Acronyms Predominantly Result in Obfuscation... 'Nsure Yours Mean Something
Angela has not had time to update this website recently, because she is also a mathematician by training, programmer by trade, physicist by association and writer by Sunday midnight. She would like to remind people that anyone who submits an acronym to this website may send a short blurb like this one to go on their page of acronyms.
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| BUBBLES | Brought Unto Being By Liquid's Expanding Surface |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns |
| BUGS | Blight 'Usually Good' Software |
Angela Brett Computers |
| BUN | Bundled Under Net |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| BUNNIES | Breeding Unstoppably - Not Neatly In Exact Seasons. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| BUTTERFREE | Beauty Usually Toxic, Twittering Extremities Release Floating Rot. Elevatory Evolution. |
Angela Brett (Butterfree is Pokemon #12) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| BYTE | Bitwise, You Take Eight. |
Angela Brett Computers |
| CACKLING | Chuffed About Carrying Key Lime IBook - Not Gloating! |
Angela Brett, who still grins/cackles joyously when she thinks about having a KEY LIME IBOOK, and how she came to have it. Computers:Macintosh & Newton Laughter |
| CAMILLAGATE | Could A Man In Love Leave Another Girl... And The Empire? |
Angela Brett, referring to the 1993 'Camillagate' scandal involving secretly recorded phone conversations between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles. People & Relationships:Love & Lust Politics:Royalty |
| CAMPING | Canvas Accommodation Mightn't Persist In Nasty Gale. |
Angela Brett Sports & Recreation:Travel |
| CANNABIS | Common Around Netherlands, Not Accepted By International Society |
Angela Brett Drugs:Cannabis |
| CARAVAN | Cruises All 'Round Area - Vacationers' Abode, Normally. |
Angela Brett Transport |
| CARE | Create A Rapport, Eventually |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs People & Relationships |
| CARLEY | Can Anyone Respond Logically, Except You? |
Angela Brett, when somebody posted on the Apronyms forums asking for an expansion of her name. We can't come up with a name expansion which has any relevance to a particular person without knowing anything about that person... we could only make up some random description of nobody in particular, and if there happens to be somebody with that name who fits the description it's just a fluke. It takes the 'apro' out of 'apronym'. Names:First names:Female |
| CARLOS | Catch Australian's Real Life On Screen |
Angela Brett (Carlo was one of the housemates on the third series of Australian Big Brother.) Names:First names:Male Names:Famous people |
| CARNIVAL | Concussed After Rollercoaster, Now I've Vomited A Lollipop |
Angela Brett Entertainment |
| CAROL | Christmastime Aria Remembering Our Lord |
Angela Brett Entertainment:Music Time:Special Occasions:Christmas |
| CASINO | Cents And Sense In, Nothing Out |
Angela Brett Entertainment Commerce:Money Places:Buildings |
| CAST | Circumvent Any Strong Typing |
Angela Brett (the strong type-checking of programming languages such as C++ can easily be got around by casting.) Computers:Programming |
| CAT | Cute And Tame |
Angela Brett, while designing the icon for the 'Export Acronym' button. Science:Biology:Animals |
| CATCHY | Cultivating Abusive Traits Can Harm Yourself |
Angela Brett, in response to the same request as WATCH OUT, after mentioning an earlier acronym, STOP THE ABUSING which is not very CATCHY. People & Relationships:Abuse |
| CATEGORY | Can A Tame Elephant Grow On Raspberry Yoghurt? |
Angela Brett, while testing part of this stack. Assorted Nouns |
| CATION | Charged And Tried, Innocent Of Negativity |
Angela Brett Science:Chemistry |
| CATIONS | Chemical[ly] Attracted To Ions On Negative Side |
Angela Brett Science:Chemistry |
| CAUCHY | Complex Analysis Understood Completely... Huge Yield! |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| CD-ROM | Can't Detect Round Of Metal |
Angela Brett, whose CD-ROM drive can no longer see when there's a CD in it. Computers:Generic Hardware |
| CENSORED | Crude Expansions Not So Openly Received - Expletives Deleted! |
Angela Brett, after removing a few rude acronyms from the stack. Words & Wordplay:Rudeness |
| CENSORSHIP | Can Expect No Submissions On Rude Subjects Have Immediate Placement |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust Communication |
| CENSUS | Collects Entire Nations Statistics - Universal Sample. |
Angela Brett Science:Statistics |
| CHAOS | Created Havoc Amongst Orthodox Scientists |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics |
| CHAOTIC | Can't Highly Accurately Observe These Iterative Creations. |
Angela Brett, after reading about the mathematical phenomenon chaos... it's all about sequences which seem totally random but are generated by a simple mathematical rule - however, slight changes in the starting values can drastically change the whole thing, so chaotic motion is still very difficult to predict. Science:Mathematics |
| CHAR | Can Hold Alphabetic Representation |
Angela Brett, when she had half an hour to spare in a C programming test. In C, a char is a type of variable often used to store characters. Computers:Programming:C variable types |
| CHARIZARD | Can Heat A Rock Into Zabaglione, And Roast Duelist |
Angela Brett (Charizard is Pokemon #6) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| CHARLIE | Can Help Acronyms.co.nz Reach Largest Inventory Ever! |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:Acronymists |
| CHARMANDER | Craves Heat -- Any Rain Makes A Near-Derriere Extremity Respire. |
Angela Brett (Charmander, Pokemon #4, prefers hot places. When it rains, steam is said to spout from the tip of its tail.) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| CHARMED | Can Have Anything Remotely Magical Enter Drama |
Angela Brett (The TV Show 'Charmed' is about three witches, but can involve things as diverse as leprechauns, mermaids, demons, gnomes, fairies, angels, nymphs, gods, unicorns, and the seven dwarves.) Entertainment:TV shows |
| CHASM | Crevasses Have Always Slain Mountaineers |
Angela Brett Places Sports & Recreation |
| CHAT | Come, Have A Talk |
Angela Brett Communication:Talking |
| CHATTER | Conversation Having A Tendency Toward Empty Rattling |
Angela Brett Communication:Talking |
| CHILDREN | Curious Homonym In Language... Dearness Refunds Expenses Ninefold. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Family |
| CHIN | Clip Hair If Necessary |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| CHIPS | Can't Have Intel Processors Salted |
Angela Brett and Tony Computers:Do Not Eat |
| CHOPSTICKS | Can't Hold Onto Pasta Sauce, These Inadequate Chinese Kitchen Sticks! |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| CHRISTMAS | Characteristic Huge Rise In Shopping - The Merriest Are Salesmen! |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions:Christmas |
| CHRISTMASTIME | Celebrating Hanukkah? Religion's Immaterial - Start The Merrymaking And Singing, There Is Much Enjoyment! |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions:Christmas |
| CIDER | Can Incessant Drinking End Relationships? |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| CLASH | College Lectures Are Scheduled Horribly |
Angela Brett, after having her timetable rearranged for about the fifth time this week due to other students' timetable clashes. (I mean college in the American sense here... not a high school) Education |
| CLATHY | Clutching Lightbulb Anxiously, Thinking, "Here? Yonder?" |
Angela Brett (Clathy is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'Nervously indecisive about how to dispose of a dead lightbulb.' Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| CLEVER | Cerebral Lobes Especially Vibrant, Ever Reasoning |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| CLICHE | Creatively Lacking Imitation Commonly Heard Elsewhere |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay |
| CMS | Complicated Magnetic System |
Angela Brett, referring to the COMPACT MUON SOLENOID. See http://cmsinfo.cern.ch for more information. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Physics |
| COCKATIEL | Captured Ones Can Keenly Attempt To Imitate English Language |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| COCOA | Complements Objective-C On Apples |
Angela Brett (Cocoa is a set of frameworks for making software in Objective-C for Mac OS X) Computers:Programming:Cocoa |
| CODE | Centre Of Developer's Existence |
Angela Brett Computers:Programming |
| COFFEE | Cup Of Fluid For Enhancing Edginess |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Drinks |
| COGNATES | Common Origin Gives Noise-Aligned Terms Equivalent Semantics |
Angela Brett (A cognate is a word in one language which is similar in form and meaning to a word in another language because both languages are related.) Science:Linguistics |
| COHERENT | Consistent, Or Having Exact Relationships Evident - Nothing Tearaway. |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| COINS | Combined Often Into Notes, Symbolically. |
Angela Brett Commerce:Money |
| COLD | Colour Of Legs Darkens |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| COLLIDER | Complaining Of Lover Locked Into Discovering/Dissecting Energetic Reactions |
Angela Brett, on the song by Les Horribles Cernettes (you can download it or read the lyrics at http://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/songs/collider.html) Entertainment:Music:Songs Science:Physics |
| COMMA | Competent Orator May Momentarily Aerate. |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics |
| COMMUNION | Christians Offer Messiah Morsels... Ultimately Not Innards Of Nazarene |
Angela Brett Religion |
| COMMUNITY | Connection Of Many Minds - Usually Nowadays It's Typed Yabbering. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships Computers:Internet |
| COMPILER | Corrector Of Many Problems, It Lends Expertise Readily |
Angela Brett Computers:Programming |
| CONFUSED | Cauldron Of Nonconforming Feelings - Understanding Seems Ever Distant. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions |
| CONTRACT | Contributors Ought Not To Reveal Any Contrary Thoughts |
Angela Brett, after Tony jokingly said on the Apronyms forums, 'I have to agree with Angela -- It's in my contract' Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| CONVICT | Calculating, Overtly Nefarious Villain In Computer Trade |
Angela Brett, finding another villain for the Baddie School roll. MacGirl & KeyBoard:Supervillains |
| CO-OPERATION | Complete Oligarchy Of Petroleum Empires Riles All The Innocent Oil-Needers. |
Angela Brett (see COMPETITION) Transport Commerce |
| COP | Correct Operational Procedure |
Angela Brett, after hearing a character on a police drama use that phrase. People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| CORAL | Comfort Of Receiving Another's Love |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the coral (35th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| CORE | Centre Of Reactor, Etc. |
Angela Brett Places:Positions & Directions |
| CORIOLIS | Control Of Rotation In One's Loo's Incredibly Slight! |
Angela Brett (see http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html) Science:Meteorology People & Relationships:Thoughts:Misconceptions |
| CORRECTIVE | Complements Optical Refraction - Reading's Easier 'Cause This Improves Vision Everywhere. |
Angela Brett, thinking of corrective lenses or laser eye surgery. Science:Biology:Healthcare |
| COTTON | Celebrated Once, Twice... Timespan Of Nuptials. |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the cotton (2nd) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| COULOMB | Charge Of Umpteen Leptons, One Magnetism Below |
Angela Brett (One Magnetism Below referring to the leptons in question having electromagnetic charge of -1) Science:Mathematics:Measurement |
| COWS | Creators Of White Stuff |
Angela Brett, who saw lots of cows on her bus trips from Auckland to Palmerston North and back. Science:Biology:Animals |
| CRAZED | Completely Reality Altering Zaniness - Entirely Deranged |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness |
| CREATIVE | Can('t) Reasonably Expect Another Terrific Inspiration Very Easily. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| CRETACEOUS | Colossal Reptiles Endured 'Til A Catastrophic Event Ousted Umpteen Species. |
Angela Brett Time Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs |
| CROWN | Claims Royalty Of Wearer Nobly. |
Angela Brett Politics:Royalty |
| CRYSTAL | Committed Relationship - Yearly Salute That Affection's Lasting |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the crystal (15th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| CUPPA | Company! Ursula, Please Pour Another. |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Drinks |
| CURFEW | Can't Understand Reason For Evening Wrecker |
Angela Brett Time |
| CURLS | Coiled, Untamed Ringlets Look Swell! |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| CURSE | Can Undo Resource's Software Encoding |
Angela Brett (see YARP) Computers:Windows:Applications:The opposite of PRAY |
| CYLINDER | Circular Yet Long, It Neatly Drains Excess Rainwater. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Geometry |
| CYNDAQUIL | Complete Yellowbelly - Normally Defensive. Attackers Quickly Understand 'Inflamed Lumbar' |
Angela Brett (Cyndaquil is Pokemon #155) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| DACE | Did A Carp Evolve? |
Angela Brett, in a 2a.m. attempt at the first D acronym. Science:Biology:Animals |
| DACHSHUND | Dogs And Cats Have Sometimes Had Unusually Nice Dealings |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| DAD | Dick Added DNA |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Family |
| DAMN | Didn't Acronymise... More Needed. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett, because Eric had created enough new acronyms to overtake Steve on the hall of fame. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| DANIELA | Drop 'A' - Name Is Exactly Like Another. |
Angela Brett Names:First names:Female |
| DANISH | Definitely A Nourishment I Should Have |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| DASTARD | Dimwitted Activist Superior To All Retarded Dumbos |
Angela Brett MacGirl & KeyBoard:Supervillains |
| DAVEN | Discovered Apronyms Via Entering Name |
Angela Brett, after somebody posted on the Apronyms forums, 'It's Daven here I was searching google for your name and found this' Names:First names:Male Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| DDS | Doesn't Do Spleens! |
Angela Brett (DDS usually stands for Doctor of Dental Surgery) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Education:Qualifications Science:Biology:Healthcare:Healthcare Occupations |
| DEAD | Didn't Earlier Admit Defeat |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| DEATH | Decaying Elderly Advances To Heaven. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| DEBRA | Divine Emissary Beeing Resisted Aggressions |
Angela Brett -- according to http://tools.oxygen.com/babynamer/Content.cfm?ContentTypeID=1002&NameID=16085&BabySiteID=7712592, Debra comes from Hebrew 'Dvorah' meaning Bee, and According to the Jewish scriptures, Deborah was one of the earliest judges, or leaders, of her people. Considered a divinely inspired prophetess, she mobilized the Jewish nation (which was only beginning to regard itself as such) to affirm its relationship to God and to resist the aggressions of the neighboring Canaanites. Names:First names:Female |
| DEED | Due Extreme End: Divorce |
Angela Brett, referring to the title of a property which has to be split in a divorce. People & Relationships:Law & Order People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| DEER | Doe's Experience Ever Replayed |
Angela Brett, referring to Bambi Science:Biology:Animals Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| DEFENSE | Detective's Evidence-Finding Etiquette Not Strictly Endorsed |
Angela Brett (If TV shows are to be believed, people often get off because the evidence which proves their guilt was not obtained in the right way.) People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| DEITY | Doesn't Exist; It's Truly Yourself |
Angela Brett Religion |
| DENIM | Don't Eat - Nutrition Is Minimal. |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Threads & Fabric:Edible(?) |
| DEPOSIT | Don't Empty Purse On Sprees... Invest Treasure. |
Angela Brett, who had only deposit slips next to her bed to write on when the acronyms started coming late at night. Commerce:Money |
| DEVIL | Demonic, Evil Villain Is Lucifer |
Angela Brett Religion |
| DIALUP | Delves Into Analogue Line's Untapped Potential |
Angela Brett Computers:Internet |
| DIAMOND | Divine Intervention Affects Marriage, Or Necessity, Destiny. |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the diamond (60th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| DIANA | Died In A Nasty Accident |
Angela Brett, referring to Diana, Princess of Wales. Politics:Royalty:Royals |
| DIAPER | Dirty It And Parent Efficiently Replaces |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing:Underwear |
| DICTIONARY | Do I Consider Term Is Often Needed And Real? Yes! |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics Art & Literature:Book Titles |
| DIET | Dare I Eat That? |
Angela Brett Food & Drink People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| DIFFICULT | Does It Feel Funny? It Contrasts Usual Light Tasks. |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| DIGLETT | Dwells In Ground, Likes Eating Tender Tubers |
Angela Brett (Diglett is Pokemon #50) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| DILIGENT | Doggedly Impacting List, I've Gotta Expand New Terms! |
Angela Brett, after diligently expanding a lot of the terms from the unsuccessful searches list. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| DIOPHANTUS | Decided Influence On Precise, Handwritten Algebraic Notation. Thought Unpositives Superfluous. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| DIPSY | Dancing Is Pleasant - So Youthful! |
Angela Brett, whose nieces love the TELETUBBIES. Entertainment:TV shows |
| DIRTY | "Doing It" Repeatedly - To Yourself! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| DISABILITY | Doesn't Imply Stupidity... Affected Brain Isn't Limited In Thought, Y'know. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| DISAPPEAR | Did I See A Professional Performer Eliminate A Rabbit? |
Angela Brett Entertainment |
| DISASTER | Do Infernos Stop After Several Tsunamis Enter Region? |
Angela Brett Science People & Relationships:Disaster |
| DISK | Digestus Interruptus - Slender Kilojoules. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett (see DONGLE (3)) Computers:Do Not Eat |
| DIVORCE | Done Indulging Vows, Onto Rampant Copulation, Etc. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:Marriage & Divorce |
| DNS | Dotted Numbers Synonyms |
Angela Brett (DNS usually stands for Domain Name System) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| DOCTOR | Dispenser Of Cures, Taker Of Revenue. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Healthcare Occupations |
| DOE | Deer - Oestrogen-Enhanced. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| DOG | Dull Organism. Growls. |
Steve Keate & Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| DOODLE | Do One's Own Drawing, Lacking Enthusiasm |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs |
| DOPE | Dulls One's Personal Experience |
Angela Brett Drugs |
| DORF | Destination Of Rainbow Fizz |
Angela Brett, referring to the town in the book 'The Solitaire Mystery' by Jostein Gaarder Art & Literature:Fictional Places |
| DOT | Disturbance Of Tint |
Angela Brett Art & Literature |
| DOWSING | Dirty Old Woman Seduced Innocent Nice Guy |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing, on virginity \=] Names:Acronymists |
| DRATINI | Dragon Rage And Twister: I'm Now Incapacitated |
Angela Brett (Dratini is Pokemon #147) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| DREAMS | Daylight Reveals Everything's A Mind Show |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Thoughts |
| DROWSY | Dozily Reposed On Waking, Stretched, Yawned. |
Angela Brett Main |
| DSL | Darned Speedy Link! |
Angela Brett, as an alternate expansion of the more common Digital Subscriber Line or Direct Satellite Link. Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Internet |
| DUBLIN | Don't Usually Build Like It Nowadays |
Angela Brett Places:Towns & Cities |
| DUGTRIO | Digletts' Usual Grouping... Three Rolled Into One! |
Angela Brett (Dugtrio is Pokemon #51) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| DUKE | Disappointingly Underemployed King's Elite |
Angela Brett, after Tony mentioned something about DUKEs and URLs. Politics:Royalty |
| DUMB! | Don't Underestimate My Bargains! |
Angela Brett (see SHOVE OFF) Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| DUSK | Dawn's Undoing, Symmetry Kin. |
Angela Brett Time |
| DUTCH | Duo Usually Tries Currency Halving |
Angela Brett, referring to the idiom, 'go Dutch' Commerce |
| DWARF/JOKER | Distinctly Wary About Rainbow Fizz - Jeroboam Of Knowledge Eventually Ruins. |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery |
| DYLAN | Died Young, Lump Attacked Neurons |
Angela Brett, referring to Steve's son. Names:First names:Male |
| DYNAMITE | Do You Need Any Massive Items To Explode? |
Angela Brett Military:Weapons |
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