| Acronym | Meaning |
| NPL | National Priorities List |
| NAEP | National Association Of Environmental Professionals |
| DTUL | Deflection Temperature Under Load |
| TNRCC | Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission |
| ERE | Estrogen-responsive Element |
| SOEH | Scaled One-electron Hamiltonian (in SCF Calcns. On Mols.) |
| SLA | Special Libraries Association |
| VFT | Voguel-Fulcher-Tamman [equation] |
| VPAM | Variable Phase Amplitude Method (for Electron-atom Scattering) |
| IRMPD | Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation |