Abbreviating Provides Relaxing Opportunities - Nirvana, You Might Say
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| 100% | CANDY | Chocolates And Nougat Delight You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Confectionery |
| 100% | CANOPY | Can Abundant Nylon Overhead Protect You? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation:Parachuting |
| 100% | CAN'T SEE | Cannot Actually Notice Things, Sadly 'Empty' Eyes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | CAPACITIES | Cupful And Pint And CC, Intended To Itnternationalise Exact Standards |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Mathematics:Measurement |
| 100% | CAPE VERDE | Claimed As Portuguese Earlier. Volcanic. Emerged Republican, Destitution, Emigration. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | CAPITAL | Chief Among Population's Inhabited Towns Across Landscape |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Towns & Cities |
| 94% | CAPITALIST COUNTRY | Creation of A Product, Intensive Television Advertising, Launch It, Start Taking Cash Off Unwary Nitwits. The Revenue's Yours |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Politics |
| 100% | CAPITAL LETTERS PLEASE | Could All Participants Integrate Their Acronym Lettering. Let's Explain That This Eases Reading. Some People Leave Expansions Abyssmally Sloppily Executed! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Edwin didn't capitalise the initials in his expansion. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | CAPITOL | Congested Area Politicians Inhabit To Oversee Legislation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Politics Places:Buildings |
| 100% | CAPRICORN | Can A Prediction Really Indicate Close Ones' Romantic Notions? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Astrology |
| 100% | CAPS LOCK | Creating Acronyms? Please See Listed Obligations - Charter's Known |
Tony McCoy O'Grady and Angela Brett, because of the rule in THE ACRONYMISTS' CHARTER saying that IF YOU PUT A WORD IN CAPS YOU MUST ACRONYMISE IT. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 88% | CAPTAIN | Complacent And Peremptory - Thinks Army-life Is Nice |
Tony McCoy O'Grady and Mike Redmond Military:Ranks |
| 100% | CAPULET | Cantankerous And Proud - Ultimately Learns Eternal Truth |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Romeo and Juliet |
| 100% | CARAMEL | Chewy And Relatively Aromatic - Mine's Especially Lovely |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Confectionery |
| 100% | CARBON | Constituent All Real Breathing Organisms Need |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | CARBON SINK | Can Arboretums Really Balance One Nation's Soaring Industrial Noxiousness? Kooky! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Environment |
| 100% | CARDINAL WOLSEY | Catholic - Asks Rome's Delay In Nullity. Anne's Lutheran Ways Offend, Leaves Strong Evidence, Yes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's King Henry VIII Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:King Henry VIII |
| 100% | CARING | 'Concern' - A Requirement In Nurses Globally |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Personality Traits Science:Biology:Healthcare:Healthcare Occupations |
| 100% | CARNIVAL (2) | Consume All Rich Nosh In Vernally Attuned Lunacy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Carnival comes from carnem + levare: to put away meat, which was done at Lent) Food & Drink Time:Special Occasions:Easter |
| 100% | CAROLINE | Created A Radio Offshore, Living In Nautical Environment |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to Radio Caroline, a 1960s pirate radio station based off the coast of England and the forerunner of modern rock stations Entertainment:Music Communication |
| 100% | CARPOOL | Can Assist Reducing Pollution On Our Lives |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport |
| 100% | CARROT | Chewing A Root? Remarkable Optical Talents! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Carrots' reputation for improving one's eyesight springs, I believe, from propaganda the British put out in the 2nd World War to keep radar a secret from the Germans) Food & Drink |
| 100% | CARS | Carriages Are Roadworthy, Sometimes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport |
| 100% | CARTS | Clydesdales Are Really Tough Species |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport |
| 100% | CAS | Computer Aided Sleuthing |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after much conversation about his sleuthing around one of Angela's stacks. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | CASABLANCA | Can American Smoothie Assist Brave Lover Against Nazism's Callous Agents? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Movies |
| 100% | CASCADE | Cataract As Stream 'Collapses' And Drenches Everything |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who can't think of a C word which describes what a waterfall does, but is quite happy with 'collapses' Places:Waterways |
| 100% | CASH (4) | Change A Shopper Hoards |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Commerce:Money |
| 100% | CASSIO | Conspiracy Abounds - Soldier's Steadfast Innocence Outlasts |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Othello Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Othello |
| 88% | CASSIUS | Chance-taking And Self Seeking - Is Ultimately Suicidal |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Antony and Cleopatra |
| 90% | CASTANETS | Clacky And Staccato, These Are No-longer Exclusive To Spain |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Music:Instruments |
| 100% | CASTLE | Companions Are Secure, They Lockout Enemy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Politics:Royalty Places:Buildings |
| 100% | CAT (2) | Conceited And Temperamental |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | CAT (5) | Cuddly And Treasurable |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | CATERWAUL | Consternation And Torture/Torment Ensues Regularly When Awful Ululations Linger |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| 100% | CATH | Common Abbreviation. Though Horrid |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who prefers Cathy, or Kate. Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | CATHERINE | Cunning And Thoroughly Horrid & Evil - Russia's Infamous Nightmare Empress |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Famous people:Politicians Names:First names:Female History |
| 100% | CATHY | Crafty Anagram To Her Yacht |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Words & Wordplay Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | CAT IN THE HAT | Children Are Taught In Nursery - Through Hearing Educational & Happy Anthropomorphic Tale |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Book Titles |
| 100% | CAT SCAN | Canine Attempt To Sniff & Calculate Adversary's Nearness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | CBD | Congested Buildings Downtown |
It actually means Central Business District, but when Angela mentioned it Tony McCoy O'Grady didn't know this, so thought of his own ideas. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 75% | CBD (2) | City By the Docks |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 60% | CBD (3) | Conglomeration of Bums and Drunks |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | CD BURNER | Cannot Digest Bits Used Recording Next Electronic Retake |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | CEASE | Cry 'End Abuse' - Support Education |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to this request on the Apronyms Forums: We are forming a new community group to end abuse, we are looking for a catchy acronym using the A for abuse. We don't want to limit ourselves to only family violence, or child abuse. Our purpose is to educate and raise awareness. People & Relationships:Abuse |
| 100% | CELEBI | Celebrity Evidently Loves Every Body, Inclusively |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who doesn't know what "celebi" is, or means, but sees a possiblity in the idea of "celebrity bi-sexual" having a word all it's own. (Celebi was an unsuccessful search term featured on http://acronyms.co.nz/cgi-bin/searches, and is actually a Pokemon) People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | CELIA | Companion's Exile Leads Into Amour |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's As You Like It Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:As You Like It |
| 100% | CELTIC | Certain Exceedingly Lovable, Truly Irish Characters |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Nationalities & Races |
| 100% | CELTS | Central Europeans Louts That Settled! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Nationalities & Races |
| 100% | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC | Completely Enclosed Nation That Really Achieved Little After France Relinquished It's Control Around Nineteensixty. Republic Eventually - People Unseated Bokassa's Lot In Coup. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 93% | CEREBRAL PALSY | Can't Exactly Run Energetically, Breathless Reaction Always Lingers - Perhaps Allowing Lowlife to Survive Yet |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, trying to find the faults of MacGirl Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | CERIMON | Curious Ephesian Reviver Is Mighty Old Necromancer |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Pericles Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Pericles |
| 100% | CERIUM | Chemical Element Resident In Umpteen Minerals. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | CESIUM | Clock Element. Standard In Universal Measurement. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | CESSPIT | Cloacal Enclosure Some Suffering Person Is Tending |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places |
| 100% | CHAD | Climate's Hot And Desertlike. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | CHALET | Cabin - High Alpine - Looks Excessively 'Touristy' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Buildings |
| 100% | CHANGE | Coinage - How A Note Gets Exchanged |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Commerce:Money |
| 100% | CHARIOTS OF FIRE | Complete Hogwash As Rivals In Olympic Trials Successfully Oppose Fierce Forces In Running Events. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Movies |
| 100% | CHARISMA | Charlatan Has A Roguish Innocence, Seducing Moronic Audience |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - TV preachers are often described as 'Charismatic'. Religion People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 93% | CHARLES BABBAGE | Computer Hacker Attacking Relatively Large Establishments. Sabotages Back-up Attempts, Bugs Buildings And Generally Escapes. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, hypothesising about Babbage's descendants becoming supercriminals. MacGirl & KeyBoard:Supervillains:When good scientists go bad |
| 100% | CHARLIE | Can Help Acronyms.co.nz Reach Largest Inventory Ever! |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | CHARLIE (2) | Chancer Has A Remotely Located Island, Exclusively |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (An Irish politician - Charles Haughey - owns an entire island off the coast of Ireland, how he financed the purchase has never been satisfactorily Explained) Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| 100% | CHARLIE (3) | Chap Has Acronym Related / Linked Illness, Evidently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | CHARMIAN | Charming, Happy And Respectful Monument Is A Necropolis |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Antony and Cleopatra |
| 100% | CHATTER BOX | Can't Hold Active Tongue That Eternally Restless - Blathering On Xtensively |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication:Talking |
| 100% | CHEATER | 'Champion' Has Evidently Altered The Examination Results |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Education People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 92% | CHEERLEADERS | Competitors Have Extremely Energetic Rosy-cheeked Ladies Entertaining Audiences, Doing Elaborate Routines Stylishly |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | CHEERS | Convivial Host Enjoys Everybodyís Rousing Salutation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication |
| 100% | CHEF | Creates Heavenly Exciting Feasts |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Chefs |
| 80% | CHEF (2) | Culinary Honcho (of) Exceptional Flair |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Chefs |
| 100% | CHEF (3) | Cooks Hardly-Edible Food |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Chefs |
| 100% | CHEF (7) | Cooks Hen's Eggs Frequently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Chefs |
| 100% | CHEF (9) | Chops His/Her Extremeties Frequently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Chefs |
| 80% | CHEF (10) | Causes Halitosis (with) Excessive Flavourings |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Chefs |
| 100% | CHEF (11) | Can Handle Every Foodstuff |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Chefs |
| 100% | CHEF (12) | Calorie Hoarder, Extremely Fat |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Chefs |
| 100% | CHEF (15) | Cheap Hotels Employ Fryers |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Chefs |
| 100% | CHEF (16) | Chap Has Eaten Frogslegs |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Chefs |
| 100% | CHEF (17) | Chops Ham Extremely Finely |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Chefs |
| 100% | CHEMISTRY | Conderning How Every Molecure Is Structured, Tailored & Relates. Yes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry |
| 100% | CHER | Chest, Hips, & Eyebrows Remodelled! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Music:Artists |
| 100% | CHER (2) | Clothes Hardly Ever Replete |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Music:Artists |
| 86% | CHERRY | Cannot Have Experienced Rumpy-pumpy Relationships Yet |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | CHERUBS | Chubby Harpist Ecstatically Rapturous, Usually Boys Seemingly |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion |
| 100% | CHESTNUT | "Conkers" Has Every Schoolboy Taking Nuts Up Trees |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink Science:Biology:Plants:Trees Entertainment:Toys |
| 90% | CHEVROLET | Car Has Exceptional Velocity, Racing-drivers Often Look Excessively Testosteronic |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport:Car Makes & Models |
| 100% | CHEVY | Car Has Enviable Velocity - Yes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport:Car Makes & Models |
| 100% | CHICK FLICK | Cinematographers Have Inane Concept - Kittenish Female Lead In Childish Kack! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Movies |
| 100% | CHIEF WIGGUM | Copper (He's Incessantly Eating Food) Whose Immense Girth Generates Unending Mirth |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| 100% | CHIFFON | Confection Has Interesting Frills Full Of Nutrients |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects:Threads & Fabric:Edible(?) |
| 100% | CHILD | Cooks Herself Interesting Little Delicacies |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to Julia Child. Food & Drink:Chefs |
| 100% | CHILE | Completely Hilly, Intensely Lengthy Entity. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 83% | CHILL | Cool Hurriedly In Low-temperature Location |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Physics |
| 100% | CHIMNEY | Ceiling Hole Issues Muck - Nimbus Envelopes You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Buildings |
| 100% | CHINA | Countless Hordes Intimidate Neighbouring Autonomies |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | CHINESIFIED | Cookery Has Interesting Neologism. Eldest Son Invents Foodstuff''s Ingeniously Elegant Description |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, explaining: When the Tonylet was younger he wanted to indicate how some food had been turned into a Chinese meal by the addition of Soy Sauce... and thus the word 'Chinesified' was born Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Food & Drink |
| 100% | CHIRON & DEMETRIUS | Complete Havoc Is Result Of Nasty Deeds. Evil Men Enrage Titus Resulting In Unusual Supper |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Titus Andronicus |
| 100% | CHIVALRY | Chaps Honourable In Valour Amid Lasting Romantic Yarns. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | CHLORINE | Common Halogen. Liquifies Often. Respiration Is Not Easy. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | CHOCOLATE | Can Help One Cope Over Lover's Absence - Tasty Experience. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships Food & Drink:Confectionery |
| 100% | CHOICES | Considering Handy Options Ideally Creates Educated Selection |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 100% | CHOIR | Chanting Hymns Organised In Reverence |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Music |
| 100% | CHOLESTEROL FREE | Charles Has Obviously Lost English Support To Ever Rule Over Locals. Follow Republic Exemplar Expeditiously. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when challenged to make a CHOLESTEROL FREE acronym to go with LOW FAT. There's a long story to go with this which won't fit here. Admittedly it had nothing to do with cholesterol, but LOW FAT and CHOLESTEROL FREE were the acronyms that started this all, so they have been retained for historical reasons. Politics |
| 94% | CHOLESTEROL FREE (2) | Chortling Happily Over Latest Extremely Silly Tuppence-worth. Energetically Rolling Over Laughing! Fully Recommend Enjoying Everything. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when challenged to make a CHOLESTEROL FREE acronym to go with LOW FAT. Laughter |
| 100% | CHRIS | Chap Has Requested Individual 'Spansion |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Male Education:University of Nottingham School of Community Health Sciences IT Subgroup |
| 100% | CHRIST | Certainly His Resurrection Is Supreme Truth |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion |
| 100% | CHRISTOPHER | Church Has Rescinded Individual's Sainthood - They Openly Probed His Essential Reality |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - Some years ago the Catholic Church reviewed the evidence for the existence of St. Christopher (the patron saint of travellers) and he was (along with others) removed from the calendar of the saints. Religion:Saints |
| 80% | CHROMIUM | Corrosion-resistance (and) Hardness Requires Other Metals' Introduction, Usually Molybdenum. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | CHRYSLER | Cars Have Reached Your Souls - Let's Enjoy Racing |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport:Car Makes & Models |
| 86% | CHURCH | Community House Usually Reserved (for) Christian Happenings |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion Places:Buildings |
| 100% | CIA | Criminals In Authority |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 80% | CIAO | Classic Italian "Auf-wiedersehen" Observation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication:Hello & Goodbye |
| 100% | CIGAR | Can I Generate A Reaction? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, regarding the Clinton/Lewinsky sex scandal Drugs People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | CIGARETTES | Cancer: Idiots Greatly Augment Risk Every Time They 'Enjoy' Smoking |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Drugs:Tobacco |
| 100% | CIRCLE | Calculation Into Route Consistently Locus-Equidistant |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Mathematics:Geometry |
| 100% | C IS FOR CAATINGA | Covered-In Sandy Floor, Open Region Comprising An Arboreal Tract In Natural Granite Area |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela pointed out that with the ASCII sorting of acronyms, first entries could easily be outdone by 'C is for...' type phrases, and Tony decided to create the ultimate of those. Places |
| 91% | CITY CENTRE | Cleared of Industry & Trade, You Can Enjoy Neat Thoroughfares, Revitalised Environment |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places |
| 100% | CIVIC | Communitarianism Is Vital In Cities |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| 100% | CIVIC (2) | Closeness Instils Violence In Cities |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| 89% | CLARENCE | Cross-eyed Lion's A Relic Evoking Nostalgic Childhood Experiences |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (An old tv programme called "Daktari" set in Africa featured a cross-eyed lion called Clarence) Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| 100% | CLARUS | Computer Launched Animal Rendering Useful Service |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when I suggested that KEYBOARD could fly to earth on CLARUS the DogCow, and he wondered how CLARUS could fly. Computers:Macintosh & Newton MacGirl & KeyBoard:Other Characters Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | CLASSICAL | Cultured Listeners Appreciate Sonorous Sonatas In Concerthalls (And Lifts) |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (for 'lifts' our American readers should read 'elevators'. Entertainment:Music |
| 100% | CLAUDIO | Callow Lad, After Unforeseen Disasters, Is Overjoyed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Much Ado About Nothing |
| 100% | CLAUDIO (2) | Can Live After Unacknowledged Death Indictment's Overturned |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Measure for Measure |
| 100% | CLAUDIUS | Cunningly Launches An Untimely Death - Is Usurping Scoundrel |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark |
| 100% | CLEAR WATER ACT | Clear, Limpid Elixirs Are Required. We Appreciate Totally Enactments Requiring A Certain Treatment |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when somebody searched for that phrase on the Acronyms website. Politics |
| 100% | CLEOPATRA | Cunning Lovely Egyptian Obviously Preferred Asp To Roman Attentions. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Antony and Cleopatra |
| 100% | CLEOPATRA (2) | Classic.... Launched Elizabeth On Path As Towering Romantic Actress |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Movies |
| 89% | CLICKLOC | Computer Lady In Cyber-Killing - Links (with) Organised Crime |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, CLICKLOC is another supervillain, and also a HyperTalk function. MacGirl & KeyBoard:Supervillains |
| 100% | CLIENT | Customer List - Industrial Enterprises Need Them |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Commerce |
| 100% | CLIFF-HANGER | Climax Left In For Further Handling. A New Gasp-Enducer Required |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment |
| 100% | CLIMATE VISION | Carbon Lurks In Murky Air, The Environmental Violation Is Serious, It's Overly Noxious |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to this article from the Feedback section of New Scientist magazine: THE BUSH Administration is being criticised for its voluntary global warming programme, in which American industry is gently encouraged to "reduce the projected growth" of greenhouse gases. Whatever the justification for the criticism, one aspect of the programme is unforgivable - its name. Climate VISION stands for Climate, Voluntary Innovative Sector Initiatives: Opportunities Now. Not since 2001's USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening of America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required toIntercept and Obstruct Terrorism) has an acronym been so contrived.If this trend continues, we shudder to contemplate the inevitable GOD, MOTHERHOOD AND APPLE PIE Act. Science:Environment |
| 100% | CLINICAL INFORMATION | Complete List (Including Nurses' Input) Chronicling A Lifetime's Illnesses, Notated For One's Resourceful Medical Ailment Team, Is Obviously Necessary |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | CLOCK | Circular Locomotion Offers Calendrical Key |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Time |
| 100% | CLOTEN | Clottish Lout Of Truly Evil Nature |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Cymbeline Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Cymbeline |
| 100% | CLOTH | Costume Looks Only Terrific, Honey! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects:Clothing Household Objects:Threads & Fabric |
| 100% | CLOTH (3) | Chewability's Limited - One's Teeth Hurt. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects:Threads & Fabric:Edible(?) |
| 100% | CLOTHING | Cotton, Linen Or Tweed - Happiness Is Natural Garments |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | CLOUD | Comes Low Over Us, Downpour |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Meteorology |
| 100% | CLOUD NINE | Complete Lack Of Unfulfilled Desires - Now In Nirvana, Essentially |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Emotions Art & Literature:Fictional Places |
| 100% | CLUE | Close Look Uncovers Evidence |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 83% | CLUES | Convoluted Leads Useful (to) Experienced Sleuths |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | CMOS | Computer Must Operate Somehow |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (CMOS usually stands for Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 100% | COB | Chestnut Or Bay? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | COB (2) | Clay On Building |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | COB (3) | Container, Or Basket |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects |
| 100% | COB (4) | Corn's Often Buttered |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink |
| 100% | COB (5) | Chunk Of Bread |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink |
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