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This is a list of acronyms that are pronounceable words. This list does not include acronyms whose pronunciation is wholly or partly the names of constituent letters.

Please add your own, in alphabetical order.

AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
ANA - All Nippon Airways
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
ANZAC - Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
ASAP - as soon as possible
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
AWACS - Airborne Warning and Control System
AWOL - Absent Without Leave (military jargon)
BASIC - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, acronym was added later, originally it was simply Basic
BIOS - basic input/output system
BOAT[?] - Byway Open to All Traffic (pronounced as 2 syllables, Bo-At)
CAD - Computer Aided Design
CERN - Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
COBOL - Common Business-Oriented Language
DINK - Double income, no kids
DOS - Density of State / Disk Operating System
EPCOT - Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
FIFA - Federation of International Football Associations
FIDE - The Fédération Internationale des Échecs (World Chess Foundation)
FIFO - First In First Out
FUBAR - Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition
Gestapo - GEheime STAtsPOlizei ("secret state police")
GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out
Gulag
HALO - High Altitude Low Opening (type of a parachute jump)
IATA
Interpol -- International Criminal Police Organization
IUPAC - International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (pronounced Yoo-Pac)
JAG - Judge Advocate General (US military lawyers)
JAL[?] - Japan Airlines
JATO - Jet Assisted Takeoff Unit
KISS - Keep it simple stupid
Laser - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LUCA - Last Universal Common Ancestor
Maser - Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
MASH - mobile army surgical hospital
MPEG - Motion Pictures (Coding) Experts Group
NAAFI[?] - Navy, Army and Air Force Institute (British)
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASCAR - National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
NATO - North-Atlantic Treaty Organization
NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard
NORAD - North American Aerospace Defense Command
NUTS - Nuclear Utilization Target Selection
PAL - phase alternating line (TV standard)
PARWIG - Power Augmented Ram Wing in Ground (aeroplane wing shape)
Quango - (British) QUasi Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation
Quasar - Quasi-stellar radio source
Radar - Radio detection and ranging
RAM - Random Access Memory, Royal Air Maroc[?]
ROM - Read Only Memory
SAVAK - Sazamane Etelaat va Amniate Kechvar (Iranian Security and Intelligence Service)
SARS - Severe acute respiratory syndrome
Scuba - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SECAM - Systeme Electronique Couleur Avec Memoire (TV standard)
SIMPLE
SLORC - The State Law and Order Restoration Council (of Burma)
SNAFU - Situation Normal All Fucked Up
SNOBOL
Sonar - Sound navigation and ranging
TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (from Robert Heinlein)
TEETH - Tried Everything Else, Try Homoeopathy (medical diagnosis in-joke)
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund, originally United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNIFEM[?] - United Nations Fund for Women
WAN - Wide Area Network
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

Words that are not acronyms, but urban legends say that they are:

Fuck - Fornication Under Consent of the King or For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Golf - Gentlemen only, ladies forbidden