| Acronym | Meaning |
| SPS | Surface Photovoltage Spectroscopy |
| GCL | Geosynthetic Clay Liner |
| BMEP | Brake Mean Effective Pressure |
| RVCM | Renormalized Virtual-crystal Method (for Electronic Structure) |
| MDLC | Multidimensional Liquid Chromatography |
| NLS | Nuclear Localization Signal |
| IES | Institute Of Environmental Sciences |
| HBSS | Hanks' Balanced Salt Solution |
| OMMSQA | Office Of Modeling |
| OBK2 | Second-order Oppenheimer-Brinkman-Kramers |