List of acronyms: W

(Main list of acronyms)

W
* Tungsten
* Watt
* Wednesday
* West
* Games Won in sporting competitions

W0–9

W3C – World Wide Web Consortium
w/ – With: Software w/Documentation. Typically used in advertising or to abbreviate headings. Never used in formal body text.

WA

wa – Walloon language
WA
* Namibia
* Washington state
* Western Australia
* World Archery (Federation)
* World Athletics
WAAC – Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (Britain)
WAAF – Women's Auxiliary Air Force
WAC
* Western Athletic Conference
* Women's Auxiliary Corps
* Women's Army Corps
WACC – Weighted Average Cost of Capital
WACS – What-A-Cartoon! Show
WAD – Weapons Alert Designator
WAGGGS – World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
WAGMI - We're All Gonna Make It
WAGs – Wives And Girlfriends
WAK – Wake Island
WAL – see entry
WAN – Wide area network
WAP – Wireless Application Protocol
WAPIMA – What a pain in my ass
WAR – With All Respect
WAsP – Short form of WAAAAP
WASP
* White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
* Wide Angle Search for Planets
* Women Airforce Service Pilots
WAYP – White And Yellow Pages

WB

Wb – Weber
WB
* Warner Bros.
*Welcome Back
WBA
* Warner Bros. Animation
* West Bromwich Albion (F.C.)
* World Boxing Association
WBC – World Boxing Council
WBE – Work Breakdown Element
WBIT – Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament
WBO – World Boxing Organization
WbW
* with best wishes
* white boy wasted

WC

WC – Water Closet – Winston Churchill – World Cup
WCBO – World Chess Boxing Organisation
WCBP – World Center for Birds of Prey
WCCW – World Class Championship Wrestling
WCDay – World Constitution Day
WCL – World Confederation of Labour
WCPA – World Constitution and Parliament Association
WCS – Weapon Control Status – Wildlife Conservation Society
WCW – World Championship Wrestling
WCWCC – World Committee for a World Constitutional Convention
WCWS – Women's College World Series, the final phase of the NCAA Division I softball tournament in the US

WD

WDC – Western Design Center – World Data Center
WDWR – Walt Disney World Resort
WDIN –

WE

WEBS – Weapon Effectiveness Battle Simulation
WEC – World Extreme Cagefighting
WEEE – Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
WEF – World Economic Forum
WEIRD – Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic
WEM - West Edmonton Mall
WEU – Western European Union
WEZ – Weapon Engagement Zone

WF

WF – Wallis and Futuna Islands
WFC – Women's Forage Corps
WFD – Weapon of Focused Destruction
WFF – Wallops Flight Facility
WFI - Water for Injection
WFP – World Food Program
WFT – Washington Football Team
WFZ – Weapons Free Zone

WG

WG – Working Group – Wade–Giles
WGS 84 – World Geodetic System 1984
WGSRPD
*World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions
*an international biogeography based standardized placename system for flora + floristics locations.

WH

WH – Wehrmacht Heer
WHAM – Wisconsin Hydrogen-Alpha Mapping
WHI – Women's Health Initiative
WHIP – Walks plus hits per inning pitched
WHO – World Health Organization
WHS – Washington Headquarters Services

WI

WI
* Western Sahara
* Wisconsin
* Women's Institute
WIA
* Wounded In Action
* Wireless Institute of Australia
WIC – U.S. (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for) Women, Infants and Children
WIIFM - What's in it for me?
WIE- Windows Internet Explorer
WIMP
* Weakly Interacting Massive Particle
* Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers
WIN-T – Warfighter Information Network-Tactical
WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization
WIPP – Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
WIYN – Wisconsin Indiana Yale NOAO telescope consortium

WJ

WJKK WJKF – Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ke Fateh, a Sikh greeting

WK

WK – Wake Island
WKYP – Will Keep You Posted
WKX – World Kickboxing Xtrm

WL

WM

WM – Wehrmacht Marine
WMANUS – West Midlands Area National Union of Students
WMD
* Weapon of mass destruction|Weapon of Mass Destruction
*World Movement for Democracy
WMI – Wildlife Management Institute
WMO – World Meteorological Organization

WN

WNA – World Nuclear Association
WNBA – Women's National Basketball Association
WNF – "Will Not Fix"
WNL - Medical initialism for "Within Normal Limits"
WNIT – Women's National Invitation Tournament
WNSD – What's New, Scooby-Doo?
WNW – West North-West

WO

wo – Wolof language
WO – Warrant Officer
W/O – Without: Software w/o Documentation
w/o
* Weight per cent
* without
WOF - Width of Fabric
WOFT – Waste Of F***ing Time
WOFTAM – Waste Of F***ing Time And Money
WOI –
wol – Wolof language
WOLOG – WithOut Loss Of Generality
WOM – Write Only Memory
WOS – Wilson Ornithological Society
WOSM
* World Organization of the Scout Movement
* Worldwide Oil Spill Model
WOT – Waste Of Time
WoW or WOW – ''World of Warcraft''

WP

WP
* White Phosphorus (ammunition)
* Workers' Party (Singapore)
WPB – War Production Board during World War II
WPE – World Pork Expo
WPK – Wider Peacekeeping
WPN – Wizards Play Network
WPT
* World Poker Tour
* World Premiere Toons
WPP - Witness Protection Program

WQ

WQS – World Qualifying series

WR

WR – Wide receiver
WRAC – Women's Royal Army Corps
WRAIR – Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
WRBWWRM – "We Read Best What We Read Most"
WRC – World Rally Championship
WRC - World Religions Conference
WRNS – Women's Royal Naval Service
WRVS – Women's Royal Voluntary Service, now only known by the acronym
WRS – Worldwide Reference System
wrt, also w.r.t. or w/r/t – with respect to or with regard to, depending on context
WRT
* Writer Response Theory
* WRT - "With respect to", especially in fields such as Mathematics.
* World Rally Team
* Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC
* Wireless Ronin Technologies
* NHS Workforce Review Team
* The Linksys routers whose model name start with 'WRT'
* Wholesale, Trade, Retail sector, category in employment and economics statistics
* Wireless Receiver/Transmitter
* Third party firmware for the Linksys WRT routers and compatible models from other vendors.
* Web Runtime (WRT) is a portable application framework developed by Nokia that allows the creation of widgets on the S60 Platform.

WS

WS
* Samoa
* Writer to the Signet
WSC – Weapon System Catalogue
WSDL – Web Services Description Language
WSJ – (The) Wall Street Journal
WSL
* White Star Line
* Women's Super League, currently used to describe England's top women's association football league and formerly to describe that country's top women's rugby union competition
* Workers' Socialist League
WSM
* Samoa
* Winchester Short Magnum
WSMR – White Sands Missile Range
WSROC – Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils
WSSM – Winchester Super Short Magnum
WST
* Water Soluble Tetrazolium
* Samoan tālā
WSTC – Women Signallers Territorial Corps
WSUS – Windows Server Update Services
WSW – West South-West

WT

WTA – Women's Tennis Association
WTB
* Wales Tourism Board
* Warenterminbörse Hannover
WTB – Want to Buy
WTC – World Trade Center
WTF – What the f**k?; also What a Terrible Failure
WTFH – What The F**king Hell
WTH – What the Hell
WTNWD – Wait To Next Working Day
WTO – World Trade Organization
WTS – Want to Sell

WU

WU – Wabash University – Washington University in St. Louis – Western Union – Windows Update – Work unit – WU Wien
WUU2 – What you up to – Internet slang popular with teenagers.
WUBU2 – What you been up to

WV

WV – West Virginia
WVA – World Veterinary Association
WVIAC – West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
WVR – Women's Volunteer Reserve
WVSC – Women's Volunteer Service Corps
WVU – West Virginia University
WVUIT – West Virginia University Institute of Technology

WW

WW – see entry
WWE – World Wrestling Entertainment
WWF
* World Wide Fund for Nature, from its original name of World Wildlife Fund, which remains the legal name in the U.S. and Canada
* World Wrestling Federation
WWI – World War I
WWII – World War II
WWIII – World War III
WWJD – "What would Jesus do?"
WWS – Wheaton Warrenville South High School
WWV – Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis
WWW – World Wide Web
WWWF – World Wide Wrestling Federation

WX

WXO – Weather Officer

WY

WY – Wyoming
WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get
WYSIWYP – What You See Is What You Print / What You See Is What You Pay
WYRFTTM – When You Are Free Talk To Me

WZ

WZ – Eswatini