Apt Phrases, Redolent Of Novel Yet Meaningful Sense
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% | DIALUP | Delves Into Analogue Line's Untapped Potential |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet |
| 100% | DIAMOND | Divine Intervention Affects Marriage, Or Necessity, Destiny. |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the diamond (60th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | DIANA | Died In A Nasty Accident |
Angela Brett, referring to Diana, Princess of Wales. Politics:Royalty:Royals |
| 100% | DIAPER | Dirty It And Parent Efficiently Replaces |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing:Underwear |
| 100% | DICTIONARY | Do I Consider Term Is Often Needed And Real? Yes! |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics Art & Literature:Book Titles |
| 100% | DIET | Dare I Eat That? |
Angela Brett Food & Drink People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| 94% | DIFFERENTLY WELL | Don't Immediately Find Fault... Each Rudeness, Each Not-Totally-Like-You-ness Will Enhance Lecherous Luxury |
Angela Brett, after Patricia responded to Tony's MASSAGE THERAPY (3) with, "You are brilliant, though sick!" and Tony replied, "I'm not sick, just 'differently well'" People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | DIFFERENT THOUGHT | 'Deep' Is Famed Family Elder, Reckoned Everything's Numeric Total. This Handier One Usually Graphically Helped Thinking. |
Angela Brett, explaining: I named my POWERBOOK 1400CS 'Different Thought' as I thought she might be a distant relative of 'Deep Thought' of 'Hitch-hikers' Guide to the Galaxy' fame, and also because of the Apple slogan, 'Think different.' Different Thought's web pages are at http://acronyms.co.nz/angela/mac/differentthought/ Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware:Angela's Apples |
| 100% | DIFFICULT | Does It Feel Funny? It Contrasts Usual Light Tasks. |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | DIGLETT | Dwells In Ground, Likes Eating Tender Tubers |
Angela Brett (Diglett is Pokemon #50) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | DILIGENT | Doggedly Impacting List, I've Gotta Expand New Terms! |
Angela Brett, after diligently expanding a lot of the terms from the unsuccessful searches list. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | DIOPHANTUS | Decided Influence On Precise, Handwritten Algebraic Notation. Thought Unpositives Superfluous. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | DIPSY | Dancing Is Pleasant - So Youthful! |
Angela Brett, whose nieces love the TELETUBBIES. Entertainment:TV shows |
| 100% | DIRTY | "Doing It" Repeatedly - To Yourself! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | DIRTY OLD IRISHMAN | Drunkenness Is Retreating - Tony's Years Off Lager Decidedly Improved Relationships, & In Sobriety He May Acronymise Nicely. |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing. Tony is often referred to as 'The DOI' and it seemed to need acronymising. See also THE MAD IRISHMAN. Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | DISABILITY | Doesn't Imply Stupidity... Affected Brain Isn't Limited In Thought, Y'know. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | DISAPPEAR | Did I See A Professional Performer Eliminate A Rabbit? |
Angela Brett Entertainment |
| 100% | DISASTER | Do Infernos Stop After Several Tsunamis Enter Region? |
Angela Brett Science People & Relationships:Disaster |
| 100% | DISK | Digestus Interruptus - Slender Kilojoules. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett (see DONGLE (3)) Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | DITTO (2) | Does Impressions - Transforms To Opponent! |
Angela Brett (Ditto is Pokemon #132) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | DIVORCE | Done Indulging Vows, Onto Rampant Copulation, Etc. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| 100% | DNS | Dotted Numbers Synonyms |
Angela Brett (DNS usually stands for Domain Name System) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| 100% | DOCTOR | Dispenser Of Cures, Taker Of Revenue. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Healthcare Occupations |
| 100% | DOCTORATE OF PHILOSOPHY | Does One Consider That One Really, Actually, Truly Exists? Or Find People Have Imaginary Lives Only? Should One Pinch/ Hit You? |
Angela Brett (I think different, therefore iBook) Education:Qualifications |
| 100% | DOE | Deer - Oestrogen-Enhanced. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | DOG | Dull Organism. Growls. |
Steve Keate & Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | DOG (2) | Disgusting Odour - Gross! |
Steve Keate & Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | DOG (3) | Dependable, Obedient Guardian |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | DOG BONE (2) | Did Os Get Buried On Neighbour's Estate? |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 91% | DOGCOW DEMO | Developers Often Got Clarus's Other-Worldly Dimensions to Expertly Model Output. |
Angela Brett... referring to Clarus the two-dimensional dogcow who is most famous for demonstrating the effects of certain options in the 'Page Setup' dialogue box for some printers. Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 92% | DOING NOTHING | Dirty Old Irishman and Nutty Girl Natter Over Their Handy Inter Net Gateways |
Angela Brett. Assorted Verbs |
| 94% | DOLORES O'RIORDAN | 'Doos' Or 'Las' Often Recur... Every Song Offers Recordings In Oral Realm [that] Don't Articulate Nuttin'. |
Angela Brett Entertainment:Music:Artists |
| 97% | DON'T TEASE ME ABOUT USING WINDOWS | Dole's Obviously Not The Top Earner... And Some Extra Money's Excellent, Although Being On Unfriendly Technology Undeniably Stinks. I'm Not Getting on With It - No Desirability Of Writing Source. |
Angela Brett, who works as a Windows developer but is a Mac developer at heart. Computers:Windows |
| 93% | DON'T USE WINDOZE | Damnit, Only Nincompoops Try Using Such Extremely Wasteful Interface Nefariously Doled Out by Zillionaire Entrepreneur. |
Angela Brett Computers:Windows |
| 100% | DOODLE | Do One's Own Drawing, Lacking Enthusiasm |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs |
| 100% | DOPE | Dulls One's Personal Experience |
Angela Brett Drugs |
| 100% | DOPE (2) | Doesn't Offer People Everything |
Angela Brett Drugs |
| 100% | DOPE (3) | Does Offer Pseudo-Enlightenment |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate Drugs |
| 100% | DOPE (4) | Diacetylmorphine, Opium, Pot... Everything! |
Angela Brett Drugs |
| 93% | DO RE MI FA SO LA TI | Darn, Off-key... Redo Etude Making Its Frequency Aurally Sound. Open Lungs And Then Inhale. |
Angela Brett Entertainment:Music |
| 100% | DORF | Destination Of Rainbow Fizz |
Angela Brett, referring to the town in the book 'The Solitaire Mystery' by Jostein Gaarder Art & Literature:Fictional Places |
| 100% | DOT | Disturbance Of Tint |
Angela Brett Art & Literature |
| 100% | DOUGLAS ADAMS | Description Of Universal Guide Lives As Stories And Drama, And Multiplatform Software |
Angela Brett, who knows the subject of Douglas Adams' books was only a guide to the galaxy, but it's known universally. Art & Literature:Writers |
| 0% | DOWNCAST | Don't Offer Worries Now - (I'm) Contemplating Abject Sad Thoughts. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | DOWN QUARK | Duo On Whole Neutron Quiets Up's 'Affirmative' Reaction Kick |
Angela Brett ('Down' is one of the six types of quark... along with UP QUARK, STRANGE QUARK, CHARM QUARK, TOP QUARK and BOTTOM QUARK. Neutrons are each composed of two down quarks with charge -1/3 each, and one up quark with charge +2/3, giving them an overall charge of zero.) Science:Physics:Particles |
| 100% | DOWSING | Dirty Old Woman Seduced Innocent Nice Guy |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing, on virginity \=] Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | DRATINI | Dragon Rage And Twister: I'm Now Incapacitated |
Angela Brett (Dratini is Pokemon #147) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 83% | DREAM | Delirious Realm of Enchantment And Magic |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 100% | DREAM (2) | During REM, Ethereal Amusement Made. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 100% | DREAM (3) | Daylight: Reality Ends All Magic. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 100% | DREAMS | Daylight Reveals Everything's A Mind Show |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 100% | DROWSY | Dozily Reposed On Waking, Stretched, Yawned. |
Angela Brett Main |
| 100% | DSL | Darned Speedy Link! |
Angela Brett, as an alternate expansion of the more common Digital Subscriber Line or Direct Satellite Link. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| 100% | DSL (2) | Download Something Large |
Angela Brett, as an alternate expansion of the more common Digital Subscriber Line. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| 100% | DSL (3) | Defying Sea-Level |
Angela Brett, as an alternate expansion of the more common Deep Submergence Laboratory. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science |
| 100% | DSL (4) | Don't Say 'Lame'! |
Angela Brett, as an alternate expansion of the more common Disability Sick Leave. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce |
| 100% | DSL (7) | Dialup's So Lame! |
Angela Brett, as an alternate expansion of the more common Digital Subscriber Line. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| 100% | DUBLIN | Don't Usually Build Like It Nowadays |
Angela Brett Places:Towns & Cities |
| 100% | DUBLIN (2) | Despite Umpteen Bridges, Liffey Inhibits Natives |
Angela Brett (Supposedly there is rivalry between people from different sides of the River Liffey.) Places:Towns & Cities |
| 100% | DUCK BILL | Darwin Users Can Kick Butt Ignoring Lucre Leader |
Angela Brett, speculating that the DarwinOS mascot Hexley (http://www.hexley.com) is a duck-billed platypus so that we can duck Bill, that is, avoid using Microsoft products. Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | DUGTRIO | Digletts' Usual Grouping... Three Rolled Into One! |
Angela Brett (Dugtrio is Pokemon #51) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | DUGTRIO (2) | Digletts' Underground Get-Together Results In Overkill |
Angela Brett (Dugtrio is Pokemon #51) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | DUKE | Disappointingly Underemployed King's Elite |
Angela Brett, after Tony mentioned something about DUKEs and URLs. Politics:Royalty |
| 100% | DUMB! | Don't Underestimate My Bargains! |
Angela Brett (see SHOVE OFF) Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| 100% | DUMB ASS | Donkey's Unusually Mute - Brays Are Strangely Silent. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | DUMB ASS (2) | Doesn't Use Mouth/Mind, But Always Saying Something! |
Angela Brett (with Mouth, this describes expressive donkey body-language... with Mind, a thoughtless human.) Science:Biology:Animals People & Relationships:Insults |
| 100% | DUSK | Dawn's Undoing, Symmetry Kin. |
Angela Brett Time |
| 100% | DUTCH | Duo Usually Tries Currency Halving |
Angela Brett, referring to the idiom, 'go Dutch' Commerce |
| 100% | DWARF/JOKER | Distinctly Wary About Rainbow Fizz - Jeroboam Of Knowledge Eventually Ruins. |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery |
| 80% | DYAD | Duo of You And Daddy |
Angela Brett, who first heard of the term during a lecture on parent-child relationships. People & Relationships:Family |
| 100% | DYLAN | Died Young, Lump Attacked Neurons |
Angela Brett, referring to Steve's son. Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | DYLAN (2) | Darling Youngster, Like Angela's Nephews? |
Angela Brett, who never actually met Dylan. Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | DYNAMITE | Do You Need Any Massive Items To Explode? |
Angela Brett Military:Weapons |
| 100% | DYSPHASIA | Disturbs Your Speech Patterns - Has A Significant Impact, Apparently. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | DYSTOCIA | Delivering Your Sprog Takes Obstetric Care In Abundance |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | DZO | Domestic Zoological Oddity |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | EAGER | Every Attempt Gets Enthusiasm Renewed |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 75% | EAR | Entry to Aural Region |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | EARACHE | Expensive Affair Requiring A Consultation - How Exasperating! |
Angela Brett, when she had to go to a doctor to get a prescription for her recurring ear infection. Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 93% | EAR INFECTIONS | Each Application Requires Inactivity... Not Fun, Except C Text Instructs (me) On Necessary Syntax. |
Angela Brett, on realising that the 20 minutes of lying on her side necessary for applying ear drops for her ear infection could be utilised by reading about how to program in C. Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Computers:Programming |
| 100% | EARLOBE | Embellishments And Rings Lend One Beauty, Essentially. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | EARTH DAY | Everybody Appreciate Round Thing Humans Destroy All Year |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions Science:Environment |
| 100% | EASTER (2) | Eaters Anagram - So True! Everyone's Rounder. |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions:Easter |
| 92% | EASTER BUNNY | Eggs And Sunday Treats Enjoyed - Rabbit Brings Unknown Numbers of Nice Yummies. |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions:Easter |
| 80% | EASY | Executable by Any Slackjawed Yokel |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | EAT A SANDWICH | Email Alias Thingies And Some Annoying Nonsense, Drab Writings Investigating Cheeseburger Hunger |
Angela Brett, as the subject of a rambling email to Edwin asking about an email alias and complaining about being hungry and wishing she'd eaten the rest of that double cheeseburger the night before. Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | EAT POTATO | Everything's At Twenty Percent Off, Today And Tomorrow Only! |
Angela Brett (see SHOVE OFF and ANGELANESS- this one turned out to be a winning entry!) Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| 100% | ECHOLALIA | Every Child Hears Obscure Language And Lips It Again |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | EDNA | Every Date's New Acquaintance |
Angela Brett, remembering when Sideshow Bob on the Simpsons said 'You only get one chance with Edna Krabappel' Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| 100% | EDUCATIONAL | Everybody Does University Classes And Then It's Onto Nerdy Academic Lives. |
Angela Brett Education |
| 100% | EDWIN HERMANN | Extremely Dim Witted Imbecile, Never Has Expansions Ready. Make Acronyms Now, Numbskull! |
Angela Brett, after Edwin mentioned on the ACRONYMS forums that he hadn't submitted an acronym for ages and should be punished. This expansion of his name seemed a suitable punishment... I don't mean it though! (If it weren't for Edwin there would be no acronym forums at all.) Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | EDWIN HERMANN (2) | Entered Dual Wordplay Inventions, Now He's Earned Reparation - More Amicable Name Notation. |
Angela Brett, after Edwin submitted two acronyms so no longer deserved punishment. Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | EDWIN HERMANN (3) | 'E Does Wonders - Invented Netborne Hangman, Even. Registered Many A Net Name. |
Angela Brett Names:Acronymists |
| 83% | EEVEE | Expose to Elements... Various Evolutions Exist. |
Angela Brett (Eevee is Pokemon #133) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | EFFIGIES | 'Evil' Figures Flamed In Grotesque Intensely Execrative Shows |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| 100% | EGG | Elegant Gender's Gamete |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| 100% | EIGENVECTOR | Excess Instructions Generate Exhausting, Not-Very-Exciting Classes. Tedium Often Results. |
Angela Brett, while sitting through a lecture about eigenvalues and eigenvectors (a topic which everyone in the class had learnt about at least once) which was being taught agonisingly slowly. Science:Mathematics Education:Slow Teaching |
| 92% | EIGENVECTOR (2) | Employing Ineffective Gaussian Elimination's Not Very Efficient... (we) Can Think Out Results! |
Angela Brett, during the same lecture as the first EIGENVECTOR, when the lecturer insisted on using Gaussian elimination while finding the eigenvectors of 2 by 2 matrices despite having already pointed out that it wouldn't give us any extra information. Science:Mathematics Education:Slow Teaching |
| 80% | EINSTEIN | Every Intellect Needs Some Training to Examine Imperfections of Newton |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | EKANS | Enthusiasts Keep A Nintendo Snake |
Angela Brett (Ekans is Pokemon #23) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | EKANS (2) | Everyone Knows Anagram, No Sweat |
Angela Brett (Ekans is Pokemon #23) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon Words & Wordplay |
| 100% | ELASMOSAURUS | Extreme Length And Size Made One Swimmer An Unusual Reptile Under Sea |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs |
| 100% | ELECTION | Endure Late-Evening Commentary Tallying Ideologies Of Nation. |
Angela Brett Politics |
| 100% | ELECTRON | Even Little Electric Currents Take Ridiculously Oversized Numbers |
Angela Brett Science:Electronics Science:Physics:Particles |
| 100% | ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING | Ever Lost Electronic Credit To Robots Of Nasty Internet Criminals? Don't Allow Their Attacks, Prompt Routine Of Checking Every Site's Security If Negotiating Greenback. |
Angela Brett Computers Commerce |
| 89% | ELEMENTS | Euclid's Libers Expertly Made Evident Noncontradictory Theory of Shapes. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | ELIA | Eloquent Lamb Is Anonymous |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Writers |
| 100% | ELIZABETH | Evidently Linux Is Zenithal - All Boxes Exhibit Technical Homeostasis. |
Angela Brett, referring to her sister, who likes Linux. Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | ELIZABETH (2) | Eloquent, Live, Intelligent, Zesty... A Bit Excitable Though, Hehehe. :) |
wishes and Angela Brett Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | EMAIL ADDRESSES | Each Man's 'At' Is Like A Direct Delivery Route - Envelopes, Stamps, Streets Electronically Superseded |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet |
| 100% | EMAIL ADDRESSES (2) | Excessive Millions Are Immediately Live After Doing Domain Registration - Eighty Similar Spams Every Second. |
Angela Brett - if you buy a domain name you can have every conceivable username @ that domain go to you, but spammers might send the same spam to many of the addresses hoping they're for separate people. Computers:Internet |
| 100% | EMERALD | Enduring Marriage Exhibiting Reliable And Lasting Devotion |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the emerald (55th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | EMERSON | Enjoy Massachusetts Education Regarding Science Of Notification |
Angela Brett (according to http://www.emerson.edu/ Emerson College is the USA's only four-year college devoted exclusively to the study of communication and performing arts) Education Communication |
| 100% | EMMY | Excellence Makes Me Yours |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns |
| 0% | EMOTICON (4) | Expression Motifs On The Incline... Caret's Often Nose. :^D |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet |
| 100% | EMOTICON (5) | Electronic Mail's Oft-Typed Indicator Conveying One's Nuances |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet |
| 100% | EMPATHY | Every Man - Perceive Another's Thoughts. Hear Yourself? |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | EMPLOY ANGELA! | Enthusiasm Means Productivity; Lots Of Yield And No Grumbling, Except Limited Ambulation. |
Angela Brett, whose resumŽ is at http://acronyms.co.nz/resume People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| 100% | EMPLOYEE | Expecting Much Pay Leaves One Youth Especially Energized! |
Angela Brett, soon after finding out she'd got a job with SOEIDENTAL People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 90% | EMPTY TALK | Encompasses Meaningless Politician Talk and Yakking To Another Likeminded Kretin. |
Angela Brett Politics Communication:Talking |
| 0% | ENCOURAGEMENT | Explosions Need Collating. (I) Openly Urge ResEditing A Great Enumeration of Mindless, Empty Noises. Thanks! |
Angela Brett, when Tony said he would need some encouragement to go through software looking for more sounds for this stack, if we decided to use sounds other than the laughs he'd already collected. People & Relationships Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| 100% | ENCOURAGEMENT (2) | Expansions Needed... Come On! Usual Rico / Angela Garbage Eventually Makes Extinct New Thought. |
Angela Brett, when for a while most of the acronyms contributed were from her or Rico. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | ENCRYPTION | Each New Code Requires Your Powers To Interpret Others' Notes. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics Computers |
| 100% | END ABUSE | Ensure Nobody Deals A Blow; Unfairness Saddens Everyone |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Abuse |
| 100% | ENDING | Every Near-Death Indicates New Genesis |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| 100% | ENERGY MANAGEMENT | Everyone Needs Electricity. Remember, Get Your Machines Audited Now And Get Extra Money Every New Term |
Angela Brett (if you take notice of what's using more electricity than necessary you can save money on power bills.) Science:Electronics |
| 100% | ENGLISH | Eccentricities Numerous... Grammar Learning Is Superlatively Hard. |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | ENHANCING BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP | Every Nerd Hampers After New Computer. If Network Geek's Busy Using Some Incredibly Neat Equipment, She Should Respect Employer, Laughing At Technical Idiocy Only Near Somewhere He Isn't Present. |
Angela Brett, who is sure she'd be in a consistently better mood if she could use a PowerMac G5 at work. Computers People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| 100% | ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS | Earth's Natural Vistas Indeed Require Our Nursing. Make Everyone Notice The Amazing Landscapes And Wetlands, And Recycle Everything, Not Extravagantly Scrapping Scraps. |
Angela Brett Science:Environment |
| 93% | ENVY WITH GREED | Exhibiting No Virtue, You Want It! To Hell with Generously Regarding Everyone Else's Desires |
Angela Brett, who wants to get rid of the 'with' but not the 'To Hell'. People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | EPHEMERAL (2) | Earth's Pirouette Has Especially Morbid Effect, Restricting A Life. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| 80% | EPISTLES | Eloquent Presentations of Intellect Stylishly Translated into Letters - Email Sent! |
Angela Brett Communication |
| 100% | EQUESTRIAN (2) | Evidently, Queers Understand Equines Superbly... They're Riding In Australia Now. |
Angela Brett, because it seems that most members of the New Zealand equestrian team in the Sydney olympics are homosexual. Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | ESAC | End Statement After 'Case' |
Angela Brett -- in a bash script, to end a case block you use 'esac', to end an 'if' you use 'fi' and to end a 'do' you use... 'done'. Nobody ever called bash intuitive. ;^) Computers:Programming |
| 100% | ESPN | Eighty Seminole Points - Nil. |
Angela Brett, in response to this request on the Apronyms Forums: We have a game coming up with our rival school, the Florida Gators. We are the Florida State Seminoles. and we want an Acronym for ESPN with something clever about us winning. If anyone could help that would be great. Sports & Recreation:Florida State Seminoles |
| 100% | ESPN (2) | Extraordinary Sports People, Natives |
Angela Brett, in response to this request on the Apronyms Forums: We have a game coming up with our rival school, the Florida Gators. We are the Florida State Seminoles. and we want an Acronym for ESPN with something clever about us winning. If anyone could help that would be great. Sports & Recreation:Florida State Seminoles |
| 100% | ESS-OH-ESS | Encoded Scream Starts Off Harbourmaster's/Hero's Emergency Safety Strategy |
Angela Brett (see DOTDOTDOTDASHDASHDASHDOTDOTDOT) People & Relationships:Disaster |
| 97% | ESTIMATING AND COMPARING CAPACITY | Essential Skill Today Is Measuring Approximately - That Is, Nearest-Guess About Next Drink's Content Of Methanol-like Poison. Alcoholics Reason, 'If New Glass Contains A Paltry Amount, Cheers, I'll Take Yours.' |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic Science:Mathematics:Measurement |
| 100% | ESTIMATION | Experience Sole Teacher In Murky Art, There Is Often None. |
Angela Brett, after somebody at work said that estimation is a black art and the only way you can get better at it is with experience. Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | ETHNICITY | Even Though Human Nature's In Common, Ideologies Throw You |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Nationalities & Races |
| 100% | EUCLID | 'E's Unclear... Can Lines Intersect Dually? |
Angela Brett, because Euclid's first postulate saying that a straight line can be drawn from any point to any point does not explicitly say that the line is unique. Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | EUREKA! | Epiphanic Understanding Reached - Exclaim Knowledge Aloud! |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | EUTOCIUS | Essentially Updated The Others' Calculations - Inscribed Unoriginal Summaries. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 96% | EVERY ACRONYM UNDER THE SUN | Each Vocabulary Entry Reaches Your Acronymiser's Creative Resources. Only Not-Yet-Mastered, Uncommon Nouns Don't Expand Readily. The Hardest Expansions Sometimes Use Non-words. |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 94% | EVIL TWIN BROTHER | Entirely Vile Intel-Loving Twit With Innovators' Name - Beige Remains On Top in His Evil Realm. |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing, thinking of Dustan's gatanist friend Steve and wondering how he could share a name with Jobs and Wozniak, then deciding perhaps he is COMMISSIONER STEVE's evil twin brother. MacGirl & KeyBoard:Supervillains |
| 100% | EVOLUTION | Every Viable Organism Lives Under The Influence Of Nature |
Angela Brett, who isn't sure just how much sense this one makes but it flows well. Science:Biology |
| 100% | EXPENSE MANAGEMENT | Every Xebec Put Elsewhere Needs Some Explicit Meaning And Necessity. Accountants Gain Extra Money Eliminating Needless Tarriffs. |
Angela Brett Commerce |
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