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What does W stand for?

W

Absorbed Energy (UWER)

Acoustical Displacement (BARN)

Angular Velocity (BARN)

Atomic Interchange Energy (UWER)

Bond-Bond Repulsion (UWER)

Climatic Data for the World [A publication] (SAUS)

Coast Guard Ship [When precedes vessel classification] [Navy symbol]

Coefficient of Concordance (DIPS)

Coefficient of Stability (DIPS)

College of Wooster (SAUS)

Control [Communications term] (DCT)

Deviation from Spherical Form of Bearing Balls (UWER)

Dew [Meteorology] (BARN)

Diameter of Driving-Wheel in Inches [Railroad term]

Dislocation Line Energy Materials Science (UWER)

Disorder (UWER)

Electrical Energy [Symbol] (DEN)

Energy (IDOE)

Flow Resistance [Fluid Mechanics] (UWER)

freeboard mark which indicates the maximum load in winter (SAUS)

Indefinite Ceiling [Meteorology] (BARN)

Interface Roughness Materials Science (UWER)

Irradiance (BARN)

Macroscopic Growth Rate (UWER)

Mass Fraction (UWER)

Maximum Tire Speed of 168 mph or 270 km/h (UWER)

Mechanical Work of Breathing [Medicine] (DAVI)

Mercredi [French] (ASC)

Microwatt (IAA)

Partial Discharge Corona Energy [Electronics] (UWER)

Potential Energy (UWER)

Quer Wave (UWER)

Radiant Flux (UWER)

Reflection Coefficient (UWER)

Requires an Engineer [Search and rescue symbol that can be stamped in sand or snow]

Rotational Energy (UWER)

Sound Power (UWER)

Special Search Aircraft [Navy] (UWER)

Specimen Width in Testing [Symbol] (UWER)

Spectral Radiant Emittance (UWER)

Stability Factor Electronics (UWER)

Statistical Probability of Thermodynamic System (UWER)

Stored Energy [Symbol] (UWER)

Strain Energy Density Function (UWER)

Time Zone 142.5 W-157.5W [GMT + 10]

Tool Wear Factor (UWER)

Total Load

Tryptophan [One-letter symbol; see Trp]

Tungsten [Chemical element] (DOG)

Underwater [JETDS nomenclature]

Velocity of a Medium [Doppler Equation] (UWER)

Waffle [Used in correcting manuscripts, etc.]

Wages [Economics]

Waist (ADA)

Wait Time [Computer science]

Wales

Walk [Baseball]

Walkover [Tennis] (GOBB)

Wall

Wallace Laboratories [Research code symbol]

Waltz [Music]

Wander AG [Switzerland] [Research code symbol]

Wanderer Books [Publisher's imprint]

Wanting

War

Warden

Ward Line (SAUS)

Wardroom [Aerospace]

Warehouse

Warhead [Nuclear] (NG)

Warm

Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co. [Research code symbol]

Warning [Railroad signal arm] [British]

Warning Area [Followed by identification]

Warrant [A document entitling holder to purchase a given issue of stock] [Investment term]

Wash (DAVI)

Washington Reports [1890-1939] [A publication] (DLA)

Waste

Watch (UWER)

Watch Time

Water

Waterloo [Army] [British] (ROG)

Watermeyer's Cape Of Good Hope Supreme Court Reports [A publication] (DLA)

Water Point [British Waterways Board sign]

Water, Surface, and Underwater [Communications term] (DCT)

Water Vapor Content

Waterways Freight Bureau (EA)

Watt [Symbol] [SI unit of power] (GPO)

Wattle [Ornithology]

Watt Meter (IAA)

Watt's Pennsylvania Reports [A publication] (DLA)

Waveguide (SAA)

Wave Height Correction

Wax (UWER)

Weak [Spectral]

Weapon (SAUS)

Weather

Weather Aircraft Equipped with Meteorological Gear [Designation for all US military aircraft]

Weather Mode (SAUS)

Weather Review [A publication]

Weave (UWER)

Web

Weber [Hearing test] (MAE)

Weber Fraction [Psychology]

Wedge (UWER)

Wednesday

Week

Weekend Travel [Also, Z] [Airline fare code]

Weekly Dose [Medicine]

Weeping [Shrub]

Wehnelt [A unit of roentgen ray hardness] (AAMN)

Weight

Weld (DAS)

Welding Program [Association of Independent Colleges and Schools specialization code]

Welfare (UWER)

Well (UWER)

Welsh [or Welch]

Wendell's Reports [1826-41] [New York] [A publication] (DLA)

Wenig Fine [Latin] (DAVI)

Wesleyan

West [or Western]

Westcoast Energy, Inc. [Vancouver Stock Exchange symbol]

Westcoast Energy, Inc. [Toronto Stock Exchange symbol]

Westen [(the) west] (GIS)

Westerhout [Astronomy]

Western (MIST)

Western Airlines (MHDW)

Western longitude (SAUS)

Westinghouse [as in "Group W"]

West Longitude [Communications term] (DCT)

West Point, NY [Mint mark when appearing on US coins]

Westvaco Corp. [NYSE symbol] (SPSG)

Wet

Wet Dew

Wheat (UWER)

Wheaton's Reports [14-25 United States] [A publication] (DLA)

Wheel (UWER)

Wheeled [Vehicles] (NATG)

Whip

Whisker (UWER)

Whiskey [Phonetic alphabet] [International] (DSUE)

White (DAVI)

White [Light, buoy, beacon]

White Cell [Medicine] (AAMN)

White Return [Round trip fare for specified period] [British]

Whole [Response] [Medicine]

Whole Tooth Depth [Of gears] (UWER)

Whole Word Designator [Computer science]

Whorls and Compounds [Fingerprint description]

Wick (UWER)

Wicked (DAS)

Wicket

Wide

Widow [or Widower]

Widowed (DAVI)

Width

Wife

Wild (UWER)

Wilderness [State]

Wildlife (UWER)

Will Advise [Business term]

Wille [Will Factor] [Psychology]

William [Phonetic alphabet] [Royal Navy] [World War I] [Pre-World War II] [World War II] (DSUE)

William (King of England) (DLA)

Wilson's [or Willson's] Reports [Texas Civil Cases, Court of Appeals] [A publication] (DLA)

Win [Sports]

Winch (DS)

Wind [In reference to wind velocity]

Window (NASA)

Windward [Botany]

Wing

Winning Pitcher [Baseball term] (NDBD)

Winnipeg Stock Exchange [Canada]

Wins [Sports]

Winter [Vessel load line mark]

Wire

Wireless [Communication] (IAA)

Wisconsin Reports [A publication] (DLA)

Wisdom (WDAA)

Wistar [Medicine] (EDAA)

With

Withdrawal

Within (WGA)

Without Voice Facilities on Range or Radiobeacon Frequency

Witwatersrand Local Division Reports [South Africa] [A publication] (DLA)

Wobbelgenerator (SAUS)

Wobble (UWER)

Wolf (UWER)

Wolfram [Tungsten] [Chemical element]

Woman (ADA)

Womb (UWER)

Women's Fashion Fabrics Association (EA)

Women's Reserve, Unlimited Service [USNR officer designation]

Won [Sports statistics]

Won [Monetary unit] [South Korea]

Wood

Wooden [Shipping] (ROG)

Woodfree [Paper] (DGA)

Woodland [Soil biology] [Vegetation] (QSUL)

Woody Plant [Botany]

Word

Word Fluency (DAVI)

Work [or w] [Symbol] [IUPAC]

Workmen's Compensation [Insurance]

World

Worm (UWER)

Worshipful [Freemasonry]

Wound [Medicine] (EDAA)

Wrench (UWER)

Wright's Ohio Reports [1831-34] [A publication] (DLA)

Wrist (UWER)

Write

Writer Officer [British military]

Wrong

Wulff Shape [Crystallography] (UWER)

Wuppertal [German license plate city code]

Wyoming Reports [A publication] (DLA)

w/

With (VRA)

w

Air Velocity (UWER)

Complex Number (UWER)

Displacement (UWER)

Dry Season in Winter (UWER)

Energy Density (UWER)

Flow Rate [Heat transmission symbol]

Load Per Unit Distance [Symbol] (UWER)

Load per Unit of Length

Mass Flux Velocity (UWER)

Mixing Ratio (UWER)

Mutation Rate [Microbiology] (QSUL)

Normalized Excitation Vector [Electron microscopy] (UWER)

Rate of Evaporation [Symbol] (UWER)

Specific Weight (UWER)

Tropics [MARC geographic area code] [Library of Congress] (LCCP)

Vacancy Jump Ratio [Solid-state physics] (UWER)

Velocity Component [Cartesian system] (UWER)

Vertical Velocity (UWER)

Wardrobe (WDMC)

Water (MIST)

Watt (WDMC)

Week (WDMC)

Weekly

Weight (WDMC)

West (GEAB)

White (VRA)

Wicket (ODBW)

Wide (ODBW)

Width (WDMC)

Width of Cut [Machining] (UWER)

Width of Welding Bead (UWER)

Wien's Displacement Constant [Statistical mechanics] (UWER)

wife (WDAA)

Will Factor [Psychology]

With (WDMC)

WORLDSCALE [Worldwide Tanker Nominal Freight Scale] (DS)

wounded [Seen on casualty reports] [Civil War term]

W/

With [Internet lingo] (NETL)

W+

Weakly Positive [Laboratory science] (DAVI)

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