List Of Acronyms - Updated 12/1/05
Following is a list of woodworking acronyms. Please feel free to post and/or send me a PM with additions, modifications, comments, spelling, etc. I’ll update the list as I receive the comments. (Note: not all acronyms listed are strictly woodworking terms, rather used frequently in wood forums).
If you can’t find the acronym(s) here, www.acronymfinder.com.
Note: Objectionable and subjective language and/or subject matters, i.e., forum member names have been eliminated from this list as they have always generated a lot of controversy when either included/excluded. Anyway, most if not all of the acronyms that are not being included are well know to most users.
There have been 21 items added or modified since last update of 3/15/05 (see items with an *)
Regards, Joe
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* Added/Modified since last post
6Ps - Piss Poor Planning Produces Pitiful Performance (also see PPPPPP)
7Ps - Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance (also see PPPPPPP)
*NM* - No Message
AAW - American Association of Woodturners
ABC - Anything But Craftsman
AD - Air Dried (something that has beed dried just by exposure to air)
AH - Absolute Humidity
__ - Air Handler
AMF - Adios My Friend
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
AGTH - Always Glad To Help
AHJ - Authority Having Jurisdiction (aka, building inspector)
ALC - Acrylic Latex Caulk
ANI - Automatic Number Identification (as in caller ID)
APB - All Points Bulletin
ARU - Automatic Response Unit (as in push 1 for service, 2 for complaints, etc)
ASAP - As Soon As Possible
ASWR - ??? (could it be answer ?)
ATAPCW - Adhering To A Politically Correct World
AWW - American WoodWorkers Magazine
B/C - BeCause
BANANA - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything
BB - Baltic Birch,
___- Best Buy
BDC - Bottom Dead Center
BDFT - BoarD FeeT
BF - Board Foot
BFD - Big Flippin' Deal
BFH - Big Friendly Hammer
BP - Badger Pond - for-runner of SMC (Saw Mill Creek)
BF - Board Feet
BIL - Brother-In-Law
BJ - Biscuit Joiner
BLO - Boiled Linseed Oil
BLOG - weBLOG (web log) - online journal of web activity
BOAT - Bring On Another Thousand
BOHICA - Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
* BOL - Bunch Of Lumber
* ____- Best Of Luck
BORG - Buying ORGanization, Home Depot, Lowe’s, etc
_____- "A group of different races on the Star Trek Next Generation series that ..."
_____- Big Old (Orange) Retail Giant
BOSS - Delta’s Bench Oscillating Spindle Sander
BPA - Back Panel Assembly
BRO - Best Reasonable Offer
BS - Band Saw
___- Big Shot
BTDT - Been There, Done That
BTW - By The Way
BYOB - Bring Your Own Bottle
BW - BridgeWood, manufacture of woodworking machines
CA - CryanoAcrylate, basically super glue
* CANT - ??? (something to do with lumber amount)
CC - Cube Centimeters (1 cc = .061 sq in)
CCD - Charged Couple Device - chips used in Digital Cameras
CDAOWTSIO - ???
CE - Civil Engineer
CEFGW - Close Enough For Government Work
CFIC - Chief Flunky In Charge
CH - Campbell Hausfield, manufacture of air compressers
* CI - Cast Iron
CM - CentiMeter (1 cm = .3937 in)
___- CraftsMan
CMS - Compound Miter Saw
CNC - Computer Numerical Control
CNU - ???
CNY - Central New York
COTE - Curvature Of The Earth (what I forgot to take into consideration when the cut came out wrong)
CPS - CentiPoiSe - measurement of flow (viscosity) as in glue, where 1 cps = water, 1000 cps = honey
CPSC - Consumer Preduct Safety Commission
CRS - Can't Remember Stuff
CS - Contractors (Cabinet, Circular) Saw
CSMS - Compound Sliding Miter Saw
CSR - Customer Service Representative
CVG - Clear Vertical Grain
CWD - Cool Web Design
D4 - model number of leigh jig's 24" dovetail jig
DAISAID - Do As I Said, Not As I Do
DAMHIKT - Don’t Ask Me How I Know This
DC - Dust Collector
DF - Douglas Fir
DFW - Dallas/FortWorth area
DIB - ??? (something to do with diameter of tree log)
DILLIGIFF - Do I Look Like I Give A Flyin' Flip
DDC - Dino’s Dust Collector
DIY - Do It Yourself
DP - Drill Press
dpi - Dots Per Inch
DSTM - Don’t Shot The Messager
DW - DeWalt, manufacture of power tools
DWJFDI - Don't Wimp, Just Flippin' Do It
E - Eurekazone, Saw Guide System Company
EADJ - Electrically Assisted Dovetail Joinery
EC - Entertainment Center
EMC - Equilibrium Moisture Content
ETYWTKAABWATA - EveryThing You Wanted To Know About Acronyms But Were Afraid To Ask
EVSPK - model number of a Bosch Router
EWP - Eastern White Pine
F - Festool, manufacture of woodworking tools
FA - Festoolies Anonymous
FAIT - Fix It Again Tony
FAQ - Frequent Asked Questions
FAS - First And Seconds (wood grading term)
FAY - For All of You
FCLP - Field Carrier Landing Practice
FHB - Find Home Builder
FIADO - Forget It And Drive On
FIGG - ???
FIGMO - Forget It, Got My Marching Orders
FIOS - Fiber To The Perimeter (aka Fiber Optic Services)
FL - Flat Lander (one that works with flat wood, see FW)
* FLAPS - Friendly Local Auto Parts Store
FMLA - Family & Medical Leave Act
FMT - leigh jig’s Frame Mortise and Tenon Jig
FOB - Free On Board
FOG - Felder's Owners Group
FP - Freedom Pen
FPP - Freedom Pen Project
FS - For Sale
___- Feet Square
FT - FeeT
FUBR - Foulded Up Beyond Repair (Reality, Reason, Recall, Recovery, Relief, Repair, - Restitution, Running)
FUBAR - Fouled Up But All Right
FUBB - Fouled Up Beyond Belief
FUGAZI - Fouled Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In
FUMTU - Fouled Up More Than Usual
FW - Flat Worker (one that works with flat wood, see FL)
FWIW - For What It’s Worth
FWW - Fine WoodWorking
* FYI - For Your Information
G1S - Good 1 Side
GB - GigaBytes (thousand megabytes, i.e., thousand million, 1,000,000,000)
GC - Gift Certificate
GCSS - Guided Circular Saw System
GFCI - Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter
GFY - Good For You
GHR - ???
* GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out
GNW - Great NorthWest
GOLD - as in Powermatic, manufacture of woodworking machines
GRAY - as in Porter Cable, manufacture of woodworking tools
GRR - ripper and mt splitter (by Micro Jig)
GR - Guide Rail
GREEN - as in Bridgewood, manufacture of woodworking machines
GTH - Glad To Help
GUMP - Graphical User Menu Pop-up
HCWG - Howard County Woodworking Guild
HD - Home Depot,
___- Heavy Duty
HDL - Honey Do List
HDPE - High Density Polyethylene
HEMI - HEMIspherically shaped combustion chambers
HF - Harbor Freight, catalog store
HFCD - Harbor Freight Dust Collector
Hitachi - manufacture of woodworking tools
HM - Home Magazine, as in woodworking@HM
HO - Honest Opinion
HOOGAFF - wHoo Gives A Flyin' Flip
HOA - Home Owners Association
HRO - Hampton Roads Online (where SawMill Creek lives)
HTH - How The Heck,
____- Hope This Helps,
____- Happy To Help
IGIT - ???
IIRC - If I Recall Correctly
IRYC - If I Read You Correctly
IJWFMOML - I Just Wasted Five Minutes Of My Life
IMBF - It Must Be Friday
IME - In My Experience (Estimate)
IMHO - In My Humble (Honest) Opinion
IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble (Honest) Opinion
IMO - In My Opinion,
____- Initial Money Outlay
IOW - In Other Words
IR - Insoll-Rand, Pneumatics Products Company
ISA - Industry Standard Architecture (PC software)
ISC - I Stand Corrected
* ISP - Internet Service Provider
ITURRA - manufacture of band saw equipment
IVROCS - Integrated, Variable, Rotational, Overhead, Clamping System (with piece of wood)
J/P - Joiner/Planner
JACS - Just Above Congressioinal Standard
JD - John Deere, manufacture of farm equipment
JFDI - Just Freaking Do It
JFS - Just For Starters
* JK - Just Kidding
JMHAO - ???
JMO - Just My Opinion
JOB - Just Over Broke
KB - KiloBytes - thousand bytes (bits) (thousand, in binary, is really 1024)
KIA - Killed In Action
kilm - over of some type used for drying things, especially pottery and wood
kilm dried - wood that has been dried in a kilm
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
KMA - ???
* LMAO - ???
LB - Leaf Blower
LFOD - Live Free Or Die
* LIB - Linear Incremental Backoff
LOA - List Of Acronyms
LOL - Love Of Life,
____- Laugh(ing) Out Loud
____- Lots Of Luck
LOHL - Love Of Her (His) Life
LOML - Love Of My Life
LOYL - Love Of Your Life
LN - Lie-Nielsen,
___- Like New
LULU - Locally Unwanted Land Use
LV - Lee Valley, catalog of fine hand tools
Lyptus - (great) new wood from Brazil
M&T - Mortise & Tenon
M12V - a hitachi's router number
*MB - MegaBytes - million bytes (bits)
MC - Methlene Chloride (Paint Stripper),
___- Moisture Contents
MDF - Medium Density Fiber(board),
____- Medium Density Fiberboard (construction)
MEK - Methyl Ethyl Ketone
melamite - a hard plastic used for laminated coatings
MFT - ???
MIA - Missing In Action
MIL - Mother-In-Law
MO - Mineral Oil
MM - Mini Max, manufacture of woodworking machines,
___- MilliMeter (25.4mm = in)
MO - Modus Operandi (latin: mode of operation)
MOG - Minimax Owners Guide
MOL - More Or Less
MSRP - Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
NASA - Not Another Supid Accessory
NEC - National Electrical Code
NEEBEE - see NEWBEE
NEWBEE - new to a particular item, i.e., career, forum, hobby, etc
NFG - No Freaking Good
NHLA - National Hardwood Lumber Association
NMP - Not My Problem
NOOB - None Of Our Business
NSL - No Such Luck
NTMS - ???
NYW - New Yankee Workshop
NYWS - New Yankee WorkShop
OBO - Or Best Offer
OBS - Oriened Strand Board
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacture
OMG - Oh My Goodness (God, Gosh)
OMS - Odorless Mineral Spirits
OSHA - Occupational Safety & Health Adminstration
OSRDCHS - Overhead, Supended, Rotational, Dust Collection Hose System (w/string)
OSS - Oscilating Spindle Sander
____- On Site Service
* OT - Off Topic
OTDDTR - Out The Door, Down The Road
OTH - ???
OTOH - On The Other Hand
OTR - Off The Record
OTS - Offer To Sell
OTW - Off The Wall
OWWM - Old WoodWorking Machines
P/V - ???
PAD - Precision Adjustment Device (dead blow hammer)
PB - Polish Brass
PC - Personal Computer(s)
___- Porter Cable (manufacture of woodworking tools)
PDO - Personnel Day(s) Off
PDQ - Pretty Damn Quick
PFM - Pure Freaking Magic
PM - PowerMatic, manufacture of woodworking machines,
___- Private Message
PPPPPP - Piss Poor Planning Produces Pitiful Performance (also see 6Ps)
PPPPPPP - Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance (also see 7Ps)
POC - Piece Of Cake,
____- Pile Of Crap
POLY - POLYurethane i.e., gorilla glue
POND - badger POND, for-runner of SMC (Saw Mill Creek)
POS - Parent(s) Over the Shoulder (chat room),
POV - Point Of View
PPI - Pixils Per Inch
PS - Pocket Screws
PSI - Pounds per Square Inch
PSL - Plumb, Square & Level
PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network
PTL - Praise The Lord
PTO - Power Take Off
PVA - PollyVinyl Acetates, glue
PVR - Personel Video Recorder (see TIVO)
QED - latin for "Quod Erat Demonstratum" or "which was to be demonstrated"
* QFT - Quote For Truth
QS - Quarter Sawn
QSRO - Quarter Sawn Red Oak
QSWO - Quarter Sawn White Oak
QTRSWN - QuarTeR SaWN
* RAC - Right Angle Clamp
RAS - Radial Arm Saw
RBL2 - "handle" of a woodnet.net member, a wood forum
RED - as in Milwaukee, manufacture of woodworking tools
RBO - ???
REA - ???
REFURB - Refurbished (tool)
RFB - Request For Bid
RFI - Request For Information
RFQ - Request For Quote
RGH - RouGH (lumber)
RL - Random Length
RICK - "pile of hay",
____- "pile of wood, stacked, ready for air drying"
RO - Red Oak
ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROFLOL - Rolling On Floor Laughing Out Loud
ROS - Random Orbit Sander
RR - Router Raizer
RSE - Rip Single Edge
RTFM - Read The Friendly Manual
RTF - Rigid ThermoFoil (panel, laminate or veneer)
RTFP - Read The Friendly Print
RTFT - Read The Friendly Topic
RWRL - Random Width/Random Length
S1S - Surfaced 1 Side
S1E - Surfaced 1 Edge
S2S - Surfaced 2 Sides
S2E - Surfaced 2 Edges
S1S1E - Surfaced 1 Side 1 Edge
S1S2E - Surfaced 1 Side 2 Edges
S2S1E - Surfaced 2 Sides 1 Edge
S4S - Surfaced 4 Sides
SAFIMID - Stick A Fork In Me, I’m Done
SAL - Siliconized Acrylic Latex
SBC - Southwestern Bell Company
SCMS - Sliding Compound Miter Saw
SCVG - Straight Clear Vertical Grain
SELECT - Select (wood grading term)
SF - Square Feet
SIGG - Sorry, I Gotta Go
SIGMO - Screw It, i've Got My Orders
SIL - Sister-In-Law,
___- Son-In-Law
SK - Solar Kiln
SLLYP - ???
SLR - Single Len Reflex (camera)
* __- Straight Line Rip
SM - Service Measure
SM&N - ???
SMC - SawMillCreek,
____- Saw Mill Creek
SNAFU - Situation Normal, All Fouled Up
SO - Significant Other
SOAP - Significant Other Assimilation Program
SOS - Stuck On Stupid,
____- Same Old Stuff
spam - unwanted sales solicitation via internet
SPAM - registered trade mark of Homel’ canned meat product
SQRT - SQuare RooT
SRL - Single Lens Reflex (camera)
* __- Straight Line Rip
SS - Scroll Saw,
___- Single Speed
SSDD - Same Stuff, Different Day
SSS - Satelite Saw System (Dino, YCF’s System)
STFU - Shut The Freak Up
STS - Sad To Say
SUSFU - Situation Unchanged, Still Fouled Up
SWHTM - She Who Has The Money
SWIWTP - She Who I Want To Please
SWMBO - She Who Must Be Obeyed
SYP - Southern Yellow Pine
T/L - Truck Load
T/Ls - Tractor Loads
TAIGFN - That’s All I Got For Now
TARFU - Things Are Really Fouled Up
TAT - Turn-a-Thon
* __- This And That
TBA - To Be Announced
TC - Technologically Challenged
___- Triple Cities (minn/st paul, mn)
TDC - Top Dead Center
TDY - Tour of DuTy,
____- TempOry Duty
TEGO - The Eyes Glaze Over
TIA - Thanks In Advance
TIR - Total Indicated Runout (reading)
TIVO - A brand of personal video recorder (see PVR)
TLA - Telephone Network Adapter
TMI - Too Much Information
TOH - This Old House
TMOA - The Mall Of America (i.e., shopping mall)
TOS - Term Of Service
____- Time Of Sale
TPI - Teeth Per Inch
TS - Table Saw
TSC - Tractor Supply Company
TTFN - Ta Ta for Now
* TWAIN - Technologh Without An Interesting Name
UHMWP - Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene
URAC - yoU aRe A Champ (Chump)
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
VCT - Vinyl Composite Tile
VS - Variable Speed
* WB - workbench
WC - WoodCentral, a wood forum
* WDYT - What Do You Think
WGAF - Who Gives A Flip
WOFTAM - Waste Of Freaking Time And Money
WTF - What The Freak
WTH - What The Heck (Hell)
WN - WoodNet, a wood forum
WO - White Oak
WRC - Western Red Cedar
WRT - With Regards To
WTB - Want (Wanted, Wanting) To Buy
WTF - What (Where, Who, Why) The Freak
WTH - What The Heck,
____- "What This ? Help"
WVTR - ???
WW’ing - WoodWorkING
WWFW - WoodWorking For Women
WYE - ???
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
YADA - Yet Another Dangling Acronym
YCF - Your Carpenter Friend (Dino)
YELLOW - as in DeWalt, manufacture of power tools
YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary
YOYO - You’re On Your Own
ZCI - Zero Clearance Insert
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