List of acronyms and initialisms (Starting with "G")

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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)

WPA Wyoming Pipeline Authority, http://www.wyopipeline.com/

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G

g - (s) Gram
G - (s) Gauss - (i) General Audiences (movie rating)

G0-9

G1 - (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Personnel
G2 - (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Intelligence
G3 - many, including Heckler & Koch G3; see entry - (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Operations and Plans
G4 - (i) Generation Four PowerPC microprocessor - (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Logistics
G5 - (i) Generation Five PowerPC microprocessor - (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Public Affairs
G6 - (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Information Technology - (i) Group of 6 (France, Germany, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy) (1975)
G7 - (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Training - (i) Group of 7 (G6 + Canada) (1976)
G8 - (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Finance - (i) Group of 8 (G7 + Russia) (1998)
G9 - (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC)
G10 - (i) Group of 10 (G7 + Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland; numbering 11 in fact)
G15 - (i) Group of 15 (subset of G77, formed 1989: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and Zimbabwe; currently numbers 17)
G20 - (i) Group of 20 (G8 + Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey + current European Union presiding country) (1999)
G24 - (i) Group of 24 (subset of G77, formed 1971: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Iran, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Syria, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela)
G77 - (i) Group of 77 (issued from the United Nations Conference on Commerce and Development, 1964; currently numbers 133)

GA

ga - (s) Irish language (ISO 639-1 code)
Ga - (s) Gallium - Gigaannum
GA - (s) Gabon (ISO 3166 digram) - The Gambia (FIPS 10-4 country code) - (i) Gamblers Anonymous - Georgia (postal symbol) - Gigaampere
GAAR - (a) General Anti-Avoidance Rule (tax evasion)
GAB - (s) Gabon (ISO 3166 trigram)
GABA - (i) Gamma-AminoButyric Acid
GAD - (a) Generalized Anxiety Disorder
GAF - (i) Garfield and Friends
GALCIT - (a) Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Gangy - (a) Green Anorak, No Girlfriend Yet (i.e., a trainspotter)
GAO - (i) U.S. Government Accountability Office
GAW - (i) Global Atmospheric Watch

GB

GB - (s) Gabon (FIPS 10-4 country code) - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 digram)
GBBC - (i) Great Backyard Bird Count
GBE - (i) Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
GBH - (i) Grievous Bodily Harm
GBP - (s) United Kingdom pound sterling (ISO 4217 currency code)
GBR - (s) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram)
GBU - (i) Glide-Bomb Unit - Global Business Unit(s)

GC

GC - (s) East Germany (NATO country code; obsolete 1990) - (i) General Counsel - (s) Gigacoulomb
GCA - (i) Graduate in Claims Administration
GCCS - (i/a) Global Command and Control System ("geeks")
GCD - see entry
GCF - (i) Greatest Common Factor
GCI - (i) Ground-controlled interception
GCN - (i) Gamma-ray burst Coordination Network
GCS - (i) Global Coordinate System
GCSE - (i) General Certificate of Secondary Education (UK)
G-CSF - (i) Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor

GD

gd - (s) Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-1 code)
Gd - (s) Gadolinium
GD - (s) Grenada (ISO 3166 digram)
GDC - (i) Game Developers Conference
GDC - (i) General Dental Council
GDL - (i) Game Definition Language
GDP - (i) General Dental Practitioner (UK) - Gross Domestic Product
GDR - (i) German Democratic Republic (cf. DDR)
GDR - (i) General Distribution Release (Microsoft Term for a software service release; between Hotfix and Service Pack)
GDW - (i) Game Designers Workshop

GE

Ge - (s) Germanium
GE - (i) General Electric - Genetic Engineering (cf. GM) - (s) Georgia (ISO 3166 digram)
GEBCO - (a) General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
GEC - (i) Great Engineering Challenge
GED - (i) General Education Development
GEEP - (i) Geophysical Equipment Exploration Platform
GEL - (s) Georgian lari (ISO 4217 currency code) - Gilbert and Ellice Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1977)
GEMA - (a) Gas and Electricity Markets Authority - Georgia Emergency Management Agency - (p) Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (German performance rights organisation) - (a) Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance
GEN - (s) Full General (four stars) in the U.S. Army
GEO - (a) Geostationary Earth Orbit - (s) Georgia (ISO 3166 trigram)
GEOS - (i) Graphical Environment Operating System
Gestapo - (p) GEheime STAatsPOlizei (German "secret state police")
GeV - (s) Gigaelectron-volt
GEV - (i) Ground Effect Vehicle

GF

GF - (s) French Guiana (ISO 3166 digram) - Gigafarad
GFCI - (i) Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor (aka GFI)
GFDL - (i) GNU Free Documentation License
GFE - (i) Girl Friend Experience (used in escort services) - Good Faith Estimate - Government Furnished Equipment
GFI - (i) Ground Fault Interruptor (aka GFCI)
GFN - (i) Global Footprint Network
GFY - (i) "good for you" or "go fuck yourself", depending on the context (Internet chat)

GG

GG - (s) Georgia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
GGP - (i) General Game Playing

GH

GH - (s) Ghana (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) - Gigahenry
GHA - (s) Ghana (ISO 3166 trigram)
GHB - (i) gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
GHC - (s) Ghanan cedi (ISO 4217 currency code)

GI

Gi - (s) Gibi
GI - (i) Galvanised Iron - Gastro-Intestinal - General Issue - (s) Gibraltar (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code) - (i) Government Issue
GIB - (s) Gibraltar (ISO 3166 trigram)
GIF - (a) Graphics Interchange Format (pronounced "jif")
GIG - (a) Global Information Grid
GIGO - (a) Garbage In Garbage Out (computing)
GIMP - (a) GNU Image Manipulation Program
GIN - (s) Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram) - (a) Guidelines International Network
GINO - (a) Godzilla In Name Only
GIP - (s) Gibraltar pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
GIS - (i) Geographic Information System - (i) Google Image Search
GISS - (a/i) General Impression of Size and Shape - Goddard Institute for Space Studies

GJ

GJ - (s) Gigajoule - Grenada (FIPS 10-4 country code)
GJD - (i) Geocentric Julian Day

GK

GK - (s) Gigakelvin - Guernsey (FIPS 10-4 territory code)

GL

gl - (s) Galician language (ISO 639-1 code)
GL - (s) Gigalitre - (i) Graphics Language - (s) Greenland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code) - (i) Grenade Launcher
gla - (s) Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-2 code)
GLAAD - (a) Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
GLAC - (a) General Ledger Accounting Code
GLAST - (a) Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
GLBA - (i) Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
GLC - (i) Gas-liquid chromatography
gle - (s) Irish language (ISO 639-2 code)
glg - (s) Galician language (ISO 639-2 code)
GLINT - (a) Gallium-arsenide Laser Illuminator for Night TV - Gated Laser Illuminator for Narrow Television - (p) Gated Laser Intensifier (tape) - Gospel Literature International - Graphical Linux Installation Tool
GLP - (s) Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 trigram)
GLUT - (a/i) OpenGL Utility Toolkit
glv - (s) Manx language (ISO 639-2 code)
GLV - (i) Gained Life Value

GM

Gm - (s) Gigametre
GM - (s) The Gambia (ISO 3166 digram) - (i) GameMaster (role-playing) - General Motors - Genetically Modified - (s) Germany (FIPS 10-4 country code) - (i) Guru Meditation (computing)
GMB - (s) The Gambia (ISO 3166 trigram) - (i) General, Municipal, Boilermakers (and Allied Trade Union)
GmbH - (i) Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (German, "Company with limited liability")
GMC - (i) U.K. General Medical Council
GMD - (s) Gambian dalasi (ISO 4217 currency code)
GMFSC - (i) Ground Mobile Forces Satellite Communications
GMI - (i) Generic Model Interface - Geometry Model Instance
GMILF - (i) Grandmother I'd Like to Fuck
GML - (i) Game Maker Language - Generalized Markup Language - Geography Markup Language - Graph Modelling Language - Graphical Motion Language - GUI Markup Language
GMO - (i) Genetically Modified Organism
GMPCS - (i) Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite
GMT - (i) Giant Magellan Telescope - Greenwich Mean Time

GN

gn - (s) Guaraní language (ISO 639-1 code)
GN - (s) Giganewton - Guinea (ISO 3166 digram)
GNAS - (p) Grand National Archery Society
GNB - (s) Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 trigram)
GNF - (s) Guinean franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
GNOME - (a) GNU Network Object Model Environment
GNP - (i) Gross National Product
GNQ - (s) Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram)
GnRH - (p) Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
GNU - (a) GNU's Not Unix

GO

GO - (s) Glorioso Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
GOA - (s) General of the Army (United States only) - (i) Gun Owners of America
GOC - (i) General Officer Commanding
GOES - (a) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GOMER - (a) Get Out of My Emergency Room (derogatory reference to hypochondriac patients)
GOP - (i) Grand Old Party
gorp - (a) granola, oats, raisins, peanuts (another name for trail mix), probably a backronym
GOSC - (a/i) General Officer Steering Committee
GOSH - (a) Great Ormond Street Hospital
GOSP - (a) Gas/Oil Separation Plant
GOTS - (a) Government off-the-shelf
GOYADIN - (a) Get Off Your Arse, Do It Now (anti-procrastination mantra)

GP

GP - (i) General Practitioner - General Purpose - Grand Prix - (s) Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
GPA - (i) Grade Point Average
GPC - (i) Global Path Cache
GPG - (i) GNU Privacy Guard
GPIB - (i) General-Purpose Instrumentation/Interface Bus
GPL - (i) GNU General Public License
GPMP - (i) General Purpose Macro Processor
GPO - (i) General Post Office
GPPC - (i) Genetics and Public Policy Center
GPR - (i) Ground-Penetrating Radar
GPS - (i) General Problem Solver - Global Positioning System
GPT - (i) GEC-Plessey Telecommunications - General Purpose Technology - Get Paid To website
GPU - (i) Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie (Russian Государственное Политическое Управление, "State Political Administration") (1922-1934) - Graphics Processor Unit

GQ

GQ - (s) Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 digram) - (i) Gentlemen's Quarterly (magazine) - (s) Guam (FIPS 10-4 territory code)

GR

GR - (s) Greece (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) - Hail (METAR Code)
GRAS - (i) Generally recognized as safe (FDA list)
GRB - (i) Gamma-Ray Burst
GRC - (s) Greece (ISO 3166 trigram)
GRD - (s) Grenada (ISO 3166 trigram)
grep - (a) [search] Globally for Regular Expression, Print [lines]
GRID - (a) Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (original name of AIDS)
GRL - (s) Greenland (ISO 3166 trigram)
GRN - (i) Goods Received Note
grn - (s) Guaraní language (ISO 639-2 code)
GRP - (i) Graphite Reinforced Plastic

GS

Gs - (s) Gigasecond
GS - (i) General Support - (s) Gigasiemens - South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
GSR - (i) Gun Shot Residue
GS-R - (i) General Support-Reinforcing
GSA - (i) U.S. General Services Administration
GSD - (i) Graphical Situation Display
GSK - (p) GlaxoSmithKline
GSM - (i) General Service Medal - Grams per Square Metre (paper thickness; properly g/m²) - Ground Station Module - Groupe spécial mobile (French, "Special Mobile Group")
GSO - (i) General Services Officer (U.S. Department of State)
GSOH - (i) Good Sense Of Humour
GSS - (i) Generic Security Services
GST - (i) Goods and Services Tax (Australia, Canada and other countries)

GT

GT - (s) Gigatesla - (i) Gran Turismo - Grand Touring - (s) Guatemala (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
GTA - (i) Grand Theft Auto
GTD - (i) Getting Things Done
GTG - (i) Got To Go (Internet chat)
GTGN - (i) Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
GTM - (s) Guatemala (ISO 3166 trigram)
GTQ - (s) Guatemalan quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)
GTV - (s) Gross Tumor Volume quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)

GU

gu - (s) Gujarati language (ISO 639-1 code)
GU - (s) Guam (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
GUF - (s) French Guiana (ISO 3166 trigram)
GUI - (a) Graphical user interface ("goo-ey")
GUILT - (a) Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin
guj - (s) Gujarati language (ISO 639-2 code)
GULCR - (i) Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica
Gulag - (p) Glavnoye Upravleniye ispravitelno-trudovykh LAGerei i kolonii (Russian Главное Управление Исправительно—Трудовых Лагерей и колоний, "Main Directorate of Corrective Labour Camps")
GUM - (s) Guam (ISO 3166 trigram)
GUT - (a) Grand Unification Theory
GUY - (s) Guyana (ISO 3166 trigram)