List of acronyms: B

(Main list of acronyms)

B – Bel – Boron

B0–9

B10 – Ben 10
B10: AF – Ben 10: Alien Force
B10: UA – Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
B2B – Business-to-business electronic commerce
B2C – Business-to-consumer electronic commerce
B2E – Business-to-employee electronic commerce
B2M – Business to many

BA

ba – Bashkir language
Ba – Barium
BA –
* Bachelor of Arts
* Bahrain
*Bosnia and Herzegovina
* British Airways
*British Army
*Bank of America
BAA – British Airport Authority
BAC – Blood alcohol content
* British Aircraft Corporation
BAD – (HBO) Boxing After Dark
BADD – Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination
BAE – BAE Systems
BAFTA – British Academy of Film and Television Arts
BAI – Battlefield Air Interdiction
bak – Bashkir language
BALCO – Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative
bam – Bambara language
BAM –
* Business Activity Monitoring
* Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark
BAMC – Brooke Army Medical Center
Banesto – Banco Español de Crédito
BANG – Bits, Atoms, Neurons, Genes
BAO – Battlefield Air Operations
BAOR – British Army Of the Rhine
BP – Benzopyrene|Benzopyrene
BAR
* Barbados
* British American Racing
* Browning Automatic Rifle
* Buy-American Restrictions
BARD – Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund
BARDA – Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
BART – Bay Area Rapid Transit
BAS – Battalion Aid Station
BASE – Building, Antenna, Span, Earth
BASF – Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik
BASIC – Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BAT – Basic Aid Training
* British American Tobacco, London, England
* British Antarctic Territory
BATF – U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
BATS –
* Behavior Analysis Training System
*Bradley Advanced Training System
BATTeRS – Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey

BB

BC

BC
* Before Christ
* Blind Copy
* Boston College
* Botswana
* British Columbia
BCA
* Bachelor of Computer Application
* Black Coaches & Administrators
BCC – Blind Carbon Copy
BCCI
* Bank of Credit and Commerce International
* Board of Control for Cricket in India
BCD – Binary-Coded Decimal
BCE
* Banque centrale européenne
* Battlefield Co-ordination Element
* BC Electric, a former name for BC Hydro
* Before Common Era
BCER – British Columbia Electric Railway
BCFG – Patchy Fog
BCIS (fratricide avoidance system) – Battlefield Combat Identification System
BCLL – Bibliography of Celtic Latin Literature
BCOL – British Columbia Railway
BCPL – Basic Combined Programming Language
BCS
* Bachelor of Computer Science
* Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer superconduction theory
* Bowl Championship Series
BCT – Brigade Combat Team

BD

BD
* Bangladesh
* Bermuda
BDA – British Dental Association
BDD
* Body Dysmorphic Disorder
* British Defence Doctrine
Bde – Brigade
BDFL – Benevolent Dictator For Life
BDI – Burundi
BDNF – Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
BDO – Battle Dress Overgarment
BDOS – Basic Disk Operating System; part of CP/M
BDS
* – Bachelor of Dental Surgery
* Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, a movement advocating various boycotts of Israel in the context of the Arab–Israeli conflict
BDSM – Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission, Sadism and Masochism
BDT
* Bangladeshi taka
* Bureau de développement des télécommunications
BDU – Battle-Dress Uniform

BE

be – Belarusian language
Be – Beryllium
BE – Belgium
BEA
* Banque extérieure d'Algérie
* British European Airways
* British Electricity Authority
bel – Belarusian language
BEL – Belgium
BEM – British Empire Medal – Bug-Eyed Monster
ben – Bengali language
BEN – Benin
BEO – Banquet Event Order
BERC –
BER – Bit Error Rate
BES
* Budget Estimate Submission
* Caribbean Netherlands
BESS – Business, Education, and Social Sciences
BET – Black Entertainment Television
BETS – Bradley Embedded Training System
BEV
* Battery electric vehicle
* Black English Vernacular, a type of English spoken by many African Americans
* Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen, Austrian government agency

BF

BF – The Bahamas – Burkina Faso
b/f – before
BFA – Burkina Faso
BfArM – Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte, German governmental institute for drugs and medical devices
BFF – Best Friends Forever
BFI – British Film Institute
BFR – Biennial flight review
BFR – Brominated Flame Retardant
BFS – Belfast International Airport
BFSA – Blue Force Situation Awareness
BFT – Blue Force Tracking
BFX – Bioinformatics

BG

bg – Bulgarian language
BG – Bangladesh – Battle Group – Body Guard – Brigadier General – Bulgaria
BGA – Ball Grid Array – Brandy and Ginger Ale
BGD – Bangladesh
BGN – U.S. Board on Geographic Names – Bulgarian lev
BGR – Bulgaria
BGS – Bristol Grammar School – British Geological Survey
BGWG – Battle Group Wargame

BH

BI

bi – Bislami language
Bi – Bismuth
BI – Burundi
BIAP – Baghdad International Airport – Biafran pound
BICS – Battlefield Information and Communication System
BID – bis in die
BIDST – British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists
BIF – Burundian franc
bih – Bihari languages
BIH – Bosnia and Herzegovina
BIOS – Basic Input/Output System –
BIP – Battlefield Interoperability Programme – Broadcast incremental power algorithm
bis – Bislami language
BISEPS – Battlefield Identification System Environment Performance Simulation
BIST – Built-In Self-Test
BIT – Bilateral Investment Treaty – Built-In Test
BITE – Built-In Test Equipment

BJ

BJ – Benin – Blowjob
BJJ – Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
BJP – Bharatiya Janata Party
BJT – Bipolar Junction Transistor

BK

BL

BL
* Bolivia
* British Leyland
BLCSE – Battle Laboratory Constructive Simulation Environment
BLDU – Blowing Dust
BLEVE – Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion
BLK – Basket Liga Kobiet
BLM
* Black Lives Matter
* Bureau of Land Management
BLOB – Binary Large OBject
BLR – Belarus
BLSA – Blowing Sand
BLRSI – Battle Lab Reconfigurable Simulator
BLSN – Blowing Snow
BLT – Bacon Lettuce Tomato
BLUFOR – Blue Force
BLUI – Body Language User Interface
BLW – Below
BLZ – Belize

BM

bm – Bambara language
BM – Battle Management – Bermuda – Myanmar
BMA – British Medical Association
BMCC – Borough of Manhattan Community College
BMD – Ballistic Missile Defence – Bermudian dollar – Boyevaya Mashina Desanta † – British Military Doctrine
BMDG – British Military Doctrine Group
BMDO – Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
BME – Biomedical Engineering – Black and Minority Ethnic group – Body Modification E-zine
BMEWS – Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
BMI – Body Mass Index – Broadcast Music Incorporated - British Midland International
BMG – Bertelsmann Music Group
BML – Battle Management Language
BMNT – Begin Morning Nautical Twilight
BMP – Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoti †
BMR – Basal metabolic rate – Bronirovannaya Mashina Razminirovaniya †
BMU – Bermuda
BMW – Bayerische Motoren Werke
BMX – Bicycle/Bike Moto Cross

BN

bn – Bengali language
Bn – Battalion
BN
* Brunei
* Barisan Nasional
* Burlington Northern
BND – Brunei dollar
BnF – Bibliothèque nationale de France
BNF
* Backus–Naur form
* British National Formulary
BNICE – Biological, Nuclear, Incendiary, Chemical, and Explosive Agents
BNP
* British National Party
* Banque Nationale de Paris, a predecessor to today's BNP Paribas
BNS – Scotiabank, formerly Bank of Nova Scotia
BNSF – Burlington Northern Santa Fe

BO

BP

BP
* Battle Position
* British Petroleum
* Solomon Islands
Bp – Bishop
BPD – Bipolar Personality Disorder
BPM – Beats Per Minute
BPMo – Business Process Mobility
BPV
* Battlefield Planning Visualization
* Bovine papillomavirus

BQ

BR

br – Breton language
Br – Bromine
Br – "Best regards" used in valediction
BR
* Brazil – Bihar
* British Rail, previously British Railways
* Break Ranks
BRA – Brazil
BRAG – Bicycle Ride Across Georgia
BRASS – Breathe, Relax, Aim, Sight, Squeeze
BRB
* Barbados
* "Be Right Back"
BRDM – Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Dosornaya Mashina †
bre – Breton language
BRFSS – Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
BRI
* Bathroom Readers Institute
* Belt and Road Initiative
BRIC – Brazil, Russia, India and China
BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
BRIDGE – Building Resilienmce through Inclusively Designed Guidance and Education
BRIMS – Behavior Representation In Modeling and Simulation
BRL – Brazilian real
BRM – Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Mashina †
BRN
* Bahrain
* Brunei
BRSB – Battlefield Reasoning System Brianna
BRT – Bus Rapid Transit
BRU – Brunei

BS

BT

Bt
* Baronet
* Bacillus thuringiensis
BT
* Baal teshuva – used to describe a Jew who adopts Orthodox Judaism as an adult
* Bathythermograph
* Bhutan
* BitTorrent
* British Telecom, the former name of the company now known as BT Group
* Bluetooth
BTDT – Been There, Done That
Bti – Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis
BTID – Battlefield Target Identification Device
BTIS – Battlefield Target Identification System
BTN
* Bhutan
* Bhutanese ngultrum
BTO – Built To Order
BTP – British Transport Police
BTR – Bronetransporter Armoured †
BTS
* Bangtan Sonyeondan, expansion of the name of South Korean band BTS
* Base transceiver station
* Beyond the Scene, promoted by the band BTS as an alternate expansion of its initialism
* Build to stock
* Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. federal agency
* Business Training Systems, original name of the Swedish professional services firm BTS Group
BTU – British Thermal Unit
BTW – By The Way

BU

BU –
*Bulgaria –
*Burma
BUAV – British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
BUG-E – Battlefield Universal Gateway Equipment
bul – Bulgarian language
BUL – Bulgaria
BUNO or BuNo – Bureau Number
BUR – Burma

BV

BV –
*Background Vocals –
*Battlefield Visualization –
*Bouvet Island
BVB
* Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund, the full German name of the football club known in English as Borussia Dortmund
* Bursa de Valori București
BVD – Bradley, Voorhees & Day
BVR – Beyond Visual Range
BVT – Bouvet Island

BW

B&W – Babcock & Wilcox – Black and White – Bowers & Wilkins
BW – Bring Wedges
BW – Botswana
BWA – Botswana
BWARS – Bees, Wasps & Ants Recording Society
BWC – Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
BWP – Botswana pula
BWR – Boiling-Water Reactor

BX

BX – Base eXchange –

BY

BY –
*Burundi –
*Belarus
BYOB – Bring Your Own Bottle
BYOC – Bring Your Own Computer
BYOF – Bring Your Own Flask
BYR – Belarusian rubel
BYS – Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
BYU – Brigham Young University

BZ