Algebra-like Possibilities! Real Organic Naturally Yours! Mnemonic Sentience/Shouts!
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| 100% | PA | Paternal Ancestor |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Family |
| 100% | PA (2) | Paternal Android |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Family |
| 100% | PACER | Precursive Athlete Can Enliven Runner |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | PACIFIC | Palms, Atolls, Castaways, Inspiration For Imaginative Children |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Waterways |
| 100% | PACKAGING | Properly, A Carton Keeps All Goods Inside Neatly Grouped |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | PACKAGING (2) | Presentation Acknowledges Consumers Know All Glitz Is Necessarily Gold |
Melanie Merswolke Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | PACKAGING (3) | Paper And Cardboard - Keep Away - 'Glitz' Is Needless Garbage! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after reading PACKAGING (2) and saying that the environmentally aware might prefer something a bit more conservative. Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | PACKRATITIS | Person Accumulating Crap; Keeps Really Ancient Things Indefinitely, Taking Infinite Storage. |
Gavin Lambert, explaining why he has so many old computers. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | PACMAN | Positively A Classic Macversion Available Now |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Games:Game Characters Computers:Games |
| 100% | PACT | Prosper And Collect Taxes |
Rico Leffanta Politics |
| 100% | PADDLE | Propel A Dugout During Liquid Escapade |
Tony McCanoe O'Grady Transport |
| 100% | PADDY | Particularly Angry , Don't Destroy Yourself |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| 100% | PAGANS | Pray - And Get Afterlife's Necessities Secured |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see SHOVE OFF) Religion Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| 100% | PAGANS (2) | Please Accept God As New Saviour |
Angela Brett Religion |
| 100% | PAGANS (3) | Preaching Alternate Gods, All Naive Sinners |
Angela Brett Religion |
| 100% | PAIGE | Part Angel, In Godless Episodes |
Angela Brett (Paige is a part-angel, part-witch character in the TV series 'Charmed'. I expect that the show would be labelled 'Godless' by some religious zealots because of the witches and other supernatural creatures in it, so it's interesting that it should have angels.) Names:First names:Female Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| 100% | PAIN | Prescribe Anaesthetic, It'll Numb. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 80% | PAIN (2) | Pulsations At Irritated Nerve-ending |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | PAIN (3) | Palpitations Ache In Neglect |
Jan Morgan Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | PAINT | Palate Assaulted, It's Not Tasty |
Steve Keate Food & Drink |
| 100% | PAINT (2) | Pleasing And Incredibly Nutritious. Truely. |
Steve Keate, balancing his negative PAINT expansion after reading Tony's GLOSS etc. Food & Drink:Home(-cooked) Improvement:Paint |
| 100% | PAIN (TWO) (ONE) | Parentheses Activate Interesting Novelty That We Only Occasionally Need Encounter |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when he began a forum thread called 'PAIN (2)' but since there was one post in the thread, it was displayed in the thread list as 'PAIN (2) (1)' Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | PAISLEY | Perfect, Although It's Small... Like Embryo / Young |
Angela Brett, who went to Paisley, Ontario, to meet the Rixes. Places:Towns & Cities:Canada |
| 100% | PAKISTAN | Populous As Karachi Is, Still Truly Agricultural Nation. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 89% | PAKISTAN (2) | Persecutions Absolutely Known, India Separated into Two Asian Nations. |
Roger Williams Places:Countries |
| 100% | PAL | Peace At Last |
unknown origin - actually stands for Phase Alteration Line. Referring to the US/Europe TV standards war. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | PALAMON | Pally Allegiance Lumbered After Maiden's Openly Noted |
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% | PALESTINE | Please, All... Let's End Schismatic Terrorism (Israel's No Exception!) |
Angela Brett Religion Places:Countries Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | PALINDROME | Put All Letters In New Direction Reverse Or Mirror Effect |
Apronymous Anonymous Words & Wordplay |
| 92% | PALINDROMES | Palindromes Amazing! (Letters of Information / Notice Digits) Read Opposite: Message Exactly Same! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Words & Wordplay |
| 90% | PALLADIUM | Pallas Athene Linked. Light Alloy in Dentistry, It's Un-Magnetic. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | PALM | People Analyse Lines Mystically |
Angela Brett Religion |
| 100% | PALM DATABASE | Perhaps... Angela Likes Mobile Data, And The Acronyms Belong At Sides Everywhere! |
Angela Brett, when someone searched for Palm Database on the Acronyms website. Perhaps the searcher was wondering if the acronyms were available in some kind of database format for Palm OS handheld computers. They aren't, but if I knew how to I wouldn't mind making them available that way. Computers |
| 100% | PALM DATABASE (2) | Portable And Little, My Digital Assistant's The Absolute Best - Although Somewhat Expensive |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers |
| 100% | PALM DATABASE (3) | Predictions Are Logged, Making Divinations Available To All. Browse And Spot Errors. |
Angela Brett - Perhaps mystics keep records of all their predictions so they can check up on them later and see if they were right... or maybe just for examples to show learning palm readers. Religion |
| 100% | PALM DATABASE (4) | Predictions Are Like Men: Dumb And Tiresome - And Basically A Silly Exercise |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after reading PALM DATABASE (3) and noting that Palmists are nearly always female. Religion People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| 100% | PALM DATABASE (5) | Practising Arborists Learn Much, Devouring All Teaching About Breeds And Species Etc. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Plants:Trees |
| 100% | PALMS | Predict A Life, Mystics Say |
Angela Brett Religion |
| 100% | PALM TREES | Pretty, A Large Mature Tree, Regions Elevates Elements, Sunshine |
Jan Morgan - Elevates Elements = Raised Weather temperatures Science:Biology:Plants:Trees |
| 100% | PALOMINO | Planning Another Launch, One Manufacturer Is Now Online |
Sean Lamb (Palomino was AMD's code name for their Athlon line of processors) Computers:Generic Hardware Names:Code Names |
| 100% | PALS | Personable And Likeable Soulmates |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| 100% | PALTRY | Pathetic Amount, Likely To Revolt You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | PALTRY (2) | Puny Allotment Leaves The Recipient Yearning |
Melanie Merswolke Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | PALTRY (3) | Piddling Amount - Less Than Required - Yuck! |
Patricia Rix Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | PANAMA | Please Attack Noriega And Make Amends |
joybutton (not his real name *grin*) Places:Countries |
| 100% | PANAMA (2) | Pick A Number And Move Aside |
joybutton Places:Countries |
| 100% | PANAMA (3) | Perhaps America's Narcotics Agents Messed About. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | PANDA | Particular About Native Diet, Apparently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | PANGAMY | Promiscuity Amongst No-Good Adults Made You! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | PANIC | People Act Nonsensically In Crisis |
Angela Brett, 35 minutes before the deadline of a group PROJECT. People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | PANIC (2) | People Are Now Imitating Chickens |
Angela Brett, when the server on which the Apronyms site is hosted was accidentally deleted. Luckily not many headless chicken impersonations were performed, as I had backups of almost everything. People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | PANTHER | Prowls Around Nature Trails, Heartily Enjoying Raccoons |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Animals |
| 88% | PANTHER (2) | Panther: A New Thing in His Evil Reign |
Acronymous Anonymous (presumably referring to the release of MAC OS X after JAGUAR Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Names:Code Names:Apple |
| 100% | PANTHER (3) | People All Need To Have Expose, Right? |
Angela Brett ('Expose' is one of the new features in Mac OS X 10.3, code-named 'Panther') Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Names:Code Names:Apple |
| 100% | PANTHER (4) | Please Add No Translations, Have Extra Room |
Angela Brett (most people will benefit from not installing all the languages in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, as they take up extra disk space and installation time.) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Names:Code Names:Apple |
| 100% | PANTHER (5) | Panicked Angela Needs Technical Help, Everything's Ruined! |
Angela Brett, who eventually had to do a clean install of Panther after having problems with the normal installation. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Names:Code Names:Apple |
| 100% | PANTIES | Pair Always Neatly Threaded Into Equivocal Single |
Rico Leffanta Household Objects:Clothing:Underwear |
| 100% | PANTIES (2) | Pulled Away, Naked Twat Is Exposed Sensationally |
Rico Leffanta Household Objects:Clothing:Underwear |
| 100% | PANTIES (3) | Protection Against Nighttime Temptation Into Erotic Session |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects:Clothing:Underwear |
| 100% | PANZER | Probably Australia-New Zealand Emergency Refreshment |
Rico Leffanta Food & Drink:Drinks |
| 100% | PAPABEAR | Pauses Aren't Particularly Annoying Because Exponential Assignment's Rough. |
Angela Brett, while typing to someone called PapaBear on IRC, not minding his long pauses because she was also working on an assignment involving infinite exponentials. Names |
| 100% | PAPER | Precious And Passionate Emerging Romance |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the paper (1st) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | PAPER (2) | Parchment Advances Produced Economical Replacement |
Tony Moore Household Objects |
| 100% | PAP SMEAR | Precaution Against Papilloma - Some Must Endure A Retest. |
Angela Brett, after reading http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992601 Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Parts Are Primitive - Uplanders Almost Never Encounter Westerners. Generally Upland Inhabitants Not Economically Active. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | PARACHUTE | Persons Abandoning Rushing Aircraft Can Hurtle Uncomfortably To Earth |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation:Parachuting |
| 100% | PARACHUTE JUMPING | People Aboard Racing Aircraft Can Hear Umpteen Terrified Exiters Judiciously Uttering Many Prayers - I Need God! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation:Parachuting |
| 100% | PARADES | Public's Annual Routine Anticipates Day, Event Strolling |
Jan Morgan Time:Special Occasions |
| 100% | PARAGUAY | Politically A Republic After Government Under Army Yoke. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | PARALLEL LINES | Partings Are Rigidly Applied, Logical Legalities Exclude Lines Lurching Into Nexus - Eternally Separated |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who always wondered why concentric circles do not qualify as 'parallel'. Science:Mathematics:Geometry |
| 100% | PARAMEDIC | Patients At Roadside Are Medicated, Eventually Doctors Intervene Clinically |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Healthcare:Healthcare Occupations |
| 100% | PARAMEDIC (2) | Provides Assistance (Road Accident) / (Medical Emergency) & Delivers Into Casualtyward |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Healthcare:Healthcare Occupations |
| 90% | PARAMETER | Programs Always Require A Method of Ensuring True & Efficient Running |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Programming |
| 100% | PARASCENDING | Person (And Rope And Speedboat) Can Elevate Nicely, Drifting If Not Gliding |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation:Parachuting |
| 94% | PARETO PRINCIPLE | Perhaps A Ratio's Erroneous - That One Perceived Result Is Not Completely In Proportion (to) Less Effort |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see PRINCIPLE) People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| 100% | PARIS | People Always Remember Iron Structure |
Eric Bridgstock Places:Towns & Cities |
| 100% | PARIS (2) | Perfume Always Rejuvenates Innate Sensuality |
Rico Leffanta Places:Towns & Cities |
| 100% | PARIS (3) | Perhaps Apple's Redesigning Its System? |
Sean Lamb (Paris was Apple's code name for the Macintosh II) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Names:Code Names:Apple |
| 83% | PARIS (4) | Philosophers, Artists, Restaurants and Iconic Structures |
Eric Bridgstock Places:Towns & Cities |
| 100% | PARK | Put Away Resting Kart |
Angela Brett Transport |
| 100% | PARK (2) | Playground Amuses Rowdy Kindergarteners |
Angela Brett Places |
| 100% | PARK (3) | Playground Amuses Restless Kids |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places |
| 100% | PARK (4) | Playing Achieves Recreation, Kids |
Jan Morgan & Remington Morgan Places Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | PARLIAMENT | Politicians Are Rogues Living In A Mendacious Environment, Never Trustworthy! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Politics |
| 100% | PAROLLES | Promises Are Regularly Overturned - Little Loyalty Ever Shown |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:All's Well That Ends Well |
| 100% | PARSER | Programmed Algorithm Reading Sentences, Expressions, Runes |
Gavin Lambert Computers |
| 83% | PARTY | Patronage-wise, Altscape Reached Thousand... Yay! |
Angela Brett, when the ALTSCAPE team were planning a party to celebrate having over a thousand users. Commerce:Companies Time:Special Occasions |
| 100% | PASCAL | Pressure And Stress Calculations Are Lengthy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Mathematics:Measurement |
| 100% | PASSING TIME | Pausing As Seconds Slide Into Nothing, Going Toward Inevitable Mind's-End |
Angela Brett Time Sports & Recreation:Relaxation |
| 100% | PASSION | Perhaps A Shabby Sensation Indicating Onerous Needs |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Emotions People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | PASSIVE SMOKING | People Around Smokers Should Indicate Vehement Exceptions! Secondary Mischief Often Kills Innocent Non-Gaspers |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Drugs:Tobacco |
| 100% | PASSWORD | Pick Alphanumeric Symbols, Sans Words Of Reputable Dictionaries. |
Angela Brett Computers |
| 100% | PASSWORD (2) | People Actually Seem Stupid Working Outside Required Directives |
Dundee Commerce |
| 100% | PASSWORD (3) | Private And Secret Spelling Which Operator Requires -- Damn |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers |
| 100% | PASSWORD (4) | Perhaps A Security System Which Often Restricts Doorways |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | PASTA | Parboil, Add Sauce - That's All! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink |
| 100% | PAST AND PRESENT | Previous And Subsequent Times Are Naturally Distinguished - Previous's Remembering, Experiencing's Subsequent. Extempore, Now's Then. |
Angela Brett, who wishes she could think of a better word than 'Subsequent' Time |
| 100% | PASTE | Pictures And Simple Text Entered |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers |
| 86% | PASTOR | Person Advocating Sensible Terms of Organised Restriction |
Mary Carr Religion:Religious Occupations |
| 100% | PASTRY | Pick Another Strudel To Rejuvinate Yourself |
Rico Leffanta Food & Drink |
| 100% | PATCHES | Pretty Active Tabby Cat Hums Ever Sweetly |
Jan Morgan Names:Pet Names |
| 100% | PATENT | Prior Art Treated Egregiously, Not Trusted |
Sean Lamb (the patent office is called to terms by the W3C with prior art on Eolas's web embedding patent) People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | PATENT (2) | Patent Application Truthful? Eolas Needs Tutoring |
Sean Lamb (the patent office is called to terms by the W3C with prior art on Eolas's web embedding patent) Computers:Internet People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | PATHETIC | People Against The Hypothesis Earth Travels In Circles |
Rico Leffanta Assorted Adjectives Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | PATHOLOGY | Perusing A Tissue'e Health (Or Lack) Of Geriatrics & Youths |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology |
| 89% | PATIENCE | Postage Across Timezones Is Exceptionally Non-fast. Check Everyday. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela was impatient to find out what Tony had put in with her MacAddict, when sending it back after a loan. People & Relationships:Personality Traits Communication |
| 100% | PATRICIA | Parenting All Those Rixes Ideally, Caused Inopportune Ageing? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (At times all parents feel prematurely aged!) Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | PATRICIA (2) | Parenting All Those Rixes Is Creditable Intellectual Achievement |
George Rix Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | PATRICIA (3) | Parenting And Training Rixes Is Creator's Inspired Assignment |
George Rix Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | PATRICIA (4) | Piety And Temperance Remain Incontrovertible Characteristics, Inducing Apathy |
Patricia Rix Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | PATRICIA (5) | Patricia And Tony: Rivals In Creating Interesting Acronyms |
Patricia Rix Names:Acronymists |
| 89% | PATRICIA (6) | Patently Aggravated (by) Tony's Really Incorrect Characterization Involving Age! |
Patricia Rix (in response to PATRICIA) Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | PATRICIA (7) | Particularly Artistic Temperament Results In Creating Incredible Acronyms |
Patricia Rix and Rob Rix Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | PATRICIA (8) | Place Acronyms, Then Rhymes, Into Cereal Illegal Activities. |
Angela Brett Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | PATRICIA (9) | Particularly Attracted To Roguish Irishman's Careful, Imaginative Acronyms |
Patricia Rix Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | PATRICIA (10) | Pets And Toys Really Interest Child Inside Adult |
Patricia Rix Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | PATRICIA (11) | Placename Acronyms Tackled Regularly - Is Clan Intensely Acronymic |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Acronymists |
| 89% | PATRICIA (12) | Pansies Are Tasteless, Really Intended (to) Create Instant Atmosphere |
Patricia Rix (I am, of course, referring to the pansies which pretentious restaurants-in-hotels put on your plate along with your scanty serving of hors d'oeuvres to justify the inflated price.) Names:You Are What You Eat |
| 100% | PATRICK | Picked A Trefoil, Religiously Instructing Celtic King |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - Saint Patrick is reputed to have used a shamrock to show the three-in-one nature of the Holy Trinity to an Irish king Religion:Saints |
| 100% | PATRIOT | Person Acclaiming Territorial 'Romance' Is Often Terrorist |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships Military:War & Terrorism |
| 80% | PATTERNS | Phi-curves And Theta-curves Twisting Elegantly Round Netted Surfaces |
Angela Brett, during a lecture mentioning spherical co-ordinates in UNIVERSITY CALCULUS class. Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | PATTI | Potatoes And Turnips Taste Incredible |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:You Are What You Eat |
| 100% | PATTON | Picture About Truly Terrifying Officer - No? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Movies |
| 86% | PATTY BOUVIER | Pestering Auto-Test Triers, You Brook One Unfulfilled Vaunted Infatuation - Enchanting Richard-dean-anderson |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| 100% | PAUL | Probably An Undersized Lad |
Angela Brett, because according to http://www.surebaby.com/page67.html, the name Paul means 'small'. Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | PAUL (2) | Pathetic Adult Used Lust |
Jan Morgan - Someone I know Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | PAULA | Please Act Ultimately Like Adult |
Jan Morgan Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | PAUL AND MORGAN HAMM | Physically Amazing (Unfortunately, Larynges Are Not Desireable) Men, Obviously Rule Gymnastics. Among Nellies, Have A Massive Market |
Robert Anonymous - Paul and Morgan Hamm are two beautiful gymnasts with voices that rather resemble those of the munchkins in The Wizard of Oz. Names:Famous people Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | PAUPER | Poor And Unfortunate Person - Evidently Ravenous |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| 100% | PAUSE | Plainly A Uniquely Short Easement |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Time |
| 100% | PAYCHEQUE | Please Accept You Can't Have Everything - Quite Unstable Economy. |
Angela Brett Commerce:Money |
| 100% | PAYCHEQUE (2) | Please, As Your Credit Has Expired, Quit Undue Extravagance! |
Patricia Rix Commerce:Money |
| 100% | PAYDAY | Perfect, As Your Debts Arrived Yesterday! |
Angela Brett Time Commerce:Money |
| 100% | PAYROLL | Please Accept Your Raise (Or Lowering) Lief. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| 100% | PC | Plastic Crap |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Windows |
| 100% | PC (2) | Pathetic Creation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Windows |
| more apronyms beginning with P |