Acronyms Predominantly Result in Obfuscation... 'Nsure Yours Mean Something
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| 89% | FULL TEXT | Found Under Lexicographic Listings... The Entire Xpansion Treasure-trove. |
Angela Brett, guessing that whoever was searching for 'full text' on the ACRONYMS website was probably after the alphabetical listings at http://acronyms.co.nz/A.html Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website |
| 100% | FUN | For Unrestrained Novelty |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | FUN (2) | Frivolous, Upbeat Nonsense |
Patricia Rix Assorted Nouns |
| 92% | FUNDAMENTALS | First-year Undergraduates Not Dumb, Although Many Evidently Need To Always Learn Slowly |
Angela Brett Education:Slow Teaching |
| 100% | FUNDING | Financially Unstable, New Donor's Investment Now Glimpsed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Commerce:Money |
| 92% | FUNDRAISING | From Unneeded Nickels to Dollars, Reviving An Invalid's Smile... It's Nice Gesture. |
Angela Brett Commerce |
| 100% | FUNERAL | Family Uncovers Necropolitan Expenses Reducing All Legacies |
Rico Leffanta and Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| 100% | FUNGI | Foodies Usually Never Gobble Indiscriminately |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink |
| 100% | FUR | Fuzzy Unique Remnant |
Jan Morgan Science:Biology:Body Parts Household Objects:Threads & Fabric |
| 100% | FUSSY | Fidgety Unhappy Sprucer Sabotages You |
Jan Morgan People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 0% | FUTILITY* | F = U.Ti+Li.tY: This is known as the futility constant. Once the forgetfulness happens it is futile to try to remember the missing bit. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady explains: The only problem with acronyms I find is that I think of bits of them in the most inappropriate places and/or forget the details later. This is especially true when I feel that the solution is a cracker. There is probably a mathematical relationship which states that the probability of forgetfulness (F) is in direct proportion to the uniqueness (U) of the solution multiplied by the inappropriateness (i) of the time (T) plus the inappropriateness of the location (L) when the Yippee moment occurs (inspiration strikes) this is then written (tY) Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | FUTON | Folding Usually Tangles One's Nails |
Jan Morgan Household Objects:Furniture |
| 100% | FUTURE LEADERS | Feisty Unabashed Teenagers Undergoing Regulqar Education Learn Elements About Democratic Elections Representing Schoolmates |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Politics |
| 100% | FUZZY | Felt Unduly Zig-Zaggy Yesterday |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | FUZZY (2) | Food Undergoing Zippy Zymurgy Yesterday |
Rico Leffanta Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | FWIW | Following Writing Is Waffle |
Angela Brett (FWIW usually stands for 'For What It's Worth') Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 100% | FWIW (2) | Find Whether I'm Wrong |
Angela Brett (FWIW usually stands for 'For What It's Worth') Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 75% | FYI | [I] Feel You're Idiotic |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (FYI usually stands for 'For Your Information') Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 100% | FYRD | Forced Youth Recruitment Decreed |
Angela Brett Military |
| 100% | FYRD (2) | Former Yoemanry Regular Division |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Military |
| 100% | FYRDS | For Year-Round Defense Services |
Angela Brett Military |
| 100% | G4 | Grasping 4 |
Hyper Unit Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 50% | G4 (2) | Good 4tune |
Angela Brett, because anyone who has a G4 is fortunate. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | GA | Gurgling Annoyance |
Jeff Anonymous (in reference to the baby noise) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| 100% | GAB | Grumble, Argue, Bicker |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication:Talking |
| 100% | GAB (2) | Garrulous Annoying Blether |
Angela Brett Communication:Talking |
| 100% | GAB (3) | Great At Babbling |
Jan Morgan Communication:Talking |
| 100% | GABBLE | Garbage Articulated, 'Blah Blah...' Lacking Eloquence. |
Angela Brett, not long before checking her email and discovering she'd been beaten to first G acronym by Tony's GAB. Communication:Talking |
| 100% | GABBY | Girl Always Babbling By You |
Rico Leffanta Names:First names:Female |
| 83% | GABON | Generally A Big Ore-exporting Nation. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 89% | GADABOUT | Guys And Dolls Are Browsing On-line Using Teasers |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | GADGET | Got Ample Dough? Get Electronic Toys. |
Angela Brett Science:Electronics |
| 83% | GADOLINIUM | Generally A Denizen Of (the) Lanthanides, It's Now In Use (in) Masers. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | GAG | Government Approved Giggle |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Laughter |
| 100% | GAIL | Girl Always In Love |
Rico Leffanta Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | GALATIANS | Gazing Astrologers Listened, Awed, To Itinerant Apostle. Now Saved. |
Sue Johnson Religion:Bible books |
| 75% | GALAXY | Gigantic Area. Long Armed X-axis & Y-axis |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | GALLEONS | Great Armada Lost Lives Entering One Nasty Storm |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (The Spanish Armada was defeated as much by the weather as by the British Navy) Transport History |
| 78% | GALLIUM | Geophysically At Low Levels, It's Unusual (at) Melting-point. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | GAM | Green And Mauve |
Angela Brett ('gam' is the collective noun for weasels, and the story which the h2g2 researchers are writing at http://www.h2g2.com/A255007 is plagued with mauve and sometimes green weasels.) Art & Literature |
| 100% | GAMBLE | Gain A Million By Losing Empire |
Angela Brett Entertainment |
| 100% | GAMBLE (2) | Get Additional Money But Lose Everyone |
Angela Brett Entertainment |
| 100% | GAMBLING | Gaming And Much Bet Laying - Income Newly Generated |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment |
| 100% | GAME | Generally About Mass Entertainment |
Gavin Lambert, thinking mainly about sports games and the like rather than board games, but you could extend the parallel... Sports & Recreation Entertainment:Games |
| 100% | GAME (2) | Great Adventures, Mesmerizes Evening |
Jan Morgan Entertainment:Games |
| 100% | GAME (3) | Gives Amusement, Makes Entertainment |
Jan Morgan Entertainment:Games |
| 100% | GAMER | Gathers Around Machines - Evading Reality |
Tony McCoy O'Gameboy Computers:Games |
| 100% | GAMMA | Greek Authors Mastered Minimalist Alphabet |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, commenting that there are only 24 characters in the Greek alphabet Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | GAMUTS | Girls Appraise Men Under The Sheets |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | GANDALF | Great Advisor Negates Death And Looses Fireworks |
Patricia Rix Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Lord of the Rings |
| 100% | GANDALF THE GREY | Grappled And Nearly Died After Long Fall - Though He's Evidently Gotta Return (Even Younger?) |
Tony McFrodo O'Baggins Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Lord of the Rings |
| 100% | GANDER | Giving A Nudge Dames Excitedly Reject |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 86% | GANDHI | Gently Advocating Non-violence, Demands His Independence. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Movies Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| 100% | GANT | Guess About Nebulous Timescales |
Jonathan Staniford (see GANTT) Time |
| 100% | GANTT | Graph Allocating Necessary Tasks & Timescales |
Angela Brett, after a workmate mistakenly referred to a Gantt chart as a 'GANT'. The Gantt chart is named after Charles Gantt, and is not an acronym. Time |
| 100% | GANTT (2) | Generally Always Need Triple Time |
Angela Brett (see GANTT) Time |
| 100% | GANTT (3) | Guesstimates Almost Never The Truth |
Angela Brett Time |
| 100% | GANTT (4) | Generate Arbitrary Net Total Time |
Jonathan Staniford Time |
| 100% | GANTT (5) | Generous Approximations, No Tiny Target |
Angela Brett Time |
| 100% | GANTT (6) | Generating Appropriate Notation Takes Time |
Angela Brett Time |
| 100% | GANZ | Glossary: "All", Not Zero |
Grace Francis Science:Linguistics:German Words |
| 100% | GAOL | Girls Are Only Lads |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Law & Order Places:Buildings |
| 100% | GAP | Gear's Awfully Pricey |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | GAP (2) | Greatly Annoys Parents |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | GAP (3) | Get-Across Problem? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Nouns |
| 86% | GARAGE | Guests And Relatives Accommodated (at) Great Expense! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, upon hearing that Dustan Dowsing was living in Angela's sister's garage. Places:Buildings |
| 100% | GARAGE (2) | Greasy And Rude Adolescents Guaranteed Employment! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations Places:Buildings |
| 100% | GARBAGE MOUTH | Garrulous And Rude & Brutally Aggressive Guy. Every Moment One Utters "Toilet Humour" |
Toilet Mouth O'Grady Communication:Talking |
| 71% | GARBO | Gifted Actress, Rathered Being On-her-own |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Famous people:Actors & Actresses |
| 100% | GARDEN | Gives All, Rainbow Delights, Entreats Natives |
Jan Morgan Places |
| 100% | GARDEN LIGHTS | Generating A Remarkable Display Every Night - Lamps Illuminate Grower's Horticulural Trophy Specimens |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Plants Household Objects |
| 100% | GARDEN OF EDEN | Gobbling Apple Revealed Dear Eve's Nakedness... One Figleaf Enhanced Decency Enough? No! |
Angela Brett Places Religion |
| 100% | GARDEN OF EDEN (2) | Gained A Rich Domain, Evil Negotiates Offense, Failed Experimental Decree Exiles Newlyweds |
Jan Morgan Places Religion |
| 100% | GARDENS | Grass And Rosebeds Delight Everybody's Natural Senses |
TMcCO'G Places Science:Biology:Plants |
| 100% | GARFIELD | Gifted (Albeit Rotund) Feline, I Eat Lasagne Daily |
TMcCO'G Art & Literature:Fictional Characters Names:Pet Names |
| 100% | GARFIELD (2) | Gets Around Really Fast If Espying Lasagne Dish |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Fictional Characters Names:Pet Names |
| 100% | GARLAND | Green And Red Leaves Are Nicely Decorative |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Plants |
| 88% | GARLAND (2) | Great Actress (Rainbow Lover) Addicted to Narcotic Drugs |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Famous people:Actors & Actresses |
| 100% | GARLIC | Garnish - A Renowned Love Inhibiting Condiment |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Condiments:Herbs |
| 100% | GARLIC (2) | Good At Repulsing Lovers, If Chewed. |
Tony Food & Drink:Condiments:Herbs |
| 100% | GARMENTS | Girls Adorn Runways, Modelling Elegant New Tweed Suits |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | GARRETT | Gaelic - Attention Riveted Regarding Everything That's There |
Angela Brett (the name Garrett comes from Gaelic and means 'To Watch') Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | GARRULOUS | Gabbing About Random Rubbish, Usually Lots Of Useless Subjects |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | GARY | Guy's Always Reinterrogating You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | GARY (2) | Gets Alcohol Replenished Yonder |
Jan Morgan - someone I know Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | GAS | Generally Asphyxiating Substance |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry |
| 90% | GAS ATTACK | Got Aerated Stomach? Alka-seltzer Tablets Taken Are Chemical Key. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | GASBAG | Groan... Another Speech By Al Gore. |
Angela Brett Politics |
| 100% | GASBAG (2) | Get A Second Book Absolutely Gratis |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see SHOVE OFF) Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| 100% | GAS PEDAL | Gains Automotive Speed. Probably Encourages Driving At Limit. |
Eric Bridgstock Transport:Car Parts |
| 80% | GATANISM | Going Against The Attitude of Niceness and Innovation Surrounding Macintosh |
Angela Brett Computers:Windows |
| 100% | GATANISM (2) | Gleaning Apple's Trade, And Nerdishly Idolising Satanic Master |
Angela Brett Computers:Windows |
| 89% | GATANISM (3) | Group of Antimac Terrorists, Adore Non-Intuitive Software Maker. |
Angela Brett Computers:Windows |
| 100% | GATE | Grants Access To Everyone |
Angela Brett Places |
| 100% | GATE (2) | Gives Abode Territorial Entrance |
Jan Morgan Assorted Nouns |
| 89% | GATESIAN | Generally A Terrible Example of Science Inexpertly Applied, N'estpas? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Windows |
| 100% | GAUDY | Garish And Unusually Decadent - Yuck! |
Melanie Merswolke Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | GAUSS | Got Answers Using Simultaneous Solutions |
Angela Brett, thinking of Gaussian elimination, a way of solving simultaneous equations. I didn't feel like acronymising the whole thing! Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | GAUSS (2) | Great Arithmetic Used Solving Systems |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | GAUSS (3) | Geometry's An Unexpectedly Strange Subject. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 83% | GAVEL | Give A Vital End to Lawsuit |
Sean Lamb People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | GAVIN | Good At Very Interesting 'Nyms |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | GAVIN LAMBERT | Generating Acronyms, Velocity Irregular. Natural Laziness Assumed; Maybe Boredom Enhances 'Ronymising Tendencies? |
Gavin Lambert (since I felt it was about time I "ronymised" my own name) :) Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | GAWAIN | Grail Adventurer, Was Arthur's Ideal Nephew. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Myths & Legends:Arthurian Legend |
| 100% | GAY | Got Aids Yet? |
mark a.k.a. (dad) People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA Science:Biology:Healthcare |
| 100% | GAYS | Genes Alter Your Sexuality? |
Angela Brett Science:Biology People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA |
| 100% | GAYS (2) | Gender Aside, You're Sexy! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA |
| 100% | GEAR DOWN | Generally, Entering A Recession, Dispose Of Workforces Now |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| 100% | GEEK | Gathers Esoteric, Encyclopaedic Knowledge |
Angela Brett Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | GEEK (2) | Greatly Enjoys Enhancing Kernels |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | GEEK (3) | Great Education Enhances Knowledge |
Apronymous Anonymous Education People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 83% | GEEKS | Gain Entry to Every Knowledge Society |
Angela Brett Computers People & Relationships |
| 100% | GEEKS (2) | Generally Exhibit Exceptional Keyboard Skills |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers People & Relationships |
| 100% | GEEKS (3) | God's Electronic - Every Kilobyte's Sacred |
Angela Brett Computers Religion People & Relationships |
| 100% | GEEKY | Go Electronic - Everyone Knows You |
Angela Brett Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | GEEKY (2) | Generally Everything Elicits Keyboard Yearnings |
Angela Brett Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | GEEKY (3) | Gigabit/ Exabit Ethernet Kindling Yottabytes |
Angela Brett Computers |
| 93% | GEEKY ACRONYMS | Geeks Enjoy Expanding Knowledge - Yet Also Created Regularly, Origin: Non-geeks. Yes, Multiple Submissions. |
Gavin Lambert Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | GEEKY ACRONYMS (2) | Gotos Evil, Everybody Knows. You Always Can Rely On (Names You've Mangled) Subroutines |
Angela Brett, thinking of abbreviated function names. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Computers:Programming |
| 100% | GEMINI | Gypsies Earn Money In Nonsense Industry |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Astrology |
| 100% | GEMINI (2) | Gets Endeavors Mixed In Neurotic Indecisiveness |
Jan Morgan Religion:Astrology |
| 88% | GEMINUS | Gone! (his) Educational Mathematical Inscription. Noticed ÔUncoplanar' Stars. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | GENEALOGY | Generations Evoke New Excitement And Love Of Genealogy Yearnings |
Jan Morgan - Genealogy is the study of our heritage and finding our ancestors People & Relationships:Family |
| 100% | GENERAL | Generally Evinces Nothing Exceptional - Rarely A Livewire |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Military:Ranks |
| 100% | GENERAL CONFERENCE | Gives Extraordinary Navigation, Exceptional Resolve Acknowledged, Listening Covers Our Needs For Eternity, Reports Effect Noteworthy Concerns, Endeavors |
Jan Morgan -- world wide meeting of LDS church that delivers counsel to its members Religion Time:Special Occasions |
| 100% | GENERIC | Generalised Extremely, Not Explicit... Really Inspecific Codswallop. |
Angela Brett, when Bern complained that her HERNIA was too generic. See also: INSPECIFIC Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | GENESIS | Generating Everything, Nothing Excepted, Seventh Is Sabbath. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Bible books |
| 100% | GENESIS (2) | God's Early News: Existence Started In Seven |
Roger Williams Religion:Bible books |
| 100% | GENETIC ALGORITHM | Guesser Employing Nature's Evolutionary 'Tactics' In Creating A Likely Group Of Resolutions. Increase That Heuristic Measurement! |
Angela Brett Science Computers:Programming |
| 100% | GENETIC ENGINEERING | Godlike Experimenters Now Ensure That It Couldn't Evolve Naturally, Given Its Not Especially Effective Reproduction Inhibiting New Generations. |
Angela Brett, as genetically engineered plants are sometimes made sterile in order to prevent the crops from spreading and/or increase profits for the companies which sell the seeds. This also ensures that the variety could never have evolved naturally, since anything which can't reproduce is a sitting duck (so to speak) for natural selection. Science:Biology |
| 100% | GENGAR | Grimy Even Nauseating Ghoul Also Repulsive. |
Nevica the MAN. (Gengar is a purple, ugly, ghost pokemon #94) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | GENTS | Great Emergency - Need To Sh*t |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Buildings:The 'Little Room' |
| 100% | GENUIS | Geeks Enabling Nottingham University's Information Systems |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see UNITS) Education:University of Nottingham School of Community Health Sciences IT Subgroup |
| 92% | GENYODECTES | Greatly Erratic Noggin Yet Only Disconnected Evidence of Carnivore That Existed Southward |
Sean Lamb (Genyodectes was discovered in Argentina, but is only known from fragmentary skull remains) Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs |
| 100% | GEOFFREY CHAUCER | Greatness Endures, Oh Founding Father! Really! Evidently Your 'Canterbury' Had A Unique Creative-English Role |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Writers |
| 100% | GEOLOGY | Geology Encapsulates One's Learning Of Gneiss Yields |
Sean Lamb Science:Geology |
| 100% | GEOMETRY | Golly, Elementary Orthogonal Matrices Excite These Randy Youths. |
Angela Brett, during a boring first-year algebra lecture. Science:Mathematics:Geometry Education:Slow Teaching |
| 100% | GEOMETRY (2) | Go Euclid! One Man's Elementary Text Remained Years! |
Angela Brett (parts of Euclid's 'Elements' were used as a standard textbook for around 2250 years.) Science:Mathematics:Geometry |
| 100% | GEOMETRY (3) | Greek Earth Observers Measured Everything, Trusting Real Yardsticks. |
Angela Brett, since geometry began with people actually measuring land and wasn't at all like the abstract science it is today. Science:Mathematics:Geometry |
| 100% | GEORGE | Gentleman, Eating Out, Rarely Gets Eel. |
Patricia Rix, describing her husband Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | GEORGE (2) | Gave Existence Onto Rix Generations, Evidently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | GEORGE (3) | Gives Entertaining Osmonds Rare Gifts, Emerged |
Jan Morgan, referring to George Osmond. Names:Famous people |
| 100% | GEORGE BUSH | Getting Elected On Recount, George's Eldest Boy Ultimately Succeeded Him |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| 100% | GEORGE PAGE | Gets Entangled Organizing Right Guy's Espousal - Patiently Accepts Girl's Elopement |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| 94% | GEORGE WASHINGTON | General, Evidently Once Red-headed, Grew Ever Whiter As Senior. He Inspired Notable Growth Toward Own Nationhood |
Patricia Rix Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| 100% | GEORGE WASHINGTON (2) | George Eventually Overthrew "Royal George". Everyone Wanted A Similar Hierarchy In National Government. "That's Over! Nevermore!" |
Roger Williams -- George Washington was highly instrumental in the success of the American Revolution. After victory, he was hailed as 'King George' and refused the title. Names:Famous people:Politicians History |
| 100% | GEORGE W BUSH | Got Every Opportunity Republican Governor Ever Wanted - But United States Harmed |
Chris Kjelgaard Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| 100% | GEORGE W. BUSH | Get Elected Or Remain Governor Even When Beaten Under Some Hedges |
Rico Leffanta Names:Famous people:Politicians |
| 100% | GEORGE W BUSH (2) | Got Every Opportunity Republican Gilt Ever Worked - But Unusually Stupid Human |
Chris Kjelgaard Names:Famous people:Politicians |
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