The Opaui Guide to Lists of
Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms
on the World Wide Web
Accountancy:
Abbreviations and acronyms from CPATeam.
Accountancy:
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Accountancy:
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Afghanistan:
Reconstruction effort.
Africa: Abbreviations
and acronyms related to African studies, with special reference to southern
Africa.
Agriculture: Too useful for
general agronomy to classify under "Rice" alone.
Agriculture:
Giannini Foundation Library.
Agriculture:
From the Caribbean Agricultural Information Service.
Alaska:
From the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation.
Arctic Science: Polar acronyms
(IASC Secretariat).
Astronomy &
Space: Canonical astronomy abbrev/acro list.
Automotive:
Car terminology, autoparts, etc.
Automotive:
Hawkman's Automotive Webspace.
Australia: Acronyms in
Australian medical practice.
Australia:
Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
Australia:
Geoscience Australia.
Aviación:
Abreviaturas aeronáuticas (Gacías).
Aviation:
Honeywell.
Aviation:
USAAF.
Biodiversity:
Abbreviations and acronyms related to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Biotechnology:
Biotechnology Abbreviation and Acronym Uncovering Service (BioABACUS).
Building: Common acronyms
in the (Canadian) construction industry.
Canada:
Government abbreviations from .ca-land.
Chemistry:
Abbreviations of chemical compounds / Abkürzungen chemischer Verbindungen (en,
de).
Chemistry:
Abbreviations Related to International Chemical Safety Activities (US EPA).
Climate
Change: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center.
Computers
and Telecommunications: Babel.
Computers and
Telecommunications: Ultimate computer acronyms archive.
Computers and
Telecommunications: Internet, Usenet, chat, omg, lol, ugh (Thomas).
Countries:
Two-letter ISO 3166 codes, plus three-letter ISOs and (one layer further in)
national flags.
Currencies:
claves ISO 4217 (monedas) e ISO 3166 (países); country/currency codes, in
Spanish.
Earth
Sciences: Atmospheric radiation measurement program.
Earth Sciences:
Dictionary of quaternary acronyms.
Earth Sciences:
Geographic information systems, cartography, remote sensing.
Education:
Higher education acronyms (UNESCO-CEPES).
Education: Common
acronyms in adult education (SABES).
Education:
English language teaching terminology.
Education: The Commonwealth
of Learning.
Education:
Higher education funding in the UK.
Electronics:
Common abbreviations and acronyms in electronics (Kaytaz).
Energy:
Nuclear reactors, waste, safety, etc. (NKS).
Energy:
Oil refinery acronyms and abbreviations.
Environmental:
Association of Engineering Geologists.
Environmental: "Terms of
Environment" (US EPA).
Environmental:
Mexico-USA border concerns, en & es (TRIP).
Environmental: US
Department of Energy.
Europe: EU
(Belair).
Finance: NUMA dictionary
of derivatives acronyms.
Finance:
Investopedia.
Genetics:
Courtesy of the Human Genome Program.
Geneaology: GenDocs
(UK).
Geography:
Geographic information systems, cartography, remote sensing.
Guatemala:
Organizaciones (sociedad civil, etc.) en Guatemala.
Health Care: Acronyms
found in Australian medical practice.
Health
Information Resources: Global information and data resources in the health
sciences; ou, si l'on prefère, des Ressources
d'information sur la santé.
Human
Rights: And humanitarian organizations (Belair).
Incoterms: Con
descripciones en español.
Indonesia:
Words, concepts, and acronyms.
Indonesia:
ASAP Indonesia.
International
Affairs: International development acronyms and terminology (USAID).
International
Affairs: ReliefWeb.
International
Affairs: International organizations based in Geneva.
International
Affairs: NGOs at the international level; extensively linked.
Ireland:
Terms and acronyms, but enough of the latter to make it worthwhile.
Ireland:
Acronyms associated with the Irish conflict. Comprehensively linked.
Ireland: Colour-coded
acronyms related to the Irish conflict.
Islam:
Mulitlateral relations in the Islamic world (Organisation of the Islamic
Conference).
Journalism:
Belair.
Languages:
Two-letter ISO 639 codes.
Latin America:
Abbreviations and acronyms used in the Latin American press (FBIS). [Link
to zipped PDF]
Legal:
University of Washington School of Law.
Legal:
Listado de abreviaturas de la jurisprudencia española.
Maritime: The Nautical
Institute's guide for mariners.
Maritime:
Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
Medical: Pharmaceutical
medicine (Pharma-Lexicon).
Medical:
US FDA drug approval procedures, regulations, etc.
Medical:
HIV/AIDS.
Medical:
Medical abbreviations (with links).
Meteorology:
Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services (USA).
Mexico: Glosario de siglas
mexicanas: gobierno, política, finanzas, etc. (Opaui).
Military:
Megaterms (22,700 terms and acronyms). Downloadable Windows help file.
Military:
UK Ministry of Defence.
Military:
US Department of Defense.
Military:
Abbreviations of the US Armed Forces.
Military:
Federation of American Scientists.
Military:
World War II abbreviations, acronyms, codewords, terms.
NASA: An effort to
make NASAspeak understandable to the general reader, together with general
space-related acronyms.
Planning:
American Planning Association.
Polar Science: Arctic and
antarctic! (IASC)
Public
Broadcasting: From the National Educational Telecommunications Association
and Current newspaper.
Quality
Control: Operations management and quality management.
Rice: Rice cultivation,
agronomy, the green revolution (IRRI, WARDA, CIAT).
Satellites:
Earth Observing System Data and Information System.
South Africa:
Healthcare and social acronyms.
Spain:
Abbreviations and acronyms used in the Spanish press (FBIS). [Link to
zipped PDF]
Spanish:
Abbreviations and acronyms used in the Spanish-language military and general
press (FBIS). [Link to zipped PDF]
Telecomunicaciones
y Telefonía: Siglas inglesas traducidas y españolas autóctonas.
Telecommunications:
General telecomms (MIT).
Telecommunications:
ISDN abbreviations (MIT).
Telecommunications:
CRAF/ESF: European slant.
Trade:
Abbreviations used in international trade.
Transportation:
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (US DOT).
UK:
Business and professional abbreviations and acronyms.
USA:
List of US government acronyms.
USA:
Abbreviations and acronyms of the US government (thoroughly linked).
USA:
Specific to Alaska (AHFC).
USA: Organizational
acronyms.
USA: Acronyms,
abbreviations, initials, and common names of federal political action
committees.
Coins grading abbreviations
Veterinary
Medicine: From the Veterinary Medicine Library.
Yugoslavia (former): Office of
the High Representative in BiH.
teenchatdecoder.com: Teen chat room acronym decoder
www.calculateme.com
TUCAA: The Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive
NoSlang.com
Wordsmith.org
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