List of acronyms: W

(Main list of acronyms)


 * 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
 * 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 Program
 * 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)
 * 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 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 f**k?; 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)