| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| FW | Forward |
| FW | Firmware |
| FW | Faceoffs Won (hockey) |
| FW | Fairway Wood (golf club) |
| FW | Focke-Wulf (German aircraft manufacturer) |
| FW | Fort Worth (Texas) |
| FW | Firewall |
| FW | Fresh Water |
| FW | FireWire (Apple/TI high-speed serial bus; IEEE 1394 standard) |
| FW | Fort Wayne (Indiana) |
| FW | Free Will |
| FW | White cap (or weather) correction factor |
| FW | Flywheel (automotive) |
| FW | Freeware |
| FW | Fifth Wheel |
| FW | Fighter Wing |
| FW | Forge World (UK) |
| FW | Fixed Wing |
| FW | Fisheries and Wildlife (academics) |
| FW | Future Wife |
| FW | Feed Water |
| FW | Forsaken World (gaming) |
| FW | Fates Warning (band) |
| FW | Full Wave |
| FW | Fire Water |
| FW | Feldwebel (German) |
| FW | Forest Whitaker (actor) |
| FW | Federal Way (Washington) |
| FW | Flat Washer |
| FW | Formula Weight |
| FW | Field Wiring |
| FW | Filament Winding |
| FW | Fire Weather |
| FW | Formula Windsurfing |
| FW | Flood Warning (National Weather Service advisory) |
| FW | Fats Waller (pianist/composer) |
| FW | Freelance Whales (band) |
| FW | Foul Water (construction drawings) |
| FW | Fatwallet.com (website) |
| FW | Field Weld |
| FW | Floor Waste (environment) |
| FW | Fiscal Week |
| FW | Fusion Workstation |
| FW | Federal Works Agency |
| FW | Fouls Won (soccer) |
| FW | Foster Wheeler Corporation (boiler manufacturer) |
| FW | Fillet Weld (metallurgy) |
| FW | Floquet Wave |
| FW | Florida Waterfowler (online hunting forum) |
| FW | Flash Welding |
| FW | Free Weezy |
| FW | Feable Weiner (band) |
| FW | Far Westerns (United States Swimming meet) |
| FW | Flutewise (UK) |
| FW | FinnWars (Battlefield 1942 game modification) |
| FW | Frostwolf Graveyard (World of Warcraft battleground slang) |
| FW | Fresh Weigh (or whole/wet Weight of plant or animal tissue) |
| FW | Field Work Proposal |
| FW | Furniture West, Inc. |
| FW | Flag Writer |