List of acronyms: V

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter V.

For the purposes of this list:

acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome, pronounced to rhyme with cars
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee
pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).

(a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome

(i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc

(p) = pseudo-blend, e.g.: UNIFEM – (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women

(s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – megahertz)

Some terms are spoken as either acronym or initialism, e.g., VoIP, pronounced both as voyp and V-O-I-P.

(Main list of acronyms)

V – (s) 5 (in Roman numerals) - Vanadium – Volt

VA

VA – (s) Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Veterans Affairs (U.S. Department of) – (s) Virginia (postal symbol) – (i) Various Artists
VACIS – (a) Vehicle And Container Inspection System
VACIS – (a) Victorian Ambulance Clinical Information System
VACUUM - (a) Valid Accurate Consistent Uniform Unified Model
VANOS – (p) Variable Nockenwelle System
VAO – (i) Vienna Art Orchestra
VASIS – (a) Visual Approach Slope Indicator System (aviation)
VAT – (i) Value-Added Tax – (s) Vatican City-State (ISO 3166 trigram)

VB

VB – (i) Victoria Bitter (beer) – Visual Basic
VBA – (i) Visual Basic for Applications

VC

VC – (s) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Victoria Cross
VCDS – (i) (Canada) Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff – (i) VAG-COM Diagnostic System
vCJD – (i) Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
VCJCS – (i) Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
VCNO – (i) (U.S.) Vice Chief of Naval Operations
VCR – (i) Video cassette recorder
VCofS – (i) Vice Chief of Staff
VCT – (s) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO 3166 trigram)

VD

VD – (s) North Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram, obsolete 1977) – (i) Venereal Disease
VDFS - (i) VisualSVN Distributed File System (VDFS)
VDMOS – (i/a) Vertical Double-diffused MOS transistor ("vee-dee-moss")
VDOT – (i/a) Virginia Department of Transportation ("vee-dot")
VDR – (s) North Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram, obsolete 1977)

VE

ve – (s) Venda language (ISO 639-1 code)
VE – (s) Venezuela (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
VEB – (s) Venezuelan bolívar (ISO 4217 currency code)
VEEGA – (a) Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist manœuvre
ven – (s) Venda language (ISO 639-2 code)
VEN – (s) Venezuela (ISO 3166 trigram)
VERDI – (i) Vittorio Emanuele Re D'Italia (Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy)
VERITAS – (a) Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System

VF

VF - (i) VinFast (Vietnamese automobile brand)
VFA
- (i) Victorian Football Association (historic Australian rules football league)
- (i) Volatile Fatty Acid
- (s) Fixed-wing Strike Fighter Squadron (U.S Naval Aviation squadron type)
VfD – (i) Articles for deletion (used in Wikipedia)
VFL – (i) Victorian Football League, the name of two distinct Australian rules football leagues:

The original VFL, formed when the original VFA split in 1896, evolved into today's Australian Football League.
The modern VFL, which operates to this day as a semi-professional developmental league for the AFL, is the successor to the VFA.

VFM – (i) Value For Money
VFMO – (i) Very Fast Moving Object (astronomy)
VFR – (i) Visual Flight Rules
VFT – (i) Virtual Function Table
VFW – (i) Veterans of Foreign Wars

VG

VG – (s) British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
VGB – (s) British Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)

VH

VH1 – (a/i) Video Hits One
VHF – (i) Very High Frequency

VI

vi – (s) Vietnamese language (ISO 639-1 code)
VI – (s) 6 (in Roman numerals) – British Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code) – United States Virgin Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram) – (i) vide infra (Latin, "see below") – Virtual Instrument (LabVIEW)
VIA – (a) Versatile Interface Adapter
VIC – (s) Victoria, Australia (postal symbol) – (a) Video Interface Chip – Virginia Intermont College
VIDS – (i) Visual Information Display System
vie – (s) Vietnamese language (ISO 639-2 code)
VII – (s) 7 (in Roman numerals)
VIII – (s) 8 (in Roman numerals)
VIN – (i/a) Vehicle Identification Number (ISO 3779)
VIP – (i) see entry
VIR – (s) United States Virgin Islands (ISO 3166 trigram) – Virgin Atlantic (ICAO code)
VIS – (i) Vavoua International School – Vienna Independent Shorts – Viewable Image Size – Visual Instruction Set
VISCII – (p) VIetnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange
VIT – (i) Vellore Institute of Technology
VIVO – (i) Video In Video Out

VJ

VJ – (i) Video Jockey

VK

VK – (s) Australia (ham radio code) – (i) Västerbottens-Kuriren, a Swedish daily newspaper

VL

VLA – (i) Very Large Array – (UK) Veterinary Laboratories Agency
VLAD – (a/i) Vertical Line Array DIFAR
VLBA – (i) Very Long Baseline Array
VLF – (i) Very Low Frequency
VLIW – (i) Very Long Instruction Word
VLPFC – (i) VentroLateral PreFrontal Cortex
VLPMC – (i) VentroLateral PreMotor Cortex
VLSF – (i) Very Loud, Stink-Free
VLSI – (i) Very-large-scale integration
VLVS – (i) Very Loud, Very Stinky

VM

VM – (s) Vietnam (FIPS 10-4 country code)
VMASC – (i/a) Virginia Modeling Analysis & Simulation Center ("vee-mask")
VMF – (i) Variable Message Format
VMF – Marine Fighting Squadron of the United States Marine Corps
VMN – (p) VentroMedial Nucleus (neurophysiology)

VN

VN
- (s) Vietnam (ISO 3166 digram)
- Vietnam Airlines (IATA code)
- Vietnam's aircraft registration prefix
VND – (s) Vietnamese đồng (ISO 4217 currency code)
VNIR – (i) Visible and Near InfraRed
VNM – (s) Vietnam (ISO 3166 trigram)
VNS – see entry
VNV M/C USA – (a) Viet Nam Vet's Motorcycle Club USA

VO

VOA – (a) Voice of America
vo – (s) Volapük language (ISO 639-1 code)
VOC – (i) Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) – Volatile organic compounds
VOIP – (a) Voice Over Internet Protocol
vol – (s) Volapük language (ISO 639-2 code)
VOLT – (a) Visual OpenType Layout Tool
Volvo – (p) Swedish supplier of commercial vehicles owned by Ford Motor Company. "Volvo" means "I roll" in Latin.
VON – (i) Victorian Order of Nurses
VOR – (i) VHF Omnidirectional Ranging
VOR – (a) Voice of Russia
VOV - (i) Voice of Vietnam
VOX – (p) Voice Operated eXchange (Voice-operated oscillator)

VP

VP – (a/i) Vice-president ("veep")
VPN – (i) Virtual private network

VQ

VQ
- (i) Vector quantization
- (s) U.S. Virgin Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
- Aircraft registration prefix for Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Saint Helena and Turks and Caicos.

VR

VR – (i) Virtual reality
VROTS – (i) Victorian rare or threatened species
VRSG – (i) Virtual reality scene generator
V/R - (i) Very respectfully; standard military closure

VS

VS – (i) Very special (brandy grade) – vide supra (Latin, "see above")
VSAT – (a) Very small aperture terminal ("vee-satt")
VSHORAD – (p) Very short range air defence
VSO – (i) Voluntary Services Overseas
VSOP – (i) Variations séculaires des orbites planétaires (French, "Planetary Orbit Secular Variations") – Very small outline package (integrated circuit) – Very superior old pale (brandy grade) – VLBI Space Observatory Programme
VSR – (i) Very special relativity
V/STOL – (p) Vertical/short take-off and landing ("vee-stoll")

VT

VT
- (s) Vatican City-State (FIPS 10-4 country code)
- Vermont (postal symbol)
- (i) Video tape
- Virginia Tech
VTC – (i) Video Tele-Conference
VTEC – (i) Variable valve Timing and Electronic lift Control
VTOL – (i) Vertical Take-Off & Landing

VU

VU – (s) Vanuatu (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Vedanta University
VUB – (i) Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgian university)
VUK – (a) Value Up Kit
VUT – (s) Vanuatu (ISO 3166 trigram)
VUV – (s) Vanuatu vatu (ISO 4217 currency code)

VV

V&V – (i) Verification & Validation
VV – (i) Via Voice – Village Voice
VV&A – (i) Verification, Validation & Accreditation
VVAF – (i) Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation

VW

VW – (i) Volkswagen

VZ

VZ – (s) Verizon Communications (NYSE code)
vzw – (i) vereniging zonder winstoogmerk (Dutch "non-profit organisation")