(Main list of acronyms)
f – (s) Femto
F – (s) Farad – Fluorine
FA
fa – (s) Persian language (ISO 639-1 code) FA – Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous fA – (s) Femtoampere FA (i) Field Artillery Financial aid Football Association (England) Football Australia (governing body for association football) FAA (i) U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Financial Aid Administrator Fleet Air Arm Functional Area Analysis FAAD – (a) Forward Area Air Defence FAADEZ – (i) Forward Area Air Defence Engagement Zone FAAN – (i) Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology FAAFP – (i)Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians FAAN – (i) Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing FAANG – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google (the leading stocks in the late-2010s US market rally) (c.f. FANG, which originally did not include Apple) FAAQ – (a/i) Frequently Asked and Anticipated Questions (cf. FAQ) FAASV – (i) Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle FAB – (i) Feline Advisory Bureau (UK feline charity) FAC FACF - Fully Automatic Capsule Filler source (i) Forward Air Controller Front of Allies for Change Frontal Affinity Chromatography Full Aperture Calibrator FACA – (a) (US) Federal Advisory Committee Act FACH – (a) Fuerza Aérea de Chile FACN – (i) Fellow of the American College of Nutrition FACP – (i) Fellow of the American College of Physicians FACS (i) Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (a) Formal Aspects of Computing Science Fluorescent-activated cell sorting FACTS – (a) Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System FAD (i) Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide Fuck A Duck (a) Funding Authorization Document M18 FADAC – (p) Field Artillery Data Computer FAFSA – (a) Free Application for Federal Student Aid (US) FAH (i) Federation of American Hospitals Fine Arts and Humanities Foreign Affairs Handbook FAI (i) Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (French, "International Aeronautics Federation") Football Association of Ireland FAM – (i) Foreign Affairs Manual fao – (s) Faroese language (ISO 639-2 code) FAO – (i) Food and Agriculture Organization FAPA – Fellow of the American Psychological Association FAPHA – Fellow of the American Public Health Association FAQ – (a/i) Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes pronounced "fak") FARC – (a) Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Spanish, "Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia") FARDC – (a) "Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo FARP – (a) Forward Arming and Refuelling Point / Forward Area Rearm/refuel Point fas – (s) Persian language (ISO 639-2 code) FAS (i) Federation of American Scientists Fetal Alcohol Syndrome FASCAM – (p) Family of Scatterable Mines FASD – (i) Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder FASEB – (a/i) Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology FAST (a) Face, Arm, Speech, Time (stroke symptoms) Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (Chinese radio telescope) Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (U.S. legislation) FAT – (a) Field Artillery Tractor – File Allocation Table FAVS – (a) Future Armoured Vehicle System FAW – (i) Football Association of Wales
FB
FB – Facebook, An on-line social network
FBCB2 or FBCB2 – (p) Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade-and-Below
FBCS – (i) Fellow of the British Computer Society
FBI – (i) Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBIS – (i) Foreign Broadcast Information Service
FBIDST – (i) Fellow of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists FBM – (s) Board foot FBR (i) Fast Breeder Reactor Foundation for Biomedical Research Friedman, Billings, Ramsey (now known as Arlington Asset Investment) FBS Federal Bureau of Statistics (Pakistan) Fetal bovine serum Football Bowl Subdivision (U.S. college football) Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation
FC
fC – (s) Femtocoulomb
FC
(i) Fire Control
Football Club
(s) Funnel Cloud (METAR Code) FCA (i) Fellowship of Christian Athletes Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Fraction of Combat Active forces FCC – (i) U.S. Federal Communications Commission FCE – (i) First Certificate in English FCF – (i) Financial Free Cash Flow FCLA – Fraud Claims Law Associate FCM (i) Federation of Canadian Municipalities Fogarty's Cove Music FCO – (i) UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCS (i) Football Championship Subdivision (U.S. college football) Future Combat System FCSB – (i) Fotbal Club Steaua București, a name claimed by two association football clubs in Bucharest – FCSB and CSA Steaua București FCW – (i) Florida Championship Wrestling FCW - Forward Collision Warning, see Collision avoidance system FCZ – (i) Forward Combat Zone