| Acronym | Meaning |
| VIC | Vapor Injection Cure |
| VGP | Virtual Geomagnetic Pole |
| PIR | Protein Identification Resource |
| LDPO | Linearly Driven Parametric Oscillator (model In Energy Transfer Calcns. In Mol. Collisions) |
| ISWMP | Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan |
| TEL | Tetraethyl Lead |
| SOS | Surfaces Of Section Method (semiclassical Calcn. Of Eigenvalues) |
| HSRC | Hazardous Substance Research Center |
| MEUG | Minimum Energy Uncertainty Gaussian (wave Packets) |
| SHS | Self-propagating High-temperature Synthesis |