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)

(Main list of acronyms)

P0–9
  • P2P – (i) Peer-to-peer (networking)
  • P3I or P3I – (i) PrePlanned Product Improvement

PA

PB

PC
  • 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
  • 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
  • PCPI – Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (AMA)
  • PCR – (i) Polymerase chain reaction
  • PCSSD - (p) Pulaski County Special School District
  • PCT
  • PCTE
    • (i) Portable Common Tool Environment
    • (i) Punjab College of Technical Education
  • PCZ – (s) Panama Canal Zone (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)

PD
  • 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

PE - Professional Engineer

PF

PG
  • pg – (s) picogram
  • Pg – (s) petagram
  • PG –
  • PG-13 – (i) Parental Guidance: Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13 (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

PI
  • 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

PK

PL
  • 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)
  • 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 – 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")
  • PLL – (i) Phase-Locked Loop (electronics)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

PO

PP

PQ

PR

PS

PT
  • 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 – Please Turn Over
  • PTSD – (i) Posttraumatic stress disorder
  • PTUI – (a/i) Plain-Text User Interface ("pa-too-ey") (cf CLI)

PU

PV

PW
  • 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)
  • PWL – (i) PieceWise Linear (describing a mathematical function)
  • PWLC – (i) PieceWise Linear and Concave/Convex (describing a mathematical function)
  • 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
  • PX – (p) Post eXchange

PY

PZ
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