Acronyms
An ACRONYM is a word created from the first letter of each word of a phrase. The words in RED were used in our spelling, but there are hundreds of ACRONYMS. Check out some of the ACRONYM sites below to find some.
AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AWOL - Absent WithOut Leave
EPCOT - Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow
FexEx - FEDeral EXpress
Jeep - (G. P. Vehicle) General Purpose Vehicle
LASER - Light Amplification by Emission of Radiation
LEGO - Leg Godt, Danish for "Play Well", used by the Danish toy company for its name and product
METRO - METROpolitan Railway
NABISCO - NAtional BIScuit COmpany
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Company
OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
PAKISTAN - Punjab, Afgan border states, Kashmir, Sind, BulchisTAN
PIN - Personal Identification Number
POSH - Port Out, Starboard Home, Having to do with the best cabins aboard ship as passengers traveled between England and India.
RADAR - RAdio Detecting And Ranging
RAM - Random Access Memory
ROM - Read Only Memory
SCUBA - Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SNAFU - Situation Normal All Fouled Up
SWAT - Special Weapons Action Team or Special Weapons and Tactics
SONAR - Sound Navigation And Ranging
TEFLON - TEtraFLOroethylene resiN
INICEF - United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
ZIP code - Zone Improvement Plan.
The ACRONYM Finder - Imagine a website that serves no other purpose4 than finding ACRONYMS.
STANDS4.com - A nicely sorted source for ACRONYMS
The ACRONYM Server - Enter a word and see if it is an ACRONYM and what it means.
American Government ACRONYM List - The American Government has over 500 ACRONYMS in use.
UC Berkley Library Dictionary of Abbreviations and ACRONYMS - Sorted alphabetically, hundreds of entries
BABEL - Computers and computer people have developed a language of their own, and it probably contains more ACRONYMS than anywhere.