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# — Numeric & Symbolic Terms
A — Abstraction, Algorithm, API, AI
Abbrev ABEND Abstract Syntax Tree Accelerated Mobile Pages Accelerometer Access Control ACID ACK Acknowledgment Alternating Current Actor Model Active Directory Analog-to-Digital Converters Ad-Hockery Ada Adger Admin Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data Adaptive Frequency Hopping Agoric Systems Accelerated Graphics Port Advanced Encryption Standard Artificial Intelligence AI-Complete AI koans American Institute of Electrical Engineers Airplane Rule Akka Alice and Bob Aliasing Bug Aluminum Gallium Arsenide All-Elbows ALT Alt Bit Amplitude Modulation Amper Amp Off Amplifier Amplitude Analog Analytics Android Angle Brackets Angular Angry Fruit Salad Anomaly Detection Antenna AOS Ahead-of-Time Compilation Apache Application Programming Interface App Apps-Script Approximate String Matching Arc Arc Wars Archive Arena Argument ARIMA AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average Automatic Repeat reQuest Array Assembler Asbestos Asbestos Cork Award Asbestos Longjohns ASCII ASCII Art Application-Specific Integrated Circuit Assembly Async Advanced Technology Attachment Atomicity Attoparsec Audit Trail Autoencoder Autobogotiphobia Autocorrelation Automagically Availability Await Amazon Web Services Azure AWK
B — Backup, Binary, Bandwidth
B+tree B-tree Back Door Back end Backgammon Backbone Cabal Backbone Site Background Backspace and Overstrike Backup Backus-Naur Form Backward Combatability BAD Bad Thing Bag on the Side Bagbiter BAMF Banana Label Banana Problem Bandwidth Bang Bang On Bang Path Banner Bar Bare Metal Barf Barfulation Barfulous Baroque BartleMUD Base64 Bash BASIC Basic Input/Output System Batch Bathtub Curve Battery Baud Baud Barf Baz BBoard BBS BC Beam Beanie Key Beep BeiDou Beige Toaster Bells and Whistles Bells, Whistles and Gongs Benchmark Berkeley Quality Software Berklix Berserking Berzerkeley Beta BFI Bible BiCapitalization BIFF Big Gray Wall Big Iron Big Red Switch Big Room, the Big Win Big-Endian BigNum Bigot Binary Binary Frequency Shift Keying Binary Phase Shift Keying bit Bit Bang Bit Bashing Bit Bucket Bit Decay Bit Error Rate Bit Error Rate Tester Bit Rot Bit Twiddling Bit-paired Keyboard bitBLT BITNET bits Bitty Box Bitwise Operations Bixie BK Black Art Black Hole Black Magic Blast Blat Bletch Bletcherous Blinkenlights BLIT Blitter Blivet Blob Block Block Scope Block Transfer Computations Blow an EPROM Blow Away Blow Out Blow Past Blow Up BLT Blue Book Blue Glue Blue Goo Bluetooth Boa Board Boat Anchor Bogo Sort Bogometer Bogon Bogon Filter Bogon Flux Bogosity Bogotify Bogue Out Bogus Bohr Bug Boink Bomb Bombe Bondage And Discipline Language Bonk/Oif Book Titles Boolean Boolean Logic Boot Bootloader Bootstrap Border Gateway Protocol Bottom-up Implementation Bounce Bounce Message Bounding Volume Hierarchy Box Boxed Comments Boxen Boxology Bozotic BQS Brain Damaged Brain Dead Brain Dump Braino Branch to Fishkill Brand Brand Brand Break Breath-of-Life Packet Breedle Bring X to its Knees Brittle Broadcast Storm broadcasting Broken Broken Arrow Broket Brooks' Law Brownian Motion Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS BRS Brute Force Brute Force and Ignorance BSD Bubble Sort Bucky Bits Buffer Overflow Buffering Bug Bug-Compatible Bug-for-Bug Compatible Buglix Built-In Self-Test Bulletproof Bum Bump Burble Buried Treasure Burn-in Period Burst Page Business Intelligence Busy-Wait Buzz Buzz Word Quotient' By Hand Byte Bytecode Bytesexual
C — Cache, Cloud, CPU
Cache Cache Coherency Calendar California Consumer Privacy Act CAP Theorem Capacitor Carson’s Rule Column Address Strobe Certificate Authority Certificate Revocation List ChaCha20 Chapel Character Encoding Cipher Cipher Block Chaining Cipher-based Message Authentication Code Circuit Design Circular Reference Command-Line Interface Command Run On Notice Cloud Computing Cloud-Storage Clock Clock Cycle Clock Signal Code Codebreaking Common Intermediate Language Common Language Runtime Comma-Separated Values Communication Computer-Aided Design Computer-Aided Manufacturing Convolutional Neural Network Computer Numerical Control Compiler Combinational Circuit Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart Compute Unified Device Architecture CUDA Deep Neural Network library Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Congestion Window Reduced Concurrency Conditional Consensus Consent Management Platform Consistency Context Content Delivery Network Content Security Policy Continuous Integration Continuous-Time Linear Equalizer Control Logic Control Unit country code Top-Level Domains Cross-Origin Resource Sharing CouchDB Covariance Matrix Central Processing Unit Customer Premises Equipment Customer Relationship Management Create, Read, Update, Delete Cyclic Redundancy Check Cryptanalysis Cryptography Cryptographic Module Validation Program Communications Security Establishment Cascading Style Sheets C shell Counter Mode Current Client for URL Cybersecurity Cycle Power
D — Data, DNS, Download
D. C. Power Lab DD DDT DEADBEEF DEC Wars DEChead DES DNS DOS DP DPB DPer DRECNET DWIM Daemon Damerau-Levenshtein Dangling Pointer Datamation Data Data Analysis Data Manipulation Data Strobe Data Transmission Dataflow Database Dashboard Day Mode Dead Code Deadlock Deadly Embrace Death Star Debugging Deep Hack Mode Deep Magic Deep Space Defenestration Defined as Dehose De-Rezz Delint Delta Demented Demigod Demo Demo Mode Demon Depeditate Deprecated Deserves to Lose Desk Check Devil Book Devo Decision Feedback Equalizer Decision Tree DELETE Delegation Signer Design Patterns Deterministic Entropy Deterministic Systems Device Management Device Under Test Diode Dickless Workstation Dictionary Flame Diddle Diff Digit Digital Digital Forensics Digital Logic Digital Mobile Radio Digital Signal Processing Digital Signal Processor Digital Signature Digital Subscriber Line Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer Digital Visual Interface Digital Watermarking Digital-to-Analog Converter Dimensionality Reduction Dinosaur Dinosaur Pen Dinosaurs Mating Dirty Power Directory Information Tree Disk Farm Disk Partitioning Display Hack DisplayPort Display Stream Compression Dissociated Press Distributed Denial of Service Distributed Systems Distribution Distribution Point Unit Domain Name System Key Domain Name System Security Extensions Domainist Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance DomainKeys Identified Mail Don't do that, then! Dongle Dongle-Disk Donuts Doorstop Dot File Doc Docs Doco Docker Document Object Model Documentation Dodgy DogCow Dogwash Discover, Offer, Request, and Acknowledge Discrete MultiTone Discrete Logarithm Problem Double Bucky Double DECkers Doubled Sig Double Data Rate Double Data Rate 1 Double Data Rate 2 Double Data Rate 3 Double Data Rate 4 Double Data Rate 5 Down Download Dragon Dragon Book Drain Drawings Drive Dread High-bit Disease Driver Droid Drool-Proof Paper Drop on the Floor Drop Outs Drop-ins Drugged Drunk Mouse Syndrome Dual In-line Memory Module Dumbass Attack Dumbed Down Dump Dup Killer Dup Loop Durability Dusty Deck Dynamic Array Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv4 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 Dynamic Random Access Memory Dynner DynamoDB Direct Current Direct2D Direct3D DirectCompute DirectInput Direct Memory Access DirectSound DirectWrite DirectX Drift-Compensation with Anchor
E — Ethernet, Encryption, Email
Earthquake Easter Egg Easter Egging Eat Flaming Death EBCDIC Elastic Compute Cloud 2 ECMAScript 2015 Error Correcting Code Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm Echo Eighty-Column Mind Eigenvalue Eigenvector Electricity Electromagnetic Field Electromagnetic Interference Electromagnetic Spectrum Electromagnetic Wave Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory El Camino Bignum Elder Days Elegant Elephantine Elevator Controller ELIZA Effect Elliptic Curve Cryptography Elvish EMACS EMail Embedded Systems Electromagnetic Interference Emoticon Empire Encode Encryption Endpoint Management Energy Energy Storage English Enhancement ENQ Entropy EOF EOL EOU Epoch Epsilon Epsilon Squared Era, the Eric Conspiracy Eris Enterprise Resource Planning Error Error Correction Erotics Essentials Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Ethernet European Telecommunications Standards Institute Event Management Evil Exa- Examining the Entrails EXCH Excel Exception Exchange Excl EXE Exec Expectation Value Expectation Value Exercise, Left as an Express.js Extended File System Extract, Transform, Load Eyeball Search
F — Firewall, Firmware, File
Fab Face Time Factor fakebook Fall Over Fall Through Fandango on Core FAQ List FAQL Farming Fascist Fast Fourier Transform File Allocation Table File Allocation Table 12 File Allocation Table 16 File Allocation Table 32 Faulty FD Leak Fear and Loathing Forward Error Correction Federal Information Processing Standards Feep Feeper Feeping Creature Feeping Creaturism Feetch Feetch Fence Fencepost Error Fepped Out fetch Fetch-API Field-Effect Transistor Feature Feature Creature Feature Shock Featurectomy FidoNet Field Circus Field-Programmable Gate Array Field Servoid First In, First Out Fight-O-Net File Attach File Encryption Key File Request FileSystem File Transfer Protocol Filk Film at 11 Filter Finish Finagle's Law Fine Finite-State Machine Finger Finger-Pointing Syndrome Firebottle Firefighting Firewall Firewall Code Firewall Machine Fireworks Mode Firmware Firmy Fish FISH Queue Fix Flag Flag Day Flaky Flamage Flame Flame Bait Flame On Flame War Flamer Flap Flarp Flash Flat Flat-ASCII Flat-File Flatten Flavor Flavorful Flip-Flop Flippy Floating Point 16 Float32 Float64 Flowchart Flower Key Flush Flux Flyspeck 3 Flytrap FOAF FOD Fold Case Followup Foo Foobar Fool Fool File, the Foonly Footprint For Free For the Rest of Us Fora Foreground Forked Forms Fortrash Fortune Cookie Forum Fossil Four-Color Glossies Fourier Transform Fourth Extended File System Floating Point 16 Floating Point 32 Fully Qualified Domain Name Fragile Fraud Detection Fred FredNet Freeware Freeze Frequency Frequency Modulation Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Fried Friode Fritterware Frob Frobnicate Frobnitz Frog Front End Frotz Frotzed Frowney Fry Fiber to the Cabinet Fiber to the Home Function Functional Programming FUBAR FUD FUD Wars Fudge Fudge Factor Fuel Up Fuggly Funky Funny Money Fuzzball
G — GPU, Gbps, Gigabyte
G G.fast Gabriel Gag Gain Galileo Gallium Arsenide Gallium Nitride Gang Bang Garbage Collection Garply Gas Gaseous GC GCOS GECOS Gedanken Geef Geek Out Gen Gender Mender General Public Virus Generate generic Top-Level Domains Gensym GET Get a life! Get a real computer! GFR Gig Giga GIGO Gillion GIPS git Glark Glass Glass TTY Glassfet Glitch Glob GLObal Navigation Satellite System Glork Glue Gnarly GNU GNUMACS Global Interpreter Lock Global Navigation Satellite System Global Scope Global System for Mobile Communications Globally Unique Identifier Partition Table Go Flatline Go Root Go-Faster Stripes Gobble Godzillagram Golden Golf-Ball Printer Gonk Gonkulator Gonzo Good Thing Gorilla Arm Gorp GOSMACS Gosperism Gotcha GPL GPV GraphQL Grault Gray Goo Great Renaming Great Runes Great-Wall Green Book Green Bytes Green Card Green Lightning Green Machine Green's Theorem Grep Grind Grind Crank Gritch Grok Gronk Gronk Out Gronked Grovel Grunge Gubbish Guiltware Gumby Gun Gunch Gurfle Guru General-Purpose Input/Output General-Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units General Data Protection Regulation Galois/Counter Mode Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying Gmail Google Google Cloud Platform Google Remote Procedure Call Graphical User Interface Graphics Double Data Rate Graphics Double Data Rate 3 Graphics Double Data Rate 4 Graphics Double Data Rate 5 Graphics Double Data Rate 6 Graphics Double Data Rate 6 eXtreme Graphics Double Data Rate 7 Gyroscope
H — HTML, HTTP, Hard Drive
H HAKMEM HA HA Only Serious Hack Hack Attack Hack Mode Hack On Hack Together Hack Up Hack Value Hack-and-Slay Hacked Off Hacked Up Hacker Hacking Run Hacking X for Y Hackintosh Hackish Hackishness Hackitude Hair Hairy HakSpek Hamster Hand-Hacking Handshaking Handwave Hang Hanlon's Razor Happily Hard Boot HardCoded Hardware Description Language Hardwarily Hardwired Has the X Nature Hash Bucket Hash Collision Hash function Hash-based Message Authentication Code Hat HCF Heads Down Heartbeat Heavy Metal Heavy Wizardry Heavyweight Heisenbug Helen Keller Mode Hello, Sailor! Hello, Wall! Hello, World Hex Hexadecimal Hexit Hidden Flag Hidden Markov Model High Bandwidth Memory High Bit High Moby Highly Hirsute HLL Hobbit Hog Holy Wars Home Box Hook Hop Hose Hosed Hot Spot House Wizard HP-SUX HTTP HTTP Strict Transport Security Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure Hypertext Markup Language Huff Humma Humor, Hacker Hung Hungry Puppy Hungus Hyperspace Hamming Code Hardware Description Language Hard Disk Drive Heap High-Definition Multimedia Interface High Electron Mobility Transistor Higher-Order Function High-Performance Computing Hypervisor
I — IP, ISP, IoT
I didn't change anything! I See No X Here i14y i18n IBM IBM Discount ICE IDL (Interface Definition Language) ifdef out Ill Behaved IMHO In The Extreme Incantation Include Include War Indent Style Index Infant Mortality Infinite Infinite Loop Infinity Insanely Great INTERCAL Interesting Internet Address Interrupt Interrupt List, The Interrupts Locked Out IO Iron Iron Age Iron Box Ironmonger ISBN ITS IWBNI IYFEG
J — Java, JSON, JavaScript
K — Kernel, Kubernetes, Kilobyte
L — LAN, Linux, Load Balancer
Lace Card Language Lawyer Languages of Choice Larval Stage Lase Laser Chicken Laundromat LDB Leaf Site Leak Leaky Heap Legal Legalese LER LERP Let the Smoke Out Letterbomb Lexer Lexiphage Life Light Pipe Like Kicking Dead Whales Down the Beach Like Nailing Jelly to a Tree Line Eater, the Line Starve Link Link Farm Link-Dead Lint Lion Food Lions Book LISP Literature, The Little-Endian Live Data Live Free Or Die! Livelock Liveware Lobotomy Locked and Loaded Locked Up Logic Bomb Logical Loop Through Lord High Fixer Lose Lose Lose Loser Losing Loss Lossage Lost in the Noise Lost in the Underflow Lots of MIPS but no I/O Low-Bandwidth LPT Lunatic Fringe Lurker Luser
M — Malware, Modem, Machine Learning
M MacDink Machinable Machoflops Macintoy Macintrash Macro Macrology Macrotape Maggotbox Magic Magic Cookie Magic Number Magic Smoke Mailing List Main Loop Mainframe Management Mandelbug Manged Mangle Mangler Mango Marbles Marginal Marginal Hacks Marginally Marketroid Mars Martian Massage Math-Out Matrix Mbogo, Dr. Fred Meatware Meeces Meg Mega- Megapenny MEGO Meltdown, Network Meme Meme Plague Memetics Memory Leak Menuitis Mess-DOS Meta Meta bit MFTL Mickey Mickey Mouse Program Micro- Microfloppies Microfortnight MicroLenat MicroReid Microsloth Windows Microtape Middle-Endian MilliLampson Minifloppies MIPS Misbug Misfeature Missed'em-Five Miswart Moby Mod Mode Mode bit Modular Exponentiation Modulo Molly-Guard Mongolian Hordes Technique Monkey Up Monstrosity Moof Moore's Law Moria MOTAS MOTOS MOTSS Mouse Ahead Mouse Around Mouse Belt Mouse Droppings Mouse Elbow Mouso MS-DOS MSDOS Mu (む) MUD Mudhead Multician Multics Multitask Mumblage Mumble Munch Munching Munching Squares Munchkin Mundane Murphy's Law Music Mutter MySQL
N — Network, Node, NTP
N Nailed to the Wall Nailing Jelly Naive Naive User NAK Nanoacre Nanobot Nanocomputer Nanofortnight Nanotechnology Nastygram Nathan Hale Nature Neat Hack Neep-Neep Neophilia Net.- Net.God Net.Personality Net.Police Nethack Netiquette Netnews Netrock Network Address Network Meltdown Network, The New Jersey New Testament Newbie Newgroup Wars Newline NeWS Newsfroup Newsgroup Nickle Night Mode Nightmare File System NIL NIST NMI No-Op Noddy NOMEX Underwear Non-Optimal Solution Nonlinear Nontrivial Notwork NP- NSA Line Eater Nuke Number-Crunching Numbers NUXI Problem Nybble Nyetwork
O — OS, Opcode, Open Source
Ob- Obfuscated C Contest Obi-Wan Error Objectionable-C Obscure Octal Forty Off The Trolley Off-by-one Error Offline Old Fart Old Testament One-line Fix One-liner Wars Ooblick Open Open Switch Operating System Orange Book Oriental Food Orphan Orphaned i-Node Orthogonal OS OS/2 Out-of-Band Overflow bit Overflow-Screw Overrun Overrun Screw
P — Processor, Protocol, Packet
P.O.D. Padded Cell Page In Page Out Pain in the Net Paper-Net Param Parent Message Parity Errors Parkinson's Law of Data Parm Parse Pascal Patch Patch Space Path Pathological Payware PBD PC PC-ism PD PDL PDP-10 PDP-20 Peek Pen Pencil and Paper Peon Percent-S Perf Perfect Programmer Syndrome Perl Pessimal Pessimizing Compiler Peta- PETSCII Phase Phase of the Moon Phreaking Pico- Pig, Run like a Pilot Error Ping Pink-Shirt Book PIP Pistol Pizza Box Pizza, ANSI standard Plain-ASCII Plan File Platinum-Iridium Playpen Playte Plingnet PLOKTA Plonk Plugh Plumbing PM PNAMBIC PoD Poke Poll Polygon Pusher POM POP POPJ Posing Post Posting Postmaster Pound On Power Cycle PPN Precedence Lossage Prepend Prestidigitization Pretty Pictures Prettyprint Pretzel Key Prime Time Priority Interrupt Profile Proglet Program Programmer Programmer's Cheer Programming Propeller Head Propeller Key Proper Procedure Proprietary Protocol Provocative Maintenance Prowler Pseudo Pseudoprime Pseudosuit Psychedelicware Psyton Pubic Directory Puff Punched Card Punt Purple Book PUSH PW PPN
Q — QoS, Queue, QWERTY
R — RAM, Router, RAID
Rain Dance RAM Random Random Numbers Randomness Rape Rare Mode Raster Blaster Raster Burn Rat Belt Rave Rave On! Ravs Raw Mode RC File RE Read-Only User README File Real Estate Real Hack Real Operating System Real Programmer Real Soon Now Real Time Real User Real World Reality Check Reaper Rectangle Slinger Recursion Recursive Acronym Red Book regexp Reincarnation, Cycle of Reinvent the Wheel Religious Issues Replicator Reply Reset Restriction Retcon RETI Retrocomputing RFC RFE Rib Site Rice Box Right Thing RL Roach Robust Rococo Rogue Room-Temperature IQ Root Mode ROT13 Rotary Debugger RSN RTFAQ RTFM RTI RTM Rude Runes Runic Rusty Iron Rusty Memory
S — Server, Software, SEO
S/N Ratio Sacred Saga Sagan SAIL Salescritter Salsman Salt Mines Salt Substrate Same-Day Service Sandbender Sandbox Sanity Check Saturday Night Special Say Science-Fiction Fandom Scram Switch Scratch Scratch Monkey Screw Screwage Scribble Scrog Scrool Scrozzle SCSI Search-and-Destroy Mode Second-System Effect Secondary Damage Security Through Obscurity SED Segfault Seggie Segment Segmentation Fault SegV Self-Reference Selvage Semi Semi-Infinite Senior bit SEO: Search Engine Optimization Server SEX Sex Changer Shareware Shelfware Shell Shell Out Shift Left (or Right) Logical Shitogram Short Card Shotgun Debugging Showstopper Shriek Shub-Internet Sidecar Sig Block Sig Quote Signal-to-Noise Ratio Signatures and Authentication Silicon Silicon Foundry Silly Walk Silo Silver Book Since Time T Equals Minus Infinity Site Sitename Skrog Skulker Slap on the Side Slash Sleep Slim Slop Slopsucker Slurp Smart Smart Terminal Smash Case Smash the Stack Smiley Smoke Test Smoking Clover SMOP SNAFU Principle Snail Snail-Mail Snap Snarf Snarf & Barf Snark Sneakernet Sniff Snivitz SO SOAP Social Science Number Soft Boot Softcopy Software Bloat Software Rot Softwarily Softy Some Random X Sorcerer's Apprentice Mode SOS Source of All Good bits Space-Cadet Keyboard SPACEWAR Spaghetti Code Spaghetti Inheritance Spam Special-Case Speedometer Spell Spiffy Spin SPL Splat Sponge Spooge Spool SSH Stack Stack Puke Stale Pointer Bug State Steam-Powered Stiffy Stir-Fried Random Stomp On Stone Age Stoppage Store Stroke Structured Query Language Strudel Stubroutine Studlycaps Stunning Stupid-sort Subshell Sucking Mud Sufficiently Small Suit Suitable Win Suitably Small Sun-Stools Sunspots Superprogrammer Superuser Support Suzie COBOL Swab Swap Swap Space Swapped In Swapped Out Swizzle Sync Syntactic Sugar Sys-Frog SysAdmin SysOp System System Mangler Systems Jock SysVile
T — TCP/IP, Token, Thread
T Tail Recursion Talk Mode Talker System Tall Card Tanked Tar and Feather Taste Tayste TCB Tea, ISO Standard Cup of TechRef TECO Tee Telerat TELNET Ten-Finger Interface Tense Tenured Graduate Student Tera- Teraflop Club Terminak Terminal Brain Death Terminal Illness Terminal Junkie Terpri Test TeX Text Thanks in Advance The X that can be Y is not the True X Theology Theory Thinko This time, for sure! Thrash Thread Three-Finger Salute Thud Thunk Tick Tick-List Features Tickle a Bug Tiger Team Time Sink Time T Times-or-Divided-by Tinycrud Tip of the Ice-Cube Tired Iron Tits on a Keyboard TLA TMRC To a First Approximation To a Zeroth Approximation Toast Toaster Toeprint Toggle Tool Toolsmith Topic Drift Topic Group TOPS-10 TOPS-20 Toto Tourist Tourist Information Touristic Toy Toy Language Toy Problem Toy Program Trampoline Trap Trap Door Trash Tree-Killer Trit Trivial Troglodyte Troglodyte Mode Trojan Horse True-Hacker TTY Tube Tube Time Tunafish Tune Turbo Nerd Turist Tweak TWENEX Twiddle Twink Two Pi Two-to-the-N Twonkie
U — USB, URL, Unix
V — VPN, VR, Virus
Vadding Vanilla Vannevar Vaporware Var VAX VAXectomy VAXen Vaxherd Vaxism Vaxocentrism VDiff Veeblefester Venus Flytrap Verbage Verbiage Version 7 Vgrep VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) VI Videotex Virgin Virtual Virtual Friday Virtual Reality Virus Visionary VMS Voice Voice-Net Voodoo Programming VR Vulcan Nerve Pinch Vulture Capitalist
W — Wi‑Fi, Web, Wireless LAN
Wabbit Wad WAITS Waldo Walk Walk Off the End of Walking Drives Wall Wall Follower Wall Time Wallpaper Wango Wank Wannabee Warm Boot Wart Washing Machine Water MIPS Wave a Dead Chicken Weasel WebDAV WebSocket Wedged Wedgie Wedgitude Weeble Weeds Weenie Weenix Well-Behaved Well-Connected Wetware Whacker Whales What Wheel Wheel bit Wheel Wars White Book Whizzy WIBNI Widget Wiggles WIMP Environment Win Win Big Win Win Winchester Winged Comments Winkey Winnage Winner Winnitude Wired Wirehead Wish List Within Delta of Within Epsilon of Wizard Wizard Book Wizard Mode Wizardly Womb Box WOMBAT Wonky WordPress Workaround Working as Designed Worm Wound Around the Axle Wrap Around Write-Only Code Write-Only Language Write-Only Memory Wrong Thing Wugga Wugga WWW WYSIWYG