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AAA Amateur Athletic Association
AAA American Automobile Association
AAM air-to-air missile
AAR against all risks
AAS Acedemiae Americanae Socius
AAS Associate in Applied Science
AAU Amateur Athletic Union
ABA Amateur Boxing Association
ABC American Broadcasting Association
ABC Associated British Cinemas
ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations
ABC Australian Broadcasting Commission
ABH actual bodily harm
ABI Association of British Insurers
ABM anti-ballistic missile
ABO (blood group system)
ABS Associate of the Building Societies Institute
ABS Association of Broadcasting Staff
ABS anti-lock braking system
ACA Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
ACE American Council on Education
ACK ACKnowledge
ACP African, Caribbean and Pacific
ACP American College of Physicians
ACT Advance Corporation Tax
ACT Australian Capital Territory
ACU Association of Commonwealth Universities
ACV Actual Cash Value
ACV Air Cushion Vehicle
ACW Aircraftwoman
ADA American Dental Association
ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
ADC aide-de-camp
ADC analogue-to-digital converter
ADD American Dialect Dictionary
ADF Automatic Direction Finder
ADH Anti Diuretic Hormone
ADP adenosine diphosphate
ADP automatic data processing
AEA Atomic Energy Authority
AEB Associated Examining Board
AEC Atomic Energy Commission
AEF American Expeditionary Force
AEI Associated Electrical Industries
AEM Air Efficiency Medal
AEU Amalgamated Engineering Union
AFA Amateur Football Association
AFB Air Force Base
AFC Air Force Cross
AFC automatic frequency control
AFL American Football League
AFM Air Force Medal
AFN until further notice
AFP Alpha-FetoProtein
AFT Automatic Fine Tuning
AFV Armoured Fighting Vehicle
AGC automatic gain control
AGM annual general meeting
AGR advanced gas-cooled reactor
AHA area health authority
AHL American Hockey League
AHS anno humanae salutis
AID Agency for International Development
AID artificial insemination by donor
AIH artificial insemination by husband
AIM American Indian Movement
AIR All India Radio
AIX IBM Unix
AKA also known as
AKC American Kennel Club
ALA American Library Association
ALC automatic level control
ALE address latch enable
ALM Association of Lloyd's Members
ALS Antilymphocytic Serum
ALS Autographed Letter Signed
ALU arithmetic and logic unit
AMA American Medical Association
AMA Association of Metropolitan Authorities
AMC American Motors Corporation
AMG Allied Military Government
AMO Area Medical Officer
AMP Adenosine Mono-Phosphate
AMP Association of Mirror Pensioners
AMS Abstract Messaging Services
AMS Agricultural Marketing Service
AMS American Mathematical Society
AMU atomic mass unit
ANA American Newspapers Association
ANA American Nurses Association
ANC African National Congress
AOB any other business
AOC Advanced Office Computer
AOC appellation d'origine controlee
AOF Ancient Order of Foresters
APB All Points Bulletin
APC Armoured Personnel Carrier
API Air Position Indicator
API Application Program Interface
APL a programming language
APR annual percentage rate
APT Advanced Passenger Train
ARA Associate of the Royal Academy
ARC Agricultural Research Council
ARC axial resolution converter
ARM Acorn Risc Machine
ARM Advanced RISC Micro
ARP air-raid precaution
ARR anno regni regis
ASA Advertising Standards Authority
ASA Amateur Swimming Association
ASA American Standards Association
ASB Accounting Standards Board
ASC American Society of Cinematographers
ASC advanced SCSI controller
ASE Amalgamated Society of Engineers
ASE Association for Science Education
ASF Associate of the Institute of Shipping and Forwarding Agents
ASH Action on Smoking and Health
ASM air-to-surface missile
AST Atlantic Standard Time
ATA Actual Time of Arrival
ATA Air Transport Auxiliary
ATC Air Training Corps
ATC air traffic control
ATC automatic train control
ATE automatic test equipment
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATP adenosine triphosphate
ATP automatic train protection
ATS Auxiliary Territorial Service
ATS anti-tetanus serum
ATV Associated Television
AUC ab urbe condita
AUT Association of University Teachers
AUX Apple Unix
AVC additional voluntary contribution
AVC automatic volume control
AVM Air Vice-Marshall
AVR Army Volunteer Reserve
AWB Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
AWG American Wire Gauge
AWK Aho, Weinberg, Kernighan
AWS automatic warning system
AZT *[Zidovudine, AIDS drug]
AZT [Zidovudine, AIDS drug]
BAA British Airports Authority
BAC British Aircraft Corporation
BAE British Aerospace
BAF British Athletic Federation
BAI Baccalaureus in Arte Ingeniaria
BAL British Anti-Leisite (trade name for dimercaprol)
BAT British-American Tobacco Company
BBB very soft pencil
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BCA British Concrete Association
BCC blind carbon copy
BCC British Council of Churches
BCG bacillus of Calmette and Guerin
BCH Baccalaureus Chirurgiae
BCL Bachelor of Civil Law
BCS British Computer Society
BDA British Dental Association
BDH British Drug Houses
BDI Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie
BDS Bachelor of Dental Surgery
BEA British European Airways
BEC Building Employers' Confederation
BED Bachelor of Education
BEF British Expeditionary Force
BEI Banque Europeenne d'Investissement
BEM British Empire Medal
BEM Bug-Eyed Monster
BES Business Expansion Scheme
BEV billion electron volts
BFG Big Friendly Giant (Roald Dahl character)
BFI British Film Institute
BFI Brute Force and Ignorance
BFN bye for now
BFO beat-frequency oscillator
BFR Belgian franc
BGA ball grid array
BGS British Geological Survey
BHS British Home Stores
BIH Bureau Internationale de l'Heure
BIM British Institute of Management
BIR British Institute of Radiology
BIS Bank for International Settlements
BIX Byte Information eXchange
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party
BMA British Medical Association
BMC British Motor Corporation
BMJ British Medical Journal
BMK Borough of Milton Keynes
BML Britism Museum Library
BMR Basal Metabolic Rate
BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke
BNF Backus-Naur Form
BNP British National Party
BOA British Optical Association
BOC British Oxygen Company
BOD biological oxygen demand
BOT Board of Trade
BOT beginning of tape
BPC British Pharmaceutical Codex
BPC British Priniting Corporatioon
BPC British Printing Corporation
BPO British Patent Office
BRD Bundesrepublik Deutschland
BRM British Racing Motors
BRS British Road Services
BSA Birmingham Small Arms
BSA Building Societies Association
BSB British Satellite Broadcasting
BSB British Sky Broadcasting
BSC Bachelor of Science
BSC British Steel Corporation
BSC British Sugar Corporation
BSC Broadcasting Standards Council
BSD Berkley Software Distribution
BSE bovine spongiform encethalopathy
BSF British standard fine
BSI British Standards Institution
BSI Building Societies Institute
BSM Battalion Sergeant-Major
BSM British School of Motoring
BSP British standard pipe
BST British Summer Time
BST bovine somatropin
BSW British standard whitworth
BTA British Tourist Authority
BTG British Technology Group
BTU British Thermal Unit
BTW by the way
BVM Blessed Virgin Mary
BWB British Waterways Board
BWV Bach Werke Verzeichnis
BZW Barclays de Zoete Wedd
BeV billion electron volts
CAA Civil Aviation Authority
CAB Citizens' Advice Bureau
CAB Civil Aeronautics Board
CAD cash against documents
CAD computer-aided design
CAE computer-aided engineering
CAI computer-aided instruction
CAL Computer Assisted Learning
CAM computer-aided manufacturing
CAM content-addressable memory
CAN customs assigned number
CAP Common Agricultural Policy
CAR Central African Republic
CAR Contents of Address Register
CAR compound annual rate
CAS column address strobe
CAT College of Advanced Technology
CAT computer-aided typesetting
CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBE Commander of the Order of the British Empire
CBI Confederation of British Industry
CBM Californian Business Machines
CBS Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrement
CBW Chemical and Biological Warfare
CCA current cost accounting
CCD charge-coupled device
CCF Combined Cadet Force
CCS Corporation of Certified Secretaries
CCT compulsory competitive tendering
CDB command data block (SCSI)
CDC Centres for Disease Control
CDC Control Data Corporation
CDI compact disk - interactive video
CDM cold dark matter
CDR Contents of Decrement Register
CDV Civil Defence Volunteers
CEF Canadian Expeditionary Force
CEI Council of Engineering Institutions
CEL Crosfield Electronics Limited
CEN Comite Europeen de Normalisation
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CEP Crosfield Electronics - Peterborough
CET Central European Time
CFA code field address
CFC Commonhold Flats Campaign
CFC chloro-fluorocarbon
CFG Context Free Grammar
CFM cubic feet per minute
CGA colour graphics array
CGM Conspicuous Gallantry Medal
CGS Chief of the General Staff
CGS centimetre - gram - second
CGT capital gains tax
CHB Chirurgiae Baccalaureus
CHC Community Health Council
CHE Campaign for Homosexual Equality
CHM Chirurgiae Magister
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CID Council of Industrial Design
CID Criminal Investigation Department
CIE Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage
CIE Coras Iompair Eireann
CIF cost, insurance, freight
CII Chartered Insurance Institute
CIM Commission on Industry and Manpower
CIM computers in manufacturing
CIO Congress of Industrial Organisations
CIO carrier insertion oscillator
CIR Commission on Industrial Relations
CIS Chartered Institute of Secretaries
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
CIT Chartered Institute of Transport
CLA Country Landowners' Association
CLR computer language recorder
CLT computer language translator
CMG Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
CMI computer-managed instruction
CMK Central Milton Keynes
CML Council of Mortgage Lenders
CMM Capability Maturity Model
CMM Colour Management Module
CMM Co-ordinate Measuring Machine
CMS Church Missionary Society
CMY cyan-magenta-yellow
CND Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
CNF Chomsky Normal Form
CNN Cable News Network
CNR Canadian National Railway
CNS central nervous system
CNT Commission for the New Towns
COD Concise Oxford Dictionary
COD cash on delivery
COI Central Office of Information
COL computer-oriented language
COM computer-output microfilm
COQ cost of quality
CPA Chartered Patent Agent
CPC Clerk of the Privy Council
CPI consumer price index
CPL Computer Programming Language
CPO Chief Petty Officer
CPP calling party pays
CPR Canadian Pacific Railway
CPS Crown Prosecution Service
CPS Custos Privati Sigilli
CPS characters per second
CPS cycles per second
CPU central processing unit
CRC Chemical Rubber Company
CRC circumferential resolution converter
CRC cyclic redundancy check
CRE Commission for Racial Equality
CRE Commission/Council for Racial Equality
CRO Criminal Records Office
CRO cathode-ray oscilloscope
CRS Co-operative Retail Society
CRT cathode-ray tube
CSA Confederate States of America
CSB Connection Server Broker (Uniplex)
CSC Conspicuous Service Cross
CSE Certificate of Secondary Education
CSF Cerebro-Spinal Fluid
CSI Companion, Order of the Star of India
CSO Community Service Order
CSP Chartered Society of Physiotherapists
CSP chip scale package
CSP Council for Scientific Policy
CST Cental Standard Time
CST Central Standard Time
CSU Civil Service Union
CSV community service volunteer
CTC City Technical College
CTC Cyclists' Touring Club
CTG Channel Tunnel Group
CTS Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
CTS clear to send
CTT Capital Transfer Tax
CUP Cambridge University Press
CVO Commander of the Victorian Order
CWO cash with order
CWR continuous welded rail
CWS Co-operative Wholesale Society
CYK Cocke-Younger-Kasami (algorithm)
DAC digital-to-analogue converter
DAF Deutsche Amerikanische Freundschaft (pop group)
DAF Doorn Automobielfabriek
DAG Deputy Adjutant-General
DAG Directed Acyclic Graph
DAT digital analogue tape
DBE Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
DCC digital compact cassette
DCD data carrier detect
DCE Distributed Computer Environment
DCH Doctor of Surgery
DCL DEC Control Language
DCL Distillers Company Limited
DCL Doctor of Civil Law
DCM Distinguished Conduct Medal
DCP District Community Physician
DCR document change request
DCS Deputy Clerk of Sessions
DCT discrete cosine transform
DCh Doctor of Surgery (Doctor Chirurgiae)
DDD dat, dicat, dedicat
DDO design drawing office
DDR Deutsche Demokratische Republik
DDS Digital Data Storage
DDS Doctor of Dental Surgery
DDT dichlorodiphenyltricloroethane
DEA Department of Economic Affairs
DEA Drugs Enforcement Agency
DEC Digital Equipment Company
DED Doctor of Education
DEL DELete
DEP Department of Employment and Productivity
DES Data Encryption Standard
DES Department of Education and Science
DEW distant early warning
DFA Deterministic Finite Automaton
DFC Distinguished Flying Cross
DFD data flow diagram
DFM Distinguished Flying Medal
DFM design for manufacturing
DFT Discrete Fourier Transform
DGH District General Hospital
DHQ District HeadQuarters
DIC Diploma of the Imperial College
DIG Disabled Income Group
DIH Diploma in Industrial Health
DIL dual in-line
DIN Deutsche Industrie Normen
DIP dual in-line plastic
DIY do-it-yourself
DLE Data Link Escape
DLL Dynamically Linked Library
DMA direct memory access
DMD Data Model Diagram
DMM digital multimeter
DMU diesel multiple unit
DMV Department of Motor Vehicles
DMZ demilitarised zone
DNA National Dyslexia Association
DNA deoxyribonucleic acid
DNB Dictionary of National Biography
DOA dead on arrival
DOA delegation of authority
DOB date of birth
DOC District Officer Commanding
DOC dissolved organic carbon
DOD Department of Defense
DOE Department of the Environment
DOG Directory of Opportunities for Graduates
DOH Department of Health
DOI Department of Industry
DOM Deo optimo maximo
DOM dirty old man
DOS disk operating system
DPH Diploma in Public Health
DPI defects per installation
DPI dots per inch
DPM Diploma in Psychological Medicine
DPP Director of Public Prosecutions
DPT Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus vaccine
DPU defects per unit
DSC Distinguished Service Cross
DSM Distinguished Service Medal
DSO Distinguished Service Order
DSP decessit sine prole
DSR data set ready
DSS Department of Social Security
DTF Dairy Trades Federation
DTH Doctor of Theology
DTI Department of Trade and Industry
DTL diode-transistor logic
DTM data traffic manager
DTP Department of Transport
DTP desk-top publishing
DTh Doctor of Theology
DVD digital versatile disk
DVD digital video disk
DVM digital voltmeter
DVT driving van trailer
DWI Drinking Water Inspectorate
DOE Department of the Environment
EBU European Broadcasting Union
ECB European Central Bank
ECE Economic Commission for Europe
ECG electrocardiogram
ECG export credits guarantee
ECJ European Court of Justice
ECL emitter-coupled logic
ECM electronic countermeasures
ECO engineering change order
ECO English Chamber Orchestra
ECP English Collective of Prostitutes
ECT electroconvulsive therapy
ECU English Church Union
ECU European Currency Unit
EDB Bachelor of Education
EDC European Defence Community
EDF Electricite de France
EDF European Development Fund
EDL Eurotunnel Developments Limited
EDP electronic data processing
EDS English Dialect Society
EEC European Economics Community
EEG electroencephalogram
EET Eastern European Time
EEV English Electric Valve
EFA European Fighter Aircraft
EFI Electronic Fuel Injection
EFL English as a foreign language
EFT electronic funds transfer
EGA extended graphics array
EGM extraordinary general meeting
EGU English Golf Union
EHO Environmental Health Officer
EHT extra-high tension
EIB European Investment Bank
EIS Educational Institute of Scotland
ELB earth leakage breaker
ELF early life failure
ELO Electric Light Orchestra
ELR Equal Listener Response
ELT English language teaching
EMA European Monetary Agreement
EMC electromagnetic compatibility
EMF European Monetary Fund
EMF electromotive force
EMI Electrical and Musical Industries
EMI European Monetary Institution
EMP electromagnetic pulse
EMS Enhanced Memory Specification
EMS European Monetary System
EMS eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome
EMU European Monetary Union
EMU electric multiple unit
EMU electromagnetic unit
EMU engine management unit
ENE east-north-east
ENG electronic news gathering
ENO English National Opera
ENQ ENQuiry
ENS Ecole Normale Superieure
ENT ear, nose and throat
EOC Equal Opportunities Commission
EOD Electro-Optic Developments
EOD every other day
EOE errors and omissions excepted
EOF end of file
EOT End Of Transmission
EOT end of tape
EPA Environmental Protection Act
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EPA European Productivity Agency
EPO European Patent Office
EPS earnings per share
EPU European Payments Union
ERC Engineering Research Council
ERD Emergency Reserve Decoration
ERD Entity Relationship Diagran
ERF E.R. Foden lorries
ERM Exchange rate mechanism
ERP effective radiated power
ESA European Space Agency
ESA Eurotunnel SA
ESC ESCape (ASCII)
ESE east-south-east
ESL English as a second language
ESM electronic support measures
ESN educationally subnormal
ESP English for special purposes
ESP extra-sensory preception
ESR Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate
ESR electron spin resonance
ESS environmental stress screening
EST Eastern Standard Time
EST electric shock treatment
EST expressed sequence tag
ESU English-speaking Union
ESU electrostatic unit
ETA Euzkadi ta Askatasuna
ETA estimated time of arrival
ETD estimated time of depature
ETU Electrical Trades Union
ETX end of text
EVT Equi-Viscous Temperature
EYP Electronic Yellow Pages
FAA Federal Aviation Authority
FAD Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide
FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation
FAQ frequently-asked question
FAS Fellow of the Antiquarian Society
FAS Fellow of the Society of Arts
FAS free alongside ship
FBA Fellow of the British Academy
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBS Fellow of the Botanical Society
FCA Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
FCB file control block
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FCN field change note
FCO Foreign and Commonwealth Office
FCP Fellow of the College of Preceptors
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FDD floppy disk drive
FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FDR Freie Demokratische Republik
FET field-effect transistor
FFR Fellow of the Faculty of Radiologists
FGS Fellow of the Geological Society
FHS Fellow of the Heraldry Society
FIA Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries
FIA feline infectious anaemia
FIB Fellow of the Institute of Bankers
FIM Fellow of the Institute of Metallurgists
FIP feline infectious peritonitis
FIS Family Income Supplement
FJI Fellow of the Institute of Journalists
FLA Fellow if the Library Association
FLS Fellow of the Linnean Society
FMC Ford Motor Company
FMN Flavin MoNucleotide
FMP Frog Mortality Project
FOB free-on-board
FOC father of the chapel
FOC free of charge
FOE Friends of the Earth
FOR free on rail
FPA Family Planning Association
FPC Family Practitioner Committee
FPS Fellow of the Philosophical/Pharmaceutical Society
FPS foot - pound - second
FRF French franc
FRG Federal Republic of Germany
FRM field-replaceable module
FRN floating-rate note
FRS Fellow of the Royal Society
FRU field-replaceable unit
FSA Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
FSE Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy
FSF Fellow of the Institute of Shipping and Forwarding Agents
FSF Free Software Federation
FSH Follicle-Stimulating Hormone
FSS Fellow of the Statistical Society
FST Flatter, Squarer Tube
FUO Fever of Unknown Origin
FWD four-wheel drive
FWD front-wheel drive
FYC Fine Young Cannibals (pop group)
FZS Fellow of the Zoological Society
GAC granular activated carbon
GAL generic array logic
GBA Alderney
GBE Grand Cross of the British Empire
GBG Guernsey
GBH grievous bodily harm
GBJ Jersey
GBM Isle of Man
GBP Great Britain pound
GBS George Bernard Shaw
GBZ Gibraltar
GCA ground control approach system
GCB Grand Cross of the Bath
GCD greatest common denominator
GCE General Certificate of Education
GCH Grand Cross of Hanover
GCM Grand Court-martial
GCM general circulation model
GCM greatest common measure
GDI Gross Domestic Income
GDP gross domestic product
GDR German Democratic Republic
GEC General Electric Company
GHQ general headquarters
GIE Groupement d'Interet Economique
GIF graphics interchange format
GKN Guest, Keen and Nettlefold
GLC Greater London Council (defunct)
GLS general lighting service
GMC General Medical Council
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GNP gross national product
GNU Gnu's Not Unix
GOC General Officer Commanding
GOM Grand Old Man
GOP Grand Old Party
GOT Glutamic Oxaloacetic Transaminase
GPA Guiness Peat Aviation
GPI General Paralysis/Paresis of the Insane
GPO General Post Office
GPS GEC Plessey Semiconductor
GPS global positioning geodesy
GPT GEC Plessey Telecommunications
GPT Glutamic Pyruvic Transaminase
GRN goods received note
GSM Guildhall School of Music
GSM grams per square metre
GSO General Staff Officer
GSP good service pension
GTC General Teaching Council
GTI gran turismo injection
GTO gate turn-off
GUI graphical user interface
GUM Gosudarstvenni Universalni Magazin
GUS Great Universal Stores
GWR Great Western Railway
GeV Giga-electron-Volts
HAA Hospitla Activity Analysis
HAC Honourable Artillery Company
HAC high-alumina cement
HBM His/Her Britannic Majesty
HCF Honorary Chaplain to the Forces
HCF halt and catch fire
HCF highest common factor
HCG Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin
HCM His Catholic Majesty
HDP Helio Data Processing
HEA Health Education Authority
HEH His Exalted Highness
HGV heavy goods vehicle
HHH incredibly hard pencil
HIE Hostpital In-patient Enquiry
HIH His/Her Imperial Highness
HIM His/Her Imperial Majesty
HIS hic iacet sepultus
HIV human immunodeficiency virus
HLA Histocompatibility Lymphocyte-A
HLI Highland Light Infantry
HMA Headmasters' Association
HMC His Majesty's Customs
HMG His Majesty's Government
HMI His Majesty's Inspectorate
HMP hoc monumentum posuit
HMS His Majesty's Ship
HMV His Master's Voice
HNC Higher National Certificate
HND Higher National Diploma
HPL Hewlett-Packard language
HPT Holmes Peat Thorpe (accountants)
HPV human papilloma virus
HRE Holy Roman Emperor
HRH His Royal Highness
HRM His Royal Majesty
HSE Health and Safety Executive
HSE hic sepultus est
HSH His Serene Highness
HSS Historiae Societatis Socius
HSS high-speed steel
HST high-speed train
HTR High Temperature Reactor
HTV Harlech Television
HWM high water mark
IAM Institute of Advanced Motorists
IAS Indian Administrative Service
IAU International Astronomical Union
IBA Independent Broadcasting Authority
IBC Independent Broadcasting Commission
IBM International Business Machines
ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts
ICC International Cricket Council
ICE Institution of Civil Engineers
ICE in-car entertainment
ICE in-circuit emulator
ICI Imperial Chemical Industries
ICJ Imperial Court of Justice
ICJ Imperial/International Court of Justice
ICL International Computers Limited
ICS Indian Civil Service
ICT International Computers and Tabulators
IDA International Development Association
IDB illict diamond buying
IDC insulation-displacement connector
IDN in Dei nomine
IDV International Distillers and Vintners
IEA Institute of Economic Affairs
IEA International Energy Agency
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEE Institution of Electrical Engineers
IFC International Finance Corporation
IFF identify friend or foe
IFM instantaneous frequency measurement
IFS Irish Free State
IGC Intergovernmental Commission
IGR Institute for Genomic Research
IHP indicated horse-power
IHQ international headquarters
IHS Iesus Hominum Salvator
IIL integrated injection logic
ILC irreversible letter of credit
ILN Illustrated London News
ILO International Labour Organisation
ILP Independent Labour Party
ILR independent local radio
ILS instrument landing system
IMF International Monetary Fund
IMM Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
IMP Integrated Micro Products
IMR Infant Mortality Rate
IOB Institute of Building
IOC Industrial Organisation Corporation
IOC International Olympic Committee
IOJ Institute of Journalists
IOM Isle of Man
IOU I owe you
IOW Isle of Wight
IPA India Pale Ale
IPA Institute of Practioners in Advertising
IPA International Phonetic Alphabet
IPA International Phonetic Association
IPA International Publishers' Association
IPC International Publishing Corporation
IPD in praesentia Dominorum
IPX *(Networking)
IQS Institute of Quantity Surveyors
IRA Irish Republican Army
IRB Irish Republican Brotherhood
IRC International Red Cross
IRQ interrupt request
IRS Internal Revenue Service
ISD International Subscriber Dialling
ISG Information Systems Group
ISO International Standards Origanisation
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISR Interrupt Subroutine
ITA Independent Television Authority
ITB Industrial Training Board
ITN Independent Television News
ITO International Trade Organisation
ITT International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
ITU International Telecommunications Union
ITV Independent Television
IUD intra-uterine device
IVP intra-venous pyelogram
IVR international vehicle registration
IWA Inland Waterways Association
IWC International Whaling Commission
IGA Immunoglobulin A (IgA)
IGD Immunoglobulin D (IgD)
IGE Immunoglobulin E (IgE)
IGG Immunoglobulin G (IgG)
IGM Immunoglobulin M (IgM)
JAL Japan Air Lines
JCB J.C. Bamford excavators
JCD Juris Civilis Doctor
JCR junior common room
JET Joint European Torus
JFK John Fitzgerald Kennedy
JHS John Hornby Skewes (UK co)
JIT just in time
JMB Joint Matriculation Board
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JSD Jackson Structured Design
JSP Jackson Structured Programming
JUD Juris Utriusque Doctor
KBE Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
KCB Knight Commander of the Bath
KGB Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti
KJD Kreuzfeldt-Jakob Disease
KKK Ku Klux Klan
KLH Knight of the Legion of Honour
KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij
KWH kilowatt-hour
LAC Licentiate of the Apothecaries' Company
LAN local acceptance note
LAN local area network
LAX Los Angeles International airport
LBC London Broadcasting Company
LBJ Lyndon Baines Johnson
LBO leveraged buy-out
LBW Leg Before Wicket
LCC London County Council
LCD liquid-crystal display
LCD lowest common denominator
LCJ Lord Chief Justice
LCM lowest common multiple
LCP Licentiate of the College of Preceptors
LDA load accumulator
LDI laser direct imaging
LDC less-developed country
LDP Liberal Democratic Party
LDS Licentiate in Dental Surgery
LDT Law Debenture Trust
LDV Local Defence Volunteers
LDX load index
LEA local education authority
LEB London Electricity Board
LED light-emitting diode
LEM lunar excursion module
LEP Large Electron-Positron Accelerator
LFA link field address
LFO Low Frequency Oscillator
LGU Ladies Golf Union
LGV ligne a grande vitesse
LHC Large Hadron Collider
LHD Litteratum Humaniorum Doctor
LHD left-hand drive
LHR London Heathrow airport
LLB Legum Baccalaureus
LLD Legum Doctor
LLM Legum Magister
LMS London Missionary Society
LMS London, Midland and Scottish Railway
LMX London Market Excess of Loss
LNG liquified natural gas
LOB Location of Offices Bureau
LOX liquid oxygen
LPG liquified petroleum gas
LPI lines per inch
LPO London Philharmonic Orchestra
LRB London Residual Body
LRC London Rubber Company
LRT London Regional Transport
LSA Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries
LSB Least Significant Bit
LSD librae, solidi, denarii
LSD lysergic acid diethylamide
LSE London School of Economics
LSO London Symphony Orchestra
LSU Louisiana State University
LTA Lawn Tennis Association
LTH Licentiate in Theology
LTM Licentiate in Tropical Medicine
LUA Lloyd's Underwriters Association
LUL London Underground Limited
LUN Logical Unit Number (SCSI)
LUT look-up table
LVA Licensed Victuallers Association
LVN Limiting Viscosity Number
LWM low water mark
LWT London Weekend Television
LZW Lempel, Ziv, Welch (compression algorithm)
MAC multiplexed analogue component
MAC multiplier-accumulator
MAO MonoAmine Oxidase
MBA master of business administration
MBE Member of the Order of the British Empire
MBE Molecular Beam Epitaxy
MBO management buy-out
MCA Microchannel Architecture
MCA monetary compensatory amounts
MCA mono character array
MCB Miniaturized Circuit Breaker
MCC Marylebone Cricket Club
MCC Maxwell Communications Corporation
MCH Magister Chirurgiae
MCP male chauvinist pig
MCR Magnetic Character Recognition
MDK medical diagnostic kit
MDS Master of Dental Surgery
MEP Member of the European Parliament
MEZ Mitteleuropaische Zeit
MFH Master of Foxhounds
MFM modified frequency modulation
MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (films)
MGN Mirror Group Newspapers
MHC major histocompatibility complex
MHG Middle High German
MHR Member of the House of Representatives
MIG Mikoyan and Gurevich
MIP manufacturing introduction plan
MIS Management Information Systems
MIT Massachussets Institute of Technology
MJI Member of the Institute of Journalists
MKS metre - kilogram - second
MLA Member of Legislative Assembly
MLA Modern Language Association
MLC Meat and Livestock Commission
MLC Member of Legislative Council
MLR minimum lending rate
MMB Milk Marketing Board
MMC Monopolies and Mergers Commission
MMI man-machine interface
MMU memory-management unit
MOD Ministry of Defence
MOH Medical Officer of Health
MOS metal-oxide-semiconductor
MOT Ministry of Transport
MOV Metal Oxide Varistor
MPB male pattern baldness
MPG miles per gallon
MPH miles per hour
MPP master project plan
MPS Member of the Pharmaceutical Society
MPS Member of the Philological Society
MPU microprocessor unit
MRA moral rearmament
MRC Medical Research Council
MRG Minority Rights Group
MRV multiple re-entry vehicles
MSB Most Significant Bit
MSC Manpower Services Commission
MSC Master of Science
MSF medium standard frequency
MSG Monosodium Glutamate
MSH Melanocyte-Stimulating-Hormone
MSL mean sea-level
MSS manuscripts
MST Mountain Standard Time
MSW Medical Social Worker
MTB motor torpedo-boat
MTH Master of Theology
MUD Multi-User Dungeon
MVO Member of the Royal Victorian Order
MVP Most Valuable Product
MeV Million electron Volts
NAK Negative AcKnowledge
NAS National Academy of Science
NBA Net Book Agreement
NBC National Broadcasting Company
NBG no bloody good
NBI Nothing But Initials
NBL National Book League
NBS National Bureau of Standards
NCB National Coal Board
NCC Nature Conservancy Council
NCE New Civil Engineer
NCO non-commissioned officer
NCR National Cash Register
NCT National Childbirth Trust
NCV no commercial value
NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement
NEB National Enterprise Board
NEB New English Bible
NEC National Executive Committee
NEC National Exhibition Centre
NED New English Dictionary
NEI non est inventus
NFA Non-deterministic Finite Automaton
NFG No F*****g Good
NFL NAtional Football League (US)
NFS National Fire Service
NFS Network File System
NFT National Film Theatre
NFU National Farmers' Union
NGA National Graphical Association
NGO non-governmental organisation
NGS new generation systems
NHI National Health Insurance
NHS National Health Service
NIC National Incomes Commission
NIC national insurance contribution
NIE national intelligence estimate
NIH National Institutes of Health
NIH Not Invented Here
NME New Musical Express (UK weekly)
NMR nuclear magnetic resonance
NNE north-north-east
NNI noise and number index
NNW north-north-west
NOP National Opinion Poll
NOP no operation
NOP not otherwise provided
NPA Number Plan America
NPG National Portrait Gallery
NPL National Physical Laboratory
NPN Negative-Positive-Negative (transistor)
NPT Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
NRA National Rifle Association
NRA National Rivers Authority
NRE non-recurring expenditure
NSB National Savings Bank
NSC National Scrabble Championships
NSE Network SouthEast
NSF National Science Foundation
NSM New Smoking Material
NSU non-specific urethritis
NSW New South Wales
NTC neagtive temperature coefficient
NTC negative temperature coefficient
NTP normal temperature and pressure
NTS National Trust for Scotland
NTS new technology scanners
NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
NUI National University of Ireland
NUJ National Union of Journalists
NUL NULl
NUM National Union of Mineworkers
NUR National Union of Railwaymen
NUS National Union of Seamen
NUS National Union of Students
NUT National Union of Teachers
NVM Nativity of the Virgin Mary
NWT North-west Territory
NYC New York City
NYO National Youth Orchestra
NZD New Zoo Developments
OAP Old-Age Pensioner
OAS Organisation of American States
OAS on active service
OAU Organisation of African Unity
OBE Officer of the Order of the British Empire
OCF Officiating Chaplain to the Forces
OCR optical character recognition
ODI Open Datalink Interface
OED Oxford English Dictionary
OEM original-equipment manufacturer
OFT Office of Fair Trading
OLE Object Linking and Embedding (Microsoft Windows)
OMD Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
OMG Object Management Group
ONA Open Network Architecture
ONC Ordinary National Certificate
OND Ordinary National Diploma
ONO or near offer
OOP Object-Oriented Programming
OOU out of use
ORB Object Request Broker (OMG)
OSA Ordinis Sancti Augustini
OSB Ordinis Sancti Benedicti
OSF Open Software Foundation
OSF Ordinis Sancti Francisci
OSP obiit sine prole
OTA Office of Technology Assessment
OTC Officers' Training Corp
OTC over the counter
OTT over the top
OUP Oxford University Press
PAD piezo-electric displacer
PAL phase change on alternate lines
PAL programmable array logic
PBI poor bloody infantry
PBP product business plan
PBX private branch exchange
PCB polychlorinated biphenyl
PCB printed circuit board
PCC Portable C Compiler
PCC parochial church council
PCM per calendar month
PCM pulse code modulation
PCN production change note
PCR polymerase chain reaction
PCS Principal Clerk of Sessions
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDI pre-delivery inspection
PDL Program Description Language
PDQ Pretty Damned Quick
PDT Pacific Daylight Time
PEC photoelectric cell
PEI Prince Edward Island
PEL picture element
PEN poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists
PES product engineering specification
PEO Principal Engineering Officer
PEP personal equity plan
PEP political and economic planning
PFA parameter field address
PFA pulverised fly ash
PFI private finance initiative
PFM Premiata Forneria Marconi (pop group)
PGA Professional Golfers' Association
PGA pin-grid array
PGM Past Grand Master
PHB Philosophiae Bacclaureus
PHD Philosophiae Doctor
PIA Pakistan International Airlines
PIA Private Investment Authority
PIA parallel interface adaptor
PIA peripheral interface adaptor
PIA programmable interface adaptor
PIB Prices and Incomes Board
PID proportional - integral - differential
PIF programme information file
PIN p-type - intrinsic - n-type
PIN personal identification number
PIT programmable interval timer
PIV penis-in-vagina
PKL phenylketonuria
PLA Port of London Authority
PLA programmable logic array
PLC programmable logic controller
PLC public limited company
PLO Palestine Liberation Organisation
PLP Parliamentary Labour Party
PLP product life-cycle process
PLS programmable logic sequencer
PLU People Like Us
PMG Paymaster General
PMG Postmaster General
PMO Principal Medical Officer
PMS post-menopausal syndrome
PMT photomultiplier tube
PMT pre-menstrual tension
PNP Positive-Negative-Positive (transistor)
POA Prison Officers' Association
POA price on application
POC point of care
POD Pocket Oxford Dictionary
POD pay on delivery
POO post-office order
POS point of sale
POW prisoner of war
PPA Pre-School Playgroups Association
PPB parts per billion
PPC picture post-card
PPC pour prendre conge
PPE politics, philosophy and economics
PPI plan position indicator
PPM parts per million
PPP Private Patients Plan
PPS Parliamentary Private Secretary
PPS post-postscriptum
PRB Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
PRN pro re nata
PRO Public Record Office
PRO Public Relations Officer
PRS product requirement specification
PRT Petroleum Revenue Tax
PSA Peugeot SA
PSA Property Services Agency
PSA pleasant Sunday afternoon
PSI pounds (force) per square inch
PSI proliferation security initiative
PST Pacific Standard Time
PSU power supply unit
PSV public service vehicle
PTA Parent/Teacher Association
PTA Passenger Transport Authority
PTC positive temperature coefficient
PTC programmable timer-counter
PTH plated-through hole
PTO please turn over
PTO public telecommunications operator
PTT Post, Telegraphy & Telephony
PTY Pseudo-Terminal (TTY)
PVA polyvinyl acetate
PVC polyvinyl chloride
PWB printed wiring board
PWD Public Works Department
PWM pulse width modulation
PWR pressurised water reactor
qAB Queen Anne's Bounty
QCD quantum chromodynamics
QED Quite Easily Done
QED quantum electrodynamics
QED quod erat demonstrandum
QEF quod erat faciendum
QEH Queen Elizabeth Hall
QEI quod erat inveniendum
QFD quality functional deployment
QFP quad flat pack
QIG quality improvement group
QMG Quartermaster-General
QMS Quartermaster-Sergeant
QPR Queens Park Rangers
QQV quae vide
QSG Quality Steering Group
QSO quasi-stellar object
RAC Royal Arch Charter
RAC Royal Armoured Corps
RAC Royal Automobile Club
RAF Royal Air Force
RAM Royal Academy of Music
RAM random access memory
RAM relative atomic mass
RAN Royal Australian Navy
RAS Royal Asiatic Society
RAS Royal Astronomical Society
RAS Russian Academy of Sciences
RAS refuelling at sea
RAS row address strobe
RAX rural automatic exchange
RBA Royal Society of British Artists
RBS Royal Society of British Sculptors
RCA Radio Corporation of America
RCA Royal Canadian Academy
RCB residual current breaker
RCD residual current device
RCM Regimental Court-martial
RCM Royal College of Music
RCN Royal Canadian Navy
RCO Royal College of Organists
RCP Royal College of Physicians
RCS Royal College of Surgeons
RCT Royal Corps of Transport
RDC Rural District Council
RDS Radio Data System
RDS Royal Dublic Society
REM rapid eye movement
REN ringer equivalence number
RFA Royal Fleet Auxiliary
RFC Royal Flying Corps
RFI radio-frequency interference
RFU Rugby Football Union
RGB red-green-blue
RGG Royal Grenadier Guards
RGN Registered General Nurse
RGS Royal Gepgraphical Society
RHA Regional Health Authority
RHA Road Haulage Association
RHA Royal Hibernian Academy
RHA Royal Horse Artillery
RHD right-hand drive
RHF Royal Highland Fusiliers
RHG Royal Horse Guards
RHM Rank Hovis McDougall
RHS Royal Highland Show
RHS Royal Historical Society
RHS Royal Horticultural Society
RHS Royal Humane Society
RIA Royal Irish Academy
RIC Royal Institute of Chemistry
RIC Royal Irish Constabulary
RIP requiescat in pace
RKO *Radio Keith-Orpheum (films)
RLO returned letter office
RLS Robert Louis Stevenson
RMA Royal Military Academy
RMO Resident Medical Officer
RMO Resident/Regional Medical Officer
RMP Royal Military Police
RMS Royal Mail Steamer
RMS Royal Microscopical Society
RMS root mean square
RNA ribonucleic acid
RNR Royal Naval Reserve
ROC Republic Of China
ROC Royal Observer Corps
ROI return on investment
ROI Royal Institute of Oil Painters
ROK Republic of Korea
ROM read-only memory
ROS read-only storage
RPA radiation protection adviser
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RPI retail price index
RPM retail price maintenance
RPM revolutions per minute
RPN reverse Polish notation
RPO Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
RPS Royal Photographic Society
RRE Royal Radar Establishment
RRP recommended retail price
RSA Republic of South Africa
RSA Rivest-Shamir-Adelson (public-key cryptosystem)
RSA Royal Scottish Academy
RSA Royal Society of Antiquaries
RSA Royal Society of Arts
RSE Royal Society of Edinburgh
RSG rate support grant
RSG regional seats of government
RSI repetitive strain injury
RSL Royal Society of Literature
RSM Regimental Sergeant-Major
RSM Royal School of Music
RSM Royal Society of Medicine
RSO Resident Sugical Officer
RSO radiological safety officer
RSO railway sorting office
RSO railway sub-office
RSO rural sub-office
RSS Regiae Societatis Socius
RSS Royal Statistical Society
RSV Revised Standard Version
RSW Royal Scottish Water Colour Society
RTE Radio Telefis Eireann
RTL resistor-transistor logic
RTO Railway Transportation Officer
RTS request to send
RTZ Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation
RUC Royal Ulster Constabulary
RWS Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours
RYA Royal Yachting Association
RYS Royal Yacht Squadron
RZS Royal Zoological Society
SAA Society of Incorporated Accountants
SAA South African Airways
SAA small arms ammunition
SAE Society of Automotive Engineers (lubricant viscosity numbers)
SAE stamped, addressed envelope
SAL single alternating line
SAM surface-to-air missile
SAM synchronous address multiplexer
SAS Scandinavian Airlines System
SAS Sociatatis Antiquariorum Socius
SAS Special Air Service
SAW Stock, Aitken, Waterman (pop manipulators)
SBC single-board computer
SBD Silent But Deadly
SBN standard book number
SBS Special Boat Service
SBU strategic business unit
SCA Subsidence Claims Association
SCB Scientiae Baccalaureus
SCD Scientiae Doctor
SCE Scottish Certificate of Education
SCF Save the Children Fund
SCL Student of Civil Law
SCM Specialists in Community Medicine
SCM State Certified Midwife
SCM Student Christian Movement
SCM short-cycle manufacturing
SCO Santa Cruz Operation
SCR senior common room
SCR silicon controlled rectifier
SDA Scottish Development Agency
SDC single data converter
SDD Scottish Development Department
SDP Social Democratic Party
SDP social, domestic and pleasure
SDR special drawing rights
SEC Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC Stock Exchange Committee
SED Scottish Education Department
SEM scanning electron microscope
SEN State Enrolled Nurse
SEO Senior Engineering Officer
SEP someone else's problem
SET selective employment tax
SEX set index
SEX sign extend
SFA Scottish Football Association
SFA Securities and Futures Authority
SFA sweet Fanny Adams
SFO San Francisco airport
SFO Serious Fraud Office
SGF Scottish Grocers' Federation
SHV sub hoc verbo
SIA serial interface adaptor
SIB Securities and Investment Board
SIC Securities and Investment Commission
SIL Speech Interference Level (acoustic scale)
SIR subsurface interface radar
SIS Special Intelligence Service
SIV simian immunodeficiency virus
SJC San Jose International airport
SKB Smith Kline Beecham
SLD Social and Liberal Democrats
SLP Scottish Labour Party
SLP Scottish Liberal Party
SLP sine legitima prole
SLR Simple LR (parser)
SLR single-lens reflex
SMB Server Message Block
SMC Scottish Mountaineering Club
SMD surface-mount device
SMM Sancta Mater Maria
SMO Senior Medical Officer
SMP School Mathematics Project
SMP Symmetric Multiprocessing
SMP sine mascula prole
SMR Standardised Mortality Ratios
SMT surface-mount technology
SNA Systems Network Architecture
SNO Scottish National Orchestra
SNP Scottish National Party
SNU solar neutrino unit
SOB son-of-a-bitch
SOD Shorter Oxford Dictionary
SOE Special Operations Executive
SOH Start Of Header
SOR sale or return
SOS Save Our Souls
SOS silicon on sapphire
SOV Safe Operating Volume
SPG Special Patrol Group
SPR Society for Psychical Research
SPS sine prole superstite
SPX *(networking protocol)
SRC Science Research Council
SRC Student Representative Council
SRI Sacrum Romanum Imperium
SRN software release note
SRN state-registered nurse
SRS Societatis Regiae Socius
SRU Scottish Rugby Union
SSB single side-band
SSC Societas Sanctae Crucis
SSC Solicitor before the Supreme Court
SSC superconducting supercollider
SSD Sanctissimus Dominus
SSE south-south-east
SSI solid-state interlocking
SSM surface-to-surface missile
SSN standard serial number
SST supersonic transport
SSW south-south-west
STA store accumulator
STD sexually transmitted disease
STD state transition diagram
STD subscriber trunk dialling
STP Sanctae Theologiae Professor
STP standard temperature and pressure
STS Scottish Text Society
STV Scottish Television
STV single transferable vote
STX start of text
STX store index
SUN Standardisation, Units and Nomenclature (IUPAP sub-committee)
SWA Scotch Whisky Association
SWG Standard Wire Gauge
TAC technical advisory committee
TBA to be announced
TBD to be determined
TBD torpedo-boat destroyer
TCB task control block
TCD Trinity College Dublin
TCD Twentieth Century Dictionary
TCL Trinity College of Music, London
TCP transmission control protocol
TCP trichlorophenylmethyliodosalicyl
TEC training and enterprise council
TES Times Educational Supplement
TFR Territorial Force Reserve
TGV train a grande vitesse
THC Tetra-Hydro-Cannabinnol
THD Doctor of Theology
THF Trust House Forte
THL Theological Licentiate
TID ter in die
TIF Transports Internationaux par Chemin de Fer
TIL threaded interpreted language
TIR Transports Internationaux Routiers
TLA three-letter abbreviation
TLA three-letter acronym
TLB translation look-aside buffer
TLS Times Literary Supplement
TMA Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (A.C. Clarke, 2001)
TME Technische Mass Einheit
TML Trans Manche Limited
TMS Tonne - Metre - Second
TNT trinitrotoluene
TOA time of arrival
TPI Town Planning Institute
TPI Tracks Per Inch
TPO travelling post office
TRF tuned radio frequency
TRG Transition Graph
TRH Their Royal Highnesses
TSB Trustee Savings Bank
TSO town sub-office
TSR Terminate and Stay Resident
TSS toxic shock syndrome
TTL temporary traffic lights
TTL to take leave
TTL transistor-transistor logic
TTY teletype
TUA Telecommunications Users' Association
TUC Trades Union Congress
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
TVM TeleVision Movie
TVP texturised vegetable protein
TVR television rating
TWA Trans-World Airlines
TWI Training within Industry
TWT travelling-wave tube
UAE United Arab Emirates
UAL United Airlines
UAR United Arab Republic
UCL University College London
UDA Ulster Defence Association
UDC Universal Decimal Classification
UDC Urban District Council
UDI Unilateral Declaration of Independence
UDR Ulster Defence Regiment
UDT United Dominions Trust
UFC University Funding Council
UFF Ulster Freedom Fighters
UFO unidentified flying object
UGC University Grants Committee
UHF ultra high frequency
UHT ultra heat treated
UHT ultra high tension
UJD Utriusque Juris Doctor
UKL United Kingdom pounds
ULP Unit in Last Place
UNA United Nations Association
UNC unified coarse
UNF unified fine
UNH unnilhexium
UNO United Nations Organisation
UNP unnilpentium
UNQ unnilquadium
UNS unnilseptium
UPU Universal Postal Union
UPW Union of Post Office Workers
URA Urban Regeneration Agency
URC United Reformed Church
USA United States of America
USL Unix Software Laboratories
USM unlisted securities market
USM unsharp masking
USN United States Navy
USP Unique Selling Points/Position
USS United States Ship
USW ultrasonic waves
UTA Unit Trust Association
UTC universal co-ordinated time
UUQ ununquadium
UVA ultra-violet type A
UVB ultra-violet type B
UVF Ulster Volunteer Force
VAD Voluntary Aid Detachment
VAR Value Added Reseller
VAT value-added tax
VCA voltage-controlled amplifier
VCO voltage-controlled oscillator
VCR video cassette recorder
VDC Volunteer Defence Corps
VDM Verbi Dei Minister
VDT visual display terminal
VDU visual display unit
VFD vacuum-fluorescent display
VGA versatile graphics array
VHF very high frequency
VHS JVC videocassette system
VIP very important person
VIR Victoria Imperatrix Regina
VLF very low frequency
VMH Victoria Medal of Honour
VMS Virtual Machine System
VRD Volunteer Reserve Decoration
VRI Victoria Regina et Imperatrix
VRQ verbal reasoning quotient
VSO voluntary service overseas
VTO vertical take off
VTR video tape recorder
WAN wide-area network
WBA West Bromwich Albion
WBA World Boxing Association of America
WBC World Boxing Council
WBO World Boxing Organisation
WCC World Council of Churches
WCT World Championship Tennis
WEA Workers' Educational Association
WEU Western European Union
WFA White Fish Authority
WFN Worldwide Fund for Nature
WHO World Health Organisation
WIC Whitbread Investment Company
WIP work in progress
WLA Women's Land Army
WLF Women's Liberal Federation
WMD weapons of mass destruction
WMO World Meteorological Organisation
WNP Welsh National Party
WNW west-north-west
WRI Women's Rural Institute
WRP Workers' Revolutionary Party
WSW west-south-west
WTO Warsaw Treaty Organisation
WTO World Trade Organisation
WUB Wake Up Block
WVS Women's Voluntary Service
WWF World Wildlife Fund
XGA Extended Graphics Array
YHA Youth Hostels Association
YOP Youth Opportunities Programme
YTV Yorkshire Television
ZIP Zone Improvement Plan
ZIP zig-zag in-line package
ZPG zero population growth
ZSL Zoological Society of London
ZST zone standard time
ZTT Zang Tuum Tumb (record co)
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