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An acronym is an abbreviation pronounced as a series of constituent letters; an initialism is an abbreviation whose pronunciation is wholly or partly the names of constituent letters; and a pseudo-blend is an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters means that it cannot be considered a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
- (a) = acronym in the example: SARS - (a) Severe acute respiratory syndrome
- (i) = initialism in the example: CD - (i) Compact disc
- (p) = pseudo-blend in the example: UNIFEM - (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
- (s) = symbol (none of the above, stands for and is read as something else; for example: MHz - Megahertz)
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HA
- HA - (s) Haiti (NATO country code)
- HAI - (i) Human Awareness Institute
- HALO - (a) High Altitude Low Opening (type of parachute jump)
- HARM - (a) High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile
- HAWK - (a) Homing All the Way Killer (air defence system)
- HAZMAT - (p) Hazardous Materials
HB
HC
- h.c. - (i) honoris causa (Latin, "for the sake of honour")
- HCF - (i) Highest Common Factor
- HCI - (i) Human-Computer Interaction/Interface
HD
- HD - (i) Henry Draper star catalogue
- HDD - (i) Hard Disk Drive - High-Density Disk
- HDRA - (i) Henry Doubleday Research Association
HE
- He - (s) Helium
- HE - (a) High Explosive
- HEAT - (a) High Explosive Anti-Tank (ammunition)
- HEER - (a) High-Explosive Extended Range (ammunition)
- HEO - (a) Highly Elliptical Orbit
- HEOSS - (a) High Earth Orbit Space Surveillance
- HEPA - (a/i) High-Efficiency Particulate Air (filter)
- HESH - (a) High-Explosive Squash Head (ammunition)
- HESV - (i) Heavy Engineering Support Vehicle
- HETT - (a) Heavy Equipment Transporting Truck / Heavy Equipment Truck Tractor
HF
HG
HH
- HHD - (p) humanitatum doctor (Latin, "doctor of humanities")
HI
- HI - (s) Hawaii (postal symbol)
- HIDACZ - (p) High-Density Airspace Control Zone ("high dak zed/zee")
- HIMAD - (p) High to Medium Altitude Air Defence (see also H/MAD)
- HIMEZ - (a) High Altitude Missile Engagement Zone
- Hird - (a) Hurd of interfaces representing depth (cf. HURD)
- HIV - (i) Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HJ
- HJ - (i) hic jacet (Latin, "here lies")
HK
- HK - (s) Hong Kong (ISO 3166 digram)
- HKG - (s) Hong Kong (ISO 3166 trigram)
- HKS - (i) HyperKinetic Syndrome
HL
- HL - (i) Holding Line
- HLA - (i) High Level Architecture - Human Leukocyte Antigen
- HLL - (i) High-Level Language
- HLS - (i) hoc loco situs (Latin, "laid in this place")
- HLVW - (i) Heavy Logistics Vehicle, Wheeled
HM
- HM - (s) Heard and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
- H/MAD - (p) High/Medium Altitude Air Defence ("aytchmad"; see also HIMAD)
- HMCE - (i) Her Majesty's Customs and Excise
- HMCS - (i) Her Majesty's Canadian Ship
- HMD - (s) Heard and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
- HMMWV - (i) High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle ("hum-vee"; "hummer")
- HMO - (i) Health Management Organization
- HMP - (i) Her Majesty's Prison
- HMS - (i) Helmet-mounted display - Her Majesty's Ship (Royal Navy)
- HMSO - (i) Her Majesty's Stationery Office
- HMV - (i) His Master's Voice
HN
HO
- Ho - (s) Holmium
- HO - (s) Honduras (NATO country code)
- HOPI - (a) Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (see Internet2, Abilene Network)
- HORIZON - (p) Hélicoptère d'observation radar et d'investigation sur zone
HP
- hp - (s) horse power
- HP - (i) Hewlett-Packard
- HPGL or HP-GL - (i) Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
- HP-IB - (i) Hewlett-Packard Instrument/Interface Bus (first implementation of GP-IB, later standardised and now known as IEEE-488)
- HP-IL - (i) Hewlett-Packard Interface Loop (serial bus used with some HP calculators and computers, notably the HP-41 and HP-71 series)
- HPT - (i) High Payoff Target
- HPV - (i) Human papilloma virus
HQ
HR
- HR - (s) Croatia (NATO country code; ISO 3166 digram) - (i) Harvard Revised star catalogue - Human Resources
- HRF - (i) High Readiness Forces
- HRH - (i) Her Royal Highness
- HRV - (s) Croatia (ISO 3166 trigram) - (i) High Resolution Visible
HS
- Hs - (s) Hassium
- HSS - (i) Health Service Support - (i) High-Speed Steel
- HST - see entry
- HSV - (i) Herpes Simplex Virus - Hue Saturation Value (colour model)
HT
- HT - (s) Haiti (ISO 3166 digram) - (i) High Temperature - hoc tempore (Latin, "at this time") - hoc titulo (Latin, "under this title")
- HTI - (s) Haiti (ISO 3166 trigram)
- HTML - (i) HyperText Markup Language
- HTTP - (i) HyperText Transfer Protocol
HU
- HU - (s) Hungary (ISO 3166 digram; NATO country code)
- HUD - (i/a) Head-Up Display
- HUMINT - (p) Human Intelligence (military parlance)
- Hum-Vee - (p) Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV -> Hum-Vee)
- HUN - (s) Hungary (ISO 3166 trigram)
- HURD - (a) Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons (cf. Hird)
HV
- HV - (s) Upper Volta (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1984)
- HVO - (s) Upper Volta (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1984)
- HVP - (i) HarborView Properties - High Vacuum Process - Hydrolized Vegetable Protein