| Acronym | Meaning |
| HFE | Hot-feed Extrusion |
| ALP | Alkaline Phosphatase |
| ESRIN | European Space Research Institute |
| SCPF | Self-consistent Perturbation Field |
| SOF | Soluble Organic Fraction |
| PCGVB | Pairwise Correlated Generalized Valence Bond Method |
| LHP-RHF | Longuet-Higgins-Pople Restricted Hartree-Fock Method |
| GBS | Group B Streptococci |
| MBBR | Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor |
| ADE | (thermal) Adsorption-desorption Equilibrium |