Full Forms List

In this article, you will find all the popular full forms from the different categories. This A to Z full Forms list contains full forms of different categories like Organizational, Banking, Educational, IT, Technology, Medical, Internet, and general categories. In order to get more knowledge click on the links provided under the Acronym.

A to Z Full Forms List

A Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 A&AS Account & Audit Section
2 A/C  Air Conditioning
3 A/F  Air Fuel Ratio
4 A2A Ask to Answer
5 AAA Authentication Authorization, Account
6 AAC  Advanced Audio Coding
7 AAT  Ambient Air Temperature
8 ABC American Broadcasting Company
9 ABEDA Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa.
10 ABS Antilock Braking System
11 ACC Analog Control Channel
12 ACD Automatic Call Distributor
13 ACE Excellent or Great
14 ACER “sharp, acute, able and facile” in Latin
15 ACF Auto Correlation Function.
16 ACLF Additional Collateralised Lending Facility
17 ACM   Airbag Control Module
18 ACPI  Advanced Configuration And Power Interface
19 ACS Automated Clearing System.
20 AD Authorized Dealer.
21 ADB Asian Development Bank.
22 ADF Automated Data Flow
23 ADIDAS From the name of the founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler.
24 ADOBE From the Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of co-founder John Warnock.
25 ADR American Depository Receipt.
26 ADTV Average Daily Trading Volume
27 AEPS Aadhaar Enabled Payments Switch
28 AFS Annual Financial Statement.
29 AGM Annual General Meeting.
30 AI Artificial Inteligence
31 AIC Agricultural Insurance Company.
32 AICTE All India Council for Technical Education
33 AIDBs All India Development Banks
34 AIF Alternative Investment Fund
35 AIFIs All India Financial Institutions
36 AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
37 AKA Also Known As
38 AKAI From the name of its founder, Saburo Akai.
39 ALCO Asset Liability Committee
40 ALM Asset Liability Management
41 ALT  Alternate
42 AM/FM  Amplitude/ Frequency Modulation
43 AMA Ask Me Anything
44 Amazon Bezos Wanted A Name For His Company That Began With “A” And He Took The Name Amazon
45 AMD Advance micro devices.
46 AMEX American Express
47 AMFL Association of Mutual Funds in India.
48 AMIE Associate Member of the Institution of Engineers
49 AML Anti-Money Laundering
50 AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Service
51 AMR Adaptive Multi-Rate Codec
52 AMR  Adaptive Multi-Rate
53 AMRMS Audit and Risk Monitoring Mechanism
54 ANBC Adjusted Net Bank Credit
55 ANSI American National Standards Institute
56 AOL American Online.
57 AP Access Point
58 APACS Association of Payment and Clearing Services
59 APBS Aadhaar Payment Bridge System
60 APC American Power Conversion
61 API Application Programming Interface
62 APJ Abdul Kalam Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
63 APK Android Application Package
64 APL Automatic Programming Language
65 APM Advanced Power Management
66 APN Access Point Name.
67 APPLE Asian Passenger Payload Experiment.
68 APSFC andhra Pradesh State Financial Corporation
69 ARAI Automotive Research Association of India
70 ARC Asset Reconstruction Companies
71 ARCIL Asset Reconstruction Company of India Limited
72 ARCs Asset Reconstruction Companies
73 ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (the beginning of the internet)
74 ASAIC As Soon As I Can
75 ASAP As Soon As Possible
76 ASBA Applications Supported Bank Accounts
77 ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
78 ASG   Automatic Shift Gearbox
79 ASL Tell me your Age, Sex, and Location
80 ASP Active Server Page
81 ASR Automated Speech Recognition
82 ASSOCHAM Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India.
83 ASUS Named after Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology.
84 AT& T American Telephone and Telegraph Company
85 ATA Advanced Technology Attachment & Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment
86 ATI Array Technologies Incorporated
87 ATM Automated Teller Machine.
88 AUC Authentication Center
89 AUDI From The Surname of The Founder August Horch (Audi, in Latin)
91 AVI Audio Video Interleave
92 AW Anyway
93 AWD   All Wheel Drive

B Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 B.Com Bachelor of Commerce
2 B.Ed Bachelor of Education
3 B.Tech Bachelor of Technology
4 B4 Before
5 BA Bachelor of Arts
6 BACS Bankers Automated Clearing System
7 BASIC Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
8 BAT Batch
10 BBA Bachelor of Business Administration
11 BBL Be Back Later
12 BBN Be Back Never
13 BBR Bank Base Rate
14 BBS Be Back Soon
15 BBZ Babes
16 BC Billing Center
17 BCA Bachelor of Computer Applications
18 BCBS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
19 BCCI The Bahrain Chamber of Commerce & Industry
20 BCH Broadcast Channel
21 BCP Branch Credit Plan
22 BCSBI Banking Codes and Standards Board of India
23 BE Bachelor of Engineering
24 BenQ Bringing Enjoyment N Quality
25 BER Bit Error Rate
26 BF Boy Friend
27 BFF Best Friend Forever
28 BFS Board of Financial Supervision
29 BHMS Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery
30 BHP Brake Horse Power
31 BHW Bell & Howell Company
32 BIOS Basic Input Output System
33 BIS Bank for International Settlements.
34 BLBC Block-Level Bankers Committee
35 BLOB Binary Large Object
36 BMEP Brake Mean Effective Pressure
37 BMP Bitmap
38 BMP  Bitmap
39 BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke
40 BO Banking Ombudsman
41 BOB Bank of Baroda.
42 BOD Board of Directors
43 BOE Bill of Exchange
44 BOI Bank of India.
45 BOP Balance of Payments.
46 BOR Bank of Rajasthan.
47 BOSS Business Organizer Scheduling System (one of the original hand-held organizers)
48 BOT Back On Topic
49 BPC Benefits Processing Corp
50 BPL British Process Laboratory
51 BPLR Benchmark Prime Lending Rate
52 BR Act Banking Regulations Act, 1949.
53 BRB Be Right Back
54 BRD Blu-Ray Disc
55 BS Base Station
56 BSC Bachelor of Science, Base Station Controller
57 BSCS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
58 BSE Bombay Stock Exchange.
59 BSFC Brake Specific Fuel Consumption
60 BSR Basic Statistical Returns.
61 BTS Base Transceiver Station
62 BTW By the Way

C Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 C.I ENGINE Compression Ignition Engine
2 CA Chartered Accountant.
3 CAAP Capital Adequacy Assessment Process
4 CAD Current Account Deficit
5 CAG Controller and Auditor General.
6 CAMELS Capital, Assets, Management, Earnings, Liquidity, and Systems and Control
7 CAR Capital Adequacy Ratio
8 CARE Credit Analysis and Research Limited
9 CASA Current and Savings Accounts
10 CASIO From the name of its founder, Kashio Tadao
11 CB Canara Bank.
12 CBI Common Bank of India
13 CBLO  Collateralized Bank Lending Obligations
14 CBR Constant Bit Rate
15 CBS Core Banking Solution.
16 CBS Challan Core Banking Solution
17 CBT Computer-Based Terminal
18 CC Cash Credit
19 CCB Central Co-operative Bank
20 CCIL Clearing Corporation of India Limited
21 CCL Cash Credit Limit
22 CCTV Closed Circuit Television
23 CCVTI Controlled Combustion Variable Timing Ignition
25 CD Ratio Credit Deposit Ratio
26 CD  Compact Disk
27 CDB Caribbean Development Bank.
28 CDBS Committee of Direction on Banking Statistics.
29 CDFS Compact Disc File System
30 CDG CDMA Development Group
31 CDI Capacitor Discharge Ignition
33 CDMA  Code Division Multiple Access
34 CDMA2000 Code Division Multiple Access…
35 CDR Corporate Debt Restructuring
36 CD-ROM Compact Disk – Read Only Memory
37 CDRS  Corporate Debt Restructuring
38 CD-RW Compact Disc-Rewritable
39 CDS Credit Default Swap.
40 CED Centre For Entrepreneurship Development
41 CEO  Chief Executive Officer 
42 CEPA Comprehensive Economic Partnership Management.
43 CFL Compact fluorescent lamp
44 CFMS Centralised Funds Management System
45 CFRA Combined Finance and Revenue Accounts.
46 CFS Committee on The Financial System
47 CGPA Cumulative Grade Point Average
48 CGRA Currency and Gold Revaluation Account.
49 CHAPS Clearing House Automated Payment System
50 CIBIL Credit Information Bureau of India Limited
51 CISCO Computer Information System Company.
52 CLASS Compiled java program- often used as class extension
53 CLB Company Law Board
54 CLF Collateralised Lending Facility
55 CMA Collateral Management Agreement
57 CMD  Command
58 CMIS Currency Management Information System
59 CMP Current Market Price
60 CMYK Cyan- Magenta- Yellow- Black
61 CN Core Network
62 CNC Computerized Numerical Control
63 CNG Compressed Natural Gas
64 CNP Card Not Present
65 COB Corporation Bank.
66 COBOL Common Business Oriented Language (programming language)
67 COCA-COLA Derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring
69 COM  Component Object Model
70 COMOAQ Compatibility and Quality
71 COMPUTER Commonly Operated Machine Particularly Used In Technical And Educational Research
73 CONFIG  Configuration
74 COO Chief Operating Officer
75 COREL Cowpland Research Laboratory
76 CP Colombo Plan.
77 CPC Cost Per Click
78 CPFF Commercial Paper Funding Facility
79 CPI Consumer Price Index.
80 CPs Commercial Papers
81 CPT Common Proficiency Test
83 CPU  Central Processing Unit
84 CRAR Capital To Risk Weighted Asset Ratio.
85 CRDE Common Rail Diesel Engine
86 CRDI Common Rail Direct Injection
87 CRILC Central Repository of Information on Large Credits
88 CRISIL Credit Rating Information Services Of India
89 CRM Customer Relationship Management
90 CRMD Credit Risk Management Department.
91 CRR Cash Reserve Ratio.
92 CRT Cathode Ray Tube
93 CS Company Secretary
94 CSE Computer Science and Engineering
95 CSGLA Constituent’s Subsidiary General Ledger Account
96 CSR corporate social responsibility
97 CSS Cascading Style Sheet
98 CST Central Sales Tax, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Central Standard Time
99 CTI Country Threat Index.
100 CTRL  Control
101 CTS Cheque Truncation System
102 CUB City Union Bank
103 CV Curriculum Vitae
104 CVT Continuous Variable Transmission
105 CVTI Charged motion Variable Time Ignition
106 CYL Catch You Later

D Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 D/R Distance to Reuse Ratio
2 DAMPS Digital Advance Mobile Phone Service
3 DAP  Download Accelerator Plus
4 DAT  Digital Audio Tape
6 DB  Database
7 DCC Digital Color Code
8 DCCB District Central Cooperative Banks
9 DCP District Credit Plan
10 DD Demand Draft
11 DDIS Direct Diesel Injection System
12 DDM District Development Manager
13 DEL  Delete
14 DELL Michael DELL.
15 DFI Development Financial Institutions
16 DFID Department For International Development
17 DGS   Direct Shift Gearbox
18 DI ENGINE Direct Injection Engine
19 DICGC Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation
20 DICOR Direct Injection Common Rail
21 DIGG From “ Diggnation ”
22 DIR Differential Interest Rate
23 DIY Do it Yourself
24 DL Download
25 DM Direct Message
26 DMART Came from the owner name Ramakrishna DAMANI
27 DMCA  Digital Millennium Copyright  Act
28 DNPD Derivatives and New Products Departments
29 DNS Domain Name System
30 DNS  Domain Name System
31 DOC  Document (Microsoft Corporation)
32 DOHC Double Overhead Camshaft
33 DOS Disk Operating System
34 DP Display Picture
35 DPG Deferred Payment Guarantee
36 DPN Demand Promissory Note
37 DPs Depository Participants
38 DRI Beneficiaries of Differential Interest Rate
39 DRAT Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal
40 DRI Differential Rate Of Interest
41 DRT Debt Recovery Tribunals
42 DSCR Debt Service Coverage Ratio
43 DSL Digital Subscriber Line
44 DSLR Digital single-lens reflex
45 DSP Deputy Superintendent of Police
46 DTA Data Transfer Adapter
47 DTAA Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement.
48 DTC Digital Traffic Channel
49 DTP Desk-Top Publishing & Distributed Transaction Processing
50 DTS-FI Digital Twin Spark Fuel Injection
51 DTS-i Digital Twin Spark Ignition
52 DTS-Si Digital Twin Spark Swirl Induction
53 DVD Digital Versatile Disc
54 DVX  Divx Video

E Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 EA Electronic Arts
2 EADB East African Development Bank.
3 EB Exa Byte
4 eBay Orgin from “ Echo Bay
5 EBD Electronic Brakeforce Distribution
6 EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
7 EC ENGINE External Combustion Engine
8 ECB External Commercial Borrowings.
9 ECC Excise Control Code
10 ECD European Central Bank
11 ECS Electronic Clearing System.
12 ED Enforcement Directorate
13 EDF Export Development Fund
14 EDGE Enhanced Data for Global Evolution
15 EDI Electronic Data Internchange
16 EDP Entrepreneurship Development Programme
17 EEFC Exchange Earners’ Foreign Currency
18 EEPROM Electronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
19 EFT Electronic Funds Transfer
20 EFTPOS Electronic Funds Transfer At Point Of Sale
21 EGR Exhaust Gas Recirculation
22 EIB European Investment Bank.
23 EiB  Exbi Byte
24 EIR Equipment Identity Register
25 EJB Enterprise Java Bean
26 ELSS Equity Linked Saving Scheme.
27 E-MAIL  Electronic Mail
28 EMI Equated Monthly Instalments
29 ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
30 EOD End of the Day
31 EPFO Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation
32 EPOS Electronic Point Of Sale
33 EPS Earning per Share
34 EPSON Named from “Son of Electronic Printer”
35 ERICSSON Named after its founder Lars Magnus Ericsson
36 ESC Electronic Stability Control
37 ESC  Escape
38 ESMR Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio
39 ESOP Employee Stock Options
40 ETA Estimated Time of Arrival
41 ETACS Extended TACS
42 ETDMA Extended Time Division Multiple Access
43 ETFs Exchange Traded Funds
44 EVRV Electronic Vacuum Regulator Valve
45 EXIM Export Import Bank of India.

F Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 F.O.R Freight on Road
2 FAQ Frequently asked Questions
3 FAT  File Allocation Table
4 FATF FERA Financial Action Task Force
5 FAX Facsimile
6 FCA Foreign Currency Assets.
7 FCCB Foreign Currency Convertible Bond
8 FCD Fully Convertible Debentures
9 FCI Flux Changes per Inch (drive tech terminology)
10 FCNR Foreign Currency Non Resident Deposit Accounts
11 FCNRA Foreign Currency Non resident Account.
12 FD Fixed Deposit
13 FDD Frequency Division Duplex
14 FDI Fixed Deposit Income
15 FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
16 FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
17 FEDAI Foreign Exchange Dealers Association Of India
18 FEMA Foreign Exchange Management Act
19 FERA Foreign Exchange Regulation Act.
20 FERRARI From the name of its founder, Enzo Ferrari.
21 FFA Federal Financial Assistance
22 FFB Federal Financing Bank
23 FGT Fixed Geometry Turbocharger
24 FHP Frictional Horse Power
25 FIAT Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino
26 FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
27 FII Foreign Institutional Investor.
28 FIMMDA Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India
29 FINO Financial Information Network and Operation Limited
30 FIPB Foreign Investment Promotion Board.
31 Fls Financial Institutions
32 FM Frequency Modulation
33 FN Function
35 FOB Free On Board
36 FPI Foreign Portfolio Investment.
37 FRB Federal Reserve Bank
38 FRNs Floating Rate Notes
39 FRO Foreigners Registration officer
40 FRRO Foreigners Regional Registration officer
41 FSK Frequency Shift Keying
42 FSRASC Financial Sector Regulatory Appointment Search Committee
43 FSS Financial Software Systems
44 FTA Free Trade Agreement.
45 FTMD Full Track Music Download
46 FTP File Transfer Protocol
47 FWD Front Wheel Drive
48 FYI For Your Information

G Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 GAAR General Anti Avoidance Rule.
2 GB Giga Byte
3 GDCF Gross Domestic Capital Formation
4 GDI Gasoline Direct Injection
5 GDP Gross Domestic Product
6 GDR Global Depository Receipt.
7 GE Good Evening
8 GF Girlfriend
9 GFD Gross Fiscal Deficit.
10 GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node
11 GiB  Gibi Byte
12 GIF Graphics Interchange Format
13 GIF  Graphics Interchange Format
14 GIPSA General Insurance Public Sector Association
15 GIRO Government Internal Revenue Order.
16 GlC General Insurance Corporation of India
17 GM Good Morning
18 GMS Gold Monetisation Scheme
19 GMSK Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying
20 GN Good Night
21 GNU GNU’s Not UNIX
22 GOOGLE Global Organisation Of Oriented Group Language of Earth.
23 Google PR Google Page Rank
24 GPA Grade Point Average
25 GPEDIT  Group Policy Editor 
26 GPRS General Packet Radio Service
27 GPRS  General Packet Radio Service
28 GPS Global Positioning System
29 GSM Global System for Mobile communication
30 GSN GPRS Support Node
31 GST Goods and Services Tax
32 GSTN Goods and Services Network
33 GUI  Graphical User Interface
34 GVW Gross Vehicle Weight

H Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 HCL Hindustan Computer Limited.
2 HCV Heavy Commercial Vehicle
3 HDFC Housing Development Finance Corporation.
4 HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface
5 HFCs Housing Finance Companies
6 HHOJ Ha Ha, Only Joking
7 HHOK Ha Ha, Only Kidding
8 HHVF Ha Ha, Very Funny
9 HITACHI Old place name, literally “ sunrise”
10 HLR Home Location Register
11 HMT Hindustan Machine Tools
12 HONDA From the name of its founder, Soichiro Honda.
13 HP Hewlett-Packard
14 HPFC Himachal Pradesh Financial Corporation
15 HSBC Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
16 HSC Higher Secondary Certificate & Higher Secondary School Certificate
17 HSDPA  High Speed Downlink Packet Access
18 HTC High Tech Computer
19 HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
20 HTTP  Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
21 HTTPS Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure
22 HUDCO Housing and Urban Development Corporation
23 HVAC Heating ventilating and Air Conditioning

I Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 I.C. Engine   Internal Combustion Engine
2 IADB Inter American Development Bank.
3 IAS Integrated Accounting Systems
4 IB I’m Back
5 IBA Indian Bank Association
6 IBBI Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India
7 IBM  International Business Machines
8 IBPS Institute of Banking Personnel Selection.
9 IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
10 IBS International Banking Statistics
11 IBU International Banking Unit
12 IC Interchange Carrier
13 IC  Integrated Circuit
14 ICA Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
15 ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation
16 ICC Integrated Circuit Card
17 ICFAI INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED FINANCIAL ANALYSTS OF INDIA
18 ICICI Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India.
19 ICRA Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency of India Limited
20 ICSE Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
21 ICT Information and Communications Technology
22 ICYMI In Case You Missed It
23 ID Internal Device
24 IDB Islamic Development Bank.
25 IDBI Industrial Development Bank of India.
26 IDE Integrated Development Environment & Integrated Drive Electronics
27 IDFC Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited
28 IDM  Internet Download Manager 
29 IDR Indian Depository Receipts.
30 IDRBT Institute for Development and Research Of Banking
31 IEPF Investors Education and Protection Fund
32 IFC International Finance Corporation
33 IFCI INDUSTRIAL FINANCE CORPORATION OF INDIA
34 IFSC Indian Financial System Code
35 IHP Indicated Horse Power
36 IHS I Hope So
37 IIB International Investment Bank.
38 IIBF Indian Institute of Banking and Finance.
39 IIBI Industrial Investment Bank of India
40 IIBM Indian Institute of Bank Management
41 IIFCL India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited
42 IIFT Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
43 IIL I’m in Love
44 IIP Index of Industrial Production
45 IK I Know
46 IMD India Millennium Deposits.
47 IMDB Internet Movie Data Base
48 IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity
49 IMEP Indicated Mean Effective Pressure
50 IMF International Monetary Fund.
51 IMO / IMHO In My Opinion / In My Humble Opinion
52 IMPS Immediate Payment Service
53 IMT Instant Money Transfer
54 INFINET Indian Financial Network
55 INFO Information
56 INFO  Information
57 INFOSYS Information System.
58 INS InterNet communication Settings
59 Ins  Insert
60 INTEL Integrated Electronics.
61 INTERNET Interconnected Network
62 IP  Internet Protocol
63 IPC Inter-Processes Communications
64 IPL Indian Premier League
65 IPO Initial Public Offer
66 IPPB India Post Payments Bank
67 IPS Indian Police Service, In-Plane Switching & Intrusion Prevention System
68 IPSS Integrated Payment and Settlement System
69 IPV5  Internet Protocol Version 5
70 IPV6  Internet Protocol Version 6
71 IRBI Industrial Reconstruction Bank Of India.
72 IRDA Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India
73 IRDP Integrated Rural Development Programme
74 IRE Internal Rating Based
75 IROs Interest rate options
76 IRR Internal Rate Of Return.
77 ISC Indian School Certificate
78 ISCI International Standard Industrial Classification
79 ISD International Subscriber Dialing
80 ISFC Indicated Specific Fuel Consumption
81 ISIN International Securities Identification Number
82 ISO International Standard Organisation
83 ISP  Internet Service Provider
84 IT Information Technology
85 ITC Indian Tobacco Company, International Trade Center, Independent Telephone Company
86 ITES Information Technology Enabled Services
87 IVP Indira Vikas Patra

J Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 J4F Just For Fun
2 J4L Just For Laugh
3 J4U Just For You
4 JAD  Java Application Descriptor
5 JAR  Java Archive
6 JCB Japan Credit Bureau
7 JFY Just For You
8 JLGs Joint Liability Groups
9 JLT Just Like That
10 JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
11 JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group
12 JSF JavaServer Faces

K Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 K Okay
2 KB Kilo Byte
3 KCC Kisan Credit Card
4 KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken
5 KL Cool
6 KMB Kotak Mahindra Bank.
7 KODAK From the letter K, the favourte letter of Gorge Eastman (Founder)
8 KPH Kilometer Per Hour
9 KPL Kilometer Per Liter
10 KVB Karur Vysya Bank.
11 KVIC Khadi and Village Industries Corporation
12 KVP Kisan Vikas Patra
13 KYC Know Your Customer Guidelines

L Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 L & T Larsen & Toubro Limited
2 LAB Local Area Bank.
3 LAF Liquidity Adjustment Facility
4 LAMPS Large Sized Adivasi Multipurpose Societies
5 LAN Local Area Network
6 LAS Loan & Advances by States
7 LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
8 LBD Land Development Bank
9 LBS Locational Banking Statistics
10 LCD Liquid Crystal Display
11 LCV Light Commercial Vehicle
12 LDB Land Development Bank.
13 LED Light Emitting Diode
14 LENOVO LE(Legend), NOVO(New).
15 LERMS Liberalized Exchange Rate Management System
16 LETS Local Exchange Trading Systems
17 LG Lucky Goldstar
18 lIBI Industrial Investment Bank of India Limited
19 LIBOR London Inter Bank Offered Rate.
20 LIC Life Insurance Corporation Of India
21 LLB Legum Baccalaureus in Latin (commonly known as Bachelor of Laws)
22 LLM Legum Magister (Latin) & Master of Law
23 LMAO Laughing My A** Off
24 LOC Lines of Credit
25 LOL Laughing Out Loud
26 LR  Liberty Reserve
27 LSPV Load Sensing Proportioning valve)
28 LTCG Long-Term Capital Gains
29 LTF Long-Term Finance
30 LTN Long Term Note

M Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 M&As Mergers and Acquisitions
2 M3G  Mobile 3D Graphics
3 MB Mega Byte
4 MBA Master of Business Administration
5 MBFC Mutual Benefit Financial Company
6 MCA Ministry Of Company Affairs
7 MCB Miniature Circuit Breaker
8 McDonalds From the name of the brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald, who founded the first McDonald’s
9 MCLR Marginal Cost Of Lending Rate
10 MD Doctor of Medicine
11 MEDP Multinational Design Evaluation Program
12 MFDF Micro Finance Development Fund
13 MFIs Micro-Financial Institutions
14 MIBOR Mumbai Inter Bank Offer Rate.
15 MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
16 MIRSD Market Intermediaries Registration and Supervision Department
17 MIS Management Information System
18 MMC Multimedia Card
19 MMF  Synthetic Music Mobile Application File
20 MMS Multimedia Message Service
21 MNBCs Miscellaneous Non-Banking Companies
22 MODEM MODulate / DEModulate
23 Motorola From Motor and Victrola – as originally they made car radios
24 MP3 MPEG player lll
25 MPBF Maximum Permissible Bank Finance
26 MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group (file extension MPG)
27 MPFI Multi-Point Fuel Injection
28 MRD Market Regulation Department
29 MRF Madras Rubber Factory
30 MS Microsoft
31 MSC Mobile Switching Center & Master of Science
32 MSS Market Stabilisation Scheme
33 MT Medical Lab Technician
34 MTN Medium Term Note
35 MTNs Medium-Term Notes
36 MTUK More Than You Know
37 MUDRA Micro Units Development And Refinance Agency
38 MUV Multi Utility vehicle

N Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 NABARD National Bank For Agricultural And Rural Development.
2 NAFCUB National Federation of Urban Cooperative Banks and Credit Societies
3 NAFED National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation
4 Napster Named after Fanning’s hairstyle-based nickname
5 NAS National Account Statistics.
6 NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
7 NAT  Network Address Translation
8 NAV Net Asset Value.
9 NBC Non Banking Companies.
10 NBFC Non Banking Finance Companies
11 NBFCs Non-Bank Financial Companies
12 NCAER National Council of Applied Economic Research
13 NCC National Clearing Cells
14 NCMC National Common Mobility Card
15 NCR National Capital Region
16 NCS Network Computing System
17 NDA Net Domestic Asset
18 NDC Non-Dues Certificate
19 NDS Negotiated Dealing Systems
20 NDSAP National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy
21 NDTL Net Demand And Time Liability
22 NDTV New Delhi Television
23 NECS National Electronic Clearing System
24 NEFT National Electronic Funds Transfer System.
25 Nero Nero Burning ROM named after Nero burning Rome
26 NET  Internet
27 NFA No Frills Account.
28 NFC Non Banking Finance Companies.
29 NFS National Financial Switch
30 NGO Non-Governmental Organisation
31 NHB National Housing Bank.
32 NIB Nordic Investment Bank.
33 NIC Network Interface Card
34 NIFTY National Stack Exchange Fifty
35 NIIT National Institute of Information Technology
36 Nike Named for the Greek goddess of victory
37 Nikon The original name was Nippon Kogaku, meaning “Japanese Optical”
38 NIl Net Interest Income
39 Nissan The company was earlier known by the name Nippon Sangyo which means “Japan Industries”
40 Nof Net Owned Funds
41 Nokia From the finnish city of Nokia
42 NPA Non Performing Assets.
43 NPCI National Payments Corporation Of India
44 NPLM Non-Performing Loan Management
45 NPS National Pensions Scheme.
46 NPV Net Present Value
47 NRE Non Resident External Account
48 NRI Non Resident Indian
49 NRNR Non-Resident Non-Repatriable Term Deposit Account
50 NRO Non-Resident Ordinary Account
51 NRSR Non-Resident (Special) Rupee Account
52 NRT  Nokia Ringtone
53 NSE National Stock Exchange.
54 NSFDC National Scheduled Castes Finance And Development Corporation
55 NSIC National Small Industries Corporation
56 NSS National Savings Scheme
57 NTFS  New Technology File System
58 NTH  Nokia Theme (Series 40)
59 NUM LOCK Number Lock

O Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 OAB Oman Arab Bank
2 OBC Oriental Bank of Commerce
3 OBD On-Board Diagnose
4 OBE Off-Balance Sheet Exposures
5 OBUs Offshore Banking Units
6 OCB Overseas Corporate Bodies
7 OD Overdraft
8 ODIs Offshore/Overseas Derivative Instruments
9 OECD Organization For Economic Cooperation And Development
10 OFCS Offshore Financial Centers
11 OHV Over Head Valve
12 OK Olla Kalla or Oll Korrect
13 OLTAS Online Tax Accounting System
14 OMO Open Market Operations
15 OP Original Poster, Original Post
16 Oracle The name Oracle comes from the code name of a CIA project
17 OS  Operating System
18 OSK On-Screen Keyboard
19 OSK  On-Screen Keyboard
20 OSLT Or Something Like That
21 OT Off-Topic
22 OTCEI Over the Counter Exchange Of India
23 OTOH On the other Hand
24 OTP One-Time Password
25 OTS One-Time Settlement

P Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 P.S Post Script
2 PACS Primary Agricultural Credit Societies
3 PAN Permanent Account Number
4 PB Peta Byte
5 PBS Projected Balance Sheet
6 PBT Profit Before Tax
7 PC Participation Certificate
8 PCA Prompt Corrective Action
9 PCARDB Primary Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank
10 PCDs Partly Convertible Debentures
11 PCI Personal Computer Interface
12 PCO Public Call Office
13 PCS Provincial Civil Service & Personal Communication Service
14 PDA Personal Digital Assistant
15 PDC Primary Domain Controller
16 PDF  Portable Document Format
17 PDO Public Debt Office
18 PEP Personal Equity Plans
19 PF Provident Fund
20 PFA Please Find Attachment, Predictive Failure Analysis
21 PFls Public Financial Institutions
22 PFRDA Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority
23 PGDCA Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application
24 PGDM Post Graduate Diploma in Management
25 PGDN Page Down
26 PgDn  Page Down
27 PGS Payment Gateway System.
28 PgUP  Page Up
29 PHD Doctor of Philosophy
30 Philips From The Name Of The Founders Gerard Philips And Anton Philips
31 PHP Hypertext PreProcessor
32 PiB  Pebi Byte
33 PIN Personal Identification Number
34 PING Packet InterNet Groper
35 PIO People of Indian Origin
36 PIS Portfolio Investment Scheme
37 PKI Public Key Infrastructure
38 PLIs Prime Lending Institutions
39 PLP Potential Linked Plan
40 PM Private Message
41 PMLA Prevention of Money Laundering Act
42 PNB PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK
43 PNG Portable Network Graphics
44 P-Notes Participatory Notes
45 POA Power of Attorney
46 POP Power On Password
47 PoS Point of Sale
48 POV Point of View
49 PP  Paypal
50 PPC Pay Per Click
51 PPF Public Provident Fund
52 PPIs Prepaid Payment Instruments
53 PPP Point to Point Protocol
54 PR  Page Rank 
55 PRNT SCRN Print Screen
56 PRO Professional
57 PRSF Partial Risk Sharing Facility
58 PrtScn  Print Screen
59 PS Postscript
60 PSBs Public Sector Banks
61 PSC Provincial Civil Service
62 PSI Pound per Square Inch
63 PSU Power Supply Unit
64 PTCs Pass-Through Certificates
65 PUC Pollution Under Control, Pre University Course & Personal Unlock Code
66 PVC Poly Vinyl Chloride
67 PW /PASS Password

Q Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 QA Session Question Answer Session
2 QGC Questar Gas Company
3 QIB Qualified Institutional Bankers
4 QIP Qualified Institutional Placement
5 QIS Quantitative Impact Study

R Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 RADAR Radio Detection And Ranging
2 RAM Random Access Memory
3 RAROC Risk-Adjusted Return On Capital
4 RAS Remote Access Server / Service
5 RBI Reserve Bank of India
6 RBS Royal Bank of Scotland.
7 RCF Risk Capital Foundation
8 RCI Refinance Corporation For Industry
9 RDBMS Relational Database Management System
10 RDDBFI Recovery of Debt due to Banks and Financial Institutions
11 RDX Research Department Explosive / Royal Demolition Explosive
12 REC Rural Electrification Corporation
13 Red-Hat Founder Marc Ewing Use To Wear A Red Cap
14 Reebok Name Comes From The Afrikaans Spelling Of Rhebok, A Type Of African Antelope
15 REGEDIT Registry Editor
16 REPOS Ready Forward Contracts
17 RFC Resident Foreign Currency
18 RFID Radio Frequency Identification
19 RGB Red Green Blue
20 RGB  Red – Green – Blue
21 RIDF Rural Infrastructure Development Fund
22 RIM Research In Motion
23 RIP Rest In Peace, Routing Information Protocol
24 RML Reverse Mortgage Loan
25 RNBCs Residuary Non-Banking Companies
26 RO Reverse Osmosis
27 RoA Return On Assets
28 ROC Registration of Companies
29 RoE Return On Equity
30 ROFL Rolling On Floor Laughing
31 ROM Read Only Memory
32 ROTFL Rolling on the Floor Laughing
33 RPM Revolutions Per Minute
34 RRB Regional Rural Bank.
35 RSS Really Simple Syndication, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
36 RSVP Repondez s’il vous plait
37 RTGS Real Time Gross Settlement System.
38 RTO Regional Transport Office
39 RTR   Racing Throttle Response
40 RTS  Real Time Streaming
41 RWA Risk Weighted Assets
42 RWD Rear Wheel Drive

S Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 S.I. Engine   Spark Ignition Engine
2 SACs Settlement Advisory Committees
3 SAE Society of Automotive Engineers
4 SAMIS Strategic Asset Management Information System
5 Samsonite Named From The Biblical Character Samson, Renowned For His Strength
6 Samsung Meaning Three Stars In Korean
7 SARFAES Securities and Reconstruction of Financial and Enforcement of Security Interest
8 SARFAESI Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest
9 SBI State Bank of India
10 SCB Scheduled Commercial Bank
11 SCC Selective Credit Control.
12 ScrLk Scroll Lock 
13 SD Secure Digital
14 SDBS Service Discharge Benefit Scheme
15 SDM Sub Divisional Magistrate
16 SDR Special Drawing Rights
17 SDS Special Deposit Scheme
18 SEBI Securities and Exchange Board of India
19 SENSEX Stock Exchange Sensitive Index
20 SEO Search Engine Optimization
21 SEPA Single Euro Payment Area.
22 SEPUP Self-Employment Programme For Urban Poor
23 SEZs Special Economic Zones
24 SFC Specific Fuel Consumption
25 SFCs State Financial Corporations
26 SFLR Sorry, for late Reply
27 SFMS Structured Financial Messaging Services
28 SGB Sovereign Gold Bond
29 SGSY Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana
30 SHG Self Help Group
31 SHGs Self-Help Groups
32 SHO Station House Officer
33 SIDBI Small Industries And Development Bank Of India.
34 SIDC State Industrial Development Corporation
35 SIFI Systematically Important Financial Intermediaries
36 SIM  Subscriber Identity Module
37 Sip Systematic Investment Plans
38 SIPS Systemically Important Payment System
39 SIS  Symbian Os Installer File
40 SIT Special Investigation Team
41 SJSRY Swarna Jayanthi Shahari Rozgar Yojana
42 SKU Stock Keeping Unit
43 SLA Service Level Agreement
44 SLBC State-Level Bankers’ Committee
45 SLR Statutory Reserve Ratio
46 SLRS Scheme for Liberation and Rehabilitation of Scavengers
47 SME Small and Medium Industries
48 SMERA SME Rating Agency of India Limited
49 SMILE SIDBI Make in India Loan for small Enterprises
50 SMO Social Media Optimization
51 SMPS Switched-Mode Power Supply & Switching Mode Power Supply
52 SMS System Management Server
53 SMSC Gateway Mobile Switching Center
54 SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
55 SOHC Single Over Head Camshaft
56 SONAR Sound Navigation and Ranging
57 SONY Sound Of New York.
58 SP Service Pack
59 SPNS Shared Payment Network System.
60 SPOM Self-Programmable One-Chip Microcomputer
61 Spy Special Purpose Vehicle
62 SQL Structured Query Language
63 SRS Supplemental Restraint System
64 SSB Service Selection Board
65 SSC Secondary School Certificate, Staff Selection Commission
66 SSI Small Scale Industries
67 SSIDC State Small Industries Development Corporation
68 SSLC Secondary School Leaving Certificate
69 SSls Small Scale Industries
70 SSSBE Small Scale Service and Business Enterprises
71 STD Short Term Deposit
72 STF Short-Term Finance
73 STP Straight -Through Processing
74 SUV Sport Utility Vehicle
75 Suzuki From The Name Of Its Founder, Michio Suzuki
76 SWF  Shock Wave Flash
77 SWIFT Society For World Wide Inter Bank Financial Telecommunication.
78 SYS System
79 SysRq  System Request

T Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 T/T Telegraphic Transfer
2 TA&DA Travelling Allowance & Dearness Allowance
3 TAN Transaction Number/Tax Deduction Account Number
4 TATA Named After Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
5 TB Tera Byte
6 TBA To be Announced
7 TBC To be Continued / To be Confirmed
8 TBH To Be Honest
9 TC   Traction Control
10 TCP  Transmission Control Protocol
11 TCS Tata Consultancy Services.
12 TDCI Turbo Diesel Common Rail Injection
13 TDF Technical Development Fund
14 TDI Turbocharged Direct Injection
15 TDICI Technology Development and Information Company of India Limited
16 TDR Time Domain Reflectometer
17 TDS Tax Deducted at Source
18 TEMP Temporary
19 TFT Thin Film Transistor
20 TGT Trained Graduate Teacher
21 TIA Thanks in Advance
22 TiB  Tebi Byte
23 TIEA Tax Information and Exchange Agreement
24 TIL Today I Learned
25 TIN Tax Information Network
26 TL;DR Too Long; Didn’t Read
27 TLD Top Level Domain
28 Toshiba Named From The Merger Of Consumer Goods Company Tokyo Denki (Tokyo Electric Co)And Electrical Firm Shibaura Seisaku-Sho
29 Toyota From The Name Of The Founder, Sakichi Toyoda.
30 TQ Thank You
31 TSI   Turbocharged Stratified Injection
32 TTYL Talk To You Later
33 TVS From The Name Of The Founder T. V. Sundaram Iyengar
34 TXT Text
35 TY Thank You
36 TYT Take your Time
37 TYVM Thank You Very Much

U Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 UBB Uniform Balance Book
2 UBD Urban Banks Department
3 UBI United Bank of India
4 UBIN Unique Business Identification Number
5 UCB Urban Cooperative Bank.
6 UCN Uniform Code Number
7 UEBA Universal Electronic Bank Account.
8 UF Ultrafiltration
9 UHF  Ultra High Frequency
10 UI User Interafce
11 UIC Unique Identification Code
12 UID User IDentification (internet- intranet- and server login accesses)
13 UIDAI Unique Identification Authority of India
14 UL Upload
15 UML Unified Modeling Language
16 UMTS  Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
17 UPDATE  Up-To-Date
18 UPI Unified Payments Interface
19 UPIN Unique Property Identification Numbers.
20 UPS United Parcel Service
21 UPS  Uninterruptible Power Supply 
22 URL Uniform Resource Locator
23 USB  Universal Serial Bus
24 USD United States Dollar.
25 USSD Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
26 UTI Unit Trust of India
27 UV Ultraviolet
28 UX User Experience

V Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 VAT Value Added Tax
2 VCFs Venture Capital Funds
3 VCP Village Credit Plan
4 VDB Ventilated Disc Brake
5 VDBS Vertically Differentiated Banking System.
6 VGA Video Graphics Array
7 VGT Variable Geometry Turbocharger
8 VHDL VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit) Hardware Description Language
9 VHF  Very High Frequency
10 VIP Vines Internet Protocol
11 VIRUS Vital Information Resources Under Seize
12 VISA charta visa, lit in Latin
13 VNT Variable Nozzle Turbine
14 Vodafone From Voice, Data, Telefone
15 VOIP  Voice Over Internet Protocol
16 Volkswagen From The German For People’s Car
17 Volvo From The Latin Word Volvo, Which Means “ I Roll ”
18 VPA Virtual Payment Address
19 VPI Virtual Path Identifier
20 VRS Voluntary Retirement Scheme
21 VTVT Variable Timing Valve Train
22 VUB Vseobecmi Uverova Banka
23 VVT/VTEC   Variable Valve Timing
24 VVTI  Variable Valve Timing with intelligence

W Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 Wal-Mart Named After Founder Sam Walton
2 WAN Wide Area Network
3 WAP  Wireless Application Protocol
4 WAV  Waveform Audio
5 WBCIS Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme.
6 WBMP  Wireless Bitmap Image
7 WCDL Working Capital Demand Loan
8 WCTL Working Capital Term Loan
9 WD Western Digital
10 WFM Works for Me
11 WGT Waste Gas Turbocharger
12 WI-FI  Wireless Fidelity 
13 WIN  Windows 
14 WIN10 Windws 10
15 WIN7 Windows 7
16 WIN8 Windows 8
17 WINXP Windows XP
18 WIPRO Western India Product Limited.
19 WL ATM White Label ATM.
20 WLAN  Wireless Local Area Network 
21 WMA Ways and Means Advances
22 WML  Wireless Markup Language
23 WMP Windows Media Player
24 WMV Windows Media Video
25 WOS Wholly Owned Subsidiary
26 WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
27 WPI Wholesale Price Index
28 WRT With Regard to
29 WTF What the Fuck
30 WTH What the Hell / What the Heck
31 WWW World Wide Web

X Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 XMF  Extensible Music File
2 XML Extensible Markup Language
3 XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

Y Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 YAHOO Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle
2 YAM Yet Another Meeting
3 Yamaha Named After The Founder Torakusu Yamaha
4 YB Yotta Byte
5 YiB  Yobi Byte
6 YMMD You made my Day
7 YTM Yield to Maturity

Z Full Forms

Sr. No. Acronym Full Form
1 ZB Zetta Byte
2 ZiB  Zebi Byte
3 ZMS Zhone Management System

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