(Main list of acronyms)
__NOTOC__ n – (s) Nano N – (s) Newton – Nitrogen – North
N0–9 N3F – (i) National Fantasy Fan Federation
NA na – (s) Nauruan language (ISO 639-1 code) nA – (s) Nanoampere Na – (s) Sodium (Latin Natrium) NA (s) Namibia (ISO 3166 digram) (i) Narcotics Anonymous National Archives Negative Acknowledge N/A (i) Neurotics Anonymous not available/applicable NAA – (p) N-Acetylaspartate NAAD – (i) North American Air Defense NAAFI (a) Navy, Army and Air Force Institute (UK) (a) No Ambition And Fuckall Interest (RSA army slang) NAAK – (a) Mark I NAAK, Nerve Agent Antidote Kit NAACP – (i) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ("N double-A CP") NAAQS – (a) National Ambient Air Quality Standards NAAWS – (i) NATO Anti-Air Warfare System NABCI – (a) North American Bird Conservation Initiative ("nab-see") NAC (i/a) National Agency Check U.S. Naval Avionics Center U.S. Navy Advanced Concepts NOAD ADVENDO Combinatie, the full name of the Dutch football club NAC Breda North Atlantic Council Northern Area Command NACA – (i) (U.S.) National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1915–1958, became NASA) NACC – (i) North Atlantic Cooperation Council NACISA – (a) NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency NACMA – (p) NATO Air Command and Control System Management Agency NACRA – (a) North America Caribbean Rugby Association (more specifically rugby union), a former name of Rugby Americas North NACS – (i) North American Charging System, a charging connector standard for electric vehicles NAD – (s) Namibian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code) NAEC – (i) U.S. Naval Air Engineering Center NAF (a) NATO Architecture Framework (i) Naval Air Facility NAFLD – (i) NonAlcoholic Fatty Liver Disease NAFO – (a) Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization NAFERA – (a) Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act NAFTA – (a) North American Free Trade Agreement NAGPRA – (a) Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act NAI (i) Named Area of Interest Network Access Identifier NAICS – (a) North American Industry Classification System NAIL – (i) Neurotics Anonymous NAILS – (a) National Airspace Integrated Logistics System NAIRU – (a) Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment NAK – (p) Negative Acknowledge NAM – (s) Namibia (ISO 3166 trigram) NAMBLA – (a) North American Man-Boy Love Association NAMRL – (i) Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory NaN – (i) Not A Number (computing) NANP – (i) North American Numbering Plan (telephone) NAO – (i) UK National Audit Office NAPDD – (i) Non-Acquisition Program Definition Document ("nap-dee-dee") NAPS – (a) Navy Acquisition Procedures Supplement NARA – (i) (U.S.) National Archives and Records Administration NARAL – (a) National Abortion Rights Action League NARDAC – (a) Naval Regional Data Automation Center NARDIC – (a) U.S. Navy Acquisition Research and Development Information Center NARP – (a) Non-Athletic Regular Person NARPV – (i) National Association for Remotely Piloted Vehicles NAS (i) National Academy of Sciences National Air Space National Audubon Society Naval Air Station New Attack Submarine NASA (a) National Aeronautics and Space Administration North American Saxophone Alliance NASB – (i) New American Standard Bible NASCAR – (a) National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing NASDAQ – (a) National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations NASED – (a) National Association of State Election Directors NASH – (a) Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis NASP (p) National Aerospace Plane (i) National Archery in the Schools Program NASS – (a) National Association of Secretaries of State NASUWT - National Association of Schoolmasters / Union of Women Teachers (UK trade union) NatGeo - (a) National Geographic NATO (a) National Association of Theatre Owners North Atlantic Treaty Organization nau – (s) Nauruan language (ISO 639-2 code) NaUKMA – (p) National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy nav – (s) Navajo language (ISO 639-2 code) NAV – (p) Navigation[al] NAVCAMS – (p) Naval Communications Area Master Station NAVCC – (p) National Audio-Visual Conservation Center NAVCC (Navy) – (p) Navy Component Commander NAVCENT – (p) Naval Forces U.S. Central Command NAVDAC – (p) Naval Data Automation Command NAVEUR – (p) Naval Forces U.S. European Command NAVFE – (p) U.S. Naval Forces, Far East NAVFOR – (p) Naval Force NAVMACS – (p) Naval Modular Automatic Communication Subsystem NAVNET – (p) Navy Network NAVS – (a) Non-Cooperative Airborne Vector Scoring NAVSAT – (p) Navigation Satellite NAVSPACECOM – (p) U.S. Navy Space Command NAVSPASUR – (p) U.S. Naval Space Surveillance System NAVSTAR – (p) Navigation Satellite Timing And Ranging NAVTACNET – (p) Navy Tactical Network NAWC – (i) U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center NAWIRA – (a) North America and West Indies Rugby Association, the original name of the organization now known as Rugby Americas North NAWMP – (a) North American Waterfowl Management Plan ("gnaw-wump")
NB nb – (s) Norwegian Bokmål language (ISO 639-1 code) Nb – (s) Niobium NB – (s) New Brunswick (postal symbol) – (i) nota bene (Latin, "mark well") NBA – (i) National Basketball Association NBACC – (i) U.S. National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center ("enn-back") NBC – (i) National Broadcasting Corporation – Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical NBCRS – (i) NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) Reconnaissance System NBIC – (i) Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, Cognitive Science nbl – (s) Southern Ndebele language (ISO 639-2 code) NBL – (a) National Basketball League (Australia) NBT – (p) Nitroblue tetrazolium (assay)
NC nC – (s) Nanocoulomb NC (i) Network Computer (s) New Caledonia (ISO 3166 digram) (i) Node Center Nonconsensual Normally Closed (s) North Carolina (postal symbol) NCA – (i) National Command Authority NC3A or NC3A – (i) NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency NCAA – (i) National Collegiate Athletic Association ("NC double A") NCAR – (i) U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research NCB – (i) National Codification Bureau NCCAM – (i) U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine NCCUSL – (i) National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (U.S.) NCDDR – (i) U.S. National Center for the Dissemination of Disability ResearchNational Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research NCES (i) U.S. National Center for Education Statistics Net-Centric Enterprise Services NCI – (i) U.S. National Cancer Institute NCIS (i) National Criminal Intelligence Service (British) Naval Criminal Investigative Service (U.S. Navy; see also NCIS, a U.S. TV series based on this unit) NCL – (s) New Caledonia (ISO 3166 trigram) NCLR – (i) National Council of La Raza NCMO – (i) No Commitment Make Out NCND (i) Noncircumvention and Nondisclosure (i) Neither Confirm Nor Deny NCO – (i) Noncommissioned Officer NCP – (i) Net Contracted Purchases NCR – (i) National Cash Register Co. NCTR – (i) Noncooperative Target Recognition NCW – (i) Network Centric Warfare
ND nd – (s) Northern Ndebele language (ISO 639-1 code) Nd – (s) Neodymium N.D. – (i) Nobilis Domina (noble woman) ND (i) Nondisclosure (s) North Dakota (postal symbol) NDA - (i) Non-Disclosure Agreement NDAA – (i) U.S. National Defense Authorization Act NDBP – (i) Non-Departmental Public Body (Scotland) NDC - (i) National Drug Code NDCC – (i) New Directions Counseling Center (Concord, California) nde – (s) Northern Ndebele language (ISO 639-2 code) NDH (i) Neue Deutsche Härte (German, "new German hardness"—heavy metal genre) Nezavisna Država Hrvatska (Croatian, "Independent State of Croatia"—Nazi puppet state) ndo – (s) Ndonga language (ISO 639-2 code) N-dof or NDOF – (i) Number of Degrees of Freedom NDP – (i) New Democratic Party (Canada) NDS – Nintendo DS NDU – (i) National Defense University (Washington, DC)
NE ne – (s) Nepali language (ISO 639-1 code) Ne – (s) Neon NE (s) Nebraska (postal symbol) Niger (ISO 3166 digram) (i) North-East NEA (i) National Education Association (U.S. labor union) Near-Earth Asteroid Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD) NEAT Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking - (a) National Emergency Access Target (a) (Au Health) NEC (i) Network-enabled capability Nijmegen Eendracht Combinatie (Dutch, "Nijmegen Unity Combination"; football club formed by the 1910 merger of the Nijmegen and Eendracht clubs) Nippon Electric Company, the original English-language name of the company now known as NEC (p) Northeast Conference (U.S. college sports) NED – (s) Netherlands (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166) NECTEC – (a) National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Thailand) NEI (i) National Eye Institute Not Enough Information Nuclear Energy Institute NEIC (i) U.S. National Earthquake Information Center National Economic Intelligence Committee (Nigeria) National Energy Information Center (U.S. DOE) National Enforcement Investigations Center (U.S. EPA) nem con – (p) nemine contradicente (Latin, "no one contradicting") nem diss – (p) nemine dissentiente (Latin, "no one dissenting") NEMS – (i) National Energy Modeling System (USDOE-EIA) NEO (i) Near-Earth Object Non-combatant Evacuation Operations nep – (s) Nepali language (ISO 639-2 code) NEPA – (a) National Environmental Policy Act NER – (s) Niger (ISO 3166 trigram) NERF - (a) Non-Expanding Recreational Foam NERICA – (p) New Rice for Africa NESDIS – (a) National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service NESP – (i) NSA/CSS Enterprise Standards Program NESS-T – (p) Near-Earth Space Surveillance – Terrestrial project NET (i) National Educational Television (i/a) NCAA Evaluation Tool, a metric used in the NCAA Division I men's and women's basketball tournament selection process NETCU – (i) (UK) National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit NETL – (a) (US) National Energy Technology Laboratory NETWARS – (p) Network Warfare Simulation NEWHA – (i) New England Women's Hockey Alliance NEWS (a) Navy Electronic Warfare Simulator North, East, West, South NEX – (p) Navy EXchange
NF nF – (s) Nanofarad NF (s) Newfoundland (and Labrador) (obsolete postal code, replaced by NL) Norfolk Island (ISO 3166 digram) NFA (i) (U.S.) National Firearms Act (often used to refer to the guns and accessories regulated under this law) No-Fire Area NFC (i) National Football Conference Near-field communication NFER – (i) National Foundation for Educational Research NFG – (i) No F**king Good NFHS – (i) National Federation of State High School Associations NFI – (i) Not F****** Interested NFK – (s) Norfolk Island (ISO 3166 trigram) NFL (i) National Football League National Forensic League, original name of the National Speech and Debate Association No-Fire Line Nfld – (p) Newfoundland NFPA – (a) National Fluid Power Association (United States) NFT (p) Neurofibrillary tangle (i) No Further Text Non-fungible token NFS (i) Network File System
NG ng – (s) Nanogram – Ndonga language (ISO 639-1 code) NG (i) Natural Gas Next Generation (s) Niger (FIPS 10-4 country code) Nigeria (ISO 3166 digram) NGA (i) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (s) Nigeria (ISO 3166 trigram) NGH – Northern General Hospital ngl – (i) Not gonna lie NGATS – (i) New Generation Army Targetry System NGIC – (a) National Ground Intelligence Center ("Injick") NGN – (s) Nigerian naira (ISO 4217 currency code) NGO – (i) non-governmental organization NGR – (s) Nigeria (IOC trigram, but not ISO 3166 or FIFA) NGS – (i) Naval Gunfire Support
NH nH – (s) Nanohenry NH – (s) New Hampshire (postal symbol) – New Hebrides (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1980) – Vanuatu (FIPS 10-4 country code; from New Hebrides) N.H. – (i) Nobilis Homo (noble man) NHANES – (i) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey