| Acronym | Meaning |
| CRABP | Cellular Retinoic Acid-binding Protein |
| IGC | Inverse Gas Chromatog. |
| VISITT | Vendor Information System For Innovative Treatment Technology (US EPA) |
| HWTC | Hazardous Waste Treatment Council |
| STODI | Slater-type Orbital-point Dipole Interaction (in Mol. Polarizability Calcns.) |
| BMD | Benchmark Dose |
| ASNT | American Society For Nondestructive Testing |
| DHFR | Dihydrofolate Reductase |
| MAP | Magnesium Ammonium Phosphate |
| CHFPT | Coupled Hartree-Fock Perturbation Theory |