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% | HAHA | Harder Acronyms Hamper Angela |
Angela Brett, when it took her a while to respond to a challenge to acronymise haha, after she'd said she couldn't resist acronymising capitalised words. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | HAL | He's Artificial Lunacy |
Angela Brett, referring to the computer in '2001: A Space Odyssey' Art & Literature:Fictional Characters Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| 100% | HALL OF FAME | Have A Laugh... Lots Of Fantastically Funny Acronyms Might Eventuate. |
Angela Brett (The Acronyms Hall of Fame is at http://acronyms.co.nz/halloffame.html) Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website |
| 100% | HALL OF FAME (3) | Here Anthony Looks Like One Fine Fellow... Added Most Expansions. |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles |
| 100% | HALLOWEEN | Houselights And Lanterns Light One's Way Entreating Each Neighbour. |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions Time:Special Occasions |
| 90% | HALLOWEEN (6) | Have A Lizard-Like Oculus - Witches Employ Eye-of-Newt! |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions Time:Special Occasions |
| 100% | HALT (2) | Have A Little Time |
Angela noticed that part of the title of a song by Dido forms an unintentional (I assume) apronym. Time Time |
| 100% | HAMPERS | Hinder[s] Angela's MP3 Player's Expected Reception Speed |
Angela Brett, several days after her IPOD was supposed to arrive, on finding out that due to an influx of CHRISTMAS HAMPERS some smaller packages are getting lost. Communication Communication Time:Special Occasions:Christmas Time:Special Occasions:Christmas |
| 100% | HAM SANDWICH THEOREM | Here's A Mathematical Statement Anyone (Not Dealing With Integrals) Can Hungrily Test. Halve Exactly Outer Rolls, Even Meat. |
Angela Brett (From the Collins dictionary of Mathematics: ham sandwich theorem, n, a colourful name for the theorem that given three volumes in Euclidean three-space, there is at least one plane which simultaneously bisects the three volumes. As a consequence, any sandwich may be cut in such a way that the two pieces have equal amounts of filling and equal amounts of each slice of bread.) Science:Mathematics Science:Mathematics Food & Drink Food & Drink |
| 100% | HAND | Hard Acronym Not Done |
Angela Brett, when Steve was trying to think of a HAND acronym and then asked her for an expansion when he couldn't think of one. Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | HANDYMAN | Husband's Apparently Now Doing Yearly Maintenance Around Nest. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations People & Relationships:Genderalisations People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| 100% | HANNAH | Here's A Nice Name - And How! |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Female Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | HANS | Has A Nutty Scalp |
Angela Brett, referring to HANS MOLEMAN - HOMER once kissed him on the head and exclaimed, 'It's just like kissing a peanut!' Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| 100% | HANS THOMAS | His Autobiographic Novel Spans Two Hundred Or More Autumn Seasons! |
Angela Brett, referring to the character in 'The Solitaire Mystery' by Jostein Gaarder Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery |
| 100% | HAPPY | Happy Apple PowerBook Posessor. Yippee! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela got a new PowerBook and was very HAPPY about it. Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | HAPPY B-DAY | Here's A Present, Proving You've Blocked Death Another Year. |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions Time:Special Occasions |
| 93% | HAPPY BIRTHDAY | Have A Pleasant Party, Your Birthday Is Really The Happiest Day of Anthony's Year. |
Angela Brett, shortly before Tony's mother's birthday. Time:Special Occasions Time:Special Occasions |
| 100% | HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANTHONY! | Here's A Properly Phony Year... Because In Roman, The (Heard) Digits Announce You're Allowed Non-Truths. Have One Neat Year! |
Angela Brett, when Tony became old enough to li about his age. Words & Wordplay Words & Wordplay Time:Special Occasions Time:Special Occasions |
| 100% | HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY! | Hardly A Party Pooper, You'll Be Incrementing 'Round The Helios' Digits, Announcing 'Yippee! Tony O'Grady's New Year!' |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions Time:Special Occasions |
| 97% | HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR TONY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! | Hope Anniversary Passes Pleasantly. You Being Irish, [I] Realise Today's Half Done As Your Today's Our Yesterday. One Understands How Age Passes Properly - You Begin Increment Relative To Home's Date - And Yet To Others You're Over/ Under. Have A Perfect Party, You'll Be In Revelry 'Til all Hours Doing Anything You Desire, Enjoying Another 'Return' (To Original Neonatal You? Here's A Pretty Picture!) Yawn! Bed Is Ready To Habitate. Dawn Awakes You Tomorrow One Year Older. Unbeatable! |
Angela Brett, on Tony's birthday. Time:Special Occasions Time:Special Occasions |
| 100% | HAPPY HOLIDAYS (2) | Here's A Plan: Pamper Yourself! Hours Of Lie-Ins Dissolve Away Your Stress. |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions Time:Special Occasions |
| 100% | HAPPY HOLIDAYS (3) | How American People Phrase Yuletide Hellos... One Living In Diversity Atheises Yearly Sentiments. |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions Time:Special Occasions |
| 100% | HARD DRIVE | Hardly A Readily Digestible Diet... Rarely Is Vitamin Enriched. |
Angela Brett Computers:Do Not Eat Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | HARM | Humans Are Really Mean |
Angela Brett People & Relationships People & Relationships Military:War & Terrorism Military:War & Terrorism |
| 78% | HARPIST | Heaven's Angels Required to Play Instrument of Sweet Twanging. |
Angela Brett, after Tony enquired as to whether Chinese heaven has harpists, when Angela described a Chinese writer mentioning people 'harping around in heaven.' Religion Religion Entertainment:Music Entertainment:Music |
| 100% | HASSOP | Here Armchair Stores Sterling Or Plastic |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady (Hassop is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'The pocket down the back of an armchair used for storing two-shilling bits and pieces of Lego.' Words & Wordplay:Liffs Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | HASTINGS | Hardly Anything Suspicious - The... Icing Needed Glazing, See? |
Angela Brett (Hastings is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'Things said on the spur of the moment to explain to someone who comes into a room unexpectedly precisely what it is you are doing.') Words & Wordplay:Liffs Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | HATE | Humans Attack Their Enemies |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions Military:War & Terrorism Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | HATING | Humans Attack Those Idolising Neighbouring Gods |
Angela Brett Religion Religion People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions Military:War & Terrorism Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | HAVE A LOVELIER DAY THAN... | Have A Very Excellent And Lovely (Oh, Very Entertaining) Life! I Expect Record Days And Years To Happen! And NOW! |
Rob Rix, after he capitalised that phrase in an email and Angela challenged him to expand it. Assorted Phrases Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | HAVE A NICE DAY | Hopefully A Very Enjoyable And Not Irritating Circadian Episode Does Await You. |
Angela Brett Communication:Hello & Goodbye Communication:Hello & Goodbye |
| 75% | HAY | Harvest Available Year-round |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Plants Science:Biology:Plants |
| 100% | HEAD | Hat/Hair Envelops Axons & Dendrites |
Angela Brett and Peter Coxhead Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | HEAL | Helpful Education About Life/Love |
Angela Brett, in response to the same request as WATCH OUT People & Relationships:Abuse People & Relationships:Abuse |
| 88% | HEARSAY | His Evidential Account's Really Secondhand (According to Yvette) |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | HEART | Hopefully Evident Arrhythmias Repair Themselves. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | HEART (2) | Healthily, Each Atrium Rhythmically Twitches. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | HEART (3) | Holds Emotion And Romantic Thoughts? |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | HEART (5) | He's Expired... Atria Rhythm Terminated |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | HEAVEN | Highly Ecclesiastical Angelic Vista - Eternal Nirvana |
Angela Brett (the Angelic one ;^) Places Places Religion Religion |
| 100% | HEEL | Holds Extremity, Ends Leg. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 86% | HELIUM (2) | Has Elevatory Lightness, Is Used in Mobility. |
Angela Brett Science:Chemistry:Elements Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | HELP | Have Extremely Large Problem |
Angela Brett People & Relationships People & Relationships |
| 100% | HELP DESK | Hasn't Even Learnt Primary Data Everyone Should Know |
Angela Brett (see also HELPDESK) People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations Communication Communication |
| 100% | HELPDESK | "Hello... Eh? Lifeless PC? Depress Electricity Switch."-- Knowall |
Angela Brett Computers Computers |
| 96% | HELPING KIDS WITH EDUCATION | Help Every Little Person In New Generation, Knowledge Is Definitely Something Worth Investing in. Tomorrow's Heros Every Day Use Computers And Technology Imaginary-Only Now. |
Angela Brett Education Education |
| 100% | HELP ME FIND THE CAT | Hopefully Every Lost Pet May Eventually Find Its Next Dinner (The Human's Emotions Clearly Aren't Topmost!) |
Angela Brett, when someone searched for that phrase on the website. Science:Biology:Animals Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | HELP ME GO PEE | Have Especially Large Prostate? Maybe Envisioning Gently Oscillating Pond'll Ease Embarrassment. |
Angela Brett, after somebody searched for that phrase on the website. Other unsuccessful searches are now listed at http://acronyms.co.nz/cgi-bin/searches Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | HEMP | Hardly Emulates Marijuana's Potency |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Plants Science:Biology:Plants |
| 100% | HEMP (2) | Herb Exhibits Medicinal Properties |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Plants Science:Biology:Plants |
| 100% | HENG | His Earthquake-Noticer's Great! |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | HERBALIFE | Hate Every Repulsive Banner Accosting Linked-In Food Eaters. |
Angela Brett, who sees a lot of annoying pop-up ads (not exactly banners... put some demerit points on my creative license) for Herbalife but prefers to get her nutrients from a balanced diet rather than from herb pills. I'm glad only have to put up with those ads when I'm at work... the web browsers on my own computer block unrequested pop-up windows. Commerce:Companies Commerce:Companies Food & Drink Food & Drink |
| 100% | HERE'S TO THE CRAZY ONES - THE MISFITS, THE REBELS, THE TROUBLEMAKERS. THE ROUND PEGS IN THE SQUARE HOLES. THE ONES WHO SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. THEY'RE NOT FOND OF RULES, AND THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE STATUS QUO. YOU CAN QUOTE THEM, DISAGREE WITH THEM, GLORIFY OR VILIFY THEM - ABOUT THE ONLY THING YOU CAN'T DO IS IGNORE THEM. BECAUSE THEY CHANGE THINGS. THEY PUSH THE HUMAN RACE FORWARD. AND WHILE SOME MAY SEE THEM AS THE CRAZY ONES, WE SEE GENIUS - BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CRAZY ENOUGH TO THINK THEY CAN CHANGE THE WORLD ARE THE ONES WHO DO. | Hello, Emmy! Really Emotive Script That Offers The Heroically Engendered Computer. Respect Apple's Zeal - Yes, One Needs Enthusiasm. 'Similar Thinking' Holds Evil, Microsoft Is Slowly Filtering Into These Similar-Thinkers' Heads, Essentially Revenue-Enhancing Brainwashing. Enter Lifestyle Spot Touting Home Electronics That Rebels Outputted. Used By Lunatics, Einsteins, Misfits Alike, Key Element's Revolutionary Spirit. This Has Everything... Rapid Operation, Userfriendliness - No Dot-PUB Endings (Gates' System Insists Names Trail Horrid 'Extensions' So Quasi-Understandable Abbreviation Represents Executable's Handle.) Owners Love Easy Software That Has Enhanced Output - Nay... Enhanced, Somehow, World! Hail Our Steves - Evolving Electronics, They Have, Indeed, Near-Godly Status. Doing It For Fun, Eventually Rewarded... Even Now They Leave You Thinking, "He's Extraordinary! Yes, Really Extraordinary! Not One To Fear Originality." New Discoveries Often Find Ridicule, Until Losers Eventually See Advantage - Now Different Thinking Has Exterminated Yesteryear's Harmonistic Attitude. Value Eccentricity, Not Ordinariness - Revolutionary Equals Strange... Perspective Entirely Changes The Face Of Rebellious Thoughts. Help Existing, Stagnating Technology Advance Through Using Some Quality Unheard Of Yet. Outcasts? Underdogs? Called Anything Nasty (Quoting Usually Others' Thoughtless Exclamations) The Hardworking Engineers Made Dust Into Silver, Analogously. Gutsy Recovery Ensued... Everything's Worth It, To Hear The Heartfelt Evangelism Macintosh G4 Lovers Offer. "Rapid Innovation Fulfills Your Own Resplendent Visions, Its Lifelike Interface Frees You To Harness Effectively Machine's Awesome Battery Of Uses." Though That's Hardly Everyone's Opinion. Now, Like Yesterday, To Heedlessly Ignore Next-Generation Young Objects Usually Causes A Nightmare. Think Different! Outliers In Science Invariably Get Noticed... Often Resented, Esteemed, Totally Humiliated, Eulogised, Maligned... But Eventually Create A Utopia, Sending Earthlings To Heights Earlier You Couldn't Have Anticipated. New Greatness Entails Tumbling Headlong Into Nothingness, Gripping Some Thought, Hoping Earnestly You'll Progress Utopia Somehow. However, Try Hard... Extremely Hard. Use Magic And Neurons, Reckoning And Creativity, Effort, Flair, Outright Radical Wizardry - Anything. Rule Deviations Are Necessary - Domination Will Hinder Innovation, Lessen Enthusiasm, Stifle One's Mind... Even Might Augment Youth Suicide. Educate Each To Hold 'Educate Myself' As Slogan To Honour, Eventually Cultivating Real Autonomous Zealots... You'd Only Need Elementary Similarities. When Einstein Started Extensively Exploring Gravitation, Established Newtonian Ideas Undoubtedly Stopped Brainiac Earlier Concocting Alternative Universal Supposition. Egotistical Thoughtpolice Hide Enigmatic People Elsewhere, Only Promoting Learning Everything Within Habitual, Orthodox Academia. Real Extremists Create Ridiculous Acronyms... Zany Yield Except Not One Useful Gift Humanity Takes Of This. Hardly Inducing New Knowledge, This Huge Expansion Yabbers Continually About Near-Cliched Homogeny Attitude. Nowadays, Gosh, Everyone Thinks He's Eccentric... Widespread Opinion Regarding Looking Different As Really Extra Trendy Has Each One Now Effectively Seeking What He Opposes - Difference Omnipresent! |
Angela Brett, expanding the script of an Emmy-winning Apple advertisement. Computers:Macintosh & Newton Computers:Macintosh & Newton Words & Wordplay:Ridiculously long apronyms Words & Wordplay:Ridiculously long apronyms |
| 100% | HERNIA | Hurts Excruciatingly! Really Needs Immediate Attention |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | HERON | He Estimated Roots Of Numbers. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | HEWLETT-PACKARD | Have Employed Wozniak - Looked Encouragingly Toward The Prototype Apple, Couldn't Know About Resulting Disadvantage. |
Angela Brett, since Steve Wozniak was working at Hewlett-Packard when he designed the Apple I, but luckily HP weren't interested in selling computers at that time so they didn't claim it as their own. Computers Computers Commerce:Companies Commerce:Companies |
| 100% | HIGGS BOSON | Here Is GUT's Guts, Some Believe Only Stupidity Of Namesake |
Angela Brett, who originally misunderstood the Higgs boson and expanded it, 'Here Is Gravity's Glue...' GUT stands for Grand Unified Theory. Science:Physics:Particles Science:Physics:Particles |
| 100% | HIGH | Helicopter's Indispensible Getting Here. |
Angela Brett Places:Positions & Directions Places:Positions & Directions |
| 100% | HIGH (2) | Here Is Good Hashish! |
Angela Brett Drugs Drugs |
| 100% | HIGH SCHOOL | Here I Got High (Smoking Canabis, Hiding Out On Lavatory.) |
Angela Brett, who didn't. Education Education Drugs:Cannabis Drugs:Cannabis |
| 90% | HILARIOUS | Ha! I Laughed And Rolled Incited by Outrageous, Uproarious Suggestion! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela suggested that it would be UNKIND to chop his dongle. Laughter Laughter |
| 100% | HILARIOUS (3) | How I Laughed! A Rollicking Incident Of Utter Silliness |
Angela Brett Laughter Laughter |
| 100% | HILL | Huge Insipid Land Lump |
Angela Brett Places Places |
| 100% | HILTON | How I'd Love To Own Nine! |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HILTON (2) | Hospitality Is Like That Of Nobility |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings Places:Buildings |
| 77% | HIPPARCHUS | Higher Intelligence (than) Ptolemy? Precession Angle Reckoning Closer to Hypothesis of Undisputed Scientists. |
Angela Brett. (Hipparchus's value for the precession of the equinoxes was much more accurate than the value which Ptolemy obtained 300 years later.) Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | HIPPASUS | He Incensed Pythagoreans, Perhaps After Showing Unholy Sizes |
Angela Brett (Hippasus was expelled from the Pythagoreans, possibly because of disclosing the existence of incommensurable magnitudes) Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 88% | HIPPIAS | Hatched In Peloponnese, Practised Instruction in All States. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 88% | HIPPIAS (2) | He Instructed Poorly... Payment Isn't Acquired in Sparta. |
Angela Brett (Hippias was not paid for his lectures in Sparta because Spartans weren't very interested in mathematics.) Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 95% | HIPPOCRATES OF CHIOS | His Inter-Personal Proficiency's Often Considered Rusty... Although The Exceptional Squaring Of Fragments (of) Circles Held Importance, Observed Scholars. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | HIRE (2) | Having Implement Requires Expenditure |
Angela Brett Commerce Commerce |
| 100% | HITCH | Hitched? Is The Ceremony Hindered? |
Angela Brett, since many people 'get hitched' without a hitch. People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| 100% | HITCHHIKER | Hop In The Car... Heading Home? I Know Expedient Route. |
Angela Brett Transport Transport |
| 100% | HITMONCHAN | He Is The Master Of Nasty Chopping, Hands Are Nimble. |
Angela Brett (Hitmonchan is Pokemon #107) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | HITMONLEE | He Is The Master Of Nasty Legwork... Extremely Effective. |
Angela Brett (Hitmonlee is Pokemon #106) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | HOBBY | Hopefully Outcome's Big Bucks, Yes? |
Angela Brett, when Mike from acronymfinder.com mentioned that his hobby now earns him money in advertising and licensing. Commerce Commerce |
| 100% | HOBO | Homeless Or Broke One |
Angela Brett People & Relationships People & Relationships |
| 100% | HOLLAND | Hordes Of Low-Landers All Need Dykes |
Angela Brett Places:States & Regions Places:States & Regions |
| 100% | HOME | House Or Mansion, Essentially. |
Angela Brett Places Places |
| 100% | HOMELAND | Here Our Mothers Endured Labour - A Nation Divine |
Angela Brett Places Places |
| 100% | HOMELAND (2) | Heart Of My Existence Lies Amid Native Dominion |
Angela Brett Places Places |
| 100% | HOMELAND (3) | Here Originated My Ethnicity, Language, And Negative Discrimination |
Angela Brett Places Places |
| 100% | HOMER | Holding Onto Marge - Extreme Reliance |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| 100% | HOMICIDE | Horror Of Murder Is Captured In Deceased's Expression |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Death People & Relationships:Death |
| 100% | HOMOGRAPHY | Helpful Orthographic Method - One Graphical Representation And Phoneme Homogeneously Yoked |
Angela Brett, who doesn't think Homogeneously is the best word for it. Science:Linguistics Science:Linguistics Communication Communication |
| 100% | HOMOSEXUALS | Hump Other Men Only, So Eschewing XX. Unusual, Although (Lately) Sanctioned. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Homosexuality People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Homosexuality |
| 92% | HOMOSEXUALS (2) | Heterosexual-Otherwise Men Often Supposedly Experience X-rated Urges Around Lesbian Sex |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Homosexuality People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Homosexuality |
| 100% | HONEY | Harvest Of Nectar - Extremely Yummy |
Angela Brett Food & Drink Food & Drink |
| 100% | HONEYMOON | Hours Of Nighttime Experimenting - You Might Orgasm... Or Not. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| 100% | HOOD | Here's Owner Of Degree |
Angela Brett, a few weeks before graduating. Household Objects:Clothing:Academic Regalia Household Objects:Clothing:Academic Regalia |
| 100% | HORSE | Humans Often Race Speedy Equines. |
Angela Brett. (Tony replied 'I've never raced a horse in my life! I'm (just about) smart enough to know it would win ;-)') Science:Biology:Animals Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | HORSE (2) | Here's One! Relentlessly Sheep Elsewhere. |
Angela Brett, who saw a lot of sheep but very few horses on her way from Auckland to Palmerston North. Science:Biology:Animals Science:Biology:Animals |
| 92% | HORSE AND CART | Having Obedient Reliable Slaves, Each Affluent Nobleman Drove a Carriage. Archaic Road Transport. |
Angela Brett Transport Transport |
| 100% | HOSPITAL | House Of Sick Patients Itching Their Amputated Limbs |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Places:Buildings Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HOSPITAL (2) | Hearses Offer Some Patients Into The After-Life |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death People & Relationships:Death Places:Buildings Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HOSTEL | How One Shuns The Expensive Lodges |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HOT | Heightening Of Thermoactivity |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives Assorted Adjectives Science:Physics Science:Physics |
| 100% | HOT BOX | Help/Halt! Our Train's Becoming Overly Xerantic! |
Angela Brett (According to the glossary on http://trackbed.com, hot box refers to excessive heating of a plain bearing axlebox due often to a loss of adequate lubrication and which required the locomotive to be stopped before severe damage and possible derailment occurred.) Transport:Trains Transport:Trains |
| 100% | HOT CHIPS | Hot Oil Tastily Cooks Highly Irresistible Potato Sticks |
Angela Brett, while waiting for hot chips to be cooked at the UNIVERSITY cafeteria. Food & Drink Food & Drink |
| 100% | HOT-CROSS BUNS | How Oddly They Celebrate Religious Occasion... 'Sweet & Savioury' Bread Undoes Numerous Sins. |
Angela Brett Food & Drink Food & Drink Time:Special Occasions:Easter Time:Special Occasions:Easter |
| 100% | HOT-CROSS BUNS (2) | Holy On-Top Crucifix... Remember Our Saviour Suffered Brutality Undoing Numerous Sins |
Angela Brett Food & Drink Food & Drink Time:Special Occasions:Easter Time:Special Occasions:Easter |
| 100% | HOTEL | House Of Travellers - Expensive Lodgings! |
Angela Brett/Dustan Dowsing, while listening to an mp3 of 'Hotel California' by The Eagles. Places:Buildings Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HOUSE | Home Of Usual Suburban Entities |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HOWARD | How Other-Wordly... A Rationalising Duck. |
Angela Brett, referring to the film 'Howard The Duck'. I'm after a better word than Rationalising... something meaning 'humanoid', 'anthropomorphised', 'beer-drinking', 'blokey' or one of the other traits Howard possessed which are otherwise exclusive to humans. Art & Literature:Fictional Characters Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| 100% | HTTP (2) | How They Transfer Pages |
Angela Brett, inspired by HTML. HTTP usually stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet Computers:Internet |
| 100% | HTTP://ACRONYMS.CO.NZ | Have The Time, Phone, And Computer? Read Our Newest Yabberings - Mostly-Sane Creations Of Novel Zeitvertreib |
Angela Brett, referring to the ACRONYMS web site of course. Computers:Internet:URLs Computers:Internet:URLs |
| 100% | HTTP://UN.CO.NZ/ANGELA | Have Time To Peruse? Using Netscape, Come Over 'N' Zip Around. Newly Generated Eloquence Lies Ahead. |
Angela Brett, acronymising her website (since moved to http://macintosh.geek.nz) This includes the ACRONYMS site which is updated with new acronyms every week. Computers:Internet:URLs Computers:Internet:URLs |
| 100% | HUH | Hardly Understood Her |
Angela Brett Main Main |
| 80% | HULK | Has Unnaturally Laid-out Karyotype |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Fictional Characters Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| 100% | HUNGRILY | He Uncovers Nude Genitals, Revealing Intense Lustful Yearnings |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | HURRY! | High Urgency... Result Required Yesterday! |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | HURTS TO BE A CARRIER | However Unafflicted, Relaying This Sickness To Others Becomes Equally A Curse... Always Remembering Risk, I'm Etiologic Recluse. |
Angela Brett, when somebody searched for that phrase on the Acronyms website. Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | HUSBAND | He Usually Sleeps Beside A Nuptial Darling. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| 100% | HYATT | Here, You Are The Top |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HYDROCARBONS | Have You Done Rudimentary Organic Chemistry? Alkynes' Redundant Bonds Offer No Saturation. |
Angela Brett Science:Chemistry Science:Chemistry |
| 89% | HYDROGEN | Helpfully Yields Deuterium, Rarely. Often Gaseous, Extensive in Nature. |
Angela Brett Science:Chemistry:Elements Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | HYMEN (2) | Hasn't Young Maiden Experienced Nymphomania? |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | HYPERCARD | Highly Yoozerfriendly Programming Environment Requiring Clean And Rapid Development |
Angela Brett Computers:Programming Computers:Programming Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software:Applications Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software:Applications |
| 100% | HYPERTALK | Have You Programmed Especially Rapidly? Try Another Language, 'Kay? |
Angela Brett. (The 'Kay is short for Okay and also a reference to my C programming lecturer whose last name is Kay.) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Computers:Programming Computers:Programming |
| 90% | HYPSICLES | Had Your Polyhedra Spherically Inscribed... Contributed Lots to Euclid's Studies. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | HYSTERIA (2) | Have You Stopped To Engage Reason? It's Alright! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | HYSTERICAL (2) | Helplessly Yelping, Screaming Things Endlessly, Ranting Incoherently, Complaining A Lot. |
Steve Keate, after he lost Angela's Mac. People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | I AM COOL | 'It's A Myth!' Claim Objective On-Lookers |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases Assorted Phrases People & Relationships People & Relationships |
| 100% | I AM IN LOVE | It's A Miracle! (I'm Not Lazarus, Only Very Emotional.) |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | I APOLOGISE! | It's A Pity, One Loathes Often Getting Internal Server Errors. |
Angela Brett, after the webserver being reconfigured caused some pages on the Acronyms web site to give internal server errors. Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website |
| 71% | IBOOK | It's Brilliant! Online, On-the-go, Kingpin! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 83% | IBOOK (2) | Introduction Brought Ovations - Obviously! - at Keynote. |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBOOK (3) | It Belongs On One's Knee |
Angela Brett, partly as a response to those who complain that the iBook won't fit on an aeroplane tray. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBOOK (4) | "It's Breathtaking!" -- Owner Of KeyLime |
Angela Brett, who has a key lime iBook. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBOOK (6) | Its Bright Outside's Overly Kooky |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBOOK (7) | It's Bought Out Of Kindness |
Angela Brett (see THANKS!) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware:Angela's Apples Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware:Angela's Apples |
| 100% | IBOOK (8) | It Blocks One's Oesophagus, Killing. |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate (see DONGLE (3)) Computers:Do Not Eat Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | IBOOK (10) | It's Best Of Orchard-Kind! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 90% | IBOOK SPECIAL EDITION | It's 'Black-tie Optional,' Overpriced Kin of Slower Portables. Elegantly Coloured, It Appears Lovely Except Disappointingly Increments The Inexpensive Other Notebooks. |
Angela Brett, who thinks the iBook SE is a bit too expensive for only an extra 66MHz and a different colour, but wouldn't mind having one anyway. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | IBRAHIM | Iraqi-Born Reasoner Analysed Hyperbolae, Integration & Motion. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | ICAB | It Criticises Any Blunder |
Angela Brett (iCab is a Mac web browser which gives reports on all the tiny inconsequential problems in pages' HTML code. Computers:Internet:Web browsers Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | ICAB (2) | Internet Chauffeur, A Beauty! |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet:Web browsers Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | ICAB (3) | It Crashed! Aah, Bugger! |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet:Web browsers Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | ICAB (4) | It Crashes A Bit |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet:Web browsers Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | ICAB (5) | I'll Choose Another Browser. |
Angela Brett, who likes some of iCab's features but finds it to be missing a few important ones, and unstable too. Computers:Internet:Web browsers Computers:Internet:Web browsers |
| 100% | I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST | I Can Achieve Nothing Desiring Only A Lazy Life... Through Him I'm Near God, Shown The Harder Road Of Understanding God's Help Can Have Responsibilities... I Seize Them! |
Angela Brett Religion Religion |
| 100% | ICE CREAM | In-Cone Extravagance... Can't Resist Eating Another Mouthful. |
Angela Brett Food & Drink Food & Drink |
| 100% | ICED COFFEE | Icy-Cold Espresso, Delicious Cream Or Foam For Enhancing Experience |
Angela Brett, who is slightly obsessed with iced coffee. In fact, when the heap of spare parts later to be known as KeyBoard came up with that acronym in the first episode of The ADVENTUREs of MacGirl and KeyBoard, MacGirl replied, "Actually it's not just icy-cold espresso. A lot of people think that iced-coffee is just cold coffee with ice in it but it isn't... it has to be made with milk, and sugar, and cream on top, and sometimes icecream and vanilla essence. It's a treat, not just a cold drink.Ó Angela and Dustan will be starting up an iced coffee website some time soon, rating all of the iced coffees they've tried in the quest for the perfect one. If they can manage to get permission from the superhero herself, they might even quote MacGirl somewhere on the site. MacGirl & KeyBoard MacGirl & KeyBoard Food & Drink:Drinks Food & Drink:Drinks |
| 100% | ICY | It's Cold... Yikes! |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | ID | Initialized Dynamically |
Angela Brett (an 'id' can be assigned any kind of object) Computers:Programming:Cocoa Computers:Programming:Cocoa |
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