List of acronyms and initialisms: W
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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter W.
For the purposes of this list:
- acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as a series of constituent letters, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome
- initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc
- pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters means that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
- (a) = acronym in the example: SARS - (a) Severe acute respiratory syndrome
- (i) = initialism in the example: CD - (i) Compact disc
- (p) = pseudo-blend in the example: UNIFEM - (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
- (s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz - Megahertz)
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| Contents: | Top - W0–9 WA WB WC WD WE WF WG WH WI WJ WK WL WM WN WO WP WQ WR WS WT WU WV WW WX WY WZ |
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[edit] W0-9
- W3C - (i) World Wide Web Consortium
- w/ - (p) With: Software w/Documentation. Typically used in advertising or to abbreviate headings. Never used in formal body text.
[edit] WA
- wa - (s) Walloon language (ISO 639-1 code)
- WA - (s) Namibia (FIPS 10-4 country code; from West Africa) - Washington state (postal symbol) - Western Australia (postal symbol)
- WAAC - (i) Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (Britain) (World War I UK)
- WAAF - (i) Women's Auxiliary Air Force (World War II UK)
- WAC - (i) Women's Auxiliary Corps (World War II Canada), Women's Army Corps (World War II U.S.) – (a) Western Athletic Conference
- WACC - (a) Weighted Average Cost of Capital (accounting)
- WACS - What-A-Cartoon! Show
- WAD - (a) Weapons Alert Designator
- WAGs - (p) Wives And Girlfriends (most notably of England national football team players at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, although the term existed earlier)
- WAK - (s) Wake Island (ISO 3166 trigram, obsolete 1986)
- WAN - (a) Wide Area Network
- WAP - (a) Wireless Application Protocol
- WAPIMA - (a) What a pain in my ass
- WAsP - (p) Short form of WAAAAP (Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program)
- WASP - (a) White Anglo-Saxon Protestant - Wide Angle Search for Planets - Women Airforce Service Pilots
- WAYP - (a) White And Yellow Pages
[edit] WB
- Wb - (s) Weber
- WB - (i) Warner Brothers - Welcome Back (Internet short-hand)
- WBE - (i) Work Breakdown Element
- WBO - (i) World Boxing Organization
[edit] WC
- WC - (i) Water Closet - Winston Churchill - World Cup (sports)
- WCBO - (i) World Chess Boxing Organisation
- WCBP - (i) World Centre for Birds of Prey
- WCL - (i) World Confederation of Labour
- WCS - (i) Weapon Control Status - Wildlife Conservation Society
- WCW - (i) World Championship Wrestling
[edit] WD
- WDC - (i) Western Design Center - World Data Center
- WDWR - Walt Disney World Resort
- WDIN - Wildlife Disease Information Node
[edit] WE
- WEBS - (a) Weapon Effectiveness Battle Simulation
- WEEE - (i) Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- WEF - (a) World Economic Forum
- WEU - (i) Western European Union
- WEZ - (a/i) Weapon Engagement Zone
[edit] WF
- WF - (s) Wallis and Futuna Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
- WFC - (i) Women's Forage Corps (World War II UK)
- WFD - (i) Weapon(s) of Focused Destruction
- WFF - (i) Wallops Flight Facility
- WFP - (i) World Food Program
- WFZ - (i) Weapons Free Zone
[edit] WG
- WG - (i) Working Group - Wade-Giles
- WGS 84 - World Geodetic System 1984
[edit] WH
- WH - (i) Wehrmacht Heer (German World War II army vehicle licence plate code)
- WHAM - (a) Wisconsin Hydrogen-Alpha Mapping (telescope)
- WHI - (i) Women's Health Initiative
- WHO - (a) World Health Organisation
- WHS - (i) (U.S.) Washington Headquarters Services
[edit] WI
- WI - (s) Western Sahara (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Wisconsin (postal symbol)
- WIA - (i) Wounded In Action - (a) Wireless Institute of Australia (Amateur Radio)
- WIMP - (a) Weakly Interacting Massive Particle - Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers
- WIN-T - (i) Warfighter Information Network-Tactical
- WIPO - (a/i) World Intellectual Property Organization
- WIPP - (a) [Nuclear] Waste Isolation Pilot Project
- WIYN - (i) Wisconsin Indiana Yale NOAO telescope consortium
[edit] WJ
[edit] WK
- WK - (s) Wake Island (ISO 3166 digram, obsolete 1986)
- WKRP
- WKYP - (a) Will Keep You Posted
[edit] WL
- WL - (i) Wehrmacht Luftwaffe (German World War II air force vehicle licence plate code)
- WLB - (i) Women's Land Brigade (World War II Canada)
- WLF - (s) Wallis and Futuna Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
- wln - (s) Walloon language (ISO 639-2 code)
- WLOG - (i) Without Loss Of Generality (see WOLOG)
[edit] WM
- WM - (i) Wehrmacht Marine (German World War II navy vehicle licence plate code)
- WMANUS - (a) West Midlands Area National Union of Students
- WMD - (i) Weapon[s] of Mass Destruction - World Movement for Democracy †
- WMI - (i) Wildlife Management Institute
- WMO - (i) World Meteorological Organization
[edit] WN
- WNA - (i) World Nuclear Association
- WNF - (i) "Will Not Fix"
- WNIT – (i) Women's National Invitation Tournament
- WNSD - (i) What's New, Scooby-Doo?
- WNW - (s) West North-West
[edit] WO
- wo - (s) Wolof language (ISO 639-1 code)
- WO - (i) Warrant Officer
- W/O - (p) Without: Software w/o Documentation
- w/o - Weight per cent
- wol - (s) Wolof language (ISO 639-2 code)
- WOLOG (or WLOG) - (a/i) WithOut Loss Of Generality
- WOM - (a) Write Only Memory (a joke from Stan Kelly-Bootle)
- WOS - (i) Wilson Ornithological Society
- WOT - (i) Waste Of Time
- WOTM - Women of the Moose [1]
- WoW or WOW - (a) World of Warcraft
[edit] WP
- WP - (i) White Phosphorus (ammunition)
- WPB - (i) War Production Board during World War II
- WPE - (i) World Pork Expo
- WPK - (p) Wider Peacekeeping
- WPT - (i) World Premiere Toons
[edit] WQ
- WQS World Qualifing series (surf)
[edit] WR
- WR - (i) Wide Receiver (football)
- WRAC - (a) Women's Royal Army Corps (World War II UK)
- WRAIR - (a) Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
- WRBWWRM - (i) "We Read Best What We Read Most"
- WRC - (i) World Rally Championship
- WRNS - (i) Women's Royal Naval Service (World War II UK) (pronounced "wrens")
- WRVS - (i) Women's Royal Voluntary Service, now only known by the acronym (UK)
- WRS - (i) Worldwide Reference System
- wrt or w/r/t - (i) with respect to or with regard to, depending on context
- WRT - (i) Writer Response Theory
- WRT - "With respect to", especially in fields such as Mathematics.
- WRT - World Rally Team
- WRT - Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC (Urban Planning and Design)
- WRT - Wireless Ronin Technologies, Inc. (digital signage)
- WRT - NHS Workforce Review Team
- WRT - The Linksys routers whose model name start with 'WRT'
- WRT - Third party firmware for the Linksys WRT routers and compatible models from other vendors.
[edit] WS
- WS - (s) Samoa (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram; from West Samoa) - (i) Writer to the Signet (a Scottish solicitor)
- WSC - (i) Weapon System Catalogue
- WSDL - (i) Web Services Description Language
- WSJ - (i) Wall Street Journal
- WSM - (s) Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram; from West Samoa)
- WSMR - (a/i) White Sands Missile Range ("whiz-murr")
- WST - (i) Water Soluble Tetrazolium (assay) - (s) Samoan tala (ISO 4217 currency code)
- WSTC - (i) Women Signallers Territorial Corps (World War II UK)
- WSUS - (i) Windows Server Update Services
- WSW - (s) West South-West
[edit] WT
- WTB - (i) Wales Tourism Board - Warenterminbörse Hannover
- WTB - (i) Want to Buy (a commonly used phrase in the online game "World of Warcraft")
- WTC - (i) World Trade Center
- WTF - (i) What The Fuck
- WTFH - (i) What The Fucking Hell
- WTH - (i) What The Hell
- WTO - (i) World Trade Organization
- WTS - (i) Want to Sell (a commonly used phrase in the online game "World of Warcraft")
[edit] WU
- WU - (i) Wabash University - Washington University in St. Louis - Western Union - Windows Update - Work unit - WU Wien (German Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration)
[edit] WV
- WV - (s) West Virginia (postal symbol)
- WVA - (i) World Veterinary Association
- WVIAC - (i) West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- WVR - (i) Women's Volunteer Reserve (World War II UK)
- WVSC - (i) Women's Volunteer Service Corps (World War II Canada)
- WVU - (i) West Virginia University
- WVUIT - (i) West Virginia University Institute of Technology
- WUU2 - What you up to - Internet slang popular with teenagers.
- WUBU2 - What you been up to
[edit] WW
- WW - see entry
- WWE - (i) World Wrestling Entertainment
- WWF - (i) World Wildlife Fund - World Wrestling Federation
- WWI - (i) World War I
- WWII - (i) World War II
- WWIII - (i) World War III
- WWJD - (i) "What would Jesus do?" (see WWWD)
- WWS - (i) Wheaton Warrenville South
- WWV - (i) Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (catalog of the works of Richard Wagner, and callsign of NIST's shortwave radio station in Fort Collins, Colorado)
- WWW - (i) World Wide Web
- WWWD - (i) "What would Wellstone do?" (reference to the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone; see WWJD)
- WWWF - (i) World Wide Wrestling Federation
[edit] WX
- WXO - (i) Weather [Executive] Officer
[edit] WY
- WY - (s) Wyoming (postal symbol)
- WYSIWYG - (a) What You See Is What You Get (pronounced "wizzy-wig". See entry for derived acronyms)
- WYSIWYP - (a) What You See Is What You Print / What You See Is What You Pay ("wizzy-whip")
[edit] WZ
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