| Acronym | Meaning |
| TALEST | Tandem Arrayed Ligation Of Expressed Sequence Tags |
| AWI | Air Water Interface |
| CDOM | Colored Dissolved Organic Matter |
| MTBE | Methyl Tert Butyl Ether (gasoline Additive) |
| TOM | Transition Operator Method |
| SOP/ED | Split-operator Propagator (for) Electronically Diabatic (phenomena) |
| LIR | Limiting Infiltration Rate |
| GVB-INIT | Generalized Valence Bond-initial (guess Wave Function) |
| CARES | Ceramic Analysis And Reliability Evaluation Of Structures |
| NCPTT | National Center For Preservation Technology And Training |