Acronyms List

076		Ibm 4.77 Mhz Personal Computer
099		Ibm 6 Mhz Personal Computer/at
1003.0		Guide To POSIX
1003.1		System Kernel Interface
1003.10		Supercomputing Aep
1003.11		Transaction Processing Aep (IEEE)
1003.12		Protocol Independent Network Access (IEEE)
1003.13		Real Time Processing Aep
1003.14		Multiprocessing Aep
1003.15		Supercomputing Batch Extensions
1003.16		System Interface Aep
1003.17		Name Space And Directory Services (IEEE)
1003.18		POSIX Pep (formerly Tims)
1003.1A		Addendum To 1003.1
1003.2		Shell And Utilities
1003.3		Test Methods
1003.4		Real Time Extensions To 1003.1
1003.4A		Threads Extension To 1003.4
1003.5		Ada Language Bindings
1003.6		Security
1003.7		System Administration
1003.8		Transparent File Access (IEEE)
1003.9		Fortran Language Bindings
100BASET	Fddi Over Stp (proposed, Cabletron/national Semi)
103		AT&T 300 Bps Modem Standard (aka Bell 103)
10BASE2		10 Mb/sec; Baseband; 185 Meters/segment
10BASE5		10 Mb/sec; Baseband; 500 Meters/segment
10BASEF		10 Mb/sec; Baseband; Fiber Optic
10BASET		10 Mb/sec; Baseband; Twisted Pair Cable
10BROAD36	10 Mb/sec; Broadband; 3600 Meters/segment
11/780		Vax Minicomputer (1 Mips Dec)
1164/1165	Weitek Fpu 1167 Weitek Math Coprocessor
1201.1		Windows Toolkit API
1201.2		Driveability
1224		X.400 Gateway API (IEEE)
1238		Ftam And Common OSI API (IEEE)
1255		Micr (IBM)
13W3		Video Connector For Sun/sony Color
1840A		Automated Interchange Of Technical Information (mil-std-1840a)
2100		RISC Workstation (DEC)
212A		AT&T 1200 Bps Modem Standard (aka Bell 212a)
2B1Q		~ (ISDN Interface Spec)
2D		2-dimensional
3/50		Sun 68020, 1.5 Mips
3/60		Sun 68020, 2 Mips
3/80		Sun 68030, 3 Mips (apr89)
308X		Mainframe (IBM)
3090		Sierra-class Mainframe (IBM)
3100		RISC Workstation (DEC)
3101		Ascii Terminal (IBM)
3151		Ascii Terminal (IBM)
3161		Ascii Terminal (IBM)
3162		Ascii Terminal (IBM)
3163		Ascii Terminal (IBM)
3164		Ascii Terminal (IBM)
3172		Interconnect Controller (channel Attach + Lan Adapter Ibm)
3174		Remote Control Unit - Cluster Controller (IBM)
3178		Small Footprint 3278 (IBM)
3179		Small Footprint 3279 (IBM)
3179G		Graphics 3179 (IBM)
3180		Terminal (IBM)
3196		Terminal (IBM)
3197		Terminal (IBM)
3203		Printer (IBM)
3240		9-track, 1/2-inch Tape (IBM)
3262		Printer (IBM)
3270		Mainframe Protocol (IBM)
3274		Cluster Controller (IBM)
3278		Monochrome 3270 Terminal (IBM)
3279		Color 3270 Terminal (IBM)
328X		Printer Line (IBM)
3363		200 Mb Worm Drive (IBM)
3370		Dasd (IBM)
339		8 Mhz Personal Computer/at (IBM)
34010		Graphics Processor (ti)
34020		Graphics Processor (ti)
3410		Tape Unit (IBM)
3411		Tape Unit (IBM)
3476		Terminal (IBM)
3477		Color Terminal (IBM)
3725		Fep (IBM)
3745		Fep (IBM)
3812		Printer (IBM)
3816		Printer (IBM)
3825		Printer (IBM)
3827		Printer (IBM)
38XX		Printer Line (IBM)
3ACC		3a Central Control
3B		Minicomputer Line (at&t)
3C501		Ethernet Nic Isa (3com)
3C503		Ethernet Isa Nic, Aka Etherlink Ii (3com)
3C505		Ethernet Isa Nic, Aka Etherlink Plus (80186 + Ram) (3com) 
3C525		Ethernet Mca Nic (3com)
3D		3-dimensional
3M		Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing
3U		Single Port Vme
3X		Minicomputer Series (IBM System 34/36/38)
4.2BSD		Ucb Unix Variant (see Bsd)
4/110		SPARC Desktop (Sun)
4/150		SPARC Deskside (Sun)
4/16-UTP	UTP Token Ring Cable
4/20		SPARCstation Slc (Sun)
4/330		Deskside SPARCstation (vme)
4/370		Deskside SPARCstation (vme)
4/40		SPARCstation Ipc (Sun)
4/470		Deskside SPARCstation (vme)
4/490		Rackmount SPARCserver, 22 Mips (Dec89, Sun)
4/60		SPARCstation 1 12.5 Mips (apr89, Sun)
4/630		Deskside Multiprocessor SPARCserver (vme/sbus)
4/65		SPARCstation 1+ 15.8 Mips (Sun)
4/670		Deskside Multiprocessor SPARCserver (vme/sbus)
4/690		Rackmount Multiprocessor SPARCserver (vme/sbus)
4/70		SPARCstation 2 25.8 Mips (sun, Oct90)
4/75		SPARCstation 10 (sun, Mar92)
4201		Ascii Printer (IBM)
4202		Ascii Printer (IBM)
4207		Ascii Printer (IBM)
4208		Ascii Printer (IBM)
420X		Proprinter (IBM)
4210		Printer (IBM)
4234		Printer (IBM)
4245		Printer (IBM)
4300		Minicomputer/mainframe Series (IBM)
4GL		Fourth Generation Language
4H		Head, Heart, Hands, Health
5000		Desktop RISC (apr90, Dec)
5080		Graphics Terminal (IBM)
5150		Pc (IBM)
5160		Pc (IBM)
5162		Pc (IBM)
5170		Pc (IBM)
51XX		Graphics Printer Series (IBM)
5208		Link Protocol Converter (IBM)
5209		Link Protocol Converter (IBM)
520X		Quietwriter Printer Series (IBM)
5211		Printer (IBM)
5219		Printer (IBM)
5224		Printer (IBM)
5225		Printer (IBM)
5251		Terminals Used With Ibm Minis (s/34, S/36, S/38)
5252		Terminal (IBM)
5256		Printer (IBM)
5259		Migration Data Link (IBM)
5262		Printer (IBM)
5291		Terminal (IBM)
5292		Terminal (IBM)
5294		Remote Control Unit (IBM)
5299		Multiconnector And Ttpa Adapter (IBM)
5394		Remote Control Unit (IBM)
5424		Multi-function Card Unit (IBM)
5822		Digital Service Unit (IBM)
5841		Modem (IBM)
5842		Modem (IBM)
5853		2400 Bps Modem (IBM)
58TE		5080 Terminal Emulator (Sun)
5XBCOERS	X-bar Central Office Equipment Reports System, "5xb Coer"
6080		Graphics Terminal (IBM)
6157		Cartridge Tape Unit (IBM)
6262		Printer (IBM)
6502		CISC 8-bit Motorola CPU (apple Ii)
6580		Displaywriter (IBM)
6670		Document Processor (IBM)
68000		CISC 32-bit Motorola CPU (sun 1)
68010		CISC 32-bit Motorola CPU (sun 2)
68020		CISC 32-bit Motorola CPU (sun-3/50, Macintosh Ii)
68030		CISC 32-bit Motorola CPU (sun-3/80)
68040		CISC 32-bit Motorola CPU (macintosh Iifx)
6888X		Fpu (motorola)
6U		Two Port Vme
7208		8mm Tape Unit, 2.3 Gb (IBM)
7855		Hayes-compatible 19,200 Bps Modem (IBM)
7861		4800 - 19,200 Bps Modem (IBM)
7868		Rack-mounted Modem (IBM)
8(A)		(minority Contract)
80186		CISC 16-bit Intel CPU
802.1		~
802.11		Wireless Spec
802.2		Starlan Spec (IEEE)
802.3		Csma/cd Spec, Ala Ethernet (IEEE)
802.3-LLC	803.3 Frame With Llc Info
802.4		Token Bus Spec, Ala Map (IEEE)
802.5		Token Ring Spec (IEEE)
802.5-SR	802.5 W/source-routing
802.5-T		802.5 Source-transparent Inter-ring Routing
802.6		Metropolitan Area Network - Aka Smds (IEEE)
802.7		Broadband Cable Spec (IEEE)
802.9		Integrated Voice/data/video
80286		CISC 16/24-bit Intel CPU
80287		Math Coprcessor For I80286
80386		CISC 32-bit Intel CPU
80386SX		CISC 32/16-bit Intel CPU
80387		Math Coprocessor For I80386
80486		CISC 32-bit Intel CPU 
8086		CISC 16-bit Intel CPU
8087		Math Coprocessor For I8088/i8086
8088		CISC 8/16-bit Intel CPU
8228		Multi-station Access Unit (IBM)
82380		Peripheral Controller - Used With I80386 (intel)
82385		Cache Controller - Used With I80386 (intel)
8250-A		Uart
8250-B		Uart
860		RISC IU (intel)
8600		Minicomputer Line (DEC)
86900		SPARC CPU
86910		SPARC Fpu
8800		Minicomputer Line (DEC)
88000		Motorola RISC 
8809		Tape Unit (IBM)
88K		See 88000
896.1		Futurebus+ Protocol
9370		Departmental Computer (IBM)
9U		3-port Vme

A		Ampere
A-10		Tank-killer Aircraft (aka Thunderbolt, Aka Warthog)
A-64		Helicopter (aka Apache)
A-V		Audio-visual
A/D		Acrylonitrile Butadiene-styrene
A/D		Analog To Digital
A/UX		Apple's Unix For Macintosh
A1		Design Verified And Certified (orange Book)
A6-E		Grumman Fighter, Aka Intruder
AA		Administrative Assistant
AA		Affirmative Action Committee
AA		Alcoholics Anonymous
AA		American Airlines
AA		Antiaircraft Artillery
AA		Associate In Accounting
AA		Astronomy And Astrophysics, "aanda"
AA		Automobile Association
AAA		American Automobile Association
AAA		Anaa, French Polynesia
AAA		Anti-aircraft Artillery
AAAI		American Association Of Artificial Intelligence
AAAL		American Academy Of Arts And Letters
AAAS		American Association For The Advancement Of Science
AAC		Al Arish, Egypt
AADU		Aix Access For Dos Users (IBM)
AAE		Annaba, Algeria
AAI		Arraias, Brazil
AAII		American Association Of Individual Investors
AAL		Aalborg, Denmark
AAL	*	ATM Adaption Layer
AAM		Mala Mala, South Africa
AAMSI		American Association For Medical Systems Informatics
AAO		Anaco, Venezuela
AAO		Anglo-australian Observatory
AAP		Affirmative Action Program
AAR		Aarhus, Denmark
AARC		Anglo-american Cataloging Rules
AARP		Appletalk Arp
AAS		American Astronomical Society
AAU		Asau, Western Samoa
AAVSO		American Association Of Variable Star Observers
AAX		Araxa, Brazil
AAX		Automated Attendant Exchange
AB		Able Bodied Seaman
ABA		American Bar Association
ABA		American Basketball Association
ABA		American Booksellers Association
ABATS		Automatic Bit Access Test System
ABBR		Abbreviation
ABC		American Broadcasting Company
ABCD		(the Microcomputer Industry Association - No Acronym)
ABD		Abadan, Iran
ABE		Allentown/bethlehem/easton, PA, USA
ABEL		Advanced Boolean Expression Language (a Data-i/o Trademark)
ABEND		Abnormal End
ABHC		Average Busy Hour Calls
ABI		Abilene, TX, USA
ABI		American Bell Inc
ABI		Applications Binary Interface
ABIG		Access.bus Industry Group
ABIOS		Advanced Bios
ABJ		Abidjan, Ivory Coast
ABK		Kabri Dar, Ethiopia
ABL		Ambler, AK, USA
ABM		Anti-ballistic Missile
ABM		Asynchronous Balanced Mode
ABQ		Albuquerque, New Mexico
ABQ		Albuquerque, NM, USA
ABR		Aberdeen, SD, USA
ABR		Area Border Router
ABR		Available Bit Rate
ABS		Abu Simbel, Arab Republic Of Egypt
ABS		Acrylonitrile Butadiene-styrene (plastic)
ABS		Alternative Billing Service
ABS		American Bureau Of Shipping
ABS		Antilock Braking System
ABSBH		Average Busy Season Busy Hour
ABT		Al-baha, Saudi Arabia
ABV		Abuja, Nigeria
ABX		Albury, Australia
ABY		Albany, GA, USA
ABZ		Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
AC		Access Control
AC		Adaptive Control
AC		Alternating Current (see also DC)
AC		Answer Center (Sun)
AC		Ante Christum (before Christ)
AC		Ante Cibum (before Meals)
ACA		Acapulco, Mexico
ACAA		Agricultural Conservation And Adjustment Administration
ACAWS		Advisory, Caution, And Warning System
ACB		Annoyance Call Bureau
ACBL		American Contract Bridge League
ACC		Accra, Ghana
ACC		Advanced Computer Communications Inc
ACC		Argonne Code Center
ACC		Audio Communications Controller
ACCRA		American Chamber Of Commerce Research Association
ACCS		Army Command And Control System
ACCS		Automated Calling Card Service
ACCT		Account
ACD		Automatic Call Distributor [telephony]
ACDA		Automatic Call Disposition Analyzer
ACE		Advanced Composition Explorer
ACE		Advanced Computing Environment
ACE		Arrecife, Canary Islands
ACE		Automatic Calibration And Equalization
ACE		Automatic Calling Equipment
ACF		Advanced Communications Functions
ACH		Attempt Per Circuit Per Hour
ACHEFT		Automated Clearinghouse Electronic Funds Transfer
ACI		Alderney, Channel Islands
ACK		Acknowledge
ACK		Amsterdam Compiler Kit
ACK		Nantucket, MA, USA
ACL		Access Control List
ACL		Access Control List (cisco?)
ACL		Advanced CMOS Logic
ACLU		American Civil Liberties Union
ACM		Access Control Machine
ACM		Area Channel Manager (SMCC)
ACM		Association For Computer Machinery
ACM		Association For Computing Machinery
ACO		Acronym Control Officer
ACOF		Attendant Control Of Facilities
ACP		Action Point
ACPI	*	Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ACR/NEMA	~ (a Medical Imaging Standard)
ACRNET		Attatched Resource Computer Network
ACRV		Assured Crew Return Vehicle (or) Astronaut Crew Rescue Vehicle
ACS		Access Control Store (OSI)
ACS		Advanced Communications System
ACS		Australian Computer Science
ACSC		Automobile Club Of Southern California
ACSE		Access Control Service Element (iso 8649)
ACSE		Application Common Service Element
ACSE		Association Control Service Entity (iso/itut Layer 7)
ACSNET		Academic Computing Services Network
ACSU		Advanced T-1 Channel Service Unit
ACT		Applied Computerized Telephony
ACT		Waco, TX, USA
ACTAS		Alliance Of Computer-based Telephony Application Suppliers
ACTPU		Activate Physical Unit (sna)
ACTS		Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
ACTS		Automated Coin Toll Service
ACTS		Automatic Coin Telephone Service [telephony]
ACTUP		Aids Coalition To Unleash Power, "act Up"
ACU		Achutupo, Panama
ACU		Alarm Control Unit
ACU		Automatic Calling Unit
ACV		Arcata/eureka, CA, USA
ACVC		Ada Compiler Validation Capability (softech)
ACW		Alternating Continuous Waves
ACWP		Actual Cost Of Work Performed
ACY		Atlantic City, NJ, USA
AD		Addendum
AD		After Date
AD		Analog To Digital Converter, "a/d" (see Adc)
AD		Anno Domini (in The Year Of Our Lord)
AD		Application Development
ADA		9x Ada9x@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
ADA		Adana, Turkey
ADA		Air Defense Artillery
ADA		Americans With Disabilities Act
ADA		Apple Dealers Association
Ada		ISO/ANSI Mil 1815a-1983 Language (from Green,yellow,red,blue)
ADAPSO		Association Of Data Processing Service Organizations (see Itaa)
ADB		A Debugger
ADB		Adnan Izmir, Turkey
ADB		Apple Desktop Bus
ADC		Analog To Digital Converter
ADCCP		Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures
ADCI		Automatic Display Call Indicator
ADD		Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
ADD		Advanced Dungeons And Dragons, "adandd"
ADD		Attention Deficit Disorder
ADDCP		Advanced Data Communication Control Procedure
ADDS		Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc. 
ADE		Aden, Yemen
ADE		Advanced Development Environment
ADEW		Andrew Development Environment Workbench
ADF		Adapter Definition File
ADF		Automatic Direction Finder
ADFRF		Ames-dryden Flight Research Facility (was Dfrf) (NASA)
ADI		Analog Device Inc
ADIC		Advanced Digital Information Corporation 
ADJ		Amman Civil Airport, Jordan
ADK		Adak Island, AK, USA
ADL		Adelaide, Australia
ADL	*	Anti-Defamation League
ADM		Active Device Mount
ADM		Add/drop Multiplexer
ADM		Additional Dealer Markup
ADM		Admiral
ADM		Ardmore, OK, USA
ADMA		Administration Agent (x.400)
ADMD		Administrative Management Domain (ISDN)
ADMR		Administrator (x.400)
ADN		Abbreviated Dialing Number
ADO		Andamooka, Australia
ADP		Adenosine Di-phosphate
ADP		Administrative Data Processing
ADP		Advanced Data Processing
ADP		Automatic Data Processing
ADPCM		Adaptive Delta Pulse Code Modulation
ADPCM		Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
ADPE		Automatic Data Processing Equipment
ADQ		Kodiak-metropolitan, AK, USA
ADS		Advanced Digital System
ADS		Application Development System
ADS		Audio Distribution System
ADS		Automatic Voice System
ADS		Auxilary Data System
ADS		Dallas-addison, TX, USA
ADSL		Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (see SDSL)
ADSP		Appletalk Data Stream Protocol
ADSR		Attack Decay Sustain Release
ADT		Abstract Data Type
ADT		Application Development Tools (IBM)
ADT		Atlantic Daylight Time
ADW		Andrews AFB, MD, USA
ADY		Alldays, South Africa
ADZ		San Andres Island, Colombia
AE		Application Entity/environment/execution/engineering (APE)
AEA		American Electronics Association
AEA		Atomic Energy Authority
AEC		Architectural Engineering Construction
AEC		Architecture, Engineering, Construction
AEC		Atomic Energy Commission
AEF		American Expeditionary Force (see BEF)
AEG		Academic Equipment Grant
AEGIS		Advanced Electronic Guidance And Instrumentation System
AEH		Abecher, Chad
AEN		Adult Education Network
AEO		Aioun El Atrouss, Mauritania
AEP		Application Environment Profile (IEEE 1003.10, .11)
AEP		Buenos Aries-newbery, Argentina
AER		Adler/sochi, USSR
AES		Aalesund, Norway
AES		Application Environment Specification (OSF)
AET		Allakaket, AK, USA
AEX		Alexandria-England AFB, LA, USA
AEY		Akureyri, Iceland
AF		Address Family (sockets)
AF		Adventures In Fantasy
AF		Air Force
AF		Audio Frequency
AFA		San Rafael, Argentina
AFACTS		Automatic Facilities Test System
AFADS		Automatic Force Adjustment Data System
AFATDS		Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
AFB		Air Force Base
AFC		American Football Conference
AFC		Automatic Flight Control
AFC		Automatic Frequency Control
AFCAC		Air Force Computer Acquisition Center (Hanscom AFB)
AFCC		Air Force Communications Command
AFCEA		Armed Forces Communications And Electronics Association
AFE		Analog Front-end
AFGE		American Federation Of Government Employees
AFI		Authority And Format Identifier
AFIPS		American Federation Of Information Processing Societies
AFL		American Federation Of Labor
AFL		American Football League
AFL-CIO		American Federation Of Labor; Congress Of Industrial Organizations
AFM		Adobe Font Metrics
AFNOR		Association Francaise De Normalisation (French ISO Group)
AFO		Americas Field Operations
AFP		Apple Filing Protocol
AFP		Appletalk Filing Protocol
AFS		Andrew File System
AFS		Andrew Filing System (Transarc)
AFSC		Air Force Systems Command
AFSCME		American Federation Of State, County And Municipal Employees
AFSK		Automatic Frequency Shift Keying
AFT		Automatic Filter Test
AFTRA		American Federation Of Television And Radio Artists
AFUU		Association Francaise Des Utilisateurs D'unix
AFW		Ft Worth-alliance, TX, USA
AFY		Afyon, Turkey
AG		Adjutant General
AG		Arcade Game
AG		Attorney General
AGA		Agadir, Morocco
AGB		Muhlhausen Augsburg, Germany
AGC		Pittsburgh-allegheny Cty, PA, USA
AGCT		Army General Classification Test
AGF		Agen, France
AGG		Angoram, Papua New Guinea
AGH		Helsingborg-angelholm, Sweden
AGK		Kagua, Papua New Guinea
AGL		Above Ground Level
AGL		Wanigela, Papua New Guinea
AGLL		American Genealogical Lending Library
AGM		Air-to-ground Missile
AGN		Active Galactic Nucleus
AGN		Angoon, AK, USA
AGP		Malaga, Spain
AGQ		Agrinion, Greece
AGR		Agra, India
AGS		Augusta-bush Field, GA, USA
AGU		Aguascalientes, Mexico
AGU		American Geophysical Union
AGV		Acarigua, Venezuela
AGX		Agatti Island, India
AH		Artificial Horizon
AH		Avalon Hill (Major War Game Manufacturer)
AHA		Advanced Hardware Architects
AHA		American Homebrew Association
AHA		Okinawa-naha AFB, Japan
AHB		Abha, Saudi Arabia
AHC		Herlong, CA, USA
AHD		Ardmore, OK, USA
AHDD		Attention Hyperactive Deficit Disorder
AHDL		Analog Hardware Description Language
AHL		American Hockey League
AHN		Athens, GA, USA
AHO		Alghero/sassari, Italy
AHQ		Air Headquarters
AHS		Ahuas, Honduras
AHT		Amchitka Island, AK, USA
AHU		Al Hoceima, Morocco
AI		Allegheny International
AI		Amnesty International
AI		Anal Intrusion
AI		Artificial Insemination
AI		Artificial Intelligence
AI		Attitude Indicator
AIA		Alliance, NE, USA
AIA		American Institute Of Architects
AIA		Application Integration Architecture
AIAA		American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics
AIB		Anita Bay, AK, USA
AIC		Automatic Intercept Center
AICC		Automatic Intercept Communications Controller
AID		Agency For International Development
AID		Anderson, IN, USA
AIDDE		Ames' Interactive Dynamic Display Editor
AIDS		Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIFF		Audio Interchange File Format
AIIM		Association For Information And Image Management
AIK		Aiken, SC, USA
AIM		Asynchronous Transfer Mode Inverse Multiplexing
AIM		Air Interception Missile
AIM		Airman's Information Manual
AIMS		Advanced Inventory Management System
AIN		Wainwright, AK, USA
AIO		Asynchronous Input/output
AIOD		Automatic Identification Outward Dialing
AIPS		Astronomical Image Processing System
AIS		Action Item System
AIS		Americas Information Services (SMI)
AIS		Automatic Intercept System
AIT		Aitutaki, Cook Islands
AIX		Advanced Interactive Executive
AIX		Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM Unix)
AIY		Atlantic City-bader Field, NJ, USA
AIZ		Lake Of The Ozarks, MO, USA
AJ		Astronomical Journal
AJA		Ajaccio, Corsica
AJF		Jouf, Saudi Arabia
AJJ		Akjoujt, Mauritania
AJN		Anjouan, Comoro Islands
AJPO		Ada Joint Program Office (DOD)
AJR		Arvidsjaur, Sweden
AJU		Aracaju, Brazil
AJY		Agades, Niger
AK		Alaska
AKA		Also Known As
AKB		Atka, AK, USA
AKC		American Kennel Club
AKF		Kufrah, Libya
AKI		Akiak, AK, USA
AKJ		Asahikawa, Japan
AKK		Akhiok, AK, USA
AKL		Auckland Intl Airport, Australia
AKN		King Salmon, AK, USA
AKP		Anaktuvik Pass, AK, USA
AKR		Akure, Nigeria
AKS		Auki, Solomon Islands
AKV		Akulivik, Quebec, Canada
AKX		Aktyubinsk, USSR
AKY		Akyab, Burma
AL		Alabama
AL		American League (baseball)
ALA		Alma-ata, USSR
ALA		American Library Association
ALA		Automobile Legal Association
ALAP		Appletalk-localtalk Link Access Protocol
ALB		Albany, NY, USA
ALBM		Air-to-land Ballistic Missile
ALBO		Automatic Line Buildout
ALC		Airline Link Control
ALC		Alicante, Spain
ALC		Assembly Language Coding
ALC		Automatic Load Control
ALE		Address Latch Enable
ALE		Alpine, TX, USA
ALEXIS		Array Of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors
ALF		Alta, Norway
ALFA		Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili
ALFE		Analog Line Front End
ALG		Algiers, Algeria
ALGOL		Algorithmic Language
ALH		Albany, Australia
ALI		Automatic Location Indentification
ALIT		Automatic Line Insulation Testing
ALIX		Automated Library On Information Exchange
ALJ		Alexander Bay, South Africa
ALM		Alamogordo/holloman AFB, NM, USA
ALM		Asychronous Line Module
ALM		Asynchronous Line Multiplexer
ALM-2		Asynchronous Line Multiplexer 2 (16 Channels, Sun VME)
ALO		Waterloo, IA, USA
ALP		Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic
ALPO		Association Of Lunar And Planetary Observers
ALQ		Alegrete, Brazil
ALR		Alexandra, New Zealand
ALRU		Automatic Line Record Update
ALS		Ada Language System (softech)
ALS		Advanced Launch System 
ALS		Alamosa, CO, USA
ALS		Automated List Service
ALT		Alenquer, Brazil
ALU		Arithmatic/logic Unit
ALU		Arithmetic Logic Unit
ALW		Walla Walla, WA, USA
ALY		Alexandria, Arab Republic Of Egypt
ALZ		Alitak, AK, USA
AM		Administrative Module
AM		Agricultural And Mechanical, "aandm"
AM		Air Marshal
AM		Alpes-maritimes, "a.-m."
AM		American, "am."
AM		Americium, "am"
AM		Amplitude Modulation
AM		Anno Mundi (in The Year Of The World)
AM		Ante Meridiem, "a.m." (before Noon)
AMA		Amarillo, TX, USA
AMA		American Medical Association
AMA		Association For Model Aviation
AMA		Automatic Message Accounting
AMACS		Automatic Message Accounting Collection System
AMARC		Automatic Message Accounting Recording Center
AMASE		Automatic Message Accounting Standard Entry
AMAT		Automatic Message Accounting Transmitter
AMATPS		Automatic Message Accounting Teleprocessing System
AMBA		Association Of Master Of Business Administration
AMC		Albany Medical College
AMD		Advanced Micro Devices 
AMD		Ahmedabad, India
AMD		Area Marketing Director (Sun)
AME		Advanced Modeling System
AMERITECH	American Information Technologies
AMEX		American Express
AMF		Ama, Papua New Guinea
AMG		Amboin, Papua New Guinea
AMH		Arba Mintch, Ethiopia
AMHS		Automated Message Handling System
AMI		Alternate Mark Inversion
AMI		American Micro System Inc 
AMI		Mataram, Indonesia
AMIS		Audio Messaging Interchange Specification 
AMK		Durango-animas Airpark, CO, USA
AML		Puerto Armuelles, Panama
AMLCD		Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
AMM		Amman, Jordan
AMM		Area Marketing Manager (Sun)
AMN		Alma, MI, USA
AMO		Mao, Chad
AMORC		Ancient Mystic Order Rosae Crucis
AMP		Adenosine Monophosphate
AMP		Ampanihy, Madagascar
AMP		Apple Management Protocol
AMPAS		Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences
AMPS		Advanced Mobile Phone Service
AMQ		Ambon, Indonesia
AMR		Applications Marketing Representative
AMRAAM		Advanced Medium Range Air-to-air Missile
AMROC		American Rocket Company 
AMS		Amsterdam-schipol, Netherlands
AMS		Applications Management Strategy (Tivoli)
AMSAT		Radio Amateur Satellite Corp.
AMT		Active Memory Technology
AMT		Amata-nt, Australia
AMU		Atomic Mass Unit
AMVET		American Veteran
AMW		Ames, IA, USA
AMX		Ammaroo, Australia
AN		Associated Number
ANA		American Nurses Association
ANA		Anaheim, CA, USA
ANA		Automatic Number Announcement
ANAC		Automatic Number Announcement Circuit [telephony]
ANB		Anniston, AL, USA
ANC		All Number Calling [telephony]
ANC		American Network Communications
ANC		Anchorage, AK, USA
ANC		Army Nurse Corps
AND		Anderson, SC, USA
ANDF		Architecture-neutral Distribution Format (OSF)
ANE		Angers, France
ANF		Antofagasta, Chile
ANF		Automatic Number Forwarding
ANG		Air National Guard
ANG		Angouleme, France
ANI		Aniak, AK, USA
ANI		Automatic Number Identification [telephony]
ANIF		Automatic Number Identification Failure
ANL		Argonne National Laboratory
ANN		Annette Island, AK, USA
ANO		Angoche, Mozambique
ANOVA		Analysis Of Variance
ANPA		American Newspaper Publishers Association
ANR		Antwerp, Belgium
ANS		Advanced Network Services
ANS		Andahuaylas, Peru
ANSI		American National Standards Institute (US Member Of ISO)
ANTC		Advanced Network Test Center/sunnyvale, California
ANU		Antigua, British West Indies
ANU		Australian National University
ANV		Anvik, AK, USA
ANW		Advanced NetWare (Novell-obsolete)
ANX		Andeness, Norway
ANZUS		Australia, New Zealand, United States
AO		Account Of
AOA		Abort Once Around (shuttle Abort Plan)
AOA		Aroa, Papua New Guinea
AOCS		Attitude And Orbit Control System
AOH		Lima, OH, USA
AOI		Ancona, Italy
AOJ		Aomori, Japan
AOK		Karpathos, Greece
AOL		Absent Over Leave (see Awol)
AOL		America Online
AOL		Paso De Los Libres, Argentina
AOO		Altoona, PA, USA
AOP		Annual Operating Plan
AOPA		Aircraft Owners And Pilots Association
AOQ		Average Outgoing Quality
AOR		Album Oriented Rock
AOR		Alor Setar, Malaysia
AOS		Academic Operating System
AOS		Advanced Operating System (data General)
AOS		Alternate Operator Service [telephony]
AOS		Amook, AK, USA
AOS/VS		Aos With Virtual Storage (dg)
AOSS		Auxilliary Operator Service System
AOW		Asia And Oceania Workshop
AP		Accounts Payable, "a/p"
AP		Additional Premium
AP		All Points
AP		Application Process
AP		Associated Press
AP		Attached Processor
APA		All Points Addressable
APA		Denver-arapahoe County, CO, USA
APB		All Points Bulletin
APC		Amarc Protocol Converter
APC		Napa, CA, USA
APCUG		Association Of Personal Computer User Groups
APDA		Apple Programmers And Developers Association
APDU		Application Protocol Data Unit
APE		Application Engineering
APF		Appletalk Filing Protocol
APF		Naples, FL, USA
APG		Aberdeen Proving Ground
APHIS		Animal And Plant Health Inspection Service
API		American Petroleum Institute
API		Application Programmatic Interface
API		Application Programming Interface
APIA		Application Programmatic Interface Association (x.400 Mail)
APICS		American Production And Inventory Control Society
APJ		Astrophysical Journal, "ap.j", "apj"
APK		Apataki, French Polynesia
APL		A Programming Language (military)
APL		Nampula, Mozambique
APM		Advanced Power Management
APM		Attached Pressurized Module (a.k.a. Columbus)
APN		Academic Position Network
APN		Alpena, MI, USA
APO		Alpha Pi (?) Omega, Service Fraternity
APO		Apartado, Colombia
APO		Army Post Office
APP		Application Portability Profile (nist)
APPC		Advanced Peer-to-peer Communications
APPC		Advanced Program To Program Communications
APPC		Advanced Program-to-program Communication (IBM)
APPN		Advanced Peer-to-peer Network (IBM)
APPN		Advanced Peer-to-peer Networking
APR		Annual Percentage Rate
APS		Application Processing Services
APS		Automated Patent System
APS		Automatic Protection Switch
APSE		Ada Programming Support Environment
APSM		Application Platform Service Module
APT		Automated Programming Tool (nc)
APT		Jasper, TN, USA
APU		Auxiliary Power Unit
APV		Apple Valley, CA, USA
APW		Apia, Western Samoa
AQ		Accumulator-quotient Register
AQI		Qaisumah, Saudi Arabia
AQJ		Aqaba, Jordan
AQL		Acceptable Quality Level
AQM		Ariquemes, Brazil
AQMD		Air Quality Management District
AQP		Arequipa, Peru
AQY		Alyeska, AK, USA
AR		Accounts Receivable, "a/r"
AR		Address Register
AR		Alarm Report
AR		Arkansas
ARA		New Iberia, LA, USA
ARAMIS		American Rheumatic Arthritis Medical Information System
ARB		Ann Arbor, MI, USA
ARC		Aids Related Complex
ARC		American Red Cross
ARC		Ames Research Center (NASA)
ARC		Arctic Village, AK, USA
ARC		Audio Response Controller
ARCA		Advanced RISC Computing Architecture (see ACE)
ARCNET		Attached Resource Computer Local Area Network
ARCO		Atlantic Richfield Company
ARD		Alor, Indonesia
ARE		Arecibo, PR, USA
ARG		Walnut Ridge, AR, USA
ARH		Arkhangelsk, USSR
ARI		Arica, Chile
ARIS		Audichron Recorded Information System
ARK		Arusha, Tanzania
ARLL		Advanced Run Length Limited (systems And Software, Inc: 3,9 RLL)
ARM		Acorn RISC Machine
ARM		Adjustable Rate Mortgage
ARM		Annotated Reference Manual
ARM		Armidale, Australia
ARM		Arpanet Reference Model
ARN		Stockholm-arlanda, Sweden
ARO		After Receipt Of Order
ARP		Address Resolution Protocol
ARP		Address Resolution Protocol (internet->ethernet)
ARP		Aragip, Papua New Guinea
ARPA		Advanced Research Projects Agency (of the DOD: see DARPA)
ARPANET		Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
ARPOSE		OSI Profile - France (ARPOSE Has French Translation)
ARQ		Arauquita, Colombia
ARQ		Automatic Repeat Request
ARRL		Amateur Radio Relay League
ARS		Alternate Route Selection
ARS		Aragarcas, Brazil
ARSA		Airport Radar Service Area
ARSB		Automated Repair Service Bureau
ART		Watertown, NY, USA
ARTCC		Air Route Traffic Control Center
ARTEMIS		Advanced Relay Technology Mission
ARTIC		A Real-time Interface Coprocessor (IBM)
ARU		Aracatuba, Brazil
ARU		Audio Response Unit
ARV		American Revised Version
ARV		Minocqua, WI, USA
ARW		Arad, Romania
ARX		Asbury Park, NJ, USA
ARY		Ararat-vi, Australia
ARZ		N'zetro, Angola
AS		Anglo-saxon
AS		Autonomous System
AS/400		(minicomputer Line, Code-named Silverlake: Ibm)
AS/RS		Automated Storage And Retrieval System
ASA		Acetyl Salicylic Acid
ASA		American Standards Association (now ANSI)
ASA		Assab, Ethiopia
ASA		Astronomical Society Of The Atlantic
ASAI		Adjunct Systems Application Interface (at&t)
ASAIGAC		As Soon As I Get A Chance
ASAP		As Soon As Possible
ASB		Ashkhabad, USSR
ASC		Accredited Standards Committee
ASC		Additional Sense Code
ASC		Ascension, Bolivia
ASCAP		American Society Of Composers, Authors, And Publishers
ASCC		Automatic Sequence-controlled Calculator
ASCII		American Standard Code For Information Interchange
ASCQ		Additional Sense Code Qualifier
ASD		Andros Town, Bahamas
ASDIC		Anti-submarine Detection Investigation Committee (british Sonar)
ASDSP		Application-specific Digital Signal Processor
ASE		Application Service Element
ASE		Area Systems Engineer (SMCC)
ASE		Aspen, CO, USA
ASEM		Area Systems Engineering Manager (SMCC)
ASET		Automated Security Enhancement Tool (sunsoft)
ASG		Ashburton, New Zealand
ASG		Automated Sciences Group
ASH		Nashua, NH, USA
ASHRAE		Amer. Soc. Of Heating, Refrigerating And Air-cond. Engineers
ASI		Agenzia Spaziale Italiano
ASI		Asynchronous SCSI Interface
ASI		Automatic System Installation
ASI		Georgetown, St. Helena
ASIC		Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASIC		Application-specific Integrated Circuit
ASJ		Amami O Shima, Japan
ASK		Amplitude Shift Keying
ASK		Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast
ASL		Marshall, TX, USA
ASM		American Society Of Metals
ASM		Asmara, Ethiopia
ASM		Association For Systems Management
ASM		Available Seat Mile
ASME		American Society Of Mechanical Engineers
ASN		Abstract Syntax Notation
ASN		Abstract Syntax Notation, Autonomous System Number
ASN		Talladega, AL, USA
ASN.1		Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (iso 8824/8825)
ASO		Application Service Object
ASO		Asosa, Ethiopia
ASOC		Administrative Service Oversight Center
ASP		Aggregated Switch Procurement
ASP		Alice Springs, Australia
ASP		Appletalk Session Protocol
ASP		Association Of Shareware Professionals
ASPEN		Automatic System For Performance Evaluation Of The Network
ASPI		Adaptec SCSI Programming Interface
ASPI		Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
ASQ		Austin, NV, USA
ASQC		American Society For Quality Control
ASR		Airport Surveillance Radar
ASR		Associate Sales Representative (Sun)
ASR		Kayseri, Turkey
ASRM		Advanced Solid Rocket Motor
ASRS		Asset Survey Reporting Service (sunservice)
ASRS		Aviation Safety Reporting System
ASSD		Area Sales Development Director
ASSR		Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
AST		Albert, Safi And Tom: Ast Research 
AST		Applied System Technology
AST		Astoria/seaside, OR, USA
AST		Asyncronous System Trap
AST		Atlantic Standard Time
ASTM		American Society Of Testing And Materials
ASU		Asuncion, Paraguay
ASV		American Standard Version
ASW		Aswan, Arab Republic Of Egypt
ASX		Ashland, WI, USA
AT		Access Tandem
AT		Atlantic Time
AT&T		American Telephone And Telegraph
ATA		Airport Traffic Area
ATA		Anta, Peru
ATA		At Attachment
ATA		Automatic Trouble Analysis
ATACC		Advanced Tactical Air Command Central
ATAPI		(pc) At Attachment Packet Interface
ATAPI		At Attachment Packet Interface
ATB		Advanced Technology Bomber (stealth Bomber)
ATB		All Trunks Busy
ATB		Atbara, Sudan
ATC		Air Traffic Control
ATC		Arthur's Town, Bahamas
ATC		Atsugi Technical Center
ATC		Automatic Transmission Control
ATDRS		Advanced Tracking And Data Relay Satellite
ATE		Antlers, OK, USA
ATE		Automatic Test Equipment
ATF		Advanced Technology Fighter
ATG		Automatic Test Generation
ATH		Abbreviated Trouble History
ATH		Athens, Greece
ATI		Artigas, Uruguay
ATI		Automatic Test Inhibit
ATIS		Application Tools Integration Services
ATIS		Atherton Tools Interface Specification
ATIS		Automatic Terminal Information Service
ATIS		Automatic Transmitter Identification System
ATK		Andrew Toolkit
ATK		Atqasuk, AK, USA
ATKVMS		Appletalk Protocol Stack Library For VMS
ATL		Atlanta-hartsfield, GA, USA
ATL		Automated Tape Library
ATLAS		Atmospheric Laboratory For Applications And Science
ATM		Adobe Type Manager
ATM		Altamira, Brazil
ATM		Amateur Telescope Maker
ATM		Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM		Automated Teller Machine
ATMD		Area Tactical Marketing Director
ATMS		Automated Trunk Measurement System
ATN		Automated Test Network
ATN		Namatanai, Papua New Guinea
ATO		Abort To Orbit (shuttle Abort Plan)
ATO		Athens, OH, USA
ATOMS		AT&T Optimized Materials Simulator
ATP		Adenosine Triphosphate
ATP		Airline Transport Pilot (highest Grade Of Pilot Certificate)
ATP		All Tests Pass
ATP		Appletalk Transaction Protocol (apple)
ATP		As Time Permits
ATP	*	Available To Promise
ATP2		Appletalk Phase 2
ATPCO		Airline Tariff Publishing Company
ATPG		Automatic Test Pattern Generation
ATQ		Amritsar, India
ATR		Alternate Trunk Routing
ATR		Atar, Mauritania
ATRS		Automated Trouble Reporting System
ATS		Artesia, NM, USA
ATS		Automated Test System
ATT		American Telephone And Telegraph, "at&t"
ATT		Atmautluak, AK, USA
ATTC		Automatic Transmission Test And Control Circuit
ATTCOM		American Telephone And Telegraph Communications
ATTIS		American Telephone And Telegraph Information Systems
ATU		Attu, AK, USA
ATV		All Terrain Vehicle
ATV		Ati, Chad
ATVA	*	American TeleVision Alliance
ATW		Appleton, WI, USA
ATY		Watertown, SD, USA
AU		Arithematic Unit
AU		Astronomical Unit (93,000,000 Miles) 
AUA		Aruba-beatrix, Aruba
AUC		Arauca, Colombia
AUD		Augustus Downs, Australia
AUDIX		Audio Information Exchange (at&t)
AUG		Augusta, ME, USA
AUH		Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
AUI		Attachment Unit Interface
AUK		Alakanuk, AK, USA
AUM		Austin, MN, USA
AUO		Auburn/opelika, AL, USA
AUP		Acceptable Use Policy
AUP		Aguan, Papua New Guinea
AUQ		Atuona, French Polynesia
AUR		Aurillac, France
AURA		Association Of Universities For Research In Astronomy
AURP		Appletalk Updated Routing Protocol
AUS		Army Of The United States
AUS		Austin, TX, USA
AUTODIN		Automatic Digital Network
AUTOSEVCOM	Automatic Secure Voice Communications
AUTOVON		Automatic Voice Network
AUW		Wausau Municipal, WI, USA
AUX		Apple Unix
AUXF		Auxillary Frame
AUY		Aneityum Island, Vanuata
AV		Audiovisual
AVB		Avino, Italy
AVD		Alternate Voice Data
AVG		Average
AVI		Audio Video Interleave (Microsoft)
AVI		Ciego De Avila, Cuba
AVL		Asheville, NC,  USA
AVLIS		Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation
AVN		Avignon, France
AVO		Ada Validation Office
AVO		Avon Park, FL, USA
AVP		Area Vice President (smi)
AVP		Scranton/wilkes-barre, PA, USA
AVS		Application Visualization System
AVV		Avalon-vi, Australia
AVW		Tucson-avra Valley, AZ, USA
AVX		Catalina Island-avalon Bay, CA, USA
AWA		Awasa, Ethiopia
AWACS		Airborne Warning And Control System
AWD		Advanced Workstation Division (IBM)
AWEA		American Wind Energy Association
AWG		American Wire Gauge
AWG		American Wire Guage
AWK		Al Aho, Peter Weinberger And Brian Kernighan
AWK		Wake Island, Tp, USA
AWOL		Absent Without Official Leave
AWR		Awar, Papua New Guinea
AWR		Automatic Write Relocation
AWST		Aviation Week And Space Technology (a.k.a. Avleak), "awandst"
AWZ		Ahwaz, Iran
AXA		Anguilla, British West Indies
AXAF		Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility 
AXB		Alexandria Bay, NY, USA
AXC		Aramac, Australia
AXD		Alexandroupolis, Greece
AXM		Armenia, Colombia
AXN		Alexandria, MN, USA
AXP		Spring Point, Bahamas
AXS		Altus-municipal, OK, USA
AXT		Akita, Japan
AXU		Axum, Ethiopia
AXV		Wapakoneta, OH, USA
AXX		Angel Fire, NM, USA
AYP		Ayacucho, Peru
AYQ		Ayers Rock, Australia
AYR		Ayr, Australia
AYS		Waycross, GA, USA
AYT		Antalya, Turkey
AYW		Ayawasi, Indonesia
AZ		Arizona
AZD		Yazd, Iran
AZERTY		European-type keyboard (see QWERTY)
AZG		Apatzingan, Mexico
AZO		Kalamazoo, MI, USA
AZT		Azidothymidine

b		Bit
B		Book
B		Byte
B-ISDN		Basic ISDN
B1		Labeled Security Protection (orange Book)
B2		Structured Protection (orange Book)
B3		Structured Domains (orange Book)
B6ZS		Bipolar With 6 Zero Subsitution
B8ZS	*	Bipolar With 8 Zero Subsitution (DS1)
B911		Basic 911
BA		Bachelor Of Arts
BAA		Bialla, Papua New Guinea
BAB		Marysville-beale AFB, CA, USA
BAC		Barranca De Upia, Columbia
BACH		Business Alliance For Commerce In Hemp
BAD		Shreveport-barksdale AFB, LA, USA
BAE		Barcelonnette, France
BAF		Westfield, MA, USA
BAFO		Best And Final Offer
BAG		Baguio, Philippines
BAH		Bahrain Island, Bahrain
BAK		Baku, USSR
BAL		Batman, Turkey
BALUN		Balanced To Unbalanced
BAM		Battle Mountain, NV, USA
BAMAF		Bellcore Ama Format
BANCS		Bell Administrative Network Communications System
BAO		Ban Mak Khaeng, Thailand
BAPCO		Bellsouth Advertising And Publishing Company
BAQ		Barranquilla, Colombia
BARRNET		Bay Area Regional Research Network
BASH		Bourne-again Shell
BASIC		Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (x3.113-1987)
BASIC		Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Set
BAT		Barretos, Brazil
BATSE		Burst And Transient Source Experiment (on Gro)
BAU		Bauru, Brazil
BAV		Baotou, China
BAY		Baia Mare, Romania
BB		Bases On Balls
BB		Best Of Breed
BB		Bunnies And Burrows
BBA		Bachelor Of Business Administration
BBA		Balmaceda, Chile
BBB		Better Business Bureau
BBC		Bay City, TX, USA
BBC		British Broadcasting Corporation
BBF		Burlington, MA, USA
BBH		Al Baha, Saudi Arabia
BBI		Bhubaneswar, India
BBL		Barrel
BBN		Bolt, Beranek And Newman 
BBN		Bolt, Beranek And Newman
BBO		Berbera, Somali
BBQ		Barbuda, British West Indies
BBR		Basse-terre, Guadeloupe
BBS		Bulletin Board System
BBT		Berberati, Central African Republic
BBU		Bucharest-baneasa, Romania
BBX		Blue Bell, PA, USA
BBXRT		Broad-band X-ray Telescope (astro Package)
BBY		Bambari, Central African Rep
BBZ		Zambezi, Zambia
BC		Battlecars
BC		Before Christ
BC		British Columbia
BCA		Baracoa, Cuba
BCB		Blacksburg, VA, USA
BCBS		Blue Cross/blue Shield, "bc/bs"
BCC		Blind/blank Carbon Copy
BCC		Block Check Character
BCC		Blocked Call Cleared
BCD		Bacolod, Philippines
BCD		Bad Conduct Discharge
BCD		Binary Coded Decimal
BCD		Blocked Call Delayed
BCDIC		Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
BCE		Before The Common Era (substitute For Bc)
BCE		Bryce Canyon, UT, USA
BCH		Baucau, East Timor
BCI		Barcaldine, Australia
BCL		Barra Colorado, Costa Rica
BCM		Bacau, Romania
BCN		Barcelona, Spain
BCP		Binary Communications Protocol
BCP		Binary Compatibility Package (sunsoft)
BCP		Byte Controlled Protocols
BCPL		Basic Combined Programming Language
BCR		Bell Communications Research
BCS		Bachelor Of Commercial Science
BCS		Basic Combined Subset (OSI Session Layer)
BCS		Batch Change Supplement
BCS		Binary Compatibility Standard (abi For Motorola Chips)
BCS		Boston Computer Society
BCS		British Computer Society (uk)
BCT		Boca Raton, FL, USA
BCWP		Budgeted Cost Of Work Performed
BCWS		Budgeted Cost Of Work Scheduled
BCY		Bulchi, Ethiopia
BD		Bachelor Of Divinity
BD		Bank Draft
BD		Bills Discounted
BDA		Battle Damage Assessment
BDA		Bomb Damage Assessment
BDA		Hamilton, Bermuda
BDB		Bundaberg, Australia
BDC	*	Backup Domain Controller
BDC		Boston Development Center, See Also Bos (Sun)
BDD		Basic Dungeons And Dragons, "bdandd"
BDE		Baudette, MN, USA
BDF		Binary Distribution Format
BDF		Bitmap Description Format (adobe)
BDF		Bitmap Distribution Format (x11)
BDG		Blanding, UT, USA
BDH		Bandar Lengeh, Iran
BDI		Bird Island, Seychelles
BDJ		Bandjarmasin, Indonesia
BDK		Bondoukou, Ivory Coast
BDL		Hartford-bradley, Ct, USA
BDM		Bandirma, Turkey
BDN		Badin, Pakistan
BDO		Bandung, Indonesia
BDP		Bhadrapur, Nepal
BDQ		Vadodara, India
BDR		Bridgeport, Ct, USA
BDS		Brindisi, Italy
BDT		Billing Data Transmitter
BDT		Bulk Data Transfer
BDU		Bardufoss, Norway
BDY		Bandon, OR, USA
BE		Back End
BE		Bill Of Exchange
BEA		Bureau Of Economic Analysis
BEAV		Binary Editor And Viewer
BEB		Benbecula, Hebrides
BEB		Binary Exponential Backoff
BECAUSE		Benchmark Of Concurrent Architectures For Their Use In Scientific Engineering
BECN		Backward Explicit Congestion Notification (frame Relay)
BED		Bedford, MA, USA
BED		Hanscom Field, Bedford Ma
BEF		Band Elimination Filter
BEF		Bluefields, Nicaragua
BEF		British Expeditionary Force (see Aef)
BEG		Belgrade, Yugoslavia
BEH		Benton Harbor/st. Joseph, MI, USA
BEHEMOTH	Big Electronic Human-energized Machine... Only Too Heavy
BEI		Beica, Ethiopia
BEL		Belem, Brazil
BELLCORE	Bell Communications Research
BEM		Bossembele, Central African Rep
BEM		Bug Eyed Monster
BEN		Benghazi, Libya
BENELUX		Belgium, Netherlands, And Luxembourg
BEO		Newcastle-belmont, Australia
BER		Basic Encoding Rules (asn.1)
BER		Berlin-metropolitan, Germany
BER		Bit Error Rate
BERT		Bit-error-rate Test
BES		Brest, France
BEST		Borland Enhanced Support And Training
BET		Bethel, AK, USA
BETRS		Basic Exchange Telecommunications Radio Service
BEU		Bedourie, Australia
BEW		Beira, Mozambique
BEY		Beirut, Lebanon
BF		Brought Forward
BFA		Bachelor Of Fine Arts
BFD		Big F---ing Deal
BFD		Blank Floppy Disc
BFD		Bradford, PA, USA
BFE		Blacker Front Ends
BFF		Scottsbluff, NE, USA
BFHD		Big Fat Hairy Deal
BFI		Seattle-boeing Field, WA, USA
BFK		Denver-buckley Angb, CO, USA
BFL		Bakersfield, CA, USA
BFM		Mobile, AL, USA
BFN		Bloemfontein, South Africa
BFO		Buffalo Range, Zimbabwe
BFQ		Bluffton, OH, USA
BFR		Biennial Flight Review
BFS		Belfast-intl, Northern Ireland, UK
BFT		Beaufort, SC, USA
BFT		Binary File Transfer
BFT		Binary File Transfer Protocol
BGA		Bucaramanga, Colombia
BGB		Booue, Gabon
BGD		Borger, TX, USA
BGF		Bangui, Central African Republic
BGI		Bridgetown-grantley Adams, Barbados
BGM		Binghamton/endicott/johnson Cty, NY, USA
BGO		Bergen, Norway
BGP		Border Gateway Protocol
BGP		Border Gateway Protocol (RFC 1105/1163, Obsolete)
BGQ		Big Lake, AK, USA
BGR		Bangor, ME, USA
BGS		Big Spring-webb AFB, TX, USA
BGT		Bagdad, AZ, USA
BGU		Bangassou, Central African Rep
BGU		Business Graphics Unit (IBM)
BGW		Baghdad-al Muthana, Iraq
BGX		Bage, Brazil
BGY		Bergamo, Italy
BH		Black Hole
BH		Boot Hill
BHA		Butylated Hydroxyanisole
BHB		Bar Harbor, ME, USA
BHC		Bullhead City, AZ, USA
BHC		Busy Hour Calls
BHD		Belfast-city, Northern Ireland, UK
BHE		Blenheim, New Zealand
BHG		Brus Laguna, Honduras
BHH		Bisha, Saudi Arabia
BHI		Bahia Blanca, Argentina
BHJ		Bhuj, India
BHK		Bukhara, USSR
BHL		Bahia Angeles, Mexico
BHM		Birmingham, AL, USA
BHN		Beihan, Yemen
BHO		Bhopal, India
BHP		Brake Horsepower
BHQ		Broken Hill, Australia
BHR		Bharatpur, Nepal
BHS		Bathurst, Australia
BHT		Butylated Hydroxytoluene
BHU		Bhavnagar, India
BHV		Bahawalpur, Pakistan
BHX		Birmingham, England, UK
BHZ		Belo Horizonte, Brazil
BI		Backplane Interconnect
BI		Bus Interconnect
BIA		Bastia, Corsica
BIC		Big Creek, AK, USA
BICS		Building Industry Consulting Services [telephony]
BICSI		~ (standards organisation)
BICT		Boundary In-circuit Testing
BID		Bis In Die (twice A Day)
BID		Block Island, RI, USA
BIE		Beatrice, NE, USA
BIF		Benchmark Interchange Format (NCGA)
BIF		El Paso-Biggs AAF, TX, USA
BIFF		Heidi Stettner's Dog At Ucb
BIG		Big Delta, AK, USA
BIH		Bishop, CA, USA
BIK		Biak, Indonesia
BIL		Billings, MT, USA
BIM		Bimini Island, Bahamas
BIMA		Berkeley Illinois Maryland Array
BIN		Bamian, Afghanistan
BIND		Berkeley Internet Name Daemon
BIO		Bilbao, Spain
BIOC		Break Into Other Computers
BIOD		Blocking I/O Daemon
BIOS		Basic Input/Output System
BIPS		Billions Of Instructions Per Second
BIQ		Biarritz, France
BIR		Biratnagar, Nepal
BIS		Bismarck/Mandan, ND, USA
BIS		Business Information System
BISDN		Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network, "b-ISDN"
BISP		Business Information System Program
BIST		Built-in Self-test
BISYNC		Binary Synchronous Communication (IBM)
BIT		Binary Digit
BIT		Bipolar Integrated Technologies (oregon)
BIT		Built-in Test
BITBLT		Bit Block Transfer
BITNET		Because It's Time Network
BITNET		Because-it's-time Network
BITS		Biotechnology Information Toolkit Software
BIU		Bus Interface Unit
BIV		Bria, Central African Rep
BIX		Biloxi, MI, USA
BIX		Byte Information Exchange
BJC		Broomfield, CO, USA
BJI		Bemidji, MN, USA
BJJ		Wooster, OH, USA
BJL		Banjul, Gambia
BJM		Bujumbura, Burundi
BJR		Bahar Dar, Ethiopia
BJX		Leon-guanajuato, Mexico
BJZ		Badajoz, Spain
BKC		Buckland, AK, USA
BKE		Baker, OR, USA
BKF		Brooks Lake, AK, USA
BKI		Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
BKK		Bangkok, Thailand
BKL		Cleveland-lakefront, OH, USA
BKM		Bakalalan, Malaysia
BKN		Birni Nkoni, Niger
BKO		Bamako, Mali
BKQ		Blackall, Australia
BKU		Betioky, Madagascar
BKW		Beckley, WV, USA
BKX		Brookings, SD, USA
BKY		Bukavu, Zaire
BKZ		Bukoba, Tanzania
BL		Bill Of Loading
BLA		Barcelona, Venezuela
BLAS		Basic Linear Algebra Subroutine
BLASP		Basic Linear Algebra Subroutine Program
BLAST		Blocked Asynchronous Transmission
BLB		Balboa, Panama
BLC		Bali, Cameroons
BLDS		Busy Line/Don't Answer, "bl/ds"
BLE		Borlange, Sweden
BLER		Block Error Rate
BLERT		Block-error-rate Test
BLF		Busy Lamp Field [telephony]
BLF		Busy Line Field
BLF		Princeton/Bluefield, WV, USA
BLG		Belaga, Malaysia
BLH		Blythe, CA, USA
BLI		Bellingham, WA, USA
BLJ		Batna, Algeria
BLK		Blackpool, England, UK
BLL		Billund, Denmark
BLM		Belmar, NJ, USA
BLM		Bureau Of Land Management
BLO		Blondous, Iceland
BLOBS		Binary Large Objects
BLQ		Bologna, Italy
BLR		Bangalore, India
BLS		Bureau Of Labor Statistics
BLS		Business Listing Service
BLT		Bacon, Lettuce And Tomato
BLT		Blackwater, Australia
BLT		Block Transfer
BLV		Belleville-scott AFB, IL, USA
BLV		Busy Line Verification
BLZ		Blantyre, Malawi
BM		Basal Metabolism
BM		Bowel Movement
BM		Breakdown Maintenance
BMA		Bank Marketing Association
BMA		Stockholm-bromma, Sweden
BMB		Bumba, Zaire
BMC		Brigham City, UT, USA
BMD		Belo, Madagascar
BME		Broome, Australia
BMEWS		Ballistic Missile Early Warning
BMG		Bloomington, In
BMG		Bloomington, IN, USA
BMH		Bomai, Papua New Guinea
BMI		Bloomington, IL, USA
BMI		Broadcast Music Inc.
BMIC		Bus-master Interface Chip
BMJ		Baramita, Guyana
BML		Berlin, NH, USA
BMM		Bitam, Gabon
BMO		Ballistic Missile Office
BMO		Bhamo, Burma
BMOC		Big Man On Campus
BMP		Benchmark Plan
BMP		Bitmap (microsoft Windows)
BMP		Brampton Island, Australia
BMR		Basal Metabolism Rate
BMX		Big Mountain, AK, USA
BNA		Burroughs Network Architecture
BNA		Nashville, TN, USA
BNB		Boende, Zaire
BNC		Baby `n' Connector
BNC		Bayonet Naval Connector
BNC		Berkley Nucleonics Corporation
BNC		British Naval Connectors
BND		Bandar Abbas, Iran
BNE		Brisbane, Australia
BNET		Berkeley Networking
BNF		Bachus-naur Form
BNF		Baranof, AK, USA
BNFL		British Nuclear Fuels Ltd
BNG		Banning, CA, USA
BNI		Benin City, Nigeria
BNK		Ballina-ns, Australia
BNN		Bronnoysund, Norway
BNO		Burns, OR, USA
BNRCVUUCP	Batch News Receive Via Uucp
BNS		Barinas, Venezuela
BNS		Billed Number Screening
BNSC		British National Space Centre
BNU		Basic Networking Utilities (at&t's Name For Honeydanber Uucp)
BNZ		Banz, Papua New Guinea
BO		Body Odor
BO		Branch Office
BO		Buyer's Option
BOA		Boma, Zaire
BOB		Bora Bora, French Polynesia
BOB		Breakout Box
BOC		Bell Operating Company
BOC		Bocas Del Toro, Panama
BOD		Board Of Directors
BOD		Bordeaux, France
BOF		Birds Of A Feather
BOG		Bogota, Colombia
BOH		Bournemouth, England, UK
BOHICA		Bend Over; Here It Comes Again (k. Marti)
BOI		Boise, ID, USA
BOJ		Bourgas, Bulgaria
BOK		Brookings, OR, USA
BOM		Bill Of Materials
BOM		Bombay, India
BON		Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
BOO		Bodo, Norway
BOOTP		Bootstrap Protocol (RFC 951)
BOQ		Bachelor Officers' Quarters
BOQ		Boku, Papua New Guinea
BOR		Basic Output Report
BOR		Belfort, France
BORSCHT		Battery, Overvoltage, Ringing, Supervision, Coding, Hybrid Test
BOS		Boston, Massachusetts
BOS		Boston-logan, MA, USA
BOS		Business Office Supervisor
BOSIX		Biin Open System Interface Extension
BOSS		Billing And Order Support System
BOT		Beginning Of Tape
BOX		Borrolooda, Australia
BOY		Bobo Dioulasso, Upper Volta
BP		Blood Pressure
BP		British Petroleum
BP		British Pharmacopoeia
BPH		Bislig, Philippines
BPI		Bits Per Inch (tape)
BPI		Blocks Per Inch (tape)
BPI		Buying Power Index (sales)
BPI		Bytes Per Inch (tape)
BPN		Balikpapan, Indonesia
BPOC		Bell Point Of Contact
BPOE		Benevolent And Protective Order Of Elks
BPPS		Basing-point Pricing System
BPR		Business Process Redesign
BPS		Bits Per Second
BPS		Bits/Bytes Per Second
BPS		Porto Seguro, Brazil
BPSS		Basic Packet-switching Service
BPT		Beaumont-jefferson County, TX, USA
BQA		Baler, Philippines
BQK		Brunswick-glynco Jetport, GA, USA
BQN		Aguadilla, PR, USA
BQV		Gustavus, AK, USA
BR		Bills Receivable
BR		British Rail
BRA		Barreiras, Brazil
BRA		Basic Rate Access
BRAC		Base Closure Commission
BRAT		Business Residence Account Tracking System
BRC		Business Reply Card
BRC		San Carlos De Bariloche, Argentina
BRCS		Business Residence Custom Service
BRD		Brainerd, MN, USA
BRE		Bremen, Germany
BRF		Benchmark Report Format (NCGA)
BRG		Whitesburg, KY, USA
BRI		Bari, Italy
BRI		Basic Rate Interface
BRI		Basic Rate Interface (two 64 Kb B Channel + One 16 Kb D Channel)
BRIEF		Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility
BRK		Bourke, Australia
BRL		Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
BRL		Ballistics Research Lab
BRL		Burlington, IA, USA
BRM		Barquisimeto, Venezuela
BRM		Basic Remote Module
BRN		Berne, Switzerland
BRO		Brownsville, TX, USA
BRP		Biaru, Papua New Guinea
BRQ		Brno, Czechoslovakia
BRR		Barra, Hebrides
BRS		Bibliographic Retrieval Service
BRS		Bristol, England, UK
BRT		Bathurst Island-nt, Australia
BRU		Brussels, Belgium
BRV		Bremerhaven, Germany
BRW		Barrow, AK, USA
BRX		Barahona, Dominican Republic
BS		Bachelor Of Science
BS		Back Space
BS		Banded Signaling
BS		Bill Of Sale
BS		Bill Of Sale, "b/s"
BS		British Standards
BSA		Basic Serving Arrangements
BSA		Birmingham Small Arms
BSA		Bosaso, Somali
BSA		Boy Scouts Of America
BSB		Brasilia, Brazil
BSBH		Busy Season Busy Hour
BSC		Bachelor Of Science, "bsc"
BSC		Binary Synchronous Communication
BSC		Business Service Center
BSCM		Bisynchronous Communications Module
BSD		Berkeley Software Distribution
BSD		Berkeley Systems Development
BSDL		Boundary-scan Description Language
BSE		Basic Service Element
BSF		Bell Shock Force
BSG		Bata, Equatorial Guinea
BSI		British Standards Institute (uk ISO Member)
BSK		Biskra, Algeria
BSL		Basel, Switzerland
BSM		Austin-bergstrom AFB, TX, USA
BSMTP		Batched Smtp
BSN		Bachelor Of Science In Nursing
BSO		Basco, Philippines
BSOC		Bell Systems Operating Company
BSP		Bell System Practice
BSQ		Bisbee, AZ, USA
BSR		Basra, Iraq
BSRFS		Bell System Reference Frequency Standard
BSS		Balsas, Brazil
BSS		Basic Synchronized Subset
BSS		Block Started By Symbol (IBM Assembly-language)
BST		Basic Services Terminal
BSTJ		Bell System Technical Journal
BSU		Basankusu, Zaire
BSW		Boston Software Works
BSW		Boswell Bay, AK, USA
BT		Bus Terminator
BTA		Basic Trading Area
BTA		Bertoua, Cameroons
BTAM		Basic Telecommunications Access Method [IBM]
BTC		Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
BTH		Batu Besar, Indonesia
BTHU		British Thermal Unit, "bthu" (btu, Q.v., Is Preferred)
BTI		Barter Island, AK, USA
BTJ		Banda Aceh, Indonesia
BTK		Bratsk, USSR
BTL		Backplane Transceiver Logic
BTL		Battle Creek, MI, USA
BTL		Bell Telephone Laboratories
BTM		Benchmark Timing Methodology (NCGA)
BTM		Butte, MT, USA
BTN		Billing Telephone Number
BTO		Bachman Turner Overdrive
BTOL		Better Than Open Look
BTP		Butler-graham, PA, USA
BTR		Baton Rouge, LA, USA
BTRON		Business-oriented Tron Project
BTS		Board Tracking System
BTS		Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
BTT		Bettles, AK, USA
BTU		Bintulu, Malaysia
BTU		British Thermal Unit
BTV		Burlington, VT, USA
BTW		By The Way (e-mail)
BTZ		Bursa, Turkey
BU		Bushido
BU		Business Units
BUA		Buka Islands, Papua New Guinea
BUC		Burketown, Australia
BUD		Budapest, Hungary
BUE		Buenos Aires-municpal, Argentina
BUF		Buffalo, NY, USA
BUG		Benguela, Angola
BUH		Bucharest-municipal, Romania
BUL		Bulolo, Papua New Guinea
BUN		Buenaventura, Colombia
BUO		Burao, Somali
BUQ		Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
BUR		Hollywood-burbank, CA, USA
BURP		Brewers United For Real Potables
BUS		Basic Utility System
BUS		Batumi, USSR
BUT		Board Under Test
BUV		Bella Union, Uruguay
BUX		Bunia, Zaire
BUY		Bunbury, Australia
BUZ		Bushehr, Iran
BV		Blessed Virgin
BVA		Beauvais, France
BVA		Billing Validation Application
BVB		Boa Vista, Brazil
BVC		Billing Validation Center
BVI		Birdsville, Australia
BVO		Bartlesville, OK, USA
BVX		Batesville, AR, USA
BVY		Beverly Ma
BVY		Beverly, MA, USA
BW		Business Wire
BWA		Bhairawa, Nepal
BWC		Bandwidth Compression
BWD		Brownwood, TX, USA
BWG		Bowling Green, KY, USA
BWH		Penang-butterworth, Malaysia
BWI		Baltimore, MD, USA
BWI		Baltimore-washington International (airport)
BWI		British West Indies
BWJ		Bawan, Papua New Guinea
BWM		Bowman, ND, USA
BWM		Broadcast Warning Message
BWN		Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
BWOS		Big Wad Of Software (Scott Mcnealy)
BWS		Blaine, WA, USA
BWT		Broadcast Warning Twx
BWT		Burnie-wynyard, Australia
BWTS		Bandwidth Test Set
BWY		Woodbridge, England, UK
BX		Base Exchange (see Also Px)
BX.25		Bellcore X.25
BXA		Bureau Of Export Administration (commerce Dept)
BXC		Boxborough, MA, USA
BXD		Bade, Senegal
BXE		Bakel, Senegal
BXO		Bissau, Guinea
BXS		Borrego Springs, CA, USA
BXU		Butuan, Philippines
BYA		Boundary, AK, USA
BYC		Yacuiba, Bolivia
BYG		Buffalo, WY, USA
BYH		Blytheville AFB, AR, USA
BYI		Burley, ID, USA
BYK		Bouake, Ivory Coast
BYM		Bayamo, Cuba
BYT		Bantry, Ireland
BYU		Bayreuth, Germany
BYU		Brigham Young University (provo, Utah)
BYW		Blakely Island, WA, USA
BZA		Bonanza, Nicaragua
BZE		Belize City-intl, Belize
BZG		Bydgoszcz, Poland
BZI		Balikesir, Turkey
BZN		Bozeman, MT, USA
BZO		Bolzano, Italy
BZR		Beziers, France
BZV		Brazzaville, Congo Republic
BZZ		Brize Norton, UK

C		Copper
C		Programming Language (ISO/ANSI X3.159-1989)
C		Programming Language, Successor To BCPL
C-130H		Lockheed Transport Plane, Aka Hercules
C1		Discretionary Security (orange Book)
C2		Controlled System Access (orange Book)
C3I		Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence (c-cubed-i)
C3PO		Language Translation Droid In 'star Wars'
C4		Command Control Communications And Control
CA		Cable
CA		California
CA		Chartered Accountant
CA		Chief Accountant
CA		Chronological Age
CA		Collision Avoidance (as In CSMA/CA (q.v.))
CAA		Catacamas, Honduras
CAA		Civil Aviation Authority (UK)
CAB		Cabinda, Angola
CAB		Civil Aeronautics Board
CABS		Carrier Access Billing System
CAC		Calling-card Authorization Center
CAC		Carrier Access Code
CAC		Cascavel, Brazil
CAC		Circuit Administration Center
CAC		Customer Administration Center
CACM		Communications Of The Association For Computing Machinery
CAD		Cadillac, MI, USA
CAD		Computer Aided Design
CAD		Computer Aided Design  
CAD		Computer-aided Dispatch
CAD/A		Computer Aided Design/analysis
CAD/CAM		Computer-aided Design/computer-aided Manufacturing
CADD		Computer Aided Design And Drafting
CADD		Computer-aided Design And Drafting
CADV		Combined Alternate Data/voice
CAE		Columbia, SC, USA
CAE		Common Applications Environment (x/open)
CAE		Computer Aided Engineering 
CAE		Computer-aided Education
CAE		Computer-aided Engineering
CAEA		Computer-aided Ergonomics Analysis
CAFE		Corporate Average Fuel Economy
CAG		Cagliari, Italy
CAGD		Computer-aided Graphic Design
CAGR		Compound Annual Growth Rate
CAI		Cairo, Arab Republic Of Egypt
CAI		Call Assembly Index
CAI		Computer Aided Instruction
CAI		Computer Application Inc
CAI		Computer Assisted Instruction
CAI		Computer-aided Instruction
CAIS		Colocated Automatic Intercept System
CAIS		Common Apse Interface Specification
CAJ		Canaima, Venezuela
CAK		Akron/canton, OH, USA
CAL		Campbeltown, Scotland, UK
CALRS		Centralized Automatic Loop Reporting System
CALS		Computer-aided Acquisition And Logistics Support (milspec 28002)
CAM		Camiri, Bolivia
CAM		Common Access Method (scsi)
CAM		Computer Aided Management
CAM		Computer Aided Manufacturing, Common Access Method
CAM		Computer-aided Manufacturing
CAM		Content Addressable Memory
CAMA		Centralized Automatic Message Accounting
CAMAC		Computer Automated Measurement And Control
CAMM		Computer-assisted Material Management
CAMP		Campaign Against Marijuana Planting
CAMRA		Campaign For Real Ale
CAN		Campus Area Network
CAN		Guangzhou, China
CANM		Computer-aided Network Management
CAP		Cap Haitien, Haiti
CAP		Carrierless Am/pm
CAP		Central Arbitration Point
CAP		Civil Air Patrol
CAP		Columbia Appletalk Package
CAP		Competitive Access Provider (telco)
CAP		Computer-aided Publishing
CAP-AUFS	Columbia Appletalk Package-apple/unix File System
CAPI		Common Application Programmatic Interface
CAPP		Computer-aided Process Planning
CAPTAIN		Character And Pattern Telephone Access Information Network
CAR		Caribou, ME, USA
CAR		Computer Access And Retrieval
CAR		Contents Of The Address Part Of The Register
CAROT		Centralized Automatic Reporting On Trunks
CART		Championship Auto Racing Teams
CAS		Casablanca-anfa, Morocco
CAS		Circuit Associated Signaling
CAS		Column Address Strobe
CAS		Communicating Applications Specification (dca/intel)
CAS		Computerized Autodial System
CAS		Cost Accounting Standards
CASE		Common Application Services Element (map)
CASE		Computer-aided Software Engineering
CASSIS		Classification And Search Support Information System
CAT		Cat Island, Bahamas
CAT		Computer Assisted Typesetter
CAT		Computer-aided Testing
CAT		Computer-aided Tomography
CAT		Concatenate
CAT		Craft Access Terminal
CAT		Customer Acceptance Test
CATIS		Common Applications And Tools Integration Services
CATLAS		Centralized Automatic Trouble Locating And Analysis System
CATS		Consortium For Audiographics Teleconferencing Standards
CATV		Cable Television
CATV		Cable Tv
CATV		Community Antenna Television
CAU		Connection Arrangement Unit
CAV		Constant Angular Velocity
CAVU		Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited
CAW		Campos, Brazil
CAX		Carlisle, England, UK
CAY		Cayenne, French Guiana
CAZ		Cobar, Australia
CB		Citizens Band Radio
CBA		Corner Bay, AK, USA
CBB		Cochabamba, Bolivia
CBC		Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBD		Cash Before Delivery
CBD		Central Business District
CBD		Commerce Business Daily
CBDS		Connectionless Broadband Data Service
CBE		Cumberland, MD, USA
CBEMA		Computer And Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
CBF		Crying Baby Flight
CBG		Cambridge, England, UK
CBH		Colomb-bechar, Algeria
CBI		Computer Based Instruction
CBIC		Complementary Bipolar Integrated Circuit
CBIS		Cincinnati Bell Information Systems
CBK		Colby, KS, USA
CBL		Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela
CBM		Columbus AFB, MS, USA
CBO		Cotabato, Philippines
CBQ		Calabar, Nigeria
CBR		Canberra, Australia
CBR		Case-based Reasoning
CBR		Chemical, Biological, Radiological Warfare
CBR		Constant Bit Rate
CBS		Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS		Crossbar Switching
CBT		Computer Based Training
CBT		Computer-based Training
CBV		Coban, Guatemala
CBW		Chemical And Biological Warfare
CBX		Computerized Branch Exchange
CBY		Canobie, Australia
CBZ		Cabin Creek, AK, USA
CC		C Compiler
CC		Carbon Copy
CC		Center Conductor
CC		Central Control
CC		Cluster Controller
CC		Common Control
CC		Cost Center
CC		Country Code
CCA		Computer Corporation Of America 
CCAFS		Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
CCB		Change Control Board
CCB		Configuration Control Board
CCC		Canadian Committee On Cataloging
CCC		Central Control Complex
CCC		Ceramic Chip Carriers
CCC		Civil(ian) Conservation Corps
CCC		Command, Control, And Communications (sometimes C^3)
CCC		Computer Control Center
CCC		Concourse Computer Center [mit]
CCCCM		Ccc Countermeasures (sometimes C^3cm)
CCCI		Command, Control, Communications, And Intelligence
CCD		Charge Coupled Device (see Cid)
CCD		Computer-controlled Display
CCDS		Centers For The Commercial Development Of Space
CCF		Carcassonne, France
CCF		Cold-cathode Florescent
CCH		Chile Chico, Chile
CCH		Connections Per Circuit Per Hour
CCI		Computer Carrier Interrupt
CCI		Computer Consoles, Incorporated
CCI		Concordia, Brazil
CCIM		Certified Commercial Investment Member
CCIP		Continuously Computed Impact Point
CCIR		Comite' Consultatif International Des Radio Communications
CCIS		Common Channel Interoffice Signaling [telephony]
CCITT		Archaic: Replaced By ITUT (isu?)
CCITT		Comite' Consultatif International Telegraphique Et Telephonique
CCITT		Consultative Committee On International Telephony And Telegraphy
CCK		Cocos Islands, Cocos Islands
CCL		Commerce Control List (commerce Dept)
CCL		Console Command Language
CCM		Crisciuma, Brazil
CCNC		Common Channel Network Controller
CCNC		Computer/communications Network Center
CCP		Concepcion, Chile
CCPD		Charge-coupled Photodiode Device
CCR		Commitment, Concurrency, And Recovery
CCR		Concord, CA, USA
CCR		Covenants, Conditions, And Restrictions
CCR		Creedence Clearwater Revival
CCR		Customer-controlled Reconfiguration
CCRP		Continuously Computed Release Point
CCS		Caracas, Venezuela
CCS		Common Channel Signaling
CCS		Common Command Set (scsi)
CCS		Common Communications Support (saa)
CCS		Hundred (c) Call Seconds
CCS7		Common Channel Signaling System 7
CCSA		Common Control Switching Arrangement [telephony]
CCSDS		Consultative Commitee On Space Data Systems
CCT		Central Control Terminal
CCTA		Central Computer And Telecommunications Agency (uk)
CCTAC		Computer Communications Trouble Analysis Center
CCTV		Closed Circuit Television
CCU		Calcutta, India
CCU		Colt Computer Unit
CCV		Calling Card Validation
CCW		Continuous Composite Write-once
CCW		Counter Clockwise
CCX		Caceres, Brazil
CCZ		Chub Cay, Bahamas
CD		Carrier Detect (properly Dcd (q.v.))
CD		Certificate Of Deposit
CD		Civil Defense
CD		Collision Detection (as In Csma/cd (q.v.))
CD		Committee Document (iso)
CD		Compact Disk
CD-DA		Compact Disk-digital Audio
CD-I		Cd-interactive
CD-ROM		Compact Disc Rom
CD-ROM		Compact Disk-read Only Memory
CD-WO		Cd Write Only (jvc)
CDA		Call Data Accumulator
CDA		Coin Detection And Announcement
CDA		Communications Decency Act
CDA		Compound Document Architecture (DEC)
CDA		Confidential Disclosure Agreement
CDAR		Customer Dialed Account Recording
CDB		Cold Bay, AK, USA
CDB		Command Descriptor Block
CDB		Customer Distributed Buglist
CDC		Cedar City, UT, USA
CDC		Centers For Disease Control (and Prevention)
CDC		Control Data Corporation
CDCF		Cumulative Discounted Cash Flow
CDDI		Copper Distributed Data Interface
CDE		Common Desktop Environment
CDEV		Control Panel Device
CDF		Combined Distributing Frame
CDF		Context-dependent File
CDF		Cortina D'ampezzo, Italy
CDG		Paris-charles De Gaulle, France
CDH		Camden, AR, USA
CDI		Circle Digit Identification
CDI		Course Deviation Indicator
CDIAC		Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
CDJ		Conceicao Do Araguaia, Brazil
CDL		California Driver's License
CDL		Candle, AK, USA
CDLA		Computer Dealers And Lessors Association
CDMA		Code-division Multiple Access (cellular, Proposed)
CDO		Community Dial Office
CDP		Career Development Program
CDPD		Cellular Digital Packet Data
CDPR		Customer Dial Pulse Receiver
CDR		Call Dial Rerouting
CDR		Chadron, NE, USA
CDR		Commander
CDR		Contents Of The Decrement Part Of The Register
CDR		Critical Design Review
CDRAM		Cache Dram (mitsubishi)
CDRH		Center For Devices And Radiological Health
CDROM		Compact Disk Read Only Memory, "cd-rom"
CDS		Conceptual Data Store (OSI)
CDS		Control Data Systems
CDS		Craft Dispatch System
CDSF		Commercially Developed Space Facility
CDT		Call Data Transmitter
CDT		Central Daylight Time
CDU		Control Display Unit
CDV		Cordova-mile 13 Field, AK, USA
CDW		Caldwell, NJ, USA
CE		Chemical Engineer
CE		Civil Engineer
CE		Common Era (substitute For Ad)
CE		Corps Of Engineers
CE		Customer Engineer
CEA		Commissariat A L'energie Atomique, France
CEA		Council Of Economic Advisors
CEA		County Education Authority
CEA		Wichita-cessna Aircraft, KS, USA
CEB		Cebu, Philippines
CEBAE	*	Cognitive Engineering Agent Based Environment
CEBIT		(was: Hannover Fair)
CEC		Commission Of The European Communities
CEC		Crescent City, CA, USA
CED		Ceduna, Australia
CED		Committee For Economic Development
CEERT		Coalition For Energy Efficiency And Renewable Technologies
CEF		Cable Entrance Facility
CEF		Chicopee, MA, USA
CEG		Chester, UK
CEI		Chiang Rai, Thailand
CEI		Comparably Efficient Interconnection
CEL		Cape Eleuthera, Bahamas
CELSS		Controlled Ecological Life Support System 
CEM		Central, AK, USA
CEM             Centro de Enseqanza Media (Rio Negro, Patagonia Argentina)
CEN		Centre D'etudes Nucleaires
CEN		Ciudad Obregon, Mexico
CEN		Comite Europeen De Normalisation
CENELEC		Comite Europeen De Normalisation - Electronique
CENS		Centre D'etudes Nucleaires De Seclay
CENTO		Central Treaty Organization
CEO		Chief Executive Officer
CEO		Waco Kungo, Angola
CEP		Concepcion, Bolivia
CEPS		Color Electronic Prepress System
CEPS		Color Electronic Publishing Systems
CEPT		Conference Of Postal And Telecommunications Administration
CEQ		Cannes-mandelieu, France
CER		Cherbourg, France
CERFNET		California Education Research Foundation Network
CERMET		Ceramic Metal Element
CERN		Conseil Europeenne Pour La Recherche Nucleaires
CERT		Computer Emergency Response Team
CERT/CC		Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center
CET		Central European Time
CET		Cholet, France
CETI		Continuously-executing Transfer Interface
CEU		Clemson, SC, USA
CEU		Continuing Education Unit
CEV		Controlled Environment Vault
CEVI		Common Equipment Voltage Indicator
CEW		Crestview, FL, USA
CEX		Chena Hot Sprngs, AK, USA
CEY		Murray, KY, USA
CEZ		Cortez, CO, USA
CF		Carry Forward
CF		Coin First Payphone [telephony]
CFA		Center For Astrophysics
CFA		Coffee Point, AK, USA
CFB		Color Frame Buffer
CFC		Chloro-fluorocarbon [chemical]
CFC		Combined Federal Campaign
CFCA		Communications Fraud Control Association
CFD		Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFE		Clermont-ferrand, France
CFF		Columbus Free Flyer
CFG		Cienfuegos, Cuba
CFHT		Canada-france-hawaii Telescope
CFI		Certificated Flight Instructor
CFI		Computer Aided Design Framework Initiative
CFI		Cost, Freight, And Insurance
CFIT		Controlled Flight Into Terrain
CFL		Canadian Football League
CFO		Chief Financial Officer
CFP		Call For Papers
CFR		Caen, France
CFR		Code Of Federal Regulations
CFS		Cached Filesystem
CFS		Coff's Harbour, Australia
CFU		Corfu, Greece
CG		Coast Guard
CG		Commanding General
CG1		Multibus Board For Sun 100us
CG10		Sbus, 8-bit Color, Dumb Framebuffer (Sun)
CG12		Triple-wide Sbus (codename Egret - Sun)
CG2		Vme, 8-bit Color, Hardware Ropping (Sun)
CG3		Color Graphics Board For Sun-3
CG3		Vme, 8-bit Color, Hardware Ropping, Double Buffer Option (Sun)
CG3270		Color Graphics 3270 (Sun)
CG4		P4 Bus, 8-bit Color + Overlay And Enable Plane (Sun)
CG5		Gp2 Plus Color Board Set (Sun)
CG5		Sun-3 Color (9u Full Size Vme Card Sun)
CG6		Sbus 8-bit Color, Aka Lego (Sun)
CG7		Gxi Accelerator For 386i (Sun)
CG8		24-bit Frame Buffer (Sun)
CG8		P4, 24-bit Color + 2-bit Overlay (Sun)
CG8		Tc Frame Buffer (rasterops)
CG9		Vme Version Of Cg8, Private Bus To Gp2 (Sun)
CGA		Color Graphics Adapter (320x200x4, Ibm)
CGA		Color Graphics Array
CGA		Craig, AK, USA
CGB		Cuiaba, Brazil
CGC		Cape Gloucester, Papua New Guinea
CGCT		Compagnie Generale De Constructions Telephoniques
CGE		Cambridge, MD, USA
CGE		Compagnie Generale D'electricite 
CGF		Cleveland-cuyahoga, OH, USA
CGH		Sao Paulo-congonhas, Brazil
CGI		Cape Girardeau, MO, USA
CGI		Common Gateway Interface
CGI		Computer Graphics Interface
CGIAR		Consultative Group On International Agricultural Research
CGK		Jakarta-cengkareng, Indonesia
CGM		Color Graphics Monitor, Used W/cga (IBM)
CGM		Computer Graphics Metafile (mil-d-28003)
CGN		Cologne-bonn Airport, Germany
CGN		Concentrator Group Number
CGO		Zhengzhou, China
CGP		Chittagong, Bangladesh
CGR		Campo Grande, Brazil
CGS		Centimeter-gram-second
CGS		College Park, MD, USA
CGX		Chicago, Illinois (meigs Field)
CGX		Chicago-meigs Field, IL, USA
CGY		Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
CGZ		Casa Grande, AZ, USA
CH		Cardboard Heroes
CH		Clearinghouse
CH		Courthouse
CH		Customs House
CHA		Champions
CHA		Chattanooga, TN, USA
CHAP		Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CHAP		Channel Processor
CHARA		Center For High Angular Resolution Astronomy
CHARGEN		Character Generator
CHC		Christchurch, New Zealand
CHD		Chandler-williams AFB, AZ, USA
CHI		Chicago-metropolitan Area, IL, USA
CHI		Chill: Adventures Into The Unknown
CHK		Chickasha, OK, USA
CHL		Challis, ID, USA
CHM		Chimbote, Peru
CHMOS		Complimentary Hi-speed Mos
CHO		Charlottesville, VA, USA
CHOTS		Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System
CHP		California Highway Patrol
CHP		Circle Hot Springs, AK, USA
CHQ		Chania-crete, Greece
CHR		Chateauroux, France
CHS		Charleston, SC, USA
CHU		Chuathbaluk, AK, USA
CHX		Changuinola, Panama
CHZ		Chiloquin, OR, USA
CI		Command Interpreter
CI		Cubic Inches
CIA		Cash In Advance (sales)
CIA		Central Intellegence Agency
CIA		Central Intelligence Agency
CIA		Rome-ciampino, Italy
CIAC		Computer Incident Advisory Capability
CIAP		Commercial Internet Access Provider
CIB		Catalina-airport In The Sky, CA, USA
CIB		Console Interface Board
CIC		Carrier Identification Code
CIC		Chico, CA, USA
CIC		Coordination And Information Center [csnet]
CICA		Competition In Contracting Act
CICA		Center For Innovative Computing Applications
CICS		Customer Information Control System
CICS		Customer Information Control System (IBM - Pronounced Kicks)
CICSVS		Customer Information Control System / Virtual Storage, "cics/vs"
CID		Cedar Rapids/iowa City, IA, USA
CID		Central Institute For The Deaf
CID		Charge Injection Device (see Ccd)
CID		Computer Integrated Design
CID		Configuration Installation Distribution (IBM)
CIDIN		Common Icao Data Interchange Network
CIDR		Classless Inter-domain Routing
CIE		Commission Internationale De L'eclairage
CIE-LUV		See Cie And Luv
CIF		Caltech Intermediate Form
CIF		Common Intermediate Format
CIF		Cost, Insurance And Freight
CIG		Craig, CO, USA
CIGOS		Canadian Interest Group For Open Systems
CIH		Changzhi, China
CII		Call Identity Index
CIJ		Cobija, Bolivia
CIK		Chalkyitsik, AK, USA
CIL		Council, AK, USA
CIM		Computer Integrated Manufacturing
CIM		Corporate Information Management
CIMA		Construction Industry Manufacture's Association
CIN		Carroll, IA, USA
CINC		Commander In Chief
CINCPAC		Central Intelligence Command, Pacific
CIO		Chief Information Officer
CIP		Chief Income Producer
CIP		Chipata, Zambia
CIQBA		Computer Interconnect Qbus Adapter (DEC)
CIR		Cairo, IL, USA
CIR		Committed Information Rate
CIRCA		Center For Instructional And Research Computing Activities
CIRRIS		Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrument For Shuttle
CIS		Canton Islands
CIS		Card Identification Structure
CIS		Card Information Structure (PCMCIA)
CIS		Chief Income Spender
CIS		Commonwealth Of Independent States
CIS		Compuserve Information Service
CIS		Compuserve Information System (columbus, Ohio)
CIS		Customized Intercept Service
CISC		Complex Instruction Set Computer (vis-a-vis RISC)
CIT		California Institute Of Technology
CIT             Cambridge Information Technology
CIT		Case Institute Of Technology (part Of Cwru, Cleveland, Oh)
CIT		Circumstellar Imaging Telescope 
CIT		Computer Integrated Telephony (DEC)
CITEX		Computer Industry Trade Exposition
CIU		Computer Interface Unit
CIU		Sault Saint Marie-chippewa, MI, USA
CIW		Canouan Island, Windward Island
CIX		Chiclayo, Peru
CIX		Commercial Internet Exchange
CIY		Comiso, Italy
CJA		Cajamarca, Peru
CJB		Coimbatore, India
CJC		Calama, Chile
CJI		Crafton Island, AK, USA
CJL		Chitral, Pakistan
CJS		Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
CJU		Cheju, South Korea
CKB		Clarksburg/fairmont, WV, USA
CKD		Crooked Creek, AK, USA
CKE		Clear Lake, CA, USA
CKG		Chongqing, China
CKO		Cornelio Procopio, Brazil
CKV		Clarksville-outlaw Field, TN, USA
CKX		Chicken, AK, USA
CKY		Conakry, Guinea
CL		Connection-less Mode
CLA		Comilla, Bangladesh
CLAMN		Call Line Address Modified Network
CLAPI		Common Licensing Application Programmatic Interface (microsoft)
CLASP		Comprehensive Logistics Automated Support Program
CLASS		Centralized Local Area Selective Signaling
CLASS		Custom Local Area Signaling Service
CLC		Clear Lake City, TX, USA
CLCC		Ceramic Leadless Chip Carrier
CLD		Carlsbad, CA, USA
CLDN		Calling Line Directory Number
CLE		Cleveland-hopkins, OH, USA
CLEF		Certified Licensed Evaluation Facility
CLEI		Common-language Equipment Identification
CLG		Coalinga, CA, USA
CLI		Calling Line Ident
CLI		Command Line Interface
CLI		Command Line Interpreter (DEC)
CLI	*	Customer Loyalty Index
CLID		Calling Line Identification
CLIN		Contract Line Item Number
CLIS		Corporate Library And Information Services (Sun)
CLJ		Cluj-napoca, Romania
CLK		Clinton, OK, USA
CLL		College Station/bryan, TX, USA
CLLI		Common-language Location Identification
CLM		Career Limiting Move
CLM		Port Angeles, WA, USA
CLN		Carolina, Brazil
CLNP		Connectionless Network Protocol (OSI)
CLNS		Connectionless Network Service 
CLNS		Connectionless Network Service (OSI Level 3)
CLO		Cali, Colombia
CLOS		Common Lisp Object System
CLP		Clarks Point, AK, USA
CLQ		Colima, Mexico
CLR		Combined Line And Recording
CLRC		Circuit Layout Record Card
CLS		Chehalis, WA, USA
CLS		Connectionless Server
CLT		Charlotte, NC,  USA
CLTP		Connectionless Transport Protocol
CLU		Chartered Life Underwriter
CLU		Columbus, IN, USA
CLU		Command Line Utility
CLUT		Color Look-up Table
CLUT		Color Lookup Table
CLV		Constant Linear Velocity
CLY		Calvi, Corsica
CM		Command Module (apollo Spacecraft)
CM		Configuration Management
CM		Congregation Of The Mission
CM		Corrective Maintenance
CMA		Cash Management Account
CMA		Concert Multithread Architecture
CMA		Cunnamulla, Australia
CMAC		Centralized Maintenance And Administration Center
CMB		Columbo-katunayake, Sri Lanka
CMC		Communication Machinery Corporation
CMC		Computer Mediated Conversation
CMC		Construction Maintenance Center
CMC		Corporate Management Commitee
CMCC		Central Mission Control Centre (esa)
CMD		Centralized Message Distribution
CMD		Circuit Mode Data
CMD		Cootamundra, Australia
CMDF		Combined Main Distributing Frame
CMDS		Centralized Message Data System
CME		Ciudad Del Carmen, Mexico
CME		Code Management Information Base Entry
CMF		Chambery, France
CMG		Corporate Management Group
CMG		Corumba, Brazil
CMH		Columbus, OH, USA
CMH		Port Columbus, Ohio
CMI		Champaign-urbana, Illinois
CMI		Champaign/urbana, IL, USA
CMIP		Common Management Information Protocol (OSI)
CMIPS		Cmip Specification (iso 9596)
CMIS		Common Management Information Specification (OSI)
CMISE		Common Management Information Service Element (iso 9595)
CML		Current Model Logic
CMM		Carmelita, Guatemala
CMMU		Cache/memory Management Unit
CMN		Casablanca-mohamed V Airport, Morocco
CMOL		Cmip Over Llc (IBM, 3com)
CMOS		Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMOS		Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMOS		Complimentary-symmetry Metal-oxide Semiconductor
CMOT		Cmip Over Tcp/ip
CMR		Colmar, France
CMRR		Common Mode Rejection Ratio
CMS		Call Management System
CMS		Circuit Maintenance System
CMS		Communications Management Subsystem
CMS		Conversational Monitor System (IBM - See Vm/cms)
CMS		Court Management System
CMSA		Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area
CMSGT		Chief Master Sergeant, "cmsgt"
CMT		Cellular Mobile Telephone
CMT		Connection Management Technology
CMU		Carnegie-mellon University
CMU		Colt Measurement Unit
CMU		Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea
CMV		Coromandel, New Zealand
CMW		Camaguey, Cuba
CMW		Compartmented Mode Workstation
CMX		Hancock/houghton, MI, USA
CMYK		Cyan, Magenta, Yellow And Black (color System)
CMYK		Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
CN		Canadian National (railroad) 
CN		Change Notice
CNA		Certified NetWare Administrater
CNA		Communications Network Application
CNA		Customer Name / Address, "cn/a" [telephony]
CNA		Customer Name And Address
CNAB		Customer Name/address Bureau
CNB		Coonamble, Australia
CNC		Coconut Island-ql, Australia
CNC		Computer Numerical Control
CNCC		Customer Network Control Center
CND		Constanta, Romania
CNE		Canon City, CO, USA
CNE		Certified NetWare Engineer
CNES		Centre National D'etude Spatiales
CNF		Belo Horizonte-confins Airport, Brazil
CNI		Certified NetWare Instructor
CNI		Common Network Interface
CNM		Carlsbad, NM, USA
CNM		Communications Network Management
CNMS		Cylink Network Management System
CNN		Cable News Network
CNO		Carbon-nitrogen-oxygen
CNO		Chief Of Naval Operations
CNO		Chino, CA, USA
CNQ		Corrientes, Argentina
CNR		Canadian National Railways
CNR		Carrier To Noise Ratio
CNR		Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Italy
CNRCVUUCP	Compressed News Receive Via Uucp
CNRI		Corporation For National Research Initiatives
CNS		Cairns, Australia
CNS		Central Nervous System
CNS		Complimentary Network Service
CNS		Corporate Network Server (banyan)
CNSR		Comet Nucleus Sample Return
CNW		Waco-james Connally, TX, USA
CNX		Chiang Mai, Thailand
CNY		Moab, UT, USA
CO		Cash Order
CO		Central Office
CO		Central Office [telephony]
CO		Colorado
CO		Commanding Officer
CO		Conscientious Objector
CO		In Care Of, "c/o"
COA		Columbia, CA, USA
COAM		Customer Owned And Maintained
COAX		Coaxial Cable
COB		Close Of Business
COBE		Cosmic Background Explorer
COBOL		Common Business-oriented Language (ISO/ANSI X3.23-1985)
COC		Call Of Cthulhu
COC		Circuit Order Control
COC		Concordia, Argentina
COCOM		Coordinating Comittee For Export To Comminist Area
COCOT		Customer-owned Coin-operated Telephone [telephony]
COD		Cash On Delivery (sales)
COD		Cody-yellowstone Regional, WY, USA
COD		Collect On Delivery
CODASYL		Conference On Data Systems Languages
CODCF		Central Office Data Connecting Facility
CODEC		Coder/decoder
CODEC		Compression/decompression
COE		Center Of Excellence
COE		Central Office Equipment
COE		Coeur D'alene, ID, USA
COEES		Coe Engineering System
COER		Central Office Equipment Report
COF		Cocoa Beach-patrick AFB, FL, USA
COFF		Common Object File Format
COG		Condoto, Colombia
COH		Cooch Behar, India
COIN		Corporation For Open Systems Information Network
COJ		Coonabarabran, Australia
COK		Cochin, India
COLA		Cost Of Living Allowance
COLT		Central Office Line Tester
COM		Commercial (pilot Certificate)
COM		Common Object Model (Microsoft and Digital)
COM	*	Component Object Model (Microsoft)
COM		Computer Output Microfilm
COMA	*	Cache Only Memory Architecture (Kendall Square Research Corp)
COMAS		Central Office Maintenance And Administration System
COMDEX		Computer Dealers Exposition
COMM		Communications
COMPACT		Commercial Product Acquisition Team
COMPTEL		Compton Telescope (on Gro)
COMS		Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
COMSAT		Communications Satellite 
COMSAT		Communications Satellite Corp
CON		Concord, NH, USA
CONN		Connector
CONS		Connection Oriented Network Service
CONS		Connection-oriented Networking Session (OSI Level 3)
CONTAC		Central Office Network Access
CONUS		Continental United States
COO		Chief Operating Officer
COO		Cotonou, Benin
COP		Character-oriented Protocol
COPS		Computer Oracle And Password System
COQ		Cost Of Quality
COR		Cordoba, Argentina
CORBA		Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CORE		Controlled Requirement Expression
CORN		Computer Resources Nucleus
CORNET		Corperate Network
COS		Central Office Switch
COS		Colorado Springs, CO, USA
COS		Consumer Os (kaleida)
COS		Corporation For Open Systems
COSAC		Canadian Open Systems Application Criteria
COSE		Common Open Software Environment
COSINE		Corporation For OSI Networking In Europe
COSMIC		Common Systems Main Interconnection Frame System
COSMIC		Computer Software Management And Information Center
COSMOS		Computer System For Mainframe Operations
COSS		Common Object Services Specification
COSTAR		Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
COT		Central Office Terminal
COTS		Commercial, Off-the-shelf
COTS		Connection Oriented Transport Service
COU		Columbia, MO, USA
COX		Congo Town, Bahamas
CP		Canadian Pacific
CP		Canadian Press
CP		Chemically Pure
CP		Command Post
CP		Command Processor
CP		Control Program
CP		Copy
CP/M		Control Program For Microcomputers (digital Research)
CPA		Cape Palmas, Liberia
CPA		Certified Public Accountant
CPA		Communications And Public Affairs, "candpa"
CPC		Cellular Phone Company
CPC		Circuit Provisioning Center
CPC		San Martin De Los Ande, Argentina
CPCS	*	Common Part Convergence Sublayer
CPCU		Chartered Property And Casualty Underwriter
CPD		Central Pulse Distributor
CPD		Communications Products Division
CPD		Coober Pedy, Australia
CPE		Campeche, Mexico
CPE		Customer Premises Equipment
CPE		Customer-provided Equipment
CPFF		Cost Plus Fixed Fee
CPH		Copenhagen, Denmark
CPH		Cost Per Hour
CPI		Characters Per Inch
CPI		Common Programming Interface (saa)
CPI		Computer Private Branch Exchange Interface
CPI-C		Cpi Communications (IBM Manual Sc26-4399)
CPIO		Copy In/out
CPL		Combined Programming Language
CPM		Cost Per Minute
CPM		Critical Path Method
CPMP		Carrier Performance Measurement Plan
CPN		Cape Rodney, Papua New Guinea
CPO		Chief Petty Officer
CPO		Chief Post Office
CPO		Customer Premises Equipment
CPOD 		Cost Per Order Dollar      
CPP		Cable Patch Panel
CPQ		Campinas, Brazil
CPR		Canadian Pacific Railway
CPR		Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation
CPR		Casper, WY, USA
CPR		Checkpoint/resume
CPS		Characters Per Second
CPS		East St. Louis, MO, USA
CPSR		Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility
CPT		Capetown, South Africa
CPT		Captain
CPT		Collision Presence Test
CPU		Central Processing Unit
CPV		Campina Grande, Brazil
CPW		Certified Public Weigher
CPX		Culebra, PR, USA
CQ		Charge Of Quarters, Call To Quarter
CQ		Commercial Quality
CQF		Calais, France
CQI		Continuous Quality Improvement
CR		Carriage Return
CR		Carriage Return (ascii 15 Octal)
CRA		Craiova, Romania
CRADA		Cooperative Research And Development Agreement
CRAF		Comet Rendezvous/asteroid Flyby 
CRAM		Card Random Access Memory
CRAS		Cable Repair Administrative System
CRB		Certified Residential Broker
CRB		Collarenebri, Australia
CRC		Camera Ready Copy
CRC		Cartago, Colombia
CRC		Chemical Rubber Company
CRC		Civil Rights Commission
CRC		Customer Record Center
CRC		Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRC		Cyclical Redundancy Character
CRC		Cyclical Redundancy Check
CRD		Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina
CRD		Customer Required Date
CRE		Myrtle Beach-grand Strand, SC, USA
CREG		Concentrated Range Extension With Gain
CREN		Corporation For Research And Educational Networking
CRFC		Customer Return For Credit
CRFMP		Cable Repair Force Management Plan
CRI		Cray Research, Inc.
CRI		Crooked Island, Bahamas
CRIN		Centre De Recherche En Informatique De Nancy
CRIS		Customer Record Information System
CRISP		Complex-reduced Instruction Set Processor
CRK		Luzon Island, Phillipines
CRL		Certificate Revocation List
CRL		Charleroi, Belgium
CRLF		Carriage Return/line Feed
CRONIC		Colorado Rudimentary Operating Nucleus For Intelligent Controllers (hsc Os)
CROTCH		Computerized Routine For Observing And Testing The Channel Hardware
CRP		Corpus Christi, TX, USA
CRRES		Combined Release / Radiation Effects Satellite
CRS		Centralized Results System
CRSAB		Centralized Repair Service Answering Bureau
CRT		Cathode Ray Tube
CRTC		Canadian Radio/television Telecommunications Commission
CRU		Carriacou, British West Indies
CRUD		Create, Read, Update, Delete
CRV		Crotone, Italy
CRW		Charleston/dunbar, WV, USA
CRX		Corinth, MS, USA
CS		Cable Select
CS		Chivalry And Sorcery, "cands"
CS		Civil Servant
CS		Computer Science
CS		Computing Science
CS		County Seat
CS		Customer Service
CSA		Canada Standards Association
CSA		Canadian Standards Association
CSA		Carrier Serving Area
CSA		Client Service Agent
CSA		Confederate States Of America
CSA		Customer Service Administration
CSAB		Computing Sciences Accreditation Board
CSACC		Customer Service Administration Control Center
CSACS		Centralized Status, Alarm And Control System
CSAR		Centralized System For Analysis Reporting
CSC		Cell Site Controller
CSC		Computer Sciences Corporation 
CSCA		(telephone API?)
CSCI		Computer Software Configuration Item
CSD		Customer Support Division (Sun)
CSDC		Circuit Switched Digital Capability
CSE		Common Subexpression Elimination
CSE		Crested Butte, CO, USA
CSF		Communications For A Sustainable Future
CSF		Critical Success Factor
CSG		Columbus, GA, USA
CSH		Cape Sarichef, AK, USA
CSI		Casino, Australia
CSI		Commercial Systems Integrator
CSIRO		Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organization
CSIS		Canadian Security And Intelligence Service
CSL		Coin Supervising Link
CSL		Computer Systems Laboratory (nist)
CSM		Clinton-sherman, OK, USA
CSM		Command And Service Module (apollo Spacecraft)
CSM		Command Sergeant Major
CSMA		Carrier Sense Multiple Access
CSMA/CA		Carrier Sense Multiple Access/collision Avoidance
CSMA/CA		Csma With Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CD		Carrier Sense Multiple Access/collision Detection
CSMA/CD		Csma With Collision Detection
CSN		Card Select Number
CSN		Carson City, NV, USA
CSN		Computer Systems News (magazine)
CSNET		Computer And Science Network
CSNET		Computer+science Network (see Cren)
CSNY		Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young
CSO		Central Services Organization
CSO		Computing Services Office
CSO		Computing Services Office (uiuc)
CSOC		Consolidated Space Operations Center (at Colorado Springs)
CSP		Control Switching Point
CSPAN		Cable-satellite Public Affairs Network, "c-span"
CSPP		Computer Systems Policy Project
CSR		Control And Status Register
CSR		Customer Service Representative
CSRG		Computer Systems Research Group (ucb)
CSRI		Computer Systems Research Institute (u Toronto)
CSRS		Civil Service Retirement System
CSS		Cassilandia, Brazil
CSS		Computer Sub-system
CSS		Control Signaling And Status Store (OSI)
CSS		Customer Switching System
CSSI		Comprehensive Storage Systems Interconnect (DEC)
CST		Castaway, Fiji Islands
CST		Central Standard Time
CSTA		Computer Supported Telephone Application (ecma)
CSTC		Consolidated Satellite Test Center (usaf)
CSU		California State University
CSU		Channel Service Unit
CSU		Customer Set-up
CSU/DSU		Channel Service Unit/digital Service Unit
CSUF		California State University At Fullerton
CSUN		California State University At Northridge
CSUNET		California State University Network
CSV		Crossville, TN, USA
CSX		Changsha, China
CSYS		Coordinate System
CT		Central Time
CT		Communications And Tracking, "candt"
CT		Computed Tomography
CT		Connecticut
CTA		Catania, Italy
CTAM		Chevy Truck Access Method (Larry Wake)
CTASCII		~
CTB		Cut Bank, MT, USA
CTC		Canadian Transport Commission
CTC		Catamarca, Argentina
CTC		Central Test Center
CTC		Centralized Traffic Control [railroad]
CTC		Chu-itoh Techno-science Co.
CTD		Computing And Telecommunications Division
CTE		Corporate Technical Escalation
CTERM		Command Terminal (decnet)
CTG		Cambridge Technology Group
CTG		Cartagena, Colombia
CTH		Coatesville, PA, USA
CTIA		Cellular Telephone Industry Association
CTI		Computer-telephone Integration
CTIO		Cerro Tololo Inter-american Observatory
CTL		Charleville, Australia
CTM		Chetumal, Mexico
CTM		Contac Trunk Module
CTMS		Carrier Transmission Measuring System
CTN		Cooktown, Australia
CTNE		Compania Telefonica Nacional De Espana
CTO		Call Transfer Outside
CTRL		Control
CTRON		Communications Oriented Tron Project
CTS		Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
CTS		Cartridge Tape Subsystem (exabyte)
CTS		Clear To Send
CTS		Compatible Timesharing System
CTS		Computerized Typesetting System 
CTS		Conformance Testing Service (ec)
CTS		Sapporo-chitose, Japan
CTSS		{compatible,chameleon,cray,cyber} Time-sharing System
CTT		Cartridge Tape Transport
CTTC		Cartridge Tape Transport Controller
CTTN		Cable Trunk Ticket Number
CTU		Chengdu, China
CTV		Canadian Television Network
CTX		Cortland, NY, USA
CTY		Cross City, FL, USA
CU		Close-up
CU		Control Unit
CU		Customer Unit
CU		University Of Colorado
CUA		Ciu.constitucion, Mexico
CUA		Common User Access (saa)
CUC		Cucuta, Colombia
CUCRIT		Capital Utilization Criteria
CUE		Cuenca, Ecuador
CUL		Culiacan, Mexico
CUL		See You Later [net Jargon]
CUM		Cumana, Venezuela
CUN		Cancun, Mexico
CUNBATCH	Compressed News Unbatch
CUP		Carupano, Venezuela
CUQ		Coen, Australia
CUR		Curacao, Netherlands Antilles
CUT		Control Unit Terminal (IBM)
CUT		Cutral, Argentina
CUTK		Common Update/equipment System, "cu/tk"
CUU		Chihuahua, Mexico
CUW		Cube Cove, AK, USA
CUY		Cue, Australia
CUZ		Cuzco, Peru
CV		Computervision
CV		Constant Velocity
CV		Curriculum Vitae
CVCC		Controlled Vortex Combustion Chamber
CVF		Courchevel, France
CVG		Covington, KY, USA (cincinnati Oh Metro)
CVL		Cape Vogel, Papua New Guinea
CVM		Ciudad Victoria, Mexico
CVN		Clovis, NM, USA
CVO		Corvallis, OR, USA
CVQ		Carnarvon, Australia
CVR		Compass Voice Response
CVS		Clovis-cannon AFB, NM, USA
CVT		Continuous Variable Transmission
CVT		Coventry, UK
CW		Car Wars
CW		Chemical Warfare
CW		Child Welfare
CW		Churchwarden
CW		Continuous Wave
CWA		Wausau-central Wisconsin, WI, USA
CWB		Curitiba, Brazil
CWC		City-wide Centrex
CWG		Callaway Gardens, GA, USA
CWI		Centrum Voor Wiskunde En Informatica
CWI		Clinton, IA, USA
CWIS		Campus-wide Information System
CWL		Cardiff, Wales, UK
CWO		Cash With Order
CWO		Chief Warrant Officer
CWRU		Case Western Reserve University
CWS		Customer Warning System (Sun)
CWT		Cowra, Australia
CXA		Caicara, Venezuela
CXB		Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
CXC		Chitina, AK, USA
CXF		Coldfoot, AK, USA
CXH		Vancouver-coal Harbour Spb, BC, Canada
CXI		Christmas Island, Kiribati
CXI		Common X Interface (hp)
CXL		Calexico, CA, USA
CXP		Cilacap, Indonesia
CXP		Color Accelerated Processing (mr) Gp2+cg5
CXQ		Christmas Creek-wa, Australia
CXT		Charters Towers, Australia
CXY		Cat Cay, Bahamas
CY		Calendar Year
CYA		Cover Your Arse
CYA		Les Caynes, Haiti
CYB		Cayman Brac, British West Indies
CYC		Caye Chapel, Belize
CYF		Chefornak, AK, USA
CYI		Chiayi, Taiwan
CYM		Chatham, AK, USA
CYO		Catholic Youth Organization
CYP		Calbayog, Philippines
CYR		Colonia, Uruguay
CYS		Cheyenne, WY, USA
CYT		Cape Yakataga, AK, USA
CYZ		Cauayan, Philippines
CZ		Canal Zone
CZ		Control Zone
CZA		Chichen Itza, Mexico
CZB		Cruz Alta, Brazil
CZE		Coro, Venezuela
CZF		Cape Romanzof, AK, USA
CZH		Corozal, Belize
CZL		Constantine, Algeria
CZM		Cozumel, Mexico
CZN		Chisana, AK, USA
CZP		Cape Pole, AK, USA
CZS		Cruzeiro Do Sul, Brazil
CZU		Corozal, Colombia
CZX		Changzhou, China

D		Depth
D		Minimal Protection (orange Book)
DANDD		Dungeons And Dragons
D-MAC		~ (satellite Tv Transmission Standard)
D/A		Digital To Analog
DA		Days After Acceptance
DA		Department Of Agriculture
DA		Deposit Account
DA		Desk Accessory (mac)
DA		Digital To Analog Converter, "d?a"
DA		Directory Assistance (/c = Computerized, /m = Microfilm)
DA		District Attorney
DA		Don't Answer
DAA		Data Access Arrangement
DAA		Ft Belvoir-Davison AAF, VA, USA
DAB		Daytona Beach, FL, USA
DAC		Design Automation Conference
DAC		Dhaka, Bangladesh
DAC		Digital To Analog Converter
DAC		Digital-to Analog Converter
DAC		Discretionary Access Control
DAC		Douglas Aircraft Corporation
DAC		Dual Attachment Concentrator (fddi)
DACCS		Digital Access Cross Connect System [telephony]
DACS		Digital Access Cross-connect System [telephony]
DACS		Directory Assistance Charging System
DAD		Draft Addendum
DAE		Daet, Philippines
DAE		Distributed Application Environment (IBM)
DAG		Daggett, CA, USA
DAG		~
DAI		Datastream Application Interface (IBM)
DAIS		Distributed Automatic Intercept System
DAL		Dallas-love Field, TX, USA
DAL		Data Access Language (apple)
DAL		Dedicated Access Line
DAM		Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic
DAMAM		Design Automated Manufacturing
DAMQAM		Dynamically Adaptive Multicarrier Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
DAN		Danville, VA, USA
DAP		Data Access Protocol
DAP		Data Access Protocol (decnet)
DAP		Directory Access Protocol (x.500)
DAP		Division Advisory Panel [of Nsf (q.v.) Dncri (q.v.)]
DAR		Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
DAR		Daughters Of The American Revolution
DARC		Division Alarm Recording Center
DARE		Drug Abuse Resistance Education
DARPA		Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DART		Dallas Area Rapid Transit
DARU		Distributed Automatic Intercept System Audio Response Unit
DAS		Directory Assistance System
DAS		Distributor And Scanner
DAS		Dual Attach Station
DAS		Dual Attatched Station
DASD		Direct Access Storage Device
DASD		Direct Access Storage Device (IBM)
DASWDT		Distributor And Scanner-watch Dog Timer, "das-wdt"
DAT		Digital Audio Tape
DATA		Defense Air Transport Administration
DAU		Daru, Papua New Guinea
DAV		Data Above Voice
DAV		David, Panama
DAV		Disabled American Veterans
DAVAR		Dealer-associated Value-added Reseller
DAY		Dayton, OH, USA
DB		Database
DB		Decibels, "db"
DB		Dial Box
DB2		Mainframe Database (IBM)
DB25		~ ~ 25-pin (serial Connector)
DB9		~ ~ 9-pin (serial Connector)
DBA		Damba, Angola
DBA		Data Base Administrator
DBA		Doing Business As
DBAC		Data Base Administration Center
DBAS		Data Base Administration System
DBF		Dbase Format
DBM		Database Manager
DBM		Debra Marcos, Ethiopia
DBME		Database Managment Environment
DBMS		Database Management System
DBO		Dubbo, Australia
DBQ		Dubuque, IA, USA
DBRAD		Data Base Relational Application Directory
DBRI		Dual Basic Rate Interface (ISDN)
DBS		Direct Broadcast Satellite
DBS		Duplex Bus Selector
DBT		Debra Tabor,ethiopia
DBT		Deutsche Bundespost Telekom
DBV		Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
DBX		Debugging Tool
DBY		Dalby, Australia
DC		Data Cartridge
DC		Direct Current, "dc" (see Also Ac)
DC		District Of Columbia
DCA		Defense Communications Agency
DCA		Digital Communications Associates 
DCA		Distributed Communication Architecture
DCA		Document Content Architecture (IBM)
DCA		Washington (national) Dc
DCA		Washington-national, DC, USA
DCB		Disc Coprocessor Board (Novell Isa)
DCB/2		Disc Coprocessor Board (Novell Mca)
DCC		Data Country Code
DCC		Descriptive Cataloging Committee
DCC		Digital Compact Cassette
DCCO		Defense Commercial Communications Office
DCCS		Discontiguous Shared Segments
DCD		Data Carrier Detect
DCE		Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DCE		Data Communications Equipment
DCE		Data Communications Equipment, Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DCE		Distributed Computing Environment
DCF		Dominica-cane Field, West Indies
DCH		D Channel Handler
DCI		Desktop Color Imaging
DCK		Dahl Creek, AK, USA
DCL		Digital (equipment Corporation) Command Language
DCLU		Digital Carrier Line Uint
DCLZ		Data Compression Lempel Ziv (hp)
DCM		Digital Carrier Module
DCMS		Distributed Call Measurement System
DCMU		Digital Concentrator Measurement Unit
DCNA		Data Communication Network Architecture
DCO		Document Change Order
DCOM    *       Distributed Common Object Model (Microsoft)
DCP		Distributed Communications Processor
DCP		Duplex Central Processor
DCPR		Detailed Contuing Property Record (pics/dcpr)
DCPSK		Differential Coherent Phase-shift Keying
DCS		Digital Crosconnect System
DCS		Distribution Control System
DCSM		District Customer Service Manager
DCT		Digital Carrier Trunk
DCT		Discrete Cosine Transform
DCT		Discrete Cosine Transformation
DCTN		Defense Commercial Telecommunications Network (at&t)
DCTS		Dimension Custom Telephone Service
DD		Daredevils
DD		Data Dictionary
DD		Days After Date
DD		Demand Draft
DD		Dishonorable Discharge
DD		Disk Drive
DD		Doctor Of Divinity
DD		Double Density
DDA		Digital Differential Analyzer
DDA		Domain Defined Attribute (1984 X.400)
DDB		Device Dependent Bitmap
DDC		Digital Data Converter
DDC		Direct Department Calling
DDC		Dodge City, KS, USA
DDCMP		Digital Data Communication Message Protocol, Ala Slip (DEC)
DDCMP		Digital Data Communications Message Protocol
DDCP		Direct Digital Color Proofing
DDCU		Dc-to-dc Converter Unit
DDD		Direct Distance Dialing
DDE		Dynamic Data Exchange (ms Windows)
DDES		~ (graphics Format)
DDF		Data Definition File
DDI		Device Driver Interface
DDIF		Dec Digital Image Format
DDIF		Digital Document Interchange Format (DEC)
DDJ		Dr. Dobbs Journal
DDK		Driver Development Kit
DDL		Data Definition Language
DDL		Document Description Language
DDM		Distributed Data Management
DDN		Defense Data Network
DDOV		Digital Data Over Voice
DDP		Datagram Delivery Protocol
DDP		Datagram Delivery Protocol (apple)
DDP		Distributed Data Processing
DDP		Dorado, PR, USA
DDPEX		Device Dependent Phigs Extension To X
DDS		Dataphone Digital Service (at&t)
DDS		Digital Data Service
DDS		Digital Data Storage
DDS		Digital Data Storage (dat - Hp/sony)
DDS		Digital Data System
DDS		Digital Dataphone Service
DDS		Direct Digital Service
DDS		Disc Definition Structure (mo)
DDS		Doctor Of Dental Surgery; Doctor Of Dental Science
DDS		Document Distribution Services
DDS-DC		Digital Database-data Compression (DEC)
DDSA		Digital Distributed Systems Architecture (DEC)
DDT		Dicholorodiphenyltricholoroethane
DDX		Device Dependent X
DDX		Digital Data Exchange, Device Dependent X (windows)
DDX		Distributed Data Exchange
DE		Delaware
DE		Disk Enclosure
DEA		Data Encryption Algorithm
DEA		Drug Enforcement Agency
DEAR		Department Of Energy Acquisition Regulation
DEB		Debrecen, Hungary
DEBET		Digital Ethernet Bridge (DEC) 
DEBNA		Digital Ethernet Bisync Network Adapter (DEC)
DEBNI		Digital Ethernet Bisync Network Interface (DEC)
DEC		Decatur, IL, USA
DEC		Digital Equipment Corporation
DEC		Digital Equipment Corporation 
DECDNS		Dec Distributed Naming Service
DECDTS		Dec Time Synchronization Service
DECMCC		Dec Management Control Center
DECNET		Dec Network
DECT		Digital European Cordless Telephony
DECUS		Digital Equipment Computer Users Society
DEH		Decorah, IA, USA
DEL		Delhi, India
DELNI		Digital Ethernet Local Network Interconnect (DEC)
DELQA		Digital Ethernet Local Q-bus Adapter (DEC)
DELUA		Digital Ethernet Local Unibus Adapter (DEC)
DEM		Dembidollo, Ethiopia
DEMCA		Digital Ethernet Mca (DEC)
DEMPR		Digital Equipment Multiport Repeater (DEC)
DEN		Denver, CO, USA
DEN		Denver, Colorado
DEPCA		Digital Ethernet Personal Computer Adapter (DEC)
DEQNA		Digital Ethernet Q-bus Network Adapter (DEC)
DEREP		Digital Ethernet Repeater (DEC)
DERP		Defective Equipment Replacement Program
DES		Data Encryption Standard
DES		Desroches, Seychelles
DESC		Defense Electronics Supply Center
DESIA		Digital Ethernet Station Adapter (DEC)
DESPR		Digital Ethernet Single Port Repeater (DEC)
DESTA		Digital Ethernet Station Adapter (DEC)
DET		Detroit-city, MI, USA
DET		Directory Entry Table
DEUNA		Digital Ethernet Unibus Network Adapter (DEC)
DEW		Distant Early Warning
DEXEC		Diagnostic Exec Software
DEZ		Deir Ezzor, Syrian Arab Republic
DF		Damage Free
DF		Direction Finding
DF		Direction Finding, "d/f"
DFA		Designated Filing Area
DFARS	*	~
DFB		Distributed Feedback (laser)
DFB		Driftwood Bay, AK, USA
DFB		Dumb Frame Buffer
DFC		Distinguished Flying Cross
DFD		Data Flow Diagram
DFE		Data Flow Editor
DFI		Defiance, OH, USA
DFI		Digital Facility Interface
DFM		Distinguished Flying Medal
DFMS		Digital Facility Management System
DFP		Digital Fuzzy Processor
DFRF		Dryden Flight Research Facility (now Adfrf)
DFS		Depth-first Search
DFS		Distributed File System
DFT		Design For Test
DFT		Discrete Fourier Transform
DFT		Distributed Function Terminal (IBM)
DFW		Dallas-fort Worth, TX, USA
DFX		Drafting File Interchange (autocad)
DG		Data General 
DG		Dei Gratia (by The Grace Of God)
DG		Directional Gyro
DG		Director General
DGA		Direct Graphics Access
DGDO		Desktop Graphics Development Organization (Sun)
DGL		Douglas, AZ, USA
DGO		Durango, Mexico
DGP		Dissimilar Gateway Protocol
DGSC		Defense General Supply Center
DGT		Dumaguete, Philippines
DHA		Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
DHCP		Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHF		Abu Dhabi-al Dhafra Military, United Arab Emira
DHHS		Us Department Of Health And Human Services
DHL		Dhala, Yemen
DHN		Dothan, AL, USA
DHSS		Department Of Health And Social Security (british)
DIA		Defense Intelligence Agency
DIA		Denver International Airport, CO, USA
DIA		Display Industry Association (palo Alto, Ca)
DIA		Document Interchange Architecture
DIA		Document Interchange Architecture (IBM)
DIAC		Bidirectional Trigger Diode
DIAD		(magnetic) Drum Information Assembler / Dispatcher
DIAL		Direct Information Access Line
DIAS		Defense Automatic Integrated System
DIB		Device Independent Bitmap
DIB		Dibrugarh, India
DIB		Directory Information Base (Novell)
DIB		Disc Interface Board (serialization, Novell)
DIC		Digital Interface Controller
DICAS		Dca/intel Communicating Applications Specification
DID		Data Item Description
DID		Direct Inward Dial
DIE		Diego Suarez, Madagascar
DIF		Data Interchange File
DIF		Digital Interface Frame
DIF		Document Interchange Format
DIFMOS		Double Injection Floating Gate Mos
DIJ		Dijon, France
DIK		Dickinson, ND, USA
DIL		Dili, East Timor
DIL		Dual Inline
DILLIGAS		Do I Look Like I Give A Shandt?
DILOG		Distributed Logic
DIM		Data In The Middle
DIM		Document Image Management
DIMM	*	Internet and Electronic Commerce
DIMS		Document Image Management System
DIN		Deutsche Industrie Normenausschuss
DIN		Deutsches Institute Fur Normung
DINK		Double Income, No Kids
DIO		Little Diomede Island, AK, USA
DIP		Document Image Processing
DIP		Dual In-line Pin
DIP		Dual Inline Package
DIR		Deliverly And Installation Request
DIR		Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
DIRE		Dire Is Really Emacs
DIRT		Design In Real-time
DIS		Demon Internet Services
DIS		Draft International Standard (iso)
DIS		Loubomo, Congo Republic
DISA		Defense Information Systems Agency
DISA		Direct Inward System Access
DISI		Directory Information Services Infrastructure (ietf)
DISOSS		Distributed Office Support System (IBM)
DIT             Diploma in Information Technology
DITROFF		Device Independent Troff
DIU		Device Interface Unit
DIU		Digital Interface Unit
DIV		Division
DIX		Digital Intel Xerox (ethernet)
DIX		Digital/intel/xerox
DIY		Diyarbakir, Turkey
DIY		Do It Yourself
DJ		Disc Jockey
DJB		Jambi, Indonesia
DJE		Djerba, Tunisia
DJG		Djanet, Algeria
DJJ		Jayapura, Indonesia
DJN		Delta Junction, AK, USA
DJO		Daloa, Ivory Coast
DKI		Device Kernel Interface
DKI		Dunk Island, Australia
DKR		Dakar, Senegal
DLA		Defense Logistics Agency
DLA		Douala, Cameroons
DLC		Dalian, China
DLC		Data Link Control
DLC		Digital Loop Carrier
DLC		Driver's License Compact (uniform Interstate Treatment)
DLCU		Digital Line Carrier Unit
DLE		Data Link Escape
DLF		Del Rio-laughlin AFB, TX, USA
DLG		Digital Line Graph
DLG		Dillingham, AK, USA
DLH		Duluth, MN, USA
DLI		Data Link Interface
DLL		Dial Long Lines
DLL		Dynamic Link Library
DLM		Dalaman, Turkey
DLM		Dual Layer Metal (cmos)
DLO		Dead Letter Office
DLO		Dolomi, AK, USA
DLPI		Datalink Provider Interface (ui, Svr4)
DLS		Data Link Control
DLS		Data Link Switching (IBM Routing, 1994)
DLS		Digital Link Service
DLS		Document Library Services
DLS		The Dalles, OR, USA
DLT		Digital Linear Tape
DLTU		Digital Line/trunk Unit
DLUR		Dependant Logical Unit Requester (IBM)
DLUPG		Digital Line Unit-pair Gain, "dlu-pg"
DM		Delta Modulation
DM		Dialog Manager
DM		District (sales) Manager
DM		District Manager
DM		Dungeon Master
DMA		Defense Mapping Agency
DMA		Direct Memory Access
DMA		Tucson-davis Monthan AFB, AZ, USA
DMAC		Departmental Microcomputer Acquisition Contract
DMC		Domain Management Center (x.400)
DMD		Directory Management Domain
DMD		Doctor Of Dental Medicine
DME		Distance Measuring Equipment
DME		Distributed Management Environment (OSF)
DME		Moscow-domodedovo, USSR
DMI		Desktop Management Interface
DMI		Digital Multiplexed Interface
DML		Data Manipulation Logic
DMO		Sedalia, MO, USA
DMOS		Diffusion Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see Mos)
DMP		Disc Management Pointer (mo)
DMP		Dot-matrix Printer
DMP		Dynamic Memory Pool
DMPL		Digital Microprocessor Plotter Language
DMQ		Dec Message Queue (digital Equipment Corporation)
DMS		Data Management System
DMS		Digital Multiplexed System
DMS		Diskless Management Services
DMSP		Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DMTF		Desktop Management Task Force
DMU		Data Manipulation Unit
DMU		Dimapur, India
DMV		Department Of Motor Vehicles
DMZ		Demilitarized Zone
DN		Directory Number
DNA		Deoxyribonucleic Acid
DNA		Digital Network Architecture
DNA		Digital Network Architecture [DEC]
DNA		Okinawa-kadena A.f.b., Japan
DNA-IV		Decnet Phase Iv
DNB		Dunbar, Australia
DNC		Direct Numerical Control
DNC		Dynamic Network Controller
DNCRI		[nsf (q.v.)] Division Of Networking And Communications Research And Infrastructure
DND		Do Not Disturb
DND		Dundee, Scotland, UK
DND		Dungeons And Dragons
DNE		Dallas-north Arpt, TX, USA
DNHR		Dynamic Nonhierarchical Routing
DNI		Decnet Network Interface
DNI		Desktop Network Interface (DEC)
DNI		Detailed Network Interface (usenix)
DNI		Wad Medani, Sudan
DNIC		Data Network Identification Code [telephony]
DNIS		Dialed Number Identification Service
DNL		Augusta-daniel Field, GA, USA
DNL		Director Of Naval Laboratories
DNN		Dalton, GA, USA
DNO		Dianopolis, Brazil
DNP		Dry Nonpolish (connector Type)
DNQ		Deniliquin, Australia
DNR		Dialed Number Recorder [telephony]
DNR		Dinard, France
DNS		Domain Name Server, Domain Name System
DNS		Domain Name Service
DNV		Danville, IL, USA
DNX		Dynamic Network X-connect
DOA		Dead On Arrival
DOB		Date Of Birth
DObS		Distributed Object System
DOC		Document
DOC		Dynamic Overload Control
DOCS		Display Operator Console System
DOD		Department Of Defense
DOD		Dodoma, Tanzania
DODISS		Department Of Defense Index Of Specifications And Standards
DOE		Department Of Energy
DOE		Department Of Energy [u.s. Government]
DOE		Depends On Experience
DOE		Distributed Objects Everywhere
DOF		Dora Bay, AK, USA
DOG		Dongola, Sudan
DOH		Doha, Qatar
DOHC		Dual Overhead Camshaft
DOJ		Department Of Justice [u.s. Government]
DOK		Donetzk, USSR
DOL		Deauville, France
DOM		Data On Master Group
DOM		Dominica-melville Hall Airport, West Indies
DOMAIN		Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network (apollo)
DOMF		Distributed Object Management Facility
DORE		Dynamic Object Rendering Environment
DOS		Disk Operating System
DOSS		Distributed Office Support Services
DOT		Department Of Transportation [u.s. Government]
DOTE		Director, Operational Test And Evaluation, "dotande"
DOTS		Digital Office Timing Supply
DOU		Dourados, Brazil
DOV		Data Over Voice
DOV		Dover AFB, DE, USA
DOW		Day Of Week
DOW		Direct OverWrite
DP		Data Processing
DP		Demarcation Point
DP		Dial Pulse [telephony]
DP		Displaced Persons (expelled From Native Land)
DP		Display Postscript
DP		Double Play
DP		Draft Proposal (iso)
DPA		Delegation Of Procurement Authority
DPAC		Dedicated Plant Assignment Center
DPANS		Draft Proposed American National Standard
DPC		Destination Point Code
DPCM		Differential Pulse Code Modulation
DPD		Development Products Division (Novell)
DPE		Data Path Extender
DPG		Dedicated Packet Group (fddi)
DPG		Dugway, UT, USA
DPI		Dots Per Inch
DPL		Dipolog, Philippines
DPLL		Digital Phase Locked Loop
DPM		Defect Per Million
DPM		Digital Panel Meter
DPM		Directional Policy Matrix
DPMA		Data Processing Management Association
DPMI		Dos Protected Mode Interface (microsoft)
DPMS		Display Power Management System
DPMS		Display Power Management System (vesa)
DPMS		DOS Protected Mode Services (Novell)
DPNPH		Data Packet Network-packet Handler, "dpn-ph"
DPO		Devonport-tasmania, Australia
DPP		Datagram Delivery Protocol
DPP		Discounted Payback Period
DPS		Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
DPS		Display Postscript
DPSK		Differential Phased-shift Keying
DQ		Dairy Queen
DQ		Dragon Quest
DQDB		Distributed Queue Dual Bus
DQDB		Distributed Queue Dual Bus (802.6, From Qpsx)
DQL		Database Query Language
DR		Data Ready
DR		Data Receive
DR		Dead Reckoning
DR		Dining Room
DR11W		Async Mux (DEC)
DRA		Mercury, NV, USA
DRAM		Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRB		Derby, Australia
DRD		Data Reading Device
DRDA		Distributed Relational Database Architecture (IBM)
DRE		Directional Reservation Equipment
DRE		Drummond Island, MI, USA
DRF		Drift River, AK, USA
DRG		Deering, AK, USA
DRG		Democratic Republic Of Germany (east Germany)
DRI		Data Representation Interface (usenix)
DRI		Defense Research Internet (replaces Arpanet)
DRI		Digital Research Inc.
DRI		Digital Research, Incorporated 
DRMU		Digital Remote Measurement Unit
DRN		Dirranbandi, Australia
DRO		Durango-la Plata Cty, CO, USA
DRP		Decnet Routing Protocol
DRS		Data Rate Select (rs-232)
DRS		Data Representation Services
DRS		Dresden, Germany
DRT		Del Rio, TX, USA
DRW		Darwin, Australia
DS		Digital Carrier Span
DS		Digital Signal
DS		Direct Signal
DS		Directory Service
DS		Double-sided
DS		Drive Select
DS		Drive Spindle
DS0		Digital Signal Level 1 - 64 Kbps
DS1		Digital Signal Level 2 - 1.544 Mbps (aka T1)
DS2		Digital Signal Level 3 - Four Ds-1 Circuits
DS3		Digital Signal Level 4 - Seven Ds-2 Circuits (45 Mbps, Aka T3)
DSA		Dial System Assistance
DSA		Digital Storage Architecture
DSA		Directory System Agent (x.500)
DSAB		Distributed Systems Architecture Board
DSAP		Destination Service Access Point
DSBAM		Double-sideband Amplitude Module
DSC		Document Structuring Conventions
DSCS		Defense Satellite Communications System
DSD		Data Structure Definition (OSI)
DSD		La Desirade, Guadaloupe
DSDC		Direct Service Dial Capability
DSDD		Double Sided, Double Density
DSE		Data Structure Editor
DSE		Dessie, Ethiopia
DSEA		Display Station Emulation Adapter
DSEE		Domain Software Engineering Environment
DSEM		District Systems Engineering Manager (Sun)
DSGG		Desktop Systems And Graphics Group (Sun)
DSHD		Double Sided, High Density
DSI		Destin, FL, USA
DSI		Digital Speech Interpolation
DSK		Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
DSL		Dynamic Shared Library
DSM		Des Moines, IA, USA
DSM		Distinguished Service Medal
DSM		District Sales Manager
DSN		Deep Space Network
DSN		Digital Signal (level) N
DSNX		Distributed Systems Node Executive (IBM)
DSO		Days Sales Outstanding
DSO		Digital Storage Oscilloscope
DSO		Distinguished Service Order
DSP		Decessit Sine Prole (died Without Issue)
DSP		Defense Support Program (usaf/nro)
DSP		Digital Signal Processor
DSP		Directory System Protocol
DSP		Domain-specific System
DSP		Drive Slave Present
DSPD		Desktop Software Products Division
DSPT		Display Station Pass Through (IBM)
DSPU		Downstream Physical Unit (IBM)
DSR		Data Set Ready
DSR		Data Set Ready (rs-232)
DSR		Digital Standard Runoff
DSR		District Sales Representative
DSR		Dynamic Service Register
DSRI		Digital Standard Relational Interface
DSS		Data Station Selector
DSS		Decision Support System
DSS		Digital Signature Standard (nist)
DSS		Direct Station Selection [telephony]
DSSC		Distributed Services Steering Committee (IEEE POSIX)
DSSI		Digital Storage System Interconnect (DEC)
DSSR		District Sales Support Representative (Sun)
DSSSL		Document Style, Semantic, And Specification Language
DST		Daylight Saving Time
DSTN		Double Supertwisted Nematic
DSU		Data Service Unit
DSU		Digital Service Unit
DSU		Disk Subsystem Unit (artecon)
DSVD		Digital Simultaneous Voice And Data
DSX		Digital System X-connect
DT		Data Transmit
DT		Delirium Tremens
DT	*	Desktop Technology (SMI)
DT		Di-group Terminal
DTA		Delta, UT, USA
DTACK		Data Acknowledge
DTAS		Digital Test Access System
DTB		Data Transfer Bus
DTC		Data Technology Corporation 
DTC		Design To Cost
DTC		Di-group Terminal Controller
DTC		Digital Trunk Controller
DTD		Document Type Definition
DTE		Data Terminal Equipment
DTE/DCE		DTE/data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DTF		Dial Tone First Payphone [telephony]
DTG		Direct Trunk Group
DTH		Death Valley, CA, USA
DTI		Department Of Trade And Industry (UK)
DTIF		Digital Table Interchange Format (DEC)
DTIF		Digital Transmission Interface Frame
DTL		Detroit Lakes, MN, USA
DTL		Diode Transistor Logic
DTM		(www)
DTM		Dortmund, Germany
DTMF		Data Tone Multiple Frequency [pushbutton Telephones]
DTMF		Dual Tone Modulated Frequency
DTMF		Dual Tone Multifrequency
DTMF		Dual-tone Multiple Frequency
DTP		Desktop Publishing
DTP		Distributed Transaction Processing (iso/iec Dis 10026)
DTR		Data Terminal Ready
DTSM		District Technical Support Manager (Sun)
DTSS		Dartmouth Timesharing System
DTT		Detroit-metropolitan Area, MI, USA
DTU		Demand Transmission Unit
DTU		Di-group Terminal Unit
DTV		Desktop Television
DTV		Desktop Video
DTW		Detroit-metropolitan, MI, USA
DU		Decision Unit
DUA		Directory User Agent (x.500)
DUATS		Direct User Access Terminal System
DUB		Dublin, Ireland
DUC		Duncan, OK, USA
DUCT		Digital Us Cordless Telecommunications
DUD		Dunedin, New Zealand
DUE		Dundo, Angola
DUG		Douglas, AZ, USA
DUI		Driving Under The Influence
DUJ		Du Bois, PA, USA
DUQ		Duncan/quamichan Lake, BC, Canada
DUR		Durban, South Africa
DUS		Dusseldorf, Germany
DUT		Device Under Test
DUT		Dutch Harbor, AK, USA
DUV		Data Under Voice
DUW		Distributed Unit Of Work (IBM Db2)
DV		Deo Vo Lente (god Willing)
DVC		Digital Voice Card
DVD	*	Digital Versatile Disc
DVI		Digital Video Interface (intel)
DVL		Devils Lake, ND, USA
DVM		Digital Volt Meter
DVM		Doctor Of Veterinary Medicine
DVMA		Direct Virtual Memory Access
DVMRP		Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
DVN		Davenport, IA, USA
DVO		Davao, Philippines
DVX		Digital Voice Exchange
DVX		Dover, DE, USA
DW		Dead Weight
DWAPS		Defense Warehousing Automated Processing System
DWB		Documenter's Workbench
DWH		Houston-hooks, TX, USA
DWI		Division Of Work Item (iso)
DWI		Driving While Intoxicated
DWIM		Do What I Mean
DWP		Department Of Water And Power
DX		Distance (as In Long Distance Radio Communication)
DXB		Dubai, United Arab Emirates
DXF		Drawing Interchange File (autodesk)
DXI	*	Data eXchange Interface
DXR		Danbury, Ct, USA
DXT		Data Extractt Facility
DXUP		Digital X Units Of Performance (DEC)
DYR		Anadyr, USSR
DYS		Abilene-dyess AFB, TX, USA
DYU		Dushanbe, USSR
DZA		Dzaoudzi, Comoro Islands

E		East
E		Espionage
E-MAIL		Electronic Mail
E1		European T1, Sorta (2.048 Mb/second)
E2PROM		See Eeprom
E3-AWACS	Boeing-built Surveillance Plane
E911		Enhanced 911 (us Telephone Emergency)
EA6B		Grumman-built Jet Fighter, Aka Prowler
EAA		Eagle, AK, USA
EAA		Experimental Aircraft Association
EADAS		Engineering And Administrative Data Acquisition System
EADASNM		Engineering And Administrative Data Acquisition System/network Management, "eadas/nm"
EAEO		Equal Access End Office
EAFB		Edwards Air Force Base
EAM		Nejran, Saudi Arabia
EAN		Wheatland, WY, USA
EAR		Export Administration Regulations
EAR		Kearney, NE, USA
EARN		European Academic Research Network
EARP		Ethernet Arp (RFC 826)
EAS		Engineering Administration System
EAS		Extended Announcement System
EAS		Extended Area Service
EAS		San Sebastian, Spain
EASD		Equal Access Service Date
EASI		Enhanced Asynchronous SCSI Interface
EAT		Wenatchee, WA, USA
EAU		Eau Claire, WI, USA
EBA		Elba Island, Italy
EBB		Entebbe/kampala, Uganda
EBCDIC		Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBCDIC		Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (IBM)
EBD		El Obeid, Sudan
EBI		Extensive Background Investigation
EBJ		Esbjerg, Denmark
EBT		Electronic Benefits Transfer
EBU		St. Etienne, France
EC		European Commission
EC		European Community
EC		Exchange Carrier [telephony]
EC		See Eec
ECA		East Tawas, MI, USA
ECA		Extraordinary Contribution Award
ECAD		Electronic Computer Aided Design
ECAFE		Economic Commission For Africa And The Far East
ECAP		Electronic Customer Access Program
ECASS		Electronically Controlled Automatic Switching System
ECASS		Export Control Automated Support System
ECB		Engineering Change Board
ECB		Event Control Block
ECC		Enter Cable Change
ECC		Error Checking And Correcting
ECC		Error Connection Code
ECC		Error Correcting Code
ECCM		Electronic Counter-countermeasures
ECCS		Economic C (hundred) Call Seconds
ECD		East Coast Division (Sun)
ECD		Enhanced Colour Display
ECD		Exporter Counseling Division (commerce Dept)
ECDO		Electronic Community Dial Office
ECEF		Electronic Commerce Executive Forum
ECF		Enhanced Connectivity Facility (IBM)
ECG		Elizabeth, NC,  USA
ECHO		East Coast Hang-out
ECL		Emitter-coupled Logic
ECL		Error Correction Logic
ECLSS		Environmental Control And Life Support System 
ECM		Electronic Countermeasure
ECM		Enhanced Color Monitor
ECM		European Common Market
ECMA		European Computer Manufacturers Association
ECN		Engineering Computer Network (at Purdue)
ECN		Ercan, Cyprus
ECNE		Enterprise Certified NetWare Engineer
ECO		Ecological
ECO		El Canto, Colombia
ECO		Electronic Central Office
ECO		Engineering Change Order
ECOM		Electronic Computer Originated Mail, "e-com"
ECP		Engineering Change Proposal
ECPA		Electronic Comminications Privacy Act
ECPA		Electronic Communications Privacy Act (1986)
ECPT		Electronic Coin Public Telephone
ECR		Engineering Change Request
ECS		Electronic Crosconnect System
ECS		Electronic Customer Support (IBM)
ECS		Environmental Control System
ECSA		Exchange Carriers Standards Association
ECT		Electroconvulsive Therapy
ECTF		Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum
ECV		Electric Cargo Vehicle [NASA Oexp]
EDA		Edna Paby, AK, USA
EDA		Electronic Design Automation
EDAC		Electromechanical Digital Adapter Circuit
EDC		Error Detection And Correction
EDCB		Enhanced Disc Coprocessor Board (Novell)
EDD		Expert Dungeons And Dragons, "edandd"
EDF		Anchorage-elmendorf AFB, AK, USA
EDF		Electricite De France
EDFA		Erbium-doped Fibre Amplifier
EDGAR		Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis And Retrieval
EDI		Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
EDI		Electronic Data Interchange (x12, Fips 161)
EDI		Electronic Document Interchange
EDIF		Electronic Data Interchange Format
EDIFACT		Edi For Administration, Commerce And Transport (un)
EDIMS		Edi Message Store (x.400)
EDL		Edit Decision List (video)
EDMICS		Engineering Data Management Information/control System (us Navy)
EDMS		Engineering Data Management System
EDO		Extended Duration Orbiter 
EDP		Electronic Data Processing
EDRAM		Enhanced Dram (ramtron)
EDS		Electorstatic Discharge
EDS		Electronic Data Systems (gm Subsidiary)
EDSX		Electronic Digital Signal X-connect
EDT		Eastern Daylight Time
EDTA		Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic Acid
EDTCC		Electronic Data Transmission Communications Central
EDVAC		Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
EDW		Edwards, CA, USA
EE		Electrical Engineering
EE		Electrical Or Electronics Engineer
EEC		European Economic Community
EECT		End-to-end Call Trace
EED		Needles, CA, USA
EEDP		Expanded Electronic Tandem Switching Dialing Plan
EEG		Electroencephalogram
EEHO		Either End Hop Off
EEI		Equipment-to-equipment Interface
EEI		External Environment Interface
EEK		Eek, AK, USA
EEL		Epsilon Extension Language
EEM		External Expansion Module (Sun)
EEMS		Enhanced Ems
EEMS		Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification (ast/quadram/ashton-tate)
EEN		Keene, NH, USA
EEO		Errors And Omissions Excepted, "eandeo"
EEPROM		Electrically Eprom
EEPROM		Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EF-111A		Grumman-built Fighter, Aka Raven
EFD		Houston-ellington, TX, USA
EFF		Electronic Freedom Foundation
EFF		Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFI		Education Field Interaction
EFI		Electronics For Imaging (co.)
EFIS		Electronic Flight Instrumentation System
EFK		Newport, VT, USA
EFL		Kefalonia, Greece
EFLOP		Exaflop (1024 Gflops)
EFRAP		Electronic Feeder Route Analysis Program
EFS		Error Free Seconds
EFT		Electronic Funds Transfer
EFT		Extended Fundamental Type
EFT	*	External Functional Test
EG		Exempli Gratia, "e.g." (for Example)
EGA		Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EGA		Enhanced Graphics Adapter, 640x350x16 (IBM)
EGE		Eagle, CO, USA
EGI		Valparaiso, FL, USA
EGN		El Geneina, Sudan
EGP		Eagle Pass, TX, USA
EGP		Exterior Gateway Protocol
EGP		External Gateway Protocol (RFC 904, Obsolete)
EGREP		Extended Grep
EGRET		Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (on Gro)
EGS		Egilsstadir, Iceland
EGV		Eagle River, WI, USA
EGX		Egegik, AK, USA
EHF		Extremely High Frequency (30-300ghz)
EHLLAPI		Emulator Hllapi
EHM		Cape Newenham, AK, USA
EHP		Error Handling Package
EHT		East Hartford-rentschler, Ct, USA
EIA		Eia, Papua New Guinea
EIA		Electronic Industries Association
EIA		Electronics Industry Association
EIL		Fairbanks-eielson AFB, AK, USA
EIN		Eindhoven, Netherlands
EIN		Employer Identification Number
EINE		Eine Is Not Emacs
EIS		Environmental Impact Statement
EIS		Executive Information Systems
EIS		Expanded Inband Signaling
EIS		Extended Instruction Set
EIS		Totola-beef Island, British Virgin Islands
EISA		Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EISA		Extended Industry-standard Architecture
EISB		Electronic Imaging Standards Board
EISS		Economic Impact Study System
EISS		European Intelligence Support System
EITS		Encoded Information Types
EJA		Barrancabermeja, Colombia
EJASA		Electronic Journal Of The Astronomical Society Of The Atlantic
EJH		Wedjh, Saudi Arabia
EKA		Eureka-murray Field, CA, USA
EKG		Electrokardiogramm (see Ecg)
EKI		Elkhart, IN, USA
EKN		Elkins, WV, USA
EKO		Elko, NV, USA
EKTS		Electronic Key Telephone Sets
EKX		Elizabethtown, KY, USA
EL		Electorluminescense
EL		Electroluminescent
ELAP		Ethertalk Link Access Protocol
ELB		El Banco, Colombia
ELC		Elcho Island-nt, Australia
ELC		Extra(excellent) Low Cost
ELC		Extremely Low Commission
ELD		El Dorado, AR, USA
ELF		Extensible Linking Format
ELF		Extremely Low Frequency
ELG		El Golea, Algeria
ELH		North Eleuthera, Bahamas
ELI		Elim, AK, USA
ELJ		El Recreo, Colombia
ELLE		Elle Looks Like Emacs
ELM		Electronic Mailer
ELM		Elmira/corning, NY, USA
ELN		Ellensburg, WA, USA
ELO		Electric Light Orchestra
ELP		El Paso, TX, USA
ELP		Emerson, Lake And Palmer (or Powell)
ELQ		Gassim, Saudi Arabia
ELS		East London, South Africa
ELS		Entry-level Solution (Novell, Obsolete)
ELT		Emergency Locator Transmitter
ELT		Tour Sinai City, Egypt
ELV		Elfin Cove, AK, USA
ELV		Expendable Launch Vehicle 
ELW		Ellamar, AK, USA
ELY		Ely, NV, USA
EM		Ear And Mouth: Receive/transmit Leads, "eandm"
EM		Electro-magnetic
EM		Electromagnetic
EM		Engineering Model
EM		Enlisted Man (see Ew)
EMA		East Midlands, England, UK
EMA	*	Electronic Messaging Association
EMA		Enterprise Management Architecture (DEC/hp)
EMACS		Editing Macros
EMACS		Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
EMAIL		Electronic Mail
EMC		Electromagnetic Compatibility
EMC		Extended Math Co-processor
EMD		Emerald, Australia
EMF		Electromotive Force
EMG		Executive Management Group
EMI		Electromagnetic Interference
EMK		Emmonak, AK, USA
EML		Expected Measured Loss
EMM		Kemmerer, WY, USA
EMP		Electromagnetic Pulse
EMP		Emporia, KS, USA
EMPRESS		Environmental Pulse Radiation Environment Simulator For Ships
EMR		Electromagnetic Response
EMS		Electronic Message System
EMS		Element Management System
EMS		Expanded Memory Specification
EMT		El Monte, CA, USA
EMT		Emergency Medical Technician
EMU		Electromagnetic Unit
EMU		Extravehicular Mobility Unit 
EMUG		European Map Users Group
EN		European Norm (cen/cenelec)
ENA		Kenai, AK, USA
ENC		Nancy, France
END		Enid-vance AFB, OK, USA
ENE		Enterprise Networking Event
ENEA		Comitato Nazionale Per La Ricerca E Per Lo Sviloppo Dell' Energia Nuclaeare E Delle Energie Alternative, Italy
ENET		Ethernet, "e-net"
ENET            Escuela Nacional de Educacisn Ticnica (Argentina)
ENFIA		Exchange Network Facility For Interstate Access
ENIAC		Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator
ENL		Centralia, IL, USA
ENM		Kemmerer, WY, USA
ENN		Nenana, AK, USA
ENS		Enschede, Netherlands
ENS		Ensign
ENS		Enterprise Network Services (streettalk For Solaris?)
ENU		Enugu, Nigeria
ENV		European Pre-standard
ENV		Wendover, UT, USA
ENW		Kenosha, WI, USA
EO		End Office [telephony]
EO		Erasable Optical
EO		Erasable-optical
EOD		Erasable Optical Disk
EOE		Electronic Order Exchange
EOE		Equal Opportunity Employer
EOF		End Of File
EOF		End Of Frame
EOK		Keokuk, IA, USA
EOL		End Of Life
EOM		End Of Media
EOM		End Of Month
EOS		Earth Observing System
EOS		Electrical Overstress
EOS		Electrostatic Overstress
EOS		Extended Operating System
EOT		End Of Transmission
EOTT		End Office Toll Trunking
EOW		End Of Watch
EP		Emulation Program
EP		Experience Points
EP		Extended Play
EPA		Enhanced Performance Architecture
EPA		Environmental Protection Agency
EPAP		~
EPCI		~
EPD		Enhancement Products Division (Novell)
EPD		Entry Products Division
EPH		Ephrata, WA, USA
EPHOS		European Procurement Handbook For Open Systems
EPI		Epi, Vanuatu
EPIC		Electronic Privacy Information Center
EPL		Electronic Switching System Program Language
EPL		Epinal, France
EPLD		Erasable Programmable Logic Device
EPN		Epena, Congo
EPOS		Engineering And Project-management Oriented Support System
EPP		Enhanced Parallel Port
EPPS		Electronic Pre-press Systems.
EPR		Esperance, Australia
EPRI		Electric Power Research Institute
EPROM		Erasable Programmable Read-only Memory
EPROM		Eraseable Programmable Read-only Memory
EPS		Encapsulated Postscript
EPSCS		Enhanced Private Switched Communication Service
EPSF		Encapsulated Postscript File
EPSF		Encapsulated Postscript Format
EPSI		Encapsulated Postscript Interchange
EPT		Empire Of The Petal Throne
EPTS		Electronic Problem Tracking System
EPUB		Electronic Publication
EPUBS		Electronic Publishing System
EPW		Enemy Prisoner Of War
EQ		Educational Quotient (see Iq)
EQS		Esquel, Argentina
EQUEL		Embedded Quel
ER		Emergency Room
ER		Error Register
ERA		Earned Run Average
ERA		Entity-relationship-attribute
ERA		Equal Rights Amendment
ERAR		Error Return Address Register
ERC		Erzincan, Turkey
ERD		Berdyansk, USSR
ERD		Entity-relationship Diagram
ERE		Entity-relationship Editor
EREP		Environmental Recording Editing And Printing
ERF		Erfurt, Germany
ERI		Erie, PA, USA
ERIC		Educational Resources Information Center
ERICA		Experiment On Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones Over The Atlantic
ERICA		Eyegaze Response Interface Computer Aid
ERISA		Employee Retirement Income Security Act
ERL		Echo Return Loss
ERM		Erechim, Brazil
ERN		Eirunepe, Brazil
ERP		Effective Radiated Power
ERP		Error Recovery Procedure
ERP		Extended Recovery Procedure
ERS		Earth Resources Satellite (as In Ers-1)
ERS		Windhoek-eros, Namibia
ERT		Earth Resources Technology 
ERU		Error Return Address Update
ERZ		Erzurum, Turkey
ES		End System
ES		Expert System
ES-IS		End System To Intermediate System (OSI)
ESA		Enterprise Systems Architecture (IBM)
ESA		Esa Ala, Papua New Guinea
ESA		European Space Agency
ESAC		Electronic Surveillance Assistance Center
ESAC		Electronic Systems Assistance Center
ESB		Ankara-esenboga, Turkey
ESB		Emergency Service Bureau
ESC		Employee Status Change (Sun)
ESC		Escanaba, MI, USA
ESC		Escape
ESCON		Enterprise Systems Connection
ESD		Eastsound, WA, USA
ESD		Electronic Software Distribution
ESD		Electrostatic Discharge
ESD		Electrostatic Sensitive Device
ESD		Engineering Service Division
ESDI		Enhanced Small Device Interface
ESE		East South East
ESE		Ensenada, Mexico
ESE		Enterprise System Engineer (Sun)
ESF		Alexandria, LA, USA
ESF		Extended Superframe
ESF		Extended Superframe Format
ESH		End System Hello (OSI)
ESI		Electrostatic Interference
ESI		Extended Security Investigation
ESIS		End System-intermediate System, "es-is"
ESL		Emergency Stand-alone
ESM		Electronic Support Measures
ESM		Esmeraldas, Ecuador
ESM		External Storage Module (Sun)
ESMD		Embeded Storage Module Disk
ESMD		Enhanced Storage Module Device
ESMR		Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio
ESN		Easton, MD, USA
ESN		Electronic Serial Number
ESN		Electronic Switched Network
ESO		European Southern Observatory
ESOP		Employee Stock Ownership Plan
ESP		Enhanced Serial Port
ESP		Enhanced Service Provider
ESP		Extra Sensory Perception
ESPEC		Ethernet Specification (dix)
ESPP		Employee Stock Purchase Plan
ESPRIT		European Strategic Programme For Research In Information Tech.
ESPS		Entropic Signal Processing System
ESR		El Salvador, Chile
ESR		Equivalent Series Resistance
ESRI		Environmental Systems Research Institute (redlands, Ca)
ESS		Electronic Switching System [telephony]
ESS		Environmental Stress Screening
ESSEX		Experimental Solid State Exchange
ESSX		Electronic Switching Systen Exchange
EST		Eastern Standard Time
ESTELLE		Extended State Transition Language
ET		Eastern Time
ET		External Tank [of The Us Space Shuttle]
ET		Extraterrestrial 
ETA		Estimated Time Of Arrival
ETACC		External Tank/aft Cargo Carrier, "et/acc" (see Also Et) 
ETAS		Emergency Technical Assistance
ETC		Et Cetera, And So On...
ETC		Enhanced Throughput Cellular
ETD		Estimated Time Of Departure
ETF		Electronic Toll Fraud
ETFD		Electronic Toll Fraud Device [telephony]
ETH		Eidgnoessiche Techniche Hochschule
ETH		Elat, Israel
ETI		Extended Terminal Interface
ETLA		Extended Three Letter Acronym
ETN		Eastland, TX, USA
ETN		Electronic Tandem Network
ETO		Earth-to-orbit 
ETR		Eastern Test Range
ETS		Electronic Tandem Switching
ETS		Electronic Translation System
ETS		Enterprise, AL, USA
ETSACI		Electronic Tandem Switching Adminstration Channel Interface
ETSI		European Telecommunications Standards Institute
ETSSP		Ets Status Panel
ETV		Education Television
ETX		End Text
EU		End User
EUA		Eua, Tonga
EUC		Extended Unix Code (mnls)
EUE		Eureka, NV, USA
EUF		Eufaula, AL, USA
EUG		Eugene, OR, USA
EUN		Laayoune, Morocco
EUNET		European Network
EUNET		European Unix Network
EUNET		European Unix Network, "eunet"
EUROSINET	European OSI Interoperability Test Group
EUUG		European Unix Users Group
EUV		Extreme Ultraviolet
EUVE		Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
EUX		St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles
EVA	*	Economic Value Added
EVA		Extravehicular Activity
EVE		Evenes, Norway
EVM		Eveleth, MN, USA
EVN		Erevan, USSR
EVS		European Videoconferencing Service
EVV		Evansville, IN, USA
EVW		Evanston, WY, USA
EVX		Electronic Voice Exchange
EW		Electronic Warfare
EW		Enlisted Woman (see Em)
EWB		New Bedford/fall River, MA, USA
EWK		Newton, KS, USA
EWN		New Bern-simmons Nott, NC,  USA
EWO		Engineering Work Order
EWOK		Furry Little Brown Creature In "star Wars"
EWOS		European Workshop For Open Systems (OSI Functional Standards)
EWR		Newark, NJ, USA
EWS		Engineering Work Station
EXI		Excursion Inlet, AK, USA
EXM		Enterprise Xtended Mail (Lotus Notes)
EXPO		World Exposition
EXT		Exeter, England, UK
EYKIW		Everything You Know Is Wrong (pronounced: Iq)
EYR		Yerington, NV, USA
EYW		Key West, FL, USA
EZE		Buenos Aries-pistarini, Argentina
EZS		Elazig, Turkey

F-1		B French Jet Fighter, Aka Mirage (dassault Aviation)
F-111F		Gd-built Bomber
F-117A		Lockheed Built Fighter, Aka Stealth
F-14A		Grumman-built Fighter, Aka Tomcat
F-15		Mcd Fighter
F-16C		Gd-built Fighter, Aka Fighting Falcon
F77		Fortran Compiler
FA		Factory Automation
FA		Field Administrator
FA		Finance Accounting (Sun)
FA		Football Association (british Soccer)
FA		Fuse Alarm
FAA		Federal Aviation Administration (u.s.)
FAB		Feature-advantage-benefit
FACD		Foreign Area Customer Dialing
FACE		Framed Access Command Environment
FACOM		Fujitsu Automatic Computer
FACS		Facilities Assignment And Control System
FAE		Faroe, Denmark
FAE		Fuel Air Explosive
FAESHED		Fuel Air Explosive, Helicopter Delivered
FAG		Forced Air Gas
FAI		Fairbanks, AK, USA
FAI		Federation Aeronautique International
FAIR		Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting (ny Watchdog Group)
FAJ		Fajardo, PR, USA
FAN		Farsund, Norway
FAO		Faro, Portugal
FAO		Food And Agriculture Organization [u.s. Government]
FAQ		Frequently Asked Question
FAQL		Frequently-asked Questions List
FAR		Fargo, ND, USA
FAR		Federal Acquisition Regulation
FAR		Federal Aviation Regulations (u.s.)
FAR		Federation Of American Research
FARNET		Federation Of American Research Networks
FAS		Foreign Agricultural Service
FAS		Free Alongside Ship
FASST		Flexible Architecture Standard System Technology
FAST		Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer
FAST		First Application System Test
FAST		Frame Relay Adaptive Switching And Transport
FAT		File Allocation Table
FAT		Foreign Area Translation
FAT		Fresno, CA, USA
FAV		Fakarava, French Polynesia
FAX		Facsimile
FAY		Fayetteville, NC,  USA
FB		Freight Bill
FBC		First Bisynchronous Communications
FBC		Frame Buffer Controller
FBG		Fort Bragg-Simmons AAF, NC,  USA
FBI		Federal Bureau Of Investigation [u.s. Government]
FBK		Fairbanks-Ft Wainwright AAF, AK, USA
FBM		Lubumbashi, Zaire
FBO		Fixed-base Operator
FBR		Fort Bridger, WY, USA
FBU		Oslo-fornebu, Norway
FBV		A Dutch Acronym For "fluke, Ltd."
FC		Full Color
FCA		Functional Configuration Audit
FCA		Kalispell-glacier National Park, MT, USA
FC-AL		Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop     
FC-PH	*	Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface
FCAP		Facility Capacity
FCB		File Control Block
FCC		Federal Communications Commission
FCC		Federal Computer Conference
FCC		Forward Command Channel
FCCBMP		Fleet Control Center Battle Management Planning
FCCSET		Federal Coordinating Council For Science, Education And Technology
FCFS		First Come, First Served
FCG		False Cross Or Ground
FCO		Field Change Order
FCO		Rome-leonardo Da Vinci Airport, Italy
FCRC		Federal Contract Research Center
FCS		File Control Systemction
FCS		First Customer Shipment
FCS		Frame Check Sequencer
FCS		Frame Check/control Sequence
FCSI		Fiber Channel System Initiative (sun,IBM,hp)
FCT		Four Corner Test (4fct)
FD		File Descriptor
FD		Floppy/flexible Disk(ette)/drive
FDA		Food And Drug Administration [u.s. Government]
FDD		Floppy Disk Drive
FDD		Frequency-division Multiplexing
FDDI		Fiber Distributed Data Interface (OSI Layer 1) (iso Is-9314)
FDDI		Fiber-distributed Data Interface
FDDI-2		Fddi Supporting Isochronous Traffic, "fddi-ii"
FDE		Forde, Norway
FDF		Fort De France, Martinique
FDH		Friedrichshafen, Germany
FDHD		Floppy Drive High Density
FDIC		Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [u.s. Government]
FDK		Frederick, MD, USA
FDM		Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDM		Frequency-division Multiplexer
FDMA		Frequency-division Multiple-access
FDP		Field Development Program
FDR		Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FDT		~
FDU		Bandundu, Zaire
FDX		Full Duplex
FDY		Findlay, OH, USA
FE		Field Engineer
FE		Format Effecters
FE		Front End
FEA		Finite Element Analysis
FEC		Forward Error Correction
FECN		Forward Explicit Congestion Notification (frame Relay)
FED		Far End Data
FEDSIM		Federal Systems Integration And Management Center
FEG		Fergana, USSR
FEHQ		Fluke European Headquarters
FEM		Finite Element Modeling
FEMA		Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMF		Foreign Electro-motive Force
FEP		Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene
FEP		Front End Processor (IBM)
FEPC		Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPS		Facility And Equipment Planning System
FERS		Federal Employees Retirement System
FET		Far East Trading
FET		Federal Excise Tax
FET		Field Effect Transistor
FEV		Far End Voice
FEW		Cheyenne-warren AFB, WY, USA
FEZ		Fez, Morocco
FF		Flip-flop
FF		Form Feed
FFA		Field Failure Analysis
FFA		Future Farmers Of America
FFO		Dayton-wright Patterson AFB, OH, USA
FFOL		Fddi Follow On Lan (proposed)
FFP		Firm Fixed Price
FFRDC		Federally Funded Reseach And Development Center
FFS		Fast File System
FFT		Fast Fourier Transform
FFT		Frankfort, KY, USA
FGA		Feature Group A, "fg-a" [telephony:line Side Term. For Ld Carriers]
FGB		Feature Group B, "fg-b" [telephony:trunk Side Term. For Ld Carriers (aka Enfia B), 950 Service]
FGC		Feature Group C, "fg-c" [telephony]
FGD		F'derik, Mauritania
FGD		Feature Group D, "fg-d" [telephony:trunk Side Term. For Ld Carriers, 1+ Service]
FGREP		Fixed Grep
FGS		Fine Guidance Sensors (on Hst)
FHA		Federal Housing Administration
FHA		Future Homemakers Of America
FHLMC		Federal Home Loan Mortgage Association (freddie Mac)
FHMA		Federal Home Mortgage Association (fannie Mae)
FHST		Fixed Head Star Trackers (on Hst)
FHU		Fort Huachua/sierra Vista, AZ, USA
FIB		Focused Ion Beam
FIC		Fire Cove, AK, USA
FICA		Federal Insurance Contributions Act
FID		Fishers Island, NY, USA
FIDO		Fog Investigation Dispersal Operation
FIFO		First In First Out
FIFO		First IN, First Out
FIH		Kinshasa-n'djili, Zaire
FIL		Fillmore, UT, USA
FILO		First IN, Last Out
FIMS		Forms Information Management System (iso)
FIN		Field Information Notice
FIN		Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea
FINE		Fine Is Not Emacs
FIO		Frequency In And Out
FIOC		Frame Input/output Controller
FIP		Facility Interface Processor
FIPS		Federal Information Processing Standard
FIPS		Federal Information Processing Standard (us Govt)
FIR		Far Infrared
FIR		Field Information And Reports (Sun)
FIR		Field Information Report
FIR		Finite Impulse Response
FIRMR		Federal Information Resource Management Regulation
FIT		Federal Information Technologies, Inc.
FITL		Fiber In The Loop
FITS		Flexible Image Transport System
FIZ		Fitzroy Crossing, Australia
FKI		Kisangani, Zaire
FKL		Oil City/franklin, PA, USA
FL		Florida
FLA		Florencia, Colombia
FLA		Four Letter Acronym, Five Letter Acronym
FLACC		Full Level Algol Checkout Compiler
FLAG		Finance, Legal, Adminstration Group (SMI)
FLD		Fond Du Lac, WI, USA
FLF		Flensburg, Germany
FLG		Flagstaff, AZ, USA
FLL		Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
FLN		Florianopolis, Brazil
FLO		Florence, SC, USA
FLOP		Floating Point Operation
FLOPS		Floating Point Operations Per Second
FLR		Florence, Italy
FLRA		Federal Labor Relations Authority
FLS		Flinders Island-tasmania, Australia
FLS		Floating License Server
FLT		Flat, AK, USA
FLT		Front-load Tape
FLV		Ft Leavenworth-Sherman AAF, KS, USA
FLW		Santa Cruz, Azores
FLX		Fallon-municipal, NV, USA
FM		Frequency Modulation
FMA		Formosa, Argentina
FMAC		Facility Maintenance And Control
FMB		Federal Maritime Board
FMC		Five Mile Camp, AK, USA
FMC		Flexible Manufacturing Cell
FMCS		Federal Mediation And Conciliation Service
FMEA		Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
FMH		Falmouth-otis AFB, MA, USA
FMI		Kalemie, Zaire
FMLI		Form And Menu Language Interpreter
FMN		Farmington, NM, USA
FMO		Munster-osnabruck, Germany
FMP		Functional Mp (auspex)
FMR		Field Marketing Representative
FMS		Financial Management Service (treasury Dept)
FMS		Flexible Machining/manufacturing System
FMS		Forms Management System
FMS		Fort Madison, IA, USA
FMUG		Futurebus+ Manufacturers And Users Group
FMV		Fair Market Value
FMW		Flash Memory Writer
FMY		Fort Myers-page Field, FL, USA
FNA		Freetown-lungi, Sierra Leone
FNC		Federal Networking Council
FNC		Funchal, Madeira Islands
FNI		Nimes, France
FNJ		Pyong Yang, North Korea
FNL		Fort Collins, CO, USA
FNPA		Foreign Numbering Plan Area
FNR		Funter Bay, AK, USA
FNT		Flint, MI, USA
FO		Forecast Order
FO		Foreign Office
FO		Forward Observer
FOAC		Federal Office Automation Center
FOB		Fort Bragg, CA, USA
FOB		Free On Board
FOC		Faint Object Camera (on Hst)
FOC		Fiber Optic Communications
FOC		Free Of Charge
FOC		Fuzhou, China
FOD		Fort Dodge, IA, USA
FOD		Fax On Demand
FOE		Topeka-forbes AFB, KS, USA
FOG		Foggia, Italy
FOIA		Freedom Of Information Act
FOIMS		Field Office Information Management System
FOIPA		Freedom Of Information And Privacy Act
FOIRL		Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link
FOIRL		Fiber Optic Inter-repeater Link
FOK		Westhampton, NY, USA
FON		Fiber Optics Network
FOO		Short For Fubar
FOOBAR		See Fubar
FOR		Fortaleza, Brazil
FOR		Free On Rail
FORCS		Faa's Operational Reporting Communication System
FORD		Fix Or Repair Daily
FORD		Found On Road Dead
FORTE		(annual Formal Specifications Conference)
FORTRAN		Formula Translation
FORTRAN-77		
FORTRAN-8X		ANSI X3j3 Draft Standard For Extended Fortran
FOS		Faint Object Spectrograph (on Hst)
FOSE		Federal Office Systems Exposition
FOT		Fiber Optic Transceiver
FOT		Free On Truck
FOV		Field Of View
FOX		Fiber Optic Transceiver
FP		Floating Point
FPA		Fp Accelerator (Sun)
FPC		Fish Protein Concentrate
FPC		Floating Point Coprocessor
FPDU		Ftam Protocol Data Unit
FPE		Floating Point Engine
FPE		Foam Polyethylene
FPGA		Field Programmable Gate Array
FPHA		Federal Public Housing Authority
FPLCA		Functional Programming Language C-- A---
FPLMTS		Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunications System (itu)
FPM		Feet Per Minute
FPO		Fleet Post Office
FPO		Freeport, Bahamas
FPP		Floating Point Processor
FPR		Fort Pierce, FL, USA
FPS		Favorite Play Sequence
FPS		Feet Per Second
FPS		Foot-pound-second
FPS		Frames Per Second
FPT		Forced Perfect Termination
FPT		Forced Perfect Termination (scsi)
FPU		Floating Point Unit
FPU-2		Fpu Based On Ti-8847 (Sun)
FPY		Perry, FL, USA
FQDN		Fully Qualified Domain Name
FQDN		Fully-qualified Domain Name
FQT		Merville/calonne, France
FR		Flat Rate
FRA		Frankfurt, Germany
FRACTAL		Fractional Dimensional
FRAD		Frame-relay Assembler/disassembler
FRAM		Ferroelectric Ram
FRB		Federal Reserve Board
FRC		Franca, Brazil
FRD		Fire Retardant
FRD		Friday Harbor, WA, USA
FRED		Fred Resembles Emacs Deliberately
FREE		Fathers Rights And Equality Exchange
FRF		Frankfort-rhein Main AFB, Germany
FRG		Federal Republic Of Germany (west Germany)
FRG		Long Island-republic, NY, USA
FRI		Fort Riley-Marshall AAF, KS, USA
FRICC		Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee
FRISC		Floating Point Reduced Instruction Set Computer
FRL		Forli, Italy
FRM		Fairmont, MN, USA
FRO		Floro, Norway
FROG		Free Rocket Over Ground
FRP		Fresh Water Bay, AK, USA
FRPG		Fantasy Role Playing Game
FRR		Flight-readiness Review
FRR		Front Royal, VA, USA
FRS		Federal Reserve System
FRS		Flexible Route Selection
FRS		Flores, Guatemala
FRU		Field Replacable Unit
FRU		Frunze, USSR
FRV		Franceville, Gabon
FRW		Francistown, Botswana
FRY		Fryeburg, ME, USA
FS		Field Service
FS		File System
FS		Floppy System
FSA		Field System Administrator (Sun)
FSCM		Federal Supply Code For Manufactures
FSD		Sioux Falls, SD, USA
FSD		~ (connector Type)
FSDO		Flight Standards District Office
FSE		Field Service Engineer
FSF		Free Software Foundation (gnu)
FSI		Fort Sill-Henry Post AAF, OK, USA
FSK		Frequency Shift Keying
FSK		Frequency-shift Keying
FSK		Ft Scott, KS, USA
FSLIC		Federal Savings And Loan Insurance Corporation
FSM		Fort Smith, AR, USA
FSMA		~ (connector Type)
FSP		File Server Process
FSP		File Service Process
FSP		St. Pierre, Miquelon
FSS		Fair-share Scheduler (amdahl)
FSS		Fast System Switch (system V)
FSS		Federal Supply Service
FSS		Flight Service Station
FSTC		Financial Services Technology Consortium
FSU		Florida State University
FSU		Former Soviet Union
FSW		Forward Swept Wings
FT		Foot
FT1		Fractional T1, Common Carrier Transmission (64 Kb/s Multiples)
FTAM		File Transfer, Access And Management
FTAM		File Transfer, Access And Management (OSI Layer 7)
FTC		Federal Trade Commission
FTC		Fort Collins, CO, USA
FTE		Factory Test Equipment
FTG		Final Trunk Group
FTK		Fort Knox-Godman AAF, KY, USA
FTL		Faster Than Light
FTL		Fortuna Ledge, AK, USA
FTP		File Transfer Protocol
FTP		File Transfer Protocol (RFC 959)
FTPI		Flux Transitions Per Inch
FTS		Federal Telecommunications System
FTS		Federal Telephone System [telephony]
FTS		File Tracking System
FTS		Flight Telerobotic Servicer 
FTU		Fort Dauphin, Madagascar
FTV		Masvingo, Zimbabwe
FTW		File Tree Walk
FTW		Fort Worth-meacham, TX, USA
FTY		Atlanta-fulton County, GA, USA
FTZ		Free Trade Zone
FUBAR		Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition
FUD		Fear, Uncertainty And Doubt (IBM)
FUE		Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
FUJ		Fukue, Japan
FUK		Fukuoka, Japan
FUL		Fullerton, CA, USA
FUN		Funafuti, Tuvalu
FUNI		Frame User Network Interface
FUS		Full-use Standard
FUSE		Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
FUT		Futuna, Wallis And Futuna Island
FV		Folio Verso, "fv" (on The Back Of The Page)
FW		Fringeworthy
FWA		Fort Wayne, IN, USA
FWD		Front Wheel Drive
FWH		Fort Worth-carswell AFB, TX, USA
FWHM		Full Width At Half Maximum
FWIW		For What It's Worth
FWL		Farewell, AK, USA
FX		Foriegn Exchange [telephony]
FX		Special Effects
FXE		Exec. Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
FXM		Flaxman Island, AK, USA
FY		Fiscal Year
FYA		For Your Action
FYI		For Your Information
FYS		For Your Signature
FYT		Faya, Chad
FYU		Fort Yukon, AK, USA
FYV		Fayetteville, AR, USA
FZO		Filton, UK

G		Gravity
G,DANDR		Grinning, Ducking And Running
G4		Group 4 Facsimile (mil-r-28002a)
GB		Gigabyte
GA		Gamblers Anonymous
GA		General Assembly
GA		General Average
GA		General Of The Army
GA		Georgia
GAAP		Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GAAS		Gallium Arsenide
GAAS		Gallium Arsenide, "gaas"
GAB		Group Audio Bridging [telephony]
GAC		Gracias, Honduras
GAD		Gadsden, AL, USA
GADO		General Aviation District Office
GAIA		Earth's Self-sustaining Biosphere, "gaia"
GAIA		Gui Application Interoperability Architecture
GAJ		Yamagata, Japan
GAL		Galena, AK, USA
GAM		Gambell, AK, USA
GAN		Gan Island, Maldives
GAN		Global Area Network
GAO		General Accounting Office
GAO		Guantanamo, Cuba
GAQ		Gao, Mali
GAR		Garaina, Papua New Guinea
GAR		Grand Army Of The Republic
GAS		Get-away Special
GAT		Gap, France
GATED		Gateway Deamon
GATT		General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade
GAU		Gauhati, India
GAW		Guaranteed Annual Wage
GAY		Gaya, India
GB		Gangbusters
GB		Gigabit
GB		Gigabit (10 E+9 Bits)
GB		Gigabyte (10 E+9 Bytes)
GB		Graphics Buffer, Used As Z-buffer For Gp (Sun)
GB		Great Britain
GBD		Great Bend, KS, USA
GBE		Gaborone, Botswana
GBG		Galesburg, IL, USA
GBH		Galbraith Lake, AK, USA
GBIP		General Purpose Interface Bus
GBJ		Marie Galante, French Antilles
GBR		Great Barrington, MA, USA
GBS		Group Bridging Service
GBT		Green Bank Telescope
GBU		Khashm El Girba, Sudan
GC		Garbage Collection (lisp)
GC		Gas Chromatograph(y)
GC		Graphic Context
GCA		General Communications Architecture (ingres)
GCA		Ground Controlled Approach
GCC		Gillette, WY, USA
GCC		Gnu C Compiler
GCD		Ground Controlled Descent
GCI		Guernsey, Channel Islands
GCK		Garden City, KS, USA
GCK		Graphics Control Keyboard
GCL		Graphics Command Language
GCM		General Court Martial
GCM		Grand Cayman, British West Indies
GCN		Grand Canyon National Park, AZ, USA
GCR		Group-coded Recording (magnetic Tape, 6250 Bpi)
GCS		Group Control System
GCT		Greenwich Civil Time
GCVS		General Catalog Of Variable Stars
GCY		Greenville, TN, USA
GD		General Dynamics
GDB		Gnu Debugger
GDC		Greenville, SC, USA
GDDM		Graphical Data Display Manager (IBM)
GDE		Gode, Ethiopia
GDG		Generation Data Group (IBM)
GDH		Golden Horn, AK, USA
GDL		Guadalajara, Mexico
GDMO		Guidelines For The Definition Of Managed Objects (iso)
GDN		Gdansk, Poland
GDP		Gross Domestic Product
GDQ		Gondar, Ethiopia
GDS		Great Dark Spot
GDT		Grand Turk, British West Indies
GDV		Glendive, MT, USA
GDW		Gladwin, MI, USA
GDX		Magadan, USSR
GE		General Electric
GEA		Noumea, New Caledonia
GECOS		General Electric Comprehensive Operating System
GECR		Global Environmental Change Report
GED		General Education Degree
GED		Georgetown, DE, USA
GEG		Spokane, WA, USA
GEIS		General Electric Information Systems
GEISCO		General Electric Information Services Company
GEL		Santo Angelo, Brazil
GEM		Giotto Extended Mission
GEM		Government, Education And Medical (Sun)
GEM		Graphics Environment Manager
GEM		Graphics Environment Manager (digital Research)
GEMS		General Electric Medical Systems
GEN		Oslo-gardermoen, Norway
GENIE		General Electric Network For Information Exchange
GENOS		Generate Operating System
GEO		Georgetown-timehri, Guyana
GEO		Geosynchronous Earth Orbit 
GER		Nueva Gerona, Cuba
GES		General Santos, Philippines
GET		Geraldton, Australia
GEV		Gallivare, Sweden
GEY		Greybull, WY, USA
GFA		Great Falls-malmstrom AFB, MT, USA
GFB		Togiak Fish, AK, USA
GFCI		Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter
GFD		Gone For The Day
GFE		Government Furnished Equipment
GFF		Griffith, Australia
GFK		Grand Forks, ND, USA
GFL		Glens Falls, NY, USA
GFLOP		Billions Of Floating Point Operations Per Second 
GFN		Grafton, Australia
GFO		Bartica, Guyana
GFR		Granville, France
GFY		Grootfontein, Namibia
GGE		Georgetown, SC, USA
GGG		Longview/kilgor/gladwater, TX, USA
GGN		Gagnoa, Ivory Coast
GGP		Gateway-to-gateway Protocol
GGT		Georgetown, Bahamas
GGW		Glasgow, MT, USA
GHA		Ghardaia, Algeria
GHB		Governor's Harbour, Bahamas
GHC		Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas
GHQ		General Headquarters
GHRS		Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (on Hst)
GHT		Ghat, Libya
GHU		Gualeguaychu, Argentina
GHZ		Giga Hertz, "ghz" (unit Of Frequency: 1 Billion Cycles/second)
GI		Galvanized Iron
GI		Gastro Intestinal
GI		General Issue
GI		Government Issue
GIB		Gibraltar, Gibraltar
GIC		Boigu Island, Australia
GID		Group Identity
GIF		Graphics Interchange Format
GIF		Graphics Interchange Format (compuserve)
GIG		Rio De Janiero, Brazil
GIGO		Garbage IN, Garbage Out
GIL		Gilgit, Pakistan
GIN		Graphics Input
GIS		Geographic Information System
GIS		Gisborne, New Zealand
GISS		Goddard Institute For Space Studies
GIZ		Gizan, Saudi Arabia
GJA		Guanaja Island, Honduras
GJT		Grand Junction, CO, USA
GKA		Goroka, Papua New Guinea
GKL		Great Keppel Island, Australia
GKN		Gulkana, AK, USA
GKS		Graphical Kernel System (1976 ISO)
GKSM		Gks Metafile
GLA		Glasgow, Scotland, UK
GLD		Goodland, KS, USA
GLF		Golfito, Costa Rica
GLH		Greenville, MS, USA
GLI		Glen Innes, Australia
GLM		Glenormiston-ql, Australia
GLO		Gloucester/cheltenham, England, UK
GLOMR		Global Low-orbiting Message Relay
GLR		Gaylord, MI, USA
GLS		Galveston, TX, USA
GLT		Gladstone, Australia
GLV		Golovin, AK, USA
GM		Game Master
GM		General Manager
GM		General Motors
GM		Guided Missile
GMA		Gemena, Zaire
GMBH		Gesellschaft Mit Beschraenkter Haftung
GMC		General Motors Corporation
GMC		Giant Molecular Cloud
GMC		Global Marketing Council (Sun)
GMC		Guerma, Colombia
GMRT		Giant Meter-wave Radio Telescope
GMSK		Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying
GMT		Granite Mountain, AK, USA
GMT		Greenwich Mean Time
GMU		Greenville-downtown, SC, USA
GMW		Gimme More Windows
GNB		Grenoble, France
GND		Grenada, British West Indies
GND		Ground
GNMA		Government National Mortgage Association (ginnie Mae)
GNMP		Government Network Management Profile
GNN		Global Network Navigator
GNN		Global Network Navigator (o'reilly And Associates)
GNP		Gross National Product
GNR		General Roca, Argentina
GNR		Guns 'n Roses
GNU		Gnu Is Not Unix
GNU		Gnu Is Not Unix (recursive)
GNU		Goodnews Bay, AK, USA
GNV		Gainesville, FL, USA
GNY		Granby, CO, USA
GOA		Genoa, Italy
GOB		Goba, Ethiopia
GOES		Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellites
GOH		Nuuk, Greenland
GOI		Goa, India
GOK		God Only Knows
GOL		Gold Beach, OR, USA
GOM		Goma, Zaire
GON		New London-groton, Ct, USA
GOO		Goondiwindi, Australia
GOP		Gorakhpur, India
GOP		Grand Old Party
GOR		Gore, Ethiopia
GOS		Gosford-ns, Australia
GOS		Grade Of Service
GOSIP		Government OSI Profile
GOSIP		Government OSI Profile (fips 146-1)
GOT		Gothenburg, Sweden
GOU		Garoua, Cameroons
GOV		Gove, Australia
GOX		Gaseous Oxygen
GOZ		Gorna Orjahovica, Bulgaria
GP		General Practitioner
GP		Grand Prix
GP		Graphics Processor
GP		Group Processor
GP		Vme, Acceleration Using Gpsi (Sun)
GP+		Gp W/bigger Microstore (Sun)
GP2		Improved Gp+ W/on-board Gb (Sun)
GPA		Grade Point Average
GPC		General Purpose Computer
GPC		Graphics Performance Characterization
GPCI		Graphics Processor Command Interface
GPD		Graphics Products Division
GPF		General Protection Fault (microsoft Windows)
GPI		Graphics Programming Interface
GPI		Guapi, Colombia
GPIB		General-purpose Interface Bus
GPL		General Public License (fsf)
GPL		Graphics Programming Language
GPM		Gross Product Margin
GPO		General Post Office
GPO		Government Printing Office
GPS		Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
GPS		General Problem Solver
GPS		Global Positioning System 
GPSI		Graphics Processor Software Interface
GPSS		General Purpose System Simulator
GPT		Gulfport/Biloxi, MS, USA
GPZ		Grand Rapids, MN, USA
GQ		General Quarters
GQ		Gentleman's Quarterly
GQQ		Galion, OH, USA
GRAPL		Graphics Application Programming Language (anvil)
GRASP		Graphic Animation System For Professionals
GRASS		Geographical Resources Analysis Support System
GRB		Gamma Ray Burst(er)
GRB		Green Bay-Straubel, WI, USA
GRD		Greenwood, SC, USA
GRD		Ground
GREP		Global Regular Expression Parser (unix)
GREP		Global Regular Expression Print, G/re/p, (unix Command)
GRF		Tacoma-Gray AAF, WA, USA
GRI		Graduate, Realtors Institute
GRI		Grand Island, NE, USA
GRIP		Graphics Interactive Programming Language (unigraphics)
GRIPS		Government Raster Image Processing Software
GRJ		George, South Africa
GRK		Killeen-Gray AAF, TX, USA
GRO		Gamma Ray Observatory 
GRO		Gerona, Spain
GROPE		Graphical Representation Of Protocols In Estelle
GRPMOD		Group Modulator, "grp Mod"
GRQ		Groningen, Netherlands
GRR		Grand Rapids, MI, USA
GRS		Gamma Ray Spectrometer (on Mars Observer)
GRS		Great Red Spot
GRS		Grosseto, Italy
GRU		Grajau, Brazil
GRW		Graciosa Island, Portugal
GRX		Granada, Spain
GRZ		Graz, Austria
GS		General Schedule
GS		Glide Slope
GS		Gray-scale
GS4I		Graphic Services Version 4i (usl)
GSA		General Services Administration
GSA		Girl Scouts Of America
GSA		Government Services Administration
GSAT		General Telephone And Electronics Satellite Corporation
GSB		Goldsboro, NC,  USA
GSBCA		General Services Administration Board Of Contract Appeals
GSC		Guide Star Catalog (for Hst)
GSE		Saeve Airport, Sweden
GSFC		Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD) [NASA]
GSG		General Systems Group (Sun)
GSI		Government Systems Integrator
GSM		Global Services Mobile
GSO		Greensboro/high Point, NC,  USA
GSP		Greenville/spartanburg, SC, USA
GSS		Gold Sound Standard
GST		Gustavus, AK, USA
GSTN		General Switched Telephone Network
GSTS		Ground-based Surveillance And Tracking System
GT		Graphics Tower (Sun Graphics - Codename Hawk)
GT		Gross Ton
GT		Group Technology
GTC		General Telephone Company
GTC		Genisco Technology Corp
GTE		General Telephone
GTE		Groote Island, Australia
GTF		Great Falls, MT, USA
GTL		Gunning Transceiver Logic
GTML		Guided Tour Markup Language
GTN		Mt Cook/glentanner, New Zealand
GTO		Geostationary Transfer Orbit
GTR		Columbus, MS, USA
GTR		General Territory Representative (Sun)
GTSI		Government Technology Services, Inc (Chantilly, Va)
GTT		Global Title Transmission
GTW		Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia
GU		Geographically Undesirable (Los Angeles Dating Term)
GUA		Guatemala City, Guatemala
GUC		Gunnison, CO, USA
GUD		Goundam, Mali
GUH		Gunnedah, Australia
GUI		Graphical User Interface
GUI		Guiria, Venezuela
GUIDE		Graphical User Interface Design Editor (Sun)
GUIMS		Gui Management System
GUM		Guam Island
GUP		Gallup, NM, USA
GUQ		Guanare, Venezuela
GUR		Alotau, Papua New Guinea
GUS		Guide To The Use Of Standards (SPAG Publication)
GUS		Peru, IN, USA
GUT		Gutersloh, Germany
GUX		Guna, India
GUY		Guymon, OK, USA
GVA		Geneva, Switzerland
GVE		Gordonsville, VA, USA
GVR		Governador Valadares, Brazil
GVT		Greenville, TX, USA
GVW		Grandview, MO, USA
GVX		Gavle, Sweden
GW		Gamma World
GWD		Gwadar, Pakistan
GWE		Gweru, Zimbabwe
GWEN		Ground Wave Emergency Network
GWL		Gwalior, India
GWO		Greenwood, MS, USA
GWS		Graphics Work Station
GWT		Westerland, Germany
GWY		Galway, Ireland
GX		See Lego (Sun)
GX+		CG6 (Sun, 1152x900 Or 1280x1024)
GXH		Mildenhall Naf, UK
GXP		Mid-range Graphics Accelerator Cg9+gp2 (Sun)
GXQ		Coyhaique, Chile
GXY		Greeley, CO, USA
GYA		Guayaramerin, Bolivia
GYE		Guayaquil, Ecuador
GYM		Guaymas, Mexico
GYN		Goiania, Brazil
GYR		Goodyear, AZ, USA
GYY		Gary, IN, USA
GZO		Gizo, Solomon Islands
GZT		Gaziantep, Turkey

H		Harn
H		Height
H		Hexidecimal
H.261		Video Compression Standard (ITUT)
H/V		Horizontal/verticle
HA		High Availability
HA		Home Automation
HAB		Hamilton, AL, USA
HAC		Hachijo Jima Island, Japan
HACD		Home Area Customer Dialing
HAD		Halmstad, Sweden
HAE		Havasupai, AZ, USA
HAH		Moroni-hahaya, Comoros
HAJ		Hanover, Germany
HAL		Hard Array Logic
HAL		Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer (2001)
HALT		Help Abolish Legal Thievery [non-profit Organization]
HAM		Hamburg, Germany
HAM		Hold And Modify
HAN		Hanoi, Vietnam
HAO		Hamilton, OH, USA
HAO		High Altitude Observatory
HAP		Happy Bay, Australia
HAP		Host Access Protocol
HAR		Harrisburg-capital City, PA, USA
HARM		High-availability, Reliability, And Maintainability
HARM		~ Anti-radar Missile
HAS		Hail, Saudi Arabia
HAS		Hybrid Access System
HASP		Houston Automated Spooling Program
HAT		Hardware Address Translation
HAT		Hashed Address Table
HAU		Haugesund, Norway
HAV		Havana, Cuba
HAY		Haycock, AK, USA
HB		Hemoglobin, "hb"
HBA		Hobart-tasmania, Australia
HBA		Host Bus Adapter
HBA		Host Bus Adapter (scsi)
HBG		Hattiesburg, MS, USA
HBH		Hobart Bay, AK, USA
HBI		Harbour Island, Bahamas
HBK		Hinchinbrook, AK, USA
HBM		Her British Majesty; His British Majesty
HBO		Home Box Office
HBT		Hafr Al Batin, Saudi Arabia
HC		Holy Communion
HC		House Of Commons
HCA		Big Spring-howard County, TX, USA
HCF		Halt And Catch Fire
HCFA		Health Care Financing Administration
HCG		Hardware Configuration Guide
HCI		Human Computer Interaction
HCIN		Health Care Information Network (neic)
HCIVC		Health Care Interactive Videodisc Consortium
HCL		High Cost Of Living
HCL		Host Control Links
HCR		Hodge Computer Research, Inc.
HCR		Holy Cross, AK, USA
HCSDS		High-capacity Satellite Digital Service
HCTDS		High-capacity Terrestrial Digital Service
HD		Hard Disk
HD		Heavy Duty
HD		Henry Draper Catalog Entry
HDA		Head Disk Assembly (in Winchester Disk Drives)
HDBV		Host Data Base View
HDD		Hard Disk Drive
HDD		Hyderabad, Pakistan
HDF		~ (www)
HDL		Hardware Description Language
HDL		High Density Lipoprotein
HDLC		High Level Datalink Control
HDLC		High-level Data Link Control (iso 4335,7809)
HDM		Hamadan, Iran
HDN		Hayden-yampa Valley, CO, USA
HDPT		Hard Drive Parameter Table
HDS		Hitachi Data Systems 
HDSL		High-speed Digital Subscriber Line
HDTV		High Definition Television
HDX		Half Duplex
HDY		Hat Yai, Thailand
HE		His Eminence; His Excellency
HEA		Herat, Afghanistan
HEAO		High Energy Astronomical Observatory [satellite]
HEAP		Home Energy Assistance Program
HED		Herendeen, AK, USA
HEDM		High Energy-density Matter 
HEH		Heho, Burma
HEHO		High End Hop Off
HEL		Helsinki, Finland
HEM		Helsinki-malmi, Finland
HEM		High-level Entity Management
HEMP		Help End Marijuana Prohibition
HEMS		High-level Entity Management System
HEMT		High Electron Mobility Transistor
HEO		High Earth Orbit 
HEP		High Energy Physics
HER		Heraklion, Greece
HERA		Hermes Robotic Arm, "hera"
HERO		Hazards Of Electromagnetic Radiation To Ordnance
HES		Hermiston, OR, USA
HEX		Hexidecimal
HEX		Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
HEZ		Natchez, MS, USA
HF		Hawthorne Farms (intel)
HF		High Fantasy
HF		High Frequency
HF		High Frequency (3-30mhz)
HFA		Haifa, Israel
HFC		Hybrid Fiber/Coax
HFD		Hartford-brainard Field, Ct, USA
HFE		Human Factors Engineering
HFF		Hoffman, NC,  USA
HFN		Hofn, Iceland
HFS		Hierarchical File System (apple Macintosh)
HFS		Human Factors Society
HFT		Hammerfest, Norway
HGA		Hargeisa, Somali
HGA		High Gain Antenna
HGC		Hercules Graphic Card
HGC		Hercules Graphics Card (720x350x2)
HGD		Hughenden, Australia
HGH		Hangzhou, China
HGL		Helgoland, Germany
HGN		Mae Hong Son, Thailand
HGO		Korhogo, Ivory Coast
HGR		Hagerstown, MD, USA
HGS		Freetown, Sierra Leone
HGU		Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea
HGZ		Hogatza, AK, USA
HHE		Hachinohe, Japan
HHH		Hilton Head, SC, USA
HHP		Hong Kong, China
HHR		Hawthorne, CA, USA
HI		Hawaii
HIB		Hibbing, MN, USA
HIC		Hybrid Integrated Circuit
HIE		Whitefield, NH, USA
HIF		Ogden-hill AFB, UT, USA
HIFO		Highest-in, First-out
HII		Lake Havasu City, AZ, USA
HIIPS		Hud Integrated Information Processing Services
HIJ		Hiroshima, Japan
HIK		Honolulu-hickam AFB, HI, USA
HIN		Chinju, South Korea
HIO		Hillsboro, OR, USA
HIPER		High Impact Perfavise (ptf)
HIPPI		High Performance Parallel Interface
HIR		Honiara, Solomon Islands
HIRES		Hi-resolution
HIS		Hayman Island, Australia
HIS		Honeywell Information System
HIV		Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HJR		Khajuraho, India
HKA		Blytheville-Municipal, AR, USA
HKD		Hakodate, Japan
HKG		Hong Kong-Kai Tak, Hong Kong
HKK		Hokitika, New Zealand
HKN		Hoskins, Papua New Guinea
HKP		Kaanapali-Maui, HI, USA
HKT		Phuket, Thailand
HKY		Hickory, NC,  USA
HLC		Heavy Lift Capability 
HLF		Hultsfred, Sweden
HLG		Wheeling, WV, USA
HLHSR		Hidden Line And Hidden Surface Removal
HLI		Hllapi-like Interface (sunlink 3270)
HLL		High-level Language
HLLAPI		High Level Language Application Programmatic Interface
HLM		Heterogeneous Lan Management (IBM, 3com)
HLN		Helena, MT, USA
HLP		Jakarta-Halim Per Kusama, Indonesia
HLR		Killeen-Fort Hood AAF, TX, USA
HLS		Hue, Light, Saturation (color System)
HLS		Hue-lightness-saturation
HLT		Hamilton, Australia
HLV		Heavy Lift Vehicle 
HLV		Helenvale, Australia
HLZ		Hamilton, New Zealand
HM		High-resolution Monochrome (Sun)
HMA		High Memory Area
HMC		Halley Multicolor Camera (on Giotto)
HMD		Head-mounted Display
HME		Hassi Messaoud, Algeria
HMI		Host Micro Interface (CompuServe)
HMI		Hub Manager Interface (Novell)
HMI		Human Machine Interface     
HMM		Hidden Markov Model
HMN		Alamogordo-holloman AFB, NM, USA
HMO		Hermosillo, Mexico
HMOS		High Performance Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see Mos)
HMP		Host Monitoring Protocol
HMS		His/her Majesty's Ship
HMS		Homeshore, AK, USA
HMT		Hemet, CA, USA
HMT		His/her Majesty's Transport
HNA		Hanamaki, Japan
HNC		Hatteras, NC,  USA
HND		Tokyo-haneda, Japan
HNG		Hienghene, New Caledonia
HNH		Hoonah, AK, USA
HNL		Honolulu, Hawaii
HNL		Honolulu-oahu, HI, USA
HNM		Hana-maui, HI, USA
HNPA		Home Numbering Plan Area [telephony]
HNS		Haines, AK, USA
HNS		Hospitality Network Service
HNX		Hanna, WY, USA
HOB		Hobbs, NM, USA
HOBIC		Hotel Billing Information Center
HOBIS		Hotel Billing Information System
HOD		Hodeida, Yemen
HOF		Hoffuf, Saudi Arabia
HOG		Holguin, Cuba
HOK		Hookers Creek, Australia
HOL		High-order Language
HOL		Holikachuk, AK, USA
HOM		Homer, AK, USA
HON		Huron, SD, USA
HOO		Quang Duc, Vietnam
HOOPS		Heirarchical Object Oriented Programming System (ithaca Software)
HOP		Hopkinsville, KY, USA
HOQ		Hof, Germany
HOR		Horta-faial Island, Azores
HOT		Hot Springs, AR, USA
HOTOL		Horizontal Take-off And Landing
HOU		Houston-hobby, TX, USA
HOV		Orsta/volda, Norway
HOW		Fort Kobbe-howard AFB, Panama
HOW		Home Owners Warranty
HP		Hewlett-packard
HP		Hewlett-packard, Inc. 
HP		High Pressure
HP		Higher Power (sort Of An Aa "in" Term, Usually God)
HP		Hit Points
HP		Horsepower
HP-GL		Hewlett-packard Graphics Language
HP/UX		Trademark Name For Hp Os, Derived From Unix System V
HPA		Lifuka, Tonga
HPB		Hooper Bay, AK, USA
HPD		High Performance Division (Sun)
HPDS		High Performance Directory Services
HPFS		High Performance File System
HPFS		High Performance File System (os/2 1.2)
HPG		Hand-held Password Generator
HPGE		High Purity Germanium
HPGL		Hewlett-packard Graphics Language
HPIB		Hewlett-packard Interface Bus
HPLT		High-productivity Languages/tools, "hpl/t"
HPN		White Plains, New York
HPN		White Plains, NY, USA
HPO		High Performance Option
HPPA		Hewlett-packard Precision Architecture
HPPI		See Hippi
HPPL		Hewlett-pakcard Plotter Language
HPSSL		Highly Parallel Supercomputing Systems Laboratory
HPT		Hampton, IA, USA
HPV		Princeville-kauai, HI, USA
HQ		Headquarters
HQM		Hoquiam, WA, USA
HR		Hertzsprung-russell (diagram)
HR		House Of Representatives
HR		Human Resources
HRB		Harbin, China
HRE		Harare, Zimbabwe
HRG		Hurghada, Arab Republic Of Egypt
HRH		Her/his Royal Highness
HRI		High Resolution Imager (on Rosat)
HRIS		Human Resource Information System
HRK		Kharkov, USSR
HRL		Harlingen/san Benito, TX, USA
HRO		Harrison, AR, USA
HRPT		High Resolution Photo Telemetry
HRT		Harrogate, UK
HRV	*	High Resolution Video
HS		High School
HSB		Hue, Saturation, Brightness (color System)
HSC		Hierarchical Storage Controller
HSC		Hierarchical Storage Controller (DEC)
HSC		High-speed Channel (x3t9 Draft 800 Mb/s)
HSCS		High-speed Circuit-switched
HSFS		High Sierra File System
HSH		Las Vegas-henderson, NV, USA
HSI		Hastings, NE, USA
HSI		High Speed Interface
HSI		High-speed Serial Interface (sun T1)
HSI		Horizontal Situation Indicator
HSI		Hue, Saturation And Intensity
HSL		Huslia, AK, USA
HSLN		High Speed Local Network
HSLN		High-speed Local Network
HSM		Hardware Specific Module,  Heirarchical Storage Management
HSP		High Speed Photometer (on Hst)
HSP		Hot Springs, VA, USA
HSSDS		High-speed Switched Digital Service
HSSI		High-speed Serial Interface (cisco)
HST		Hawaiian Standard Time
HST		High Speed Technology
HST		Homestead AFB, FL, USA
HST		Hubble Space Telescope
HSV		Hue, Saturation And Value (color System)
HSV		Huntsville, AL, USA
HT		High Tension (as In Electric Power Transmission)
HT		Horizontal Tab
HTF		Hatfield, England, UK
HTFSIK		How The F--k Should I Know?
HTH		Hawthorne, NV, USA
HTH		Hope This Helps
HTI		Hamilton Island, Australia
HTI		Head Tape Interface
HTK		Hits To Kill
HTML		Hypertext Markup Language
HTO		East Hampton, NY, USA
HTS		Ashland Ky/huntington, WV, USA
HTS		High-temperature Semiconductor
HTTP		Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP		Hypertext Transport Protocol, Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTZ		Hato Corozal, Colombia
HU		High USAge
HUA		Huntsville-Redstone AAF, AL, USA
HUAC		House Unamerican Activities Committee
HUC		Humacao Airport, PR, USA
HUD		Heads Up Display
HUD		Housing And Urban Development [u.s. Government]
HUE		Humera, Ethiopia
HUF		Terre Haute, IN, USA
HUG		Huehuetenango, Guatemala
HUGE		Hewlett-packard Unsupported Gnu Emacs
HUH		Huahine, French Polynesia
HUI		Hue, Vietnam
HUL		Houlton, ME, USA
HUM		Houma, LA, USA
HUN		Hualien, Taiwan
HUS		Hughes, AK, USA
HUT		Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (astro Package)
HUT		Hutchinson, KS, USA
HUTG		High USAge Trunk Group
HUU		Huanuco, Peru
HUV		Hudiksvall, Sweden
HUX		Bahia De Huatalco, Mexico
HUY		Humberside, England, UK
HV		High Voltage
HVA		Analalava, Madagascar
HVAC		Heating, Ventilation, And Air Conditioning
HVC		Hue, Value And Color
HVML	*	Hyertext Voice Markup Language (Stylus)
HVN		New Haven, Ct, USA
HVR		Havre, MT, USA
HVS		Hartsville, SC, USA
HW2000		Highway 2000
HWD		Hayward, CA, USA
HWD		Hayward, California
HWD		Height, Width, Depth
HWI		Hawk Inlet, AK, USA
HWM		High-water Mark
HWN		Hwange Natl Park, Zimbabwe
HYA		Hyannis, MA, USA
HYD		Hyderabad, India
HYG		Hydaburg, AK, USA
HYL		Hollis, AK, USA
HYR		Hayward, WI, USA
HYS		Hays, KS, USA
HZ		Hertz (unit Of Frequency, Cycles Per Second)
HZK		Husavik, Iceland
HZL		Hazleton, PA, USA

IANDTS		Information And Technology Services (Sun)
I-DEAS		Integrated-design Engineering Analysis Software (sdrc)
I.S.		Information Superhighway
I/O		Input/output
I14Y		Interoperability (Sun)
I18N		Internationalization (Sun)
IA		Inspection Authorization
IAB		Interactive Application Builder
IAB		Internet Activities Board
IAB		Internet Activities Board, Internet Architecture Board
IAB		Wichita-mcconnell AFB, KS, USA
IABP		Internet Access Benchmark Project
IAC		In Any Case (e-mail)
IAC		Inter-application Communication (apple)
IAD		Dulles International, Washington Dc
IAD		Washington-dulles, DC, USA
IAEA		International Atomic Energy Agency
IAFIS		Integrated Automated Fingerprint Id System
IAG		Niagara Falls, NY, USA
IAH		Houston (intercontinental) Tx
IAH		Houston-intercontinental, TX, USA
IAM		In Amenas, Algeria
IAN		Kiana, AK, USA
IANA		Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IANAL		I Am Not A Lawyer (e-mail)
IAPPP		International Amateur/professional Photoelectric Photometry
IAS		Iasi, Romania
IATA		International Air Transport Association
IAU		International Astronomical Union
IAUC		Iau Circular
IAW		In Accordance With
IB		Instruction Buffer
IBA		Ibadan, Nigeria
IBB		Installed Base Business (smi)
IBE		Ibague, Colombia
IBM		I've Been Misled
IBM		Ingrained Batch Mentality
IBM		International Brotherhood Of Magicians
IBM		International Business Machines
IBM		International Business Machines 
IBM		Itty Bitty Machines
IBM-1		Shielded Twisted Pair (dual-pair)
IBM-2		Shielded Twisted Pair (six-pair)
IBM-3		Unshielded Twisted Pair (single Pair)
IBM-5		Fiber-optic Cable (dual 100/140 Micron Fiber)
IBM-6		Twisted Pair (dual-pair, Patch Cables)
IBM-8		Shielded Twisted Pair (dual Pair, Under-carpet)
IBM-9		Twisted Pair (dual Pair)
IBN		Integrated Business Network
IBU		Individual Business Unit
IBZ		Ibiza, Spain
IC		Independent Carrier
IC		Integrated Circuit
IC		Inter-lata Carrier
IC		Interexchange Carrier [telephony] (see Also Iec)
ICA		International Communications Association
ICAN		Individual Circuit Analysis
ICB		Interleave Cell Buster
ICB		Interstate Computer Bank
ICBM		Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
ICBW		I Could Be Wrong
ICC		International Conference On Communications (IEEE)
ICC		Interstate Commerce Commission
ICCC		Inter-client Communication Convention (x)
ICCC		International Conference On Computer Communications
ICCCM		Interclient Communications Conventions Manual (x Window)
ICCP		Institute For Certification Of Computer Professionals
ICD		Interactive Call Distribution
ICE		In-circuit Emulator
ICE		International Cometary Explorer
ICE		Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics
ICG		Internet Commerce Group
ICI		Imperial Chemical Industries
ICI	*	Inter Carrier Interface
ICIP	*	Inter Carrier Interface Protocol
ICJ		International Court Of Justice
ICK		Nieuw Nickerie, Suriname
ICL		International Computers Limited 
ICLID		Individual Calling Line Identification
ICM		Integrated Call Management
ICMP		Internet Control Message Protocol
ICNC		International Center For Network Computing (SunSoft)
ICON		Inter Continental
ICP		Integrated Channel Processor
ICP		Inventory Control Points
ICPI		Individual Computer Products Inc (IBM Subsidiary)
ICRC		International Cosmic Ray Conference
ICSC		Inter-lata Customer Service Center
ICST		Institute For Computer Science And Technology
ICSTI		International Centre For Scientific And Technical Information (moscow)
ICT		In-circuit Test
ICT		Interactive Consumer Terminal
ICT		Wichita, KS, USA
ICY		Icy Bay, AK, USA
ID		Idaho
ID		Identification
IDA		Idaho Falls, ID, USA
IDA		Intercommunication Data Areas
IDA		International Dark-sky Association
IDA		International Development Association
IDC		Insulation Displacement Contact
IDC		International Data Corporation (framingham, Massachusetts)
IDDD		International Direct Distance Dial [telephony]
IDDQ		~ (testing)
IDE		Integrated Development Environment
IDE		Integrated Drive Electronics
IDE		Intellegent Drive Electronics, Integrated Device Electronics
IDE		Interactive Development Environment
IDEA		International Dance Exercise Association
IDEA		International Data Ecryption Algorithm
IDEA		Internet Design, Engineering, And Analysis Notes (ietf Rfcs)
IDF		Intermediate Distributing Frame [telephony]
IDI		Indiana, PA, USA
IDI		Initial Domain Identifier
IDIQ		Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity
IDL		Interactive Data Language
IDL		Interface Definition Language
IDL		Interface Description Language
IDL		Interface Design Language
IDM		Image Data Manager
IDMS/R		~ ~ (IBM Database)
IDP		Initial Domain Part
IDP		Internet Datagram Protocol (xns Equivalent To Ip)
IDPR		Inter-domain Policy Routing
IDR		Indore, India
IDRP		Inter-domain Routing Policy
IDS		Internal Directory System
IDTN	*	Interactive Distance Training Network
IDV		Interlibrational Derived Vehicle 
IDVC		Integrated Data/voice Channel
IE		Id Est (that Is)
IE		Id Est, "i.e." (that Is)
IE		Indo-european
IE		Intelligent Electronics Inc 
IE		Inter Ethernet
IEC		Interexchange Carrier [telephony] (see Also Ic)
IEC		International Electrotechnical Commission
IEC	*	Internet and Electronic Commerce
IEE		Institute Of Electrical Engineers (uk)
IEEE		Institute Of Electrical And Electronic Engineers
IEEE		Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers
IEG		Zielona Gora, Poland
IEN		Internet Engineering Notes
IEN		Internet Experiment Notebook (precedes Rfcs)
IESG		Internet Engineering Steering Group
IETF		Internet Engineer's Task Force
IETF		Internet Engineering Task Force
IEV		Kiev-zhulhany, USSR
IF		Interface, "i/f"
IF		Intermediate Frequency
IFB		Invitation For Bids
IFC		International Finance Corporation
IFC		International Freighting Corporation
IFF		Identification Friend Or Foe
IFF		Image File Format
IFF		Interchange File Format
IFF		Iterative Function Fractal
IFG		Inter Field Gap
IFIP		International Federation For Information Processing
IFJ		Isafjordur, Iceland
IFL		Innisfail, Australia
IFLA		International Federation Of Library Associations
IFN		Isfahan, Iran
IFR		Instrument Flight Rules
IFRPS		Intercity Facility Relief Planning System
IFS		Installable File System
IFTP		Interim File Transfer Protocol
IGA		Inagua, Bahamas
IGES		Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (mil-d-28000)
IGES		Intiial Graphics Exchange Specification
IGG		Igiugig, AK, USA
IGL		Cigli Airport, Turkey
IGM		Intergalactic Medium
IGM		Kingman, AZ, USA
IGMP		Internet Group Manager Protocol (RFC 1112,1054)
IGMP		Internet Group Multicast Protocol
IGN		Iligan, Philippines
IGO		Chigorodo, Colombia
IGOSS		Industry/government Systems Specification
IGP		Interior Gateway Protocol
IGR		Iguazu, Argentina
IGRP		Internet Gateway Routing Protocol (cisco)
IGSI		Indirect Gsi (Sun)
IGU		Iguassu Falls, Brazil
IGY		International Geophysical Year
IHAC		I Have A Customer ...
IHP		Indicated Horsepower
IHS		Integrated Hospital Support
IHU		Ihu, Papua New Guinea
IIA		Information Industry Association
IIE		Institute Of Industrial Engineers
IIHF		International Ice Hockey Federation
IIL		Integrated Injection Logic
IIN		Ibm Information Network
IIN		Integrated Information Network
IISPB		Image And Information Standards Policy Board
IJU		Ijui, Brazil
IJX		Jacksonville, IL, USA
IKI		Iki, Japan
IKK		Kankakee, IL, USA
IKO		Nikolski, AK, USA
IKT		Irkutsk, USSR
ILD		Injection Laser Diode
ILE		Killeen, TX, USA
ILG		Wilmington, DE, USA
ILI		Iliamna, AK, USA
ILL		Willmar, MN, USA
ILM		Wilmington, NC,  USA
ILMI	*	Industrial Light and Magic Inc
ILMI	*	Interim Link Management Interface
ILN		Wilmington-clinton Field, OH, USA
ILO		Iloilo, Philippines
ILO		International Labor Organization
ILP		Ile Des Pins, New Caledonia
ILR		Ilorin, Nigeria
ILS		Instrument Landing System
ILV		Industrial Launch Vehicle 
ILY		Islay, Scotland, UK
ILZ		Zilina, Czechoslovakia
IM		Installation And Maintenance, "iandm"
IM		Interface Module
IMA		Interactive Multimedia Association
IMAP		Interactive Mail Access Protocol
IMAP		Internet Message Access Protocol
IMAS		Integrated Mass Announcement System
IMC		Instrument Meteorological Contitions
IMD		Industry Marketing Development
IMF		Imphal, India
IMF		International Monetary Fund
IMG		Insource Management Group, Inc (rod Canion, Ex-compaq)
IMHO		In My Humble Opinion (e-mail)
IML		Imperial, NE, USA
IMM		Immokalee, FL, USA
IMM		Input Message Manual
IMO		In My Opinion (e-mail)
IMP		Imperatriz, Brazil
IMP		Information Message Processor,  Internet Mercantile Protocols
IMP		Interface Message Processor [arpanet/milnet] (replaced By Psn)
IMP		Internet Mercantile Protocol
IMPACT		Integrated Marketing Prospect And Customer Tool (Sun)
IMPACT		Inventory Management Program And Control Technique
IMS		Information Management System
IMS		Information Management System (IBM)
IMS		Integrated Management System
IMS		Integrated Manufacturing System
IMS	*	Internet Management Specification (SunSoft/Tivoli)
IMS		Internet Multicasting Service
IMSA		International Motor Sports Association
IMSL		International Mathematical And Statistical Libraries
IMSL		International Mathematical Subroutine Library
IMSO		Integrated Micro Systems Operation (intel)
IMSVS		Information Management System/virtual Storage, "ims/vs"
IMT		Image Management Terminal
IMT		Inter-machine Trunk
IMT		Iron Mountain, MI, USA
IMTS		Improved Mobile Telephone Service
IN		Indiana
IN		Intelligent Network
INADS		Initialization And Administration System [telephony]
INC		International Carrier
INC		Yinchuan, China
IND		Indianapolis, IN, USA
INET		Institutional Netwowrk
INF		In Guezzam, Algeria
ING		Lago Argentino, Argentina
INGRES		Interactive Graphic Retrieval System
INH		Inhambane, Mozambique
INIC		Intelligent Network Interface Card
INL		Inter Node Link
INL		International Falls, MN, USA
INMS		Integrated Network Management System (at&t Unma Part)
INN		Innsbruck, Austria
INN		Inter Node Network
INO		Inongo, Zaire
INOC		Internet Network Operations Center
INR		Sault Ste Marie-kincheloe AFB, MI, USA
INRI		Iesus Nazerenus Rex Iudaeorum
INRIA		Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et Automatique
INS		Immigration And Naturalization Service
INS		Inertial Navigation System
INS		Information Network System
INSTITUTE		Institute's Name Shows That It's Totally Unrelated To Emacs
INT		Winston-salem, NC,  USA
INTAP		Interoperability Technology Assoc. For Information Processing
INTAPNET		Intap Testing Network (japan)
INTELSAT		International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium
INTERNIC		Internetwork Network Information Center
INTUG		International Telecommunications Users Group
INU		Nauru, Nauru
INV		Inverness, Scotland, UK
INW		Winslow, AZ, USA
INWATS		Inward Wide Area Telephone Service [telephony]
IO		Input/output (sometimes I/o)
IO		Input/output, "i/o"
IO		Inward Operator
IOA		Ioannina, Greece
IOC		Input/output Computer (aptec)
IOC		Input/output Controller
IOC		Inter-office Communication
IOC		International Operating Center [telephony, Us]
IOCC		International Overseas Completion Center
IOD		Identified Outward Dialing
IOM		Isle Of Man, British Isles
ION		Impfondo, Congo Republic
IONL		Internal Organization Of The Network Layer (iso 8648)
IOOF		International Order Of Odd Fellows
IOP		Input-output Processor
IOR		Inishmore, Ireland
IOS		Ilheus, Brazil
IOS		Integrated Office System
IOS	*	Internetwork OS (Cisco)
IOT		Interoffice Trunk
IOTA		Infrared-optical Telescope Array
IOTA		International Occultation Timing Association
IOU		I Owe You (u)
IOU		Ile Quen, New Caledonia
IOW		In Other Words
IOW		Iowa City, IA, USA
IP		Industrial Products
IP		Information Provider [telephony]
IP		Innings Pitched
IP		Intermediate Point
IP		Internet Protocol (RFC 791)
IP		Internet Protocol, Information Protocol
IPC		Easter Island, Chile
IPC		Instead (of A) Personal Computer
IPC		Integrated Personal Computer (vme-based 80286-10 Sun)
IPC		Interprocess Communication
IPC		Inventory Process Control
IPCC		Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change
IPCE		Interprocess Communication Environment
IPCP		Internet Protocol Control Protocol
IPCS		Interactive Problem Control System
IPDS		Intelligent Printer Data Stream
IPDU		Internet Protocol Data Unit
IPE		Instructor Performance Evaluation
IPE		Integrated Programming Environment
IPE		Ipil, Philippines
IPH		Ipoh, Malaysia
IPI		Image Processing And Interchange (iso)
IPI		Intelligent Peripheral Interface
IPI		Ipiales, Colombia
IPL		El Centro, CA, USA
IPL		Initial Program Load (IBM)
IPL		Intiial Program Load
IPLAN		Integrated Planning And Analysis
IPM		Impulses Per Minute
IPM		Interruptions Per Minute
IPMS		Interpersonal Messaging Service (x.400) 
IPN		Ipatinga, Brazil
IPO		Initial Public Offering
IPO		International Procurement Office
IPS		Inches Per Second
IPS		Inertial Pointing System
IPS		Information Processing Standards
IPS		Internet Protocol Suite
IPSE		Integrated Project Support Environment (case Concept)
IPT		Independent Product Testing
IPT		Williamsport, PA, USA
IPT		Williamsport, Pennsylvania
IPX		Internet Packet Exchange (xerox/Novell Protocol)
IPX		Internetwork Packet Exchange 
IPX		SPARCstation Ipx (Sun)
IQ		Intelligence Quotient (see Eq)
IQQ		Iquique, Chile
IQR		Inquiry
IQT		Iquitos, Peru
IR		Index Register
IR		Information Resource
IR		Infrared
IR		Insulation Resistance
IR		Internetwork Router
IRA		Individual Retirement Account
IRA		Interprocedural Register Allocation
IRA		Irish Republican Army
IRAF		Image Reduction And Analysis Facility
IRAS		Infrared Astronomical Satellite
IRBM		Intelligent Repeater Bridge Module
IRBM		Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
IRC		Circle, AK, USA
IRC		International Record Carrier
IRC		Internet Relay Chat
IRD		Investment Recovery Department
IRD		Ishurdi, Bangladesh
IrDA	*	Infrared Data Association 
IRDA	*	Infrared Device Association 
IRDM		Intelligent Repeater Bridge Module
IRDS		Information Resource Dictionary System (fips 156)
IRDS		Information Resource Directory Service
IRDS		Infrared Detection Set
IRE		Institute Of Radio Engineers (old Name For The Now Ieee, Q.v.)
IRG		Inter-record Gap
IRG		Lockhart River, Australia
IRI		Iringa, Tanzania
IRIG-B		(timing Protocol)
IRJ		La Rioja, Argentina
IRLAP	*	InfraRed Link Access Protocol
IRK		Kirksville, MO, USA
IRM		Information Resources Management
IRM		Inherited Rights Mask
IRM		Intelligent Repeater Module
IRMS		Information Resources Management Service
IRMS	*	Idle Rumour and Mere Speculation (Gene Saunders)
IRN		Intermediate Routing Node
IRO		Birao, Central African Rep
IROR		Internal Rate Of Return
IRP		Isiro, Zaire
IRQ		Hardware Interrupt
IRQ		Interrupt Request
IRS		Inertial Reference System
IRS		Internal Revenue Service
IRSG		Internet Research Steering Group
IRTF		Internet Research Task Force
IS		Information Separator
IS		Information Systems
IS		Intermediate System
IS		International Standard
IS		Interrupt Set
IS-41		Inter-System Operation
IS-IS		Intermediate System To Intermediate System
IS-IS		Intermediate System To Intermediate System (iso 10589)
IS.54		(digital Cellular Spec For North America)
ISA		Industry Standard Architecture
ISA		Industry Standard Architecture (16-bit Isa Bus Spec)
ISA		Mount Isa, Australia
ISAAC		Information System For Advanced Academic Computing
ISAM		Indexed Sequential Access Method
ISAS		Institute Of Space And Astronautical Science (japan)
ISB		Islamabad Rawalpindi, Pakistan
ISBD		International Bibliographic Description
ISBN		International Standard Book Number
ISC		Information Services Center
ISC		Interactive Systems Corporation
ISC		International Switching Center
ISC		Scilly Isles, British Isles
ISCH		Interstitial-cell-stimulating Hormone (same As Lh)
ISDN		Integrated Services Digital Network
ISDN-B		ISDN-bearer
ISDN-D		ISDN-delta
ISDT		Integrated Systems Development Tool
ISE		Integrated Storage Element (DEC)
ISEE		International Sun Earth Explorer (usually ISEE-3)
ISF		Information Systems Factory
ISFUG		Integrated Software Federal User Group
ISG		Ishigaki, Japan
ISH		Intermediate System Hello
ISI		Information Sciences Institute (at USC)
ISI		Isisford, Australia
ISIS		Intermediate System To Intermediate System, "is-is"
ISJ		Isla Mujeres, Mexico
ISK		Nasik, India
ISLAN		Integrated Services Lan
ISLM		Integrated Services Line Module
ISLU		Integrated Services Line Unit
ISM		Industrial, Scientific And Medical
ISM		Industry, Scientific, Medical
ISM		Interstellar Medium
ISM	*	Intimate Shared Memory
ISM		Kissimmee, FL, USA
ISN		Information Systems Network
ISN		Integrated Systems Network
ISN		Williston, ND, USA
ISO		10021 X.400 Equivalent (iso)
ISO		8072 Transport Service Definitions For Cots
ISO		8073 Cots Protocol Definition
ISO		8073/add.2 Class 4 Over Clns Protocol Definition
ISO		8208 ~ ITUT X.25
ISO		8348 Clns Primitives Definition
ISO		8348/add.1 Connectionless Mode Transmission
ISO		8348/add.3 Network Layer Addressing
ISO		8473 Clnp Definition
ISO		8602 Clts Protocol Definition
ISO		9594-1/8 Directory Standards (iso)
ISO		9660 ISO Spec For Cd Rom (high Sierra)
ISO		Infrared Space Observatory
ISO		International Standards Organisation
ISO		International Standards Organization
ISO		Kinston/goldsboro, NC,  USA
ISODE		ISO Development Environment (public Domain)
ISONET		Isochronous Ethernet
ISOO		Information Security Oversight Office
ISOP		Incentive Stock Option Plan
ISP		Integrated System Peripheral, Internet Service Provider
ISP		International Standardized Profiles
ISP		Long Island-macarthur/islip, NY, USA
ISPM		International Solar Polar Mission
ISR		Institute Of Snow Research
ISR		Interrupt Service Routine
ISRG		Independent Space Research Group
ISS		Instruction Set Simulator
ISS		Integrated Switching System
ISS		Wiscasset, ME, USA
ISSC    *       Integrated Systems Solutions Corp (IBM)
ISSCC		International Solid State Circuits Conference
ISSI		Information Security Systems Inc.
ISSN		Integrated Special Services Network
ISSN		International Standard Serial Number
ISSN	*	Inter Switching System Interface
IST		Initial System Test
IST		Istanbul, Turkey
ISTE		Integrated Services Terminal Equipment
ISU		International Standards Union (was Ccitt)
ISUP		Integrated Services User Part
ISV		Independent Software Vendor
ISV		Instantaneous Speed Variation
ISVAM		Independent Software Vendor Account Manager
ISVS		International Switched Voice Services
ISW		Wisconsin Rapids, WI, USA
ISY		International Space Year
IT		Information Technology
ITAA		Information Technology Association Of America (was Adapso)
ITAP		Information Technology And People (trade Journal)
ITAR		International Traffic In Arms Regulations
ITC		Independent Telephone Company
ITC		Inter-task Communication
ITCA		International Teleconferencing Association
ITFS		Instructional Television Fixed Service
ITH		Ithaca, NY, USA
ITI		Interactive Terminal Interface
ITIS		Information Technology Integration Services (microsoft)
ITM		Information Technology Management
ITO		Hilo, HI, USA
ITQ		Itaqui, Brazil
ITS		Incompatible Timesharing System
ITS		Institute Of Telecommunication Science
ITSEC		Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria
ITSO		Incoming Trunk Service Observation
ITT		International Telephone And Telegraph
ITT		Invitation To Transmit
ITU		International Telcommunications Union
ITU		International Telecommunications Union (formerly Ccitt)
ITU-TSS		Itu Telecommunications Standards Sector
ITUA		Independent T-1 Users Association
ITUSA		Information Technology Users Standards Association
ITUT		Itu Telecommunications Standardisation Sector (replaces Ccitt)
IU		Integer Unit
IUE		International Ultraviolet Explorer
IUE		Niue Island, Pacific Ocean
IUS		Inertial Upper Stage 
IUV		Interlibrational Utility Vehicle 
IVANDV		Independent Verification And Validation
IVA		Ambanja, Madagascar
IVAR		Indirect Value-added Reseller
IVC		Invercargill, New Zealand
IVD		Interactive Video Disc
IVDLAN		Integrated Voice/data Lan
IVDT		Integrated Voice/data Terminal
IVG		Ivangrad, Yugoslavia
IVL		Ivalo, Finland
IVP		Installation Verification Program
IVR		Interactive Voice Response
IVR		Inverell, Australia
IVT		Interactive Video Technology
IVTS		International Video Teleconferencing Service
IWBNI		It Would Be Nice If
IWC		Inside Wire Cable
IWD		Ironwood-gogebic County, MI, USA
IWS		Houston-west, TX, USA
IWS		Intelligent Work-station
IWW		International Workers Of The World
IX		Interactive Executive
IXA		Agartala, India
IXB		Bagdogra, India
IXC		Chandigarh, India
IXC		Interexchange Carrier
IXD		Allahabad, India
IXE		Mangalore, India
IXG		Belgaum, India
IXH		Kailashahar, India
IXI		Lilabari, India
IXJ		Jammu, India
IXK		Keshod, India
IXL		Leh, India
IXM		Interexchange Mileage
IXM		Madurai, India
IXN		Khowai, India
IXQ		Kamalpur, India
IXR		Ranchi, India
IXS		Silchar, India
IXU		Aurangabad, India
IXW		Jamshedpur, India
IXY		Kandla, India
IXZ		Port Blair, India
IYK		Inyokern, CA, USA
IZM		Izmir-Cumaovasi, Turkey
IZO		Izumo, Japan
IZT		Ixtepec, Mexico

JAB		Jabiru, Australia
JAC		Jackson, WY, USA
JACM		Journal Of The Association For Computing Machinery
JAD		Joint Application Development       
JAF		Jaffna, Sri Lanka
JAI		Jaipur, India
JAJ		Atlanta-Perimeter Mall Heliport, GA, USA
JAK		Jacmel, Haiti
JAL		Jalapa, Mexico
JAL		Japan Airline
JAN		Jackson, MS, USA
JANET		Joint Academic Network
JANET		Joint Academic Network (UK)
JAV		Jakobshavn, Greenland
JAX		Jacksonville, FL, USA
JBC		Boston-City Heliport, MA, USA
JBIG		Joint Bi-level Imaging Group (compression)
JBP		Los Angeles-Commerce Business Plaza, CA, USA
JBR		Jonesboro, AR, USA
JBS		John Birch Society
JC		Jesus Christ
JC		Joint Compound (plumbing)
JC		Julius Caesar
JC		Junior College
JCA		Croisette Heliport, France
JCA		Jewelry Crafts Association
JCAC		Joint Civil Affairs Committee
JCAE		Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
JCALS		Joint Computer-aided Acquisition And Logistical System
JCC		San Francisco-China Basin Hport, CA, USA
JCE		Oakland-Convention Center, CA, USA
JCEE		Joint Council On Economic Education
JCET		Joint Council On Educational Television
JCH		Christianshab, Greenland
JCI		Olathe, KS, USA
JCK		Julia Creek, Australia
JCL		Job Control Language (IBM)
JCS		Joint Chiefs Of Staff
JD		Justice Department
JDA		John Day, OR, USA
JDA		Joint Development Agreement
JDB		Dallas-Downtowm Heliport, TX, USA
JDBC	*	Java DataBase Connectivity
JDE		Java Development Environment
JDF		Juiz De Fora, Brazil
JDH		Jodhpur, India
JDM		Miami Downtown Hpt, FL, USA
JDO		Juazeiro Do Norte, Brazil
JDS		John Dewey Society
JDX		Houston-Central Heliport, TX, USA
JDY		Downey, CA, USA
JECC		Japan Electronic Computer Company
JED		Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
JEDEC		Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council
JEDI		Joint Education Initiative Project
JEDI		Respected Warrior In Star Wars
JEE		Jeremie, Haiti
JEF		Jefferson City, MO, USA
JEIDA		Japan Electronic Industry Developemnet Association
JEIDA		Japan Electronics Industry Development Association
JEM		Japanese Experiment Module (for Ssf)
JER		Jersey, Channel Islands
JES		Job Entry System (IBM)
JES		John Ericsson Society
JESUS		Job Entry System Of The University Of Saskatuan
JFET		Junction Field-Effect Transistor
JFIF		Jpeg File Interchange Format
JFK		John Fitzgerald Kennedy (and The International Airport)
JFK		New York-Kennedy, NY, USA
JFMIP		Joint Financial Management Improvement Program
JFR		Frederikshab, Greenland
JFS		Next Generation Of Jle
JGA		Jamnagar, India
JGC		Grand Canyon Heliport, AZ, USA
JGL		Atlanta-Galleria Airport, GA, USA
JGP		Greenway Plaza-Houston, TX, USA
JGQ		Houston-Galleria Heliport, TX, USA
JGR		Journal Of Geophysical Research
JHB		Johore Bharu, Malaysia
JHC		Garden City, NY, USA
JHM		Kapalua, HI, USA
JHS		Holsteinsborg, Greenland
JHW		Jamestown, NY, USA
JI		Justice, Inc.
JIB		Djibouti, Djibouti
JIC		Joint Industry Council
JIC		Joint Intelligence Center
JIC		Just In Case
JID		Los Angeles-City Of Industry Heliport, CA, USA
JILA		Joint Institute For Laboratory Astrophysics
JIM		Jimma, Ethiopia
JIM		Job Information Memorandum
JIN		Jinja, Uganda
JINTACCS		Joint Interoperability Of Tactical Command And Control Systems
JIS		Japan Industrial Standards
JISC		Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
JIT		Just In Time
JJI		Juanjui, Peru
JKG		Jonkoping, Sweden
JKH		Chios, Greece
JKR		Janakpur, Nepal
JKT		Jakarta-Kemayoran, Indonesia
JKV		Jacksonville, TX, USA
JLE		Japanese Language Environment (sunos)
JLN		Joplin, MO, USA
JLR		Jabalpur, India
JLS		Japanese Language Supplement
JMA		Houston-Astrodome, TX, USA
JMB		Jamba, Angola
JMC		Sausalito-Marin City Heliport, CA, USA
JMK		Mikonos, Greece
JMOS		Junction Metal Oxide Semiconductor
JMS		Jamestown, ND, USA
JMS		John Milton Society
JMX		Jumbogroup Multiplex
JNB		Johannesburg, South Africa
JNN		Nanortalik, Greenland
JNP		Newport Beach Heliport, CA, USA
JNU		Juneau, AK, USA
JO		Job Order
JO		Junior Officer
JOAT		Jack Of All Trades
JOC		Santa Ana-Centerport Heliport, CA, USA
JOE		Joensuu, Finland
JOG		Yogyakarta, Indonesia
JOI		Joinville, Brazil
JOL		Jolo, Philippines
JOM		Njombe, Tanzania
JON		Johnston Island, Pacific Ocean
JOS		Jos, Nigeria
JOT		Joliet, IL, USA
JOVE		Jonathan's Own Version Of Emacs
JOVIAL		Jules Own Version Of The International Algorithmic Language
JPA		Joao Pessoa, Brazil
JPEG		Joint Photographic Expert Group
JPEG		Joint Photographic Experts Group (ITUT/iso)
JPL		Jet Propulsion Laboratory (pasadena, Ca)
JPT		Houston-Park Ten Helipad, TX, USA
JRB		New York-Manhattan Heliport, NY, USA
JRC		Junior Red Cross
JRE		East 60th Street Heliport, NY, USA
JRH		Jorhat, India
JRO		Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
JRS		Jerusalem, Israel
JSC		Johnson Space Center (NASA)
JSD		Jackson System Development
JSE		Juneau, AK, USA
JSI		Skiathos, Greece
JSN		Junction Switch Number
JSO		Sodertalje, Sweden
JSR		Jessore, Bangladesh
JSRC		Joint Services Review Committee
JST		Japan Standard Time
JST		Johnstown, PA, USA
JSW		Junctor Switch
JTAG		Joint Test Action Group
JTC		Townandcntry (dated), TX, USA
JTC1		Joint Technical Committee #1
JTC3A		Joint Tactical Command, Control And Communications Agency
JTIDS		Joint Tactical Information Distribution Systems
JTM		Job Transfer And Manipulation (OSI Application Layer)
JTR		Santorini, Greece
JUB		Juba, Sudan
JUGHEAD		Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display
JUJ		Jujuy, Argentina
JUL		Juliaca, Peru
JUNET		Japan Unix Network
JUT		Juticalpa, Honduras
JUV		Upernavik, Greenland
JV		Junior Varsity
JVL		Beloit/janesville, WI, USA
JVM	*	Java Virtual Machine
JVNC		John Von Neumann (super Computer) Center, "jvnc"
JVNCNET		John Von Neumann (super Computer) Center Network, "jvncnet"
JWH		Houston-Westchase Hilton Heliport, TX, USA
JWP		Jamaica Water And Power 
JXN		Jackson, MI, USA
JYV		Jyvaskyla, Finland

K		Kilobit
K-12		Kindergarten Through 12th Grade
K9		Canine (k9 Corps - Army Dogs)
KB		Kilobyte
KA9Q		(tcp/ip, Ppp For Personal Computer)
KAA		Kasama, Zambia
KAB		Kariba, Zimbabwe
KAC		Kameshli, Syrian Arab Republic
KAD		Kaduna, Nigeria
KAE		Kake, AK, USA
KAG		Kangnung, South Korea
KAI		Kaieteur, Guyana
KAIO		Kernel Asynchronous I/O    
KAJ		Kajaani, Finland
KAL		Kaltag, AK, USA
KAN		Kano, Nigeria
KAO		Kuiper Airborne Observatory
KAO		Kuusamo, Finland
KAOS		Killing As Organized Sport
KAPSE		Kernel Ada Programming Support Environment
KAR		Kamarang, Guyana
KAT		Kaitaia, New Zealand
KB		Key Board
KB		Kilobit
KB		Kilobit (1024 Bits)
KB		Kilobyte (1024 Bytes)
KBC		Birch Creek, AK, USA
KBE		Bell Island, AK, USA
KBG		Kabalega Falls, Uganda
KBK		Klag Bay, AK, USA
KBL		Kabul, Afghanistan
KBO		Kabalo, Zaire
KBP		Kiev-Borispol, USSR
KBPS		Kilobits Per Second
KBR		Kota Bharu, Malaysia
KBS		Bo, Sierra Leone
KBS		Knowledge-Based System
KC		King's Counsel (qc When Queen Reigning)
KC		Knights Of Columbus
KC-135R		Boeing-built Aerial Refueler, Aka Stratotanker
KCC		Coffman Cove, AK, USA
KCE		Collinsville, Australia
KCG		Chignik, AK, USA
KCH		Kuching, Malaysia
KCK		Kansas City-Fairfax, KS, USA
KCL		Chignik Lagoon, AK, USA
KCL		Kyoto Common Lisp
KCMS	*	Kodak Color Management System
KCN		Chernofski, AK, USA
KCQ		Chignik Lake, AK, USA
KCR		Colorado Creek, AK, USA
KCZ		Kochi, Japan
KD		Kiln Dried
KD		Knocked Down; Knock-Down
KDCI		Key Display Call Indicator
KDD		Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co.
KDE		Koroba, Papua New Guinea
KDH		Kandahar, Afghanistan
KDJ		N Djole, Gabon
KDK		Kodiak-Municipal, AK, USA
KDM		Key Decision Maker
KDT		Keyboard Display Terminal
KEB		English Bay, AK, USA
KED		Kaedi, Mauritania
KEF		Reykjavik-Keflavik, Iceland
KEH		Seattle/Tacoma-Kenmore, WA, USA
KEK		Ekwok, AK, USA
KEL		Kiel, Germany
KEM		Kemi, Finland
KEN		Kenema, Sierra Leone
KEO		Odienne, Ivory Coast
KEP		Nepalganj, Nepal
KER		Kerman, Iran
KERMIT		KL10 Error-free Reciprocal Micro Interconnect Over Tty
KFA		Kiffa, Mauritania
KFP		False Pass, AK, USA
KFT		Kilofeet
KGA		Kananga, Zaire
KGB		Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopaznosti
KGG		Kedougou, Senegal
KGI		Kalgoorlie, Australia
KGJ		Karonga, Malawi
KGK		Koliganek, AK, USA
KGL		Kigali, Rwanda
KGS		Kos, Greece
KGU		Keningau, Malaysia
KGX		Grayling, AK, USA
KHA		Khanek, Iran
KHE		Kherson, USSR
KHH		Kaohsiung, Taiwan
KHI		Karachi, Pakistan
KHK		Khark, Iran
KHM		Khamtis, Burma
KHN		Nanchang, China
KHV		Khabarovsk, USSR
KHZ		Kilo Hertz (unit Of Frequency, 1000 Cycles Per Second)
KHZ		Kilohertz (10^3 Hertz)
KI		Kiwanis International
KIA		Killed In Action
KIAS		Knot Indicated Air Speed
KIB		Ivanoff Bay, AK, USA
KID		Kristianstad, Sweden
KIE		Kieta, Papua New Guinea
KIF		Key Index File
KIF		Kingfisher Lake, Ontario, Canada
KIJ		Niigata, Japan
KIK		Kirkuk, Iraq
KIM		Kimberley, South Africa
KIN		Kingston-Norman Manley Intl., Jamaica
KIP		Kinetics Ip
KIPS		Kawasaki Integrated Power-valve System
KIS		Kisumu, Kenya
KIS		Knowbot Information Service
KISS		Keep It Simple, Stupid
KIT		Kapse Interface Team (nosc Group Organized By Ajpo)
KIT		Keep In Touch
KIT		Kithira, Greece
KITIA		Kapse Interface Team Industry/academia (civilian Kit)
KIV		Kishinev, USSR
KIW		Kitwe, Zambia
KIY		Kilwa, Tanzania
KKA		Koyuk, AK, USA
KKB		Kitoi, AK, USA
KKC		Khon Kaen, Thailand
KKE		Kerikeri, New Zealand
KKH		Kongiganak, AK, USA
KKI		Akiachak, AK, USA
KKJ		Kita Kyushu, Japan
KKK		Kalakaket, AK, USA
KKL		Karluk Lake, AK, USA
KKN		Kirkenes, Norway
KKO		Kaikohe, New Zealand
KKU		Ekuk, AK, USA
KKW		Kikwit, Zaire
KLA		Kampala #2, Uganda
KLB		Kalabo, Zambia
KLG		Kalskag, AK, USA
KLIPS		Thousands Of Logical Inferences Per Second
KLL		Levelock, AK, USA
KLN		Larsen Bay, AK, USA
KLO		Kalibo, Philippines
KLOC		Thousands Of Lines Of Code
KLR		Kalmar, Sweden
KLU		Klagenfurt, Austria
KLV		Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia
KLW		Klawock, AK, USA
KLX		Kalamata, Greece
KMC		Mccord, AK, USA
KMF		Kamina, Papua New Guinea
KMG		Kunming, China
KMI		Miyazaki, Japan
KMJ		Kumamoto, Japan
KMN		Kamina, Zaire
KMO		Manokotak, AK, USA
KMP		Keetmanshoop, Namibia
KMQ		Komatsu, Japan
KMS		Kumasi, Ghana
KMY		Moser Bay, AK, USA
KNB		Kanab, UT, USA
KND		Kindu, Zaire
KNK		Kakhonak, AK, USA
KNN		Kankan, Guinea
KNS		King Island, Australia
KNU		Kanpur, India
KNW		New Stuyahok, AK, USA
KNX		Kununurra, Australia
KNZ		Kenieba, Mali
KO		Knock Out
KOA		Kona, HI, USA
KOB		Koutaba, Cameroons
KOE		Kupang, Indonesia
KOH		Koolatah-QL, Australia
KOI		Kirkwall, Scotland, UK
KOJ		Kagoshima, Japan
KOK		Kokkola/pietarsaari, Finland
KON		Kontum, Vietnam
KOP		Nakhon Phanom, Thailand
KOR		Kokoro, Papua New Guinea
KOS		Kompongsom, Kampuchea
KOT		Kotlik, AK, USA
KOWC		Key Word Out Of Context
KOY		Olga Bay, AK, USA
KOZ		Ouzinkie, AK, USA
KP		Key Pulse [telephony]
KP		Kitchen Police
KPB		Point Baker, AK, USA
KPC		Port Clarence, AK, USA
KPH		Pauloff Harbor, AK, USA
KPI		Kapit, Malaysia
KPK		Parks, AK, USA
KPN		Kipnuk, AK, USA
KPNO		Kitt Peak National Observatory
KPO		Keypunch Operator
KPO		Pohang, South Korea
KPP		Kalpowar-QL, Australia
KPR		Port Williams, AK, USA
KPS		Kempsey, Australia
KPV		Perryville, AK, USA
KPY		Port Bailey, AK, USA
KQA		Akutan, AK, USA
KQC		King's College London
KR		Kernighan And Ritchie, The C Programming Language, "kandr"
KRB		Karumba, Australia
KRF		Kramfors, Sweden
KRK		Krakow, Poland
KRN		Kiruna, Sweden
KRP		Karup, Denmark
KRR		Krasnodar, USSR
KRS		Kristiansand, Norway
KRT		Khartoum, Sudan
KS		King's Scholar
KSA		Kosrae Isl., Caroline Islands
KSC		Kennedy Space Center (NASA)
KSC		Kosice, Czechoslovakia
KSD		Karlstad, Sweden
KSF		Kassel, Germany
KSF		Key Success Factor
KSH		Bakhtaran, Iran
KSH		Korn Shell
KSJ		Kasos Island, Greece
KSL		Kassala, Sudan
KSM		St. Mary's, AK, USA
KSO		Kastoria, Greece
KSP		Kosipe, Papua New Guinea
KSR		Keyboard Send-Receive
KSU		Key System Unit [telephony]
KSU		Kristiansund, Norway
KTA		Karratha, Australia
KTB		Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary (from German)
KTB		Thorne Bay, AK, USA
KTH		Tikchik, AK, USA
KTM		Kathmandu, Nepal
KTN		Ketchikan, AK, USA
KTP		Kingston-Tinson, Jamaica
KTR		Katherine, Australia
KTS		Brevig Mission, AK, USA
KTS		Key Telephone Systems
KTU		Key Telephone Unit [telephony]
KTW		Katowice, Poland
KTY		Terror Bay, AK, USA
KUA		Kuantan, Malaysia
KUD		Kudat, Malaysia
KUH		Kushiro, Japan
KUK		Kasigluk, AK, USA
KUL		Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
KUM		Yaku Shima, Japan
KUO		Kuopio, Finland
KUV		Kunsan, South Korea
KUY		Uyak, AK, USA
KUZ		Kusan, South Korea
KVA		Kavalla, Greece
KVC		King Cove, AK, USA
KVG		Kavieng, Papua New Guinea
KVL		Kivalina, AK, USA
KWA		Kwajalein, Marshall Islands
KWE		Guiyang, China
KWF		Waterfall, AK, USA
KWI		Kuwait, Kuwait
KWIC		Key Work In Context (IBM)
KWJ		Kwangju, South Korea
KWK		Kwigillingok, AK, USA
KWL		Guilin, China
KWN		Quinhagak, AK, USA
KWP		West Point, AK, USA
KWT		Kwethluk, AK, USA
KXA		Kasaan, AK, USA
KY		Kentucky
KYA		Konya, Turkey
KYK		Karluk, AK, USA
KYS		Kayes, Mali
KYU		Koyukuk, AK, USA
KZB		Zachar Bay, AK, USA
KZI		Kozani, Greece
KZN		Kazan, USSR

L-PDU		Logical Link Control Protocol Data Unit
L1		Lagrange Point #1 35,000 Miles Above Moon 
L10N		Localization
L2		Lagrange Point #2 40,000 Miles Behind Moon 
L3		Lagrange Point #3 (?? 35,000 Miles Below Moon) 
L4		Lagrange Point #4 240,000 Mile Earth Orbit 
L5		Lagrange Point #5 240,000 Mile Earth Orbit 
LA		Los Angeles
LA		Los Angeles, California
LA		Louisiana
LA		Low Altitude
LAA		Lamar, CO, USA
LAB		Lablab, Papua New Guinea
LAB		Labor
LAC		Loop Assignment Center
LAD		Luanda, Angola
LADAR		Laser Detection And Ranging
LADDIS		Legato, Auspex, Dg, Dec, Interphase, Sun (nfs Benchmark)
LADDR		Layered Device Driver Architecture
LADT		Local Access Data Transport
LAE		Lau-nadzab, Papua New Guinea
LAF		Lafayette, IN, USA
LAI		Lannion, France
LAIS		Local Automatic Intercept System
LAK		Aklavik, Nwt, Canada
LAL		Local Analog Loopback
LAL		Tampa-lakeland, FL, USA
LAM		Link Access Manager
LAM		Los Alamos, NM, USA
LAM		Master Of Liberal Arts
LAMA		Local Automatic Message Accounting [telephony]
LAN		Lansing, MI, USA
LAN		Local Apparent Noon
LAN		Local Area Network
LANCE		Local Area Network Controller For Ethernet
LANDA		Local Area Network Dealers Association (elmhurst, Il)
LANL		Los Alamos National Laboratories
LANTIRN		Low-altitude Navigation And Targeting Infrared For Night
LAO		Laoag, Philippines
LAP		La Paz, Mexico
LAP		Link Access Procedure
LAPB		Link Access Procedure, Balanced
LAPB		Link Access Procedure, Balanced (bit-oriented: X.25 Layer 2)
LAPD		Link Access Procedure On The D Channel
LAPD		Los Angeles Police Department
LAPM		Link Access Procedure For Modems
LAQ		Beida, Libya
LAR		Laramie, WY, USA
LAR		Local Acquisition Radar
LARC		Langley Research Center, "larc" [NASA]
LAS		Las Vegas, Nevada
LAS		Las Vegas-mccarran, NV, USA
LASER		Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation
LASS		Local Area Signaling Service
LAST		Local Area Server Transport (DEC)
LAT		Local Apparent Time
LAT		Local Area Transport
LAT		Local Area Transport (DEC)
LATA		Local Access And Transport Area
LATIS		Loop Activity Tracking Information System
LAU		Lamu, Kenya
LAV		Lalomalava, Western Samoa
LAVC		Local Area Vaxcluster (DEC)
LAW		Lawton-fort Sill, OK, USA
LAX		Los Angeles-lax, CA, USA
LAY		Ladismith, South Africa
LAZ		Bom Jesus Da Lapa, Brazil
LB		Light Bomber
LB		Pound (libra)
LBA		Leeds/bradford, England, UK
LBA		Linear Block Addressing
LBA		Logic Block Addressing
LBB		Lubbock, TX, USA
LBE		Latrobe, PA, USA
LBF		North Platte, NE, USA
LBG		Le Bourget Afld, France
LBI		Albi, France
LBL		Lawrence Berkeley Labs
LBL		Liberal, KS, USA
LBN		Late Breaking News
LBO		Line Buildout
LBQ		Lambarene, Gabon
LBS		Labasa, Fiji Islands
LBS		Load Balance System
LBS		Pounds
LBT		Lumberton, NC,  USA
LBU		Labuan, Malaysia
LBV		Libreville, Gabon
LBY		La Baule, France
LC		Inductor-capacitor Circuit (as In Filters, L=inductance Symbol)
LC		Lower Case, "l.c."
LCA		Larnaca, Cyprus
LCA		Logic Cell Array
LCAMOS		Loop Cable Maintenance Operation System
LCC		Leaded Chip Carrier
LCC		Leadless Chip Carrier
LCCIS		Local Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
LCCL		Line Card Cable
LCCLN		Line Card Cable Narrative
LCD		Liquid Crystal Display
LCD		Lowest Common Denominator
LCDN		Last Called Directory Number
LCDR		Lieutenant Commander
LCE		La Ceiba, Honduras
LCG		La Coruna, Spain
LCH		Lake Charles, LA, USA
LCI		Laconia, NH, USA
LCIE		Lightguide Cable Interconnection Equipment
LCIS		Library Of Computer And Information Sciences
LCK		Columbus-rickenbacker AFB, OH, USA
LCL		La Coloma, Cuba
LCL		Lunar Cargo Lander [NASA Oexp]
LCLOC		Line Card Location
LCM		La Cumbre, Argentina
LCM		Life Cycle Management
LCN		Logical Channel Numbers
LCP		Link Control Protocol
LCR		Least Cost Routing
LCRMKR		Line Card Remarks, Retained
LCS		Laboratory For Computer Science [mit]
LCS		Lan Channel Station (IBM)
LCSE		Line Card Service And Equipment
LCSEN		Line Card Service And Equipment Narrative
LCT		Landing Craft Tanks
LDAP	*	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDB		Londrina, Brazil
LDC		Logical Device Coordinates
LDC		Long Distance Carrier [telephony]
LDE		Lourdes/tarbes, France
LDEF		Long Duration Exposure Facility
LDF		Large Deployable Reflector 
LDH		Lord Howe Island, Australia
LDI		Lindi, Tanzania
LDJ		Linden, NJ, USA
LDL		Local Digital Loopback
LDL		Low Density Lipoprotein
LDM		Limited Distance Modem
LDM		Ludington, MI, USA
LDMTS		Long Distance Message Telecommunications Service
LDP		Laboratory Data Products
LDS		The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (mormon)
LDU		Lahad Datu, Malaysia
LDX		Long Distance Extender [telephony]
LDY		Londonderry, UK
LE		Lance Ethernet
LEA		Learmonth, Australia
LEAP		League For Engineering Automation Productivity
LEAP		Low-power Enhanced At Portable
LEAS		Lata Equal Access System
LEB		Lebanon, NH, USA
LEC		Local Exchange Carrier (telco)
LED		Light Emmitting Diode
LED		Light-emitting Diode
LED		Saint Petersburg, USSR
LEGO		Low End Graphics Option (sun, Aka Gx)
LEH		Le Havre, France
LEI		Almeria, Spain
LEJ		Leipzig, Germany
LEL		Link, Embed, Launch-to-edit (lotus)
LEM		Lunar Excursion Module (a.k.a. Lm) (apollo Spacecraft)
LEN		Leon, Mexico
LEN		Low Entry Networking (IBM - Combines Lu6.2 And Pu2.1)
LENCL		Line Equipment Number Class
LEO		Low Earth Orbit 
LEOS		Low Earth Orbit Satellites
LERC		Lewis Research Center, "lerc" [NASA]
LES		Lesobeng, Lesotho
LEST		Large Earth-based Solar Telescope
LET		Leticia, Colombia
LEV		Bureta, Fiji Islands
LEW		Lewiston/auburn, ME, USA
LEX		Lexington, KY, USA
LF		Line Feed
LF		Line Feed Character
LF		Line Finder
LF		Low Frequency (30-300khz)
LFACS		Loop Facilties Assignment And Control System
LFB		Lajes, Portugal
LFD		Live Fiber Detector
LFI		Hampton-langley AFB, VA, USA
LFK		Lufkin, TX, USA
LFN		Long Fat Network
LFO		Kelafo, Ethiopia
LFR		La Fria, Venezuela
LFS		Loopback File System (Sun)
LFSA		List Of Frequently Seen Acronyms
LFT		Lafayette, LA, USA
LFU		Least Frequently Used
LFW		Lome, Togo
LGA		Land Grid Array
LGA		Low Gain Antenna
LGA		New York-la Guardia, NY, USA
LGB		Lesbian/gay/bisexual
LGB		Long Beach, CA, USA
LGBO		Lesbian/gay/bisexual And Any Others We've Missed, "lgbo "
LGD		La Grande, OR, USA
LGG		Liege, Belgium
LGH		Leigh Creek, Australia
LGI		Deadman's Cay, Bahamas
LGM		Little Green Men
LGP		Legaspi, Philippines
LGQ		Lago Agrio, Ecuador
LGS		Lajes, Portugal
LGU		Logan, UT, USA
LGW		London-gatwick, England, UK
LH		Left Hand
LH		Liquid Hydrogen (also Lh2 Or Lhx)
LH		Lower Half
LH		Luteinizing Hormone (same As Isch)
LHA		Lahr, Germany
LHB		Lost Harbor, AK, USA
LHD		Litterarum Humaniorum Doctor (doctor Of Human Letters)
LHE		Lahore, Pakistan
LHG		Lightning Ridge-ns, Australia
LHR		London-heathrow, England, UK
LHS		Left Hand Side
LHU		Lake Havasu City, AZ, USA
LHW		Lanzhou, China
LI		Long Island
LIA		Lima, OH, USA
LIB		Language Independent Binding (POSIX)
LIB		Limbunya, Australia
LIC		Licensed Internal Code
LIDAR		Light Detection And Ranging
LIE		Libenge, Zaire
LIF		Low Insertion Force
LIFIA		Laboratoire D'informatique Fondamentale Et D'intelligence Artificielle
LIFO		Last IN, First Out
LIG		Limoges, France
LIH		Lihue-kauai, HI, USA
LIJ		Long Island, AK, USA
LIK		Likiep Is, Marshall Islands
LIL		Lille, France
LIM		Light Intensity Modulation
LIM		Lima, Peru
LIM		Lotus, Intel, Microsoft
LIM		Lotus/intel/microsoft (expanded Memory Specification)
LIMM		Lotus Intel Microsoft Memory
LIMS		Laboratory Ims
LIN		Milan-linate, Italy
LINC		Laboratory Instrument Computer
LINPACK		~ Benchmark
LIO		Limon, Costa Rica
LIPS		Logical Inferences Per Second
LIQ		Lisala, Zaire
LIR		Liberia, Costa Rica
LIS		Language Independent Specification (POSIX)
LIS		Lisbon, Portugal
LISA		Large Installation System Administration
LISP		List Processing Language
LISP		List Processor (programming Language)
LISP		Lots Of Irritating Single Parenthesis
LIST		List-oriented Interactive Language
LIT		Little Rock, AR, USA
LIU		Light Interface Unit
LIU		Line Interface Unit
LIV		Livengood, AK, USA
LIW		Loikaw, Burma
LIW		Long Instruction Word
LIY		Hinesville, GA, USA
LIZ		Limestone, ME, USA
LJA		Lodja, Zaire
LJBF		Let's Just Be Friends
LJN		Lake Jackson, TX, USA
LJU		Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
LKE		Seattle-lake Union Spb, WA, USA
LKK		Kulik Lake, AK, USA
LKL		Lakselv, Norway
LKM		Nekempt, Ethiopia
LKN		Leknes, Norway
LKO		Lucknow, India
LKV		Lakeview, OR, USA
LKZ		Lakenheath, UK
LL		Late Latin
LL		Long Lines [telephony]
LLA		Lulea, Sweden
LLAMA		Logic Lacking A Meaningful Acronym
LLAP		Localtalk Link Access Procedure (apple)
LLAP		Localtalk Link Access Protocol
LLB		Legum Baccalaureus (bachelor Of Laws)
LLC		Link-layer Control
LLC		Logical Link Control
LLCLINK		Layer Control Protocol (?), "llclink"
LLD		Legum Doctor (doctor Of Laws)
LLI		Lalibella, Ethiopia
LLN		Line Link Network [telephony]
LLNL		Lawrence- National Laboratory
LLO		Low Lunar Orbit 
LLOX		Lunar Liquid Oxygen 
LLP		Line Link Pulsing [telephony]
LLW		Lilongwe, Malawi
LLY		Mount Holly, NJ, USA
LM		Lan Manager
LM		Life Master (contract Bridge Ranking)
LM		Lunar Module (a.k.a. Lem) (apollo Spacecraft)
LMA		Lake Minchumina, AK, USA
LMC		Large Magellanic Cloud (see Smc)
LME		Layer Management Entity (802.6)
LMF		License Management Facility
LMI	*	Local Management Interface
LMM		Los Mochis, Mexico
LMMS		Local Message Metering System
LMN		Limbang, Malaysia
LMOS		Line Maintenance Operations System [telephony, AT&T]
LMP		Lampedusa, Italy
LMQ		Marsa Brega, Libya
LMS		Laser Magnetic Storage International
LMS		Louisville, MS, USA
LMT		Klamath Falls, OR, USA
LMX		Lan Manager Unix (microsoft)
LN2		Liquid N2 (nitrogen)
LNA		Low Noise Amplifier
LNB		Low Noise Band
LND		Lander, WY, USA
LNE		Lonorore, Vanuata
LNG		Liquified Natural Gas
LNI		Lonely, AK, USA
LNI		Local Network Interconnect
LNK		Lincoln, NE, USA
LNP		Wise, VA, USA
LNS		Lancaster, PA, USA
LNY		Lanai, HI, USA
LNZ		Linz, Austria
LO		Lake Oswego, Oregon
LO		Leverage Out
LOA		Lands Of Adventure
LOA		Leave Of Absence
LOB		Line Of Balance
LOB		Line Of Building
LOC		Library Of Congress
LOC		Lines Of Code
LOC		Local Operating Company
LOCAP		Low Capacitance
LOCIS		Library Of Congress Information System
LOE		Level Of Effort
LOF		Lock Off-line
LOFS		See Lfs
LOFT		Launch Operations Flight Test 
LOH		Loja, Ecuador
LOI		Letter Of Intent
LOL		Lovelock, NV, USA
LOM		Loeriesfontein, South Africa
LON		Lock On-line
LON		London-metropolitan, England, UK
LOOPS		Lisp Object Oriented Programming System
LOP		Lines Of Position
LOQ		Lobatse, Botswana
LORAN		Long Range Navigation
LOS		Lagos, Nigeria
LOS		Line Of Sight
LOS		Los Angeles
LOSF		Lunar Orbit Staging Facility 
LOTOS		~ (programming Language?)
LOTS		Low Overhead Timesharing System
LOU		Louisville-bowman, KY, USA
LOX		Liquid Oxygen
LOZ		London/corbin, KY, USA
LP		Linear Programming
LP		Long Play(ing) (record)
LP		Low Pressure
LPA		Las Palmas, Canary Islands
LPB		La Paz, Bolivia
LPC		Linear Predictive Coding (speech Processing)
LPC		Lompoc, CA, USA
LPCDF		Low Profile Combined Distributing Frame
LPDA		Link Problem Determination Aid (IBM)
LPF		League For Programming Freedom
LPG		Liquified Petroleum Gas
LPG		Low Pressure Gas
LPI		Linkoping, Sweden
LPL		Liverpool, England, UK
LPL		Lunar Personnel Lander [NASA Oexp]
LPN		Licensed Practical Nurse
LPO		La Porte, IN, USA
LPP		Lappeenranta, Finland
LPP		Licensed Program Products
LPP		Lightweight Presentation Protocol (marshall Rose)
LPQ		Luang Prabang, Laos
LPR		Line Printer
LPS		Lopez Island, WA, USA
LPT		Lampang, Thailand
LPT		Lunar Propellant Tanker [NASA Oexp]
LPV		Lunar Piloted Vehicle [NASA Oexp]
LPW		Little Port Walter, AK, USA
LRA		Larissa, Greece
LRAP		Long Route Analysis Program
LRB		Liquid Rocket Booster 
LRBM		Long Range Ballistic Missile
LRC		Longitudinal Redundancy Character
LRC		Longitudinal Redundancy Check (iso 1155)
LRD		Laredo AFB, TX, USA
LRE		Longreach, Australia
LRF		Jacksonville, AR, USA
LRH		La Rochelle, France
LRI		Lorica, Colombia
LRM		La Romana, Dominican Republic
LRN		Moses Lake-Larson AFB, WA, USA
LRO		Lathrop-Sharpe AAF, CA, USA
LRS		Line Repeater Station
LRSP		Long Range System Plan
LRSS		Long Range Switching Studies
LRT		Lorient, France
LRU		Las Cruces, NM, USA
LRU		Least Recently Used
LRU		Line Replaceable Unit
LS		Left Side
LS		Letter Signed
LS		Locus Sigilli (place Of Seal)
LSA		Losuia, Papua New Guinea
LSAP		Link-layer Service Access Point
LSAP		Long Service Access Point
LSB		Least Significant Bit
LSB		Least Significant Bit; Least Significant Byte
LSB		Lower Side Band
LSC		La Serena, Chile
LSC		Lecture Series Committee [mit]
LSC		Lightspeed C
LSD		Least Significant Digit
LSD		Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
LSD		Pounds (libra), Shillings (sestertii), And (old) Pence (denarii)
LSE		La Crosse, WI, USA
LSELLINK		Layer Selector (?), "lsellink"
LSF		Columbus-lawson AFB, GA, USA
LSI		Large Scale Integration
LSI		Lerwick, Scotland, UK
LSL		Link Support Layer
LSL		Los Chiles, Costa Rica
LSN		Los Banos, CA, USA
LSP		Las Piedras, Venezuela
LSP		Lightspeed Pascal
LSQ		Los Angeles, Chile
LSR		Local Standard Of Rest
LSR		Lost River, AK, USA
LSRP		Local Switching Replacement Planning System
LSS		Les Saintes, Guadeloupe
LSS		Life Support System
LSS		Loop Switching System
LSSD		Level-sensitive Scan Design
LSSD		Level-sensitive Scan Detection
LST		Launceston-tasmania, Australia
LSU		Long Sukang, Malaysia
LSV		Las Vegas-nellis AFB, NV, USA
LSV		Line Status Verifier
LSX		Lhok Sukon, Indonesia
LT		Long Ton
LT		Low Tension
LTA		Lighter Than Air
LTA		Tzaneen, South Africa
LTAB		Line Test Access Bus
LTC		Lieutenant Colonel
LTC		Local Test Cabinet
LTD		Ghadames, Libya
LTD		Live Test Demo
LTD		Local Test Desk
LTF		Lightwave Terminating Frame
LTF		Line Trunk Frame
LTG		Line Trunk Group
LTJG		Lieutenant Junior Grade
LTL		Less Than Truckload Lot
LTM		Lethem, Guyana
LTN		Luton, England, UK
LTO		Loreto, Mexico
LTP		Lunar Transient Phenomenon
LTPD		Lot Tolerance Percent Deffective
LTQ		Le Touquet, France
LTS		Altus AFB, OK, USA
LTS		Loss Test Set
LTV		Loan To Value
LTVR		Ltv Ratio
LU		Logical Unit
LU6.2		Logical Unit 6.2 (IBM)
LUA		Lukla, Nepal
LUB		Lubang, Philippines
LUD		Luderitz, Namibia
LUF		Phoenix-luke AFB, AZ, USA
LUG		Local Users Group
LUG		Lugano, Switzerland
LUK		Cincinnati-municipal, OH, USA
LUN		Logical Unit Number
LUN		Lusaka, Zambia
LUP		Kalaupapa-molokai, HI, USA
LUQ		San Luis, Argentina
LUR		Cape Lisburne, AK, USA
LUT		Laura Station-ql, Australia
LUT		Look-up Table
LUV		~
LUX		Luxembourg, Luxembourg
LVB		Livramento, Brazil
LVD		Lime Village, AK, USA
LVDT		Linear Velocity Displacement Transformer
LVEU		Large Volume End User
LVI		Livingstone, Zambia
LVK		, CA, USA
LVS		Las Vegas, NM, USA
LWB		Greenbrier, WV, USA
LWC		Lawrence, KS, USA
LWL		Wells, NV, USA
LWM		Lawrence, MA, USA
LWM		Low-water Mark
LWO		Lwow, USSR
LWP		Light Weight Process
LWS		Lewiston, Id/clarkston, WA, USA
LWSP		Linear White-space
LWT		Last Will And Testament
LWT		Lewistown, MT, USA
LWV		Lawrenceville, IL, USA
LWY		Lawas, Malaysia
LXA		Lhasa, China
LXE		Lightguide Express Entry
LXN		Lexington, NE, USA
LXR		Luxor, Arab Republic Of Egypt
LXS		Lemnos, Greece
LXV		Leadville, CO, USA
LYB		Little Cayman, British West Indies
LYE		Lyneham, UK
LYH		Lynchburg, VA, USA
LYN		Lyon, France
LYP		Faisalabad, Pakistan
LYR		Longyearbyen, Norway
LYS		Lyon-satolas, France
LYU		Ely, MN, USA
LZ		Landing Zone
LZC		Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico
LZR		Lizard Island, Australia
LZS		Lempel Ziv Stac (compression)

M		Miniatures
MANDE		Manufacturing And Engineering Systems Co (eds)
M-1A1		USA Tank, Aka Abrams
M13		Multiplexer Of T1 To T3
M3F		Motif (OSF)
M61-A1		20mm Cannon, Aka Vulcan
MB		Megabyte
MA		Maintenance Administrator
MA		Massachusetts [us State Postal Designation]
MAA		Madras, India
MAAP		Maintenance And Administration Panel
MAB		Maraba, Brazil
MAB		Maximum Available Bandwidth
MAC		Macon-smart (downtown), GA, USA
MAC		Mandatory Access Control
MAC		Media Access Control (fddi)
MAC		Medium Access Control
MAC		Military Air Command
MAC		Move, Add, Change
MAC		Multiple Analogue Component
MACBS		Multi-access Cable Billing System
MACIS		Managing Apple Computers In Is (user Group)
MACSYMA		Project Mac's Symbolic Manipulation System
MAD		Madrid, Spain
MAD		Mass Air Delivery
MAD		Mutual Assured Destruction
MADD		Mothers Against Drunk Driving
MADN		Multiple Access Directory Numbers
MAE		Madera, CA, USA
MAF		Marine Abkuerzungs Fimmel (roughly Navy Abbreviation Spleen?)
MAF		Midland/odessa, TX, USA
MAG		Madang, Papua New Guinea
MAG		Magazine
MAGIC		Multidimensional Applications And Gigabit Internetwork Consortium
MAGIC		Multimedia Audio And Game Interface Controller (yamaha)
MAH		Mahon, Spain
MAJ		Majuro, Marshall Islands
MAK		Malakal, Sudan
MAM		Matamoros, Mexico
MAN		Manchester, England, UK
MAN		Metropolitan Area Network
MAO		Manaus, Brazil
MAP		Maintenance And Administration Position
MAP		Mamai, Papua New Guinea
MAP		Management Assesment Program
MAP		Manufacturing Automation Protocol
MAP		Manufacturing Automation Protocol (general Motors)
MAP		Marketing Assistance Program
MAP		Marketing Assistance Program (Sun)
MAP/TOP		See Map And Top (protocols)
MAPI		Messaging Application Programmatic Interface (microsoft)
MAPICS		Manufacturing Accounting Production Information Control System
MAPSE		Minimal Ada Program Support Environment
MAPSS		Maintenance And Analysis Plan For Special Services
MAR		Maracaibo, Venezuela
MAR		Microprogram Address Register
MARBI		Machine Readable Form Of Bibliographic Information
MARC		Machine Readable Card Catalog
MARC		Market Analysis Of Revenue And Customers System
MARS		Multiuser Archival And Retrieval System
MAS		Main Store
MAS		Manus Isl., Papua New Guinea
MAS		Mass Announcement System
MASB		Mas Bus
MASC		Mas Controller
MASC		Multiple Award Schedule Contract
MASER		Microwave Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation
MASH		Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
MASM		Mas Memory
MAST		Multi-application Sonar Trainer
MAT		Matadi, Zaire
MATCALS		Marine Air Traffic-control And Landing System, "mat-cals"
MATFAP		Metropolitan Area Transmission Facility Analysys Program
MATV		Master Antenna Television
MAU		Math Acceleration Unit
MAU		Maupiti, French Polynesia
MAU		Media Access Unit
MAU		Medium Attachment Unit
MAU		Multi-access Unit
MAU		Multiple Access Unit (IBM Trn)
MAU		Multistation Access Unit
MAW		Malden, MO, USA
MAW		Microsoft At Work
MAX		Matam, Senegal
MAXI		Modular Architecture For The Exchange Of Information (dod)
MAY		Mangrove Cay, Bahamas
MAZ		Mayaguez, PR, USA
MB		Manned Base
MB		Megabit
MB		Megabit (10 E+6 Bits)
MB		Megabyte (1,048,576 Bytes)
MBA		Management Business Analyst
MBA		Master Of Business Administration
MBA		Mombasa, Kenya
MBH		Maryborough, Australia
MBI		Mbeya, Tanzania
MBJ		Montego Bay, Jamaica
MBK		Matupa, Brazil
MBL		Manistee/ludington, MI, USA
MBM		Magnetic Bubble Memory
MBO		Mamburao, Philippines
MBO		Management By Objectives
MBONE		Multicast Backbone (internet)
MBONE		Multicasting Backbone
MBPS		Megabits Per Second
MBPS		Megabytes Per Second
MBR		Masker Boot Record
MBS		Saginaw/Bay City/Midland, MI, USA
MBT		Masbate, Philippines
MBWA		Management By Walking Around
MBX		Maribor, Yugoslavia
MBY		Moberly, MO, USA
MC		Management Committee
MC		Master Of Ceremonies
MC		Material Control
MCA		Macenta, Guinea
MCA		Micro Channel Architecture (IBM PS/2; RS/6000)
MCA		Music Corporation Of America
MCAD		Mechanical Computer Aided Design
MCAE		Mechanical Computer Aided Engineering
MCB		McComb, MS, USA
MCBF		Mean Cycles Between Failure
MCC		Master Control Center
MCC		Master Control Console
MCC		Microelectronics And Computer Consortia (austin Based)
MCC		Mission Control Center
MCC		Sacramento-mcclellan AFB, CA, USA
MCCS		Mechanized Calling Card Service
MCD		Mackinac Island, MI, USA
MCDA		Micro Channel Developer's Association
MCDCT	*	Motion Compensated Discrete Cosine Transform
MCE		Merced, CA, USA
MCF		Tampa-MacDill AFB, FL, USA
MCG		McGrath, AK, USA
MCGA		Memory Controller Gate Array
MCH		Machala, Ecuador
MCH		Maintenance Channel
MCHB		Maintenance Channel Buffer
MCI		Kansas City-international, MO, USA
MCI		Media Control Interface
MCI		Microwave Communications Incorporated 
MCIAS		Multi-channel Intelligent/intercept Announcement System
MCJ		Maicao, Colombia
MCK		Mccook, NE, USA
MCL		Denali National Park, AK, USA
MCM	*	Mission Critical Mail (Solstice Internet Mail Client)
MCM		Monte Carlo, Monaco
MCM		Multichip Module
MCN		Macintosh Consultant's Network
MCN		Macon, GA, USA
MCN		Metropolitan Campus Network
MCNC		Microelectronics Center Of North Carolina
MCO		Orlando, Florida
MCO		Orlando-mccoy Air Force, FL, USA
MCP		Macapa, Brazil
MCP		Master Control Program
MCP		Multiport Communication Processor (Sun)
MCPAS		Master Control Program/advanced System, "mcp/as"
MCPO		Master Chief Petty Officer
MCR		Melchor De Mencos, Guatemala
MCR		Memory Controller
MCS		Material Control System
MCS		Meeting Communications Service
MCS		Monte Caseros, Argentina
MCSE		Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
MCSV		Mars Crew Sortie Vehicle [NASA Oexp]
MCT		Memory Management/cache Control/cache Tag
MCT		Muscat, Oman
MCTRAP		Mechanized Customer Trouble Report Analysis Plan
MCU		Microprocessor Controller Unit
MCU		Montlucon, France
MCW		Mason City, IA, USA
MCY		Maroochydore, Australia
MCZ		Maceio, Brazil
MD		Doctor Of Medicine
MD		Management Domain
MD		Maryland [us State Postal Designation]
MD		Medical Doctor
MD		Months After Date
MDA		Manufacturing Defects Analyzer
MDA		Mechanical Design Automation
MDA		Monochrome Display Adapter
MDA		Monochrome Display Adapter (IBM)
MDA		Muscular Distrophy Association
MDACS		Modular Digital Access Control System
MDAS		Magnetic Drum Auxiliary Sender
MDB		
MDB		Melinda, Belize
MDC		Marker Distributor Control
MDC		Mcdonnell Douglas Corporation
MDC		Menado, Indonesia
MDC		Meridian Digital Centrex
MDDS		Media Documentation Distribution Set
MDE		Market Development Engineering (Sun)
MDE		Medellin, Colombia
MDE		Modular Design Environment
MDEC		Maindec Maintenance On Dec Diagnostic Paper Tapes
MDF		Main Distribution Frame [telephony]
MDF		Market Development Fund
MDF		Medford, WI, USA
MDFAT		Mocrosoft Doublespace Fat
MDG		Mudanjiang, China
MDH		Carbondale, IL, USA
MDI		Makurdi, Nigeria
MDI		Medium Dependent Interface
MDI		Multiple-document Interface
MDK		Mbandaka, Zaire
MDL		Mandalay, Burma
MDO		Middleton Island, AK, USA
MDQ		Mar Del Plata, Argentina
MDQS		Multi-device Queueing System
MDR		Medfra, AK, USA
MDRE		Mass Driver Reaction Engine 
MDS		Message Digest Algorithm 
MDS		Middle Caicos, Turks And Caicos
MDS		Multipoint Distribution Service
MDT		Harrisburg-International, PA, USA
MDT		Mean Down Time
MDU		Marker Decoder Unit
MDU		Mendi, Papua New Guinea
MDW		Chicago-Midway, IL, USA
MDX		Mercedes, Argentina
MDX		Modular Digital Exchange
MDY		Midway Island, (uspt-us)
MDZ		Mendoza, Argentina
ME		Maine
ME		Mechanical Engineer
MEA		Macae, Brazil
MEA		Minimum Enroute Altitude (ifr)
MEB		Melbourne-essendon, Australia
MEC		Manta, Ecuador
MEC		Mobile Equipment Console
MECO		Main Engine Cutoff
MED		Master Of Education, "med"
MED		Medina, Saudi Arabia
MEI		Meridian, MS, USA
MEJ		Meadville, PA, USA
MEL		Melbourne-tullamarine, Australia
MELD		Mechanized Engineering And Layout For Distributing Frames
MEM		Memphis, TN, USA
MEN		Mende, France
MEO		Manteo, NC,  USA
MEOW		Multimedia Environment For Open Windows (tiger Media)
MEP		Mersing, Malaysia
MEQ		Meulaboh, Indonesia
MER		Merced-castle AFB, CA, USA
MERP		Middle-earth Role Playing
MERS		Most Economic Route Selection
MERT		Multi-environment Real Time (obsolete, Pre-unix)
MES		Manufacuring Execution System
MES		Medan, Indonesia
MET		Mid European Time
MET		Multibutton Electronic Telephone
MEU		Major End-user
MEV		Million Electron Volts
MEX		Mexico City, Mexico
MEY		Meghauli, Nepal
MF		Medium Frequency (300-3000khz)
MF		Middle French
MF		Multi-frequency [telephony]
MFA		Mafia, Tanzania
MFA		Master Fine Arts
MFB		Monochrome Frame Buffer
MFC		Microsoft Foundation Class
MFCU		Multi-function Card Unit (IBM)
MFD		Mansfield, OH, USA
MFE		Mission/mcallen/edinburg, TX, USA
MFENET		Magnetic Fusion Energy Network
MFF		Moanda, Gabon
MFG		Manufacturing
MFG		Muzaffarabad, Pakistan
MFI		Marshfield, WI, USA
MFJ		Modification Of Final Judgement
MFLOPS		Millions Of Floating Point Operations Per Second
MFM		Magnetic Field Modulation
MFM		Modified Frequency Modulation
MFN		Milford Sound, New Zealand
MFO		Ras Nasrani, Egypt
MFQ		Maradi, Niger
MFR		Medford, OR, USA
MFR		Multi-frequency Receivers
MFS		Macintosh File System
MFS		Miraflores, Colombia
MFT		Metallic Facility Terminal
MFT		Multiprogramming With A Fixed Number Of Tasks
MFU		Mfuwe, Zambia
MFV		Melfa, VA, USA
MG		Machine Gun
MG		Major General
MG		Mastergroup
MG		Military Government
MG1		Sbus Standard And Hi-res Ecl Monochrome (Sun)
MG2		Sbus 1-bit Analog - Used With Grayscale Monitors (Sun)
MG3		P4 Standard And Hi-res Ecl Monochrome (Sun)
MGA		Managua, Nicaragua
MGB		Mount Gambier, Australia
MGC		Michigan City, IN, USA
MGD		Magdalena, Bolivia
MGE		Mariettta-dobbins AFB, GA, USA
MGF		Maringa, Brazil
MGH		Massachusetts General Hospital
MGJ		Montgomery, NY, USA
MGM		Metro-goldwyn Mayer 
MGM		Montgomery, AL, USA
MGN		Magangue, Colombia
MGQ		Mogadishu, Somali
MGR		Moultrie/thomasville, GA, USA
MGS		Mangaia, Cook Islands
MGT		Mastergroup Translator
MGW		Morgantown, WV, USA
MGY		Dayton-montgomery, OH, USA
MH		Mail Handler
MHA		Mahdia, Guyana
MHB		Auckland-mechanics Bay Spb, New Zealand
MHC		Message Handling Center (x.400)
MHD		Magnetohydrodynamics
MHD		Mashad, Iran
MHE		Mitchell, SD, USA
MHF		Message Handling Facility (x.400)
MHH		Marsh Harbour, Bahamas
MHK		Manhattan/fort Riley, KS, USA
MHL		Marshall, MO, USA
MHL		Microprocessor Host Loader
MHM		Minchumina, AK, USA
MHO		Mount House-wa, Australia
MHQ		Mariehamn, Finland
MHR		Sacramento-mather AFB, CA, USA
MHS		Mail Handling System (Novell)
MHS		Message Handling Service
MHS		Message Handling System (x.400)
MHT		Manchester, NH, USA
MHV		Mojave, CA, USA
MHZ		Megahertz
MHZ		Megahertz (one Million Cycles Per Second)
MHZ		Mildenhall, UK
MI		Machine Independent (ada)
MI		Michigan
MI		Military Intelligence
MI		Mode Indicator
MIA		Miami, FL, USA
MIA		Missing In Action
MIB		Management Information Base
MIB		Microcomputer Interface Board
MIB		Minot AFB, ND, USA
MIB-I		Management Information Base, Version I (RFC 1156)
MIB-II		Management Information Base, Version Ii (RFC 1158)
MIC		Microwave Integrated Circuit
MICE		Modular Integrated Communications Environment
MICR		Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MID		Merida, Mexico
MIDI		Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIE		Muncie, IN, USA
MIF		Maker Interchange Format
MIF		Management Information Format
MIFASS		Marine Integrated Fire And Support System
MiG		Mikoyan-Gurevich
MiG-21		Mig Fighter (USSR)
MiG-23		Mig Fighter (USSR)
MiG-25		Mig Fighter (USSR)
MiG-29		Mig Fighter (USSR)
MII		Media Independent Interface (Sun)
MIK		Mikkeli, Finland
MIL		Milan-metropolitan Area, Italy
MIL		Military
MIL-STD		Military Standard
MILNET		Military Network
MILSTD		Military Standard, "mil-std"
MIM		Media Interface Module
MIM		Merimbula, Australia
MIM		Metal-insulator-metal
MIM		Morality In Media
MIMD		Multiple-instruction, Multiple-data
MIME		Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
MIN		Mobile Identification Number
MINCE		Mince Is Not Complete Emacs
MINX		Multimedia Information Network Exchange
MIO		Miami, OK, USA
MIO		Modular I/o
MIP		Mitspeh Ramon, Israel
MIP		Mortgage Insurance Premium
MIPR		Military Inter-agency Purchase Request
MIPS		Meaningless Information Propogated By Salespeople
MIPS		Microprocessor Without Interlocked Piped Stages
MIPS		Millions Of Instructions Per Second
MIQ		Omaha-millard, NE, USA
MIR		Micro-instruction Register
MIR		Monastir, Tunisia
MIR		Peace, "mir" [russian]
MIRS		Management Information Retrival System
MIRV		Multiple Independently-targetable Reentry Vehicle
MIS		Management Information System
MIS		Misima Is, Papua New Guinea
MISC		Minimum Instruction Set Computer
MISCF		Miscellaneous Frame
MISD		Multiple-instruction, Single-data
MIT		Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
MITI		Ministry Of International Trade And Industry
MITS		Microcomputer Interactive Test System
MIU		Maiduguri, Nigeria
MIV		Millville, NJ, USA
MIW		Marshalltown, IA, USA
MIX		Miriti, Colombia
MIZ		Mainoru, Australia
MJ		Modular Jack
MJA		Manja, Madagascar
MJB		Mejit Isl., Marshall Islands
MJC		Man, Ivory Coast
MJD		Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan
MJG		Mayajigua, Cuba
MJL		Mouila, Gabon
MJM		Mbuji-mayi, Zaire
MJN		Majunga, Madagascar
MJT		Mytilene, Greece
MJV		Murcia, Spain
MJX		Toms River, NJ, USA
MKC		Kansas City-downtown, MO, USA
MKE		Milwaukee-Mitchell Field, WI, USA
MKF		Columbus-McKenna AAF, GA, USA
MKG		Muskegon, MI, USA
MKJ		Makoua, Congo Republic
MKK		Molokai-kaunakakai, HI, USA
MKL		Jackson, TN, USA
MKM		Mukah, Malaysia
MKO		Muskogee, OK, USA
MKR		Meekatharra, Australia
MKS		Mekane, Ethiopia
MKS		Mortice Kern Systems
MKT		Mankato, MN, USA
MKTG		Marketing
MKU		Makokou, Gabon
MKW		Manokwari, Indonesia
MKY		Mackay, Australia
MKZ		Malacca, Malaysia
ML		Middle Latin
MLA		Malta Island
MLA		Member Of Legislative Assembly (see MPP)
MLB		Melbourne, FL, USA
MLC		Mcalester, OK, USA
MLC		Miniline Card
MLCD		Multi-line Call Detail
MLD		Malad City, ID, USA
MLD		Minimum Lethal Dose
MLE		Male, Maldives
MLEM		Multi Language Environment
MLF		Milford, UT, USA
MLG		Malang, Indonesia
MLH		Mulhouse, France
MLI		Moline-Quad-City, IL, USA
MLID		Multiple Link Interface Driver
MLL		Mars Logistics Lander [NASA Oexp]
MLL		Marshall, AK, USA
MLM		Morelia, Mexico
MLN		Melilla/nador, Morocco
MLO		Material, Labor, Overhead Inventoriable Cost / Full Cost
MLO		Milos, Greece
MLOCR		Multi-line Optical Character Reader
MLP		Malabang, Philippines
MLP		Multilink Protocol
MLQ		Malalaua, Papua New Guinea
MLS		Microwave Landing System
MLS		Miles City, MT, USA
MLS		Multi-level Security (Sun)
MLS		Multiple Listing Service
MLT		Mechanized Loop Testing
MLT		Millenocket, ME, USA
MLT		Multilevel Encoding (Crescendo)
MLT		Multiline Transmission
MLU		Monroe, LA, USA
MLV		Medium Lift Vehicle [NASA Oexp]
MLW		Monrovia-payne, Liberia
MLX		Malatya, Turkey
MLY		Manley Hot Springs, AK, USA
MLZ		Melo, Uruguay
MM		Maryknoll Missioners
MMA		Malmo-Metropolitan, Sweden
MMA		Media Management Area
MMA		Microcomputer Managers Association
MMB		Memanbetsu, Japan
MMC		Ciudad Mante, Mexico
MMC		Minicomputer Maintenance Center
MMC		Money Market Certificate
MMCD		Multi-media Compact Disk
MMCODEC		Multimedia Coder/decoder
MMD		Minami Daito Jima-ryukyu Island, Japan
MMDF		Multi-channel Memorandum Distribution Facility
MME		Tees-side, England, UK
MMES		Martin Marietta Energy Systems
MMFS		Manufacturing Message Format Standard
MMG		Multibus Manufacturers Group
MMGT		Multimastergroup Translator
MMH		Mammoth Lakes, CA, USA
MMH		Monomethyl Hydrazine
MMJ		Modified Modular Jack
MMK		Murmansk, USSR
MML		Marshall, MN, USA
MMM		Middlemount-ql, Australia
MMM		See 3m
MMN		Stow-minute Man Airfield, MA, USA
MMOC		Minicomputer Maintenance Operations Center
MMP		Modified Modular Plug
MMP		Mompos, Colombia
MMS		Main Memory Status
MMS		Manufacturing Message Specification (OSI Application Layer)
MMS		Memory Management System
MMT		Multiple Mirror Telescope
MMTA		MultiMedia Telecommunications Association
MMTF		Mobile Management Task Force
MMU		Manned Maneuvering Unit 
MMU		Memory Management Unit
MMU		Monthly Marketing Update
MMU		Morristown, NJ, USA
MMW		Multi-mega Watt 
MMX		Malmo-sturup, Sweden
MMX		Mastergroup Multiplex
MMX	*	Matrix Math eXtensions (Intel)
MMX	*	MultiMedia eXtension (Intel)
MMY		Miyako Jima, Japan
MN		Minnesota
MNA		Melangguane, Indonesia
MNA		Member Of National Assembly (quebec)
MNB		Moanda, Zaire
MNC		Nacala, Mozambique
MNI		Montserrat, British West Indies
MNK		Maiana, Kiribati
MNL		Manila, Philippines
MNLS		Multi-national Language Supplement (svr4)
MNM		Menominee, MI, USA
MNO		Manono, Zaire
MNOS		Metal-nitride-oxide Semiconductor
MNP		Micorcom Networking Protocol
MNP		Microcom Network Protocol
MNR		Mongu, Zambia
MNRAS		Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society
MNS		Mansa, Zambia
MNT		Minto, AK, USA
MNU		Moulmein, Burma
MNZ		Manassas, VA, USA
MO		Magneto-optical
MO		Mail Order
MO		Medical Officer
MO		Missouri
MO		Modus Operandi
MO		Money Order
MOA		Military Operations Area
MOA		Moa, Cuba
MOB		Mobile, AL, USA
MOC		Mars Observer Camera (on Mars Observer)
MOC		Montes Claros, Brazil
MOCA		Minimum Obstacle Clearance Altitude (ifr)
MOD		Magneto-optical Disk
MOD		Mesio Occlusal Distal (dental Filling)
MOD		Modesto, CA, USA
MODEM		Modulate/demodulate
MODEM		Modulator/demodulator
MOFW		Men Of Few Words
MOG		Minicomputer Operations Group
MOG		Moughsat, Burma
MOL		Manned Orbiting Laboratory
MOL		Molde, Norway
MOLA		Mars Observer Laser Altimeter (on Mars Observer)
MOM		Moudjeria, Mauritania
MOMV		Manned Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle 
MON		Mount Cook, New Zealand
MOO		Multiuser Object Oriented
MOP		Maintenance Operations Protocol (DEC)
MOP		Mount Pleasant, MI, USA
MOQ		Morondava, Madagascar
MOR		Middle-of-the-road
MOS		Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOS		Moses Point, AK, USA
MOS		Multiuser Operating System (software Link Product For I80386)
MOSES		Massive Open Systems Environment Standards
MOSFET		Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MOSIGT		Metal Oxide Semiconductor Insulated-gate Transistor
MOSS	*	MIME Object Security Services
MOST		Magneto-optical Storage Technology
MOT		Means Of Testing
MOT		Minot, ND, USA
MOTAS		Member Of The Appropriate Sex
MOTD		Message Of The Day
MOTIF		~
MOTIS		Message Oriented Text Interchange System (ITUT X.400, 1988)
MOTOS		Member Of The Opposite Sex
MOTSS		Member Of The Same Sex
MOTV		Manned Orbital Transfer Vehicle 
MOU		Memorandum Of Understanding
MOU		Mountain Village, AK, USA
MOUSE		Minimum Orbital Unmanned Satellite Of Earth
MOV		Metal Oxide Varistor
MOW		Moscow-metropolitan Area, USSR
MOY		Monterrey, Colombia
MOZ		Moorea Island, French Polynesia
MP		Manifold Pressure
MP		Melting Point
MP		Member Of Parliament
MP		Metal Particle
MP		Metropolitan Police
MP		Micro Processor
MP		Military Police(man)
MP		Mixed Projection
MP		Modular Plug
MP		Multiprocessor
MPA		Monochrome Display/printer Adapter (IBM Pc)
MPB		Miami-public Seaplane Base, FL, USA
MPC		Marginal Propensity To Consume (economics)
MPC		Marketing Performance Compensation (sales)
MPC		Message-passing Coprocessor (multibus)
MPC		Minor Planets Circular
MPC		Multi-media Pc
MPC		Multiprocess Communications
MPCC		Microprocessor Common Control
MPCH		Main Parallel Channel
MPDU		Message Protocol Data Unit
MPE		Mission To Planet Earth 
MPEG		Motion Pictures Expert Group
MPEG		Motion Pictures Expert Group (ITUT/iso)
MPG		Miles Per Gallon
MPH		Miles Per Hour
MPI		Magnetic Peripherals Inc.
MPI	*	Media Platform Interface
MPI	*	Message Passing Inferface
MPIF		Multiprocessor Interface
MPJ		Morrilton, AR, USA
MPL		Montpellier, France
MPM		Maputo, Mozambique
MPN		Mount Pleasant, Falkland Islands
MPO		Manufacturer's Point Of Origin
MPO		Mount Pocono, PA, USA
MPOA		Multiple Protocol Over Asynchronous Transfer Mode
MPOW		Multiple Purpose Operator Workstation
MPP		Massively Parallel Processing
MPP		Member Of Provincial Parliament (canada; Also Mla)
MPP		Message Posting Protocol
MPP		Message Processing Program
MPP		Microprocessor Pascal
MPPD		Multi-purpose Peripheral Device
MPR		Mars Pressurized Rover 
MPR		Mcpherson, KS, USA
MPS		Master Production Schedule
MPS		Megabytes Per Second
MPS		Mount Pleasant, TX, USA
MPT		Maliana, Indonesia
MPT		Ministry Of Posts And Telecommunications
MPT		Multiport Transceiver
MPTN		Multiprotocol Transport Networking (IBM)
MPU		Microprocessor Unit
MPV		Mars Piloted Vehicle [NASA Oexp]
MPV		Montpelier/barre, VT, USA
MPW		Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
MPX		Miyanmin, Papua New Guinea
MQB		Macomb, IL, USA
MQFP		Metal Quad Flat Package
MQL		Mildura, Australia
MQN		Mo-i-rana, Norway
MQQ		Moundou, Chad
MQS		Mustique, St. Vincent And Grenada
MQT		Marquette, MI, USA
MQX		Makale, Ethiopia
MQY		Smyrna, TN, USA
MR		Miniatures Rules
MR		Modified Read
MRA		Misurata, Libya
MRAM		Master Reseller Account Manager (Sun)
MRAR		Master Reseller Account Representative (Sun)
MRB		Martinsburg, WV, USA
MRD		Marketing Requirements Document
MRD		Merida, Venezuela
MRE		Meals Ready To Eat (c-rations)
MRF		Maintenance Reset Function
MRFL		Mandatory File And Record Locking
MRI		Anchorage-merill Field, AK, USA
MRI		Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MRJ		Marcala, Honduras
MRK		Marco Island, FL, USA
MRM		Maximum Rights Mask
MRN		Morganton, NC,  USA
MRP		Manufacturing Requirements Planning
MRP		Manufacturing Resource Planning
MRP		Material Resource Planning
MRQ		Marinduque, Philippines
MRS		Marseille, France
MRS		Material Reject Stock
MRS		Material Requirements Schedule
MRSR		Mars Rover And Sample Return
MRSRM		Mars Rover And Sample Return Mission
MRTS		Modification Request Tracking System
MRU		Mauritius Island
MRU		Most Recently Used
MRV		Mineralnye Vody, USSR
MRW		Morioka, Japan
MRX		Margarita Island, Venezuela
MRY		Monterey, California
MRY		Monterey-peninsula, CA, USA
MRZ		Moree, Australia
MS		Maintenance State
MS		Manuscript
MS		Master Of Science
MS		Microsoft
MS		Military Science
MS		Millisecond (1/1000 Second)
MS		Motor Ship
MS		Multiple Sclerosis
MS-DOS		Microsoft Disk Operating System
MSA		Muskrat Dam, Ontario, Canada
MSAU		Multistation Access Unit
MSB		Most Significant Bit
MSB		Most Significant Byte
MSB		St. Martin #2, Netherlands Antilles
MSBF		Mean Swaps Between Failure
MSC		Media Stimulated Calling
MSC		Mesa-falcon Field, AZ, USA
MSC		Microsoft C
MSCDEX		Microsoft Cd-rom Extensions
MSCP		Mass Storage Control Protocol
MSD		Most Significant Digit
MSD		Mt. Pleasant, UT, USA
MSDOS		Microsoft Dos, "ms-dos", Maybe Someday An Operating System
MSE		Manston, UK
MSE		Mobile Subscriber Equipment
MSEE		Master Of Science/electrical Engineering
MSFC		(george C.) Marshall Space Flight Center [NASA]
MSFR		Minimum Security Functionality Requirements
MSG		Monosodium Glutamate
MSH		Marvel Super Heroes
MSI		Medium Scale Integration
MSJ		Misawa, Japan
MSK		Majestic Point, Bahamas
MSL		Maximum Segment Lifetime
MSL		Mean Sea Level
MSL		Motor Simulation Laboratory
MSL		Muscle Shoals, AL, USA
MSM		Market Segment Manager
MSN		Madison, WI, USA
MSN		Manhattan Street Network
MSN		Manufacturing Sequence Number
MSN		Ms Network
MSO		Manufacturers Statement Of Ownership
MSO		Missoula, MT, USA
MSP		Mass Storage Pedestal (Sun)
MSP	*	Message Security Protocol
MSP		Minneapolis/st. Paul Int'l, MN, USA
MSPE		Mercenaries, Spies And Private Eyes
MSQ		Minsk, USSR
MSR		Muenster, Germany
MSR		Multitrack Serpentine Recording
MSS		Management Support System
MSS		Manuscripts
MSS		Mass Storage Service
MSS		Mass Storage Subsystem (Sun)
MSS		Mass Storage System
MSS		Massena, NY, USA
MSS		Maximum Segment Size
MSS		Message Store Server (x.400)
MST		Maastricht, Netherlands
MST		Mountain Standard Time
MSU		Maseru, Lesotho
MSUA		Message Store User Agent
MSV		Monticello Sullivan Co., NY, USA
MSW		Massawa, Ethiopia
MSY		New Orleans, LA, USA
MSZ		Namibe, Angola
MT		Material Transfer
MT		Metric Ton
MT		Mountain Time
MT		Multi-threaded
MTA		Message Transfer Agent
MTA		Message Transfer Architecture (at&t)
MTA		Metropolitan Transportation Authority
MTBCF		Mean Time Between Critical Failure
MTBCMA		Mean Time Between Critical Maintenance Action
MTBF		Mean Time Between Failures
MTBM		Mean Time Between Maintenance
MTBRP		Mean Time Between Parts Replacement
MTC		Man Tended Capability
MTC		Mt Clemens, MI, USA
MTD		Month To Date
MTDL		Mean Time To Data Loss
MTE		Monte Alegre, Brazil
MTF		Master Test Frame
MTF		Modulation Transfer Function
MTH		Marathon, FL, USA
MTI		Multi-terminal Interface
MTJ		Montrose/delta, CO, USA
MTL		Maitland, Australia
MTM		Mary Tyler Moore
MTM		Method Time Measurements
MTM		Metlakatla, AK, USA
MTO		Mattoon/charleston, IL, USA
MTP		Message Transfer Part
MTP		Montauk Point, NY, USA
MTP		Multinational Transaction Processing
MTR		Magnetic Tape Recording
MTR		Mechanized Time Reporting
MTR		Monteria, Colombia
MTS		Manzini, Swaziland
MTS		Message Telecommunications Service
MTS		Message Telephone Service
MTS		Message Transfer Service (x.400)
MTS		Mobile Telephone Service
MTSO		Mobile Telephone Switching Office
MTSO		Mobile Telephone Switching Office [telephony]
MTT		Minatitlan, Mexico
MTTF		Mean Time To Failure
MTTFF		Mean Time To First Failure
MTTR		Mean Time To Repair
MTTR		Mean Time Trouble Repair
MTU		Maintenance Termination Unit
MTU		Maximum Transer Unit
MTU		Maximum Transmission Unit
MTU		Media Tech Unit
MTV		Music Television
MTW		Manitowoc, WI, USA
MTX		Fairbanks-metro Field, AK, USA
MTX		Mobile Telephone Exchange
MTY		Monterrey, Mexico
MTZ		Masada, Israel
MU		Message Unit
MUA		Mail User Agent
MUA		Multi-user Adventure
MUA		Munda, Solomon Islands
MUB		Maun, Botswana
MUC		Munich, Germany
MUD		Mueda, Mozambique
MUD		Multi-user Dimensions
MUD		Multi-user Dungeon
MUDDL		Mud Definition Language
MUE		Kamuela, HI, USA
MUF		Maximum USAble Frequency (max Freq During Sunspot Activity)
MUF		Multi-user Forth
MUG		Mulege, Mexico
MUL		Moultrie, GA, USA
MULDEM		Multiplexer-demultiplexer
MULTICS		Multiplexed Information And Computing Service (unix' Dad)
MUMPS		Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-programming System
MUN		Maturin, Venezuela
MUNG		Mung Until No Good (see The Hacker's Dictionary)
MUO		Mountain Home, ID, USA
MUR		Marudi, Malaysia
MUS		Marcus Islands, Japan
MUS		Multiple Virtual Storage
MUSH		Mail User's Shell
MUSH		Mail Users's Shell (dan Heller @ Berkeley)
MUSH		Multi-user Shared Hallucination
MUX		Multan, Pakistan
MUX		Multiplexer
MUZ		Musoma, Tanzania
MV		Microvax
MVA	*	Market Value Added
MVA		Market Value Adjustment
MVA		Megavolt Ampere
MVB		Mvengue, Gabon
MVD		Montevideo, Uruguay
MVE		Montevideo, MN, USA
MVIP		Multivendor Integration Protocol (natural Microsystems)
MVJ		Mandeville, Jamaica
MVL		Stowe, VT, USA
MVN		Mount Vernon, IL, USA
MVP		Multiline Variety Package
MVR		Maroua, Cameroons
MVS		Multiprocessing With Virtual Storage (IBM Mainframe Os)
MVS/ESA		Multiple Virtual Storage/enterprise System Architecture
MVS/SP		Multiple Virtual Storage/system Product
MVS/XA		Multiple Virtual Storage/extended Architecture
MVUP		Microvax Ii Unit Of Performance (DEC)
MVW		Mount Vernon, WA, USA
MVY		Martha's Vineyard, MA, USA
MVZ		Masvingo, Zimbabwe
MW		Micorwave
MW		Microwave, "m/w"
MW		Multiwink
MWA		Marion/herrin, IL, USA
MWBE		Minority Or Women Owned Business Enterprise
MWC		Milwaukee-timmerman, WI, USA
MWD		Mainwhali, Pakistan
MWH		Moses Lake, WA, USA
MWL		Mineral Wells, TX, USA
MWM		Motif Window Manager
MWO		Middletown-hook Field, OH, USA
MWQ		Magwe, Burma
MWZ		Mwanza, Tanzania
MX		Mail Exchange
MX		Missile Experimental
MXC		Monticello, UT, USA
MXCC		Mbus Xdbus Cache Controller (SMCC)
MXF		Montgomery-maxwell AFB, AL, USA
MXG		Marlborough, MA, USA
MXL		Mexicali, Mexico
MXP		Milan-malpensa, Italy
MXT		Maintirano, Madagascar
MXU		Multiplexer Unit
MXX		Mora, Sweden
MXY		Mccarthy, AK, USA
MYA		Moruya, Australia
MYB		Mayoumba, Gabon
MYC		Maracay, Venezuela
MYD		Malindi, Kenya
MYE		Miyake Jima, Japan
MYF		San Diego-montgomery, CA, USA
MYG		Mayaguana, Bahamas
MYH		Marble Canyon, AZ, USA
MYJ		Matsuyama, Japan
MYK		May Creek, AK, USA
MYR		Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
MYT		Myitkyina, Burma
MYU		Mekoryuk, AK, USA
MYV		Marysville, CA, USA
MYW		Mtwara, Tanzania
MYY		Miri, Malaysia
MZB		Mocimboa Praia, Mozambique
MZG		Makung, Taiwan
MZI		Mopti, Mali
MZJ		Marana, AZ, USA
MZL		Manizales, Colombia
MZM		Metz, France
MZN		Minj, Papua New Guinea
MZO		Manzanillo, Cuba
MZR		Mazar-i-sherif, Afghanistan
MZR		Multiple-zone Recording
MZT		Mazatlan, Mexico
MZZ		Marion, IN, USA

N		North
N		Notice
NA		Narcotics Anonymous
NA		Next Address
NA		North America
NA		Not Applicable
NA		Not Assigned
NAA		Narrabri, Australia
NAACP		National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
NAAFO		North American And Australian Field Operations (Sun)
NAAS		North American Automated Systems Co.
NAB		Albany NAS, GA, USA
NAB		National Association Of Broadcasters
NABISCO		National Biscuit Company 
NAC		Network Administration Center
NACA		National Advisory Committee On Aeronautics (became NASA)
NACI		NetWare Asynchronous Command Interpreter
NACS		National Advisory Committee On Semiconductors
NACS		NetWare Asynchronous Communications Server
NACS		NetWare Asynchronous Communications Services
NACSIM		National Comfac Information Memorandum
NAD		Network Access Device
NADA		National Automobile Dealers Association
NADF		North American Directory Forum
NADGE		Nato Air Defense Ground Environment
NAEB		North American Edifact Board
NAEC		Novell Authorized Education Center
NAFO		North American Field Organization (Sun)
NAFTA		North American Free Trade Agreement
NAG		Nagpur, India
NAG		Network Architecture Group
NAG		Numerical Algorithms Group
NAGE		National Association Of Government Employees
NAK		Network Appliance Kit (SunSoft)
NAK		Negative Acknowledgement
NALCOMIS	Naval Aviation Logistics Command Mis
NAM		Name And Address Module [telephony]
NAM		National Account Manager
NAM		Number Assignment Module [telephony]
NAMM		North American Music Merchants
NAN		Nadi, Fiji Islands
NAND		Inverted And Gate, Not And
NAND		Not-and Gate
NANP		North American Numbering Plan
NAP		Naples, Italy
NAP	*	Network Access Point
NAPAP		National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program
NAPCOR		National Association For Plastic Container Recovery
NAPLPS		North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax
NAPS		Network Access Point
NAR		National Association Of Realtors
NAR		Novell Authorized Reseller
NAR		Nuclear Acoustic Resonance
NARA		National Archives And Records Administration
NARD		Not Able To Render Decision
NARDAC		Navy Regional Data Automation Center
NAS		Nassau International, Bahamas
NAS		National Academy Of Sciences
NAS		National Advanced Systems  [hitachi Data Systems]
NAS		National Aircraft (aerospace) Standards
NAS		National Audubon Society
NAS		Network Application Support (DEC)
NAS		Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation
NAS		Numerical And Atmospheric Sciences Network
NASA		National Aeronautics And Space Administration
NASA		National Aeronautics And Space Agency
NASAGSFC		National Aeronautics And Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, "NASA/gsfc"
NASC		North American Solution Center (Sun)
NASC		Novell Authorized Service Center
NASCAR		National Association Of Stock Car Auto Racing
NASD		National Association Of Securities Dealers
NASDA		National Space Development Agency [japan]
NASDAQ		National Association Of Security Dealers Automated Quotations
NASI		NetWare Asynchronous Software Interface
NASM		National Air And Space Museum
NASP		National Aerospace Plane
NAT		Natal, Brazil
NATA		North American Telecommunications Association
NATO		North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAU		Napuka, French Polynesia
NAU		Network Addressable Unit
NAUN		Nearest Active Upstream Neighbor
NAVDAC		Naval Data Automation Command
NAVSWC		Nav Surface Warfare/weapons Center
NAY		Nanyuan Beijing, China
NB		New Brunswick
NB		Nota Bene
NBA		National Basketball Association
NBC		National Broadcasting Corporation
NBC		Nuclear, Biological And Chemical
NBFM		Narrowband Frequency Modulation
NBG		New Orleans-callendar NAS, LA, USA
NBI		Nothing But Initials (boulder, Colorado)
NBL		San Blas, Panama
NBMA		Non-broadcast Multi-access
NBO		Nairobi-kenyatta, Kenya
NBO		Network Build Out
NBO		Network Business Opportunity
NBP		Name Binding Protocol
NBS		National Bureau Of Standards
NBS		National Bureau Of Standards (obsolete: See Nist)
NBU		Glenview, IL, USA
NBVM		Narrow Band Voice Modulation
NBW		Guantanamo #2, Cuba
NC	*	Network Computer
NC		Network Control
NC		No Charge
NC		No Connection
NC		North Carolina
NC		Numeric Control
NCA		Network Control Analysis
NCA		North Caicos, British West Indies
NCAA		North Carolina Applications Accelerators (high-end Gpd)
NCAR		National Center For Atmospheric Research
NCC		National Computer Conference
NCC		Network Control Center
NCCF		Network Communications Control Facility
NCD		Network Computing Devices
NCDC		National Climatic Data Center
NCE		New Catholic Edition
NCE		Nice, France
NCF		Network Computing Forum
NCGA		National Computer Graphics Association
NCH		Nachingwea, Tanzania
NCIC		National Cartographic Information Center
NCIC		National Crime Information Center
NCL		Newcastle, England, UK
NCMOS		N-channel (silicon Gate Reversed) CMOS
NCO		Non-commissioned Officer
NCO		Quonset Point, RI, USA
NCP		Cubi Point NAS, Phillipines
NCP		NetWare Core Protocol
NCP		Network Control Program (IBM)
NCP		Network Control Program/protocol/point
NCQ		Atlanta NAS-Marietta, GA, USA
NCR		National Cash Register
NCS		National Computer/communications Systems
NCS		Network Computing System
NCS		New Castle, South Africa
NCSA		National Center For Supercomputer Applications (ncsa Telnet)
NCSA		National Center For Supercomputing Applications
NCSC		National Computer Security Center (orange Book)
NCSL		National Computer Systems Laboratory (nist)
NCT		Nicoya, Costa Rica
NCTA		National Cable Television Association
NCTE		Network Channel-terminating Equipment
NCTL		National Computer And Telecommunications Laboratory
NCV		No Commercial Value
NCY		Annecy, France
ND		Network Disk (Sun)
ND		No Date
ND		North Dakota
NDA		Non-disclosure Agreement
NDB		Non-directional Beacon
NDB		Nouadhibou, Mauritania
NDC		Nanded, India
NDCC		Network Data Collection Center
NDDL		Neutral Data Definition Language
NDE		News Development Environment (Sun)
NDEA		National Defense Education Act
NDI		Network Design And Installation (sun Service), "ndandi"
NDIS		Network Device Interface Specification (3com/microsoft)
NDIS		Network Driver Interface Specification
NDJ		N'djamena, Chad
NDL		Logical Network Disk
NDL		Ndele, Central African Rep
NDL		Network Database Language
NDLU		National Distance Learning University
NDM		Netview Distribution Manager (IBM)
NDNI		Network Design And Network Installation
NDP		New Democratic Party (canada)
NDS		NetWare Directory Services
NDSL		National Direct Student Loan
NDT		Newfoundland Daylight Time
NDV		Nasp Derived Vehicle
NDZ		Nordholz, Germany
NE		New England
NE		Non Exempt
NE		North East
NEA		Glynco NAS, GA, USA
NEAP		Novell Education Academic Partner
NEAR		National Electronic Accounting And Reporting System
NEARNET		New England Academic And Research Network, "nearnet"
NEBS		New Equipment-building System
NEC		National Electric Code
NEC		National Electric Conference
NEC		Nippon Electric Company
NEFS		Network Extensible File System, "nefs"
NEG		Negril, Jamaica
NEI		Not Elsewhere Included
NEIC		National Electronic Information Corporation 
NEK		Nekempt, Ethiopia
NEL		Lakehurst, NJ, USA
NEMA		National Enclosures Manufacturers Association
NEMP		Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse
NES		National Energy Strategy
NES		Nintendo Entertainment System
NES		Not Elsewhere Specified
NESAC		National Electronic Switching Assistance Center
NESC		National Energy Software Center
NEST		Novell Embedded Systems Technology 
NET		National Educational Television
NET		Network
NET		New England Telephone
NET		Norm European Telecommunications
NETBEUI		Netbios Extended User Interface
NETBIOS		Network Basic Input Output System
NETBLT		Network Block Transfer
NETCDF		Network Common Data Format
NETEX		Network Executive (nsc)
NEV		Nevis, British West Indies
NEW		New Orleans-lakefront, LA, USA
NEWS		Network Extensible Window System
NEWS		Network-extensible Windows System (Sun)
NEWS		Networked Extensible Windowing System, "news"
NEWT		News Terminal, "newt"
NEXRAD		Next Generation Weather Radar
NEXT		Near-end Crosstalk
NF		No Funds
NFARS		Remote Network File Service Routines
NFC		National Football Conference
NFFE		National Federation Of Federal Employees
NFL		Fallon-nas, NV, USA
NFL		National Football League
NFPA		National Fire Protection Association
NFR		Not A Functional Requirement
NFS		Network File System (Sun)
NFS		NetWare Foundation Services
NFSNET		Nfs Network
NFT		Network File Transfer
NG		National Guard
NG		No Good
NGA		Young, Australia
NGC		Grand Canyon-north Rim, AZ, USA
NGC		New General Catalog
NGD		Anegada, Virgin Islands
NGE		N'gaoundere, Cameroons
NGM		Agana NAS, Guam
NGO		Nagoya, Japan
NGO		Non-government Organization
NGO		Non-governmental Organization
NGP		Corpus Christi-nas, TX, USA
NGS		Nagasaki, Japan
NGU		Norfolk-chambers NAS, VA, USA
NGZ		Alameda NAS, CA, USA
NH		New Hampshire
NHA		Nha-trang, Vietnam
NHI		National Health Insurance
NHK		Patuxent River NAS, MD, USA
NHL		National Hockey League (the Nation Is Canada)
NHLBI		National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute (Bethesda, MD)
NHR		Non Hierarchial Routing
NHV		Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia
NHZ		Brunswick, ME, USA
NI		Network Interface
NIA		Nimba, Liberia
NIB		Nikolai, AK, USA
NIC		Network Information Center
NIC		Network Information Center (arpanet)
NIC		Network Interface Card
NICAD		Nickel-cadmium
NICE		Network Information And Control Exchange (DEC)
NICMOS		Near Infrared Camera / Multi Object Spectrometer (hst Upgrade)
NIDL		(hp/apollo Rpc Language)
NIFTP		(a File Transfer Network In The Uk)
NIG		Nikunau, Kiribati
NIH		National Institutes Of Health
NIH		Not Invented Here
NII		National Information Infrastructure
NIIT		National Information Infrastructure Testbed
NIM		National Instrumentation Module
NIM		Niamey, Niger
NIM		Nuclear Instrumentation Module (an Electronic Instr. Standard)
NIMBY		Not In My Back Yard
NIMH		National Institute Of Mental Health (rockville, MD)
NIMH		Nickel-metal Hydride
NIMS		Near-infrared Mapping Spectrometer (on Galileo)
NIN		Ninilchik, AK, USA
NIP		Jacksonville NAS, FL, USA
NIR		Near Infrared
NIR		Network Information Registry
NIR		Networked Information Retrieval
NIS		Network Information Services (formerly Yp)
NISA		New Information Service Architecture (Compuserve)
NISC		Network Information And Support Center (nysernet)
NISDN		Narrowband Integrated-services Digital Network, "n_ISDN"
NISO		National Information Standards Organization
NIST		National Institute Of Standards And Technology (formerly NBS)
NIT		Network Interface Tap
NIT		Niort, France
NITF		National Image Transmission Format
NIU		Network Interface Unit
NIU		North American ISDN Users
NIUF		North American ISDN User's Forum
NIX		Nioro, Mali
NJ		New Jersey
NJA		Atsugi, Japan
NJK		El Centro Naf, CA, USA
NKA		Nkan, Gabon
NKC		Nouakchott, Mauritania
NKG		Nanjing, China
NKI		Naukiti, AK, USA
NKN		Nankina, Papua New Guinea
NKS		Network Knowledge Server
NKT		Cherry Point, NC,  USA
NKW		Diego Garcia, Chagos
NKX		San Diego-miramar NAS, CA, USA
NL		National League (baseball)
NLA		N'dola, Zambia
NLC		Lemoore-reeves NAS, CA, USA
NLD		Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
NLDP		National Launch Development Program
NLG		Nelson Lagoon, AK, USA
NLI		~
NLK		Norfolk Island, South Pacific
NLM		National Library Of Medicine
NLM		NetWare Loadable Module
NLM		Network Lock Manager
NLP		Natural Language Processing
NLP		Nelspruit, South Africa
NLRB		National Labor Relations Board
NLS		Native Language Support
NLS		Network License Server (Novell)
NLS		Nicholson, Australia
NLSP		NetWare Link Services Protocol
NLT		Not Later Than
NM		Nautical Mile
NM		Network Module
NM		New Mexico
NM		Night Message
NM		No Mark; Not Marked
NMA		Network Management Architecture (IBM)
NMC		Network Management Center
NMC		Norman's Cay, Bahamas
NMCC		Network Management Control Center
NME		Nightmute, AK, USA
NMF		Network Management Forum (OSI)
NMI		New Model Introduction
NMI		Non-maskable Interrupt
NMOS		N Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (n-mos) (see Mos)
NMOS		N-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor
NMR		Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NMS		Network Managemant System
NMS		Network Management Station
NMS		Network Management System
NMVT		Network Management Vector Transport (IBM)
NNA		Kenitra N.a.f., Morocco
NNE		North North East
NNG		Nanning, China
NNI	*	Network-to-Network Interface
NNI	*	Network Node Interface
NNK		Naknek, AK, USA
NNL		Nondalton, AK, USA
NNRP		NetBIOS Name Resolution Protocol
NNS		NetWare Name Server
NNTP		Network News Transfer Protocol
NNU		Nanuque, Brazil
NNW		North North West
NNX		Network Numbering Exchange
NOA		Nowra, Australia
NOAA		National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
NOAO		National Optical Astronomy Observatories
NOC		Connaught, Ireland
NOC		Network Operations Center
NOCS		Network Operations Center System
NOG		Nogales, Mexico
NON		Nonouti, Kiribati
NOP		Mactan Island, Philippines
NOP		No Operation
NOR		Nordfjordur, Iceland
NOR		Not Or (logical Operator)
NORAD		North American Defense Command
NORDO		No-radio
NORGEN		Network Operations Report Generator
NORML		National Organization For The Reform Of Marijuana Laws
NOS		Network Operating System
NOS		Nossi-be, Madagascar
NOS		Not Otherwise Specified
NOSC		Naval Ocean Systems Center
NOT		Novato, CA, USA
NOTIS		Network Operator Trouble Information System
NOU		Noumea, New Caledonia
NOV		Huambo, Angola
NP		New Proposal (iso)
NP		No Protest
NP		Nondeterministic-polynomial
NP		Notary Public
NP		Noun Phrase
NPA		Network Professional Association
NPA		No Power Alarm
NPA		Numbering Plan Area, Or Area Code [telephony]
NPA		Pensacola NAS, FL, USA
NPC		Non-player Character (see Pc)
NPD		NetWare Products Division
NPE		Napier, New Zealand
NPG		New Product Group
NPH		Nephi, UT, USA
NPI		Network Provider Interface (AT&T)
NPI		New Product Introduction
NPIC		~
NPL		National Physical Laboratory (uk)
NPL		New Plymouth, New Zealand
NPL		Non-procedural Language
NPN		Negative-positive-negative (transistor)
NPN		Nonprotein Nitrogen
NPP		Net Primary Productivity
NPR		National Public Radio
NPRM		Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking
NPS		National Parks Service
NPSI		Network Protocol Service Interface
NPSO		Novell Preferred Service Organization (Novell)
NPT		Newport, RI, USA
NPV		Net Present Value
NQ		No Quote
NQA		Memphis NAS, TN, USA
NQI		Kingsville NAS, TX, USA
NQN		Neuquen, Argentina
NQS		Network Queueing System (NASA Ames)
NQX		Key West NAS, FL, USA
NQY		Newquay, England, UK
NRA		Narrandera, Australia
NRA		National Rifle Association
NRAO		National Radio Astronomy Observatory
NRB		Mayport, FL, USA
NRC		National Research Council
NRC		Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRDC		Natural Resource Defense Council
NRE		Non-recurring Engineering
NREN		National Research And Education Network
NREN		National Research And Education Network
NRI		Shangri-la, OK, USA
NRK		Norrkoping, Sweden
NRL		Naval Research Labs
NRL		North Ronaldsay, Scotland, UK
NRM		Normal Response Mode
NRO		National Reconnaissance Office
NROFF		New Roff
NRR		Roosevelt Roads, PR, USA
NRT		Tokyo-narita, Japan
NRZ		Non-return To Zero
NRZ-I		Nonreturn To Zero-inverted
NRZI		Non Return To Zero Inverted
NS		Name Server
NS		Nanosecond (1/1,000,000 Second)
NS		Network Services
NS		Neutron Star
NS		Not Specified
NS		Nova Scotia
NS		Nuclear Ship
NSA		National Security Agency
NSA		Network Software Associates
NSA		Noosa, Australia
NSAP		Network Service Access Point (OSI)
NSAR		NetWare Service Advertising Restricter
NSB		North Seaplane Base-bimini, Bahamas
NSC		National Security Council [u.s. Government]
NSC		Network Service Center
NSC		Network System Corporation
NSCS		Network Service Center System
NSDSSO		Nasa Science Data Systems Standards Office
NSE		Milton-whiting Field NAS, FL, USA
NSE		Network Software Environment (Sun)
NSEC		Network Switching Engineering Center
NSEL		Network Service Selector
NSEM		Network Software Environment
NSEP		Network Support Encyclopedia
NSF		Camp Springs-andrews Naf, MD, USA
NSF		National Science Foundation
NSFNET		National Science Foundation Network
NSFNET		Nsf Network
NSMP		Net Standard Margin Points
NSN		Nelson, New Zealand
NSO		National Solar Observatory
NSO		Scone, Australia
NSP		Network Service Protocol (DEC)
NSP		Network Services Protocol
NSPMP		Network Switching Performance Measurement Plan
NSSDC		National Space Science Data Center
NST		Newfoundland Standard Time
NSTL		National Software Testing Laboratory
NSTS		National Space Transportation System 
NSU		Networking Support Utilities
NSUG		Nihon Sun User's Group
NSW		New South Wales (australia)
NSWC		Naval Surface Warfare/weapons (obsolete) Center
NSY		Sigonella, Italy
NT		Network Termination
NT		New Technology (microsoft Windows Derivative)
NT		New Testament
NT		Newfoundland Time
NT		Northern Telecom
NT		Northern Territory
NTANDSA		National Trust And Savings Association
NT-1		Network Termination-1 (na ISDN)
NTB		Non-tariff Trade Barrier
NTC		Negative Temperature Coefficient
NTD		Port Hueneme, CA, USA
NTDS		Navy Tactical Data Systems
NTE		Nantes, France
NTE		Not To Exceed
NTEC		Network Technical Equipment Center
NTEU		National Treasury Employees Union
NTF		No Trouble Found
NTI		Northern Telecomm, Inc
NTIA		National Telecommunications And Information Agency
NTIS		National Technical Information Service
NTL		Newcastle-williamtown, Australia
NTN		Neutralized Twisted Nematic
NTN		Normanton, Australia
NTO		Network Terminal Option
NTO		Santo Antao, Cape Verde Isls
NTP		Network Time Protocol
NTP		Normal Temperature And Pressure (see Stp)
NTR		Nuclear Thermal Rocket(ry)
NTS	*	NetWare Telephony Services
NTS		Network Technical Support
NTS		Network Test System
NTSB		National Transportation Safety Board [u.s. Government]
NTSC		National Television Standards Committee
NTSC		National Television System Committee
NTSC		Never The Same Color
NTSC		North America Television Standard For Color
NTT		New Technology Telescope
NTT		Nippon Telephone And Telegraph
NTU		Oceana NAS, VA, USA
NU		Name Unknown
NUA		Network User Address
NUC		San Clemente Island-nalf, CA, USA
NUE		Nuremberg, Germany
NUI		NetWare Users International
NUI		Network User Identification
NUI		Nuiqsut, AK, USA
NUL		Nulato, AK, USA
NUMA		Non Uniform Memory Access  
NUN		Pensacola-saufley NAS, FL, USA
NUP		Nunapitchuk, AK, USA
NUQ		Mountain View-moffet NAS, CA, USA
NURBS		Non-uniform Rational B-spline
NUSC		Naval Underwater Systems Command
NUW		Whidbey Island, WA, USA
NUWES		Naval Underseas Weapons Engineering Station
NV		Nevada
NVA		Neiva, Colombia
NVAD		National Value-added Dealer
NVD		Nevada, MO, USA
NVH		Noise, Vibration, Harshness
NVK		Narvik, Norway
NVLAP		National Validation Laboratory Program
NVLAP		National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (nist)
NVRAM		Nonvolatile Random Access Memory
NVT		Navegantes, Brazil
NVT		Novell Virtual Terminal
NVTS		Network Virtual Terminal Service
NW		North West
NWA		Negroes With An Attitude (musical Group)
NWA		Northwest Airlines
NWI		New Work Item (iso)
NWI		Norwich, England, UK
NWS		National Weather Service
NWT		North West Territories (australia)
NWU		Bermuda N.a.s., Bermuda
NWZ		Nuclear Waste Zone
NXX		Nanp Syntax For A Three-digit String, {[2-9],[0-9],[0-9]}
NXX		Willow Grove, PA, USA
NY		New York
NYC		New York City
NYC		New York-metropolitan Area, NY, USA
NYNEX		New York, New England And The Unknown (x)
NYSE		New York Stock Exchange
NYSERNET		New York State Educational And Research Network
NYU		Nyaung-u, Burma
NZ		New Zealand
NZC		Jacksonville-cecil Field NAS, FL, USA
NZE		Nzerekore, Guinea
NZJ		El Toro Mcas, CA, USA
NZUSUGI		New Zealand Unix System User Group, Inc.
NZW		South Weymouth NAS, MA, USA
NZY		San Diego-north Island NAS, CA, USA

O2		Oxygen
OA		Office Automation
OA		Order Administration
OA		Overeaters Anonymous
OACIS		Oregon Advanced Computing Institute
OAG		Orange, Australia
OAI		(telephone API?)
OAJ		Jacksonville-camp Lejeune, NC,  USA
OAK		Oakland, CA, USA
OAK		Oakland, California
OAM		Oamaru, New Zealand
OAN		Olanchito, Honduras
OAO		Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
OAS		Organization Of American States
OASYS		Office Automation System
OAT		Outside Air Temperature
OATS		Office Automation Technology And Services
OAX		Oaxaca, Mexico
OB		Obligatory
OBC		Obock, Djibouti
OBD		Online Bugs Database (Sun)
OBE		Order Of The British Empire
OBO		Obihiro, Japan
OBO		Or Best Offer
OBP		Open Boot Prom (Sun)
OBS		Aubenas, France
OBS		Omni Bearing Selector
OBS		Omnibearing Selector
OBU		Kobuk, AK, USA
OC		Operator Centralization
OC		Order Of Canada
OC-1		Optical Carrier (51.84 Mbps) Sonet Hierarchy
OC-2		Optical Carrier (103.68 Mbps) Sonet Hierarchy
OC-3		Optical Carrier (155.52 Mbps) Sonet Hierarchy
OC-N		Optical Carrier (51.84 N Mbps) Sonet Hierarchy
OCA		Ocean Reef Club, FL, USA
OCATE		Oregon Center For Advanced Technology Education
OCC		Office Communications Cabinet
OCC		Other Common Carrier
OCCA		Open Cooperative Computing Architecture (ncr)
OCDM		Office Of Civil Defense And Mobilization
OCE		Ocean City, MD, USA
OCE		Other Common Carrier Channel Equipment
OCF		Ocala, FL, USA
OCH		Nacogdoches, TX, USA
OCI		Oceanic, AK, USA
OCI		Out Of City Indicator
OCJ		Ocho Rios, Jamaica
OCL		Object Code License (sun, Was Rtu)
OCLC		Online Computer Library Center (ohio College Library Catalog)
OCLI		Optical Coating Labs Inc.
OCN		Oceanside, CA, USA
OCO		Object Code Only
OCR		Optical Character Reader
OCR		Optical Character Recognition
OCS		Officer Candidate School
OCST		Office Of Commercial Space Transportation
OCU		Office Channel Unit
OCW		Washington, NC,  USA
OCWR		Optical Continuous Wave Reflectometer
OCX	*	OLE Custom Control (Microsoft)
OD		Doctor Of Optometry
OD		Oculus Dexter (right Eye)
OD		Officer Of The Day
OD		Outer Diameter
OD		Overdose
ODA		Office Document Architecture (iso 8613)
ODA		Ouadda, Central African Rep
ODA/ODIF		See Oda And Odif 
ODAC		Operations Distribution Administration Center
ODB		Cordoba, Spain
ODBC		Open Database Connectivity
ODBC		Open Database Connectivity (microsoft Sql)
ODD		Oodnadatta, Australia
ODD		Operator Distance Dialing
ODDD		Operator Direct Distance Dialing
ODE		Odense, Denmark
ODF		Object Development Framework
ODI		Open Data Interface (DEC)
ODI		Open Datalink Interface (Novell)
ODI		Optical Digital Image
ODIF		Office Document Interchange Format
ODIF		Open Document Interchange Format (OSI)
ODISS		Optical Digital Image Storage System
ODM		Oakland, MD, USA
ODP		Open Distributed Processing
ODP		Overdrive Processor 
ODR		Online Drive Repair
ODS		Odessa, USSR
ODS		Optical Data Systems
ODS		Overhead Data Stream
ODSI    *       Open Directory Services Interface (Microsoft)
ODW		Oak Harbor, WA, USA
OE		Old English
OE		Order Entry
OEC		Ocussi, East Timor
OEC		Open Environment Corporation
OECD		Organization For Economic Cooperation And Development
OED		Oxford English Dictionary
OEM		Original Equipment Manufacturer
OEO		Office Of Economic Opportunity
OER		Oernskoeldsvik, Sweden
OES		Order Of The Eastern Star
OEXP		Office Of Exploration [NASA]
OF		Old French
OFF		Omaha-offutt AFB, NE, USA
OFK		Norfolk, NE, USA
OFM		Order Of Friars Minor
OFNPS		Outstate Facility Network Planning System
OFPP		Office Of Federal Procurement Policy
OFS		Order Of Free State
OFSTP		Optical Fiber System Test Procedure
OFU		Ofu Island, American Samoa
OG		Original Gangster (los Angeles)
OG		Original Gum
OGA		Ogallala, NE, USA
OGB		Orangeburg, SC, USA
OGD		Ogden, UT, USA
OGG		Kahului-maui, HI, USA
OGI		Oregon Graduate Institute
OGICSE		Oregon Graduate Institute Computer Science And Engineering
OGN		Yonaguni-jima, Japan
OGS		Ogdensburg, NY, USA
OGT		Outgoing Trunk
OH		Ohio
OH		Overhead
OHC		Northeast Cape, AK, USA
OHD		Ohrid, Yugoslavia
OHI		Oshakati, Namibia
OHP		Overhead Projector
OHR		Wyk Auf Fohr, Germany
OI		Open Issues
OIC		OH, I See! (e-mail)
OIM		Oshima Islands, Japan
OIRA		Office Of Information And Regulatory Affairs
OIT		Oita, Japan
OIU		Office Interface Unit
OIW		Workshop For Implementors Of OSI
OJC		Kansas City-johnson Executive, MO, USA
OJT		On-the-job Training
OKA		Okinawa-naha Air Force Base, Japan
OKC		Oklahoma City-rogers, OK, USA
OKD		Sapporo-okadama, Japan
OKJ		Okayama, Japan
OKK		Kokomo, ID, USA
OKN		Okondja, Gabon
OKO		Tokyo-yokata AFB, Japan
OKY		Oakey, Australia
OLAP	*	OnLine Analytical Processing
OLB		Olbia, Italy
OLCP		Online Complex Processing
OLE		Object Linking And Embedding (microsoft)
OLE		Object Linkinig And Embedding
OLE		Olean, NY, USA
OLF		Wolf Point, MT, USA
OLH		Old Harbor, AK, USA
OLIT		Open Look Interface Toolkit
OLM		Olympia, WA, USA
OLR		Off-line Reader
OLS		Nogales, AZ, USA
OLTM		Optical Line Terminating Multiplexer, "o-ltm"
OLTP		Online Transaction Processing
OLTT		Online Transaction Terminal
OLU		Columbus, NE, USA
OLWM		Open Look Window Manager
OM		Office Management
OM1		Open Mpeg 1
OMA		Object Management Architecture
OMA		Omaha-eppley, NE, USA
OMB		Office Of Management And Budget
OMB		Omboue, Gabon
OMD		Orchestral Manouevers In The Dark
OME		Nome, AK, USA
OME		Oregon Microcomputer Engineering (intel)
OMG		Object Management Group (framingham, Ma)
OMH		Urmieh, Iran
OML		Omkalai, Papua New Guinea
OMM		Output Message Manual
OMO		Mostar, Yugoslavia
OMPF		Operation And Maintenance Processor Frame
OMR		Open Management Roadmap (nmf)
OMR		Oradea, Romania
OMS		Omsk, USSR
OMS		Orbital Maneuvering System
OMT	*	Object Modeling Technique
OMV		Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle 
ON		Old Norse
ONA		Open Network Architecture
ONA		Winona, MN, USA
ONAC		Operations Network Administration Center
ONAL		Off Network Access Line
ONC		Open Network Computing
ONC		Open Network Computing (Sun)
ONG		Mornington Is-ql, Australia
ONH		Oneonta, NY, USA
ONI		Office Of Naval Intelligence
ONI		Operator Number Identification [telephony]
ONI		OSI Process-to-process Network Interface
ONL		Oneill, NE, USA
ONM		Socorro, NM, USA
ONO		Ontario, OR, USA
ONP		Newport, OR, USA
ONR		Office Of Naval Research
ONT		Ontario, CA, USA
OO		Object Oriented
OOB		Out Of Band
OODB		Object Oriented Data Base
OODBMS		Object-oriented Database Management System
OOK		Toksook, AK, USA
OOL		Gold Coast, Australia
OOM		Cooma, Australia
OOP		Object Oriented Programming
OOPART		Out Of Place Artifact
OOPL		Object-oriented Programming Language
OOPS		Object Oriented Program Support
OOPS		Object-oriented Programming System
OOPSTAD		Oop For Smalltalk Application Developers Association
OOR		Mooraberree, Australia
OOSH		Object-oriented Shell
OOT		Object-oriented Technology
OP		Observation Post
OP		Officepower Office Automation System, Trademark Of Cci
OP		Order Of Preachers
OP		Out Of Print
OP		Outside Plant
OPAC		Online Public Access Catalog
OPC		Originating Point Codes
OPCOM		Operation Commitment (solaris Migration)
OPDU		Operation Protocol Data Units
OPEC		Organization Of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEOS		Outside Plant Planning, Engineering And Construction Operations Sys
OPF		Miami-Opa Locka, FL, USA
OPF		Orbiter Processing Facility
OPIC		Open Processor Interrupt Controller 
OPM		Office Of Personnel Management
OPM		Outside Plant Module
OPO		Porto, Portugal
OPS		Off-Premises Station
OPSM		Outside Plant Subscriber Module
OPT		Open Protocol Technology (Novell)
OPX		Off-Premises Extension
OR		Operating Room
OR		Operation Research
OR		Oregon
OR		Originating Register
OR		Owner's Risk
ORB		Object Request Broker
ORB		Office Repeater Bay
ORB		Orebro, Sweden
ORC		Orocue, Colombia
ORD		O'Hare Regional Departures
ORD		Chicago-O'Hare, IL, USA
ORDLIX		Organized Design For Line And Crew System
ORF		Norfolk, VA, USA
ORFEUS		Orbiting & Retrievable Far & Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer
ORG		Paramaribo-zorg En Hoop, Suriname
ORH		Worcester, MA, USA
ORI		Port Lions, AK, USA
ORK		Cork, Ireland
ORL		Orlando-Herndon, FL, USA
ORL		Optical Return Loss
ORM		Optical Remote Module
ORN		Oran-es Senia, Algeria
ORNAME		Originator / Recipient Name, "orname"
ORNL		Oak Ridge National Laboratory
OROM		Optical Read Only Memory
ORP		Orapa, Botswana
ORT		Northway, AK, USA
ORT		Ongoing Reliability Test
ORU		Oruro, Bolivia
ORV		Noorvik, AK, USA
ORY		Paris-orly, France
OS		Oculus Sinister (left Eye)
OS		Operating System
OS		Operator Service
OS		Ordinary Seaman
OS		Out Of Stock
OS		Outstate
OS/2		Ee Os/2 Extended Edition (IBM)
OS/2		Operating System /2
OS/2		Operating System/2 (IBM)
OS/2		Se Os/2 Standard Edition (microsoft)
OS2		Operating System/2, "os/2"
OSA		Osaka, Japan
OSAC		Operator Services Assistance Center
OSB		Order Of St. Benedict
OSB		Osage Beach, MO, USA
OSC		Operator Services Center
OSC		Orbital Sciences Corporation 
OSC		Oscillator
OSC		Oscoda, MI, USA
OSCAR		Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio
OSCRL		Operating System Command Response Language
OSD		Office Of The Secretary Of Defense
OSD		On Screen Display   
OSD		Open Systems Directive (x/open)
OSD		Ostersund, Sweden
OSDIT		Office Of Software Development And Information Technology
OSDS		Operating System For Distributed Switching
OSE		Open Systems Environment
OSF		Open Software Foundation (mach Os And Motif Gui)
OSF		Oppose Sun Forever
OSF		Order Of St. Francis
OSH		Oshkosh, WI, USA
OSHA		Occupational Safety And Health Act
OSI		Open Systems Interconnect (iso)
OSI		Open Systems Interconnection
OSI/NMF		See OSI And Nmf
OSINET		Open Systems Interconnection Network
OSIRM		Open Systems Interconnection/Reference Model, "OSI/RM"
OSK		Oskarshamn, Sweden
OSL		Open Systems Literate (cos)
OSL		Oslo-metropolitan, Norway
OSM		Mosul, Iraq
OSM		Os Management (jim Eggers)
OSME		Open Systems Message Exchange
OSME		OSI Mail Engine
OSN		Office Systems Node
OSN		Open Systems Network
OSN		Osan A.b., South Korea
OSNET		OSI Interoperability Testing Network (australia)
OSO		Originating Signaling Office
OSP		Optical Storage Processor
OSP		Outside Plant
OSP		Slupsk, Poland
OSPF		Open Shortest Path First
OSPF		Open Shortest Path First (RFC 1131)
OSPS		Operator Service Position System
OSR		Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
OSS		Office Of Strategic Services (later Cia)
OSS		Online Support System (smi)
OSS		Operation Support System [telephony, AT&T?]
OSS		Operator Service System
OSSA		Office Of Space Science And Applications
OSSE		Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (on Gro)
OST		Ostend, Belgium
OSTP		Office Of Science And Technology Policy [white House]
OSX		Kosciusko, MS, USA
OSY		Namsos, Norway
OSZ		Koszalin, Poland
OT		Old Testament
OT		Overtime
OTA		Office Of Technology Assessment [u.s. Government]
OTA		Optical Telescope Assembly (on Hst)
OTB		Off-track Betting
OTBS		One True Bracketing Style
OTC		Output Technology Corporation
OTC		Over The Counter (stocks)
OTD		Contadora, Panama
OTDR		Optical Time Domain Reflectometer
OTEC		Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
OTF		Open Token Foundation
OTG		Worthington, MN, USA
OTH		North Bend/coos Bay, OR, USA
OTHB		Over The Horizon - Backscatter (as In Radar), "oth-b"
OTL		Out To Lunch
OTLF		Open Taxi And Limousine Foundation, "otandlf"
OTM		On Time Marker
OTM		Ottumwa, IA, USA
OTN		Other Than New
OTOH		On The Other Hand (e-mail)
OTP		Bucharest-otopeni, Romania
OTP		One-time Programmable
OTR		On The Rag
OTS		Anacortes, WA, USA
OTS		Off The Shelf
OTS		Office Of Thrift Supervision
OTS		Officers' Training School
OTV		Orbital Transfer Vehicle 
OTZ		Kotzebue, AK, USA
OUA		Ouagadougou, Upper Volta
OUD		Oujda, Morocco
OUE		Ouesso, Congo Republic
OUH		Oudtshoorn, South Africa
OUL		Oulu, Finland
OUN		Norman, OK, USA
OUR		Batouri, Cameroon
OUTWATS		Outward Wide Area Telephone Service [telephony]
OV		Orbiter Vehicle 
OVA		Bekily, Madagascar
OVB		Novosibirsk, USSR
OVD		Oviedo, Spain
OVE		Oroville, CA, USA
OW		Openwindows (Sun)
OW		Over-write
OWA		Owatonna, MN, USA
OWB		Owensboro, KY, USA
OWD		Norwood, MA, USA
OWHN		One-word Host Name
OXC		Oxford, Ct, USA
OXR		Oxnard/ventura, CA, USA
OYA		Goya, Argentina
OYE		Oyem, Gabon
OYO		Tres Arroyos, Argentina
OYS		Yosemite National Park, CA, USA
OZC		Ozamis City, Philippines
OZH		Zaporozh'ye, USSR
OZP		Moron, Spain
OZR		Ozark, AL, USA

P		(chem.) Para-, "p-"
P		(uk) Pence, Pennies, Penny, "p"
P		Page, "p."
P		Per (as In M.p.h.), "p."
P		Peta (si Prefix)
P		Phosphorus, "p"
P		Pico (si Prefix), "p"
P1003		POSIX Standardisation Group Of The Ieee
P2		Interpersonal Messaging Protocol (for Heading And Body)
P2P		Process To Process Group (IEEE POSIX)
P3		Protocol Used By Ua Entities And Mta Entities
P4		Asynch Video Interface Bus On The Sun 3/80
P5		Code Name For Intel Pentium
P6		Code Name For Intel Vistium 
P9		Code Name For I386sx (intel)
PA		Pascal
PA		Pennsylvania
PA		Per Annum
PA		Play Aid
PA		Power Alarm
PA		Power Of Attorney
PA		Precision Architecture (hp)
PA		Press Agent
PA		Private Account
PA		Process Alert
PA		Program Address
PA		Protactinium, "pa"
PA		Public Address
PA		Purchasing Agent
PAA		Pa-an, Burma
PABX		Private Automatic Branch Exchange
PAC		Political Action Committee
PACE		Program For Arrangement Of Cables And Equipment
PACS		Personal Access Communications System
PACS		Picture Archival and Communications System
PACT		Prefix Access Code Translator
PACX		Private Automatic Computer Exchange
PAD		Packet Assembler/disassembler
PAD		Paderborn, Germany
PAD		Public Access Device
PAD		Public Access Device (networking)
PAE		Everett, WA, USA
PAG		Pagadian, Philippines
PAH		Paducah, KY, USA
PAK		Hanapepe, HI, USA
PAK		Product Authorization Key
PAL		Personal Answer Line (Sun)
PAL		Phase Alternate Line
PAL		Phase Alternation Line (european Television)
PAL		Programmable Array Logic
PAM		Panama City-tyndall AFB, FL, USA
PAM		Payload Assist Module 
PAM		Pluggable Authentication Modules
PAM		Pulse Amplification Modulation
PAM		Pulse-amplitude Modulation
PAMD		Payload Assist Module, Delta-class, "pam-d"
PAN		Pattani, Thailand
PAN		Personal Account Number
PANS		Pretty Advanced New Stuff
PAO		Palo Alto Ca
PAO		Palo Alto, CA, USA
PAP	*	Password Authentication Protocol
PAP		Port Au Prince, Haiti
PAP		Printer Access Protocol
PAQ		Palmer, AK, USA
PAR		Paris-metropolitan Area, France
PAR		Peak-to-average Ratio, "p/ar"
PAR		Precision Approach Radar
PAR		Project Authorization Request (IEEE)
PARC		Palo Alto Research Center
PARC		Palo Alto Research Center (xerox)
PAS		Paros, Greece
PAS		Public Announcement Service
PAT		Patna, India
PAT		Power Alarm Test
PAT		Profit After Tax
PATROL		Program For Administrative Traffic Reports On Line
PAV		Paulo Alfonso, Brazil
PAX		Port De Paix, Haiti
PAX		Private Automatic Exchange
PAY		Pamol, Malaysia
PAZ		Poza Rica, Mexico
PBA		Point Barrow, AK, USA
PBC		Peripheral Bus Computer
PBC		Processor Bus Controller
PBC		Puebla, Mexico
PBD		Pacific Bell Directory
PBD		Porbandar, India
PBF		Pine Bluff, AR, USA
PBG		Plattsburgh AFB, NY, USA
PBGC		Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation
PBI		West Palm Beach, FL, USA
PBL		Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
PBM		Paramaribo-zanderij, Suriname
PBM		Play By Mail Game
PBM		Portable Bitmap
PBN		Porto Amboim, Angola
PBO		Paraburdoo, Australia
PBR		Puerto Barrios, Guatemala
PBS		Public Broadcasting System
PBT		Profit Before Tax
PBX		Private Branch Exchange
PBZ		Plettenberg, South Africa
PC		Peace Corps
PC		Percent; Percentage
PC		Personal Computer
PC		Physical Contact
PC		Piece Of Crap
PC		Player Character (see Npc)
PC		Politically Correct
PC		Post Card
PC		Post Cibum (after Meals)
PC		Primary Center
PC		Printed Circuit
PC		Privileged Character
PC		Privy Council
PC		Production Control
PC		Program Counter
PC		Progressive Conservative Party (canada)
PC-DOS		Personal Computer Disk Operating System (IBM)
PCA		Portage Creek, AK, USA
PCA		Positive Controlled Airspace (above 18,000')
PCA		Printed-circuit Assembly
PCA		Protocol Conversion Agent
PCAT		Personal Computer/advanced Technology, "pc/at"
PCB		Polychlorinated Biphenyls
PCB		Printed Circuit Board
PCB		Process Control Block
PCB		Protocol Control Block (tcp)
PCC		Portable C Compiler
PCDA		Program Controlled Data Acquisition
PCDOS		Personal Computer Dos, "pc-dos"
PCE		Painter Creek, AK, USA
PCF		Portable Compiled Font (x11r5)
PCG		Paso Caballos, Guatemala
PCH		Parallel Channel
PCI		Panel Call Indicator
PCI		Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI		Peripheral Component Interconnection (intel)
PCI		Protocol Control Information
PCIE		President's Council On Integrity And Efficiency
PCK		Porcupine Creek, AK, USA
PCL		Printer Command Language
PCL		Printer Control Language
PCL		Programmable Command Language
PCL		Pucallpa, Peru
PCM		Plug Compatible Manufacturer
PCM		Plug-compatible Mainframe
PCM		Pulse Code Modulation
PCMCIA		People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
PCMCIA		Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PCMCIA		obsolete: now "PC Card"
PCN		Personal Communications Network (europe)
PCNFS		Pc Network File System
PCNFS		Personal Computer Network File System
PCO		Peg Count And Overflow
PCO		Process Change Order
PCPC		Personal Computers Peripheral Corporation
PCR		Personalized Commission Rate (Sun)
PCS		Patchable Control Store
PCS		Permanent Change Of Station
PCS		Personal Communications Services
PCS		Physical Coding Sublayer
PCS		Plastic Clad Silica
PCSA		Personal Computer Systems Architecture (DEC)
PCT		Princeton, NJ, USA
PCTE		Portable Common Tool Environment (ecma, Esprit Projects)
PCTS		Portable Common Tools Environment
PCTS		POSIX-conforming Test Suite (nist)
PCTV		Personal Computer Television
PCTV		Program Controlled Transverters
PD		Per Diem
PD		Peripheral Decoder
PD		Police Department
PD		Potential Difference
PD		Public Domain
PDA		Parallel Drive Architecture
PDA		Personal Digital Assistant
PDA		Personal Digital Assistant (apple)
PDA		Puerto Inirida, Colombia
PDAD		Proposed Draft Addendum
PDB		Pedro Bay, AK, USA
PDB		Parallel Database
PDC		Mueo, New Caledonia
PDC	*	Primary Domain Controller
PDE		Partial Differential Equation
PDE		Personal Data Exchange
PDES		Product Definition Exchange Specification
PDF		Portable Document Format
PDF		Power Distribution Frame
PDF		Printer Definition File
PDF		Program Development Facility
PDFA		Praseodymium-doped Fibre Amplifier
PDG		Padang, Indonesia
PDI		Power And Data Interface
PDIAL		Public Dialup Internet Access List
PDK		Atlanta-dekalb/peachtree, GA, USA
PDK		Packet Driver Kit (ftp Software)
PDL		Page Description Language
PDL		Ponta Delgada, Azores
PDL		Program Description Language
PDL		Program Design Language
PDL		Programming Design Language
PDN		Public Data Network
PDNS		Public Data Network Switch
PDP		Plasma Display Panel
PDP		Programmed Data Processor [DEC]
PDP		Punta Del Este, Uruguay
PDP-11		Programmed Data Processor, Version 11 (DEC)
PDQ		Pretty Damned Quick
PDS		Partitioned Data Set
PDS		Piedras Negras, Mexico
PDS		Portable Display Shell
PDS		Premises Distribution System (at&t)
PDS		Processor Direct Slot
PDS		Professional Development Services
PDS		Public Domain Software
PDSP		Peripheral Data Storage Processor
PDT		Pacific Daylight Time
PDT		Pendleton, OR, USA
PDT		Peripheral Device Type (scsi)
PDU		Paysandu, Uruguay
PDU		Product Development Unit
PDU		Protocol Data Unit (OSI)
PDV		Plovdiv, Bulgaria
PDX		Portland, OR, USA
PDX		Portland, Oregon
PDZ		Pedernales, Venezuela
PE		Parity Error
PE		Peripheral Equipment
PE		Phase Encoded (1600 Bpi)
PE		Physical Education
PE		Polyethylene
PE		Prince Edward Island
PE		Printer's Error
PE		Professional Engineer
PE		Protestant Episcopal
PEB		Pcm Expansion Bus (dialogic)
PEB		Pebane, Mozambique
PEC		Pelican, AK, USA
PECC		Product Engineering Control Center
PEDI		?portable? Electronic Data Interchange (ITUT X.435)
PEG		Perugia, Italy
PEI		Pereira, Colombia
PEI		Prince Edward Island
PEK		Beijing, China
PEL		Picture Element (aka Pixel)
PEM		Privacy Enhanced Mail
PEM		Puerto Maldonado, Peru
PEN		Penang, Malaysia
PEP		Packet Exchange Protocol (xerox)
PEP		Packetized Ensemble Protocol (telebit)
PEP		Phase Encoded Part (mo)
PEP		Platform Environment Profile (POSIX)
PEP		Productivity Enhancement Project
PEP		Programmable Electronics Performance
PEPE		Pepe Est Presque Emacs
PER		Perth, Australia
PERFECT		Performance Evaluation For Cost-effective Transformations
PERL		Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
PERL		Practical Extraction And Report Language (larry Wall)
PERT		Program Evalution And Review Technique
PET		Pelotas, Brazil
PETA		People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals
PEU		Puerto Lempira, Honduras
PEW		Peshawar, Pakistan
PEX		Phigs/phigs+ Extension To X Window
PEXSI		Pex Sample Implementation, "pex-si"
PF		Picofarad
PF		Programmed Function
PFB		Passo Fundo, Brazil
PFB		Printer Font Binary
PFC		Passenger Facility Charge
PFC		Power Factor Corrected (ups)
PFC		Private First Class
PFK		Programmed Function Keyboard
PFLOP		Petaflop (100 Gflops)
PFN		Panama City, FL, USA
PFO		Paphos, Cyprus
PFPU		Processor Frame Power Unit
PFR		Pass-band Frequency Response
PG		Perge Notice
PGA		Page, AZ, USA
PGA		Pin Grid Array
PGA		Professional Golfer's Association
PGA		Professional Graphics Adapter (IBM)
PGA		Pure Grain Alcohol
PGD		Punta Gorda, FL, USA
PGF		Perpignan, France
PGI		Chitato, Angola
PGK		Pangkalpinang, Indonesia
PGL		Pascagoula, MS, USA
PGM		Port Graham, AK, USA
PGP		Pretty Good Protection
PGP		Puerto Alegre, Berundi
PGS		Peach Springs, AZ, USA
PGV		Greenville, NC,  USA
PH		Parity High Bit
PH		Potential Of Hydrogen, "ph"
PH		Process Hold
PHA		Phan Rang, Vietnam
PHA		Pulse Height Analyzer/analysis
PHB		Parnaiba, Brazil
PHC		Port Harcourt, Nigeria
PHE		Port Hedland, Australia
PHF		Newport News/hampton, VA, USA
PHI		Pinheiro, Brazil
PHIGS		Programmer's Heirarchical Interactive Graphics System
PHL		Philadelphia, PA, USA
PHN		Port Huron, MI, USA
PHO		Point Hope, AK, USA
PHOTOCD		Photographic Compact Disk
PHR		Pacific Harbour, Fiji Islands
PHS		Phitsanuloke, Thailand
PHS		Public Health Service
PHT		Paris, TN, USA
PHW		Phalaborwa, South Africa
PHX		Phoenix-sky Harbor, AZ, USA
PHY		Physical Layer Protocol (fddi)
PHYSREV		Physical Review Journal, "physrev"
PI		Principal Investigator
PI		Protocol Interpreter
PIA		Peoria, IL, USA
PIA		Plug-in Administrator
PIB		Laurel/hattiesburg, MS, USA
PIC		Pilot In Command
PIC		Pine Cay, British West Indies
PIC		Plastic-insulated Cable
PIC		Primary Independent Carrier
PIC		Progammable Interupt Controller
PIC		~ (graphics Output Format)
PICS	*	Platform for Internet Content Selection (W3)
PICS		Plug-in Inventory Control System (pics/dcpr)
PICS		Printing And Imaging For Computer Systems (Sun)
PICS		Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement
PID		Paradise Island-nassau, Bahamas
PID		Process Identifier
PID		Protocol Identifier
PIE		St. Petersburg/clearwater, FL, USA
PIF		Paid In Full
PIF		Program Information File (microsoft)
PIH		Pocatello, ID, USA
PII		Phillips Field, AK, USA
PII		Protocol Independent Interface Group (POSIX P1003.12)
PIK		Glasgow-prestwick, Scotland, UK
PIM		Personal Information Manager
PIMS		Profit Impact Of Marketing Strategy
PIN		Personal Identification Number
PIN		Positive-intrinsic-negative (transistor)
PINE		Pine Is No-longer Elm (email)
PINE		Program For Internet News And E-mail
PING		Packet Internet Groper
PING		Packet Internet Grouper
PIO		Pisco, Peru
PIO		Programmed I/o
PIP		Packet Interface Port
PIP		Periphal Interchange Program
PIP		Pilot Point, AK, USA
PIP		Program Initialization Parameters
PIR		Pierre, SD, USA
PIS		Poitiers, France
PIT		Pittsburgh, PA, USA
PIT		Principal, Interest, And Taxes
PITA		Pain In The Arse
PITI		Principal, Interest, Taxes, Insurance
PIU		Piura, Peru
PIX		Pico Island, Portugal
PIX		~ (graphics Output Format)
PIXEL		Picture Element
PIZ		Point Lay, AK, USA
PJC		Pedro Juan Cab., Paraguay
PJG		Panjgur, Pakistan
PJM		Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica
PKA		Napaskiak, AK, USA
PKB		Parkersburg, WV, USA
PKCS	*	Public Key Cryptographic Standard  (RSA)
PKE		Parkes, Australia
PKH		Porto Kheli, Greece
PKK		Pakokku, Burma
PKR		Pokhara, Nepal
PKU		Pekanbaru, Indonesia
PKW		Selebi-phikwe, Botswana
PKZ		Pakse, Laos
PL		Parity Low Bit
PL/11		Derivative Of Pl/1 For Pdp-11
PL1		Programming Language One, "pl/1"
PLA		Programmable Logic Array
PLAN		Public Lands Action Network
PLATO		Programmed Logic For Automatic Teaching Operation
PLB		Picture-level Benchmark (NCGA)
PLB		Plattsburg, NY, USA
PLC		Planeta Rica, Columbia
PLC		Programmable Logic Controller
PLCC		Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier
PLCP	*	Physical Layer Convergence Protocol
PLD		Programmable Logic Device
PLH		Plymouth, England, UK
PLI		Palm Island, British West Indies
PLL		Phase-locked Loop
PLM		Palembang, Indonesia
PLM		Programming Language For Microcomputers
PLN		Pellston, MI, USA
PLO		Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO		Please Leave On
PLO		Port Lincoln, Australia
PLP		
PLS		Physical Layer Signaling
PLS		Providenciales, British West Indies
PLSS		Portable Life Support System
PLT		Panduit Locking Tie
PLT		Plato, Colombia
PLU		Belo Horizonte, Brazil
PLW		Palu, Indonesia
PLZ		Port Elizabeth, South Africa
PM		Paymaster
PM		Peripheral Module
PM		Phase Modulation
PM		Plant Management
PM		Police Magistrate
PM		Post Meridiem (after Noon)
PM		Postmaster
PM		Postmortem
PM		Presentation Manager
PM		Pressurized Module
PM		Preventive Maintenance
PM		Prime Minister
PM		Provost Marshal
PMA		Pemba Island, Tanzania
PMA		Physical Medium Attachment
PMAC		Peripheral Module Access Controller
PMB		Pembina, ND, USA
PMC		Permanently Manned Capability
PMC		Project Management Committee (POSIX)
PMC		Puerto Montt, Chile
PMD		Palmdale, CA, USA
PMD		Physical Layer Medium Dependent (fddi)
PMDF		Pascal Memo Distribution Facility
PME		Page Map Entry
PMEG		Page Map Entry Group
PMF		Parameter Management Frame (fddi)
PMFJI		Pardon Me For Jumping In (email)
PMG		Page Map Group
PMG		Ponta Pora, Brazil
PMI		Palma Mallorca, Spain
PMI		Pardon My Ignorance (email)
PMIRR		Pressure Modulated Infrared Radiometer (on Mars Observer)
PML		Port Moller, AK, USA
PML		Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
PMO		Palermo, Italy
PMO		Prime Minister's Office
PMOS		Positive Mos
PMP		Pimaga, Papua New Guinea
PMQ		Perito Moreno, Argentina
PMR		Palmerston, New Zealand
PMR		Procurement Management Review
PMRC		Parents' Music Resource Center
PMS		Pantone Matching System
PMS		Pre-menstrual Syndrome
PMSA		Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area
PMT		Paramakotoi, Guyana
PMT		Photomultiplier Tube
PMU		Paimut, AK, USA
PMU		Precision Measurement Unit
PMV		Porlamar, Venezuela
PMX		Presentation Manager For The X Window System, "pm/x"
PMZ		Palmar, Costa Rica
PN		Part Number
PN		Promissory Note
PNA		Pamplona, Spain
PNB		Pacific Northwest Bell
PNB		Porto Nacional, Brazil
PNC		Ponca City, OK, USA
PND		Punta Gorda, Belize
PNE		North Philadelphia, PA, USA
PNG		Paranagua-pr, Brazil
PNH		Phnom Penh, Democratic Kampuchea
PNI		Ponape, Caroline Islands
PNK		Pontianak, Indonesia
PNL		Pantelleria, Italy
PNO		Pinotepa, Mexico
PNP		Plug And Play
PNP		Plug N Play
PNP		Popondetta, Papua New Guinea
PNP		Positive-negative-positive (transistor)
PNPN		Positive-negative-positive-negative Devices
PNQ		Poona, India
PNR		Pointe Noire, Congo Republic
PNS		Pensacola, FL, USA
PNX		Sherman-denison, TX, USA
PNZ		Petrolina, Brazil
PO		Petty Officer
PO		Polarity On
PO		Post Office
PO		Postal Order
PO		Purchase Order (sales)
POA		Porto Alegre, Brazil
POB		Fayetteville-pope AFB, NC,  USA
POB		Periphal Order Buffer
POC		La Verne, CA, USA
POC		Point Of Contact
POC		Port Of Call
POCSAG		Post Office Code Standardisation Advisory Group
POD		Pay On Delivery
POD		Point Of Distribution
POD		Power On Days
POE		Fort Polk, LA, USA
POE		Port Of Entry/embarkation
POF		Plastic Optical Fiber
POF		Poplar Bluff, MO, USA
POF		Programmable Operator Facility
POG		Passion Orange Guava
POG		Port Gentil, Gabon
POGO		Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
POH		Pilot's Operating Handbook
POH		Pocahontas, IA, USA
POH		Power On Hours
POI		Potosi, Bolivia
POK		Power On Okey Signal
POL		Pemba, Mozambique
POM		Phase Of Moon
POM		Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
POP		Point Of Presence [telephony]
POP		Point Of Production
POP		Post Office Protocol
POP		Processor On Plug-in (ala Daughterboards)
POP		Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
POPS		Paperless Order Processing System
POQ		Polk Inlet, AK, USA
POR		Point Of Receive
POR		Pori, Finland
POR		Price On Request
POS		Piece Of S--t
POS		Point Of Sale
POS		Port Of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago
POS		Programmable Option Select
POSI		Pacific OSI (japan)
POSI		Promoting Conference For OSI
POSIX		Portable Operating System Interface (IEEE, Fips 151-1)
POSIX		Portable Operating System Interface Unix
POSPP		Profit Oriented Systems Planning Program
POSSLQ		Persons Of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters (1980 Census)
POST		Power-on Self Test
POSYBL		Programming System For Distributed Applications
POT		Port Antonio, Jamaica
POTS		Plain Old Telephone Service
POTS		Plain Ordinary Telephone System
POTV		Personnel Orbit Transfer Vehicle 
POU		Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
POV		Point Of View
POW		Portoroz, Yugoslavia
POW		Prisoner Of War
POWER		Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC (IBM)
POY		Powell, WY, USA
POZ		Poznan, Poland
PP		Pages, "pp."
PP		Painting Processor
PP		Parcel Post
PP		Past Participle
PP		Post Pay
PP		Primary Point
PP		Private Pilot
PPA		Post Pack Audit
PPB		Parts Per Billion
PPBS		Planning, Programming, And Budgeting Systems
PPC		Pour Prendre Conge' (to Take Leave)
PPC		PowerPC
PPC		Prospect, AK, USA
PPCP		PowerPC Platform   
PPCS		Person To Person, Collect, Special [telephony]
PPD		Palmas Del Mar, PR, USA
PPD		Peripheral Pulse Distributor
PPD		Postscript Printer Description
PPE		Puerto Penasco, Mexico
PPF		Independence-tri City, KS, USA
PPG		Pago Pago, American Samoa
PPI		Plan Position Indicator
PPI		Professional Press Inc.
PPID		Parent Process Identification Number
PPM		Pages Per Minute
PPM		Parts Per Million
PPM		Pompano Beach, FL, USA
PPM		Portable Pixel Map
PPM		Product Portfolio Management
PPN		Parameterized Post-newtonian Formalism For General Relativity
PPN		Popayan, Colombia
PPN		Programmer/project Number (compuserve)
PPN		Public Packet Switching
PPO		Powell Point, Bahamas
PPP		Point To Point Protocol
PPP		Proserpine, Australia
PPS		Packets Per Second
PPS		Postpostscriptum
PPS		Product Performance Surveys
PPS		Public Packet Switching Network
PPS		Puerto Princesa, Philippines
PPT		Papeete, French Polynesia
PPT		Parts Per Trillion
PPT		Pulse Pair Timing
PPT		Punched Paper Tape
PPTP	*	Point to Point Tunnelling Protocol (Microsoft)
PPV		Port Protection, AK, USA
PPZ		Puerto Paez, Venezuela
PQ		Province Of Quebec
PQFP		Plastic Quad Flat Pack
PQFP		Plastic Quad Flat Package
PQI		Presque Isle/houlton, ME, USA
PQQ		Port Macquarie, Australia
PQS		Pilot Station, AK, USA
PR		Payroll
PR		Public Relations
PR		Puerto Rico
PRA		Parana, Argentina
PRA		Primary Rate Access
PRB		Packet Receive Buffer
PRB		Paso Robles, CA, USA
PRBS		Pseudo-random Binary-pulse Sequence
PRC		People's Republic Of China
PRC		Planning Research Corporation
PRC		Prescott, AZ, USA
PRCA		Puerto Rico Communications Authority
PRD:IANOTA	Please Reply Directly: I Am Not On This Alias
PRE		Product Responsible Engineer (SMCC/europe)
PREMIS	Premises Information System
PREPNET	Pennsylvania Research And Economic Partnership Network
PRG		Pal/prom Programming Department
PRG		Prague, Czechoslovakia
PRI		Praslin Island, Seychelles
PRI		Primary Rate Interface (23 64 Kb B Channels + 1 16 Kb D Channel)
PRISM		Parallel Reduced Instruction Set Multiprocessing (apollo)
PRMD		Private Management Domain (x.400)
PRML		Partial Response, Maximum Likelihood
PRN		Printer
PRN		Pristina, Yugoslavia
PRO		Precision-risc Organization (hp)
PROFS		Professional Office System (IBM)
PROLOG		Ai Language
PROLOG		Programming In Logic
PROM		Programmable Read-only Memory
PROMATS		Programmable Magnetic Tape System
PROPAL		Programmed Pal
PROTEL		Procedure Oriented Type Enforcing Language
PRS		Personal Response System
PRTC		Puerto Rico Telephone Company
PRU		Prome, Burma
PRX		Paris, TX, USA
PRY		Pretoria, South Africa
PRZ		Prineville, OR, USA
PS		Picosecond
PS		Picosecond (1/1,000,000,000 Second)
PS		Postscript [adobe (tm)]
PS		Postscriptum
PS		Power Steering
PS		Power Supply
PS		Process Stop Ship
PS		Program Store
PS		Public School
PS/1		Personal System/1 (IBM Low-cost Series)
PS/2		Personal System /2
PS/2		Personal System/2 (IBM)
PS/2-25		8086 Isa (IBM)
PS/2-30		286 80286 Isa (IBM)
PS/2-30		8086 Isa (IBM)
PS/2-50		80286 Mca (IBM)
PS/2-50Z		80286 Mca, Zero Wait State (IBM)
PS/2-55X		I386sx, Mca Small Footprint (IBM)
PS/2-60		80286 Mca Deskside Ps/2 (IBM)
PS/2-70		80386 Mca Desktop Ps/2 (IBM)
PS/2-80		80386 Mca Deskside Ps/2 (IBM)
PS/2-90		I486 Mca
PS/2-P70		I386 Portable, 20 Mhz Mca (IBM)
PSA		Pisa, Italy
PSA		Problem Statement Analyzer
PSAP		Public Safety Answering Point
PSB		Clearfield, PA, USA
PSC		Pasco/kennewick, WA, USA
PSC		Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center
PSC		Polar Stratospheric Clouds
PSC		Prime Service Contractor
PSC		Public Safety Calling System
PSC		Public Service Commission
PSD		Port Said, Egypt
PSD		Product Support Document    
PST Pre Structured Technology   
PSDC		Public Switched Digital Capability
PSDN		Packet Switched Data Network
PSDS		Public Switched Digital Service
PSE		Packet Switch Exchange
PSE		Ponce, PR, USA
PSE		Programming Support Environment
PSF		Pittsfield, MA, USA
PSF		Point Spread Function
PSF		Postscript Format
PSG		Petersburg, AK, USA
PSG		Platoon Sergeant
PSG		Professional Services Group (Sun)
PSH		~ (protocol)
PSI		Packet Switch Interface
PSI		Pasni, Pakistan
PSI		Performance Systems International (virginia)
PSIU		Packet Switch Interface Unit
PSK		Dublin, VA, USA
PSK		Phase Shift Keying
PSK		Phase-shift Keying
PSL		Problem Statement Language
PSM		Packet Service Module
PSM		Portsmouth, NH, USA
PSM		Position Switching Module
PSM		Professional Services Manager (Sun)
PSN		Packet Switch Node
PSN		Packet Switched Network
PSN		Packet Switching Node
PSN		Palestine, TX, USA
PSN		Progressive Sociologists Network
PSO		Pasto, Colombia
PSO		Pending Service Order
PSP		Palm Springs, CA, USA
PSP		Product Support Plan
PSR		Pescara, Italy
PSR		Product Specific Realizations
PSR		Product Specific Release
PSR		Productivity Status Reports
PSR		Pulsar
PSS		Packet Switch Stream
PSS		Packet Switched Services
PSS		Posadas, Argentina
PST		Pacific Standard Time
PST		Pre-structured Technology (OSF)
PST		Public Switched Telephone
PSTN		Public Switch Telephone Network
PSTN		Public Switched Telephone Network
PSU		Program Storage Unit
PSW		Program Status Word
PSWM		Postscript Window Manager
PSX		Palacios, TX, USA
PSY		Port Stanley, Falkland Island
PSZ		Puerto Suarez, Bolivia
PT		Pacific Time
PT		Patrol Torpedo (as In Pt Boat)
PT		Physical Therapy
PT		Physical Training
PT		Program Timer
PTA		Parent-teacher Association
PTA		Port Alsworth, AK, USA
PTAT		Private Trans Atlantic Telecommunications
PTC		Parametric Technologies Corporation (colorado)
PTC		Port Alice, AK, USA
PTC		Positive Temperature Coefficient
PTD		Parallel Transfer Disk/drive
PTD		Port Alexander, AK, USA
PTE		Page Table Entry
PTF		Malololailai, Fiji Islands
PTF		Program Temporary Fix (IBM)
PTG		Pietersburg, South Africa
PTH		Port Heiden, AK, USA
PTI		Portable Test Instrument
PTJ		Portland, Australia
PTK		Pontiac, MI, USA
PTL		Port Armstrong, AK, USA
PTN		Morgan City/patterson, LA, USA
PTN		Plant Test Number [telephony:actual 800 Number Assigned]
PTO		Patent And Trademark Office (us)
PTO		Please Turn Over
PTO		Power Take-off
PTP		Point To Point
PTP		Pointe A Pitre, Guadeloupe
PTP		Process To Process Group (POSIX)
PTR		Pederson Point, AK, USA
PTS		Pittsburg, KS, USA
PTSD		Post Traumatic-stress Disorder
PTT		Post, Telephone And Telegraph Administration
PTT		Postal, Telephone, And Telegraph Administration
PTT		Public Telephone And Telegraph
PTU		Platinum, AK, USA
PTV		Passenger Transport Vehicle 
PTV		Porterville, CA, USA
PTW		Primary Translation Word
PTX		Pitalito, Colombia
PTY		Panama City, Panama
PTY		Pseudo Terminal
PU		Physical Unit
PU		Physical Unit (sna)
PUB		Pueblo, CO, USA
PUC		Peripheral Unit Controller
PUC		Price, UT, USA
PUC		Public Utilities Commission
PUD		Planned Unit Development
PUD		Puerto Deseado, Argentina
PUF		Pau, France
PUFFM		Predictable, Understandable, Fair, Flexible And Manageable
PUG		Port Augusta, Australia
PUJ		Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
PUK		Pukarua, French Polynesia
PUMS		Physical Unit ~ ~
PUO		Prudhoe Bay/deadhorse, AK, USA
PUP		Parc Universal Packet Protocol
PUQ		Punta Arenas, Chile
PUR		Puerto Rico, Bolivia
PUS		Pusan, South Korea
PUT		Programmable Unijunction Transistor
PUU		Puerto Asis, Colombia
PUW		Pullman, WA, USA
PUY		Pula, Yugoslavia
PUZ		Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua
PV		Photovoltaic
PVC		Permanent Virtual Circuit (frame Relay)
PVC		Poly Vinyl Chloride
PVC		Polyvinyl Chloride
PVC		Provincetown, MA, USA
PVD		Providence, RI, USA
PVH		Porto Velho, Brazil
PVK		Preveza, Greece
PVN		Private Virtual Network
PVO		Pioneer Venus Orbiter
PVR		Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
PVS		Providenyia, USSR
PVT		Private (pilot Certificate)
PVU		Provo, UT, USA
PVW		Plainview, TX, USA
PVY		Pope Vanoy, AK, USA
PW		Prisoner Of War (usually Pow)
PWA		Oklahoma City-wiley Post, OK, USA
PWB		Printed Wiring Board
PWB		Programmer's Workbench
PWD		People With Disabilities
PWD		Print Working Directory
PWG		Permanent Working Group
PWK		Chicago-pal Waukee, IL, USA
PWM		Portland, ME, USA
PWR		Port Walter, AK, USA
PWT		Bremerton, WA, USA
PX		Post Exchange (see Also Bx)
PX64		Videoconferencing Standard, See H.261
PXM		Puerto Escondido, Mexico
PXO		Porto Santo, Madeira Islands
PXU		Pleiku, Vietnam
PYH		Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela
PYL		Perry Island, AK, USA
PYM		Plymouth, MA, USA
PYR		Pyrgos, Greece
PZA		Paz De Ariporo, Colombia
PZE		Penzance, England, UK
PZO		Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela
PZU		Port Sudan, Sudan
PZY		Piestany, Czechoslovakia

Q		Quality (as In "q Meter")
Q		Queen('s), "q."
Q		Question, "q."
Q.921		Pri ISDN Spec (ITUT)
Q.931		Bri ISDN Spec (ITUT)
QA		Quality Assurance
QAM		Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QANTAS		Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Service
QAS		Quasi-associated Signaling
QB		Queen's Bishop (chess)
QBC		Bella Coola, BC, Canada
QBE		Query By Example
QBP		Queen's Bishop's Pawn (chess)
QC		Quality Control
QC		Queen's Counsel
QD		Quaque Die (daily)
QDA		Quantity Discount Agreement
QDCS		Quality, Deliverly, Cost, Service / Safety
QDM		Dammam, Saudi Arabia
QE		Quick Estimation
QED		Quantum Electrodynamics
QED		Quod Erat Demonstrandum (which Was To Be Demonstrated)
QEF		Quod Erat Faciendum (which Was To Be Done)
QEI		Quod Erat Inveniendum (which Was To Be Found Out)
QET		Quantum Effect Transistor
QFA		Quick File Access
QIC		Quarter Inch Cartridge
QIC		Quarter-inch Cartridge
QIC-11		20 Mb Qic
QIC-150		150 Mb Qic
QIC-24		60 Mb Qic
QID		Quater In Die (four Times A Day)
QIG		Iguatu, Brazil
QIS		Quality Information System
QJB		Jubail, Saudi Arabia
QKT		Queen's Knight (chess)
QKTP		Queen's Knights's Pawn (chess)
QLI		Query Language Interpreter
QLLC		Qualified Logical Link Control
QM		Quartermaster
QMC		Quartermaster Corps
QMF		Query Management Facility
QMF		See Qam
QMG		Quartermaster General
QMP		Quality Measurement Plan
QMS		Quality Micro Systems
QNS		Quantity Not Sufficient
QPP		Quality Partnership Program (IBM)
QPSX		Queued Packet And Synchronous Exchange (telecom Australia)
QQA		Center Island, WA, USA
QQB		Keyes Point, AK, USA
QQC		Beluga, AK, USA
QQD		Boston-nashua St Heliport, MA, USA
QQI		Sunnyside, WA, USA
QQJ		Stevensville, MT, USA
QQK		Garberville, CA, USA
QQL		Bonners Ferry, ID, USA
QQM		Shingletown, CA, USA
QQN		Woodlake, CA, USA
QQO		Brewster, WA, USA
QQP		Sager, CA, USA
QQQ		Grass Valley, CA, USA
QQR		Horsham, PA, USA
QQS		Waldronaire Arpt, WA, USA
QQU		Window Rock, AZ, USA
QQV		Lupin-nt, Canada
QQV		Which See (plural Of Q.v.), "qq.v."
QQW		Santa Rosa-air Center, CA, USA
QQX		Healdsburg, CA, USA
QQY		San Marcos, TX, USA
QQZ		Paraguana, Venezuela
QRA		Quality Reliability Assurance
QRSS		Quasi Random Signal Source
QSAM		Queued Sequential Access Method
QSO		Quasi-stellar Object
QSS		Quality Surveillance System
QTC		Quantitative Technology Corporation
QTY		Quantity
QUANGO		Quasi Non-governmental Organization
QUEL		Query Language
QV		Which See (sing.), "q.v."
QWERTY		First Six Keys On Top Alphabetic Row Of Standard Keyboard
QWL		Quality Of Working Life

R		Rand
R		Recto, "r."
R		Republican, "r."
R		Right, "r"
R		Ring
R		Roentgen
R		Rolemaster
R		Rook In Chess
RANDD		Research And Development
RANDD		Research And Development
R2D2		Blue-on-silver Droid In 'star Wars'
RA		Radium, "ra"
RA		Regular Army
RA		Research Assistant
RA		Return Authorization
RA		Royal Academy
RAAF		Royal Australian Air Force
RAB		Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
RAB		RAID Advisory Board
RAC		Racine, WI, USA
RAC		Reseller Authorization Course (Sun)
RACE		Random Access Card Equipment
RACEP		Random Access And Correlation For Extended Performance
RACF		Resource Access Control Facility (IBM)
RAD		Radiation Absorbed Dose
RAD		Rapid Access Disk
RAD		Tortola, Virgin Islands
RADAR		Radio Association Defending Airwave Rights 
RADAR		Radio Detection And Ranging
RADM		Rear Admiral
RAE		Arar, Saudi Arabia
RAF		Royal Air Force
RAH		Rafha, Saudi Arabia
RAI		Praia, Cape Verde Islands
RAID		Redundant Array Of Inexpensive Discs
RAID		Redundant Array Of Inexpensive Disks
RAJ		Rajkot, India
RAK		Marrakech, Morocco
RAL		Riverside-muncipal, CA, USA
RAM		Random Access Memory
RAMDAC		Random Access Memory Digital-to Analog Converter
RAMP		Ratings And Maintenance Phase
RAND		Rural Area Network Design
RAO		Regional Accounting Office
RAO		Revenue Accounting Office
RAO		Ribeirao Preto, Brazil
RAP		Rapid City, SD, USA
RAR		Rarotongo, Cook Islands
RAR		Return Address Register
RARDE		Royal Armaments Research And Development Establishment
RARE		Reseaux Associes Pour La Recherche Europeenne
RARP		Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RARP		Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (ethernet->internet)
RAS		Rasht, Iran
RAS		Reliability, Availability And Serviceability
RAS		Reliable, Available And Serviceable
RAS	*	Remote Access Service (Microsoft)
RAS		Row Address Strobe
RASC		Residence Account Service Center
RAT		Random Access Time
RATFOR		Rational Fortran
RAW		Read After Write
RAZ		Rawala Kot, Pakistan
RB		Rhythm And Blues, "randb"
RBA		Rabat, Morocco
RBC		Red Blood Count
RBD		Dallas-redbird, TX, USA
RBF		Big Bear, CA, USA
RBG		Roseburg, OR, USA
RBH		Brooks Lodge, AK, USA
RBHC		Regional Bell Holding Company
RBI		Runs Batted In
RBL		Red Bluff/redding, CA, USA
RBO		Robore, Bolivia
RBOC		Regional Bell Operating Company
RBOR		Request Basic Output Report
RBR		Rio Branco, Brazil
RBT		Reliable Broadcast Toolkit
RBTL		Read Between The Lines
RBU		Roebourne, Australia
RBY		Ruby, AK, USA
RC		Receive Clock
RC		Red Cross
RC		Regional Center
RC		Remote Controlled
RC		Repair Center (Sun)
RC		Resistance-capacitance
RC		Resistor-capacitor Circuit (as In Filters)
RC		Roman Catholic
RCA		Radio Corporation Of America
RCA		Rapid City-ellsworth AFB, SD, USA
RCAF		Royal Canadian Air Force
RCAS		Reserve Component Automation System
RCB		Richards Bay, South Africa
RCC		Radio Common Carrier
RCC		Remote Cluster Controller
RCC		Reverse Command Channel
RCDD		Registered Communications Distribution Designer
RCE		Roche Harbor, WA, USA
RCF		Remote Call Forwarding
RCF		Remote Console Facility
RCH		Riohacha, Colombia
RCI		Rodent Cage Interface (for Sls Mission)
RCL		Runtime Control Library
RCLDN		Retrieval Of Calling Line Directory Number
RCM		Remote Carrier Module
RCM		Richmond, Australia
RCMA		Radio Communications Monitoring Association
RCMAC		Recent Change Memory Administration Center
RCMP		Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RCP		Remote Copy
RCQ		Reconquista, Argentina
RCS		Reaction Control System
RCS		Revision Control System (Walter Tichy @ Purdue)
RCSC		Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem
RCT		Reed City, MI, USA
RCU		Radio Channel Unit
RCU		Rio Curato, Argentina
RCVR		Receiver
RD		Received Data
RD		Regional (sales) Director
RD		Research And Development
RD		Rural Delivery
RDA		Recommended Daily Allowance
RDA		Remote Database Access (OSI Application Layer)
RDBMS		Relational Database Management System
RDD		Redding, CA, USA
RDES		Remote Data Entry System
RDF		Radio Direction Finding
RDF		Reseller Developer Funds (SMCC)
RDG		Reading, PA, USA
RDL		Remote Digital Loopback
RDM		Bend/Redmond, OR, USA
RDM		Reliably-Delivered Message (sockets)
RDOS		~ OS (DG Eclipse)
RDP		Reliable Datagram Protocol
RDR		Red River, ND, USA
RDS		Radio Digital System
RDT		Radio Digital Terminal
RDT		Richard-Toll, Senegal
RDU		Raleigh/Durham, NC,  USA
RDV		Red Devil, AK, USA
RDZ		Rodez, France
RE	*	Release Engineering
REA		Rail Express Agency
REC		Recife, Brazil
REC		Regional Engineering Center
RECON		Reconnaissance
RED		Reedsville, PA, USA
REE		Lubbock-Reese AFB, TX, USA
REG		Reggio Calabria, Italy
REGIS		Remote Graphics Instruction Set
REH		Rehoboth, DE, USA
REK		Reykjavik Airport, Iceland
REL		Trelew, Argentina
REM		Rapid Eye Movement
REM		Rat Enclosure Module (for Sls Mission)
REM		Rational Economic Man
REM		Remote Equipment Module
REM		Ring Error Monitor
REM		Roentgen Equivalent In Man
REMOBS		Remote Observation System
REN		Ring Equivalence Number
REO		R. E. Olds
REO		Removable, Erasable, Optical
REP		Siem Reap, Cambodia
REQSPEC		Requirements Specification
RES		Resistencia, Argentina
RET		Rost, Norway
RETMA		Radio Electronics Television Manufacturers Association
REU		Reus, Spain
REX		Remote Execution
REX		Reynosa, Mexico
REXX		Restructured Extended Executor (IBM)
REY		Reyes, Bolivia
RF		Radio Frequency
RFC		Radio-frequency Choke
RFC		Request For Comment
RFC		Request For Comment (internet Activities Board)
RFC		Required For Compliance
RFD		Rockford, IL, USA
RFD		Rural Free Delivery
RFE		Request For Enhancement
RFI		Radio Frequency Interference
RFI		Request For Information
RFIP		Request For Information And Presentation
RFP		Raiatea, French Polynesia
RFP		Request For Proposal
RFQ		Request For Quote
RFS		Remote File Sharing
RFS		Remote File System (at&t)
RFT		Request For Technology (OSF)
RG-58		~ Gauge (50-ohm Thin Ethernet)
RG-59		~ Gauge (lan Coax Type)
RG-62		~ Gauge (93 Ohm Arcnet Cable)
RGA		Rio Grande, Argentina
RGB		Red, Green, Blue
RGB		Red, Green, Blue (color System)
RGBI		Red Green Blue Intensity
RGI		Rangiroa, French Polynesia
RGL		Rio Gallegos, Argentina
RGN		Rangoon, Burma
RGP		Raster Graphics Processor
RGU		Radio Government/universal, "rg/u"
RH		Right Hand
RHC		Regional (bell) Holding Company
RHE		Reims, France
RHI		Rhinelander/land O'lakes, WI, USA
RHIP		Rank Has Its Privileges
RHO		Rhodes, Greece
RHS		Right Hand Side
RHV		Reid-hillview Intergalactic, San Jose Ca
RI		Receiving And Inspection, "randi"
RI		Rhode Island
RI		Ring Indicator
RIA		Santa Maria, Brazil
RIACS		Research Institute For Advanced Computer Science (at Nasa Ames)
RIAS		Radio In The American Sector, Berlin
RIB		Riberalta, Bolivia
RIC		Repeater Interface Controller (national Seminconductor)
RIC		Richmond, VA, USA
RID		Remote Isolation Device
RIE		Rice Lake, WI, USA
RIF		Reading Is Fundamental
RIF		Reduction In Force
RIF		Richfield, UT, USA
RIFF		Resource Interchange File Format
RIG		Rio Grande, Brazil
RIJ		Rioja, Peru
RIL		Rifle, CO, USA
RILM		Repertoire International De Literature Musicale
RIO		Rio De Janiero-metro Area, Brazil
RIOS		R/6000 RISC Workstation (IBM - Feb 1990)
RIP		Raster Image Processor
RIP		Rest In Peace/requiescat In Pace
RIP		Router Interface Protocol
RIP		Routing Information Protocol
RIP		Routing Information Protocol (RFC 1058)
RIPE		Reseaux Ip Europeenne
RIPL		Remote Initial Program Load
RIPS		Raster Image Processing Systems Corp.
RIPSO		
RIR		Riverside, CA, USA
RISC		Reduced Instruction Set Computer (vis-a-vis CISC)
RISC		Relegate The Important Stuff To The Compiler
RISLU		Remote Integrated Services Line Unit
RIT		Rochester Institute Of Technology
RIT		Route Information Table
RITA		Recognition Of Information Technology Achievement Award
RIV		Riverside-march AFB, CA, USA
RIW		Riverton/lander, WY, USA
RIX		Riga-spilve, USSR
RIY		Riyan, Yemen
RJ11		~ (modular Telephone Plug)
RJE		Remote Job Entry (IBM)
RJK		Rijeka, Yugoslavia
RKD		Rockland, ME, USA
RKE		Roskilde-Copenhagen, Denmark
RKP		Rockport, TX, USA
RKR		Poteau, OK, USA
RKS		Rock Springs, WY, USA
RKT		Ras Al Khaymah, United Arab Emirates
RLA		Rolla, MO, USA
RLAN		Radio Lan (ETSI)
RLC		Resistor Inductor Capacitor
RLC		Run-length Coding
RLCM		Remote Line Concentrating Module
RLD		Richland, WA, USA
RLDS		The Re-organized Church Of Latter-day Saints
RLG		Research Libraries Group
RLIN		Research Libraries Information Network [run By Rlg (q.v.)]
RLL		Run Length Limited
RLL		Run Length Limited Encoding (as In "2,7 RLL")
RLOGIN		Remote Login
RLOGIN		Remote Login, "rlogin"
RLT		Arlit, Niger
RLT		Remote Line Test
RLU		Bornite, AK, USA
RM		Record Marking
RM		Regional Manager
RM		Regional Manager (sales)
RMA		Return Material Authorization
RMA		Roma, Australia
RMAS		Remote Memory Administration System
RMATS		Remote Maintenance Admisistration And Traffic System [telephony]
RMB		Rocky Mountain Basic (hp)
RME		Rome, NY, USA
RMF		Read Me First
RMF		Remote Management Facility
RMG		Rome, GA, USA
RMI		Radio Magnetic Indicator
RMI		Rimini, Italy
RML		Colombo, Sri Lanka
RMON		Remote Monitoring
RMON-MIB		Remote Monitoring Mib
RMP		Rampart, AK, USA
RMR		Remote Message Registers
RMR		Return Material Receipt
RMS		Ramstein, Germany
RMS		Record Management Services (DEC VMS)
RMS		Remote Manipulator System 
RMS		Richard M. Stallman
RMS		Root Mean Square
RMS		Royal Mail Ship
RN		Reference Noise
RN		Registered Nurse
RN		Royal Navy
RNA		Ribonucleic Acid
RNB		Ronneby, Sweden
RND		Randolph AFB, TX, USA
RNE		Roanne, France
RNG		Rangely, CO, USA
RNGC		Revised New General Catalog
RNI		Corn Island, Nicaragua
RNN		Ronne, Denmark
RNO		Reno, NV, USA
RNOC		Regional Network Operations Center
RNR		Receive Not Ready
RNS		Rennes, France
RNT		Renton, WA, USA
RNU		Ranau, Malaysia
RNZAF		Royal New Zealand Air Force
RO		Read/only, "r/o"
RO		Receive Only
RO		Registered Owner
RO		Remote Operation
ROA		Return On Assets
ROA		Roanoke, VA, USA
ROB		Monrovia-roberts, Liberia
ROB		Remote Order Buffer
ROC		Regional Operating Company
ROC		Rochester, NY, USA
ROCE	*	Return On Capital Employed
ROE		Rate Of Exchange
ROE		Return On Equity
ROF,L		Rolling On The Floor, Laughing (e-mail)
ROFF		Run-off
ROG		Receipt Of Goods
ROH		Receiver Off Hook
ROI		Region Of Interest
ROI		Return On Investment
ROK		Rockhampton, Australia
ROM		Range Of Motion (medical)
ROM		Read-only Memory
ROM		Rome Metropolitan Area, Italy
ROM		Rough Order Of Magnitude
ROM		Rupture Of Membrane (as In Birth)
RONA		Return On Net Assets
RONABIT		Return On Asset Before Income Tax
RONABIT		Return On Net Assets Before Interest And Taxes
ROP		Rota, Mariana Islands
ROR		Koror-palau Island, Caroline Islands
ROR		Release On Request
ROS		Rosario, Argentina
ROSAT		Roentgen Satellite
ROSE		Remote Operations Service Element (OSI)
ROT		Rotorua, New Zealand
ROTC		Reserve Officers' Training Corps
ROTH		Rings Off The Hook (gts)
ROTL		Remote Office Test Line
ROTS		Rotary Out Trunks Selectors
ROU		Russe, Bulgaria
ROUS		Rodents Of Unusual Size
ROV		Rostov, USSR
ROW		Rest Of The World
ROW		Roswell, NM, USA
ROYGBIV		Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, "roy G. Biv"
RP		Reporting Party
RP		Rolling Plan
RPC		Remote Procedure Call
RPC		Remote Procedure Call (IEEE 1003.8 Project)
RPG		Report Generator
RPG		Report Program Generator
RPG		Role Playing Game
RPI		Rolling Plan Indices
RPM		Remote Process Management
RPM		Removable Peripheral Module
RPM		Resales Price Maintenance
RPM		Revolutions Per Minute
RPN		Reverse Polish Notation
RPN		Rosh-pina, Israel
RPO		Railway Post Office
RPR		Raipur, India
RPS		Revolutions Per Second
RPS		Rotational Positional Sensing
RPV		Remotely Piloted Vehicle
RPX		Roundup, MT, USA
RQ		Runequest
RQS		Rate/quote System
RQSM		Regional Quality Service Management
RR		Railroad
RR		Rate And Route, "randr"
RR		Receive Ready
RR		Resource Record
RR		Route Relay
RR		Rural Route
RRG		Rodrigues Island, Mauritius
RRIP		Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol (cd-rom)
RRK		Rourkela, India
RRO		Rate And Route Operator [telephony]
RRO		Reports Receiving Office
RRS		Roros, Norway
RS		Recommended Specification
RS		Recommended Standard
RS		Recording Secretary
RS		Revised Status
RS		Right Side
RS		Royal Society
RS-170A		See NTSC
RS-232		Serial Cable Protocol (20 Kbps, 500')
RS-422		Serial Cable Protocol (1 Mile, With Repeaters, Balanced)
RS-422A		Recommended Spec 422a ()
RS-423		Recommended Spec 423 (serial Cable Protocol, Unbalanced)
RS-423A		Recommended Spec 423a ()
RS-449		Recommended Spec 449 (37-pin)
RS/6000		RISC System 6000 (feb 90, Ibm)
RSA		Repair Service Attendant
RSA		Rivest-shamir-adleman
RSA		Santa Rosa, Argentina
RSAS		Redundant Single Attach Station
RSB		Repair Service Bureau
RSC		Remote Switching Center
RSC		Residence Service Center
RSC		Riga-skulte, Latvia
RSCS		Remote Source Control System
RSCS		Remote Spooling And Communication Subsystem
RSD		Regional Sales Director (sales)
RSD		Rock Sound, Bahamas
RSE		Regional Systems Engineer
RSE		Research And Systems Engineering, "randse"
RSFSR		Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
RSH		Remote Shell
RSH		Restricted Shell
RSH		Russian Mission, AK, USA
RSI		Repetitive Strain Injury
RSJ		Rosario, WA, USA
RSL		Runtime Support Library
RSLE		Remote Subscriber Line Equipment
RSLM		Remote Subscriber Line Module
RSM		Remote Switching Module
RSN		Real Soon Now
RSR		Reseller Sales Representative (Sun)
RSS		Remote Switching System
RSS		Resident Set Size
RSS		Roseires, Sudan
RST		Rochester, MN, USA
RSTS		Resource System Time Sharing (DEC Operating System)
RSTSE		Resource System Time Sharing/enhanced, "rsts/e"
RSU		Remote Switching Unit
RSU		Yosu, South Korea
RSV		Revised Standard Edition
RSVP		ReSerVation Protocol
RSVP		Repondez S'il Vous Plait (please Reply)
RSW		Fort Myers, FL, USA
RSWC		Right Side Up With Care
RSX-11M		Pdp-11 Os (DEC)
RT		Radiotelephone
RT		Realtime
RT		RISC Technology (IBM Rt)
RT-11		(DEC Os)
RTA		Remote Trunk Arrangement
RTA		Rota, Spain
RTAC		Regional Technical Assistance Center [telephony]
RTB		Roatan Island, Honduras
RTC		Right To Copy
RTD		Resistance-temperature Detector
RTDM		Real Time Data Migration
RTE		Marguerite Bay, AK, USA
RTE		Remote Terminal Emulation
RTF		Read This First
RTF		Rich Text Format
RTFM		Read The F---ing Manual
RTFP		Read The Fine Print
RTFS		Read The F---ing Screen
RTG		Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
RTL		Raster Transfer Language (hp)
RTL		Register Transfer Level
RTL		Resistor Transistor Logic
RTL		Run-time License
RTLS		Return To Launch Site (shuttle Abort Plan)
RTM		Regional Telecommunications Management
RTM		Remote Test Module
RTM		Rotterdam, Netherlands
RTMP		Routing Table Maintenance Protocol
RTMP		Routing Table Maintenance Protocol 
RTN		Raton, NM, USA
RTOS		Realtime Operating System
RTP	*	Research Triangle Park (Raleigh-Durham, NC)
RTR		Reel-to-reel
RTS		Ready To Send
RTS		Real Time Systems (lll-csrg)
RTS		Reliable Transfer Service
RTS		Remote Testing System
RTS		Request To Send
RTS		Return To Stock
RTS		Rottnest Island, Australia
RTSE		Reliable Transfer Service Element
RTSL		Read The Source Luke
RTT		Round Trip Time
RTTY		Radio Teletype
RTU		Realtime Unix
RTU		Remote Trunking Unit
RTU		Right-to-use (obsolete, See Ocl)
RTV		Room Temperature Vulcanizing
RTZ		Return To Zero
RU		Receive Unit
RUH		Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
RUI		Ruidoso, NM, USA
RUM		Remote User Multiplex
RUN		Reunion Island
RUT		Rutland, VT, USA
RUW		Remote Unit Of Work (IBM Db2)
RUY		Ruinas De Copan, Honduras
RV		Recreational Vehicle
RVA		Farafangana, Madagascar
RVN		Rovaniemi, Finland
RVS		Tulsa-jones, OK, USA
RVY		Rivera, Uruguay
RW		Read/write
RW		Read/write, "r/w"
RW		Right Worshipful
RW		Right Worthy
RWB		Rowan Bay, AK, USA
RWC		Remote Work Center
RWE		Remote Wall Enclosure
RWI		Rocky Mount-wilson, NC,  USA
RWL		Rawlins, WY, USA
RWM		Read/write Memory, "r/wm"
RWP		Rawalpindi, Pakistan
RX		Remote Exchange
RX-NET		Novell's Arcnet Implementation
RXD		Receive Data
RXS		Roxas City, Philippines
RZ		Return To Zero
RZA		Santa Cruz, Argentina
RZE		Rzeszow, Poland
RZR		Ramsar, Iran
RZY		Rezayieh, Iran
RZZ		Roanoke Rapids, NC,  USA

S/MIME	*	Secure Multipart Internet Mail Extensions
S		Second (si Abbrev.), "s"
S		Siemens
S		Sleeve
S		South
S		Sulphur
S		Supplement
S-VHS		Super Vertical Helical Scan (video)
S/34		System/34 (IBM Minicomputer)
S/36		System/36 (IBM Minicomputer)
S/38		System/38 (IBM Minicomputer)
S3PO		Sunfed Third Party Offering
S4		Synchronous Interface Connecting Gx Subsystem To CPU (Sun)
SA		Salvation Army
SA		Seaman Apprentice
SA		Service Assistant
SA		Sex Appeal
SA		Sine Anno (without Date)
SA		South Africa
SA		South America
SA		South Australia
SA		Subject To Approval
SA		System Administrator
SAA		Saratoga, WY, USA
SAA		South Atlantic Anomaly
SAA		Sun Authorized Applications
SAA		Systems Application Architecture (IBM)
SAAB		Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (swedish Aircraft Corporation)
SAB		Saba, Netherlands Antilles
SAB		Standards Activities Board
SABME		Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode Extended
SABRE		Semi-automated Business Research Environment
SAC		Sacramento-executive, CA, USA
SAC		Service Area Code
SAC		Single Attachment Concentrator (fddi)
SAC		Strategic Air Command [us Military]
SACK		Selective Ack
SADD		Students Against Drunk Driving
SAE		Society Of Automotive Engineers
SAE		Strategic Account Executive (Sun)
SAF		Santa Fe, NM, USA
SAF		Service Access Facility (svr4)
SAG		Sagwon, AK, USA
SAG		Street Address Guide
SAGA		Solar Array Gain Augmentation (for Hst)
SAH		Sana, Yemen
SAI		San Marino, San Marino
SAI		Serving Area Interface
SAIC		Science Applications International Corporation
SAKDC		Swiss Army Knife Data Compression
SAL		San Salvador, El Salvador
SALI		Standalone Automatic Location Identification
SALT		Strategic Arms Limitting Talks
SAM		Salamo, Papua New Guinea
SAM		Surface-to-air Missile
SAMA		Step-by-step Automatic Message Accounting [telephony]
SAMPEX		Solar Anomalous And Magnetospheric Particle Explorer
SAMTO		Space And Missile Test Organization
SAN		San Diego, CA, USA
SAO		Sao Paulo, Brazil
SAO		Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
SAP		San Pedro Sula, Honduras
SAP		Second Audio Program
SAP		Service Access Point
SAP		Service Access Point (OSI)
SAP		Service Advertising Protocol
SAP		Service Advertising Protocol (Novell)
SAQ		San Andros, Bahamas
SAR		Sales Allowance Request (Sun)
SAR		Search And Rescue
SAR		Store Address Register
SAR		Synthetic Aperture Radar
SARA		Satellite Pour Astronomie Radio Amateur
SAREX		Search And Rescue Exercise
SAREX		Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment
SARTS		Switched Access Remote Test System
SAS		Silicon Asymmetrical Switch
SAS		Single-attach Station
SAS		Southern All Stars
SAS		Space Activity Suit
SAS		Space Adaptation Syndrome
SAS		Statistical Analysis Software
SASE		Self-addressed Stamped Envelope
SASE		Specific Application Service Element
SASI		Shugart Associates System Interface (predecessor To SCSI)
SAT		San Antonio, TX, USA
SAT		Satellite 
SAT		Scholastic Aptitude Test
SAT		Special Access Termination
SAT		Supervisory Audio Tone
SAT		Synthetic Aperture Telescope
SAU		Sawu, Indonesia
SAV		Savannah, GA, USA
SAW		Marquette-sawyer AFB, MI, USA
SAW		Surface Acoustic Wave
SAY		Salisbury, Rhodesia
SBA		Santa Barbara, CA, USA
SBA		Small Business Administration
SBC		Second Bisynchronous Communications
SBC		Single Board Computer
SBD		San Bernardino-norton AFB, CA, USA
SBH		St. Barthelemy, Guadeloupe
SBK		St. Brieuc, France
SBL		Santa Ana, Bolivia
SBM		Sheboygan, WI, USA
SBMS		Southwestern Bell Mobile Service
SBN		South Bend, IN, USA
SBO		Salina, UT, USA
SBP		San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
SBS		Silicon Bilateral Switch
SBS		Skyline Business Systems
SBS		Steamboat Springs, CO, USA
SBT		San Bernardino-tri City, CA, USA
SBU		Springbok, South Africa
SBU		Strategic Business Unit
SBUS		School Bus, "s-bus"
SBW		Sibu, Malaysia
SBWR		Simplified Boiling Water Reactor
SBY		Salisbury, MD, USA
SBZ		Sibiu, Romania
SC		Scanner Controller
SC		Secondary Channel
SC		Sectional Center
SC		Skull And Crossbones, "sandc"
SC		South Carolina
SC		Southern California (esp. USC)
SC		Spacecraft, "s/c"
SC		Sub-committee
SC18		JTC1 SC #18, Office Systems (oda/odif)
SC21		JTC1 SC #21, OSI Networks, Database
SC22		JTC1 SC #22, Languages/programming Environments
SC24		JTC1 SC #24, Graphics (gks, Phigs)
SCA		Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
SCA		Society For Creative Anachronism
SCA		Sunlink Channel Adapter
SCAD		Subsonic Cruise Armed Decoy
SCADA		Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
SCADC		Standard Central Air Data Computer
SCADR		Software Call And Documentation Reduction (Sun)
SCAI		Switched Computer Application Interface (ansi)
SCAM		SCSI Configured Automagically
SCAME		Screen Oriented Anti-Misery Editor
SCAMP		Single-Chip A-series Mainframe Processor
SCAN		Switched Circuit Automatic Network
SCAQMD		Southern California Air Quality Management District
SCAT		Stromberg-Carlson Assistance Team
SCB		System Control Block
SCC		Prudhoe Bay/Deadhorse, AK, USA
SCC		SCSI Controller Command
SCC		Serial Communication Controller
SCC		Specialized Common Carrier
SCC		Standards Coordinating Committee
SCC		Switching Control Center (or Specialized Common Carriers)
SCCA		Sports Car Club Of America
SCCS		Source Code Control System
SCCS		Specialized Common Carrier Service
SCCS		Switching Control Center System
SCD		SPARC Compliance Definition
SCD		~ (graphics Output Format)
SCE		Signal Conversion Equipment
SCE		Southern California Edison
SCE		State College, PA, USA
SCE		Structure Chart Editor
SCED		SCSI/ethernet/diagnostics (sequent Board)
SCF		Scottsdale, AZ, USA
SCF		Selective Call Forwarding
SCF		~ (x11 Font Format)
SCH		Schenectady, NY, USA
SCI		San Cristobal, Venezuela
SCI		Scalable Coherent Interface (IEEE 1596.4-1992)
SCI		Spacecraft Incorporated
SCIFI		Science Fiction, "sci-fi"
SCJ		Smith Cove, AK, USA
SCK		Stockton, CA, USA
SCL		Santiago-arturo Merino Benitz, Chile
SCM		Scammon Bay, AK, USA
SCM		Software Configuration Management
SCM		Subscriber Carrier Module
SCMS		Serial Copy Management System
SCN		Saarbrucken, Germany
SCO		Santa Cruz Operation
SCO		Serving Central Office
SCODL		Scan Conversion Object Description Language (1982, Agfa Matrix)
SCOOPS		Scheme Object Oriented Programming System
SCOT		Stepper Central Office Tester
SCOTS		Surveilance And Control Of Transmission Systems
SCP		Serial Comunications Processor (Sun)
SCP		Service Control Point
SCP		Signal Control Point
SCP		Signal Conversion Point
SCP		Source Compatibility Package (sunsoft)
SCP		Sunlink Communications Processor
SCP		System Control Program
SCPC		Signal Channel Per Carrier
SCPD		Supplementary Central Pulse Distributor
SCQ		Santiago De Compostela, Spain
SCR		Silicon-controlled Rectifier
SCRAM		Static Column Random Access Memory
SCS		Silicon Controlled Switch
SCSA		Sun Common SCSI Architecture
SCSI		Small Computer System Interface
SCSI		Small Computer System Interface (pronounced Scuzzi)
SCT		Schmidt-cassegrain Telescope
SCTS		Secondary Clear To Send
SCU		Santiago, Cuba
SCU		Selector Control Unit
SCUBA		Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SCUD		Subsonic Cruise Unarmed Decoy
SCV		Suceava, Romania
SCX		Specialized Communications Exchange
SD-ROM		Super Density ROM (4.7 GB capacity)     
SD		SCSI Disk
SD		South Dakota
SD3		Project Authorization Request In X3 To Start Standards Work
SDA		Baghdad-saddam Intl, Iraq
SDA		Send Data With Immediated Ackonwledge
SDA		Source/detector Assemblies
SDB		Safety Deposit Box
SDB		Small Disadvantaged Business
SDCD		Secondary Data Carrier Detect
SDD		Lubango, Angola
SDD		Specific Development And Design, "sdandd"
SDDN		Software-defined Data Network (at&t)
SDE		Santiago Del Estero, Argentina
SDF		Louisville-standiford Field, KY, USA
SDF		Secondary Distribution Frame
SDF		Software Development Framework
SDF		Subdistribution Frame
SDG		Sanandaj, Iran
SDH		Santa Rosa Copan, Honduras
SDH		Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDH		Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (synchronous Multiplexed Network)
SDI		Selective Dissemination Of Information
SDI		Space Defense Initiative
SDI		Standard Disc Interface (DEC)
SDI		Standard Disk Interconnect
SDI		Storage Device Interconnect
SDI		Storage Device Interface
SDI		Strategic Defense Initiative
SDIO		Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
SDIS		Switched Digital Integrated Service
SDJ		Sendai, Japan
SDK		Sandakan, Malaysia
SDK		Software Developer's Kit
SDL		Specification And Description Language (ITUT)
SDL		Sundsvall, Sweden
SDL		System Design Language
SDLC		Synchronous Data Line Control
SDLC		Synchronous Data Link Control [IBM]
SDM		San Diego-brown Field, CA, USA
SDM		Sub-rate Data Multiplexer
SDN		Sandane, Norway
SDN		Software-defined Network
SDNS		Secure Data Network Systems
SDO		Staff Duty Officer
SDO		Standards Development Organization
SDOC		Selective Dynamic Overload Controls
SDP		Sandpoint, AK, USA
SDP		Service Delivery Point
SDQ		Santo Domingo-las Americas, Dominican Republic
SDR		Sales Development Representative (Sun)
SDR		Santander, Spain
SDR		Store Data Register
SDRC		Structural Dynamics Research Corporation
SDS		Switched Data Service
SDS		Synchronous Data Set
SDS-56		Switched Data Services @ 56 Kilobits Per Second
SDSC		San Diego Supercomputer Center
SDSC		Synchronous Data Set Controller
SDSL		Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (see ASDL)
SDSU		San Diego State University
SDT		Saidu Sharif, Pakistan
SDTS		Spatial Data Transfer Standard (gis)
SDU		Rio De Janiero-dumont, Brazil
SDU		Service Data Unit
SDV		Shuttle Derived Vehicle 
SDV		Tel Aviv-sde Dov, Israel
SDX		Sedona, AZ, USA
SDY		Sidney, MT, USA
SE		South East
SE		Systems Engineer
SEA		Seattle, Washington
SEA		Seattle/tacoma, WA, USA
SEA		Society For Electronic Access
SEAL	*	Simple Efficient Adaption Layer
SEAP		Service Element Access Point
SEAS		Signaling Engineering And Administration System
SEATO		Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEB		Sebha, Libya
SEC		Securities And Exchange Commission
SEC		Sponsor Executive Committee (IEEE)
SECAM		Systeme Electronique Couleur Avec Memoire (video)
SECNAV		Secretary Of The Navy
SED		Stream Editor
SEE		San Diego-gillespie, CA, USA
SEE		Shared Environment Extensions (apple)
SEER	*	Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio
SEI		Software Engineering Institute (carnegie Mellon)
SEI		Space Exploration Initiative
SEL		Selector
SEL		Seoul, South Korea
SEL		Software Engineering Laboratory
SELV		Safety Extra Low Voltage
SELV		Safety Extra-low Voltage
SEM		Scanning Electron Microscope
SEM		Selma, AL, USA
SEM		Surface Edge Marker
SEMI		Semiconductor Equipment And Materials International
SEMS	*	Seagate Enterprise Management Software
SEN		Southend-on-sea, England, UK
SER		Satellite Equipment Room
SERC		Science And Engineering Research Council
SERC		Swedish Energy Research Commission
SES		Service Evaluation System
SESRA		Seattle Employee Services Recreation Association
SEST		Swedish-european Submillimeter Telescope
SET		Secure Encrypted Transaction
SET		Software Engineering Technology (Sun)
SETA		Systems Engineering Technical Assistance
SETI		Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence
SEY		Selibaby, Mauritania
SEZ		Mahe Islands, Seychelles
SF		San Francisco
SF		Science Fiction
SF		Single Frequency
SF		Standard Form
SF		Star Frontiers
SF		Superframe Format (t1)
SFA		Sfax, Tunisia
SFB		Sanford-ramey NAS, FL, USA
SFD		San Fernando, Venezuela
SFD		Sun Federal Division
SFDM		Statistical Frequency Division Multiplexing
SFF		Small Form Factor
SFF		Spokane-felts Field, WA, USA
SFG		St. Maarten-esperance, Netherlands Antilles
SFH		San Felipe, Mexico
SFJ		Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland
SFL		Sao Filipe, Cape Verde Islands
SFM		Sanford, ME, USA
SFMC		Satellite Facility Management Center
SFN		Santa Fe, Argentina
SFO		San Francisco, CA, USA
SFP		Standard Format Part (mo)
SFP		Surfers Paradise-ql, Australia
SFQL		Structured Full-text Query Language
SFRPG		Science Fiction Role Playing Game
SFS		System-level File Server (was: Laddis Benchmark)
SFT		Skelleftea, Sweden
SFT		System Fault Tolerance
SFT		System Fault Tolerance (Novell)
SFU		Safia, Papua New Guinea
SG		Signal Ground
SG		Starguard
SG		Subgroup
SG		Supergroup
SGA		Selling General Administration      
SGA		Shared Global Area (oracle)
SGB		Singaua, Papua New Guinea
SGD		Sonderborg, Denmark
SGF		Springfield, MO, USA
SGG		Simanggang, Malaysia
SGH		Springfield, OH, USA
SGI		Silicon Graphics Incorporated
SGL		Manila, Philippines
SGML		Standard Generalized Markup Language
SGML		Structured Generalized Markup Language (iso 8879, Mil-m-28001a)
SGMP		Simple Gateway Monitoring Protocol (superseded By Snmp)
SGN		Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
SGO		St. George, Australia
SGP		Shay Gap-wa, Australia
SGR		Sugar Land, TX, USA
SGU		St. George, UT, USA
SGW		Saginaw Bay, AK, USA
SGX		Songea, Tanzania
SGY		Skagway, AK, USA
SHA		Shanghai, China
SHAC		Single Host-adapter Chip (DEC)
SHAPE		Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
SHAR		Shell Archiver
SHC		Shire Indaselassie, Ethiopia
SHCD		Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
SHD		Staunton, VA, USA
SHE		Shenyang, China
SHF		Super High Frequency (3-30ghz)
SHG		Shungnak, AK, USA
SHH		Shishmaref, AK, USA
SHI		Shimojishima, Japan
SHJ		Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
SHL		Shillong, India
SHM		Nanki Shirahama, Japan
SHN		Shelton, WA, USA
SHO		Sokcho, South Korea
SHR		Sheridan, WY, USA
SHRPG		Super Hero Role Playing Game
SHV		Shreveport, LA, USA
SHW		Sharurah, Saudi Arabia
SHX		Shageluk, AK, USA
SI		Sports Illustrated
SI		Staten Island
SI		Status Indicator
SI		System Integrator
SIA		Semiconductor Industry Association
SIA		Xian, China
SIAM		Society For Industrial And Applied Mathematics
SIB		Strategic Inventory Build
SIC		Second In Command
SIC		Silicon Integrated Circuit
SICK		Single Income, Coupla' Kids
SID		Ilha Do Sal, Cape Verde Islands
SID		Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance
SID		System Identification
SIDAC		Bidirectional Voltage-triggered Switch
SIDF		System Independent Data Format (Novell)
SIDS		Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
SIF		Source Input Format
SIG		San Juan-isla Grande, Puerto Rico
SIG		Special Interest Group
SIGCAT		Special Interest Group For CD-ROM Applications Technology
SIGGRAPH	Special Interest Group In Graphics
SIH		Silgadi Doti, Nepal
SII		Sidi Ifni, Morocco
SII		System Integration Interface
SIK		Sikeston, MO, USA
SIM		Society Of Information Management
SIMD		Single Instruction, Multiple Data
SIMM		Single In-line Memory Module
SIMM		Single Inline Memory Module
SIMM		Standard Inline Memory Module
SIN		Singapore, Singapore
SINE		Sine Is Not Eine
SIO		Smithton-tasmania, Australia
SIP		Simferopol, USSR
SIP		Single In-line Pin
SIP		Single Inline Package (dram)
SIP		Single Inline Pin
SIP-P		(combines Pip And Sip, Proposed In 10/93)
SIPC		Securities Investment Protection Corporation
SIPC		Simply Interactive Personal Computer       
SIPP		Single In-line Pin Package
SIPP		Strategic Industry Partners Program (Sun)
SIPS		Satellite Imagery Processing System
SIR		Shuttle Imaging Radar
SIRTF		Space (formerly Shuttle) Infrared Telescope Facility
SIS		Sishen, South Africa
SIS		Software Information Services
SIS		Strategic Information System
SISAL		Streams And Iteration In A Single-assignment Language
SISCOM		Satellite Information System Company
SISD		Single Instruction, Single-data (von Neumann)
SIT		Sitka, AK, USA
SIT		Special Information Tone
SITA		Societe Internationale Telecommunications Aeronautiques
SIU		Siuna, Nicaragua
SIY		Montague, CA, USA
SIZ		Sissano, Papua New Guinea
SJ		Society Of Jesus
SJC		San Jose, CA, USA
SJC		San Jose, California
SJD		Los Cabos, Mexico
SJF		St. John, Vi, USA
SJI		San Jose, Philippines
SJJ		Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
SJK		Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil
SJN		St Johns, AZ, USA
SJO		San Jose, Costa Rica
SJQ		Sesheke, Zambia
SJS		San Jose, Bolivia
SJT		San Angelo, TX, USA
SJU		San Juan-marin, PR, USA
SJV		San Javier, Bolivia
SKA		Spokane-fairchild AFB, WA, USA
SKB		St. Kitts, British West Indies
SKC		Suki, Papua New Guinea
SKD		Samarkand, USSR
SKE		Skien, Norway
SKF		San Antonio-kelly AFB, TX, USA
SKG		Thessaloniki, Greece
SKIP		Session Key Internet Protocol
SKJ		Sitkinak, AK, USA
SKK		Shaktoolik, AK, USA
SKL		Isle Of Skye, Scotland, UK
SKN		Stokmarknes, Norway
SKO		Sokoto, Nigeria
SKP		Skoplje, Yugoslavia
SKS		Skrydstrup, Denmark
SKU		Skiros, Greece
SKU		Stock Keeping Unit
SKW		Skwentna, AK, USA
SKY		Sandusky, OH, USA
SKZ		Sukkur, Pakistan
SL		Salvage Loss
SL		Space Launch 
SL		Spacelab
SLA		Salta, Argentina
SLA		Special Libraries Association
SLA		Stereo Lithography
SLA		Symbionese Liberation Army
SLA		Synchronous Line Adapter
SLALOM		Scalable Language-independent Ames Laboratory One-minute Measurement
SLAN		Secure Local Area Network
SLAN		Sine Loco, Anno, (vel) Nomine (without Place, Year, Or Name)
SLAPP		Strategic Litigation Against Protesting People
SLAR		Side Looking Airborne Radar
SLBM		Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles
SLC		Salt Lake City, UT, USA
SLC		Salt Lake City, Utah
SLC		Space Launch Complex 
SLC		Subscriber Loop Carrier
SLC		Super Low Cost
SLD		Sliac, Czechoslovakia
SLDC		Synchronous Data Link Control
SLE		Salem, OR, USA
SLE		Screening Line Editor
SLED		Single Large Expensive Disc
SLED		Stable Large E-mail Database
SLFP		Serial Line Framing Protocol
SLH		Sola, Vanuata
SLIC		Subscriber Line Interface Circuit
SLIC		System Link And Interrupt Controller (sequent)
SLIM		Subscriber Line Interface Module
SLIP		Serial Line Internet Protocol
SLIS		Sun Library And Information Services
SLJ		Chandler-stellar, AZ, USA
SLK		Saranac Lake-lake Placid, NY, USA
SLL		Salalah, Oman
SLN		Salina, KS, USA
SLO		Salem, IL, USA
SLP		San Luis Potosi, Mexico
SLP		Super Long Play (vhs Vcr, Aka Ep)
SLQ		Sleetmute, AK, USA
SLS		Silistra, Bulgaria
SLS		Space(lab) Life Sciences
SLT		Salida, CO, USA
SLU		St. Lucia, West Indies
SLUFAE		Surface Launched Unit, Fuel Air Explosive
SLV		Simla, India
SLW		Saltillo, Mexico
SLX		Salt Cay, British West Indies
SLZ		Sao Luiz, Brazil
SM		Service Mark
SM		Switching Module
SMA		Santa Maria, Azores
SMA		Sergeant Major Of The Army
SMA		Spectrum Manufacturers Association
SMAS		Supplementary Main Store
SMAS		Switched Maintenance Access System
SMASF		Smas Frame
SMASPU		Smas Power Unit
SMB		Server Message Block (IBM)
SMB		System Message Block
SMC		Santa Maria,colombia
SMC	*	Shared Memory Clustering
SMC		Small Magellanic Cloud (see LMC)
SMC		Standard Microsystems Corporation
SMCC		Sun Microsystems Computer Company
SMD		Storage Module Device (interface)
SMD		Surface Mount Device
SMD-4		Xylogics 7053 Smd Controller
SMDF		Subscriber Main Distributing Frame
SMDI		Subscriber Message Desk Interface
SMDP		Standardized Military Drawing Program
SMDR		Station Message Detail Recording
SMDR		Storage Management Data Requester
SMDS		Switched Megabit Data Service
SMDS		Switched Multimegabit Data Service (part Of 802.6, Bellcore)
SME		Society Of Manufacturing Engineers
SME		Solar Mesosphere Explorer
SME		Somerset, KY, USA
SME		Synchronous Modem Eliminator
SMEGMA		Sophisticated Modern Editor With Gloriously Magnificent Abilities
SMERSH		Abbr. Of Russian Phrase Meaning "death To The Spies."
SMEX		Small Explorers
SMF		Sacramento, California
SMF		Sacramento-metro, CA, USA
SMF		Standard Message Format (mhs)
SMG		Santa Maria, Peru
SMG		Supermastergroup
SMI		Samos, Greece
SMI		Structure Of Management Information (internet)
SMI		Sun Microsystems Incorporated
SMI		System Management Interrupt
SMILS		Sonobuoy Missile Impact Location System
SMIT		System Management Interface Tool (IBM)
SMK		St. Michael, AK, USA
SML		Stella Maris, Bahamas
SMLI		Sun Microsystems Laboratories Inc
SMM		Solar Maximum Mission
SMN		Salmon, ID, USA
SMO		Santa Monica Airport, CA, USA
SMO		Santa Monica, California
SMOC		Small Matter Of Commitment
SMOH		Since Major Overhaul
SMOP		Small Matter Of Programming
SMP		Symmetric Multiprocessing
SMPTE		Society Of Motion Picture And Television Engineers
SMR		Santa Marta, Colombia
SMR		Service Marketing Representative (sales)
SMR		Specialized Mobile Radio
SMS		Scientific Micro Systems (controllers)
SMS		Service Management System
SMS		St. Marie, Madagascar
SMS		Storage Management Services
SMS		Storage Management System (Novell)
SMS		Systems Management Server
SMSA		Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area
SMT		Station Management (fddi)
SMT		Surface Mount Technology
SMTP		Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SMTP		Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (RFC 821)
SMUX		~ (something To Do W/smtp)
SMV		St. Moritz, Switzerland
SMX		Santa Maria, CA, USA
SMY		Simenti, Senegal
SMZ		Stoelmanseiland, Suriname
SN		Subnetwork Number
SN		Super Nova
SNA		Orange County, CA, USA
SNA		Systems Network Architecture
SNA		Systems Network Architecture (IBM)
SNACP		Subnetwork Access Protocol
SNADS		Sna Distribution Services
SNADS		Systems Network Architecture Distribution Services (IBM E-mail)
SNAFU		Situation Normal - All Fouled Up
SNAP		Shipboard Non-tactical Automated Data Processing Program
SNAP		Sub-network Access Protocol
SNAP		Subnetwork Access Protocol
SNAP		System And Network Administration Program (Sun)
SNB		Snake Bay, Australia
SNBU		Switch Network Backup (IBM)
SNCF		Societe National Des Chemins De Fer (french National Railways)
SNDCF		Subnetwork Convergence Function
SNE		Sao Nicolau, Cape Verde Islands
SNET		Southern New England Telephone
SNF		San Felipe, Venezuela
SNF		Server Neutral Format (x11 Fonts)
SNF		Server Normal Format
SNF		Server-natural Format
SNG		San Ignacio De Velasco, Bolivia
SNI		Simplified Network Interface (usenix)
SNI		Sinoe, Liberia
SNI		Sna Network Interconnection
SNICP		Subnetwork Independent Convergence Protocol
SNL		Saturday Night Live
SNL		Sunnet License
SNLA		Sandia National Laboratories - Albuquerque
SNM		San Ignacio De Moxos, Bolivia
SNM		Sunnet Manager
SNMP		Simple Network Management Protocol
SNMP		Simple Network Management Protocol (RFC 1089,1157,1161)
SNN		Shannon, Ireland
SNOBOL		String-oriented Symbolic Language (1962 Bell Labs)
SNP		St. Paul, AK, USA
SNPA		Subnetwork Point Of Attachment (OSI)
SNPP		Simple Network Paging Protocol (RFC 1568)
SNQ		San Quintin, Mexico
SNR		Signal To Noise Ratio
SNR		St. Nazaire, France
SNR		Supernova Remnant
SNS		Salinas, CA, USA
SNTSC		Super NTSC (video)
SNU		Santa Clara, Cuba
SNU		Solar Neutrino Units
SNV		Santa Elena, Venezuela
SNY		Sidney, NE, USA
SO		Sales Order
SO		Seller's Option
SO		Significant Other
SO		Small Outline
SO		Space Opera
SO		Strike Out
SOAC		Service Order Analysis Control
SOAP		Symbolic Optimizing Assembler Program
SOAR		Smalltalk On A RISC
SOC		Service Oversight Center
SOC		Solo, Indonesia
SOF		Sales Order Form
SOF		Sofia, Bulgaria
SOF		Start Of Frame
SOFIA		Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy
SOG		Sogndal, Norway
SOGA	*	SNA Open Gateway Architecture (Microsoft)
SOH		Service Order History
SOH		Start Of Header, Ascii Control Character (DEC=01,control-a)
SOHIO		Standard Oil Of Ohio 
SOHO		Small Office, Home Office
SOHO		Solar Heliospheric Observatory
SOI		South Molle Island, Australia
SOIC		Small Outline Intergrated Circuit (leads Bent Out)
SOJ		Small Outline J-lead (leads Bent In)
SOK		Semonkong, Lesotho
SOL		Short On Landing
SOL		Solomon, AK, USA
SOL		Somewhat Out Of Luck
SOM		San Tome, Venezuela
SOMM		Stop On Micro-match
SON		Espiritu Santo, Vanuata
SONAR		Service Order Negotiation And Retrieval
SONAR		Sound Detection And Ranging
SONDS		Small Office Network Data System
SONET		Synchronous Optical Network
SONET		Synchronous Optical Network (bellcore)
SONIC		Systems-oriented Nic (national Seminconductor)
SOP		Pinehurst, NC,  USA
SOP		Standard Operating Procedure
SOQ		Sorong, Indonesia
SOR		Sales Order Request
SOS		S--t On A Shingle (chipped Beef On Toast)
SOS		Save Our Souls (international Distress Call, Morse ...---...)
SOS		Silicon On Sapphire
SOSIP		Swedish OSI Profile
SOT		Small Outline Transistor
SOU		Southampton, England, UK
SOV		Seldovia, AK, USA
SOW		Show Low, AZ, USA
SOW		Statement Of Work
SP		Shore Patrol
SP		Short Play (vhs Vcr)
SP		Signal Processor
SP		Signaling Point
SP		Slave Present
SP		Southern Pacific (railroad) 
SP		Stack Pointer
SP		Standard Play (vhs Vcr)
SP		Star Patrol
SP		Step Pulse
SP		System Product (IBM Vm)
SPA		Software Product Assurance (formerly QA)
SPA		Software Publishers Association
SPA		Spartanburg-downtown, SC, USA
SPAG		Standards Promotion And Applications Group (Europe)
SPAM		Somebody's Pathetic Attempt at Meat
SPAM		~ (Sun Graphics)
SPAN		Space Physics Analysis Network
SPAN		System Performance Analyzer
SPANS	*	~ (FORE Systems)
SPAR		Stock Points Adp Replacement
SPARC		Scalable Processor Architecture
SPARC		Standards, Planning, And Requirements Committee
SPARS		Society Of Professional Audio Recording Studios
SPAWAR		Naval Space And Warfare Command
SPB		St. Thomas-spb, Virgin Islands
SPC		Santa Cruz Palma, Canary Islands
SPC		Software Productivity Consortium
SPC		Southern Pacific Communications
SPC		Statistical Process Control
SPC		Stored Program Control
SPCA		Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals
SPCC		Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Children
SPCS		Stored Program Control Systems
SPD		Saidpur, Bangladesh
SPD		Software Products Division (Sun)
SPDL		Standard Page Description Language (iso)
SPDM		Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator
SPE		Sepulot, Malaysia
SPE		Symbolic Programming Environment
SPEC		Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
SPF		Shortest Path First
SPF		Spearfish, SD, USA
SPG		Service Protocol Gateway
SPG		St. Petersburg-whitted, FL, USA
SPH		Sopu, Papua New Guinea
SPI	*	SCSI-3 Parallel Interface
SPI		Serial Peripheral Interface
SPI		Springfield, IL, USA
SPI		Systems Program Interface
SPID		Service Profile Identication Number
SPIFF		Sales Performance Incentive Fund
SPIM		Big Endian Implementation Of The Mips RISC Unit
SPIM		Sun Product Information Meeting
SPITBOL		Speedy Implementation Of Snobol
SPK		Sapporo-metropolitan Area, Japan
SPL		System Programming Language
SPM		Sales Program Manager
SPM		Spangdahlem, Germany
SPN		Saipan, Mariana Islands
SPNI		Society For The Protection Of Nature In Israel
SPOC		Sun Product Order Checker (part Of Salesdesk)
SPODAA		Society To Prevent Overuse, Duplication And Abuse Of Acronyms
SPOT		Systeme Probatoire Pour L'observation De La Terre (satellite)
SPP		Menongue, Angola
SPP		Sequenced Packet Protocol (xerox)
SPQ		San Pedro, CA, USA
SPR		Sales Program Representative (Sun)
SPR		San Pedro, Belize
SPR		Software Problem Report
SPRITE		Os Using Spur
SPS		Solar Power Satellite 
SPS		Standby Power System
SPS		Wichita Falls-sheppard AFB, TX, USA
SPU		Split, Yugoslavia
SPU		System Processing Unit
SPUCDL		Serial Peripheral Unit Controller/data Link, "spuc/dl"
SPUD		Storage Pedestal Upgrade Disk/drive
SPUR		Symbolic Processing Using RISC
SPUR		Systech Pluraxial Unplug Repeater
SPW		Spencer, IA, USA
SPX		Sequenced Packet Exchange
SPX		Sequenced Packet Exchange (xerox)
SPY		San Pedro, Ivory Coast
SPZ		Springdale, AR, USA
SQA		Software Quality Assurance
SQC		Statistical Quality Control
SQE		Signal Quality Error
SQE		Signal Quality Error 
SQE		Signal Quality Error ("heartbeat")
SQI		Sterling/rock Falls, IL, USA
SQL		San Carlos, CA, USA
SQL		Structured Query Language
SQL		Structured Query Language (fips 127-1)
SQLDS		Structured Query Language/data System, "sql/ds"
SQN		Sanana, Indonesia
SQUID		Superconducting Quantum Interference Device
SQV		Port Angeles-sequim Valley, WA, USA
SR		Sales Representative
SR		Street Regal (kdx)
SRA		Selective Routing Arrangement
SRAM		Scratchpad Ram
SRAM		Short Range Attack Missile
SRAM		Static Random Access Memory
SRB		Solid (fuel) Rocket Booster 
SRC		Searcy, AR, USA
SRD		Secondary Receive Data
SRDB		Symptom And Resolution Database (sunservice)
SRE		Sucre, Bolivia
SRF		San Rafael-hamilton, CA, USA
SRG		Semarang, Indonesia
SRH		Sarh, Chad
SRI		Samarinda, Indonesia
SRI		Stanford Research Institute
SRI		Stanford Research Institute (now Called Sri International)
SRJ		San Borja, Bolivia
SRL		Santa Rosalia, Mexico
SRM		Solid Rocket Motor
SRM/UX		Shared Resource Management Unix (hp)
SRMMU		SPARC Reference Memory Management Unit
SRN		Strahan, Australia
SRO		Santana Ramos, Colombia
SRO		Standing Room Only
SRP		Source Routing Protocol, An Ibm Specification
SRPI		Server-requester Programming Interface (IBM)
SRQ		Sarasota/bradenton, FL, USA
SRS		Service Repair System
SRT		Source Routing Transparent (proposed, Ibm 802.5)
SRT	*	Support Readiness Training
SRTS		Secondary Ready To Send
SRV		Stony River, AK, USA
SRZ		Santa Cruz-el Trompillo, Bolivia
SS		Sales Support
SS		SPARC Station
SS		Special Services
SS		Stop Ship
SS1		SPARCstation 1 (Sun)
SS10		SPARCstation 10 (Sun)
SS2		SPARCstation 2 (Sun)
SS7		Signaling System 7
SSA		Salvador, Brazil
SSA		Serial Storage Architecture (IBM)
SSA		Soaring Society Of America
SSA		Social Security Administration [US Government]
SSA-PH	*	Serial Storage Architecture
SSAP		Session Service Access Memory (OSI)
SSAP		Source Service Access Point
SSAS		Station Signaling And Announcement Subsystem
SSB		Single Sideband
SSB		St. Croix-island Spb, Virgin Islands
SSBAM		Single-sideband Amplitude Modulation
SSBLT		Source-synchronous Block Transfer
SSC		Special Services Center
SSC		Specialized Systems Consultants
SSC		Sumter-shaw AFB, SC, USA
SSC		Superconducting Super Collider
SSCP		Subsystem Services Control Point
SSCP		System Service Control Point (IBM Sna) 
SSCP		System Services Control Point
SSDD		Single Sided, Double Density
SSDU		Session Service Data Unit
SSE		Software Support Engineer (Sun)
SSE		South-southeast
SSEL		Session Service Selector (OSI)
SSF		Space Station Fred (er, Freedom)
SSFF		Showcase Software Factory Of The Future
SSG		Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
SSG		Staff Sergeant
SSH		Sharm El Sheik, Arab Republic Of Egypt
SSI		Brunswick-mckinnon, GA, USA
SSI		Small Scale Integration
SSI		Solid-state Imager (on Galileo)
SSI		Space Services Incorporated 
SSI		Space Studies Institute
SSI		Sun Service Incorporated
SSI		Supplemental Security Income
SSI		System Software Interface (Japanese ISO Initiative)
SSJ		Sandnessjoen, Norway
SSM		Sault Saint Marie, MI, USA
SSME		Space Shuttle Main Engine
SSO		Satellite Switching Office
SSP		Signal Switching Point
SSP		Sponsor Selective Pricing
SSP		System Status Panel
SSP		System Support Program (IBM)
SSPC		Ssp Controller
SSPF		Space Station Processing Facility
SSPRU		Ssp Relay Unit
SSPS		Satellite Solar Power Station 
SSR		Secondary Surveillance Radar
SSR		Solid State Relay
SSR		Soviet Socialist Republic
SSRMS		Space Station Remote Manipulator System
SSS		Siassi, Papua New Guinea
SSS		System Support Specialist
SSSD		Single Sided, Single Density
SST		Single Station Throughput
SST		Spectroscopic Survey Telescope
SST		Spread-spectrum Technology
SST		Supersonic Transport
SSTC		Service Support Training Consulting        
SSTO		Single Stage To Orbit 
SSTTSS		Space-space-time-time-space-space Network
SSTV		Slow Scan Television
SSW		South-southwest
SSW		Stuart Island, WA, USA
SSX		Samsun, Turkey
SSY		M'banza Congo, Angola
ST		Seagate Technologies
ST		Short Ton
ST		Start
ST412		See St506
ST506		Seagate Technology Hard Disc Interface Specification
STA     *       SCSI Trade Association
STA		Stauning, Denmark
STAGE		Structured Text And Graphics Editor
STAMIS		~
STARS		Software Technology For Adaptable, Reliable Systems
STATTDM		Statistical Tdm 
STB		Santa Barbara-zulia, Venezuela
STB		Software Technical Bulletin
STB		SPARC Technology Business (now archaic: Sun Microelectronics)
STC		Serving Test Center
STC		St Cloud, MN, USA
STC		Supplemental Type Certificate
STC		Switching Technical Center
STD		Sacrae Theologiae Doctor (doctor Of Sacred Theology)
STD		Santo Domingo, Venezuela
STD		Secondary Transmit Data
STD		Sexually Transmitted Disease (replaces Vd)
STD		State Transition Diagram
STD		Subscriber Trunk Dialing [british, And Elsewhere; Equiv. Ddd In USA]
STD		~ (mostek Bus)
STDM		Statistical Time Division Multiplexing
STE		Sales Tactical Engineering (Sun)
STE		Stevens Point, WI, USA
STE		Sun Technology Enterprises
STEP		Standard For The Exchange Of Product Model Data
STG		St. George Island, AK, USA
STI		Santiago, Dominican Republic
STI		Standard Tape Interface
STILO		Scientific And Technical Intelligence Liaison Office
STIS		Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer (to Replace Foc And Ghrs)
STJ		St Joseph, MO, USA
STK		Sterling, CO, USA
STL		Schottky Transistor Logic
STL		St. Louis, MO, USA
STM		Santarem, Brazil
STN		London-stansted, England, UK
STN		Supertwisted Nematic
STO		Stockholm-metropolitan Area, Sweden
STOH		Since Top Overhaul (cylinders, Etc., But Not Crankshaft, Etc.)
STOL		Short Takeoff And Landing
STP		Saint Paul-downtown, MN, USA
STP		Sheilded Twisted Pair
STP		Shielded Twisted Pair
STP		Signal Transfer Point
STP		Software Through Pictures
STP		Spanning Tree Protocol, An Ieee 802.1 Routing Specification
STP		Standard Temperature And Pressure (see Ntp)
STQ		St Marys, PA, USA
STR		Stuttgart, Germany
STRPG		Star Trek: The Role-playing Game
STS		Sales Technical Support
STS		Santa Rosa-sonoma County, CA, USA
STS		Shared Tenant Service
STS		Shuttle Transport System (or) Space Transportation System
STS		Space-time-space Network
STS-1		Synchronous Transport Signal - Level 1 (sonet)
STSCI		Space Telescope Science Institute, "stsci"
STSI		Space Telescope Science Institute
STT		St. Thomas, Vi, USA
STTNG		Star Trek: The Next Generation, "st:tng"
STTOS		Star Trek: The Old Stuff/the Original Series, "st:tos"
STV		Single Transferable Vote
STV		Space Transfer Vehicle 
STW		Stavropol, USSR
STX		St, Croix, Vi, USA
STY		Salto, Uruguay
STZ		Santa Terezinha, Brazil
SU		Set Uid
SU-24		Sukhoi-built Jet Fighter, Aka Fencer
SU-25		Sukhoi-built Jet Fighter, Aka Frogfoot
SU-7		Sukhoi-built Jet Fighter
SUA		Stuart, FL, USA
SUB		Surabaya, Indonesia
SUC		Sundance, WY, USA
SUCCESS		Sun Corporate Catalyst Electronic Support Service (obsolete)
SUE		Sturgeon Bay, WI, USA
SUF		Lamezia-terme, Italy
SUG		Sun User Group
SUG		Surigao, Philippines
SUI		Sukhumi, USSR
SUID		Set User Identity
SUJ		Satu Mare, Romania
SUL		Sui, Pakistan
SUM		Sumter, SC, USA
SUM		Symantec Utilities For Macintosh
SUN		Stanford University Network
SUN		Sun Valley/hailey/ketchum, ID, USA
SUNDIAG		Sun System Diagnostics Software
SUNET		Swedish University Network
SUNOCO		Sun Oil Company 
SUNSITE		Sun Software, Information, And Technology Exhange
SUNVIEW		See Sunview
SUNVIEW		Sun Visual/integrated Environment For Workstations
SUNY		State University Of New York
SUO		Sun River, OR, USA
SURANET		Southeastern Universities Research Association Network
SURF		Sequent Users Resource Forum
SUS		Silicon Unilateral Switch
SUS		Spirit Of St Louis, MO, USA
SUSP		System Use Sharing Protocol
SUSP		System Use Sharing Protocol (cd-rom)
SUT		Sumbawanga, Tanzania
SUU		Fairfield-travis AFB, CA, USA
SUV		Suva, Fiji Islands
SUX		Sioux City, IA, USA
SVA		Savoonga, AK, USA
SVB		Sambava, Madagascar
SVC		Silver City/Hurley, NM, USA
SVC		Switched Virtual Circuit
SVD		St. Vincent, British West Indies
SVG		Stavanger, Norway
SVID		System V Interface Definition
SVJ		Svolvaer, Norway
SVL		Savonlinna, Finland
SVN		Savannah-Hunter AAF, GA, USA
SVO		Moscow-Sheremetyevo, USSR
SVP		Kuito, Angola
SVP		Schematic Verification Program
SVQ		Seville, Spain
SVR4		Unix System V, Revision 4 (at&t)
SVS		Stevens Village, AK, USA
SVS		Switched Voice Service
SVU		Savusavu, Fiji Islands
SVVS		System V Verification Suite
SVW		Sparrevohn, AK, USA
SVZ		San Antonio, Venezuela
SW		South West
SW		Superworld
SWA		Shantou, China
SWAG		Stupid, Wild-ass Guess (us Navy?)
SWAN		Sun (microsystems Inc) Wide Area Network
SWAS		Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
SWAT	*	Seagate Enterprise Management Software
SWB		Shaw River, Australia
SWB		Southwestern Bell
SWD		Seward, AK, USA
SWF		Newburgh, NY, USA
SWF		Shortwave Fading
SWF-DS1		Switched Fractional Ds1
SWI		Sherman, TX, USA
SWIFT		Society For Worldwide Interbank Financial Transfers
SWM		Solbourne Window Manager
SWO		Sales Work Order
SWO		Stillwater, OK, USA
SWQ		Sumbawa, Indonesia
SWRL		~
SWS		Scientific Workstation Support (at Ornl)
SWS		Structured Wiring System
SX		Simplex Signaling
SX		Sun Express
SXB		Strasbourg, France
SXE		Sale, Australia
SXF		Berlin-schoenfeld, Germany
SXG		Senanga, Zambia
SXM		St. Maarten-juliana, Netherlands Antilles
SXP		Sheldon Point, AK, USA
SXQ		Soldotna, AK, USA
SXR		Srinagar, India
SXS		Step By (x) Step Switching [telephony]
SXU		Soddu, Ethiopia
SXY		Sidney, NY, USA
SYA		Shemya, AK, USA
SYB		Seal Bay, AK, USA
SYC		System Control
SYD		Sydney, Australia
SYMPL		Systems Programming Language
SYN		Synchronizing Segment
SYR		Syracuse, NY, USA
SYSGEN		System Generation
SYSOP		System Operator
SYT		Saint-yan, France
SYTOS		Sytron Tape Operating System
SYY		Stornoway, Scotland, UK
SYZ		Shiraz, Iran
SZA		Soyo, Angola
SZC		Santa Cruz, Costa Rica
SZG		Salzburg, Austria
SZK		Skukuza, Republic South Afric
SZL		Warrensburg, MO, USA
SZP		Santa Paula, CA, USA
SZZ		Szczecin, Poland

T		Tera (si Prefix)
T		Tesla
T		Tip
T		Ton(s), "t."
T		Tonne(s), "t."
T		Traveler
T		Tritium
T		Tun(s), "t."
T-72		Soviet Tank
T1		1.544 Mb/second Digital Transmission Method
T1FE		T1 Carrier Front End
T1OS		T1 Carrier Outstate, "t1/os"
T3		44.736 Mbps (eq 28 T1 Channels) [telephony]
TB		Terabyte
TA		Teaching Assistant
TA		Terminal Adaptor
TA		Territorial Army
TA		Test Assertions (POSIX)
TA		Transfer Allowed
TA		Travel Authorization
TAAC-1		Transcept Application Accelerator: 2 Board Vme Set (Sun)
TAB		Tape Assembly Bonding
TAB		Technical Assistance Board
TAB		Tobago, Trinidad And Tobago
TAC		Tacloban, Philippines
TAC		Tactical Air Command (see Sac)
TAC		Terminal Access Circuit
TAC		Terminal Access Controller [arpanet/milnet/ddn]
TACCS		Tactical Army Combat Service Support Computer System
TAD		Trinidad, CO, USA
TAE		Taegu, South Korea
TAE		Transportable Applications Environment
TAF		Oran-tafaraoui Airport, Algeria
TAG		Tagbilaran, Philippines
TAG		Technical Advisory Group (iso)
TAH		Tanna Island, Vanuata
TAI		Taiz, Yemen
TAK		Takamatsu, Japan
TAL		Tanana, AK, USA
TAL		Transatlantic Abort Landing (shuttle Abort Plan)
TAM		Tampico, Mexico
TAM		Total Available Market
TANSTAAFL	There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TAO		Qingdao, China
TAP		Tapachula, Mexico
TAP		Telephone Assistance Plan
TAPI		Telecommunications Application Programming Interface
TAR		Tape Archive
TAR		Tape Archiver
TAS		Tashkent, USSR
TAS		Telephone Answering Service
TASC		Technical Assistance Service Center
TASC		Telecommunications Alarm Surveillance And Control System
TASI		Time Assignment Speech Interpolation System
TAT		Tatry/poprad, Czechoslovakia
TAT		Trans-atlantic Telecommunications
TAT		Transatlantic Telephone
TAT		Turn Arround Time
TAU		Tauramena, Colombia
TAU		Thousand Astronomical Units 
TAV		Tau, American Samoa
TAXI		Transparent Asynchronous transmitter/receiver Interface
TB		Terabit
TB		Terabyte (10 E+12 Bytes)
TB		Tuberculosis
TBA		To Be Announced/arranged
TBB		Tuy Hoa, Vietnam
TBC		Time Base Corrector (video)
TBD		To Be Designed
TBD		To Be Determined
TBD		To De Decided
TBF		Tabiteuea, Kiribati
TBH		To Be Hired
TBI		The Bight, Bahamas
TBN		Fort Leonard Wood, MO, USA
TBO		Tabora, Tanzania
TBO		Time Between Overhaul
TBP		Tumbes, Peru
TBR		Statesboro, GA, USA
TBS		Tbilisi, USSR
TBS		To Be Specified
TBT		Tabatinga, Brazil
TBT		Technology-based Training
TBU		Tonga Tapu, Tonga
TBZ		Tabriz, Iran
TC		Teachers College
TC		Technical Committee (iso)
TC		Temperature Coefficient
TC		Timing Counter
TC		Tinned Copper
TC		Toll Center
TC		Total Color
TC		True Color (Sun)
TCA		Telecommunications Association
TCA		Tennant Creek, Australia
TCA		Terminal Control Area
TCA		Terminal Controlled Airspace
TCAP		Transaction Capabilities Applications Part (ss7 Subset)
TCAS		T-carrier Administration System
TCB		Task Control Block
TCB		Treasure Cay, Bahamas
TCB		Trusted Computer Base
TCBY		The Country's Best Yogurt 
TCC		Trunk Class Code
TCC		Tucumcari, NM, USA
TCCC		Technical Committee On Computer Communications
TCDA		Terminal Case Of Dumb Arse
TCE		Thermal Coefficient Of Expansion
TCE		Tulcea, Romania
TCF		Tocoa, Honduras
TCF		Transparent Computing Facility
TCG		Test Call Generation
TCH		Tchibanga, Gabon
TCI		Tenerife-metro Area, Canary Islands
TCL		Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
TCL		Tool Command Language
TCM		Tacoma-mcchord AFB, WA, USA
TCM		Time Compression Multiplexer
TCM		Trellis-coded Modulation
TCN		Tehuacan, Mexico
TCO		Tumaco, Colombia
TCOS		Technical Committee On Operating Systems (IEEE)
TCP		Tape Carrier Package        
TCP		Transmission Control Protocol (RFC 793)
TCP/IP		See TCP and IP
TCPIP		Transmission Control Protocol/internet Protocol, "tcp/ip"
TCQ		Tacna, Peru
TCR		Transient Call Record
TCS		Thermal Control System
TCS		Traction Control System (to Prevent Wheel-spin)
TCS		Truth Or Consequences, NM, USA
TCSEC		Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (orange Book)
TCT		Takotna, AK, USA
TCT		To Challenge Tomorrow
TCT		Toll Connecting Trunk
TD		Touchdown
TD		Transmit Data
TD		Treasury Department
TDA		Trinidad, Colombia
TDAS		Traffic Data Administration System
TDC		Tape Data Controller
TDC		Terrestrial Data Circuit
TDCC		Transportation Data Coordinating Committee
TDD		Telecommunications Device For Deaf
TDD		Telecommunications Device For The Deaf
TDD		Telephone Device For The Deaf
TDD		Trinidad, Bolivia
TDE		Transition Diagram Editor
TDI		Technical Data Interchange
TDI		Technology-delivered Instruction
TDI		Transport Driver Interface
TDI		Trusted Database Interpretation
TDL		Test Description Language
TDM		Time Division Multiplexing
TDM		Time-division Multiplexer
TDMA		Time-division Multiple-access
TDO		Table Of Denial Orders
TDP		~ (8-bit Wireless Protocol)
TDR		Time Domain Reflectometer
TDRS		Tracking And Data Relay Satellite 
TDRSS		Tracking And Data Relay Satellite System
TDY		Temporary Duty
TE		Terminal Equipment
TE		Terminator Enable
TE		Transverse Electric
TE100		Vt100 Emulation On Sunview
TEA		Tela, Honduras
TEB		Teterboro, New Jersey
TEB		Teterboro, NJ, USA
TEC		(on-chip Transformation)
TEC		Technology Exchange Company
TECHS		Technical Encyclopedia Of Computer Hardware And Software
TECO		Tape Editor And Corrector (DEC Pdp)
TED		Thisted, Denmark
TEFLON		Polytetrafluorethylene
TEH		Tetlin, AK, USA
TEHO		Tail End Hop Off
TEK		Tatitlek, AK, USA
TELEX		Teletypewriter Exchange
TELSAM		Telephone Service Attitude Measurement
TEMA		Tubilar Exchanger Manufacturers Association
TEMPEST		Transient Electro-magnetic Pulse Emanation Standard
TEMPO		Technical Military Programming Organization
TEP		Teptep, Papua New Guinea
TER		Technical Education Resources
TER		Terceira, Azores
TERM		Terminal
TES		Thermal Emission Spectrometer (on Mars Observer)
TET		Tete, Mozambique
TEU		Te Anau, New Zealand
TEX		Telluride, CO, USA
TEZ		Tezpur, India
TFC		Total Full Color
TFE		Tertrafluoride Ethylene Propylene
TFF		Tefe, Brazil
TFI		Tufi, Papua New Guinea
TFLAP		T-carrier Fault-locating Applications Program
TFLOP		Trillions Of Floating Point Operations Per Second
TFN		Tenerife-los Rodeos, Canary Islands
TFP		Tops Filing Protocol
TFR		Top, Front, Right (view)
TFS		Tenerife-sur Reina Sofia, Canary Islands
TFS		Translucent File System (Sun)
TFS		Transparent File Service (IEEE 1003.8 Project)
TFS		Trunk Forecasting System
TFT		The Fantasy Trip
TFT		Thin Film Transistor
TFTP		Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TFTP		Trivial File Transfer Without Passwords
TFTPD		Trivial File Transfer Protocol Daemon
TG		Thieves' Guild
TGA		Targa File Format
TGC		Terminal Group Controller
TGD		Titograd, Yugoslavia
TGE		Tuskegee, AL, USA
TGG		Kuala Trengganu, Malaysia
TGH		Tongoa, Vanuata
TGI		Tingo Maria, Peru
TGN		Trunk Group Number
TGR		Touggourt, Algeria
TGT		Tanga, Tanzania
TGU		Tegucigalpa, Honduras
TGV		Two Guys And A Vax
TGZ		Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico
TH		Trouble History
THC		Tetra-hydro Cannabinal (sp?)
THE		Teresina, Brazil
THF		Berlin-tempelhof, Germany
THG		Thangool, Australia
THIEF		Thief/this Here Isn't Even Fine
THN		Trollhattan, Sweden
THOR		Tandy High-intensity Optical Recording
THOR		Thermal Optical Recording
THR		Teheran, Iran
THRUSH		Technological Hierarchy For The Removal Of Undesireables And Subjugation Of Humanity
THT		Token Holding Timer (fddi)
THU		Thule, Greenland
THX		Tom Holman Xover
THX		Tomlinson-holman Experiment
THZ		Tahoua, Niger
TI		Texas Instruments
TI		Transport Independent
TIA		Telecommunications Industry Association
TIA		Telephone Information Access
TIA		Thanks In Advance (e-mail)
TIA		Tirana, Albania
TIA		Transient Ischemic Attack
TIB		Teknekron Information Bus
TIC		Terminfo Compiler
TIC		Turiacu, Brazil
TID		Ter In Die (three Times A Day)
TIE		Tippi, Ethiopia
TIF		Taif, Saudi Arabia
TIFF		Tag Image File Format
TIFF		Tag Information File Format (microsoft/aldus)
TIFF		Tagged Image File Format
TIGA		Texas Instruments Graphic Architecture 
TIGER		Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding And Referencing
TIJ		Tijuana, Mexico
TIK		Oklahoma City-tinker AFB, OK, USA
TIM		Tembagapura, Indonesia
TIMS		Traditional Interactive Multi-user System (pep)
TINA		This Is Not An Acronym
TINA		Tina Is Not An Acronym
TIP		Team Improvement Program
TIP		Teaming Incentive Program (sun Naafo)
TIP		Tripoli, Libya
TIQ		Tinian, Mariana Islands
TIR		Tirupati, India
TIRKS		Trunk Integrated Record Keeping System
TIROS		Television Infrared Observation Satellite
TIRPC		Transport-independent Rpc
TIS		Thursday Island, Australia
TIU		Timaru, New Zealand
TIV		Tivat, Yugoslavia
TIW		Tacoma, WA, USA
TIX		Titusville, FL, USA
TIY		Tidjikja, Mauritania
TIZ		Tari, Papua New Guinea
TJA		Tarija, Bolivia
TJI		Trujillo, Honduras
TKA		Talkeetna, AK, USA
TKD		Takoradi, Ghana
TKE		Tenakee, AK, USA
TKF		Truckee, CA, USA
TKG		Bandar Lampung, Indonesia
TKH		Takhli, Thailand
TKI		Tokeen, AK, USA
TKJ		Tok, AK, USA
TKK		Truk, Caroline Islands
TKM		Tikal, Guatemala
TKO		Technical Knock Out
TKQ		Kigoma, Tanzania
TKS		Tokushima, Japan
TKT		Tak, Thailand
TKU		Turku, Finland
TL		Total Loss
TLA		Teller, AK, USA
TLA		Three Letter Acronym
TLAP		Tokentalk Link Access Protocol
TLB		Translation Lookaside Buffer
TLC		Tender, Loving Care
TLC		Toluca, Mexico
TLE		Tulear, Madagascar
TLH		Tallahassee, FL, USA
TLI		Tolitoli, Indonesia
TLI		Transport Layer Interface (at&t Stream-based Protocol)
TLI		Transport Level Interface
TLJ		Tatalina, AK, USA
TLL		Tallin, Estonia
TLL		Transfer-transistor Logic
TLM		Tilimsen, Algeria
TLM		Trouble Locating Manual
TLN		Toulon/hyeres, France
TLN		Trunk Line Network
TLP		Transmission Level Point
TLS		Toulouse, France
TLT		Tuluksak, AK, USA
TLTP		Trunk Line And Test Panel
TLV		Tel Aviv-ben Gurion, Israel
TLV		Type, Length, Value
TM		Trademark
TM		Transaction Manager
TM		Transverse Magnetic
TMA		Tycho Magnetic Anomaly [movie 2001]
TMAC		Treasury Department's Multiuser Acquisition Contract
TMB		Miami-tamiami Airport, FL, USA
TMC		Thinking Machines Corporation
TMD		Timbedra, Mauritania
TMDF		Trunk Main Distributing Frame
TMI		Tumlingtar, Nepal
TMIS		Telecommunications Management Information System
TML		Tamale, Ghana
TMM		Tamatave, Madagascar
TMMS		Telephone Message Management System
TMN		Telecommunication Management Network
TMO		Telephone Money Order
TMP		Tampere, Finland
TMP		The Morrow Project
TMR		Tamanrasset, Algeria
TMR		Transient Memory Record
TMRC		Tech Model Railroad Club [mit]
TMRC		Transportation Modeling Research Center (tmrc {above} Alter Ego)
TMRS		Traffic Measurement And Recording System
TMRS		Traffic Metering Remote System
TMS		Sao Tome Island, Sao Tome Island
TMS		Tafel Matching System
TMS		Time-multiplexed Switch
TMSC		Tape Mass Storage Control (DEC)
TMW		Tamworth, Australia
TN		Telephone Number
TN		Tennessee
TN		Transaction Number
TN		Twisted Nematic
TN3270		3270 Over Tcp/ip
TNA		Jinan, China
TNC		Threaded Navy Connector
TNC		Threaded Neill Concelman (connector) [electronics]
TNC		Tin City, AK, USA
TNDS		Total Network Data System
TNE		Tanegashima, Japan
TNG		Tangier, Morocco
TNJ		Tandjungpinang, Indonesia
TNK		Tununak, AK, USA
TNN		Tainan, Taiwan
TNN		Trunk Network Number
TNOP		Total Network Operation Plan
TNP		Twentynine Palms, CA, USA
TNPC		Traffic Network Planning Center
TNR		Antananarivo, Madagascar
TNT		Miami-dade Collier Arpt, FL, USA
TNT		The News Toolkit (Sun)
TNT		Trinitrotoluene
TO		Telegraph Office
TO		Thousand Oaks, California
TO		Turn Over
TOA		Torrance, CA, USA
TOB		Tobruk, Libya
TOC		Table Of Contents
TOD		Time-of-day
TOD		Tioman, Malaysia
TODS		Transactions On Database Systems (acm)
TOE		Tozeur, Tunisia
TOG		Togiak, AK, USA
TOI		Transfer Of Information
TOJ		Torrejon AFB, Spain
TOL		Toledo, OH, USA
TOM		Tombouctou, Mali
TOMS		Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TOMS		Transactions On Mathematical Software (acm)
TOOIS		Transactions On Office Information Systems (acm)
TOP		Technical Office Protocol
TOP		Topeka, KS, USA
TOPICS		Total On-line Program And Information Control System (nhk)
TOPLAS		Transactions On Programming Languages And Systems (acm)
TOPS		Technical Office Protocol Standard (mr)
TOPS		Timesharing Operating System
TOPS		Traffic Operator Position System
TOPS		Transcendental Operating System
TOPS-10		Timesharing Operating System 10 (DEC System 10)
TOQ		Tocopilla, Chile
TORES		Text Oriented Editing System
TOS		Transfer Orbit Stage 
TOS		Tromso, Norway
TOS		Type-of-service (routing)
TOU		Touho, New Caledonia
TOV		Tortola-west End Spb, British Virgin Islands
TOW		Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided Missile
TOY		Time Of Year (clock)
TOY		Toyama, Japan
TP		From Tp0 And Tp4 (iso/itut Transport Services; Like Tcp)
TP		Terminal Power
TP		Test Plan
TP		Third Party
TP		Toll Point
TP		Transaction Processing
TP		Transport Protocol
TP		Twisted Pair
TP-PMD		Twisted Pair - Physical Layer, Medium Dependent
TP0		OSI Transport Protocol Class 0 (simple Class)
TP1		Transaction Processing Benchmark
TP4		OSI Transport Protocol Class 4 (error Detection And Recovery Class)
TP4/IP		Transport Protocol Class 4/ip
TPA		Tampa, FL, USA
TPC		The Phone Company [movie The President's Analyst)
TPC		Transaction Processing Council
TPC/A		Tpc's Oltp Test (terminals)
TPC/B		Tpc's Dbms Test (client/server)
TPC/C		Tpc's Order Entry Test (multiuser W/terminals)
TPDDI		Twisted Pair Distributed Data Interface
TPE		Taipei-chiang Kai Shek, Taiwan
TPE		Twisted Pair Ethernet
TPF		Tampa-peter O Knight, FL, USA
TPH		Tonopah, NV, USA
TPI		Tapini, Papua New Guinea
TPI		Tracks Per Inch
TPI		Transaction Processing Interface
TPI		Transport Provider Interface
TPIX		(64-bit Internet Protocol, Proposed In 10/93)
TPL		Temple, TX, USA
TPM		Third-party Maintainer
TPMP		Total Network Data System Performance Measurement Plan
TPN		Transport Protocol N (tp0, Tp4, Etc)
TPO		Tanalian Point, AK, USA
TPO		Traveling Post Office
TPP		Tarapoto, Peru
TPQ		Tepic, Mexico
TPS		Technical Publication Software
TPS		Technical Publishing Software (interleaf)
TPS		Teleprocessing Services
TPS		Thermal Protection System
TPS		Trapani/marsala, Italy
TPT		Twisted Pair Transceiver
TPTB		The Powers That Be
TQ		Tagged Queuing
TQC		Total Quality Control
TQM		Total Quality Management
TR		Test Register
TR		Token Ring
TR		Transfer Register
TRAC		Total Risk Analysis Calculation (suntrac)
TRB		Turbo, Colombia
TRC		Torreon, Mexico
TRD		Trondheim, Norway
TRE		Tiree Island, Scotland, UK
TREAT		Trouble Report Evaluation Analysis Tool
TRF		Sandefjord, Norway
TRG		Tauranga, New Zealand
TRH		Trona, CA, USA
TRI		Bristol-tri City, TN, USA
TRIAC		Bidirectional Alternating Current Switch
TRIB		Transfer Rate Of Information Bits
TRIP		Transcontinental ISDN Project
TRK		Tarakan, Indonesia
TRM		Thermal, CA, USA
TRMTR		Tramsmitter
TRN		Tr Network
TRN		Turin, Italy
TRO		Taree, Australia
TROFF		Text Runoff, Text Formatter
TROFF		Typsetter New Roff
TRON		The Real-time Operating Nucleus (univ Of Tokyo)
TRPC		Transactional Remote Procedure Call (transarc)
TRPT		Transliterate Protocol Trace
TRR		Tip-ring Reverse
TRR		Token Ring Repeater
TRR		Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
TRS		Trieste, Italy
TRS-80		Tandy-radio Shack Model 80
TRSA		Terminal Radar Service Area
TRU		Trujillo, Peru
TRUSIX		Trusted Unix
TRV		Trivandrum, India
TRW		Tarawa, Kiribati
TRW		Thompson, Ramo, And Woolridge
TRY		Treviso, Italy
TRZ		Trichinopoly, India
TS		Top Secret
TSA		Taipei-sung Shan, Taiwan
TSA		Target Service Agent
TSAP		Transport Service Access Point (OSI)
TSAPI		Telephony Services Application Programming Interface (Novell)
TSCPF		Time Switch And Call Processor Frame
TSD		Total System Design
TSDU		Transport Service Data Unit
TSE		Technical Support Engineer (Sun)
TSEL		Transport Service Selector (OSI)
TSG		Tanacross, AK, USA
TSH		Tshikapa, Zaire
TSI		Time Slot Interchanger
TSJ		Tsushima, Japan
TSJD		Texas-size Jelly Doughnut
TSM		Taos, NM, USA
TSM		Technical Support Manager
TSN		Tianjin, China
TSO		Technical Standard Order
TSO		Time Sharing Option (IBM)
TSO/E		Time Sharing Option/extended (IBM)
TSOP		Thin Small Outline Packaging (dram)
TSORT		Transmission System Optimum Relief Tool
TSP		Tehachapi, CA, USA
TSP		Teleprocessing Services Program
TSP		Test Supervisor
TSP		Thrift Savings Plan
TSP		Time Synchronization Protocol
TSP		Traffic Service Position
TSP		Trisodium Phosphate
TSPS		Traffic Service Position System
TSR		Terminate And Stay Resident
TSR		Test Summary Report
TSR		Timisoara, Romania
TSR		Tsr (fortune 500 Company That Manufactures Dungeons And Dragons)
TSS		New York-east 34th Street, NY, USA
TSS		Telecommunications Standardisation Sector (isu)
TSS		Tethered Satellite System 
TSS		Time-sharing System
TSS		Trunk Servicing System
TSST		Time-space-space-time Network
TST		Time-space-time Network
TST		Traveling-wave Tube
TSTO		Two Stage To Orbit 
TSTS		Time-space-time-space Network
TSTS		Transaction Switching And Transport Service (bellcore)
TSV		Townsville, Australia
TT		Trunk Type
TT		Tunnels And Trolls, "tandt"
TTC		Telecommunications Technology Council
TTC		Terminating Toll Center
TTD		Things To Do
TTD		Troutdale, OR, USA
TTF		Truetype Font
TTFN		Tah Tah For Now
TTG		Tartagal, Argentina
TTH		Thumrait, Oman
TTJ		Tottori, Japan
TTL		Tax, Title And License
TTL		Time To Live
TTL		Transistor To Transistor Logic
TTL		Transistor-transistor Logic
TTL		Turtle Island, Fiji Islands
TTMA		Tennessee Tech Microcomputer Association
TTN		Trenton, NJ, USA
TTP		Telephone Twisted Pair
TTP		Trunk Test Panel
TTPA		Telephone Twisted Pair Adapter (IBM)
TTRT		Token Time Rotation ~ (fddi)
TTS		Transaction Tracking System (Novell)
TTS		Trunk Time Switch
TTS		Tsaratanana, Madagascar
TTT		Taitung, Taiwan
TTTN		Tandem Tie Trunk Network
TTU		Tennessee Technological University
TTY		Teletypewriter
TTYC		Tty Controller
TU-16R		Tupelov-built Fighter Aircraft
TU-22		Tupelov-built, Aka Blinder
TUA		Tulcan, Ecuador
TUB		Tubuai Island, French Polynesia
TUBA		Tcp/ip User Datagram Protocol With Bigger Addresses (proposed)
TUC		Tucuman, Argentina
TUD		Tambacounda, Senegal
TUF		Tours, France
TUG		Tuguegarao, Philippines
TUH		Tullahoma-arnold Afs, TN, USA
TUI		Turaif, Saudi Arabia
TUK		Turbat, Pakistan
TUL		Tulsa, OK, USA
TUM		Tumut-ns, Australia
TUN		Tunis, Tunisia
TUNIS		Toronto University System
TUO		Taupo, New Zealand
TUP		Tupelo, MS, USA
TUR		Traffic USAge Recording
TUR		Trunk Utilization Report
TUR		Tucurui, Brazil
TUS		Tucson, AZ, USA
TUU		Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
TUV		Technischer Uberwachungs - Verein
TUX		Tumbler Ridge, BC, Canada
TV		Television
TVA		Morafenobe, Madagascar
TVA		Tennessee Valley Authority
TVC		Traverse City, MI, USA
TVF		Thief River Falls, MN, USA
TVI		Thomasville, GA, USA
TVI-925		Dumb Terminal (televideo)
TVL		Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
TVML	*	TeleVisual Markup Language (Mercury Communications)
TVTWM		Tom's Virtual Twm
TVU		Taveuni, Fiji Islands
TW		Thieves' World
TWA		Trans World Airlines
TWA		Twin Hills, AK, USA
TWAIN		Technology Without An Interesting Name
TWB		Toowoomba, Australia
TWBNET		Terrestrial Wideband Network
TWD		Port Townsend, WA, USA
TWE		Taylor, AK, USA
TWF		Twin Falls, ID, USA
TWG		The Wollongong Group
TWH		Catalina Island-two Harbor, CA, USA
TWID		The Way It's Done
TWIMC		To Whom It May Concern
TWM		Tom's Window Manager
TWT		Traveling Wave Tube
TWU		Tawau, Malaysia
TWX		Teletypewriter Exchange
TX		Texas
TX		Transmit
TX		Transuction
TXCO		Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator
TXD		Transmit Data
TXG		Taichung, Taiwan
TXID		Transuction Identifier
TXK		Texarkana, AR, USA
TXL		Berlin-tegel, Germany
TXU		Tabou, Ivory Coast
TYB		Tibooburra, Australia
TYE		Tyonek, AK, USA
TYG		Thylungra, Australia
TYL		Talara, Peru
TYN		Taiyuan, China
TYO		Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Japan
TYR		Tyler, TX, USA
TYS		Knoxville-tyson, TN, USA
TYZ		Taylor, AZ, USA
TZA		Belize City-municipal, Belize
TZN		South Andros, Bahamas
TZX		Trabzon, Turkey

U		(representing The Greek Mu) - Micro, "u"
U		Unified Atomic Mass Unit, "u"
U		Universe
U		Uranium
UA		United Airlines
UA		United Artists
UA		User Agent
UAB		Unix Appletalk Bridge
UAC		San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico
UAE		United Arab Emerates
UAE		Unrecoverable Application Error (microsoft Windows)
UAH		Ua Huka, French Polynesia
UAK		Narssarssuaq, Greenland
UAM		Guam-anderson AFB, Tp, USA
UAM		User Authentication Method
UAOS		User Alliance For Open Systems
UAPDU		User Agent Protocol Data Unit
UAQ		San Juan, Argentina
UAR		United Arab Republic
UAR		User Action Routine
UARS		Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
UART		Universal Asynchronous Receiver/transmitter
UAX		Uaxactun, Guatemala
UB		Ungermann-bass
UBA		Uberaba, Brazil
UBA		Unibus Adapter [DEC]
UBC		Universal Bibliographic Control
UBC		University Of British Columbia
UBJ		Ube, Japan
UBM		Unpressurized Berthing Mechanism
UBP		Ubon, Thailand
UBR	*	Unspecified Bit Rate
UBS		Columbus-lowdes County, MS, USA
UC		University Of Ca
UC		University Of California
UC		Upper Case, "u.c."
UCA		Utica/rome, NY, USA
UCA		Utilities Communications Architecture
UCAR		University Corporation For Atmospheric Research
UCB		University Of California At Berkeley
UCC		Uniform Commercial Code
UCD		Uniform Call Distribution
UCD		University Of California At Davis
UCI		University Of California At Irvine
UCL		Underwater Sound Laboratory
UCL		University College London
UCLA		University Of California At Los Angeles
UCLES           University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
UCN		Buchanan, Liberia
UCR		University Of California At Riverside
UCS		User Coordinate System
UCSB		University Of California At Santa Barbara
UCSC		University Of California At Santa Cruz
UCSD		University Of California At San Diego
UCSF		University Of California At San Francisco
UDB		Unified Database
UDD		Palm Springs-bermuda, CA, USA
UDI		Uberlandia, Brazil
UDMH		Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hydrazine
UDP		User Datagram Protocol (RFC 768)
UDR		Udaipur, India
UDT		User Defined Type
UEC		User Environment Component
UEL		Quelimane, Mozambique
UEO		Kume Jima, Japan
UES		Waukesha, WI, USA
UET		Quetta, Pakistan
UFO		Unidentified Flying Object
UFS		Universal File System
UG		Micro-grip (hp Plotter Paper Positioner)
UGB		Pilot Point-ugashik Bay, AK, USA
UGC		Uppsala General Catalog
UGC		Urgench, USSR
UGFM		Unigraphics File Manager (eds)
UGI		Uganik, AK, USA
UGN		Waukegan, IL, USA
UH		Upper Half
UHE		Uherske Hradiste, Czechoslovakia
UHF		Ultra High Frequency
UHF		Ultra High Frequency (300-3000mhz)
UHF		Upper Heyford, UK
UI		Unix International (formerly The Archer Group)
UI		User Interface
UIB		Quibdo, Colombia
UIC		User Identification Code
UID		User Identity
UIH		Qui Nhon, Vietnam
UII		Ui Incorporated
UII		Utila Island, Honduras
UIL		User Interface Language (DEC)
UIMS		User Interface Management System
UIN		Quincy, IL, USA
UIO		Quito, Ecuador
UIP		Quimper, France
UIP		User Interface Program
UIT		Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (astro Package)
UITP		Universal Information Transport Plan
UIUC		University Of Illinois At Urbana-champaign
UJT		Silicon Unijunction Transistor
UK		United Kingdom
UKI		Ukiah, CA, USA
UKST		United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope
UL		Underwriters Laboratories
UL		Underwriters Laboratory
ULANA		Unified Local-area Network Architecture
ULC		Santiago, Chile
ULI		Ulithi, Micronesia
ULM		New Ulm, MN, USA
ULN		Ulan Bator, Mongolia
ULQ		Tulua, Colombia
ULSI		Ultra Large Scale Integration
ULTRIX		Trademark Name For Dec Os, Derived From Berkeley Unix
ULY		Ulyanovsk, USSR
UMB		Umnak-north Shore, AK, USA
UMB		Upper Memory Block
UMD		Uummannaq, Greenland
UME		Umea, Sweden
UMI		University Microfilms Inc (detroit) 
UMM		Summit, AK, USA
UMR		Woomera-sa, Australia
UMT		Umiat, AK, USA
UMT		Universal Military Training
UN		United Nations
UNC		Uniform Naming Convention (nt)
UNCLE		United Network Command For Law And Enforcement
UND		Kunduz, Afghanistan
UNESCO		United Nations Educational, Scientific, And Cultural Organization
UNG		Kiunga, Papua New Guinea
UNI		Union Island, British West Indies
UNI	*	User Network Interface
UNICEF		United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
UNICS		Uniplex Information Computer Services
UNISTAR		Universal Single Call Telecommunications Answering And Repair
UNIVAC		Universal Automatic Computer
UNIX		Not An Acronym: Was A Pun On Mit's Multics.
UNK		Unalakleet, AK, USA
UNMA		Unified Network Management Architecture (at&t)
UNO		United Nations Organization
UNS		Umnak Airport, AK, USA
UNT		Unst, Shetland Islands
UOX		University/oxford, MS, USA
UP		Union Pacific (railroad) 
UP		Upper Peninsula (of Michigan)
UPA		UltraSPARC Port Architecture (Sun)
UPA		Ultra Port Architecture (Sun)       
UPC		Universal Product Code
UPDS		Uninterruptible Power Distribution System
UPE		User Portability Extension (IEEE 1003.2 Effort)
UPF		Universal Page Format
UPG		Ujung Pandang, Indonesia
UPI		United Press International 
UPN		Uruapan, Mexico
UPP		Upolo Point, HI, USA
UPS		Uninterruptable Power Supply
UPS		Uninterruptible Power Supply
UPS		United Parcel Service 
UQE		Queen, AK, USA
UR		University Of Rochester
URB		Urubupunga, Brazil
URECA		Used/refurbished Electronic Capital Equipment Expo [miller-freemanr]
UREP		Unix-rscs Emulation Program (bitnet Software For Unix)
URG		Uruguaiana, Brazil
URC		Uniform Resource Citation
URI		Uniform Resource Identifier
URL		Uniform Resource Locator
URN		Uniform Resource Name
URO		Rouen, France
URT		Surat Thani, Thailand
URW		~ (type Styles)
URY		Gurayat, Saudi Arabia
US		United States (of America)
US-ACE		United States Army Corps Of Engineers
USA		Union Of South Africa
USA		United States Army
USA		United States Of America
USAC		United States Answer Center (sun Archaic; See Nasc)
USAC		United States Auto Club
USAF		United States Air Force
USAFA		United States Air Force Academy (in Colorado Springs)
USAN		University Satellite Network
USB		Universal Serial Bus 
USB		Upper Side Band
USC		University Of Southern California
USCA		United States Code, Annotated
USCG		United States Coast Guard
USD		Underwriters Safety Device
USDA		United States Department Of Agriculture
USES		United States Employment Service
USFL		United States Football League
USG		Unix Support Group
USGS		United States Geological Survey
USH		Ushuaia, Argentina
USHGA		United States Hang Gliding Association
USIA		United States Information Agency
USITA		United States Independent Telephone Association
USL		Unix System Laboratories
USM		United States Mail
USMC		United States Marine Corps
USMP		United States Microgravity Payload
USN		Ulsan, South Korea
USN		United States Navy
USO		United Service Organizations
USO		Universal Service Order
USO		Unix Software Operation (at&t)
USOC		Universal Service Order Code
USP		United States Pharmacopeia
USP		Universal Sampling Plan
USPS		United States Postal Service
USPTO		United States Patent And Trademark Office
USR		User Service Routines
USS		United States Ship
USSC		United States Solution Center (Sun)
USSR		Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics (obsolete)
USSS		User Services And Systems Support
UST		St. Augustine, FL, USA
USTA		United States Telephone Association
USW		Und So Weiter
UT		Universal Time
UT		University Of Tennessee
UT		University Of Texas
UT		Utah
UTB		Muttaburra, Australia
UTC		Universal Coordinated Time
UTE		Union Technique De I"electricite"
UTH		Udon Thani, Thailand
UTI		Kouvola, Finland
UTL		Torremolinos, Spain
UTN		Upington, South Africa
UTO		Utopia, AK, USA
UTP		Unsheilded Twisted Pair
UTP		Unshielded Twisted Pair
UTP		Utapao, Thailand
UTQGS		Uniform Tire Quality Grading System
UTR		Uptime Ratio
UTT		Umtata, South Africa
UUCICO		Unix To Unix Copy Incoming Copy Outgoing
UUCP		Unix To Unix Copy Program
UUENCODE	Unix To Unix Encode
UUG		Unix User Group
UUK		Kuparuk, AK, USA
UUT		Unit Under Test
UV		Ultraviolet
UVE		Ouvea, Loyalty Island
UVF		St. Lucia-hewanorra Airport, West Indies
UVL		New Valley, Arab Republic Of Egypt
UVS		Ultraviolet Spectrometer
UW		Underwriter
UW		University Of Wisconsin
UWCSA		University Of Washington Computer Science Affiliates
UWS		Ultrix Worksystem Software (DEC)
UYL		Nyala, Sudan
UZU		Curuzu Cuatia, Argentina

V		Five
V		Vanadium
V		Vergeltungswaffe (reprisal Weapon: V1, V2)
V		Version, "v"
V		Versus, "v."
V		Volt(s)
V.1		Binary Notation And Significant Parts Of 2-condition Code Equals
V.10		Unbalanced Double-current Interchange Circuits (datacomm)
V.11		Balanced Double-current Interchange Circuits (datacomm)
V.15		Acoustic Coupling For Data Transmission
V.16		Medical Analog Data Transmission Modem
V.19		Parallel Data Transmission Modems, Using Telephone Signal Freqs
V.2		Power Levels For Data Transmission Over Telephone Lines
V.20		Parallel Data Transmission Modems Over Gstn
V.21		300 Bps (200 Baud) Modem Specification Over Gstn
V.22		1200 Bps Full-duplex 2-wire Modem Specification Over Gstn
V.22BIS		2400 Bps Full-duplex 2-wire Modem Spec (1200 Bps Fallback, Gstn)
V.23		600/1200 Baud Modem Specification Over Gstn
V.24		DTE-DCE List Of Definitions For Interchange Circuits
V.25		Automatic Calling Or Answering On Gstn
V.25BIS		Bit-synchronous Auto-dialing Protocol For Use Over Pstn
V.26		2400 Bps 4-wire Leased Line Modem Standard
V.26BIS		1200/2400 Bps Modem Standardized For Use In The Gstn
V.27		4800 Bps Leased Line Modem Standard
V.27BIS		4800 Bps Leased Line Modem With Automatic Equalizer Standard
V.27TER		4800/2400 Bps Modem Standard For Use In The Gstn
V.28		Unbalanced Double-current Interchange Circuits
V.29		9600 Bps Leased Line Modem
V.3		International Alphabet Number 5
V.31		Single-current Interchange Circuit Characteristics
V.32		9600 Bps Full-duplex 2-wire Gstn Modem, With 4800 Bps Fallback
V.32BIS		14400 Bps Full-duplex 2-wire Gstn Modem Specification
V.32TERBO	19200 Bps Modem Spec (at&t)
V.33		14400 Bps Full-duplex 4-wire Leased Line Modem
V.34		(was V.fast)
V.35		48 Kbps Data Transmission Using 60-108 Khz Circuits
V.36		Synchronous Data Transmission Using 60-108 Khz Circuits
V.4		General Structure Of Signals Of V.3
V.40		Error Indication With Electromechanical Equipment
V.41		Code-independent Error Control System
V.42		Error-checking Protocols For Dialup Lines, Maximum 19200 Bps
V.42BIS		Compression Standard
V.5		Signalling Rates For Synchronous Data Over Gstn
V.50		Standard Linits For Transmission Quality Of Data Transmission
V.51		Maintenance Organization Of International Telephone Circuits
V.52		Distortion And Error-rate Measuring Aparatus For Data Xmission
V.53		Maintenance Limits Of Telephone Circuits Used For Datacomm
V.54		Loop Test Devices For Modems
V.55		Impulsive Noise Measuring Instruments For Telephone Circuits
V.56		Comparative Tests Of Modems For Use Over Telephone Type Circuits
V.57		Comparative Data Test Set For High Data Signalling Rates
V.6		Synchronous Data Over Leased Lines
V/FUIS		Voice/facsimile User Interface Specification
V20		NEC CPU - Replacement For Intel 8088
V30		NEC CPU - Replacement For Intel 8086
V70		NEC CPU - 32-bit
VA		Veterans Administration
VA		Virginia
VA		Volt Amp
VAA		Vaasa, Finland
VAA		Var Approved Application (Sun)
VAB		Value Added Business
VAB		Vehicle Assembly Building (formerly Vertical Assembly Building)
VABIS		Vagn Aktie Bolaget I Soedertaelje (swedish Truck Company)
VAC		Virtual Address Cache
VAC		Volts Alternating Current
VAD		Valdosta-moody AFB, GA, USA
VAD		Value-added Dealer
VADD		Value Added Disc Driver
VADS		Verdix Ada Development System
VAE		Valles, Mexico
VAF		Valence, France
VAFB		Vandenberg Air Force Base
VAFC		Vesa Advanced Feature Connector
VAG	*	VRML Architecture Group
VAI		Vanimo, Papua New Guinea
VAK		Chevak, AK, USA
VAN		Value-added Network (e.g. Tymnet, Telenet, Etc)
VAN		Van, Turkey
VANS		Value Added Network Supplier
VANS		Value-added Network Services
VAP		Value Added Process
VAP		Value Added Process (Novell)
VAR		Value Added Reseller
VAR		Value-added Remarketer
VAR		Varna, Bulgaria
VAR		Volt-ampere Reactive
VARPRO		~ Script Submission Language (computervision)
VAS		Sivas, Turkey
VASCAR		Visual Average Speed Computer And Recorder
VASI		Visual Approach Slope Indicator
VAST		Virtual Archive Storage Technology
VAT		Value Added Tax
VAV		Value Application Vendors
VAV		Vava'u, Tonga
VAX		Virtual Address Extended (DEC)
VAX-BI		Vax Backplane Interconnect
VAXBI		Vax Bus Interconnect
VAXELN		(DEC Vax Os)
VB		Venture Business
VBG		Lompoc-Vandenberg AFB, CA, USA
VBR		Variable Bit Rate
VBY		Visby, Sweden
VC		Venture Capitalist
VC		Viet Cong
VC		Virtual Circuit
VCA		Can Tho, Vietnam
VCB		View Cove, AK, USA
VCCI		Volantary Control Council For Intersive
VCCI		Voluntary Committe On Computer Interference (japan)
VCE		Venice, Italy
VCM		Voice Coil Motor
VCO		Voltage Controlled Oscillator
VCP		Sao Paulo-viracopos, Brazil
VCPI		Virtual Control Program Interface
VCPI		Virtual Control Program Interface (phar Lap)
VCR		Carora, Venezuela
VCR		Video Cassette Recorder
VCR		Videocassette Recorder
VCS		Virtual Circuit System
VCT		Victoria, TX, USA
VCU		Virginia Commonwealth University
VCV		Victorville, CA, USA
VD		Venereal Disease (see Also Std)
VDA		Visual Data Analysis
VDC		Vitoria Da Conquista, Brazil
VDC		Volts Direct Current
VDE		Valverde, Canary Islands
VDE		Verband Deutche Electrotechnisce
VDE		Verband Deutscher Electrotechniker
VDFM		Virtual Disk File Manager
VDI		Vidalia, GA, USA
VDI		Virtual Device Interface (replaced By Cgi)
VDM		Viedma, Argentina
VDM		Vienna Development Method
VDM		Virtual Device Metafile
VDR		Villa Dolores, Argentina
VDS		Vadso, Norway
VDT		Video Data Terminal
VDT		Video Display Terminal
VDZ		Valdez, AK, USA
VE		Value Engineering
VEE		Venetie, AK, USA
VEEGA		Venus-earth-earth Gravity Assist (galileo Flight Path)
VEL		Vernal, UT, USA
VER		Veracruz, Mexico
VERONICA	Very Easy Rodent-oriented Net-wide Index To Computerized Archives
VERSA		Verein Europaischer Regierungen Schaffend Autobusse
VESA		Video Electronics Standards Association
VEU		Volume End User
VEX		Video Extension To X (proposed)
VEY		Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland
VF		Video Frequency
VF		Voice Frequency
VFA		Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
VFEA		Vme/futurebus+ Extended Architecture
VFF		~ (x11 Font Format)
VFO		Variable Frequency Oscillator
VFR		Visual Flight Rules
VFS		Virtual File System
VFW		Veterans Of Foreign Wars
VFW		Volunteer Fire Department
VFY		Verify
VG		Very Good
VG		Vicar-general
VGA		Video Graphics Array
VGA		Vijayawada, India
VGD		Virtual Graphics Device
VGF		Voice Grade Facility
VGI		Virtual Graphics Interface
VGO		Vigo, Spain
VGT		Las Vegas-north Terminal, NV, USA
VHD		Video High Density
VHDL		Vhsic Hardware Description Language (IEEE 1076)
VHF		Very High Frequency
VHF		Very High Frequency (30-300mhz)
VHS		Vertical Helical Scan (video)
VHS		Video Home System
VHS		Video Home System (vcr)
VHS-C		Vhs-compact
VHSIC		Very High Speed Integrated Circuit
VHY		Vichy, France
VI		Virtual Instrument
VI		Visual Editor
VIA		Var Integrated Application (Sun)
VIA		Vertical Installation Automation
VIABLE		Vertical Installation Automation Baseline
VIB		Vil Constitucion, Mexico
VIC		V.35 Interface Cable
VID		Vertical Interval Decoder
VID		Vidin, Bulgaria
VIE		Vienna, Austria
VIFRED		Visual Forms Editor
VIH		Vichy-rolla National, MO, USA
VIJ		Virgin Gorda, Virgin Islands
VIK		Kavik River, AK, USA
VIL		Dakhla, Mauritania
VILE		Vi-like Emacs
VIM		Vendor-independent Messaging (Novell, Apple, Borland, Lotus)
VINE		Vine Is Not Emacs
VINES		Virtual Network Software
VINES		Virtual Network System (banyan)
VIP		Very Important Person
VIP		Vlb-isa-pci
VIS		Visalia, CA, USA
VIS		Visual Instruction Set (Sun)
VISTA		Volunteers In Service To America
VIT		Vitoria, Spain
VITA		Vme International Trade Association
VITAL		Virtually Integrated Technical Architecture Lifecycle (apple)
VIU		Voiceband Interface Unit
VIX		Vitoria, Brazil
VJ		Video Jockey
VKO		Vnukovo Airport, USSR
VKS		Vicksburg, MS, USA
VL		Vesa Local 
VL		Vulgar Latin
VLA		Very Large Array Radio Telescope In Arizona Or New Mexico
VLAN		Virtual Local Area Network
VLB		Vesa Local Bus
VLBA		Very Long Baseline Array
VLBI		Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VLC		Valencia, Spain
VLD		Valdosta, GA, USA
VLF		Very Low Frequency
VLF		Very Low Frequency (3-30khz)
VLI		Port Vila, Vanuata
VLIW		Very Long Instruction Word
VLL		Valladolid, Spain
VLM		Virtual Loadable Module
VLM		Virtual Loadable Module (Novell)
VLN		Valencia, Venezuela
VLR		Vallenar, Chile
VLSI		Very Large Scale Integration
VLSM		Variable Length Subnet Mask
VLT		Very Large Telescope
VLV		Valera, Venezuela
VM		Vesa Media
VM		Virtual Machine (IBM Mainframe Os)
VM		Virtual Memory
VM/CMS		See Vm And Cms (IBM)
VM/DOS		Virtual Memory/ (IBM)
VM/ESA		Virtual Memory/ (IBM)
VM/IS		Virtual Memory/ (IBM)
VM/SP		Virtual Memory/ (IBM)
VM/XA		Virtual Memory/ (IBM)
VMC		Visual Meteorological Conditions
VMCF		Virtual Machine Communications Facility
VMCMS		Virtual Machine/conversational Monitor System, "vm/cms"
VME		Versa Modular Europa
VME		Versa Module Eurocard
VME		Versabus Module Europe
VME		Villa Mercedes, Argentina
VME		Virtual Machine Environment
VMM		Virtual Memory Manager
VMOS		Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor (v-mos) (see Mos)
VMR		Vertical Market Reseller
VMR		Volt-meter Reverse
VMRS		Voice Message Relay System
VMS		Vertical Motion Simulator
VMS		Virtual Memory Operating System
VMS		Virtual Memory System
VMS		Virtual Memory System (DEC)
VMS		Voice Mail System
VMS		Voice Management System
VMSP		Virtual Machine/system Product, "vm/sp"
VMTP		Versatile Message Transaction Protocol
VMUIF		Voice Messaging User Interface Forum
VMUIS		Voice Messaging User Interface Specification
VNF		Virtual Network Feature
VNL		Via Net Loss Plan
VNLF		Via Net Loss Factor
VNO		Vilnius, USSR
VNR		Video News Release (public Relations)
VNS		Varanasi, India
VNY		Los Angeles-van Nuys, CA, USA
VOA		Voice Of America
VOA		Volunteers Of American
VOD		Video On Demand
VODAS		Voice Over Data Access Station
VOG		Volgograd, USSR
VOIR		Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (superseded By Vrm)
VOIS		Voice-operated Information System
VOK		Camp Douglas, WI, USA
VOM		Volt-ohm Meter
VOQ		Visiting Officer's Quarters
VOR		Vhf Omnidirectional Range
VORT		Very Ordinary Rendering Toolkit
VOTS		Vax OSI Transport Service (appc)
VP		View Processor
VP		Virtual President
VPA		Volume Procurement Amendment (IBM)
VPDN		Virtual Private Data Network
VPE		Ongiva, Angola
VPF		Vertical Processing Facility
VPISU		Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University, "vpiandsu"
VPN		Virtual Private Network
VPS		Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA
VPZ		Valparaiso, IN, USA
VQS		Vieques, PR, USA
VR		Variety Reduction
VR		Virtual Reality
VRA		Varadero, Cuba
VRAM		Video Ram
VRB		Vero Beach, FL, USA
VRC		Vertical Redundancy Character
VRC		Virac, Philippines
VRK		Varkaus, Finland
VRM		Venus Radar Mapper (now Called Magellan)
VRM		Virtual Resource Manager
VRM		Voice Recognition Module
VRM		Voltage Regulator Module
VRML		Virtual Reality Modeling Language
VRN		Verona, Italy
VRS		Voice Response System
VRU		Voice Response Unit
VS		Vaxstation
VSA		Villahermosa, Mexico
VSAM		Virtual Sequential Access Method
VSAM		Virtual Storage Access Method
VSAT		Very Small Aperture Terminal (satellite)
VSB		Vestigial Sideband Modulation
VSB		Vme Subsystem Bus
VSE		Virtual Storage Extended
VSE		Viseu, Portugal
VSE/ESA		Virtual Storage Extended/ (IBM)
VSELF		Vector Sum Excited Linear Prediction
VSF		Springfield, VT, USA
VSLP		Volume Software Licensing Program (Sun)
VSP		Vector/scalar Processor
VSR		Voice Storage And Retrieval
VSS		Voice Storage System
VSSP		Voice Switch Signaling Point
VST		Vasteras, Sweden
VSWR		Voltage Standing Wave Ratio
VSX		Verification Suite For X/Open Base Level Specification
VT		Virtual Terminal (OSI Layer 7)
VT-100		Dumb Terminal (DEC)
VT-1000		X Terminal (feb90, Dec)
VTAM		Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
VTAM		Virtual Terminal Access Method (IBM)
VTC		Video Teleconferencing
VTE		Vientiane, Laos
VTI		Virtual Terminal Interface
VTN		Valentine, NE, USA
VTOC		Virtual Terminal Oc
VTOC		Volume Table Of Contents
VTOL		Vertical Takeoff And Landing
VTP		Virtual Terminal Protocol
VTR		Videotape Recorder
VTS		Video Teleconferencing System
VTT		Video Teleconferencing Terminal
VTU		Las Tunas, Cuba
VTVM		Vacuum Tube Voltage Meter
VTZ		Visakhapatnam, India
VU		Volume Unit
VUGI		Vme Users Group International
VUIT		Visual User Interface Tool (DEC)
VUP		Valledupar, Colombia
VUP		Vax Unit Of Performance
VV		Villains And Vigilantes, "vandv"
VVC		Villavicencio, Colombia
VVI		Santa Cruz-viru Viru, Bolivia
VVSS		Vertical Volute Spring Suspension
VWS		Vax Workstation Software
VXE		Sao Vicente, Cape Verde Islands
VXI		Vmebus Extension For Instrumentation
VXO		Vaxjo, Sweden
VYD		Vryheid, South Africa

W3C	*	World Wide Web Consortium
W		Wales/welsh
W		Watt
W		Wednesday, "w."
W		Week(s), "w."
W		West
W		Width
W		Wofram (tungsten)
WA		Washington
WA		Western Australia
WAA		Wales, AK, USA
WAB		Wabag, Papua New Guinea
WAC		Womens Air Corps
WAD		Andriamena, Madagascar
WADS		Wide Area Data Service
WAG		Wanganui, New Zealand
WAG		Wild-assed Guess
WAIS		Wide Area Information Server (tmc)
WAIS		Wide Area Information System
WAL		Chincoteague-wallops NAS, VA, USA
WAN		Wide Area Network
WAP		Work Assignment Procedure
WARC		World Administrative Radio Conference
WAS		Washington-Area, DC, USA
WAT		Waterford, Ireland
WATFOR		Waterloo Fortran
WATS		Wide Area Telephone Service
WATS		Wide Area Transmission Service
WATSUP		Watfor Student Utility Program
WAV		Wave Hill, Australia
WAW		Warsaw, Poland
WAX		Warroad, MN, USA
WB		Water Ballast
WB		Waybill
WBB		Stebbins, AK, USA
WBC		White Blood Cells
WBC		Wideband Channel
WBM		Wapenamanda, Papua New Guinea
WBN		Woburn, MA, USA
WBQ		Beaver, AK, USA
WBR		Big Rapids, MI, USA
WBS		Wednesday Business School
WBS		Work Breakdown Structure
WC		Water Closet
WC		Wire Center
WC		Without Charge
WCL		Widget Creation Library
WCPC		Wire Center Planning Center
WCR		Chandalar, AK, USA
WCS		Work Coordinate System
WCS		World Coordinate System
WCS		Writable Control Store (vax)
WCTU		Women's Christian Temperance Union
WD		Western Digital 
WD		White Dwarf
WD		Working Draft
WDB		Deep Bay, AK, USA
WDC		Washington, District Of Columbia
WDC		Work Distribution Chart
WDG		Enid, OK, USA
WDH		Windhoek-j.g.strijdom, Namibia
WDM		Wavelength Division Multiplexer
WDM	*	Windows Driver Model (Microsoft)
WDN		Wireless Data Network
WDS		Wine, Dine And Sign
WDT		Watch Dog Timer
WEDI		Workgroup For Electronic Data Interchange
WEI		Weipa, Australia
WEL		Welkom, South Africa
WELL		Whole Earth 'lectronic Link
WEX		Wexford, Ireland
WF		Work Factor Method
WFK		Madawaska/fort Kent, ME, USA
WFPC		Wide Field / Planetary Camera (on Hst)
WFPCII		Replacement For Wfpc
WFW		Windows For Workgroups (microsoft)
WG		Working Group
WGA		Wagga Wagga, Australia
WGE		Walgett, Australia
WGN		Waitangi, New Zealand
WGO		Winchester, VA, USA
WGP		Waingapu, Indonesia
WH		Warhammer
WHK		Whakatane, New Zealand
WHO		World Health Organization
WHOI		Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WHR		Vail, CO, USA
WHSE		Warehouse
WHSGNASBN	We Have Some Good News And Some Bad News
WHT		Wharton, TX, USA
WI		Wisconsin
WIC		Wick, Scotland, UK
WID		Wildenrath, Germany
WIIS		Wang Integrated Image System
WIL		Nairobi-wilson, Kenya
WILCO		Will Comply
WIMP		Windows, Icons, Mice, Pull-down Menus
WIN		Winton, Australia
WIN		Wireless Inbuilding Network (motorola)
WINDOWS		Nt Windows New Technology
WINS		Wollongong Integrated Networking Solutions
WIP		Work-in-process
WIRE		Womens Information And Resource Exchange
WIS		Wwmccs Information System
WISC		Writeable Instruction Set Computer
WITS		Washington Interagency Telecommunications System
WIYN		Wisconsin / Indiana / Yale / Noao Telescope
WJA		Woja, Marshall Islands
WJF		Lancaster-william J Fox, CA, USA
WKK		Aleknagik, AK, USA
WKL		Waikoloa, HI, USA
WKM		Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe
WKN		Wakunai, Papua New Guinea
WKR		Walker's Cay, Bahamas
WKS		Well Known Services
WLAN		Wireless Lan
WLB		Labouchere Bay, AK, USA
WLG		Wellington, New Zealand
WLK		Selawik, AK, USA
WLM		Waltham, MA, USA
WLR		Loring, AK, USA
WLS		Wallis Island, Wallis And Futuna Island
WLW		Willows, CA, USA
WM		Work Manager
WMB		Warrnambool, Australia
WMC		Winnemucca, NV, USA
WMF		(graphics Output Format)
WMF		Windows Metafile
WMH		Mountain Home, AR, USA
WMK		Meyers Chuck, AK, USA
WMO		White Mountain, AK, USA
WMO		World Meteorological Organization
WMR		Mananara, Madagascar
WMSCR		Weather Message Switching Center Replacement
WNA		Napakiak, AK, USA
WNIM		Wide-area Network Interface Module
WNN		Watashi No Namae Ha Nakajima Desu. (kana-kanji Henkan), "wnn"
WNN		Wunnummin Lake, Ontario, Canada
WNP		Naga, Philippines
WNR		Windora, Australia
WNS		Nawab Shah, Pakistan
WNY		Wynyard-tasmania, Australia
WO		Write Only
WOM		Write Only Memory
WOMBAT		Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time
WOO		Woodchopper, AK, USA
WOPR		War Operations Planned Response (from "wargames" Movie)
WORM		Write Once Read Many
WORM		Write Once, Read Many
WOS		Wad Of Software (see BWOS)
WOS		Work Station Operating System
WOW		Willow, AK, USA
WOW		Worlds Of Wonder
WP		Word Processing
WP		Working Paper
WP		Write Protect
WPABX		Wireless Private Automatic Branch Exchange
WPCOMP		Write Precompensation
WPDO		Worldwide Penpoint Developers Organization
WPM		Wipim, Papua New Guinea
WPMA		Windows And Os/2 Developers Association
WPMA		Windows And Presentation Manager Association
WPS		Word Processing Software
WPS		Workplace Shell (os/2 V2.x Gui)
WPU		Puerto Williams, Chile
WRB		Macon-robins AFB, GA, USA
WRE		Whangarei, New Zealand
WRG		Wrangell, AK, USA
WRI		Fort Dix, NJ, USA
WRL		Worland, WY, USA
WRO		Wroclaw, Poland
WRT		With Regard To
WS		Wait State
WS		Wait/spin
WS		Work Sampling
WS		Work Station
WSAP		Workstations, Servers And Peripherals (Sun)
WSB		Steamboat Bay, AK, USA
WSD		Work Station Division
WSG		Washington, PA, USA
WSH		Shirley, NY, USA
WSI		Wafer Scale Integration
WSJ		San Juan, AK, USA
WSJ		Wall Street Journal
WSM		Wiseman, AK, USA
WSMR		White Sands Missile Range
WSN		South Naknek, AK, USA
WSN		Wirth Syntax Notation
WSO		Washabo, Suriname
WSP		Waspam, Nicaragua
WSP		Work Simplification Program
WST		Westerly, RI, USA
WST		World Standard Teletext
WSW		West-southwest
WSX		Westsound, WA, USA
WSY		Shute Harbour/whitsunday, Australia
WSZ		Westport, New Zealand
WTC		New York-world Trade Center, NY, USA
WTD		West End, Bahamas
WTFDIK		What The F--k Do I Know?
WTG		Williams Telecom Group
WTK		Noatak, AK, USA
WTL		Tuntatuliak, AK, USA
WTR		Western Test Range
WTR		Whiteriver, AZ, USA
WTS		Tsiroanomandidy, Madagascar
WU		Washington University
WU		Western Union
WUG		Wau, Papua New Guinea
WUGNET		Windows Users Group Network
WUH		Wuhan, China
WUPPE		Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photopolarimter Experiment (astro Package)
WUU		Wau, Sudan
WV		West Virginia
WVB		Walvis Bay, Namibia
WVI		Watsonville, CA, USA
WVK		Manakara, Madagascar
WVL		Waterville, ME, USA
WW		World War
WW2		World War Ii
WWAC		Worldwide Answer Center (Sun)
WWD		Cape May, NJ, USA
WWFO		Worldwide Field Operations (Sun)
WWI		World War I
WWII		World War Ii
WWIR		Worldwide Information Resources (Sun)
WWIVNET		World War 4 Network
WWK		Wewak, Papua New Guinea
WWMCCS		World-wide Military Command And Control System
WWOPS		World-wide Operations
WWP		Whale Pass, AK, USA
WWR		Woodward, OK, USA
WWT		Newtok, AK, USA
WWW		World Wide Web
WXMODEM		Windowed Xmodem
WY		Wyoming
WY-50		Dumb Terminal (wyse)
WYA		Whyalla, Australia
WYB		Yes Bay, AK, USA
WYE		Yengema, Sierra Leone
WYN		Wyndham, Australia
WYS		West Yellowstone, MT, USA
WYSIWIS		What You See Is What I See
WYSIWYG		What You See Is What You Get
WYSIWYG		What You See Is What You Get (desktop Publishing)
WZY		Nassau Seaplane Base, Bahamas

X		The X Window System (mit)
X.1		International User Classes Of Service In PDNS
X.12		Us Focal Point For Edi Standards
X.121		International Numbering Plan For Public Data Networks
X.2		International User Facilities In PDNS
X.20		DTE-DCE Protocol For Transmission Over PDNS
X.20BIS		V21-compatible Interface For DTE-DCE Transmission Over PDNS
X.21		Synchronous Bit-oriented Protocol (OSI Layer 1)
X.21BIS		Synchronous Byte-oriented Protocol (OSI Layer 1)
X.24		Circuit Definition List For DTE-DCE Equipment On PDNS
X.25		DTE-DCE Protocol For Packet-mode Terminals On PDNS
X.26		Electrical Characteristics For Unbalanced Circuits
X.27		Electrical Characteristics For Unbalanced Circuits
X.28		DTE-DCE Interface For A DTE Assessing A Pdn's Pad
X.29		Control/user Data Exchange On Packet-mode DTE And A Pad
X.3		Pad Facility In A Pdn
X.30		Basic Model Page-printing Using V.3
X.31		DTE-DCE Characteristics When 200 Baud DTE Is Used
X.32		Answerback Units For 200 Baud Machines Using V.3
X.33		International Text Standard For Margin Measurement
X.4		General Signal Structure For Data Transmission Over PDNS
X.40		Fm Transmission Standard
X.400		ITUT Mail Transfer Application Standard (OSI Layer 7)
X.400		P1 Mts-mts (?)
X.400		P2 Mta-mta
X.400		P3 Mta-ua
X.435		Edi Transmission Over X.400 (ITUT)
X.50		Multiplexed Synchronous Spec
X.500		ITUT Directory Services Application Standard
X.51		Multiplexed Synchronous Spec Using 10-bit Envelopes
X.60		Common Channel Signalling For Synchronous Transmission
X.70		Asynchronous Signalling Specification
X.71		Synchronous Terminal And Transit Control Signalling
X.75		Packet-switched Data Network Transmission Spec
X.92		Hypothetical Reference Connections For Public Synchronous Nets
X.95		Network Parameters In Public Data Networks
X.96		Call Progress Signals In Public Data Networks
X.PC		Modem To Packet-network Protocol
X/NET		X/Open Networking Group
X11		X Window System (mit)
X25		ITUT Packet Switched Networks DTE Interfacing, "x.25"
X3		Authorized By ANSI For IT Standards Development
XA		Extended Architecture
XA		Extended Architecture (31-bit Addressing In Ibm Machines)
XA		X/Open Distributed Transaction Processing Spec
XAL		Alamos, Mexico
XAP		Chapeco, Brazil
XAP		X/Open ACSE/presentation API
XAPIA		X.400 API Association
XB		X-bar
XBE		Bearskin Lake, Ontario, Canada
XBR		Brockville, Ontario, Canada
XBT		X-bar Tandem
XCF		Experimental Computing Facility
XCL		Cluff Lake, Sask., Canada
XCMALT		Xcomm Alternative
XCMS		X Color Management System (x11r5)
XD		Ex (without) Dividend
XD		Without Dividend
XDMCP		X Display Manager Control Protocol
XDR		External Data Representation
XDR		External Datagram Representation (standard Protocol)
XDS		X/Open Directory Services Specification
XENIX		Microsoft's Pronunciation Of Unix
XES		Lake Geneva, WI, USA
XEU		Xerox Encryption Unit
XFE		X-front End
XFER		Transfer
XFN		X/Open Federated Naming     
XFN		X Federated Naming (DCE)
XGA		Extended Graphics Array
XGL		X Graphics Language
XGR		Kangiqsualujjuaq, Quebec, Canada
XIC		Xichang, China
XID		Exchange Identification
XIE		X Imaging Extension
XIM		X Input Method
XINU		Xinu Is Not Unix
XIP		Exicute In Place
XIWT		Cross-industry Working Team
XKS		Kasabonika, Ontario, Canada
XL		Extra Large
XLB		Lac Brochet, Manitoba, Canada
XLK		Lakenheath, UK
XLS		St. Louis, Senegal
XMD		Madison, SD, USA
XMH		Manihi, French Polynesia
XMI		Extended Memory Interconnect (DEC)
XMM		X-ray Multi Mirror
XMN		Xiamen, China
XMR		Cape Canaveral Afs, FL, USA
XMS		Extended Memory Specification
XMS		Extended Multiprocessor Operating System
XMTR		Transmitter (the X Is For Trans)
XNG		Quang Ngai, Vietnam
XNP		Extended Network Protocol
XNS		Xerox Network System
XO		Execut
XODIAC		~ Network Protocol
XOM		X/Open Object Management Specification
XPG		X/Open Portability Guide
XPG3		Xpg #3, Contains Cae API Specifications
XPG4		Fourth Revision Of The Xpg
XPK		Pukatawagan, Manitoba, Canada
XPL		Comayagua, Honduras
XPM	*	X Pixmap
XQU		Qualicum, BC, Canada
XRR		Ross River, Yukon Terr., Canada
XRY		Jerez De La Frontera, Spain
XSC		South Caicos, British West Indies
XSD		Tonopah-test Range, NV, USA
XSI		South Indian Lake, Manitoba, Canada
XSM		St. Mary's, MD, USA
XSP		Seletar Airport, Singapore
XTI		X/Open Transport Interface
XTL		Tadoule Lake, Manitoba, Canada
XTL		X Telephony Services
XTP		X/Open Transaction Processing Model
XUI		X Ui (DEC)
XWA		Granite Point, AK, USA
XWB		Collinsville Mine, AK, USA
XWC		Yantarni Bay, AK, USA
XWD		Emmen, Switzerland
XWE		Copalis, WA, USA
XWF		Jerome, ID, USA
XWG		Khalid Mil. City, Saudi Arabia
XWH		Aztec, NM, USA
XWI		St Ignatius, MT, USA
XWJ		Dexter, ME, USA
XWK		Port Orchard, WA, USA
XWL		Blackfoot, ID, USA
XWM		Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
XWN		Jupiter, FL, USA
XWO		Kimball, NE, USA
XWP		Al Kharj Air Base, Saudi Arabia
XWQ		Iwakuni, Japan
XWR		Oosik Split, AK, USA
XWS		Oliktok, AK, USA
XWT		Nushagak Bay, AK, USA
XWU		Marion, AL, USA
XWV		Monroe, MI, USA
XWW		Driggs, ID, USA
XXB		Woodford, UK
XXD		Clarendon, TX, USA
XXE		Lakewood, NJ, USA
XXG		Cambridge, MA, USA
XXM		Covelo, CA, USA
XXN		Willits, CA, USA
XXO		Hurricane, UT, USA
XXP		Lakeport, CA, USA
XXQ		Frankfort, IL, USA
XXR		Mariposa, CA, USA
XXS		Creswell, OR, USA
XXT		Polson, MT, USA
XXU		Ashland, OR, USA
XXV		Decatur Shores, WA, USA
XXW		Lake City, FL, USA
XXX		Mena, AR, USA
XXY		Fortuna, CA, USA
XXZ		Zuni Pueblo, NM, USA
XY472		Xylogics 472 1/2" Tape Controller
XYA		Yandina, Solomon Islands

YAA		Anahim Lake, BC, Canada
YAB		Arctic Bay, Nwt, Canada
YAC		Cat Lake, Ontario, Canada
YAG		Fort Frances, Ontario, Canada
YAG		~ (transmitter)
YAK		Yakutat, AK, USA
YAM		Sault Saint Marie, Ont, Canada
YAO		Yaounde, Cameroon
YAP		Yap, Caroline Islands
YAPOSIKNA	Yet Another Presentation On Something I Know Nothing About
YAT		Attawapiskat, Ontario, Canada
YAX		Amgling Lake, Ontario, Canada
YAY		St Anthony, Newfoundland, Canada
YAZ		Tofino, BC, Canada
YBB		Pelly Bay, Nwt, Canada
YBC		Baie Comeau, Quebec, Canada
YBE		Uranium City, Sask., Canada
YBG		Saguenay, Quebec, Canada
YBI		Black Tickle, Newfoundland, Canada
YBJ		Baie Johan Beetz, Quebec, Canada
YBK		Baker Lake, Nwt, Canada
YBL		Campbell River, BC, Canada
YBM		Bronson Creek, BC, Canada
YBR		Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
YBT		Brochet, Manitoba, Canada
YBV		Berens River, Manitoba, Canada
YBX		Blanc Sablon, Quebec, Canada
YCB		Cambridge Bay, Nwt, Canada
YCC		Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
YCC		Y=brightness, C1 And C2=color Signals 1 And 2
YCD		Nanaimo, BC, Canada
YCF		Cortes Bay, BC, Canada
YCG		Castlegar/nelson/trail, BC, Canada
YCH		Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada
YCL		Charlo, New Brunswick, Canada
YCN		Cochrane, Ontario, Canada
YCO		Coppermine, Nwt, Canada
YCQ		Chetwynd, BC, Canada
YCR		Cross Lake, Manitoba, Canada
YCS		Chesterfield Inlet, Nwt, Canada
YCY		Clyde River, Nwt, Canada
YDA		Dawson City, Yukon Terr., Canada
YDE		Paradise River, Newfoundland, Canada
YDF		Deer Lake, Newfoundland, Canada
YDI		Davis Inlet, Newfoundland, Canada
YDL		Dease Lake, BC, Canada
YDN		Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada
YDP		Nain, Newfoundland, Canada
YDQ		Dawson Creek, BC, Canada
YDS		Desolation Sound, BC, Canada
YEA		Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
YED		Edmonton-namao Field, AL, Canada
YEG		Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
YEK		Eskimo Point, Nwt, Canada
YEL		Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada
YER		Fort Severn, Ontario, Canada
YEV		Inuvik, Nwt, Canada
YFA		Fort Albany, Ontario, Canada
YFB		Frobisher Bay, Nwt, Canada
YFC		Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
YFE		Forestville, Quebec, Canada
YFH		Fort Hope, Ontario, Canada
YFO		Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
YFR		Fort Resolution, Nwt, Canada
YFS		Fort Simpson, Nwt, Canada
YFX		Fox Harbour/st. Lewis, Newfoundland, Canada
YGA		Gagnon, Quebec, Canada
YGB		Gillies Bay, BC, Canada
YGE		Gorge Harbor, BC, Canada
YGH		Fort Good Hope, Nwt, Canada
YGJ		Yonago, Japan
YGK		Kingston, Ontario, Canada
YGL		La Grande, Quebec, Canada
YGN		Greenway Sound, BC, Canada
YGO		Gods Narrows, Manitoba, Canada
YGP		Gaspe, Quebec, Canada
YGQ		Geraldton, Ontario, Canada
YGR		Iles De Madeleine, Quebec, Canada
YGT		Igloolik, Nwt, Canada
YGV		Havre St. Pierre, Quebec, Canada
YGW		Great Whale River, Quebec, Canada
YGX		Gillam, Manitoba, Canada
YGZ		Grise Fiord, Nwt, Canada
YHA		Port Hope Simpson, Newfoundland, Canada
YHD		Dryden, Ontario, Canada
YHF		Hearst, Ontario, Canada
YHG		Charlottetown, Newfoundland, Canada
YHH		Campbell River-harbor Spb, BC, Canada
YHI		Holman Island, Nwt, Canada
YHK		Gjoa Haven, Nwt, Canada
YHM		Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
YHN		Hornepayne, Ontario, Canada
YHO		Hopedale, Newfoundland, Canada
YHP		Poplar Hill, Ontario, Canada
YHR		Harrington Harbour, Quebec, Canada
YHS		Sechelt, BC, Canada
YHY		Hay River, Nwt, Canada
YHZ		Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
YIB		Atikokan, Ontario, Canada
YIF		Pakuashipi, Quebec, Canada
YIG		Big Bay Marina, BC, Canada
YIG		Ytrium Iron Garnet
YIK		Ivujivik, Quebec, Canada
YIO		Pond Inlet, Nwt, Canada
YIP		Detroit, MI, USA
YIV		Island Lake, Manitoba, Canada
YJO		Johnny Mountain, BC, Canada
YJT		Stephenville, Newfoundland, Canada
YKA		Kamloops, BC, Canada
YKF		Kitchener, Ont, Canada
YKG		Kangirsuk, Quebec, Canada
YKL		Schefferville, Quebec, Canada
YKM		Yakima, WA, USA
YKN		Yankton, SD, USA
YKQ		Waskaganish, Quebec, Canada
YKS		Kayes, Congo Republic
YKT		Klemtu, BC, Canada
YKU		Fort George, Quebec, Canada
YKX		Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada
YKZ		Toronto-buttonville, Ont, Canada
YLC		Lake Harbour, Nwt, Canada
YLD		Chapleau, Ontario, Canada
YLE		Lac La Martre, Nwt, Canada
YLH		Lansdowne House, Ontario, Canada
YLL		Lloydminister, Sask., Canada
YLP		Mingan, Quebec, Canada
YLQ		La Tuque, Que, Canada
YLR		Leaf Rapids, Manitoba, Canada
YLW		Kelowna, BC, Canada
YMA		Mayo, Yukon Terr., Canada
YME		Matane, Quebec, Canada
YMG		Maniouwadge, Ontario, Canada
YMH		Mary's Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada
YML		Murray Bay, Quebec, Canada
YMM		Fort Mcmurray, Alberta, Canada
YMO		Moosonee, Ontario, Canada
YMP		Port Mcneil, BC, Canada
YMQ		Montreal, Quebec, Canada
YMS		Yurimaguas, Peru
YMT		Chibougamau, Quebec, Canada
YMX		Montreal-mirabel, Quebec, Canada
YNA		Natashquan, Quebec, Canada
YNB		Yanbu, Saudi Arabia
YNC		Wemindji, Quebec, Canada
YND		Gatineau/hull, Quebec, Canada
YNE		Norway House, Manitoba, Canada
YNG		Youngstown, OH, USA
YNH		Hudson Hope, BC, Canada
YNK		Nootka Sound, BC, Canada
YNL		Points North Landing, Sask., Canada
YNM		Matagami, Quebec, Canada
YNO		North Spirit Lake, Ontario, Canada
YNS		Nemiscau, Quebec, Canada
YOC		Old Crow, Yukon Terr., Canada
YOD		Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada
YOG		Ogoki, Ot, Canada
YOH		Oxford House, Manitoba, Canada
YOJ		High Level, Alberta, Canada
YOL		Yola, Nigeria
YOO		Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
YOP		Rainbow Lake, Alberta, Canada
YOW		Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
YOX		Rea Point, Nt, Canada
YP		Yellow Pages (Sun)
YPA		Prince Albert, Sask., Canada
YPC		Paulatuk, Nwt, Canada
YPE		Peace River, Alberta, Canada
YPH		Port Harrison, Quebec, Canada
YPI		Port Simpson, BC, Canada
YPJ		Aupaluk, Quebec, Canada
YPL		Pickle Lake, Ontario, Canada
YPM		Pikangikum, Ontario, Canada
YPN		Port Menier, Quebec, Canada
YPO		Peawanuck, Ontario, Canada
YPQ		Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
YPR		Prince Rupert, BC, Canada
YPT		Pender Harbor, BC, Canada
YPW		Powell River, BC, Canada
YPX		Povungnituk, Quebec, Canada
YPY		Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, Canada
YQA		Muskoka, Ont, Canada
YQB		Quebec, Quebec, Canada
YQC		Quaqtaq, Quebec, Canada
YQD		The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
YQF		Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
YQG		Windsor, Ontario, Canada
YQH		Watson Lake, Yukon Terr., Canada
YQI		Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
YQK		Kenora, Ontario, Canada
YQL		Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
YQM		Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
YQQ		Comox, BC, Canada
YQR		Regina, Sask., Canada
YQT		Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
YQU		Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
YQV		Yorkton, Sask., Canada
YQW		North Battleford, Sask., Canada
YQX		Gander, Newfoundland, Canada
YQY		Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
YQZ		Quesnel, BC, Canada
YRA		Rae Lakes, Nwt, Canada
YRB		Resolute, Nwt, Canada
YRD		Dean River, BC, Canada
YRF		Cartwright, Newfoundland, Canada
YRG		Rigolet, Newfoundland, Canada
YRJ		Roberval, Quebec, Canada
YRL		Red Lake, Ontario, Canada
YRN		Rivers Inlet, BC, Canada
YRQ		Trois Rivieres, Que, Canada
YRR		Stuart Island, BC, Canada
YRS		Red Sucker Lake, Manitoba, Canada
YRT		Rankin Inlet, Nwt, Canada
YSB		Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
YSC		Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
YSE		Swan River, Manitoba, Canada
YSF		Stony Rapids, Sask., Canada
YSG		Snowdrift, Nwt, Canada
YSJ		St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
YSK		Sanikiluag, Nwt, Canada
YSL		St. Leonard, New Brunswick, Canada
YSM		Fort Smith, Nwt, Canada
YSN		Salmon Arm, BC, Canada
YSO		Postville, Newfoundland, Canada
YSP		Marathon, Ontario, Canada
YSR		Nanisivik, Nwt, Canada
YST		St. Therese Point, Manitoba, Canada
YSV		Saglek, Newfoundland, Canada
YSY		Sachs Harbour, Nwt, Canada
YSZ		Squirrel Cove, BC, Canada
YTA		Pembroke, Ontario, Canada
YTC		Sturdee, BC, Canada
YTE		Cape Dorset, Nwt, Canada
YTF		Alma, Quebec, Canada
YTG		Sullivan Bay, BC, Canada
YTH		Thompson, Manitoba, Canada
YTJ		Terrace Bay, Ontario, Canada
YTL		Big Trout Lake, Ontario, Canada
YTN		Riviere-au-tonnerre, Quebec, Canada
YTO		Toronto, Ontario, Canada
YTP		Tofino Spb, BC, Canada
YTQ		Tasiujuaq, Quebec, Canada
YTR		Trenton, Ontario, Canada
YTS		Timmins, Ontario, Canada
YTX		Telegraph Creek, BC, Canada
YTZ		Toronto-island, Ont, Canada
YUB		Tuktoyaktuk, Nwt, Canada
YUD		Umiujaq, Quebec, Canada
YUF		Pelly Bay, Nwt, Canada
YUL		Montreal, Quebec
YUL		Montreal-dorval, Quebec, Canada
YUM		Yuma, AZ, USA
YUT		Repulse Bay, Nwt, Canada
YUV		?video Standard
YUX		Hall Beach, Nwt, Canada
YUY		Rouyn Noranda, Quebec, Canada
YVA		Moromi-iconi, Comoros
YVB		Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada
YVC		Lac La Ronge, Sask., Canada
YVM		Broughton Island, Nwt, Canada
YVO		Val D'or, Quebec, Canada
YVP		Kuujjuaq-fort Chimo, Que, Canada
YVQ		Norman Wells, Nwt, Canada
YVR		Vancouver, British Columbia
YVR		Vancouver-intl, BC, Canada
YVT		Buffalo Narrows, Sask., Canada
YVZ		Deer Lake, Ontario, Canada
YWB		Kangiqsujuag, Quebec, Canada
YWG		Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
YWH		Victoria-inner Harbour, BC, Canada
YWJ		Fort Franklin, Nwt, Canada
YWK		Wabush, Newfoundland, Canada
YWL		Williams Lake, BC, Canada
YWM		Williams Harbor, Newfoundland, Canada
YWP		Webequie, Ontario, Canada
YWY		Wrigley, Nwt, Canada
YXC		Cranrook, BC, Canada
YXD		Edmonton-municipal, Alberta, Canada
YXE		Saskatoon, Sask., Canada
YXH		Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
YXJ		Fort St. John, BC, Canada
YXK		Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
YXL		Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada
YXN		Whale Cove, Nwt, Canada
YXP		Pangnirtung, Nwt, Canada
YXR		Earlton, Ontario, Canada
YXS		Prince George, BC, Canada
YXT		Terrace, BC, Canada
YXU		London, Ontario, Canada
YXX		Abbotsford, BC, Canada
YXY		Whitehorse, Yukon Terr., Canada
YXZ		Wawa, Ontario, Canada
YYA		Big Bay Yacht Club, BC, Canada
YYB		North Bay, Ontario, Canada
YYC		Calgary, Alberta
YYC		Calgary, Alberta, Canada
YYD		Smithers, BC, Canada
YYE		Fort Nelson, BC, Canada
YYF		Penticton, BC, Canada
YYG		Charlottetown, Pei, Canada
YYH		Spence Bay, Nwt, Canada
YYJ		Victoria-international, BC, Canada
YYL		Lynn Lake, Manitoba, Canada
YYQ		Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
YYR		Goose Bay, Newfoundland, Canada
YYT		St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
YYU		Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada
YYY		Mont Joli, Quebec, Canada
YYZ		Toronto-pearson, Ontario, Canada
YZE		Gore Bay, Ontario, Canada
YZF		Yellowknife, Nwt, Canada
YZG		Salluit, Quebec, Canada
YZP		Sandspit, BC, Canada
YZR		Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
YZS		Coral Harbour, Nwt, Canada
YZT		Port Hardy, BC, Canada
YZV		Seven Islands, Quebec, Canada

Z80		Zilog Microprocessor (8/8)
ZAA		Alice Arm, BC, Canada
ZAD		Zadar, Yugoslavia
ZAG		Zagreb, Yugoslavia
ZAH		Zahedan, Iran
ZAL		Valdavia, Chile
ZAM		Zamboanga, Philippines
ZAZ		Zaragoza, Spain
ZB		Z-buffer
ZBF		Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
ZBO		Bowen, Australia
ZCAV		Zoned Constant Angular Velocity
ZCL		Zacatecas, Mexico
ZCO		Temuco, Chile
ZEL		Bella Bella, BC, Canada
ZEM		East Main, Quebec, Canada
ZFA		Faro, Yukon Terr., Canada
ZFD		Fond Du Lac, Sask., Canada
ZFM		Fort Mcpherson, Nwt, Canada
ZFN		Fort Norman, Nwt, Canada
ZGF		Grand Forks, BC, Canada
ZGI		Gods River, Manitoba, Canada
ZGM		Ngoma, Zambia
ZGS		Gethsemani, Quebec, Canada
ZHM		Shamshernagar, Bangladesh
ZIF		Zero Insertion Force
ZIG		Ziguinchor, Senegal
ZIH		Ixtapa-zihuatanejo, Mexico
ZIP		Zig-zag In-line Pin
ZIP		Zigzag Inline Package
ZIP		Zone Information Protocol (apple)
ZIT		Zone Information Table (apple)
ZJG		Jenpeg, Manitoba, Canada
ZKB		Kasaba Bay, Zambia
ZKE		Kaschechewan, Ontario, Canada
ZKG		Kegaska, Quebec, Canada
ZLG		El Gouera, Mauritania
ZLO		Manzanillo, Mexico
ZLT		La Tabatiere, Quebec, Canada
ZMT		Masset, BC, Canada
ZNA		Nanaimo-harbour, BC, Canada
ZNC		Nyac, AK, USA
ZND		Zinder, Niger
ZNE		Newman, Australia
ZNQ		Ingolstadt, Germany
ZNU		Namu, BC, Canada
ZNZ		Zanzibar, Tanzania
ZOF		Ocean Falls, BC, Canada
ZOS		Osorno, Chile
ZPB		Sachigo Lake, Ontario, Canada
ZQN		Queenstown, New Zealand
ZRH		Zurich, Switzerland
ZRJ		Round Lake, Ontario, Canada
ZSA		San Salvador, Bahamas
ZSJ		Sandy Lake, Ontario, Canada
ZSS		Sassandra, Ivory Coast
ZST		Stewart, BC, Canada
ZSW		Prince Rupert, BC, Canada
ZTB		Tete A La Baleine, Quebec, Canada
ZTH		Zakinthos, Greece
ZTM		Shamattawa, Manitoba, Canada
ZTS		Tahsis, BC, Canada
ZUM		Churchill Falls, Newfoundland, Canada
ZVA		Miandrivazo, Madagascar
ZVK		Savannakhet, Laos
ZWL		Wollaston Lake, Sask., Canada
ZXA		Rota, Spain
ZXB		Albuquerque-double Eagle II, NM, USA
ZXC		Gasquet, CA, USA
ZXD		San Isidro, Dominican Republic
ZXE		Sculthorpe, UK
ZXF		Illinois Creek, AK, USA
ZXG		Cabin Creek, AK, USA
ZXH		Chomondely Sound, AK, USA
ZXI		Coal Bay, AK, USA
ZXJ		Happy Harbour, AK, USA
ZXK		Lancaster Cove, AK, USA
ZXL		Reid Cove, AK, USA
ZXM		Saltery Cove, AK, USA
ZXN		Clover Bay, AK, USA
ZXO		El Capitan, AK, USA
ZXP		Salmon Bay Lake, AK, USA
ZXQ		Santa Ynez, CA, USA
ZXR		Carmel Valley, CA, USA
ZXS		Elk River, ID, USA
ZXT		Cloverdale, CA, USA
ZXU		North Kingstown, RI, USA
ZXV		Nappanee, IN, USA
ZXW		Paradise, CA, USA
ZXX		Kennewick, WA, USA
ZXY		Delta, CO, USA
ZXZ		Waterville, WA, USA
ZYL		Sylhet, Bangladesh
ZZU		Mzuzu, Malawi
ZZV		Zanesville, OH, USA