| Acronym | Meaning |
| HMI | Hornbeck-Molnar Ionization (homonuclear Associative Ionization In At. Collisions) |
| WATOX | Western Atlantic Ocean Experiment |
| ALCOM | Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials |
| INFERNO | Irradiation Of Narrow Frequency Envelopes By Repeated Nutation And Orbiting |
| HEDTA | Hydroxyethylethylenediaminetriacetic Acid |
| NPCVD | Normal Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| EFA | Evolving Factor Analysis |
| EPES | Elastic Peak Electron Spectroscopy |
| DV-X(ALPHA) | Discrete Variational-x(alpha) (statistical Exchange Correlation) |
| SDA | Subsurface Disposal Area |