Abbreviations starting with B (page 1 of 2)

365 abbreviations begin with B. This page lists B to BSEE.

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B – Billion +4 more
B&E – Breaking and entering
B&O – Bang & Olufsen
B&Q – Block & Quayle
b/c – Because
B Corp – Certified B Corporation
B/L – Bill of lading
B/S – Balance sheet
b/w – Between +1 more
B12 – Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin)
B1G – Big Ten Conference
B20 – Biodiesel blend (20% biodiesel)
B2B – Business-to-business
B2B2C – Business-to-business-to-consumer
B2C – Business-to-consumer
B2G – Business-to-government
B4 – Before
B4N – Bye for now
B6 – JetBlue
BA – Bachelor of Arts +6 more
BAA – Business associate agreement
BaaS – Backend as a service
BABIP – Batting average on balls in play
BAC – Blood alcohol concentration +3 more
BACS – Bankers' Automated Clearing Services
BAE – Babe or baby (backronym: before anyone else)
BAF – Bunker adjustment factor
BAFTA – British Academy of Film and Television Arts
BAH – Basic Allowance for Housing
BAI – Beck Anxiety Inventory
BAK – Backup file
BAL – Bronchoalveolar lavage +1 more
BAN – British Approved Name
Bankr. – Bankruptcy court
BANT – Budget, authority, need, timeline
BAP – Bankruptcy Appellate Panel +1 more
bar – Bar +1 more
BArch – Bachelor of Architecture
BARDA – Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
BART – Bay Area Rapid Transit
BAS – Basic Allowance for Subsistence +3 more
BASE – Basically available, soft state, eventual consistency
BASF – Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik
Bash – Bourne Again Shell
BASIC – Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BAT – Batch file
BATNA – Best alternative to a negotiated agreement
BAU – Business as usual
BAV – Bicuspid aortic valve
BB – Base on balls +6 more
BBA – Bachelor of Business Administration
BBB – Better Business Bureau +3 more
BBBS – Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
BBC – British Broadcasting Corporation
BBE – Best before end
BBEG – Big bad evil guy
BBFC – British Board of Film Classification
BBIAB – Be back in a bit
bbl – Barrel (oil) +1 more
BBN – Big Bang nucleosynthesis
BBP – Bloodborne pathogens
BBQ – Barbecue
BBS – Berg Balance Scale +2 more
BBVA – Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
BBW – Black box warning
BBY – Baby (term of endearment)
BC – Before Christ +4 more
BCA – Budget Control Act of 2011
BCAA – Branched-chain amino acids
BCBS – Blue Cross Blue Shield
BCC – Basal cell carcinoma +1 more
BCCI – Board of Control for Cricket in India
BCD – Bad-conduct discharge
BCE – Before the Common Era
BCG – Bacillus Calmette-Guérin +1 more
BCGs – Birth control glasses
Bch. – Beach +1 more
BCM – Body control module
BCMA – Barcode medication administration
BCN – Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport
BCO – Beneficial cargo owner
BCom – Bachelor of Commerce
BCP – Birth control pill +2 more
BCR-ABL – Breakpoint cluster region-Abelson fusion gene
BCRA – Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
BCT – Basic Combat Training +1 more
BCVA – Best-corrected visual acuity
BCx – Blood cultures
BD – Bipolar disorder +7 more
bd ft – Board foot
BDA – Battle damage assessment
BDAY – Birthday
BDC – Business development company
BDD – Body dysmorphic disorder +2 more
Bde – Brigade
BDI – Beck Depression Inventory
BDL – Bradley International Airport
BDO – Binder Dijker Otte
BDQ – Bedaquiline
BDR – Business development representative +1 more
BDS – Bachelor of Dental Surgery
BDT – Bangladeshi taka
BDU – Battle Dress Uniform
BE – Barrett's esophagus +6 more
BE-FAST – Balance, Eyes, Face, Arm, Speech, Time
BEA – Bureau of Economic Analysis
BEC – Bose-Einstein condensate +1 more
BECCS – Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage
BED – Binge eating disorder +1 more
BEDMAS – Brackets, Exponents, Division/Multiplication…
bef. – Before
BEM – Block Element Modifier
Benelux – Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg
BEng – Bachelor of Engineering
Benj. – Benjamin
BEP – Bleomycin, etoposide, Platinol (cisplatin) +2 more
BER – Berlin Brandenburg Airport
BERT – Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers
BESS – Battery energy storage system
BET – Black Entertainment Television +1 more
BEV – Battery electric vehicle
BF – Boyfriend +3 more
BFA – Bachelor of Fine Arts
BFCM – Black Friday Cyber Monday
BFF – Best friends forever
BFFL – Best friends for life
BFFR – Be f***ing for real
BFN – Big fat negative +1 more
BFOQ – Bona fide occupational qualification
BFP – Big fat positive
BFPO – British Forces Post Office
BFR – Biennial flight review
BFS – Breadth-first search
BFV – Bradley Fighting Vehicle
BG – Brigadier General (US Army) +3 more
BGA – Ball grid array
BGCA – Boys & Girls Clubs of America
BGen – Brigadier General (US Marine Corps)
BGN – Bulgarian lev
BGP – Border Gateway Protocol
BGS – Bachelor of General Studies
BH – Behavioral health +4 more
BHAG – Big hairy audacious goal
BHC – Bank holding company
BHD – Bahraini dinar +1 more
bhp – Brake horsepower +1 more
BHS – Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
BHU – Behavioral health unit
BI – Business intelligence +4 more
BI-RADS – Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System
BIA – Bureau of Indian Affairs +1 more
BIBA – Brought in by ambulance
BIBEMS – Brought in by emergency medical services
bibliog. – Bibliography
BIC – Business Identifier Code +3 more
bicarb – Sodium bicarbonate
BID – Bis in die (twice a day)
BIK – Benefit in kind
BIL – Brother-in-law
BIM – Building information modeling
BIN – Bank identification number +1 more
BIOS – Basic Input/Output System
BIP – Behavior intervention plan +1 more
BiPAP – Bilevel positive airway pressure
BIS – Bispectral index +3 more
BISAC – Book Industry Standards and Communications
BiTE – Bispecific T-cell engager
BiV – Biventricular
BIW – Twice a week
BJ – Benin
BJJ – Brazilian jiu-jitsu
BJP – Bharatiya Janata Party
BJS – Bureau of Justice Statistics
BJT – Bipolar junction transistor
BK – Burger King +4 more
BKA – Below-knee amputation
BKK – Suvarnabhumi Airport
BL – Boys' love +2 more
BL/BLI – Beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor
BLA – Biologics License Application
BLAST – Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
BLDC – Brushless DC motor
Bldg – Building
BLE – Bilateral lower extremities +1 more
BLEU – Bilingual evaluation understudy
BLEVE – Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion
Blf – Bluff
BLK – Blocks
BLM – Black Lives Matter +1 more
BLOB – Binary large object
BLR – Kempegowda International Airport
BLS – Basic life support +1 more
BLT – Bacon, lettuce and tomato (sandwich)
BLUE – Best linear unbiased estimator
BLUF – Bottom line up front
Blvd – Boulevard
BLW – Baby-led weaning
BM – Boatswain's Mate +3 more
BMA – British Medical Association
BMAT – BioMedical Admissions Test
BMC – Baseboard management controller
BMD – Bone mineral density +1 more
BMG – Bertelsmann Music Group
BMI – Body mass index +1 more
BMO – Bank of Montreal
BMP – Basic metabolic panel +2 more
BMR – Basal metabolic rate
BMS – Bare-metal stent +2 more
BMT – Bone marrow transplant +2 more
BMus – Bachelor of Music
BMV – Bureau of Motor Vehicles
BMW – Bayerische Motoren Werke
BN – Bulimia nervosa +3 more
BNA – Nashville International Airport
BNB – BNB (formerly Binance Coin)
BND – Federal Intelligence Service +1 more
BNE – Brisbane Airport
BNF – Big-name fan +1 more
BNIB – Brand new in box
BNP – B-type natriuretic peptide
BNP Paribas – Banque Nationale de Paris Paribas
BNPL – Buy now, pay later
BNSF – BNSF Railway +1 more
BNWT – Brand new with tags
BO – Bolivia
BO3 – Best of three
BoC – Bank of Canada
BOD – Biochemical oxygen demand +1 more
BODMAS – Brackets, Orders, Division/Multiplication…
BoE – Bank of England +2 more
BOFU – Bottom of the funnel
BOG – El Dorado International Airport
BOGO – Buy one, get one (free)
BOHICA – Bend over, here it comes again
BoJ – Bank of Japan
BOL – Bill of lading
BOLC – Basic Officer Leader Course
BOLO – Be on the lookout
BOM – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport +3 more
BOO – Bladder outlet obstruction
BOOP – Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia
BOP – Federal Bureau of Prisons +3 more
BOPIS – Buy online, pick up in store
BORIS – Buy online, return in store
BOS – Boston Logan International Airport
BOT – Balance of trade +2 more
BoW – Bag of words
BP – Blood pressure +8 more
BPA – Bisphenol A
BPAD – Bipolar affective disorder
BPaL – Bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid
BPD – Borderline personality disorder +2 more
BPE – Byte-pair encoding
BPG – Blocks per game
BPH – Benign prostatic hyperplasia
BPharm – Bachelor of Pharmacy
BPM – Beats per minute +2 more
BPMH – Best possible medication history
BPO – Business process outsourcing +2 more
BPP – Biophysical profile
BPPV – Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
BPR – Business process reengineering
bps – Bits per second +2 more
BQ – Bloc Québécois +3 more
BR – Bedroom +11 more
BRAC – Base Realignment and Closure
BRAF – B-Raf proto-oncogene
BRB – Be right back
BRBPR – Bright red blood per rectum
BRCA – Breast cancer gene
BRD – Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany) +1 more
BrE – British English
BREEAM – Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment…
Brg – Bridge
BRI – Broadest reasonable interpretation
BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa +1 more
Brig – Brigadier
Brig Gen – Brigadier General (US Air Force and Space Force)
Brit. – British
Brk – Brook
BRL – Brazilian real
bros. – Brothers
BrOTP – Bro one true pairing
BRP – Bathroom privileges
BRRRR – Buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat
BRS – Blended Retirement System
BRT – Bus rapid transit +2 more
BRU – Brussels Airport
BRUE – Brief resolved unexplained event
BRVO – Branch retinal vein occlusion
BS – Bachelor of Science +6 more
BS/MD – Combined bachelor's and medical degree program
BSA – Boy Scouts of America +3 more
BSB – Bank-State-Branch
BSBA – Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
BSc – Bachelor of Science +2 more
BSCS – Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
BSD – Berkeley Software Distribution +2 more
BSE – BSE Limited (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange)
BSEE – Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering