ball Was In TBYB Try Before You Buy TBYCCYNHBATANWBATBYDHAC That's Because You Can't, Can You? Never Have Been Able To, And Never Will Be Able To, Because You Don't Have A Clue -TC Take Care / Telephone Call / Thunderclap / Town Crier / Top Cat / teracoulomb (10¹² coulombs) +TC Take Care / Telephone Call / Thunderclap / Town Crier / Top Cat / teracoulomb (10¹² coulombs) / Turks and Caicos Islands (ISO code) / Order of the Trinity Cross (Trinidad and Tobago) Tc technetium +TCA Tricyclic Antidepressant TCALSS To Cut A Long Story Short -TCB Taking Care of Business / Trouble Came Back / Trusted Computing Base +TCAS Traffic Collision Avoidance System +TCB Takin' Care of Business / Trouble Came Back / Trusted Computing Base / Telephone Call Box (OS maps) / trichlorobenzene TCBY Taking Care of Business, Ya'll +TCCB Test and County Cricket Board (now ECB) +TCD The Cat's Dead / ‘The Chambers Dictionary’ / Trinity College, Dublin Tcd teracandela (10¹² candelas) -TCD The Cat's Dead TCF Trusted Computing Group TCFHTCT The Current Frankie Howerd Travelling CIX Thread TCGSDO The Great CIX Self-Denying Ordinance TCH The Creep's Here TCIAL The Cake Is A Lie -TCL Tool Command Language +TCK Testing Compatibility Kit Tcl Tool Command Language TCM Traditional Chinese Medicine +TCO Taken Care Of / Total Cost of Ownership TCOB Taking Care Of Business TCOY Take Care Of Yourself -TCOYF Taking Charge of Your Fertility +TCOYF Taking Charge Of Your Fertility TCP Transmission Control Protocol / trichlorophenol TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol TCPA Trusted Computing Platform Alliance TCQ Tagged Command Queuing TCR Tottenham Court Road @@ -8844,11 +14065,12 @@ TCTCBN The Cooking That Cannot Be Named TCTCBNOC The Cooking That Cannot Be Named, Of Course TCTFPT The CIX Travelling Fish-Pun Thread TCU Telecommunication Control Unit / True-Colour Unit TCUTD Town Crier Under The Duvet -TD Tangerine Dream / Teachtaí Dála (= member of the Dáil) / Territorial Decoration +TCVR transceiver +TD Tangerine Dream / Teachtaí Dála (= member of the Dáil) / Territorial Decoration / Chad (ISO code) TD-SCDMA Time-Division Synchronous Code-Division Multiple Access TDA (UK) Trades Descriptions Act 1968 TDAEG That Deserves An E-Groat TDB The Dog's Bollocks TDD The Dog's Dead / Test-Driven Development / Time-Division Duplex @@ -8858,80 +14080,103 @@ TDK Tokyo Denki Kagaku (= Tokyo Electric and Chemicals) Ltd TDLIUT They Don't Like It Up Them TDM Too Damned Many / Time-Division Multiplexing TDMA Time-Division Multiple Access TDNMS That Does Not Make Sense -TDO Total Domestic Output -TDOA Time Differential of Arrival (telecoms) +TDO Total Domestic Output / Temporary Detention Order / Type Descriptor Object / Typed/Transaction Data Object / Transmitted Data Out +TDOA Time Differential Of Arrival (telecoms) +TDP Thermal Design Power / Tivoli Data Protection / Tag Distribution Protocol (Cisco) / Tierce de Picardie / Thermal Depolymerisation +TDR Test Detail Record / Telecommunications for Disaster Relief TDTM Talk Dirty To Me TDV = additional liability co. in Ukraine -Te tellurium TE The End / Tennessee -TED Technology, Entertainment, and Design / The Energy Detective / Total External Debt +Te tellurium +TEA Tiny Encryption Algorithm +TEC Training and Enterprise Council / Total Electron Content +TeCA Tetracyclic Antidepressant +TED Technology, Entertainment, and Design (non-profit) / The Energy Detective / Total External Debt TEFL Teaching English as a Foreign Language TEGBIU The E-Groat Bank Is Unbreakable -TEI Terminal Equipment Identifier +TEI Terminal Equipment Identifier / Text Encoding Initiative TELCO Telephone Company +TEM Territorial Efficiency Medal / Transmission Electron Microscope +TEng(CEI) Technician Engineer (Council of Engineering Institutions) TEOC The End Of Civilisation TEOCAWKI The End Of Civilisation As We Know It TEOTU The End Of The Universe TEOTUAWKI The End Of The Universe As We Know It TEOTW The End Of The World TEOTWAWKI The End Of The World As We Know It +TEP (Member of) the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners TEPCO Tokyo Electric Power Company +TerCoM Terrain Contour Matching (navigation) +TERN Trans-European Road Network +TerProM Terrain Profile Matching (navigation) +TES Times Educational Supplement +TESB ‘Star Wars ep.5: The Empire Strikes Back’ TESL Teaching English as a Second Language TESOL Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages TESSA Tax-Exempt Special Savings Account +TETRA (European) Terrestrial Trunked Radio TETTAPP That's Enough To Turn A Panther Pink -TeV tera electron volt (10¹² electron volts) -TEV Today's English Version (of the Bible) -TF terafarad (10¹² farads) -TFA The F***ing Article +TEV Today's English Version (of the Bible) / Total Enterprise/Economic Value / Thermal Expansion Valve +TeV tera-electron volt (10¹² electron volts) +TF terafarad (10¹² farads) / Territorial Force / French Southern Territories (ISO code) +TFA The F***ing Article / Thanks For Asking TFB Too F***ing Bad TFDS That's For Damn Sure TFE Too F***ing Easy +TFF The Final Frontier / Time to First Fix (GPS) / Tears For Fears (band) TFFT Thank F*** For That -TFH Thread From Hell +TFH Thread From Hell / Tin-Foil Hat TFI Thank F*** It's TFIF Thank F*** It's Friday -TFL Transport For London -TFM The F***ing Manual +TFL Transport For London / Two Fat Ladies +TfL Transport for London +TFLMK Thanks For Letting Me Know +TFLMS Thanks For Letting Me Share +TFM The F***ing Manual / TeX Font Metric (file) TFMTKAFYTFO That's For Me To Know, And For You To Find Out TFMTKAYTFO That's For Me To Know, And You To Find Out -TFN Thanks For Nothing / Till Further Notice +TFN Thanks For Nothing / Till Further Notice / Toll-Free Number TFPT The Fish-Pun Thread -TFR Thanks For Reading +TFR Thanks For Reading / Transfer Fee Rights / Terrain-Following Radar / Total Fertility Rate / Temporary Flight Restriction / Time-Frequency Representation / ‘The Frost Report’ TFS Thanks For Sharing / Three-Finger Salute (Ctrl+Alt+Del) / Microsoft Team Foundation Server / ‘The Far Side’ (comic) / Trusted File Server -TFT Thanks For That / Thin-Film Transistor -TFTA Thanks For The Acronym(s) -TFTAAM Thanks For The Additional Acronym Meaning -TFTAEG Thanks For The Additional E-Groat -TFTBEG Thanks For The Bonus E-Groat -TFTBM Thanks For The BinMail -TFTC Thanks For The Comment/Clarification -TFTD Thanks For The Diversion / Thought For The Day -TFTEEG Thanks For The Extra E-Groat -TFTEG Thanks For The E-Groat -TFTFB Thanks For The Feedback -TFTI Thanks For The Information +TFT Thanks For That / Thin-Film Transistor / Time For Tea / Tit-For-Tat / Theatre, Film, and Television / The Forest Trust / Thyroid Function Test / Traffic-Flow Template / Tune For Time (optimisation) / Technical Feasibility Testing / Transmission-Fluid Temperature +TFT-PVA Thin-Film Transistor — Patterned Vertical Alignment +TftA Thanks for the Acronym(s) +TftAAM Thanks for the Additional Acronym Meaning +TftAEG Thanks for the Additional E-Groat +TftBEG Thanks for the Bonus E-Groat +TftBM Thanks for the BinMail +TftC Thanks for the Comment/Clarification/Cache +TftD Thanks for the Diversion / Thought for the Day +TftEEG Thanks for the Extra E-Groat +TftEG Thanks for the E-Groat +TftF Thanks for the Feedback +TftFB Thanks for the Feedback +TftH Tnahs for the Hunt/Hide/Hike +TftI Thanks for the Information TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol / Terrorist Finance-Tracking Programme -TFTR Thanks For The Report -TFTS Thanks For The Smilies -TFTSAA Thanks For The Smiles And Acronyms -TFTT Thanks For The Thought/Tip -TFTVOC Thanks For The Vote Of Confidence +TftR Thanks for the Report +TftS Thanks for the Smilies +TftSaA Thanks for the Smiles and Acronyms +TftT Thanks for the Thought/Tip +TftVoC Thanks for the Vote of Confidence TFW Totally F***ing Worthless +TFWBWY The Force Will Be With You +TFWBWYA The Force Will Be With You, Always TFX traffic TFYL The Formidable/Fine Young Lady +TG Thank God/Goodness / Togo (ISO code) Tg teragram (10¹² grams) -TG Thank God/Goodness TG&TG The Great and The Good TG4 Teilifís na Gaeilge Ceathair (= Irish TV Channel 4) TGA/GA The Guide Association TGAFP There Goes A Flying Pig TGAL Think Globally, Act Locally -TGATG The Great And The Good +TGatG The Great and the Good TGFT Thank God/Goodness For That TGFTCL Thank God/Goodness For The Chat Line TGIF Thank God/Goodness It's Friday TGSE Teaching Grandma to Suck Eggs TGSM The Great Silent Majority @@ -8938,48 +14183,61 @@ TGT That's Great — Terrific TGTF Thank God/Goodness Tomorrow's Friday TGTP There Goes The Planet TGTSE Teaching Grandma To Suck Eggs TGV Train à Grande Vitesse (= high-speed train) / Test Generation with Verification -TGWU Transport and General Workers Union +TGWU Transport and General Workers' Union TGy teragray (10¹² grays) +TH Troop Helper / terahenry (10¹² henrys) / Thailand (ISO code) Th thorium -TH Troop Helper / terahenry (10¹² henrys) THA Thailand Standard Time (= UTC+7) THAEG Thanks, Have An E-Groat THB Thai baht (ccy) -THBAPSA This Has Been A Public Service Announcement +THBAPSA This Has Been A Public-Service Announcement THD Total Harmonic Distortion +ThD Doctor of Theology +THG There He Goes +THGA There He Goes Again THGTTG ‘The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy’ THHAEG Thanks, Have Half An E-Groat THHG The Happy Hunting Ground THHGTTG ‘The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy’ +ThM Master of Theology THNX thanks THO Titty Hard-On THRUSH Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity +ThSchol Scholar of Theology +THT Terrence Higgins Trust +THTH Too Hot To Handle THX thanks THz terahertz (10¹² hertz) -TI Texas Instruments Inc. / Tourist Information +TI Texas Instruments, Inc. / Tourist Information Ti titanium -TIA Thanks In Advance / Telecommunications Industry Alliance +TIA Thanks In Advance / Telecommunications Industry Alliance / Total Information Awareness TIAAO That I Am Aware Of TIAIA That Is An Improper Answer TIAIL Think I Am In Love TIANCRA This Is A No Case Resting Area TIANRA This Is A No Resting Area -TIAPSA This Is A Public Service Announcement +TIAPSA This Is A Public-Service Announcement TIASIRGOOH This Internet Acronym S*** Is Really Getting Out Of Hand TIATLG Truly, I Am The Living God TIB Thumb In Bum -TIBBIN Thumb in Bum, Brain in Neutral +TIBBIN Thumb In Bum, Brain In Neutral TIBMIN Thumb In Bum, Mind In Neutral -TIC Tongue In Cheek / This Is CaRP +TIC Tongue In Cheek / This Is CaRP / Taken Into Consideration +TICTU Telecommunications Intercept and Collection Technology Unit (FBI) +TIDM Tradable Instrument Display Mnemonic (= LSE stock code) TIE Take It Easy TIFF Tagged Image File Format TIFH Take It From Here +TIG There I Go +TIGA There I Go Again +TIIC The Idiots In Charge TIJLAO That Is Just Life All Over TIL Threaded Interpreted Language / The Iron Lady +TILAM Take It Like A Man TILII Tell It Like It Is TIME Tears In My Eyes TIMTOWTDI There Is More Than One Way To Do It TIMTOWTDT There Is More Than One Way To Do This TINA There Is No Alternative @@ -8991,680 +14249,932 @@ TINSITT There Is No Spittoon In This Topic TINSTAAFL There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch TINSTAFL There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch TINSTAMP There Is No Such Thing As Mild Pedantry TINWIS That Is Not What I Said -TiO2 titanium dioxide +TiO2 titanium dioxide (aka titania, titanium white) +TIOBE ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’ TIOR The Instruments Of Remorse -TIP To Insure Promptness +TIP Theory Into Practice / Telecommunications Improvement Programme / Trans-Israel Pipeline / Threat Image Projection +TIPS (US) Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities TISP Tongue Is Snip Proof TITA That Is The Answer TITK Those In The Know TITOAYAGTG That Is The Only Answer You Are Going To Get TITQ That Is The Question TIWDAOBMTALL The Impossible We Do At Once, But Miracles Take A Little Longer TIWTGLGG This Is Where The Goofy Little Grin Goes TIWUR That Is What You Are -TJ terajoule (10¹² joules) -TJ&TAW Truth, Justice, and The American Way -TJATAW Truth, Justice, And The American Way +TJ terajoule (10¹² joules) / Tajikistan (ISO code) +TJ&tAW Truth, Justice, and the American Way +TJatAW Truth, Justice, and the American Way +TJM That's Just Me +TJNR That's Just Not Right TJS Tajikistani somoni (ccy) -TK teraKelvin (10¹² Kelvin) / Tokumei Kumiai (= anonymous partnership co. in Japan) +TK teraKelvin (10¹² Kelvin) / To Come (printing) / Tokelau (ISO code) / Tokumei Kumiai (= anonymous partnership co. in Japan) Tkat terakatal (10¹² katals) +TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (WiFi) TKO Technical Knock-Out +TKS thanks TKSVMIA Thanks So Very Much In Advance +TL Timor-Leste (prev. East Timor) (ISO code) Tl thallium +TL;DR Too Long; Didn't Read TLA Three-Letter/Third-Level Acronym/Abbreviation TLC Tender Loving Care TLD Top-Level Domain +TLDR Too Long; Didn't Read TLDTOTS The Long Dark Tea-time Of The Soul TLF Troop Leadership Forum TLG The Living God TLGO The List Goes On TLK2UL8R Talk To You Later Tlm teralumen (10¹² lumens) -TLOTR The Lord Of The Rings +TLotR The Lord Of The Rings +TLoUC The Law of Unintended Consequences TLR Twin-Lens Reflex (camera) TLS Thread-Local Storage / Transport Layer Security / ‘Times Literary Supplement’ TLTA Too Long To Abbreviate TLTB Thank you Linesmen, Thank you Ball-boys TLTTF The Land That Time Forgot +TLX Thin-Layer Extraction / teralux (10¹² lux) Tlx teralux (10¹² lux) TLYC Tough, Like Your Cooking +TM tomorrow / Transcendental Meditation / Turing Machine / Trademark / Trust Me / Thread Mangler / Turkmenistan (ISO code) Tm terametre (10¹² metres) / thulium -TM tomorrow / Transcendental Meditation / Turing Machine / Trademark / Trust Me / Thread Mangler -TMA Too Many Acronyms / Tutor-Marked Assignment / Traffic Monitoring and Analysis / Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (‘2001: A Space Odyssey’) +TMA Take My Advice / Too Many Acronyms / Tutor-Marked Assignment / Traffic Monitoring and Analysis / Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (‘2001: A Space Odyssey’) / Theatre Managers' Association TMAI Tell Me About It TMC Thinking Man's Crumpet +TMD Too Much Detail / = Damn (in Chinese) TMDWRAGI Too Many Duplications Will Ruin A Good Idea -TMFAQITOW The Most Frequently-Asked Question In The Online World -TMFAQITW The Most Frequently-Asked Question In The World +TME Too Much Effort +TMFAQitOW The Most Frequently-Asked Question in the On-line World +TMFAQitW The Most Frequently-Asked Question in the World TMFU The Man From Uncle -TMI Too Much Information / Three-Mile Island +TMI Too Much Information / Three-Mile Island / Thinking Machines, Inc. TMIKTLIU The More I Know, The Less I Understand TMIY Take Me, I'm Yours TMK To My Knowledge -TMML That Made Me Laugh / Total Madness Mailing List / Teaching Material Markup Language / Turing Machine Markup Language +TMM Tell Me More +TMML That Made Me Laugh / Total Madness Mailing List / Teaching Material Mark-up Language / Turing Machine Mark-up Language +TMMTMM Tell Me More, Tell Me More Tmol teramole (10¹² moles) -TMOTCO The Man on the Clapham Omnibus +TMOTCO The Man On The Clapham Omnibus TMP temporary TMR Twin Main Rotors (helicopter type) +tmRNA Transfer-Messenger Ribonucleic Acid TMRTB That Man Reads ‘The Beano’ +TMS Too Much Showing / Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation TMSHTF Too Much S*** Hit The Fan +TMSR Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor TMT Turkmenistani manats (ccy) TMTC Too Many To Count +TMTH Too Much To Handle TMTLTBMG There's More To Love Than Boy Meets Girl TMTOWTDI There's More Than One Way To Do It TMTOWTDT There's More Than One Way To Do This -TN Telnet / Tennessee / teranewton (10¹² newtons) -TNA (UK) The National Archives +TN Telnet / Took Nothing / Tennessee / Tunisia (ISO code) / teranewton (10¹² newtons) +TNA (UK) The National Archives / Threose Nucleic Acid TNAA That's Not An Acronym TNAAF That's Not At All Fair TNAGD That's Not A Good Design -TNC Thread Neill-Concelman / Totally No Comment / Trans-National Corporation/Company / Terminal Node Controller / Threaded Neill-Concelman (connector) +TNC Threaded Neill-Concelman (connector) / Totally No Comment / Trans-National Corporation/Company / Terminal Node Controller / Threaded Neill-Concelman (connector) TND Tunisian dinars (ccy) TNF That's Not Fair TNFAA That's Not Fair At All TNG The Next Generation / That's No Good TNHH = Ltd co. in Vietnam TNIV Today's New International Version (of the Bible) TNLNSL Took Nothing, Left Nothing, Signed Logbook +TNMOC The National Museum Of Computing (Bletchley Park) +TNO Trans-Neptunian Object TNOTB The Number Of The Beast -TNOTVS There's Nothing On Television, So… +TNOTVS There's Nothing On Television, So... TNQ ‘The News Quiz’ (BBC Radio 4) -TNR The Next Release +TNR The Next Release / Times New Roman (font) / ‘The New Republic’ (US magazine) / Trap-Neuter-Return TNRNC The Next Release Never Comes TNS ‘The Now Show’ (BBC Radio 4) TNSO Temptingly-Naked Significant Other +TNSTAAFL There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch TNT Till Next Time / Tri-Nitro-Toluene TNTC Too Numerous To Count +TNTe TNT equivalent TNTLLAI Try Not To Look Like An Idiot TNVN That's Not Very Nice TNVNE That's Not Very Nice Either TNX thanks -TOA Time of Arrival / Thesaurus Of Acronyms +TO Tonga (ISO code) +TO/GA Take-Off/Go-Around +ToA Time of Arrival / Thesaurus of Acronyms +ToaN Think of a Number TOBAL There Oughtta Be A Law TOBG This Oughtta Be Good TOC Table Of Contents / Train Operating Company TOCR&R This One Could Run and Run -TOCRAR This One Could Run And Run +TOCRaR This One Could Run and Run +ToE Theory of Everything TOFU Text Over, Full-quote Under TOG Territorial Operations Group +TOGA Take-Off/Go-Around +TOH To Other Half TOIL Time Off In Lieu -TOL Tower Of London +TOIT Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM) +ToL Tower of London TOM Tomorrow / Theory Of Mind +TOMTIT Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time (Doctor Who) +TONTO The Original New Timbral Orchestra (synth) TOP Tongan pa'anga (ccy) TOPCA Till Our Paths Cross Again TOS Terms Of Service / The Original Series / The Operating System (Atari ST OS) TOSLINK Toshiba Link (optical digital audio connection) -TOT Tons Of Time +ToT Tons of Time TOTAL Teddy Out The Air Lock -TOTC Too Old To Care +TOTC Too Old To Care / Think Of The Children TOTKO Takes One To Know One -TOTT Top Of The Tree -TOTTA Top Of The Tree Again +TOTSO Turn Off To Stay On (road junction) +TotT Top of the Tree +TotTA Top of the Tree Again TOV = Ltd co. in Ukraine TOW T'Old Well -TOY Thinking Of You -TP Tair Pedol (= three horseshoe) / Terry Pratchett / Team Player -TPA (US) Travel Promotion Act (2009) / Tax Payers Alliance +ToY Thinking of You +TOYM Turn On Your Mind! +TP Third-Party / Transaction Processing / Teacher's Pet / Twisted Pair (cable) / Toilet Paper / Tair Pedol (= three horseshoe) / Terry Pratchett / Team Player / Technology Preview / ‘Twin Peaks’ / Theoretical Physics / East Timor (ISO code) (now Timor-Leste, TL) +TPA (US) Travel Promotion Act, 2009 / Tax Payers Alliance TPa terapascal (10¹² pascals) TPAE The Possibilities Are Endless -TPB The Pirate Bay +TPB The Pirate Bay / The Poor Box TPC The Phone Company -TPF Transaction Processing Facility +TPE Twisted-Pair Ethernet / TransPennine Express (railway) / Thermoplastic Elastomer / Total Power Exchange (BDSM) / Third-Party Equipment / Teacher Performance Evaluation / That Petrol Emotion (band) / The Public Enemy +TPF Transaction Processing Facility (IBM mainframes) TPH The Phantom Hacker TPHSA The Phantom Hacker Strikes Again TPI Tax and Price Index / That Proves It TPIM The Pleasure Is Mine -TPM Trusted Platform Module +TPM Trusted Platform Module / Traffic and Policy Management / Technical Protection Measures / ‘Star Wars ep.1: The Phantom Menace’ TPO Thoroughly Pissed-Off TPP The Pirate Party / Trans-Pacific Partnership (IP treaty) -TPRTCYKTOTDTNS That Pub Round The Corner. You Know, The One That Does Nice Salads… +TPRTCYKTOTDTNS That Pub Round The Corner. You Know, The One That Does Nice Salads... TPS That's Pretty Stupid / This Program Sucks / Telephone Preference Service -TPSS This Program Sucks Severely +TPSS Target Prioritisation and Selection System / This Program Sucks Severely TPTATB The Powers That Are To Be TPTB The Powers That Be / The People To Blame TPTBVTAH The Powers That Be (Version Two), At Home TPTBVTAW The Powers That Be (Version Two), At Work TPTCIT The Powers That Cocked It Up TPTW The Powers That Were +TPU Thermoplastic Polyurethane TPWL The Poor Wee Lad TQM Total Quality Management +TR Turkey (ISO code) TRAM Tractor, Rubber-tyred, Articulated steering, Multi-purpose TRATEOTU ‘The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe’ TRDMC Tears Running Down My Cheeks TRDMF Tears Running Down My Face TRDMTL Tears Running Down My Trouser Legs -TRE Target Rich Environment +TRE Target-Rich Environment / Telecommunications Research Establishment +TRH Their Royal Highnesses +TRIC Television and Radio Industries' Club TRIDARS Triple Dark Star TRIN Traders' Index TRIPE True Riposte Is Perfectly Esoteric -TRIPS Tera-Instructions Per Second +TRIPS Tera-Instructions Per Second / WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights +TRISO Tristructural-Isotropic (nuclear fuel) +tRNA Transfer Ribonucleic Acid TRO Temporary Restraining Order / Top Rank Objective TROFF Trace Off TRON The Real-time Operating system Nucleus / Trace On +TRRS Tip, Ring, Ring, Sleeve (jack plug connections) +TRS Tip, Ring, Sleeve (jack plug connections) TRS-DOS Tandy Radio Shack — Disk Operating System +TRU Trans-Uranic nuclear waste TRUE That's Right: Uncle's Endorsement +TRWTF The Real ‘Worse Than Failure’ TRY Turkish lira +TS Tough S*** / Transsexual / Top Secret / terasiemens (10¹² siemens) / Tip, Sleeve (jack plug connections) Ts terasecond (10¹² seconds) -TS Tough S*** / Transsexual / terasiemens (10¹² siemens) TS/TG Time Served/Time in Grade TSA (US) Transport Security Administration / The Scout Association / Telecare Services Association / (UK) Tenant Services Authority / The Salvation Army / Time Series Analysis / Tax Sheltered Annuity / Thinking Skills Assessment TSB Trustee Savings Bank TSC Time-Stamp Counter -TSD (UK) Treasury Solicitor's Department / ‘The Straight Dope’ +TSD (UK) Treasury Solicitor's Department / ‘The Straight Dope’ / (FBI) Terrorist Screening Database +TSDMC Tears Streaming Down My Cheeks TSE Tokyo Stock Exchange +TSG There She Goes / Traditional Speciality Guaranteed +TSGA There She Goes Again TSIA Title Says It All TSIG Transaction Signature (DNS protocol) +TSJA ‘The Sarah Jane Adventures’ (TV) TSJD Texas-Size Jam Doughnut +TSM Thanks So Much / Tivoli Storage Manager / Traffic Safety/Scheduling Management +TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd TSO Trading Standards Officer / Time-Sharing Option (IBM mainframes) TSOHF Total Sense-Of-Humour Failure TSOTD The Spawn Of The Devil TSP Travelling-Salesman Problem TSR Terminate and Stay Resident (program) / Total Shareholder Return / Tropical Storm Risk / Totally Stupid Rules +TSRGD Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions (UK DfT) TSSA (UK) Transport Salaried Staffs' Association TSV Tab-Separated Values (data format) TSv terasievert (10¹² sieverts) TSVMIA Thanks So Very Much In Advance TSWC Tell Someone Who Cares TSX Toronto Stock Exchange -TT There, There / Take That / Teetotaller / Tuberculin Tested / Two Trips / Tourist Trophy / ‘The Two Towers’ / teratesla (10¹² teslas) +TT There, There / TrueType (font) / Teetotaller / Take That / Tuberculin Tested / Two Trips / Tourist Trophy / ‘The Two Towers’ / teratesla (10¹² teslas) / Thirty-two/Thirty-two (Atari computer) / Trinidad and Tobago (ISO code) +TT030 Thirty-two/Thirty-two 68030 (32-bit Atari computer) +TT2T Too Tired to Talk TTA True Audio (file format) / True Tap Audio TTAEG Thanks, Take An E-Groat +TTaGIWYL Take This and Guard It With Your Life TTBA Time To Be Announced TTBE That's To Be Expected TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge TTBOMR To The Best Of My Recollection TTD Trinidad and Tobago dollars TTF TrueType Font TTFN Ta-Ta For Now TTFS Try This For Size +TTFU Tighten The F*** Up TTFWY To The Font With You TTG Time To Go TTGL Thank The Good Lord -TTGOC The True God's Own Country (Yorkshire) +TTGOC The True God's Own Country (= Yorkshire) TTGOCOD The True God's Own Country Of Durham +TTI Time To Intercept/Impact / Transmission Time Interval / Traffic and Travel Information / Toyota Technological Institute / Texas Transportation Institute / Transfusion-Transmitted Infection / Time Temperature Indicator / Teeny Tiny Island (= England) TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic / Time To Live / Through The Lens TTL4N That's The Lot For Now TTLAISTDMTV That's The Longest Acronym I've Seen That Doesn't Mention The Vampire TTLFN That's The Lot For Now -TTM To The Moderator / To The Max +TTM To The Moderator / To The Max / Turkey Tikka Masala TTM&R Take The Money and Run -TTMAR Take The Money And Run -TTMNR Take The Money and Run +TTMaR Take The Money and Run +TTMnR Take The Money and Run TTMS Talk/Type To Me Soon TTN The Teleological Number (= 42) TTP ‘The Today Programme’ (BBC Radio 4) / Trusted Third Party TTS Text To Speech / Tiny Tit Syndrome -TTT Thought That Too / ‘The Two Towers’ / To The Top / That's The Ticket +TTSS ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ +TTT Thought That, Too / ‘The Two Towers’ / To The Top / That's The Ticket TTTH Talk To The Hand TTTT To Tell The Truth / These Things Take Time TTUL Talk To You Later TTWTCC That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles +TTWTDI That's The Way To Do It TTWTTF That's The Way The Toast Flies TTY Teletype / Talk To You +TTYIAM Talk To You In A Minute TTYL Talk To You Later TTYLA Talk/Type To You Later Alligator +TTYLMF Talk To You Later, My Friend TTYRS Talk To You Real Soon TTYS Talk To You Soon TTYT Talk To You Tomorrow TU Thank You / Trade Union TUB Tikroji ukine bendrija (= partnership co. in Lithuania) TUC Trades Union Congress -TUCOWS The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software +TUCOWS The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software TUFD The User File Died TUG TeX Users Group TUI Text/Terminal User Interface TUIFU The Ultimate In F***-Ups +TULIP Total depravity, Unconditional election, Limited atonement, Irresistible grace, Perseverance of the saints (Calvinism) TUPE (UK) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 +TUQ The Ultimate Question +TUQtLtUaE The Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything +TURP Trans-Urethral Resection of the Prostate TUS The Usual Suspects +TUV Technischer Überwachungs-Verein (= Technical Inspection Association, German safety inspection) TUVM Thank You Very Much -TV Television / The Vampire / Transvestite / teravolt (10¹² volts) -TVCR Television Video Cassette Recorder (combined) +TV Television / Transvestite / The Vampire / teravolt (10¹² volts) / Tuvalu (ISO code) +TVC Television Centre (BBC) +TVCR Television/Video-Cassette Recorder +TVEI Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative TVM Thanks Very Much / The Vampire's Mother TVMFTE Thanks Very Much For The Explanation TVMI Ta/Thanks Very Much Indeed -TVMIA Ta Very Much In Advance +TVMIA Thanks Very Much In Advance TVP Textured Vegetable Protein / Thames Valley Police +TVS Tensor-Vector-Scalar (gravity theory) / Television South/Sydney/Silesia/Saitama / Topological Vector Space / Transient Voltage Suppressor TVVM Thanks Very Very Much TVVMIA Thanks Very Very Much In Advance -TW terawatt (10¹² watts) / ‘Tomorrow's World’ / Technical Writer / Time Warner / teamwork / ‘Torchwood’ +TVWV Telemann-Vokalwerke-Verzecihnis (= Telemann Vocal Works Catalogue) +TW terawatt (10¹² watts) / Team Waste / ‘Tomorrow's World’ / Technical Writer / Time Warner / teamwork / ‘Torchwood’ / Taiwan (ISO code) TWA Tecwen Whittock Applies (alleged cheater by coughing on WWTBAM) +TWa1 ‘The World at One’ (BBC Radio 4) TWAIN Technology Without An Interesting Name (imaging API) +TWaO ‘The World at One’ (BBC Radio 4) TWAT The War Against Terror -TWATS The War Against Terror Supporters +TWAtO ‘The World At One’ (BBC Radio 4) +TWATS ‘The War Against Terror’ Supporters TWb teraweber (10¹² webers) TWBAF That Would Be A First -TWBFITNR This Will Be Fixed In The Next Release +TWBFitNR This Will Be Fixed in the Next Release TWBN That Would Be Nice TWBT That Would Be Telling TWC Three-Way Call / Thinking Woman's Crumpet TWCBN Those Who Cannot Be Named TWD New Taiwan dollars +TWG There We Go +TWGA There We Go Again TWHAB This Won't Hurt A Bit TWIMC To Whom It May Concern TWINAO The World Is Not An Oeuf TWIT That's What I Thought TWITT That's What I Thought, Too TWIWI That Was Interesting, Wasn't It? TWIX Team Waste Information eXchange TWL ‘The Weakest Link’ -TWMTBACT That Was Meant To Be A Comment To… +TWMA Till We Meet Again +TWMTBACT That Was Meant To Be A Comment To... +TWoO The Wizard of Oz +TWR Travelling-Wave Reactor TWS The Wine Society +TWSC Team Waste Summer Camp / Trafford Water-Sports Centre / Theale Water-Ski Club / Tenants' and Workers' Support Committee TWSS That's What She Said! -TWSTBACT That Was Supposed To Be A Comment To… -TWSTBAS That Was Supposed To Be A Say +TWSTBACT That Was Supposed To Be A Comment To... +TWSTBAS That Was Supposed To Be A ‘Say’ TWTAS That's What They All Say +TWV Telemann-Werke-Verzeichnis (= Telemann Works Catalogue) TWYAS That's What You All Say TWYT That's What You Think TX thanks / transmit / Texas TXF ‘The X Factor’ TY Thank You +TYA Thank You All +TYAVM Thank You All Very Much +TYAVMI Thank You All Very Much Indeed TYCLO Turn Your Caps Lock Off! TYFPMWAOTEAEG Thank You For Providing Me With An Opportunity To Earn An E-Groat TYG There You Go +TYGA There You Go Again TYKS Thank You, Kind Sir TYLE Took You Long Enough TYMD Tie Your Mother Down TYOGL Thank You, O Great Leader -TYOGMM Thank You, Oh Great And Mighty Moderator +TYOGMM Thank You, O Great And Mighty Moderator TYP Take Your Pick / Thank You, Partner TYU Thank You, Uncle TYVL Thank You Very Little TYVLYWEL Thank You Very Little, You're Welcome Even Less TYVM Thank You Very Much TYVMI Thank You Very Much Indeed TYW There You Went +TZ Tanzania (ISO code) TZS Tanzanian shillings TÜ Täisühing (= partnership co. in Estonia) -U you / Universal / uranium +TÜV Technischer Überwachungs-Verein (= Technical Inspection Association, German safety inspection) +U you / Universal (UK movie rating) / uranium U-L you will -U-TDOA Uplink Time Difference of Arrival (telecoms) +U-TDOA Uplink Time Difference Of Arrival (telecoms) U/L upload U2 You Too U3 = proprietary USB flash drive with Windows applications U3A University of the Third Age -UA Unusual Abbreviation / United Artists / Unauthorised Absence +UA Unusual Abbreviation / United Artists / Unauthorised Absence / Ukraine (ISO code) UAA Unauthorised Acronym Alert / Universal Audio Architecture (Windows) UAAG User Agent Accessibility Guidelines UAB Uzdaroji akcine bendrove (= Ltd co. in Lithuania) UAC User Account Control UAE Unrecoverable Application Error / United Arab Emirates UAH Ukrainian hryvnia (ccy) UAL United Air Lines, Inc. -UAPITA you're A Pain In The Arse +UAPitA you're A Pain in the Arse +UAR United Arab Republic UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter UAT User Acceptance Testing UATWLG you Are The Weakest Link, Goodbye +UAU Universities' Athletic Union UAV Unmanned Aerial/Autonomous Vehicle +UAW The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (prev. United Auto Workers) UB40 Unemployment Benefit form 40 (and hence band name) +UBB Usage-Based Billing UBD User Brain Damage UBE Unsolicited Bulk Email +UBMW Ugly Bag of Mostly Water +UBoMW Ugly Bag of Mostly Water UBR Universal Broadband Router (= CMTS coupled with a router) UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBYA Unbalanced Yet Again +UC University College UCAC Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru (= National Union of Teachers of Wales) -UCAS University and Colleges Admissions Service +UCAS Universities and Colleges Admissions Service UCATT (UK) Union of Construction, Allied Trades, and Technicians UCB University of California, Berkeley +UCCA Universities' Central Council on Admissions UCCOM You Can Count On Me -UCD User-Centred Design -UCE Unsolicited Commercial Email +UCD User-Centred Design / Unicode Character Database / University College, Dublin / University College, Durham / Urine-Collection Device +UCE Unsolicited Commercial Email / University of Central England +UCH University College Hospital (now UCHL) +UCHL University College Hospital, London UCI United Cinemas International / Union Cycliste Internationale / United Kennel Clubs International / University of California, Irvine UCITS Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (in Ireland) UCL University College, London UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCMJ Uniform Code of Military Justice +UCN Universal Character Name +UCNS Universities' Council for Non-Academic Staff +UCNW University College of North Wales UCPD (EU) Unfair Commercial Practices Directive UCR Unclassified County Road UCRE User Configurable Registry Entry -UCS Uniform Colour/Chromaticity Space/Scale / Universal Character Set +UCS Uniform Colour/Chromaticity Space/Scale / Universal Character Set (part of Unicode) / University College School +UCS-2 Universal Character Set, 2-byte (now UTF-16) +UCS-2BE Universal Character Set, 2-byte Big-Endian (now UTF-16BE) +UCS-2LE Universal Character Set, 2-byte Little-Endian (now UTF-16LE) +UCS-4 Universal Character Set, 4-byte (now UTF-32) +UCSB University of California, Santa Barbara UCU (UK) The University and College Union -UCW Union of Communication Workers +UCW Union of Communication Workers / University College of Wales UD Usaha Dagang (= sole proprietorship co. in Indonesia) UDB User Database +UDC Urban District Council UDDI Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration -UDF Ulster Defence Force / Universal Disc Format -UDHR Universal Declaration of Human Rights +UDF Ulster Defence Force / Universal Disc Format / Union Defence Force +UDHR (UN) Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDI Unified Display Interface UDID Unique Device Identifier (in an iPhone/iPad) UDMA Ultra DMA UDO Ultra-Density Optical (disc) UDP User Datagram Protocol -UDS Ugly Domestic Scene +UDR Ulster Defence Regiment +UDS Ugly Domestic Scene / United Drapery Stores +UDUP Ulster Democratic Unionist Party +UDV União do Vegetal (= Union of the Plants, Brazilian religion) UEA University of East Anglia UEFA Union of European Football Associations UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface -UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship +UEL Upper Explosive Limit +UETS Universal Ethernet Telecommunications Service +UETS/EFR Universal Ethernet Telecommunications Service/Ethernet Fabric Routing +UFAW Universities' Federation of Animal Welfare +UFC Universities' Funding Council / Ultimate Fighting Championship UFD Unidentified Floating Demonette +UFH Under-Floor Heating +UFL Upper Flammable Limit UFN Until Further Notice -UFO Unidentified Flying Object +UFO Unidentified Flying Object / Unnatural Formation of Objects UFS Unix File-System +UG Uganda (ISO code) UGA Ultra-Extended Graphics Array (1600×1200) UGANDA Urgent Geek Alert, Needs Desperate Attention +UGC University Grants Committee UGX Ugandan shillings UH Unit Helper UHAMPDAICM5P You Have A Multiple Personality Disorder And I Claim My 5 Pounds UHDTV Ultra-High-Definition Television UHDV Ultra-High-Definition Video -UHF Ultra-High Frequency +UHF Ultra-High Frequency (radio) UHMW Ultra-High Molecular Weight +UHP Ultra-High-Performance +UHS University High School UHT Ultra-Horrible Taste / Ultra Heat Treated +UHTREX Ultra-High-Temperature Reactor Experiment (Los Alamos) UI User Interface / You Idiot! UIAM Unless I Am Mistaken UIAMM Unless I Am Much Mistaken UIAVMM Unless I Am Very Much Mistaken UIO Unutterably-Insignificant Other UIVMM Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken UK United Kingdom UKAEA United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority UKBA United Kingdom Border Agency / UK Borders Act 2007 +UKCC United Kingdom Central Council for Nurses, Midwives, and Health Visiting +UKCCCR United Kingdom Co-ordinating Committee on Cancer Research UKHO United Kingdom Hydrographic Office UKIP United Kingdom Independence Party -UKL United Kingdom Pounds (sterling) -UKP United Kingdom Pounds (sterling) +UKL United Kingdom Pounds sterling (GBP) +UKLF United Kingdom Land Forces +UKMIS UK Mission +UKP United Kingdom Pounds sterling (GBP) +UKREP United Kingdom Permanent Representation to the European UKRSA Yahoo uk.rec.scouting Archive (newsgroup) UKS United Kingdom Sterling UKSA United Kingdom Statistics Authority / United Kingdom Scout Association UKTI United Kingdom Trade & Investment UKUP United Kingdom Unionist Party (of NI) -UL upload -ULA Uncommitted Logic Array +UL upload / Upper Left / Underwriters' Lab (US safety inspection) +ULA Uncommitted Logic Array (IC) ULC Unit Labour Cost / Universal Life Church +ULL Ultra-Low Latency +ULLDMA Ultra-Low-Latency Direct Market Access ULP Units in the Last Place -UM Upper Management -UMA Upper Memory Area +ULQ Upper-Left Quadrant +ULV Ultra-Low-Voltage +UM Upper Management / United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO code) +UMA Upper Memory Area / Uniform Memory Access UMB Upper Memory Block UMD Universal Media Disc UMDF User-Mode Driver Framework (Windows) +UMDS United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' UMEAO Unlimited Multiple Email Address Option +UMIST University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology UML Unified Modelling Language / User-Mode Linux UMP (French) Union for a Popular Movement / United Music Publishers / Universal Mapping Property UMPC Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication Services UN United Nations -UNA Use No Acronyms +UN-HABITAT United Nations Human Settlements Programme +UNA Use No Acronyms / United Nations Association +UNAIDS United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS UNC Universal Naming Convention / United Nations Charter +UNCDP United Nations International Drug Control Programme (now part of UNODC) UNCHR United Nations Commission on Human Rights +UNCITRAL United Nations Commission on International Trade Law UNCLE Unified Nuclear Coalition of Latvian Emigrants / United Network Command for Law and Enforcement UNCRC United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development +UNCTaD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development +UNDG United Nations Development Group +UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNDRC United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child UNEP United Nations Environment Programme UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation +UNFAO United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (now FAO) UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change +UNFIP United Nations Fund for International Partnerships +UNFPA United Nations Fund for Population Activities (now UN Population Fund) UNGA United Nations General Assembly UNGG Uranium Naturel Graphite Gaz (nuclear reactor, obs.) UNHCHR United Nations High Commission/er for Human Rights UNHCR United Nations High Commission/er for Refugees +UNHQ United Nations Headquarters UNHRC United Nations Human Rights Commission -UNICEF United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund +UNIC United Nations Information Centre +UNICE Union des Industries de la Communauté Européenne +UNICEF United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (now UN Children's Fund) UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organisation +UNIDROIT Institut International pour l'Unification du Droit Privé (= International Institute for the Unification of Private Law) +UNIFEM United Nations Development Fund for Women (now part of UN Women) +UNIPEDE Union Internationale des Producteurs et Distributeurs UNIT United Nations Intelligence Taskforce +UNITAR United Nations Institute for Training and Research UNIVAC Universal Automatic Computer UNMA Unified Network Management Architecture (AT&T) UNO United Nations Organisation +UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNOHCHR United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights +UNOSAT United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme UNPA United Nations Parliamentary/People's Assembly +UNRRA United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration +UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East UNSC United Nations Security Council UNSCOM United Nations Special Commission +UNWTO United Nations World Tourism Organisation UOK You Okay? 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URC United Reformed Church URI Uniform Resource Identifier (URL or URN) +URISC Ultimate Reduced-Instruction-Set Computer URL Uniform Resource Locator URLCM You Are Welcome URN Uniform Resource Name URNANOSAICM5P you are Nanos And I Claim My 5 Pounds +URQ Upper-Right Quadrant URS uk.rec.scouting +URSI Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale URT1 You Are The One URTU (UK) United Road Transport Union URW You Are Welcome -US United States / Unserviceable / Under Services +US United States (ISO code) / Unserviceable / Under Services USA United States of America +USA-PATRIOT ‘Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism’ Act, 2001 USAF United States Air Force USAFU Un-Serviceable, All F***ed-Up USAID United States Agency for International Development -USAPATRIOT ‘Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism’ Act 2001 -USB Universal Serial Bus +USAPATRIOT ‘Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism’ Act, 2001 +USB Universal Serial Bus / Upper Sideband +USBTMC Universal Serial Bus, Test and Measurement Class USC Up S*** Creek / Code of Laws of the United States of America / University of South Carolina +USCIS United States Citizenship and Immigration Services USCWAP Up S*** Creek Without A Paddle USD United States dollars USDAW (UK) Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers USE (hypothetical) United States of Europe +USG Under-Secretary-General USGS United States Geological Survey -USMC United States Marine Corps -USO United Service Organisations Inc. +USM Unlisted Securities Market +USMC United States Marine Corps / United States Military College +USMTF United States Message Text Format +USN United States Navy +USNR United States Naval Reserve +USO United Service Organisations, Inc. 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UTT Under The Table UTV Ulster Television +UU Ulster Unionist UUCP Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol UUID Universally-Unique Identifier UUN Universal User Name UUOC Useless Use Of Cat UUP Ulster Unionist Party -UV Ultraviolet / Unpleasant Visual +UUUC United Ulster Unionist Coalition +UV Ultra-Violet / Unpleasant Visual UVC Universal Virtual Computer UVF Ulster Volunteer Force UVP Under-Voltage Protection UW you're Welcome +UWB Ultra-Wide-Band (radio) +UWE University of the West of England (Bristol) +UWIST University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology UWTTISBOYFGD Understand What The Thread Is About Before Opening Your Fat Gob, Dick-head! 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Visual Approach Slope Indicator VAT Value Added Tax / = PLC in Ukraine VAX Virtual Address Extension (minicomputer) VB MS Visual Basic VB3 MS Visual Basic 3 VB4 MS Visual Basic 4 VBA MS Visual Basic for Applications VBEG Very Big Evil Grin +VBF Veterinary Benevolent Fund VBG Very Big Grin VBI Vertical Blanking Interval VBIED Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device VBR Variable Bit-Rate (MP3 encoding) / Volume Boot Record VBS Very Big Smile / MS Visual Basic Script / Video, Blank, and Sync / Vetting and Barring Scheme -VBSDK Visual Basic Software Development Kit +VBSDK MS Visual Basic Software Development Kit VBSEG Very Big S***-Eating Grin -VC Virtual Community/Circuit/Call / Visual C / Vice-Chancellor / Vice Chairman / Victoria Cross / Video Conferencing / Venture Capital(ist) +VBX MS Visual Basic Extension +VC Virtual Community/Circuit/Call / Visual C / Vice-Chancellor / Vice Chairman / Victoria Cross / Video Conferencing / Venture Capital(ist) / Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO code) / 95 (Roman numeral) VC++ Visual C++ VCA Voltage-Controlled Amplifier -VCC Virtual Channel Connection +VCAS Vice-Chief of the Air Staff +VCC Virtual Channel Connection / Common-Collector Voltage (= +ve power) / Volvo Car Corp. / Voice Call Continuity / Video Compact Cassette (aka Video 2000) / Vintage Car Club VCD Video Compact Disc VCDHD Versatile Compact Disc, High Density VCF Voltage-Controlled Filter VCI Virtual Channel Identifier VCO Voltage-Controlled Oscillator VCPI Virtual Control Program Interface VCR Video Cassette Recorder VCS Version Control System -VD Venereal Disease / Valentine's Day +VD Venereal Disease / Valentine's Day / Volunteer Officers' Decoration (now VRD) / North Vietnam (ISO code) (now VN) / 495 (Roman numeral) +VDC Volunteer Defence Corps +VDF Video Distribution Frame (cabling) +VDI Virtual Desktop Interface/Infrastructure / Virtual Device Interface (Atari TOS) / 496 (Roman numeral) VDPA Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action -VDSL Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line +VDSL Very-high-speed Digital Subscriber Line +VDSL2 Very-high-speed Digital Subscriber Line 2 VDU Visual Display Unit +VE Venezuela (ISO code) VED Vehicle Excise Disc VEF Venezuelan bolívar fuerte (ccy) VEG Very Evil Grin VEIL Video Encoded Invisible Light -VERTREP vertical replenishment (i.e. helicopter cargo transfer) +VERA Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus +VERTREP vertical replenishment (= helicopter cargo transfer) +VeryRev Very Reverend VES Very Evil Smile / Video Entertainment System / Voluntary Euthanasia Society VESA Video Electronics Standards Association VET Venezuelan Standard Time (= UTC-4:30) VETLA Very Enhanced TLA VFAT Virtual File Allocation Table (file-system) VFC Very Fast Class (modem) VFM Value For Money -VFR Visual Flight Rules +VFO Variable-Frequency Oscillator +VFR Visual Flight Rules (aviation) VFS Virtual/Versioning File-System VFW Video For Windows / Veterans of Foreign Wars USA / Virtual Fighter Wing -VG Very Good / Volume Group +VG Very Good / Volume Group / British Virgin Islands (ISO code) VGA Video Graphics Array (640×480) +VGE Very Good Estate (personal ads) VGI Very Good Idea +VGT Vlaamse Gebarentaal (= Flemish Sign Language) VH Virtual Hug +VHD Virtual Hard Disk (file format) / Video High Density (videodisc format) / Volumetric Haptic Display / Viral Hæmorrhagic Disease VHDL VHSIC Hardware Description Language -VHF Very-High Frequency +VHF Very-High Frequency (radio) VHLL Very-High-Level Language VHS Video Home System / Vertical Helical Scan VHS-C Video Home System – Compact VHSC Video Home System – Compact VHSIC Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuit -VI Virgin Islands / Vide Infra (= see below) +VHTR Very-High-Temperature Reactor +VI US Virgin Islands (ISO code) / Vide Infra (= see below) / 6 (Roman numeral) / Vortex Indicator (finance) VIA Versatile/Virtual Interface Adapter / Very Innovative Architecture VIAGRA Very Interesting Assembly of Galvanic Rising Agents VIC Video Interface Chip / Victoria (Australia) +VII 7 (Roman numeral) +VIII 8 (Roman numeral) +VIIII 9 (Roman numeral) +VIIIth eighth (Roman numeral) +VIIth seventh (Roman numeral) VIN Vehicle Identification Number VIP Very Important Person / Video over IP / Virtual IP (address) +VIPIR Volumetric Imaging and Processing of Integrated Radar +VIPR Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response team (US TSA) +ViPR Vitality, Performance, and Reconditioning (exercise) VISA Visa International Service Association VISP Virtual Internet Service Provider VISTA The Visible and Infra-red Survey Telescope for Astronomy VIT Vertical Interval Test (signal) VITA VMEbus International Trade Association / Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Programme (US) / Volunteers in Technical Assistance / Views, Inventory, Transformation, and Artefacts VITC Vertical Interval Time-Code (SMPTE) / vitamin C +VIth sixth (Roman numeral) +VLA Very Large Array (radio-telescope in New Mexico) VLAN Virtual Local-Area Network VLAT Vladivostok Time (= 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+VMSM Voluntary Medical Services Medal VMT Very Many Thanks VMTIA Very Many Thanks In Anticipation +VN Vietnam (ISO code) VNA Very Naughty Acronym VNC Virtual Network Computing VND Vietnamese dong (ccy) -VOC Vote Of Confidence +VO Veterinary Officer +VOC Vote Of Confidence / Volatile Organic Compound / Voice Of the Customer / Voltage, Open-Circuit / Voice-Over Credits / Vitium Organicum Cordis (= heart defect) VOD Video On Demand VOF Vennootschap Onder Firma (= partnership co. in Belgium &c) -VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol +VOGAD Voice-Operated Gain-Adjusting Device VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol VOK Vomit On Keyboard VOS = partnership co. in Slovakia VP Visitor Parking / Vice-President / Venerable Peewheet +VPD Virtual Private Database / Vapour Phase Decomposition / Vapour-Pressure Deficit / Vancouver Police Department VPG Verray Parfit Gentilbat VPH Visible Panty-Line VPI Virtual Path Identifier -VPL Visible Panty Line / Visual Programming Language / Video Performance Ltd (UK) / Ventral Posterolateral Nucleus +VPL Visible Panty Line / Visual Programming Language / Video Performance Ltd (UK) / Ventral Posterolateral Nucleus / Visual Perceptual Learning VPN Virtual Private Network VPOP Virtual Point Of Presence +VPRWS Vice-President of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours VPS Virtual Private Server / Video Programming System +VPT Volume Price Trend (finance) VPU Visual/Video/Vector Processing Unit / Vulnerable Prisoner Unit VQ Vector Quantisation VR Virtual Reality / Video Recording / Victoria Regina (= Queen Victoria) / Voluntary Redundancy VRBS Virtual Reality Bullshit +VRD Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Officer's Decoration +VRIF Voluntary Reduction In Force (= resignations, early retirements) VRM Variable-Rate Mortgage VRML Virtual Reality Modelling Language VRRP Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol VS Venture Scout / Vide Supra (= see above) / Microsoft Visual Studio VSAM Virtual Storage Access Method VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal -VSB Vertical Scroll Bars +VSB Vertical Scroll Bars / Vestigial Side-Band modulation +VSCC Vintage Sports Car Club VSD Video Single Disc VSDO Virtual Dynamically-linked Shared Objects VSELP Vector-Sum-Excited Linear Prediction +VSEPR Valence-Shell Electron-Pair Repulsion Theory VSF Very Sad Face -VSL Venture Scout Leader -VSO Voluntary Services Overseas +VSL Variable Speed Limit / Venture Scout Leader +VSO Voluntary Service Overseas VSOH Very Saucy Original Humour VSQBOP Very Simple Quick Bit Of Programming -VSS (Microsoft) Visual Source Safe +VSS (Microsoft) Visual Source Safe / Virgin™ Space-Ship VST Virtual Studio Technology (audio s/w interface) VSTi Virtual Studio Technology instrument VSU Venture Scout Unit VSWR Voltage Standing Wave Ratio VT Videotape / Video Terminal / Virgin Trains / Vertical Tab / Virtual Terminal / Variable Timing / Virtual Time / Vampire Territory / Vermont VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method +VTBL Virtual function Table +Vth fifth (Roman numeral) VTL Virtual Tape Library VTOL Vertical Take-Off and Landing VTP VLAN Trunking Protocol (Cisco) +VTR Video Tape Recorder +VTVL Vertical Take-off, Vertical Landing VTY Virtual Terminal (Telnet) +VU Volume Unit / Vanuatu (ISO code) +VUE Virtual/Visual User Environment / Vivendi Universal Entertainment VUI Voice User Interface +VUP Vanguard Unionist Party VUV Vanuatu vatu (ccy) VV Vice Versa +VVER Vodo-Vodyanoi Energetichesky Reactor (= Water-cooled, Water-moderated Energy Reactor) VW Volkswagen / Very Wasted / Virtually Worthless VWD Very Well Done/Divided VWG Very Well Gloated/Groaned / Very Wicked Grin VWP Visa Waiver Programme VWS Very Wicked Smile VWSOGL Very Wickedly Said, O Great Leader VWW Very Well Wibbled +VY very W whatever / wink / West (270°) / tungsten -W&G ‘Wallace & Gromit’ / ‘Will & Grace’ +W&G ‘Wallace & Gromit’ / ‘Will & Grace’ / Wives and Girlfriends W&S Whisky and Soda W-CDMA Wide-band Code-Division Multiple Access (telecoms) W/ with -W/E whatever +W/E whatever / weekend W/O without -W3C World Wide Web Consortium +W2 Webster's New International Dictionary, 2nd edition (1934) +W3 Microsoft Windows 3 / Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961) +W3C World-Wide Web Consortium W4W Word For Windows W4WG Windows For Workgroups +W7 Microsoft Windows 7 W8 wait +W8AM Wait A Minute W8ING waiting WA Washington / Western Australia / Well Alerted WAA Wrong As Always +WAAA Women's Amateur Athletics Association WAAC Women's Auxiliary Army Corps -WAAF Women's Auxiliary Air Force +WAAF Women's Auxiliary Air Force (later WRAF) WAAS Wide-Area Augmentation System WAB What A Bummer / What, Another Bill? WABGI What A Bloody Good Idea -WABGIB What A Bloody Good Idea Bruce +WABGIB What A Bloody Good Idea, Bruce WABOL What A Bunch Of Losers / With A Bit Of Luck WAC What A Creep/Crock +WAC(I) Women's Army Corps, India WACD Working As Currently Designed +WACL Women in Advertising and Communications, London WACRAL World Association of Christian Radio Amateurs and Listeners WAD Working As Designed / Without A Doubt / What A Dork WADBPISNB Working As Designed, But Perhaps It Should Not Be WADR With All Due Respect WAE Working As Expected @@ -9672,17 +15182,18 @@ WAF Wife Acceptance Factor WAFGI What A F***ing Good Idea WAFLOL With A F***ing Lot Of Luck WAFS Wide-Area File Services WAFWOT What A F***ing Waste Of Time -WAG Wild-Arsed Guess / Wives And Girlfriends / Welsh Assembly Government / ‘Wallace & Gromit’ / Will & Grace +WAG Wild-Arsed Guess / Wireless Access/Application Gateway / Wives And Girlfriends / Welsh Assembly Government / ‘Wallace & Gromit’ / ‘Will & Grace’ WAGGGS World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts -WAGI What A Good Idea +WaGI What a Good Idea WAGN West Anglia Great Northern -WAGS Wives And Girlfriends -WAGTHIAHC We're All Going To Hell In a Hand-Card +WaGs Wives and Girlfriends +WAGTHIAHC We're All Going To Hell In A Hand-Cart WAH Working At Home +WAHM Working-At-Home Mother WAI What An Idiot / Web Accessibility Initiative WAIDW What Am I Doing Wrong? WAIF We're Always In Front WAINS Why Am I Not Surprised? WAIS Wide-Area Information Server @@ -9691,90 +15202,100 @@ WALOA What A Lot Of Acronyms WALOB What A Load Of Bollocks WALOC What A Load Of Crap WALOOB What A Load Of Old Bollocks WAM Wait A Minute / Welsh Assembly Member -WAMBAM Web Application Meets Bricks And Mortar +WAMBaM Web Application Meets Bricks-and-Mortar WAMC What A Mega-Creep WAMKSAM Why Are My Kids/Kitties Staring At Me? WAMP Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl WAN Wide-Area Network WAND Works As Not Designed WAO1M We Are Of One Mind WAOOM We Are Of One Mind WAP Wireless Access Point / Wireless Application Protocol / Weak Anthropic Principle WAPOC What A Pair Of Creeps -WAR Withdrawn And Replaced +WaR Withdrawn and Replaced WARS World Acronym Reference Standard WAS What Aunty Said WASAPI Microsoft Windows Audio Session API -WASHITO Wait And See How It Turns Out +WaSHiTO Wait and See How it Turns Out WASM Watcom Assembler -WASP White Anglo-Saxon Protestant +WASP White Anglo-Saxon Protestant / Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform WAT West Africa Time (= UTC+1) WATNR Will Add To Next Release +WATO ‘The World At One’ WATP We Aim To Please / What A Terrible Pun WATPB What About The Poor Baby? WATSOOYK Why Are They So Obvious Once You Know? WATSOWYK Why Are They So Obvious When You Know? WATTNR Will Add To The Next Release WAUF Where Are You From? WAV Waveform Audio File Format WAWF What A Witty Fellow -WAY Where Are You? / What About You? / What A Yob +WAY Who/Where Are You? / What About You? / What A Yob WAYTSYOI Who Asked You To Stick Your Oar In? WB Welcome Back / Write Back / Warner Brothers -WBA Withdrawn By Author +WBA Withdrawn By Author / World Boxing Association WBASAP Write Back As Soon As Possible -WBC Well-Behaved Children welcome +WBC Well-Behaved Children welcome / World Boxing Council WBCW Well-Behaved Children Welcome +WBD The World Book Dictionary WBEM Web-Based Enterprise Management WBKO With Brass Knobs On WBMBF Wanna Be My Boyfriend? WBMD Well, Blow Me Down WBMDWAF Well, Blow Me Down With A Feather WBMGF Wanna Be My Girlfriend? WBMP Wireless Bitmap (file) -WBN West by North (281¼°) -WBS What Bruce Said / Write Back Soon / West by South (258¾°) +WbN West by North (281¼°) +WBO World Boxing Organisation +WBOL Welcome Back Online! +WBS What Bruce Said / Write Back Soon / West By South (258¾°) / Work Breakdown Structure +WbS West by South (258¾°) WC Welcome / Who Cares? / Water Closet / Winston Churchill WCA Who Cares, Anyway? WCAG Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAGA What Comes Around, Goes Around WCC Wiggley, Creepie, and the Crawlies / Watcom C Compiler / World Council of Churches / Warwickshire/Worcestershire County Council / World Chess/Curling/Cycling/Constructors Championship / White Cell Count +WCCC World Computer Chess Championship / Warwickshire/Worcestershire County Cricket Club / World Community Counselling Centre WCD Wheel-Chair Difficult WCDMA Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access WCE Wheel-Chair Easy WCF Windows Communication Foundation (API) / World Curling/Croquet Federation / World Championship Fighting / Winchester Centre Fire (rifle) / Westminster Confession of Faith WCI Wheel-Chair Impossible WCIGT Why Couldn't I Guess That? WCL World Confederation of Labour WCP Wheel Chair Possible, consult host WCPCH Wheel Chair Possible, Consult Host +WCPGW What Could Possibly Go Wrong? WCS Web Conferencing System WCTYBTWHTKY We Could Tell You, But Then We'd Have To Kill You WCUWTELANIGTKWTM Who Came Up With Those Eleven Letter Acronyms? Nobody Is Going To Know What They Mean WCWYLYHSD What Colour Would You Like Your Heretic Swine Dyed? WD Well Done / Walt Disney / We're Doomed -WD&LYIC Who Died and Left You In Charge? -WDALYIC Who Died And Left You In Charge? +WD&LYiC Who Died and Left You in Charge? +WDaLYiC Who Died and Left You in Charge? +WDATTG Where Did All The Time Go? WDDM Windows Display Driver Model WDDTLOI Withdrawn Due To Lack Of Interest WDDTT Well, Don't Do That, Then -WDF What Da F***? +WDF What Da F***? / World Darts Federation +WDHLM Why Doesn't He Love Me WDIGFIM What Do I Get For It, Mate? WDITW What Did I Tell WUR? WDLY We Don't Like You WDM Wavelength-Division Multiplexing WDO Well Done, Opponents WDOI Wouldn't Dream Of It -WDS What Doc Said +WDS What Doc Said / words WDSS What Drivel She Speaks! WDT1M What Does That One Mean? WDTLOI Withdrawn Due To Lack Of Interest WDTM What Does That Mean? WDTOM What Does That One Mean? +WDTTG Where Does The Time Go? WDTTT What Does The Team Think? WDYBOBTG Why Don't You Bog Off Back To Greenland? WDYC Who Do I Call? WDYLL What Do You Look Like? WDYM What Do You Mean? @@ -9781,15 +15302,16 @@ WDYMBT What Do You Mean By That? WDYS What Did You Say? WDYSS Why Didn't You Say So? WDYSSB Why Didn't You Say So Before? WDYT What Do You Think? -WDYW What Do You Want -WE Who Else? +WDYTYA Who Do You Think You Are? +WDYW What Do You Want? +WDYWTTA What Do You Want To Talk About? +WE Who Else? / whatever / weekend / Well-Endowed (personal ads) WEA Workers' Educational Association WEB World-wide English Bible -WEBDAV WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning WebDAV WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning WEC Wicked Evil Cackle WEDT Western European Daylight Time (= UTC+1) WEEE Waste, Electrical and Electronic Equipment (directive) WEEED Waste, Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive @@ -9798,22 +15320,22 @@ WEFC Wicked Evil F***ing Cackle WEFG Wicked Evil F***ing Grin WEFS Wicked Evil F***ing Smirk WEFT Web Embedded Font Technology / Wrong Every F***ing Time WEG Wicked Evil Grin -WEHT Whatever Happened To…? +WEHT Whatever Happened To...? WELL Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link WEM Whatever, Man WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy WES Wicked Evil Smirk WEST Western European Summer Time (= UTC+1) WET Western European Time (= UTC) WETSU We Eat This S*** Up -WEU What's Eating You? +WEU Western European Union / What's Eating You? WEY What's Eating You? -WF Well-Factorised / Windows Workflow Foundation / Way Fun -WFA (UK) Work and Families Act 2006 +WF Well-Factorised / Windows Workflow Foundation / Way Fun / Wallis and Futuna (ISO code) +WFA WiFi Alliance / (UK) Work and Families Act 2006 WFAC Waiting For A Call WFD Wicked/Wild Flying Donkey / World Federation of the Deaf WFDB Wild Flying Donkey Barrier WFDOMD Wild Flying Donkeys Of Mass Destruction WFF Warm Fuzzy Feeling @@ -9820,15 +15342,18 @@ WFHIT What Fresh Hell Is This? WFI Wait For Interrupt WFM Works For Me WFMOB Well F*** My Ol' Boots WFO Wide Full Open -WFP World Food Programme +WFP (UN) World Food Programme +WFR Work-Force Reduction WFTC Working Families Tax Credit +WFTU World Federation of Trade Unions WFW Word For Windows WFWG Windows For Workgroups -WG Wicked Grin +WG Wicked Grin / Welsh Guards / Greneda (ISO code) (now GD) +WGA MS Windows Genuine Advantage WGACA What Goes Around Comes Around WGAF Who Gives A F***? WGAFF Who Gives A Flying F***? WGAS Who Gives A S***? WGBTY Will Get Back To You @@ -9835,67 +15360,84 @@ WGGB The Writers' Guild of Great Britain WGO What's Going On WGR With Good Reason WGTG Well, Got To Go WH What's Happening / White Hart / Western Hemisphere +WHATWG Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group +WHDI Wireless Home Digital Interface WHDS What He Didn't Say WHIDN What Have I Done Now? +WHIM Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium WHISH What Have I Started Here? WHISN What Have I Started Now? -WHO World Health Organisation -WHS What He Said / W.H.Smith +WHO (UN) World Health Organisation +WHS What He Said / William Henry Smith (retailer) WHS2 What He Said, Too WHSAS What He Said Auntie Said +WHSHS What He Said He Said +WHSIS What He Said I Said +WHSSS What He Said She Said WHST What He Said, Too WHSTS What He Said They Said +WHSWS What He Said We Said WHSWURS What He Said Wicked Uncle Richard Said +WHSYS What He Said You Said WHTGTDWI What Has That Got To Do With It? WHWWH “Well, he would, wouldn't he?” WHY What Have You? WHYD What Have You Done? -WI What If…? / Women's Institute / Wisconsin +WI What If...? / Women's Institute / Wisconsin / West Indies Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity WIAA What's It All About? WIBAGI Would It Be A Good Idea -WIBAGII Would It Be A Good Idea If… +WIBAGII Would It Be A Good Idea If... WIBAMU Well, I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle! -WIBLI Wouldn't It Be Lovely If… -WIBNI Wouldn't It Be Nice If… -WIBNIF Wouldn't It Be Nice If… -WIBSI Wouldn't It Be Sensible If… +WIBD Well, I'll Be Damned +WIBLI Wouldn't It Be Lovely If... +WIBNI Wouldn't It Be Nice If... +WIBNIF Wouldn't It Be Nice If... +WiBro Wireless Broadband +WIBSI Wouldn't It Be Sensible If... WICU What I Can't Understand -WIFI Wireless Fidelity (IEEE 802.11) +WiDi (Intel) Wireless Display WiFi Wireless Fidelity (IEEE 802.11) WIGAC When I Get A Chance WIGAM When I Get A Minute +WiGig Wireless Gigabit Alliance WIGRTI When I Get Round To It WIHIH What In Hell Is Happening? WIIFM What's In It For Me? WIIWD What It Is We Do WIJS What I Just Said WIJSNWYJS What I Just Said, Not What You Just Said -WIMAX World-wide Interoperability for Microwave Access WiMAX World-wide Interoperability for Microwave Access +WIMI What I Mean Is WIMP Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing device / Weakly-Interacting Massive Particle WIN16 Microsoft Windows API, 16-bit WIN32 Microsoft Windows API, 32-bit WIN32S Microsoft Windows API, 32-bit (subset for Windows 3.1x) WIN64 Microsoft Windows API, 64-bit WINDOWS Will Install Needless Data On Whole System WINE WINE Is Not an Emulator -WINFS Windows Future Storage WinFS Windows Future Storage +WingCdr Wing Commander WINGS Windsor International Guide and Scout (camp) WINGTM What I'm Not Going To Mention WINS Windows Internet Naming Service -WIO Why, I Oughtta… +WIO Why, I Oughtta... WIOFY Work It Out For Yourself WIP Work In Progress WIPO World Intellectual Property Organisation -WIS What I Said +WIS What I Said / Wales Information Society WISA Windows, IIS, SQL Server, ASP +WISHS What I Said He Said +WISIS What I Said I Said WISP Winning Is So Pleasurable +WISSS What I Said She Said +WISTS What I Said They Said +WISWS What I Said We Said +WISYS What I Said You Said WITAFM Why Isn't There A F***ing Manual? WITCOTDC Work Is The Curse Of The Drinking Classes WITCOTDG Work Is The Curse Of The Drinking Glasses WITNR When Is The Next Release? WIUS What I Usually Say @@ -9905,13 +15447,16 @@ WIWAL When I Were A Lad WIWALWCEA When I Was A Lad We Couldn't Even Afford WIYGW Write If You Get Work WIZOP Wizard Sysop WizOp Wizard SysOp (the primary forum administrator for a forum) +WK Wake Island (ISO code) (obs.) +WKG working WKO With Knobs On +WL Saint Lucia (ISO code) (now LC) WLAF World League of American Football -WLAN Wireless Local Area Network +WLAN Wireless Local-Area Network WLC West London College / Warrior Leader Course (US Army) / Westminster Larger Catechism / White Lined Chipboard / Windows Live Core (now Live Mesh) / Windows Live Calendar / World Lacrosse/Logging Championship WLOF We Lead, Others Follow WLOG Without Loss Of Generality WLPC Warped Linear Predictive Coding WLSNED We Learn Something New Every Day @@ -9918,130 +15463,178 @@ WLTM Would Like To Meet WLYK Will Let You Know WM Windows Media WMA Whale Meat Again / Windows Media Audio (file format) WMAWFLHWEP Wearing My Anorak With Fur-Lined Hood With Exceptional Pride +WMBC Wholesale Broadband Managed Connect (BT) / West Midlands Bridge/Bird Club / West Malling Baptist Church / Woodbridge Model Boat Club / Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council / Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council / Windsor Memorial Baptist Church WMC Windows Media Centre / Wales Millennium Centre / Working Men's Club / World Methodist Council WMD Weapon(s) of Mass Destruction / Weapon(s) of Messy Droppings -WMF Windows Meta File / Well-Meaning Friend +WMF Windows Meta-File / Well-Meaning Friend WMI Windows Management Instrumentation -WML Wireless Markup Language +WML Wireless Mark-up Language WMMOWS Wash My Mouth Out With Soap WMO World Meteorological Organisation -WMP Windows Media Player +WMP Windows Media Player / With Much Pleasure WMV Windows Media Video WMV9 Windows Media Video file, version 9 WNAD Works Not As Designed +WNDITWB We Never Did It This Way Before +WNNCD Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary +WNO Welsh National Opera WNOHGB Where No-One Has Gone Before +WNSM Welsh National School of Medicine +WNT Microsoft Windows NT WNW West-North-West (292½°) -WO Wales Office -WOA Work Of Art -WOADB Water Off A Duck's Back -WOB Waste Of Bandwidth / White On Black -WOCAB Who, Of Course, Are Bastards -WOE What/Why On Earth…? / Way Of Eating / World Of Entertainment -WOFT&M Waste Of F***ing Time and Money -WOFTAM Waste Of F***ing Time And Money +WO Wales Office / War Office / Write-Only / Warrant Officer +WO1 Warrant Officer Class 1 +WO2 Warrant Officer Class 2 +WoA Work of Art +WoaDB Water off a Duck's Back +WoB Waste of Bandwidth / White on Black +WoCaB Who, of Course, are Bastards +WoE What/Why on Earth...? / Way of Eating / World of Entertainment +WoFT&M Waste of F***ing Time and Money +WoFTaM Waste of F***ing Time and Money WOG Wise Old Guy WOGLS What Our Great Leader Says WOGMS What Our Great Moderator Says WOGS Working On Government Service +WOH Working Out of the Home +WOHM Working-Out-of-the-Home Mother +WOI Warrant Officer, Class 1 WOIF We're Often In Front +WOII Warrant Officer, Class 2 WOL Wake-On-LAN / Way Of Life / Win Or Lose WOLF Witless One-Line Follow-up -WOLOG Without Loss Of Generality -WOM Word Of Mouth / Wake-On-Modem -WOMBAT Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time -WOMD Weapons Of Mass Destruction -WOMM Weapons Of Mass Murder +WOLoG Without Loss of Generality +WoM Word of Mouth / Wake-on-Modem +WoMBaT Waste of Money, Brains, and Time +WoMD Weapons of Mass Destruction +WoMM Weapons of Mass Murder WOOF Working weekend On Organic Farms -WOPAMANLACS Waves Order Papers And Makes A Noise Like A Constipated Sheep -WOR Wake-On-Ring -WORD Weapon Of Random Destruction +WOPaMaNLaCS Waves Order Papers and Makes a Noise Like a Constipated Sheep +WoR Wake-on-Ring +WoRD Weapon of Random Destruction WORM Write Once, Read Many -WOT White On Tint +WOSB War Office Selection Board +WoT White on Tint / War on Terror +WoT&M Waste of Time and Money +WoTaM Waste of Time and Money WOW Whining Old Woman WOWF Witless One-Word Follow-up -WP Word Processor / WordPress / WordPerfect / Warsaw Pact / Wikipedia / Washington Post / waypoint / White Paper / White Phosphorus (munition) / Wrong Planet / World Peace / White Power / What Principles? -WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access +WP Word Processor / WordPress / WordPerfect / Warsaw Pact / Wikipedia / Washington Post / waypoint / White Paper / White Phosphorus (munition) / Wrong Planet/Person / World Peace / White Power / What Principles? +WP7 Windows Phone 7 (OS) +WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access (most of IEEE 802.11i) +WPA-PSK Wi-Fi Protected Access, Pre-Shared Key (aka personal mode) +WPA2 Wi-Fi Protected Access II (IEEE 802.11i) WPAN Wireless Personal-Area Network WPB Waste-Paper Basket WPF Windows Presentation Foundation / WebSphere Partition Facility / Wolf Preservation Foundation / World Population Foundation / World Puzzle Federation +WPM Words Per Minute +WPS Wi-Fi Protected Set-up WR&TGAS Who Really and Truly Gives A S***? -WRAF Women's Royal Air Force -WRATGAS Who Really And Truly Gives A S***? +WRAC Women's Royal Army Corps +WRAF Women's Royal Air Force (was WAAF) +WRaTGaS Who Really and Truly Gives a S***? WRJS What Richard Just Said WRL Windows Recursive Labyrinth +WRNR Women's Royal Naval Reserve WRNS Women's Royal Naval Service WRT With Regard/Respect To WRU Who Are You? -WS Well Spotted / Workstation / Wide-Screen +WRVS Women's Royal Voluntary Service (was WVS) +WS Well Spotted / Workstation / Wide-Screen / (BBC) World Service / Samoa (ISO code) / Writer to the Signet WSB Wine Standards Board (part of the FSA) / World Super Bikes +WSC Winston Spencer-Churchill / When Saturday Comes (magazine) / World Series Cricket / World Sportscar Championship / Windows Script Component / Water-Soluble Carbohydrate / Wi-Fi Simple Config / Weapons Systems Code/Concept/Co-ordinator / Weighted Sum Code (algorithm) WSD Willing Suspension of Disbelief WSDL Web Services Description Language +WSF World Social Forum WSFL Web Services Flow Language -WSJ ‘Wall Street Journal’ +WSJ ‘The Wall Street Journal’ WSLS Win Some, Lose Some WSN Wirth Syntax Notation WSO Worthing Symphony Orchestra WSS What She Said / Widescreen Signalling (TV signal) WSS2 What She Said, Too +WSSHS What She Said He Said +WSSIS What She Said I Said WSSSO West of Scotland Schools Symphony Orchestra +WSSSS What She Said She Said WSST What She Said, Too +WSSTS What She Said They Said WSSWKO What She Said, With Knobs On +WSSWS What She Said We Said +WSSYS What She Said You Said WST Samoan tala (ccy) +WSTOTC Won't Somebody Think Of The Children? WSW West-South-West (247½°) WSXGA+ Widescreen Super Extended Graphics Array Plus (1680×1050) -WT What/Who The…? / Without Thinking / Wishful Thinking +WT What/Who The...? / Without Thinking / Wishful Thinking WTAS What They All Said +WTAWS What They All Will Say WTB Want To Buy WTBC Won't That Be Confusing WTBHITSTM What The Bloody Hell Is This Supposed To Mean? WTBS What They Both Said +WTBSWBKO What They Both Said, With Brass Knobs On WTC World Trade Centre / Working Tax Credit / The Well-Tempered Clavier (by Bach) / Wu-Tang Clan -WTF What The F*** / Worse Than Failure / Welcome To Facebook / Wikileaks Task-Force / World Taekwondo Federation / Wisconsin Tourism Federation +WTF What/Why The F*** / Worse Than Failure / Welcome To Facebook / Wikileaks Task-Force / World Taekwondo Federation / Wisconsin Tourism Federation +WTFB Write The F***ing Book WTFDIC What The F*** Do I Care? WTFDIK What The F*** Do I Know? WTFDYTYA Who The F*** Do You Think You Are? WTFIGO What The F*** Is Going On? WTFIIWT What The F*** Is It With These? WTFIPGO What The F*** Is Possibly Going On? -WTFITSTM What The F*** Is This Supposed To Mean? +WTFIT What The F*** Is This/That? +WTFITSTM What The F*** Is This/That Supposed To Mean? WTFN What The F*** Now? WTFO What The F***? Over! WTFRU Who The F*** Are You? WTFRUTA What The F*** Are You Talking About? WTFWT What The F*** Was That? WTG Way To Go! WTGARTP Whoops! There Goes Another Rubber Tree Plant -WTGOR With The Greatest of Respect -WTGP Want To Go Private -WTH Who/What The Hell +WTGOR With The Greatest Of Respect +WTGP Want To Go Private? +WTH Who/What The Hell? WTHDTM What The Hell Does That Mean? WTL Windows Template Library WTMI Way Too Much Information WTMKF Welcome To My Kill-Filter WTMTOYH Way Too Much Time On Your Hands +WTMW Welcome To My World WTO World Trade Organisation WTOCS What The Old Curmudgeon Said -WTPOGL Withdrawn To Protect OGL -WTS Watch This Space / What They Said +WTPOGL Withdrawn To Protect Our Great Leader +WTS What They Said / Watch This Space / Want To Sell WTSDMF With Tears Streaming Down My Face WTSDS Where The Sun Doesn't Shine WTSF Watch The Sparks Fly +WTSHS What They Said He Said +WTSIS What They Said I Said +WTSSS What They Said She Said +WTSTS What They Said They Said +WTSWS What They Said We Said +WTSYS What They Said You Said WTTC Welcome To The Club WTTE Words To That Effect +WTTF Welcome To The Future / Want To Trade For WTTM Without Thinking Too Much +WTWSDNMTS Wishing Things Were Simpler Does Not Make Them So +WTWTCH What's The Worst That Could Happen? WTX Workstation Technology Extended (14×16¾" PC form factor) WTY Waving To You / Why, Thank You! WTYKS Why, Thank You, Kind Sir! +WTYO Whatever Turns You On +WTYOB Whatever Turns You On, Baby WTYVMI Why, Thank You Very Much Indeed! -WU What's Up? -WU&STC Wake Up and Smell The Coffee -WUASTC Wake Up And Smell The Coffee +WU What's Up? / Western Union +WU&StC Wake Up and Smell the Coffee +WUaStC Wake Up and Smell the Coffee WUB Wicked Uncle Bruce -WUD What are You Doing? +WUD What are You Doing? / What's Up, Dog? WUF Where are You From? WUGAC When You Get A Chance WUNL Wakes Up Neighbours Laughing WUR Wicked Uncle Richard WURACT cix:wur Assistant Canon Treasurer @@ -10050,44 +15643,62 @@ WURCEE cix:wur Conference Engineer Extraordinary WURCH cix:wur Conference Hound WURCIROFC cix:wur Custodian In Residence Of the Font Creatures WURCODDOM cix:wur Conference Decolyte and Director Of Music WURCOE cix:wur Conciliation Officer Extraordinaire -WURFIAWOTT cix:wur First Incisor And Wielder Of The Toothbrush +WURFIaWotT cix:wur First Incisor and Wielder of the Toothbrush WURGMT cix:wur Grand-mother (Tired) WURLITZER cix:wur Lithic Interpenetrator, Tunneller, Zirconium Extraction Researcher WURM cix:wur Miner WURMI cix:wur Mother Inferior WURMODE cix:wur Mistress Of Double Entendre WURMS cix:wur Mother Superior WUSB Wireless Universal Serial Bus WUTB Water Under The Bridge WUWH Wish You Were Here -WV WigWam / West Virginia +WUWT What's Up With That? +WV Microsoft Windows Vista / West Virginia +WVa West Virginia (USA) +WVBKO With Very Big Knobs On +WVR Within Visual Range WVS Women's Voluntary Service -WW ‘Who's Who’ +WW ‘Who's Who’ / WigWam WW1 World War One WW2 World War Two -WWAD Would Without A Doubt +WWAD Would, Without A Doubt WWAN Wireless Wide-Area Network WWDWIIWD When We Do What It Is We Do -WWF World-wide Fund for Nature / World Wrestling Federation +WWE World Wrestling Entertainment (was WWF) +WWER Water-cooled, Water-moderated Energy Reactor +WWF World-Wide Fund for Nature (was World Wildlife Fund) / World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) WWFFC Why Wait For Father Christmas? -WWI World War One +WWI First World War WWID World-Wide Identifier -WWII World War Two +WWII Second World War WWILF What Was I Looking For? WWJD What Would Jesus Do? +WWMCCS World-Wide Military Command-and-Control System WWN World-Wide Name WWS What WUR Says / Wife Wants Sex +WWSHS What We Said He Said +WWSIS What We Said I Said +WWSSS What We Said She Said +WWSTS What We Said They Said +WWSWS What We Said We Said +WWSYS What We Said You Said WWTBAM ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ WWUR Wicked Willing Uncle Richard WWURS What Wicked Uncle Richard Said +WWV Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (= Wagner Works Catalogue) WWW World-Wide Web +WWWF World-Wide Wrestling Federation (now WWE) WWY Where Were You? +WWYD What Would You Do? WWYGRTI When Will You Get Round To It? WWYL When Will You Learn? +WX weather +WXP Microsoft Windows XP WY Wyoming WYBMADIITY Will You Buy Me A Double If I Tell You? WYCM Will You Call Me? WYGAC When You Get A Chance WYGIWIGY What You Get Is What I/IBM Give You @@ -10100,22 +15711,25 @@ WYLABOCTGWTR Would You Like A Bowl Of Cream To Go With That Remark? WYLASOMWTC Would You Like A Saucer Of Milk With That Comment? WYMM Will You Marry Me? WYMOWS Wash Your Mouth Out With Soap! WYP What's Your Point/Problem? +WYPIWYG What You Printed Is What You've Got WYR When You're Ready / Would You Rather WYRN What's Your Real Name? WYS What You Said / Whatever You Say WYSBANRTWYG What You See Bears Absolutely No Relation To What You Get WYSBYGI What You See Before You Get It +WYSHS What You Said He Said WYSIAYG What You See Is All You Get WYSINECTWYG What You See Is Not Even Close To What You Get WYSINEWYGBIC What You See Is Not Exactly What You Get, But It's Close WYSINLWYG What You See Is Nothing Like What You Get WYSINWYG What You See Is Not What You Get WYSIOSALLLWYMG What You See Is Or Should At Least Look Like What You Might Get WYSIQWYG What You See Isn't Quite What You Get +WYSIS What You Said I Said WYSITWIRL What You See Is Totally Worthless In Real Life WYSIWIS What You See Is What I Send WYSIWOG What You See Is What Others Get WYSIWTTYSG What You See Is What They Think You Should Get WYSIWYD What You See Is What You Deserve @@ -10124,193 +15738,316 @@ WYSIWYMGDOTB What You See Is What You Might Get Depending On The Browser WYSIWYMGDOYB What You See Is What You Might Get Depending On Your Browser WYSIWYN What You See Is What You Need WYSLPG What You See Looks Pretty Good WYSOH Where's Your Sense Of Humour? +WYSSS What You Said She Said +WYSTS What You Said They Said +WYSWS What You Said We Said +WYSYS What You Said You Said WYSYWIG What You See You Wish I Got WYT Whatever You Think WYTAWYKATEDT What You Think And What You Know Are Two Entirely Different Things WYTTIWTK What You Tell Them Is What They Know WYTYSYDG What You Thought You Saw, You Didn't Get WYWH Wish You Were Here WZC Wireless Zero Configuration +X 10 (Roman numeral) / no-one under 17 admitted (US movie rating, now NC-17) / extra X&O Hugs and Kisses X-1-10 exciting +X-SAMPA Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet +X.25 (= OSI networking protocol) X11 X Window System (GUI) +X25 (= OSI networking protocol) X3D XML 3D (3D graphics file format) XACT Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool (DirectX) XAG XML Accessibility Guidelines -XAML Extensible Application Markup Language -XAO Hugs and Kisses +XAML Extensible Application Mark-up Language +XaO Hugs and Kisses +XAUI 10 Gbit/sec Attachment Unit Interface XBDA Extended BIOS Data Area +XBIOS Extended Basic Input/Output System (Atari TOS) +XBL Xbox Live (gaming platform) / Exploits Block List / XML Binding Language +XBMC XBMC Media Center (was XBox Media Center) +XC 90 (Roman numeral) XCBL XML Common Business Library +XCI 91 (Roman numeral) +XCII 92 (Roman numeral) +XCIII 93 (Roman numeral) +XCIIII 94 (Roman numeral) +XCIV 94 (Roman numeral) +XCIX 99 (Roman numeral) XCOFF Extended Common Object File Format XCOFF32 Extended Common Object File Format, 32-bit XCOFF64 Extended Common Object File Format, 64-bit +XCV 95 (Roman numeral) +XCVI 96 (Roman numeral) +XCVII 97 (Roman numeral) +XCVIII 98 (Roman numeral) +XCVIIII 99 (Roman numeral) XDM X Window Display Manager XDMCP X Display Manager Control Protocol XDR XML-Data Reduced (schema language) XDS Extended Data Services (US analogue TV) Xe xenon +XEX XOR, Encrypt, XOR (disk encryption mode) XFCE a desktop environment (originally XForms Common Environment) XGA Extended Graphics Array (1024×768) -XHTML Extensible Hypertext Markup Language +XGMII 10 Gbit/sec Media-Independent Interface +XGXS 10 Gbit/sec Extended Sublayer +XH Ex-Husband +XHR XMLHttpRequest +XHTML Extensible Hypertext Mark-up Language +XI 11 (Roman numeral) +XII 12 (Roman numeral) +XIII 13 (Roman numeral) +XIIII 14 (Roman numeral) XILP X Interactive ListProc +XIMG (GEM) image format XINU XINU Is Not UNIX -XL extra-large +XIV 14 (Roman numeral) +XIX 19 (Roman numeral) +XL extra-large / 40 (Roman numeral) / Extended Linearisation (cryptographic attack) +XLI 41 (Roman numeral) +XLII 42 (Roman numeral) +XLIII 43 (Roman numeral) +XLIIII 44 (Roman numeral) +XLIV 44 (Roman numeral) +XLIX 49 (Roman numeral) XLNT Excellent +XLPE Cross-Linked Polyethene +XLR Cannon X-series connector with Latch and Resilient neoprene surround (mics &c) +XLR3 Cannon X-series connector with Latch and Resilient neoprene surround, 3-pin (mics &c) +XLR4 Cannon X-series connector with Latch and Resilient neoprene surround, 4-pin (mics &c) +XLR5 Cannon X-series connector with Latch and Resilient neoprene surround, 5-pin (mics &c) +XLR6 Cannon X-series connector with Latch and Resilient neoprene surround, 6-pin (mics &c) +XLV 45 (Roman numeral) +XLVI 46 (Roman numeral) +XLVII 47 (Roman numeral) +XLVIII 48 (Roman numeral) +XLVIIII 49 (Roman numeral) XME excuse me -XML Extensible Markup Language +XML Extensible Mark-up Language XMMS X Multimedia System XMP Extreme Memory Profile (for DIMMs) XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol XMS Extended Memory Specification +XN Exchanged Nothing XNA XNA is Not an Acronym (Microsoft game development tools) -XNS Xerox Network Systems +XNS Xerox Network Systems (protocol) XO Executive Officer XOR Exclusive Or (logic gate) XOXO hugs and kisses -XP MS Windows Experience / Extreme Programming / Cross-platform / Experience Points +XP MS Windows Experience / Extreme Programming / Cross-Platform / Experience Points / Ex-Partner XPCOM Cross-Platform Component Object Model XPI XPInstall XPIDL Cross-Platform IDL XRCD Extended-Resolution Compact Disc XRCD2 Extended-Resolution Compact Disc 2 XRCD24 Extended-Resolution Compact Disc, 24-bit XRTBI Ex-Round Tables of Great Britain +XS extra-small / excess / cross-section +XSAMPA Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet +XSBI 10 Gbit/sec Sixteen-Bit Interface XSD XML Schema Definition -XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language +XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language / Extended Sparse Linearisation (cryptographic attack) XSL-FO Extensible Stylesheet Language — Formatting Objects XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations XSS Cross-Site Scripting / Ex-Stock Supplier XSVCD Extended Super Video Compact Disc XT Extended Technology +XTAL crystal +XTEA Extended Tiny Encryption Algorithm XTF Extensible Tag Framework / Extended Triton Format +Xth tenth (Roman numeral) XTR = ECSTR (Efficient and Compact Subgroup Trace Representation) +XTS XEX-based Tweaked-codebook mode with ciphertext Stealing (disk encryption mode) XUL XML User-interface Language +XV 15 (Roman numeral) XVCD Extended Video Compact Disc +XVI 16 (Roman numeral) +XVII 17 (Roman numeral) +XVIII 18 (Roman numeral) +XVIIII 19 (Roman numeral) XWTB Ex-Wife-To-Be +XX 20 (Roman numeral) +XXI 21 (Roman numeral) +XXII 22 (Roman numeral) +XXIII 23 (Roman numeral) +XXIIII 24 (Roman numeral) +XXIV 24 (Roman numeral) +XXIX 29 (Roman numeral) XXL extra-extra-large +XXTEA Extended Extended Tiny Encryption Algorithm +XXth twentieth (Roman numeral) +XXV 25 (Roman numeral) +XXVI 26 (Roman numeral) +XXVII 27 (Roman numeral) +XXVIII 28 (Roman numeral) +XXVIIII 29 (Roman numeral) +XXX 30 (Roman numeral) +XXXI 31 (Roman numeral) +XXXII 32 (Roman numeral) +XXXIII 33 (Roman numeral) +XXXIIII 34 (Roman numeral) +XXXIV 34 (Roman numeral) +XXXIX 39 (Roman numeral) XXXL extra-extra-extra-large -XXXX lager (allegedly) from Oz +XXXth thirtieth (Roman numeral) +XXXV 35 (Roman numeral) +XXXVI 36 (Roman numeral) +XXXVII 37 (Roman numeral) +XXXVIII 38 (Roman numeral) +XXXVIIII 39 (Roman numeral) +XXXX = lager (allegedly) from Oz / 40 (Roman numeral) +XXXXI 41 (Roman numeral) +XXXXII 42 (Roman numeral) +XXXXIII 43 (Roman numeral) +XXXXIIII 44 (Roman numeral) +XXXXIV 44 (Roman numeral) +XXXXIX 49 (Roman numeral) XXXXL extra-extra-extra-extra-large -XYL Ex-Young Lady (= wife) +XXXXV 45 (Roman numeral) +XXXXVI 46 (Roman numeral) +XXXXVII 47 (Roman numeral) +XXXXVIII 48 (Roman numeral) +XXXXVIIII 49 (Roman numeral) +XYL Ex-Young Lady (= older woman, or wife) XYZ Examine Your Zipper Y why / yttrium -Y&S Young And Stupid -Y2K Year 2000 +Y&I Young and Innocent +Y&S Young and Stupid +Y2K Year 2000 / You're too Kind Y3 Yadda Yadda Yadda +Y3K Year 3000 Y6B Why 6 Billion? -yA yoctoampere (10^-24 amperes) YA You Are / Yet Another / yottaampere (10^24 amperes) +yA yoctoampere (10^-24 amperes) YAA Yet Another Acronym YAAA Yet Another Ameol Add-on/Acronym YAABOFH You Are A Bastard Operator From Hell YAABOFHAICMFP You Are A Bastard Operator From Hell And I Claim My Five Pounds YAABOFHAICMFUKP You Are A Bastard Operator From Hell And I Claim My Five UK Pounds YAAF Yet Another Application Framework YAAL You Are A Lawyer YABA Yet Another Bloody Acronym +YABOS You Are Being Over-Sensitive YABP Yet Another Bloody Password YABSA Yet Another Bloody-Stupid Acronym -YAC Yet Another Conference / You Available to Chat? +YABU You Are Being Unreasonable +YAC Yet Another Conference / You Available to Chat? / Yeast Artificial Chromosome +YACA Yet Another Crud Application YACC Yet Another CIX Conference / Yet Another Compiler-Compiler / Yet Another Calendar Company YADS Yet Another DOS Shell YAFA Yet Another F***ing Acronym YAFD Yet Another F***ing Disease YAFIYGI You Asked For It, You Got It +YAG Yttrium Aluminium Garnet YAGNI You Ain't Gonna Need It +YaI Young and Innocent YAITB You Are In This Blink YAJMAICMFUKP You Are John Major And I Claim My Five UK Pounds YAKT Yakutsk Time (= UTC+9) -YAML YAML Ain't a Markup Language +YAML YAML Ain't a Mark-up Language +YANBU You Are Not Being Unreasonable YANETUT You Are Not Expected To Understand This +YAOI Yama nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi (= no climax, no point, no meaning) YAOLR Yet Another Off-Line Reader YAOTM Yet Another Off-Topic Message YAP Yet Another Ploy -YAS Young And Stupid -YAST Yet Another Setup Tool +YaS Young and Stupid YaST Yet another Setup Tool -YATWLG You Are The Weakest Link, Goodbye -YAW You Are Wicked -YAYIA You And Your Inscrutable Acronyms +YatB You are the Best +YatWLG You are the Weakest Link, Goodbye +YaW You are Wicked +YaYIA You and Your Inscrutable Acronyms YB yottabyte (10^24 bytes) Yb ytterbium YBA Young British Artist(s) -yBq yoctobequerel (10^-24 bequerels) +YBM You'll Be Missed YBq yottabequerel (10^24 bequerels) +yBq yoctobequerel (10^-24 bequerels) YBS You'll Be Sorry YBTM4EML You Belong To Me For Ever, My Love YBTMFML You Belong To Me Forever, My Love YBYSA You Bet Your Sweet Arse -yC yoctocoulomb (10^-24 coulombs) YC yottacoulomb (10^24 coulombs) +yC yoctocoulomb (10^-24 coulombs) YCB You Came Back YCbCr Luminance, blue difference, red difference (digital colour space) -YCBMTTMT You Couldn't BinMail This To Me Too…? +YCBMTTMT You Couldn't BinMail This To Me Too...? YCBMTTMTP You Couldn't BinMail This To Me Too, Please? YCBS You Cannot Be Serious YCCY You Can't, Can You? -ycd yoctocandela (10^-24 candelas) Ycd yottacandela (10^24 candelas) +ycd yoctocandela (10^-24 candelas) YCDBSOYA You Can't Do Business Sitting On Your Arse! YCDBWYCID You Can't Do Business When Your Computer Is Down! YCFOT You Can F*** Off Twice / You Can't Fly Over Tibet YCHKMDWAF You Could Have Knocked Me Down With A Feather YCLIU You Can Look It Up YCNBS You Can Not Be Serious YCRBYCH You Can Run, But You Can't Hide +YCs Young Conservatives YCSTA You Can Say That Again YCT Your Comment To -YD yesterday / You're Dead +YD yesterday / You're Dead / South Yemen (ISO code) (now YE) YDA You Didn't Ask YDAYTML You Do As You're Told, My Lad! YDbDr Luminance, blue difference, red difference (SÉCAM colour space) YDBM You Don't Believe Me -YDCHFTH You Don't Come Here For The Hunting… +YDCHFTH You Don't Come Here For The Hunting... YDCHFTHDY You Don't Come Here For The Hunting, Do You? YDIA You Did It Again YDIW You're Doing It Wrong YDKM You Don't Know Me +YDNU You Do Not Understand YDRS You Dirty Rotten Swine YDRSK You Dirty Rotten Spanker Knicker YDWYWTFO You Did What You Were Told For Once +YE Yemen (ISO code) +YEC Young-Earth Creationism YEKT Yekaterinburg Time (= UTC+5) YER Yemeni rials (ccy) -yeV yocto electron volt (10^-24 electron volts) -YeV yotta electron volt (10^24 electron volts) -YF Wife / yottafarad (10^24 farads) +YeV yotta-electron volt (10^24 electron volts) +yeV yocto-electron volt (10^-24 electron volts) +YF wife / yottafarad (10^24 farads) yF yoctofarad (10^-24 farads) -YFAM Your Friend And Mine +YFaM Your Friend and Mine YFST Yawns For Some Time -yg yoctogram (10^-24 grams) +YG Young Gentleman / Yahoo Groups Yg yottagram (10^24 grams) -YG Young Gentleman -YGBJ You've Got to Be Joking -YGBK You Gotta Be Kidding -YGBSM You Gotta Be S***tin' Me +yg yoctogram (10^-24 grams) +YGBJ You've Gotta Be Joking! +YGBK You've Gotta Be Kidding! +YGBSM You've Gotta Be S***ting Me! YGIAGAM Your Guess Is As Good As Mine YGLT You're Gonna Love This YGM You've Got Mail +YGOS You Gay Or Something? YGRTT Your Grandmother Relishes Toasted Teacakes / You've Got Room To Talk YGTBDSM You've Got To Be Dry-Shaving Me -YGTBJ You've Got To Be Joking -YGTBK You've Got To Be Kidding +YGTBJ You've Got To Be Joking! +YGTBK You've Got To Be Kidding! YGTBSM You've Got To Be S***ing Me! YGWYPF You Get What You Pay For -yGy yoctogray (10^-24 grays) YGy yottagray (10^24 grays) +yGy yoctogray (10^-24 grays) +YH yottahenry (10^24 henrys) yH yoctohenry (10^-24 henrys) -YH yottahenry (10^24 henrys) +YHA Youth Hostels Association YHAP You Have A Point YHB You Have Been +YHBBYBD You'd Have Better Bet Your Bottom Dollar YHBM You Have BinMail YHBM2 You Have BinMail Too YHBMA You Have BinMail Also YHBMAW You Have BinMail As Well YHBMT You Have BinMail Today/Too YHBT You Have Been Trolled +YHBT.YHL.HAND You Have Been Trolled. You Have Lost. Have A Nice Day. +YHBTYHLHAND You Have Been Trolled. You Have Lost. Have A Nice Day. YHBW You Have Been Warned YHEBM You Have Encrypted BinMail YHEM You Have Encrypted Mail YHGAFC You Haven't Got A F****** Clue YHGAFCHY You Haven't Got A F****** Clue, Have You @@ -10327,99 +16064,139 @@ YHNCTSMYT You Have No Chance To Survive Make Your Time YHS Your Humble Servant YHSM You Have Snail Mail YHTBT You Had To Be There YHVM You Have Voice Mail -yHz yoctohertz (10^-24 hertz) YHz yottahertz (10^24 hertz) +yHz yoctohertz (10^-24 hertz) YIB Yeah, I'll Bet -YIC Yours In Christ +YiC Yours in Christ YIDTYVM Yes I Did, Thank You Very Much -YIG Yours In Guiding -YIGS Yours In Guiding and Scouting / Yours In Girl Scouting +YiG Yours in Guiding +YiGS Yours in Guiding and Scouting / Yours in Girl Scouting YII Yes It Is YIQ Luminance, In-phase, Quadrature (NTSC colour space) -YIS Yours In Scouting -yJ yoctojoule (10^-24 joules) +YiS Yours in Scouting YJ yottajoule (10^24 joules) +yJ yoctojoule (10^-24 joules) YJCGTATD You Just Can't Get The Assassins These Days YJCGTBCTD You Just Can't Get The Brain Cells These Days YJCGTBTD You Just Can't Get The Biscuits These Days -yK yoctoKelvin (10^-24 Kelvin) YK yottaKelvin (10^24 Kelvin) / Yugen Kaisha (= Ltd co. in Japan) +yK yoctoKelvin (10^-24 Kelvin) +Ykat yottakatal (10^24 katals) ykat yoctokatal (10^-24 katals) -Ykat yottakatal (10^24 katals) +YKFTMA You Know Far Too Many Acronyms +YKFTMAYN You Know Far Too Many Acronyms, You Know YKIMS You Know It Makes Sense YKIYEI You Killed It, You Eat It -YKPWWIM Your Know Perfectly Well What I Mean +YKPWWIM You Know Perfectly Well What I Mean YKW You Know Who/What YKWIM You Know What I Mean YKWYCDWT You Know What You Can Do With That YKWYD You Know What You Did/You're Doing -YKYARW You Know You're A Redneck When… +YKYARW You Know You're A Redneck When... YKYB You Know You've Been -YKYBHTLW You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When… -YKYBOTLW You Know You've Been On-line Too Long When… -YL Young Lady (hence girlfriend/fiancée) / Young Leader +YKYBHTLW You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... +YKYBOTLW You Know You've Been On-line Too Long When... +YKYWT You Know You Want To +YKYWTKM You Know You Want To Kiss Me +YL Young Lady (hence girlfriend/fiancée) / Young Leader / You'll Live YL&L You Live and Learn -YLAL You Live And Learn -ylm yoctolumen (10^-24 lumens) +YLaL You Live and Learn Ylm yottalumen (10^24 lumens) +ylm yoctolumen (10^-24 lumens) YLSNED You Learn Something New Every Day +YLSYLS You Lose Some, You Lose Some YLT Young's Literal Translation (of the Bible) YLU Young Leaders' Unit -ylx yoctolux (10^-24 lux) Ylx yottalux (10^24 lux) -ym yoctometre (10^-24 metres) +ylx yoctolux (10^-24 lux) +YM You Mean / Young Man Ym yottametre (10^24 metres) -YM You Mean / Young Man (hence boyfriend/fiancé) +ym yoctometre (10^-24 metres) YMACA Young Men's Anti-Christian Association (Discworld) YMASAMH You May All Sniff All My Hats YMBT You Must Be Telepathic YMCA Young Men's Christian Association YMI You Mentioned It YMMD You Made My Day / Your Mileage May Differ YMMV Your Mileage May Vary -ymol yoctomole (10^-24 moles) Ymol yottamole (10^24 moles) +ymol yoctomole (10^-24 moles) YMOTY Young Musician Of The Year (competition) YMOV Your Mileage Ought to Vary / Your Mileage Often Varies YMSMH You May Sniff My Hat -YMSSBICNPC You May Say So, But I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMSSBICNPC You Might Say So, But I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMSSBICPC You Might Say So, But I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMSSICNPC You Might Say So; I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMSSICPC You Might Say So; I Couldn't Possibly Comment YMSTBICNPC You Might Say That, But I Could Not Possibly Comment -YMTT You May Think That -YMTTBICPC You May Think That, But I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMSTBICPC You Might Say That, But I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMSTICNPC You Might Say That; I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMSTICPC You Might Say That; I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMTS You Might Think So +YMTSBICNPC You Might Think So, But I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMTSBICPC You Might Think So, But I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMTSICNPC You Might Think So; I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMTSICPC You Might Think So; I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMTT You Might Think That +YMTTBICNPC You Might Think That, But I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMTTBICPC You Might Think That, But I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMTTICNPC You Might Think That; I Could Not Possibly Comment YMTTICPC You Might Think That; I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMVWSSBICNPC You Might Very Well Say So, But I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMVWSSBICPC You Might Very Well Say So, But I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMVWSSICNPC You Might Very Well Say So; I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMVWSSICPC You Might Very Well Say So; I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMVWSTBICNPC You Might Very Well Say That, But I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMVWSTBICPC You Might Very Well Say That, But I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMVWSTICNPC You Might Very Well Say That; I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMVWSTICPC You Might Very Well Say That; I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMVWTS You Might Very Well Think So +YMVWTSBICNPC You Might Very Well Think So, But I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMVWTSBICPC You Might Very Well Think So, But I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMVWTSICNPC You Might Very Well Think So; I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMVWTSICPC You Might Very Well Think So; I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMVWTT You Might Very Well Think That +YMVWTTBICNPC You Might Very Well Think That, But I Could Not Possibly Comment +YMVWTTBICPC You Might Very Well Think That, But I Couldn't Possibly Comment +YMVWTTICNPC You Might Very Well Think That; I Could Not Possibly Comment YMVWTTICPC You Might Very Well Think That; I Couldn't Possibly Comment YMWBTDBTWMAD You May Well Beg To Differ, But That Won't Make Any Difference -yN yoctonewton (10^-24 newtons) YN yottanewton (10^24 newtons) +yN yoctonewton (10^-24 newtons) YNISIPI You Name It, Son, And I'll Play It YNK You Never Know YNTGOM You Need To Get Out More YOC Yes, Of Course YOCYC Yes, Of Course You Can +YOF You Old Fart YOGWYPF You Only Get What You Pay For YOHTA You Only Had/Have To Ask +YOI Young Offenders Institution YOM1K You Owe Me One Keyboard YOMMFSWGAS You've Obviously Mistaken Me For Someone Who Gives A S*** YOMOK You Owe Me One Keyboard +YOY Why, Oh Why... YOYO You're On Your Own -YP Young Person/People -yPa yoctopascal (10^-24 pascals) +YOYOY Why, Oh Why, Oh Why... +YP Yes, Please / Young Person/People / Your Problem YPa yottapascal (10^24 pascals) +yPa yoctopascal (10^-24 pascals) YPbPr Luminance, blue difference, red difference (component video colour space) +YPIWM Your Point Is Well Made YPL Yahoo! Public Licence YPS Youth Proficiency Scheme YPTMV Your Preferred Translation May Vary YPVS Yamaha Power Valve System YPYMATYC You Pays Your Money And Takes Your Choice -YR Yeah, Right / Why Are…? -ys yoctosecond (10^-24 seconds) +YR Yeah, Right / Why Are...? / your +YS You Stinker / You Suck / Yes, Sir / yottasiemens (10^24 siemens) +Ys yottasecond (10^24 seconds) yS yoctosiemens (10^-24 siemens) -Ys yottasecond (10^24 seconds) -YS You Stinker / You Suck / yottasiemens (10^24 siemens) +ys yoctosecond (10^-24 seconds) YSBIB You Should Be In Bed YSHBM You Should Have BinMail YSHEYBBRTB You Should Have Eaten Your Breakfast Before Reading The Blink YSHGM You Should Have Google Mail YSHGUE You Should Have Got Up Earlier @@ -10427,34 +16204,42 @@ YSHHM You Should Have Had Mail YSHHSM You Should Have Had Snail-Mail YSHM You Should Have Mail YSHSM You Should Have Snail-Mail YSNAYBB You Said Never Again, You Bad Boy +YSOD Yellow Screen Of Death (ASP.NET) YSS You Suck Severely -ySv yoctosievert (10^-24 sieverts) YSv yottasievert (10^24 sieverts) +ySv yoctosievert (10^-24 sieverts) YSW Yeah, Sure, Whatever YSYD Yeah, Sure You Do +YT YouTube / yottatesla (10^24 teslas) / Mayotte (ISO code) yT yoctotesla (10^-24 teslas) -YT yottatesla (10^24 teslas) +YTB You're The Best +YTD Year To Date YTHBM You Too Have BinMail YTHM You Too Have Mail YTHSM You Too Have Snail-Mail +YTK You're Too Kind YTM You The Man! YTMND You're The Man Now, Dog (web community) +YTS Youth Training Scheme YTTT You Telling The Truth? YTTWOOMM You Took The Words Out Of My Mouth YTTWROOMM You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth +YU Yugoslavia (ISO code) (obs.) YUI You Understand It YUV Luminance, blue difference, red difference (colour space) +YV yottavolt (10^24 volts) / Venezuela (ISO code) (now VE) yV yoctovolt (10^-24 volts) -YV yottavolt (10^24 volts) YVW You're Very Welcome -yW yoctowatt (10^-24 watts) +YVWSHM You Will Very Soon Have Mail YW You're Welcome / yottawatt (10^24 watts) -yWb yoctoweber (10^-24 webers) +yW yoctowatt (10^-24 watts) YWb yottaweber (10^24 webers) +yWb yoctoweber (10^-24 webers) +YWBM You Will Be Missed YWCA Young Women's Christian Association YWEL You're Welcome Even Less YWEM You're Welcome Even More YWET You Would Expect That YWHBM You Will Have BinMail @@ -10465,106 +16250,135 @@ YWHSMS You Will Have Snail-Mail Soon YWIA You're Welcome In Advance YWIMC Your Wish Is My Command YWSTWY You Would Say That, Wouldn't You? YWSYLS You Win Some, You Lose Some +YWTHM You Want To Hug Me +YWTKM You Want To Kiss Me +YY4U too wise for you YYA Yes, You Are YYABIN Yes, You Are, But I'm Not YYD Yes, You Do +YYF You Young Fart YYGT Yes, You Get That YYHM Yours, You Have Mail YYRH Yes, Your Royal Highness YYSSW Yeah, Yeah, Sure, Sure, Whatever YYW Yes, You Were +YYWS You Young Whipper-Snapper YYY Yeah, Yeah, Yeah +YYYY-MM-DD Year Month Day (ISO date) +YYYYMMDD Year Month Day (ISO date) Z1 Konrad Zuse mechanical computer, model 1 / BMW two-seater / Kawasaki motorcycle / (US) Flow of Funds report / Infocom file v1 Z2 Konrad Zuse mechanical computer, model 2 / Infocom file v2 Z3 Konrad Zuse electro-mechanical computer, model 3 / BMW sports car / Infocom file v3 Z4 Konrad Zuse electro-mechanical computer, model 4 / Infocom file v4 Z5 Infocom file v5 Z6 Infocom file v6 Z7 Infocom file v7 Z8 Infocom file v8 +ZA ZoneAlarm / Zero Administration / zettaampere (10²¹ amperes) / South Africa (ISO code) zA zeptoampere (10¯²¹ amperes) -ZA ZoneAlarm / Zero Administration / zettaampere (10²¹ amperes) +ZAL I am closing down due to... (NATO code) +ZANU-PF Zimbabwe African National Union — Patriotic Front ZAO Zakrytoe Aktsionernoye Obshchestvo (= PLC in Russia) ZAR South African rands (ccy) ZAT = PLC in Ukraine +ZAZ (Jerry) Zucker, (Jim) Abrahams, and (David) Zucker (filmmakers) ZB zettabyte (10²¹ bytes) / Zaphod Beeblebrox -zBq zeptobequerel (10¯²¹ bequerels) +ZBK Are you receiving my traffic clear? (NATO code) +ZBK1 I am receiving your traffic clear. (NATO code) +ZBK2 I am receiving your traffic garbled. (NATO code) +ZBM2 Place a competent operator on this circuit. (NATO code) ZBq zettabequerel (10²¹ bequerels) +zBq zeptobequerel (10¯²¹ bequerels) +ZBW Change to backup frequency number... (NATO code) +ZBZ Signal quality is... (NATO code) +ZC zettacoulomb (10²¹ coulombs) / ZigBee Co-ordinator zC zeptocoulomb (10¯²¹ coulombs) -ZC zettacoulomb (10²¹ coulombs) ZCAV Zone-Constant Angular Velocity -zcd zeptocandela (10¯²¹ candelas) Zcd zettacandela (10²¹ candelas) +zcd zeptocandela (10¯²¹ candelas) ZCS Zero Code Suppression -zeV zepto electron volt (10¯²¹ electron volts) -ZeV zetta electron volt (10²¹ electron volts) -zF zeptofarad (10¯²¹ farads) +ZD Zener Diode +ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (= Second German Television Service) +ZED ZigBee End-Device +ZeV zetta-electron volt (10²¹ electron volts) +zeV zepto-electron volt (10¯²¹ electron volts) ZF zettafarad (10²¹ farads) +zF zeptofarad (10¯²¹ farads) ZFS Zettabyte File-System -zg zeptogram (10¯²¹ grams) Zg zettagram (10²¹ grams) -zGy zeptogray (10¯²¹ grays) +zg zeptogram (10¯²¹ grams) ZGy zettagray (10²¹ grays) -zH zeptohenry (10¯²¹ henrys) +zGy zeptogray (10¯²¹ grays) ZH zettahenry (10²¹ henrys) -zHz zeptohertz (10¯²¹ hertz) +zH zeptohenry (10¯²¹ henrys) ZHz zettahertz (10²¹ hertz) +zHz zeptohertz (10¯²¹ hertz) ZIF Zero Insertion Force ZIFS Zero Insertion Force Socket +ZigBee (low-power near-field wireless networking protocols) +ZIRP Zero Interest Rate Policy ZISC Zero Instruction Set Computer -zJ zeptojoule (10¯²¹ joules) ZJ zettajoule (10²¹ joules) -zK zeptoKelvin (10¯²¹ Kelvin) +zJ zeptojoule (10¯²¹ joules) ZK zettaKelvin (10²¹ Kelvin) -zkat zeptokatal (10¯²¹ katals) +zK zeptoKelvin (10¯²¹ Kelvin) Zkat zettakatal (10²¹ katals) -zlm zeptolumen (10¯²¹ lumens) +zkat zeptokatal (10¯²¹ katals) Zlm zettalumen (10²¹ lumens) -zlx zeptolux (10¯²¹ lux) +zlm zeptolumen (10¯²¹ lumens) Zlx zettalux (10²¹ lux) -zm zeptometre (10¯²¹ metres) +zlx zeptolux (10¯²¹ lux) +ZM Zambia (ISO code) Zm zettametre (10²¹ metres) +zm zeptometre (10¯²¹ metres) ZMA Zone Multicast Address ZMK Zambian kwacha (ccy) -zmol zeptomole (10¯²¹ moles) Zmol zettamole (10²¹ moles) -zN zeptonewton (10¯²¹ newtons) +zmol zeptomole (10¯²¹ moles) ZN zettanewton (10²¹ newtons) Zn zinc +zN zeptonewton (10¯²¹ newtons) ZnCl zinc chloride ZnO zinc oxide ZNT ZiffNet ZOPE Z Object Publishing Environment -ZOPFAN Zone of Peace, Freedom, and Neutrality -zPa zeptopascal (10¯²¹ pascals) +ZOPFAN Zone Of Peace, Freedom, And Neutrality ZPa zettapascal (10²¹ pascals) +zPa zeptopascal (10¯²¹ pascals) ZPL Z-level Programming Language / Zope Public Licence +ZPP Zero-error, Probabilistic, Polynomial-time (complexity) +ZR ZigBee Router / Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) (ISO code) Zr zirconium +ZRLA Zero-Redundancy Linear Array +ZRLE Zlib1 Run-Length Encoding ZRT Zártkörüen müködö Részvénytáesaság (= Ltd co. in Hungary) -zs zeptosecond (10¯²¹ seconds) -zS zeptosiemens (10¯²¹ siemens) -Zs zettasecond (10²¹ seconds) +ZRTF Zipped Rich Text Format ZS zettasiemens (10²¹ siemens) -zSv zeptosievert (10¯²¹ sieverts) +Zs zettasecond (10²¹ seconds) +zS zeptosiemens (10¯²¹ siemens) +zs zeptosecond (10¯²¹ seconds) +ZSF Switch off. (NATO code) ZSv zettasievert (10²¹ sieverts) +zSv zeptosievert (10¯²¹ sieverts) +ZT zettatesla (10²¹ teslas) / Zero Tolerance zT zeptotesla (10¯²¹ teslas) -ZT zettatesla (10²¹ teslas) -zV zeptovolt (10¯²¹ volts) ZV zettavolt (10²¹ volts) +zV zeptovolt (10¯²¹ volts) +ZW zettawatt (10²¹ watts) / Zimbabwe (ISO code) zW zeptowatt (10¯²¹ watts) -ZW zettawatt (10²¹ watts) -zWb zeptoweber (10¯²¹ webers) ZWb zettaweber (10²¹ webers) +zWb zeptoweber (10¯²¹ webers) ZWL Zimbabwe dollars +ZYWRLE Zlib YUV Wavelet Run-Length Encoding µA microampere (10^-6 amperes) µBq microbequerel (10^-6 bequerels) µC microcoulomb (10^-6 coulombs) µcd microcandela (10^-6 candelas) -µeV micro electron volt (10^-6 electron volts) +µeV micro-electron volt (10^-6 electron volts) µF microfarad (10^-6 farads) µg microgram (10^-6 grams) µGy microgray (10^-6 grays) µH microhenry (10^-6 henrys) µHz microhertz (10^-6 hertz) @@ -10575,18 +16389,18 @@ µlx microlux (10^-6 lux) µm micrometre (10^-6 metres) µmol micromole (10^-6 moles) µN micronewton (10^-6 newtons) µPa micropascal (10^-6 pascals) -µs microsecond (10^-6 seconds) µS microsiemens (10^-6 siemens) +µs microsecond (10^-6 seconds) µSv microsievert (10^-6 sieverts) µT microtesla (10^-6 teslas) µV microvolt (10^-6 volts) µW microwatt (10^-6 watts) µWb microweber (10^-6 webers) ÜÜ Usaldusühing (= Ltd partnership co. in Estonia) -[Acronyms.Lst Version 3.00 20/3/2011 +[Acronyms.Lst Version 3.03 2012-03-18 [Compiled by p_elphick@cix.co.uk aka cotal@cotal.co.uk, and gidds@cix.co.uk] [This file is copyright and may not be re-distributed outside the CIX -conferencing system without permission] +conferencing system without permission]