| Acronym | Meaning |
| ZDDP | Zinc Dialkyl Dithiophosphate |
| NTNCWS | Nontransient, Noncommunity Water Supplies |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| VRLA | Valve-regulated Lead-acid (batteries) |
| CHO | Complex Harmonic Oscillator (in Mol. Scattering Theory) |
| BOF | Basic Oxygen Furnace |
| CIAP | Climatic Implications Of Atmospheric Pollution |
| ACZS | Alumina-chrome-zirconia-silica Refractory |
| NADA | New Animal Drug Application |
| PIAS | Photon-counting Image Acquisition System |