List of acronyms: 0–9

This is a list of acronyms that are pronounceable words. This list does not include acronyms whose pronunciation is wholly or partly the names of constituent letters.

Please add your own, in alphabetical order.

ACCAC - Awdurdod Cymwysterau, Cwricwlwm ac Asesu Cymru (Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales)
AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
ANA - All Nippon Airways, anti-nuclear anti-body
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
ANZAC - Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
ASAP - as soon as possible
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
ASFAR - Americans for a Society Free of Age Restrictions
AWACS - Airborne Warning and Control System
AWOL - Absent Without Official Leave (military jargon)
BASE, as in BASE jumping - Building, Antenna, Span, Earthform (or Earth)
BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, acronym was added later, originally it was simply Basic
BIOS - basic input/output system
BOAT - Byway Open to All Traffic (pronounced as 2 syllables, Bo-At)
BOHICA - Bend Over Here It Comes Again
BWARS - Bees, Wasps & Ants Recording Society
CAD - Computer Aided Design
CALABARZON - a region in the Philippines: Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon (not an acronym in the strictest sense)
CERN - Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
COBOL - Common Business-Oriented Language
COD - Cash On Delivery
CREEP - Committee to Reëlect the President
DINK - Double income, no kids
DOS - Density of State / Disk Operating System / Denial of Service
EPCOT - Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency
FIFA - Federation of International Football Associations
FIDE - The Fédération Internationale des Échecs (World Chess Foundation)
FIFO - First In First Out
FUBAR - Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition
Gestapo - GEheime STAtsPOlizei ("secret state police")
GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out
GLAAD - Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
GOMER - Get Out of My Emergency Room (derogatory reference to hypochondriac patients)
grep - (search) globally for regular expression, print (lines)
GUI - Graphical User Interface (pronounced goo-ey)
Gulag - Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh LAGerei
HALO - High Altitude Low Opening (type of a parachute jump)
IATA
Interpol -- International Criminal Police Organization
IUPAC - International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (pronounced Yoo-Pac)
JAG - Judge Advocate General (US military lawyers)
JAL - Japan Airlines
JATO - Jet Assisted Takeoff Unit
Jeb Bush - John Ellis Bush
Jeb Stuart - James Ewell Brown (Stuart's given names)
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
KISS - Keep it simple stupid
LAN - Local Area Network
Laser - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LUCA - Last Universal Common Ancestor
Maser - Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
MASH - mobile army surgical hospital
MILF - Mom I'd like to fuck, Moro Islamic Liberation Front
MIMAROPA - a region in the Philippines: Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan
MIP - Multiple Identity Poster
MPEG - Motion Pictures (Coding) Experts Group
NAAFI - Navy, Army and Air Force Institute (British)
NAMBLA - North American Man-Boy Love Association
NARAL - National Abortion Rights Action League
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASCAR - National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
Nasdaq - National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NORAD - North American Aerospace Defense Command
NORML - National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
NOW - National Organization for Women
NUTS - Nuclear Utilization Target Selection
NYRA - National Youth Rights Association; also New York Racing Association (horse racing)
PAL - Phase Alternating Line (TV standard)
PAL - Philippine Airlines
PARWIG - Power Augmented Ram Wing in Ground (aeroplane wing shape)
POG - Passionfruit, Orange and Guava
Qantas - Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services
QDOS - Quick and Dirty Operating System
Quango - (British) QUasi Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation
Quasar - Quasi-stellar radio source
Radar - Radio detection and ranging
RAM - Random Access Memory, Royal Air Maroc
ROM - Read Only Memory
SAVAK - Sazamane Etelaat va Amniate Kechvar (Iranian Security and Intelligence Service)
SARS - Severe acute respiratory syndrome
Scuba - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SECAM - Systeme Electronique Couleur Avec Memoire (TV standard)
SIMPLE
SLORC - The State Law and Order Restoration Council (of Burma)
SNAFU - Situation Normal-All Fucked Up
SNOBOL
SOCCSKSARGEN - a region in the Philippines: South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, General Santos City (pronounced sock-sar-gen)
Sonar - Sound navigation and ranging
SWAT - Special Weapons And Tactics
TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (from Robert Heinlein)
TEETH - Tried Everything Else, Try Homoeopathy (medical diagnosis in-joke)
TOS - Terms of Service
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund, originally United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNIFEM - United Nations Fund for Women
WAN - Wide Area Network
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
Yippie - Youth International Party + suffix
Yuppie - Young Urban Professional + suffix

Words that may not be acronyms, but urban legends say that they are:

Fuck - Fornication Under Consent of the King or For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Golf - Gentlemen only, ladies forbidden
News - North, East, West and South (a mnemonic)
Posh - Port side Out, Starboard Home

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