| Acronym | Meaning |
| WHPA | Wellhead Protection Areas |
| SLAPW | Superlinearized Augmented Plane Wave |
| WALTZ | Wonderful Alternating Phase Technique For Zero Residual Splittings |
| VIMS | Visible And IR Mapping Spectrometer |
| TEAMS | Trace Element Accelerator Mass Spectrometry |
| MPCVD | Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| DCA | Discriminant Component Anal. |
| BIA | Batch Injection Analysis |
| NIST | National Institute Of Standards And Technology (formerly NBS) |
| UCP | Uncoupling Protein |