PA
Paternal Ancestor
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984590 
PA (2)
Paternal Android
Rico Leffanta
1984590 
PACER
Precursive Athlete Can Enliven Runner
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984581 
PACIFIC
Palms, Atolls, Castaways, Inspiration For Imaginative Children
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984527 
PACKAGING
Properly, A Carton Keeps All Goods Inside Neatly Grouped
Angela Brett
1984353 
PACKAGING (2)
Presentation Acknowledges Consumers Know All Glitz Is Necessarily Gold
Melanie Merswolke
1984353 
PACKAGING (3)
Paper And Cardboard - Keep Away - 'Glitz' Is Needless Garbage!
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after reading <PACKAGING (2)> and saying that the environmentally aware might prefer something a bit more conservative.
1984353 
PACKRATITIS
Person Accumulating Crap; Keeps Really Ancient Things Indefinitely, Taking Infinite Storage.
Gavin Lambert, explaining why he has so many old computers.
1984296 1984488 
PACMAN
Positively A Classic Macversion Available Now
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984359 1984281 
PACT
Prosper And Collect Taxes
Rico Leffanta
1984413 
PADDLE
Propel A Dugout During Liquid Escapade
Tony McCanoe O'Grady
1984572 
PADDY
Particularly Angry , Don't Destroy Yourself
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984362 
PAGANS
Pray - And Get Afterlife's Necessities Secured
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see <SHOVE OFF>)
1984515 1984326 
PAIGE
Part Angel, In Godless Episodes
Angela Brett (Paige is a part-angel, part-witch character in the TV series 'Charmed'. I expect that the show would be labelled 'Godless' by some religious zealots because of the witches and other supernatural creatures in it, so it's interesting that it should have angels.)
1984839 1984422 
PAIN
Prescribe Anaesthetic, It'll Numb.
Angela Brett
1984488 
PAIN (2)
Pulsations At Irritated Nerve-ending
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984488 
PAINT
Palate Assaulted, It's Not Tasty
Steve Keate
1984467 
PAINT (2)
Pleasing And Incredibly Nutritious. Truely.
Steve Keate, balancing his negative <PAINT> expansion after reading Tony's <GLOSS> etc.
1984806 
PAIN (TWO) (ONE)
Parentheses Activate Interesting Novelty That We Only Occasionally Need Encounter
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when he began a forum thread called 'PAIN (2)' but since there was one post in the thread, it was displayed in the thread list as 'PAIN (2) (1)'
1984722 
PAKISTAN
Populous As Karachi Is, Still Truly Agricultural Nation.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
PAKISTAN (2)
Persecutions Absolutely Known, India Separated into Two Asian Nations.
Roger Williams
1984350 
PAL
Peace At Last
unknown origin - actually stands for Phase Alteration Line. Referring to the US/Europe TV standards war.
1984242 
PALAMON
Pally Allegiance Lumbered After Maiden's Openly Noted
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's (and/or John Fletcher's) The Two Noble Kinsmen
1984458 
PALESTINE
Please, All... Let's End Schismatic Terrorism (Israel's No Exception!)
Angela Brett
1984350 1984326 1984812 
PALINDROMES
Palindromes Amazing! (Letters of Information / Notice Digits) Read Opposite: Message Exactly Same!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984314 
PALLADIUM
Pallas Athene Linked. Light Alloy in Dentistry, It's Un-Magnetic.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
PALM
People Analyse Lines Mystically
Angela Brett
1984326 
PALM DATABASE
Perhaps... Angela Likes Mobile Data, And The Acronyms Belong At Sides Everywhere!
Angela Brett, when someone searched for Palm Database on the Acronyms website. Perhaps the searcher was wondering if the acronyms were available in some kind of database format for Palm OS handheld computers. They aren't, but if I knew how to I wouldn't mind making them available that way.
1984299 
PALM DATABASE (2)
Portable And Little, My Digital Assistant's The Absolute Best - Although Somewhat Expensive
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984299 
PALM DATABASE (3)
Predictions Are Logged, Making Divinations Available To All. Browse And Spot Errors.
Angela Brett - Perhaps mystics keep records of all their predictions so they can check up on them later and see if they were right... or maybe just for examples to show learning palm readers.
1984326 
PALM DATABASE (4)
Predictions Are Like Men: Dumb And Tiresome - And Basically A Silly Exercise
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after reading <PALM DATABASE (3)> and noting that Palmists are nearly always female.
1984326 1984569 
PALM DATABASE (5)
Practising Arborists Learn Much, Devouring All Teaching About Breeds And Species Etc.
Angela Brett
1985043 
PALMS
Predict A Life, Mystics Say
Angela Brett
1984326 
PALS
Personable And Likeable Soulmates
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984362 
PALTRY
Pathetic Amount, Likely To Revolt You
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984278 
PALTRY (2)
Puny Allotment Leaves The Recipient Yearning
Melanie Merswolke
1984278 
PALTRY (3)
Piddling Amount - Less Than Required - Yuck!
Patricia Rix
1984278 
PANAMA
Please Attack Noriega And Make Amends
joybutton (not his real name *grin*)
1984350 
PANAMA (2)
Pick A Number And Move Aside
joybutton
1984350 
PANAMA (3)
Perhaps America's Narcotics Agents Messed About.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
PANDA
Particular About Native Diet, Apparently
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984494 
PANGAMY
Promiscuity Amongst No-Good Adults Made You!
Angela Brett
1984365 
PANIC
People Act Nonsensically In Crisis
Angela Brett, 35 minutes before the deadline of a group PROJECT.
1984644 
PANTHER
Prowls Around Nature Trails, Heartily Enjoying Raccoons
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984494 
PANTHER (2)
Panther: A New Thing in His Evil Reign
Acronymous Anonymous (presumably referring to the release of <MAC OS X> after <JAGUAR>
1984446 
PANTHER (3)
People All Need To Have Expose, Right?
Angela Brett ('Expose' is one of the new features in Mac OS X 10.3, code-named 'Panther')
1984446 
PANTHER (4)
Please Add No Translations, Have Extra Room 
Angela Brett (most people will benefit from not installing all the languages in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, as they take up extra  disk space and installation time.)
1984446 
PANTHER (5)
Panicked Angela Needs Technical Help, Everything's Ruined!
Angela Brett, who eventually had to do a clean install of Panther after having problems with the normal installation.
1984446 
PANTIES
Pair Always Neatly Threaded Into Equivocal Single
Rico Leffanta
1984896 
PANTIES (2)
Pulled Away, Naked Twat Is Exposed Sensationally
Rico Leffanta
1984896 
PANTIES (3)
Protection Against Nighttime Temptation Into Erotic Session
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984896 
PANZER
Probably Australia-New Zealand Emergency Refreshment
Rico Leffanta
1984539 
PAPABEAR
Pauses Aren't Particularly Annoying Because Exponential Assignment's Rough.
Angela Brett, while typing to someone called PapaBear on IRC, not minding his long pauses because she was also working on an assignment involving infinite exponentials.
1984257 
PAPER
Precious And Passionate Emerging Romance
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the paper (1st) wedding anniversary.
1984626 
PAP SMEAR
Precaution Against Papilloma - Some Must Endure A Retest.
Angela Brett, after reading http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992601
1984488 
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Parts Are Primitive - Uplanders Almost Never Encounter Westerners. Generally Upland Inhabitants Not Economically Active.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
PARACHUTE
Persons Abandoning Rushing Aircraft Can Hurtle Uncomfortably To Earth
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984824 
PARACHUTE JUMPING
People Aboard Racing Aircraft Can Hear Umpteen Terrified Exiters Judiciously Uttering Many Prayers - I Need God!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984824 
PARAGUAY
Politically A Republic After Government Under Army Yoke.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
PARALLEL LINES
Partings Are Rigidly Applied, Logical Legalities Exclude Lines Lurching Into Nexus - Eternally Separated
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who always wondered why concentric circles do not qualify as 'parallel'.
1984629 
PARAMEDIC
Patients At Roadside Are Medicated, Eventually Doctors Intervene Clinically
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984974 
PARAMEDIC (2)
Provides Assistance (Road Accident) / (Medical Emergency) & Delivers Into Casualtyward
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984974 
PARAMETER
Programs Always Require A Method of Ensuring True & Efficient Running
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984512 
PARASCENDING
Person (And Rope And Speedboat) Can Elevate Nicely, Drifting If Not Gliding
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984824 
PARETO PRINCIPLE
Perhaps A Ratio's Erroneous - That One Perceived Result Is Not Completely In Proportion (to) Less Effort
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see <PRINCIPLE>)
1984740 
PARIS
People Always Remember Iron Structure
Eric Bridgstock
1984371 
PARIS (2)
Perfume Always Rejuvenates Innate Sensuality
Rico Leffanta
1984371 
PARK
Put Away Resting Kart
Angela Brett
1984572 
PARK (2)
Playground Amuses Rowdy Kindergarteners
Angela Brett
1984245 
PARK (3)
Playground Amuses Restless Kids
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984245 
PARLIAMENT
Politicians Are Rogues Living In A Mendacious Environment, Never Trustworthy!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984413 
PAROLLES
Promises Are Regularly Overturned - Little Loyalty Ever Shown
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well
1984551 
PARSER
Programmed Algorithm Reading Sentences, Expressions, Runes
Gavin Lambert
1984299 
PARTY
Patronage-wise, Altscape Reached Thousand... Yay!
Angela Brett, when the <ALTSCAPE> team were planning a party to celebrate having over a thousand users.
1984308 1984563 
PASCAL
Pressure And Stress Calculations Are Lengthy
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984941 
PASSING TIME
Pausing As Seconds Slide Into Nothing, Going Toward Inevitable Mind's-End
Angela Brett
1984356 1984944 
PASSION
Perhaps A Shabby Sensation Indicating Onerous Needs
Rico Leffanta
1984644 1984704 
PASSIVE SMOKING
People Around Smokers Should Indicate Vehement Exceptions! Secondary Mischief Often Kills Innocent Non-Gaspers
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984884 
PASSWORD
Pick Alphanumeric Symbols, Sans Words Of Reputable Dictionaries.
Angela Brett
1984299 
PASSWORD (2)
People Actually Seem Stupid Working Outside Required Directives
Dundee
1984605 
PASSWORD (3)
Private And Secret Spelling Which Operator Requires -- Damn
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984299 
PASSWORD (4)
Perhaps A Security System Which Often Restricts Doorways
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984353 
PASTA
Parboil, Add Sauce - That's All!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984467 
PAST AND PRESENT
Previous And Subsequent Times Are Naturally Distinguished - Previous's Remembering, Experiencing's Subsequent. Extempore, Now's Then.
Angela Brett, who wishes she could think of a better word than 'Subsequent'
1984356 
PASTE
Pictures And Simple Text Entered
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984299 
PASTOR
Person Advocating Sensible Terms of Organised Restriction
Mary Carr
1984791 
PASTRY
Pick Another Strudel To Rejuvinate Yourself
Rico Leffanta
1984467 
PATENT
Prior Art Treated Egregiously, Not Trusted
Sean Lamb (the patent office is called to terms by the W3C with prior art on Eolas's web embedding patent)
1984476 
PATENT (2)
Patent Application Truthful? Eolas Needs Tutoring
Sean Lamb (the patent office is called to terms by the W3C with prior art on Eolas's web embedding patent)
1984476 1984419 
PATHETIC
People Against The Hypothesis Earth Travels In Circles
Rico Leffanta
1984386 1984278 
PATHOLOGY
Perusing A Tissue'e Health (Or Lack) Of Geriatrics & Youths
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984398 
PATIENCE
Postage Across Timezones Is Exceptionally Non-fast. Check Everyday.
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela was impatient to find out what Tony had put in with her MacAddict, when sending it back after a loan.
1984704 1984707 
PATRICIA
Parenting All Those Rixes Ideally, Caused Inopportune Ageing?
Tony McCoy O'Grady (At times all parents feel prematurely aged!)
1984377 
PATRICIA (2)
Parenting All Those Rixes Is Creditable Intellectual Achievement
George Rix
1984377 
PATRICIA (3)
Parenting And Training Rixes Is Creator's Inspired Assignment
George Rix
1984377 
PATRICIA (4)
Piety And Temperance Remain Incontrovertible Characteristics, Inducing Apathy
Patricia Rix
1984377 
PATRICIA (5)
Patricia And Tony: Rivals In Creating Interesting Acronyms
Patricia Rix
1984377 
PATRICIA (6)
Patently Aggravated (by) Tony's Really Incorrect Characterization Involving Age!
Patricia Rix (in response to <PATRICIA>)
1984377 
PATRICIA (7)
Particularly Artistic Temperament Results In Creating Incredible Acronyms
Patricia Rix and Rob Rix
1984377 
PATRICIA (8)
Place Acronyms, Then Rhymes, Into Cereal Illegal Activities.
Angela Brett
1984377 
PATRICIA (9)
Particularly Attracted To Roguish Irishman's Careful, Imaginative Acronyms
Patricia Rix
1984377 
PATRICIA (10)
Pets And Toys Really Interest Child Inside Adult
Patricia Rix
1984377 
PATRICIA (11)
Placename Acronyms Tackled Regularly - Is Clan Intensely Acronymic
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984377 
PATRICIA (12)
Pansies Are Tasteless, Really Intended (to) Create Instant Atmosphere
Patricia Rix (I am, of course, referring to the pansies which pretentious restaurants-in-hotels put on your plate along with your scanty serving of hors d'oeuvres to justify the inflated price.)
1984989 
PATRICK
Picked A Trefoil, Religiously Instructing Celtic King
Tony McCoy O'Grady - Saint Patrick is reputed to have used a shamrock to show the three-in-one nature of the Holy Trinity to an Irish king
1985001 
PATRIOT
Person Acclaiming Territorial 'Romance' Is Often Terrorist
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984362 1984812 
PATTERNS
Phi-curves And Theta-curves Twisting Elegantly Round Netted Surfaces
Angela Brett, during a lecture mentioning spherical co-ordinates in <UNIVERSITY> <CALCULUS> class.
1984251 
PATTI
Potatoes And Turnips Taste Incredible
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984989 
PATTON
Picture About Truly Terrifying Officer - No?
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984287 
PATTY BOUVIER
Pestering Auto-Test Triers, You Brook One Unfulfilled Vaunted Infatuation - Enchanting Richard-dean-anderson
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984890 
PAUL
Probably An Undersized Lad
Angela Brett, because according to http://www.surebaby.com/page67.html, the name Paul means 'small'.
1984269 
PAUPER
Poor And Unfortunate Person - Evidently Ravenous
Angela Brett
1984362 
PAUSE
Plainly A Uniquely Short Easement
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984356 
PAYCHEQUE
Please Accept You Can't Have Everything - Quite Unstable Economy.
Angela Brett
1984602 
PAYCHEQUE (2)
Please, As Your Credit Has Expired, Quit Undue Extravagance!
Patricia Rix
1984602 
PAYDAY
Perfect, As Your Debts Arrived Yesterday!
Angela Brett
1984602 1984356 
PAYROLL
Please Accept Your Raise (Or Lowering) Lief.
Angela Brett
1984977 
PC
Plastic Crap
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984242 1984677 
PC (2)
Pathetic Creation
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984242 1984677 
PC (3)
Passable Calculators
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984242 1984677 
PC (4)
Poor Compromises
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984242 1984677 
PC (5)
Piss Can
Dustan Dowsing
1984242 1984677 
PC (6)
Please Crush!
Steve Keate
1984242 1984677 
PC (7)
Persistently Crashes
Angela Brett
1984242 1984677 
PC (8)
Piece of Crap
Gavin Shapiro
1984677 1984242 
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!)
1984242 
PC ROMANCE
Private Chat Room Offered Me A New Chance of Entanglement
Angela Brett
1984365 1984419 
PC ROMANCE (2)
Private Chat Room: Old Maids Actually Nastily Claim Exoticism
Jeff Anonymous
1984365 1984419 
PCS FOR EVER
Pathetic Computers Sometimes Fail Over Rotten Entrails, Viruses Enter Readily
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984677 
PC USER
Perfect Consumer - Uses Some Expensive Rubbish
Steve Keate
1984677 
PDA
Pointer Directs Actions
Tony McCoy O'Grady (PDA usually stands for Personal Digital Assistant)
1984242 1984299 
PDQ
Perform - Don't Question!
Angela Brett (PDQ usually stands for Pretty Darn Quick)
1984959 
PEACE
Perhaps Enmity's At Complete End
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984455 1984362 
PEACE IN OUR TIME
Pathetic Englishman's Airport Claim. Evil Intentioned Nazis Obviously Unreliable. Resulting Turmoil Involved Millions Exterminated
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984731 1984899 
PEANUT
Paste's Edible And Nutritious Upon Toast
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984467 
PEAR
Preferably Eaten All Runny
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984467 
PEARL
Passion Exhibits A Rare Longevity
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the pearl (30th) wedding anniversary.
1984626 
PEBBLE
Pedestrian Evidently Bashed Boot, Limping Erratically
Tony McCoy O'Graaaaaady
1984938 
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.
1984704 
PEDANT (2)
Person, Educator, Does Algebra 'N' Trigonometry
Jeff Anonymous, explaining that a pedant is a male schoolteacher.
1984485 
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.
1984704 
PEDANT (4)
Peruses Each Dictionary And Notes Troubles.
Angela Brett
1984704 
PEDANT (5)
Peruses Every Day A New Thesaurus.
Angela Brett
1984704 
PEDANT (6)
Pedagogue Expects Discipline And No Truancy
Angela Brett
1984485 
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.
1984314 
PEDESTRIANS
People Evading Drivers - Eventually Squashed! They're Regularly Included As Newspaper Statistics
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984572 
PEDESTRIAN SAFETY
People Expect Drivers, Especially Speeders, To Resist Injuring Anyone - No Sidewalks Are For Entertaining Tear-away Youths!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984572 
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
1984590 
PEEPING TOM
Pervert Enjoys Entering Porperty Inspecting Neighbour's Genitals, Then Openly Masturbating
Angela Brett
1984365 
PEGASUS
Pony (Enchanted) Galloping Around Starlit Unicorn Stallions
Rico Leffanta
1984785 
PEGGY
Pretty Easy Girl Gets You!
Rico Leffanta
1984422 
PELICAN
Peculiarly Enlarged 'Lip' Is Convenient As Net
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1985049 
PELICAN (2)
Perhaps Explains Lost Infant Canine - Avian Nibbled!
Patricia Rix (my Australian friend told me pelicans would take chihuahua pups!)
1985049 
PEN
Paper-Embellishing Nib
Angela Brett
1984536 1984707 
PENANCE
Preacher Extends Needless And Narcissistic Clearance of Errors
Jeff Anonymous
1984326 
PENANCE (2)
Pastors, Evangelists, and Nuns Advocate Nightly Confession of Errors
Jeff Anonymous
1984326 
PENCIL
Please Erase Non-Correct Illustrations/ Letters
Angela Brett
1984536 1984707 
PENCIL (2)
Prudish Euphemistic Name Concerns Its Lead
Patricia Rix
1984536 1984707 
PENCIL (3)
People Enjoy Nice Colours In 'Leads' 
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984536 1984707 
PENCIL (4)
Printing Enabled. Notable Contribution Is Lead!
Roger Williams
1984536 1984707 
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.)
1984707 1984536 
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.
1984488 1985049 
PENIS
Pinkish, Erectile Needle Injects Semen.
Angela Brett
1984443 
PENIS (2)
Particularly Enlarged, Now Incredibly Stiff
Matthew Oram
1984443 
PENIS (3)
Prominent Erection Needs Immediate Satisfying
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984365 1984443 
PENIS (4)
Penetrating Entity Needed In Sex
Apronymous Anonymous
1984365 
PENNILESS
Penury's Evident Now, Nincompoop Is Lamenting Every Shilling Spent
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984602 
PENSION
People (Elderly) Need Savings Invested (Or Nest-egg)
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984602 1984713 
PENSIONER
People Evidently Need Saving In Old-age, Not Especially Rich
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984602 
PENTAGON
Poor Economic Numbers? Target Arabian Gulf Oil Nation!
Chris Kjelgaard
1984812 
PENTAGON (2)
President Employs "Nucular" Threat Argument, Guaranteeing Overthrows, Naturally
Chris Kjelgaard
1984812 
PENTAGON (3)
Politicians Envisage New Targets As Greed Opportunities Narrow
Chris Kjelgaard
1984812 
PENTAGON (4)
Purchases Endlesss New Tanks, Aircraft, Guns, Ordnance, Napalm
Chris Kjelgaard
1984764 
PENTAGON (5)
President's Edict: No Terrorists Active, Grab Oil Now!
Chris Kjelgaard
1984812 
PENTAGON (6)
Practises Every Night To Attack Governments, Overthrow Nations
Chris Kjelgaard
1984455 
PENTAGON (7)
Potentially Every New Terrorism Alert Generates Offensive Now
Chris Kjelgaard
1984812 
PENTAGON (8)
Posits Enemies, Nuclear Threats And Gets Official Nod
Chris Kjelgaard
1984455 
PENTAGON (9)
Patriotism Excuse Now To Attack Gulf Oil Nations
Chris Kjelgaard
1984812 
PENTAGON (10)
Practically Every Newly Trained Army Grunt Overseas Now
Chris Kjelgaard
1984455 
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.
1984254 
PEPCID
Pill Eliminates Perilous Common Indigestion Daily
Jeff Anonymous (see <TACO BELL>)
1984338 
PEPPER
Piquant Exotic Powder Promises Enjoyable Repast
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984848 
PEPPERY
Particularly Explosive & Pungent - Paprika Effectively Reddens You
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984848 
PEPSICO
People Employed Peddling Sugar In Carbonated Offerings
Tony McCoke O'Grady
1984308 1984539 
PEPSI COLA
Pathetic Emulatory Product, Silly Idea Copying Original Liquid Aliment
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984539 
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.
1984539 
PERCIVAL
Perhaps Espied Renowned Chalice In Venerable Arthurian Legend
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984461 
PERDITA
Perilously Exposed. Restored Daughter Is Then Affianced
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
1984719 
PERFECT
Picky Evaluators Rarely Find Everything's Completely Tiptop
Angela Brett
1984278 
PERFECT (2)
Pun Experts: Ready For Expansions? Call Tony!
Angela Brett, since Tony's acronyms are generally of very high quality.
1984320 
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.
1984977 
PERICLES
Pathos Endured Results In Complex Life's Eventual Solution
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Pericles
1984434 
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.
1984305 
PERKS
People Employed Regularly Keep 'Souvenirs'
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984977 
PERSEIDS
Particles Entering Remote Stratosphere Emit Illuminations During Summertime.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984386 
PERSIAN
Pokemon Evolution Refines Scratchcat Into Aesthetic Nuisance
Angela Brett (Persian is Pokemon #53)
1984284 
PERSISTENT
Personal Energy Resolved Somehow Into Something Terminally Enhancing, Not Temporary.
Ray Piper
1984704 
PERSONALITY
Property Expressing Real Self Often Not Altogether Liked - Is That You!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984362 
PERSPIRATION
People's Exudations Ret Skin's Pores In Rivulets, Although This Is Often Nasty
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984398 
PERU
Population's Expansion Rises Uphill.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
PERVERT
Person Enjoying Rather Varied Engagement (with) Reality & Truth
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984365 
PERVERTS
People Each Requiring Vasectomies, Enjoy Raping The Susceptible.
Angela Brett
1984365 
PESO
Please Empty Sack Out
Rico Leffanta
1984602 
PETER
Pontiff Eventually To Evangelise Rome
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984329 1985001 
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
1984878 
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
1984671 
PETROL
Prehistoric Extinction! This Revolutionised Our Locomotion.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984572 
PETROL (2)
Prefer Engines That Run On Light
Angela Brett
1984572 
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?
1984539 1984248 
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
1984503 
PETTER
Person Enamoured Tries Touching Erogenous Regions
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984365 
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!)
1984365 
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.
1984998 
PHALLUS
Pretense Holding Any Long Length Ushers Satisfaction
Rico Leffanta
1984443 
PHASE
Periodic Happenings Around Some Event
TMcCO'G
1984356 
PHASER
Please Have A Stun Effect Ready
Angela Brett (apparently "set your phasers to stun" is a common command in Star Trek)
1984764 
PH.D.
Pathetically Haughty Dunce
Carl Brett
1984971 1984242 
PHIL
'Philip' Has Identifier Limited
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984269 
PHIL (2)
Praenomen Has Insufficent Letters
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984269 
PHILADELPHIA
Portrays Hero's Intriguing Life And Details Evolving Life-Problems. He's Infected - AIDS!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984287 
PHILANTHROPY
Plainly Humanity Is Loved - And Normally This Has Romantic Overtones & Pecuniary Yield
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984362 
PHILANTHROPY (2)
Past Hippy In Los Angeles Now Throws His Riches On Poor Yuppys
C. Frost, E.C.V. #49
1984362 
PHILATELIST
Person Hoarding Interesting Letter Adornments To Examine & Lookup In Stamp Tomes
Angela Brett
1984362 1984707 
PHILEMON
Paul's Helper Imprisoned, Letter Expedited Master of Onesimus's Niceness.
Eric Bridgstock
1984329 
PHILIPPIANS
Paul Hails Impressively Liberal Inhabitants (of) Phillipi. People Informed About Necessary Sharing.
Sue Johnson
1984329 
PHILIPPINES
People Hated Its Leaders, In Particular People Into Needless Expensive Shoes.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
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 MIND>s. He concluded we're just PHILOLOGISTS.
1984362 
PHILOSOPHERS
People Here, In Life, On Some Opportune Planet... How Extremely Remarkable Sounding!
Angela Brett
1984485 1984326 
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.
1984326 1984977 
PHOBIA
Phears Have Overtaken Because I'm Anxious
Patricia Rix
1984782 
PHONEMES
Primary Hearing Objects - Nearly Every Morpheme Employs Several
Angela Brett
1984407 
PHOSPHORUS
Pilots Have Over-Supply. Potentially Hellfire Objects Relayed Unto Scene
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
PHOTOCOPIER
Place Hand On Top Of Copier & One's Palm Is Endlessly Reproduced
Tony McXerox O'Grady
1984518 
PHOTOGRAPH
People Have One Taken Occasionally, Get Ready And Pose Happily
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984353 
PHOTON
Particle Helps One Talk Over Networks
Tony McCoy O'Grady - who sincerely hopes that photons operate in fiber-optics
1984707 1985046 
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.)
1985046 
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)
1984242 1984902 1984512 
PHYLLIS
Please Have Your Love Life In Secret!
Rico Leffanta
1984422 
PHYSICS
Profession Has Young Scientists Investigating Complex Spaces
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984716 
PHYSICS (2)
Puzzling Heuristics; Your Scientific Information Contains Spuriosities
Gavin Lambert, after Angela corrected the credit for <PROTON (2)>
1984716 
PI
Patternless Irrational
Angela Brett
1985037 
PI (2)
Perfectly Irrational
MLF
1985037 
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!)
1985037 1984467 
PIANO
Play In A Nice Order
Jason Wilcox
1984680 
PIANO (2)
Played In All Nice Orchestras
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984680 
PIANO (3)
Pleasing Instrument Acoustically, Numerous Octaves.
Eric Bridgstock
1984680 
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.
1984917 
PICARD
Person In Charge Aboard Roving Dreadnaught
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984839 
PICCOLO
Principle Is Clear - Cover Over Little Openings
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984680 
PICHU
Pikachu Infant.  Cries Horribly, Unpeacefully.
Jeff Anonymous (Pichu, Pokemon #172, is a baby Pikachu.)
1984284 
PICKAX
Please Ignore Craggy Kaves. Awkay, Xplore!
Jeff Anonymous, on what could be consdered a good tool for spelunkers.
1984581 
PICKPOCKET
Person Into Clothing Kleptoing Prefers Operating in Crowds - Knows Easy Targets
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who proudly flashes his poetic license to justify the creation/use of 'Kleptoing.'
1984875 
PICNIC
Polite Intercourse Could Not Impede Copulation
Rico Leffanta
1984287 
PICNIC (2)
Party In Countryside Necessitating Insect Condiments
Rico Leffanta
1984692 
PICO
Personally I'm Confused [by] Others
Jeff Anonymous, who can't quite understand EMACS, so he uses good ol' PICO for his Linux text editor.
1984668 
PICTURE
Pales In Comparison To Unadulterated Real Event
Angela Brett
1984437 
PIDGEY
Playing In Dirt Gets Eyes Yucky
Angela Brett (Pidgey is Pokemon #16)
1984284 
PIECE
Partial Item - Especially Capturing Essence
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984353 
PIECE OF CAKE!
Pie Investment Extravagant! Chefs Extraordinaire! Overpriced! Full/Fool Customer Adaptabily! Kitchens! Expedited!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984467 
PIECE OF CAKE! (2)
Perfect Invention! Examine! Commandeer Executive Officers! Fully Computerise Assemblyline! Kindly Expedite!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984311 
PIECE OF CAKE! (3)
Peace Invasion! Examine Computers! Execution Order: Fillers! Cakers! Assemble Kinder Elevators!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Bakery acquires another bakery and gives raises toall.
1984467 1984605 
PIECE OF CAKE! (4)
Piece Intervention! Examine Computer Execution Of Following: Cake Assemblyline! Kindly Expedite!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984467 1984518 
PIG
Pork Is Good!
Angela Brett
1984494 1984467 
PIG LATIN
Phrasing Is Genuine Language, Adults Think It Nonsensical
Onitay Ackoymay Radiogay
1984407 
PIG LATIN (2)
Partially Intelligent Gibberish Leaves Adults Totally Ignorant, Normally
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984407 
PIG TAILS
Pretty If Girl's, They Aren't Ideal Lads' Style.
Angela Brett
1985013 
PIKACHU
Pokemon Is Keeping Animation Creators Happy & Unstarved!
Angela Brett (Pikachu is Pokemon #25)
1984284 
PILL
Popularly It Licensed Love-making
Tony McCoy O'Grady ('the pill' is widely credited with launching the "Swinging Sixties" and "free love")
1984365 1984338 
PIMASTER
Particular Irrational's Memorised, A Superimportant Transcendental's Effortlessly Recited.
Angela Brett
1984377 
PIMASTER (2)
Pedantic Imbecile Masquerading As Scintillating Teacher Enlightening Riffraff.
PiMaster
1984377 
PIMASTER (3)
Pretty Intelligent Man, And Smart Too - Excuse Redundancy.
Angela Brett
1984377 
PIMP
Profits In Manipulating Prostitutes
Angela Brett
1984485 
PIMPLE
Please Ignore My Pained & Lumpy Epidermis
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984488 1985013 
PINCH
Patently Idiotic Non-Competent Healer
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
1984341 
PINCHING
Pain Is Now Caused, Help - It's Not Gentle
TMcCO'G
1984275 
PINCHY
Pennypinchy, I'd Name Crustacean! He's Yummy.
Angela Brett (Pinchy was the lobster which Homer bought small and then raised into a fully-grown lobster in order to save money.)
1984890 
PINE
Puts Irritating Needles Everywhere
TMcCO'G
1985043 
PING
Probably Instigating No Good.
Steve Keate, while wondering while people online were pinging him.
1984419 
PINK
Personally, I'm Not Kinky
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984491 
PINK BITS
Pain Is Nude Knockers Burnt In The Sunshine
Angela Brett 
1984398 
PIONEER
Persecuted Individuals On New Environmental Expedition (for) Relief
Jan Morgan - for relief  from  religious persecution or relief of better  place to live and work
1984362 
PIPPIN
Peering Into Palantir Produces Intense Nightmare
Patricia Rix
1984893 
PIRACY
Pernicious Individuals Rob And Cheat You
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984476 
PIRATE
People's Individual Rights Association [for] Trading E-files
Imaginary association formed to preserve rights of internet music file swappers.
1984410 1984299 
PISA
Precariously Inclined Structure, Alarmingly
Eric Bridgstock
1984371 
PISCES
Pseudo-Intelligent Science Commands Extra Scepticism
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984452 
PISMO
PowerBook Is Superlative Mobile Office.
Angela Brett, referring to the last PowerBook G3 model, code-named 'Pismo.'
1984374 
PISSED
Peed In Side Street... Eww! Disgusting!
Angela Brett
1984275 
PISSED (2)
Priests In Seminaries Shouldn't Ever Drink
Angela Brett
1984326 1984542 
PISSED (3)
Perhaps I Shoulda Stopped Excessive Drinking!
Patricia Rix
1984542 
PISSED (4)
Perhaps I Swilled Some Extra Diuretic
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984275 
PISSENLIT
Peeing In Sleepwear Seems Extremely Nasty, Lessening Its Thermodynamics
Patricia Rix (pissenlit is French for <DANDELION>... see <DANDELION (2)>)
1984401 
PISS OFF
Peabrain, I Suggest Silence! Odious Fatuous Fool!
Tony McCoy O'Grady, still trying to annoy Angela
1984470 
PISS OFF (2)
Party In-Store... Sale On Freaky Fashions!
Angela Brett (see <SHOVE OFF>)
1984515 
PISTOL
Petty, Insolent, Small Time Oafish Lout
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's King Henry IV
1984506 
PISTOL (2)
Plot Involves Soldier's Trickery Over Love-letters
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor
1984392 
PITCHFORK
Please Insert Tines Carefully Hay Fever Often Reveals Kissers
Rico Leffanta
1984353 
PITH
Particularly Interesting Tropical Helmet
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984575 
PITH (2)
Peel's Interior Tastes Horrible
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984467 
PI TIMES THREE I
Perchance If Thou Inexplicably Mutters Expandable Shoutings, Thou Hasto Really Expand 'Em Immediately!
Jeff Anonymous ('Immediately' suggested by Tony McCoy O'Grady) rationalizing semi-imaginary rule pi*3i, which states that all things rendered in capitals on the Acronyms fora must be acronymised.
1984320 1984722 
PI TIMES THREE I (2)
People Ignoring To Immediately Make Expansions Should Try Harder - Rendering Expansions Educates Individuals.
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see <PI TIMES THREE I>)
1984320 1984722 
PITSLIGO
People In Tube Straphang - 'Look, I'm Gently Oozing!'
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Pitsligo is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'Part of traditional mating rite. During the first hot day of spring, all the men in the tube start giving up their seats to ladies and staphanging. The purpose of pitsligo is for them to demonstrate their manhood by displaying the wet patches under their arms.')
1984767 
PIZZA FACE
Primo In Zit-Zapping... Acnekleen Foams And Cleanses Epidermis.
Angela Brett (see <SHOVE OFF>)
1984515 
PLACARD
Pagan Libidos Are Cocked And Readily Discharged
Rico Leffanta, who explains that placards are public labels; just as black men are placarded as having  oversized organs, pagans are placarded as having overactive libidos.
1984362 
PLACARDS
Public Labels Announce Community's Assumptions, Rapidly Diffusing Stereotypes.
Angela Brett
1984362 
PLACE
Position Located And Correctly Established
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984245 
PLAGUE
People Lying About Grotesquely... Uncountable Expiries.
Angela Brett
1984488 
PLAGUES
Pass-over Loyal's Abodes... Goatsblood Used to Exempt Sons.
Angela Brett, who isn't sure if she remembers correctly... but didn't God tell the Israelitees to put goatsblood somewhere outside their houses so their firstborn sons wouldn't be killed?
1984326 
PLAINTALK
PCs Lack Any Inexpensive Natural Talking Applications Low in Kilobytes.
Angela Brett, after hearing her information systems lecturer (a windoze user) comment on the expensiveness of speech recognition software. (Plaintalk is the free speech recognition software from Apple, at http://speech.apple.com/ptk)
1984446 
PLAIT
Part Lock Approximately Into Thirds
Angela Brett
1985013 
PLAN
Prepare, Launch, And Notarize
Patricia Rix
1984275 
PLANETARY ALIGNMENT 
Pulling Language Across Network Employs Tidal Astroillogical Reinforcements... Your-Anus Lies In Gemini? Nothing Moves Electronically, No Traffic. 
Angela Brett (Planetary alignment is a more likely cause of the Apronyms site loading slowly than it sounds... the server which the site is hosted on is called Uranus, and is often the 'butt' of 'Your-Anus' jokes.)
1985052 
PLANETS
Probably Lifeless Aggregations Now Encircling The Sun
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984686 
PLANETS (2)
Perceptually Lazy At Nighttime Exclaim They're Stars
Angela Brett
1984686 
PLASMA
Pyrolysis Looms As Spacecraft Meets Atmosphere
Angela Brett, who hopes that the term 'pyrolysis' can apply to the separation of atoms into ions and electrons in plasma.
1984386 1984716 
PLATINUM
Pricey Ladies' Adornment. Typically Inert, Not Usually Magnetic.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
PLATO
Perhaps Letters Are Totally Opinion
Angela Brett, since the letters from which most of our knowledge of Plato come might not actually have been written by Plato, as is claimed.
1984293 
PLAY
Pointing Love At Yourself
Rico Leffanta
1984365 
PLAY CARDS
Perennially Likeable - And Your Computer Allows Replaying a Deal Sometimes.
Angela Brett, who would (WARNING, plug coming up) like to point out that her card game, Once in a Lifetime (at http://acronyms.co.nz/software/OIAL.html), does allow replaying of deals.
1984647 
PLAYER
Person Limbers-up And, Yes, Endures Recreation
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984581 
PLAYING CARDS
Poor Loser Are You? It's No Good Cheating As Revolting Deceitfulness is Sinful
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984647 
PLAYSTATION
Pathetic "Life"-less Adults - You Spend Time At This Idiotic Oriental Nonsense
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984359 
P-L-E-A-S-E
Perhaps Liz (will) Email Anthony, Screen Enumerators
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Angela's sister Liz did not answer him when he asked how large her screen is.
1984311 
PLEASED
Pretty Limpid Eyes And Smiles Express Delight
LaughingBoy McCoy
1984644 
PLEELEY
Pickled Lush's Elaborately Endeavours Looking Endearing - Yuk!
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Pleeley is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'Descriptive of a drunk person's attempt to be endearing.')
1984767 
PLETHORA
Pretty Ladies Eating Their Hearts Out Reconnoitring Abbeys
Rico Leffanta
1984353 
PLIERS
Perhaps Lying In Elecrician's Rumpled Satchel.
TMcCO'G who has noticed that Plumbers usually carry a sturdy toolbox, but Electricians often use an old leather carryall.
1984536 
PLIERS (2)
Possibly Lost Items Easily Retrieved... Sometimes
Roger Williams
1984536 
PLONK
Purchaser's Likely Of No Knowledge
Angela Brett
1984542 
PLONK (2)
Perfectly Literal Onomatopoeia, Near Kerplunk
Angela Brett
1984653 
PLOW
Patrolboat Lurches Over Waves
TMcCO'G
1984572 
PLOW (2)
Pull! Lusty Oxen Will.
Roger Williams
1984275 
PLUG
Push Lightly Until Grounded
Matthew Oram
1984536 
PLUME
Peahen Looks Upon Mate's Exhibit
Angela Brett
1984398 
PLUME (2)
Pen Lacking Usual Metallic Element
Patricia Rix
1984707 
PLURAL
Painfully Loud Ululating, Repeated A Lot!
Tony McCoy O'Grady, explaining that the 'Aaaaaarrrrggghh' in his <ANTHRAX (2)> is the plural of 'Aarrghh', an official Scrabble word.
1984314 1984653 
PLUTO
Planetary Location Universally Thought Outermost
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984686 
PLUTONIUM
Popularly Linked (with) Uranium To Operate Nuclear Industry's Unleashing of Megatons.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
PLYMOUTH
Pilgrims Left Your Moorings - Opposed Unto The Heirarchy
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984872 1984731 
PMS
Putting up with Mens Shit
wishes, referring to Pre-Menstrual Syndrome
1984242 1984488 
PMS (2)
Pardon My Snippiness
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to <PMS>
1984242 1984488 
PMS (3)
Pleasantness's Mighty Scarce
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to <PMS>
1984242 1984488 
PMS (4)
Pregnancy May Stop it
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to <PMS>
1984242 1984488 
PMS (5)
Pugnaciousness's My Speciality
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to <PMS>
1984242 1984488 
PMS (6)
Pretty Mean Sir!
wishes, in response to Tony's <PMS (2)> and others.
1984242 
POEM
Piece Of Enlightening Material
Angela Brett
1984437 
POET
Pretentious, Or Extremely Talented?
Angela Brett
1984335 
POETS
Pinnacles Of Eloquence, They Say
Angela Brett
1984335 
POINT OF VIEW
Personal Opinion Is Not The Only Form... Vectors In Electronic Worlds.
Angela Brett (many 3D computer games allow changing your point of view.)
1984359 
POISON
Potion Once Ingested Surely Occasions Necrosis
Roger Williams
1984488 1984338 
POKE BALL
Point Of Knockout Evaded By A Little Luck
Angela Brett (to capture a wild pokemon in a poke ball, you must weaken it but not enough to make it faint.)
1984359 
POKEMON
Professor Oak Knows Everything Masters Ought to Need
Angela Brett, who is thinking of acronymising all 151 pokemon
1984359 
POKEMON (2)
Pricey, Omnipresent Kiddies Entertainment, Marketing Of Nintendo
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984359 
POKEMON (3)
Parents Of Kiddies Express Misery Over Nintendo
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984359 
POKEMON (4)
Plenty Of Kiddies Expend Money, Often, Needlessly.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984359 
POKEMONS
Perhaps Our Kids Expend Money On Needless Sh*t
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984359 
POKENYMS
Pokemon Original Kreations.  Even Nicer, You Might Say.
Jeff Anonymous, because some Pokemon acronyms might be more interesting than actual Pokemon.
1984296 1984359 
POLAND
Place Of Lech's Arising - Now Democratic
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
POLAR
Position's Obvious... Length, Angle Required.
Angela Brett, referring to polar coordinates.
1984251 
POLE STAR
People Oriented Looking Ever Skyward. The Astrolabe Resulted
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984386 
POLICE
Patrolling Our Lives In Circus Environment
Rico Leffanta
1984752 
POLICE (2)
Persecution Officers Like Intimidating Citizens Excessively
Steve Keate
1984752 
POLICE (3)
Pursuit Of Lowlifes Into Criminal Endeavours
Angela Brett
1984752 
POLICE (4)
Pigs On Lookout In Cars Everywhere
Steve Keate
1984752 
POLICE (5)
Protectors Of Law In Continuous Endeavour
Angela Brett
1984752 
POLICE (6)
Patrol Old Ladies Inspecting Casual Escorts
Rico Leffanta
1984752 
POLICE (7)
People Organising Litigation Incarcerating Criminals Everywhere
Mary Carr
1984752 
POLICE PROTECTION
Probity Of Lieutenants Is Central, Ensuring Public Resources Operate To End Criminal Threats .... Intimidation's Outlawed Now
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984476 
POLICE STATION
Place Of Lies, Injuries Coerce Explanation. Suddenly They Are Terminating Investigation - Oh No!
Steve Keate and Angela Brett
1984701 1984476 
POLITICALLY CORRECT
Possible Offense Lies In This, I'll Carefully Avoid Language Lest You Complain, Or Race Relations Executives Concern Themselves
Angela Brett
1984362 1984413 
POLITICIANS
Pompous Oratory Lets Insufferable Two-faced Individuals Crawl Into A Nations Service
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984413 
POLITICIANS (2)
People Of Little Intellect Treat Intelligent Constituents Intolerably - A National Scourge!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984413 
POLITICIANS (3)
People Of Large Intellectual Talents Into Current/ International Affairs & National Security
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984413 
POLITICIANS (4)
Parliaments Often Lack Integrity To Inspire Confidence In A Nation's Subjects
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984413 
POLITICIANS (5)
People Occasionally Lie In Their International Careers In Affairs Needing Subtlety
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984413 
POLITICIANS (6)
Parliament Offers Little Inducement To Intelligent Citizens - It's A Nasty Scenario
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984413 
POLITICIANS (7)
Pretty Obnoxious Lot In Total - Inveterate Chancers Into Abberrant Nonstandard Sexualities
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984413 
POLITICIANS (8)
Perk Overuse Leaves Incredible Tips In Chauffeur Industry, Augments National Spending.
Angela Brett
1984413 
POLITICIANS (9)
Poor Old Lollygaggers In Time Ingeniously (be)-Come Ignorami... Actually Nice Sorts.
Jeff Anonymous
1984413 
POLITICS
Parties Only Lack Incentive: Taxes Instigate Countless Squabbles
Patricia Rix
1984413 
POLITICS (2)
Promptly One Learns Important Tactic Is Cheating Serially
Chris Kjelgaard
1984413 
POLITICS (3)
Profession Of Liars, Incompetents, Thieves, Idiots, Cheats, Scrapings
Chris Kjelgaard
1984413 
POLITICS (4)
People Only Listen If They Identify Congress's Sins.
Roger Williams
1984413 
POLIWAG
Prefers Oceans... Legs Infantile & Weak, Aren't Groundworthy.
Angela Brett (Poliwag is Pokemon #60)
1984284 
POLL
Public Opinion's Leanings Logged
Angela Brett
1984620 
POLO
Pony Owners Labour Outdoors
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984581 
POLONIUM
Pierre Originally Located Occurrences - Nobel-winning-work In Union (with) Marie.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
POLONIUS
Patrician Official Listening Out-of-sight Needlessly Is Unsuspectingly Stabbed
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1984632 
POLYFILLA
Perhaps One's Lunchbox, You'll Find, Is Lately Lacking Appeal
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see <GLOSS>)
1984803 
POLYFILLA (2)
Packet Of Lovely Yummy Fare Is Luscious & Largely Appetising
Tony McCoy O'Grady, to balance out <POLYFILLA>
1984803 
POLYGAMY
Plural Offensive Love, Yesterdays Gatherer At Multiple Yokes
Jan Morgan - too many wives, old  biblical  practice of a man wanting to have multiple  bonds (yokes) of marriage at the same time.  No longer  practiced.
1984365 
POM
Prince Of Moaning
Angela Brett (I have no opinions on the issue myself, but I've often heard people refer to 'whining poms')
1984482 
POMPEY
Pours Out Mistress's Pints (for) Eager Youths
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
1984428 
POND
Paddling Of New Ducklings
Angela Brett
1984527 
PONGS
Putrid Odour - Nappy-Gas Stinks.
Angela Brett
1984275 
PONTIAC
People Of Note Travel In A Car
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984710 
POON
Piece Of Orient's Nature
Angela Brett
1984401 
POON (2)
Plenty Of Oriental Nookie
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984401 
POOPED
Passed Out, One's Partially Expired, Dearest
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984278 
POOPHOLE
P*ss Off, Offensive People... Hardly One Lecherous Expansion
Steve Keate, when someone searched acronyms.co.nz for 'poophole' and some ruder words.
1984320 
POOR MAN
People Ordinary Opulent Retaining Mana And Nous
Mary Carr
1984362 1984605 
POP
Porn's Offered Plentifully
Tony McCoy O'Grady, of Post Office Protocol.  (I get more junk mail than stuff I want to read)
1984419 1984242 
POP (2)
Prolong One's Penis
Angela Brett, in response to <POP>, as many spam offers to do just that.
1984242 1984419 
POPCASTLE
Piece Of Precocious Child's Artwork - Say "That Looks Excellent!"
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Popcastle is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'Something drawn or modelled by a small child which you are supposed to know wait it is.')
1984767 
POPCORN
Pieces Of Puffed Cereal, Often Repeatedly Nibbled
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984467 
POPCORN (2)
Picturehouse's Own Popular Confection Offers Rotten Nutrition
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984467 1984287 
POPE
Prelate Other Prelates Elected
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984791 
POPE (2)
Pastoral Official Pretending Euphoria
Mary Carr
1984791 
POPPA BEAR
Porridge On Plate, Perhaps At Boiling-point? Enjoy A Ramble
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984839 
POPSICLE
Pretty Often, People Suck Ice-Cold Lollies Eagerly.
Steve Keate and Angela Brett
1984956 
POPSICLE (2)
Pathetic, Over-Priced, Slimy Ice Causes Little Excitement.
Steve Keate
1984956 
PORCUPINE
Prickly Old Rascal Climbs Up Pines, Is Noisy Eater
Patricia Rix
1984494 
PORNOGRAPHY
Pictures Of Respectability? No! Objectionable Graphic Representations Aimed (at) Perpetually Horny Youth!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984365 1984437 
PORNO MOVIE
Prerecorded Orgy of Recreational Nudity On My Overhead Viewer. It's Exciting!
Tony McCoy O'Grady/Angela Brett
1984365 1984287 
PORNOTGRAPHIC
Pictures Of Really Normal Objects That Get Responses As People Hear Interesting Captions
Angela Brett -- 'Pornotgraphy' hints at being pornography, but is not. See http://macintosh.geek.nz/pron.html (I was tempted to invent 'Innuendic' for the I-word but I don't want to get too many demerit points on my creative license.) See also <INNUENDON'T>
1984296 1984365 
PORRIDGE
Pathetic Old Reprobate Robs Indigent Dear Grannies & Elders
Tony McCoy O'Grady, pouring milk on yet another cereal killer.
1984395 
PORSCHE
Phallic (Often Red) Symbol Creates Huge Envy
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984710 
PORTEND
Previous Omens Readily Tell Events Not Developed.
Roger Williams
1984275 
PORTFOLIO
Plenty Of Red Tape Folding One's Lifetime Investment Opportunities
Tony McCoy O'DowJones
1984605 
PORTIA
Panic's Often Raised Through Inamorata's Absence
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra
1984674 1984593 
PORTIA (2)
Pretty & Opulent. Realizes Truth In Adversity
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
1984440 
PORTUGAL
Producer Of Rough Tablewines Used (in) Gallons And Litres
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984350 
POSH
People Overcome by Social Haughtiness
Mary Carr
1984704 
POSITION
Perhaps One Should Inspect Things In One's Neighbourhood
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984815 
POSITION (2)
People Often Suppose It To Indicate One's Nobility
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984362 
POSITIVE ATTITUDE
People Often Say It's The Internal Values Engineering All... That Their Influence's Thoroughly Underestimated [in] Determining Environment.
Angela Brett
1984740 
POSITIVES
Perfect! Opportune! Sentient! Innovative! Triumph! Invincible! Victory! Excel! Self!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984362 
POSITRON
Part Of Smarts, In The Realm Of Novels
Angela Brett, referring to the 'positronic brain' conceived by writer Isaac Asimov.
1985046 1984437 
POST
Press OK Single Time.
Steve Keate, after he accidentally posted the same message twice on the forums.
1984722 
POSTAL SERVICE
People Offering Service Transmitting All Letters Swiftly, Ensuring Registered Valuable Item's Carried Efficiently
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984707 
POST A MESSAGE
Please Omit Sexual Transmissions. "Adult" Messages: Eww! Stay Sane And Good, Eh?
Jeff Anonymous (with a little help from Angela Brett), pleading for continued decency on the ACRONYMS forum, not that it's ever breached or anything.
1984968 
POST A MESSAGE (2)
Perhaps One Should Tender A Missive Ensuring Some Special Acronym Gets Expanded
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984968 
POSTCARD
Picture Of Somewhere Tourists Can Attach Romantic Description (to)
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984707 
POSTERS
Pictures Of Swanky Technological Equipment, Ridiculously Sized.
Angela Brett (referring to Apple posters of course... what other kinds of poster are there?)
1984317 
POST GRADUATE
Professors Often Seem To Get 'Research Assistants' Doing Undervalued And Tedious Experiments.
Angela Brett
1984473 
POST GRADUATE STUDENT
Past One's School Times, Go Researching And Doing Unusal - Although Terribly Esoteric - Second Thesis, Until Doctorate's Earned.... Nimble Thinking.
TMcCO'G
1984473 
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
Pompous Oaf Sets The Heroine Up Mistaking Untrue Story Liar Employs - Obviously Not A Trusting, Unsuspicious Soul!
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Cymbeline
1984635 
POSTING TWICE
Pressed Once & Slipped! Two Identical Notices Got Through. Worried, I Cry, 'Edwin!'
Angela Brett, when she accidentally doubleclicked on the button to post a message on the forums, and needed Edwin to delete the duplicate post.
1984722 
POSTMAN
Person Offering to Send The Mail Across Nations
Angela Brett
1984485 1984707 
POSTMAN (2)
Parcel Operative - Scrunches The Mail Ad Nauseam
Tony McCoy O'Grady, describing his POSTMAN as being somewhat different from Angela's.
1984485 1984707 
POST OFFICE
Purchase One's Stamps There, Or Forward 'Freight' In Cardboared Envelopes
TMcCO'G
1984707 1984701 
POT
Police Often Take
Angela Brett and Steve Keate
1984554 
POT (2)
Please Offer Toke
Steve Keate
1984554 
POT (3)
Preferred Over Tobacco
Angela Brett
1984554 
POT (4)
Parliament Outlawed This
Steve Keate
1984554 
POT (5)
Particularly Overpriced Tickler
Angela Brett
1984554 
POT (6)
Peers Often Tempt
Angela Brett
1984554 
POTASSIUM
Perchlorate Of This Alkali (is) Sparingly Soluble Indeed, Unless (I'm) Mistaken.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
POTATO
Properties Of Thermochemistry Are Too Obscure!
Tony McCoy O'Grady - Angela had said that she likes refrigerated cooked potatoes because they have a similar texture, or at least temperature, to cold hardboiled eggs. Tony pointed out that the texture would vary according to the type of potato, so Angela replied that the temperature would still be similar no matter what kind of potato was used. Tony then said "I don't intend to get into a discussion about the heat-retention properties of various varieties of potato," and presented this acronym to back up his position.
1984467 1984716 
POTENTIAL
People Ought To Eschew Natural Talents, Is Advice Lately.
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to <TALENT>
1984362 
POTTERY
People Often Try To Extend Relationship's Years.
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the pottery (9th) wedding anniversary.
1984626 
POWER
Plan, Organize, Work, Evaluate, Refine.
Rico Leffanta
1984533 
POWER (2)
Peace/Prince = Omnipotent/Omniscient Wonderful Emmanuel Redeemer!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Jesus Christ!
1984326 
POWERBOOK
People in Outdoor Work Environment Require Battery or Outlet to Output Kilobytes.
Angela Brett
1984374 
POWERBOOK (2)
Power Outlet Wanted, Energy Recharges Battery Of One's Kneetop
Angela Brett
1984374 
POWERBOOK 1400CS
Proud Owner Worried Extremely - Ransom! But Out Of Kindness, Computer's Succeeded.
Angela Brett, referring to what happened to her PowerBook 1400cs - see http://acronyms.co.nz/angela/mac/differentthought or http://acronyms.co.nz/angela/mac/myBook/clippings.html
1984908 
POWERBOOK G4
Portable, One-inch-thick, Widescreen, Efficiently Running Battery... Offers Owner Kneetop Gigaflops!
Angela Brett
1984374 
POWERS
Present Oportunity! Work Energetically Realising Successes!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984533 
POWER SOURCE
Potatoes, Oils, Wind, Eels, Rain, Sunshine Or Uranium Reactions Create Electricity
Angela Brett
1984716 
POWER TOOLS
Plug On Wall - Electricity's Released To Operate On Lumber Stocks
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984518 1984536 
PPC
Productive Processor Cycles
Angela Brett, because PowerPCs and other RISC chips are generally faster per MHz than CISC chips.
1984614 1984242 
PPC (2)
Performance-Per-Cycle
Angela Brett
1984614 1984242 
PPC (3)
Pre-eminent Portable Chip
Angela Brett (PowerPC processors are good for portable computers because of their <PPC (4)>)
1984614 1984242 
PPC (4)
Petite Power Consumption
Angela Brett
1984614 1984242 
PRACTICAL JOKES
Prankish, Risky Activity Comically Torturing Innocent Cat's-paw, And Leaving Jovial Onlookers Keenly Expressing Sniggers.
Angela Brett
1984362 
PRACTICE
People Rarely Approve Complete Theories In Complex Experiments
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984248 
PRADA
People Really Admire Designer's Adornments
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984575 
PR AGENTS
Paid Representatives Are Generating Exposure (in) Newspapers & Television Shows
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela suggested he should get paid by <ALISON HOLST>'s PR agents, since now she's mentioned in this stack she will be known by a lot more people worldwide.
1984485 
PRAISE
People React Appreciatively If Sometimes Eulogised
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984533 
PRAISE (2)
People Raise Arms In Singing Exaltation
Grace Francis
1984326 
PRAM
Pushing Round A Minor
Tony McCoy O'Daddy
1984572 
PRASEODYMIUM
Properly Recognised A Separate Element (after) Ongoing Doubt, Yet Much In Use in Misch-metal.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
PRATTLE
Person Rambles And Talks To Little Effect.
Angela Brett
1984728 
PRAYER
Private Reverence Answers Yearnings Eventually Received  
Jan Morgan - communication with God who does answer our prayers in HIS own time
1984326 
PRESENT
PowerBook Requested's Ever So Expensive... Nice Try!
Angela Brett
1984353 1984317 
PRESERVE
Protect Religiously Every Species; End Rare Varieties' Extinctions.
Angela Brett
1984398 1984794 
PRESIDENT CLINTON
Person Responsible Evidentially (for) Sexually Intense Details Engulfing Newspapers & Televisions. Could (I) Live In Non Television Owning Neighbourhood?
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984389 
PRESIDENTS
People Running Executive Should, If Democratically Elected, Never Trust Sycophants
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984413 
PRESS
Publications Reporting Everyday Stories Sensationally
Rico Leffanta
1984707 
PRETEND
Playing Reality Elusions That Enhance Natural Deceptiveness
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984275 
PRETTY HOT AND TEMPTING
Perfect Repast's Evidently Tempting To You - Has One Tasted Any Nicer Dinner? Try Eating More Perfect Tart - It's Nearly Gluttonous!
TMcO'G
1984467 
PREVIEW
Pre-Release Edition's Viewing Informs Executives Watching
TMcCO'G - Hollywood movies are often 'previewed' to allow studios to change endings according to focus groups opinions.
1984287 
PREYING MANTIS
Preparation Real Easy You Ingest Nutritious Greens Makes A Nice Touch In Snacks
Rico Leffanta
1984692 
PRICE
Profit Received = Incoming Cash - Expenses
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984605 
PRICELESS
Primary Reaction Is Chuckling, Excited Laughter Escapes, Some Sniggering.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984509 
PRICK
Penis Rests In Coloured Knickers
Mary Carr/Angela Brett, while Mary was watching some pricks on television.
1984497 
PRICK (2)
Penis Reacts If Continuously Kissed
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984443 
PRICKLE
Practising Racial Insults Coloured by Kinship Leveling Expletives
Mary Carr
1984497 
PRIDE
Please Remember, I Did Everything!
Angela Brett
1984644 
PRIDE (2)
Patricia Rivals Irishman's Derivative Expertise
Patricia Rix
1984644 
PRIDE (3)
Proper Recognition Is Deservedly Earned
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984644 
PRIDE (4)
Pompous Rogue Intemperately Demands Eclat
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984644 
PRIDE (5)
Predators Relish In Devouring Elands
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984494 
PRIEST
Parish's Religious Individual Espouses Sacred Teachings.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984791 
PRIEST (2)
Person Regarding Infinite Eternity "Summer Time"
Rico Leffanta
1984791 
PRIEST (3)
Proclaims Religion In Each Sabbath Teaching
Angela Brett
1984791 
PRIMARY
Principal Resource Inducts Many Alarmed & Resentful Youths
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984473 
PRIME
Produce Right Integers Multiplying Eternity
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984251 
PRIME (2)
Pray! Reinvest Income! Methodically Expand!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984275 
PRIME MINISTER
Please Remember I'm Merely Empowered Mortal, I'm Not Infallible - So Try Empathetic Reactions.
Angela Brett
1984389 1984752 
PRIME POWERFUL NUMBERS!
Positive = Recursively Invoke (Multiplication * {Each Prime, One Withheld!} ^ Exponent). Represent Factorisation Uniquely, Luminescing Naturals Unlimited! "Mathematics By Expansion: Reduces Swiftly!"
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. In apronym, <PRIME> is a transitive verb. One Withheld! means that mathematicians do not define <ONE> as a <PRIME>, even though <PRIME> commonly means <FIRST>. <ONE> is called a <UNIT>. "Mathematics By Expansion: Reduces Swiftly!"  fractions. Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic  n.  Every natural number is either prime or may be decomposed uniquely into prime factors. 
1984251 
PRIMES
Positively Represent Individuals! Multiply Essential Services!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984251 
PRIMES (2)
Positives: Represented Integers. Multiplications Essentially Singular!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984251 
PRINCE HAL
Plainly Rather Idle Now, Convinces Everyone He's Adult & Loyal
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's King Henry IV
1984506 
PRINCESS
Public Relations Is Nearly Choking Elegant Stately Symbol.
Angela Brett
1984659 
PRINCESS (2)
Perky Royal In Navarre's Court - Evidently Someone's Smitten
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost
1984548 
PRINCIPAL
Person Responsible Is Normally Chief Instigating Player, And Leader
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984362 
PRINCIPAL (2)
Person, Reputedly In Nominal Charge, Is Prolix And Loquacious
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984362 
PRINCIPAL (3)
People Regularly Invest Notes, Chasing Interest-Paying Annuities / Loans
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984602 
PRINCIPLE
Pithily Rolled Into Neat Clause, I'm Perhaps 'Life-Encapsulating'
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984740 
PRINCIPLE (2)
Pareto Ratio Idea Nearly Covers It... Percentage Law's Everywhere!
Angela Brett (The <PARETO PRINCIPLE>, also known as the 80/20 rule, states that you can get 80 percent of the result with 20 percent of the effort)
1984740 
PRINCIPLE (3)
Pareto's Ratio Idea Nearly Conveys Inversely Proportional Labour & Effect
Angela Brett (see <PRINCIPLE (2)>)
1984740 
PRINTER
Pitiful Rectum Injured.  Never Try Epson Rolls!
Jeff Anonymous
1984611 
PRISCILLA
Presley's Relict In Subsequent Career Is Lovely Leading Actress
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984332 
PRIVATE
Plodding Ranker Is Valiantly Assaulting The Enemy
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984587 
PRIVATE BANKER
Purposely Reaching Individual Victims, All (of) Them End-up Broke And Never Knowing Enjoyment of Riches.
Dundee
1984485 
PRIVATEER
Piratical Robbery In Vast Atlantic Tracts Enriched Elizabeth's Realm
TMcCO'G - Privateers were often English ships which robbed Spanish ships returning to Spain with riches taken from the Americas and 'donating' portions of the booty to the Exchequer.
1984731 1984875 
PRIVATE EYE
Person Researches / Investigates Various Activities That Employer Expects You'll Expose
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984752 
PRIVATE PARTS
People Rarely Inspect Venal Areas That Everyone Possesses, And Restricted To Spouses
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984443 1984365 
PRIVY BOX
Privacy Required In Vault: You Become Outstandingly Xenophobic!
Patricia Rix
1984809 
PRIZES
Payment Received Is Zero$ Each Submission.
Angela Brett - Acronyms.co.nz does not offer prizes for acronyms as no money is made from the site... but you could still boast about being on the hall of fame (http://acronyms.co.nz/halloffame.html) or honours list (http://acronyms.co.nz/honours.html)
1984902 
PRIZES (2)
Primary Reward Is Zealous Enjoyment / Stimulation
Angela Brett (see <PRIZES>)
1984902 
PROBABILITY
Predict Randomness Only By Assuming Bias Isn't Long In Term, Yes?
Angela Brett
1984620 
PROBABLY
Possible Result / Outcome - Basically A Bet Like Yankee
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1985058 
PROBLEM SOLVING TIPS
Pansophic Regime Of Book-Learning Engages Memory Skills; Of Larger Value Is Neatly Gathering Thoughts Into Pliant Structures
Angela Brett
1984740 
PROCLUS
Parallel Rays' Omnipresent Closeness Levels Uncertainty [Sic].
Timothy Chambers (Proclus erroneously proved the parallel postulate by assuming that parallel lines are equidistant.)
1984293 
PROCRASTINATE
Please Realize Our Chores Really Are Stupidly Tedious -- *I'll* Never Accomplish Them Efficiently.
Timothy Chambers
1984275 
PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT
Please Remember Ordinary Daily Users. Code Tuning Isn't Much Prized - Regardless Of Velocity, Exasperation Makes Everything Need Time.
Angela Brett (Most everyday software doesn't really benefit from code-tuning to make each operation run as quickly as possible... productivity really increases when the software is made easier to use.)
1984512 1984605 
PRODUCTION
Play, Revue Or Drama - Usually Critics Take In Opening Night
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984521 
PROFESSIONAL
People Really Oughta Find Electrician, Since Short-circuits Inevitable Occasion Nicks And Lacerations
Patricia Rix (I was thinking of the electician's motto: electricity is not a hobby - hire a professional)
1984485 1984518 
PROFESSIONS
People Rather Offices For Earning Salaries, Since Income's Often Nicely Stable
Tony McCoy OWageearner
1984977 
PROFIGGLE
Patient Rolled Off Furniture, Injuring Gluteus, Grazed Lower Extremities
Tony McCoy O'Grady. 'Profiggle' was originally a contraction for 'prolonged stifled giggle' until Tony gave it this expansion.
1984509 1984296 
PROGENY
Parental Reproduction Often Generates Excessively Numerous Youths
Tony McCondom O'Grady
1984398 
PROGRAMMING
People Require One Good Reference, Alphabetically Making Most Instructions Nimbly Graspable.
Angela Brett
1984512 
PROGRESS
People Running Onwards Get Rewarded Earning Social Status
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984353 
PROJECT
Please Review Our Job Especially Compassionately. Thanks.
Angela Brett, after a meeting with her group for an <INFORMATION SYSTEMS> project.
1984473 
PROLOGUE
Please Read Opening Lines, Offering Guidelines Unto Everyone
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984437 
PROM
Party Requiring Outlay (of) Money
Patricia Rix
1984563 
PROMETHIUM
Possibly Real, Observers Made Experiments To Have Inspected (it) Under Microspectrophotometer.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
PROMISCUOUS
Promises Romance Or Marriage In Seconds Counting Unscrupulously On Unresisted Sex
Rico Leffanta
1984365 1984704 
PROMISE
Proclamation's Read Only Memory... It Shall Endure.
Angela Brett
1984362 
PROMISES
Prior to Release, On Mp3 I Sampled Emerging Single.
Angela Brett, after downloading and listening to an mp3 of the Cranberries' new song, Promises, before it was released as a single.
1984272 
PROMPT
Print Request On Monitor - Please Type!
Angela Brett
1984299 
PROPAGANDA
Pope's Religious Office Puts About Gospel Against Native Deities & Altars
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984326 
PROPOSAL
Paper Relating One's Purpose, Or Strategy, At Length
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984707 
PROPOSALS
People Readily Offer Personal Opinions Solving A Locked Situation
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984707 
PROSPERO
Patiently Rides Out Seclusion Plotting Epic Revenge Operation
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Tempest
1984404 
PROSTITUTE
People Requesting Oral Sex Think It's Too Uneconomical To Enjoy?
Angela Brett
1984485 1984365 
PROTACTINIUM
Particularly Rarely Occurring. Tiny Amounts Cost Thousands. It's Not In Use Much.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984323 
PROTECTION
People Really Ought To Ensure Care's Taken If Outside Nocturnally
Angela Brett
1984353 
PROTECTION (2)
People Really Ought To Ensure Care's Taken If Orgasming Nowadays
Angela Brett, as a modification of <PROTECTION>
1984365 
PROTEST
People Register Opposition To Enemy's Sinister Threat
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984362 1984413 
PROTEUS
Puerile Rascal's Opportunity To Eye Up Silvia
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1984755 
PROTOCOLS
Procedures Rigidly Observed To Obviate Crassness Or Looking Stupid
His Excellency, TheAmbassador@TheCourtOfSaintJames
1984362 
PROTON
Positive, Resists Orbiting To Occupy Nucleus
Gavin Lambert
1984305 1985046 
PROTON (2)
Part Removed Of The Other Nucleon
Angela Brett, since a neutron can react with an electron neutrino to form a proton and an electron, giving the impression that a neutron is an electron plus a proton.
1985046 
PROTON (3)
Particle Reputedly Of Three, One Negative.
Angela Brett - protons are thought to be made up of two positive <UP QUARK>s and one negative <DOWN QUARK>.
1985046 
PROTO-POLYNESIAN
Prehistoric Relative Of Today's Oceanic People's Oral Language. You'd Never Expect Such Interesting Ancestral Notes.
Angela Brett
1984407 
PROVE
Perform Repeatable Objective Verifiable Experiments
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. I have been noticing for decades that a lot of common expressions can be acronymed (I am 58). E.G., HAND for "Have A Nice Day!" I have also coined apronyms for decades (even tho I did not link to your site until SAT 7/19 from acronymfinder.com, which I found on TUES 7/15.) I submitted this definition as my 37th and last to acronymfinder.com & apologized in the comment section that I had not read their guidelines until after my 36th submission.Your site is the most fun I visit. I hope that, above all, kids are encouraged to learn, communicate in, and coin apronyms! My favorite from your site is <INFINITY>! (I am a <MATH WIZ>.)
1984248 
PROVE (2)
Provide Rational Obvious Verifiable Evidence
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Just a variation of <PROVE>, when operating in a more common, not necesarily experimental, mode.
1984248 
PROVERBS
Practical Recitation Of Valuable Educational Resources, Became Sayings
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984329 
PROWL
Parade Romantic Opulence Women Love
Rico Leffanta
1984365 
PROXY
Person Registers Other's X, Yes?
Tony McCoy O'Grady ('Proxy' is a term used to describe someone authorised to vote for someone else. The 'X' stands for a vote.)
1984413 
PSALMS
Poetic Songs And Lyrics, Much Sung
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984329 
PSHAW
Pathetic Sarcasm Hasn't Actually Worked
Tony McCoy O'Grady
0 
PSYCHOLOGY
Perhaps Somehow You Can Help Others Live Out Golden Years
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984398 
PSYDUCK
Psychokinetic Superpowers You Don't Understand Could Kill!
Angela Brett (Psyduck is Pokemon #54... and they don't really kill, they could just make your pokemon faint.)
1984284 
PTOLEMY
Postulated That Otherworlds Looped Earth & Moon Yearly.
Angela Brett
1984293 
PUBERTY
Penis, Uterus Be Expanding Rapidly Through Youth
Jeff Anonymous
1984398 
PUBIC HAIRS
Prickles Upsurge By Intimate Crevices, Heralding Adulthood & Insulating Reproduction Sites.
Angela Brett
1984443 
PUCK
Patently Unruly Chaos King
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
1984671 
PUCKER UP
Please Understand Cheek Kisses Erode Romantic Urges Paradoxically
Rico Leffanta
1984365 
PUCKER UP (2)
Proper Upper Class Kisses Excite Randy Underprivileged Peckers
Rico Leffanta - 'Peckers' is a pun based on the American 'peck' for a casual kiss and 'pecker', - a synonym for penis.
1984365 
PUDDLES
Pools (Usually Dreadfully Dirty) Linger, Evaporating Slowly
Tony MuckOy O'Grady
1984353 
PUKE
Partially Undigested Kilojoules Ejected
Angela Brett
1984488 
PULSARS
Probably Unpopulated Locations,  Some Are Remotely Studied.
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984386 
PUMA
Puma: Ultimate Mac Advancement
Acronymous Anonymous (referring to the version of <MAC OS X> before <JAGUAR>)
1984446 
PUMA ATTACKS ZEBRA 
Pertinent Unto Mainland America, Apparently This Terrible Animal Can Kill Skilful Zoological Entity Based Round Africa
Tony the Tiger, after somebody on the forums said 'puny puma pit their skills against zebras.'
1984494 
PUNCH CARD
Punch Using 'Nuff Clout, Hanging Chads Are Rarely Deciphered
Sean Lamb
1984512 
PUNCTUATION
Perhaps Underutilised, Need Commas To Understand Acronyms!  Trivial Indeed, One Nods
Gavin Lambert
1984407 1984320 
PUNK
Person Uncovering Nobby Knees
Rico Leffanta
1984362 
PUNK ROCK
Present Underwear Near Knees Rip Off Chains Kinetically
Rico Leffanta
1984410 
PUNLESS
Polite Unadorned Natural Laughter Expresses Simplicity Sometimes
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Angela said he was <SLIPPING>
1984314 
PUNS
Playful, Unexpected Nuances Surprise!
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
1984314 
PUNS (2)
Paronomasia Unearths Natural Silliness
Angela Brett
1984314 
PUPPET
Pulling Upon Plaything's Pieces Entertains Tots
Tony McCoy O'Grady, as an example of something which is worse with <NO STRINGS ATTACHED> (Pulling Strings)
1985055 
PUPPIES
People Usually Prefer Pets If Extra Small
Angela Brett
1984494 
PURCHASING
People Using Resources Can Haggle And/or Shop In New Grocers
Tony McCoy O'ShoppingTrolley
1984605 
PURCHASING POWER
People Using Real Cash Have A Strength In Numbers, Grocers Provide Offers Which Earn Revenue
TMcCO'G
1984605 
PURE
Perfectly Unsullied, Remaining Entire
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984278 
PURE (2)
Perfectly (Unillogical) Reasonable Expansion
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Jeff suggested putting <LAURA> in the credit of <MICHAEL SEILER>, 'so as not to fill the stack and site with PURE nonsense.' Of course the capitalised PURE demanded a pure expansion.
1984320 
PURE METHAMPHETAMINE
Popularly Used Rage Excuse, Maybe Everyone That Has Any May Plead Helplessness Even Though A Murder Is Never Excusable.
Angela Brett, after 'P' was blamed for a murder (it seems to be blamed for everything these days.)
1984338 
PURGATORY
Punishment Until Residual Guilt Atoned, Then Openly Regard Yahweh
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984326 1984245 
PURGE
Purify Using Registered General Emetic
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984275 
PURITY
Penises Usually Relegate It To Yesterday
Angela Brett, after (<CHAP (2)>) was given a 100% purity rating by the acronym submission form.
1984365 1984353 
PURPLE
Prussian-blue Underneath Red Paint... & Lavender's Engineered!
Angela Brett
1984491 
PURPLE (2)
Perhaps Upperclass/ Royal People Look Elegant
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984491 
PURPPLE
Pinnk, Umbber, Redd, Peeach, Pearrl, Lemmon and Euccalyptus
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Angela pointed out that he'd put an extra P word in the expansion of PURPLE in the 'ROSES ARE RED...' acronym. He explained that purpple is a particularly strong colour made up of those listed in the expansion.
1984296 1984491 
PUSS
Pretty, Unusual, Silky, Sleeping
Patricia Rix
1984494 
PUSSY CAT
Purring Under Suzy's Sweet Yellow Cardie -  Absolute Tranquility
Mary Carr
1984494 
PUT A SOCK IN IT
Politeness (is) Usually Thoughtful. A Soupcon Of Consideration & Kindness Is Needed, I'm Thinking
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984533 
PUT A SOCK ON IT
Pen Up Thermal Activity So Outside Cold Keeps Out... Nice Insulated Toes.
Angela Brett
1984896 1984533 
PUTER
Pathetic Useless Tangled Electronic Rubbish!
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984677 
PUT OUT
Place Unwanted Thing(s) Outside Until Trashday
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984275 
PVC
Pretty Vulgar Clothing
Angela Brett (PVC usually stands for Poly-Vinyl Chloride)
1984242 1984575 
PVC (2)
Perfectly Viable Clothing
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984575 1984242 
PYTHAGORAS
Predict Your Triangle's Hypotenuse... Assuming Geometrically Orthogonal - Right-Angled - Sides.
Angela Brett
1984293 
PYTHAGORAS (2)
Prove Your Theorem - Hypotenuses Arranged & Geometry Obviates Relative Areas of Squares.
Angela Brett
1984293 
PYTHAGORAS (3)
Perhaps You Think He Achieved Greatness Of Reputation Alone... Sorry!
Angela Brett, because much of the mathematics attributed to Pythagoras was actually by other members of the Pythagorean sect.
1984293 
PYTHON
Pursues You, Then Has Ophidian Nutrition
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984818 
PYURIA
Pus (in) Your Urine Readily Indicates Affliction
Tony McCoy O'Grady
1984488 
