acronymicadj.

1948 W. S. Miller Word Wealth (rev. ed.) App. 322 Some [sc. new words] are imported, like panzer. Many are new forms of established words, like leftwardness, or are combinations like atombomb... UNESCO is acronymic.

1954 Britannica Bk. of Year 638/1 Typical of acronymic coinages, or words based on initials, were.. mash (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital).

1978 Verbatim Winter 4/1 Acronymic formations, like flak or kapo.

1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 30 Nov. 15/2 Fortunately there is a number of high-quality and well-funded acronymic projects which are chipping away at all of these problems.

1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) i. 7 Our acronymic name for it was Hug-me. Hindi Urdu Gujarati Marathi English.

2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Mar. 4/3 In the last year, she'd marched on 9/12, gone to CPAC..and attended a string of acronymic events.

1965 Life 17 Dec. 4/1 Acronymically named YES/ACTT, for ‘Youth Enlists Support Through America's Christmas Train and Trucks’.

1971 Daily Tel. 3 Feb. 12 Has the Establishment realised, inquires an acronymically-minded reader, that if the Industrial Relations Bill becomes law, it will not be only Ireland that is saddled with an IRA?

1981 Maledicta 5 99 Who were the real ‘ethnics’, acronymically speaking?

2007 Paintball Games Internat. July 16/2 Paintball Sports Promotions (the PSP for the acronymically challenged).