The Gang of Five
Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Party Room => It's Party Time! => Topic started by: Mumbling on February 19, 2021, 03:24:19 AM
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So this is something I do to lull myself to sleep (yes, I'm that boring :ChomperAmused)
Make words or names with the next letter in the alphabet. Easy, right? Yes, but the 2nd letter has to go through the alphabet as well.
Now I'm fairly sure some combinations do not work out in English, but let's give it a go. For words that start with a vowel, we'll try all letters of the alphabet. Words that start with a consonant probably need to be followed by a vowel, though there are plenty of exceptions there too. Just try to get the next word, chronologically speaking.
Here's an example:
Person A:
Aardvark
Person B:
Absence
Person C:
Actually
Etc.
All the way through
Aztecs (for example)
After which we move on to B and repeat the process!
So I actually cannot think of many more AA words, so I'll go with Aardvark to kick this off.
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Abandon
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Acid
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Adept
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Aether
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Africa
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Again
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Ahead
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Aid
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Ajar
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Akin
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Allow
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Among
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Anonymous
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Aorta
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Apple
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Aqueous
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Aromatic
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Assessment
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Atom
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Automatic
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Avoid
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Away
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Axle
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Aye
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Azure
(and that completes perhaps the easiest letter for this game)
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Yes for B and onwards we will likely have to skip some letters :P
Nabbing the easy one though!
Ballistic
Not sure what the next possible combo is!
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(checks dictionary...)
BBC
(that's literally the best I could find :oops )
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Haha not bad!
Hmm so would we allow bcc (blind carbon copy) as well? It's another abbreviation, but not a name :P
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(checks dictionary again... finds an actual word, but just one)
Bdellium
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! Wow :P
I'll nab an easy one then:
Bed
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time to check that dictionary again...
BFA (bachelor of fine arts)
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Another abbreviation:
BGM (means background music, but is also an abbreviation for lots of other stuff (https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/BGM) :Dducky)
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Yess good ones!
Bhutan
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Biology
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BJ's (the store)
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Bk (atomic symbol for Berkelium, atomic number 97)
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Blasphemy
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BMX (as in the off-road bicycles)
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I'm sure there are loads of lesser known abbreviations starting with bn, but I'd rather not dig too deep. Moving to o:
Boring
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(I was going to try a bn- word to sort of cover the one you decided to skip, but upon checking my dictionary, the only one I could find was Bn. (abbreviation for Baron or Battalion) so I'll just go ahead to the next one.)
bpd (barrels per day)
(and just so you know, my dictionary has literally nothing on bq- so you can just move on to the next one)
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(Cool!)
Brazier
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BSA (Boy Scouts of America)
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BTS (K-Pop Boy Group)
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Buffalo
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(all I can find in my dictionary for bv- is "B vitamin", but since I regard that as two words instead of one, I'll go for the next one)
Bwana
(used as a formal address for important people in parts of Africa (at least, that's my best attempt to explain it from what I could find))
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(Yes, that's right. I love the word bwana :) )
BXL (French shorthand for the city Brussels)
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Bystander
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(Please forgive me for double-posting, but I just happen to have an excellent word for the next letter sequence, and I refuse to let this opportunity pass.)
BZPower
(largest and oldest Bionicle fansite on the internet)
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(Haha all good, that is really cool :D)
Cannon
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CBS
(longtime broadcasting company)
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CC (Carbon copy)
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CD-ROM
(compact disk read-only memory)
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Celery :PLoofah
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CFC
(chlorofluorocarbon)
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CGI (Computer-generated imagery)
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Challenger
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Circle
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CJ Group
(South Korean conglomerate company)
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CKD (Chronic kidney disease)
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Climate
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cm (centimeter)
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CNN (Cable News Network)
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Correlation
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CPython (programming language)
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CQD (original distress signal sent by telegraph, replaced with SOS)
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Crown
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CSX (Railroad)
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Cthulhu :P
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Cup
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Cv (curriculum vitae)
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Cwmbran (town in Wales)
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CX (110 in roman numerals :PLoofah )
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Cycle
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Czech Republic
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Dawn
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dbx (product used for audio noise reduction)
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DC (direct current)
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DDS (Department of Drivers' Services)
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Decibel
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DFW Tornadoes (former soccer team that was based in Dallas and Forth Worth)
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DGA (Directors Guild of America)
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Dharma (religious concept in Hinduism)
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Discover
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Djibouti
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DKK (Danish krone :D )
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DLM (Dynamic Learning Maps)
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DMC DeLorean (if you've seen "Back to the Future", you should be familiar with that)
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DNR (Do Not Resuscitate)
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Donuts
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DPS (Damage Per Second)
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DQ (Dairy Queen)
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Dreams
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DST (Daylight Savings Time)
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DTS (Digital Theater System, a sound system technology used in theaters starting in the 90s with films like Jurassic Park)
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Duel
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DVD
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Dwell
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DXing (the hobby of receiving and identifying distant radio and television signals)
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Dying
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DZ (Medical shorthand for disease)
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(^ interesting!)
Earth
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( :D)
Eb (E flat)
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Ectoplasm
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Education
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Eel
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Effort
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Eggs :ozzysmug
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(lol)
EHR (Electronic Health Record)
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Éire - the Irish word for Ireland :wub
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(Neat :Mo)
Eject
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Ekiden (a type of long-distance running relay race that originated in Japan)
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Elongate
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Emergency
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Enough
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Eons
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Episode
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Equivalent
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Error
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Estrogen
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Eternal
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Europe
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Evolve
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Ewok (fictional species from Star Wars)
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Expel
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Eye
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Ezekiel
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(haha I was gonna say Ewok, but was wondering what you guys would come up with ;D)
Fanfare
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FBI :OzzyAngry
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(Well, to be fair, I couldn't think of anything else off the top of my head.)
FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
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FDA
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Federalist
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FFL (Federal Firearms License)
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Fgura (town in Malta)
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FHD (Full High Definition)
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Fire
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Fjord
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FKM (Chemical compound)
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Flight
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FMC Corporation (Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation, a chemical manufacturing company)
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FNU (Florida National University)
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Foundation
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FPS (Frames per Second)
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Fquih Ben Salah (town in Morocco)
(I try to use words instead of acronyms whenever possible)
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Friday
(if only it was Friday)
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FSA (Farm Service Agency)
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FTE (fulltime equivalent)
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Fulfill
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FVK (rock band)
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FWW (Final Written Warning) :rhett_ohsnap
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FX (TV channel)
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FYI
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(Okay, I'm just finding nothing good enough that starts with fz-, so I'm just going to move on to the next one.)
Game
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Gba (gameboy advance)
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GC (Group chat)
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Gdansk (city in Poland)
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Gear
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GfK Entertainment (German media company)
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GG (Good game)
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Ghost
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Girl
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Gjilan (one of Kosovo's seven districts, as well as the name of said district's capital city)
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GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)
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Glass
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GMO (Genetically modified organism)
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Gneiss
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Gorilla
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GPA (Grade Point Average)
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GQM (goal, question, metric)
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Groom
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GSK (GlaxoSmithKline, British pharmaceutical company)
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GTA (Grand Theft Auto)
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Gullible
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Gvardeysk (town in the Russian exclave territory of Kaliningrad)
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Gwent (card game in The Witcher)
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GXT (Graded Exercise Test; medical term)
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Gymnasium
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GZip (file format)
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Happy
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HB (hard black, pencil thickness ;D )
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HC (Headcanon)
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HDTV (high-definition television)
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Hebrew
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HFO (Heavy Fuel Oil)
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HGTV (television network owned by Discovery)
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HHGregg (Company)
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History
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HJC (Motorcycle Corporation)
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HKTV (Hong Kong Television Network)
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HLN (Cable Network)
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HMS (His/Her Majesty's Ship, commonly used for British warships)
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HNL (ATA code for Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Hawaii)
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Hotline
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HP (Hewlett Packard)
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HQ (headquarters)
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Hryvnia (Ukranian currency)
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HSA (Health Savings Account)
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HTTPS (hypertext transfer protocol secure)
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Hungary
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Hvar (island in Croatia)
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Hwy (highway)
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HX (formula for hydrogen halides)
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Hyrule (the world of Legend of Zelda)
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HZ (Hertz)
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Iapetus
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Iberian Peninsula
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Icicle
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Idea
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Ie (id est)
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If :P
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Ignite
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Ihu (name of a mountain in the Bionicle storyline)
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III (Insurance Information Institute)
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Ijaw (group of people in southern Nigeria)
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IKEA
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Iliad (book)
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Immortal
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Innocent
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Iodine
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Ipswich (town in UK)
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IQ
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Irrelevant
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Issue
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Itinerary
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IUD (intrauterine device)
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Ivory
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Iwo Jima (island)
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Ixelles (a municipality of Brussels, Belgium)
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Iykyk (If you know, you know)
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Izmir (city in Turkey)
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January
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JBL (Audio equipment company)
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JCPenny. Remember that store? Apparently, it's still kicking.
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JDM (Japanese domestic market)
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Jeopardy
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JFK (John F. Kennedy)
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JGR (Joe Gibbs Racing, NASCAR racing team)
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Jharkhand (State in India)
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Jigsaw
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Jjamppong (Korean noodle soup)
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JKF (Japan Karate Federation)
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JLTV (Joint Light Tactical Vehicle)
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Jme (British DJ)
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Jnco
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Journal
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JP (musician)
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JQ Adams (John Quincy Adams, 6th president of the United States)
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Jr (Junior)
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JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
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JT (James Taylor)
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Juxtaposition
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JV (joint venture)
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Jwala Ji (Hindu goddess)
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jxdn (singer)
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Jyväskylä (city in central Finland)
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Azo
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J-Z (Musician)
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Kayak
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KB (Hip-hop artist)
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KC (Kansas City)
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KDZJ (Blairsville Muni Airport-DZJ Callsign)
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Key
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KFC
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KGB (Soviet Union security service)
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Khakis
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Kite
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KJB (King James Bible)
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KKK (Ku Klux Klan, a racist group)
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KLM (Airline)
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km (kilometer)
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Knuckles
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Koala
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KPH (Kilometers Per Hour)
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KQV (AM radio station in Pittsburgh)
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Kroger (Store)
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KS (Kansas)
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KTLA (LA news station)
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Kudos
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Kvass (drink)
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KwaZulu-Natal (province in South Africa)
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kxlf (tv station)
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Kyoto
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KZN
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Lake
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Lbs (libra/pounds)
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LCD (liquid-crystal display)
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LDS (Latter-day Saints)
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Sorry for messing up a few minutes ago. I was in a bit of a rush. So embarrassing...
Letter
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LF (Lake Forest)
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LGBT (we should all be familiar with this acronym by now)
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Lhasa (city)
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Light
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LJN (company)
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LKG (Indian film)
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Llama
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LMAO (basically an alternative to LOL :lol )
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LN (Mathematics)
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Loofah
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LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse)
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LQA (Linguistic Quality Assurance)... among the things I hear every day :lol
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LRN (Learner Reference Number)
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LSD (psychedelic drug)
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LTD (Limited)
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Lucky
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LV (Roman Numeral 55)
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Lwow (old Polish name for a city that's now part of Ukraine, more commonly spelled today as "Lvov")
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LX (Roman numeral 60)
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Lyric
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LZ (LegalZoom)
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Mars
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MB (Megabyte)
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McDonald
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MD (Medical Doctor)
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Mercury
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MFE (Texas Airport)
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MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, one of the longest-running film companies in the world)
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Mhm
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Middle
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MJ (name)
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(^I was hoping to have used that one for "Mjolnir", the name of Thor's hammer.)
Mk (abbreviation for "Mark")
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(Aw, didnt think of that one)
ML (milliliter)
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mm (millimeter)
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MN (Minnesota)
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Mountain
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MPH (Miles per hour)
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Mqabba (town in Malta)
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Mr (Mister)
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MSNBC (news network)
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Mt (Mount or Mountain or Montana)
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Music
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MVP (most valuable player)
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Mweor (website)
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Mx (gender-neutral version of Mr. or Ms.)
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Myriad
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Mzuzu (city in Malawi)
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Narrative
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NBC (National Broadcasting Company)
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NCUA (National Credit Union Administration)
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Ndjamena (capital of Chad)
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Nearsighted
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NFL (National Football League)
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NGL (Not gonna lie)
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NHL (National Hockey League)
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Night
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NK (New Jersey)
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(^I'm sure you meant to type a J instead of a K ;) )
NKVD (interior ministry of the Soviet Union during WWII)
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(I did, oops)
NLS (National Library Service)
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Nmap (Network Mapper, a network security scanner)
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Nnewi. (City in Nigeria)
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Normal
(for once :lol: )
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NPC (Non-player character)
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Nqwebasaurus (genus of dinosaur that lived in South Africa during the Early Cretaceous)
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NRL (National Rugby League in Australia and neighboring countries)
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NSYNC (Boy band, the act where Justin Timberlake originates from)
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Nth (mathematical word for any number (n) for a power or root)
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Nutrient.
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Nvidia (technology company)
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NWB (short for NordWestBahn, a German railway company)
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NXP (semiconductor manufacturing company)
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Nynorsk ("New norse", one of the two standard forms of Norwegian)
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Nzinga (17th century African queen best known for defending her kingdom against a Portuguese invasion)
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Oats :D
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Obvious
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Ocarina
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Odessa. (City in Ukraine)
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Oenology (the study of winemaking)
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Office
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Ogle
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Ohio.
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Oil
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Ojibwe (Native American people).
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Okapi (cute animal)
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Olive
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Omega (final letter of the Greek alphabet)
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Onomatopoeia (Spelling out sounds)
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Oobleck (mixture of starch and water, a common example of a non-Newtonian fluid)
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Oppression
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Oquawka (small town in Illinois)
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Oracle
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Ostrich
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Ottawa.
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Outside
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Overboard
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Owl
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Ox (Literally the only thing I could think of.)
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Oyster
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Ozone
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Parade
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PBS (Public Broadcasting Service, an American television network)
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PCCW (Pacific Century CyberWorks Limited; Hong Kong telecommunications company)
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PDA (personal digital assistant)
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Peace
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PFAS (the big evil one)
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PGA (Professional Golfers' Association)
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Phantom
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Pile
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Pjazza (Maltese television program)
(It's amazing what you can find with a search on Wikipedia starting with just two or three letters.)
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(Oo clever. Couldn't find anything cool on PK with Wikipedia so I'll throw in a meme one from Runescape)
Pker (player killer)
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Play
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PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate, synthetic polymer typically used as a plastic substitute for glass)
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Pneumonia.
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Popular
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PPG (Pittsburgh Plate Glass, a major industrial company that makes paints, coatings, and other construction materials)
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PQube (a registered trademark of Power Standards Lab for an electronic measuring instrument that records power quality and electric energy on the electric power grid.)
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Pride
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Psychology
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Pterodactyl :)petrie
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Purity
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Pvris. (Rock band featuring Lynn Gunn)
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Pwllheli - a city in north-west Wales, UK.
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PXG (a British television series from the mid 2000s about video games)
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Pyromaniac
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PZL (prefix for names of various military aircraft manufactured in Poland)
And now we enter a very challenging round...
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Well, I'll take the easy one.
Qaid - Alternate spelling of Caid - a Muslim local administrator, judge, and tax collector in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia
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Q*bert
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QCD - Quantum Chromodynamics - the theory of strong interaction between quarks and gluons (both of which are subatomic particles)
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Qdot (Nigerian rapper).
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QED (quod erat demonstrandum "Which was to be demonstrated").
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QFA - Qatar Football Association
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QGIS (Quantum Geographic Information System)
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Qhub - Australian software company
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Qingdao (City in China).
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QJM - Quarterly Journal of Medicine, a British peer-reviewed medical journal
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QKI (protein).
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QLine - Streetcar system in the city of Detroit
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Qmail (E-Mail service).
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Qnet - marketing company based in Hong Kong
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Qom (province in Iran).
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QPACE - supercomputer designed for applications in QCD (see previous page)
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Qqu (R&B musician from Kenya).
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Qrendi - village in Malta
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QSER1 (human gene).
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QTOL - Quiet take off and landing, an engineering concept to reduce noise of aircraft engines
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Queen
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Qvadriga (video game).
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Does anything start with the two rare letters Qx? Let's see...
*one brief search on Wikipedia later*
QxBranch - data analysis and quantum computing software company
Yeah, it's obvious these super tricky letter pairs are found only with special names rather than any actual words...
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Qyshk (City in Kosovo).
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Qzone - Chinese social networking website
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Rapture.
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RBR - Red Bull Racing, a Formula 1 racing team.
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RCA (Electronics company).
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RDX - substance used in explosives like C-4
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Reality.
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Rfissa - a Moroccan traditional dish
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RGB (Red, Green, and Blue)
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Rhombus
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Rigorous
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Rjavina - mountain in Slovenia
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RKS (Rainbow Kitten Surprise, an alternative rock indie band)
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RLC - resistor, inductor, capacitor - a type of electrical circuit
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RMHC (Ronald McDonald House Charities)
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RNA - Ribonucleic acid, a biological molecule, somewhat similar to DNA
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Robust
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RPG - role-playing game
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RQI (Resuscitation Quality Improvement Program, a new approach to maintain CPR competence)
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RRS - Royal Research Ship - a type of navy vessel that conducts scientific research for the British government.
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RSS (web feed format).
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RTS - Real-Time Strategy - a subgenre of strategy video games.
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Russia.
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RV - recreational vehicle
(It's literally the only thing I could think of without needing to do so much research that anything else would inevitably be something very obscure.)
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Rwanda (country in Africa).
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Rx - abbreviation commonly associated with medical prescriptions.
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Ryan.
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Rzeszow - city in Poland
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Salem.
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Sbarro - chain of fast food pizza restaurants
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Schizophrenia.
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Sderot - city in Israel
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Seafaring.
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Sfax - city in Tunisia
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Sgt (short form for Sergeant).