List of acronyms: P
This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter P.
For the purposes of this list:
- acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome, pronounced to rhyme with cars
- initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee
- pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
- (a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome
- (i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc
- (p) = pseudo-blend, e.g.: UNIFEM – (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
- (s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – megahertz)
Some terms are spoken as either acronym or initialism, e.g., VoIP, pronounced both as voyp and V-O-I-P.
- p – (s) pico
- P – (s) Peta – Phosphorus
P0–9
[edit]- P2P – (i) Peer-to-peer (networking)
- P3I or P3I – (i) PrePlanned Product Improvement
PA
[edit]- pa – (s) Punjabi language (ISO 639-1 code)
- pA – (s) picoampere
- Pa
- (s) pascal
- Protactinium
- PA
- (a/i) Pamela Anderson
- (s) Panama (ISO 3166 digram)
- Paraguay (FIPS 10-4 country code)
- (i) Partial Agonist
- (s) Pennsylvania (postal symbol)
- petampere
- (i) PolyAmide (Nylon)
- Prince Albert piercing
- Public Address (vocal amplification system)
- Public Affairs
- PA 6 – (s) Nylon 6 (PolyAmide) (similarly for PA 11, 12, 46, 66, 610)
- PAA – (i) Position Area for Artillery
- PAB – (s) Panamanian balboa (ISO 4217 currency code)
- PABX – (p) Private Automated Branch eXchange (company phone system)
- PAC
- (i) Pan Africanist Congress
- (a) Partial Solar Calibrator
- Patriot Advanced Capabilities
- Political action committee
- (a/i) Primary Auditory Cortex
- PACER – (a) Public Access to Court Electronic Records (U.S. federal courts)
- PACOM – (p) (U.S.) Pacific Command
- PADD
- (a) Personal Access Display Device (as seen in the Star Trek franchise)
- Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts, used for data collection in the U.S. petroleum industry
- PADI – (a) Professional Association of Diving Instructors
- PAEK – (i) PolyArylEtherKetone
- PAFC – (i) Plymouth Argyle Football Club
- PAH – (i) Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
- PAHO – (i) Pan American Health Organization
- PAI
- (i) PolyAmide Imide
- Pre-Approval Inspection (pharma)
- PAK – (s) Pakistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
- Pakistan – (p) Punjab, Afghan states, Kashmir, sIndh, baluchiSTAN
- PAL
- (a) Phase Alternating Line (TV standard)
- (p) Philippine Airlines
- PAM – (a/i) Precision Attack Missile
- Pamida – (p) Patrick, Michael, and David, sons of the department store chain's co-founder Jim Witherspoon
- PAMELA
- pan – (s) Punjabi language (ISO 639-2 code)
- PAN
- (s) Panama (ISO 3166 trigram)
- (a) Partai Amanat Nasional (Indonesian, "National Mandate Party") – Indonesian political party
- Partido Acción Nacional (Spanish, "National Action Party") – political parties in El Salvador, Mexico, and Nicaragua
- Partido de Avanzada Nacional (Spanish, "National Advancement Party") – Guatemalan political party
- Personal area network
- (i) PolyAcryloNitrile
- (a) Programa de Asistencia Nutricional (Spanish, "Nutritional Assistance Program") – U.S. federal program for nutritional needs of poor families in Puerto Rico
- PANS – (a) Pretty Advanced/Awesome Network Services (cf. POTS)
- Pan-STARRS – (p) Panoramic Survey Telescope And Rapid Response System
- PAO
- (i) Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (Greek: Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος, "Pan-Athenian Athletic Club")
- (a/i) Poly Alpha Olefin
- Public Affairs Officer
- PAOK – (i) Panthessalonikeios Athlitikós Ómilos Konstantinoupoliton (Greek Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών, "Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolites")
- PAP
- (i) People's Action Party (Singapore)
- (a) Internet slang for Post a Picture
- PAPI – (a) Precision Approach Path Indicator (aviation)
- PAR – (s) Paraguay (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
- PARC – (a) Palo Alto Research Center
- PAROS – (a) Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (treaty)
- PARP – (i) (NATO Partnership for Peace) Planning And Review Process
- PARWIG – (a) Power Augmented Ram Wing In Ground (aeroplane wing shape)
- PAS – See entry
- PASA – (i) PolyAmide, Semi-Aromatic (Nylon)
- PASGT – (i) Personnel Armor System, Ground Troops
- PASR – (i) Personnel Accounting and Strength Reporting
- PatD - (s) Panic! at the Disco
- PATH – (a) Port Authority Trans-Hudson
- PAWS
- PAYD – (a) Pay As You Drive
- PAYE – (a) Pay As You Earn
PB
[edit]- Pb – (s) Lead (Latin Plumbum)
- PB – (p) PolyButylene
- PBA
- PBB – (p) PolyBrominated Biphenyl
- PBC
- (i) Push Button Connect, a WPS method
- (i) Playback Control, a feature on Video CD and Super Video CD
- PBCK – (i) Problem Between Chair and Keyboard (computer help desk in-joke)
- PBD – (p) PolyButaDiene
- PBDE – (i) PolyBrominated Diphenyl Ether
- PBI – (p) PolyBenzImidazole
- PBIS - Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
- PBN – (p) PolyButylene Naphthalate
- PBOH – (i) Please Become Old History
- PBR
- (i) Pabst Blue Ribbon (beer brand)
- Professional Bull Riders
- PBS
- (i) Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (Australia)
- Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
- Public Broadcasting Services (Malta)
- PBRT - may stand for: Physically Based Raytracing, an open source software rendering system for physically correct image synthesis.
- PBT – (p) PolyButylene Terephthalate
- PBX – (p) Private Branch eXchange (company phone system)
PC
[edit]- pC – (s) picocoulomb
- PC
- (s) petacoulomb
- U.S. Pacific Islands Trust Territory (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1986)
- (i) Personal computer
- Player Character (roleplaying)
- Politically Correct / Political Correctness
- post cibum (Latin, "after meals")
- PCAS – (i) Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
- PCB – see entry
- PCC
- (i) NATO Partnership Coordination Cell
- Posterior Cingulate Cortex
- Pre-Command Course
- Presidents Conference Committee
- PCCB – (i) Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake
- PCCIP – (i) President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
- PCE – (p) PerChlorEthylene
- PCI
- (s) U.S. Pacific Islands Trust Territory (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
- (i) Peripheral Component Interconnect (computer bus)
- PCIe – (i) Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (computer bus)
- PCL – (i) Passive Coherent Location
- PCMCIA – (i) Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (People Can't Memorise Computer-Industry Acronyms)
- PCN – (s) Pitcairn Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
- PCP
- (p) phencyclidine
- Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (formerly Pneumocystis carinii)
- (i) Probabilistically Checkable Proof
- PCPI – Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (AMA)
- PCR – (i) Polymerase chain reaction
- PCSSD - (p) Pulaski County Special School District
- PCT
- PCTE
- PCZ – (s) Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)
PD
[edit]- Pd – (s) Palladium
- PD
- (i) per diem (Latin: (calculated) by the day)
- Point of Departure
- Police Department
- Postal District
- Potential Difference
- Principal Deputy
- Privatdozent
- Public domain
- PD – (i) Product Director—Example: CERDEC Product Director C4ISR and Network Modernization
- PDA
- (i) Personal Digital Assistant
- Predicted Drift Angle
- Public Display of Affection
- Push-Down Automaton
- PDD
- (i) Past Due Date
- Presidential Decision Directive
- PDF
- (i) Panama[nian] Defense Forces (abolished 1990)
- Portable Document Format
- Principal Direction of Fire
- PDG
- (i) President Director General
- Product Development Group
- PDL
- (i) Premier Development League, a former name of the U.S. minor soccer league now known as USL League Two
- Pure Dumb Luck (Texan punk band)
- PDN – (i) Pull-Down Network
- PDP
- (i) Programmable Data Processor
- Performance Development Plan[1]
- PDQ
- (i) Pre-Defined Queries (Siebel packages)
- Pretty Damn Quick
- PDRY – (i) People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (obsolete since 1990)
- PDT – (i) Pacific Daylight [Saving] Time (UTC-7 hours)
- PDU
- PDVSA – (a/i) Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (Spanish, "Venezuelan Petroleum Company")
PE
[edit]- PE – Professional Engineer
- PE – (s) Ice Pellets (old style METAR Code) – Peru (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram) – (i) Physical Education – Premature Ejaculation[2] – (s) Prince Edward Island (postal code) – Price to Earning ratio (used for equity shares) – Plant Extract
- PEBCAC – (a) Problem Exists Between Chair and Computer (IT help desk in-joke)
- PEBKAC – (a) Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair (ditto)
- PEEK – (i) PolyEtherEtherKetone
- PEET – (a) Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy
- PEGIDA – (a) Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes (German, "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West")
- PEI – (i) Prince Edward Island – PolyEtherImide
- PEK – (i) PolyEtherKetone
- PEMDAS - The order of operations in math (Parentheses, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction)
- PEN
- (s) Peruvian sol (ISO 4217 currency code)
- (i) Poets, Essayists and Novelists, the original meaning of the initialism of the organization now known as PEN International
- PolyEthylene Naphthalate
- PEO – (i) Παγκύπρια Εργατική Ομοσπονδία (Greek for "Pancyprian Federation of Labour") – Philanthropic Educational Organization – PolyEthylene Oxide – Professional Employer Organization – Professional Engineers Ontario
- PEPFAR – (a) President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief
- PER – (s) Peru (ISO 3166 trigram)
- perl – (a) usually lower case Practical Extraction and Report Language
- PERM - Program Electronic Review Management
- PES – (i) PolyEtherSulfone
- PEST – (a) UK Public Engagement with Science and Technology
- PET – (a/i) Personal Electronic Transactor – Pierre Elliott Trudeau – Positron Emission Tomography (as in PET scan) – PolyEthylene Terephthalate (plastic) – (a) Preliminary English Test
- PETA – (a/i) pentaerythritol triacrylate – People Eating Tasty Animals – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
- PETE – (i) PolyEthyleneTErephthalate
- PETP – (i) PolyEthyleneTerePhthalate
PF
[edit]- pF – (s) picofarad
- PF
- (s) French Polynesia (ISO 3166 digram)
- petafarad
- (i) Phenol Formaldehyde (resin)
- Power forward, a player position in Australian rules football, basketball, and ice hockey
- PFD – (i) Permanent Fund Dividend = personal flotation device
- PFE – (i) Permanent Forest Estate
- PFLAG – (p) Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays ("pee-flag")
- PFIY – (a) Please Fix it Yourself ("pee-fiy")
- PFO – (i) Pissed, Fell Over (medical diagnosis in-joke)
- PfP – (i) Partnership for Peace
- PFW
- (i) Pro Football Weekly (magazine and website covering the National Football League)
- Purdue University Fort Wayne
PG
[edit]- pg – (s) picogram
- Pg – (s) petagram
- PG –
- (i) propylene glycol
- (s) Papua New Guinea (ISO 3166 digram)
- (i) Parental Guidance (movie rating)
- Point guard (basketball position)
- PG-13 (disambiguation) – (p) (movie rating)
- PGCE – (p) Postgraduate Certificate in Education
- PGD – (i) Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
- PG&E – (i) Pacific Gas & Electric
- PGENI – (i) Pharmaco-Genetics for Every Nation Initiative
- PGH – (i) Pre-implantation Genetic Haplotyping
- PGK – (s) Papua New Guinea kina (ISO 4217 currency code)
- PGM – (i) Precision-Guided Munition
- PGP – (i) Pretty Good Privacy
PH
[edit]- pH
- (s) parts of hydrogen (acidity/alkalinity index)
- picohenry
- PH
- (i) Passive Homing (missile guidance system)
- (s) petahenry
- Philippines (ISO 3166 digram)
- (i) Probability of Hit
- Professional hunter (abbreviation used mostly in East and Southern Africa)
- Public Health
- Purple Heart
- (i) Pakatan Harapan (Malaysia)
- PHA
- Ph.D. – (p) Philosophiæ Doctor (Latin, "Doctor of Philosophy")
- PHEV – (i) Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle
- PHF
- (i) Paired helical filaments (aggregations of tau proteins in the human brain associated with tauopathy)
- Potentially Hazardous Food
- Premier Hockey Federation (defunct North American women's ice hockey league)
- PHL – (s) Philippines (ISO 3166 trigram)
- PHQ - Patient Health Questionnaire
- PHP
PI
[edit]- pi – (s) Pāli language (ISO 639-1 code)
- Pi – (s) Pebi
- PI – (i) PolyImide – PolyIsoprene – Private Investigator
- PIB – (i) PolyIsoButylene
- PIC – (i) Person In Charge
- PICNIC – (a) Problem In Chair Not In Computer
- PICS – (i) Private Investment Capital Subscription
- PID – (i) Pelvic Inflammatory Disease – (p) Plan Identification Number – Positive Identification – Procedural Identification – (i) Procurement Identification Description
- PIDOOMA – (a/i) Pulled It Directly Out Of My Ass
- PIF – (a/i) Partners in Flight
- PIG – (a) Pipeline Inspection Gauge
- PIGS (also PIIGS or PIIGGS) – (a) Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain; PIIGS if including Ireland; PIIGGS if including the United Kingdom (Great Britain)
- PIGS – Passenger Inert Guidance Systems – Movable tape barrier, typically used on airport aprons to guide passengers to/from their aircraft avoiding danger areas.
- PIM – (a/i) Parameterized Ionospheric Model – Path of Intended Motion – Pediatric Index of Mortality – Personal Information Manager/Management – Presence and Interworking Mobility – Processor-In-Memory – Program Integration Manager – Protocol Independent Multicast
- PIN – (a) Personal Identification Number
- PINF – (i) People In Need Foundation (Czech charitable organisation)
- PIPA – (a/i) Program on International Policy Attitudes
- PIR – (i) Priority Intelligence Requirement
- PIRA – (a) Provisional Irish Republican Army
- PIREPS – (p) Pilot Reports
- PITA – (a) Pain In The Ass
- P.I. - Philippines Islands
- PITS - Person In The Seat. A common problem as to why a computer is not working properly. It is a PITS issue.
PJ
[edit]- pJ – (s) picojoule
- PJ – (s) petajoule
- PJHQ – (p) Permanent Joint Headquarters
- PJs – (p) Pajamas ("pee-jayz")
PK
[edit]- K – (s) picokelvin
- PK – (s) Pakistan (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram) – petakelvin – (i) Player Kill[er] – Probability of Kill – (p) PolyKetone – (i) Pulemet Kalashnikova (Russian ПК пулемет Калашникова, "Machinegun Kalashnikov")[3]
- PKA – (i) previously known as – professionally known as
- PKE – (i) Partnership of Kindermusik Educators[4][5][6]
- PKI – (i) public key infrastructure (cryptography)
- PKM – (i) Pulemet Kalashnikova Modernizirovanniy (Russian ПКМ пулемет Калашникова модернизированный, "Machinegun Kalashnikov Modernised")[3]
- PKMS – (i) Pulemet Kalashnikova Modernizirovanniy Stepanova (Russian ПКМС пулемет Калашникова модернизированный Степанова, "Machinegun Kalashnikov Modernised Stepanova")[3]
- PKMT – (i) Pulemet Kalashnikova Modernizirovanniy Tankoviy (Russian ПКМТ пулемет Калашникова модернизированный танковый, "Machinegun Kalashnikov Modernised Tank") (a.k.a. PKTM)[3]
- PKR
- (s) Pakistani rupee (ISO 4217 currency code)
- (i) People's Justice Party (Malaysia)
- PKT – (i) Pulemet Kalashnikova Tankoviy (Russian ПКТ пулемет Калашникова танковый, "Machinegun Kalashnikov Tank")[3]
- PKTM – (i) Pulemet Kalashnikova Tankoviy Modernizirovanniy (Russian ПКТМ пулемет Калашникова танковый модернизированный, "Machinegun Kalashnikov Tank Modernised") (a.k.a. PKMT)[3]
- PKU – (p) Phenylketonuria
PL
[edit]- pl – (s) Polish language (ISO 639-1 code)
- pL – (s) picolitre
- PL
- (s) Ice Pellets (new style METAR Code)
- (s) petalitre
- (i) Phase Line (Co-ordination Line)
- (s) Poland (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
- PLA
- (i) People's Liberation Army (Chinese military forces)
- Programmable logic array
- PLAF
- (a/i) People's Liberation Armed Forces
- Pluggable look and feel
- Product Line Architecture Framework
- PLAID – (p) Precision Location and Identification
- PLB – (i) Personal Locator Beacon
- PLC – (i) Public Limited Company (British)
- PLCC – (i) Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (electronics)
- PLD – (i) Probable Line of Deployment
- PLEBS – (i) People Lacking Everyday Basic Skills
- PLF – (i) Parachute Landing Fall
- PLGR – (a) Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver ("plugger")
- pli – (s) Pāli language (ISO 639-2 code)
- PLI
- (i) Position Location Information
- Practising Law Institute
- Private Lands Initiative
- Professional Liability Insurance
- PLIF – (a) Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence
- PLK – (i) Polska Liga Koszykówki (Polish, "Polish Basketball League")
- PLKK – (i) Polska Liga Koszykówki Kobiet (Polish, "Polish Women's Basketball League"), former name of the league now known as Basket Liga Kobiet
- PLL
- (i) Phase-Locked Loop (electronics)
- Premier Lacrosse League
- PLM – (i) Polarized Light Microscope/Microscopy
- PLMBA - (i) Phospholipid Bilayer Microarray
- Pln – (p) Platoon
- PLN – (s) Polish zloty (ISO 4217 currency code)
- PLO – (i) Palestine Liberation Organization
- PLOKTA – (a) Press Lots Of Keys To Abort
- PLP – (i) Platonic Life Partner
- PLS
- (i) Palletized Loading System
- Personal Locator System
- PLUTO – (a) Pipe Line Under The Ocean
- PLW – (s) Palau (ISO 3166 trigram)
PM
[edit]- pm – (s) picometre
- Pm – (s) petametre – Promethium
- PM – (s) Panama (FIPS 10-4 country code) – (i) Perry Mason – Phase Modulation – Post Meridiem (Latin "after noon") – Prime Minister – Project Manager – (s) Saint Pierre and Miquelon (ISO 3166 digram)
- PMC – (i) Primary Motor Cortex
- PMCS – (i) Partial Mission Capable Supply (SM&R code) – Power Management Control System – Professional Military Comptroller School
- PME – (i) Professional Military Education
- PMHT – (i) Pardon My Hashtag (Also #PMHT)
- PMI – (i) Positive Material Identification
- PMID – (p) PubMed Identifier
- PMMA – (i) PolyMethylMethAcrylate
- PMO — Principal Medical Officer (UK, Canada, India, and Ireland)
- PMOS – (i/a) P-type/Positive Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor transistor ("pee-moss")
- PMS – (i) Premenstrual Syndrome
- PMSC – (i) NATO Political-Military Steering Committee on Partnership for Peace
- PMSL – (i) Piss Myself Laughing (Internet shorthand)
- PMT - Premenstrual Tension (UK) (see Premenstrual Syndrome)
PN
[edit]- pN – (s) piconewton
- PN
- (s) petanewton
- Pitcairn Islands (ISO 3166 diagram)
- (i) Perikatan Nasional (Malaysia)
- PNAC – (i) Project for the New American Century
- PNC
- (i) Palestinian National Council
- Palmerston North City (cf. PNC, a New Zealand rapper from this city)
- Parti nationaliste chrétien, defunct Quebec political party
- Pittsburgh National Corporation, one of the two companies that merged into today's PNC Financial Services
- Provident National Corporation, the other company that merged into PNC Financial Services
- PNF – (i) Pilot Not Flying (aviation)
- PNG
- (s) Papua New Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram)
- (i) Portable Network Graphics
- PNP
- Parti national populaire, defunct Quebec political party
- (i) Partido Nuevo Progresista
- Plug 'N' Play/Pray
- Positive Negative Positive
- PNS – (s) Pensacola, Florida (IATA airport code)
- PNVS – (i) Pilot Night Vision Sensor
- PNH
- (i) Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
- Police Nationale d'Haïti (French, "National Police of Haiti")
PO
[edit]- Po – (s) Polonium
- PO
- (s) Dust Devil (METAR Code)
- (i) per os (Latin, "by mouth")
- (s) Portugal (FIPS 10-4 country code)
- PO – (i) Post Office
- PO – (i) Purchase Order
- POCD – (i) Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction
- pod – (a) Plain Old Documentation
- POD
- (i) Payable on Death (banking term, and the full name of American metal band P.O.D.)
- Point of divergence (alternate or counterfactual history)
- Port of Debarkation
- POE – (a) Perl Object Environment – (b) Port Of Embarkation (c) Polyol Ester (d) Power Over Ethernet
- POETS – (a) Portable Occultation, Eclipse, and Transit electronic-camera System
- POFF – (a) Plain Old Flat File
- POG – (a) Passionfruit, Orange and Guava
- POGO – (a) Project On Government Oversight
- POI
- (i) Program Of Instruction
- (i) Place of Interest
- (i) Point of Interest
- (i) Person of Interest
- POK – (a/i) Plane Of Knowledge
- pol – (s) Polish language (ISO 639-2 code)
- POL
- (i) Petroleum, Oils and Lubricants
- (s) Poland (ISO 3166 trigram)
- POLAD – (p) Political Advice
- POM
- POMDP – (i) Partially observable Markov decision process
- POP
- por – (s) Portuguese language (ISO 639-2 code)
- POR
- (s) Portugal (FIFA and IOC trigram, but not ISO 3166)
- (i) Proposed Operational Requirement
- POS
- (a/i) Point Of Sale terminal (retail industry transaction computers)
- (i) Piece Of Shit
- Position
- POSH – (a) Port Outbound Starboard Home (alleged)
- POTC o PotC – (a) Pirates of the Caribbean
- POSSLQ – Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
- POT – (a/i) Plane Of Tranquility
- POTS
- POV – (i) Point of view / Point of vision
- POW – (i) Prisoner of war
PP
[edit]- pp
- pages, especially in references, e.g. "A. U. Thor, Title, Journal X, Vol. 1, no. 2 (2010) pp. 13-42."
- PP
- (s) Papua New Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code)
- (i) Passage Point
- per procurationem (Latin, "by proxy")
- PPA
- PPASC – (i) (U.S.) Plans and Program Analysis Support Center
- PPASSCCATAG - (a) "Proud Parents Against Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples And Teens And Gays", a fictional group formed by Marge Simpson
- PPCLI – (i) Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (regiment)
- PPG
- (i) Pittsburgh Plate Glass (the original name of the company now known as PPG Industries)
- The Powerpuff Girls
- PPL
- (i) Pakistan Petroleum Limited
- Pay per lead (marketing)
- Pennsylvania Power & Light, former name of the U.S. utility company now known as PPL
- Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Liechtensteins (German, "Scouts and Guides of Liechtenstein")
- Phonographic Performance Limited (UK performing rights organisation)
- PPLI – (i) Precise Participant Location & Identification
- ppm – (i) Parts Per Million
- PPM – (i) Project Planning and Management
- PPO – (i) PolyPhenylene Oxide
- PPP
- PPQ – (i) Pulses Per Quarter (used in music programming, sequencers)
- PPQN – (i) Pulses Per Quarter Note (ditto)
- PPQT – (i) Pre-Production Qualification Test
- PPS
- (i) post postscriptum
- Precise/Precision Positioning Service (GPS)
- PolyPhenylene Sulfide
- PPV – (a) Pay-per-view
PQ
[edit]- PQ
- (s) Province of Québec (obsolete postal code, replaced by QC)
- (i) Parti Québécois
PR
[edit]- Pr – (i) Pastor or Priest
- Pr – (s) Praseodymium
- PR
- (i) Public Relations
- (s) Puerto Rico (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
- Prb – (i) Presbyter
- PRBO – (i) Point Reyes Bird Observatory
- PRC – (i) People's Republic of China
- PRD – (i) CERDEC Product Realization Directorate
- PRFG – (s) Partial Fog (METAR Code)
- PRI – (s) Puerto Rico (ISO 3166 trigram)
- Prinair - Puerto Rico International Airlines
- PRK – (s) Democratic People's Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 trigram)
- PRM – (i) Personnel Readiness Management
- PRN – (i) pro re nata (Latin, "for the emergency", "as needed")
- PRT
- (s) Portugal (ISO 3166 trigram)
- (i) Provincial Reconstruction Team
- PRY – (s) Paraguay (ISO 3166 trigram)
PS
[edit]- ps
- (s) Pashto language (ISO 639-1 code)
- picosecond
- pS – (s) picosiemens
- Ps – (s) petasecond
- PS
- (s) Palestinian Territory, Occupied (ISO 3166 digram)
- (i) Personnel Services
- (s) petasiemens
- (i) post scriptum (Latin, "written after")
- Power Steering
- Power Supply
- Public School
- PooS – Poo Sniffer (Internet shorthand)
- PSA
- Pacific Southwest Airlines
- (i) Paralysis Society of America
- Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
- Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive
- Production Services Association
- Prostate Specific Antigen
- Public Service Announcement
- Public Service Association
- PSC
- PSE
- (s) Palestinian Territory, Occupied (ISO 3166 trigram)
- (i) Precision Shooting Equipment, the expanded name of PSE Archery
- PSG
- PSI - (i) Pounds per square inch
- PSI – (a/i) Portable Source Initiative
- PSO
- (i) Peace Support Operations
- Primary Standardisation Office (ABCA)
- Protocol Supporting Organization (of the ICANN)
- PSS – (i) Personnel System Support
- PST – (i) Pacific Standard Time (UTC−8 hours)
- PSU – (i) Pennsylvania State University
- PSV
- (i) Philips Sport Vereniging (Dutch for "Philips Sports Union")
- Public Service Vehicle
- PsyOp – (p) Psychological Operations
PT
[edit]- pt – (s) Portuguese language (ISO 639-1 code)
- pT – (s) picotesla
- Pt – (s) Platinum
- PT – (s) petatesla – (i) Physical Training (in the Army) – (s) Portugal (ISO 3166 digram)
- PTA – (i) Parent-Teacher Association
- PTAL – (i) Public Transport Accessibility Level
- PTAN –
- (i) Precision Terrain Aided Navigation
- (a) (pronounced P-tan) Provider Transaction Access Number
- PTCAS - Physical Therapy Centralized Application System
- PTES - (i) People's Trust for Endangered Species
- PTFE – (i) PolyTetraFluoroEthylene
- PTI – (i) Pardon the Interruption
- PTL – (p) Patrol – (i) Primary Target Line
- PTO – (i) Patent and Trademark Office – (i) please turn over (written at the bottom of a double-sided page)[7]
- PTSD – (i) Posttraumatic stress disorder
- PTUI – (a/i) Plain-Text User Interface ("pa-too-ey") (cf CLI)
PU
[edit]- Pu – (s) Plutonium
- PU
- (s) Guinea-Bissau (FIPS 10-4 country code)
- (i) Polyurethane
- (s) United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1986)
- Pub – (p) Publication
- PUG – (a/i) PET Users Group
- PUN – (a/i) Pull-Up Network
- PUP – (a/i) Pull-Up Point
- PUR – (s) Puerto Rico (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
- pus – (s) Pashto language (ISO 639-2 code)
- PUS – (s) United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1986)
PV
[edit]- pV – (s) picovolt
- PV – (s) petavolt
- PVC
- PvE – (i) Player versus Environment
- PvP – (i) Player versus Player
- PVR – (i) Personal Video Recorder
- PvZ – (i) Plants vs. Zombies
PW
[edit]- pW – (s) picowatt
- PW
- PWA – (i) Pirates With Attitude
- PWBA – (p) Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration
- PwC – (i) PricewaterhouseCoopers (international accounting firm)
- PWC – (i) PieceWise Constant (describing a mathematical function)
- PWHL
- (i) Professional Women's Hockey League, a North American women's ice hockey league
- Provincial Women's Hockey League, a junior ice hockey league operating in the Canadian province of Ontario
- PWL – (i) PieceWise Linear (describing a mathematical function)
- PWLC – (i) PieceWise Linear and Concave/Convex (describing a mathematical function)
- PWM - (i) Pulse-width Modulation
- PWP – (i) Plot, What Plot? / Porn Without Plot (denotes plotless, um, "feel-good" stories in online fiction, especially fanfic or erotic fiction)
- PWR – (i) Pressurized Water Reactor
- PWV – (i) Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging, the original name for the South African province now known as Gauteng, and still used to refer to the metropolitan agglomeration at the core of the province
PX
[edit]- PX – (p) Post eXchange
PY
[edit]- PY – (s) Paraguay (ISO 3166 digram) – Person-Year – (i) Portsmouth yardstick
- PYF – (s) French Polynesia (ISO 3166 trigram)
- PYG – (s) Paraguayan guaraní (ISO 4217 currency code)
- PYMWYMI – (a) Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
PZ
[edit]- PZ – (s) Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1980) – (i) Pickup Zone
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