| Acronym | Meaning |
| VNS | Vicarious Nucleophilic Substitution |
| CSMOS | Center For Subsurface Modeling Support |
| ZI | Zero Intercept |
| FONDA | First-order Nondegenerate Adiabatic (theory For Electron-mol. Inelastic Scattering) |
| ROSS2 | River Oil Spill Simulation 2 Layer Model |
| CSAAS | Continuum Source Atomic Absorption Spectrometry |
| SML | Surface Microlayer |
| OBDD | Ordered Bicontinuous Double-diamond |
| PSA | Pressure Swing Adsorption (gaseous Waste Treatment) |
| HIF | Hypoxia Inducible Factor |