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.

The acronym GUT was first coined in 1978 by CERN researchers John Ellis, Andrzej Buras, Mary K. Gaillard, and Dimitri Nanopoulos, however in the final version of their paper they opted for the less anatomical GUM ( Grand Unification Mass ).

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.

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.

Daniel Araoz subsequently coined the acronym " TEAM " to symbolise the subject's orientation to hypnosis in terms of " trust ", " expectation ", " attitude ", and " motivation ".

LASER notebook: First page of the notebook wherein Gordon Gould coined the LASER acronym, and described the technology | technologic elements for constructing the device.

Open circuit demand scuba is a 1943 invention by the Frenchmen Émile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, but in the English language Lambertsen's acronym has become common usage and the name Aqua-Lung, ( often spelled " aqualung "), coined by Cousteau for use in English-speaking countries, has fallen into secondary use.

Yaoi is an acronym created in the dōjinshi market of the late 1970s by Yasuko Sakata and Akiko Hatsu and coined in the 1980s standing for.

The magazine Anything That Moves coined the acronym FABGLITTER ( from Fetish such as the BDSM lifestyle community, Allies or poly-Amorous as in Polyamorous couples became more used, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Intersexed, Transgender, Transsexual Engendering Revolution or inter-Racial attraction ), although this term has not made its way into common usage.

The acronym term " YBA " ( or " yBa ") was not coined until 1996 ( in Art Monthly magazine ).

The acronym was coined in the 1980s by University of Denver professors Penelope Canan and George W. Pring.

Newi is an acronym for NEw World Infrastructure, a software architecture for software componentry, mostly known as Newi Business Objects which coined the term business object.

The acronym was coined in 1961 and the first aircraft modified for TACAMO testing was a Lockheed KC-130 Hercules which in 1962 was fitted with a VLF transmitter and trailing wire antenna to test communications with the fleet ballistic missile submarines.

The acronym DRAGN ( for ' Double Radiosource Associated with Galactic Nucleus ') has been coined.

A United States Army acronym standing for Technical Integration Group Engaged in Research believed to be coined by a member of the Headquarters, Department of the Army Staff in the early 1970s.

The term Auslan is an acronym of " Australian sign language ", coined by Trevor Johnston in the early 1980s, although the language itself is much older.

Specifically, Wallace Koehler, a technician working for the Manhattan Project at Chicago Pile 1, under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, and later a research physicist at ORNL, reportedly said that Enrico Fermi coined the term as this acronym.

Among the staff and students, the acronym for the school's name, CSKYWLA ( pronounced " see-skee-WAH-lah "), has been coined as a protologism to which this definition has given – " to be empowered by scholarship, non-violence, and social change.

* Bring That Booty, an acronym coined by Darryl Philbin from the American TV show The Office ( U. S. TV Series )

A persistent critic of Charles Haughey, O ' Brien coined the acronym GUBU ( Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented ), based on a statement by Charles Haughey, who was then Taoiseach, commenting on the discovery of a murder suspect, Malcolm MacArthur, in the apartment of the Fianna Fáil Attorney General Patrick Connolly.

The acronym serpin was originally coined because many serpins inhibit chymotrypsin-like serine proteases ( serine protease inhibitors ).

The acronym Dumbo arose in 1978, when new residents coined it in the belief such an unattractive name would help deter developers.

The first page of the notebook in which Gould coined the acronym LASER and described the essential elements for constructing one.

Thomas also coined the acronym " EGOT ", meaning " Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony ", in reference to his plans for winning all four.

Also in 1974 Tattersall and Fajans coined the acronym MODY which was defined as ' fasting hyperglycaemia diagnosed under age 25 which could be treated without insulin for more than two years '.