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| 100% | ELEVATOR | Entire Levitation Etymology Varies According To Origin's Requirements |
Gavin Lambert (referring to how a different name is used for the same thing in other parts of the world) Science:Linguistics Places:Buildings |
| 100% | ELF | Energetic Little Fellow |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Myths & Legends:Mythical Creatures |
| 93% | EL GOONISH SHIVE | Everyday Lives Generated On Occasion? Not In Shive's Half-Serious Humor-Intensive Version of Earth. |
Inev; El Goonish Shive ©2004 Dan Shive (see http://elgoonishshive.com/) Entertainment |
| 100% | ELIA | Eloquent Lamb Is Anonymous |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Writers |
| 91% | ELITE FORCE | Emergency Light Infantry - They Eliminate Foes Or Round-up Criminal Elements |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 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% | ELIZABETH (3) | Eager Lass Ignites Zeal Activating Best Efforts To Heaven |
Jan Morgan -- someone I know Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | ELK | Emerges Large Kin |
Jan Morgan -- a kin to DEER Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | ELKANAH | Everybody Likes Kinship And New Activities Here |
David Brydon, referring to the Elkanah school of music ministry - see http://www.elkitesonline.homestead.com. Entertainment:Music |
| 100% | ELLIE | Exciting Lass Loves Impressive Efforts |
Jan Morgan Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | ELMO | Excitable Little Monster Overachieves |
Jan Morgan - Sesame Street (red) monster Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| 100% | ELROND | Egotistical Lad Rapist Of Naughty Dwarfs |
Carl Brett Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Lord of the Rings |
| 100% | ELROND (2) | Elegant Lazy Ruler Of Nostalgic Demigods |
Carl Brett Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Lord of the Rings |
| 100% | ELROND (3) | Elven Lord Raised One Noble Daughter |
Patricia Rix Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Lord of the Rings |
| 100% | EL SALVADOR | Exceedingly Lawless - Spain Acceded Liberation, Vicious Activities Destroyed Ollie & Regan. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | ELVIS PRESLEY | Eternally "Las Vegas" In Showmanship, Performed/ Recorded Enduring Songs - Lives Eternally, Yes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Music:Artists |
| 100% | ELVIS PRESLEY (2) | Entertainer's Lovely Voice Is Stilled, Perhaps Recalling Extra Sexy Legmovements Entertains You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Music:Artists |
| 100% | EMAC | Even More Acceptable Contribution |
TMcCO'G - upon reading APPLE (6) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | EMACS | Educational Machinery And Classroom Software |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | Emitting Messages Along Internet "Lines" |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Internet | |
| 100% | Embarassingly, My Account Is Lacking |
Gavin Lambert, when his email address changed Computers:Internet | |
| 100% | E-MAIL (2) | Electronic Memos Are In Line |
Jan Morgan Computers:Internet |
| 83% | EMAIL (2) | Early Mail At an Impossible Light |
Jonathan Allard Computers:Internet |
| 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% | EMILIA | Evil Males' Intriguing Loathed In Abundance |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Othello Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Othello |
| 100% | EMILIA (2) | Every Man Is Lost In Admiration |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's (and/or John Fletcher's) The Two Noble Kinsmen Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:The Two Noble Kinsmen |
| 100% | EMILY | Exceptional Maid Is Lusciously Youthful |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | EMINEM | Emulates Macho Insubordination, Nearly Eradicating Music |
Kenny Roy Entertainment:Music:Artists |
| 100% | EMMY | Excellence Makes Me Yours |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | EMOTICON | Everybody Munching One Turns Irreversibly Cute, Often Nauseating |
Patricia Rix Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | EMOTICON (2) | Eyes, Mouth Or Teeth - It's Copied Over Network |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Internet |
| 100% | EMOTICON (3) | Ever More Obtuse - These Indicators Convey Overt Nonseriousness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, saying: .....there are emoticons for emotions I've neither heard of, nor experienced! %^&/> Computers:Internet |
| 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% | EMOTICONS | Each Message On The Internet Contains Our Nonsensical Shapes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady 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 |
| 100% | EMPLOYEE (2) | Everyone Marked "Personnel" Listed On Your "Employer's Expenses" |
Patricia Rix People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | EMPLOYERS | Evil Mice Pee Lastingly On Your Ears, Rodent Swine! |
Jeff Anonymous, referring to the attitude of some people against their employers. Salvaged from a failed mega-acronym. People & Relationships:Insults People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| 100% | EMPLOYMENT | Expenses Much Padded? Look Out - Your Monthly Emolument Needs Tackling |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| 100% | EMPOWER | Enthusiasm & Motivation, Plan, Organize, Work, Evaluate, Refine. |
Rico Leffanta, as a 'modernisation' of POWER. People & Relationships:Advice |
| 90% | EMPTY TALK | Encompasses Meaningless Politician Talk and Yakking To Another Likeminded Kretin. |
Angela Brett Politics Communication:Talking |
| 100% | EMULSION | Each Meal Using Liquid Suspension Isn't Overly Nutritious |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see GLOSS) Food & Drink:Home(-cooked) Improvement:Paint |
| 100% | EMULSION (2) | Evening Meal's Unusually Luscious - Stir It Often, Naturally |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, to balance EMULSION Food & Drink:Home(-cooked) Improvement:Paint |
| 100% | ENABLER | Ever Noticed Addiction, But Let Everything Remain? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Drugs People & Relationships |
| 100% | ENAMEL | Expect No Appetising Meals Eating Lacquer |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see GLOSS) Food & Drink:Home(-cooked) Improvement:Paint |
| 100% | ENAMEL (2) | Everyone Needs A Meal - Eat Liberally |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, to balance ENAMEL Food & Drink:Home(-cooked) Improvement:Paint |
| 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% | ENDEARMENT | Everyone Needs Devotion Expressed Aloud. Romantic Men Emote Needful Twitterings |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | ENDING | Every Near-Death Indicates New Genesis |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| 94% | ENDOCRINE GLANDS | Everybody Needs Dispersal Of Chemicals Released Internally, Naturally Evincing God's Love of A Neat Distribution System |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who finally got tired of seeing this subject every time he logged on to the "Unsuccessful Searches" page at http://acronyms.co.nz/cgi-bin/searches Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | END-TO-END | Extremeties Neatly Dovetailed Together, One Ensures Neat 'Dressing' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | ENDURE TO THE END | Eternal Nature Deems Unusual Righteous Endurance. Today Or Tomorrow's Heavenly Earth Eventually Negotiates Divinity |
Jan Morgan Religion |
| 100% | ENDURE TO THE END (2) | Every Nurtured Dealings Usually Rely Endlessly Towards Our Truth Healing End. Eternity Never Dies |
Jan Morgan Religion |
| 100% | ENEMY AT THE GATES | Enemies Never Ending - Military Youth Accurately Targets Those He Executes: German Army That Encircles Stalingrad |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Movies |
| 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 |
| 91% | ENGAGEMENT | Enraptured Nubile Guy And Gal Entering Marriage to Enjoy Nuptial Togetherness |
Eric Bridgstock People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| 100% | ENGINE | Emits Noxious Gases Into Noisy Environment |
Eric Bridgstock Transport:Car Parts |
| 100% | ENGINEERING | Edifices Need Great Ingenuity Nowadays. Elegant Erections Require Innate Native Genius |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science Places:Buildings |
| 100% | ENGLAND | Europeans? Not Generally, Louts Arouse National Dislike |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | ENGLAND (2) | Ever Nostalgic, Green Lush Area, Nice Destination |
Jan Morgan Places:Countries |
| 100% | ENGLISH | Eccentricities Numerous... Grammar Learning Is Superlatively Hard. |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | ENGLISH (2) | Essential Near-Global Language Is Superior, Honestly |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | ENGLISH (3) | Email's Now Global - Language Is Surely Hegemonic! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Linguistics Computers:Internet |
| 100% | ENGLISH (4) | Each New Generation's Learning Involves Shakeapeare's Heritage |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays Science:Linguistics |
| 78% | ENGLISH (5) | European Normative Grammar for Linguistic Interoperability and Syntactic Harmony |
Alistair Lovegrove Science:Linguistics |
| 88% | ENGLISH (6) | Easy, Nice and Great Language If Studied Hard |
Son Hong Nguyen -- This apronym is recommended to English teachers as an amusing introduction to the language. Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | ENGLISH (7) | Everybody Needs Global Language - It Solves Hassles |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | ENGLISH (8) | Especially Needs Good Learners -- It's Superbly Hard! |
Jeff Anonymous Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | ENHANCE | Experts Now Have Added Newly Coloured Elements |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Verbs |
| 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% | ENID | Encourages Novice In Direction |
Jan Morgan - someone I knew Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | ENID BLYTON | Every Nursery Is Delighted - Babies Love Your Tales Of Noddy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Writers |
| 100% | ENIGMA | Every New Iteration Generates More Animosity |
Sean Lamb (Enigma was the code name for RedHat Linux 7.2) Computers:Linux Names:Code Names:Linux |
| 100% | ENOLA GAY | Exploring Nippon Over Land Awakens Grisly Atomic Yesterdays |
Rico Leffanta Military |
| 100% | ENRON | Earth's Natural Resources - Or Nothing! |
Rico Leffanta Commerce:Companies |
| 100% | ENRON (2) | Executives Nefariously Realise Outrageous Net |
Rico Leffanta Commerce:Companies |
| 100% | ENRON (3) | Executive Neighs Reinforce Official "Nays" |
Rico Leffanta Commerce:Companies |
| 100% | ENRON (4) | Employees Now Retire On Nothing |
Rico Leffanta Commerce:Companies |
| 100% | ENRON MACHINE GUN | "E" Nudged Really Ominously Notifies Malfeasance. A Computer Has Insides Not Expected, Generates Unwanted Noise. |
Jeff Anonymous, referring to the dark side of his desktop computer (the sound card was misrepresented and there is some odd fan noise) and the fact that Dell and the defunct energy company Enron share the "crooked E" logo. Suffice to say that his eyes have looked towards Apple for the next upgrade cycle. Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 100% | ENT | Eat No Trees! |
Carl Brett Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Lord of the Rings |
| 100% | ENT (2) | Enormous Noble Tree |
Carl Brett Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Lord of the Rings |
| 100% | ENTEI | Elusive, Not Trappable Every Instance |
Dundee (Entei is Pokemon #247 - one of the three legendary beasts which is very difficult to capture) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 83% | ENTER | Enter Now, Then Exit (at) Rear |
Dundee Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | ENTERPRISE | Exploring New Territories / Extremely Remote Planets & Regions Is Starships Errand |
Bones McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:TV shows |
| 95% | ENTERPRISE SECURITY | Every Network Technician Eeverywhere Respects Privacy Rights Implicitly. Still Every Single Enterprise Consultant Usually Realizes it Isn't True Yet. |
Sean Lamb Computers |
| 91% | ENTHUSIASM | Eagerness Neglects Thought. Hazardous Upsurge Suggests Inability to Assume Serious Meditation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, finding more faults in MacGirl People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 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% | EOS | Eclipse Or Sunrise |
Rico Leffanta Religion:Greek Gods & Goddesses |
| 100% | EPHEMERAL | Everything Passes Hurriedly, Especially Mayflies - Earth's Rotation's A Lifetime. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology |
| 100% | EPHEMERAL (2) | Earth's Pirouette Has Especially Morbid Effect, Restricting A Life. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| 100% | EPHESIANS | Edited Pauline Handiwork Explains Spiritual Intentionality. All Need Salvation. |
Sue Johnson Religion:Bible books |
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