(Main list of acronyms)
__NOTOC__ W (s) Tungsten (from German Wolfram) (i) Watt (i) Wednesday (i) West (i) Games Won in sporting competitions
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.
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) (i) World Archery (Federation) World Athletics WAAC – (i) Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (Britain) (World War I UK) WAAF – (i) Women's Auxiliary Air Force (World War II UK) WAC (a) Western Athletic Conference (i) Women's Auxiliary Corps (World War II Canada) Women's Army Corps (World War II U.S.) WACC – (a) Weighted Average Cost of Capital (accounting) WACS – What-A-Cartoon! Show WAD – (a) Weapons Alert Designator WAGGGS – (a) World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts WAGMI - (a) We're All Gonna Make It 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) WAL – see entry WAN – (a) Wide area network WAP – (a) Wireless Application Protocol WAPIMA – (a) What a pain in my ass WAR – (a) With All Respect 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
WB Wb – (s) Weber WB (i) Warner Bros. Welcome Back (Internet shorthand) WBA (i) Warner Bros. Animation West Bromwich Albion (F.C.) World Boxing Association WBC – (i) World Boxing Council WBE – (i) Work Breakdown Element WBIT – (i) Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament WBO – (i) World Boxing Organization WbW with best wishes white boy wasted
WC WC – (i) Water Closet – Winston Churchill – World Cup (sports) WCBO – (i) World Chess Boxing Organisation WCBP – (i) World Center for Birds of Prey WCCW – (i) World Class Championship Wrestling WCDay – (a/i) World Constitution Day WCL – (i) World Confederation of Labour WCPA – (p) World Constitution and Parliament Association WCS – (i) Weapon Control Status – Wildlife Conservation Society WCW – (i) World Championship Wrestling WCWCC – (p) World Committee for a World Constitutional Convention WCWS – (i) Women's College World Series, the final phase of the NCAA Division I softball tournament in the US
WD WDC – (i) Western Design Center – World Data Center WDWR – Walt Disney World Resort WDIN – Wildlife Disease Information Node
WE WEBS – (a) Weapon Effectiveness Battle Simulation WEC – (i) World Extreme Cagefighting WEEE – (i) Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment WEF – (a) World Economic Forum WEIRD – (a) Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic (cultural identifier of a disproportionate number of psychology test subjects) WEM - (a) West Edmonton Mall WEU – (i) Western European Union WEZ – (a/i) Weapon Engagement Zone
WF WF – (s) Wallis and Futuna Islands (ISO 3166 digram) WFC – (i) Women's Forage Corps (World War I UK) WFD – (i) Weapon(s) of Focused Destruction WFF – (i) Wallops Flight Facility WFI - Water for Injection WFP – (i) World Food Programme WFT – (i) Washington Football Team (former NFL franchise name) WFZ – (i) Weapons Free Zone
WG WG – (i) Working Group – Wade–Giles WGS 84 – World Geodetic System 1984 WGSRPD World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions an international biogeography based standardized placename system for flora + floristics locations.
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 WHIP – (a) Walks plus hits per inning pitched WHO – (a) World Health Organization WHS – (i) (U.S.) Washington Headquarters Services
WI WI (s) Western Sahara (FIPS 10-4 country code) Wisconsin (postal symbol) (i) Women's Institute WIA (i) Wounded In Action (a) Wireless Institute of Australia (Amateur Radio) WIC – (a/i) U.S. (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for) Women, Infants and Children (often pronounced "wick") WIIFM - (i) What's in it for me? WIE- (a) Windows Internet Explorer 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 Plant WIYN – (i) Wisconsin Indiana Yale NOAO telescope consortium
WJ WJKK WJKF – Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ke Fateh, a Sikh greeting
WK WK – (s) Wake Island (ISO 3166 digram, obsolete 1986) WKYP – (a) Will Keep You Posted WKX – (a) World Kickboxing Xtrm
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)
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
WN WNA – (i) World Nuclear Association WNBA – (i) Women's National Basketball Association WNF – (i) "Will Not Fix" WNL - (i) Medical initialism for "Within Normal Limits" WNIT – (i) Women's National Invitation Tournament WNSD – (i) What's New, Scooby-Doo? WNW – (s) West North-West
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 without WOF - Width of Fabric WOFT – (a) Waste Of F***ing Time WOFTAM – (a) Waste Of F***ing Time And Money WOI – (a/i) Wheels Of Italy wol – (s) Wolof language (ISO 639-2 code) WOLOG (or WLOG) – (a/i) WithOut Loss Of Generality WOM – (a) Write Only Memory WOS – (i) Wilson Ornithological Society WOSM (i) World Organization of the Scout Movement Worldwide Oil Spill Model WOT – (i) Waste Of Time WoW or WOW – (a) World of Warcraft
WP WP (i) White Phosphorus (ammunition) (i) Workers' Party (Singapore) WPB – (i) War Production Board during World War II WPE – (i) World Pork Expo WPK – (p) Wider Peacekeeping WPN – (i) Wizards Play Network (sanctioning body for several games, most notably Magic: The Gathering) WPT (i) World Poker Tour World Premiere Toons WPP - (i) Witness Protection Program
WQ WQS – World Qualifying series (surf)
WR WR – (i) Wide receiver (gridiron 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 WRC - World Religions Conference 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, also w.r.t. or w/r/t – (i) with respect to or with regard to, depending on context WRT (i) Writer Response Theory (i) WRT - "With respect to", especially in fields such as Mathematics. (i) World Rally Team (i) Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC (Urban Planning and Design) (i) Wireless Ronin Technologies (digital signage) (i) NHS Workforce Review Team The Linksys routers whose model name start with 'WRT' (i) Wholesale, Trade, Retail sector, category in employment and economics statistics (i) Wireless Receiver/Transmitter ( computer networks/IT ) Third party firmware for the Linksys WRT routers and compatible models from other vendors. (i) Web Runtime (WRT) is a portable application framework developed by Nokia that allows the creation of widgets on the S60 Platform.
WS WS (s) Samoa (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram; from the country's former name of Western Samoa) (i) Writer to the Signet (a Scottish solicitor) WSC – (i) Weapon System Catalogue WSDL – (i) Web Services Description Language WSJ – (i) (The) Wall Street Journal WSL (i) White Star Line (shipping company) Women's Super League, currently used to describe England's top women's association football league and formerly to describe that country's top women's rugby union competition Workers' Socialist League (UK political party) WSM (s) Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram; from Western Samoa) (i) Winchester Short Magnum (family of rifle cartridges) WSMR – (a/i) White Sands Missile Range ("whiz-murr") WSROC – (a) Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils WSSM – (i) Winchester Super Short Magnum (family of rifle cartridges) WST (i) Water Soluble Tetrazolium (assay) (s) Samoan tālā (ISO 4217 currency code) WSTC – (i) Women Signallers Territorial Corps (World War II UK) WSUS – Windows Server Update Services WSW – (s) West South-West
WT WTA – (i) Women's Tennis Association (cf. WTA Tour, operated by this body) WTB (i) Wales Tourism Board Warenterminbörse Hannover WTB – (i) Want to Buy (a commonly used phrase in various online games and buy/sell messageboards) WTC – (i) World Trade Center WTF – (i) What the fuck?; also What a Terrible Failure (android) WTFH – (i) What The F**king Hell WTH – (i) What the Hell WTNWD – (i) Wait To Next Working Day (a commonly used phrase to maintain work life balance) WTO – (i) World Trade Organization WTS – (i) Want to Sell (a commonly used phrase in various online games and buy/sell messageboards)
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) WUU2 – What you up to – Internet slang popular with teenagers. WUBU2 – What you been up to
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 (note, however, that the initialism is almost never used; the popular name of the school is "WVU Tech")
WW WW – see entry WWE – (i) World Wrestling Entertainment WWF (i) World Wide Fund for Nature, from its original name of World Wildlife Fund, which remains the legal name in the U.S. and Canada World Wrestling Federation WWI – (i) World War I WWII – (i) World War II WWIII – (i) World War III WWJD – (i) "What would Jesus do?" WWS – (i) Wheaton Warrenville South High School 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 WWWF – (i) World Wide Wrestling Federation
WX WXO – (i) Weather [Executive] Officer
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") WYRFTTM – When You Are Free Talk To Me
WZ WZ – (s) Eswatini (FIPS 10-4 country code)