Abbreviating Provides Relaxing Opportunities - Nirvana, You Might Say
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| PORTHCAWL | Privately Owned Residences That Have Cold Attics Which Leak |
John Richard Jones Places:Towns & Cities:UK |
| PORTIA | Panic's Often Raised Through Inamorata's Absence |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Antony and Cleopatra Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Julius Caesar |
| POSITION | Perhaps One Should Inspect Things In One's Neighbourhood |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Positions & Directions |
| POSITIVES | Perfect! Opportune! Sentient! Innovative! Triumph! Invincible! Victory! Excel! Self! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. People & Relationships |
| POSITRON | Part Of Smarts, In The Realm Of Novels |
Angela Brett, referring to the 'positronic brain' conceived by writer Isaac Asimov. Art & Literature Science:Physics:Particles |
| POST | Press OK Single Time. |
Steve Keate, after he accidentally posted the same message twice on the forums. Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| POSTERS | Pictures Of Swanky Technological Equipment, Ridiculously Sized. |
Angela Brett (referring to Apple posters of course... what other kinds of poster are there?) Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| POT | Police Often Take |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate Drugs:Cannabis |
| POTATO | Properties Of Thermochemistry Are Too Obscure! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - Angela had said that she likes refrigerated cooked potatoes because they have a similar texture, or at least temperature, to cold hardboiled eggs. Tony pointed out that the texture would vary according to the type of potato, so Angela replied that the temperature would still be similar no matter what kind of potato was used. Tony then said "I don't intend to get into a discussion about the heat-retention properties of various varieties of potato," and presented this acronym to back up his position. Food & Drink Science:Physics |
| POTENTIAL | People Ought To Eschew Natural Talents, Is Advice Lately. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to TALENT People & Relationships |
| POTTERY | People Often Try To Extend Relationship's Years. |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the pottery (9th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| POUND | Phasing Out? UK's Not Deciding. |
Jeff Anonymous Commerce:Money |
| POWER | Plan, Organize, Work, Evaluate, Refine. |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Advice |
| POWERS | Present Oportunity! Work Energetically Realising Successes! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. People & Relationships:Advice |
| PPC | Productive Processor Cycles |
Angela Brett, because PowerPCs and other RISC chips are generally faster per MHz than CISC chips. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Generic Hardware |
| PRACTICE | People Rarely Approve Complete Theories In Complex Experiments |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science |
| PRADA | People Really Admire Designer's Adornments |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects:Clothing |
| PRAISE | People React Appreciatively If Sometimes Eulogised |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Advice |
| PRAM | Pushing Round A Minor |
Tony McCoy O'Daddy Transport |
| PRATTLE | Person Rambles And Talks To Little Effect. |
Angela Brett Communication:Talking |
| PRAYER | Private Reverence Answers Yearnings Eventually Received |
Jan Morgan - communication with God who does answer our prayers in HIS own time Religion |
| PRESENT | PowerBook Requested's Ever So Expensive... Nice Try! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton Assorted Nouns |
| PRESENTATIONS | Please Remember Electronic Slideshows Enhance Nothing That's Already Terrible Information. Only Note Success! |
Angela Brett Communication:Presentations |
| PRESERVE | Protect Religiously Every Species; End Rare Varieties' Extinctions. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology Science:Environment |
| PRESIDENTS | People Running Executive Should, If Democratically Elected, Never Trust Sycophants |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Politics |
| PRESS | Publications Reporting Everyday Stories Sensationally |
Rico Leffanta Communication |
| PRETEND | Playing Reality Elusions That Enhance Natural Deceptiveness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Verbs |
| PREVIEW | Pre-Release Edition's Viewing Informs Executives Watching |
TMcCO'G - Hollywood movies are often 'previewed' to allow studios to change endings according to focus groups opinions. Entertainment:Movies |
| PRICE | Profit Received = Incoming Cash - Expenses |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Commerce |
| PRICELESS | Primary Reaction Is Chuckling, Excited Laughter Escapes, Some Sniggering. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Laughter |
| PRICK | Penis Rests In Coloured Knickers |
Mary Carr/Angela Brett, while Mary was watching some pricks on television. People & Relationships:Insults |
| PRIDE | Please Remember, I Did Everything! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions |
| PRIEST | Parish's Religious Individual Espouses Sacred Teachings. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Religious Occupations |
| PRIESTHOOD | Patriarchal Religious Improvement Essential Submission To Holy One Of Divinity |
Jan Morgan Religion:Religious Occupations |
| PRIMARY | Principal Resource Inducts Many Alarmed & Resentful Youths |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Education |
| PRIME | Produce Right Integers Multiplying Eternity |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Science:Mathematics |
| PRIMES | Positively Represent Individuals! Multiply Essential Services! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Science:Mathematics |
| PRINCESS | Public Relations Is Nearly Choking Elegant Stately Symbol. |
Angela Brett Politics:Royalty |
| PRINCIPAL | Person Responsible Is Normally Chief Instigating Player, And Leader |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| PRINCIPLE | Pithily Rolled Into Neat Clause, I'm Perhaps 'Life-Encapsulating' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| PRINTER | Pitiful Rectum Injured. Never Try Epson Rolls! |
Jeff Anonymous Computers:Do Not Eat |
| PRISCILLA | Presley's Relict In Subsequent Career Is Lovely Leading Actress |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Famous people |
| PRIVATE | Plodding Ranker Is Valiantly Assaulting The Enemy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Military:Ranks |
| PRIVATEER | Piratical Robbery In Vast Atlantic Tracts Enriched Elizabeth's Realm |
TMcCO'G - Privateers were often English ships which robbed Spanish ships returning to Spain with riches taken from the Americas and 'donating' portions of the booty to the Exchequer. History People & Relationships:Law & Order:Criminals |
| PRIZES | Payment Received Is Zero$ Each Submission. |
Angela Brett - Acronyms.co.nz does not offer prizes for acronyms as no money is made from the site... but you could still boast about being on the hall of fame (http://acronyms.co.nz/halloffame.html) or honours list (http://acronyms.co.nz/honours.html) Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website |
| PROBABILITY | Predict Randomness Only By Assuming Bias Isn't Long In Term, Yes? |
Angela Brett Science:Statistics |
| PROBABLY | Possible Result / Outcome - Basically A Bet Like Yankee |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication:Yesses And Noes |
| PROCRASTINATE | Please Realize Our Chores Really Are Stupidly Tedious -- *I'll* Never Accomplish Them Efficiently. |
Timothy Chambers Assorted Verbs |
| PRODUCTION | Play, Revue Or Drama - Usually Critics Take In Opening Night |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment |
| PROFESSIONS | People Rather Offices For Earning Salaries, Since Income's Often Nicely Stable |
Tony McCoy OWageearner People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| PROFIGGLE | Patient Rolled Off Furniture, Injuring Gluteus, Grazed Lower Extremities |
Tony McCoy O'Grady. 'Profiggle' was originally a contraction for 'prolonged stifled giggle' until Tony gave it this expansion. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Laughter |
| PROGENY | Parental Reproduction Often Generates Excessively Numerous Youths |
Tony McCondom O'Grady Science:Biology |
| PROGRAMMING | People Require One Good Reference, Alphabetically Making Most Instructions Nimbly Graspable. |
Angela Brett Computers:Programming |
| PROGRESS | People Running Onwards Get Rewarded Earning Social Status |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Nouns |
| PROJECT | Please Review Our Job Especially Compassionately. Thanks. |
Angela Brett, after a meeting with her group for an INFORMATION SYSTEMS project. Education |
| PROJECTS | People Rely On Just Enough Cash To Survive |
Tavia Bryant Places |
| PROLOGUE | Please Read Opening Lines, Offering Guidelines Unto Everyone |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature |
| PROMISCUOUS | Promises Romance Or Marriage In Seconds Counting Unscrupulously On Unresisted Sex |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| PROMISE | Proclamation's Read Only Memory... It Shall Endure. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| PROMPT | Print Request On Monitor - Please Type! |
Angela Brett Computers |
| PROPAGANDA | Pope's Religious Office Puts About Gospel Against Native Deities & Altars |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion |
| PROPHET | Prayerfully Religious, Offering Precepts, Happiness. Eternal Teacher |
Jan Morgan Religion:Religious Occupations |
| PROPOSAL | Paper Relating One's Purpose, Or Strategy, At Length |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication |
| PROPOSALS | People Readily Offer Personal Opinions Solving A Locked Situation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication |
| PROPRIOCEPTION | People Rely On Perfect Representations Internally Of Carnal Extremities. Perceiving This Is Only Natural. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| PROSPERO | Patiently Rides Out Seclusion Plotting Epic Revenge Operation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Tempest Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:The Tempest |
| PROSTITUTE | People Requesting Oral Sex Think It's Too Uneconomical To Enjoy? |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| PROTACTINIUM | Particularly Rarely Occurring. Tiny Amounts Cost Thousands. It's Not In Use Much. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| PROTECTION | People Really Ought To Ensure Care's Taken If Outside Nocturnally |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns |
| PROTEIN | Provides Rationable Options To Eat In Nibbles |
Jan Morgan Science:Chemistry Food & Drink |
| PROTEST | People Register Opposition To Enemy's Sinister Threat |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships Politics |
| PROTEUS | Puerile Rascal's Opportunity To Eye Up Silvia |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| PROTOCOLS | Procedures Rigidly Observed To Obviate Crassness Or Looking Stupid |
His Excellency, TheAmbassador@TheCourtOfSaintJames People & Relationships |
| PROTON | Positive, Resists Orbiting To Occupy Nucleus |
Gavin Lambert Science:Chemistry Science:Physics:Particles |
| PROTO-POLYNESIAN | Prehistoric Relative Of Today's Oceanic People's Oral Language. You'd Never Expect Such Interesting Ancestral Notes. |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics |
| PROVE | Perform Repeatable Objective Verifiable Experiments |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. I have been noticing for decades that a lot of common expressions can be acronymed (I am 58). E.G., HAND for "Have A Nice Day!" I have also coined apronyms for decades (even tho I did not link to your site until SAT 7/19 from acronymfinder.com, which I found on TUES 7/15.) I submitted this definition as my 37th and last to acronymfinder.com & apologized in the comment section that I had not read their guidelines until after my 36th submission.Your site is the most fun I visit. I hope that, above all, kids are encouraged to learn, communicate in, and coin apronyms! My favorite from your site is INFINITY! (I am a MATH WIZ.) Science |
| PROVERBS | Practical Recitation Of Valuable Educational Resources, Became Sayings |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Bible books |
| PROWL | Parade Romantic Opulence Women Love |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| PROXY | Person Registers Other's X, Yes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady ('Proxy' is a term used to describe someone authorised to vote for someone else. The 'X' stands for a vote.) Politics |
| PSALMS | Poetic Songs And Lyrics, Much Sung |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Bible books |
| PSHAW | Pathetic Sarcasm Hasn't Actually Worked |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Main |
| PSYCHOLOGY | Perhaps Somehow You Can Help Others Live Out Golden Years |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology |
| PSYDUCK | Psychokinetic Superpowers You Don't Understand Could Kill! |
Angela Brett (Psyduck is Pokemon #54... and they don't really kill, they could just make your pokemon faint.) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| PTOLEMY | Postulated That Otherworlds Looped Earth & Moon Yearly. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| PUBERTY | Penis, Uterus Be Expanding Rapidly Through Youth |
Jeff Anonymous Science:Biology |
| PUCK | Patently Unruly Chaos King |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| PUDDLES | Pools (Usually Dreadfully Dirty) Linger, Evaporating Slowly |
Tony MuckOy O'Grady Assorted Nouns |
| PUFFIN | Power Users Find Files In Networks |
Sean Lamb (Puffin is Google's code word for their new desktop file search utility) Computers Names:Code Names |
| PUKE | Partially Undigested Kilojoules Ejected |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| PULSARS | Probably Unpopulated Locations, Some Are Remotely Studied. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Astronomy |
| PUMA | Puma: Ultimate Mac Advancement |
Acronymous Anonymous (referring to the version of MAC OS X before JAGUAR) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Names:Code Names:Apple |
| PUNCTUATION | Perhaps Underutilised, Need Commas To Understand Acronyms! Trivial Indeed, One Nods |
Gavin Lambert Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Science:Linguistics |
| PUNK | Person Uncovering Nobby Knees |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships |
| PUNLESS | Polite Unadorned Natural Laughter Expresses Simplicity Sometimes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Angela said he was SLIPPING Words & Wordplay |
| PUNS | Playful, Unexpected Nuances Surprise! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Words & Wordplay |
| PUNT | Purchasers/Paddies Used Need These. |
Tony Commerce:Money |
| PUPPET | Pulling Upon Plaything's Pieces Entertains Tots |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, as an example of something which is worse with NO STRINGS ATTACHED (Pulling Strings) Entertainment:Toys |
| PUPPIES | People Usually Prefer Pets If Extra Small |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| PURCHASING | People Using Resources Can Haggle And/or Shop In New Grocers |
Tony McCoy O'ShoppingTrolley Commerce |
| PURE | Perfectly Unsullied, Remaining Entire |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Adjectives |
| PURGATORY | Punishment Until Residual Guilt Atoned, Then Openly Regard Yahweh |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places Religion |
| PURGE | Purify Using Registered General Emetic |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Verbs |
| PURITY | Penises Usually Relegate It To Yesterday |
Angela Brett, after (CHAP (2)) was given a 100% purity rating by the acronym submission form. Assorted Nouns People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| PURSUIT | Police Under Requirements So Ultimately I Tergiversate |
Taylor Rundell's the name. I thought of the acronym in my brain, but I also used the thesaurus @ thesaurus.com People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| PUSS | Pretty, Unusual, Silky, Sleeping |
Patricia Rix Science:Biology:Animals |
| PUTER | Pathetic Useless Tangled Electronic Rubbish! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Windows |
| PVC | Pretty Vulgar Clothing |
Angela Brett (PVC usually stands for Poly-Vinyl Chloride) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Household Objects:Clothing |
| PYTHAGORAS | Predict Your Triangle's Hypotenuse... Assuming Geometrically Orthogonal - Right-Angled - Sides. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| PYTHON | Pursues You, Then Has Ophidian Nutrition |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Animals:Vermin |
| PYXIS | Popping Yardage, Xraying/Xposing Individual Seeds |
Jan Morgan in other words the bursting seeds fall over the length (yardage) of the garden xraying (examining) each (individual) seed. An alternative beginning is Portions Yards referring to how people portion out their gardens to say where each variety of seed should go. Science:Biology:Plants |
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