If we're being pedantic about it, then no. In the 2015 James Bond film "Spectre," the title isn't an acronym — but it is in the rest of the Bond universe.

Daniel Craig's Bond films have turned away from the lighter elements of the older films and the novels on which they were based. One thing they dispensed with, and that author Ian Fleming had a real penchant for, was hokey abbreviations.

In the novels, Bond spent a great deal of his efforts in conflict with two evil organizations: SMERSH and SPECTRE.

SMERSH is an abbreviation of the Russian "Smiert Spionam," which translates as the utterly silly "Death to Spies."

SPECTRE isn't much better — an acronym that stands for Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. The fact that a group of serious criminals would give themselves a name that includes "revenge" in the title is the kind of laughable idea that mixed a bit of fun in with the thrills of the novels and original films.

The villain in the film "Spectre," played with chilling intensity by Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained," 2012), would have no time for that sort of thing, hence why the film opted not to mention what his organization's name means.

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