• 'AWOL' or 'NASA,' e.g.
• AWACS, for one
• Basis of the answer to each starred clue, commonly
• It stands for something
• NASA, e.g.
• NASCAR or NASDAQ
• NASCAR or NATO
• NASDAQ, NASCAR, or NASA
• NATO or OPEC
• NATO, for one
• OPEC, e.g.
• Radar or scuba, e.g.
• Radar, e.g.
• Scuba or snafu, e.g.
• Scuba, e.g.
• SCUBA, for one
• Snafu, for one
• The longest one in English is the Navy term ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC
• A word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name