acronym

acronym['ækrəunim]

• n.
  • 首字母组合词，首字母缩拼词，词首字母缩略词(由一组词中各主要词的第一个字母或前几个字母缩合而成的词，如 radar 一词由 radio detecting and ranging 第一个词的前两个字母和后面各词的第一个字母缩合而成)
• vt.
  • 构成…的词首字缩略词，把…缩合成首字母组合词 (或首字母缩拼词)； 把…变成首字母缩略语；用首字母缩略语表示，用首字母组合词(或首字母缩拼词或缩略词)表示：

    The committee's name has been acronymed NACA.

    该委员会的名称被缩合成NACA。

• touring cars
• debitages
• commender
• extensionalities
• wine snob
• Chilian
• under a cloak of
• in round numbers
• perfumeless
• shinty
• fight one's battle over again
• warning colorations
• olifant
• axiologies
• Cimolite
• unlays
• Viviani, Rene
• function code
• Goldman, Edwin Franko
• pear psylla
• indomitability
• piquada
• commend oneself to
• stave off defeat
• unflappabilities
• ricercars
• pantheons
• megametre
• orthicon
• holis
• bring someone/thing to their/its knees
• safety-deposit
• indium antimonide
• vociferous
• madrass
• second messengers
• bignonias
• Schumann, Robert Alexander
• sand chair
• psychic deafness
• imputable
• worshiper
• heritage
• lenticular nucleus
• upper-crusts
• set the world on fire
• thermal pulse method
• intrust
• blaspheme
• take /seize occasion by the forelock
• bicycle-clip
• superintendent engineer
• any port in a storm
• irremissible
• orthogonal transformation
• run round
• usable rate of fire
• come into possession of something
• bring to the front
• vibing
• Prud'hon, Pierre Paul
• sort-outs
• will not take no for an answer
• of all the…
• Wiedemann, Gustave Heinrich
• commove
• Yuc.
• reader-printers
• keys
• penalty shot
• at a / the minimum
• snowpacks
• paraparty
• ratafia
• Penelope's web
• auriscope
• take sth personally
• thermoplasticities
• transmission regulator
• serum sickness
• starer
• Mayanist
• adjunctives
• bitter as gall
• C 3
• unfreeze
• back-set bed
• marg
• baass
• quarry-faced
• for one
• set great / considerable etc store by sth
• livor mortis
• buona sera
• housers
• angleseys
• cover up for sb
• punchballs
• depleted uranium
• garage-shop