| Acronym | Meaning |
| WAVE | Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service (US Navy; properly written as WAVES) |
| WAVE | Wales: A Vibrant Economy (UK) |
| WAVE | Warfighter Alliance in a Virtual Environment |
| WAVE | Washington Award for Vocational Excellence (student scholarship) |
| WAVE | WB-57 Ascent Video Experiment |
| WAVE | Weather Access for Visualization and Exploitation |
| WAVE | Web Automatic Verification of Enrollment (US DoD Montgomery GI Bill) |
| WAVE | Wide Area Virtual-Prototyping Environment |