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| APE | "Ancestral Primate" -- Evolutionists | Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals | 
| APE (2) | Are People Evolved? | Angela Brett (many people object to the theory of evolution simply because they don't like the thought of being related to apes.) Science:Biology:Animals | 
| APE (3) | Actually Practically Extinct. | Roger Williams Science:Biology:Animals | 
| APEMANTUS | Acerbic Philosopher Ever Mocking And Needling Timon's Unhappy Status | Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Timon of Athens | 
| APHRODITE | Approaching Penis Harbours Rapturous Orgasms Divinely Imparted To Eros | Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust Religion:Greek Gods & Goddesses | 
| APLENTY | A Plethora; Loads; Excesses Not Tested Yet | Rob Rix Main | 
| APOCALYPSE | Awesome Propounding Of Cataclysm Awaiting Lets You Ponder Supreme Eternity | Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion People & Relationships:Disaster | 
| APOLLO | Affordably Purchase Our Lovely Linux Offering | Sean Lamb (Apollo was the code name for RedHat Linux 5.2) Computers:Linux Names:Code Names:Linux | 
| APOLOGETIC | Abjectness - Provision Of Lots Of Great Evidence That I'm Contrite | Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships | 
| APOSTLE | A Person Once Selected To Lead Eucharist | Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion | 
| APOSTROPHE | A Pointer Of Syncopation, The Rightful Owner(s), Perh... "Hello, Entrant!" | Angela Brett, mixing the two meanings of 'apostrophe'. Science:Linguistics | 
| APPALOOSA | AMD Processor Portends Affordability Like One Open Source Application | Sean Lamb (Appaloosa was AMD's code name for their less-expensive Duron line of processors) Computers:Generic Hardware Names:Code Names | 
| APPLE | A Pleasing Product Line... Excellent! | Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton | 
| APPLE (2) | A Pepsi President Lent Expertise | Angela Brett (referring to John Sculley) Computers:Macintosh & Newton | 
| APPLE (3) | A Pleasing Printer, Little Expense | Angela Brett, in response to EPSON Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware | 
| APPLE (4) | All Plastic Parts Lack Edibility | Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Do Not Eat | 
| APPLE (5) | Adam -- Please Partake. Love, Eve | Roger Williams Religion | 
| APPLE (7) | Appleseed's Planting Produced Lavish Edibles. | Roger Williams Food & Drink | 
| APPLE (9) | A Physician's Prescription; Let's Enjoy! | Roger Williams Food & Drink | 
| APPLE (10) | Are Processor's Parts Lacking Edibility? | Tony Computers:Do Not Eat | 
| APPLEBUGMAN | A Particularly Pesky Little Excon - By Uploading Germs May Annihilate Newtons | Tony McCoy O'Grady MacGirl & KeyBoard:Supervillains | 
| APPLE COMPUTERS | A Perplexing Productive Large Enterprise Creating Obnoxious Monstrosities Plus Useful Tools. Employs Recycled Steves. | Steve Keate Computers:Macintosh & Newton | 
| APPLE MAC | Advanced Processing Power Logically Ergonomic Mathematically Advanced Computer | Carl Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton | 
| APPLE PIE | "American" Pie Pleases Lots! Every Piece Is Eaten! | Roger Williams Food & Drink | 
| APPLETALK | Anyone Planning Printer LAN Expects To AppleTalk Like Krazy! | Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software | 
| APPROVED (2) | Admitted Past Protective Ringfence, Owns Verified Entry Document | Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Adjectives | 
| APPROVED (3) | Allowed Publish Personal Recollections Once Vigilant Editor Declassifies | Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Adjectives | 
| A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY | A Parable, Really, About Youthful Experiences. Raconteur's Friend Owen Remains Outstandingly Wonderful Entity, Noticeably Metaphysical Even After Numerous Years | Patricia Rix Art & Literature:Book Titles | 
| APRIL | All Plants Resplendant In Leaves | Tony McCoy O'Grady, who lives in the northern hemisphere. Time:Months | 
| APRIL (2) | After Pelting Rain It Lightens | Tony McCoy O'Grady Time:Months | 
| APRIL (3) | As Predicted, Rain Is Likely! | Roger Williams Time:Months | 
| APRON | A Pinafore Reflects One's Neglectfulness | Tony McCoy O'Grady - the cleaner the apron, the tidier the cook? Food & Drink Household Objects:Clothing | 
| APRONYM | A Petite Reminder (Openers Notation) Yields Mnemonic | Angela Brett (see APRONYMS) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYM! | Acronym's Peak! Representation Organic, Novel, Yare, Mirthful! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Y was the hardest! Fortunately, Y is has only pages 1365-1370 in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition.) So, I learned YARE! THANK YOU, Tony McCoy O'Grady, Angela Brett & all the rest of APRONYMANIACSVILLE! The only times I have learned more is when I have made original math discoveries. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYM (2) | A Playful Reduction Of Notation Yields Miniature | Angela Brett, although this doesn't convey very well that the 'miniature' is supposed to mean the same thing as the original. (see APRONYMS) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYM (3) | Alphabet Produces Recognizable Ordering: Namely Your Meaning! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Yesterday I heard a radio interviewer use the phrase "alphabetic codes" as he decoded the ABBREVIATION of the guest (a HEALTH EXPERT.) So, the ACRO/APRO/MANIA in me immediately recognized that some variation of "ALPHABETIC CODES" would be a PERFECT START FOR APRONYMIZING "ACRONYM"! Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYM (4) | Alphabet Produces Recognizable Ordering: Namely Your Message! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. as a variation on APRONYM (3) Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYM (5) | Acceptable Pursuit Requiring Only Nimble Youthful Minds? | Chris Kjelgaard Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYM (6) | Attention! Please Remit Only Non-Yukky Meanings | Chris Kjelgaard Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYM (7) | After Play, Remain Online, Note Your Mail | Chris Kjelgaard Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYM (8) | Abbreviating Phrases Relaxes - Outdoes Natural Yogic Meditation! | Chris Kjelgaard Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYM (9) | After Perusing Rules Online, Now You're Miserable | Chris Kjelgaard Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYM (10) | Affable People Refuse - Only Non-Yielders Manage! | Chris Kjelgaard Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYM (11) | Associated Phrase Relates, Odd Nonsense, Yet Meaningful | Tony Moore Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMISM | Addressing Prior Requisite Omniscience, "Not Your Median" Is Smart-Mouthed. | Rob Rix (see APRONYMS (14)) Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMISTS | Admitted Punsters. Rarely Observed Newness, Yet Maturity. Innovative Sages. Truth Seekers. | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS | Acronyms' Particular Relevancy Often Notify Your Meaning Strongly | Tony McCoy O'Grady. Following a request for a word to apply to a 'meaningful acronym' I offered Aptonym - but there were objections to this. So I went further and suggested Apronym, as a conflation of the French 'a propos' and acronym, and also offering overtones of 'appropiate'. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (2) | A Phrase Reminiscent Of Name You Made Shorter | Angela Brett (see APRONYMS) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (3) | A Potted Rendition Of Notion Yields Miniature Summary | Angela Brett (see APRONYMS) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (4) | Anyone's Permitted Ratifying O'Grady's Neologism? Yes, Make Some! | Angela Brett (see APRONYMS) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (5) | Appellations Positioned Right, Organising Names You 'Member Smoothly. | Gavin Lambert Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (7) | A Pertinent Riposte Of Nonsense You May Send | Tony McCoy O'Grady Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (10) | A Propos Restriction On 'Nyms, You Maintain Semantics. | Angela Brett Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (11) | Acronyms' Prolonged Representations Obviously Near Your Main Subjects | Angela Brett Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (12) | A Possibly Ribald Offering, Now Your Mates Smirk | Tony McCoy O'Grady Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (13) | Apt Phrases, Redolent Of Novel Yet Meaningful Sense | Tony McCoy O'Grady Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (14) | Abbreviated Pronunciations Require Omniscience -- Not Your Median Science. | Rob Rix Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (15) | Acronyms' Peaks! Representations Organic, Novel, Yare, Mirthful, Succinct! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. as a variation of APRONYM! Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (16) | Acronyms' Punny Retrievers! Organized Novelties! Your Memory Smiles! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. My second TRIAL. Charged with? Caught READ-handed on the World Wide Web with Tony McCoy O'Grady's APRONYMS! (12 counts as of 7/24/2003.) Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (17) | Acronyms' Punny Relatives! Organized Nearness! Your Memory Secure/Smiles! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (18) | Acronyms' Palatable Relatives Organizing Nutritiously, Yummy Memory Savoriness! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. (perhaps this is a second course for ACRONYMS (16)) Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (19) | Acronyms' Punny Relatives! Organizing Nicely Your Memory Security! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (20) | Acronyms Preeminently Realized! Organizing Nuggets! Your Memory Soars! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (21) | Acronyms' Preeminence! Really Organizing Naturally Your Memory Skills! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (22) | Acronyms' Preeminence! Real Organic Natural! Your Memory Super! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (26) | Acronyms' Peaks! Rearrangements Organic Nuances! Your Memory Semantic! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Trying for the ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM PEAK for APRONYMS Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (28) | A Perfectly Reasonable Option? No, You Mangy Sonafabitch! | Word Nerd This came to me as I was looking at NYMS today, my first visit to your site. Coming from a background in which I routinely read trials about blood pressure and heart-related issues, almost all of which have an apronym attached, this is something I've engaged in over lunch and coffee for years, as in:  The "Bitch" Trial, i.e., Best Innovation to Control Hypertension, and so on.  Thank you for giving creative outlet for my frustrations!  :) Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (29) | Apt = Pert = Refined Ore = Nuggets! Yield Mined/Mind Scintillation! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (30) | Attract Player Response - Or Next Year Misses Site! | Chris Kjelgaard Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (31) | Abbreviating Provides Relaxing Opportunities - Nirvana, You Might Say | Chris Kjelgaard Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (32) | Awfully Peculiar Racket - Ordinary Names Yield Meanings, Surprisingly! | Chris Kjelgaard Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (33) | Average Player? Refreshingly Ornery, Not Yet Mean Sod | Chris Kjelgaard Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (34) | Applaud Particularly Relevant Or Neatly Yoked Message Strings | Chris Kjelgaard Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (35) | Appalling Potential Revealed - Online Nightly, You're Meanings' Slave! | Chris Kjelgaard Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (36) | Appeal: Please Resist, Or Naive Young Minds Subverted! | Chris Kjelgaard Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (37) | A Person Rephrases One Noun Yet Makes Several | Roger Williams Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (38) | Acronyms Perfected! Relations Organic/Obvious! Now Your Memory Scintillates! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (40) | A Punster Reworks Old Names - You May Smile | Tony, who feels the need to add to the expansions available for the page-headers on the web-site Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS (42) | A Perfect Rendition Of Names, You Must See! | Robert Anonymous Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APRONYMS SO FAR | Another Player Requests Our Newest Yields; May Send Something Oddly Funny And Related | Sean Lamb Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles | 
| APROPOS | A Pertinent Response Or, Perhaps, Opening Statement | Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication | 
| APROVE | Apronym Passes Rigors Of Vetting/ Examination | Angela Brett thinking that APROVE could mean approve an APRONYM. Not to be confused with the misspelling of approve, of which I DISAPROVE. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| APTITUDE | A Prized Talent Is To Unerringly Do Everything | Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits | 
| APTITUDE! | Applying Potential, Talented Individuals Travel Upward, Defying Encumbrances! | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. People & Relationships:Personality Traits | 
| APTITUDE (2) | A Particular Talent Is Terribly Useful During Employment | Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Personality Traits | 
| APTITUDE (3) | Asset! Progress Through Implementing Talent. Upward: Daily Excellently | Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. People & Relationships | 
| APTONYMS | Appropriate Phrases To Obviate Nuances Your Morphemes Suggest | Angela Brett, after Tony suggested that 'aptonyms' might be a better name for our creations. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words | 
| AQUARIUS | Apparently Quite Utter Airheads Remain Interested Until Senile. | Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Astrology | 
| AQUARIUS (2) | Always Quiet Underestimated Attribute Response Is Usually Straightforward | Jan Morgan Religion:Astrology | 
| A QUESTION | Angela Quite Usually Enquires, "Support This Idea, Or Not?" | Angela Brett, as the subject of an email asking whether to implement an idea in the ALTSCAPE software. Computers:Programming Communication | 
| ARAB COUNTRIES | Arranged Round A Broad Crescent - Outwardly Unsimilar Nations, Their Racial Identity's Essentially Semitic | Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries | 
| ARBOK | Aloud, Read Backwards, Ophidian's Known | Angela Brett (Arbok is Pokemon #24) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon | 
| ARBONNE | A Real Botanical Objective, Nourishes Naturally Everyone | Jan Morgan -- A home party Cosmetic company Commerce:Companies People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene:Beauty Products | 
| ARCADE | Afternoons Relinquished Cashing Away Dollars Extravagantly | Robert Anonymous Entertainment | 
| ARCHAEOLOGY | Academics Regularly Create Holes And Excavate Objects, Learning Of Goneby Years. | Tony McCoy O'Grady - Apologies for the "goneby" - it's acronymist's licence applied to the acceptable "bygone" Science | 
| ARCHAEOPTERYX | Although Rather Controversial, Hailed As Earliest Ornithoid. Precursor To Everyday Robins, Yet Xtinct. | Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs | 
| ARCHER | Arrows Really Can Hurt Enemy Rogues | Tony McCoy O'Grady Military | 
| ARCHERY | Arrows Rarely Cross Hearts - Excepting (Romantically) Yours | Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust Military | 
| ARCHIBALD LEACH | A Romantic Character Hiding In Bedrooms After Leaving Daughter; Look Everywhere And Catch Him | Rico Leffanta (Archibald Leach is better known as Carey Grant) Names:Famous people:Actors & Actresses:Little known real names | 
| ARCHIVE | A Resource Containing Hoarded Items, Very Extensive | Tony McCoy O'Grady, when it was suggested that some of the old forum threads be archived. Assorted Nouns Communication:Acronyms Forums | 
| ARCITE | Athenian Romantic Contretemps Inspires Theseus's Enmity | Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's (and/or John Fletcher's) The Two Noble Kinsmen Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:The Two Noble Kinsmen | 
| ARE | Acronym Requests Expansion | Angela Brett, when Jeff capitalised ARE on the Acronyms forums. Communication:Acronyms Forums | 
| ARE (2) | Angela, Resolved, Exceptionally. | Jeff Anonymous, in response to ARE. Communication:Acronyms Forums | 
| ARENA | Athlete's Runway Encircles Natural Amphitheatre | Tony McCoy O'Grady Places Sports & Recreation | 
| ARGH! | Angela Rarely Gets Headrest | Angela Brett, late at night after adding a lot of apronyms (there are still many waiting to be reviewed, though it's not really an ARGH thing as it's great that people have been submitting so many apronyms.) Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms | 
| ARGON | A Royal Gas?! Oh, Noble! | Angela Brett Science:Chemistry:Elements | 
| ARGON (2) | A Rare Gas Of Nature | Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements | 
| ARGUS | A Really Great Unusual Ship | Jan Morgan -- see THE ARGUS Transport Sports & Recreation:Scouts | 
| ARIEL | A Real, If Ethereal, Lifeform | Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Tempest Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:The Tempest | 
| ARIES | All Reasonable Intellects Eschew Starsigns | Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Astrology | 
| ARIES (2) | Abilities Range In Enterprising Success | Jan Morgan Religion:Astrology | 
| ARITHMETIC | A Really Irritating Task Humans Must Endure 'Til It Calculates. | Timothy Chambers Science:Mathematics | 
| ARITHMETIC (3) | Adding Real Integers Together Has Made Everyone Think It's Complicated | Angela Brett, when somebody mentioned the mnemonic 'A Red Indian Thought He Might Eat Toffee In Church', and noted that a politically correct version would spell anathematic. Science:Mathematics | 
| ARIZONA | Arid Region Is Zone Of Natural Attraction | Jan Morgan - Natural attraction the Grand Canyon Places:States & Regions | 
| ARIZONA (2) | Arduous Respiration In Zone Of Ninetynine.nine% Aridity | Tony Places:States & Regions | 
| ARKANSAS | A Rice Kingdom, And Natural Springs As Spas | Jan Morgan - state has hot spring resorts and is a leading rice producer Places:States & Regions | 
| ARLINGTON | Armymen's Remains Laid In New Graves, They're Organised Neatly | Tony McCoy O'Grady - Arlington is a (the?) major US military cemetery Places Military | 
| ARM | A Reaching Mechanism | Angela Brett and Peter Coxhead Science:Biology:Body Parts | 
| ARMAGEDDON (2) | Anxiously Reading Magazine About Goddesses, Engineering Doomsday Decorations On Nebulae. | Angela Brett, to accompany a short story she's writing. If you really want to read the story, email angela@kagi.com and ask for it. Religion | 
| ARMENIA | A Remote Mountain Expanse, Neighbour Is Azerbaijan. | Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries | 
| ARMY | A Rifle Motivates You | Blair Military | 
| ARMY OFFICER | A Regimental Man, You Oversee Friendly Forces In Charging Enemy Redoubt | Tony McCoy O'Grady Military:Ranks | 
| ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER | Austrian Republican Newcomer Offers Leadership Drama - Supremely Confident His Will And Rightist Zeal Enough, Now Envisages Governorship Goal Eminently Reachable | Chris Kjelgaard Names:Famous people:Politicians Names:Famous people:Actors & Actresses | 
| A ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MOSS | A Rule Of Lichen Life Is No Genesis Somewhere That's, On Next Examination, Gone Another Turn. Humans Extract Ridiculous Symbolic Nuances Of Meaning Of Simple Science. | Angela Brett Assorted Phrases:Sayings | 
| ARSENIC | A Reliable Solution Employed Nastily In Crimes | Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements | 
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