Uncategorized Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Uncategorized Acronyms

• WHI — Women’s Health Initiative
• WHO — World Health Organisation
• WHS — (U.S.) Washington Headquarters Services
• WI — Western Sahara (FIPS 10-4 Country Code) – Wisconsin (postal Symbol)
• WIA — Wounded In Action
• WIMP — Weakly Interacting Massive Particle – Windows
• WIN — T -Warfighter Information Network-Tactical
• WIPO — World Intellectual Property Organization
• WIPP — [Nuclear] Waste Isolation Pilot Project
• WIYN — Wisconsin Indiana Yale NOAO Telescope Consortium
• WK — Wake Island (ISO 3166 Digram
• WKYP — Will Keep You Posted
• WL — Wehrmacht Luftwaffe (German WW2 Air Force Vehicle Licence Plate Code)
• WLB — Women’s Land Brigade (WWII Canada)
• WLF — Wallis And Futuna Islands (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• WLN — Walloon Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• WLOG — Without Loss of Generality (see WOLOG)
• WM — Wehrmacht Marine (German WW2 Navy Vehicle Licence Plate Code)
• WMANUS — West Midlands Area National Union of Students
• WMD — Weapon[s] of Mass Destruction – World Movement For Democracy ?
• WMI — Wildlife Management Institute
• WMO — World Meteorological Organization
• WNA — World Nuclear Association
• WNF — Will Not Fix
• WNSD — What’s New
• WNW — West North-West
• WO — Warrant Officer
• WO — Wolof Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
• WOL — Wolof Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• WOLOG (OR WLOG) — WithOut Loss of Generality
• WOM — Write Only Memory (a Joke From Stan Kelly-Bootle)
• WOS — Wilson Ornithological Society
• WOT — Waste of Time
• WP — White Phosphorus (ammunition)
• WPB — War Production Board During World War II
• WPE — World Pork Expo
• WPK — Wider Peacekeeping
• WR — Wide Receiver (football)
• WRAC — Women’s Royal Army Corps (WWII UK)
• WRAIR — Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
• WRBWWRM — We Read Best What We Read Most
• WRC — World Rally Championship
• WRNS — Women’s Royal Naval Service (WWII UK) (pronounced Wrens)
• WRS — Worldwide Reference System
• WRT — With Respect To
• WRT — Writer Response Theory
• WRT — World Rally Team
• WRT OR W/R/T — With Respect To Or With Regard To
• WRVS — Women’s Royal Voluntary Service
• WS — Samoa (ISO 3166 And FIPS 10-4 Country Code Digram; From West Samoa) -Writer To The Signet (a Scottish Solicitor)
• WSC — Weapon System Catalogue
• WSDL — Web Services Description Language
• WSJ — Wall Street Journal
• WSM — Samoa (ISO 3166 Trigram; From West Samoa)
• WSMR — White Sands Missile Range (whiz-murr)
• WST — Water Soluble Tetrazolium (assay) -Samoan Tala (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
• WSTC — Women Signallers Territorial Corps (WWII UK)
• WSUS — Windows Server Update Services
• WSW — West South-West
• WTB — Wales Tourism Board – Warenterminb?rse Hannover
• WTC — World Trade Center
• WTF — What The Fuck? (WTF Could Also Be Considered
• WTH — What The Hell
• WTO — World Trade Organization
• WU — Wabash University – Washington University In St. Louis – Western Union – Windows Update – Work Unit – WU Wien (German Wirtschaftsuniversit?t Wien
• WV — West Virginia (postal Symbol)
• WVA — World Veterinary Association
• WVIAC — West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
• WVR — Women’s Volunteer Reserve (WWII UK)
• WVSC — Women’s Volunteer Service Corps (WWII Canada)
• WVU — West Virginia University
• WW — See Entry
• WWE — World Wrestling Entertainment
• WWF — World Wildlife Fund – World Wrestling Federation
• WWI — World War I
• WWII — World War II
• WWIII — World War III
• WWJD — What Would Jesus Do? (see WWWD)
• WWV — Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (catalog of The Works of Richard Wagner
• WWW — World Wide Web
• WWWD — What Would Wellstone Do? (reference To The Late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone; See WWJD)
• WWWF — World Wide Wrestling Federation
• WXO — Weather [Executive] Officer
• WY — Wyoming (postal Symbol)
• WYSIWYG — What You See Is What You Get (pronounced Wizzy-wig. See Entry For Derived Acronyms)
• WYSIWYP — What You See Is What You Print / What You See Is What You Pay (wizzy-whip)
• WZ — Swaziland (FIPS 10-4 Country Code)
• XAF — BEAC (Banque Des ?tats De L’Afrique Centrale) Central Africa CFA (Coop?ration Financi?re En Afrique Centrale) Franc (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
• XAG — Silver Troy Ounce (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
• XAU — Gold Troy Ounce (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
• XBA — European Composite Unit (EURCO; Bonds Market Unit) (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
• XBB — European Monetary Unit (E.M.U.; Bonds Market Unit) (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
• XBML — EXtensible Battle Management Language
• XC — Ninety (in Roman Numerals)
• XCBL — XML Common Business Library
• XCD — East Caribbean Dollar (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
• XE — Xenon
• XH — Xhosa Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
• XHO — Xhosa Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• XHR — EXtra High Image Resolution – XMLHTTPRequest