The term BDSM was coined as a condensed acronym in the 1990s to combine communities and practices that had a significant amount of crossover – bondage and discipline ( B & D or B / D ), dominance and submission ( D & S or D / s ), and sadomasochism or sadism and masochism ( S & M or S / M ).

COINTELPRO ( an acronym for Counterintelligence Program ) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

The theory that the word originated as an acronym from the names of the group of ministers is a folk etymology, although the coincidence was noted at the time and could possibly have popularized its use.

The new car's name was an acronym of the company's partners ' surnames:

Decca employees used to joke that DECCA was an acronym for Dedicated Englishmen Causing Chaos Abroad.

The acronym FAQ was developed between 1982-1985 by Eugene Miya of NASA for the SPACE mailing list.

The name " FUDGE " was once an acronym for Freeform Universal Donated ( later, Do-it-yourself ) Gaming Engine and, though the acronym has since been dropped, that phrase remains a good summation of the game's design goals.

Originally the name FASA was an acronym for " Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration ", a joking allusion to the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.

Among measures taken by Conte to try and shore up his support within the military after 2007 was the transfer of the ' popular Sékouba Konaté to Conakry to head the parachute Autonomous Battalion of Airborne Troops ( French acronym BATA ) in an attempt to calm the troops.

Nanopoulos later that year was the first to use the acronym in a paper.

Beginning in Naples in 1859 and spreading throughout Italy, the slogan " Viva VERDI " was used as an acronym for Viva Vittorio Emanuele Re

: The fluidity and wit of the witches is evident in the ever-changing acronym: the basic, original title was Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell [...] and the latest heard at this writing is Women Inspired to Commit Herstory.

The acronym IRA was first used by the IRB organisation in America ( also known as the Fenian Brotherhood ).

In a Dáil Éireann debate, Proinsias De Rossa was less enthusiastic: The acronym IONA is a useful way of addressing the coming together of these two islands.

The acronym was coined by Kelly Johnson, lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works ( creators of the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird spy planes, among many others ).

Mosheh ben Maimon ( משה בן מימון )‎, called Moses Maimonides and also known as Mūsā ibn Maymūn (), or RaMBaM ( רמב " ם – Hebrew acronym for " Rabbi Mosheh Ben Maimon "), was a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the most prolific and followed Torah scholars and physicians of the Middle Ages.

The World Organisation for Animal Health is the intergovernmental organisation responsible for improving animal health worldwide and was created by an international agreement as the International Office of Epizootics ( still known by its French acronym Office International des Epizooties-OIE ) on 25 January 1924.

This acronym conflicted with that of the UK ’ s National Physical Laboratory and was

Stimulated emission was first observed in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum, giving rise to the acronym MASER for Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

The term RADAR was coined in 1941 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging.

The next album, BTTB ( 1998 ) – an acronym for " Back to the Basics " – was a fairly opaque reaction to the prior year's multilayered, lushly orchestrated Discord.

Shlomo Yitzhaki (), or in Latin Salomon Isaacides, and today generally known by the acronym Rashi (, RAbbi SHlomo Itzhaki ; February 22, 1040 – July 13, 1105 ), was a medieval French rabbi and long highly esteemed as a major contribution Ashkenazi Jewry gave to Torah study.

It was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the acronym SFWA after a very brief use of the SFFWA.

In 1990 Gartner Group first employed the acronym ERP as an extension of material requirements planning ( MRP ), later manufacturing resource planning

The highly successful BattleTech line led to a series of video games, some of the first virtual reality gaming suites, called Virtual World ( created by a subdivision of the company known at the time of development as ESP, an acronym for " Extremely Secret Project ") and a Saturday-morning animated TV series.

Inner peace is also the first of four concepts to living life in the rave culture acronym PLUR.

The first Soviet " RPGs " ( RPG-40, RPG-43 and RPG-6 ) were, in fact, thrown hand grenades, and the acronym stood for ручная противотанковая граната, or " hand-held anti-tank grenade ", obviously not a launcher.

* Most recursive acronyms are recursive on the first letter, which is therefore an arbitrary choice, often selected for reasons of humour, ease of pronunciation, or consistency with an earlier acronym that used the same letters for different words, such as PHP: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, which was originally " Personal home page ".

However, one of its original authors, Laurence Lundblade, insists this was never the case and that it started off simply as a word and not an acronym, and that his first choice of a backronym for pine would be " Pine Is Nearly Elm ".

Planner ( often seen in publications as " PLANNER " although it is not an acronym ) is a programming language designed by Carl Hewitt at MIT, and first published in 1969.

Soon after his death, Foucault's partner Daniel Defert founded the first national AIDS organisation in France, which he called AIDES ; a pun on the French language word for " help " ( aide ) and the English language acronym for the disease.

The book first publicized the acronym TANSTAAFL (" There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch "), and helped popularize the constructed language Loglan, which is used in the story for precise human-computer interaction.

Amid the first talk of the Spanish government investigating the ties of Herri Batasuna with ETA, in 1998 Herri Batasuna was the driving force of the newly formed Euskal Herritarrok ( We Basque Citizens ) coalition, an acronym which got the best results to date for Basque left separatism in the Basque community, with 224, 000 votes out of a total of 1, 250, 000 in the Basque election held that year.

CompuServe ( CompuServe Information Service, also known by its acronym CIS ) was the first major commercial online service in the United States.

When Billy first meets him, Shazam tells Billy that his name is an acronym for six ancient heroes.

JOSS ( an acronym for JOHNNIAC Open Shop System ) was one of the very first interactive, time sharing programming languages.

It was first called the Scholastic Aptitude Test, then the Scholastic Assessment Test, but now SAT does not stand for anything, hence it is an empty acronym.

When Mario first acquires FLUDD ( an acronym for Flash Liquidizing Ultra Dousing Device ), he can spray and hover in the air using its nozzles.

The Political and Security Committee ( PSC or " COPS " from its French acronym ) first established as an interim body in 2000 is described by the Nice European Council Conclusions as the " linchpin " of the European Security and Defence Policy and the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

The acronym was originally for Villeneuve d ' Ascq à Lille ( Villeneuve d ' Ascq to Lille ), the route of the first line to be projected ( and inaugurated ).

Impressed by the girls, Reid renamed the group " TLC " ( an acronym of the first letters of each of their names ) and arranged an audition for them with local record label LaFace Records, run by Kenneth " Babyface " Edmonds and Reid's then-husband, Antonio " L. A ." Reid.

Prime ( Latin for " first ") or the acronym PRIME may also refer to:

The NET acronym has since been revived twice: first in 1993 through 1997 as National Empowerment Television ( later known as " America's Voice "), a cable channel that aired news and talk programming catering to a conservative ( especially paleoconservative ) audience ; and in 2005, when Nebraska ETV and Nebraska Public Radio were united under a single name, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications.

One of dredg's main influences on the album, El Cielo, was a painting by Salvador Dalí entitled Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening, which is also what the acronym in the first song on the album, " Brushstroke: dcbtfoabaaposba ", stands for.