| Acronym | Meaning |
| OESO | Ordnance Environmental Support Office (Navy) |
| CLM | Contained Liquid Membrane |
| MCR | Multivariate Curve Resolution |
| RQTOX | Reportable Quantities For Chronically Toxic Hazardous Substances |
| GO-SCF | Gaussian Orbital Self-consistent Field |
| EPROM | Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory |
| SOUR | Specific Oxygen Uptake Rate |
| PIT | Phase Inversion Temperature |
| BAL | Broad Absorption Line |
| MPO | Modified Polarized Orbital |