| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACTS | Advisory Committee On Toxic Substances |
| RS-LMTO-ASA | Real Space-linear Combination Of Muffin-tin Orbitals-atomic Sphere Approxn. |
| ABSORB | Arctic Beaufort Sea Oilspill Research Body |
| CCEA | Conventional Combustion Environmental Assessment |
| SCC | Sludge Conditioning Controller |
| HPCZE | High Performance Capillary Zone Electrophoresis |
| PCD | Polycrystalline Diamond |
| CPDW | Circumpolar Deep Water |
| BMA | British Medical Association |
| EEAES | Electron-excited Auger Electron Spectroscopy |