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| 100% | PC (3) | Passable Calculators |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Windows |
| 100% | PC (4) | Poor Compromises |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Windows |
| 100% | PC (5) | Piss Can |
Dustan Dowsing Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Windows |
| 100% | PC (6) | Please Crush! |
Steve Keate Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Windows |
| 100% | PC (7) | Persistently Crashes |
Angela Brett Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Windows |
| 67% | PC (8) | Piece of Crap |
Gavin Shapiro Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Windows |
| 100% | PCI-E | Purchasing Computers In Excess |
Sean Lamb (PCI-E is an acronym for a new graphics bus, the PCI Express; it may launch a wave of new computer purchases) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 100% | PCMCIA | People Can't Memorise Conputer Industry Acronyms. |
Acronymious Anonymous. (PCMCIA actually stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, but nobody can ever remember that!) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 90% | PC ROMANCE | Private Chat Room Offered Me A New Chance of Entanglement |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust Computers:Internet |
| 100% | PC ROMANCE (2) | Private Chat Room: Old Maids Actually Nastily Claim Exoticism |
Jeff Anonymous People & Relationships:Love & Lust Computers:Internet |
| 100% | PCS FOR EVER | Pathetic Computers Sometimes Fail Over Rotten Entrails, Viruses Enter Readily |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Windows |
| 100% | PC USER | Perfect Consumer - Uses Some Expensive Rubbish |
Steve Keate Computers:Windows |
| 100% | PDA | Pointer Directs Actions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (PDA usually stands for Personal Digital Assistant) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers |
| 100% | PDQ | Perform - Don't Question! |
Angela Brett (PDQ usually stands for Pretty Darn Quick) Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| 100% | PEACE | Perhaps Enmity's At Complete End |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships Military |
| 100% | PEACE IN OUR TIME | Pathetic Englishman's Airport Claim. Evil Intentioned Nazis Obviously Unreliable. Resulting Turmoil Involved Millions Exterminated |
Tony McCoy O'Grady History People & Relationships:Thoughts:Misconceptions |
| 100% | PEANUT | Paste's Edible And Nutritious Upon Toast |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink |
| 100% | PEANUT (2) | Peckish Eaters Are Nibbling Unopened Treats |
Sean Lamb (peanuts always seem to taste better when you have to get them out of their shells first) Food & Drink |
| 100% | PEAR | Preferably Eaten All Runny |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink |
| 100% | PEARL | Passion Exhibits A Rare Longevity |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the pearl (30th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | PEARL OF GREAT PRICE | Perceptive Eternal Answers, Rarely Learned Only For Good Reasons. Everlasting Accurate Truth Perfectly Recommended Is Carefully Exact |
Jan Morgan - LDS Important Reading Religion |
| 100% | PEBBLE | Pedestrian Evidently Bashed Boot, Limping Erratically |
Tony McCoy O'Graaaaaady People & Relationships:Disaster |
| 100% | PEDANT | Professional Exhibit Displaying Angela's Natural Talent |
Rico Leffanta, when Angela pointed out that Maori and wahine shouldn't be pluralised with the letter s. People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | PEDANT (2) | Person, Educator, Does Algebra 'N' Trigonometry |
Jeff Anonymous, explaining that a pedant is a male schoolteacher. People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | PEDANT (3) | Picky Extremist Doesn't Accept New Terminologies |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, pointing out that pedant is also a term for someone who is too 'pedantic' about matters of grammar and the use of words. People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | PEDANT (4) | Peruses Each Dictionary And Notes Troubles. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | PEDANT (5) | Peruses Every Day A New Thesaurus. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | PEDANT (6) | Pedagogue Expects Discipline And No Truancy |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | PEDANTRY | Plumbum Est. Don't Alter Nixages/Notation, That's Rather Yucky. |
Jeff Anonymous, in response to PENCIL (5) If anyone can think of a better N word for an ending, let me know. Words & Wordplay |
| 100% | PEDESTRIANS | People Evading Drivers - Eventually Squashed! They're Regularly Included As Newspaper Statistics |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport |
| 94% | PEDESTRIAN SAFETY | People Expect Drivers, Especially Speeders, To Resist Injuring Anyone - No Sidewalks Are For Entertaining Tear-away Youths! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport |
| 100% | PEDIGREE CHART | Personal Effort Determines Interlocking Generations, Respecting Every Evidence, Chooses Heritage At Relations Task |
Jan Morgan - a form used in organizing a family for genealogy purposes People & Relationships:Family |
| 100% | PEEPING TOM | Pervert Enjoys Entering Porperty Inspecting Neighbour's Genitals, Then Openly Masturbating |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | PEGASUS | Pony (Enchanted) Galloping Around Starlit Unicorn Stallions |
Rico Leffanta Art & Literature:Myths & Legends:Mythical Creatures |
| 100% | PEGGY | Pretty Easy Girl Gets You! |
Rico Leffanta Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | PELICAN | Peculiarly Enlarged 'Lip' Is Convenient As Net |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Animals:Birds |
| 100% | PELICAN (2) | Perhaps Explains Lost Infant Canine - Avian Nibbled! |
Patricia Rix (my Australian friend told me pelicans would take chihuahua pups!) Science:Biology:Animals:Birds |
| 100% | PEN | Paper-Embellishing Nib |
Angela Brett Household Objects Communication |
| 88% | PENANCE | Preacher Extends Needless And Narcissistic Clearance of Errors |
Jeff Anonymous Religion |
| 78% | PENANCE (2) | Pastors, Evangelists, and Nuns Advocate Nightly Confession of Errors |
Jeff Anonymous Religion |
| 100% | PENCIL | Please Erase Non-Correct Illustrations/ Letters |
Angela Brett Household Objects Communication |
| 100% | PENCIL (2) | Prudish Euphemistic Name Concerns Its Lead |
Patricia Rix Household Objects Communication |
| 100% | PENCIL (3) | People Enjoy Nice Colours In 'Leads' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects Communication |
| 100% | PENCIL (4) | Printing Enabled. Notable Contribution Is Lead! |
Roger Williams Household Objects Communication |
| 100% | PENCIL (5) | Plumbus's Excluded, Now Carbon's In Lieu |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PENCIL (4). Pencils have never, ever contained lead. Carbon in the form of graphite has been misnamed for ages. (See PEDANTRY for a correction.) Household Objects Communication |
| 100% | PENGUIN | Pending Extinction - Not Going Up In Numbers |
Angela Brett, thinking of the Yellow-Eyed Penguin, although I don't know whether the numbers are going up or not. Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments Science:Biology:Animals:Birds |
| 100% | PENIS | Pinkish, Erectile Needle Injects Semen. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | PENIS (2) | Particularly Enlarged, Now Incredibly Stiff |
Matthew Oram Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | PENIS (3) | Prominent Erection Needs Immediate Satisfying |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | PENIS (4) | Penetrating Entity Needed In Sex |
Apronymous Anonymous People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | PENNILESS | Penury's Evident Now, Nincompoop Is Lamenting Every Shilling Spent |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Commerce:Money |
| 100% | PENNSYLVANIA | Penned Enterprising Necessities, Noteworthy State, Yankees Liberty Victorious, A Nation's Independence Awarded |
Jan Morgan - this is where the declaration of independence was penned Places:States & Regions |
| 88% | PENSION | People (Elderly) Need Savings Invested (Or Nest-egg) |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Commerce:Money Time:Age |
| 90% | PENSIONER | People Evidently Need Saving In Old-age, Not Especially Rich |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Commerce:Money |
| 100% | PENTAGON | Poor Economic Numbers? Target Arabian Gulf Oil Nation! |
Chris Kjelgaard Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | PENTAGON (2) | President Employs "Nucular" Threat Argument, Guaranteeing Overthrows, Naturally |
Chris Kjelgaard Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | PENTAGON (3) | Politicians Envisage New Targets As Greed Opportunities Narrow |
Chris Kjelgaard Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | PENTAGON (4) | Purchases Endlesss New Tanks, Aircraft, Guns, Ordnance, Napalm |
Chris Kjelgaard Military:Weapons |
| 100% | PENTAGON (5) | President's Edict: No Terrorists Active, Grab Oil Now! |
Chris Kjelgaard Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | PENTAGON (6) | Practises Every Night To Attack Governments, Overthrow Nations |
Chris Kjelgaard Military |
| 100% | PENTAGON (7) | Potentially Every New Terrorism Alert Generates Offensive Now |
Chris Kjelgaard Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | PENTAGON (8) | Posits Enemies, Nuclear Threats And Gets Official Nod |
Chris Kjelgaard Military |
| 100% | PENTAGON (9) | Patriotism Excuse Now To Attack Gulf Oil Nations |
Chris Kjelgaard Military:War & Terrorism |
| 100% | PENTAGON (10) | Practically Every Newly Trained Army Grunt Overseas Now |
Chris Kjelgaard Military |
| 100% | PENTAQUARK | Physics Experimenters Noticed That Assumed Quintets Unquestionably Are Real. Kudos! |
Angela Brett Science:Physics:Particles |
| 100% | PENTAQUARKS | Positively Extending 'Normal' Tetrads, Anti-Quark Units Are Really Kinda Strange |
Angela Brett (according to http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~hicks/thplus/pentaquark.html For the exotic pentaquark under study here, the valence quarks consist of two up quarks, two down quarks, and one strange antiquark) Science:Physics:Particles |
| 100% | PENTHOUSE | Published Erotic Nudes That Hadn't Obviously Used Spraybrush Experts |
TMcCO'G People & Relationships:Love & Lust Communication:Periodicals |
| 91% | PENTIUM MAN | Pathetic, Eggheaded Nerd, Too Idiotic to Use Macintosh, Must Await Neutering! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, thinking up another villain for our hero MacGirl to defeat. MacGirl & KeyBoard:Supervillains |
| 100% | PEPCID | Pill Eliminates Perilous Common Indigestion Daily |
Jeff Anonymous (see TACO BELL) Drugs |
| 100% | PEPPER | Piquant Exotic Powder Promises Enjoyable Repast |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Condiments |
| 100% | PEPPERY | Particularly Explosive & Pungent - Paprika Effectively Reddens You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Condiments |
| 100% | PEPSICO | People Employed Peddling Sugar In Carbonated Offerings |
Tony McCoke O'Grady Commerce:Companies Food & Drink:Drinks |
| 100% | PEPSI COLA | Pathetic Emulatory Product, Silly Idea Copying Original Liquid Aliment |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink:Drinks |
| 100% | PEPSI COLA (2) | People's Evident Preference. Sculley's Is Coke, On Labelless Appraisal. |
Angela Brett, because when John Sculley (then president of Pepsi Cola) took the 'Pepsi challenge' he picked Coca Cola as being the nicest tasting cola, although most people chose Pepsi as long as the brands were not identified beforehand. Food & Drink:Drinks |
| 100% | PERCIVAL | Perhaps Espied Renowned Chalice In Venerable Arthurian Legend |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Myths & Legends:Arthurian Legend |
| 100% | PERDITA | Perilously Exposed. Restored Daughter Is Then Affianced |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:The Winter's Tale |
| 100% | PERFECT | Picky Evaluators Rarely Find Everything's Completely Tiptop |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | PERFECT (2) | Pun Experts: Ready For Expansions? Call Tony! |
Angela Brett, since Tony's acronyms are generally of very high quality. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE | People Envisage Rich Financial Offerings. Really, Merely A Nice Cookie Elicits Improved Neural Capability. Employees' 'Need' To Indulge Valuably Exploited. |
Angela Brett, who has been bribed with chocolate chip cookies to do work. The trick is to get the cookies in advance, and then take a long time to finish the work so that you can get more and more cookies as the briber's desperation grows. People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| 100% | PERICLES | Pathos Endured Results In Complex Life's Eventual Solution |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Pericles Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Pericles |
| 93% | PERIODIC TABLE | Proper Education Requires Introduction Of Dmitry's Ingenuous Classification. Tabulation Afforded Better Learning of Elements. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who has acronymised not only the PERIODIC TABLE, but each element in it. Science:Chemistry |
| 100% | PERKS | People Employed Regularly Keep 'Souvenirs' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| 100% | PERSEIDS | Particles Entering Remote Stratosphere Emit Illuminations During Summertime. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | PERSIAN | Pokemon Evolution Refines Scratchcat Into Aesthetic Nuisance |
Angela Brett (Persian is Pokemon #53) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | PERSISTENT | Personal Energy Resolved Somehow Into Something Terminally Enhancing, Not Temporary. |
Ray Piper People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | PERSONALITY | Property Expressing Real Self Often Not Altogether Liked - Is That You! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| 93% | PERSONAL NAMES | People Essentially Realize Searching for One's Name Always Locates New Acronym Meanings, Especially Silly |
Sean Lamb (who has spent enough time searching for his own family names to know better) Names |
| 100% | PERSPIRATION | People's Exudations Ret Skin's Pores In Rivulets, Although This Is Often Nasty |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology |
| 100% | PERU | Population's Expansion Rises Uphill. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 88% | PERVERT | Person Enjoying Rather Varied Engagement (with) Reality & Truth |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | PERVERTS | People Each Requiring Vasectomies, Enjoy Raping The Susceptible. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | PESO | Please Empty Sack Out |
Rico Leffanta Commerce:Money |
| 100% | PETER | Pontiff Eventually To Evangelise Rome |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Bible books Religion:Saints |
| 100% | PETER, PETER, PUMPKIN EATER | Principal's Eating Turns Exotic: Repasts Particularly Extend To Eating Ripe Pumpkins. Unhappy Missus Proves Kindly In Not Eschewing A Technically Edible Room. |
Patricia Rix Art & Literature:Nursery Rhymes |
| 100% | PETER QUINCE | Playwright's Efforts Towards 'Exact' Rehearsals Quite Unarguably Indicate Neurotic Character Elements |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 100% | PETROL | Prehistoric Extinction! This Revolutionised Our Locomotion. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport |
| 100% | PETROL (2) | Prefer Engines That Run On Light |
Angela Brett Transport |
| 100% | PETROL IN YOUR TANK | Performing Experiment That Relies On Lexical Imagery, No, Yes Or Uncertain Results Twisted Affimatively, Nothing's Known. |
Angela Brett, after reading in the booklet which came with the SUGAR FREE RED BULL that 'studies show it also gives you a bit of extra petrol in your tank.' I certainly hope this is only a metaphor, as I have no car and would worry about where they put my free petrol, but how exactly can a study prove or disprove a vague metaphor? Science Food & Drink:Drinks |
| 100% | PETRUCHIO | Perversity Effects Taming - Resolution Unfolds Complete Harmony In Opposites |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:The Taming of the Shrew |
| 100% | PETTER | Person Enamoured Tries Touching Erogenous Regions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | PETTER (2) | Personal Experiences Too Tempestuous? Eschew Revelations! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Patricia responded to his PETTER (and the unsuccessful search on the website for that word) with, 'No personal experience here!) People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | PFALTZGRAFF | People's Food's Always Lots Tastier, Zippier, Given Really Astonishingly Fine Foodware |
Patricia Rix - Pfaltzgraff is a very beautiful, very high quality stoneware made in the U.S.A. Household Objects:Eating Utensils |
| 100% | PHALLUS | Pretense Holding Any Long Length Ushers Satisfaction |
Rico Leffanta Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | PHASE | Periodic Happenings Around Some Event |
TMcCO'G Time |
| 100% | PHASER | Please Have A Stun Effect Ready |
Angela Brett (apparently "set your phasers to stun" is a common command in Star Trek) Military:Weapons |
| 100% | PH.D. | Pathetically Haughty Dunce |
Carl Brett Re-expansions of existing acronyms Education:Qualifications |
| 100% | PHIL | 'Philip' Has Identifier Limited |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | PHIL (2) | Praenomen Has Insufficent Letters |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | PHILADELPHIA | Portrays Hero's Intriguing Life And Details Evolving Life-Problems. He's Infected - AIDS! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Movies |
| 100% | PHILANTHROPY | Plainly Humanity Is Loved - And Normally This Has Romantic Overtones & Pecuniary Yield |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships |
| 100% | PHILANTHROPY (2) | Past Hippy In Los Angeles Now Throws His Riches On Poor Yuppys |
C. Frost, E.C.V. #49 People & Relationships |
| 100% | PHILATELIST | Person Hoarding Interesting Letter Adornments To Examine & Lookup In Stamp Tomes |
Angela Brett People & Relationships Communication |
| 89% | PHILEMON | Paul's Helper Imprisoned, Letter Expedited Master of Onesimus's Niceness. |
Eric Bridgstock Religion:Bible books |
| 92% | PHILIPPIANS | Paul Hails Impressively Liberal Inhabitants (of) Phillipi. People Informed About Necessary Sharing. |
Sue Johnson Religion:Bible books |
| 100% | PHILIPPINES | People Hated Its Leaders, In Particular People Into Needless Expensive Shoes. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 92% | PHILOLOGISTS | Pathetic Horrid Individuals Lusting Over Language Origins Getting Instant Sexual Turn-ons Simultaneously |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela suggested that people might think from some of these acronyms that we have DIRTY MINDs. He concluded we're just PHILOLOGISTS. People & Relationships |
| 100% | PHILOSOPHERS | People Here, In Life, On Some Opportune Planet... How Extremely Remarkable Sounding! |
Angela Brett Religion People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | PHILOSOPHY AT WORK | Perhaps He Is Looking On, Seeing Our Procrastination... "Heaven, You?! A Terrible Waste Of Resources, Klutz!" |
Angela Brett, although that expansion better describes theology at work. Religion People & Relationships:The Workforce |
| 100% | PHOBIA | Phears Have Overtaken Because I'm Anxious |
Patricia Rix Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness |
| 100% | PHONEMES | Primary Hearing Objects - Nearly Every Morpheme Employs Several |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | PHOSPHORUS | Pilots Have Over-Supply. Potentially Hellfire Objects Relayed Unto Scene |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | PHOTOCOPIER | Place Hand On Top Of Copier & One's Palm Is Endlessly Reproduced |
Tony McXerox O'Grady Science:Electronics |
| 100% | PHOTOGRAPH | People Have One Taken Occasionally, Get Ready And Pose Happily |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | PHOTON | Particle Helps One Talk Over Networks |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - who sincerely hopes that photons operate in fiber-optics Communication Science:Physics:Particles |
| 100% | PHOTON (2) | Positives' Harness On Those Others (Negatives.) |
Angela Brett (photons are the 'particles' which give rise to the electromagnetic force, the force which famously makes opposites attract.) Science:Physics:Particles |
| 75% | PHP | Phasing-out HyperCard Pages |
Angela Brett, after Tony accused her of geek-speek when she mentioned that more of the formerly HyperCard-generated web pages had been switched to PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Computers:Programming Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website |
| 100% | PHYLLIS | Please Have Your Love Life In Secret! |
Rico Leffanta Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | PHYSICS | Profession Has Young Scientists Investigating Complex Spaces |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Physics |
| 100% | PHYSICS (2) | Puzzling Heuristics; Your Scientific Information Contains Spuriosities |
Gavin Lambert, after Angela corrected the credit for PROTON (2) Science:Physics |
| 100% | PI | Patternless Irrational |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Numbers |
| 100% | PI (2) | Perfectly Irrational |
MLF Science:Mathematics:Numbers |
| 100% | PI (3) | Pi Irrational |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Statement about one of math's most useful & well-known transcendentals. Sound-alike "Pie Irrational!" (Unhealthy!) Most pies are oversweetened with refined sugar & theingredients are not all organic & vegan (Unhealthy!) Food & Drink Science:Mathematics:Numbers |
| 100% | PIANO | Play In A Nice Order |
Jason Wilcox Entertainment:Music:Instruments |
| 100% | PIANO (2) | Played In All Nice Orchestras |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Music:Instruments |
| 100% | PIANO (3) | Pleasing Instrument Acoustically, Numerous Octaves. |
Eric Bridgstock Entertainment:Music:Instruments |
| 75% | PIB | Pain In the Butt |
I had heard a dog named that before and I asked the owner if it had stood for Pain in the butt because I had often called people that before. Names:Pet Names |
| previous apronyms beginning with P | more apronyms beginning with P |