(Main list of acronyms)
__NOTOC__ B – (s) Bel – Boron
B0–9 B10 – (i) Ben 10 B10: AF – (i) Ben 10: Alien Force B10: UA – (i) Ben 10: Ultimate Alien B2B – (i) Business-to-business electronic commerce B2C – (i) Business-to-consumer electronic commerce B2E – (i) Business-to-employee electronic commerce B2M – Business to many
BA ba – (s) Bashkir language (ISO 639-1 code) Ba – (s) Barium BA – (i) Bachelor of Arts (s) Bahrain (FIPS 10-4 country code) Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO 3166 diagram) (i) British Airways British Army Bank of America BAA – (i) British Airport Authority BAC – (a) Blood alcohol content British Aircraft Corporation BAD – (HBO) Boxing After Dark BADD – (a) Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination BAE – (p) BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace, BAe) BAFTA – (a) British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAI – (i) Battlefield Air Interdiction bak – (s) Bashkir language (ISO 639-2 code) BALCO – (p) Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative bam – (s) Bambara language (ISO 639-2 code) BAM – (i) Business Activity Monitoring (s) Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark (ISO 4217 currency code) BAMC – (i) Brooke Army Medical Center Banesto – (p) Banco Español de Crédito (Spanish, "Spanish Credit Bank") BANG – (a) Bits, Atoms, Neurons, Genes BAO – (i) Battlefield Air Operations BAOR – (i) British Army Of the Rhine B[a]P – (p) Benzo[a]pyrene BAR (s) Barbados (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166) (a) British American Racing Browning Automatic Rifle Buy-American Restrictions BARD – (a) Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund (between the US and Israel) BARDA – (a) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority BART – (a) Bay Area Rapid Transit BAS – (i) Battalion Aid Station BASE – (a) Building, Antenna, Span, Earth (parachute from) BASF – (i) Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (Baden Aniline and Soda Factory, a German chemicals company) BASIC – (a) Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (acronym was added later, originally it was simply Basic) BAT – (a/i) Basic Aid Training (a) British American Tobacco, London, England (a) British Antarctic Territory (overseas territory) BATF – (i) U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms BATS – (a) Behavior Analysis Training System Bradley Advanced Training System BATTeRS – (a) Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey
BB BB (s) Barbados (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) (i) Boys' Brigade (Christian youth organization) Brigitte Bardot (actress) Bumblebee BBB (i) Better Business Bureau Blood–brain barrier (p/i) BoerBurgerBeweging (Dutch, "Farmer–Citizen Movement"; Dutch political party) BBC (i) Breeding Bird Census British Broadcasting Corporation (i) Bumper to Back of Cab (trucking measurement) BBCOR – (i) Bat-ball coefficient of restitution (standard used for non-wood bats used in US college baseball) BBD (s) Barbadian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code) (a) Bowel Bladder Dysfunction BBL (i) Be Back Later (i) Brazilian Butt Lift Bird Banding Laboratory Big Bash League British Basketball League BBN – (i) Bolt, Beranek and Newman BBOL – Blessing Ball of Light BBQ – (s) BarbecueSee references and discussion under Barbecue and Talk:List of acronyms and initialisms: B. Examples of use: , , , BBS (i) Breeding Bird Survey (North America) Brigade/Battalion Battle Simulation Bulletin Board System BBSRC – (i) U.K. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBVA – (i) Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (Spanish bank) BBYO – B'nai B'rith Youth Organization
BC BC (i) Before Christ Blind Copy (in emailers) Boston College (s) Botswana (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Bechuanaland) British Columbia (postal symbol) BCA (i) Bachelor of Computer Application Black Coaches & Administrators Body Composition Assessment (Part of US Navy fitness assessment) BCC – (i) Blind Carbon Copy BCCI (i) Bank of Credit and Commerce International Board of Control for Cricket in India BCD – (i) Binary-Coded Decimal BCE (i) Banque centrale européenne (French, "European Central Bank") Battlefield Co-ordination Element BC Electric, a former name for BC Hydro Before Common Era BCER – (i) British Columbia Electric Railway BCFG – (s) Patchy Fog (METAR Code) BCIS (fratricide avoidance system) – (i) Battlefield Combat Identification System BCLL – (a) Bibliography of Celtic Latin Literature BCOL – (i) British Columbia Railway BCPL – (i) Basic Combined Programming Language (progenitor of C) BCS (i) Bachelor of Computer Science Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer superconduction theory Bowl Championship Series (US college football) BCT – (i) Brigade Combat Team
BD BD (s) Bangladesh (ISO 3166 digram) Bermuda (FIPS 10-4 territory code) BDA – (i) British Dental Association BDD (i) Body Dysmorphic Disorder British Defence Doctrine Bde – (s) Brigade BDFL – (i) Benevolent Dictator For Life BDI – (s) Burundi (ISO 3166 trigram) BDNF – (i) Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor BDO – (i) Battle Dress Overgarment BDOS – (a) Basic Disk Operating System; part of CP/M BDS (i) – Bachelor of Dental Surgery Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, a movement advocating various boycotts of Israel in the context of the Arab–Israeli conflict BDSM – (i) Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission, Sadism and Masochism BDT (s) Bangladeshi taka (ISO 4217 currency code) (i) Bureau de développement des télécommunications (Telecommunication Development Bureau, became ITU-D) BDU – (i) Battle-Dress Uniform
BE be – (s) Belarusian language (ISO 639-1 code) Be – (s) Beryllium BE – (s) Belgium (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) BEA (i) Banque extérieure d'Algérie British European Airways (ancestor of British Airways) British Electricity Authority bel – (s) Belarusian language (ISO 639-2 code) BEL – (s) Belgium (ISO 3166 trigram) BEM – (i) British Empire Medal – Bug-Eyed Monster ben – (s) Bengali language (ISO 639-2 code) BEN – (s) Benin (ISO 3166 trigram) BEO – (i) Banquet Event Order BERC – (a) Business Environmental Resource Center BER – (i) Bit Error Rate BES (i) Budget Estimate Submission (s) Caribbean Netherlands (ISO 3166 trigram; from the entity's alternate name of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba) BESS – (i) Business, Education, and Social Sciences BET – (a/i) Black Entertainment Television BETS – (a) Bradley Embedded Training System BEV (i) Battery electric vehicle Black English Vernacular, a type of English spoken by many African Americans Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen (German: "Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying"), Austrian government agency
BF BF – (s) The Bahamas (FIPS 10-4 country code) – Burkina Faso (ISO 3166 digram) b/f – (p) before BFA – (s) Burkina Faso (ISO 3166 trigram) BfArM – (i) Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte, German governmental institute for drugs and medical devices BFF – (i) Best Friends Forever BFI – (a) British Film Institute BFR – (a) Biennial flight review BFR – (i) Brominated Flame Retardant BFS – (s) Belfast International Airport (IATA airport code) BFSA – (i) Blue Force Situation Awareness BFT – (i) Blue Force Tracking BFX – (s) Bioinformatics
BG bg – (s) Bulgarian language (ISO 639-1 code) BG – (s) Bangladesh (FIPS 10-4 country code) – (i) Battle Group – Body Guard – (s) Brigadier General – (s) Bulgaria (ISO 3166 digram) BGA – (i) Ball Grid Array – Brandy and Ginger Ale (alcoholic beverage) BGD – (s) Bangladesh (ISO 3166 trigram) BGN – (i) U.S. Board on Geographic Names – (s) Bulgarian lev (ISO 4217 currency code) BGR – (s) Bulgaria (ISO 3166 trigram) BGS – (i) Bristol Grammar School – British Geological Survey BGWG – (p) Battle Group Wargame (military simulation; "big wig")
BH bh – (s) Bihari languages (ISO 639-1 code) Bh – (s) Bohrium BH (s) Bahrain (ISO 3166 digram) Belize (FIPS 10-4 country code) BHD – (s) Bahraini dinar (ISO 4217 currency code) BHR – (s) Bahrain (ISO 3166 trigram) BHS (i) British Home Stores (s) The Bahamas (ISO 3166 trigram)
BI bi – (s) Bislami language (ISO 639-1 code) Bi – (s) Bismuth BI – (s) Burundi (ISO 3166 digram) BIAP – (a) Baghdad International Airport – (p) Biafran pound BICS – (i/a) Battlefield Information and Communication System BID – (i) bis in die (Latin, "twice a day") BIDST – (i) British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists BIF – (s) Burundian franc (ISO 4217 currency code) bih – (s) Bihari languages (ISO 639-2 code) BIH – (s) Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO 3166 trigram) BIOS – (a) Basic Input/Output System – British Institute of Organ Studies BIP – (a) Battlefield Interoperability Programme (ancestor of MIP) – Broadcast incremental power algorithm bis – (s) Bislami language (ISO 639-2 code) BISEPS – (a) Battlefield Identification System Environment Performance Simulation BIST – (a) Built-In Self-Test BIT – (a) Bilateral Investment Treaty – Built-In Test BITE – (a) Built-In Test Equipment
BJ BJ – (s) Benin (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Blowjob (oral sex) BJJ – (i) Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu BJP – (i) Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party) BJT – (i) Bipolar Junction Transistor
BK Bk – (s) Berkelium BK (i) Burger King (p) Bankrupt (most often seen as "gone BK") (s) Bosnia and Herzegovina (FIPS 10-4 country code) BKN – (s) Broken Sky (METAR Code)
BL BL (s) Bolivia (FIPS 10-4 country code) (i) British Leyland BLCSE – (i) Battle Laboratory Constructive Simulation Environment BLDU – (s) Blowing Dust (METAR Code) BLEVE – (a) Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion ("blevy") BLK – (i) Basket Liga Kobiet (Polish, "Women's Basketball League") BLM (a) Black Lives Matter Bureau of Land Management (U.S.) BLOB – (p) Binary Large OBject BLR – (s) Belarus (ISO 3166 trigram) BLSA – (s) Blowing Sand (METAR Code) BLRSI – Battle Lab Reconfigurable Simulator (U.S. Army) BLSN – (s) Blowing Snow (METAR Code) BLT – (i) Bacon Lettuce Tomato (sandwich) BLUFOR – (p) Blue Force(s) (military) BLUI – (a/i) Body Language User Interface ("blooie") BLW – (s) Below (METAR Code) BLZ – (s) Belize (ISO 3166 trigram)
BM bm – (s) Bambara language (ISO 639-1 code) BM – (i) Battle Management – (s) Bermuda (ISO 3166 digram) – Myanmar (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Burma) BMA – (i) British Medical Association BMCC – (i) Borough of Manhattan Community College BMD – (i) Ballistic Missile Defence – (s) Bermudian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code) – (i) Boyevaya Mashina Desanta (Russian Боевая Машина Десанта, "Combat Vehicle Airborne") † – British Military Doctrine BMDG – (i) British Military Doctrine Group BMDO – (i) (U.S.) Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ("bim-do") BME – (p) Biomedical Engineering – (i) Black and Minority Ethnic group – Body Modification E-zine BMEWS – (a/i) Ballistic Missile Early Warning System ("bee-mews") BMI – (i) Body Mass Index – Broadcast Music Incorporated - British Midland International BMG – (i) Bertelsmann Music Group BML – (i) Battle Management Language BMNT – (i) Begin Morning Nautical Twilight BMP – (i) Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoti (Russian Боевая Машина Пехоты, "Combat Vehicle for the Infantry") † BMR – (i) Basal metabolic rate – Bronirovannaya Mashina Razminirovaniya (Russian Бронированная Машина Разминирования, "Armoured Vehicle for Mine-Clearing") † BMU – (s) Bermuda (ISO 3166 trigram) BMW – (i) Bayerische Motoren Werke (German, "Bavarian Motor Works") BMX – (i) Bicycle/Bike Moto (r) Cross
BN bn – (s) Bengali language (ISO 639-1 code) Bn – (s) Battalion BN (s) Brunei (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) (i) Barisan Nasional (Malaysia) (i) Burlington Northern BND – (s) Brunei dollar (ISO 4217 currency code) BnF – (i) Bibliothèque nationale de France (French, "National Library of France") BNF (i) Backus–Naur form (computing) British National Formulary BNICE – (a) Biological, Nuclear, Incendiary, Chemical, and Explosive Agents BNP (i) British National Party