ICT 4 ELT Portals

Vocabulary – abbreviations and acronyms for intermediate

Compiled and annotated by
Ludek Gregor,
CMG Prostejov.

This webpage contains links to Vocabulary – abbreviations and acronyms for intermediate students and thier teachers

• Acronym and abbreviation dictionary

  http://www.acronymfinder.com/

  The world's largest and most accurate dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms with more than 3 millions definitions in the database.

• Acronym Attic

  http://www.acronymattic.com/

  It contains 3 million acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. It is easy to use and produces quick and long lists of definitions.

• AbbreviationZ

  http://www.stands4.com/index.asp

  A comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms. It supplies definition results for a specific term, grouped by categories. It also provides the ability to browse a list of terms that relates to a specific subject.

• Globemaster Dictionary

  http://www.globemaster.de/html/dictionary.html

  Military abbreviations and acronyms of the US Armed Forces. The database contains about 15,000 abbreviations, acronyms and aircraft designations of all military branches. Records of military organizations include the official URLs as far as available.

• Silmaril. The Internet Acronym Server

  http://www.silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms

  A server collecting acronyms from all over the Internet. It gives you simple long lists of entries. You can also contribute to this database.

• Dave Hawkman's automotive webspace – Abbreviations, Acronyms and Initialisms

  http://www3.sympatico.ca/dhaughey/j1930.htm

  An alphabetically organized list of auto and truck link reference library for professional technicians and enthusiasts.

• U.S. Global Change Research Information Office

  http://www.gcrio.org/compendium/gcacronyms.html

  Global Change Acronyms and Abbreviations. This webpage gives a list of global change acronyms and abbreviations gathered by this organisation. There are also many entries with their URLs.

• Alpha Dictionary

  http://www.alphadictionary.com/index.shtml

  A webpage mainly for children providing everything from fun and games, tongue twisters to more serious topics like discussion forums and dictionaries including dictionaries of abbreviations.

• BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms

  http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babelsr.html

  You can download This glossary yourself from Geocities. It contains abbreviations that have been used recently for computer related advertisements in newspapers and magazines. It is said to be intended mainly for the seniors but it will also be good help for non native speakers both teachers and students.

• Dictionary of abbreviations and acronyms in geographic information systems, cartography and remote sensing

  http://library.berkeley.edu/EART/abbrev.html

  This dictionary decodes abbreviations and acronyms found in various publications including maps and websites. These abbreviations or acronyms, therefore, are not necessarily authoritative or standardized in format or content.

• World Cargo Alliance, Inc.

  http://www.worldcargoalliance.com/Library/globaldata/terms.htm

  On this page you can find long lists of industry acronyms stored on separate pages.

• UK Medical Acronyms, as typically used in the UK Hospital environment

  http://members.tripod.com/~seanmallon/

  The aim of this site is to provide a database of acronyms of the medical profession and their meanings. The acronyms are divided into several categories where they are listed in the alphabetical order.