Acronyms Predominantly Result in Obfuscation... 'Nsure Yours Mean Something
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| ANTIC | Action, Nay Trick! - Is Capricious |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| ARCHIVE | A Resource Containing Hoarded Items, Very Extensive |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when it was suggested that some of the old forum threads be archived. Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| ASSISTANCE | A Secondary Suggestion Is Some Times A Notion Creating Excellence |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when I mentioned that I had a few more acronyms in the making, each with one just one word still to be found. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| AZIMUTH | Absolute Zenith In Measurements Up The Horizon |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| BINS | Bringing It Nearer Still |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to an abbreviation for binoculars. |
| BINS (2) | Bumf Is Neatly Stored |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| BOGEY | Blowholes Over Gob Exude Yuckiness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| BUBBLES | Brought Unto Being By Liquid's Expanding Surface |
Angela Brett |
| CATEGORY | Can A Tame Elephant Grow On Raspberry Yoghurt? |
Angela Brett, while testing part of this stack. |
| COB (2) | Clay On Building |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CRANE | Can Raise Anything - Neat Engineering |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DISORDER | Disorganised Individual Should Occasionally Remove Dirt & Eject Rubbish |
TMcCO'G - parent to a teenager! |
| DUMP | Disgusting, Unwholesome, Mucky Poop |
Patricia Rix, telling Tony that LADIES don't leave a dump. |
| EAU (2) | Everywhere's Awash & Undulatory |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Linguistics:French Words |
| EFFORT | Exertion Fostering Feeling Of Real Tiredness |
Leo Boyes |
| EMMY | Excellence Makes Me Yours |
Angela Brett |
| ESTIMATION | Experience Sole Teacher In Murky Art, There Is Often None. |
Angela Brett, after somebody at work said that estimation is a black art and the only way you can get better at it is with experience. |
| FENCE | Fringe End Nullifies Coming / Exiting |
Jan Morgan |
| FILTER | Fast I Learnt To Extract Rubbish |
Edwin Hermann Assorted Verbs |
| 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. Politics |
| FLAG (3) | Flying Loose Above Ground |
Jan Morgan and Remington Morgan |
| FLAWS | Faulty - Like A Windoze System |
Angela Brett Computers:Windows |
| FUN | For Unrestrained Novelty |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| FUN (2) | Frivolous, Upbeat Nonsense |
Patricia Rix |
| GAP (3) | Get-Across Problem? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| GATE (2) | Gives Abode Territorial Entrance |
Jan Morgan |
| GLASS (5) | Guilty Lurker's A Secret Spectator |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| GUIDE | Gets Used, Individual's Direction Essential |
Jan Morgan |
| GUIDE (2) | Gives "U" Individual Direction, Essential |
Jan Morgan |
| GYVE | Got You! Villain's Entrapped. |
Angela Brett |
| GYVE (2) | Give Yon Vessel Embargo! |
Rico Leffanta |
| GYVE (3) | Gives You Vanquished Experience |
Jan Morgan |
| HAHA (2) | Has A Heifer Astounded |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who explains that a ha-ha - lowercase - is a sunken fence which keeps cattle away from the grounds immediately surrounding a house, without spoiling the view with walls, hedges or fences. |
| ICE | It's Coldness Embodied |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry |
| ICE (2) | It Chills Everything |
TMcCO'G Science:Chemistry |
| IMBALANCE | It Might Begin A Lean And Not Correct Error |
Angle-aaah! Brett |
| IMPROVEMENTS | Immediate Modifications - Perhaps Relaying One's Views Easily Making Explanations Not Too Scientific |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| INANITY | It's Nutty And Non Intelligent, Thank You. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| INCENTIVE | If National Creative Energies Necessitate Thinking, Irish Variations Excel |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, I said I felt I could create an acronym for anything given the incentive. I was challenged to do INCENTIVE, and did. Words & Wordplay |
| INEQUITY | I Note Existence's Quite Unfair, I Tell You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| ITEM | Individually Tally! Expertly Market! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| JAB (2) | Just A Blow |
Jan Morgan |
| JAM (2) | Just A Mess |
Jan Morgan Food & Drink |
| JERK | Jolt Experienced Resembles Knock |
Jide Alakija |
| KILTER | Keep In Line, Then Everything's Right. |
Angela Brett |
| KNOTHOLE | Keeps Neighbours On Toes Hopefully Occluding Lecherous Eavesdropping |
Rico Leffanta |
| LAAGER | Large And Ample Group Encompassing Ring |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| LOAD | Laden On A Donkey |
Patricia Rix |
| LOAD (2) | Let's Organise A Delivery |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| MAINTENANCE | Madness! Apparently I Need To Endure (No Arguments) Numerous Cosmetic Enhancements! |
Angela Brett, whose idea of maintenance is eating, breathing and fixing bugs. |
| MAJORITY | Many Absentees Justified Or Ratified Inane Trendy Yawns |
Rico Leffanta |
| MAYPOLE | March Around Yippily, Prance Over Lilies, Eh? |
Jeff Anonymous Time:Special Occasions |
| MAYPOLE (2) | Many Amorous Youths Proposition Oversexed Ladies Eagerly |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, saying that the maypole is actually a highly erotic springtime rite. Much activity occurred. People & Relationships:Love & Lust Time:Special Occasions |
| MIRACLE | Most Incidents Rare, Amazing Circumstances, Leading Evidence |
Jan Morgan - Miracles are explainable and evidence of how it came to be are amazing what makes them a miracle is that the circumstances are udeniable yet unexplainable |
| MISTAKE | My Incompetence Started This Awful Knowledge Error. |
Angela Brett |
| NICK | Notch, Incision, Cavity, Knifemark! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| OPPOSITE | Other Ponies Pooping On Someone's Immaculate Trojan Exhibition |
Rico Leffanta |
| ORDURE | Omnivorous Recyclings Dumped Under Rear Evacuations |
Rico Leffanta |
| OWNER | Once Whispers Now Embodied Reality |
Rico Leffanta |
| PACKAGING | Properly, A Carton Keeps All Goods Inside Neatly Grouped |
Angela Brett |
| PACKAGING (2) | Presentation Acknowledges Consumers Know All Glitz Is Necessarily Gold |
Melanie Merswolke |
| 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. |
| PASSWORD (4) | Perhaps A Security System Which Often Restricts Doorways |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| PHOTOGRAPH | People Have One Taken Occasionally, Get Ready And Pose Happily |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| PIECE | Partial Item - Especially Capturing Essence |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| PITCHFORK | Please Insert Tines Carefully Hay Fever Often Reveals Kissers |
Rico Leffanta |
| PLETHORA | Pretty Ladies Eating Their Hearts Out Reconnoitring Abbeys |
Rico Leffanta |
| PRESENT | PowerBook Requested's Ever So Expensive... Nice Try! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| PROGRESS | People Running Onwards Get Rewarded Earning Social Status |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| PROTECTION | People Really Ought To Ensure Care's Taken If Outside Nocturnally |
Angela Brett |
| PUDDLES | Pools (Usually Dreadfully Dirty) Linger, Evaporating Slowly |
Tony MuckOy O'Grady |
| PURITY | Penises Usually Relegate It To Yesterday |
Angela Brett, after (CHAP (2)) was given a 100% purity rating by the acronym submission form. People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| QUALITY | Quick! Use A Lasso! It's Tipping! Yikes! |
Patricia Rix (I was thinking of a rickety, poorly-built backhouse; don't ask me why!) Places:Buildings |
| QUALITY (2) | Quantity's Usually A Lesser Interest To You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (one should always prefer quality to quantity) |
| QUANTITY | Quality, Up Above None - That Implies Tangible Yield |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| QUIRK | Queer Unusual Idiosyncrasies = Relationship Kaput |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| QUIVERS | Quaint Universally Intimate Vibrations Expecting Romantic Sensations |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| REPLENISHMENT | Replace Every Piece Lost. Each New Incoming Shipment Has More Elements Needed, Thanks |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| RESPONSE | React Expressing Surprise - People Often Note Staring Eyes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| ROOT | Radical, Or Originating Thing |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Mathematics |
| RYMME | Rim - Yet Mainly Middle English |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SABOTAGE | Serious Attack By Organised Terrorists Against Great Enterprise |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SCAM | Some Cons Are Magnificent |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SCUM | Surface Contains Unattractive Muck |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SEWER | Somewhere Everyone's Waste Eventually Reaches |
Sean Lamb Places:Waterways |
| SHADOWS | Silhouettes Haunting Anything Detailed Outdoors When Sunny |
Rico Leffanta |
| SLAP | Slight Lick As Punishment |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SLIGHT HASSLE | Significant Likelihood, I Guess However, That Hatred And Swearing Shall Likely Ensue |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SLIPKNOT | Swinging Lariat, If Pendulous, Kills Nasty Old Tyrant |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SLUSH | Snow's Largely Unpopular Sideeffect's Horrid |
TMcCO'G Science:Meteorology |
| SLUSH (2) | Solid(ish) Liquid - Usually Snow's Heritage |
TMcCO'G Science:Meteorology |
| SMOKESCREEN | Soot Makes Others Keep Eyes Shut - Confused Reaction Ensues. Escape Now! |
Angela Brett |
| SOB STORY | Strap On Breasts Say They're Obviously Really Yours |
Rico Leffanta |
| SOMETHIN' | Some Object My Eloquent Typist Has Inadequately Named |
Angela Brett |
| SPIKE | Sharp Pointy In Kind, Excruciating |
Jan Morgan |
| SPOOF | Silly Prank On Optimistic Fools |
Rico Leffanta |
| SPOT | Stain Present On Threads |
Angela Brett |
| STAB | Similar To A Bunt |
Edwin Hermann |
| STEP (2) | Some Think Elevator's Preferable |
Angela Brett |
| STINK | Stench That Is Not Kosher |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| STRESS | Some Times Real Easy Stuff Stinks |
Rico Leffanta, as an explanation for mistyping an acronym. |
| SURGE | Sudden Up-Rising Generates Energy |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SYSTEM | Sometimes You Should Try Easier Method |
Rico Leffanta |
| SYSTEMATISE | So You'll Switch To Efficient Method, And That'll Increase Sales Eventually. |
Angela Brett |
| TRASH (3) | Toss Ruined & Abandoned Stuff Here. |
Roger Williams |
| TRASH (2) | Things Relocated At Scrap Heap |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| TRANSITION (2) | To Reach A New Situation, I Think Interim's Obviously Needed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| TRANSITION | Teach Recruits About New Software Incrementally, Try It Out Naturally. |
Angela Brett |
| TOTAL (2) | The Overall Tally And Lot |
Edwin Hermann |
| TOTAL | The Opposite To A Little |
Edwin Hermann |
| TIPS (4) | Those Intensely Pointed Sections |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| TIP (5) | Terminates In Point |
Angela Brett |
| TID BIT | This Is Dumb, But It's Tasty! |
Rico Leffanta |
| TEDIUM | Trying Everything Dumb In Useless Monotony |
Rico Leffanta |
| USE | Utility Seeks Exercise |
Rico Leffanta Assorted Verbs |
| VACANCY | Visitors Aren't Coming... Ain't No Customers Yet! |
Angela Brett |
| VALUE | Virgins At Large Uniting Evangelists |
Rico Leffanta |
| VIBE | Very Intense Buzzin' Environment |
Hippy McCoy O'Grady |
| VIEW | Vista In Every Window |
Angela Brett |
| VISION | Voluptuous Image Sensually Invading Ordinary Nightmare |
Rico Leffanta |
| VISITOR PASS | Veturing Into Some Interesting Television Offices? Restricted! Please Ask Security Staff. |
Angela Brett |
| WATER (5) | Wetness Assures Torso's Efficiently Rinsed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| WINDOWS (4) | Where Indoor Nudity Displays Outdoor Wonder Shows |
Rico Leffanta |
| WINDOWS (11) | What I Need (Domestically) Observing World's Sights |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| WINDOWS (12) | When Iced, Need Dowsing Of Warm Something |
Angela Brett |
| WINDOWS (13) | When Iced, Need Delivery Of Warmth Somehow |
Angela Brett |
| WISH | What I Should Have |
Angela Brett |
| WISH (2) | When I Shall Have |
Jan Morgan |
| WISH (3) | Why Is She Here |
Jan Morgan |
| TREND | Time Related/Repeated Events. "Now" Determines/Developments. |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| TRIO | Three Rolled Into One |
Angela Brett |