| Acronym | Meaning |
| SMC | Sheet Molding Compound |
| CPMP | Committee For Proprietary Medical Products |
| OCSC | Orbital-charge-self-consistent (in Electronic State Calcn.) |
| NGWA | National Ground Water Association |
| SCM | Shell-correction Method (in Calcns. For Metal Clusters) |
| GAO | General Accounting Office |
| MCPA | Molecular Coherent-potential Approximation |
| OES | Optical Emission Spectroscopy |
| APW | Augmented Plane Wave |
| FERAM | Ferroelectric Random Access Memory |