n
Initialism of zero transmission level point.
n
Initialism of two spirit.
n
(nonstandard) the Second World War
n
Alternative form of A&M [Agricultural and Mechanical, a historical university description]
n
Initialism of Master of Arts. [A postgraduate degree usually in a non-science subject.]
n
Abbreviation of alcohol by weight.
n
(Greater China) Initialism of anime, comics and games: a Chinese subculture that revolves around anime, manga, and Japanese video games. [(uncountable) An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries.]
adv
(Internet slang, vulgar) Initialism of as fuck. [(postpositive, slang, vulgar, simile) To a great extent or degree; very.]
n
Acronym of American Israel Public Affairs Committee: a pro-Israel lobby in the United States.
n
Acronym of Alien Life Form (a TV series)
n
Initialism of adios, motherfucker, a mixed drink variant of the Long Island iced tea.
adv
Initialism of Anywhere on Earth. [At the moment midnight is reached in the time zone immediately east of the International Date Line (that is, on the Western Hemisphere).]
n
(UK politics) Abbreviation of Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.
n
Alternative letter-case form of ASBO [(Britain, law enforcement) Anti-Social Behaviour Order]
n
(property law, real estate, England & Wales) Initialism of assured shorthold tenancy.
n
(historical) United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a paramilitary group active from 1997 to 2006.
n
Bachelor of Accounting (or of Accountancy).
n
Initialism of Bachelor of Arts. [A collegiate degree, usually involving three to four years of study (about 120 semester hours) in liberal arts.]
n
Abbreviation of Bachelor of Applied Science.
n
Initialism of Black American Sign Language.
n
Initialism of bisexual female.
n
(vulgar, slang, military) Initialism of Bumfuck, Egypt. A place that is far away or difficult to reach, idiomatically synonymous with Timbuktu. [(vulgar, US) An imaginary place in the middle of nowhere.]
v
(stenoscript) Abbreviation of begin. and its inflections (began, begun, beginning)
n
Initialism of Bowling Green State University.
n
(music) Initialism of Bring Me the Horizon: a British rock band formed in Sheffield in 2004.
n
Abbreviation of bus queue shelter or bus que shelter (“bus shelter”).
n
(linguistics) Abbreviation of British English. [The English language as written and spoken in the United Kingdom (in contrast with other places, particularly other countries where English is predominant or at least an important language)]
n
(Philippines) Initialism of Bachelor in Secondary Education.
n
(education) British school overseas.
adj
(vulgar, slang) Initialism of blown the fuck out or broke the fuck off; utterly defeated or rejected.
n
Initialism of Bournemouth University.
n
(Internet slang) Acronym of big ugly ASCII font.
n
Acronym of Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine, awarded by the University of London (Royal Veterinary College). Equivalent to a DVM or VMD degree in North America.
n
Alternative form of CA (“chartered accountant”)
n
Alternative letter-case form of Carnegie unit [(education, US) A time-based unit of measurement used in American secondary schools to track student educational attainment. Each unit represents 120 hours of class or contact time with an instructor over the course of a year.]
n
Abbreviation of Constitutional Democratic Party.
n
Abbreviation of Church of England; also C of E. [The English branch of the Christian Church; (since the 16th century) specifically the established Protestant church in England which is the mother church of the Anglican Communion.]
n
(nautical) Abbreviation of course over ground.
n
(US, military) Abbreviation of counterinsurgency. [Any political or military action taken to defeat insurgency, especially during guerrilla warfare.]
n
(historical) Abbreviation of Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, a multinational economic organization that existed in the Eastern Bloc from 1949 to 1991.
n
(Britain, law enforcement) Acronym of criminal antisocial behaviour order: a restriction like an ASBO, but where the forbidden behaviour constitutes a crime.
n
(role-playing games) Initialism of Dungeons and Dragons.
n
Initialism of director-general.
n
(Philippines) Initialism of De La Salle University.
v
(geocaching) Initialism of did not find.
n
(video games) Initialism of Electronic Entertainment Expo. (trade event for the video game industry)
adv
Initialism of eastbound. [Toward the east.]
n
Acronym of European Gaming and Betting Association.
n
Initialism of Ellen Gould White: an American pioneer Seventh-day Adventist and prolific author.
n
(travel, aviation) Initialism of Eastern Hemisphere (travel within or between IATA areas 2 and 3). [The hemisphere of the Earth to the east of the Greenwich Meridian (zero degree longitude) and west of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line).]
n
Initialism of Elvish Linguistic Fellowship (an organization that studies the invented languages of J. R. R. Tolkien)
n
Alternative letter-case form of ESA (trademark stylisation)
n
(linguistics) Initialism of English for specific or special purposes.
v
Abbreviation of estimated.
n
An extension of the European Union to include the European Free Trade Association.
n
Abbreviation of fast atom bombardment.
n
(mnemonic) Acronym used to remember the coordinating conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
n
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia); Marxist, revolutionary guerrilla groups operating in Colombia
n
(sports) Abbreviation of final B.
n
Abbreviation of unified Germany. (Federal Democratic Republic of Germany) (post Cold War)
adj
Abbreviation of Federative.
adj
(Judaism) Initialism of frum from birth.
n
Abbreviation of guided missile frigate, a type of frigate.
n
(law) Abbreviation of fieri facias. [(law) In English law, a writ of execution issued after judgment obtained in a legal action for debt or damages.]
n
Acronym of First Lady of the United States.
n
(rare) Initialism of fear of bad outcomes.
n
Initialism of forces of evil.
n
(US government, as a title) Abbreviation of Foreign Minister.
n
Initialism of false positive. [A result of a test that shows as present something that is absent.]
v
(Internet slang) Alternative letter-case form of FR (“friend request”)
n
Initialism of Federal Republic of Germany. [(1949–1990) The official name of West Germany.]
n
(initialism, Russia, politics, espionage, government) The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (an intelligence agency of the Russian Federation and one of the main successors of the Soviet Cheka, NKVD, and KGB).
n
(uncountable) Initialism of full-service sex work.
adv
(Internet slang) Initialism of for the win.
n
(Hong Kong, in building names) Abbreviation of Factory.
n
(law) Initialism of First-Year Law Students' Examination.
n
Abbreviation of General Order.
adj
(politics) Abbreviation of government-to-government.
n
(politics) Abbreviation of Group of 77, a coalition of developing countries.
n
(politics) Initialism of global affairs. [Synonym of international relations, commonly abbreviated as GA.]
n
Initialism of Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees.
n
Abbreviation of Green Bay in Wisconsin, USA.
n
Initialism of gender-based analysis.
n
(Britain, law) Initialism of grievous bodily harm. [(UK) Serious physical injury to a person, or the fact of causing such injury.]
n
(initialism, video games) Nintendo GameCube, a sixth-generation home console
n
Acronym of Government Communications Security Bureau, New Zealand's public-service department performing national security and intelligence functions.
n
post-nominal letters for a person who has been awarded the position of Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India.
n
Initialism of global financial elite.
n
Initialism of Goldie Lookin Chain.
n
Abbreviation of Grandee of the National Order of Quebec.
n
(astronautics) Acronym of gaseous oxygen
n
(politics) Initialism of Green Party. [The particular green party of a country or region.]
n
Initialism of General Post Office.
n
(US) Abbreviation of Golden State. [The official nickname for the state of California in the United States of America.]
n
Initialism of German shepherd dog.
n
(architecture) Initialism of gross square footage: the total sum of the floorspace over every level of a building.
n
Initialism of Ghanaian Sign Language.
n
Initialism of Generalized System of Preferences.
n
Initialism of Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. [(historical) Libya from the late 1970s to 2011.]
n
(electronics) Abbreviation of Ge2Sb2Te5. (a compound composed of germanium, antimony, tellurium)
n
(Oxford University) Initialism of Green Templeton College, Oxford.
v
(Internet slang, vulgar) Initialism of get the fuck over it.
n
Abbreviation of geologic timescale.
n
(Japan) Abbreviation of Golden Week. [Any of several extended holidays celebrated in China and Japan, usually early in May.]
n
Initialism of higher education. [Education at university level or beyond.]
n
(Indo-European studies) Alternative form of IE
adj
(aviation) Abbreviation of inbound. [Coming in, heading inwards]
n
(politics) Abbreviation of independent., especially where the alternatives are initialisms (e.g., for television networks). [A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a freethinker, free of a party platform.]
n
(UK, in addresses) Abbreviation of industrial estate. [An area of buildings intended primarily for industrial purposes, i.e. factories and related services and infrastructure, rather than for living in.]
n
Abbreviation of Islamic State in Iraq. [(former name) ISIL/ISIS/Islamic State]
n
Abbreviation of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Khorasan / Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Khorasan: Daesh-Khorasan
n
(law, postnominal) Alternative form of J (“abbreviation of judge or justice”). [In the name of a serial publication: abbreviation of Journal.]
n
Someone associated with the University of Kansas, for example as a student, alum, or sports team member, or as a fan.
n
(law) Initialism of Juris Doctor. [A professional doctorate in law, and in some countries, a first professional graduate degree.]
n
(government, US, military) Joint Federal Travel Regulation
n
Abbreviation of Jakarta, a special district of Indonesia. [The capital city of Indonesia.]
n
Initialism of Justice of the Peace, as a postnominal. [A judicial officer with varying responsibilities depending on the jurisdiction.]
n
(informal) Initialism of Jehovah's Witness. [A member of the Christian church Jehovah's Witnesses.]
n
Alternative form of KC [(initialism) Kansas City]
n
Alternative form of KC [(initialism) Kansas City]
n
(Philippines) Initialism of kinder one. [(Philippines) The first year of kindergarten, the period in school that comes after nursery and before prep or elementary.]
n
The Kansas City Roos, the athletic program of the University of Missouri–Kansas City (whose academic brand is UMKC).
n
Initialism of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
n
Abbreviation of kilocycle. [A thousand cycles (of any periodic phenomenon).]
n
Initialism of Knight Commander, part of the Order of the Bath.
n
Abbreviation of Kirkudbright.
n
Abbreviation of Kansas City, Kansas, USA. [A city in Missouri, United States and one of the two county seats of Jackson County.]
n
Abbreviation of Kansas City, Kansas, USA.. From KC+KS. [A city in Missouri, United States and one of the two county seats of Jackson County.]
n
(Hong Kong) Initialism of Kowloon-Canton Railway.
n
(Vanuatu) Initialism of Kaikai Fried Chicken.
n
Abbreviation of Knight of The Most Noble Order of the Garter.
n
Acronym of King George V.
n
Abbreviation of King's Cross. [An area in central London, England, known for its major railway terminus.]
n
(Malaysia) Initialism of Kota Kinabalu. [The capital city of Sabah, Malaysia, formerly known as Jesselton.]
n
(Malaysia) Initialism of Kuala Lumpur. [A federal territory in western Malaysia, in which the country’s current capital of the same name is located.]
n
Abbreviation of Kowloon. (of Hong Kong) [An urban area of Hong Kong.]
n
Official abbreviation of The King of Fighters.
n
(informal) Abbreviation of Knight of the Round Table.
n
(countable, India, Hinduism) Initialism of Kashmiri Pandit.
n
Initialism of Korean People's Army.
n
(UK, education) Initialism of key stage. [(UK, Ireland, education) Any of the sequential stages of attainment in the state education system of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar, specifying the knowledge expected of students at various ages.]
n
Abbreviation of Kansas. [A state of the mid United States. Capital: Topeka.]
n
(Malaysia) Abbreviation of Klang Valley.
n
(rail transport, Britain) Initialism of London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. [The capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England. Situated near the mouth of the River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.]
n
Initialism of law enforcement. [The task of ensuring obedience to the law.]
n
(automotive) Abbreviation of low-emissions vehicle.
n
(psychology) Abbreviation of large-group awareness training. [(psychology) (abbreviated LGAT) Activities usually offered by groups linked with the human potential movement which claim to increase self-awareness and bring about desirable transformations in individuals' personal lives.]
n
Initialism of Lim Guan Eng. (Malaysian politician and accountant)
n
Abbreviation of Long Island City. [A residential and commercial neighbourhood of Queens, New York.]
n
(linguistics) Initialism of The Logical Language Group.
n
Initialism of Land of Smiles (a nickname for Thailand). [(poetic) Thailand]
n
Initialism of Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
n
(politics) Initialism of Libertarian Party (United States).
n
(uncountable) Abbreviation of low quality.
n
(sexuality) Initialism of love-shyness. [The state of being love-shy.]
n
Postal abbreviation of Massachusetts, a state of the United States of America.
n
(Australia, Queensland) abbreviation of Mathematics A. [(Australia, Queensland) The least advanced of the three OP-eligible mathematics subjects available to Queensland students in years 11 and 12.]
n
Initialism of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase.
n
(politics) Initialism of Middle East and North Africa.
n
Abbreviation of master of environmental science.
n
(Australia, historical) Abbreviation of Multifunction Polis.
n
The overseas intelligence agency of the United Kingdom, whose primary function is to spy on foreign governments and terror groups located abroad. Formally called the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).
n
(geography) Abbreviation of Michoacán, A state of Mexico [A state of Mexico.]
n
(economics) Acronym of Mexico, Indonesia, (South) Korea, Turkey. [A country in North America, located south of the United States, and northwest of Guatemala and Belize from Central America. Official name: United Mexican States.]
n
(philately, overprint on British Empire stamps of Burma) Acronym of military administration.
n
(chiefly informal) The University of Missouri.
n
Initialism of missionary's kid.
n
(linguistics) Initialism of Middle Latin. [A form of the Latin language used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange and as the liturgical language of the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but also as a language of science, literature, law, and administration.]
n
(Britain, Canada, India) Initialism of member of the legislative assembly.
n
Initialism of Master of Legal Studies, a master's degree offered by some law schools to students who wish to study the law but do not want to become attorneys.
n
(video games) Initialism of Master of Orion.
n
(slang, derogatory) agricultural university or college
n
(Internet slang) Synonym of M4M; Initialism of men seeking men/males seeking males.
n
(linguistics) Abbreviation of Middle Ukrainian.
n
Abbreviation of noise and vibration.
n
Alternative form of NASA
n
Alternative form of NFL: the National Football League
n
(law) Initialism of New Mexico, as used in case citations. [A former provincial kingdom in New Spain.]
n
(law) Abbreviation of Nova Scotia. [A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Halifax.]
n
Initialism of North American Man/Boy Love Association.
n
(Canada) Initialism of New Brunswick, a Canadian province. [A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Fredericton.]
n
(historical) Acronym of National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures.
n
National Council for the Traditional Arts
n
(Android, computing) Initialism of Native Development Kit.
n
(software) Initialism of New Executable (executable file format used by early 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/2).
n
(astronomy) Initialism of North Equatorial Band.
n
(astronomy) Initialism of narrow emission-line galaxy.
n
(aviation) Alternative letter-case form of NEO
adj
Acronym for Not Elsewhere Specified Or Included or Not Elsewhere Specified Or Indicated, used to refer to items exported between countries, usually requiring an export license
n
(video games) Initialism of Need for Speed.
n
(linguistics) Abbreviation of Nigerian English.
n
(initialism) Narrow emission-line quasar.
n
Initialism of New Mexico, a state of the United States of America. [A former provincial kingdom in New Spain.]
n
(Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Novus Ordo. [(Roman Catholicism) The version of the Roman Rite of the Mass established in 1969, the Mass of Paul VI, usually celebrated in a vernacular language.]
n
(Internet slang) Initialism of none of your business.
n
Initialism of new relationship energy. [An emotionally heightened state of mind experienced at the beginning of sexual and romantic relationships.]
n
(religion) Initialism of new religious movement. [(religion) (abbreviated NRM) Any religious community or spiritual group of modern origins, having a peripheral place within its nation's dominant religious culture.]
n
(Australia, transport, rail transport) Abbreviation of New South Wales Government Railways.
n
(philately) Initialism of (a stamp with) no value indicated.
n
(calendar systems) Abbreviation of old style.
n
Initialism of old boy. (male graduate; also a CB radio operator's term of address for a male) [(chiefly Britain) An alumnus, especially of a public school.]
n
(UK) Initialism of ordnance datum Newlyn. Used to judge the height above/below sea level in England, from the MSL (mean sea level) in Newlyn between 1915 and 1921.
n
(linguistics) Initialism of Oxford Dictionaries Online.
n
(linguistics) Initialism of Old English. [(linguistics, historical) The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 to 1100.]
n
(Britain) Acronym of Office of the National Lottery.
n
(Cold War) A special design bureau of the Soviet Union, that performed experimental research and development.
n
(publishing, linguistics) Initialism of Oxford Latin Dictionary.
n
Initialism of Of Mice and Men.
n
Initialism of Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
adj
(initialism) original-language version French subtitles; a film in a non-French language, with French-language subtitles.
n
(military) People's Liberation Army Ground Force, the army branch of the military arm of the People's Republic of China.
n
Acronym of President-elect of the United States.
n
(business) Initialism of Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish: a set of Western languages often prioritized when producing translations [A person native to, or living in, Portugal.]
n
Initialism of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
n
Initialism of Project Gutenberg.
n
(US) Initialism of Prince George's County Sheriff's Office.
n
(historical) The People's Liberation Armed Forces, the army of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam during the 1960s and early 1970s.
n
(film) Initialism of premium large format (large-format screens similar to IMAX)
n
(UK politics) Initialism of private notice question. [(UK politics) A topical question asked of the government by a member of the House of Lords, requiring an immediate response.]
n
Initialism of Polish People's Republic. [(historical) A Marxist-Leninist country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989, the predecessor of the current Republic of Poland.]
n
Initialism of person-year. [Synonym of man-year]
n
(Canada, informal) Alternative form of QEW [(Canada, initialism) The Queen Elizabeth Way, a heavily-traveled Canadian highway connecting the Peace Bridge at Buffalo, New York to Toronto, Ontario.]
n
(Australia) Abbreviation of Queensland. [One of the six states of Australia. Capital: Brisbane. It occupies the north-eastern part of the continent.]
n
(Britain) Initialism of Queen's Police Medal.
n
(neologism) Initialism of queerplatonic relationship.
n
Initialism of Rolls-Royce. [any of several British companies that make motor cars, aero engines, etc.]
n
The German Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction).
n
(historical) A far-left terrorist organization active from 1970 to 1998, mainly in West Germany.
n
The air force of the British armed forces
n
Initialism of Rio Grande do Sul. (a state of Brazil) [A state of the South Region, Brazil. Capital: Porto Alegre]
n
(Australia) Responsible Service of Gambling, a government certificate allowing hotel workers to work in a gambling establishment.
n
Initialism of sex appeal. [Sexual attractiveness.]
n
Initialism of sexual abuse. [(crime) Any sexual activity that is undesired by one participant but forced on them nonetheless, especially when considered to be more sustained or frequent than an incident of sexual assault.]
n
Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science
n
Initialism of arterial oxygen saturation.
n
(Christianity) Initialism of Seventh-day Adventist. [(Christianity) A member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.]
n
Abbreviation of San Francisco International Airport.
adj
Abbreviation of singular. [Being only one of a larger population.]
n
Initialism of same-gender attraction.
n
Initialism of Sunkyong., a company from South Korea
n
(historical) Initialism of Sumerian King List.
n
Abbreviation of Summer Olympic Games.
n
(psychology) Initialism of sensory processing sensitivity. [(psychology) a temperamental or personality trait involving an increased sensitivity of the central nervous system and a deeper cognitive processing of physical, social and emotional stimuli]
n
(uncountable) Initialism of speculative realism. [(philosophy) A movement in contemporary philosophy that defines itself loosely in its stance of metaphysical realism against the dominant forms of post-Kantian philosophy (or what it terms correlationism).]
n
(geometry) Initialism of side side angle (a geometric proof reason)
n
(linguistics) Initialism of Spanish Sign Language.
n
(US) Abbreviation of suite. (STE is preferred by the United States Postal Service; compare Ste. and ste.) [A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.]
n
Initialism of single (romantically unattached) white female. [(music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.]
adj
(not comparable, Britain) In a film certificate: abbreviation of universal (“suitable for all ages”).
n
(construction) Initialism of Uniform Building Code.
n
Initialism of University of California, San Francisco.
n
Acronym of Underground Electric Railways Company of London Limited.
n
Acronym of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
n
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) Alternative letter-case form of UNICEF (not used in North America)
n
(historical) Acronym of United Nations Protection Force: a multinational peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslavia in 1992 to 1995; superseded by IFOR.
n
Initialism of Upper Sorbian. [a Slavic language spoken in part of Saxony]
n
Initialism of United States dollar.
n
(India,historical) Initialism of United State of Travancore and Cochin.
n
Initialism of Unicode Transformation Format: Any of various algorithms that map Unicode codepoints to unique sequences of bytes.
n
(religion) Initialism of Unitarian Universalist. [A follower of Unitarian Universalism.]
n
(Canada, US, ice hockey) Abbreviation of Vegas Golden Knights.
n
Abbreviation of Vermont. [A state of the United States.]
n
Alternative spelling of WHO
n
(linguistics) Abbreviation of West African English.
n
(linguistics) Abbreviation of Welsh English. [The form of the English language that is chiefly used in Wales.]
adj
(philately) Initialism of extremely fine or extra fine; also EF.
n
Initialism of young adult fiction.
n
Initialism of young learner.
n
(economics) Abbreviation of permanent income.
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