acronymic, acronymically 1. Description of a word formed from the first (or first few) letters of a series of words; as with radar, which comes from radio detecting and ranging; NATO, which comes from North Atlantic Treaty Organization; scuba, which comes from self-contained underwater apparatus; and sonar, which comes from sound navigation ranging... Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2565/