| Acronym | Meaning |
| QUASH | Quality Assurance Of Sample Handling [a EU Project] |
| CHMM | Certified Hazardous Materials Manager |
| TTSS | Type III Secretion System |
| CHAOS | Canadian High Acceptance Orbit Spectrometer |
| IMP | Inosine 5'-phosphate |
| SAPW | Symmetrized Augmented Plane Wave |
| BBSRC | Biotechnology And Biological Sciences Research Council |
| EAR | European Asthenospheric Reservoir (mantle Source For Tertiary-Quaternary Volcanism) |
| LLIT | Liq.-liq. Intermol. Transfer |
| EAP | Environmental Action Plan |