Angela has not had time to update this website recently, because she is also a mathematician by training, programmer by trade, physicist by association and writer by Sunday midnight. She would like to remind people that anyone who submits an acronym to this website may send a short blurb like this one to go on their page of acronyms.
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| 100% | JUICE (2) | Juveniles Usefully Ingest Citrus Extract |
Tony McCoy O'Grady and Angela Brett Food & Drink:Drinks Food & Drink:Drinks |
| 100% | JULES (3) | Jesus Uses Lively Evangelical Singer |
Angela Brett Entertainment:Music:Artists Entertainment:Music:Artists |
| 80% | JUMP | Jolt of Unrestrained Mac Power |
Angela Brett, describing what would be needed to turn KEYBOARD off or on (the power keys are on the soles of his feet, but aren't activated by normal walking.) MacGirl & KeyBoard MacGirl & KeyBoard |
| 100% | JUMP IN A LAKE | Just Use Mother's Personal Identification Number, And Lunch At Kin's Expense! |
Angela Brett, while thinking about the SHOVE OFF challenge... although this one doesn't quite fit it. Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| 100% | JUMP OUT OF A PLANE! | Jolted Upwards... My Parachute's Opened Up! Thrill Of Freefall Abated, Pleasantly Lowering Adrenalin Nearing Earth. |
Angela Brett Sports & Recreation:Parachuting Sports & Recreation:Parachuting |
| 100% | JUNCTION | Jumbled Underground Network Comes Together Into One Nexus |
Angela Brett Places Places Transport:Trains Transport:Trains |
| 100% | JURY | Judge: Unanimous? Representative: Yes. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 88% | JUSTICE | Join the United States - They Incarcerate Criminal Evildoers |
Angela Brett, with a rose-tinted view of JUSTICE (the AMERICAN WAY.) It isn't really true. After all, they didn't incarcerate Bill G*t*s. People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | JUST TOO BUSY | Joyful Users Should Try To Openly Operate Battery Utilisation System. Yes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, complaining about Angela's sister, who is JUST TOO BUSY to change her clock batteries and therefore her emails come through as though they'd been sent several days beforehand. Computers Computers Assorted Phrases Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | KA (2) | Kurvaceous Automobile |
Angela Brett Transport:Car Makes & Models Transport:Car Makes & Models |
| 100% | KAIMANAWA | Knocking Around In Mountains Are Nomads And Wild Animals |
Angela Brett, referring to the mountain range in NEW ZEALAND Places Places |
| 100% | KARIN | Katharos (Athenian) Rarely Impure Name |
Angela Brett (According to my dictionary, the name Karin and many similar names are 'of uncertain origin, later assimilated to katharos, pure.') Names:First names:Female Names:First names:Female |
| 83% | KARMA | Kill, And Revenge Mars (your) Afterlife! |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 100% | KAYAK | Keeps Away Yachties... Absent Keel! |
Angela Brett Transport Transport |
| 100% | KAZI | Keenly Avoid Zipping Intimates! |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings:The 'Little Room' Places:Buildings:The 'Little Room' |
| 100% | KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID! | Kindly Extract Essentials, Pass Intricacies To Specialists. It Makes People Lose Enthusiasm, Struggling To Understand Perplexing, Insignificant Details. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Advice People & Relationships:Advice |
| 100% | KERPOW | Kick Endangering Rude Parts Of Wrongdoer |
Angela Brett MacGirl & KeyBoard MacGirl & KeyBoard Assorted Nouns:Noises Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| 100% | KEWL | Kids Experiment With Language |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| 100% | KEYBOARD (2) | Keys Enter Your Bowel Only After Ruining Duodenum. |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate (see DONGLE (3)) Computers:Do Not Eat Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | KEY LIME | Keep Everything You Love In Macintosh Environment |
Angela Brett, who has a Key Lime IBOOK Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | KEYNOTE | Kept Easy... You've No Overhead To Exhibit |
Angela Brett -- With Keynote, you don't need an old-fashioned overhead projector and slides, so there is less overhead in setting up a presentation. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software:Applications Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software:Applications Communication:Presentations Communication:Presentations |
| 80% | KEYS | Keep Everything of Yours Secure |
Angela Brett Household Objects Household Objects |
| 80% | KEYS (2) | Keep External [to] Your Stomach! |
Angela Brett Computers:Do Not Eat Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | KFC | Known For Calories |
Angela Brett Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms Food & Drink:Food Outlets Food & Drink:Food Outlets |
| 100% | KIDS (2) | Keep It Down - Sshhh! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Family People & Relationships:Family |
| 100% | KILLARNEY | Keep It Like Left Alone, Renewing Naturally Every Year |
Angela Brett, who went to Killarney National Park, Ontario, with the Rixes. Places Places |
| 100% | KILOBYTES | Keyboard Informs Logicboard Of Blurb You Type - Easily Stored! |
Angela Brett Computers Computers |
| 100% | KILTER | Keep In Line, Then Everything's Right. |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | KIND | Keeps Initiating Neighbourly Deeds |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | KINDERGARTEN LITERACY PARENT WORKSHOP | Kids, If Needled, Don't Enjoy Reading. Get Avid Readers To Evolve Naturally, Learning In Their Excitement. Remove Additional 'Classes' - Young People Always Read Eventually, Not Through Worry Or Rapacious Kindergarten Supremacy Hopes Of Parents. |
Angela Brett Education Education |
| 100% | KISS | Kinkiness Is Sharing Saliva. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | KITH | Kindness In Their Hearts |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Family People & Relationships:Family |
| 100% | KIWI | Kiwi Irish With Interest |
Angela Brett, after Tony complained that calling the duo half Irish, half Kiwi would seem like a half measure People & Relationships:Nationalities & Races People & Relationships:Nationalities & Races |
| 78% | KIWIANA | Kids In Waikaremoana Identify (with) Articles Native to Aotearoa. |
Angela Brett - Kiwiana means things unique to the New Zealand culture (like Americana to America?) Waikaremoana is a randomly chosen place in NZ... I wasn't really cheating with that W because most place names here begin with 'Wai,' and Aotearoa is the Maori word for New Zealand. People & Relationships:Nationalities & Races People & Relationships:Nationalities & Races |
| 100% | KLINGON | Knowing 'Language' Is Notably Geeky (Or Nerdy) |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics Science:Linguistics Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:Star Trek Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:Star Trek |
| 100% | KMAC | Klondike Makes Addicts Clickclickclickclick... |
Angela Brett, who explains: My first Mac, a PowerBook 145B, was named kMac late in its life because after I got my POWERBOOK 1400CS (named DIFFERENT THOUGHT) my mother played over 30,000 games of Klondike on the 145B. I can always tell when she's playing Klondike because of all the frenzied double-clicking. kMac's homepage is at http://acronyms.co.nz/angela/mac/kMac.html Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware:Angela's Apples Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware:Angela's Apples |
| 100% | KNEECAP | Kicks Need Energy Enhancement Created At Patella. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | KNITTING | Knowledgeable Needler Interlocks Talent, Takes Initiative, Negotiates Garments |
Jan Morgan and Angela Brett Sports & Recreation Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | KNOT (2) | Keeps Navigators On Target |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Measurement Science:Mathematics:Measurement |
| 100% | KRISTEN | Kid's Religion Is Shown To Everyone Now |
Angela Brett (the name Kristen comes from Christiana or Christian.) Names:First names:Female Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | KRITOSAURUS | Known Remains Indicate That Old Saurian Ate Undergrowth/Umbrage Rising Up Sunward |
Angela Brett -- I'm not sure whether a kritosaurus would be more able to eat undergrowth or umbrage, but as a herbivore it's sure to eat one or the other. Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs |
| 100% | KUWAIT (2) | Keeps Up With Advances In Technology |
Angela Brett, who works for a dental software company which is expanding into Kuwait. Computers Computers Places:Countries Places:Countries |
| 100% | KUWAIT (3) | Keeps Up With Acology Information Technology |
Angela Brett (see KUWAIT (2)) Computers Computers Places:Countries Places:Countries |
| 100% | KYLA | Keep Your Legs Apart |
Angela Brett (deciding to do a Rico-like name expansion) Names:First names:Female Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | KYMOGRAPH | Kilohertz You May Observe Graphically, Record Actual Phonemes, Hopefully. |
Angela Brett, hoping to get the last K entry. Science:Physics Science:Physics |
| 100% | LA | Littlest Aria |
Angela Brett Entertainment:Music Entertainment:Music |
| 100% | LAAGER (2) | Lazy Alcoholic's Articulation, Groaning Epithesis Represented? |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| 100% | LACE | Lovers Are Copulating Excessively |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the lace (13th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | LAMB | Little Animal Might Baa |
Angela Brett, who saw lots of lambs on her bus trips from Auckland to Palmerston North and back. Science:Biology:Animals Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | LAMBS | Littlies Adore Most Baby Sheep |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | LAMP | Luminous Apple Macintosh Phosphors |
Angela Brett, after she was given a 512k Mac whose disk drive wasn't connected, so all it does is show the disk icon with a flashing question mark - Steve suggested it could be used as a lamp. Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 89% | LANGUAGE | Linguists Assay New Generalisations of Utterances And Graphical Expression. |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | LAPRAS | Lugs A Passenger Relentlessly Around Sea |
Angela Brett (Lapras is Pokemon #131) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | LAPTOP | Laughingly, Apple's P1 Totally Outperforms P2 |
Angela Brett, referring to Apple's yet-to-be released consumer portable (codenamed p1) which will surely be a G3 and therefore faster than a Pentium 2. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | LAPTOP (3) | Luckiest Are People That Operate PowerBooks |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | LAPTOP (4) | Linux And Portables - There's Often Problems. |
Angela Brett (I know a few people who've had Linux laptops and they seem to have problems with the power management.) Computers:Linux Computers:Linux |
| 100% | LARDWARE | Left Alone, Rebelling Dieters Will Absorb Recyclable Electronics. |
Angela Brett, thinking that if computer parts really were edible, they might be called lardware. Computers:Do Not Eat Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | LARGE HADRON COLLIDER | Leptons Aren't Really Good Enough, Hadronic Action Duly Reveals Our Notions Correct (Or Lacking) Looking Into Denser Energy Realms |
Angela Brett -- the Large Hadron Collider is the replacement for the LEP (Large Electron Positron collider) at CERN. It will be turned on in 2007 and, by colliding hadrons rather than the lighter LEPTONS, should reveal how particles react at higher energies. Science:Physics Science:Physics |
| 100% | LASAGNE (2) | Like Anything, Seldom Any Garfield's Not Eaten. |
Angela Brett (Lasagne is the cartoon cat Garfield's favourite food.) Food & Drink Food & Drink Art & Literature:Fictional Characters Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| 100% | LAST MESSAGE (2) | Lately Angela's Slow To Make Expansions, Since She's A Good Employee. |
Angela Brett Communication:Acronyms Forums Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | LATE EXTRA | Late Appearance: Tony's Evidently Erroneous - Xenon Triggered Researcher's Alertness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, suggesting a title for THE ACRONYM TIMES issue which was delayed because, among other things, Angela wanted to put a 'tour' of chemical element acronyms on the website and realised that XENON was missing. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | LAUGHING MY ASS OFF | Launching An Unprecedented Guffaw... Help! I've No Gluteus Maximus! Yes, A Sure Sign Of Fatuous Fun |
Angela Brett Laughter Laughter |
| 100% | LAUGHING OUT LOUD | Little Acronym's Unknownness Gave Happy Irishman Nonplussed. Got Opportunity Ultimately To Learn Of Unique Definition |
Tony McCoy O'Grady pays homage to what started the apronyms project. It all began when Angela Brett wrote 'LOL' in response to some witticism he had written. Tony, being new to the web, had never come across this before and asked for illumination. From this sprung an unending flow of (occasionally?) funny items. Laughter Laughter |
| 100% | LAW | Levelled Against Wrongdoing |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | LAWFUL CONDUCT | Love And War: Fair Until Lawyers Come, Openly Nicking Dollars Using Clever Tricks |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | LAWYER (2) | Lopes Away With Your Expensive Retainer |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | LAWYER (3) | Lying Attorneys Win You Extra Rewards. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | LAWYERS (2) | Litigation About Winning You Election... Recounts Significant. |
Angela Brett, after the USA elections in 2000. Politics Politics People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 89% | LAZINESS | Lacking Any Zeal, Idly Napping or Entering Sleepy State. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 80% | LAZY HATS | Lovely And Zany - Your Headgear is Always Tacky and Shoddy. |
Angela Brett, when Tony mentioned he was wearing his 'lazy bastard' hat. When asked to describe it, he replied, "It was a beautiful hat when I came across it, but after years of neglect (due to laziness) it is probably a real mess by now, I don't know. When I'm wearing it, I'm too lazy to look at myself in the mirror." Household Objects:Clothing Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | LCBO | Large Canadian Booze Outlet/Organization |
Angela Brett (LCBO usually stands for Liquor Control Board Ontario) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| 80% | LEAF | Light Engenders Aliment for Flowers. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Plants Science:Biology:Plants |
| 100% | LEAF (2) | 'Lungs' Each Autumn Fall. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Plants Science:Biology:Plants |
| 100% | LEARN | Lose Educators - Autonomously Read Notes. |
Angela Brett Education Education |
| 100% | LEATHER | Love Endured Annus Three, Hardly Experiencing Regret. |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the leather (3rd) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | LEGAL | Loopholes Exploited, Getting Around Laws |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 70% | LEIBNIZ | Loved Equations - Invented Brilliant Notation for Increments of Zero-ish. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | LENS | Light Experiences New Shaping |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Physics Science:Physics |
| 100% | LEPTON | Like Electron, Positron, Tau Or Neutrino |
Angela Brett Science:Physics:Particles Science:Physics:Particles |
| 100% | LEPTONS | Light Elementary Particles, They Orbit Neutrons Sometimes. |
Angela Brett Science:Physics:Particles Science:Physics:Particles |
| 88% | LESBIAN | Lady Enjoys Sexual Behaviour Involving Another Non-male |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Homosexuality People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Homosexuality |
| 100% | LESSER SANITARIA | Lost Every Sensible Strand? Enter Rob's Stupendous Asylum! Nonsense Is There; Any Reasonableness Is Absent. |
Rob Rix, when Angela challenged him to acronymise it after he suggested that the custard-extracting nets of UNDILUTED GRADE A CANADIAN NONSENSE CONCENTRATE would be the primary export of Lesser Sanitaria. Art & Literature:Fictional Places Art & Literature:Fictional Places |
| 89% | LESS ROOM | Lots Enter, So Standing Room Only in Overcrowded Mall. |
Angela Brett Places Places |
| 91% | LETHAL DOSE | Louts Enjoying The Hallucinogenic Attraction of LSD Die Of Scandalous Excess. |
Angela Brett Drugs Drugs |
| 100% | LET'S GET HITCHED | Life Enjoyed Together - So Good! Expect To Have Impulse To Cuddle Him/Her Every Day. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| 95% | LET SOMEONE ELSE DO IT | Late Evening Tiredness Shows On My Expansion - Other, Non-Exhausted Expanders Left Some Exercise. [I'll] Do One In Time. |
Angela Brett, when Jeff wanted help with an apronym but she was about to go to bed. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 94% | LET'S VISIT HOLY APES | Long Excursion To See Very Important Spiritualist's Incarnation, Though He's Only (Like You) A Primate (in Every Sense!) |
Angela Brett, after someone searched for that phrase on the website. I hadn't realised that primate could mean bishop before. Religion Religion |
| 100% | 7 LETTERS | L Extra - That's The Emptying Rack Score |
Angela Brett (in Scrabble, when you use all seven of your letters in a single word you get a bonus 50 points - L is 50 in Roman numerals.) Entertainment:Games Entertainment:Games |
| 82% | LEVITICUS | Lend an Ecclesiastical Volume... Is This Imperative to Christian's Ultimate Salvation? |
Angela Brett, wondering if she really ought to know what happened in Leviticus. Religion:Bible books Religion:Bible books |
| 100% | LEWINSKY | Licking Elite Willy Is Nearly Sex! Kenneth Yells. |
Angela Brett Names:Famous people Names:Famous people Politics Politics |
| 100% | LIBERTY | Lady, I Bestow Every Right To You |
Angela Brett People & Relationships People & Relationships |
| 100% | LIBRARIANS (2) | Live In Book Rooms And Respond (If Any Noise) "Shhh!" |
Angela Brett, who's never met a librarian who just walks around saying 'Shhh!' but apparently that's the stereotype. People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | LIBRARY | Life In Book Room Always Relaxes You |
Angela Brett Art & Literature Art & Literature Places:Buildings Places:Buildings |
| 100% | LIFE | Likely Isn't For Ever |
Angela Brett People & Relationships People & Relationships |
| 100% | LIFELESS | Lying In Floppy Entropy - Lived, Expired, Sleeping Soullessly |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death People & Relationships:Death |
| 100% | LIFER | Locked In For Ever - Revenge! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order:Criminals People & Relationships:Law & Order:Criminals |
| 100% | LIFF | Look Inside For Facts |
Angela Brett - Liff is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'A book, the contents of which are totally belied by its cover...' Words & Wordplay:Liffs Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | LIFT | Lazily Into Floor Twenty |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings Places:Buildings |
| 100% | LIGHT | Lamp Is Generating Heat Too! |
Angela Brett Household Objects Household Objects Science:Physics Science:Physics |
| 100% | LIGHT YEAR | Lightspeed Information Gets Here To Yonder Each Annual Rotation |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Measurement Science:Mathematics:Measurement |
| 100% | LIME IMAC | Licking It Made Evident It Maybe Ain't Citrus. |
Angela Brett Computers:Do Not Eat:iMac Fruit Salad Computers:Do Not Eat:iMac Fruit Salad |
| 100% | LINE | Left Impregnated, Not Estimable |
Angela Brett (Line is HANS THOMAS's grandmother, who became pregnant to a German soldier and was hated for it) Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery |
| 100% | LINEN | Living In Nuptials Enhances Nookie |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the linen (4th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | LINEN (2) | Lust? It Never Exists Now. |
Angela Brett, giving a different slant to the 4th wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | LINKS | Last Inventive 'Nym? Keep Surfing! |
Angela Brett, because if you ever manage to read all the acronyms at http://acronyms.co.nz, you can still go to the Links page at http://acronyms.co.nz/links.html and view some related websites. Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles |
| 100% | LINUX | Lovely... If Not Using Xwindows! |
Angela Brett Computers:Linux Computers:Linux |
| 100% | LINUX (2) | 'Life'less Incurable Nerds Use Xchat |
Angela Brett Computers:Linux Computers:Linux |
| 100% | LIP | Lick If Parched |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | LIPS | Lively If Person's Speaking |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 89% | LIPSTICK | Lusty, Intense Pink Shades To Increase Colour of Kisser |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene:Beauty Products People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene:Beauty Products |
| 100% | LIQUOR | Liquid I Quaff Unceasingly, Often Refreshing. |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| 100% | LISA | Lone Intelligent Simpson Artiste |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady (there are other intelligent female Simpsons, but they're not on TV often) Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| 100% | LIST OF ACRONYMS | Look - Index.html's Sitemap Tells Of Full Alphabetical & Categorised Records. Obviously Now You've Merely Searched. |
Angela Brett, when someone searched the Acronyms website for 'list of acronyms'. The site map at http://acronyms.co.nz/index.html links to full alphabetical listings and lists of acronyms by category. Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website |
| 100% | LIST OF TWELVE ACRONYMS | Look, I Should Tell Of Feature That Will Eventually Let Visitors Easily Add Collections, Regardless Of Number You Might Seek. |
Angela Brett -- I don't know why someone searched for this phrase, but no category listing is guaranteed to have only twelve acronyms, even the months and zodiac signs have had more added. However, I am considering putting in place a system so that people can compile their own lists of related acronyms (which wouldn't otherwise be together in category lists) and one could be made which includes twelve apronyms only. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | LITTLE ROOM | Leg It To Toilet - Liquid Egestion's Rarely Obliging, Often Messy. |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings:The 'Little Room' Places:Buildings:The 'Little Room' |
| 100% | LIVID (2) | Lead Isn't Vivid, It's Dull |
Angela Brett, thinking about how livid rhymes with vivid despite having almost the opposite meaning. Assorted Adjectives:Colours Assorted Adjectives:Colours |
| 100% | LMAO | Likely Mildly Amused... Overexaggerating |
Angela Brett (LMAO usually stands for Laughing My A*se Off) Laughter Laughter Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 100% | LOCK | Lacking Owner's Combination / Key |
Angela Brett Household Objects Household Objects |
| 100% | LOGIC | Lots Of Gates In Combination |
Angela Brett Science:Electronics Science:Electronics |
| 100% | LOGIC GATE | Logical Operators Give Integrated Circuits Great Abilities To Evaluate. |
Angela Brett Science:Electronics Science:Electronics |
| 100% | LOGOGRAPH | Like Oriental Glyphs - One Graphically Represents A Particular Heading. |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics Science:Linguistics |
| 93% | LOIS AND CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN | Latest On-air Incarnation of Superman. ABC's Now Dismissed Contracts, Leaving Addicts Revering Kryptonian, Though Hating Executive. Now Everyone Writes About Discontinuity in Various Episodes & Notes The Unaired, Recently Ended Series Of Fanfic. Some Undeprived People Examine Reruns & Make Angela Nauseous. |
Angela Brett, a FoLC (Fan of Lois & Clark) who is jealous of people who live in countries where L&C reruns are still showing. Entertainment:TV shows Entertainment:TV shows |
| 100% | LOL | Lovely Orgiastic Lovemaking |
Tony McCoy O'Grady. Angela couldn't be bothered going to her bedroom for something, so Tony replied "When you marry things may change," to which Angela replied with a LOL (laughing out loud.) Tony responded with the new meaning for LOL. :) People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 75% | LOL (2) | Lovingly Ornamented Long-johns |
Tony McCoy O'Grady... Angela had mentioned having dophin and fairy ornaments on her drawers, so Tony responded by saying he wasn't interested in what she had on her underwear. When Angela said 'LOL' (meaning Laughing Out Loud) he responded with the new meaning for the acronym. Household Objects:Clothing:Underwear Household Objects:Clothing:Underwear Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 100% | LOL (3) | Little Old Lady |
Angela Brett, while comparing LOL with DOM (DIrty Old Man) People & Relationships People & Relationships Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 83% | LOL (COMICAL) | Longlasting Outburst of Laughter (Causing Others to Make Inquisitive Comments, And Laugh) |
Angela Brett Laughter Laughter |
| 92% | LOL IN COSMOS | Laughing Out Loud, I Nearly Choked On Some of My Own Saliva |
Angela Brett Laughter Laughter |
| 100% | LOMBARD | Laptop Outer Made By Apple's Respected Developers |
Angela Brett (Lombard was the name of the casing for the PowerBook models codenamed Bronze Keyboard and Pismo.) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Names:Code Names:Apple Names:Code Names:Apple |
| 100% | LONELINESS | Leaves One Needing Embraces. Lifeforce Is Not Entirely Self-Sufficient |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | LONELY | Loss Of Nearness, Emotionally, Leaves Yearning. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | LONGHORN (2) | Long Overdue... Nobody's Getting Horny Over Releasing Nothing |
Angela Brett, who thinks that LONGHORN is a misnomer. Computers:Windows Computers:Windows Names:Code Names:Microsoft Names:Code Names:Microsoft |
| 89% | LONG WORD | Lexical Objects Necessitating Great Work, Obligatory Reading of Dictionary |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay Words & Wordplay |
| 100% | LOO | Lavatory Or Outhouse |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings:The 'Little Room' Places:Buildings:The 'Little Room' |
| 100% | LOST | Looking Over Strange Terrain |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | LOVE | Life's One Vital Emotion |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | LOVE (18) | Lots Of Valid Expansions |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | LOVE (19) | Leaves One Virtually Euphoric |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | LOVE DEATH | Lots Of Violence, Explicitly Dramatised, Enhances A Television Horror |
Angela Brett, when someone searched for 'LOVE DEATH' on the Acronyms website. Entertainment:TV shows Entertainment:TV shows People & Relationships:Death People & Relationships:Death |
| 100% | LOVING | Leave Out Violence In Next Generation |
Angela Brett, in response to the same request as WATCH OUT, referring to people who grow up to be abusive because their parents were, and they don't know any other way of parenting. People & Relationships:Family People & Relationships:Family People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Abuse People & Relationships:Abuse |
| 100% | LOVING (2) | Leave Out Violence Involving Next Generation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, putting a slightly different slant on Angela's LOVING. People & Relationships:Family People & Relationships:Family People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Abuse People & Relationships:Abuse |
| 100% | LOW GEAR | Leaves One Wondering... Geeks Evidently Aren't Responding. |
Angela Brett, when the IRC #math channel was rather quiet and somebody said it was in low gear. Computers:Internet Computers:Internet |
| 100% | LUAS | Locals Understand As 'Speed' |
Angela Brett -- According to http://www.lrta.org/luasindex.html: What does the name LUAS stand for? Luas is the Irish word for speed and so (as it is not an abbreviation) should be written Luas rather than L.U.A.S. I beg to differ! Transport:Trains Transport:Trains |
| 100% | LUDWIG | Loved Unfortunate Damsel With Innertube Gash |
Angela Brett (Ludwig fell in love with HANS THOMAS's grandmother after helping her with a puncture.) Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery |
| 100% | LUGIA | Lies Undersea Guarding Immense Abilities |
Angela Brett (Lugia is Pokemon #249) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 92% | LUNATIC E'SEX | Lusty, Unusual Name - And This In Commercially Engineered Software! Enigmatic to Xtremes! |
Angela Brett, after seeing the name Lunatic E'Sex under Quality in the list of people involved in making the Mac Finder. (Hold down the option key and choose 'About the Finder...' from the Apple menu.) Names Names Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
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