Uncategorized Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Uncategorized Acronyms

• USDA — United States Department of Agriculture
• USDI — United States Department of The Interior
• USDOE — United States Department of Energy
• USDRE — (U.S.) Under-Secretary of Defense For Research And Engineering (1978?1986)
• USEC — United States Enrichment Corporation
• USFL — United States Football League
• USFWS — United States Fish And Wildlife Service
• USGS — United States Geological Survey
• USIA — United States Information Agency
• USJFCOM — United States Joint Forces Command
• USMC — United States Marine Corps
• USN — United States Navy
• USNA — United States National Arboretum – United States Naval Academy
• USNB — United States Naval Base
• USNG — United States National Grid
• USNH — United States Naval Hospital
• USNI — United States Naval Institute
• USNO — U.S. Naval Observatory
• USNOFS — U.S. Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station
• USNP — United States Newspaper Program
• USNR — United States Navy Reserve
• USNS — United States Naval Ship
• USNY — University of The State of New York (usually Pronounced Use-knee)
• USNZ — University Sport New Zealand
• USPS — United States Postal Service
• USPTO — United States Patent And Trademark Office
• USR — Universal System Resources (/usr
• USS — United States Ship (sometimes Meaningless; See Star Trek)
• USSPACECOM — United States Space Command
• USSR — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• UST — Underground Storage Tank
• USTRANSCOM — United States Transportation Command
• UT — Universal Time
• UTEP — University of Texas At El Paso (pronounced You-tep)
• UTM — Universal Transverse Mercator (geographical Co-ordinate System)
• UU — Unitarian Universalism – University of Utah – Unseen University
• UUA — Unitarian Universalist Association
• UUB — Ununbium (temporary Superheavy Chemical Element Name)
• UUID — Universally Unique Identifier (see Also GUID)
• UUV — Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
• UV — Burkina Faso (FIPS 10-4 Country Code; From Upper Volta) -ultraviolet
• UW — University of Washington
• UWO — University of Western Ontario
• UWT — Under Water Telephone
• UWTG — Under Water Tug
• UXO — Unexploded Ordnance
• UY — Uruguay (ISO 3166 And FIPS 10-4 Country Code Digram)
• UYU — Uruguayan Peso Uruguayo (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
• UZ — Uzbek Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
• UZ — Uzbekistan (ISO 3166 And FIPS 10-4 Country Code Digram)
• UZB — Uzbek Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• UZB — Uzbekistan (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• UZS — Uzbek Som (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
• V — Vanadium – Volt
• V&V — Verification & Validation
• V/STOL — Vertical/Short Take-Off And Landing (vee-stoll)
• VA — Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 Digram) -Veterans Affairs (U.S. Department Of) -Virginia (postal Symbol)
• VACIS — Vehicle And Container Inspection System
• VANOS — Variable Nockenwelle System
• VAO — Vienna Art Orchestra
• VAT — Value-Added Tax -Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• VB — Victoria Bitter (beer) – Visual Basic
• VBA — Visual Basic For Applications
• VC — Saint Vincent And The Grenadines (FIPS 10-4 Country Code; ISO 3166 Digram) -Victoria Cross
• VCDS — (Canada) Vice-Chief of The Defence Staff
• VCJCS — Vice Chairman
• VCJD — Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• VCNO — (U.S.) Vice Chief of Naval Operations
• VCOFS — Vice Chief of Staff
• VCR — Video Cassette Recorder
• VCT — Saint Vincent And The Grenadines (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• VD — North Vietnam (ISO 3166 Digram
• VDMOS — Vertical Double-diffused MOS Transistor (vee-dee-moss)
• VDR — North Vietnam (ISO 3166 Trigram
• VE — Venda Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
• VE — Venezuela (FIPS 10-4 Country Code; ISO 3166 Digram)
• VEB — Venezuelan Bol­var (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
• VEEGA — Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist Man?uvre
• VEN — Venda Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• VEN — Venezuela (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• VERITAS — Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System
• VFA — Volatile Fatty Acid
• VFD — Articles For Deletion (used In Wikipedia)
• VFMO — Very Fast Moving Object (astronomy)
• VFR — Visual Flight Rules
• VFW — Veterans of Foreign Wars
• VG — British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 Digram)
• VGB — British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• VHF — Very High Frequency
• VI — 6 (in Roman Numerals) – British Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 Territory Code) – U.S. Virgin Islands (postal Symbol; ISO 3166 Digram) -vide Infra (Latin
• VI — Vietnamese Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
• VIA — Versatile Interface Adapter
• VIC — Victoria
• VIDS — Visual Information Display System
• VIE — Vietnamese Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• VII — 7 (in Roman Numerals)
• VIII — 8 (in Roman Numerals)
• VIN — Vehicle Identification Number (ISO 3779)
• VIP — See Entry
• VIR — U.S. Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 Trigram) – Virgin Atlantic Airways (ICAO Code)