Acronyms Predominantly Result in Obfuscation... 'Nsure Yours Mean Something
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| FERMAT | Famous Equation Really Made Andrew Think! |
Angela Brett (Andrew Wiles eventually proved Fermat's Last Theorem centuries after Fermat's death.) Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| FERRARI | Fast Exotic Red Roadcar. All Round Italian |
Eric Bridgstock Transport:Car Makes & Models |
| FERRARI (2) | Fabulously Engineered Racer. Red And Rather Innovative |
Eric Bridgstock Transport:Car Makes & Models |
| FERRET | Furry Entity Rootles Rabbits & Eats Them |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Animals |
| FERRITE CORE | Few Engineers Realize Ram Is Technology Evolved 'Cause Of Researching Engineers |
Sean Lamb (who remembers seeing photos of ferrite core memory from his own college days) Computers:Generic Hardware |
| FERRY TICKET | Forget Enduring Road Rage - You'll Travel In Comfort, Knowing Entrance Time. |
Angela Brett Transport |
| FERTILITY | Fairly Easy Reproduction, Though Initiating Life Is Terrific Yield |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| FESTE | Fool Enters Singing Three Elegies |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Twelfth Night |
| FETISH | Finding Eroticism Through Item's Strange Hold |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| FFESTINIOG | Foggy, Fuel Embarks Station, Trains In Noble Ignited Offerings Given |
Jan Morgan (coal is mined in the town and trains deliver it) Places:Towns & Cities |
| FIANCE | Fellow Is Apparenly Now Classified "Engaged" |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| FIAT | Fascist Is A Tyrant |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - "fiat" is Latin for "let it be done" and means a formal or solemn command (Star-Trek-speak is "make it so"!) Science:Linguistics Communication |
| FIAT (2) | Fiat Is Always Trouble. |
Tiny Lee Transport:Car Makes & Models |
| FIBER | Food Is Best Eaten Raw |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink |
| FICTION | Fancy Is Creatively Treated In Original Novel |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature |
| FIDELITY | Favouring In Decent Exposure Love Issued To You |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| FIELD DAY | Father Is Endorsing Letter - Don't Do Anything Yucky! |
Angela Brett, thinking about permission slips for school outings. Education Time:Special Occasions |
| FIELD MARSHAL | Fool Is Elevated Loftily.... Drastic Misjudgement! Adores Regimentation, Secretly Hasn't 'A Life' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Military:Ranks |
| FIFE | Fingering Is Fairly Elaborate |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Music:Instruments |
| FIFTEEN | Fifteen Is Five Threes - Especially Endearing Number |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, saying that his son is fifteen. Time:Age |
| FIFTEEN (2) | Fifteen = Increment (Fourteen). Ten Evidently Exceeds Nine. |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Science:Mathematics:Numbers |
| FIFTY | Fair In Face, Though Yellowed! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, on his 50th birthday. Time:Age |
| FIFTY (2) | Folds In Face Triple Yearly :) |
Angela Brett Time:Age |
| FIFTY (3) | Frequently I'm Forgetting Things Yesterday! |
Angela Brett Time:Age |
| FIFTY (4) | F*ck! I'm Feeling The Years |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Time:Age |
| FIFTY (5) | Frankly, I Feel Terrifically Young |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Time:Age |
| FIFTY (6) | Frailty Is Finally Taking You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Time:Age |
| FIFTY (7) | Factorially It's (Five Tens) Years! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Time:Age |
| FIFTY (8) | Fragile, Infirm, Forgetful, Tetchy, Yawning! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Time:Age |
| FIJI | Felicitous, Inspirational, Joyful Islands |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| FILE | For Indicating Length - EOF. |
Angela Brett Computers |
| FILES | Fresh Interns Love Elderly Seniors |
Dundee Commerce |
| FILES (2) | Frequently Issued Letters Ensure Satiation. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication |
| FILET MIGNON | Father-In-Law Eating The Meat; It's Grab Now Or Never |
Rico Leffanta Food & Drink |
| FILM | Fantasy In Locked Mirrors |
Rico Leffanta Entertainment:Movies |
| FILTER | Fast I Learnt To Extract Rubbish |
Edwin Hermann Assorted Verbs Assorted Nouns |
| FINAL UPGRADE | Finished It Now, And Launched Unto Public. Get Ready Advertisements Defining Enhancements |
TMcCO'G Science:Electronics |
| FINANCIAL | Father, I Need A New Coat... I'd Appreciate Loan. |
Angela Brett Commerce:Money |
| FINANCIAL AID | Fond Infant, Not A Nickel Can I Advance 'Less An I.o.u. Devolves |
Patricia Rix, to follow FINANCIAL Commerce:Money |
| FINE | Fromage Is Naturally Exquisite |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| FINE! | Fine! In Next Encounter ...! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Communication |
| FINED | For Infraction, Ninety-Eight Dollars |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| FINGERNAILS | Flexibility Is No Good - Enamelled (Red?) Nails Assist If Loosening Screws |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| FINGERPRINTS | Forensic Investigators Now Get Enhanced Results, Putting Rogue Individuals Near 'The Scene' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| FINGERS | Fidgeting Indexes Negotiating Gently Enter Responses Slowly |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| FINICKY | Fastidiousness Isn't Nice - It Could Kill You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| FINICKY (3) | Fussiness Is Numbing, Inhibiting Creative Kick - Y? |
Melanie Merswolke People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| FINISHED | Finally I've Nailed It, Software Has Earned Downloads |
Angela Brett, when she had at last got the Apronyms app for Mac OS X ready for release. Computers:Programming |
| FINLAND | Far Into Northern Latitudes Amongst Neverending Darkness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| FIONA | Fake In Own Narcissistic Appearance |
Jan Morgan - refering to a character in Cinderella Story (the movie) Names:First names:Female Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| FIONA (2) | Friendly In One's Necessary Achievement |
Jan Morgan - someone I know Names:First names:Female |
| FIRE | Flaming Inferno Radiating Energy |
Angela Brett, demonstrating what a true acroholic would say if someone yelled 'FIRE!' in the middle of the night. Science:Physics |
| FIRE (2) | For Incinerating Rubbish, Etc. |
Angela Brett Science:Physics |
| FIRE (3) | Fuel Is Rapidly Exhausted |
Angela Brett Science:Physics |
| FIRE (4) | Flame Ignites & Roasts Eyebrows |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Physics |
| FIRE ALARM | Falsely Indicates Required Evacuation, And Largely Annoys Regular Moviegoers |
Angela Brett, after being evacuated from a building (where there also were movie theatres) due to a false fire alarm. Entertainment:Movies |
| FIRED | Free! I Renounced Employer's Direction |
Robert Anonymous People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| FIREFIGHTER | Fellow In Red Engine, Frequenly Involved Getting Hoses To Extinguish Roasters |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| FIREMEN | Flame Is Rising - Emergency Manpower Evidently Needed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations People & Relationships:Disaster |
| FIREWIRE | Fast Information Retrieval, Even Without Inconvenient Restarting Everytime. |
Angela Brett Computers:Generic Hardware |
| FIRST | Foremost Innovator, Respected Sage Top |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Assorted Adjectives |
| FIRST CLASS | For Its Rank Success, To Choose Lessons At Some Schools |
Jan Morgan -- Rank in Boy Scouts Sports & Recreation:Scouts |
| FIRST IN LAST OUT | Freshmen In Remedial Science Think "I'll Never Learn About Stacks. They're Onerously Unfathomable Today!" |
Sean Lamb (in computer science, a Stack is a First-In-Last-Out data structure) Computers:Programming |
| FIRST PRESIDENCY | Faithful Individuals Reverence Saviors Truth, Persons Responsible Entirely, Service Is Delegated, Examples Nobly Counsels You |
Jan Morgan -- what the head men of the LDS Church are called Religion:Religious Occupations |
| FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS | Friggin' Idiots Require Slow Teaching, Yeah? Educators Aren't Right - Some Totally Understand. Don't Emphasise Non-Troublesome Stuff. |
Angela Brett, after going to a first-year computer science lecture and being reminded of how much lecturers treat first-year students like idiots. Education:Slow Teaching |
| FISH | Fins In Saline Habitat |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Animals |
| FISHLURE | Feathers Intertwined Should Help Land Uniquely Rare Exhibit |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation |
| FIVE | Five Isn't Very Easy |
Angela Brett, when Dustan said that FIVE would be a difficult acronym to do. Science:Mathematics:Numbers |
| FLACCID | Floppy, Limp And Collapsed, Cock Is Dangling! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Adjectives |
| FLAG (2) | Flutters Loftily And Gloriously |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - Prompted by the unsuccessful search for "WHAT DOES FLAG STAND FOR?", but taking it as a literal question what does "FLAG" stand for. Assorted Nouns Politics |
| FLAG (3) | Flying Loose Above Ground |
Jan Morgan and Remington Morgan Assorted Nouns |
| FLAME | From Lighting A Match, Etc. |
Angela Brett, trying a different kind of singer after Tony came up with expansions for several of the musical kind. Science:Physics |
| FLAME (2) | Fire Licks A Million Eyebrows |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Physics |
| FLAMES | Forum Language And Manners Explode Spectaucularly |
Sean Lamb (who tries to stay out of 'net flame wars) Communication |
| FLAN | Funny-Looking, Aromatic Nourishment |
Sean Lamb Food & Drink |
| FLASHER | Fellow Likely Acting Sexual, His Exhibitionism's Ribald! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| FLASH LAST | Flirted, Loved, And Swallowed Hook Line And Sinker Terminally. |
Rico Leffanta, explaining that flashing last is going down in flames like a shooting star. Assorted Phrases |
| FLAT | Few Landfills Are This |
Edwin Hermann Assorted Adjectives |
| FLATTERER | False & Lying Adulation Tends To Elicit Reponses Exposing Reprehensiblity |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| FLAT WHITE | Feel Like A Tea With Herbal Infusions? Try Elsewhere! |
Angela Brett, thinking of it as a sign outside a coffee shop. Food & Drink:Drinks |
| FLAT WHITE (2) | Fine Little Apple That Will Have IBook Tykes Enthused. |
Angela Brett, thinking that the latest iBook, which is not curvy and colourful like the old ones, could be called the 'flat white'. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| FLAVIUS | Faithful, Loyal And Valued (If Unsung) Servant |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Timon of Athens |
| FLAWLESS | Fabulous Looking, And Without Little Errors - Simply Stunning |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - who knows the feeling :-) People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| FLAWS | Faulty - Like A Windoze System |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns Computers:Windows |
| FLAWS (2) | Feel Like A Woman Scorned |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships |
| FLAWS (3) | First Love All Went South. |
Rob Rix People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| FLEA | Fried Lightly Excites Appetite |
Rico Leffanta Science:Biology:Insects:Edible(?) |
| FLECK | Fewer Lines Equals Conserved Kilobytes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers |
| FLED | Field's Left Empty/ Deserted |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Verbs |
| FLIES | Food Lovers Ingredient Expressly Served |
Rico Leffanta Science:Biology:Insects:Edible(?) |
| FLIPSIDE | Fraternal Love In Progress Sometimes Incorporating Digital Explorations |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| FLIRT | Future Lover Is Really Trying |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| FLIRT (2) | Feel Like I'm Romantic Topgun |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| FLIRTING | Feel Like I'm Ready To Investigate New Guys/Girls |
Angela Brett, while pondering the difference between flirting and ordinary conversation. People & Relationships:Love & Lust Communication |
| FLORA | Flowers Love Outdoor Rural Arrangements |
Rico Leffanta Science:Biology:Plants Religion:Roman Gods & Goddesses |
| FLORAL | Flaunting Likenesses Of Rhododendrons And Lilies |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| FLORENCE | Fish Lover Often Relishes Eating Nouvelle Cuisine Entrees |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:You Are What You Eat |
| FLORENCE (2) | Fridge 'Left Overs' Recipe's Evidently Not Considered Exciting |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:You Are What You Eat |
| FLORIDA | Feel Like Okefenokee Ramble's Innocuous, Despite Alligators? |
Patricia Rix Places:States & Regions |
| FLORIDA (2) | Famous Location Of Republicans' Illegal Democracy-Avoidance |
Chris Kjelgaard Politics Places:States & Regions |
| FLORIDA (3) | Fresh Lovely Oranges, Rides In Disney Area |
Jan Morgan Places:States & Regions |
| FLORIDA (4) | Fun-Lovers Often Revel In Disney Attractions |
Tony Places:States & Regions |
| FLORIZEL | Fleeing Lord's Opposition, Romance Inspires Zesty Eloping Lovers |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:The Winter's Tale |
| FLOURINE | Frequently Liquified On Unclean Reservoirs. It Nourishes Enamel. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| FLOWER | Fellow's Love Of Woman Expressed Romantically |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust Science:Biology:Plants |
| FLUTE | Flavour Lets Us Touch Exaltation |
Jason Wilcox Entertainment:Music:Instruments |
| FLUTE (2) | Flex Lips Until Tune Escapes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Music:Instruments |
| FLUTES | Fingerwork Looking Uncomfortable, These Emit Sounds |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Music:Instruments |
| FLY | Friends Loathe You |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| FLYER | Frightful "Literature" You Eternally Refuse |
TMcCO'G referring to the handbills handed out on streets to passers-by Commerce Communication |
| FM | Funky Music |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms Entertainment:Music |
| FOCUS | For Orbits, Centre's Usually Star |
Angela Brett Science:Astronomy |
| FOCUS GROUP | Feed Our Customers Under Scrutiny, Gauging Reactions On Unfamiliar Products. |
Angela Brett Commerce |
| FOE | Focused On Extinction |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships |
| FOG | Floating Otherworldly Gas |
Roger Williams Science:Meteorology |
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