| Acronym | Meaning |
| QR | Quake Rally - Qualitative Reasoning - Queensland Rail - Queen's Rangers - Quick Release - Quiet Riot -Qatar Airways (IATA Airline Designator) |
| SA | Sanskrit Language (ISO 639-1 Code) |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
| QVC | Quality |
| PTSD | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
| GFCI | Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor (aka GFI) |
| TUV | Tuvalu (ISO 3166 Trigram) |
| MEDS | Mission Essential Data Set |
| AFSC | U.S. Air Force Staff College (obsolete; Replaced With JFSC). - U.S. Air Force Systems Command |
| MAS | NATO Military Agency For Standardisation |