Abbreviation Words in English
Abbreviation is a shortened form of a written word or phrase. Abbreviations may be used to save space and time, to avoid repetition of long words and phrases, or simply to conform to conventional usage.
| AA | Anti-aircraft | ||
| AAAA | Asian Amateur Athletic Association | ||
| AAPSD | Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organisation | ||
| AAPRD | Afro-Asian Rural Reconstruction Organisation | ||
| ABC | Audit-Bureau of Circulation, American Broadcasting Company, Australian Broadcasting Company | ||
| ABM | Anti Ballistic Missiles | ||
| A/c | Accounts | ||
| AC | Alternating Current, Air Conditioned | ||
| ACC | Auxiliary Cadet Corps, Air Co-ordinating Committee | ||
| AD | Anno Domini (After Christ) | ||
| ADB | Asian Development Bank | ||
| Adj | Adjective, adjunct, adjustment, adjutant | ||
| Adm | administration, admiral | ||
| ADMK | Anna Dravida Munnetta Kazhagam | ||
| adv | adverb | ||
| advt | Advertisement | ||
| AEC | Atomic Energy Commission | ||
| AF | Audio Frequency | ||
| AFP | Asian Free Press | ||
| AG | Adjutant General, Attorney General | ||
| AHQ | Army Head Quarters | ||
| AI | Air India | ||
| AICC | All India Congress Committee | ||
| AICS | All India Council of Sport | ||
| AID | Agency for International Development | ||
| AINEF | All India Newspapers Editor’s Conference | ||
| AINEF | All India Newspapers Employees Federation | ||
| AIOE | All India Organisation of Employees | ||
| AIR | All India Radio | ||
| AIS | Aeronautical Inspection Service | ||
| AITUC | All India Trade Union Congress | ||
| AIWC | All India Women’s Conference | ||
| AM | Ante Meridiem (Before noon) | ||
| AMC | Army Medical Corps | ||
| AMIE | Associate Member of the Institute of Engineers | ||
| AMIEF | Associate Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers | ||
| AMU | Asian Monetary Union | ||
| ANC | African National Council | ||
| APPLE | Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment | ||
| APU | Asian Payment Union, Asian Parliament Union | ||
| ARDC | Agricultural Refinance and Development Corporation | ||
| ARDE | Armament Research and Development Establishment | ||
| ARSA | Air Route Surveillance Administration | ||
| ASEAN | Association of South East Asian Nations | ||
| ATS | Anti-Tetanus Serum | ||
| BA | Bachelor of Arts | ||
| BARC | Bhabha Atomic Research Centre | ||
| BBC | British Broadcasting Corporation | ||
| BC | Before Christ | ||
| BCL | Bachelor of Civil Law | ||
| B.Com | Bachelor of Commerce | ||
| BCG | Bacillus Calmette Guerin | ||
| BDO | Block Development Officer | ||
| BE | Bachelor of Engineering | ||
| B.Ed. | Bachelor of Education | ||
| BJP | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| BKD | Bharatiya Kranti Dal | ||
| BLD | Bharatiya Lok Dal | ||
| BOAC | British Overseas Airways Corporation | ||
| BP | Blood Pressure | ||
| B.Pharm | Bachelor of Pharmacy | ||
| B.Sc. | Bachelor of Science | ||
| BSS | Bharat Sewak Samaj, British Standard Specification | ||
| B.Tech | Bachelor of Technology | ||
| C | Centigrade | ||
| CA | Chartered Accountant | ||
| CARE | Co-operative for American Relief Everywhere | ||
| CASTASIA | Conference on Application of Science and Technology in Asia | ||
| CBI | Central Bureau of Investigation | ||
| CBR | Central Board of Revenue | ||
| CBT | Children’s Book Trust | ||
| CDRI | Central Drug Research Institute | ||
| CFC | Chief Election Commissioner | ||
| CEERI | Central Electronic Engineering Research Institute | ||
| CENTO | Central Treaty Organisation | ||
| CFTRI | Central Food Technological Research Institute | ||
| CGS | Centimeter Gram Second (units of measurement) | ||
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency (USA) | ||
| CID | Criminal Investigation Department | ||
| CIF | Coast, Insurance and fright | ||
| CIFC | Cost, Insurance Freight and Commission | ||
| CIOSM | Council of International Organisation of Scientific Management | ||
| CISF | Central Industrial Security Force | ||
| CITU | Centre of Indian Trade Union | ||
| CIWTC | Central Inland Water Transport Corporation | ||
| C-in-C | Commander –in-Chief | ||
| CLRC | Central Land Reforms Committee | ||
| CM | Chief Minister, Common Market | ||
| CMEA | Council of Mutual Economic Assistance | ||
| CMN | Common Market Nation | ||
| CNS | Chief of Naval Staff | ||
| C of C | Chamber of Commerce | ||
| c/o | Care of | ||
| CO | Commanding Officer | ||
| COAS | Chief of Army Staff | ||
| COD | Cash on Delivery, Central Ordnance Depot | ||
| COMECON | Council of Mutual Economic Assistance | ||
| COMEX | Commonwealth Expedition | ||
| COPU | Committee on Public Undertakings | ||
| CPC | Civil Procedure Code | ||
| CORDET | Co-operative Rural Development Trust | ||
| CPI | Communist Party of India | ||
| CPI(M) | Community Party of India (Marxist) | ||
| CRPF | Central Reserve Police Force | ||
| CSIR | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | ||
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | ||
| CW | Chemical Welfare | ||
| DA | Daily Allowance, Dearness Allowance | ||
| DAVP | Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity | ||
| DC | Direct Current, Deputy Commissioner | ||
| DDS | Doctor of Dental Science | ||
| DDT | Dichloro Diphyenyl Trichloroethane (Insecticide) | ||
| DSIDC | Defense Scientific Information and Documentation Centre | ||
| DGCA | Director General of Mines Safety | ||
| DIR | Defense Indian Rule | ||
| DLF | Development Loans Fund | ||
| DLit | Doctor of Literature | ||
| DLO | Dead Letter Office | ||
| DNA | De-oxyribo Nucleic Acid(Biological Element) | ||
| do | Ditto | ||
| DPSA | Deep Penetration Strike Aircraft | ||
| Dphil | Doctor of Philosophy | ||
| DPI | Director of Public Instruction | ||
| DRDO | Defense Research and Development Organisation | ||
| DSc | Doctor of Science | ||
| DSC | Distinguished Service Cross | ||
| DVM | Doctor of Veterinary Medicine | ||
| E | East | ||
| ECA | Essential Commodities Act | ||
| ECG | Electrocardiogram | ||
| ECGC | Export Credit and Guarantee Corporation | ||
| ECHR | European Commission on Human Right | ||
| ECM | European Common Market | ||
| ECOSOC | Economic and Social Council (UN) | ||
| ECU | European Currency Unit | ||
| EEC | European Economic Community | ||
| EFTA | European Free Trade Association | ||
| Eg | Exempli gratia (for example) | ||
| E-in-C | Engineer in Chief | ||
| EMF | Electro Motive Force | ||
| EMS | European Monetary System | ||
| ENS | Eastern Newspapers Society | ||
| E & OE | Errors and Omission Excepted | ||
| EPNS | Electroplated Nickel Silver | ||
| ESI | Employees State Insurance | ||
| ESP | Extra Sensory Perception | ||
| Est | Established | ||
| ETA | Expected Time of Arrival | ||
| etc | et cetera | ||
| ETD | Expected Time of Departure | ||
| EW | East West | ||
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organisation | ||
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation | ||
| FBIR | Fast Breeder Test Reactor | ||
| FCI | Food Corporation of India | ||
| FERA | Foreign Exchange Regulation Act | ||
| FFC | Film Finance Corporation | ||
| FICCI | Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry | ||
| FRCS | Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons | ||
| FRG | Federal Republic of Germany | ||
| FKGS | Fellow of Royal Geographical Society | ||
| FRS | Fellow of Royal Society | ||
| FTII | Film and Television Institute of India | ||
| FIZ | Free Trade Zone | ||
| GARP | Global Atmospheric Research Project | ||
| GB | Great Britain | ||
| GCF | Greatest Common Factor | ||
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product | ||
| GDR | German Demographic Republic (East Germany) | ||
| GI | Government Issue | ||
| GIC | General Insurance Corporation | ||
| GM | General Manager | ||
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time | ||
| GNP | Gross National Product | ||
| Govt | Government | ||
| GPO | General Post Office | ||
| H | Hydrogen | ||
| HAL | Hindustan Aeronautics Limited | ||
| HC | House of Commons | ||
| HCF | Highest Common Factor | ||
| HF | High Frequency | ||
| HH | Her Highness, His Holiness, His Highness | ||
| HM | Her Majesty, His Majesty | ||
| HMT | Hindustan Machine Tools | ||
| HMV | His Master’s Voice | ||
| HP | Horse Power | ||
| HQ | Head Quarters | ||
| HT | High Tension | ||
| HUDCO | Housing and Urban Development Corporation | ||
| I | Iodine, Intensity | ||
| IA | Indian Airlines | ||
| IAAS | Indian Audit and Accounts Service | ||
| IAFA | International Atomic Energy Agency | ||
| IAF | Indian Air Force | ||
| IARI | Indian Agricultural Research Institute | ||
| IAS | Indian Administrative Service | ||
| I & B | Information and Broadcasting | ||
| IBE | International Banks for Economic Co-operation | ||
| IBRD | International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) | ||
| ICAO | International Civil Aviation Organisation | ||
| ICAR | Indian Council of Agricultural Research | ||
| ICC | International Chamber of Commerce | ||
| ICCS | international Commission of Control and Supervision | ||
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile | ||
| ICC | International Control Commission | ||
| ICF | Integral Coach Factory | ||
| ICMR | Indian Council of Medical Research | ||
| ICS | Indian Civil Service | ||
| ICSSR | Indian Council of Social Science Research | ||
| IDA | International Development Agency | ||
| IDC | Industrial Development Corporation | ||
| IDD | International Direct Dialing | ||
| IDBI | Industrial Development Bank of India | ||
| IDPL | Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited | ||
| IDRC | International Development Research Centre | ||
| ie | id est (That is) | ||
| IENS | Indian and Eastern Newspaper Society | ||
| IES | Indian Economic Service | ||
| IFAD | International Fund for Agricultural Development | ||
| IFC | Industrial Finance Corporation | ||
| IFCI | Industrial Finance Corporation of India | ||
| IFES | Institute of Electoral Studies | ||
| IFS | Indian Foreign Service, Indian Forest Service | ||
| IFWJ | Indian Institute of Working Journalists | ||
| IIFT | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade | ||
| IIPA | Indian Institute of Public Administration | ||
| IIT | Indian Institute of Technology | ||
| ILO | International Labour Organisation | ||
| ILS | Instrument Landing System | ||
| IMF | International Monetary Fund | ||
| IMS | Indian Medical Service | ||
| INA | Indian National Army | ||
| INCOSPAR | Indian National Committee of Space Research | ||
| INFCE | Indian Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation | ||
| INMARSAT | International Maritime Satellite Organisation | ||
| INS | Indian Navy Ship | ||
| INSDOC | Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre | ||
| INTELEX | International Teleprinter Exchange | ||
| INTELSAT | international Telecommunication Satellite Contortion | ||
| INTERPOL | International Criminal Police Organisation | ||
| INTCU | Indian National Trade Union Congress | ||
| IOA | Indian Olympic Association | ||
| IOC | International Olympic Committee | ||
| IOU | I owe you | ||
| IPC | Indian Penal Code | ||
| IPS | Indian Police Service | ||
| IQ | Intelligent Quotient | ||
| ISI | Indian Standards Institution | ||
| IST | Indian Standard Time | ||
| ITDC | Indian Tourism Development Corporation | ||
| IYDP | International Year of Disabled Persons | ||
| JCC | Junior Chamber of Commerce | ||
| J & K | Jammu and Kashmir | ||
| JNU | Jawaharlal Nehru University | ||
| JP | Justice of the Peace | ||
| KANU | Kenya African National Union | ||
| KG | Kilogram | ||
| KGB | Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty | ||
| KVA | Kilo Volt Ampere | ||
| KW | Kilowatt | ||
| LASER | Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation | ||
| LCM | Least Common Multiple | ||
| LES | Lunar | ||
| LIC | Life Insurance Corporation of India | ||
| LLB | Legum Baccalareous (Bachelor of Laws) | ||
| LLD | Legum Doctor (Doctor of Laws) | ||
| LPT | Licentiate in Printing Technology | ||
| LSD | Dextro-lysergic acid Diethylamide | ||
| Lt | Lieutenant | ||
| Ltd | Limited | ||
| M | 1000 (in Roman Numerals) | ||
| MA | Master of Arts | ||
| Maj | Major | ||
| MBA | Master of Business Administration | ||
| MBBS | Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery | ||
| MD | Managing Director, Doctor of Medicine | ||
| MDS | Master of Dental Surgery | ||
| ME | Mechanical Engineer | ||
| MECO | Metallurgical and Engineering Consultant | ||
| MEd | Master Education | ||
| MEN | Middle East News Agency | ||
| MISA | Maintenance of Internal Security Act | ||
| MLA | Member of Legislative Assembly | ||
| MLC | Member of Legislative Council | ||
| MLR | Minimum Lending Rate | ||
| MNF | Mizo National Front | ||
| MO | Money Order, Medical Officer | ||
| MONEX | Monsoon Experiment | ||
| MP | Member of Parliament, Military Police | ||
| MPA | Master of Public Administration | ||
| mpg | miles per gallon | ||
| mph | miles per hour | ||
| mps | miles per second | ||
| Mr. | Mister | ||
| MRA | Moral Re-Armament | ||
| MRCP | Member of Royal College of Physicians | ||
| MRCS | Member of Royal College of Surgeons | ||
| MRCVS | Member of Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons | ||
| Mrs. | Mistress | ||
| MS | Master of Surgery | ||
| MSc | Master of Science | ||
| MSS | Manuscripts | ||
| MSW | Master of Social Work | ||
| MVD | Ministyertvo Vnutrennikh Del (Soviet Secret Police) | ||
| N | North, Nitrogen, Indefinite Number | ||
| NAL | National Aeronautics Laboratory | ||
| NAMS | National Academy of Medical Science | ||
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA) | ||
| NATO | National Atlantic Treaty Organisation | ||
| NAYE | National Alliance of Young Entrepreneurs | ||
| NB | Nota Bene (mark well) | ||
| NBT | National Book Trust | ||
| NCAER | National Council of Applied Economic Research | ||
| NCC | National Cadet Corps | ||
| NCCE | National Council for Correspondence Education | ||
| NCERT | National Council for Educational Research and Training | ||
| NDA | National Defence Academy | ||
| NDF | National Defence Fund | ||
| NE | North East | ||
| NEFA | North East Frontier Agency | ||
| NES | National Extensive Service | ||
| NID | National Institute of Designs | ||
| NIDC | National Industrial Development Corporation | ||
| NIEO | New International Economic Order | ||
| NLF | National Liberation Front | ||
| NMEP | National Malaria Eradication Programme | ||
| NOC | No Objection Certificate | ||
| NPC | National Productivity Council | ||
| NPT | Non-Proliferation Treaty | ||
| NRDC | National Research Development Council | ||
| NS | North South | ||
| NSC | National Service Corps | ||
| NSIC | National Small Industries Corporation | ||
| NSS | National Service Scheme | ||
| NTC | National Textile Corporation | ||
| NTP | National Temperature and Pressure | ||
| NUJ | National Union of Journalist | ||
| O | Oxygen | ||
| OAPEC | Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries | ||
| OAS | Organisation of American State | ||
| OAU | Organisation of African University | ||
| OBE | Officer of the British Empire | ||
| OC | Office Commanding | ||
| ODA | Official Development Assistance | ||
| OECD | Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development | ||
| OK | Orl Korrect (all correct, all right) | ||
| O & M | Organisation and Methods | ||
| ONGC | Oil and Natural Gas Commission | ||
| OPEC | Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries | ||
| OZ | Ounce, Ounces | ||
| PA | Personal Assistant | ||
| PAA | Pan American Airways | ||
| PBX | Private Branch Exchange | ||
| PC | Privy Council, Per cent, Petty Cash, Police Constable | ||
| PEN | Poets, Editors and Novelists Association | ||
| PERT | Programme Evaluation Review Technique | ||
| PFA | Press Foundation of Asia | ||
| Ph D | Doctor of Philosophy | ||
| PIA | Pakistan International Airways | ||
| PII | Press Institute of India | ||
| PIN Code | Postal Index Number Code | ||
| PLO | Palestine Liberation Organisation | ||
| pm | Post Meridiem (afternoon) | ||
| PM | Prime Minister | ||
| PMG | Postmaster General | ||
| PO | Post Office, Postal Order | ||
| POW | Prisoner of War | ||
| PP | Particular Person, Public Prosecutor | ||
| PPI | Pakistan Press International | ||
| PRO | Public Relations Officer | ||
| Pro tem | Pro tempore (For the time) | ||
| Prox | Poximo (in the next month) | ||
| PS | Postscript | ||
| PSC | Public Service Commission | ||
| PSI | Population Service of India | ||
| PT | Physical Service of India | ||
| P &T | Post and Telegraph | ||
| PTI | Press Trust of India | ||
| PTO | Please Turn Over | ||
| PUC | Pre-University Course, Paper under consideration | ||
| PWD | Public Works Department | ||
| Q | Query, Symbol of Mystery | ||
| QMT | Quantitative Management Technique | ||
| QV | Quod Vide (which see) | ||
| RAF | Royal Air Force (UK) | ||
| RAW | Research and Analysis Wing | ||
| R & D | Research and Development | ||
| RI | Rigourous Imprisonment | ||
| RLO | Returned Letter Office | ||
| RNA | Ribo Nucleic Acid | ||
| ROBERT | Rocket-borne Emergency Radio Transmitter | ||
| RPF | Railway Protection Force | ||
| RPM | Revolution Per Minute | ||
| RRC | Regional Reactor Centre | ||
| RSVP | Respondez sil vous plait (please answer) | ||
| S | South | ||
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talk | ||
| SAP | Special Armed Force | ||
| SCI | Shipping Corporation of India | ||
| SE | South East | ||
| SEATO | South East Asia Treaty Organisation | ||
| SEO | Satellite for Earth Observation, Search Engine Optimization | ||
| SIDC | State Industrial Development Corporation | ||
| SIFCC | South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce | ||
| SITE | Satellite Instructional Television Experiment | ||
| SLV | Satellite Launch Vehicle | ||
| SOS | Save Our Souls | ||
| SP | Superintendent of Police | ||
| SPCA | Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | ||
| SSM | Surface to Surface Missile | ||
| SST | Supersonic Transport | ||
| STC | State Trading Corporation | ||
| STD | Subscriber Trunk Dialing | ||
| STEP | Satellite Telecommunication Experiment Project | ||
| SW | South West | ||
| TA | Travelling Allowance, Territorial Army | ||
| TAB | Tetanus Anti Bacilli | ||
| TB | Tubercle Bacillus | ||
| TC | Transfer Certificate, Ticket Collector | ||
| TELCO | Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company | ||
| TELEX | Teleprinter Exchange | ||
| TERLS | Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station | ||
| TISCO | Tata Iron and Steel Company | ||
| TIFR | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | ||
| TMO | Telegraphic Money Order | ||
| TNT | Tri Nitro Toluene | ||
| TTCI | Tea Trading Corporation of India | ||
| TV | Television | ||
| TWA | Trans-World Airlines (USA) | ||
| UAE | United Arab Emirates | ||
| UAR | United Arab Republic | ||
| UC | Upper Case (Capital Letters) | ||
| UFO | Unidentified Flying Object | ||
| UGC | University Grants Commission | ||
| UK | United Kingdom | ||
| ULMS | Undersea Long-range Missile System | ||
| ult | ultimo (in last month) | ||
| UN | United Nations | ||
| UNCIP | United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan | ||
| UNCSTD | United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development | ||
| UNCTAD | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development | ||
| UNDC | United Nations Disarmament Commission | ||
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme | ||
| UNEF | United Nations Emergency Force, United Nations Expeditionary Force | ||
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme | ||
| UNESC | United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation | ||
| UNFPA | United Nations Fund for Population Activities | ||
| UNI | United News of India | ||
| UNICEF | United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund | ||
| UNIDO | United Nations Industrial Development Organisation | ||
| UHF | Ultra High Frequency | ||
| UP | Uttar Pradesh | ||
| UPI | United Press International | ||
| UPSC | Union Public Service Commission | ||
| USA | United States of America | ||
| USIS | United States Information Services | ||
| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republic | ||
| VC | Vice-Chancellor, Victoria Cross | ||
| VD | Venereal Disease | ||
| VIP | Very Important Person | ||
| VOA | Voice of America | ||
| WAWF | World Association of World Federalists | ||
| WBC | World Badminton Cup | ||
| WEU | Western European Union | ||
| WFC | World Food Council | ||
| WFP | World Food Programme | ||
| WETU | World Federation of Trade Unions | ||
| WHO | World Health Organisation | ||
| WMC | World Management Congress | ||
| WMO | World Meteorological Organisation | ||
| xd | ex divided | ||
| Xmas | Christmas | ||
| Xtian | Christian | ||
| YMCA | Young Men’s Christian Association | ||
| YMIA | Young Men’s Indian Association | ||
| YWCA | Young Women’s Christian Association | ||
| ZANU | Zimbabwe African National Union | ||
| ZAPU | Zimbabwe African People’s Union | ||
| ZETA | Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly | ||
| ZPG | Zero Population Growth |
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