Abbreviations starting with W
230 abbreviations begin with W. This page lists W to WYWH.
- W – West +5 more
- W-1 – Warrant officer pay grade 1
- W-2 – Wage and Tax Statement (IRS Form W-2) +1 more
- W-2G – Certain Gambling Winnings (IRS Form W-2G)
- W-3 – Warrant officer pay grade 3
- W-4 – Employee's Withholding Certificate (IRS Form W-4) +1 more
- W-5 – Warrant officer pay grade 5
- W-7 – Application for IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification…
- W-8BEN – Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for…
- W-9 – Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and…
- W&M – Ways and Means Committee +1 more
- w/c – Wheelchair +1 more
- W/D – Washer and dryer +1 more
- w/e – Week ending
- w/o – Without +1 more
- w/u – Workup
- W/W – Wall-to-wall carpeting
- w00t – Woot (exclamation of joy)
- W3C – World Wide Web Consortium
- W6 – Wizz Air
- W8 – Wait
- WA – Washington +1 more
- WAAS – Wide Area Augmentation System
- WAC – Weighted average cost +1 more
- WACC – Weighted average cost of capital
- WADA – World Anti-Doping Agency
- WAF – Web application firewall
- WAGMI – We're all gonna make it
- WAHM – Work-at-home mom
- WAI – Web Accessibility Initiative
- WAIS – Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
- WAL – Wales +2 more
- WAN – Wide area network
- WAP – Wireless access point +1 more
- WaPo – The Washington Post
- WAR – Wins above replacement
- WARN – Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
- WARN Act – Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
- WARNO – Warning order
- WASD – W, A, S and D keys (movement controls)
- Wash. – Washington
- WashU – Washington University in St. Louis
- WASM – WebAssembly
- WASSCE – West African Senior School Certificate Examination
- WAT – West Africa Time
- WAV – Waveform Audio File Format
- WAW – Warsaw Chopin Airport
- WB – Warner Bros. +4 more
- WBA – World Boxing Association
- WBAT – Weight bearing as tolerated
- WBC – White blood cell count +2 more
- WBD – Warner Bros. Discovery
- WBG – World Bank Group
- WBN – Well-baby nursery
- WBO – World Boxing Organization
- WBRT – Whole-brain radiation therapy
- WBS – Work breakdown structure
- WBU – What about you?
- WBY – What about you?
- WC – Workers' compensation +5 more
- WCAG – Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- WCC – Well-child check
- WCD – Wearable cardioverter-defibrillator
- WCDMA – Wideband code-division multiple access
- WCF – Westminster Confession of Faith
- WCW – Woman Crush Wednesday
- WD – White dwarf +1 more
- W.D. Tex. – United States District Court for the Western District of…
- WDL – Within defined limits
- WDWN – Well-developed, well-nourished
- wdy – Wordy
- WDYM – What do you mean?
- WDYT – What do you think?
- WEA – Wireless Emergency Alerts
- Web3 – Web 3.0 (decentralized web)
- WebAuthn – Web Authentication
- WebDAV – Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning
- WebGL – Web Graphics Library
- WebM – WebM video format
- WebP – WebP image format
- WebRTC – Web Real-Time Communication
- WEC – FIA World Endurance Championship
- Wed – Wednesday
- WEF – World Economic Forum
- WeHo – West Hollywood
- WEIRD – Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic
- WELL AP – WELL Accredited Professional
- WEP – Wired Equivalent Privacy
- WES – Whole-exome sequencing
- WEST – Western European Summer Time
- WET – Western European Time +1 more
- WF – Wallis and Futuna +1 more
- WFH – Work from home
- WFL – Within functional limits
- WFM – Works for me
- WFO – Work from office
- WFOE – Wholly foreign-owned enterprise
- WFP – World Food Programme
- Wg Cdr – Wing Commander
- WGA – Writers Guild of America
- WGS – Whole-genome sequencing
- Wh – Watt-hour
- WHATWG – Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
- WHD – Wage and Hour Division
- WHIP – Walks plus hits per inning pitched
- WHNP – Women's Health Nurse Practitioner
- WHO – World Health Organization
- whp – Wheel horsepower
- WHS – World Heritage Site
- WI – Wisconsin
- Wi-Fi – Wi-Fi (wireless local area networking based on IEEE 802.11)
- Wi-Fi 6 – Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax)
- Wi-Fi 6E – Wi-Fi 6 Extended
- Wi-Fi 7 – Wi-Fi 7 (IEEE 802.11be)
- WIA – Wounded in action
- WIB – Waktu Indonesia Barat (Western Indonesia Time)
- WIBTA – Would I be the a**hole?
- WIC – Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants… +1 more
- wid. – Widow or widowed
- WIDA – WIDA (originally Wisconsin, Delaware, Arkansas)
- WiMAX – Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
- WIMP – Weakly interacting massive particle +1 more
- Wine – Wine Is Not an Emulator
- WinPE – Windows Preinstallation Environment
- WinRE – Windows Recovery Environment
- WIP – Work in progress
- WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization
- Wis. – Wisconsin +2 more
- WISC – Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children +1 more
- WIWT – What I wore today
- wk – Week
- WL – Westlaw +2 more
- WLAN – Wireless local area network
- WLE – Wide local excision
- WLOG – Without loss of generality
- WLR – Weekly Law Reports
- WLTM – Would like to meet
- WM – Working memory +2 more
- WMA – Windows Media Audio +1 more
- WMAP – Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
- WMATA – Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
- WMD – Weapons of mass destruction +1 more
- WMG – Warner Music Group
- WMI – Working Memory Index
- WMO – World Meteorological Organization
- WMS – Warehouse management system
- WMV – Windows Media Video
- WN – Southwest Airlines
- WNBA – Women's National Basketball Association
- WNC – Western North Carolina
- WNL – Within normal limits
- WNV – West Nile virus
- WNW – West-northwest
- WNY – Western New York
- WO – Warrant Officer (US Marine Corps) +1 more
- WO1 – Warrant Officer 1 (US Army) +1 more
- WO2 – Warrant Officer Class 2
- WOB – Work of breathing
- wOBA – Weighted on-base average
- WOC – Warrant Officer Candidate
- WOD – Workout of the day
- WOM – Word of mouth
- WORM – Write once, read many
- WOS – Waiver of subrogation +1 more
- WOT – Wide-open throttle
- WOTC – Work Opportunity Tax Credit
- WoW – Week over week
- WP – Well played +3 more
- WPA – Works Progress Administration +1 more
- WPA2 – Wi-Fi Protected Access 2
- WPA3 – Wi-Fi Protected Access 3
- WPI – Wholesale price index +1 more
- WPM – Words per minute
- WPPSI – Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence
- WPR – War Powers Resolution
- WPS – Wi-Fi Protected Setup
- WPW – Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
- WQHD – Wide Quad High Definition
- WR – World record +1 more
- WRC – World Rally Championship
- wRC+ – Weighted runs created plus
- WRT – With respect to
- WRU – Where are you?
- WS – World Series +4 more
- WSCUC – WASC Senior College and University Commission
- WSDL – Web Services Description Language
- WSG – What's good?
- WSJ – The Wall Street Journal
- WSJF – Weighted shortest job first
- WSL – Windows Subsystem for Linux +2 more
- WSP – What's up?
- WSU – Washington State University +1 more
- WSUS – Windows Server Update Services
- WSW – West-southwest
- Wt – Weight +1 more
- WTA – Women's Tennis Association
- WTB – Want to buy
- WTD – Wet-to-dry dressing
- WTF – What the f***
- WTG – Way to go
- WTH – What the heck
- WTM – What's the move?
- WTO – World Trade Organization
- WTP – Willingness to pay
- WTS – Want to show +1 more
- WTT – Want to trade
- WTV – Whatever
- WTW – What's the word?
- WUE – Western Undergraduate Exchange
- WUI – Wildland-urban interface
- WUU2 – What are you up to?
- WV – West Virginia
- W.Va. – West Virginia
- WVU – West Virginia University
- WW – Wrong word
- WWE – World Wrestling Entertainment
- WWF – World Wide Fund for Nature +1 more
- WWJD – What would Jesus do?
- WWP – Wounded Warrior Project
- WWTP – Wastewater treatment plant
- WWW – World Wide Web
- WWYD – What would you do?
- WY – Wyoming
- WYA – Where you at?
- WYD – What you doing?
- WYLL – What you look like?
- WYM – What you mean?
- Wyo. – Wyoming
- WYSIWYG – What you see is what you get
- WYWH – Wish you were here