List of acronyms and initialisms
(Starting with "B")
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This list contains acronyms,
initialisms, and pseudo-blends.
For the purposes of this list:
- acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as a series of constituent letters, e.g.,
SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome
- initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc
- pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters means that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or
portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
- (a) = acronym in the example: SARS - (a) Severe acute respiratory syndrome
- (i) = initialism in the example: CD - (i) Compact disc
- (p) = pseudo-blend in the example: UNIFEM - (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
- (s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz - Megahertz)
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BA
- ba - (s) Bashkir language (ISO 639-1 code)
- Ba - (s) Barium
- BA - (i) Bachelor of Arts - (s) Bahrain (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO 3166 digram) - (i) British Airways - British Army - Bank of America
- BAA - (i) British Airport Authority
- BAC - (a) Blood alcohol content
- BADD - (a) Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination
- BAE - (p) BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace, BAe)
- BAFTA - (a) British Academy of Film and Television Arts
- BAI - (i) Battlefield Air Interdiction
- bak - (s) Bashkir language (ISO 639-2 code)
- BALCO - (p) Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative
- bam - (s) Bambara language (ISO 639-2 code)
- BAM - (i) Business Activity Monitoring - (s) Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark (ISO 4217 currency code)
- BAMC - (i) Brooke Army Medical Center
- BAMF - Bad-Ass Mother Fucker (Dane Cook, now common slang)
- Banesto - (p) Banco Español de Crédito (Spanish, "Spanish Credit Bank")
- BAO - (i) Battlefield Air Operations
- BAOR - (i) British Army Of the Rhine
- B[a]P - (p) Benzo[a]pyrene
- BAR - (a) British American Racing - Browning Automatic Rifle - Buy-American Restrictions
- BARD - (a) Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund (between the US and Israel)
- BARDA - (a) Biomedical Advanced Research & Development Agency
- BART - (a) Bay Area Rapid Transit
- BAS - (i) Battalion Aid Station
- BASE - (a) Building, Antenna, Span, Earth (parachute form)
- BASF - (i) Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (Baden Aniline and Soda Factory, a German chemicals company)
- BASIC - (a) Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (acronym was added later, originally it was simply Basic)
- BAT - (a/i) Basic Aid Training
- BATBYGOBSTOPL - (a) Buying a ticket before you get on board saves time or problems later
- BATF - (i) U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
- BATS - (a) Behavior Analysis Training System - Bradley Advanced Training System
- BATTeRS - (a) Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey
BB
BC
BD
BE
BF
BG
BH
BI
BJ
BK
BL
BM
BN
BO
BP
BQ
- BQ - (s) British Antarctic Territory (ISO 3166 digram; merged with AQ in 1979) - Navassa Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
BR
- br - (s) Breton language (ISO 639-1 code)
- Br - (s) Bromine
- BR - (s) Brazil (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) - (i) British Rail- Break Ranks (marching band term)
- BRA - (s) Brazil (ISO 3166 trigram)
- BRASS - Breathe, Relax, Aim, Sight, Squeeze (Acronym for using a rifle)
- BRB - (s) Barbados (ISO 3166 trigram) - (i) "Be Right Back" (Internet chat abbreviation)
- BRDM - (i) Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Dosornaya Mashina (Russian Боевая Разведывательная Дозорная Машина, "Combat Reconnaissance Patrol Vehicle") †
- bre - (s) Breton language (ISO 639-2 code)
- BRFSS - (p) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ("burf-us", a CDC health survey covering the U.S. and its territories)
- BRI - (i) Bathroom Readers Institute (publishers of series of "Uncle John's Bathroom Readers" books)
- BRIC - (a) Brazil, Russia, India and China
- BRIMS - (a) Behavior Representation In Modeling and Simulation (conference)
- BRL - (s) Brazilian real (ISO 4217 currency code)
- BRM - (i) Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Mashina (Russian Боевая Разведывательная Машина, "Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle") †
- BRN - (s) Brunei (ISO 3166 trigram)
- BRSB - (i) Battlefield Reasoning System Brianna
BS
BT
BU
BV
BW
BX
BY
BZ
References
- ^ See references and discussion under Barbecue and Talk:List of acronyms and initialisms: B. Examples of use: [1], [2], [3], [4]
Published - December 2008
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