| Acronym | Meaning |
| HSC | Health And Safety Commission (UK) |
| GLP | Good Laboratory Practices (US FDA) |
| CTR | Crystal Truncation Rod |
| FIP | Flow Injection Potentiometry |
| PEBBLE | Probes Encapsulated By Biologically Localized Embedding |
| CMS | Complete Model Space (in Many-body Calcns.) |
| IDO | Initial Dissolved Oxygen |
| RAPID | Ruggedized Advanced Pathogen Identification Device |
| DOS | Di(2-ethylhexyl) Sebacate |
| LAOCOON | Least-squares Adjustment Of Calculated On Observed NMR Spectra |