| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| WAVE | Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service (US Navy; properly written as WAVES) |
| WAVE | Wide Area Virtual Environment |
| WAVE | Women Against Violence Europe |
| WAVE | Washington Award for Vocational Excellence (student scholarship) |
| WAVE | Work Assist Vehicle |
| WAVE | Wales: A Vibrant Economy (UK) |
| WAVE | Working Against Violence Everywhere (prevention of violence in schools) |
| WAVE | Waveform Audio File Format |
| WAVE | WASP family Verprolin-homologous protein |
| WAVE | Wide Area Voice Environment |
| WAVE | WB-57 Ascent Video Experiment |
| WAVE | Walk-thru Virtual Environment |
| WAVE | Web Application Video Ecosystem (Consumer Technology Association) |
| WAVE | Wireless Access Vehicular Environment (IEEE) |
| WAVE | Warfighter Alliance in a Virtual Environment |
| WAVE | Webster Academy Visions in Education (Webster, TX) |
| WAVE | Water Alliances for Environmental Efficiency |
| WAVE | Work Attitude and Values Enhancement |
| WAVE | Women Achieving Victory & Esteem |
| WAVE | Warrant Alternative Vehicle |
| WAVE | Web Automatic Verification of Enrollment (US DoD Montgomery GI Bill) |
| WAVE | Wide Area Virtual-Prototyping Environment |
| WAVE | WWW, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Environments Exploration (NASA) |
| WAVE | Weather Access for Visualization and Exploitation |
| WAVE | Weather Altimeter Voice Equipment |
| WAVE | We All Volunteer Everything (WCRC) |
| WAVE | Webber Aerospace Ventures in Education (Webber Junior High School, Fort Collins, CO) |