AC - Alternating Current Normal household electricity

AFAIK / AFAIAC - As far as I know / As far as I am concerned.

BC - Building Control
BCO - Building Control Officer
BRB - big red book (17th edition guidance)
BS7671 - This is the current wiring regulations now 2008 and commonly known as the 17th edition.
BTW - By the way
C&G - City and Guilds
ccts - circuits or certificates
CCU - Cooker Connection Unit
CPC - circuit protective conductor, Earth, ie the yellow and/or green wire
CPD - Circuit Protective Device
CSA - Cross Sectional Area -"size" as in CSA is/isn't important i
CU - Consumer Unit the thing usually next to the meter with all the electrical switches in it.
DB - distribution board
DC - Direct current what comes in and out of a battery, and some, usually low voltage, devices
DEI - Domestic Electrical Installer yer household electrician.
DI - Domestic Installer yer household electrician
DIN Rail - Standardised 35mm metal rail for mounting RCDs, RCBOs, MCBs and other electrical stuff on usually found in
CUs (now you see the reason for this list!)
DNO - Distribution Network Operator your local electrical company
DP - Double Pole usually related to switches that switch both Neutral and Live off. 3P or TP is 3 poles
DSO - double socket outlet
EIC - Electrical Installation Certificate, see this post for the full low down:
ELECSA - another friendly certifying body
FCU - Fused Connection Unit
FFS - For procreation's sake.
FOTC - Falling (fell) off the chair.
FSU or FCU - fused spur / fused connection unit.
FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, a sort of sales technique
FYI - For your information
GFI - Ground Fault Interrupter , an American RCD
HTH - Hope this (or that) helps
IEE - Institute of Electrical Engineers
IP** - ingress protection, followed by 2 numbers
IR - insulation resistance
JB - Junction Box
LABC - Local Area Building Control
LBC - Local Building Control
LOL - Laugh out loud
M/C - metal clad.
MCB - Miniture circuit breaker. A glorified fuse, a switch that automatically turns off when it is overloaded and unlike a
fuse can be turned back on when you unplug the hamster that shorted out the toaster.
MEBC - Main Equipotential Bonding Conductor
MET - Main Earth Terminal
MFT - Multi function tester
MICC - Mineral Insulated Copper Cable
MIMS - Mineral Insulated Metal Sheath. See also MICC. See also Pyro.
NICEIC - National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting, An Organisation of Electrical people
ODP - Off Down Pub
OP - Original Poster ie the person that started the thread way back before it went all OT (Off Topic)
OSG - on site guide
Part P - (the Qualification) Person who is registered with on of the governing bodies regulated by the government, who
can self certify work in the home
Part P - (the Rules) Building regulations pertaining to electrical safety
PEN - Protective Earth and Neutral
PIR - Passive Infrared ie one of those sensors that either a) switches the security light on when you approach the house
or

switches the security light on when a moth flies in front of it.

PIR - Periodic Inspection Report the same list of problems with your electrical installation, but made by a professional
PMSL - weeing yourself with laughter
PSU - Power Supply Unit a box that takes in one type of power (eg household) and puts out another (eg the stuff your
computer actually runs on)
PYRO - Abbreviation for Pyrotenax, a generic term for the MIMS / MICC cable type.
R1 - the continuity of the phase conductor
R1+R2 - value of phase and CPC linked together while testing
R2 - is the continuity of the CPC (Earth)
RCBO - a combination RCD and MCB
RCCBO - Residual Current Circuit Breaker with Overload protection
RCCD - Residual Current Circuit Breaker with Overload protection
RCD - Residual Current device a switch that automatically switches off if there is an earth fault, eg you bang a nail into a
hidden cable whilst hanging that picture of Auntie Mildred
RN - the resistance of the neutral conductor in a ring circuit (end to end)
ROTFL - Rolling on the floor, laughing.
SCU - Switched Connection Unit
SDS - Those big beefy drills that are also mini jack hammers
SELV - "Separated (or Safety) Extra Low Voltage", "Extra Low Voltage" is not exceeding 50v AC and "Separate" as in via
a transformer. eg 12v lighting or bathroom
fan
SF - Screw Fix
SFCU - Switched Fused Connection Unit
SFU or S/FSU - switched fused spur.
SSO - single socket outlet
SWA - Steel Wired Armoured cable for outside, being buried etc.
T&E - Twin and earth ie the grey 3 wire cable used in your house.
TP - three phase or triple pole
TP&N - Three Phase & Neutral
TPH / TPN - Three phase / Three phase and neutral.
TT, TNS, TN-C-S - Descriptions of various ways of connecting the house to earth (the T is for "Terre" ie Earth/Ground)
WTF - What the procreation?
Ze - external loop impedance... (Path that earth fault will take back to the star point of transformer)
Zs - earth fault loop impedance... (Path of earth fault back to main earthing point) Zs = Ze+(R1+R2)