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90% XYLOPHONE (2)Xmas-present Youngsters Least Often 'Preciate - Has Only Nerdy Exponents Tony McCoy O'Grady
Entertainment:Music:Instruments
90% XYLOPHONE (3)(e)-Xamines Yardage Length On Playing Harmony On Notes Ensemble Jan Morgan
Entertainment:Music:Instruments
100% XYLOPHONESXerox Your Lover's Organ! Play Havoc On Next Etude Session! Rico Leffanta
Entertainment:Music:Instruments
100% XYLOSE SORBITOLXylitol... You'll Love Our Substitute. Everyday Sugar Often Rots But Its Taste Obviates Lesions. Angela Brett (xylose sorbitol, a.k.a. XYLITOL is used as a sweetener in dental products and low-calorie foods... so even though sugar is bad for our teeth, making products taste like it can encourage people to look after their teeth.)
Food & Drink:Condiments
People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene:Beauty Products
100% XZARXtreme Zhentarim Alongside Road Jeff Anonymous (this character from the Baldur's Gate computer game series claims to belong to a society known as the 'Black Network of Zhentarim'... yet he can be found alongside a road, as I recall)
Computers:Games:Game Characters
100% YABBERYou're Always Bloody Bellyaching, Expressing Resentments Tony McCoy O'Grady
Communication:Talking
100% YACHTYou're Among Classy Harbour Traffic Tony McCoy O'Grady
Transport
100% YACHT (2)You Actually Can Have Travelled Jan Morgan
Transport
100% YAHOOYak At Hearts Opponents Online Angela Brett (Hearts is one of the games available at http://games.yahoo.com, you can converse or 'yak' with other players while playing.)
Computers:Games
Computers:Internet
100% YAHOO (2)You're A Horridly Odious Oaf! Patricia Rix
People & Relationships:Insults
100% YAHOO.COMYou Are Here: On Online Community Of Millions Angela Brett
Computers:Internet:URLs
100% YAKIMAYour Australian Kangaroos Ingest My Apples Rico Leffanta (Yakima is a town in Washington, noted for red delicious apple exports.)
Places:Towns & Cities:USA
100% YAMYet Another Meal Sean Lamb
Food & Drink
100% YAMAHAYou're A Motorcyclist? Aren't Hondas Awful? Tony McCoy O'VroomVroom
Transport:Car Makes & Models
100% YARDSTICKYe Auld Ruler... Do Stop Talking Imperial - Count Kilometres! Angela Brett
Science:Mathematics:Measurement
100% YAREYou Are Really Educable! Chin Shih Tang. I saw the word for the first time on the site. Once I looked up the definition, the apronymization came easily.
Assorted Adjectives
Education
100% YARNYou Are Really Nice! Rico Leffanta
Communication
80% YARPYarely Access Resources (in) Package Angela Brett, when the author of an application to dearchive PRAY files appealed for an acronymic name for his software - see http://c3ds.ue.cjb.net/
Computers:Windows:Applications:The opposite of PRAY
100% YARP (2)You Automatically Reverse PRAY/Procedure/Protection/Process Tony McCoy O'Grady (see YARP)
Computers:Windows:Applications:The opposite of PRAY
100% YARP (3)You're Allowed Reverse PRAY/Procedure/Protection/Process Tony McCoy O'Grady (see YARP)
Computers:Windows:Applications:The opposite of PRAY
80% YARP (4)You Artfully Return (to) Previous Tony McCoy O'Grady (see YARP)
Computers:Windows:Applications:The opposite of PRAY
100% YARROWYet Another Redhat Release Of Wonder Sean Lamb (Yarrow was the codename for RedHat's Fedora Core Linux 1.0)
Computers:Linux
Names:Code Names:Linux
100% YASAYet Another Silly Acronym Original author unknown... however when Angela first used it in an email, Tony suggested 'You Are So Apposite', 'You're A Saintly Anthony', and 'Youth And Sex Abound.' Angela then replied with 'You Are Self-praising Also.'
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational
100% YASTYou Are Susefied Today Sean Lamb (YaST really means Yet Another Setup Tool, which is used to install SuSE Linux)
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
Computers:Linux
100% YAVERLANDIAYet Another Very Extinct Reptile. Little Animal Never Dwelled In Asia Sean Lamb (Yaverlandia, at 2' 3" tall, was discovered in Yaverland Battery on the Isle of Wight)
Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs
100% YEAH!You Expressing Anger Happily Rulgnaj Yerdon
Communication:Yesses And Noes
100% YEARBOOKYou Easily Are Ruined Because Of Obnoxious Kids Peter & Christina - We're the co-editor and editor of the yearbook staff. Enough said.
Education
Communication:Periodicals
100% YEARBOOK (2)Year's Events, Activities Recorded Because Of Ordinary Kinetics Jan Morgan -- moving from grade to grade requires records of the year's events and the fun or not of it
Education
Communication:Periodicals
83% YEASTYes, Edibles Are Sitting for Time Sean Lamb
Food & Drink
100% YELLING INTO A DEAF EARYou Evidently Listen Little. I'll Now Generate Increased Noise (Throat Open And Declaim Excessively) And Facilitate Effecting A Response Tony McCoy O'Grady
Assorted Phrases
86% YELLOWYolk of Eggs, Lots Like Off-White. Angela Brett
Assorted Adjectives:Colours
100% YELLOW (2)Yolk's Exceptionally Lovely, Lying On White Tony McCoy O'Grady
Assorted Adjectives:Colours
100% YELLOW (3)Yellow Encased Long Lush. Organic Wonderful! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Banana.
Food & Drink
Assorted Adjectives:Colours
100% YELLOW (4)Yell Enemy Lax Leaving Outlying Weapons Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
Military
People & Relationships:Personality Traits
83% YEMENYears (of) Enmity Marred Emergent Nation. Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Countries
100% YESYour Expectation's Satisfied Angela Brett
Communication:Yesses And Noes
100% YES (2)Yet Ends Successfully Jan Morgan
Communication:Yesses And Noes
100% YIKESYour Intense Keening Evinces Surprise Tony McCoy O'Grady
Main
100% YIN/YANGYour Influential Nature - You Avoid Net Gains Tony McCoy O'Grady, saying: Together they add up to a set 'total'. If you lose three 'points' of yin, then you gain three 'points' of yang, as far as I can interpret it.
Religion
100% YIPPIEYou Ignore Peer Pressure In Extremes Rico Leffanta
Main
100% YODAYou're One Dire Actor Tony McCoy O'Grady
Entertainment:Movies
Art & Literature:Fictional Characters
100% YOKELYou Only Kiss Engaging Lips Rico Leffanta
People & Relationships
100% YOKEL (2)Your Own Kin Evoke Lust Angela Brett
People & Relationships
100% YORICKYour Only Residue Inspires Comic Knockabout Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark
100% YORKYorkshire's Own Rebellious Knight Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's King Henry VI
Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:King Henry VI
100% YOSEMITESYou Own Some Expensive Macintoshes - It Tortures Envious Souls! Angela Brett - Yosemite was the code name for the blue and white Power Mac G3s.
Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware
Names:Code Names:Apple
100% YOU ARE HOT AS HELLYears Of Using A Radiation Emitter Has One's Temperature Absolutely Scorching, Having Endured Lamp's Lights Tony McCoy O'Grady, who mused on what would happen if bodies stored the heat from sunbeds for a long time.... some people would boil over!
Science:Biology
Science:Physics
100% YOU ARE LOOKING SEXY TONIGHTYes, Oh Undoubtedly Amorous Response Elicited. Look Out! O. K. I Need Gratifying Sexually Erotic Xperience. You're Too Obvious - Now I'm Getting Horny Too! Tony McCoy O'Grady (See YOU LOOK HORRIBLE DURING THE DAY)
People & Relationships:Love & Lust
100% YOU ARE SO HOTYou're Obviously Utterly Aroused, Really Excited, So Offer Him/Her Orgasmic Tumble Tony McCoy O'Grady
People & Relationships:Love & Lust
100% YOU ARE SO HOT (2)You Oughta Use Antibiotics... Reducing Every Symptom Obviously Helps One's Temperature. Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments
100% YOU DON'T WANT TO DRINK THATYears Of Underaged Drinking Only Numbs The Wit, And Needs Toughness To Overcome. Dignity Remains In Not Knowing The Hard Ale's Taste. Angela Brett, who was intending to do YOU DON'T WANT TO PANIC
People & Relationships:Advice
Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic
100% YOU DON'T WANT TO PANICYouthful Ominiscience Usually Doesn't 'Own' Negative Thinking - When Accidents (Needless Things) Threaten One's Parents Advise Not Ignoring Caution. Tony McCoy O'Grady, saying: I'm not sure what, exactly, that conveys - it is 'meant' to convey that in an emergency young people can panic because they don't see that negative thinking tends to rule out caution, which older people see as a good thing. (I think) See also I'LL PANIC IF I WANT TO and YOU DON'T WANT TO DRINK THAT
People & Relationships:Advice
100% YOU LAZY GITYou're Overdrawn? Unsecured Loans Arranged Zippily: You Get Interesting Terms. Tony McCoy O'Grady (see SHOVE OFF)
Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans
96% YOU LEFT OUT THE UT - CALAMITY!You Oaf... Unkindly Laughing at Evident Flaw, Then Offering Unfinished Transcription. Thy Heightened Error Undoes That 'Cut Above' Look. A Minor Inaccuracy Turned Yucky! Angela Brett, when Tony initially left out the U and T words from his expansion of YOU'VE LEFT OUT A Y - CALAMITY!
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
96% YOU LOOK HORRIBLE DURING THE DAYYou're Obscenely Ugly, Loathsomely Objectionable, Of Knee-trembling Hideousness. One Regularly Retches If Beholding Less Extremely Disgusting Ugliness. Really! I Now Get Thunderous Headaches Every Day, All Year! Tony McCoy O'Grady, to go with YOU ARE LOOKING SEXY TONIGHT
People & Relationships:Insults
100% YOUNGYouth's Ongoing, Until Nearly Geriatric Tony McCoy O'Grady
Time:Age
100% YOUNG ADULTSYoung One Uses Necessary Gifts And Deems Unconditional Learning Talent, Studies Jan Morgan
Time:Age
100% YOUNG OFFENDERYears Of Untold Neglect Generated One Fledgling Felon. Especially Needs Direct Effective Rehabilitation Sean Lamb
People & Relationships:Law & Order:Criminals
84% YOU'RE FUELLING THE ENEMY!Your Open Uniqueness Restricts Enemy Function! Unerringly, Enemies Lose Land. Incomprehensibly, Nobody Gets it; They'd Hinder the Enemy by Encouraging Nonconformism. Engage in Mutiny, You! Rob Rix, when he used that phrase in capitals in an email to Angela, and Angela said he should acronymise it.
Assorted Phrases
89% YOU'RE SADYou Openly, Unwittingly Radiate Energies Suggestive (of) Abject Dejection Tony McCoy O'Grady
People & Relationships:Emotions
71% YOU'RE WELCOMEYou Ought to Understand... Really, Everyone Would Eagerly Lend a Computer Oriented Magazine to an Email-buddy Angela Brett, when Tony thanked her for lending him her MacAddict magazine
Assorted Phrases
100% YOUR IDEAS ON PAPERYuck... Old, Useless Rubbish... It Doesn't Even Allow Searching. One Needn't Print A Perfect Electronic Record. Angela Brett, expressing her ideas on paper in response to an unsuccessful search term.
Communication
100% YOUR MOMYouth's Opinions Usually Reflect Much Of Mother TMcCO'G
People & Relationships:Family
100% YOU SMELL BADYour Odour's Unspeakable... Somebody Must Explain Life's Laws - Buy A Deodorant! Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Insults
People & Relationships:Advice
100% YOU STINKYour Odour's Unbelievably Strong! Take Immediate Notice, Kindly. Tony McCoy O'Grady
People & Relationships:Insults
People & Relationships:Advice
100% YOUTHYou're Obviously Unable To Hesitate Tony McCoy O'Grady, still picking holes in MacGirl.
MacGirl & KeyBoard
Time:Age
100% YOUTH GROUP (CHURCH)You're Only Used To Hearing God's Rage Or Unanswered Prayers? Come Here, Understand Real Christian Happiness. Angela Brett
Religion
100% YOU'VE LEFT OUT A Y - CALAMITY!You've Omitted Unique Vowel, Exceptional Letter - Eminently Flexible To Operate Usefully Twoways As Your Consonantal Assonantal Letter. Angela Might Indicate To You. Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Jeff left out a Y in an expansion of ZZZZZZZZZRA on the forums.
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
86% Y-PRIMEYou'd Probably Require Integrals to Make Equation. Angela Brett. (Okay, make isn't quite right, solve is more what I meant... but you'd usually need to use integrals to solve an equation involving y-prime (that is, y' or dy/dx, a.k.a the differential of y with respect to x... it's maths stuff. :)
Science:Mathematics
100% YTTERBIUMYou Try This Expansion. Reference Book Is Unhelpful, Mostly. Tony McCoy O'Grady
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
Science:Chemistry:Elements
90% YTTERBIUM (2)Ytterby Titled This Element - Rarely Boils (as) It's Unusually Massive. Angela Brett
Science:Chemistry:Elements
100% YTTRIUMYour Television Tube Requires It's Use, Mainly. Tony McCoy O'Grady
Science:Chemistry:Elements
100% YUCCAYogi Unearths California Cactus Acupuncture Rico Leffanta
Science:Biology:Plants
100% YUCK!Your Underarms Could Kill! Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Insults
100% YUGOSLAVIAYour Usual Genocide One Supposes, Lasting American Victory Is Attainable? Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Countries
100% YUM!Your Ultimate Meal Angela Brett
Food & Drink
100% YUM BADGEYour Ultimate MacEvangelist Beautification - Advertise Delicious G3 Ensemble! Angela Brett, referring to her 'Yum' badges featuring the five flavours of iMac in a circle and the word 'Yum.'
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
100% YUM BADGE (2)You're Undressed! Maybe Because Apple's Decorative Garment's Excluded. Angela Brett, because she's sure that if Annie had had a Mac, she'd have sung that you're never fully dressed without a Yum badge.
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
100% YUM BRIGADEYou Use Macintosh? Barge Round In Garb Advertising Delectable Electronics. Angela Brett, after an Apple Update where we all got free YUM BADGEs.
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
83% YUMMYYou're Usually Made to Mention 'Yum' Sean Lamb
Food & Drink
100% YUPYou're Unusually Perceptive! Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela correctly guessed why he didn't want his ME expansion in the stack. (Hopefully it's okay to just mention it!)
Communication:Yesses And Noes
86% YUPPIEYou Use Phone in Porsche... It's Extravagant! Angela Brett
People & Relationships
Commerce
100% YUPPIE (2)Young Unsocial Pretentious Pig Ignorant Executive John Richard Jones. I thought of this after an encounter with three yuppies on a train.
People & Relationships
100% YURTYour Uniquely Russian Tent Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Buildings
100% YVONNEYoung Virgins Often Need New Excitement Rico Leffanta
Names:First names:Female
100% ZABAGLIONEZesty And Beautiful - A Good Lunch Is Obviously Nearly Ended Tony McCoy O'Grady
Food & Drink
100% ZAIBATSUZen Associates Is Biased, Affluent Top Socialites United Jan Morgan
Commerce
100% ZAIREZebras Abound In Region's East. Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Countries
100% ZAMBIAZinc And Mining-Based Industries Abound. Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Countries
100% ZAPDOSZestily Annihilate Pretty Dumb Operating System? Angela Brett, speculatiing that Zapdos (Pokemon #145) wants to destroy MS-DOS.
Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon
100% ZAPDOS (2)Zooms Across Power Department's Official Safeline Dundee (Zapdos is Pokemon #145)
Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon
100% ZECHARIAHZerubbabel Established, Crowned. Hope About Rightful Improvement At Hand. Sue Johnson
Religion:Bible books
100% ZEPHANIAHZealous Eschatological Prophet Has A New Imprecation Against Hubris. Sue Johnson
Religion:Bible books
100% ZERO TOLERANCEZap Experimental Rounds Of Thievery, Offender's Liberty Encourages Repeated And Nastier Criminal Exploits. Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Law & Order
100% ZIFFZero Insertion Fun, Frankly! Duncan Smith, in response to an unsuccessful search. According to acronymfinder.com ZIFF means Zero Insert Force Field - Duncan explains: ZIFF means Zero Insertion Force. I think that the extra F is a typo or a joke, becuase I have never seen it before. ZIF means Zero Insertion Force, which is a name for a type of CPU socket which, logically enough, allows you to insert the CPU into the socket with a lever instead of pushing and bending pins.
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
Computers:Generic Hardware
100% ZILCHZero Interest Level Confirmed Here Rico Leffanta
Science:Mathematics:Numbers
100% ZIMBABWEZealous In Making Beginnings Against Black & White Extremists Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Countries
100% ZINCZenith In Non-Corrosion Tony McCoy O'Grady
Science:Chemistry:Elements
100% ZIONZone Is On Nation Jan Morgan
Places
Religion
100% ZIPZero! Innovation! Progress! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
Science:Mathematics:Numbers
100% ZIP (2)Zero Invisible Power! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
Science:Mathematics:Numbers
100% ZIP (3)Zero Incrementation Power Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
Science:Mathematics
100% ZIP (4)Zero Infinitely Powerful! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
Science:Mathematics:Numbers
100% ZIP (5)Zero Is Placeholder Angela Brett
Science:Mathematics:Numbers
100% ZIP (6)Zero & Infinitesimal -- Partners! Angela Brett
Science:Mathematics:Numbers
100% ZIP CODEZilch If Postal Code Omitted - Dead End! Patricia Rix
Communication
90% ZIRCONIUMZounds, It Resists Corrosion, Occurs Nonferrously In Unions (with) Metals Tony McCoy O'Grady
Science:Chemistry:Elements
100% ZITIZesty Italian Tasty Ingredients Sean Lamb
Food & Drink
100% ZODIACZoo Of Dozen Idolized Astronomical Characters Rico Leffanta
Religion:Astrology
100% ZODIAC (2)Zoo Of Dynamics In Astrology Capers Jan Morgan
Religion:Astrology
93% ZOMBIE - IT'S A SONG!Zest Of Merry Berries Is Encapsulated In This Song - Also Shows Off Noel's Guitar-playing. Angela Brett, on the song Zombie by The Cranberries.
Entertainment:Music:Songs
100% ZOMBIE MANZoological Obsession Makes Badman Instigate Extremely Messy Animal Nuisance Tony McCoy O'Grady - trying to create what will be the last entry in the stack
MacGirl & KeyBoard:Supervillains
100% ZOMBIES ATTACKZoological Organisms Mutated By Infectious Epidemic Strike At Towns; Total Annihilation, Civilans Killed Inev
Entertainment:Movies
100% ZONKEDZapped-Out Noggin Keeping Euphoria Dazzled Rico Leffanta
Assorted Adjectives
100% ZOOBIEZion Of Occupations, Books In Education Jan Morgan -- name given to students attending Brigham Yung University
Education
100% ZOPEZero Online Publishing Equivalents Sean Lamb (Zope is a web page programming environment)
Computers:Internet
100% ZORBAZesty Old Rogue Barters Adventure Rico Leffanta
Main
83% ZUBATZaps Ultrasound to Behold Approaching Targets Angela Brett (Zubat is Pokemon #41)
Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon
100% ZUCCHINIZucca Uses Cognomen 'Courgette' Here In Non-Italy Angela Brett
Food & Drink
100% ZURICHZwingli's Upstart Religion Is Considered Heretical. Tony McCoy O'Grady, beating his own attempt at getting the last acronym in the stack. We challenge you acronymisers out there to beat it! (Zwingli was a Swiss priest and reformation character in Zurich in the 1500s.)
Places:Towns & Cities
80% ZWARZero-in Word After Rambling Grace Francis
Science:Linguistics:German Words
100% ZWINGLIZealous Worker In New Gospel Literary Interpretations Tony McCoy O'Grady
Religion
Names:Famous people
100% ZWITTERIONZany Wierd Ion That's 'Twice Electified' - Result Isn't Only Negative Tony McCoy O'Grady
Science:Chemistry
86% ZYGOTEZoogenic Yoking (of) Gametes One & Two, Essentially Tony McCoy O'Grady
Science:Biology
100% ZYMOTIC Zesty Yeasts Make One's Throat Infection Contagious Tony McCoy O'Grady, [temporarily] succeeding in creating the stack's last acronym. You try to beat ZYMOTIC!
Science:Biology
100% ZZ TOPSZippy Zithers Tangle Opus Players Singing Rico Leffanta
Entertainment:Music:Artists
100% ZZ TOPS' LAST ALBUMZachery Zzzzzzzzzra Thinks Old Pop Singers Latest Arranged Song Tracks Are Largely Brilliant, Utterly Marvellous! Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela told him that someone had changed his name to Zachary Zzzzzzzzzra to be the last in the phone book.
Entertainment:Music
100% ZZVZanesville's Zlichified Viewrange Jeff Anonymous (In reference to the Zanesville, OH, airport code and Zero-Zero Visibility)
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
Science:Meteorology

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