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Conventional abbreviations for US cities and states: for example, "New York" can indicate NY and "California" CA or CAL. The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation)
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...
EAI—Enterprise Application Integration; EAP—Extensible Authentication Protocol; EAS—Exchange ActiveSync; EBCDIC—Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code; EBML—Extensible Binary Meta Language
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).
Internet Message Access Protocol Application layer RFC 3501 IP: Internet Protocol Internet Layer RFC 791 RFC 1606 IPS: Intrusion prevention system Security "NIST - Guide to Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)". 2007-02. Retrieved 2010-08-24. IS-IS: Intermediate System to Intermediate System (routing protocol) Internet Layer ISO ...
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).
Abbreviations, the use of a foreign language, variant spellings, or other unusual word tricks are indicated in the clue. A crossword creator might choose to clue the answer SEN (as in the abbreviation for "senator") as "Washington bigwig: Abbr." or "Member of Cong.", with the abbreviation in the clue indicating that the answer is to be ...
(Internet) signature sim simulation sis sister soph sophomore sosh social (in the context of social security number) spats spatterdashes spec specialist specification speculation specs specifications spectacles sperm spermaceti spermatozoön staph staphylococcus stat statim (borrowed from Latin) stats statistics steno stenographer stereo ...