| Acronym | Meaning |
| FVEH | Fragment Valence Effective Hamiltonian (in Electronic-structure Calcns. On Mol. Fragments) |
| WRITE | Waste Reduction Innovative Technology Evaluation (US EPA) |
| ROSE | Regional Oxidants In The SouthEast |
| AWS | American Welding Society |
| TLA | Thin Layer Activation |
| CAST | Council For Agricultural Science And Technology |
| SAMMS | Self-assembled Monolayers On Mesoporous Supports |
| MEI | Maximally Exposed Individual |
| PAC | Powdered Activated Carbon |
| GM | Geometric Mean |