List of acronyms and initialisms: V

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter V.

For the purposes of this list:

• acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as a series of constituent letters, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome
• initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc
• pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters means that it cannot stand as 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, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – Megahertz)

(Main list of acronyms and initialisms)

• V – (s) Vanadium – Volt

VA

• VA – (s) Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Veterans Affairs (U.S. Department of) – (s) Virginia (postal symbol)
• VACIS – (a) Vehicle And Container Inspection System
• VACIS – (a) Victorian Ambulance Clinical Information System
• VANOS – (p) Variable Nockenwelle System
• VAO – (i) Vienna Art Orchestra
• VASIS – (a) Visual Approach Slope Indicator System (aviation)
• VAT – (i) Value-Added Tax – (s) Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 trigram)

VB

• VB – (i) Victoria Bitter (beer) – Visual Basic
• VBA – (i) Visual Basic for Applications

VC

• VC – (s) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Victoria Cross
• VCDS – (i) (Canada) Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff – (i) VAG-COM Diagnostic System
• vCJD – (i) Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• VCJCS – (i) Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• VCNO – (i) (U.S.) Vice Chief of Naval Operations
• VCR – (i) Video cassette recorder
• VCofS – (i) Vice Chief of Staff
• VCT – (s) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO 3166 trigram)

VD

• VD – (s) North Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram, obsolete 1977) – (i) Venereal Disease
• VDMOS – (i/a) Vertical Double-diffused MOS transistor ("vee-dee-moss")
• VDOT – (i/a) Virginia Department of Transportation ("vee-dot")
• VDR – (s) North Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram, obsolete 1977)

VE

• ve – (s) Venda language (ISO 639-1 code)
• VE – (s) Venezuela (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
• VEB – (s) Venezuelan bolívar (ISO 4217 currency code)
• VEEGA – (a) Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist manœuvre
• ven – (s) Venda language (ISO 639-2 code)
• VEN – (s) Venezuela (ISO 3166 trigram)
• VERDI – (i) Vittorio Emanuele Re D'Italia (Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy)
• VERITAS – (a) Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System

VF

• VFA
  • (i) Victorian Football Association (historic Australian rules football league)
  • (i) Volatile Fatty Acid
• VfD – (i) Articles for deletion (used in Wikipedia)
• VFL – (i) Victorian Football League, the name of two distinct Australian rules football leagues:
  • The original VFL, formed when the original VFA split in 1896, evolved into today's Australian Football League.
  • The modern VFL, which operates to this day as a semi-professional developmental league for the AFL, is the successor to the VFA.
• VFM – (i) Value For Money
• VFMO – (i) Very Fast Moving Object (astronomy)
• VFR – (i) Visual Flight Rules
• VFT – (i) Virtual Function Table
• VFW – (i) Veterans of Foreign Wars

VG

• VG – (s) British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
• VGB – (s) British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)

VH

• VH1 – (a/i) Video Hits One
• VHF – (i) Very High Frequency

VI

• vi – (s) Vietnamese language (ISO 639-1 code)
• VI – (s) 6 (in Roman numerals) – British Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code) – U.S. Virgin Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram) – (i) vide infra (Latin, "see below") – Virtual Instrument (LabVIEW)
• VIA – (a) Versatile Interface Adapter
• VIC – (s) Victoria, Australia (postal symbol) – (a) Video Interface Chip – Virginia Intermont College
• VIDS – (i) Visual Information Display System
• vie – (s) Vietnamese language (ISO 639-2 code)
• VII – (s) 7 (in Roman numerals)
• VIII – (s) 8 (in Roman numerals)
• VIN – (i/a) Vehicle Identification Number (ISO 3779)
• VIP – (i) see entry
• VIR – (s) U.S. Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) – Virgin Atlantic Airways (ICAO code)
• VIS – (i) Vavoua International School – Vienna Independent Shorts – Viewable Image Size – Visual Instruction Set
• VISCII – (p) VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange
• VIT – (i) Vellore Institute of Technology
• VIVO – (i) Video In Video Out

VJ

• VJ – (i) Video Jockey

VK

• VK – (s) Australia (ham radio code) – (i) Västerbottens-Kuriren, a Swedish daily newspaper

VL

• VLA – (i) Very Large Array – (UK) Veterinary Laboratories Agency
• VLAD – (a/i) Vertical Line Array DIFAR
• VLBA – (i) Very Long Baseline Array
• VLF – (i) Very Low Frequency
• VLIW – (i) Very Long Instruction Word
• VLPFC – (i) VentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
• VLPMC – (i) VentroLateral PreMotor Cortex
• VLSF – (i) Very Loud, Stink-Free
• VLSI – (i) Very-large-scale integration
• VLVS – (i) Very Loud, Very Stinky

VM

• VM – (s) Vietnam (FIPS 10-4 country code)
• VMASC – (i/a) Virginia Modeling Analysis & Simulation Center ("vee-mask")
• VMF – (i) Variable Message Format
• VMF – Marine Fighting Squadron of the United States Marine Corps
• VMN – (p) VentroMedial Nucleus (neurophysiology)

VN

• VN – (s) Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram)
• VND – (s) Vietnamese đồng (ISO 4217 currency code)
• VNIR – (i) Visible and Near InfraRed
• VNM – (s) Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram)
• VNS – see entry
• VNV M/C USA – (a) Viet Nam Vet's Motorcycle Club USA

VO

• VOA – (a) Voice of America
• vo – (s) Volapük language (ISO 639-1 code)
• VOC – (i) Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) – Volatile organic compounds
• VOIP – (i) Voice Over Internet Protocol
• vol – (s) Volapük language (ISO 639-2 code)
• VOLT – (a) Visual OpenType Layout Tool
• Volvo – (p) Swedish supplier of commercial vehicles owned by Ford Motor Company. "Volvo" means "I roll" in Latin.
• VON – (i) Victorian Order of Nurses
• VOR – (i) VHF Omnidirectional Ranging
• VOR – (a) Voice of Russia
• VOX – (p) Voice Operated oscillator

VP

• VP – (a/i) Vice-President ("veep")
• VPN – (i) Virtual Private Network

VQ

• VQ – (i) Vector Quantization – (s) U.S. Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)

VR

• VR – (i) Virtual Reality
• VRSG – (i) Virtual Reality Scene Generator

VS

• VS – (i) Very Special (brandy grade) – vide supra (Latin, "see above")
• VSAT – (a) Very Small Aperture Terminal ("vee-satt")
• VSHORAD – (p) Very Short Range Air Defence
• VSO – (i) Voluntary Services Overseas
• VSOP – (i) Variations séculaires des orbites planétaires (French, "Planetary Orbit Secular Variations") – Very Small Outline Package (integrated circuit) – Very Superior Old Pale (brandy grade) – VLBI Space Observatory Programme
• VSR – (i) Very Special Relativity
• V/STOL – (p) Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing ("vee-stoll")

VT

• VT
  • (s) Vatican City-State (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • Vermont (postal symbol)
  • (i) Video tape
  • Virginia Tech
• VTC – (i) Video Tele-Conference
• VTEC – (i) Variable valve Timing and Electronic lift Control
• VTOL – (i) Vertical Take-Off & Landing

VU

• VU – (s) Vanuatu (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Vedanta University
• VUB – (i) Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgian university)
• VUT – (s) Vanuatu (ISO 3166 trigram)
• VUV – (s) Vanuatu vatu (ISO 4217 currency code)

VV

• V&V – (i) Verification & Validation
• VV – (i) Via Voice – Village Voice
• VV&A – (i) Verification, Validation & Accreditation
• VVAF – (i) Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation

VW

• VW – (i) Volkswagen

VZ

• VZ – (s) Verizon Communications (NYSE code)
• vzw – (i) vereniging zonder winstoogmerk (Dutch "non-profit organisation")