List of acronyms: F

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter F.

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)

(Main list of acronyms)

FA

FB

FC

FD
  • FD – (i) Falun Dafa
  • FDA – (i) Food and Drug Administration (U.S.)
  • FDC – (i) Federal Detention Center (U.S.) – Fire Direction Centre
  • FDDI – (i) Fibre Distributed Data Interface
  • FDBK – (I) Feedback
  • FDR – (i) Flight Data Recorder – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

FE

FF

FG
  • FG – (i) Falun Gong
  • fg – (s) Femtogram
  • FG – (s) Fog (METAR Code) – French Guiana (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
  • FGR – (a) Flickr Group Roulette

FH

FI
  • fi – (s) Finnish language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • FI – (s) Finland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • FIA – (a) Fédération internationale de l'automobile (French "International Automobile Federation")
  • FIAT – (a) Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian "Italian Car Factory of Turin")
  • FIB – (a) Fucking Illinois Bastard (Wisconsin slang, variants exist)
  • FIBA – originally (a) Fédération internationale de basket-ball amateur (French, "International Amateur Basketball Federation"); since 1989, (p) Fédération internationale de basket-ball
  • FIBUA – (i/a) Fighting In Built-Up Areas
  • FIC – (i) Fellowship for Intentional Community
  • FID – (i) Foreign Internal Defence
  • FIDÉ – (a) Fédération internationale des échecs (French, "World Chess Federation")
  • FIE – (i) Fly-In Echelon
  • FIFA – (a) Fédération internationale de football association (French, "International Association Football Federation")
  • FIFe – (a) Fédération internationale féline (French, "International Feline Federation")
  • FIFO – (a) First In, First Out
  • FIFRA – (a) Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
  • FIG
  • FIGJAM – (a) Fuck I'm Good, Just Ask Me
  • fij – (s) Fijian language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • FILA – (a) Fédération internationale des luttes associées (French, "International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles"), former name of the sport governing body now known as United World Wrestling
  • FILO – (a) First In, Last Out (see also LIFO)
  • FIMPT – (i) Fellow of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists
  • fin – (s) Finnish language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • FIN – (s) Finland (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • FINA – (p/a) Fédération internationale de natation (French, "International Swimming Federation")
  • FIPS – (a) Federal Information Processing Standard
  • FIR
  • FIRES – Fever Induced Refractory Epilepsy Syndrome or Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome
  • FIS – (a/i) Fédération internationale de ski (French "International Ski Federation")
  • FISA – (a) Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (French, "International Federation of Rowing Associations")
  • FISH – (a) Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridisation
  • FiST – (p) Fire Support Team
  • FITS – (a) Flexible Image Transport System
  • FIU – (i) Florida International University

FJ

FK

FL
  • fl – (p) floruit (Latin, "living") (genealogy)
  • fL – (s) Femtolitre
  • FL – (s) Florida (postal symbol)
  • FLA – (p) Florida – (i) Front Line Assembly – Future Large Aircraft
  • FLAC – (a/i) Free Lossless Audio Codec
  • FLAC – (a/i) Free Legal Advice Centres
  • FLAK – (p) FLugAbwehrKanone (German for "Anti-Aircraft Guns")
  • FLB – (i) Forward Logistics Base
  • FLET – (a/i) Forward Line of Enemy Troops
  • FLG – (p) Falun Gong
  • FLIP – (p) Flight Information Publication
  • FLIR – (i) Forward Looking InfraRed (sensor)
  • FLK – (s) Falkland Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
    • Also Funny-Looking Kid, a medical initialism for a young child with a mostly normal but somewhat unusual ("funny") appearance that raises the suspicion index for congenital disorder. Used only before a medical diagnosis has determined the cause of the unusual appearance.
  • FLOT – (a/i) Forward Line of Own Troops
  • FLSA – (i) Fair Labor Standards Act
  • FLQ – (i) Front de libération du Québec (French for "Québec Liberation Front")
  • FLQ – (a) Free Legal Questions
  • FLTSAT – (p) Fleet Satellite
  • FLTSATCOM – (p) Fleet Satellite Communication System
  • FLUBOS – (a) Fat, Lazy, Useless, Bag Of Shit

FM
  • FM – (s) Factory Mutual http://fmglobal.com
  • fm – (s) Femtometre
  • Fm – (s) Fermium
  • FM
    • (i) Federal Magistrate (Australian post-nominal)
    • (s) Federated States of Micronesia (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
    • (i) Field Manual
    • Flight Manager
    • Frequency Modulation (electronics)
  • FMC
    • (i) Federal Magistrates' Court (an Australian federal court, formerly FMS)
    • Food Machinery Corporation (original name of the company now known as FMC Corporation)
  • FMCA – (i) Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia (used for citing decisions of the FMC other than family law decisions)
  • FMCAfam – (i) Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia: family (used for citing family law decisions of the FMC)
  • FME – (i) Formal Methods Europe
  • FMECA – (i) Failure Modes and Effect Criticality Analysis
  • FMJD – (i) Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames[4]
  • FMLA – (i) Family Medical Leave Act
  • Fmr – Former (as in "Fmr. president")
  • fMRI – (i) Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • FMS
    • (i) Federal Magistrates Service (an Australian federal court, now FMC)
    • (i) Flight Management System
    • Foreign Military Sales
  • FMSF – (i) False Memory Syndrome Foundation
  • FMTV – (i) Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles
  • FMCG – (i) (Fast-Moving Consumer Goods)

FN
  • fN – (s) Femtonewton
  • FNA – (i) Functional Needs Analysis

FO
  • fo – (s) Faroese language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • FO – (s) Faroe Islands (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code) – (i) Force Operations (military) – Forward Observer – Frame Optional (military symbology)
  • FOAD – (a) Fuck Off And Die
  • FOAF – (a) Friend Of A friend
  • FoB – (i) Free On Board (shipping)
  • FOB – (i/a) Forward Operating Base
  • FOC – (i) Full Operational Capability – First of Class
  • FoE – (p) Friends of the Earth
  • FOGC – (i) Federal Oil and Gas Council
  • FOH – (a) Front Of House
  • FOIA – (a) Freedom of Information Act
  • FOM – (a) Federation Object Model
  • FONSI – (a) Finding of No Significant Impact
  • FOO – (a) Forward Observation Officer
  • FOR – (i) Field Of Regard – Frame Of Reference
  • Fortran – (p) The IBM Mathematical FORmula TRANslating System (programming language)
  • FOS – (i) Florida Ornithological Society – Full Operational Status
  • FoS – (i) Family of Systems
  • FOSE – (p) Fallout 3 Script Extender
  • FOSE – (a) Federal Office Systems Expo
  • FOT – (i) Free on truck
  • FOTA – (i) Fellow of the Orthodontic Technicians Association
  • FOTC – Flight of the Conchords
  • FOUO – (i) For Official Use Only
  • FOV – (i) Field Of View

FP
  • FP – (s) French Polynesia (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
  • FPF
  • fps – (s) frames per second (motion pictures, television, computer graphics)
  • FPS
    • (i) Fire Prevention System
    • First Person Shooter (computer/video games)
  • FOOP – (s) Friends Of Organ Pipes (Volunteer group)

FQ
  • FQ – (s) Baker Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code) – French Southern and Antarctic Territories (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1979)
  • FQDN – (i) Fully Qualified Domain Name

FR

FS
  • fs – (s) Femtosecond
  • fS – (s) Femtosiemens
  • FS
    • (i) Fire Support (military)
    • (s) French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
  • FSA
  • FSB
    • (i) Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoi Federatsii (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции, Russian "Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation", succeeded the FSK in 1995)
    • Forward Support Battalion
  • FSC
    • (i) Federal Supply Classification
    • (a) Forest Stewardship Council (ecological pressure group
  • FSCL – (i) Fire Support Co-ordination Line
  • FSE – (i) Fire Support Element
  • F&SF – (i) (The Magazine of) Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • FSF – (i) Free Software Foundation
  • FSH – (i) Follicle-stimulating hormone
  • FSI – (i) Fuel Stratified Injection
  • FSK – (i) Federal'naya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki (Федера́льная Слу́жба Контрразве́дки, Russian "Federal Counterintelligence Service", succeeded the KGB in 1991)
  • FSM
  • FSO
    • (i) Fire Support Officer
    • Flotilla Staff Officer
    • Foreign Service Officer
  • FSS – (i) Fire Support Station
  • FSSP – (i) Families of Structurally Similar Proteins
  • FST
    • (i) Finance Support Team
    • Finlands Svenska Television (Finland's Swedish-language television)
    • Future Soviet Tank (Cold War era)
  • FSTC – (i) Foreign Science Technology Center (now NGIC)
  • FSV
    • (i) Fire Support Vehicle
    • Fisheries Survey Vessel
    • Flexible Sender Validation
    • Fort St. Vrain
    • Fußball und Sportverein (German "Football and Sport Association", as in FSV Mainz)

FT
  • fT – (s) Femtotesla
  • FTC – (i) Federal Trade Commission
  • FTE – (i) Full Time Equivalent
  • FTHGOAC - For The Highest Good Of All Concerned
  • FTL – (i) Faster Than Light
  • FTP – (i) File Transfer Protocol
  • FTSE – (a/i) Financial Times Stock Exchange ("footsie")
  • FTW – (i) For The Win (a commonly used phrase used online to indicate success) F@#K The World, Forever Together Where ever (gang slogan)
  • FTS – (i) Flight Termination System used during some rocket launches
  • FTS – (i) Fuck That Shit
  • FTS – (i) Follow-the-sun

FU
  • FU – (s) Smoke (METAR Code)
  • FUBAR – (a) Fucked/Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair
  • f/u/b/o – (i) For the use and benefit of (found in legal documents)
  • FUCK – (a) For, Unlawful, Carnal, Knowledge (Van Halen album title)
  • FUD – (a) Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt (marketing strategy)
  • FUGAZI (acronym) – (a) British/American Army slang, then Video Gamer FPS slang for Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In.
  • ful – (s) Fula language (ISO 639-2 code)

FV

FW
  • fW – (s) Femtowatt
  • FW – (s) Forward
  • F/W – (i) Fixed Wing
  • FWC – (i) Football World Cup
  • FWF – (i) Fixed Word Format
  • FWI – (i) French West Indies
  • FWIW – (i) For What It's Worth
  • FWS – (i) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  • FWT – (i) Fresh Water Tank

FX

FY
  • fy – (s) West Frisian language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • FY – (i) Fiscal Year – (s) Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (NATO country code)
  • FYA – (i) For Your Agenda
  • FYDP – (i) Five-Year Defense Plan (U.S.)
  • FYI – (i) For Your Information
  • FYI&A – (i) For Your Information and Action
  • FYROM – (a) Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, currently North Macedonia

FZ
  • FZDZ – (s) Freezing Drizzle (METAR Code)
  • FZFG – (s) Freezing Fog (METAR Code)
  • FZRA – (s) Freezing Rain (METAR Code)
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References
  1. Major Mark T. Kimmitt (1988-11-18). "Rethinking FASCAM" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  2. Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies
  3. Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre
  4. "Bye-Laws of the FMJD".
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