List Of Acronyms, Updated 4/17/2007
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*NM* ‑ No Message
AAW ‑ American Association of Wood turners
ABC - Anything But Craftsman
* AC - Air Conditioner
* ACRONYM - Alphabetically Coded Reminder Of Names You Mis-remember
AD - Air Dried (something that has been 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
* BD - Bevel Down
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
* B/L - Bill of Lading
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
*___ - Bill Of Lading
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 ‑ Bench Oscillating Spindle Sander by Delta
BPA ‑ Back Panel Assembly
Bridge - a new offering from Eurekazone, table type, for cutting wood
BRO ‑ Best Reasonable Offer
BS ‑ Band Saw
___- Big Shot
*__- Blue Steel
BTDT - Been There, Done That
BTW ‑ By The Way
* bump - submitting a POST will "bump" the THREAD to the top of the list so
________people see it if missed it and/or be reminded of it
* BU - Bevel Up
BW ‑ BridgeWood, manufacture of woodworking machines
BYOB ‑ Bring Your Own Bottle
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
* Delta - a manufacture of woodworking equipment
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
* DM - David Marks
* DNA - DeNatured Alcohol
* Domino - new offering from Festool for cutting floating miter joints
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
* EFSTS - European Format Sliding Table Saw
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
FTB - For The Birds
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)
* FWIR - From What I Recall
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
* HBDT - Half Blind DoveTail
HCWG - Howard County Woodworking Guild
HD ‑ Home Depot
____- Heavy Duty
HDL ‑ Honey Do List
HDPE ‑ High Density Polyethylene
* HDT - Heavy Duty Tools
HEMI ‑ HEMIspherically shaped combustion chambers
HF ‑ Harbor Freight, catalog store
*_ - Hollow Form, wood turning, piece with small opening on top, large excavated
____ interior
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
* HWMNBN - He (Her) Who Must Not Be Named
* IATDMFOTFOTE - I Am The Dumbest Moronic Fool On The Face Of The Earth
* IGIT ‑ ??? (use: "we had an igit get together")
IIRC ‑ If I Recall Correctly
* IIRYC ‑ 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
* IM - Instant Messaging
* IO - Input/Output as in computer terminology
*___- turning term meaning ???
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 (w/ 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
* JWW - Japan WoodWorker
KB - KiloBytes - thousand bytes (bits) (thousand, in binary, is really 1024)
KIA ‑ Killed In Action
kiln - over of some type used for drying things, especially pottery and wood
kiln dried - wood that has been dried in a kilm
KISS ‑ Keep It Simple Stupid
KMA ‑ ???
* KWIM - Know What I Mean
* LA - Low Angle
* LMAO - Laughing My A@@ Off
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
* LTL - Less that Trailer Load (i.e., extra charge because not TL)
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
* MCWW - Montgomery County WoodWorker's guild
MDF ‑ Medium Density Fiber(board),
____ - Density Fiberboard (construction)
MEK ‑ Methyl Ethyl Ketone
* MF - Mycro Forms
* ___ - Miniture Forms
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
* MS - Mineral Spirits
MSRP ‑ Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
NASA ‑ Not Another Supid Accessory
* NE - Nature Edge, wood turning term
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
* OSB - Oriented Strand Board
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
* PF - Power Feed
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)
* PC - Personal Computer
*____- Porter Cable, a manufacture of woodworking equipment
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
* PT - Pressure Treated
PTL - Praise The Lord
PTO ‑ Power Take Off
PVA ‑ PollyVinyl Acetates, glue
PVR ‑ Personel Video Recorder (see TIVO)
* PW - Popular Woodworking
* PWAG - Preliminary Wild A@@ Guess
QED ‑ latin for AQuod Erat Demonstratum@ or "which was to be demonstrated"
QFT - Quote For Truth
QS ‑ Quarter Sawn
QSRO ‑ Quarter Sawn Red Oak
* QST - Quality Shop Time
QSWO ‑ Quarter Sawn White Oak
QTRSWN - QuarTeR SaWN
RAC - Right Angle Clamp
RAS ‑ Radial Arm Saw
RBL2 ‑ Ahandle@ 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
* RI - Responsible Individual
RICK ‑ Apile of hay@,
- Apile 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
* RT - Router Table
* RTB - Return To Base
* RTFM ‑ Read The "Fine" Manual
_______ - 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
* SN - ShopNotes, a woodworking magazine
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 - SawStop
____ - Scroll Saw
*___ - ShopSmith, a woodworking magazine
___ - Single Speed
SSDD ‑ Same Stuff, Different Day
SSS ‑ Satelite Saw System (Dino, YCF=s System)
STFU ‑ Shut The Freak Up
STS - Sad To Say
* SU - SketchUp
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
___ - Tractor Load
TAIGFN ‑ That=s All I Got For Now
TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
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
*___ - Three Letter Acronym
TMI ‑ Too Much Information
* TO - Tung Oil
TOH ‑ This Old House, a tv woodworking show
TMOA - The Mall Of America (i.e., shopping mall)
TOS ‑ Terms 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
* WAG - Wild A@@ Guess
WB - workbench
WC ‑ WoodCentral, a wood forum
WDYT - What Do You Think
WGAF ‑ Who Gives A Flip
WOFTAM ‑ Waste Of Freaking Time And Money
* WS - WoodSmith, a woodworking magazine
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,
____ - AWhat This ? Help@
* WWA - WoodWorking Aliens
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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