| Acronym | Meaning |
| HSC | Health And Safety Commission (UK) |
| SCF | Self-consistent Field |
| NGWA | National Ground Water Association |
| INN | International Nonproprietary Names (for Drugs) |
| WTQA | Waste Testing And Quality Assurance |
| DAIP | Diallyl Isophthalate |
| MIQ | Minimum Identifiable Quantities |
| EMP | Empirical Pseudopotential Method |
| NFOM | Near-field Optical Microscopy |
| PDI | Point Dipole Interaction (model For Mol.-polarizability Calcns.) |