| Acronym | Meaning |
| PF | Polar Front |
| VADW | Vibrationally-adiabatic Distorted-wave Method |
| AAD | Atomic Absorption Detector |
| AIPLA | American Intellectual Property Law Assocn. |
| LAOCOON | Least-squares Adjustment Of Calculated On Observed NMR Spectra |
| VIF | Valency-point Interaction Formula (in Graph Theory With At. And Mol. Orbitals) |
| TDA | Tamm-Dancoff Approximation |
| OFMSW | Organic Fraction Municipal Solid Waste |
| QSSPC | Quasi-steady-state Photoconductance |
| BMW | Boiler Maintenance Workstation [EPRI Software] |