LA
Littlest Aria
Angela Brett
1984410 
LAAGER
Large And Ample Group Encompassing Ring
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984353 
LAAGER (2)
Lazy Alcoholic's Articulation, Groaning Epithesis Represented?
Angela Brett
1984542 
LABORATORY
Located At Bench, Our Researcher Attempts Trials Of Radioactive Yields
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984248 1984701 
LACE
Lovers Are Copulating Excessively
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the lace (13th) wedding anniversary.
1984626 
LADDER
Lying Against Dormer Denotes Elopement? Rather!
Patricia Rix
1984536 1984365 
LADIES
Leaving A Dump Is Extremely Satisfying
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984809 
LADIES (2)
Like A Doorway Into Effluent Stinkiness
Patricia Rix
1984809 
LADY DRIVER
Laughing At Danger You Drive Recklessly In Vehicle - Eschewing Reversing!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984569 1984761 
LADY MACBETH
Like A Demented Yuppie, Manipulative And Controlling, Becomes Encourager To Husband
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Macbeth
1984500 
LADY OF THE LAKE
Lived At Depth, Yearned Once & Finally To Have Excalibur, Long And Keen Edged
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984461 
LAERTES
Launches Attack, Exacting Revenge To Exonerate Sister
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1984632 
LAFEU
Lord Attempting 'Friend's' Exposure, Unavailingly
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well
1984350 
LAMB
Little Animal Might Baa
Angela Brett, who saw lots of lambs on her bus trips from Auckland to Palmerston North and back.
1984494 
LAMB (2)
Little And Moving Blissfully
Niki Widdowson
1984494 
LAMBORGHINI
Lovely Automobile May Bring Owner Racing Glory / Honours - It's Natively Italian
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984710 
LAMBS
Littlies Adore Most Baby Sheep
Angela Brett
1984494 
LAMENTATIONS
Lines Acrostically Made Expressing National Tragedy. A Temple Is Overthrown, Nation Sundered.
Sue Johnson
1984329 
LAMP
Luminous Apple Macintosh Phosphors
Angela Brett, after she was given a 512k Mac whose disk drive wasn't connected, so all it does is show the disk icon with a flashing question mark - Steve suggested it could be used as a lamp.
1984317 
LAMP (2)
Lost At Midnight? Press.
Steve Keate
1984536 
LAMPOONS
Laughing At Mankind's Pretences Over Other Newsworthy Stories
Rico Leffanta
1984437 
LANCASTER
Loyal And Now Controlling Army Strategy To Extirpate Rebels
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's King Henry IV
1984506 
LANCE
Long And Narrow, Charge Enemies
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984764 
LANCELOT DU LAC
Like A Nasty Courtier, Enticed Lady Off Throne - Death Unleashed Loss of Arthurian Chivalry
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984461 
LANGUAGE
Linguists Assay New Generalisations of Utterances And Graphical Expression.
Angela Brett
1984407 
LANTHANUM
Lanthanides Are Named (from) This. Happens Among Nature in Uncommon Minerals.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
LAOS
Large Areas Of Sierra.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
LAP DANCE
Leggy & Attractive (Poorly Dressed) Arousing Naughty Chaps Excitement
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984365 
LAPRAS
Lugs A Passenger Relentlessly Around Sea
Angela Brett (Lapras is Pokemon #131)
1984284 
LAPTOP
Laughingly, Apple's P1 Totally Outperforms P2
Angela Brett, referring to Apple's yet-to-be released consumer portable (codenamed p1) which will surely be a G3 and therefore faster than a Pentium 2.
1984374 
LAPTOP (2)
Little Appliance - 'Puter - That's Obviously Portable
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984614 
LAPTOP (3)
Luckiest Are People That Operate PowerBooks
Angela Brett
1984374 
LAPTOP (4)
Linux And Portables - There's Often Problems.
Angela Brett (I know a few people who've had Linux laptops and they seem to have problems with the power management.)
1984668 
LARA CROFT
Lucozade Advertisement Recruits Adventurous Character, Release Of Film's Timely.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984281 
LARDWARE
Left Alone, Rebelling Dieters Will Absorb Recyclable Electronics.
Angela Brett, thinking that if computer parts really were edible, they might be called lardware.
1984611 
LARGE
Lengthier And Relatively Greater, Evidently
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984278 
LARRY
Lazy And Rather Rebellious Youth
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984269 
LARYNGITIS
Lacking A Roundy Yoke Necessitates Gaps In Transmission - I'm Silenced.
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after a teasing gap in a message.
1984488 
LASAGNE
Luscious And Saucy, And Good Nutritious Eating
Chef, South Park High School
1984467 
LASAGNE (2)
Like Anything, Seldom Any Garfield's Not Eaten.
Angela Brett (Lasagne is the cartoon cat Garfield's favourite food.)
1984839 1984467 
LASER
Light-emitting Artefact Sometimes Employs Rubies
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984716 1984242 
LAST MESSAGE
Latest Acronym Seems To Make Everyone Suggest Some Alternative, Good, Expansion
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984722 
LAST MESSAGE (2)
Lately Angela's Slow To Make Expansions, Since She's A Good Employee.
Angela Brett
1984722 
LATE!
Laughing At Their Expense
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984509 
LATE BREAKING NEWS
Look At This Emerging Bulletin Relating Events And Keeping Interesting Narration Going - National Events, Worldwide Stories
TMcCO'G
1984707 
LATE EXTRA
Late Appearance: Tony's Evidently Erroneous - Xenon Triggered Researcher's Alertness
Tony McCoy O'Grady, suggesting a title for <THE ACRONYM TIMES> issue which was delayed because, among other things, Angela wanted to put a 'tour' of chemical element acronyms on the website and realised that <XENON> was missing.
1984320 
LATER
Last Alligator To Exit, Repeats
Patricia Rix (I was thinking of "see you later, alligator", though why the last alligator would say this to an empty room escapes me)
1984356 1985040 
LATER GATOR
Like "Adieu' Though Expressing Return - Greatly Abridge Trendy Old Repartee
TMcCO'G - referring to the song line "See you later alligator, after 'while Crocodile"
1985040 
LATE TRAIN SERVICE
Left After The Evening Train Rolled Along, In Near-empty Station, Expecting Returning Vehicle Into City - Evfentually
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984572 
LATITUDE & LONGITUDE
Lost? Attend To Indicators That Uniquely Distinguish Every Location. One Needs Geometry, International Time & Utilise Decent Ephemeris
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984245 
LATVIA
Let's Appreiciate That Valuable Ideal, Autonomy.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
LAUGH
Laughter Acronyms Usually Generate Happiness/Hysteria.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984509 
LAUGHING MY ASS OFF
Launching An Unprecedented Guffaw... Help! I've No Gluteus Maximus! Yes, A Sure Sign Of Fatuous Fun
Angela Brett
1984509 
LAUGHING OUT LOUD
Little Acronym's Unknownness Gave Happy Irishman Nonplussed. Got Opportunity Ultimately To Learn Of Unique Definition
Tony McCoy O'Grady pays homage to what started the apronyms project. It all began when Angela Brett wrote 'LOL' in response to some witticism he had written. Tony, being new to the web, had never come across this before and asked for illumination. From this sprung an unending flow of (occasionally?) funny items.
1984509 
LAUGHTER
Launched An Unexpected Guffaw Hearing This. Encore Requested
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984509 
LAUNDRY
Linen Articles Uncreased, Non-Dirty, Returned (to) You
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984575 
LAURA
Lemurs Around Ugly Rat Assets
Michael Seiler.  I came up with it because there aren't enough suitable nonsense phrases that can expand off my girlfriend's (or my best friend's girlfriend...lotta Lauras, eh?) name. (Note: Unless Michael doesn't much like his girlfriend, this is not strictly an apronym. It has only been included to explain <MICHAEL SEILER>. See also <LAURA (2)> and <LAURA (3)>)
1984422 
LAURA (2)
Line An Unpolished Rough Amethyst
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984422 
LAURA (3)
Lovely, And Untarnished, Radiant Angel
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984422 
LAUREN
Looked Astounding, Utterly Ravishing Even Now
Tony McCoy O'Bogart, referring to Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart's wife and frequent co-star
1984827 1984422 
LAVACHE
Lemonish - Although Valued Amongst Characters He Encounters
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well
1984551 
LAVA LAMP
Like A Volcano, A Light Activates Moving Patterns
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984536 
LAVA LAMP (2)
Lacking Any Volcanic Activity, Light Affords Many Possibilities
Melanie Merswolke
1984536 
LAVATORY
Lacking Any Ventilation Attacks The Olfactory Receptors, Yes?
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984809 
LAVINIA
Living, After Violent Incident, Names Indecent Assailants
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
1984263 
LAWRENCIUM
Like A Whole Range of Elements - Non-natural. Created In University Machines.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
LAWSUIT
Legal Actions Will Sometimes Use Intricate Terminology
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984476 
LAWYER
Loopholes And Wrangles - You Escape Retribution
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Eric's colleagues looked for a LAWYER to go with <DOCTOR>.
1984752 
LAWYER (2)
Lopes Away With Your Expensive Retainer
Angela Brett
1984752 
LAWYER (3)
Lying Attorneys Win You Extra Rewards.
Angela Brett
1984752 
LAWYER (4)
Legal Assistants Waste Your Earned Remuneration
Eric Bridgstock
1984752 
LAWYER (5)
Lies And Wriggles, You End-up Robbed
Mike Redmond
1984752 
LAWYERS
Lies And Wanky Yarns Essential.  Requires Slyness
Edwin Hermann
1984752 
LAWYERS (2)
Litigation About Winning You Election... Recounts Significant.
Angela Brett, after the USA elections in 2000.
1984413 1984752 
LAXATIVE
Lately A Xerantic Ass Tamed, I'll Vouchsafe Epsom!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984338 
LAZINESS
Lacking Any Zeal, Idly Napping or Entering Sleepy State.
Angela Brett
1984704 
LAZINESS (2)
Like All Zombies, I Nightly Enter Sleepy Stupor
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984704 
LAZY HATS
Lovely And Zany - Your Headgear is Always Tacky and Shoddy.
Angela Brett, when Tony mentioned he was wearing his 'lazy bastard' hat. When asked to describe it, he replied, "It was a beautiful hat when I came across it, but after years of neglect (due to laziness) it is probably a real mess by now, I don't know. When I'm wearing it, I'm too lazy to look at myself in the mirror."
1984575 
LEAD
Lies Expressionless And Dead
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
LEADER
Large Editorial Arousing Deep Empathetic Responses
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984707 
LEAF
Light Engenders Aliment for Flowers.
Angela Brett
1984401 
LEAF (2)
'Lungs' Each Autumn Fall.
Angela Brett
1984401 
LEAF (3)
Let's Enumerate A Forest
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984401 
4 LEAF CLOVER
40 Lucky Events Are Following, Country Lane Offers Very Enjoyable Ramble
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984326 
LEAP
Lunge Eagerly Across Pit
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984275 
LEARN
Lose Educators - Autonomously Read Notes.
Angela Brett
1984473 
LEATHER
Love Endured Annus Three, Hardly Experiencing Regret.
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the leather (3rd) wedding anniversary.
1984626 
LEATHER (2)
Let's Eschew Animals That Have Epidermis Removed
Tony McCoy O'Grady, saying: this doesn't really reflect my opinion as I love my leather jacket!  :-)
1984575 1984443 
LEBANON
Lasting Ethnic Bitterness Accelerates Neglect Of Nation.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
LEDA
Let Every Duck Arise!
Rico Leffanta
1984833 
LED ZEPPELIN
Loudness = Extreme.  Drug, Zoloft, Extremely Proficient Problem Eliminator.  Laud Is Needed.
Jeff Anonymous (see <LZ>)
1984416 
LEFT HAND
Little Enterprising Feline Taken Hold; Abandoning Normal Digits
Gavin Lambert (I'm having to type this one-handed because my cat is sleeping on my right hand. And I'm right-handed!)
1984443 
LEGAL
Loopholes Exploited, Getting Around Laws
Angela Brett and Steve Keate
1984476 
LEGEND
Local Elements Generally Encapsulate Native Deity
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984935 
LEGENDS
Lengthy Epics Generally Explaining Notably Dramatic Stories
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984935 
LEGION
Latin-speaking Expert Gladiators In Outstanding Numbers
Tony McCoy O'Gladiator
1984455 
LEGO
Lethally Edged Gouging Object
Joshua Stanchfield
1985055 
LEGOLAS
Likeable Elf Goes On Long Adventure Sanguinely
Patricia Rix
1984893 
LEGS
Long Elevatory Gear Sticks
Niki Widdowson
1984443 
LEIBNIZ
Loved Equations - Invented Brilliant Notation for Increments of Zero-ish.
Angela Brett
1984293 
LEISURE
Layabout Enjoys Idleness - Shunning Using Recreational Equipment
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984944 
LEITH
Leith Ends In The Hills
George Rix
1984866 
LEMMING
Little, Excitable Mammal Masses In Numberless Groupings
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984494 
LE MORTE D'ARTHUR
Legend Endures, Malory's Ode Recalls The Enemy Defeated And Resolving To Have Ulitmate Revenge
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984461 
LEND A HAND
Looks Easy, Needs Doing, Anyway - Have A Nice Day!
Rico Leffanta
1984533 
LENS
Light Experiences New Shaping
Angela Brett
1984443 1984716 
LENS (2)
Lets Eyes Now See
Roger Williams
1984443 1984716 
LENT
Let's Eat Next Tuesday
Rico Leffanta
1984563 1984326 
LEO
Lapses Easily Overlooked
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984452 
LEONARD SLYE
Likes Enemies On Nooses And Riding Damp Saddles Leaves You Exhausted
Rico Leffanta (Leonard Slye is better known as Roy Rogers)
1984851 
LEONATO
Largely Enjoys Organizing Novelties And Tricking Others
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
1984530 
LEONTES
Loses Everything Over Naivete - Then Enlivens Statue
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
1984719 
LEPTON
Like Electron, Positron, Tau Or Neutrino
Angela Brett
1985046 
LEPTONS
Light Elementary Particles, They Orbit Neutrons Sometimes.
Angela Brett
1985046 
LESBIAN
Lady Enjoys Sexual Behaviour Involving Another Non-male
Angela Brett
1984770 
LE SILENCE
Ladies Enthusiastically Seeking Intense Love Experiences Never Come Easily
Rico Leffanta
1984287 
LESLEY HORNBY
Let's Eat Sugar Ladies!  Eat Yummy Helpings Or  Repast Near By You!
Rico Leffanta (Lesley Hornby is better known as Twiggy)
1984851 
LESLIE
Lady's Exceedingly Slim Look Is Emulated
Tony McCoy O'Grady (The 60s fashion model Twiggy was called Leslie Hornby)
1984332 
LESLIE WEIR THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Letting Engine Search Look Into Entire Web, Eventually I Received The Hard Evidence, Phrase Has Only The One Genuine Result - Apronyms Page Has Exact Requirement
TMcCO'G, who did a websearch for the phrase "Leslie Weir the photographer" and got only this query (on the Unsuccessful Searches page) returned. Now there may be two results!
1984257 
LESOTHO
Large Expanses Still Open To Horses Only.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
LESSER SANITARIA
Lost Every Sensible Strand? Enter Rob's Stupendous Asylum! Nonsense Is There; Any Reasonableness Is Absent.
Rob Rix, when Angela challenged him to acronymise it after he suggested that the custard-extracting nets of <UNDILUTED GRADE A CANADIAN NONSENSE CONCENTRATE> would be the primary export of Lesser Sanitaria.
1984911 
LESS ROOM
Lots Enter, So Standing Room Only in Overcrowded Mall.
Angela Brett
1984245 
LETHAL DOSE
Louts Enjoying The Hallucinogenic Attraction of LSD Die Of Scandalous Excess.
Angela Brett
1984338 
LET'S GET HITCHED
Life Enjoyed Together - So Good! Expect To Have Impulse To Cuddle Him/Her Every Day.
Angela Brett
1984734 
LET SOMEONE ELSE DO IT
Late Evening Tiredness Shows On My Expansion - Other, Non-Exhausted Expanders Left Some Exercise. [I'll] Do One In Time.
Angela Brett, when Jeff wanted help with an apronym but she was about to go to bed.
1984320 
LET'S VISIT HOLY APES
Long Excursion To See Very Important Spiritualist's Incarnation, Though He's Only (Like You) A Primate (in Every Sense!)
Angela Brett, after someone searched for that phrase on the website. I hadn't realised that primate could mean bishop before.
1984326 
LETTER
Little Envelope Tries To Elicit Reading
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984707 
7 LETTERS
L Extra - That's The Emptying Rack Score
Angela Brett (in Scrabble, when you use all seven of your letters in a single word you get a bonus 50 points - L is 50 in Roman numerals.)
1984647 
LEVITICUS
Lend an Ecclesiastical Volume... Is This Imperative to Christian's Ultimate Salvation?
Angela Brett, wondering if she really ought to know what happened in Leviticus.
1984329 
LEVITICUS (2)
Laws Encompassing Votive Intentions, Then Instructions Concerning Uncleanliness & Sin
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984329 
LEWINSKY
Licking Elite Willy Is Nearly Sex! Kenneth Yells.
Angela Brett
1984413 1984332 
LIBBY
Lying Is Best By You!
Rico Leffanta
1984422 
LIBERATION OF IRAQ
Looking Innocent, Bush Employs Rhetoric, Attempting To Imply Outrage - Nevertheless, Oil Field Income Really American Quest! 
Chris Kjelgaard
1984812 
LIBERIA
Launched Initially By Emancipating Regine In America.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
LIBRA
Let's Ignore Brain-Rotting Astrology.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984452 
LIBRARIANS
Love Interesting Books, Read Any Recently? I Admire Novels Sometimes
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984485 
LIBRARIANS (2)
Live In Book Rooms And Respond (If Any Noise)  "Shhh!"
Angela Brett, who's never met a librarian who just walks around saying 'Shhh!' but apparently that's the stereotype.
1984485 
LIBRARIES
Lend Interesting Books (Rare And Recent) In Eerie Silence
TMcCO'G
1984701 1984437 
LIBRARY
Life In Book Room Always Relaxes You
Angela Brett
1984437 1984701 
LIBRARY (2)
Let's Investigate Books, Readers All Round You
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984437 1984701 
LIBYA
Lo, I Blacklist You, America.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
LICE
Little Insects Crawl Everywhere
Steve Keate
1984689 
LIE
Love Is Eternal
Rico Leffanta
1984365 1984899 
LIECHTENSTEIN
Little Independent Entity. Companies Have Tax Exemptions Now Superior To Europe's Independent Nations.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
LIEUTENANT
Low-Initiative-Endowed, Used To Examining Nothing And Not Thinking
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984587 
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
Long In Experience - Unsung Technical Expert Needs A New Title. Command Of Legions Of Newly Enlisted Looms
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984587 
LIFE
Likely Isn't For Ever
Angela Brett
1984362 
LIFE (2)
Lasts If Food's Effective
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984362 1984467 
LIFEBOAT
Lucky Indeed For Everyone's Brought Onboard After Tragedy
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984572 1984938 
LIFELESS
Lying In Floppy Entropy - Lived, Expired, Sleeping Soullessly
Angela Brett
1984665 
LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
Life Is Feasible Exterior to Our Norms, Over The Heavens Expanse Reside "Peoples" Lacking Anthropoidal Natures, Eating Toxic Substances
Bones McCoy O'Grady
1984386 1984398 
LIFER
Locked In For Ever - Revenge!
Angela Brett
1984875 
LIFER (2)
Left Inside, Forget Eventual Release
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984875 
LIFESTYLE
Lets Ignore Financial Efficiency, Spend 'Til You Lose Everything
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Ordinary poor people have 'lives', foolish rich people have 'lifestyles'!)
1984362 
LIFF
Look Inside For Facts
Angela Brett - Liff is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'A book, the contents of which are totally belied by its cover...'
1984767 
LIFFLESS
Lacking In Funny & Frivolous Literature, Erase Smile Signs
Tony McCoy O'Grady, because he doesn't have a copy of 'The Meaning of Liff' or 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff'
1984767 
LIFT
Lazily Into Floor Twenty
Angela Brett
1984701 
LIFT (2)
Levitating Interior, For Transportation
Gavin Lambert
1984701 
LIGHT
Lamp Is Generating Heat Too!
Angela Brett
1984716 1984536 
LIGHT (2)
Lightbulb, If Glowing, Has This.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984716 1984536 
LIGHTEN UP!
Less Intensity! Getting Heated Too Easily Normally Upsets People.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984533 
LIGHTER
Look - Inhaling Git - How Tobacco-smoke Enfuses Room
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984884 
LIGHTNING
Little Ions Get Humming Then... Nailed! It's Not Good
Roger Williams
1984638 
LIGHT YEAR
Lightspeed Information Gets Here To Yonder Each Annual Rotation
Angela Brett
1984941 
LIMBO
Lasting Internment (if) Missed Baptism Occurs
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984326 
LIME IMAC
Licking It Made Evident It Maybe Ain't Citrus.
Angela Brett
1984797 
LIMERICK
Less Is More Except Rhymes In Celtic Knots
Rico Leffanta
1984437 
LIMP
Lost Insert Member Prostrate
Rico Leffanta
1984488 
LIMP (2)
Leg In Much Pain.
Roger Williams
1984488 
LINDA
Lovelace In New Deep-throat Adventures
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984827 
LINE
Left Impregnated, Not Estimable
Angela Brett (Line is <HANS THOMAS>'s grandmother, who became pregnant to a German soldier and was hated for it)
1984905 
LINEN
Living In Nuptials Enhances Nookie
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the linen (4th) wedding anniversary.
1984626 
LINEN (2)
Lust? It Never Exists Now.
Angela Brett, giving a different slant to the 4th wedding anniversary.
1984626 
LINK
Locates Internet Networked Knowledge
Gavin Lambert
1984419 
LINKS
Last Inventive 'Nym? Keep Surfing!
Angela Brett, because if you ever manage to read all the acronyms at http://acronyms.co.nz, you can still go to the Links page at http://acronyms.co.nz/links.html and view some related websites.
1984965 
LINUS TORVALDS
Let's Invent New Unix System, To Overthrow Redmond's Vacuuming All Licenses & Decent Software
delt
1984668 1984332 
LINUX
Lovely... If Not Using Xwindows!
Angela Brett
1984668 
LINUX (2)
'Life'less Incurable Nerds Use Xchat
Angela Brett
1984668 
LION
'Lunchtime' Is Often Nighttime
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984494 
LION (2)
Lair Is On Ngorongoro 
Patricia Rix
1984494 
LIP
Lick If Parched
Angela Brett
1984443 
LIPS
Lively If Person's Speaking
Angela Brett
1984443 
LIPS (2)
Lovely If Pursed Sweetly
Patricia Rix
1984443 
LIPS (3)
Luscious In Pearly Sheens
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984443 1985013 
LIPS (4)
Licking Indicates Passionate Sexuality
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984443 
LIPSTICK
Lusty, Intense Pink Shades To Increase Colour of Kisser
Angela Brett
1985016 
LIPSTICK (2)
Loves Inciting Peckers She Tattoos In Cold Kisses
Rico Leffanta
1985016 
LIPSTIK
Long Island Princess Sporting Tacky Industrial Klothing
Diva Jeri.  Developed to describe women with fake blond hair, black eyebrows, and grating voices who wear clothes with designer names publicly displayed.
1985013 1984704 
LIQUOR
Liquid I Quaff Unceasingly, Often Refreshing.
Angela Brett
1984542 
LISA
Lone Intelligent Simpson Artiste
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady (there are other intelligent female Simpsons, but they're not on TV often)
1984890 
LISP*
Locution Ith Thingularly Problematic
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after seeing <AT & T> (with apologies to anyone with a lisp - I myself still have the remnants of a childhood stammer)
1984488 1984728 
LIST OF ACRONYMS
Look - Index.html's Sitemap Tells Of Full Alphabetical & Categorised Records. Obviously Now You've Merely Searched.
Angela Brett, when someone searched the Acronyms website for 'list of acronyms'. The site map at http://acronyms.co.nz/index.html links to full alphabetical listings and lists of acronyms by category.
1984902 
LIST OF TWELVE ACRONYMS
Look, I Should Tell Of Feature That Will Eventually Let Visitors Easily Add Collections, Regardless Of Number You Might Seek.
Angela Brett -- I don't know why someone searched for this phrase, but no category listing is guaranteed to have only twelve acronyms, even the months and zodiac signs have had more added. However, I am considering putting in place a system so that people can compile their own lists of related acronyms (which wouldn't otherwise be together in category lists) and one could be made which includes twelve apronyms only.
1984320 
LITHIUM
Lightens Internal Tensions, Happily Is Useful Medicine
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
LITHUANIA
Locked Into That Horrid Ussr, And Now Into Autonomy.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
LITTERBOX
Like Infectious Toxic Tornado, Emanations Render Breathing Only Xperimental
Patricia Rix
1984536 
LITTLE BO PEEP
Loss Is The True Lesson Exemplified By Old Poem: Ewes Escape Paddock
Patricia Rix
1984878 
LITTLE BOY BLUE
Lad Is Tired, Tries Lessening Effort But -- Oh Yikes! -- Boy Lets Ungulates Escape
Patricia Rix
1984878 
LITTLE BROTHER
Life Is Terribly Tough. Look, Everyone's Big Relative Often Tries Heavyhanded 'Exactive' Relationship
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who knows that elder brothers often try to 'blackmail' younger brothers (he's both a younger and an older brother!).
1984590 
LITTLE JACK HORNER
Lad Is Taking To Licking Extremities: Just At Christmas, Kid Has Own Rich Nosh; Eats Ravenously.
Patricia Rix
1984878 
LITTLE MISS MUFFET
Lass Is Terrified That Leggy Encroachment Means Itsa Spider! She Makes Undignified Flight From Eeky Terrestrial!
Patricia Rix
1984878 
LITTLE ROOM
Leg It To Toilet - Liquid Egestion's Rarely Obliging, Often Messy.
Angela Brett
1984809 
LIVE
Life Is Visually Evil
Rico Leffanta
1984326 
LIVE (2)
Love Immensely/Innovatively Violent Enemies!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984362 
LIVID
Losing It, Very Intensely Distressed
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984644 
LIVID (2)
Lead Isn't Vivid, It's Dull
Angela Brett, thinking about how livid rhymes with vivid despite having almost the opposite meaning.
1984491 
LLANELLI
Limp-Limbed After Natation - Essay Loosening Liquid Involuntarily
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Llanelli is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'Descriptive of the waggling movement of a person's hands when shaking water from them or warming up for a piece of workshop theatre.')
1984767 
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
Love Lost And Never Found Again Is Really Pitiful! When Love Lapses,  Going Where You've Never Gone, Your Love Life Grows Onerous, Gilding Every Reason You Chose Heartache, When You Really Need Desirable Romantics Opening Borders Which Lady Luck Lets Love Align Neatly To Your Senses. Inviting Love In Over Grief Opens Galaxies; Only Going Out Cultivates Healing!
Rico Leffanta, who mentions that the website of this tiny village in Wales can be found at http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/say.htm.
1984887 
LMAO
Likely Mildly Amused... Overexaggerating
Angela Brett (LMAO usually stands for Laughing My A*se Off)
1984959 1984509 
LOAD
Laden On A Donkey
Patricia Rix
1984353 
LOAD (2)
Let's Organise A Delivery
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984353 
LOAN SERVICING APPLICATION
Look Over Applicant's Notes (Seeking Extra Revenue) Very Intensely! Chaps, If Not Given A Paper Promising Loan Issue, Could Attack Those In Offices Nearby
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Idiots with guns often go on the rampage because they were turned down by a financial institution)
1984602 
LOCI
List Of Created Imagery.
Pam Tubesing, referring to the method of loci.
1984314 
LOCK
Lacking Owner's Combination / Key
Angela Brett
1984536 
LOCK (2)
Loss Of Car Keys
Matthew Oram
1984572 
LOCKS
Locks/Lock! Open: Compatible Keys! Security!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984536 
LOCKUP
Lets Our Computer Keep Unreal Pauses
Rico Leffanta
1984299 
LOGIC
Lots Of Gates In Combination
Angela Brett
1984518 
LOGIC GATE
Logical Operators Give Integrated Circuits Great Abilities To Evaluate.
Angela Brett
1984518 
LOGISTICS
Long-distance Operation Generally Involves Shifting Things Into Certain Sites
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984572 1984455 
LOGISTICS (2)
Large Operation Gets Items Shipped To Infantry's Complete Satisfaction
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984455 1984572 
LOGOGRAPH
Like Oriental Glyphs - One Graphically Represents A Particular Heading.
Angela Brett
1984407 
LOIS AND CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN
Latest On-air Incarnation of Superman. ABC's Now Dismissed Contracts, Leaving Addicts Revering Kryptonian, Though Hating Executive. Now Everyone Writes About Discontinuity in Various Episodes & Notes The Unaired, Recently Ended Series Of Fanfic. Some Undeprived People Examine Reruns & Make Angela Nauseous.
Angela Brett, a FoLC (Fan of Lois & Clark) who is jealous of people who live in countries where L&C reruns are still showing.
1984524 
LOL
Lovely Orgiastic Lovemaking
Tony McCoy O'Grady. Angela couldn't be bothered going to her bedroom for something, so Tony replied "When you marry things may change," to which Angela replied with a LOL (laughing out loud.) Tony responded with the new meaning for LOL. :)
1984959 1984365 
LOL (2)
Lovingly Ornamented Long-johns
Tony McCoy O'Grady... Angela had mentioned having dophin and fairy ornaments on her drawers, so Tony responded by saying he wasn't interested in what she had on her underwear. When Angela said 'LOL' (meaning Laughing Out Loud) he responded with the new meaning for the acronym.
1984959 1984896 
LOL (3)
Little Old Lady
Angela Brett, while comparing LOL with DOM (DIrty Old Man)
1984959 1984362 
LOL (COMICAL)
Longlasting Outburst of Laughter (Causing Others to Make Inquisitive Comments, And Laugh)
Angela Brett
1984509 
LOL IN COSMOS
Laughing Out Loud, I Nearly Choked On Some of My Own Saliva
Angela Brett
1984509 
LOLITA
Little One's Lover Is Tormented Adult
TMcCO'G
1984287 
LOLLIPOP
Laughing Out Loud Like an Insane Parade Of Parrograms
Angela Brett. (Parrogram is what one of her Asian mathematics lectureres says instead of paralellograms)
1984509 
LOMBARD
Laptop Outer Made By Apple's Respected Developers
Angela Brett (Lombard was the name of the casing for the PowerBook models codenamed Bronze Keyboard and Pismo.)
1984374 
LOMBARD (2)
Loan Of Money? Beware A Ruinous Debt
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984602 1984245 
LONELINESS
Leaves One Needing Embraces. Lifeforce Is Not Entirely Self-Sufficient
Angela Brett
1984644 
LONELY
Loss Of Nearness, Emotionally, Leaves Yearning.
Angela Brett
1984644 
LONER
Love's Only Nightmare Escaping Rejection
Rico Leffanta
1984362 
LONGHORN
Late Or Not, Gates Holds Out. Releases Nothing
Sean Lamb (the next version of Microsoft Windows, codenamed Longhorn, has now been delayed until 2006).
1984677 
LONGHORN (2)
Long Overdue... Nobody's Getting Horny Over Releasing Nothing
Angela Brett, who thinks that <LONGHORN> is a misnomer.
1984677 
LONG WORD
Lexical Objects Necessitating Great Work, Obligatory Reading of Dictionary
Angela Brett
1984314 
LOO
Lavatory Or Outhouse
Angela Brett
1984809 
LOO (2)
Loss Of Originality
Jeff Anonymous, who admits that his acronym ideas have headed down the toilet in recent days.
1984320 
LOO (3)
Little Ol' Outhouse
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984809 
LOO (4)
Locks Overthrow Observers
Jeff Anonymous
1984809 
LOOK
Let One Observe Keenly
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984275 
LOOPHOLE
Lawyers Out Of Principles Halting Other Legal Effects
Rico Leffanta
1984476 
LORD
Lofty Offical Relishing Divinity
Rico Leffanta
1984659 
LORETTA SWIT ("HOTLIPS")
Letters Often Reveal Erotic Thoughts That Always Spill Wetly In Time; However Often That Lasts, It's Pretty Sensational
Rico Leffanta
1984827 
LOSER
Lover Of Someone Emerges Resentful
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984365 
LOSER (2)
Lack Of Stamina Endangers Runner
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984581 
LOST
Looking Over Strange Terrain
Angela Brett
1984278 
LOST FILES
List Of Stuff To Fix, Integrate, Learn, or Employ Somehow
Gavin Lambert. I have an incredibly large LOST FILES list -- I keep adding stuff to it much faster than I can ever get things done ;)
1984353 
LOTHLORIEN
Land Of Trees Has Lady Of Remarkable Intensity -- Evenstar's Nan
Patricia Rix
1984929 
LOTUS
Lots Of Traction;  Unbelievable Speed
Eric Bridgstock
1984710 
LOTUS (2)
Loads Of Trouble, Usually Serious
Helen Livesey
1984710 
LOUD
Loony Or Uncouth Din
Patricia Rix
1984653 1984278 
LOUD (2)
Lots Of Unbearable Decibels
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984653 1984278 
LOUIS
Longago, Often Used In Shops
Tony McCoy O'Grady - a 'louis' was a gold coin, worth 20 francs, in France up to 1795.
1984602 
LOUISIANA
Long's Organization Used Impropriety, Shadiness In Administering Nefarious Activities.
Roger Williams -- Refers to Huey Long, Governor of Louisiana from 1928 until his assassination in 1932.
1984698 1984731 
LOUSE
Left Overs Usually Season Expectorants
Rico Leffanta
1984692 
LOVE
Life's One Vital Emotion
Angela Brett
1984365 
LOVE (2)
Lust Overcomes, Vagina Entered
Steve Keate
1984365 
LOVE (3)
Likely Outcome Very Exciting
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (4)
Little Of Value Eventually
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (5)
Lusty Origin Vigorous Ending
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (6)
Laugh, Our Vanities Exposed
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (7)
Lack Of Visible Evidence
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (8)
Life Of Varied Emotions
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (9)
Little Organs Virtually Extinct
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (10)
Large Organs Visibly Erect
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (11)
Lack Of - Very Evil
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (12)
Lust Overcomes- Virtue Exits
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (13)
Lone Option - Virtual Excitement
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (14)
Ladies Of Virtue Extinct
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (15)
Loss Of Virginity Expected
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (16)
Lewd Outlook - Venal Ending
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (17)
Lack Of Variety Exhausts
John Brett
1984365 
LOVE (18)
Lots Of Valid Expansions
Angela Brett
1984365 1984320 
LOVE (19)
Leaves One Virtually Euphoric
Angela Brett
1984365 
LOVE (20)
Lion Omnipotent Victor Emmanuel!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Jesus Christ.
1984365 1984326 
LOVECRAFT
Litterally Obfuscated Visions Eldritch; Creativity Rife And Forever Tormented
Tom Denton
1984335 
LOVE DEATH
Lots Of Violence, Explicitly Dramatised, Enhances A Television Horror
Angela Brett, when someone searched for 'LOVE DEATH' on the Acronyms website.
1984524 1984665 
LOVELY
Laughing Out Very Excitedly - Loud Yelling.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984509 
LOVING
Leave Out Violence In Next Generation
Angela Brett, in response to the same request as <WATCH OUT>, referring to people who grow up to be abusive because their parents were, and they don't know any other way of parenting.
1985022 1984590 1984644 
LOVING (2)
Leave Out Violence Involving Next Generation
Tony McCoy O'Grady, putting a slightly different slant on Angela's <LOVING>.
1985022 1984644 1984590 
LOW FAT
Laughing Out Wildly For A (long) Time
Tony McCoy O'Grady... this was the acronym that started everything!
1984509 
LOW GEAR
Leaves One Wondering... Geeks Evidently Aren't Responding.
Angela Brett, when the IRC #math channel was rather quiet and somebody said it was in low gear.
1984419 
LOW LIGHT IMAGING
Level Of Wattage - Little. Item's Glow Has The Intensity Machine Adapts Generating Image in Nighttime Gloom
TMcCO'G
1984437 
LUCENTIO
Lovers United - Contest Exposes Not Totally Into Obedience
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
1984503 
LUCIANA
Lover Ultimately Correctly Identified As Not Adriana's
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
1984341 
LUCID
Less Utterly Confused In Delirium
Patricia Rix
1984278 
LUCID (2)
Logical, Uncluttered, Cogent, Intelligent Discourse
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984278 
LUCIFER
Lust Unbridled Causes Infidelities For Evil Reasons
Rico Leffanta
1984326 
LUCILLE LE SUEUR
Luck Usually Connects Idiot Lovers Legs Entwined Lurching Everywhere Somehow Underestimating Ecstasy's Usual Response
Rico Leffanta (Lucille Le Sueur is better known as Joan Crawford)
1984851 
LUCIUS
Last Unmaimed Chap Is Ultimately Successor
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
1984263 
LUDDITE
Let Us Destroy Damned Industrial Technology Everywhere
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984704 1984248 1984731 
LUDLOW
Leg's Unstable? Deploy Lump Or Wad
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Ludlow is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'A wad of newspaper, folded tablenapkin or lump of carboard put under a wobbly table or chair to make it stand up straight. It is perhaps not widely known that air-ace Sir Douglas Bader used to get about on an enormous pair of ludlows before he had his artificial legs fitted.')
1984767 
LUDWIG
Loved Unfortunate Damsel With Innertube Gash
Angela Brett (Ludwig fell in love with <HANS THOMAS>'s grandmother after helping her with a puncture.)
1984905 
LUGIA
Lies Undersea Guarding Immense Abilities
Angela Brett (Lugia is Pokemon #249)
1984284 
LUKE
Loyal, Undeniably Keen Evangelist
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984329 1985001 
LUNA
Lunatics Understand Nighttime Activities
Rico Leffanta
1984854 
LUNATIC E'SEX
Lusty, Unusual Name - And This In Commercially Engineered Software! Enigmatic to Xtremes!
Angela Brett, after seeing the name Lunatic E'Sex under Quality in the list of people involved in making the Mac Finder. (Hold down the option key and choose 'About the Finder...' from the Apple menu.)
1984257 1984317 
LUNCH
Load Up Nutrition-Containing Hamburgers
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984467 
LURE
Lover Using Romantic Enterprise
Rico Leffanta
1984365 
LUST
Love Underlying Sexual Tensions?
Angela Brett
1984365 
LUST (2)
Love Usurped, Sex Triumphs.
Eric Bridgstock
1984365 
LUST (3)
Lecherous Unadulterated Sexy Thoughts
Mary Carr, on hearing Eric's <LUST (2)>.
1984365 
LUST (4)
Lacy Underwear Stretched Taut
Steve Keate and Blair
1984365 
LUST (5)
Life's Usual Stress Test
Blair
1984365 
LUST (6)
Largely Useless Sexual Tensions
Steve Keate
1984365 
LUST (7)
Love's Unfortunately Sidelined, Typically.
Angela Brett
1984365 
LUST (8)
Look Up Someone Tacky.
Word Nerd
1984365 
LUTE
Lets User Twang Ecstatically
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984680 
LUTETIUM
Little Used, Tenuous Element, This Is Used in Meteorite-aging.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
LUTON
Lavatory's Upholstered To One's Needs
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Luton is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning 'The horseshoe-shaped rug which goes around a lavatory seat.')
1984767 
LUXEMBOURG
Lacking Use (for) Xebecs, Economy Mainly Banking Oriented. Under Royal Government.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
LYDIA
Lie You Down, I'm Aroused
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984422 
LYING CREATURE
Lazy Youth Is Not Generally Conceived of Responding Ever Accurately. The Unreliable Rotten Entity!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984362 
LYRICS
Let You Remember Interesting Chorus or Song
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984410 
LYRICS (2)
Loving You Rarely Induces Choirs Singing
Rico Leffanta
1984410 
LYSANDER
Loves Young Sweetheart After Nocturnal Difficulties Eventually Resolved
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
1984671 
LYTHE
Lissom? Yes, Thank Healthy Exercise
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984278 1984581 
LZ
Loudmouths... Zoloft?
Jeff Anonymous, explaining that <LED ZEPPELIN> might lead someone to need an antidepressant.
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