| Acronym | Meaning |
| BLISS | Balloon-borne Laser In Situ Sensor |
| PWSA | Ports And Waterways Safety Act |
| PSA | Pressure Swing Adsorption (gaseous Waste Treatment) |
| IMF | Interplanetary Magnetic Field |
| SCPF | Self-consistent Polarization Field Method |
| HGP | Human Genome Project |
| MOE | Margin Of Exposure |
| BOM | Biodegradable Organic Matter |
| ITPOT | Improved Two-parameter Omega Technique |
| SCC-DVM | Self-consistent-charge-discrete-variational Method |