List of acronyms and initialisms: B

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B - (s) Bel - Boron

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B2B - (i) Business-to-business electronic commerce
B2C - (i) Business-to-consumer electronic commerce
B2E - (i) Business-to-employee electronic commerce

BA

Ba - (s) Barium
BA - (i) Bachelor of Arts - (s) Bahrain (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO 3166 digram) - (i) British Airways - British Army
BAA - (i) British Airport Authority
BAC - (a) Bohica Associates Corporation
BADD - (a) Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination
BAE - (p) BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace, BAe)
BAFTA - (a) British Academy of Film and Television Arts
BAI - (i) Battlefield Air Interdiction
BALCO - (p) Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative
BAM - (i) Business Activity Monitoring
BAMC - (i) Brooke Army Medical Center
Banesto - (p) Banco Español de Crédito (Spanish, "Spanish Credit Bank")
BAO - (i) Battlefield Air Operations
BAOR - (i) British Army Of the Rhine
B- (p) Benzo[apyrene
BAR - (a) British American Racing - Browning Automatic Rifle - Buy-American Restrictions
BARD - (a) Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund (between the US and Israel)
BART - (a) Bay Area Rapid Transit
Bart - Baronet
BAS - (i) Battalion Aid Station
BASE - (a) Building, Antenna, Span, Earth (parachute form)
BASF - (i) Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemicals company)
BASIC - (a) Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (acronym was added later, originally it was simply Basic)
BAT - (a/i) Basic Aid Training
BATF - (i) U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
BATS - (a) Behavior Analysis Training System - Bradley Advanced Training System
BATTeRS - (a) Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey

BB

BB - (s) Barbados (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) - (i) Boys' Brigade (Christian youth organisation) - Brigitte Bardot (actress)
BBB - (i) Better Business Bureau - Blood-Brain Barrier
BBC - (i) British Broadcasting Corporation
BBL - (i) Be Back Later - Bird Banding Laboratory - British Basketball League
BBN - (i) Bolt, Beranek and Newman
BBQ - (i) Barbeque
BBS - (i) Breeding Bird Survey (North America) - Brigade/Battalion Battle Simulation - Bulletin Board System

BC

BC - (i) Before Christ - Blind Copy (in emailers) - Boston College - (s) Botswana (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Bechuanaland) - British Columbia (postal symbol)
BCC - (i) Blind Carbon Copy
BCCI - (i) Board of Control for Cricket in India
BCD - (i) Binary-Coded Decimal
BCE - (i) Banque centrale européenne - Battlefield Co-ordination Element - Before Common Era - British Columbia Electric Railway
BCER - (i) British Columbia Electric Railway
BCFG - (s) Patchy Fog (METAR Code)
BCIS - (i) Battlefield Combat Identification System
BCPL - (i) Basic Combined Programming Language (progenitor of C)
BCS - (i) Bowl Championship Series (US college football)
BCT - (i) Brigade Combat Team

BD

BD - (s) Bangladesh (ISO 3166 digram) - Bermuda (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
BDA - (i) British Dental Association
BDD - (i) British Defence Doctrine
Bde - (s) Brigade
BDFL - (i) Benevolent Dictator For Life
BDI - (s) Burundi (ISO 3166 trigram)
BDNF - (i) Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
BDO - (i) Battle Dress Overgarment
BDOS - (a) Basic Disk Operating System; part of CP/M
BDSM - (i) Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission, Sadism and Masochism
BDT - (i) Bureau de développement des télécommunications (Telecommunication Development Bureau, became ITU-D)
BDU - (i) Battle-Dress Uniform

BE

Be - (s) Beryllium
BE - (s) Belgium (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
BEA - (i) British European Airways (ancestor of British Airways)
BEL - (s) Belgium (ISO 3166 trigram)
BEM - (i) British Empire Medal - Bug-Eyed Monster
BEN - (s) Benin (ISO 3166 trigram)
BEO - (i) Banquet Event Order
BER - (i) Bit Error Rate
BES - (i) Budget Estimate Submission
BESS - (i) Business, Education, and Social Sciences
BETS - (a) Bradley Embedded Training System

BF

BF - (s) The Bahamas (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Burkina Faso (ISO 3166 digram)
BFA - (s) Burkina Faso (ISO 3166 trigram)
BFSA - (i) Blue Force Situation Awareness
BFT – (i) Blue Force Tracking

BG

BG - (s) Bangladesh (FIPS 10-4 country code) - (i) Battle Group - (s) Brigadier General - (s) Bulgaria (ISO 3166 digram)
BGA - (i) Ball Grid Array - Brandy and Ginger Ale (alcoholic beverage)
BGD - (s) Bangladesh (ISO 3166 trigram)
BGR - (s) Bulgaria (ISO 3166 trigram)
BGWG - (p) Battle Group Wargame (military simulation; "big wig")

BH

Bh - (s) Bohrium
BH - (s) Bahrain (ISO 3166 digram) - Belize (FIPS 10-4 country code)
BHR - (s) Bahrain (ISO 3166 trigram)
BHS - (s) The Bahamas (ISO 3166 trigram)

BI

Bi - (s) Bismuth
BI - (s) Burundi (ISO 3166 digram)
BIAP - (a) Baghdad International Airport - (p) Biafran pound
BICS - (i/a) Battlefield Information and Communication System
BID - (i) bis in die (Latin, "twice a day")
BIH - (s) Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO 3166 trigram)
BIOS - (a) Basic Input/Output System - British Institute of Organ Studies
BIP - (a) Battlefield Interoperability Programme (ancestor of MIP) - Boys Into Party (musical group)
BISEPS - (a) Battlefield Identification System Environment Performance Simulation
BIST - (a) Built-In Self-Test
BIT - (a) Bilateral Investment Treaty - Built-In Test
BITE - (a) Built-In Test Equipment

BJ

BJ - (s) Benin (ISO 3166 digram) - (i) Blowjob (oral sex)
BJP - (i) Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party)
BJT - (i) Bipolar Junction Transistor

BK

Bk - (s) Berkelium
BK - (s) Bosnia and Herzegovina (FIPS 10-4 country code)
BKN - (s) Broken Sky (METAR Code)

BL

BL - (s) Bolivia (FIPS 10-4 country code) - (i) British Leyland
BLCSE - (i) Battle Laboratory Constructive Simulation Environment
BLDU - (s) Blowing Dust (METAR Code)
BLR - (s) Belarus (ISO 3166 trigram)
BLSA - (s) Blowing Sand (METAR Code)
BLSN - (s) Blowing Snow (METAR Code)
BLUFOR - (p) Blue Force(s) (military)
BLUI - (a/i) Body Language User Interface
BLZ - (s) Belize (ISO 3166 trigram)

BM

BM - (i) Battle Management - (s) Bermuda (ISO 3166 digram) - Myanmar (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Burma)
BMA - (i) British Medical Association
BMCC - (i) Borough of Manhattan Community College
BMD - (i) Ballistic Missile Defence - Boyevaya Mashina Desanta (Russian Боевая Машина Десанта, "Combat Vehicle Airborne") † - British Military Doctrine
BMDG - (i) British Military Doctrine Group
BMDO - (i) (U.S.) Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ("bim-do")
BME - (p) Biomedical Engineering - (i) Body Modification E-zine
BMEWS - (a/i) Ballistic Missile Early Warning System ("bee-mews")
BMI - (i) Body Mass Index - Broadcast Music Incorporated
BML - (i) Battle Management Language
BMNT - (i) Begin Morning Nautical Twilight
BMP - (i) Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoti (Russian Боевая Машина Пехоты, "Combat Vehicle Infantry") †
BMR - (i) Bronirovannaya Mashina Razminirovaniya (Russian Бронированная Машина Разминирования, "Armoured Vehicle Mine-Clearing") †
BMU - (s) Bermuda (ISO 3166 trigram)
BMW - (i) Bayerische Motoren Werke (German, "Bavarian Motor Works")
BMX - (i) Bicycle/Bike Moto(r) Cross

BN

Bn - (s) Battalion
BN - (s) Brunei (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
BNF - (i) Backus-Naur Form (computing)
BNP - (i) British National Party
BNS - (i) Bank of Nova Scotia
BNSF - (i) Burlington Northern Santa Fe

BO

BO - (i) Back Orifice - (s) Belarus (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Bolivia (ISO 3166 digram) - (i) Body odor
BO2k - (i) Back Orifice 2000
BOAC - (i) British Overseas Airways Corporation (predecessor of British Airways)
BOAT - (p) Byway Open to All Traffic (pronounced as 2 syllables, "Bo-At")
BOBFOC - (a) Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch (description)
BOC - (i) British Oxygen Company
BÖC - (i) Blue Öyster Cult
BODMAS - (a) Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction
BOFH - (i) Bastard Operator From Hell
BOGOF - (a) Buy One, Get One Free
BOGSAT - (a) Bunch Of Guys Sitting Around a Table
BOHICA - (a) Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
BOI - (i) Balance Of Investment - Basis Of Issue
BOL - (s) Bolivia (ISO 3166 trigram)
BOM - (a) Base Object Model - Bill Of Materials - Block of the Month quilting term
BOP - (i) Balance of Payments
BOS - (i) Battlefield Operating System
BOT - (i) Balance of Trade - Bank of Thailand

BP

BOPD - (i) Barrel Oil Per Day
BP - (i) Battle Position - British Petroleum (today, BP doesn't officially stand for anything) - (s) Solomon Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code; from British Protectorate of the Solomon Islands)
BPD - (i) Bipolar Personality Disorder
BPM - (i) Beats Per Minute
BPV - (i) Battlefield Planning Visualization

BQ

BQ - (s) British Antarctic Territory (ISO 3166 digram; merged with AQ in 1979) - Navassa Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)

BR

Br - (s) Bromine
BR - (s) Brazil (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) - (i) British Rail
BRA - (s) Brazil (ISO 3166 trigram)
BRB - (s) Barbados (ISO 3166 trigram) - (i) "Be Right Back" (Internet chat abbreviation)
BRDM - (i) Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Dosornaya Mashina (Russian Боевая Разведывательная Дозорная Машина, "Combat Reconnaissance Patrol Vehicle") †
BRFSS - (p) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ("burf-us", a CDC health survey covering the U.S. and its territories)
BRIC - (a) Brazil, Russia, India and China
BRIMS - (a) Behaviour Representation In Modelling and Simulation (conference)
BRM - (i) Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Mashina (Russian Боевая Разведывательная Машина, "Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle") †
BRN - (s) Brunei (ISO 3166 trigram)
BRS - (i) Battlefield Reasoning System

BS

BS - (s) The Bahamas (ISO 3166 digram) - Bassas da India (FIPS 10-4 territory code) - (i) British subject - Bullshit
BSA - (i) Birmingham Small Arms (motorcycles company) - Boy Scouts of America - Brigade Support Area
BSD - (i) Berkeley Software Distribution (distinct from BSoD)
BSE - (i) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease
BSF - (i) British Standard Fine (screw thread)
BSL - (i) British Sign Language
BSN - (i) Bachelor of Science in Nursing
BSoD - (i) Blue Screen of Death (distinct from BSD)
BSP - (i) Between-Show Promotion - Binary Space Partitioning - Board Support Package - British Standard Pipe (screw thread) - (p) Business-sponsored
BST - (i) Binary Search Tree - Blended Sales Tax - (p) Bovine somatotropin - (i) British Summer Time
BSW - (i) British Standard Whitworth (screw thread)
BSX - (i) Bendigo Stock Exchange

BT

Bt - (i) Baronet; (ii) Bacillus thuringiensis
BT - (i) Bathythermograph - (s) Bhutan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) - (ii) BitTorrent - (iii) British Telecommunications plc
Bti - (i) Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis
BTID - (i) Battlefield Target Identification Device
BTIS - (i) Battlefield Target Identification System
BTN - (s) Bhutan (ISO 3166 trigram)
BTO - (i) Built To Order
BTP - (i) British Transport Police
BTR - (i) Bronetransporter (БТР = Бронетранспортер "(Heavy) Armoured (Personnel) Transporter") †
BTU - (i) British Thermal Unit
BTW - (s) By The Way

BU

BU - (s) Bulgaria (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Burma (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1989)
BUAV - (i) British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
BUG-E - (a) Battlefield Universal Gateway Equipment ("buggy")
BUNO or BuNo - (p) Bureau Number (aircraft serial number)
BUR - (s) Burma (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1989)

BV

BV - (i) Background Vocals - Battlefield Visualization - (s) Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
BVD - (i) Bradley, Voorhees & Day (underwear manufacturer)
BVR - (i) Beyond Visual Range
BVT - (s) Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 trigram)

BW

B&W - (i) Babcock & Wilcox - Black and White - Bowers & Wilkins
BW - (s) Botswana (ISO 3166 digram)
BWA - (s) Botswana (ISO 3166 trigram)
BWARS - (a) Bees, Wasps & Ants Recording Society
BWR - (i) Boiling-Water Reactor

BX

BX - (p) Base eXchange - (s) Brunei (FIPS 10-4 country code)

BY

BY - (s) Burundi (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Belarus (ISO 3166 digram)
BYOB - (i) Bring Your Own Beer/Beverages/Bottle
BYOC - (i) Bring Your Own Computer (play on BYOB)
BYS - (s) Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1992)
BYU - (i) Brigham Young University

BZ

BZ - (s) Belize (ISO 3166 digram)

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