A
- Ad Interim (roman, and capitalized when used in a formal title preceding a name)
- Advanced Placement
- advisor (preferred spelling)
- African American, Native American (no hyphen)
- am, pm (lowercase, no periods)
- Amazon.com
- antiracism, antiracist
- antisemitism
- artist-in-residence
B
- baby boom, baby boomer
- Barnes & Noble (use &)
- Barristers Hall (no apostrophe)
- BC, as in “before Christ” (full caps, no periods)
- Bible (capitalize), biblical studies (lowercase)
- Black (adj.)
- Blackboard (the app)
- blogpost
- Board of Trustees (of BU)
- Boston Center for the Arts Calderwood Pavilion
- Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
- Boston University Theatre
C
- CARB-X (The proper name of the program is Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator, but the word mark and frequently used name is CARB-X.)
- childcare
- Choose to Be Great
- Commencement
- coursework
- crowdfund, crowdsource
D
- daycare
- deaf (lowercase, when referring to physical condition)/Deaf (capitalized, when referring to community, culture, or area of academic inquiry)
- decisionmaker
- department chair (not chairman or chairwoman)
- developing world is not a favored term, third-world country even less so. Instead, write low-income or low-resource countries
- do’s and don’ts
- dual degree program (no hyphen)
E
- editor in chief (no hyphens)
F
- farmers market (no apostrophe)
- fellow (Guggenheim fellow, MacArthur fellow, Fulbright scholar, etc.)
- fieldwork
- firsthand
- fundraising (one word)
G
- Gen X, Gen Xer
- grade point average (no hyphen)
- Greater Boston
H
- hands-on
- head coach, assistant head coach (as in, men’s ice hockey head coach, women’s lacrosse assistant head coach)
- healthcare (one word, no hyphen)
- high school transcript (no hyphen)
- homemaker
- homepage
I
- ID card (no periods)
- Indigenous Peoples’ Day
- internet
- in vitro, in vivo (not italic)
L
- late payment fee (no hyphen)
- Law tower
- LGBT+
- login, login name (n.)
- log in (v.)
M
- MasterCard, Visa
- master class (two words)
- Matriculation
- millennial
- Move-In Weekend
- multicultural, multidisciplinary (no hyphen)
- MyBU Student Portal (formerly Student Link)
N
- New Testament (caps), scripture (lowercase)
- nonmember (no hyphen)
- nonprofit (no hyphen)
O
- Obamacare
- online
P
- Parents Weekend (no apostrophe)
- Patriots Day (no apostrophe)
- pregame, postgame (no hyphen)
- policymaker
- postdoctoral
- post-master’s degree
- President Emeritus, Professor Emerita, Professors Emeriti, Professors Emeritae
- Presidents Day (no apostrophe)
- public schools (lowercase)
Q
- Qur’an
R
- résumé
- Reserve Officer Training Corps
S
- sitemap
- slideshow (one word)
- smartphone
- Social Security number
- start-up (n.)
- State House
- study abroad (the act of going abroad for study)
- Study Abroad (when referring to proper name of BU program)
- StuVi-1, StuVi-2
T
- Terrier Card
- The Castle
- theater (generic)
- tool kit
- touchscreen
- trustees emeriti
- T-shirt
U
- Umoja
- underway (one word)
- US (no periods)
- user name
V
- v. (for names of legal cases, written as v. and italicized)
- vs (abbreviation of versus; no period necessary)
- Veterans Affairs (VA) (no apostrophe)
- Veterans Day (no apostrophe)
- voice mail
W
- web (lowercase: the web, web address, web page, etc.)
- website (one word)
- Wi-Fi
- Wired.com
- Work-Study (Federal Work-Study Program)
- workweek
- World Wide Web
X
- x-ray
Z
- zip code