Acronym
8723 abbreviations
| Abbreviation | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| WS | Samoa (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram; from the country's former name of Western Samoa) | |
| WS | Writer to the Signet (a Scottish solicitor) | |
| WSC | Weapon System Catalogue | |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language | |
| WSJ | (The) Wall Street Journal | |
| WSL | White Star Line (shipping company) | |
| WSL | Women's Super League, used to describe England's top women's association football league and top women's rugby league competition | |
| WSL | Workers' Socialist League (UK political party) | |
| WSM | Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram; from Western Samoa) | |
| WSM | Winchester Short Magnum (family of rifle cartridges) | |
| WSMR | White Sands Missile Range ("whiz-murr") | |
| WSROC | Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils | |
| WSSM | Winchester Super Short Magnum (family of rifle cartridges) | |
| WST | Water Soluble Tetrazolium (assay) | |
| WST | Samoan tālā (ISO 4217 currency code) | |
| WSTC | Women Signallers Territorial Corps (World War | |
| WSUS | Windows Server Update Services | |
| WSW | West South-West | |
| WTB | Wales Tourism Board | |
| WTB | Warenterminbörse Hannover | |
| WTB | Want to Buy (a commonly used phrase in the online game "World of Warcraft") | |
| WTC | World Trade Center | |
| WTF | What the fuck?; also What a Terrible Failure (android) | |
| WTFH | What The Fucking Hell | |
| WTH | What the Hell | |
| WTO | World Trade Organization | |
| WTS | Want to Sell (a commonly used phrase in the online game "World of Warcraft") | |
| WU | Windows Update | |
| WU | Work unit | |
| WU | WU Wien (German Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration) | |
| WU | Wabash University | |
| WU | Washington University in St. Louis | |
| WU | Western Union | |
| WUBU2 | What you been up to | |
| WUU2 | Internet slang popular with teenagers. | |
| WUU2 | What you up to | |
| WV | West Virginia (postal symbol) | |
| WVA | World Veterinary Association | |
| WVIAC | West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | |
| WVR | Women's Volunteer Reserve (World War | |
| WVSC | Women's Volunteer Service Corps (World War | |
| WVU | West Virginia University | |
| WVUIT | West Virginia University Institute of Technology (note, however, that the initialism is almost never used; the popular name of the school is "WVU Tech") | |
| WW | see entry | |
| WWE | World Wrestling Entertainment | |
| WWF | World Wide Fund for Nature, from its original name of World Wildlife Fund, which remains the legal name in the U.S. and Canada | |
| WWF | World Wrestling Federation | |
| WWI | World War | |
| WWII | World War | |
| WWIII | World War |