| Acronym | Meaning |
| RTF | Room Temperature Fluorescence |
| OTTLE | Optically Transparent Thin-layer Electrode |
| UCAR | University Corporation For Atmospheric Research |
| FUSE | Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer |
| SINDO | Symmetrically Orthogonalized Intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap |
| NCFLG | Near-critical Fluids And Liquefied Gases |
| DWBA | Distorted-wave Born Approxn. |
| MUFA | Monounsaturated Fatty Acids |
| PHS | Public Health Service |
| NNRTI | Non-nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor |