| Acronym | Meaning |
| BASTE | Bay Area Sewage Toxics Emissions |
| OUR | Oxygen Uptake Or Utilization Rate |
| MCK | Muscle Creatine Kinase |
| GNP | Gross National Product |
| START | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
| BCAA | Branched-chain Amino Acids |
| RPEHMO | Relativistically Parametrized Extended Hueckel MO |
| PTM | Perturbation Trajectory Method (in Gas-surface Collision Dynamics) |
| MAGE | MicroArray And Gene Expression |
| DESY | Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron |