p&p Procedures and policies

P/B Paperback

P/E Price to Earnings

P2P Peer to peer
P2P Person to person
P2P Programmer to Programmer

P3P The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project
P3P Platform for Privacy Preferences Project

P4P Pay for Performance
P4P Pay for Placement

PA Parent alert
PA Per annum
PA Personal assistant
PA Prosecuting attorney
PA Public anouncement

PABG Pack A Big Gun

PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange

pacs Packs
pacs Picture Archiving and Communication Systems

pans Pretty Amazing New Stuff
pans Pretty Awesome New Stuff

PARC Palo Alto Research Center

PARIS People Always Remember Iron Structure

PAYE Pay As You Earn

PAYG Pay As You Go

PB&J Peanutbutter and Jelly

PBCAK Problem Between Chair And Keyboard

PBD Programmer Brain Damage

PBM Play By Mail

PBS Public broadcasting system

PCB Please Call back

PCIX Peripheral Component Interconnect at (133Mhz)
PCIX Permission-based Customer Information Exchange

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PCO Please Carry On

PCYLIHOONL Please Cross Your Legs, I Have Only One Nail Left

pd Paid
pd Public domain

PDA Personal digital assistant
PDA Property Damage Accident
PDA Public display of affection

PDF Portable document format

PDN Public data network

PDPMEA Please Don't Post My Email Address
PDPMEA Please Don't Publish My Email Address

PDS Please don’t shoot
PDS Please don't shout

PDSTM Please Don't Shoot The Messenger

PDT Pacific Daylight Time

PE Physical Education

PEBKAC Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair

PEBKC Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair

PEBMAC Problem Exists Between Monitor And Chair

PEBR Pre-existing business relationships

PEKUSH Press Every Key Until Something Happens

PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail

PERL Practical Extraction and Report Language

PEST Please Excuse Slow Typing

PF Personal Favourite

PF&HOMW Printed, Framed & Hanging On My Wall

pg Page
pg Parental Guidance
pg Pretty Good

PGP Pretty Good Privacy

PGY Post Graduate Year

PHB Pointy Haired Boss (from Dilbert, ie, doesn't have a clue)

PHLOTE Primary Home Language Other Than English

PI Private Investigator

PIAS Play It Again Sam

PIAV Personal Interests, Attitudes, and Values

PIBTC Prevention is better than cure

PICBA Personal Injury Caused By Accident

PICNIC Problem In Chair, Not In Computer

PIF Paid In Full

PIM Personal Information Manager

PIMB Pain in my butt

PIMBY Please In My Back Yard

PIMF Pairs in Metal Foil

PIMFY Please In My Front Yard

PIN Personal Identification Number

PIO Press Information Officer

PIR Passive InfraRed
PIR Peak Information Rate

PIT Perpetrator in Training

PITA Pain in the Ass

PITBY Put It in Their Back Yard

PITI Payment includes Interest, taxes and insurance

PK Politcally correct
PK Public kiss

PKB Pot kettle black (look whos talking!)

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PKOL Passionate Kiss On The Lips

PLBKAC Problem Lies Between Keyboard And Chair

plc Place
plc Programmable Logic Controller
plc Public Limited Company

PLCC Plastic Leadless Chip Carrier

PLLLP Professional Limited Liability Limited Partnership

PLM Product Lifecycle Management

PLMK Please Let Me Know
PLMKO Please Let Me Know Ok

PLO Palestine liberation army

PLOKTA Press Lots Of Keys To Abort

pls Please

PLU People Like Us
PLU Price look-up

PLUR Peace Love Unity And Respect

PM Private Message

PMA Physical Medium Attachment
PMA Positive Mental Attitude

PMBI Pardon My Butting In

PMBT Past My Bed Time

PMETC Pardon Me ETC

PMFBI Pardon Me For Butting In

PMFBR Pardon Me For Being Rude

PMFI Problem magically fixed itself

PMFJI Pardon me for jumping In

PMFJIB Pardon me for jumping in but…

PMFJIH Pardon Me For Jumping In Here

PMFSI Pardon Me For Saying It

PMIGBOM Put Mind In Gear Before Opening Mouth

PMJI Pardon My Jumping In

PML Pissed myself laughing

PMO Project management Office

PMPO Peak Music Power Output

PMS Pre Menstrual Stress

PMSFL Practical Money Skills for Life

PMUOTF Pick Me Up Off The Floor

PMYMHMMFS Pardon Me, You Must Have Mistaken Me For Someone

PNAMBIC Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

PNCAH Please No Cussing in Here

PNO Public Network Operator

PnP Party and play
PnP Plug and play

PNV Present Net Value

POA Price On Application

POAHF Put on a happy face

POC Point of Contact
POC Proof Of Concept

poe Power over ethernet

POHM Prisoner of His Majesty

POI Point of interest

POJ Piece Of Junk

POJO Plain Old Java Objects

pom Phase of Moon
pom Phase Of the Moon

POME Prisoner Of Mother England
POME Property Of Mother England

PONA’s Persons of no account

POOF I have left the chat

POP3 Post office protocol version 3

POS Parent over the shoulder
POS People over shoulder
POS Person Over Shoulder

POSCORB Planning, organizing, staffing, coordinating, reporting and budgeting

POSIX Portable operating system interface for Unix

POSSLQ Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters

POT Point Of Termination

POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
POTS Pretty Old Tired Stuff

POTUS President of the United States

POTW Project Of The Week

POW Prisoner Of War
POW Problem Older Woman

PPAP Production Part Approval Process

PPC Pay per click
PPC Pay-per-click

PPFT Partial Physical Fitness Test

PPL People

PPM Pages per minute
PPM Parts per million

PPO Preferred Provider Organization

PPOR Per Pupil Operating Revenues

PPP Petty pet peeve
PPP Point-to-point protocol
PPP Public-Private Partnership

Pppd Point to Point Protocol daemon

PPPP Previous Paragraph was Polemical Position

PPS Post postscriptum
PPS Post Processing System

PPTM Please Tell Me More

PPTP Point to Point Tunneling Protocol

PPV Pay Per View

PQMF Please Quote Me For

PRC Peoples Republic of China

PRLM Phone Recognition and Language Modelling

PRW Parents are Watching

PSA Public Show Of Affection

PSB Pretty Stupid Boy

PSF Per square foot
PSF Polystyrene foam
PSF Pounds per square foot

PSG Pretty Stupid Girl

PSI Pounds per square inch

PSITA Persons skilled in the art

PSML Portal Structure Markup Language

psnfss Post script new font selecting system

PSP Play station Portable
PSP PlayStation Portable

PST Pacific Standard Time
PST Provincial Sales Tax

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

PSU Power Supply Unit

pt Part Time
pt Physical Training
pt Point

PTA Parent Teacher Association

PTB Powers That Be

PTBV Price-to-tangible book value

PTFE Polytetrafluoroethylene

PTHC Pre Teen Hard Core

PTIYPASI Put That In Your Pipe And Smoke It

PTL Praise The Lord

PTL&PTA Praise The Lord and Pass The Ammunition

PTM Please Tell Me

PTMY Pleased To Meet You

PTMYA Pleased To Make Your Acquaintance

PTO Please Turn Over
PTO Power Take Off Unit

PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTTF Peace To The Family

PTUM Please Tell Us More

PUA Pick Up Artist

PUASU Put Up and Shut Up

PUC Pants up crack

PUK Personal Unblocking Key

PUNTS People of Utterly No Tactical Significance

PV Private viewing

PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit
PVC Poly Vinyl Chloride

PvP Player Versus Player

PVR Personal video recorder

PWBS Please Write Back Soon

PWDUCs People Who Don't Use Computers

PWLIGHSTS People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

PWPF POUND WISE PENNY FOOLISH
PWPF Pulse-Width, Pulse-Frequency

PWS Please Write Soon

PWT Poor White Trash

PXT Pinxit
PXT Please Explain That

PYM Problem Younger Man

PYS Pack Your Stuff

PYT Preliminary Yield Trial
PYT Pretty Young Thing
PYT Prove Yourself True

PYW Problem Younger Woman

PZEV Partial Zero Emission Vehicle